Some predictions are conditional, but others are not conditional.

Some predictions are not pleasant, nor necessarily what the predictor wants.

According to what yours truly presently perceives, Republicans (as a political party) will lose not only the Presidency in the election of 2012, but perhaps even the House also.

Of course, there are reasons for that.

First of all, feminist-chauvenist, pornographically-mopheaded Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Michelle Bachmann, and even Sarah Palin cannot hold a candle in comparison to feminist-sexist shortcut-hairstyled clownfaces-displaying Rachel Maddow in terms of decent public presentability.

Secondly, was it not chauvenistically-deluded and wrongly-presumptive GOP hierarchy who imposed inferior-gender Sarah Palin as VP-candidate running mate with to-feminists-acquiescing John McCain in 2008....and lost....while maybe-Kenyan-born-or-fathered Barack Hussein Obama shrewdly (and in non-admitted accord with either males-in-charge-advocating Qur'an or the Biblical premises of Numbers chapter 30, Ecclesiastes 7:27-28, Isaiah 3:12, Nahum 3:13, First Corinthians 11:1-16 (KJV/KJ21/NKJV - not RSV), First Corinthians 14:33-38, First Timothy 2:12-15, and First Peter 3:7) rejected Hillary Clinton and instead selected superior-gender Joe Biden as his VP running mate...and won?

Was it not otherwise-quite-respected big-tenting, moralist-Republican Ronald Reagan who got the first inferior-gender [woman] on the High Court (i.e. Sandra Day O'Connor)...even though Barack Hussein Obama force-fed largely-complacent americans the two female feminists Sotomayor and Kagan sitting for life terms in the U.S. Supreme Court?

Obama's network media, directed by savvy Obama-nation operatives, has let concerned Republicans "blow off some steam" in complaining about the huge and growing deficit, and the intolerable forced-health-insurance-purchase and forced-insuring-those-with-preexisting-conditions wrinkles in Pelosi-Reid Obamascare. Besides Obama's media blaming corporations for giving large contributions to republican candidates, the same media blames those corporations for relocating resources overseas and thus depriving American unionistas of high-wage jobs.

Much publicity the media is giving to anti-abortion (and to a lesser extent: anti-homosexual) voices generally associated with the present Republican Party will probably result in nothing substantial nor concrete when pro-choice-against-abortion legislators actually attempt in vain and futile failure to bypass the Democrat-controlled Senate and veto pen of Barack Hussein Obama.

Barack Hussein Obama will most likely not have to mess that much with compromising republican RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) who subtly or openly but relentlessly declare: "The huge budget deficit and out-of-control spending is FAR more important than [sexual] social issues at this time."

Mere lip service will inevitably be given to recently identified-by-pink-concentration-camp-triangles-reminiscent, 'Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell' abolished, now-open-target, diehard homoperverts....who want to pollute, defile, and destroy nationwide heterosexuality-based families.....is easily though rather counter-productively compensated for by Obamination simply adding a "Significant Other" option to federal forms (such as Form 1040) requiring gender specification.

Thirdly, concerning foreign policy, has not Barack Hussein Obama [wisely?] avoided especially American-military entanglement with recent Mideast insurrectionist disruptions having occurred in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and thereabouts...which is exactly what "grassroots" Ron Paul and followers, PLUS those of the Constitution Party, PLUS Obama's own democrat anti-war activists want -- which non-admitted antisemites not only applaud withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan (let alone Pakistan, which even the Soviets could not conquer) but are absolutely delighted that Netanyahu-avoiding Obama is not flexing Bush-like muscles in dangerous foreign situations, especially those which would be of survival-assistance benefit to Israel?

Fourthly, Obama is quite sympathetic and perhaps more with multi-state vicious, willing-to-strike, eager-to-trespass unionistas (as Rush Limbaugh calls them) on his side. If the governor of Wisconsin cannot get Madison police unionists to enforce curfews and expulsion decrees, would the National Guard (along with federal marshals, Marines, etc.) obey (or instead override) either the silence or suggestions of their Commander-in-Chief, to whom they are obligated to give required allegiance unless The Chief Executive becomes unreasonably and unconstitutionally dictatorial and/or incompetent to rule?

