Sunday, July 3, 2011

Isn't This Just Too Rich

Obama has the repubiclickers all in a tizzy because he wants to cite the constitution's 14th amendment as his power to by pass Congress. How rich. Obviously the 14th amendment is the Left's Omnibus amendment that grants them power to do anything from ObamaCare to Cap and Trade to Raising the Debt Ceiling-- All without congressional approval.

Now the Right has a problem with empowering the usurper.

The usurper is usurping their power. Suddenly these Senators feel threatened, that their little hold on power on their corner, is being wrested from them by an "illegal" act. Don't you just feel so sorry for them?

Jon Cornyn -a former Texas Supreme Court justice, can interpret the 14th amendment today, but when asked two years ago about Article II Section 1 Clause 5, he had a brain fart as to what Natural Born Citizen meant.

Maybe Reverend Wright was correct- America's chickens are finally coming home to roost.

Damn that constitution, now it's biting the repubiclickers in the ass.

Steve

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U.S. Senate
Cornyn: Obama Bypassing Congress on Debt Limit is 'Crazy Talk'

Published July 03, 2011
FoxNews.com

Sen. John Cornyn warned President Obama on Sunday to not even consider interpreting the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment to bypass Congress and raise the debt limit without its approval.

"That's crazy talk. It's not acceptable for Congress and the president not to do their job and to say somehow the president has the authority then to basically do this by himself," Cornyn, R-Texas, a former judge on the Texas Supreme Court, told "Fox News Sunday."

The proposal that Obama re-interpret Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment to justify raising the $14.3 trillion debt limit has been gaining traction in Democratic circles since Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told reporters that the Constitution's language could support the president's raising the limit without congressional approval.

'The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for the payments of pension and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion' -- this is the important thing -- 'shall not be questioned,' " Geithner read during a discussion hosted by Politico in May.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and others on Capitol Hill reportedly acknowledged that the idea is percolating, and had been presented to the president.

"It's certainly worth exploring. I think it needs a little more exploration and study," he said during a conference call with reporters held Friday.

Without addressing efforts to invoke the Constitution, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said Sunday the president and congressional negotiators shouldn't even be discussing a debt deal privately.

"Congress is the constitutional place for this to be decided," said Sessions, who is the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee.

Asked during a press conference Wednesday whether the debt limit was constitutional, the president glossed over the question, saying, "I'm not a Supreme Court justice, so I'm not going to put my constitutional law professor hat on here."

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