Politico via Huffington Post: House Republicans are seriously entertaining dramatic steps, including default or shutting down the government, to force President Barack Obama to finally cut spending by the end of March.
Neither shutting down the government or defaulting on the debt would turn out good for the country. Neither would the GOP's stated goal of killing Medicare and Social Security. In fact, there's not a single piece of identifiable GOP public policy that has turned out good for the country. There's a simple reason for this: Republican public policy isn't designed to turn out good for the country. These people run for office to implement policy that turns out good for themselves their monied constituencies and nearly always at the expense of the country. The sooner we loose this pretense that the GOP wants America to do well, the sooner we can go about the business of making sure they don't get to make policy.
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