re: #87 Targetpractice

Too of the folks expecting a negotiated end to the debt ceiling standoff are assuming that there’s anybody for Obama to negotiate with. But there isn’t, because Boehner is nutless and McConnell’s got a “true believer” running against him. What point is there to negotiations when neither of them can guarantee enough votes to pass the damned thing?

In any event Obama can simply claim the debt ceiling to be null and void under the 14th Amendment, forcing Congressional Republicans to sue him explicitly seeking default as a remedy.

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

This is one of the few things that could immediately and irrevocably break the GOP.