Republican? More like Republican’t.

Republicans took the nation closest to the fiscal brink [[in 2011]]. The GOP’s ascendant conservative wing, known then as the tea party, seized on the debt ceiling to demand stark spending cuts from President Barack Obama, touching off a stalemate that rattled the stock market and prompted a costly downgrade in U.S. credit.

And you know they’ll blame Dems for this default if it occurs. Ugh!

They tried and failed to repeal the debt ceiling. Now it may ruin the economy. - Washington Post (paywall)