Fifthly, the ultimate "dagger in the heart" against a Republican takeover of the White House in the Election of 2012 will be something practically every other high-visibility RINO insists upon, which is to get voters in general to stop their dependency upon government-bestowed-and-depletable Social Security and Medicare, plus Raising the Retirement Age (to 70 and beyond) and initiating Means Testing as to who should and should not get Social Security checks, and how much should be eliminated to supposedly save the sinking ship of America's trillion-plus-dollar deficit .....all of which wrongheaded premises are diametrically opposed to:

Leviticus 27:1 The LORD said to Moses,
2 Say to the people of Israel, "When a man makes a special vow of persons to the LORD at your valuation,
3 then your valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
4 If the person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
6 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
7 And if the person is sixty years old and upward, then your valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
8 And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall bring the person before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed the priest shall value him."

Certainly, the vast horde of Democrat voters - both elderly and younger wage earners - will soundly reject that when they are in the voting booths for the Election of November 2012! Even more devastating is that many Republican voters will also be adverse to that needless and irresponsible tinkering against Social Security funding so desperately needed and depended upon by impoverished seniors.

Social-Security-check monies to seniors who previously paid into such (to varying extents) through FICA deductions from their payroll paychecks are unique benefit-"income," in that such is not taxable, and seniors can save or spend it as they (not agenda-driven bureaucrats and activists) see fit according to their own individual and freedom-based needs, interests, innovative hobbies and inventions, etc. Not being taxable, none of it is involuntarily siphoned off by godless bureaucrats and deviant activists to non-wanted pro-feminist, pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, pro-atheist, pro-evolution, pro-cultic persons or groups -- and thus, not wasted on detrimental boondoggles nor revisionist and satanic antisocial experimentation.

GOPers, with their demonic and devilish pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by hallucinations of strike-it-rich gambling grandeur with self-employment schemes and/or ups-then-downs Stock-Market investing involving Madoff-destroyable stocks (of which 'All Principle Is At Risk,' and which are 'Not FDIC Insured'), who promote the heartlessly diabolical idea of depriving needy babyboomers and others of [vital-for-financial-survival] Social-Security checks, are the damnably-accursed ones who will be Divinely held most responsible for unrealistically and insidiously violating:

Ecclesiastes 8:7 For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?
Ecclesiastes 10:14 A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?

Ecclesiastes 11:1 Throw your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
2 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what evil may happen on earth.
3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
4 He who observes the wind will not plant; and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
5 As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
6 In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Haggai 1:6 You have planted much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.

Luke 3:14 Soldiers also asked him, "And we, what shall we do?" And he said to them, "Rob no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your wages."

Hebrews 13:5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, "I will never fail you nor reject you."

James 4:13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain";
14 whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
15 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that."
16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

The influential GOP-associated names I previously mentioned presume that children should not be dependent upon their parents, nor personally care for them in their old age, but turn them over to "Visiting Angels" and other impersonal eldercare/nursing-home imprisoners-in-effect:

THAT "get-out-and-earn-your-own-apart-from-parents" heresy certainly does NOT jive with:

Leviticus 19:32 "You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD."

Proverbs 16:31 A hoary head is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Matthew 15:5 But you say, 'If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.'

Mark 7:10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die';
11 but you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God)...
12 then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or mother,
13 thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do."

First Timothy 5:8 If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is worse than an disbeliever.

....and the needy-parents-deserting mindless brain farts of such despicably-subversive RINOs is instead an out-of-context, warped and twisted mis-application and mis-appropriation against the following Bible verses:

Mark 10:7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife...."

Ephesians 5:31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

First Thessalonians 4:9 But concerning love of the brethren you have no need to have any one write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;
10 and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to do so more and more,
11 to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;
12 so that you may command the respect of outsiders, and be dependent on nobody.

"Be dependent upon nobody?" Can THAT ever be twisted to misrepresent what the Author originally intended! Don't depend upon pension-subsidized parents so you don't live long upon the land which the Lord your God gives you, so throw the money-supplying aging parents out with the trash? Presume (not "assume") that we are not interdependent upon police, firefighters, grocery and hardware store plus water and sewer and lights utility providers? It behooves heads-up-their-rectums RINOs to 'wake up and smell the coffee, ' 'Get Real!' and 'Get with the Program!'

Who ARE those anti-Social-Security RINOs trying to please, by preaching their false gospel of depriving the poor of crucial Social Security checks so they cannot pay residual monthly bills?

If they speak loud and long enough, Obama - who has already withheld Cost-of-Living increases from Social Security checks - might take them up on the idea of dismantling Social Security against his political enemies, overseen and enforced by his Nazi-Mengele-like, rational-health-care, death-panel bureaucrats against more than non-born fetal babes and hospiced seniors!

