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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf default is "no big deal," then why is GOP using it to extort concessions from POTUS?
If GOP contends that default is no big deal, why would they expect Obama to give them anything in exchange for avoiding it??? Why avoid it if it is, in fact, no big deal???
THE GOP POSITION MAKES NO SENSE.
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If default is "no big deal," then why is GOP using it to extort concessions from POTUS? (Original Post)
ZRT2209
Oct 2013
OP
I thought the same thing when I heard all the GOP idiots explaining how the debt ceiling wasnt
rhett o rick
Oct 2013
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DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)1. That is pretty much what the President said today.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)2. good question
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)3. I thought the same thing when I heard all the GOP idiots explaining how the debt ceiling wasnt
a big deal. Idiots, the lot.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)4. Some actually believe the aeffect of a default would me minimal
Maybe they're taking financial advise from Donald Trump who's declared bankruptcy multiple times.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023812088
Lifelong Dem
(344 posts)5. I don't hear many saying not paying the bills is no big deal
What I do hear them saying is the 17th is not a big deal or an exact date of going off a cliff.