No disagreement here - they’re pathetic.
It’s just that the debt ceiling isn’t the place to make a stand. We’ve got to stop running up the credit card bills, not just ignore the statements when they come due.
The debt ceiling is the only leverage the Reps have. There is always another excuse to avoid a confrontation with Obama. We got sequestration in 2011 with the debt ceiling. Reagan got Gramm-Rudman. Now we can't even get the military pension cut restored or the keystone pipeline.
So where and when do we make a stand?
We’ve got to stop running up the credit card bills, not just ignore the statements when they come due.
Again, the biggest drivers of our debt are SS, Medicare, Medicaid, and other so called mandatories. They don't go thru the budget process. They are on automatic pilot.