Mark Levin: ‘Screw the stock market!’ and shut down government

On his radio show last week, Levin expressed frustration with media reports that a government shutdown could hurt the economy.

“Not once have a seen a news report on the debt in this nation!” he shouted. “We’re talking about, in addition to the continuation resolution [to fund the government] — the reason we need, quote-unquote, continuing resolution is because Harry Reid had blocked every damn budget that has been passed by the House of Representatives.”

“But this debt ceiling, there’s no talk about the debt,” he continued. “It’s all, ‘Hey, what’s the effect on the stock market?’ Screw the stock market! It goes up, it goes down.”

Levin added that the fight to defund President Barack Obama’s health care reform law was “about saving the republic, what’s left of it.”