defaulting on national debt is NOT an impeachable offense. US already defaulted at least once during 1971. How else do we deal with the massive US debt? It already reach a point where paying the debt is an impossible task
I disagree. If he fails to pay the debt even though he has 8 or 10 times the revenue necessary, thus causing great harm to America and Americans, then he should be impeached. Boehner, if he had any gumption, would be on the Hill saying that he would personally file the Articles of Impeachment if Obama tried that. Impeachment is for high crimes and misdemeanors. Misdemeanors means “bad behavior” in Constitutional law. I think intentionally destroying the American economy in order to punish Americans for not wanting to be socialist qualifies.
Sure it is. By constitutional law, the debt interest must be paid first before any other obligations. The government takes in 8 to 10 times the amount of that interest, so they have plenty of money to sevice the interest. (Note I said interest, the principal owed is impossibly huge.) Obama is always talking about default, but he means "it's de fault of Bush". He can't allow actual default or he can be impeached.
And that President was impeached.
Just because no one has been impeached for flouting the Constitution doesn't mean it is not an impeachable offense.
Neither offense matters, however, unless you can get together 67 votes in the Senate.
Ultimately, an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House and two thirds of the Senate can agree on.
US already defaulted at least once during 1971.
Yeah, that was Dickie Poo, who, to quote something I read on a campus wall at the time, belonged where poo belongs. Bring back the Gold Standard!