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The reason Republicans walked out of the debt ceiling meetings


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Half the Republicans told McConnell to sit down and shut up anyway

The other half are political cravens just desperate not to have the economy collapse yet don't want to be seen voting to raise the debt because their own party will gut them for it.

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Protect the rich, sacrifice the rest. That's the GOP.

The truth in a nutshell. I'm sure Sox or LittleEarl or Soylent would love to come up with some stupid bullshit reason to excuse such criminal like behavior.

Republicans have boxed themselves in. Both sides will be able to agree on spending cuts. But the eventual holdup will be eliminating tax breaks for some corporations and the ultra-rich. If the talk

The other half are political cravens just desperate not to have the economy collapse yet don't want to be seen voting to raise the debt because their own party will gut them for it.

"Our problem is we made a big deal about this for three months," said Senator Lindsay Graham of the debt limit debate, according to Politico. "How many Republicans have been on TV saying, 'I'm not going to raise the debt limit'?

"We shouldn't have said that if we didn't mean it... We've got nobody to blame but ourselves,"

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