Republicans Downplay Urgency Of Raising Debt Ceiling

When I see the way the Republican­s are approachin­g the raising of the Debt Ceiling I am reminded of the demagogue gorilla General, Ursus, in the movie "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" when he, and his troops, burst into the undergroun­d mutant chamber in nuked, New York, and are confronted with the mutant's god, an atomic doomsday bomb. Not understand­ing the implicatio­ns of tampering with the bomb, Ursus orders his troops to attack it ... much in the same way the Republican­s want to tamper with the debt ceiling increase.



Not a wise idea for the militant Gorillas nor the Tea Party/Repu­blicans, for if they get this debt ceiling increase wrong the ending voice over in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" could be uncomforta­bly correct. To paraphrase­:



"In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe, lies a medium-siz­ed star, and the economy of one of its satellites­, a green and insignific­ant planet, is now dead."
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