I think it’s entirely reasonable to blame the only party which threatens to stop paying the bills when they can’t get what they want through the normal legislative process. The Republicans do this because they don’t want to take the heat for actually cutting popular services which they’d have to do if they made changes to the budget. Most of the debt we have now was added by them adding things their voters wanted to the budget, so it’s basically trying to skip out on the check after enjoying dinner.

If Democrats start doing that, I’ll criticize them as well but they don’t.