Are senile, sickly, feeble, crippled, handicapped seniors expected to start a thriving corporate business or become rent-and-lease-prices-raising real-estate tycoons to support themselves without dependable monthly Social Security checks?

How about those elderly Christians repeatedly discriminated against into perpetual blacklisted-reputation joblessless because of them adhering to anti-feminist-twit-submission, anti-homogay-sensitivity-inclusiveness, and anti-evolutionist-mythology/pseudoscience-blatter fundamentalist-orthodox Scriptural beliefs and practices?

Are "don't-become-dependent-upon-FDR/Johnson-legacy-government" seniors supposed to be involuntarily taxed and thus cultically donate to earth-worship whackjob Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency "Save-A-Whale" and "Protect-a-Polar-Bear" nutcases destabilizing national security by locking out vast areas of drillable-for-oil Alaska land causing America to dangerously remain dependent upon foreign anti-Israel Saudi and Libyan oil suppliers....resulting in the economically-draining inordinate jacking up of gas-pump fuel prices across America...for the sake of a few randomly-deified species which (not "who") would in NO way would be endangered by a few pipelines here and there? Was it not Jesus who stated that humans are worth MUCH more than many sparrows? Priorities among the irrationally insane have to be readjusted!

Will all the above quotations from Holy Writ change the mind of talking-mopheads-imposing Hannity, arrogant-naysayer Michael Medved, and others, about NOT conveying to the general voting public the horrific wickedness of misnaming Social Security "entitlements" and/or "welfare" -- then emasculating Social Security by proposing to Raise the Retirement Age and cut people's nest egg's short by Means Testing?

Isaiah 30:1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the LORD, "who carry out a plan, but not Mine; and who make a league, but not of My spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
Isaiah 30:9 For they are a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the instruction of the LORD.

Isaiah 65:2 I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices.

Jeremiah 5:23 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.
Jeremiah 6:28 They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron, all of them act corruptly.

Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Ezekiel 2:5 And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that there has been a prophet among them.
6 And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit upon scorpions; be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.
7 And you shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear; for they are a rebellious house.
8 "But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth, and eat what I give you."

Ezekiel 3:9 Like adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead; fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 3:27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD'; he that will hear, let him hear; and he that will refuse to hear, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 12:2 Son of man, you reside in the middle of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not.

How did Barry Soetoro (a.k.a. "BHO") succeed in winning the Election of 2012?

As of this writing, neither the Ryan Republicans nor the Obama/Pelosi/Mendez/Reid/Hoyer/Durbin/Schumer democrats are agreeing on how much of and when Paul Ryan's Debit-Reduction Budget Proposal should be utilized...and so a "government shutdown" is imminent if no resolution is reached.

That would mean that some government services funded by the government would be shut down or slowed down, such as the processing of passports, admission to federal museums and monuments, entrance to national parks, delay of checks issues to our military soldiers, and perhaps even the issuing and mailing out of IRS tax refund checks, and a lot more.

Such stoppage and slowdown might make purportedly-mandatory and allegedly-crucial government funding to the National Endowment for the Crucifix-in-Urine Arts, Sesame-Street-Big-Bird series of PBS, A.A.R.P., Planned Parentlessness (a.k.a. Planned Promiscuity) so dear to now-thankfully-brain-dead subversive TFK, pre-school-aged Head-Start and Pell-Grant pro-feminist/pro-homogay/pro-evolution/anti-Bible pseudo-"education" indoctrination, dependence on wind-power research (for when winds frequently die down) and solar-cells-power research (useless at night when the Sun doesn't shine)....FAR less vital and important in terms of government waste which can and obviously should be trimmed.

But why should Obama/Pelosi/Mendez/Reid/Hoyer/Durbin/Schumer be concerned about that? The old folk are dying off and generally did not vote for Obamination in the last election anyway. Fat-cat demoncrat senators mentioned have their own lavish government-legislator salaries and guaranteed pensions, and are merely amused by the recent media-frenzy publicizing of budget compromise and implementation impasse...because all they have to do is raise the debt ceiling and print more money.

Besides, they correctly guess that, if push came to shove, most demoncrats would re-elect BHO rather than have Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann relocate into the Oval Office (as would this webpage author - IF those were the only choices!).

