(CNSNews.com) - The impasse in Washington may have started as an attempt to defund or delay Obamacare, "but it has now taken on the dimensions of a Constitutional crisis," Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) said in a speech on the House floor Monday.
McClintock argued that President Obama, by threatening that the United States will default on its sovereign debt, is assuming the "power of the purse" that the Constitution explicitly assigned to the Congress.
Conservative talk show host Mark Levin, who played McClintock's speech on his radio program Tuesday night, said if Congress gives the president what he wants -- under threat of forcing the country into default -- Obama will have "neutered Congress."
"He will, in essence, have succeeded in instituting a coup of sorts," Levin said.
In his speech on Monday, McClintock noted that unlike every president before him, President Obama has said that unless Congress unconditionally raises the debt limit, the United States will default on its sovereign debt.
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