Default Disaster?

So it's been a while since I've posted a blog (over a year).  I got a new third shift job(more on that later) and a baby on the way (yay!), so my time is sparse. It took the possible default and the improved cell phone connection at work to get me back into the game, but I'll be posting at least once a week from here on out.

So where to start?  The GOP's ignorance and hypocrisy knows no bounds, but if you've paid attention for 3 seconds, you knew that.  I could go through the events that have led us here, but if you're reading this, I assume you're up to speed.  Long story short, the GOP wants to end the ACA & they shut down the government to do it.  Now they may default on our debt for reals, which they are starting to deny is even a big deal.  When we got close last time, the nation's credit rating was downgraded.  In 1979, we had a sorta technical default and it cost 12 billion bucks... in 1979 dollars. That was by accident.  Imagine if we had a real one, we'd be talking at least a trillion.  This being the fault of the 'fiscally responsible' party.  When Pete King says the party is going nuts, you know you're down the fucking rabbit hole. Rachel Maddow had a good segment on Monday's show... couldn't find a clip on youtube as of yet.

Speaker John Boehner and co tried to defund the ACA, but that obviously wouldn't pass.  Then tried to delay it for a year, which also was Doa in the senate (the employer mandate was already postponed, so we already compromised on that).  Not to mention that they already have us agreeing to sequester level pending... again.  They won the budget argument for the time being and it's still not good enough for them. 

 So what was the plan in the first place?  Did they think this plan would work, if you could call it a plan.  Shutting down the government was the plan for baggers like Crazy Eyes Bachman and Ted Cruz, but I know that Boehner isn't that crazy, he's just a coward and won't stand up to them. In fact, Boehner might had some sort of deal and then The Heritage Foundation said that they hated the deal, and the Tea Partiers left.  The meeting was scrapped because of Jim Demints think tank.... really?  Boehner must be pissed.  I feel a little bad, but considering they could have gotten out of this and saved face if they didn't institute the 'Only the Leader Can Bring Things up for a vote Rule', he might have been able to get out of this unscathed.  Check out this BS being exposed:

I didn't even know that this rule had changed at the end of last month.

I don't want to give them too much credit, but the President may have to evoke the 14th amendment (place here) and hope it's constitutional.  That feels like a Lincoln move, doing what's right and dealing with the consequences later.  The consequences would be the house impeaching the POTUS.  You know they would do it too.  The couple hundred people protest was full of Impeach Obama signs (as well as Confederate flags, are they still claiming to not be racists?  Kinda a hard argument to make anymore).  They think they're approval rating are low now?  Impeach him and watch those approval ratings sink into the teens or single digits.  Some liberals think those low numbers aren't possible, but like 95% of the American people wanted universal background checks on firearms.  I think with that in mind, that 95% could turn against the GOP if pushed far enough.

Speaking of impeachment, if that happens, the GOP will have impeached all of the democratic presidents of my lifetime (I'm 29).

So the Senate leaders might have a compromise in time, unless Cruz mucks it up, which if he chooses to, he could delay it up to 30 hours, which would make us default.  That asshole could single handedly destroy the economy.  If he doesn't then getting it through the bagger infested house is the final stepping stone, then The Pres can sign it and the disasters will be over.  For now.

I due have to give John McCain a little credit too.  Even though his pandering to John Birchers and now Tea Baggers created this monster, I still feel bad for Dr. Frankenstein.  At least he'll admit that the GOP is at fault and this is hurting not only their party, but the country.

I'll leave it at that.  Hopefully when I write again, the country's economy hasn't fallen into a smoldering pile.