Holy Hyperbole, Batman! [Reader Post]

Democrats are pulling out all the rhetorical stops in attacking Republicans regarding the debt ceiling debate:

The irrepressible Van Jones

Any faction in America that would put a gun to the head of 310 million people and say ‘If you don’t do it our way, we will blow your dreams away, we will blow a hole in the American economy’, that is un-American. That is not how we do business, and we refuse to bow down to those tactics.”