WHAT: Clinton said, if he were still in office, he wouldn’t hesitate to raise the debt limit without congressional approval. “I think this idea that the Congress gets to vote twice on whether to pay for [expenditures] it has appropriated is crazy,” he said. WHY IT’S DIM: Then why did he ask Congress to raise the debt ceiling when he was president?
CURE: The person who once said, “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is,” may not be the best source for legal clarity on the debt limit.
