Jim McDermott: GOP Using Debt Ceiling To Push 'Social Darwinism'

Dem Slams GOP 'Chaos'
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 03: House Ways and Means Committee Democrat Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) participates in a press conference on unemployment insurance benefits at the U.S. Capitol November 3, 2011 in Washington, DC. Democrats will be introducing an unemployment insurance extension bill soon to curtail the possibility of unemployment benefits expiring in 2012. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 03: House Ways and Means Committee Democrat Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) participates in a press conference on unemployment insurance benefits at the U.S. Capitol November 3, 2011 in Washington, DC. Democrats will be introducing an unemployment insurance extension bill soon to curtail the possibility of unemployment benefits expiring in 2012. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

"The whole world is watching this hearing, it is the first hearing on this issue. The whole point of a society is to create and run a government to make order for people. People don't like chaos and this hearing is about how to create chaos to get what you can’t get politically with votes," Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Washington) said at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the debt limit.

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