Obama will have to CHOOSE to not service the debt, at which point Republicans can criticize his priorities. Why would he ruin our credit and our country and still spend money on modern art for the rich? Why would he keep Obamacare and ruin the country’s credit? There is no downside to the Republicans holding firm on the debt ceiling. What is the point of having a debt ceiling if it keeps getting raised everytime? Is it a real cap or just a lie to the American people?
He might choose not to service the debt on purpose.
The Cloward-Piven/Soros strategy: Maximum Chaos
It’s definitely a real possibility
Another thread was pointing out how, when the Dims (with George Mitchell leading, and Dick Darman providing the essential Benedict Arnold RiNOweasel stab in the back) b.s.'d Bush 41 into breaking what was just about the only ironclad political promise he'd ever made: "No New Taxes!", that the "solution" turned out to be ALL TAXES and NO SPENDING CUTS, and the budget was right back in the soup two years later.
Rush Limbaugh was pointing out the other day that every time we turn around, Obama or somebody on their side makes a Freudian slip and says, well, we'd rather have some new programs! The Dims will spend every tax dime the Pubbies give them, and 25% more, just like they always do. Their bad faith is like a stinking black cloud. Nobody can miss it.
Certainly not this woman -- and listen to her tone! Contemptuous, peremptory, abusive: Just sign the damn bill! Nobody cares about your "principles" or "solving the problem" -- that train left the station in 1994!
She needs to spend the rest of her life humping baskets of sea-salt in a salt pan somewhere.
The whole idea of the debt ceiling was to warn the various Congress Critters and, more importantly, their staffs that they were spending too much. But, the moment that the debt ceiling was first raised, as a “temporary” fix so the government could continue to govern the whole idea went into the crapper.
Now, “We, the People” have said enough! If we have to balance our books so do you Congress!
Remember the big stink a few years back about Congress exempting itself from a lot of regulations, laws, and taxes that the rest of us had to follow? The debt ceiling issue is exactly the same thing only written much larger.
It is long past time to throw every long serving, “professional”, politician out. And when they complain out the “need” to stay in power remember what their staying in power has brought us!
Re post 9. Correct, there will not be a default on Aug 2 or Aug 3 or any other day in August. They have the money to pay the interest.
Perhaps because he really DOES want to destroy the country and throw it into chaos, knowing he can get away with blaming the GOP and the Tea Partiers with the help of the network news and big city papers -- and with their help trigger a "popular uprising" which would demand (he imagines) what he's dreamt about all his life -- that he impose a dictatorship with him at the top. You asked. Just sayin'.