Refusing to Pay the Bills They Racked Up

David Atkins at Hullabaloo concludes a fantastic post on the debt ceiling extortion with the following:

In this respect, the Republican position is to go on a massive spending spree, quit their jobs by decreasing revenue, and then threaten to throw the bills they racked up into fire unless their spouse stops feeding the kids.

There may be words for that sort of political philosophy, but it scarcely deserves to be called "conservatism."

Read the whole thing.

Not only should President Obama and congressional Democrats refuse to negotiate with these fiscal terrorists, the FBI should be arresting every threatening repug on charges of extortion.