You want evidence that the cuts-only austerity programs pushed by Republicans are actually designed to cause the economy to fail?
Here you go:
All things being equal, lower spending translates into slower economic growth, since it means cuts in payments to contractors, layoffs of government employees, and smaller entitlement checks. Already in 2011, softer government [...]

Maybe we should thank Glenn Beck for comparing the Utøya, Norway camp where rightwing zealot Anders Behring Breivik killed 68 people and wounded many more to a Hilter youth camp.
“There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler youth, or, whatever. I mean, who does a camp for kids [...]

Give ‘em hell, Madame Speaker:
“Let me repeat. And I repeat, he chose to go to the dark side by putting forth a bill that he himself told his Members [it] would sink in the Senate—and I add, lead to default, lead to default.”- Speaker Nancy Pelosi
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused Speaker John Boehner [...]

$9 Billion per Day

Amount investors are pulling out of money markets because they fear tea baggers in Congress will crash the U.S. economy, according to the Republican Party-controlled Wall Street Journal.

[Boehner's debt-reduction bill] needed to be bipartisan, but was written in secret to be as partisan as possible. The proposal needed to be sensible, but would instead force us to go through all of this again in six months and would mandate approval of a constitutional amendment in both chambers before House Republicans would allow the United States to pay its bills. Think about that for a moment. Elected GOP lawmakers have come to believe extortion is a legitimate tool to get Congress to pass an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. When I talk about Republicans shredding the American political process, this is what I’m talking about.

- Steve Benen at Washington Monthly

Time to laugh in the final hours of life as we knew it before Congress said, “Hold my hand. We’re jumping!” and took us all over the cliff of welshing on America’s debt, which they — Republicans included — authorized when they voted to spend all that money. As we call our collective Visa companies, [...]

There are plenty of ways out of this mess, but we are almost out of time.

— President Obama, in a brief statement at the White House, where he noted that Democrats and Republicans are close to a solution.

I probably needed to add a few words after that ‘it’s fine with me,’ and that it’s fine with me that a state is using their sovereign rights to decide an issue. Obviously gay marriage is not fine with me. My stance hasn’t changed.

— Texas Gov. Rick Perry, in an interview with Tony Perkins, walking back his support of states like New York passing laws allowing gay marriage.

I apologize to everyone for the late hour, but we’ve been waiting for the House to conduct their business and they’re having trouble conducting it.

— Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), quoted by The Hill, before he adjourned the Senate last night.

Their ideas are half-baked when they come out of the oven,
They’re tight-knit and insular, like a witch’s coven.
But the question remains,
After their recent policy gains —
Can the Tea Party Republicans actually govern?