Ditzy Democrat Ditches Debt Ceiling

Hank Johnson-There is no reason to have a debt ceiling

Here are a few. It's a bar to unfettered, fiscal insanity. It is a sign to the public that the insanity is getting worse. it forced congress to a rare conscious act to exceed it.

If we can and should dispense with limits, no matter how easily breeched, why bother with any limitations on government? If you are a democrat, you are probably answering with one word, "Exactly." If Obama were answering he would point to his American Jobs Act speech where he explicitly derided any rigid notions of limits on what government can do.

To the people and district this guy represents, I suggest you clamor for an additional representative. It's just not right that your duly elected half wit gets a whole vote.

Obama insinuates the constitution will not be a bar to what he wants to do

From a transcript of the speech: "What kind of country would this be if this Chamber had voted down Social Security or Medicare just because it violated some rigid idea about what government could or could not do?"

There it is. So far no one in the MSM or in the alternative media has commented. A big kerfuffle about a portion of the speech being a factual error on A. Lincoln's role in the formation of the Republican party. But not a word on the implied assertion by Obama that the ideas in the constitution are too rigid for his grand designs and therefore, as in SSC and Medicare, worthy of getting a pass on those rigid ideas about what the government could or could not do.

During the speech the chamber experienced the quietest moment during and immediately after this utterance. Before this paragraph that this quote came from was complete and after the absolutely stunned silence, Obama is reciting the pledge of allegiance, including the "one nation under God" part. IIRC he also slouched over the podium in a half prayer-like position. Since I interpreted the previous statement as an attack on the constitution and the silence as a rebuke, I then interpret the recital of the pledge and the slouch as a plea for forgiveness for making a public faux pax in exposing his disdain for the governing document of our nation.

Come on bloggers. Give this at least some electrons.

First impressions of American Jobs Act speech

Good speech. Artfully attempts to split the Republicans. Some good ideas, some problematic. The republicans could take the outline of the speech and formulate the law much to their liking. In one aspect it is open pork rather than secret earmarks.
The tax reforms are sure to give the republicans a fit. Obama wants to tax the rich and relieve the middle class and small business. This will give the Tea Party faction and the Rockerfeller wing some hard discussions.
The public works spending is problematic due to the utter failure of the previous stimulus to deliver on that count. It'll be a trust issue.