It would not surprise me at all to learn that much of the freedom caucus is financed by those looking to make a killing off a US default.
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Statutory law cannot be suspended by an Executive Order.
Someone needs to tell Qevin that raising the debt ceiling is a ministerial duty only and not an opportunity to cut future spending, which has nothing to do with the debt ceiling.
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Well, they want total power so that they can destroy America, but I disagree that they’re prepared for anything. Qevin does not appear to have the skills to even prepare for another wedgie at the hands of the lunatics. He’s starting to challenge Pence for the most purely unaware idiot in human history.
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The Constitution’s 14th Amendment, Section 4 requires the republic to pay its debts. That trumps (sad!) statutory law.
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Changing the subject doesn’t make you correct.
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Nobody here got the “I have a gub” being Woody Allen?
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Throw them to the floor and strike them very roughly.
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Quick, somebody tell the editors at the WaPo!! For context, their lead article stated Mc
Q takes his plan to Wall St. Of course, as the commenters pointed out, the article contained not word one about any “plan…”
He (and the old Mad) will definitely be missed.
Can’t any Democrat call for a vote of no confidence? Or is that only the “Freedumb!!” Caucus who are entitled, under their secret agreement?
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How’s about a bill of attainder?
It’ll serve 'em right and be the more constitutional solution.
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“Let me be clear. A no-strings-attached debt limit increase will not pass”
Try it. Let’s see.
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Paul Ryan could at least pass fraudulent “balanced budget” resolutions with magic asterisks. McCarthy can’t even do that.
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McCarthy lives up/down to his reputation. He just may surpass TFG in delusionography.
At some point the music ends, the Merry-Go-Round stops, people with mikes start asking questions and the Nursery lets out for the Day.
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Kinda like Mikey certifying electoral votes. Though as I recall, the ReQs seem to lack a grasp of the concept.
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It’s not clear that the debt ceiling is legally a thing when it comes to monies that Congress has already passed laws to fund. There is a conflict in the law is the argument. This issue gets even more complicated (or simpler?) if you start putting the conflicting laws in temporal order? Basically, it’s possible that SCOTUS could just allow the US Treasury to sell US bonds to cover expenditures already passed into law while it decides the issue. There have been proposals for a balanced budget Amendment to the US Constitution but it has never been ratified; that alone gives legal ‘ammunition’ to the idea that once Congress passes a law allocating funds, that the Federal Treasury is obligated to make good on such expenditures.
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Kevin McCarthy is held hostage so the full faith and credit of the United States is held hostage. McCarthy is too damned dumb to do anything except speak in foolish and overused platitudes. He ain’t no leader!
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I remember Monty Python as something you smoked pot for and then laughed your ass off. I remember Firesign Theater as something you took hallucinogenics for and then tried to imagine what the story behind the story of George Tirebiter was. I was an idiot back then but I did have some fun.
Recently I had my millennial daughter and son-in-law watch some classic Monty Python skits at gunpoint - dead parrot, ministry of silly walks, the cheese store. They never even cracked a smile. I did see a few knowing looks being passed that I interpreted to mean “he’s losing it.”
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No, Congress must do its job. president Biden doesn’t need to be a guinea pig for some untested idea.
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Kevin McCarthy is an idiot. When confronted with Trump’s enormous taxcut which resulted in a giant deficit -he says no we need more tax cuts and less regulations.
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That’s the only thing it’s for.
The law was passed in 1917 so Congress didn’t have to pass legislation every time the government needed cash to fund its efforts in WWI.
The law allowed Congress to keep tabs on the Liberty Loan program.
It should be repealed, but legislative inertia is quite strong.
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