Pelosi 'Clearly' Backs 14th Amendment Option In Debt Standoff, Congressman Reports

[poiuytrewq0987]

WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) may not be pushing the issue publicly, but in private she "clearly" supports President Barack Obama using the Constitution to raise the debt ceiling as a last resort, according to one Democratic member of Congress.

"Nancy clearly wants it," said the lawmaker, who requested anonymity. "Publicly? No. Privately? She thinks the president should do it. Period."

Several top Democrats have endorsed the idea in recent days as an eleventh hour solution: House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) backed the option on Wednesday, and House Democratic Caucus chairman John Larson (D-Conn.) and Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.) emerged from a Monday Caucus meeting announcing their support for the idea as well.

But Pelosi, the highest-ranking House Democrat, has been mum. One possible reason is that she has to preserve the image that Congress will reach a deal before the situation even gets to that point.

The provision at the heart of the constitutional debate, Section 4 of the 14th Amendment, states: “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, shall not be questioned.” Essentially, Democrats are arguing that since the "public debt" cannot be questioned, then the debt ceiling itself is unconstitutional.

A Pelosi aide said he hasn't heard the Minority Leader endorse the constitutional option to any lawmakers. "But who knows," said the aide. "Our official line is her energy is focused on getting a balanced deal."

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[BeerBaron]

quit posting shit about the USA, you aren't an american despite what your ethnicity says today.

Yesterday you were a Spaniard then a Serb so just stfu

[poiuytrewq0987]

quit posting shit about the USA, you aren't an american despite what your ethnicity says today.

Yesterday you were a Spaniard then a Serb so just stfu

Get. a. life.

[Odoacer]

quit posting shit about the USA, you aren't an american despite what your ethnicity says today.

Yesterday you were a Spaniard then a Serb so just stfu

Dude, he's a Serb living in Arizona. People change ethnicities in their profiles here all the time. Look what I've listed as my ethnicity.

[CelticTemplar]

Pelosi is a filthy socialist goat woman who only quotes the US Constitution when it suits her traitorous needs.

[Amaterasu]

Interesting attempt to use the Constitution to pass what is clearly going to be an executive order from Obama!

“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, shall not be questioned.”

Authorized as a law by who, the idiots of Congress? It seems likely that Obama's Democrat allies in Congress were willing to try use an obscure item in the Constitution as a way to try give their hero the executive power to override a Congressional vote should a Democrat/Republican compromise not be reached in time to prevent default.