Does the tea party want a default?

[nadinbrzezinski]

Excellent question by Contessa brewer.

Short answer: Yes.

In their magical thinking, almost religious thinking, that will help destroy the enemy. That is big government.

[elleng]

1. Most of 'them' don't know what it means, imo.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. That applies to most Americans.

Hell, I'll go out on a limb and include a fair number of people here, even a majority.

[elleng]

15. Can't disagree w that, nadin.

[salin]

23. & the people leading them - don't explain it

some don't due to their own blind ideology and chosen ignorance in order to support the ideology (or if not ideology - the "win at all costs" ugly politics - policy outcomes be-damned.

others aren't explaining it, b/c they don't think it will really happen - and want to keep the "fight" on.

yet others - now those folks (Norquist, Kock, et al) they are insidious.

[piratefish08]

2. the tea party can't spell 'default'.

they want what they are told to want.

[Hand_With_Eyes]

3. Yes they do

They live in a fantasy world where the Federal Reserve is the evil of all evils and that blowing up the economy is the only way to save it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yep.

[GumboYaYa]

6. This is just one more consequence of the GOP's aversion to actual

facts whether they be scientific or economic. When you live in a world where the answer to everything is either, ignore the liberal media or have faith in God, you get perverse illogic of the type we see regularly from the GOP.

[PearliePoo2]

7. yes....drown the evil government in the bathtub.....

as long as it still pays for their moblity "scooters".

[Iggo]

8. Whatever it takes to get rid of a black President.

That's what the tea party wants.

[Zen Democrat]

9. The Tea Party people are mental dumbsters. They haven't got a clue.

The likes of Michelle Bachmann, Louie Gohmert ("Gohmert Pyle"), and the wretched Steve King -- all you need to know.

[rucky]

10. It's the only way they can build their free market utopia...

in traitor Grover Norquist's image.

[hifiguy]

11. I wonder how they will take to their new Chinese overlords

if that happens?

[Fire1]

12. Yes they do. But "big government" is only part of it. The

biggest reason is to destroy Barack Obama.

[lpbk2713]

13. They want Obama to fail.

OxyRush said the same thing (then denied it even when his
words were on tape) before Obama was even inaugurated.

[ladjf]

14. IMO, yes. nt

[JitterbugPerfume]

16. in a word,

yes, and they have no idea of what it is that they want to distroy.

[KharmaTrain]

17. A Default Can Be A Money Making Opportunity...

...just ask Erik Cantor. There are those ready to hedge the dollar and hope interest rates go sky high due to a default. They're lining up at the gambling casinos known as brokerage houses ready to short the dollar the moment Moodys drops the rating. Of course 99.9% of the teabaggers have no clue about this...all they hear is "job creators" and "cut spending" and are clueless about what the debt ceiling is about or who created a majority of this mess. But they don't care...their hatred of this President blinds all...and once again leads millions to vote and do things against their own best interests. And for that the super rich thank you...

[salin]

25. bingo

[toddwv]

18. Tea Party? What's that?

This is what happens when the Koch brothers and Fox "News" decide not to bus their "grassroots" participants in for rallies:

[denverbill]

19. Yes, they want a default. And when everything collapses, they will blame Obama.n/t

[HopeHoops]

20. The teabaggers want ANYTHING that will hurt Obama's chances for a second term.

Yeah, okay, he's a Democrat - but he's black and that's far more disturbing for them.

[Lil Missy]

21. Yes. n/t

[Warpy]

22. It's the magical thinking that Utopia will arrive once government is slain

combined with free floating rage and an irrational desire to strike out.

They are going to be terribly surprised when they are the people who get hit.

[JuniperLea]

24. Their MO is like the GOP's...

If Obama says yes, they say no. Simple instructions for simple minds.

[Horse with no Name]

26. A guy on my friends facebook posted something

and it really sounded so even and reasonable...and that is what scares the shit out of me and why others can believe them.

The fuckwad LECTURED me on my response to a post by a friend. And it sounded so reasonable.

I finally ended the exchange by just saying that people like him scare the shit out of me because they get others to listen to them and believe them and then they end up voting against their own best interests. They are the ones that are destroying this country.

[JoePhilly]

27. They think God will fix the economy after they remove the anti-Christ.

[moondust]

28. You bet.

Create as much mayhem as possible and blame it on the black guy.

[spanone]

29. what's apparent with all the communication tools we have now, is how ignorant so many are in america