The right-wing rebels contesting the vote for Speaker of the House have floated a wide array of complaints against the Republican Party's leadership - ranging from the budget deals to "cultural Marxism." But there is one point of action in particular looming ominously on the horizon of their fevered imaginations: the federal debt ceiling. Representative Ralph Norman, one of the holdouts, told reporters that his demands of the new Speaker include a willingness to hold the full faith and credit of the government hostage to as-yet-unspecified demands. "Is he willing to shut the government down...
