The only one with standing to sue Obama would be Congress. Both chambers of Congress would have to issue a joint resolution in order to do that, and a Democratic
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Also keep in mind that even should taxes be raised in exchange for cutting Social Security and Medicare, those new taxes could be subject to tax cuts in future Congresses and Social Security and Medicare will be destroyed.
The ratio, by the way, of what Obama's negotiatin
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I've shared with you Jeffrey Rosen's opinion, and now here's Jonathan Turley's:
Fourteenth Amendment states:
The argument goes that Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment declares:
“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 insurrecti on 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 insurrecti on or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipati on of any slave; but all such debts, obligation s and claims shall be held illegal and void.”
The argument goes that, by not lifting the debt limit, Congress is “questioning” “the validity of the public debt of the United States.” Under this logic, advocates are encouragin g President Obama to simply pay the debts in accordance with the Constituti on. That would be an extreme step that would add a constituti onal crisis to an economic crisis.
The “authorized by law” clause could present an interestin g debate since the debt ceiling is part of a federal statute — though conversely so is the obligation to pay things like social security.
The language is certainly written in absolute terms but it is not likely that a court would rule that it makes a failure to lift the debt ceiling unconstitutional. Congress can argue that it fully intends to pay its debts, but that there is a political dispute over how and when. They can argue that they were not challengin g the “validity” of the debt but the priority in the payment. The United States will still be fully liable for the debt and the interest.
Of course, as with the Libyan War, the Administration could trigger the constituti onal fight on the belief that no one will be able to get standing to challenge its payment of the debt.
Even the most pro-choice of Democrats in Congress, alleged stalwarts who've spent entire careers, decades in public office, have failed miserably to protect women's rights and have let it get to this point. One example would be Barbara Boxer.
In 2006, Democratic senators and the Democratic machine publicly supported Democratic candidate NedLamont who was running for senator in Connecticu
During the Bush-Chene
In the 2010 midterm campaign, I asked rhetorical
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Democats have been blocking EVERY teabagging anti a.bor.tion bill and whatever they've put forward, haven't they?==========
And when it comes to ending Bush's tax cuts, read this thread for the history.
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I think you're misinforme
The week before and the week after the healthcare bill passed in the Senate was the one and only time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.
A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconcilia
Obama nixxed it.
The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote and "There's no time!"
After the (allegedly
Obama's not only not for any kind of universal public health care, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the White House. Because that was the deal that he made.
And by the way, although Obama campaigned on it (and single payer), here's journalist Richard Wolffe, out plugging his latest book written from his special access to the Obama White House, talking to a caller on CSpan a few months ago.
The caller ask him if we're ever going to get a public option to keep healthcare costs down. Wolffe made it clear that Obama and the DLC-contro
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