Maybe Obama should just get it over with. Let the Republicans impeach him this spring,

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4. Do you think the idea of Obama ignoring the debt ceiling is a "nutty idea," even though

a number of constitutional lawyers are saying that Obama would be justified in doing this because of the 14th amendment?

Or is it a "nutty idea" to think that the House would impeach him for this, even if he had valid constitutional grounds?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/politics/25legal.html

The provision in question, Section 4 of the amendment, was meant to ensure the payment of Union debts after the Civil War and to disavow Confederate ones. But it was written in broader terms.

“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payments of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion,” the critical sentence says, “shall not be questioned.”

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Another possible reaction to unilateral action from Mr. Obama is impeachment. Professor Tribe said that was “not politically a very plausible scenario.”

Professor Levinson was less certain. Impeachment by the House of Representatives “seems to me quite likely.” But, he added, “it is also literally unimaginable that the Senate would convict.”