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Default Boehner admits GOP Teabaggers Want Default to Push Agenda

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:16:42 -0700, jps wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:39:57 -0700, wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:51:15 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:59:06 -0400, X-Man wrote:

Tea Party members and freshmen,
have demanded nothing short of changing the Constitution to include a
balanced budget amendment

Makes damn good sense.


It's a terrible, terrible idea. It's allows no flexibility, and it's a
very difficult process to get it ratified. In the mean time, the
country will go down the tubes.


It requires two-thirds of both houses of congress.

Anyone suggesting amending the constitution in this political climate
is either stupid, crazy or dishonest.


They are not mutually exclusive.