{"id":10491,"date":"2011-07-15T18:19:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T22:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10491"},"modified":"2011-07-15T18:19:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T22:19:51","slug":"why-not-a-short-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10491\/why-not-a-short-term-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not a Short-Term Deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/call-his-bluff\/2011\/07\/14\/gIQAfzFyEI_story.html?hpid=z4\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Krauthammer<\/a> suggests (more a command, really) calling President Barack Obama\u2019s bluff about a \u201clong-term deal or nothing\u201d on a debt default deal: a short-term deal that extends the negotiating clock instead.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Republican House should immediately pass a short-term debt-ceiling hike of $500\u2009billion containing $500\u2009billion in budget cuts. That would give us about five months to work on something larger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why not?\u00a0 Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell\u2019s plan to give the president authority to raise the debt ceiling on his own just stokes an already imperial presidency.\u00a0 What\u2019s more, McConnell\u2019s reservation of oversight to Congress by a 2\/3 vote to block the president from raising the debt ceiling is constitutionally suspect because it sounds suspiciously like an impermissible legislative veto.\u00a0 Since the Supreme Court has said that Congress can\u2019t overrule Executive decisions once Congress delegates its authority, don\u2019t be surprised if McConnell\u2019s clever power switch gives unilateral discretion to a big-spending liberal president without any means of checking him.<\/p>\n<p>Far better to go with Krauthammer\u2019s suggestion since it keeps the focus on spending and the economy and relieves the pressure of a debt default while the parties get serious about specifics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Krauthammer suggests (more a command, really) calling President Barack Obama\u2019s bluff about a \u201clong-term deal or nothing\u201d on a debt default deal: a short-term deal that extends the negotiating clock instead. The Republican House should immediately pass a short-term debt-ceiling hike of $500\u2009billion containing $500\u2009billion in budget cuts. That would give us about five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,70,1986,84,144,2875,19,2154,2087,2876],"class_list":["post-10491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-charles-krauthammer","tag-congress","tag-constitution","tag-debt-default","tag-economy","tag-house-gop","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-republican-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10495,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491\/revisions\/10495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}