Democrat Chuck Schumer said recently that it is being talked about that Obama should override Congress and borrow more money if Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, which Levin says is clearly unconstitutional. Levin goes further to say that if Obama were to actually do this (and he doesn’t believe he will), he should be impeached and Schumer who advocates it should be kicked out of Congress.

On the debt ceiling, Levin implores Republicans to stand firm, noting that Obama has everything to lose including his agenda in this fight over the debt ceiling.

Here are a couple of quotes from this fiery segment:

If Barack Obama attempts to destroy the Separation of Powers doctrine, if he intends to seize Congressional power when it comes to borrowing and spending despite the plain wording of Article 1 Section 8 Clause 2. In other words if he’s going to violate his oath of office…then he needs to be impeached.

Should he attempt to seize explicit Congressional power, we’ve got to make a case that we don’t like dictators in this country and that we will not accept dictators in this country. There’s not even a colorable argument that can be made that justifies the President of the United States seizing for himself the authority to “borrow money on the credit of the United States.” And should Chuck Schumer continue to urge this and should the President do it, then Chuck Schumer should be expelled from the United States Senate when the Republicans take it back over as they will.

Here’s the full segment:




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48 comments
Dec25Kid
Dec25Kid

This guy is totally drunk on the power of the office - that's why his use of executive privilege must be examined, and the People must put limits on executive privilege. It's not supposed to be a magic pill to circumvent our legislature and it's definitely unconstitutional. Putting your own stooges on the Supreme Court to support your power grab is also not what I would call ethical.

Robert Martino
Robert Martino

Why can't we have a president like Mark Levin? Every time we have a problem i listen to Mark.

Andrew Ellis should
Andrew Ellis should

if the president tries to Override Congress then raise a debt limit and Our Congress does not have the Fortitude to take this president before the Supreme Court for one over writing the constitution and taking powers that were not his it's also the congresses fault for doing nothing which seems to be the same old routine.

fran ginter
fran ginter

MARK LEVIN IS ONE OF THE FEW BRAVE PATRIOTS WHO TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA'S AGENDA. HE IS FEARLESS AND A CONSITIUTIONAL SCHOLAR! WE DEMAND THAT THEY ABIDE BY THE CONSITITUTION OR FACE IMPEACHMENT OR EXPULSION. PATRIOTS WILL FIGHT. TEA PARTY IS ALIVE AND WELL AND GROWING BY THE MILLIONS! WE ARE BEHIND YOU MARK. WE DO NOT TOLERATE DICTATORS! THE 2012 ELECTION WAS STOLEN. VOTER FRAUD WAS RAMPANT. SCHUMER IS A POLITICAL HACK THAT TEA PARTY WORKED HARD TO REMOVE WITH A GREAT CANDIDATE NAMED GARY BERNTSEN. DEM POLITICAL MACHINE MADE SURE HE DID NOT WIN..THAT IS A STORY FOR ANOTHER DAY. STAY STRONG PATRIOTS. OUR DAY IS COMING.

Isabella1709
Isabella1709

There should be better defined limits on the executive, especially with a##holes like Obama. Impeachment and trial for treason and his group is certainly appropriate. The Constitution is of little consequence to the LEFT. They are calling for anarchy with their choice of ignoring Congress. Nothing but dangerous crooks infest that Dem party.

fusilli jerry
fusilli jerry

i really think that you twat heads are the problem, u fascist fucks are the reason the middle class has been destroyed in America... you're pro-business, pro-free trade, anti-union, anti-worker, greed and profit over workers has systemically destroyed the middle class

poisontolibs
poisontolibs

Thank you ma'am...get the word out...for it is "We the People" that make such a decision...We are the power, we rule ourselves, no one rules over us...

poisontolibs
poisontolibs

I would love to see our nation bite the bullet and sweep away all accreted federal legislation in one fell swoop. Start over fresh with the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of The United States of America and the Bill of Rights as the base upon which to build. Hold another Constitutional Convention to address the needed fixes to reflect the "Will of the People" of this nation, for the government is ourselves, not something imposed from outside.

It will be hard and many will learn first hand about hard work and self reliance as well as personal responsibility...all needed concepts for a citizen to have...

poisontolibs
poisontolibs

As I tweeted to Barry: "Give it up whitebread". He is no more a black man than I am an Asian female...

poisontolibs
poisontolibs

My favorite bumper-sticker applies here:

The Trinity of American Freedom: The Declaration, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights...the rest is just rhetoric...

Skip Gilmore
Skip Gilmore

Hey giantM,

Don't waste you time on this underwear-in-momma's-basement-useful-idiot

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

Yep, his time has expired under the War Powers Act, he has already stated he thinks it is unconstitutional and he doesn't need it or congress' approval (his opinion on its constitutionality is irrelevant , his job under the document is to execute the laws of the US) if he ignores the act then he has no legal cover, as he will have broken the law by not consulting congress and securing their authorization, he has also blatantly broken his oath of office as well. A fine pickle he has gotten himself into. (Sorry if my reply is a bit jumbled, working graveyard shift so it's first thing in the "morning" for me)

Brushjumper
Brushjumper

I only ever knew one Renee and SHE was from PA. Are you the Renee I knew and shared good times?

