You know that any House bill whose "chief sponsor" is Iowa's screwy Steve King and whose co-sponsors are Texas' even loopier Louie Gohmert and Minnesota's magnificently megalomaniacal Michele Bachmann is a must read for maintaining one's nosediving confidence in American democracy, but this one, HR 2496, rests in a vapidly demagogic foxhole all its own. From The Hill:
[It] seeks to ensure that the federal government prioritizes payments to members of the Armed Forces in the event the U.S. reaches the debt limit.
You know ... that debt limit that is no problem; just a silly Obamian demand for more socialist spending. However, Michele & Friends do wish to carve out for pre-protection their own preferred socialism.
One would think that even Tea Partiers would now finally "get" how boundlessly nimrodded their congressional pols are, but in that event one's thinking would only be clouded by Reason. There is no limit to their lunacy.