Posted on 10/15/2013 10:34:02 AM PDT by 11th_VA
On the House floor on Monday, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) argued that President Barack Obama’s activities during the government shutdown over Obamacare are a sign to him that Obama would act nefariously to attack the full faith and credit of the United States of America by taking the country into a default in a debt ceiling crisis if the president does not get everything he wants in negotiations.
“Given the ruthless and vindictive way the shutdown has been handled, I now believe that this president would willfully act to destroy the full faith and credit of the United States unless the Congress acquiesces to all of his demands, at least as long as he sees political advantage in doing so,” McClintock said in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. “If the Republicans acquiesce, immediate crisis will quickly vanish, credit markets will calm and public life will return to other matters. But a fundamental element of our Constitution will have been destroyed. The power of the purse will have shifted from the representatives of the people to the executive. The executive bureaucracies will be freed to churn out ever more outlandish regulations with no effective congressional review or check through the purse. A perilous era will have begun in which the president sets spending levels and vetoes any bill falling short of his demands. Whenever a deadline approaches, one house can simply refuse to negotiate with the other until Congress is faced with the Hobson’s choice of a shutdown or a default. The nation’s spending will again dangerously accelerate. The deficit will rapidly widen. And the economic prosperity of the nation will continue to slowly bleed away.”
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Oh. I see that he was third.
So true
The dummies don’t care.
(Executive-created) default or shutdown halts government growth. We hold the cards. We just need the courage to use them.
It wasn’t a primary. He was third, falling behind Cruz Bustamante. I had to look it up, but I, like you, remembered that name. I had no idea he was in the house.
I think we have been in a constitutional crisis for quite a while now...several years in fact.
There's a word for this: Tyranny.
Where did you hear that the secret service was enforcing the shutdown of the monuments? First I’ve heard of it, but I’ve been traveling and out of the loop today.
Yes 3rd & we got the Governator..ughh
Slightly better than La Raza Bustamante.
“Heard Gohmert on Fox say we “reaching the point of high crimes and misdemeanors!” 15 mins ago.”
It will snow in hell before this S.O.B.is impeached.We are stuck with this clown until his term ends or we gain control of the senate.
I think the rest of the Democraps would split off. But then again, they aren't Democraps for nothing.
sfl
Yes. Around here, Ahnold was the candidate "who could win."
You may have heard that before.
McClintock has been a much respected conservative in CA for years. At one time he lost the GOP nomination for governor to the big rollers who got Schwarzenegger elected. He has always been an honest and forthright person but somewhat subdued as to rhetoric.
What would an islamist care about “full faith and credit”.
That is a blatant misuse of a federal agency.
The list is large.
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