Forcing Obama's hand

A rather stunned Sen. Kent Conrad just reported on "The Last Word" that Mitch McConnell has informed Harry Reid that he intends to filibuster the Reid proposal. Needless to say, this maneuver collides with any workable solution to Congress' self-imposed debt crisis prior to the default deadline.

I repeat my earlier speculation that congressional Republicans may be intentionally forcing President Obama into what the House will later maintain, in impeachment proceedings, was a usurpation.

From earlier today:

It may be that congressional Republicans privately have removed brinksmanship from the table; that their revised plan is to ensure that no default-avoiding bill, under any circumstances -- not even their own -- shall emerge from Congress; and that a guaranteed default will thereby force President Obama to reluctantly exercise the Constitutional option next week, thus creating the grounds for another year-long distraction: impeachment.

Comments

[janicket]

I very much fear you may be correct.

[Anne J.]

I don't want consider such a possibility but with this criminal bunch (and yes I do see them as criminals) anything is possible. On the upshot, Lawrence has banned teabagger hypocrite and deadbeat dad Joe Waslh from his show. That congressman takes hypocrisy to a wahoe new level.

[Bobfr]

That adage - be careful what you wish.

The Republicans foolish enough to try to take on this President would forever regret ever even having the thought.

Personally, this would be a 'distraction' I'd pay serious money to observe.

Yes.We.Can. ... DO.More.Together!

[tory burch heels]

It may be that congressional Republicans privately have removed brinksmanship from the table; that their revised plan is to ensure that no default-avoiding bill, under any circumstances -- not even their own -- shall emerge from Congress; and that a guaranteed default will thereby force President Obama to reluctantly exercise the Constitutional option next week, thus creating the grounds for another year-long distraction: impeachment.