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0 and democrats, as representative clyburn said, we ve been clear we want at least a one-year extension of the debt ceiling. we d like a longer term budget. it s republicans frankly that are insisting that we just kick the can down the road by a couple months. i have no idea why they want that. i mean we are taking a $160 billion $160 million hit to the economy every week of this shutdown. it s terrible policy economically for this country to essentially move backwards every week that the government is shut down and we risk defaulting on our debts and it s also terrible politics on republicans. why on earth republicans would want to be put in this position again in just a couple of months when they clearly lose out during these shutdown and default negotiations is absolutely beyond me. they have learned nothing either economically or politically from this crisis, and hopefully somebody over there is going to wake up in the next few days and realize that it s good for the country and, ....