Deadbeats 0
Republicans, that is. Barney Frank explains it in the Maine Sunday Telegram.
A nugget:
I have a message for my former colleague John Boehner:
Don’t do me any favors. Specifically, please stop acting as if allowing the United States of America to meet the debts it has incurred as a result of votes both of us have cast is a concession you are making to me or anybody else. It is simply an act of basic responsibility.
(snip)
With one exception, raising the debt limit relates only to past spending.
The exception is that if you continue to enable the right wing of your party in its demand that America fail to meet its obligations, the interest we must pay when we borrow will probably go up.
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