The 'Nuclear Option' Now BACK on the table Mr. President

[waronignorance]

The 'Nuclear Option', also known as the Fourteenth Amendment, is now BACK on the table Mr. President. A law professor issues his ruling ...



Republicans’ Plan to Wreck US Credit Unconstitutional; Teabaggers Would Ravage Lady Liberty

Democrats have begun floating the idea that even if Republican obstructionists try to ram our ship of state into a fiscal iceberg like the corporate pirates they are, they might merely crumple the bow rather than send the whole economy careening to the ocean floor. That’s because, even if the Republican Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling in their stab at creating yet another right-wing disaster they can blame on President Obama, their attempt to force the United States into default is not permissible under the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution ...

Article:
http://beeryblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/republican-plan-to-destroy-american-credit-unconstitutional-but-dont-count-on-right-wing-judges-to-stop-them/

[Drale]

1. Who said it was ever off the table? /nt

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Withdrawn nt

[Tx4obama]

3. Please post a link where Obama said it was off the table

and/or a quote where Obama said it was 'forever' off the table.

[KittyWampus]

4. Ignore the noise. Some liberals will always either be suckers for the ratfuckers

or actually be one of them.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. You're right.

He said “I don’t think we should even get to the constitutional issue. Congress has a responsibility to make sure we pay our bills. We’ve always paid them in the past,” Obama said. “The notion that the U.S. is going to default on its debt is just irresponsible.”, but that doesn't rule it out.

[Tx4obama]

6. Thank you for taking the time to find a quote and posting the facts.

I am still hoping that in the end if the GOP continues to obstruct, then Obama will use the 14th amendment nuclear option :)

[KaryninMiami]

7. As are most of us.

And if he continues to remind the country that the GOP refuse to change their position tx breaks for millionares and how they don't give a damn about middle class and poor - or jobsfor that matter, at the point thta he uses it he will have the support of the country- or at least a good part of it.

[saras]

8. Why would anyone think the 14th amendment will get any more respect than the rest of the document?

It seems like blindly wishful thinking.