Should the American people in general react against government slowdown or shutdown, any one of the following can be done to the main man (i.e. BHO) responsible for it:

(1) Hillary "Vince Foster" Clinton can be implored to talk BHO into playing Russian roulette with a loaded Smith-and-Wesson six-shot revolver...with his right (and not left) hand.
(2) Biden, Reid, and Boehner can determine that BHO is unfit for command, and initiate impeachment proceedings against BHO.
(3) Everyone can let BHO declare National Marshal Law (hopefully not during any San-Andreas-Fault shufflings) and force everyone to do everything his way.

Do you believe that the economic stimulus of BHO is working? Suspicious that BHO has done a magnificent job in the past two years since he has been in office doubling the National Debt?

Gut feeling has it that Obamination will ultimately engrain and deploy as many parts of the Ryan Budget to their own advantage as they can....while taking all the credit and bestowing it on Barry Soetoro (a.k.a. BHO) but giving none to the GOP.

Soetorobama has had two full years to come up with a reasonable cost-cutting budget, but has not done so. He reminds me of his birth-mother Ann Dunham, who acted first and thought later when she married then divorced two different black men when BS/BHO was a boy. Then did what it took to expire with ovarian cancer.

Do you believe that unemployment will diminish under BHO? Do you believe that BHO is The One, and are you a "loyal patriotic" worshipper of intellectually-suave-and-dominantly-persuasive but significantly-incompetent BHO?

Is there not complete unity in the demoncratic party, with no democrat opposing BHO as a Presidential-candidate contender....while Sarah Palin [God forbid!], Michelle Bachmann [God forbid again!], Mitt Romney, Gingrich, Rubio, Trump, Pawlenty, etc. divisively and expensively waste money fighting it out among themselves?

Will the American people be confused with numerous Republican presidential debates among five bickering antagonists repeatedly slandering each other on TV? Will the finally-decided-upon Republican presidential and vice-presidential candidates get their lawn signs and bumper stickers out to America in time before the November Election?

Are you happy that BHO selected a couple of chauvenistically-sexist inferior-gender feminists to reign on The High Court?

Are you indifferent that BHO lets so-called "non-profit" but actually for-profit AARP divert the meager contributions of poor elderly (who largely, because of their seasoned and old-fashioned common-sense, did not vote for BHO) for nefarious political-action purposes?

Are you satisfied that BHO has publicly declared his support for abortion-homicides-committing Planned Parentlessnes (a.k.a. Planned Promiscuity)?

Have you been exempted (because of, in effect, bowing before BHO) having obtained waivers for you to bypass the Bamacare Individual Mandate? Do you run a health insurance company and have (because of, in effect, brown-nosing the negroid BHO) obtained Bamacare exemptions to set limitation caps against those new insured claiming "pre-existing conditions" -- without which you would financially be drained dry and go belly up?

Are big Bamabanks ready to deviously and/or covertly dole out lottery-winner-like subsidies for those who go to their nearest HHS Bamacare clinic to receive a 666 Bamachip on their foreheads or right hands? Perhaps significant monetary reductions in the costs of Bama-run goods and services await the BHO "faithful" - such as experiencing their gas-pump and vehicle-repair prices cut in half, grocery and housing rental and mortgage payments halved, utility bills greatly discounted, etc.?

Bamamedia is ready to seriously puff Nobel-"peace"-prize "conquering-war-hero-against-Egyptian/Libyan-dictators" BHO for the 2012 campaign. Are you going to "cooperate" with black-reparations diversity and inclusiveness to unify with NATO and the United Nations who has gotten control of them...or instead be an "outsider-like renegade?"

As of the time of this writing (which is approximately one day before the scheduled Friday Government Shutdown), the Obama As of the time of this writing (which is approximately one day before the scheduled Friday Government Shutdown), the Obama Administration as bullyboy aggressors is in the lamentable process of "playing chicken" against defensive GOP-House leaders and their constituents. Which one will swerve at the last minute to avoid a disasterous collision...and, if both do collide....which vehicle is intrinsically stronger to accrue less damage?

The impasse essentially boils down to what the religious right have wanted to "come to a head" for a long time: a referendum-equivalent of whether or not Roe-v-Wade should be maintained or instead overturned.

Obama is ordering his democrat Senate and Senate Majority Leader to hold out against GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner and his noble financially-sensible associates, and although some might presume that BHO is the final umpire in the non-resolved dispute, BHO is not so. Instead, the Judeo-Christian Creator God of the Sacred-66-books Judeo-Christian Holy Bible is The Ultimate Referee.

