Budgetary Brinksmanship -- Bargaining over the debt ceiling is not new.

From Charles C. W. Cooke at National Review:

As was the case in 2011 — and earlier this year — we are seeing from the establishment press a concerted attempt to convince the public that government shutting down in this manner is unprecedented, and, too, to convince them that legislators using a raise in the debt-ceiling as political leverage is beyond the constitutional pale. Tied to this suggestion is the implication that nobody would have dared to try such a thing until the crazy Tea Party came along in 2010. (And, in the case that the audience knows full well that shutdowns did happen in the past, the follow-up tactic is to insist that those were somehow “different.”)

There is a tiny problem with all this. It’s nonsense.

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Look back into history, and you’ll find similar instances with shutdowns, too. Sure, spending gaps can happen when the president and the Congress are of different parties. But they don’t have to. Five shutdowns happened when Democrats simultaneously controlled the White House, the House, and the Senate. This is because shutdowns occur when the co-branches of government disagree as to what to do. That is how it works in America. Long may it last.

So it's only the Republican's who stall the budget .......

Really?

Oh wait, the report is from PMS-NBC.......