Depending on your source somewhere around $24 billion.
That shut down lasted 16 days and didn’t involve the added feature of ignoring the debt ceiling default.
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I doubt there are 30 sane republicans in the House…
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Tea Bagging loug-mouthed moron politician or Tim Curry’s stand-in in Rocky Horror Picture Show? We report, you decide!
I once read that soon after Obama was elected, Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor planned to use the debt ceiling as a weapon the first time ever at their first opportunity.
That opportunity came soon after the Republicans took back the House in 2010.
Before that the raising of the debt ceiling was just seen as a plan-vanilla housekeeping function.
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The $30 K was his pay which Fiorina refused to pay. She also refused to pay the rest of her staff while paying herself out of available cash.
If you had earned a paycheck and died a couple days after it was owed and it had not been received what would your grieving spouse expect? To not receive the cash? If so then …just wow … that’s pretty heartless… Would you work for no pay? And what has this to do with the gun issue?
No, Congressman, you’ve had an entire year to craft a budget that would meet the approval of the Senate and the President.
And just in case you forget, the President noted, after the last debt ceiling standoff ended in such a fiasco, that raising the debt ceiling is not a personal favor to him, but an obligation to the country and its credit rating.
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So these are their choices?
McCarthy: Accidentally told the truth about the Benghazi committee.
Chaffetz: Deliberately and demonstrably lied during the PP hearings.
Please pick Chaffetz…please please please…
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Thanks for pointing out this option. We sometimes forget we always have a choice.
If anyone doubts that this is where we are increasingly headed, here is a summary of the growing history of Republicans’ "Hostage Governing."
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April 2011: House Republicans threaten a government shutdown unless Democrats accept GOP demands on spending cuts.
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July 2011: Republicans create the first-ever debt-ceiling crisis, threatening to default on the nation’s debts unless Democrats accept GOP demands on spending cuts.
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September 2011: Republicans threaten another shutdown.
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April 2012: Republicans threaten another shutdown.
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December 2012: Republicans spend months refusing to negotiate in the lead up to the so-called “fiscal cliff.”
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January 2013: Republicans raise the specter of another debt-ceiling crisis.
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September 2013: Republicans threaten another shutdown.
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October 2013: Republicans actually shut down the government.
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February 2014: Republicans raise the specter of another debt-ceiling crisis.
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December 2014: Republicans threaten another shutdown.
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February 2015: Republicans threaten a Department of Homeland Security shutdown.
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September 2015: Republicans threaten another shutdown over Planned Parenthood.
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Man it’s worse than I thought. Now you have a Tea Party candidate for Speaker of the House touting his willingness to default and risk America’s credit rating because President Obama will exercise his constitutional authority and veto bad legislation offered by the ‘crackpots!’
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Civil War time, fight to the death so no one gets a majority to be elected. Then, there’s a chance the Dems could get Pelosi’s name into the contest, join with moderate GOP, and elect her. It’s a possibility; a girl can dream!
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It would almost be worth the pain that would result from the govt. shutdown just to see the hell unleashed on the GOP and it’s Bagger Rulers.
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Frankly, I fail to see any difference between the GOP/Teatrolls shutdown/default behavior and a mass shooter’s. The analogies are too easy to bother drawing out in detail.
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He’'s from Utah. Now I’ve worked with Mormons, had two Mormon bosses and half doz Mormon colleagues.
Whatever I perceived as their faults or virtues, condoning this level of nihilism on the part of one of their reps in Congress is not something I would ever predict about them.
I found them very practical and non-confrontational, not people to destroy the institution to have one’s way over some issue totally irrational and destructive.
Will someone in his district challenge him? We’ll see.
I, for one, recall this when it first broke as a news story.
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Well, I hope you are too pessimistic. Last week, 91 House Republicans voted with all Democrats for the continuing resolution to keep government offices open. Since a government shutdown isn’t nearly as catastrophic as breaching the debt limit, I think there would be essentially the same number of Rs to vote to raise the debt limit, especially since the R business community will be going crazy and the Ds will be pounding the drums. The big imponderable is whether the Speaker would put a bill on the floor. If the Speaker refuses, that’s when the mutiny of the moderates would seize control of the ship.
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Let’s face it. The man is a putz.
But, were would you go, Matt? The best countries wouldn’t let any of us in, I fear.
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Indeed. And I have to tell you, that if the US does commit the international equivalent of finanical harikari, they will never be allowed back.
It’s taken the US centuries to build up the reputation and position they currently have. It can be lost in one instant though.
It’s worth pointing out that the US didn’t lose the AAA rating because of the size of the debt. The US lost the AAA rating because S&P didn’t trust the US political system enough to ensure payment.
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Even if there were 30 sane GOPers in the House, they would never survive the next round of elections were they to ally themselves with Pelosi.