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Topic: Top Democrats tell Obama to ignore Congress on debt limit |
Top Democrats tell Obama to ignore Congress on debt limit
Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan
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Posted By:Scottyboy, 1/11/2013 3:54:49 PM
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Senate Democrats on Friday urged President Obama to do an end-run around Congress and claim the power to borrow more money on the credit of the U.S. The move, should Mr. Obama follow their advice, would likely force another constitutional battle between the executive branch and congressional Republicans. But the Senate Democrats, including Majority Leader Harry Reid, said Mr. Obama should turn to the strategy as a way of circumventing the GOP on the debt limit. Headline resplit by staff.
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Comments: A rogue administration and a lawless party.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
aasilver, 1/11/2013 3:58:13 PM (No. 9111340)
And a Republican house that is afraid of it´s own shadow.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby, 1/11/2013 4:02:25 PM (No. 9111349)
And his first term isn´t over yet.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sg, 1/11/2013 4:07:58 PM (No. 9111355)
Didn´t the Supreme Court rule a number of years ago that Congress cannot relinquish its constitutional authority? Don´t these idiots realize that they´re administratively cutting their own throats, so to speak. Party over country...Gd save us.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/11/2013 4:09:18 PM (No. 9111357)
If only Congress was as upset as the rest of US.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Northcross, 1/11/2013 4:11:40 PM (No. 9111362)
These congressional idiots would recommend that Obama name himself dictator for life if they thought he would reward them with high positions.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
phx4546, 1/11/2013 4:20:01 PM (No. 9111385)
sounds like either a "high crime or misdemeanor" to me....isn´t that grounds for something?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Mass Minority, 1/11/2013 4:27:03 PM (No. 9111398)
Eventually the dems will lose the whitehouse. That is inevitable unless our republic truly becomes a banana republic. But even under that scenario the dem lickspittles in Congress will find they are the pawns as well. At that exact instant, the instant that they realize that the President no longer has any use for them, every member of the democrat caucus will start shrieking about the dangers and evils of an imperial presidency, but not one femtosecond before.
Unfortunately for them, and all os us, by then it will be much too late.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
vesicant, 1/11/2013 4:49:45 PM (No. 9111435)
The only plausible reason for Democrats being willing to let the US go bankrupt is that they think they´ll benefit from it. But how, without money to spend? How does someone accrue power from a bankruptcy? Or is it that lefties think their perks are safe, so screw the rest of us?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
RightShoe, 1/11/2013 5:10:11 PM (No. 9111461)
Who is going to loan him the money?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ida Lil, 1/11/2013 5:11:40 PM (No. 9111463)
Perhaps the saying has changed from Those who the Gods would destroy they first make mad to They first make them power hungry. The progressive critters can´t see they are about to destroy their own elite concept of total power by overruling the very foundation of the necessity for a federal Governing body. The States could form a league of States and toss them out.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rafter, 1/11/2013 5:29:01 PM (No. 9111480)
Bammy´s in a hole... and he just keeps digging.
Someday he´s gunna own all this. Midterms are next year in 2014. Looking ugly.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Penney, 1/11/2013 5:44:48 PM (No. 9111502)
Elected officials were not entrusted by the voters to represent them by evading & circumventing their sworn Constitutional duties! Ethical Senators who choose not to fulfill their oaths of office would resign. They betray their Senatorial duties. But then, renagade Senators who so ignore their obligations have no shame.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
RUReadyY3K, 1/11/2013 5:50:45 PM (No. 9111515)
He could be impeached (even though not convicted by the Democrat Senate). Would be interesting to see how that would affect the 2014 mid-terms.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
GOPJihad, 1/11/2013 5:58:36 PM (No. 9111523)
These are some words that come to mind as I see what is being perpetrated upon this nation. They should be familiar to every American, but it is apparent that while many are aware of the document from which these words are cited, far too few are even remotely familiar with what that document actually says...
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Pretty radical, huh? However, 100% American in the truest meaning of the term.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Veritas2009, 1/11/2013 6:44:50 PM (No. 9111595)
These Adam Henry´s are under the illusion they are in control. The whole premise of the bailouts was that the non-government sectors would collapse. Their assumption of an interest rate that the government gets to set if the FULL FAITH and credit of the USG is not seen behind Ben B´s funny bonds is not something history has seen.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/11/2013 7:00:54 PM (No. 9111619)
Go ahead and do that. Payback will come.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LAW428, 1/11/2013 7:21:28 PM (No. 9111637)
Democrats have no respect for America or our Constitution. They should be impeached and frogmarched in orange jumpsuits and placed in custody of Sheriff Joe!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 1/12/2013 12:02:16 AM (No. 9111915)
Sooo... If elected officials are suggesting POTUS violate the constitution... aren´t they traitors who violated their oath to office?
Class Action Lawsuit, anyone?
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