I was with him here. And then he lost it:
I could see as early as last November that the Republican Party would use the debt limit vote, an otherwise routine legislative procedure that has been used 87 times since the end of World War II, in order to concoct an entirely artificial fiscal crisis.
When you are spending at 80% over your income your financial crisis is real, not imaginary, whatever you might think about the sanity of a certain group of representatives who remain appropriately recalictrant on the issue.