Get Nervous: The Fate of the Country Is in John Boehner’s Hands

[madokie]

With a Senate deal imminent, the speaker has a choice to make: His job or our economy. He could go either way.


Minding the caveat that fluid events are fluid and thus subject to flowing to unexpected places, it looks like Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell are a hair’s breadth from a deal to reopen the government and extend the debt limit for several months.

If they ink it today, they can probably pass it before Thursday, at which point the Treasury Department will run out of headroom under the debt limit and the country will be at the mercy of its lenders.

That raises a troubling question: What the hell happens in the House?

You may have noticed things over there aren’t exactly spinning like a top. And yet the fate of the country will soon be in the hands of its leaders. Is there any reason to believe the House won’t biff it?

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/get-nervous-fate-country-john-boehners-hands

Its a crying ass shame that we have a drunken fool as the leader of the house of representatives. I repeat, a Drunken f'ing Fool

[Cha]

1. I've been "nervous" and stressed.. I've given boner a

99.9% chance of saying NO to Debt Ceiling Hike. He has his orders.. nothing's going to move that monster into the Humanity side overnight.



thanks madokie

[grantcart]

2. Asian markets reach 5 month high, they don't know how crazy these guys are.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares rose to their highest in nearly five months on Tuesday on heightened hopes for a deal in Washington to reopen the U.S. government and avert a possible debt default, though investors remained wary with the deadline just days away.

European shares were expected to follow suit, with financial spreadbetters predicting Britain's FTSE 100, Germany's DAX and France's CAC 40 would all open up around 0.5 percent.

"The sudden the u-turn in sentiment has seen the bears blindsided," Capital Spreads trader Jonathan Sudaria wrote in a note to clients.

[AZ Progressive]

3. Tea Party WANTS a default, Boehner can avert this IF the special rule change doesn't affect him

and of course if so, we will see for sure if Eric Cantor is a die hard teabagger...

Ted Cruz, from what I've read, can still at the least slow down the bill in the Senate.

[gopiscrap]

4. I bet you Boner chokes and screws this up

[lonestarnot]

5. The ignorant motherfuckers are going to cost us billions by mere virtue of their ignorance.

[Kablooie]

6. Some in the GOP say the Thursday deadline is artificial

And they want to delay a vote for later.

The orange bone seems to do whatever they say so we may see this thing drag on past the edge of the abyss.

[Laelth]

7. Mr. Beutler is correct.

The world economy is in Boehner's hands. That is not a comforting thought.

-Laelth