Thune: Senate Republicans Might Escalate Gov’t Shutdown Fight
A member of the Senate GOP leadership says he and his colleagues could end up backing House Republicans in their efforts to fund the government at levels below those agreed to in the bipartisan debt-limit deal last August, increasing the chances of a government shutdown fight just weeks before the 2012 election.
It is all about winning back the White House for these guys. Republicans view wrecking the economy as a wholly legitimate strategy to that end. Anybody who thinks otherwise has their head up their ass.