In the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, many House R's wanted to wreck the US credit and economy by stopping all borrowing. The solution GOP leaders found was a new rule so they could all regularly vote to destroy America that way, but they'd need a supermajority, so it wouldn't count.

The solution, to let them vote for destruction, trusting that someone else would be responsible so hopefully it would never happen, passed the House of Representatives, meaning it gained the approval of some of the very people who were demanding to vote that way.

Some lawmakers, in other words, were willing to let someone else save the country, so long as they could vote against it.

That was only nine years ago.