The Republican Comfort With A US Default

Bruce Bartlett's latest survey of the crazier right:

Other prominent conservatives who have been favorable, even
enthusiastic, about debt default include Murray Rothbard, Dan Pilla, Jeffrey
Rogers Hummel, and Christopher Whalen. In 1995, then House speaker Newt Gingrich publicly warned the Public
Association that he was prepared to default on the debt unless Bill
Clinton acceded to Republican demands for budget cuts. "I don't care
what the price is," Gingrich...