My take was that Obama’s goal is to wrest Constitutional power from Congress. I missed when Levin said how he’d do that, but I inferred he meant by refusing to negotiate and by moving the goal posts. His upcoming refusal to pay debts, violating the Constitution and statutory law, would prove it.
According to Levin, this isn’t about a debt ceiling deal or a budget or Obamacare. It isn’t only about destroying the GOP.
It’s about vesting power in the Presidency. At the end of all this, a majority opposition in the House becomes useless.
Levin said that all they had to do was refuse to negotiate and it leaves the choice of defaulting or capitulating. Every time which makes the debt limit moot an gives the power to the party that refuses to deal.