So we hit the debt limit...

[Razgovory]

Actually, I see them torpedoing any agreement superior to most agreements they could come up with.  The Torpedoing will result in across the board cuts which are more fair then what many of the things could happen.

[DGuller]

The only path to sanity for the country, it seems to me, is for the newly-empowered business owners of US politicians to realize that creating batshit-crazy pawns in Congress is a losing proposition, and they switch to creating and emplacing saner ones.  It is sure the Democratic legislators, who are just as wacky, will not be replaced by their owners.

The problem is that Republican legislators have to be wacky to get the wacky Republican voters to vote against their economic interests, and in favor of the interests of the owners.  You can't get peasants to support oligarchy without significant misdirections.