Impeachment comes to mind....I wonder what folks will think of Obama's leadership if/when he unilaterally raises the debt ceiling.![]()
Impeachment comes to mind....![]()
Impeachment comes to mind....![]()
To paraphrase Georgie, " Bring it on!"
Impeaching the President for following the Constitution? Fourteenth Amendment, Section 4. "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."
authorized by law ?.....so you think the President is "authorized" to create law ?....
Did you ever hear of the Congress (the legislatures)....do you know what legislate means...?
authorized by law ?.....so you think the President is "authorized" to create law ?....
Did you ever hear of the Congress (the legislatures)....do you know what legislate means...?
The debts were authorized prior to today. Congress authorized the debts, over the years. Congress authorized the payment of the debts and now it's time to pay them and the Amendment makes it perfectly clear that paying them "shall not be questioned".
What's not clear?
with some luck, Obama can serve his term and Bush can still get blamed for everything.
Democrats are NEVER to blame
Betcha pinheads can't wait to re-elect their chief pinhead....
Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday that it plans to eliminate 1,200 to 1,400 jobs worldwide during the next 2 1/2 years to free money for new investments, the Natick medical device maker’s second major round of cuts since last year.
The company would not say how many jobs will be lost in Massachusetts, where fewer than 2,000 of its 25,000 employees are based. In February 2010, Boston Scientific said it would pare 1,300 jobs worldwide, but similarly did not say where.
Yesterday’s move, a day after Boston Scientific disclosed it was investing $150 million and hiring 1,000 people in China, raised fears that the company will gradually shift more work to foreign sites with less government oversight and lower costs than the United States.
http://www.boston.com/business/heal...07/29/boston_scientific_to_lay_off_1200_plus/
WASHINGTON—The transformative health-care bill is slated for President Barack Obama's signature this week in the culmination of efforts by generations of Democrats to achieve near-universal health coverage.
The focus now shifts to the Senate, which will take up a companion bill as early as Tuesday.
The landmark health-care bill is slated for President Obama's signature as focus moves to the Senate. But as WSJ's Peter Landers tells Simon Constable on the News Hub, the road to its completion is a bumpy one.
The House gave final passage Sunday to the Senate's health legislation in a 219-to-212 vote, as Democrats muscled the measure through on the strength of the party's big majority. In the final roll call, no House Republican voted for the bill, and 34 Democrats voted no, many of them representing Republican-leaning districts.
A short while later, the House, voting 220 to 211, approved a companion bill making changes to the Senate bill, a measure necessary to attract support in the House. All Republicans voted against the companion bill, as did 33 Democrats.
No doubt, Bush will get the blame for the loss of jobs.....hahaha...
And pay them we shall, but it won't be with borrowed money authorized by Obama, unless its first authorized by Congress....The debts were authorized prior to today. Congress authorized the debts, over the years. Congress authorized the payment of the debts and now it's time to pay them and the Amendment makes it perfectly clear that paying them "shall not be questioned".
What's not clear?
On what grounds...if Pelosi is supporting his raising the debt ceiling by using the 14th amendment, must mean that it is a legitimate tool of the presidency, seeing she didn't fail Government 101 as you must have.
According to Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution only Congress has the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States. The 14th Amendment only states that the debt, once incurred, is real.
In this case it would make it so that Obama, no matter how much he wants to, cannot simply "not pay" the interest on the debt when he has the money (which we do). He'd have to choose other less constitutionally limited bills that he would then "not pay"... He could not, however, constitutionally raise any debt unilaterally. It is not within his power to do so. Even if Pelosi wants to give him that power.
Maybe you should have paid attention during the reading of the Constitution earlier this year, and apparently Pelosi should have as well.
According to Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution only Congress has the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States. The 14th Amendment only states that the debt, once incurred, is real.
In this case it would make it so that Obama, no matter how much he wants to, cannot simply "not pay" the interest on the debt when he has the money (which we do). He'd have to choose other less constitutionally limited bills that he would then "not pay"... He could not, however, constitutionally raise any debt unilaterally. It is not within his power to do so. Even if Pelosi wants to give him that power.
Maybe you should have paid attention during the reading of the Constitution earlier this year, and apparently Pelosi should have as well.
No, Damo's right as to what the Constitution says. But that document has simply been ignored in the past, and undoubtedly will be ignored again and again. This should make you, as a liberal, happy, as allows the federal government to "progress" virtually unheeded.You're confused. However, that comes as no surprise. Denial and fantasy should never be mistaken for reality.
You're confused. However, that comes as no surprise. Denial and fantasy should never be mistaken for reality.
Love it. It's now a crazy conspiracy theory that the economy crashed on Bush's watch.
To paraphrase Georgie, " Bring it on!"
Impeaching the President for following the Constitution? Fourteenth Amendment, Section 4. "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."