Charlie's right: there's nothing "conservative" (ie. to conserve - to protect from harm, to maintain) about blowing up the debt ceiling. But there's very little actual conservatism in today's House Republicans or the Republicans on SCOTUS. It was certainly not "conservative" to toss out a 100-year old New York gun safety law, or 50 years of law and precedent on which women relied to make decisions about their reproductive lives, throwing the legal and medical fields in disarray to boot. The Republican party has been full of political arsonists for quite some time now. And the rest of us are stuck trying to put out their fires and minimize the damage.
Charlie's right: there's nothing "conservative" (ie. to conserve - to protect from harm, to maintain) about blowing up the debt ceiling. But there's very little actual conservatism in today's House Republicans or the Republicans on SCOTUS. It was certainly not "conservative" to toss out a 100-year old New York gun safety law, or 50 years of law and precedent on which women relied to make decisions about their reproductive lives, throwing the legal and medical fields in disarray to boot. The Republican party has been full of political arsonists for quite some time now. And the rest of us are stuck trying to put out their fires and minimize the damage.