Do republicans REALLY think the President cannot sidestep them on the debt ceiling?

I am well aware that the President can kiss the FED's butt until his lips turn purple and I fully expect him to do it and make the interest expense on the national debt the biggest part of the federal budget. What confuses me is why some people vehemently argue in favor of it. Except for the bankers everyone else gets boned.

Coinage based on a value at the time of the writing, is long gone.

Paying our debts with money backed by metals has been gone since Nixon tried to pay the bills of Johnson's great society and the war in Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia at the same time with the same stack of gold and silver.

Until some smartass like you noticed the math didn't work.

No matter what mr Obama does , the financial system is ruined and the world is just waiting for a child to declare

"the king has no clothes"

The Cash in circulation is + - 1.3 trillion

Our debt is + - 26 trillion

If you think printing & coining increasingly worthless currency is going to solve anything.

Then

name a time in history that it has been successful .

D/T

Republicans leveled with the democrats on the fiscal cliff... God forbid the democrats level with republicans and, as CRAZY as it sounds, cut spending? Do that and republicans will support raising the debt ceiling...

That 14th amendment passage is open to interpretation and it's really his ONLY justification for raising the debt ceiling himself. If it was a surefire way for Obama to sidestep Congress he would've done it already.

Obama has never let the constitution, congress, or federal court rulings get in his way of doing what he wants to do.

Why in God's name are you libbies ok with increasing the debt ceiling when clearly our only hope in surviving at this point is slashing spending?? Seems to be that you love your party more than you do your country or your children and their future

Maybe you should read the law, who control our credit rateing....what does this effect...who sets debt ceilings (if you said WMF) you would be correct, you see we like the rest of the world signed on to this, and no obama can not just "sidestep" it or he sidesteps into breaking the law! Our debt ceiling was set at 16.9 trillion by the WMF, of course your liberal but you don't have to read you already know everything!

Reread Article I Section 7

"All bills to raise revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives"

If you don't think we can shut down refer to your history books when we did before to Clinton.

He can try.

I think the GOP is going to shut down the government. They are already unpopular right now; it's time to fall on their swords and do the right thing until the right legislation goes through.

I believe the republicans should shut down the government things go so much better. As for Obama being able to raise it under the constitution he can not.

Because 0bama is single handedly destroying the economy with his asinine ideas.

anyone who acknowledes that the President can't PRINT money but then STUPIDLY tries to claim coinage is different is too stupid AND dishonest to debate with!