GOP: Time to Shut Down the Government!. (VIDEO)

"Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Wednesday called for Republicans to be ready to shut down the government to gain spending cuts in exchange for raising the nation's debt-limit.

"We Republicans need to be willing to tolerate a temporary, partial government shutdown," he said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."*

Republican Senators are throwing down the gauntlet: it's time to threaten Obama with shutting down the government! Could the threat work? Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz (Host, Turner Classic Movies), and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) discuss what Obama might do.