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The greatest bungle in the debt-crisis debate was on July 19, when, as NPR reported: “Former President Bill Clinton said if faced with default, he would single-handedly raise the debt ceiling using the 14th Amendment and he’d do it ‘without hesitation.’ ”

The boorishness and bluff of the language calls to mind Bull Connor in the Civil Rights days, but this from a laconic, Big Hair Southern governor with 50 gold watches and a string of mistresses who so wanted to be a New Yorker; a kind of Simon Legree in reverse. Since, a garden variety of prominent Democrats like House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (Calif.) have called for the 14th Amendment, and Obama himself preposterously said that he was “tempted” to solve the debt crisis that way. Dictatorship is always the temptation and should reveal the illusion of representative government with these people. Obama would be facing reelection under impeachment, so it is not likely ! to happen.

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