Thread: The Constitution?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Don't kid yourself, if they could most cows would eat us in a heartbeat. Just ask any Matador.

And that ain't no bull.

Bob

not to beat a dead horse, and maybe someone pointed this out already, but raising the debt ceiling is not "spending money". The money was already spent. Congress spent it through legislation, POTUS let them by signing it. The idea that they are apposed on this spending to each other, is false. The debt ceiling is like you telling your wife that you will spend no more than $100/mo on shaving and then when you go over calling a big family budget crisis meeting and asking for a boat or you won't go to work anymore.

What is not clear is that Congress (constitutionally) has the right to renegotiate whether the US is going to pay debt they already got us in, and far from a power grab, the president asking congress to let him go ahead and agree that the US pay its debt, is quite wimpy.