Senator Pat Toomey to Republicans: Prepare to shut down government over the debt ceiling

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2. Democrats have to be ready for a government shutdown + 1 day more than GOPers are ready for

There can be little doubt that Biden went into both the Senate and House Dem conferences and told them that they're not budging on the debt ceiling. It will go to government shutdown. The great thing happening now is that the GOPers are giving up their leverage through their ridiculous behavior. They are clearly being defined as the obstructionists here - that's the real campaign "tactic" that they're screaming bloody murder about. But they continue to do it to themselves.

Government shutdown over the debt ceiling is coming. Be clear on that. We need to be out there everyday, starting today, laying it at the feet of the Republicans, just as surely and consistently and insistently that we defined Romney in the summer of 2012, laying the groundwork for the election.

The obstructionist GOP are babies who won't negotiate. Period. Any government shut down is on them. They won't pay for the things they already approved. They raised the debt ceiling eight times for Bush: remember all the fights about the debt ceiling when Bush was in office? No? Me neither. There's weren't any. We need to have charts indicating the number of times the term "debt ceiling" appeared in the press between 2001 and 2008, and how many times it has between 2009 and 2012. My guess: thousands of more times in Obama's term, though it hasn't been raised as frequently.

Define them now.