Long title: Carney: “If We Have No Other Alternative We Will “Take Action” (Could President Obama Invoke Amendment Number 14?)
What part of Amendment 14 empowers the President to do anything?
The 14th Amendment requires that debts be honored...it does not require, or give power to the President, to ignore the will of Congress in taking on NEW debt.
Obviously this Harvard graduate does not fully understand the Constitution. He has no idea of what the 14th. Amendment is all about. Is he truly that ignorant?
He can do whatever the hell he wants. The press, Reid and Pelosi will give him cover.
Will he unilaterally adopt a "spending bill" of his own creation?
Will he unilaterally raise taxes on "the rich"?
Dictators get shot for stuff like that.
He won’t be able to get a reputable lawyer to agree that it is legal, but then again he wasn’t able to get a reputable lawyer to agree that his War Powers Act interpretation was legal and that didn’t stop him.
This is the problem with having an untouchable affirmative action chief executive. The honor of a community agitator coupled with the ignorance of a freaking monkey.
I copied this from ‘somewhere’.........
The 14th says “The congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article”.
Geitner has repeated OVER AND OVER that there is NO 14thAmendment Option that applies here, since CONGRESS controls the purse strings as a separation of powers.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/28/balkin.obama.options/index.html
Who would stop him?
Obama could nuke Omaha without MSM even reporting it.
I don’t put anything past The Won...but I really think if he thought he could get by with he would have already done it.
Last Friday’s presser showed him to be very much in tantrum mode.
We have talked about his possible dictatorial moves for 3 years now.
Tanks and troops in the streets will not surprise me.
What might suprise The Elites in D.C. is eventually which direction the turrets face, if the United States Constitution is shredded People are pissed on that kind of way.
Constitutional or not, he’ll not waste the opportunity to seize further control of the government. The Republican House may or may not impeach him, but if they do, the Senate will NOT convict, and we will have a de facto dictator.
It’s at least a 50/50 chance of playing out that way.
What happens next year with regard to the election is a little harder to predict.
no.
if he coulda, he woulda.
Seems to me the Peabaggers have been doing whatever they want since 2006.
Peabaggers=Democrats.
Personally, I’m waiting for him to attack Ft Sumter.
The 14th amendment does not give any President the authority to raise a debt ceiling. Only Congress may borrow money, which is what the debt ceiling really is. Grey Eagle.
Seeing how the last line is: “Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
I don’t think he legally can without risking impeachmet.