After a brief introduction from MSNBC host Toure, this powerful clip from HBO’s “The Newsroom” does an excellent job of explaining precisely why the Tea Party House continues to, against the advice of nearly every major economist, threaten to shut down the government over the debt limit.
What is the global financial system supposed to think when they see that America is threatening to not pay debts that were already accrued by our federal government?
This unprecedented hostagetaking of the American good faith and credit by Tea Party Republicans has only one end-goal: Trashing the American economy in order to score political points against Pres. Obama and the Democratic Party, regardless of how much damage it does to the American people.
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