When POWERFUL PEOPLE say REALLY STUPID THINGS! (Sink the US economy edition)

House Speaker John Boehner:

"I don't want the United States to default on its debt," he said. "But I'm not going to raise the debt limit without a serious conversation about dealing with problems that are driving the debt up.  It would be irresponsible of me to do this."

OK, so it would be irresponsible to raise the debt limit without having this 'serious conversation.'  And it would be irresponsible to make the U.S. default on its debt.
Which one would be more irresponsible?  In our world, making the U.S. default on its debt would be far more irresponsible.  But in the world where Boehner and his Tea Party friends reside, apparently that choice is the less irresponsible of the two.  Even though this hostage negotiation wasn't even about our (diminishing!) budgetary problems until just a few days ago.  (Remember when it was all about Obamacare?  That's so last week.)
So John Boehner is willing to blow up the country for...whatever he thinks he can get this week.


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