House GOP members want to destroy the "full faith and credit" of the United States.  That is a blatant betrayal of not only their oath of office to uphold the Constitution but a betrayal of the United States and its people.

And these elected officials dance to the tune of their corporate controllers.  Meanwhile they embrace the corporate funded, right wing Tea Baggers dripping their movement's soggy, illogical, woefully ignorant, anti-common good, anti-democratic, anti-constitutional rantings and policies that are (and their corporate funded lackey candidates who are) detrimental to the majority of Americans.

As Dave Johnson wrote at Seeing the Forest in December: "The country’s huge debt was caused by tax cuts for the rich and increases in military spending. But debt-cutting recommendations from the D.C. Elite never suggest restoring taxes on the rich and cutting military spending. Go figure. Instead they suggest cutting the things government does for We, the People. The D.C. Elite is not We, the People. Let's stop this in its tracks.

"....this idea that holding the full faith and credit of the country hostage is playing with fire. It is an outrageous threat to hold over anyone’s head. They are literally threatening the livelihood of, well, everyone, to get more tax cuts for the rich and big corporations and cuts in the things government does for We, the People. Not a vote by the public, but a threat to wipe us out if we do not give this to them.

"Should our representatives in the Congress be trying to find common ground with people who want to gut our government and threaten to wipe out our ability to make a living?

"Conservatives tried this before, under Speaker Newt Gingrich. They actually closed down the government in an attempt to dismantle the Medicare program. President Clinton stood up to the threat. The country was aghast that Gingrich and his party acted so irresponsibly and they paid the price. Clinton turned his presidency around by standing up to Gingrich.

"President Obama should show the backbone that Clinton showed against the Gingrich Congress. The public hates being threatened and will not forgive anyone who gives in to it."

The majority of the American people should be outraged that the GOP is playing this traitorous game against the common good and threatening their livelihoods and lives.

Think the GOP is not threatening regular Americans' livelhoods and lives?  Think again.

David Dayen at Firedoglake offers this glimpse of stupidity from one of the most intelligence challenged, unqualified GOP presidential wannabe's out there, Mike Huckabee:

"Never fear, of course, because a government shutdown won’t be too bad, according to the next President of the United States, Mike Huckabee:

“ 'It’s a very different environment this time. It think first of all, a lot of the things that were shut down were automated –like Social Security checks and Veterans checks — so it’s not going to be as draconian, if it does happen,” Huckabee said on CBS. “But there has to be at some point a reckoning with reality.”

'I think it could happen. And maybe it has to,” he added. “Because sometime, either now or later, the government’s going to shut down, either from bankruptcy in the future, or from a targeted effect to try to get someone’s attention that we’re overspending and not managing at all.' ”

"Amazingly enough, Huckabee is overlooking the millions of federal workers who would either be furloughed or work without paychecks in the short term. Or the shutdown of federal buildings and parks. Or the inspections, grant programs, enforcement actions, litigation, and business advisory services that would have to stop. Or the fact that any changes to Social Security, veterans or any other benefits would not be able to get inputted. New enrollees would not get into the system. And it’s not clear that checks would be able to go out on those automated systems, either.

"As I wrote last week after talking to someone who, unlike Huckabee, actually knows what a government shutdown looks like:

" 'I talked to Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA), who was in the Department of the Interior in 1995 the last time there was a shutdown. “We had to shut down every national park, and every property managed by the Bureau of Land Management,” he said. “The only people working were a few engineers to keep the pumps running. We had 80,000, 85,000 employees all stop. It took us months and months to get us back online and running. Major power plants like the Hoover Dam were seriously affected. It’s the ultimate chaos, and totally irresponsible.' ”

"It’s impossible to minimize the effects of a government shutdown – they would be far-reaching. And with a little over a week to go, the battle lines have been drawn."

I guess some of the American voters didn't learn their lesson from the congressional GOPers menace and treachery in1995,  but wanted to give them another chance to inflict even more damage on this country and its people.