Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wichita DS | Judge: Kaut, Kendall
Obama’s push ensures compromise to avoid default
Kuhnenhenn 9/8
Jim, “Issues test Obama’s persuasion, mobilizing skills”, http://www.salon.com/2013/09/08/issues_test_obamas_persuasion_mobilizing_skills/, MCR

Win or lose, Obama ..threaten a default.
Obama will aggressively defend war powers – ensures political battles  
Posner 13 (Eric, “Don’t be fooled by Obama’s speech. On executive power, he’s just like Bush.”, 5/23, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/05/obama_s_speech_he_s_just_like_bush_in_pushing_the_limits_of_executive_power.single.html, CMR) 

This argument echoes … should fool no one.
Syria speech freed up Obama’s attention for debt talks – PC is key and finite  
Bohan 9/11
Caren, “Delay in Syria vote frees Obama to shift to hefty domestic agenda”, http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=52932, MCR

(Reuters) - Putting off … the borrowing limit.
Failure to raise the debt ceiling ensures collapse of the global economy, U.S. economic leadership, and free trade
Davidson 9/10
Adam, co-founder of NPR’s “Planet Money,” a podcast and blog, “Our Debt to Society”, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/our-debt-to-society.html?pagewanted=alland_r=0, MCR

If the debt ceiling … becomes riskier and costlier.
Nuclear war
Khalilzad ’11 Zalmay was the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the presidency of George W. Bush and the director of policy planning at the Defense Department from 1990 to 1992, “ The Economy and National Security”, 2-8-11, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/259024, MCR

Today, economic and fiscal … in their regions.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wichita DS | Judge: Kaut, Kendall
Their adherence to democratic procedure maintains the proper form and content of the larger structures. The focus of the plan equates a small restriction as a solution to subjective violence while obfuscating the ability for larger focuses on structural crisis. The notion of the inevitability and soundness of democratic procedure are folly in this regards.
Zizek 2006 Slavoj, the Parallax View 2006, p 379-381
And we should … present local problems.

We have an ethical obligation to reject global capitalism because of the suffering it imposes upon millions across the globe and because of the way it circumscribes the very field of political possibilities.
Slavoj Zizek and Glyn Daly, Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College, Northampton, 2004, Conversations With Zizek, p. 14-16
For Zizek it is … an otherwise sound matrix.

Our alternative is to reject the Affirmatives call to action and do nothing. Demand for urgency is a product of hypocritical outrage meant to extend privilege – our alternative is to do nothing in the face of the affirmative  

Zizek 2008 Slavoj, Violence p 6-8

Let’s think about … causes this violence.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wichita DS | Judge: Kaut, Kendall
Obama’s aggressive use of war powers signaling resolve – flexibility key
Boyer 13
Dave, “Bush policies still alive in Obama White House”, April 24, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/24/bush-policies-still-alive-in-obama-white-house/?page=all

President Obama came … to understand we’re at war.”

Plan signals lack of presidential resolve – process is more important than the actual decision – invites conflict escalation and challenges from adversaries
Kriner 10 – assistant professor of political science at Boston University
Douglas L. Kriner, “After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War” page number below, CMR 

A growing game-theoretic …got to cut¶ and run.”67 PAGES 69-71

Obama war power weakness collapses hegemony and ensures terrorism
Joffe 8/4 – teaches U.S. foreign policy at Stanford University, where he is also a fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Institute for International Studies
Josef, “Exploiting Obama's Foreign Policy Retreat”, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324635904578643663020328162.html, CMR

Mr. Obama's America … There is no other.
Nuclear war
Kagan 7 – Robert Kagan, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund, August-September 2007, “End of Dreams, Return of History,” Hoover Policy Review, online: http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8552512.html, CMR

The jostling for status … them more catastrophic.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wichita DS | Judge: Kaut, Kendall
Perceived as credible and avoids politics
Harvard Law Review, ’12 “Developments in the Law - Presidential Authority”, http://www.harvardlawreview.org/media/pdf/vol125_devo.pdf

Of course, not … to replace it.60

Aff kills flexibility
Vermeule, ’06 Adrian Vermeule, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 2006,¶ “THE EMERGENCY CONSTITUTION IN THE POST-SEPTEMBER 11 WORLD ORDER: SELF-DEFEATING¶ PROPOSALS: ACKERMAN ON EMERGENCY POWERS,” Fordham Law Review, Nov., pp. LN.

The reason for … might fare differently.

That causes extinction
Yoo, ‘12 (John Yoo, American attorney, law professor, and author. He served as a political appointee, the Deputy Assistant US Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (OLC), during the George W. Bush administration. “War Powers Belong to the President”, Posted Feb 1, 2012, http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/war_powers_belong_to_the_president)

A radical change … we make war.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wichita DS | Judge: Kaut, Kendall
Congressional restrictions weaken president’s ability to effectively convey resolve – prevents effective negotiation and ensures conflict escalation  
Howell 7
WILLIAM G. HOWELL AND JON C. PEVEHOUSE are Associate Professors at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, “Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers”, 27-29, google books, CMR

Because they are …committing any troops at all.
SPILLOVER – Plan ensures broad weakening of executive power – collapses deterrence
Muñoz 6/4/13
Carlo, “House Republican sees slippery slope in counterterrorism changes”, http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/303313-house-republican-sees-slippery-slope-in-counter-terrorism-changes-#ixzz2cv5PfuDH, CMR

President Obama's plan …Services Committee in May.
TINKERING – any update to executive authority limits flexibility – invites litigation battles and conveys lack of resolve
Gerstein 11
Josh, “White House: Defense bill 'micromanages'”, 6/23, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57650_Page2.html, CMR

The aggressively-worded … than clarify the law.”
SIGNALLING – plan demonstrates lack of U.S. resolve – emboldens challengers  
Lambro 5/29/13
Donald, “OBAMA TOO EAGER TO WIND DOWN WAR ON TERRORISM”, http://www.humanevents.com/2013/05/29/obama-too-eager-to-wind-down-war-on-terrorism/, CMR

But now, under … imagine,” Graham said.