Force the President to void the "debt ceiling." Members of Congress, vote against any deal! The debt ceiling is not valid law, twice over:
- It is unconstitutional, according to the clear language of the 14th Amendment.
- Subsequent to the last time that Congress and the President passed the debt ceiling law, they passed more laws regarding spending appropriations and revenues. Those appropriations and revenues superseded and nullified the "debt ceiling."
It is time. The Corporate Eye of Sauron is occupied with the fight between the Tea Party Republicans, whom it nurtured and goaded in its fetid Fox News swamp, and the moderates, whom it wheedles and plies with cash and propaganda. Barack Obama Frodo, Nancy Pelosi Samwise Gamgee, and John Boehner Gollum are inside Mount Doom, on the precipice over the roiling lava. Throw this ring of power in, so that the phantom dragon of the debt limit may never threaten Middle-earth again!
No debt limit deal!
That would be the best of all possible outcomes.
If one does think the debt ceiling valid, it is still the case that the 14th Amendment obligates the USA to pay all of its debts. One may contemplate a federal government shutdown, but a default is out of the question. That is, if one think laws mean anything at all.