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by seehafer 3781 days ago
> but how else can you characterize voting, multiple times, to not only shut down the whole government but actually trying to make it default on its debt?

A last ditch effort to try to bring some sanity to a budgeting process so broken that the the national debt has doubled since Obama became President.

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> sanity

Defaulting isn't sanity and would make our economic and fiscal problems far, far worse.