The U.S. Constitution is not

a suicide pact.

This was a lesson forcefully delivered by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. His GOP "progeny" in the U.S. House have conspired to "unlearn" said lesson with gusto.
Whenever the GOP gains control of a house of Congress, mayhem and mishaugas always attends on them.
We've had government shutdowns, spurious impeachments, bumptious support of the wrong war and now, to cap all that, the disaster of disaster's the economic dissolution of the United States of America.
ALL on the GOP's watch.
There are a few dozen US Representatives in the lower house, angry people, mean people, proud of their ignorance and desperate in a sick sad way to get their hands around Barack Obama's throat even if it means destroying western civilization as we know it.
Usually at this point in the blog post, I make some warnings about remembering all this lunacy when voting in 2012, but we will be waa-ay past the mark by then, the outcome of that election may not matter much one way or another. By then, the USA may well be reduced in status and prestige to the level of a third world country, your parents reduced to penury and the full faith and credit of Abraham Lincoln's last best hope of mankind rendered up as a bad joke.
But the Eric Cantors and Michele Bachmann's in congress, they at least will have stuck it to Barack Obama, that is all that matters to them.
The rest of us can go suck eggs apparently.