14th Amendment emerges as last-ditch fix to ward off default

[DemocraticPatriot]

24. Some very-red states, and red counties in blue states, are already taking the opinion that

they can nullify laws with which they don't agree... so what's the difference?


And, I don't expect for many "good SCOTUS decisions that protect individual freedoms" to be made for the next 20 or 30 years....

Please see my response to a previous poster here:
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17899744


My reference to "troops" was tongue-in-cheek, but it is never-the-less true---
neither the Supreme Court nor the Congress has such means to enforce bad decisions.... and I believe that the vast majority of the American people would stand behind President Biden, if he took actions which "some people" might argue were "not entirely legal", in order to prevent catastrophic economic consequences for our country and the entire world, especially over a matter which was always considered 'routine'--- except when one party has embraced fascism, and wants to hold the whole world hostage in order to pass their agenda....

(on the other hand, there are credible legal arguments for citing the 14th amendment as an argument that the whole 'debt limit' law was unconstitutional from the beginning--- and other arguments for creating the "trillion dollar coin" which would render everything moot--- the Treasury Department coins money, and serves under the executive, that is, the President of the United States.)


President Biden might likely be impeached for it, but he would not be convicted or removed---
and recall that President Clinton actually had gains in the mid-terms after his impeachment...


President Biden has not "lied under oath" in any court case,
nor has he been getting blow-jobs from interns---

If he gets impeached over his response to the debt-limit crisis,
I believe the back-lash against Republicans would be even greater than it was
over their impeachment of President Clinton...


President Reagan once said,
"We will not negotiate with terrorists"...
(although later it was shown that his administration made secret arms deals with them)


These Republicans in congress are no less than terrorists who threaten the economic lives of us all,
by refusing to do their duty under the ill-advised debt limit law...

At this point I will support the President in refusing to give in to terrorists,
and taking any "extra-ordinary action" which will avert a default,
whether it might be considered "completely legal" or not---

After all, Republicans have proven that they don't give a shit about "the law".
They want to re-install a rapist and fascist to the White House. Fuck 'em.