Posted on 12/06/2012 2:59:16 PM PST by ColdOne
White House press secretary Jay Carney said that the Obama administration does not believe they can unilaterally raise the nation's borrowing limit under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
"This administration does not believe that the 14th Amendment gives the president the power to ignore the debt ceiling -- period," Carney told reporters Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Since when did this administration ever give a flip about constitutional restraints?
Since when did this administration ever give a flip about constitutional restraints?
What a stinking laugh. This sock puppet’s handlers in our White House have already produced over 900 executive orders without even getting close to congress. Since when do they give a $hit about our Constitution.
This of course confirms that Obama will soon use the 14th amendment as justification to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling, because we have and will always be at war with Eurasia.
Hey even Barry doesn’t want to get impeached.
...and so the President, himself, will have to give the President the power to ignore the debt ceiling.
They must have some oher plan up their sleeves. Maybe Boehner has told them they won’t need to use this.
By BYRON TAU | 12/6/12 5:15 PM EST
White House press secretary Jay Carney said that the Obama administration does not believe they can unilaterally raise the nation’s borrowing limit under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
“This administration does not believe that the 14th Amendment gives the president the power to ignore the debt ceiling — period,” Carney told reporters Thursday.
Congressional Republicans are threatening another standoff over raising the nation’s debt ceiling — hoping to use congressional approval of the borrowing limit as a chip in the larger standoff with President Obama over debts and deficits.
Some legal scholars believe that the 14th Amendment — which affirms the validity of the public debt of the United States — supersedes the statuary borrowing limit set by Congress.
But the White House disagrees — saying that their legal interpretation is that only Congress can lift the borrowing limit.
“I think this is actually consistent with what we said last year,” he said. “I think there was a period where this was under discussion and maybe the quote you found was before it had been looked at in that level of detail. But I believe when this was under discussion at the time, this is where we landed.”
Obama has said that he is not interested in another negotiation with congressional Republicans over the debt limit.
“The only thing the debt ceiling is good as a weapon for is destroying your credit rating,” Obama told a group of business leaders Thursday. “I will not play that game.”
UPDATE: Still, some leading congressional Democrats believe it’s a tool the White House would be able to use. “I’ve always thought it was an option,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters on Thursday.
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“Some legal scholars believe that the 14th Amendment — which affirms the validity of the public debt of the United States — supersedes the statuary borrowing limit set by Congress.”
Wrong. Not ‘legal scholars’ but Democrat hacks.
I’m glad they don’t think the 14th does.
However, it still won’t stop um.
The regime saying they won’t use the 14th is kind of like when Kagen recused on the Arizona case around the same time she decided NOT to recuse of commiecare.
In other words, don’t trust these slimeballs, there is something up their collective (ist) sleeves.
I suspect this probably means that he and the Orange Pussy have just reached a secret deal of some kind.
Giga dittos.
No, Tera.
Incredible! They are acknowledging that the Constitution somehow limits their power????
Whomever writes the press releases must be off to Christmas(holiday) vacation early, and left a rookie in charge! They’ll end up having to ‘walk this one back’......
That comes with a 3 second guarantee.
More rope-a-dope...
The administration may not believe it but that doesn’t mean hussein won’t take a shot at it. He will never cease grabbing all he can to put in the goodie baskets of his voters. It would take uears for it to reach the Supremes who would, no doubt, by then rule it legal.
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