There hasn't been a scandal at Fox News yet that could take that shithole network down, Carlson doesn't have any dirt that will be able to, either. What may hurt them is if they lose viewers. Murdoch is trying to renegotiate carriage fees with at least two big cable companies and having fewer viewers means he has less negotiating power. So, maybe the amount anyone that hasn't completely cut the cord pays for Fox News to be part of their subscription won't increase.
And, Ericson hasn't had an issue that he isn't wrong about yet, this is nothing new. But, Democrats, as usual, are doing a terrible job of getting the two main points out there - both McCarthy and trump in the past have said that raising the debt ceiling shouldn't be political, and that the debt ceiling is to pay bills racked up by Congress and previous administrations. It's a credit card. You have to pay it what you've charged on it. It's not a difficult concept.
The problem with the 14th amendment is that the plain wording can very easily be read as only guaranteeing the validity of existing debt, whereas the debt ceiling is a prohibition on acquiring MORE debt. The clause also only guarantees debt "authorized by law," and the debt ceiling is pretty clearly a law refusing such authorization, which is definitely within congress' Article I power. Even if the legal theory was stronger, Gorsuch, Alito, and Thomas hate the administrative state enough that they would totally vote to blow up the world, and I'm not confident that Kavanaugh and Barrett wouldn't go along.
There hasn't been a scandal at Fox News yet that could take that shithole network down, Carlson doesn't have any dirt that will be able to, either. What may hurt them is if they lose viewers. Murdoch is trying to renegotiate carriage fees with at least two big cable companies and having fewer viewers means he has less negotiating power. So, maybe the amount anyone that hasn't completely cut the cord pays for Fox News to be part of their subscription won't increase.
And, Ericson hasn't had an issue that he isn't wrong about yet, this is nothing new. But, Democrats, as usual, are doing a terrible job of getting the two main points out there - both McCarthy and trump in the past have said that raising the debt ceiling shouldn't be political, and that the debt ceiling is to pay bills racked up by Congress and previous administrations. It's a credit card. You have to pay it what you've charged on it. It's not a difficult concept.
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The problem with the 14th amendment is that the plain wording can very easily be read as only guaranteeing the validity of existing debt, whereas the debt ceiling is a prohibition on acquiring MORE debt. The clause also only guarantees debt "authorized by law," and the debt ceiling is pretty clearly a law refusing such authorization, which is definitely within congress' Article I power. Even if the legal theory was stronger, Gorsuch, Alito, and Thomas hate the administrative state enough that they would totally vote to blow up the world, and I'm not confident that Kavanaugh and Barrett wouldn't go along.