Posted on 10/11/2013 5:34:06 AM PDT by IbJensen
“President Obama is prepared to take power and begin to rule from day one.”
-Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States
Should Congress and the President fail to come to an agreement on America’s debt ceiling we could well be facing a situation that leads Barack Obama to implement a last ditch strategy that would be nothing short of a complete takeover of the United States.
So says former US Treasury Under secretary Paul Craig Roberts, who knows a thing or two about finance, debt and the inner workings of our government :
If the United States were to default, it would be the end of the US as a superpower. No one in Washington wants to lose that kind of power, so I fully expect that at the last minute a deal will be reached. Now, in the event that both sides play a game of ‘chicken’ to the very end, and we are down to the last hours, and fears of a default escalate dramatically, I think one of two things will happen….
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The first would be the Federal Reserve, on its own initiative, would simply lend the US Treasury whatever money it would need. You have to remember that the Federal Reserve lent to US and European banks more than $16 trillion in order to enable them to avoid default, or outright failure.
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The second possibility would be that President Obama, because of laws that are already on the books, would have the power to declare a ‘national catastrophe’ and simply assume the leadership of the government. This gets Congress and the courts out of the picture. At that point there are no limits on the power of the President if he calls for a ‘national catastrophe.’
This would mean that the President, on his own authority, could raise the debt ceiling. So, either of those two events would happen if it looked like no deal was forthcoming from the Congress. It could be that President Obama, or others in the Executive Branch, are planning to use this crisis to invoke that Executive Order.
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Of course. It means that essentially the President would become a ‘Caesar.’ That would also mean that the Congress had become like the Roman Senate, which lost its power and simply became a collection of notable figureheads. Generally when democratically regimes fail you end up with a Caesar, and a shutdown is of course the epitome of a democratic failure.
So this would give President Obama all of the justification for exercising the Executive Order so that the President can rule independently of Congress and the courts.
Listen to the Full Interview at King World News (via Steve Quayle)
The important thing to understand is that President Barack Obama relishes the power. This is evidenced by his desperate need to monitor and command drone strikes from the White House himself. He likes the thrill of being the decision maker and holding the lives of others in his hands.
He has already passed scores of executive orders, including restrictions on firearms accessories and ammunition, as well as provisions that would allow the U.S. government to take over all domestic resources, including the labor force, should a national catastrophe be declared.
Make no mistake. They want total control.
And they will let no crisis go to waste. For them, the debt ceiling negotiations reaching a stalemate may well be the outcome they are looking for, because it will justify the administration’s invocation of Executive Order and rule by decree.
The debt ceiling debate will likely have a resolution, just as it has twice in as many years under the Obama administration, but if it doesn’t you can fully expect the Executive Branch to take whatever action they deem necessary to “protect” the American people.
If that means declaring a “national catastrophe” then that’s what they will do.
Not one American (save those tucked away in mental institutions) should be surprised by what will happen within the next few years of the reign of this tyrant. Everything he does is geared to his replacement by one who will continue the evil.
Article 48 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic of Germany (1919–1933) allowed the President, under certain circumstances, to take emergency measures without the prior consent of the Reichstag. This power was understood to include the promulgation of “emergency decrees (Notverordnungen)”
Obama has lost track of what country he is in. He’s reading the wrong Constitution.
*laws that are already on the books*
It doesn’t seem like a law like that would be Constitutional.
Somehow we need to get those “laws” off the books.
There’s one difference. Caesar increased his power and wealth by illegally increasing the power, wealth, and reach of Rome. Obama increases his power by illegally decreasing the power, wealth and reach of America.
Sadly, I’ve said this is his endgame this time.
Look at the rhetoric and look at the plans. Much of this is already out there being telegraphed that this is exactly what he plans to do.
Did Ted Cruz give him this gift? Or did Ted Cruz finally start shaking a few people awake to realize what has been done in their name.
If Obama took control that would be a national catastrophe.
Then who is in charge?
“A regiment that is shaken in its DISCIPLINE will readily concede to accidental leaders of the moment powers of an extent and a kind which the legitimate command could never acquire, and which if legitimate would be utterly intolerable.”
Read your Spengler!
The Government has been shut down numerous times in my lifetime. The Obama regime is the only one that I recall ever talking about a default, or acting so stupid by sending out more people to close memorials than are there anyway.
Anyone remember what stuff Clinton shut down?
Obama knows exactly which country he is in. As for reading the wrong constitution, he interprets what he reads differently than you or I.
Your republic will not survive this presidency. In fact, it hasn't and won't in the same form as it was in 2008. The theft of equity from the Chrysler and GM bondholders was the opening gambit on the road to fascism. When the president can simply steal wealth from one group and grant it to his friends without legal backing and without much protest, it's all over. The rest is just an epilog.
“...any law that is repugnant to the Constitution is null and void”
Marbury v. Madison
I have no doubt at all that he has strategized taking total control since his first inauguration. Total power is his goal and he will not stop until it is attained. This man is evil, dangerous and mentally deranged. What else should we expect from a traitor, Chicago thug, and Alinsky student?
Oathkeepers also has this article. They state: “This article was written by Mac Slavo and originally published at SHTFplan.com”
His head is aimed in the wrong direction if he is intending to receive accolades from the one he worships.
The national catastrophe is that Obama has already turned this country upside down. Are we approaching the final hours of America?
The 2nd Amendment would be the ultimate limit in such a case.
“The first would be the Federal Reserve, on its own initiative, would simply lend the US Treasury whatever money it would need. You have to remember that the Federal Reserve lent to US and European banks more than $16 trillion in order to enable them to avoid default, or outright failure.”
Lend? I thought it takes the Congress to incur debt on behalf of the nation? So, wouldn’t this, technically, be a gift? One that we don’t have to repay? Or pay interest?
Are we approaching the final hours of Obama?
That should be the question
The Patriot act. Passed by a Republican House and Senate, signed by a Republican President.
This ain't gonna happen because the pubs are chicken.
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