{"id":6393,"date":"2011-06-29T10:08:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6393"},"modified":"2011-06-29T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:08:35","slug":"the-debt-limit-option-president-obama-can-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/06\/29\/the-debt-limit-option-president-obama-can-use\/","title":{"rendered":"The Debt Limit Option President Obama Can Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the article <a title=\"Article by Bruce bartlett\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Columns\/2011\/04\/29\/The-Debt-Limit-Option-President-Obama-Can-Use.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Debt Limit Option President Obama Can Use<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0 Bruce Bartlett latches on to the part of the Fourth Amendment to the Consitution which he quotes as &#8220;The validity of the public debt of the United States\u2026shall not be questioned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can <a title=\"Text of fourth amendment\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Text\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>look it up<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bartlett says, &#8220;it\u2019s worth remembering that the debt limit is statutory law, which is trumped by the Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the article The Debt Limit Option President Obama Can Use,\u00a0 Bruce Bartlett latches on to the part of the Fourth Amendment to the Consitution which he quotes as &#8220;The validity of the public debt of the United States\u2026shall not be questioned.&#8221; You can look it up. Bartlett says, &#8220;it\u2019s worth remembering that the debt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6394,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393\/revisions\/6394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}