Posted on 07/07/2011 5:55:15 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon
Remember when George W. Bush....after using it's reflection to groom his Hitler stash...would wave his scepter and declare stuff conservatives didn't like unconstitutional?
Law professors, Democratic senators and liberal commentators have recently raised a tantalizing possibility for ending the congressional wrangling over raising the federal limit on borrowing: President Obama could simply declare the debt ceiling unconstitutional and be done with it.
Advocates of this approach cite the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which states that the “validity of the public debt of the United States...shall not be questioned.” From The Washington Post
What an explosive revelation to make after decades of raising the limit. Now that liberals have their backs are against the wall of accountability their strategy is to say the rule shouldn't exist in the first place?!? This is the line of the 14th amendment they think allows them to steamroll through the ceiling and continue to pile debt ad infinitum, the part in the "..." that the Washington Post conveniently left out of their report is actually the most important part....
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. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Even if you don't want to take the narrow view that this was an attempt to deal with post Civil War debt. Even if you wanted to ignore the fact that this was so unimportant that it was placed at the very end of the amendment. There is nothing in that language, even generally speaking, that says capping the debt is unconstitutional, especially since everything below the cap, an act of Congress signed into law by the president, is "authorized by law" and EVERYTHING ABOVE IT ISN'T. If they wanted to hide behind the skirt of 14th amendment, then liberals should look for inspiration in their pandering to Hispanics by waiting until the debt crashes through the ceiling. Then they can declare the ensuing illegal debt anchored to debt that came before it. Then we could fight over debt amnesty. Liberals could accuse the GOP of wanting to heartlessly send money back to the communist tyranny from whence it came (China, if you're having trouble keeping up). This would actually lead to a watershed moment in American politics to get liberals to forsake condemning anything to a communist state, at least until someone in the GOP comes up with the brilliant endgame strategy of changing the name of the "dollar" into "little Elians." Then it all goes back, at gunpoint. It's a win-win for the country, because the GOP gets their way while liberals still get to conveniently suspend disbelief in at least one portion of the Constitution. That logic would still cause Kotex stumping nose bleeds, but it would at least make a lot more sense. This entire argument takes liberalism's infantile view of the Constitution to a whole new level, even Obama isn't willing to go along with it because if feces could....excrete....it would stink less and hold more nutritional value than this leftist logic. That is what qualifies as "tantilizing" in liberal circles these days...feces excrement.
Ewww...
Being liberals, i.e., liars, the media omitted a significant phrase: "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."
If the debt has not been authorized by law (and it has NOT), then this Amendment is not applicable to the situation.
Even if the President tried to issue debt above the legally authorized limit, can you envision anyone who would buy it?
The phrase “debt ceiling” is another of a million empty metaphors uttered in Washington that can be exploited to create “crisis” and “self-importance” (and a reason to further line their own pockets) for the scumbags that run the federal government.
Has anyone ever voted to LOWER this mythical ceiling?
Of course not. Meaning, there is no “ceiling.”
The manipulation of otherwise meaningless metaphors is one of the important skill-sets needed for success in Washington.
What are you talking about?
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