Buck - SC

Brushjumper
Brushjumper

I only ever knew one Renee and SHE was from PA. Are you the Renee I knew and shared good times?

Brushjumper
Brushjumper

The Failed President as a leader is destroying America and should resign along with the race baiter Holder for his responsibility in GIVING guns to Mexican criminals. They are both a disgrace and I also believe the GOP will win back the Senate. The Failed President will suffer a major electorial defeat in 2012.

realheadline
realheadline

Tin horn dictator shreds constitution in power grab

Dee Reilman
Dee Reilman

Everywhere I go ... the hardware, the post office, the liquor store ... People are very ANGRY ... with BOTH parties! I think Nov. 2012 will be another TSUNAMI.... Voters are warning both parties, but will they listen? HELL NO!! 'WE THE PEOPLE' will take them all out in November 2012!! Oh, did I mention, I'm a 'Tea Party' Organizer? We WILL take our country back from all the 'PROGRESSIVES' (Communists)

Starider Starider
Starider Starider

the house charges the president with articles of impeachment , the senate puts him on trial

Allen Sommerby
Allen Sommerby

u fascist right wing $hit heads had nothing to say when your imbecile bush lied us into war and blew the surplus clinton left him with... you're a bunch of asinine ideologues

Robert
Robert

Right wingers can't be fascists, that's a left wing central planning philosophy that you can currently view with the Obama administration. They may be Leninists at heart but so far fascism is as much as they dare to reveal.

David Tucker
David Tucker

pssst idiot,,,, there wasnt a surplus,,, you got lied to

Michael Parcell
Michael Parcell

For the record i don't hate Obama; or Bush! I just have different ideas about how things could be done. I'm not going to try and be too scathing towards any President! Politics; much like a spiderweb, are intricately woven and the more you move the more trapped you are in the web! I hope they both enjoy their vacations and golf games and smile and laugh in our faces! We are the problem! Not them :(

Michael Parcell
Michael Parcell

You confuse 'Surplus' with the 'DEFICIT', as most liberals do. Do some Research, your bragging about Newt Gingrich and you do not even know it!! WE have ALWAYS been in DEBT! Therefore the money, he MARKED up, was not MONEY we did not owe, somebody! Its just a trick of the numbers. Clinton "DID NOT" have us 'DEBT' free! HE had a "BIG" bloat wasteful budget for his day (i know compared to Obama's it was peanuts or heck even less)! And he left office with some left over that was budgeted for the time (did you check his tax rates, witch you wouldn't feel the brunt of for some time later after he was gone). If I am wrong, somebody correct me! BUT WE WERE STILL, IN DEBT! So that money left over was not really a surplus! It was, "for the first time," money on hand we SHOULD have paid on our DEFICIT", but we know how this story goes! But even if you do not realize it, you are seriously worshiping Newt Gingrich! Clinton tried everything liberals try, from healthcare to the rest and he FAILEd so bad democrats lost control of everything!!!!!!!!!! He then was DRUG to EVERYTHING! He lost everything! Repubs took it all over; forcing him to cut spending! They tied his hands to such a degree, that you guys run around calling him the "Great COMPROMISER OF OUR TIME!!!" Funny part is, Repubs do not even pay you to do this cheer-leading! :0)! Clinton was a man who sexually assaulted multiple respectable women (We know, the media kept you in the dark with the hilarious story of the loose woman, Lewinsky, or Tripp. One of whom worked in his office bragging about giving him oral sex all over the place! They do not like to mention the state troopers who testified to escorting in hookers for him when he was Gov of Arkansas! Real good man to look up to my liberal friend! A man who disrespected the absolute queen of the left Hillary (After all she has done in her life she should be Queen of your Party but you guys disrespect her and spit in her face constantly)! One of those women included his own best-friend's wife AT HIS FUNERAL!! And a life long Democratic supporter, who thought, -much like many do about Obama- that Clinton was the second coming hahahaah! He said a "VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY" is against me and you ATE IT UP!!!!!You let them drown out his perjuring lies with silly stories; that Lewinsky WAS BRAGGING ABOUT WITH THE STAFF OF THE WHITEHOUSE! Gingrich used him like a puppet. The only smudge you can say in Gingrich's years were the vast military cuts that Clinton did drag Gingrich to, IMHO! :) Had to compromise, and cut somewhere! leave it to a Lib to pick the Military "FAMILIES" and not some wasteful overseas spending!!! I do not believe Gingrich decided that! But i could be wrong.

Doug Rowland
Doug Rowland

Clinton left Bush with a recession idiot. And, if Bush lied about Iraq then so did Clinton, because he claimed they had wmd's too. (As did the rest of the free world) BTW, where did Syria get the chemical weapons that everyone is so worried about now???

WSoxFan
WSoxFan

Allen, I would reply to what you said, but I don't want to sink to your level where all the spiders, rats, snakes and other liberals hang out. Enjoy your Food Stamps and all the other hand-outs you get from us tax-paying facists while you can.

