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Excellent column by Paul Krugman.

John Boehner let the cat out of the bag on right-wing hater Laura Ingraham’s show:

BOEHNER: Well, first they want more. And my goodness, I want more too. And secondly, a lot of them believe that if we get past August the second and we have enough chaos, we could force the Senate and the White House to accept a balanced budget amendment. I’m not sure that that — I don’t think that that strategy works. Because I think the closer we get to August the second, frankly, the less leverage we have vis a vis our colleagues in the Senate and the White House.

Phrases like “playing with fire” don’t do this justice. Some people are using the phrase “economic suicide bombers” and I think it would be appropriate, really, although of course we will be the ones bearing the pain caused by their actions, mostly not the politicians themselves.

This is shocking.

We’re already in that Nancy, so take your Reid-proposed “bipartisan austerity plan” and go to hell. The next 48 hours or so are the biggest gut-check yet of the entire Obama presidency. Will he endorse an evil bipartisan rollback of benefits earned by Americans across the board, or will he stand up and demand a simple, clean raising of the debt ceiling with no strings attached? He will reportedly address the nation at 8PM CDT.

The mass murderer killed at least 92 people, 5 are still missing which may make the total rise to 97. He’s a Nazi and a global warming denier. It may be the deadliest mass shooting done by a single person in world history. He was also heavily into American-originated anti-Muslim hate propaganda.