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Tea Party activist Bob Guzzardi informs me that Obama/Geithner cannot default because of the 14th Amendment doesn’t permit them to.
“The Ds are reading 14th Amendment backwards,” Bob points out. He says that Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito explains at 2:18 in the video at this link the 14th Amendment doesn’t allow default and, in clearest reading, requires that debts be honored.
Kudos To The Inquirer
I was ready to nominate the Philadelphia Inquirer for the Walter Duranty Prize after seeing the front page teaser on on its Currents section yesterday, July 10.
It read “The miracle in Venezuela” and had a smiling picture of Hugo Chavez who is that republic’s top banana.
It turned out, however, that the miracle described in an excellent story by Andres Oppenheimer was the way that extraordinarily oil-rich nation had become an economic basket-case under the direction of an ideological incompetent.
So, will the Inquirer endorse Barack Obama again in 2012?
Note the headline on the web version uses the phrase ‘reverse miracle’ so apparently others were preparing Duranty nominations as well.