Maybe all hear-say, but Think Progress is reporting that someone at HuffPo is reporting that Defazio said Biden told Dems that Obama was prepared to invoke the 14th amendment if necessary. www.thinkprogress.org
"The Huffington Post’s Jennifer Bendery reports that Vice President Biden told House Democrats that President Obama would have used the Fourteenth Amendment to prevent a catastrophic default if Congress failed to reach a debt ceiling deal"
If this is so, I find it absolutely outrageous.
1. If it was always his plan to be able to invoke the 14th amendment, why did he lie about it from the first? It was the best bargaining chip he had, and yet he took it off the table at the beginning of the negotiations.
2. I guess it's too late now, but if Dems knew about this in time, couldn't they have all just voted "no" on this eat-shit sandwich and forced Obama to invoke the 14th. Of course I understand why the Pres lied, he couldn't very well have been forced to use the 14th by his own party, now could he?
3. Am I the only one who finds this totally unacceptable, if the report is correct?