On debt ceiling, tell GOP to f**k off

We can argue about the federal government's debt for years on end and we have. We can debate what should be cut, how, when, etc. However, one thing we cannot do is fail to raise the debt ceiling. The government has obligations to pay that will force the debt to continue to rise when we reach the current debt limit in mid May. There is absolutely no getting around that fact, no matter what spending cuts are proposed or passed. It's going to happen.

Now if the debt ceiling is not raised, the government will default on its debts by early July. That would be an economic catastrophe on an immense scale, one that would destroy our economy. No one who gives a damn at all about our country wants that to happen, at least no one with a functioning brain cell. Yet the GOP is promising a huge fight over raising the debt ceiling. Boehner says they won't raise the ceiling "without something really, really big attached to it".

In other words, the GOP's message to America is: Do what we want or we will destroy the economy. They are fools, scum, or both and they want to play chicken with the economy. The Democrats should grow spines and tell them to go fuck themselves. The GOP won't commit the economic suicide of allowing the United States to go into debt default.