re: #297 EPR-radar

At RedState, Erickson’s latest thought is passing a clean debt ceiling increase, and never giving up on the shutdown.

Teabagger extremism will probably kill off this rather dangerous idea before it becomes a threat.

I’ve considered the possibility that they might go for that, but it doesn’t really work. The idea is that the default is the best chance they have at forced a deal to be made. If they give up on the default, then the shutdown becomes a matter of how long they expect to drag out this farce. Even if they truly wanted to engage in this joke about how they’re going to summarily fire 15% of the government, there’s still over a million workers who are not taking home a paycheck due to this shutdown.