Liberal Disappointment: The Treasury Department will not mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin

This insane idea was touted by liberals as a way to get around raising the debt limit.  I don't know why they didn't go all out and suggest we mint 16 trillion dollar coins and erase the national deficit.

Via WaPo:

The Treasury Department will not mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin to get around the debt ceiling. If they did, the Federal Reserve would not accept it.

That’s the bottom line of the statement that Anthony Coley, a spokesman for the Treasury Department, gave me today. “Neither the Treasury Department nor the Federal Reserve believes that the law can or should be used to facilitate the production of platinum coins for the purpose of avoiding an increase in the debt limit,” he said.