re: #203 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Ya know, part of me is looking forward to this whole mess. I mean the republicans and their pay masters made this bed when they started the astro turf groups that comprise the tea party and stoked these nutjobs into a frothing frenzy. If the stock market tanks as a result of the gov’t shutting down they only have themselves to blame and it’d be about time that they got burned by the fire they started.

On the other hand I want government to function. I don’t agree with everything it does but it should function and I feel bad for the “collateral damage” a shutdown will incur.

I’d rather a shutdown, since that should be the self-immolation moment the GOP needs to be completely defeated, and the country should be able to recover from it in decent shape.

A debt default, on the other hand, upends the entire global financial system. I don’t want a repeat of September, 2008, only without the Fed to calm markets.