http://www.policymic.com/articles/64101/government-shutdown-2013-why-the-supreme-court-might-get-involved
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution assigns the responsibility to pay the debts of the United States to the Congress. Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution states "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law .. shall not be questioned."
U.S. debt, is both public debt sold with the authorization of Congress to the public to finance the budget deficit and raise funds to pay the government's obligation, and internal government debt, such as what Congress borrows from the reported surpluses of Social Security, Medicare, Transportation, etc. All are legal obligations authorized by law and thus must be paid.President Obama has stated as much. His position is firm: he will not negotiate on raising the debt limit.Some Republican members of the House of Representatives, including Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), have stated they will not approve an increase to the debt limit unless implementation of the president's healthcare law is delayed.But brinkmanship could be the congressional GOP's undoing. Is Congress ready to abdicate its responsibility to the Supreme Court?
are you not tired of republicans perpetrating this fraud about the debt ceiling they try to threaten Pres., the try to scare you and make it sound like it's all on Pres.'s head they are just trying to save you from healthcare and give you the SSDD and those 30 million plus the same ER's, but as you read it's their responsibility they signed off on each and every expense,
the constitutional assignment is their but those who don't know now you know, you have been elephant dunged all this time, the party of do nothing is still taking our money while some are still voting for them it has to be for the hate part of it because if they listen they would know it's coming after them too.
And Congress has fulfilled its constitutional obligation in the past. Over the past 50 years, Congress has altered the debt limit 77 times; on six occasions it lowered the limit, 12 times it kept it the same, and on 59 the legislature increased the limit (Table 7-3 2010 Budget of the United States).Since 1979, most of these actions were accomplished by imposing the Gephardt Rule, named after then-Representative Dick Gephardt (D- Mo.), which considered the debt limit raised to meet the budget upon passage of the joint budget resolution.If there is no joint budget resolution, the Gephardt Rule cannot be used. This is how we have gotten to where we have been since 2004. By failing to pass a formal budget, relying instead on continuing resolutions, the debt ceiling can only be adjusted by separate action.
all was well and consistent until Jan. 20, 2009, then all the doors and windows were shut and the stench of republican rancor has permeated our gov't that was suppose to be according to Lincoln a republican "for the people and by the people",
problem is 1% of the population the rich has been and now come out of the closet of puppet politicians and tried to buy the WH, are the right wing voters to blind to see where that leads if not look back 5 years what has your republican gov't given you but heartache and unemployment while voting to take that from you,
the party of stupid is that the entire party and base or just those that still support nothing oh excuse me support suppression and stripping of rights?
