Overplaying their hand — Abolish Medicare, Close down the Government, is this a game plan?

Our rightist friends giddy with power in one week propose to abolish medicare and then close down the government over piddling budget cuts.  At issue in the closedown is a few billion dollars difference between them and the Democrats.

Meanwhile they, the republicans, added 400 billion dollars/year to our deficits in tax cuts to the wealthiest citizens.

This in what was formerly the leader of the free world.