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there s news that some are plotting the explosion over the default of the national debt. the plot is to tie the regular vote to extend the debt ceiling to the obliteration of the affordable care act. according to the plans linked to right leaning organizations, it would detonate a refusal to make good on american debt. the first time this has happened in this country s history it could explode the economic order. do the leaders of the republican party really intend to go this far? do they really dare to sabotage the american economy? and much of the world economy to defund the program. the affordable care act that is the law of the land. and will they go to this stream? and if so, is this the extreme case where ideological zealotry trumped even the most minimal loyalty to the common national interests where anything goes. where the ends justify whatever mean there are to be had no matter how menacing to the country or the world. we ve got a number of news sources. one is th
could explode the economic order. do the leaders of the republican party really intend to go this far? do they really dare to sabotage the american economy? and much of the world economy to defund the program. the affordable care act that is the law of the land. and will they go to this stream? and if so, is this the extreme case where ideological zealotry trumped even the most minimal loyalty to the common national interests where anything goes. where the ends justify whatever mean there are to be had no matter how menacing to the country or the world. we ve got a number of news sources. one is the national review, a conservative organization. not a right wing one. and the washington examiner a bit to the right of that with news stories saying people on the republican right are planning to step back from a government shutdown but to proceed to an escalation, defaulting on the national debt. that would be their threat. they would cut off if they could. and therefore of cour