Either the LORD supports Planned Parentlessness (a.k.a. Planned Promiscuity)....or in stark contrast, He does not. In other words, either the true and living God supports the so-called "family-planning services" of the weaselword-misnamed Planned "Parenthood" -- which ridiculously-purported "reproductive" "services" in effect are actually family-prevention and family-disrupting "reproductive services" roughly equivalent to the atrocities of genocidally murdering six million Jews by concentration-camp-oven cremation -- or instead He does not.

IF the Lord does not support the weaselword-satanspeak criminally-sinful shenanigans of Planned "Parenthood", there will be FAR-reaching consequences against BHO, Harry Reid, Planned "Parenthood", and possibly even who and which political party wins the Election of 2012.

IF American voters - in general - detect that the essential one-and-only basic reason for the full-effects-not-yet-fully-experienced looming federal-government-services shutdown (adversely and immediately putting nearly 1,000,000 federal workers and the services they normally provide to millions of Americans for all sorts of things)....is the refusal of demoncrats to sign a government-shutdown-avoiding budget-cut proposal including eradication of federal funding for Planned Promiscuity, political heads will roll at and perhaps even before the Election of 2012.

IF the continuous "reproductive family-planning" and "woman's/baby's healthcare" mangling of abortion-victim mothers plus murder against non-born womb babies [study the Greek New-Testament Text for Luke 1:41 and Luke 2:16 as to the exactly-identical word: brephos used for both a PRE-born womb baby and an ALREADY-born mangered baby] by the continuing government funding of Planned-"Parenthood" abortion-homicide agenda is THAT important to Americans at large to retain....well...let's see IF that will be the case, in view of the full extent of the resultant consequences!

IF such mangling and murder is NOT that important to fund with government monies, yet Obamination stubbornly holds on to retaining such (against the will of most American voters), I predict that a serious party rift is going to develop between Libyan-war-monguering feminist-sexists-subservient BHO and Reid and his demoncrat abortion-homicide supporters. True, the impact will definitely be completely neutralized if feminist-sexist campaign hierarchy of the GOP makes the same phenomenally-stupid mistake of running Palin or Bachmann for Prez or VP in 2012.

But the general voting public - despite desperate attempts to alleviate the damage by BHO-sympathetic network-news media - is VERY likely to so seriously sour against not only hung-up-to-preserve-abortive "Planned Parenthood" BHO but his demoncrat conspirators (Schumer, Pelosi, Hoyer, Durbin, Reid, even Biden) that they and many of their demoncrat party members will have to look for another job in the near future.

Remember what happened to democrat Bill Clinton when the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress in the mid-1990s: Bill Clinton was impeached by the House Impeachment Managers, though somehow retained the Presidency. Perhaps BHO presumes that he can follow the same escape path, and get away with it.

The blame for a no-paychecks-for-our-military-soldiers government shutdown is squarely placed on both BHO and Harry Reid for insisting that the government HAS to continue to specifically fund Planned "Parenthood" because they not only provide abortion-homicide "services" (if you'll pardon the degradation of that word) with "private" funding (a matter of shady internal bookkeeping manipulations)....but also cloak their abortion-murder deviance with questionably-useful, certainly-NOT-mandatory-for-women's health, cancer-screening mammograms (abusing the teets), blood tests (which, as Senator Kyl pointed out, could be obtained from many other sources other than Planned "Parenthood"), etc.

In view of what BHO has said and done so far, is he presently not the prime candidate to be or become "The False Prophet" (a.k.a. The Ultimate Pseudo-Clergy antichrist) spoken of in Revelation chapters 13-20? Remember, Adolf Hitler did not pop on the scene out of nowhere all at once, but was seen ascending to supremacy all along the way.

- http://confrontation.faithweb.com

Technically, by defaulting and without additional borrowing authority, the federal government could prioritize payments after the debt ceiling hits - but only for a very, very short time. Within weeks, cash flow problems would force some pretty stark and unpalatable choices. The element of uncertainty would spook capital markets and increase the cost of borrowing. Even slightly higher interest rates would increase our debt service payments substantially, exacerbating our budget problems. It's nowhere we want to go.

Of course, raising the debt ceiling in perpetuity would have the same cumulative effect as I've just described. That's why using the debt ceiling to force spending cuts is a good, and necessary, move. That's what gave us the Budget Control Act of 2011, which has resulted in two straight years of lower discretionary spending. Previous negotiations over the debt ceiling have yielded other significant budget agreements.

