[jeffreymcmanus]

> not passing the debt ceiling increase doesn't automatically equal a default

Sorry, that's what everybody in government was saying during the manufactured crisis. If you have some kind of insider information that contradicts what everyone in government was saying, then produce it. Otherwise, it sounds like you're making up facts to fit an agenda (quoting the constitution is a common symptom of this).

[protomyth]

Everyone wasn't saying that, just all the people trying to get the big air time and push an agenda. Heck even the wikipedia article even says different. Judicial Watch was the organization that filed the FIA to get the alternatives (17 pages released out of slightly over 200 that pertained). Plus, look at the history of the Eisonhower administration.

"quoting the constitution is a common symptom of this"

Forgive me for quoting the actual section of the document when you raised the "unconstitutional" claim. I would expect a programmer to quote the actual language standard when claiming a compiler didn't implement a feature correctly. You sound like a priest from the middle ages who is mad that someone has actually read the bible.

My only agenda is that I think the American people are getting well and truly screwed by pundits on TV and in office. Everything is a drama and not one statement is checked or even questioned. Heck, no national news network actually talked about the actual text of the health care bill when it was available. The reporting on the new jobs bill might as well be propoganda compared to what the thing actualy says (not much fun to read, but the gaps show). I am well and truly sick of Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. Scream and demonize are everything, ignore history, ignore the actual documents (yes, the constitution too), and see which pundit looks best while we ask none of the hard questions.