[Adak]

There will be no default, according to the Conservatives. (who are in favor of a shutdown).

I love how this is all blamed on the Republicans. You'd think we just had ONE political party that was being hard to deal with.

The fact is, this is the only card that the Republicans can play right now, because the Democrats are in power elsewhere, and have ABSOLUTELY NO intentions of cutting the gov't spending, in any meaningful way. They have refused to do so, ever since Obama came into office, and the Democrats got control of the Senate.

If the Republicans are being obstinate, it's because the Democrats showed them that was what would be required, as they continue to run our national debt to the moon.