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In reply to the discussion: 14th Amendment Option: Nancy Pelosi Urges Obama To 'Just Go Do It' [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)People tend to forget that we get Republican Presidents, too, and even Democratic Presidents are not always right.
Are either of them lawyers?
Did either of them consult a lawyer before opening his or her piehole?
Did Pelosi even read the 14th amendment?
Be all that as it may, we don't move closer to an imperial Presidency because someone misquotes the Constitution, even Pelois, unless that someone is the President and he acts on his misinterpretation and no one does anything about it before or after the fact. That has happened in the past, but this does not seem to be one of those times.
Carney has said that President Obama does not believe that the 14th amendment empowers him to ignore the debt ceiling.
That said, those refusing to raise the debt ceiling are acting like asses.