Fareed: An extraordinary act of hostage taking (the Teaparty): CNN

[flamingdem]

"this is a national emergency like a war" He recommends that Obama use the 14th amendment.

Even this Foxista Charles Krauthamer agrees:

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Given this reality, trying to force the issue — trying to turn a blocking minority into a governing authority — is not just counter-constitutional in spirit but self-destructive in practice.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/273017/debt-ceiling-divide-charles-krauthammer

July 28, 2011 8:00 P.M.
The Debt-Ceiling Divide
We’re only at the midpoint of the battle to change the ideological course of the country.


We’re in the midst of a great four-year national debate on the size and reach of government, the future of the welfare state, indeed, the nature of the social contract between citizen and state. The distinctive visions of the two parties — social-democratic versus limited-government — have underlain every debate on every issue since Barack Obama’s inauguration: the stimulus, the auto bailouts, health-care reform, financial regulation, deficit spending. Everything. The debt ceiling is but the latest focus of this fundamental divide.

The sausage-making may be unsightly, but the problem is not that Washington is broken, that ridiculous, ubiquitous cliché. The problem is that these two visions are in competition, and the definitive popular verdict has not yet been rendered.

We’re only at the midpoint. Obama won a great victory in 2008 that he took as a mandate to transform America toward European-style social democracy. The subsequent counterrevolution delivered to that project a staggering rebuke in November 2010. Under our incremental system, however, a rebuke delivered is not a mandate conferred. That awaits definitive resolution, the rubber match of November 2012. SNIP

[polichick]

1. I wish the prez would talk about it the way Fareed did - it IS an extraordinary act...

...of hostage taking, a new kind of homegrown terrorism.

[flamingdem]

2. I have to say Fareed sounded truly freaked out!

And that worries me because the guy is verrry smart. But as he said he's not a constitutional lawyer. It's bad if it gets dumped on Obama to save the day but it might go that way.. I think he'll do it if nothing else goes through.