[cotton1706]

This will avoid any default. And the government could then prioritize accordingly, hehe.

[Shadow44]

That’s too logical, which is why it will never happen.

[Sgt_Schultze]

The government currently receives more than enough money every month from current tax revenue than is needed to pay the interest on debts and pensions. The House should issue a statement to the press that they will invoke the 14th Amendment.
Section 5 says exactly,
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

They should then state that the current debt ceiling law is precisely the appropriate legislation to enforce Section 4 of the amendment and the president should stop threatening to violate the explicit instructions given to him therein.

[Principled]

Make the Senate pass a budget, reconcile with the House, then pass it.

THEN start talking about debt ceiling.

[kingu]

Borrow to pay interest on loans? If one of our friends was doing that, we’d sit them down, tell them that their latte budget, to begin with, has just gone to zero, and we’d help them figure out how to start paying down their debt.

Instead, Obama’s going to have dinner tonight at our expense, dining others on our dime, using security on our dime, who enjoy their own latte machines on our dime. To pay for this, they want to borrow to pay the interest on the debt.

Mr. Obama, you’re making this nation into deadbeats.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

In one regard, Obama is right in that these are expenditures that Congress has already approved.

So, the debt-ceiling problem is really just a symptom of the underlying problem of the continuing resolutions that approve all this spending.

The real battle needs to be over the budget. Does the GOP want to take that battle on with any seriousness?

[ABQHispConservative]

According to the polls, people do seem to like Republicans. So, don’t do anything unless 0 offers substantial spending cuts. They are already in the dog house, according to the MSM. Why should not doing anything give them brownie points from the media?

[El Laton Caliente]

They should never ever increased it.

There is NO DEFAULT!

Hell, has Congress even “approved the spending” like Obie said today? Hell NO! There has not been an Obie budget approved since he took office.

[Vendome]

Yep...