But you’re missing the point. The default was for things already agreed upon. The personal finance analogy would be to buy a bunch of stuff on the credit card and then refuse to pay the bill when it arrives, screwing your credit rating and ACCOMPLISHING NOTHING IN THE PROCESS.

If you want to deal with the spending problem, deal with the spending problem. Don’t send us into default and then be whiny little prick about it, which seems to be his modus operandi. We can do without this sort of “leadership” in Washington.