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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: CG6468 on July 22, 2011, 01:27:51 PM

Title: We Don't Need No Friggin' Constitution
Post by: CG6468 on July 22, 2011, 01:27:51 PM

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Bill Clinton: I'd use 14th Amendment

Updated: 7/19/11 12:28 PM EDT

Former President Bill Clinton would invoke the 14th Amendment - “without hesitation, and force the courts to stop me,” he says - to raise the debt ceiling if he were in President Barack Obama’s shoes, with the deadline to raise the limit just two weeks away.

“I think the Constitution is clear and I think this idea that the Congress gets to vote twice on whether to pay for [expenditures] it has appropriated is crazy,” Clinton said in an interview with journalist Joe Conason published by

Clinton said he would turn to the Constitution “if it came to that,” but doesn’t think that Obama will need to. “It looks to me like they’re going to make an agreement, and that’s smart,” he said.

Obama has sidestepped direct questioning about invoking a clause in the amendment to the Constitution that has been interpreted by some to mean that the president has the authority to take all necessary steps to maintain the good credit of the United States. But a lawyer for the Treasury Department has publicly refuted that interpretation, saying that Secretary Timothy Geithner has “never argued that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows the president to disregard the statutory debt limit.”

The Constitution didn't mean anything to Blow Job Clintoon, either.

Screw the Constitution - Clinton (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59331.html)