The Lunatics Are Running the Asylum

House Repubs are trying to shut down the Federal Government again, this time it's an attempt to defund what they call "Obamacare." Meanwhile Ted Cruz, who actually boasts of his resemblance to Joe McCarthy, is trying to launch his own "filibuster" of the budget process. Is it possible that the Repubs don't know what they're doing? A government default would wreck the world economy and they're willing to do that just to make a point. The GOP has pandered to the lunatic right to such an extent that they're now in a position to destroy the country.