Executive Dictatorship: McConnell Proposes Handing Over Powe
Executive Dictatorship: McConnell Proposes Handing Over Power of Purse to Obama
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
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Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has proposed a drastic solution to the administration’s insistence that the debt ceiling be raised against the wishes of many lawmakers, by handing over the power of the purse, an authority clearly invested in Congress according to the US Constitution, to Barack Obama’s White House.
“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) floated a novel way out of default Tuesday, suggesting that Congress give up its power to raise the debt ceiling, and instead effectively transfer that authority — and the political pain that comes with it — to the White House for the remainder of Obama’s current term,â€