DEFAULT???????

It is very hard to believe that Republicans are ready to let this nation default on its already budgeted items.  It isn't creating new expenditures.  It is paying for what we have already contracted for.  Boehner says he doesn't have the votes to avoid this but he does!!!  All he needs to do is bring a clean bill to the floor.  All he is worried about is his speakership.  He cares nothing for this country or its people.  I would call him and his cohorts political terrorists.
We are reading about the dire consequences of default and people are scared and I guess they should be.   This would be a global crisis that would devastate the global economy.  There is  no way to prepare for a crisis like this.
How can these supposedly intelligent men and women take this country to the brink.  They are so isolated from the world as they sit in their ivory tower in Washington still getting paid, having insurance and a safe secure retirement that they cannot even see what will happen to ordinary people like you and me.
Boehner should be scared too as he could not only lose his speakership but his seat in the House and I hope someone challenges him and brings out his cowardly ways.  He should be easy to beat although his district is probably one that is gerrymandered.
I am afraid that people will be so devastated and scared that there will be tragic consequences.  Someone is going to get hurt over this and someone already has.  An unarmed woman with a baby in her car was shot SIX times.  I think that is unnecessary.  They could have apprehended her instead.
It is a fact that Senator Susan Collins speaks out of both sides of her mouth.  She talks a good game about the dangers of a shutdown but voted with her party to go ahead with it. She needs to be voted out when this term expires.  She cannot be trusted to vote for the good of the people of Maine.
Well, we shall see how this all plays out but I am fearful about the outcome.