I so sick of hearing "the American people want us to do this". This is such a damn joke it insults me. They either know better and lie, or they are damn CLUELESS.
Let's remember the Beckland-Teabagger bru-ha ha. ALL those people went to support Beck and do NOT WANT their Medicare or Social Security cut. THAT was why they where there. They were told by Beck and Fox that the racist, Muslim, Socialist President was going to TAKE their Medicare and Social Security AWAY in the Health Care Reform they lovingly called "Obamacare".
So all the old people and friends went to stand and say NO, keep your hands off my Medicare (I saw posters there that said that). Now Fox and Republicans played into it so they could gain control of the House and Senate. They started to get regular folks that were angry and agreed that the President and Democrats were bad, and put them up against the real Politician Republicans that were running and got their seats. This group of people know nothing about politics and were picked for that reason.
Lawrence O'Donnell knew exactly at that time, that they would not know enough about politics to raise the Debt Ceiling.
It was played well, and they pulled Beck of the air and tried to act like one happy family of mixed Republicans. But it's not.
So Rep Walsh and the rest of you crazy tea bag zealots, I along with the people that voted for YOU are part of the 80% of Americans that DO NOT WANT OUR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE CUT- SO STOP SAYING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT THIS.