Why would a person put so much effort into
trying to destroy something if it is already a disaster?

[The ongoing republican strategy and outcome.]
Do everything possible to try to destroy the Affordable Care Act
and shut down the government, receiving the blame for this hideous strategy,
losing the majority of elections into the foreseeable future until
the last fossil of this bygone era is placed into a museum next
to a golden microphone.
~
[What they should have done.]
Come up with a better health care plan and spend
all their effort promoting it,winning elections
and passing new law.

"Public Wants To Use Debt Ceiling To Fight For Spending Cuts, Not Obamacare"
Correction:"Public is watching Duck Dynasty"

Six years ago when America was looking for a plan to
make healthcare affordable for the average person,
republicans said "there is nothing wrong with the system we have
no one is being turned away at the hospital."
They are six years late and have plenty of money.

US National Debt

1929 $ 17 billion
--------------------Multiplier 2.35 --Herbert C. Hoover - Franklin D. Roosevelt
1939 $ 40 billion
--------------------Multiplier 6.33 --Franklin D. Roosevelt - Harry S. Truman - World War 2
1949 $ 253 billion
--------------------Multiplier 1.13 --Harry S. Truman - Dwight D. Eisenhower
1959 $ 285 billion
--------------------Multiplier 1.24 --Dwight D. Eisenhower - John F. Kennedy - Lyndon B. Johnson
1969 $ 354 billion
--------------------Multiplier 2.34 --Richard M. Nixon - Gerald R. Ford - James E. Carter
1979 $ 827 billion
------------------------------Multiplier 3.45 --James E. Carter to 1981 - Ronald W. Reagan
1989 $ 2 trillion 857 billion
-------------------------------Multiplier 1.98 --George H. W. Bush to 1993 - William J. Clinton
1999 $ 5 trillion 656 billion
-------------------------------Multiplier 2.11 --William J. Clinton to 2000 - George W. Bush to 2008
2009 $ 11 trillion 910 billion
-------------------------------Multiplier 1.85 --Barack Obama - ?
2019 $ ?
~
If we hit 22 trillion by 2019 that would be a Multiplier of 1.85 from 2009 --Barack Obama - ?
That is one possible projection, no one can predict the future.

It would appear that the republicans will not allow
a disaster to occur unless they can take credit for it.

Here's the new bumper sticker.
"Vote republican,
they'll crater it for Christmas."

Negotiation:
The Senate and the House will fund the government
but only if the GOP agree to raise taxes on the top 1%
with nothing else attached.

Negotiation:
The Senate and the House will fund the government
but only if the GOP agree to raise taxes to 80% on all personal income
above $500,000 with nothing else attached.

Negotiation:
No one took the last offer and
we are running out of time so here is my counter offer.
The Senate and the House will fund the government
but only if the GOP agree to raise taxes to 85% on all personal income
above $400,000 with nothing else attached

Cable ratings:

DUCK DYNASTY 9,427,000
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2,876,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,209,000
FOXNEWS THE FIVE 2,116,000
FOXNEWS CAVUTO 1,919,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 1,918,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 1,650,000
CMDY DAILY SHOW 1,617,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,616,000
CNN TAPPER 1,532,000
CNN BLITZER 1,384,000
CMDY COLBERT 1,312,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,310,000
MSNBC MATTHEWS 1,101,000
CNN COOPER 1,084,000
MSNBS HAYES 975,000
MSNBC ED SHOW 919.000
CNN PIERS 917,000

[Serious discussion about the deficit]
Republican stall tactics going on in Washington can do nothing but
hurt confidence which hurts the economy. A decline in economic activity
causes less income to flow into the government,
this causes the deficit to increase.
An expanding economy brings more cash to the government
which causes the deficit to go down.
The economy was expanding up to this month.

Cartoon

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/cartoons/cartoons_of_the_week/2013/40/-5-mike_luckovich-mike_luckovich_for_10042013.html

How do you end up in a make believe fantasy other dimension that is
totally detached from reality?
May be they should bring back the "fairness doctrine".
They can and do say anything they want and you don't
check to see if it's true.

Defaulting on the debt is not a sane option and
we all know it isn't going to happen.