One of the congressional dimwits cited the Emancipation Ploclamation as precedent for the resident idiot to use an executive order to raise the debt ceiling. The dimwit ignored, or does not know, the fact that the E.P. only freed "Contraband" in the states in rebellion. It did not free any slaves in the Union. It took a Constitutional Amendment to do that. See the site below. Stan

http://www.personalliberty.com/news/is-the-14th-amendment-even-a-legal-option-29433/?eiid=