Does anyone else smell a setup by House Republicans?
"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 insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."
From the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution
"What happens if Congress doesn't act? Some opine, probably correctly, that the House will impeach Obama if he moves unilaterally on the debt ceiling after the House declines to act. But others argue that if the House does nothing, and Obama refuses to step in, impeachment would then indeed be appropriate.
"Obama should be impeached if the Congress allows a default and he does nothing," said Sean Willenz, a Princeton University history professor who has argued the merits of 14th Amendment action. "The president has taken a solemn oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. If he does not act in response to a blatant violation of the Constitution, then he will have violated his oath, and deserve to be impeached."
http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/republicans-are-awfully-close-to-violating-the-constitution-20131008
Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. I hope Obama acts!! Let the House impeach him. He'll be acquitted in the Senate anyway and he'll come out of this better than ever!! The Republicans didn't learn from the shutdown of 1996. What makes anyone think that they'll learn from the impeachment of President Clinton?
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