Clyburn Solution! If you can't do it the right way, just do it anyway!

Watchwoman: This sounds very dangerous to me.  If Obama bypasses Congress, then isn’t that exactly doing what dictators like those in Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea do?  What am I seeing here that Dem. Rep. Commie Clyburn fails to mention? ▬ Donna Calvin

 

House Democratic leader urges Obama to raise debt ceiling without Congressional approval…

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 7/27/11 12:14 PM EDT

Rep. James Clyburn and a group of House Democrats are urging President Barack Obama to invoke the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling if Congress can’t come up with a satisfactory plan before the Tuesday deadline.

Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat, said Wednesday that if the president is delivered a bill to raise the debt ceiling for only a short period of time, he should instead veto it and turn to the phrase in the Constitution that says the validity of the U.S. government’s debt “shall not be questioned.”

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