Will John Boehner Succeed Where Osama Bin Laden Failed?

Al Qaeda chieftain Osama Bin Laden was never shy about the objectives of his jihad against the United States. High on that list was the destruction of the U.S. economy which, he declared in 2004, would be accomplished by "bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy." But even with the economic shock after 9/11, the cost of two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the oceans of red ink from the estimated $3 trillion cost to the United States by 2011 to crush his Al Qaeda movement, Bin Laden ultimately failed in quest to permanently undermine the American economy.

But with the United States now on the brink of a sovereign default, House Speaker John Boehner and his radical Republican extremists may succeed where Osama Bin Laden did not.

Back in January 2011, the newly anointed Speaker darkly warned Americans what failure to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, as the nation had routinely done 40 times since 1980, would mean. Holding the debt ceiling hostage and preventing the federal government from paying the bills it had already incurred, Boehner explained:



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