"So ya'll righties gotta make up yer minds and decide which is more important between cutting the deficit and seeing a long deep depression with unemployment numbers in the teens or..."

You misunderstand their motivations, Bobert. Neither one of those things is very important at all to them compared to absolutely trashing Mr Obama's administration in every way possible, destroying his personal credibility, ruining his reputation, and thereby giving the Republicans control of Congress and the presidency again at the earliest possible opportunity! ;-)

THAT's what it's really about. It's partisan bullshit as usual.

(And I do disagree radically with much of what Obama has done....but that doesn't make me blind to the idiotic and destructive and totally self-interested tactics of most of his Republican opponents...)