Reply #47: LOL. Republicans love to spend money. Hell they deficit spend more than Democrats.

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No vote for raising debt ceiling has ever failed to get less than 95%+ support (with few wingnuts on both sides voting against it).

The idea that Republicans who have spent like drunken sailors for 60+ years are going to overnight come down hard and fast on deficits is silly. Anyways the point is somewhat moot. The debt ceiling is $1.8 trillion over current debt level hopefully don't need to raise that any time soon (at least a year or so). When we do hopefully we will see real cuts in DOD, Homeland Security, and State dept making the need to raise further debt a non-issue (a 33% cut in DOD, state, and Homeland security would balance the budget today).