4634

As much as anyone can pass a law that is later found unconstitutional. POTUS can say that he (or she) believes the law is unconstitutional and is therefore going to ignore it. Someone with standing (like Republican members of congress) then has to sue him to prevent that from happening.

4635
4636

I hope they told her and those “sensible, compromise-oriented” Republicans to explore the possibility of vigorously striking very finely granulated rocks and minerals, such as found at the local shore.

4637

Hell, at least then they may find something of value. Tell them if they bring a metal detector with they may be able to solve the deficit that way.

4638

Non-serious answer. No. They have to Hereby Declare it.

4639

They can’t just declare it, but they can refuse to enforce a law they consider unconstitutional- and the remedy is either impeachment or the Court says otherwise.

If the Court says otherwise, Biden should just say the court is acting in an unconsitutional way and doesn’t know the Constitution enough to have its rulings respected, and dare Congress to impeach.

Eventually someone will “cause a default”. Now’s a good time to do it- you’d win if you ignore it.

4640

Haha, that got a good chuckle out of me. :)

4641

What boggles my mind is how these “Dems” (and you know who they are) in the Senate won’t even reform the filibuster by putting the burden on the minority, making them keep 41 Senators on the floor at all times–not even for a new VRA-- if they want to stop something? FFS the chamber is already a sop to the minority of people in the country, and on top of that their champions don’t even have to show up???

4642

Have the Democrats ever threatened not to raise the debt ceiling? I don’t think that’s a thing they really do.

4643

Simply put, it’s because unlike Republicans, we don’t have the willingness to primary our Senators out.

Even as bad as Sinema is, I’ll be surprised if she loses her primary.

4644

Which sitting senators were we supposed to primary out in 2020?

4645

the 2020 ones weren’t too bad, but Feinstein should have been primaried out in 2018.

I’m not one of those nutjobs who thinks Manchin or Doug Jones should have been shown the door- I’m realistic about what we can expect from places.

4646

New Republican talking point incoming!

4647

Lol! I like it.

4648

I thought the whole point of the zombie faction is that they ignore the supply cap.

4649

Given that the switch is currently off, he argues, Democrats have only one path forward: The Senate Budget Committee must produce a resolution that includes instructions to raise the debt ceiling, which must then pass the House and Senate and weather a barrage of hostile amendments. Then the House must draft and vote on a separate bill to lift the debt ceiling, which would then go to the Senate, where it could not be filibustered but would again have to survive an onslaught of politically difficult votes. Any proposal could be considered, and if any were adopted, the measure would be forced back to the House.

And they have 14 days to do it.

It doesn’t sound like shaming Mitch or appealing to his better nature (if it exists) is panning out. I hope we have people working either on the arduous process quoted above, or some sort of nuclear option.

4650

This is consistent with what I said earlier: McConnell is telling Democrats they have to use the budget reconciliation process to raise the debt ceiling, in an effort to force them to ‘spoil’ their one shot at reconciliation, as a way of constraining the time they have to agree on including any other part of Biden’s agenda in that resolution.

Or, plan B:

4651

The U.S. Mint is the best at making coins!

The possibility of the Coin Flip movie with Nicholas Cage is getting closer to reality!

4652

It just seems so odd that Mitch McConnell, a devout instutionalist, would do something like this.

4653

I thought McConnell wanted lettuce.