Zero is at a loss because Boehner has refused to accept his abject surrender over increasing the debt limit and left the White House capitulation conference.
He may have a meeting scheduled with Tiger Wood’s caddy on the weekend and didn’t want to miss it.
Just a reminder: Boehner, Cantor, and Ryan were all in the House and voted for the Shrubbery’s budgets that added trillions to the debt, and voted to raise the debt ceiling.
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Another reminder: Boehner, Cantor, and Ryan all voted for the budget that requires (*REQUIRES*) Obama to spend the money that he’s spending. I.e., Obama is legally required to spend every dime currently spent, or he’s in violation of a law *they* passed (otherwise earmarks would be useless because Presidents would simply refuse to pay out the money for Rep. Falderol’s pet bridge to nowhere). Except, uhm, they’re making it impossible for him to comply with *their very own law* by requiring him to spend, but not giving him authority to borrow or tax to do the spending.
It’s as if Congress passed two laws, one requiring Obama to spend, and one requiring Obama to *not* spend. When you have two contradictory laws like that, generally the last-passed one overrides the previously-passed one. A reminder: The Federal budget was passed *after* the last debt limit bill was passed. Just sayin’.
– Badtux the Contradictions Penguin
Oh, yes, the budget process is where these things belong, and the House approved this year’s budget knowing there was no money to fund it without raising the debt ceiling.
None of this makes logical sense.
Of all the possible work-arounds, I prefer the trillion dollar platinum coins. The banks don’t get the cut they make on flogging the government bonds, and the debt doesn’t increase. That would cause heads to explode.
Of course, that wouldn’t be ‘historic’ so Zero won’t do that when he can screw people who have been paying for Social Security and Medicare for decades to prove how ‘bi-partisan’ he is. Anyone who votes for a two-tier system will never see my vote.