What's The Worst That Could Happen? ctd...

July 6th, 2011

As the Republicans continue to hold our nation's creditworthiness hostage to their ageneda, an increasing number of observers are advocating the "14th Amendment solution." Among them, Katrina Vanden Heuvel who wrote for WaPo:

"President Obama may find that there is only one course left to avoid a global economic calamity: Invoke Section 4 of the 14th Amendment, which says that “the validity of the public debt of the United States … shall not be questioned.” This constitutional option is one that the president alone may exercise.