Did Obama just go 14th Amendment on the debt?

[krispos42]

:wow:

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. I think so

and I hope so.

[krispos42]

4. Holy shit! n/t

[Poll_Blind]

2. No, I thought it was more the McConnel route.

PB

[Parker CA]

6. Yes, it was the McConnel option. nt

[krispos42]

Damn. :-( n/t

[sakabatou]

3. No

I think he's a got a clean bill on his desk.

[my2sense]

5. I hope he does

and let the chips fall where they may. It would be better than the alternative.

[Kahuna]

7. I think it's possible. nt

[CaptRandom]

8. I think so..

and he was pushed into it...

And now we get to have a constitutional crisis ...


DAMN the pugs are trying their damnest to keep the man from getting elected no matter the consequences

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I hope so. I'd like him to go on TV and say something like this on Aug. 2:

"All righty, then. Since you Republican assholes - and I mean you, Boehner, Cantor and McConnell, and all your drooling little teabaggy minions -- are determined to dump this country in the shitter just to show me how huge your dicks are, I've just issued an executive order raising the debt limit based on the 14th amendment. And if you shitweasels don't like it, go ahead and sue me. Or impeach me. Whatever. I don't need this fucking job. $400,00 a year? That's chump change; I could make ten times that on the lecture circuit. So just go right ahead, do whatever you want. I'm raising the debt limit so the whole fucking country doesn't go broke. And that reminds me of something else, you dumb bastards. If you drive the economy off the cliff and into a big, stinking sewer, what do you think will happen to your money? Your investments? Dumbasses, you'll be out selling pencils on street corners. You people are too damn stupid to zip your own flies. So I'm saving the country all by myself, and don't you losers ever forget it. I just kept you from having to sell pencils on a street corner, Boehner. Ha.

Thank you, and God bless America."

[chalky]

11. +1000.

I like your style.

[krispos42]

12. Awesome!

:thumbsup:

[tokenlib]

14. To have "the rude pundit" as white house press sec'y..for just one day...

Nice...real nice thought...

[tokenlib]

10. Probably not.....but I think he should....

By going 14th Amendment at this point---he could take the issue out of the hands of the tea bagger children and show some real leadership.

[yankeeswin]

13. The Republicans are BEGGING for 14th Amendment remedy

-They will NOT vote for a clean bill and go back to the teabaggers and Grover Norquist.
-They will NOT vote for anything including any sort of tax increase.
-They desperately don't want to take the blame for default, especially with their Wall Street base.

I think the President knows this. He wants submission, but if he can't get a deal, he will go 14th and save the full faith of the country. If he does though, the teabaggers (and the mushy right) will amp up their criticism into the 2012 elections.
The President has all the cards now.

[krispos42]

17. This from the Party of America-Loving Country First Patriots

*snicker*


Welcome aboard... you picked an exciting day to start your DU career.

[Taverner]

15. If he does, THAT is a win

That is what I would consider winning

[Sheepshank]

16. I simply don't trust McConnell

if he is suggesting a straight up/down vote, it's because he knows the Reps are not getting their way and they are about to come out of this stinking like a skunk with diarrhea.

Later date, different ammo and they may have a stronger negotiating direction. I'm positive this has nothing to do with what's best for the nation.....McConnell is incapable of thinking in that direction. Remember his stated primary goal has been to destroy Obama, not to save the nation.