President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

The amendment says what it says. Is it vague enough to allow a President to defy Congress over the debt limit? There's disagreement. Our national oversupply of Constitutional law professors who need to get published insures there's disagreement on just about any constitutional issue. FTR, I think McCarthy might be writing checks his House majority, if he gets one, can't cash. We're cutting Medicaid and Social Security and we're ending aid to Ukraine do not smell like political winners to me.

 

I think one thing that's being overlooked is that even if the President were to blow off the debt limit and instruct whoever (the SecTreas?) to issue the debt ... that wouldn't be all there is to it. Takes two to tango, and I betcha there'd be a lot of hesitation to buy that debt in that scenario.

 

Lordy There Are Tapes: Bob Woodward Releasing Audiobook with 8 HOURS of Trump Recordings

 

Oh, so NOW financial markets won't want to buy debt. Fuck it. Let the whole system burn if Republicans want to take hostages.

Let's go with a barter economy.

 

I’ll grow a Victory Garden!

 

I will only point out that Trump proved that as long as he's in office and has at least 34 Senators willing to back his play, a President IS King, because impeachment is a dead letter.

 

And the Supreme Court doesn't have an enforcement mechanism. I'm almost sick enough of the GOP to want Biden to do it. And the executive overreach will make Ragu's head asplode.

But it still sets an overwhelmingly dangerous precedent, and Democrats will have no standing to complain ever. So pass.

 

If Biden agrees to Social Security snd Medicaid cuts to raise the debt limit, his Presidency is over and so is the Democratic Party. Same goes for letting the country default. He has no POLITICAL alternative to finding a way to square that circle, constitutional niceties be damned. As Oklahoma Gov. Willian "Alfalfa Bill" Murray once told FDR, "what's the Constitution among friends?"

 

It's a game of chicken. Let the GOP default our national debt if they really have the sack. I already said "Fuck it." If the people don't want a wrecked economy, maybe the GOP shouldn't be in charge of anything. But this seems to be what Americans want.

 

First rule of politics: When the voters fuck up, they never, ever blame themselves. Most often, they blame whoever told them "do that, you're fucking yourselves over."