Raise the debt limit - with or without Congress

[LuckyTheDog]

My latest Detroit News blog post. Feel free to join the discussion in the comments section.

We don’t have time for this.

In a hissy fit of epic proportions, a faction of the Republican Party forced the first federal shutdown in 17 years in an attempt to halt the Affordable Care Act (ACA). An up-or-down vote in the U.S. House could end the shutdown today, but Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, has refused to hold that vote. His fear of the GOP Tea Party wing is that great.

That’s bad. But it gets worse. This might not be the most serious crisis we will face this month.

The government estimates it will reach its legal borrowing limit on Oct. 17. Unless Congress raises the debt ceiling (something it has done routinely for decades), the government would find itself unable to pay for spending Congress has already approved. That has never happened before. The effects could be severe.

MORE HERE: http://blogs.detroitnews.com/politics/2013/10/04/raise-debt-limit-without-congress/

[Doctor_J]

1. 14th Amendment

Let these traitors and seditionists start the impeachment proceedings. If nothing else comes out of these 8 years, let it be the time when we had it out with them for real.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Shrub, Robbed a paid deficit for WMD'S, and CEO's .

[AlinPA]

3. "His fear of the GOP Tea Party wing..." No, he is not afraid of the tea party. He IS a teabagger.

[LuckyTheDog]

4. I disagree

He cries and wets his undergarments when the Tea Party speaks.

[AlinPA]

5. To me he sounds just like Louie Gohmert, Rick Pery or Michelle Bachmann.

[Filibuster Harry]

6. Just heard from Begalla on CNN that Boehner and the Rs will raise the debt ceiling if 5 demands are

met: Approve keystone pipeline; repeal the medical equipment tax; reduce social security and medicare; and I forgot the other 2.
But Paul called it a christmas wish list. Now I am hearing that the Rs will not raise the debt ceiling and will start impeachment proceedings on President Obama as soon as he decides to pay the bills without congress approval.
Get ready for some good fighting. They MUST be stopped.