The third , more familiar image : a discouraged and embattled yeltsin in 1993 calling in russian-army tanks to shell his own parliament to break a deadlock with the defiant legislature when everything he was trying to do was going wrong .
Defiant democrats are floating crackpot responses such as issuinga $ 1 trillion cointo avoid the debt ceiling ( see article ) or invoking the 14th amendment to the constitution , which they say forbids default .
The defiant statement said scientists have already discovered what caused the rocket to fail barely a minute into its flight last friday . It did not give a time frame for its next rocket launch .
In a defiant statement posted on his website , the moderate leader also called for the release of detained " children of the revolution " a reference to reformist figures arrested since the 12 june poll .