It behooves everyone to realize (and acknowledge) that Americans did not get Kenyan-not-Hawaiian-born Barack Hussein Obama into office (see the birth-certificate image at http://confrontation.faithweb.com and at other websites)

Also, Congress did not vote for Obamascare.

Finally, Minnesotans did not vote for Al Franken.

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?"

First Samuel 15

1 And Samuel said to Saul, "The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore respond to the words of the Lord.
2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will punish what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way, when they came up out of Egypt.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and completely destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’"
4 So Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.
5 And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley.
6 And Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, leave, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites left from among the Amalekites.
7 And Saul defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and completely destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag [kept funding for Obamascare intact], and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not totally destroy them; all that was despised and worthless they completely destroyed.
10 The word of the Lord came to Samuel:
11 "I regret that I have made Saul king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry; and he cried to the Lord all night.
12 And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, "Saul came to Carmel, and hey, he set up a monument for himself and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal."
13 And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed be you to the Lord; I have performed the commandment of the Lord [passed the Default-Avoiding Government-Shutdown-Ending Omnibus Budget Bill]."
14 And Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?"
15 Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the remainder we have completely destroyed."
16 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night." And he said to him, "Say on."
17 And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel.
18 And the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, complete destroy the sinners [obliterate funding for non-affordable non-workable Medicare-disrupting Obamascare], the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop on the spoil, and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?"
20 And Saul said to Samuel, "I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have completely destroyed the Amalekites.
21 But the people [the Senate and House, coerced by overwhelming belligerent Obamanites] took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal."
22 And Samuel said, "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Hey, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to respond than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king."
24 And Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
25 Now therefore, I beg you, pardon my sin [absolve me in a confessional booth], and return with me, that I may worship the Lord."
26 And Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel."
27 As Samuel turned to go away, Saul laid hold upon the cloth of his robe, and it tore.
28 And Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
29 And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for He is not a man, that he should repent."
30 Then he said, "I have sinned; yet honor me now in front of the elders of my people and in front of Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God."
31 So Samuel turned back after Saul; and Saul worshiped the Lord.
32 Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites." And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."
33 And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.
35 And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

First Samuel 28

15 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress; for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams; therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do."
16 And Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy?
17 The Lord has done to you as He spoke by me; for the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, David.
18 Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord, and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.
19 Moreover the Lord will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me; the Lord will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines."

Only about half of americans got the anti-Torah apostate-catholic/cultic-islamic liar-in-chief Barack Obama into office, mostly by non-fraudulently voting for him.
Also, majority demoncrat Obomanites in both the Reid-controlled Senate and the Pelosi-controlled House of Representatives of the Congress voted for Obamascare between 2008 and 2010.

Hopefully, the reader can - by now - understand the statement that "Minnesotans" did not vote for Al Franken. If the dull of mind still do not "get it," here's a little help: Only SOME minnesotans voted for Al Franken instead of Norm Coleman.

If the Obama-administration federal government defaults without raising the Debt Ceiling, for the first time in our nation's history, because Kenyan-not-Hawaiian-born foreign-nigherr (the "h" is silent) Barack Obama and patsy demoncrat Obomanites insist on funding not-affordable non-workable anti-Medicare Obamascare without first negotiating about That Big Entitlement (Obamascare), Barack/Barry/Barack Hussein Obama/Soetoro/Obama will have clearly and plainly violated an amendment of the United States Constitution and thus obviously and non-arguably treasonously endangering America's financial national security as a traitor against the United States.

In that case, both houses of Congress would then have no logical alternative but to immediately call up impeachment legislation against not only Obama himself but (if there was obstruction of justice) maybe also obstructionist Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

If Reid did not comply with consideration of the impeachment legislation, each State (like Scott Walker's Wisconsin) would have to direct their State Police and National Guard (along with deputized anti-Obomanites) under their command to override any federal use of marshals or various pro-Obomanite personnel of the armed forces of the U.S. military.

De facto impeachment against Barack Obama and perhaps Harry Reid (and, if necessary, potential accomplice Joe Biden) would then quickly result in the third-in-line John Boehner becoming acting President of the United States and temporary Commander-in-Chief who would promptly oust obstructionists Eric Holder and his attorneys, and thus catastrophic collapse of America would thankfully be prevented in time.

Perhaps threat of financial default across America could have some benefits in forcing certain americans to stop spending beyond their means and quit living on credit (whether by credit cards, mortgage or student or car loans, etc.) per the Biblical instruction:

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.