[El Gato]

From an objective of past standards, as opposed to what needs to be done, Boehner took Obama and Reid to the cleaners.

The point is not to take Obama, Reid and Pelosi to the cleaners, it is save the country.

Maybe next year, if there is a USA next year. You keep kicking the can down the road, and someday you run out of road.

What would the Old Pea Picker have to say about our situation?

Another day older and a deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me cause I owe my soul to the Chicoms now.

[spyone]

There is nothing you said that I disagree with. But in my putting probabilities of what would happen on the debt deal, this wasn’t the most likely, and certainly not the worst. A default is inevitable, IMO. The mathematics are becoming more insurmountable with each passing day.