The Republicans are once again holding the debt ceiling hostage in order to force the President to delay the implementation of Obamacare. Here let the Newsroom's Sloan Sabbith explain why that is a dangerous plan.

(Caution this is HBO so you can expect at least one F word.)

And people wonder why I love this show.

As many of you will undoubtedly remember that the Republicans ONLY acquiesced when the President signed the Budget Control Act of 2011 which stipulated that if the two sides could not reach an agreement on the budget by late November then Sequestration would take affect. At the time they believed that despite their differences they were not quite THAT entrenched.

Unfortunately for all concerned, they were.

And during all of this political posturing and threatening Standard and Poor's downgraded our credit rating for the first time in history, dealing a blow to America's reputation and our standing in the world's economy.

Which is just what Sloan Sabbith is warning about in the above clip.

Yes I realize the scene was written after all of this had already happened, giving writer Aaron Sorkin the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, but what is happening right now is ALSO taking place after all of that has already happened, which means that the Republicans and Congress should ALSO be benefiting from 20/20 hindsight, and yet it is increasingly looking as if it is all about to happen again.

What Sloan Sabbith is suggesting the American people do in that clip, is exactly what they, what we, should be doing right now.  I only hope that we can be heard over the rattling of their partisan swords.