[ngat]

Great illustration there. Now the question is, can we predict what’s gonna cause the pressure cooker to blow? If the kid takes it into government shutdown mode, will it blow up? one week into shutdown, perhaps 2, pehaps furloughs, delayed pension checks? What?

[Tench_Coxe]

I think they're going to play games with entitlements. The media is going to ramp up it's fabrications on the evil tea party. I wouldn't be surprised to see some false flag incident occur. It's futile to make predictions right now, but anything done is going to be geared to 2012 (need to have elections give the fig leaf of legitimacy).

You'll probably see even papers like the WSJ side nominally against any attempt to "upset the apple cart".