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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If the gop caves obama will be able to pay Valerie Jarrett and Moochelle millions of dollars as advisors. He’ll be able to pay anyone he wants. I have to wonder if the Clintons really want to see him get that much power.
That’s what it has always been.
The House is finally telling the President what is what. The Rat intent was to destroy the appropriations process and userp the power of th e House of Representatives.
The Speaker should publicly announce there was an election in 2012 and he won.
BUMP !!!
IF the RINOs cave on this one, it’s time for the Conservatives to immediately become VERY active, maybe a million-man march of the ex-Republicans.
Tom McClintock’s my congressman and he drives the liberals nuts up here in conservative — very conservative — Placer County west of Sacramento.
From what I heard, Obama has used some of that porkulus money to increase food stamp users. It has run out. That is why he needs more money. To keep the takers happy. He is desperate.
Tom is always outspoken. Have always liked him.
Pass the bill and adjourn, John.
The choices are dictatorship or possible default (is he bluffing?) I think he is bluffing, but even if he isn’t, I’d rather have a default than a dictatorship!!!!
The only decent deal in this situation is to deal like the Democrats.
Don’t deal.
Exactly!
Like a freeper earlier nailed it, Zero’s FSA (Free Shit Army).
Do NOT Give In!
Tell that to the man that produced the Video that was blamed for the Embassy attack!
Tom gets it right, as usual.
ARE REACHING????
THis bastard wages war without Congressional Approval, decides which laws he wants to enforce, postpones selective parts of others, excuses groups of people from complying with existing laws, refuses to give first preference to the US debt as required by the Constitution.
This villain has broken his oath of office multiple times over.
HE NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED - NOW.
But now I'm not even sure there would be enough votes in the GOP-controlled House to impeach ... even though what is -- literally -- at stake is the preservation of the Constitution (separation of powers, etc.)
If the GOP gives in to the mulatto-marxist-muslim over his clear-cut abuse of the Constitution, especially in light of his ongoing personal attacks on Americans and clear hatred of traditional American values, they will lose it all ... and will deserve to lose it all!
The GOP needs to die as a national party before any successful opposition to this Monster and his policies can arise.
They are too stupid, too self-centered and too duplicitious towards their constituents.
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