BY JOYCE WISE DODD
The President has the power of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to issue the command that the full faith and credit of the United States shall not be questioned.
He must not let this country go into default. He has been too meek and mild in negotiating with Tea Partiers who would rather fight and default. We are an embarrassment to the world.
Not one person right now should be living in fear of not getting a Social Security check on time, a Medicare bill paid or a Medicaid payment on time.
Would the Executive Order be outrageous? No.
The Emancipation Proclamation was declared by Executive Order.
The schools were finally integrated by Executive Order.
The armed services were integrated by Executive Order.
Sign the document, President Obama, and let the nation be free of the alarm and crisis of this moment.
Executive Orders throughout our history were signed because one or both other branches of the government railed and spun and spat and hated.
Signing executive orders is what leaders do when the legislative branch or the courts fail the people, either by fiery insolence or egregious inertia.
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