The Republicans in Congress are threatening to default on America's debts, which Congress authorized.
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) insisted Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that he won't bring up a "clean" debt limit increase under any circumstances, warning that the U.S. will default on its debt unless President Barack Obama agrees to make policy concessions.
The Constitution requires that we pay our national debts. The relevant passage from the
Fourteenth Amendment, Section 4:
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.
To demand concessions in exchange for agreeing to pay one's own debt is to question the validity of the debt. The House Republicans are violating their
Oath of Office.
They're in open rebellion against the Constitution.
I don't know what the solution is.