Bernie Kerns
Bernie Kerns

Allen...that medication is working well. Let's talk about this. First...there was no Clinton surplus. Look at the debt when Clinton came in to office, and when he left. Notice the debt was bigger when he left? Yes you do. Therefore..no surplus..that was a lie. Now..he did come close to balancing the budget...but why was that? Well..we had a balanced budget amendment put forth by the right wing people that you vilify in your post. Clinton didn't want this, and vetoed it 3 times. The same right wingers had a great welfare to work program that Clinton vetoed twice. He finally signed both...at least he was smart enough to do that. Clinton also scrapped his job killing National Healthcare program...under pressure from those same right wingers.

Bush lied? Really? I bet you have never spent 10 minutes actually looking at the facts. After looking at the EXACT SAME INTEL THAT BUSH HAD...the senate voted 97 to 0 to give him power to go to war. That means every single democrat in the senate voted for it. Also, over 100 democrats in the House did the same. I have quotes from all the democrat heroes,....Bill, Hillary, Kerry, Kennedy, Dodd, saying Saddam Hussein had WMD's...and we needed to do something about it. If you take time..you will find on the internet (some audio) of all the Liberal hypocrites talking about how we have to take Hussein out...much of this was before Dubya even got in office.

As far as Fascism...well...let's see....In his own book..Mein Kampf ...Hitler says Unions are required..necessary. Just like Liberals. Fascist categorize everyone by race and gender...just like Liberals. Fascist were for (total) gun control...just like Liberals. Fascist were for government owning... "partnering" with business...just like Liberals. Fascist put the governments rights above the individuals..just like Liberals... So...you might want to at least be factually correct before you go on a tirade....Good Luck...

Spongeworthy_Bob
Spongeworthy_Bob

Oh, I'm sorry. Can you show me where Bush overrode Congress?

Rick Ross
Rick Ross

What a dumdshit Monkey, Facism is a leftist form of government.

Tiger
Tiger

Mr. Sommerby, you need to go back and check your facts. If Bush lied us into war, then you have to include Congress, the CIA, Colin Powell and the UN. They all were handed the same reports. Then, go back to the Clinton era and get the facts on how he threatened and demanded the banks loan money to everyone that wanted in a house, knowing full well a majority of those receiving loans would not be able to pay for them. Why don't you talk to some of the people who were gainfully employed and living a decent life under Bush and now are losing everything they had under our Dictator in the WH. How in the world can you call President Bush an imbecile, when what we have in the WH now has never earned a dime running a business, managing a payroll, etc. I would say sir, you are the imbecile for your blindness at what exactly is happening right under you nose.

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

You wouldn't know a Fascist if they shot you in the face, but that's neither here nor there (much like you) Good Bye little troll.

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

You wouldn't know a Fascist if they shot you in the face, but that's neither here nor there (much like you) Good Bye little troll.

voted against carter
voted against carter

al,..

If your lost looking for huff po,..

try going down on the left,..

and don't forget to put your asshat on tight,..

huff po won't let you in with out it.

oh wait,.. I see that you all ready have that on.

Rob Nuckolls
Rob Nuckolls

There was no surplus from Clinton's term, it was simple math and fund manipulation. Do some research before you start blowing your top. The politicians in Washington are employed by the tax payer and they have forgot that simple fact. The government does not make money they only spend our money. It is time they stop wasting it and learn some self control. You wouldn't let your neighbor buy ten cars in your name and then ask for a home loan when they were already upside down. So why should we allow the corrupt politicians to keep borrowing and spending without repaying? Don't fool yourself, they won't use this to pay down the debt.

Starider Starider
Starider Starider

u liberal socialist democrat $hit heads are the true fascists in every sense of the word, trouble is u liberal $hitheads do not understand what a fascist is. By all stretches of imaginations president Bush is light years more intelligent then that arrogant liberal $ithead currently in the white house, speaking of idealogues your post oozes the venim of liberal socialist communist ignorant dumb#hit idealogy

mz millie
mz millie

Now I can see why you say George Bush is so much smarter. Who else could get Americans to fight about something that he did? Who else could screw you without vaseline or a glove and make you like it? Find a fool, bump his head. Bush bumped everybody's head. I see you still can't see, he bumped yours so good.

Jason siejutt
Jason siejutt

If bush was impeachable why didn't the democratic controlled house impeach him? Because this is yet another one of the idiotic liberal idea's that bush lied us into war with Iraq. Wake up idiot both partys suck

Melodi Westergren
Melodi Westergren

Unfortunately, as Levin himself has pointed out several times to callers, who is going to impeach him? We can not count on the current Congress to do it. So far, they have been more than willing to allow his czars and various Departments to usurp more and more of Congress' powers (and ours, for that matter). Obama may just be bold enough to listen to Schmucky. He has already crossed the line into unconstitutional actions with no repercussions.

Steven Valdez
Steven Valdez

should be and will be impeached are two different things... Democrats in the Senate will protect the President..