Quick Fact: House Republicans Offer Bill to Guarantee We Default On Schedule

In order to guarantee that the United States of America defaults on its debts on schedule, Republicans in the House have proposed a bill that would take away the Treasury Department's ability to move funds around in order to cover our bills for a few extra days thus giving our non-productive Congress more time to come to their senses and raise the debt ceiling as they did seven times under W and eighteen times under Ronald Reagan.

The whole idea behind this bill is to ensure that we wake up on Friday to worldwide financial devastation and that the damage is as fulsome as possible.  House Republicans believe that this will force the Senate to come to their senses and pass the budget and debt ceiling deal as designed by their delusional, ultra-conservative caucus.  

No vote is scheduled on this ridiculous bill. (Apparently even John Boehner has limits.)

House Republicans have allowed themselves to be backed into a corner by Ted Cruz and his homies and are throwing out smoke bombs in order to deflect their constituents from seeing how hopeless their position is.  

Since these people seem to so often enjoin Bible verses in their causes, I would like to offer this one:

Proverbes 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.