I would love to see President Obama address the nation sometime between now and the 17th. I’d also like to see him invoke the 14th amendment and arbitrarily raise the debt ceiling. Not only would that cause an ungodly amount of wingnut howling and a likely impeachment vote in the House, but it would allow us to get out of this mess before too late.

I think a lot of Republicans think that things will still be peachy if they cut a deal say, a day or two after the 17th.