re: #67 Killgore Trout

I still don’t think the Republicans are crazy enough to default on the debt. I think they’re just playing up the fear that they might be crazy enough to crash the global economy. When it comes down to it I don’t think they’ll pull the trigger. It would be insanity.

It’s politically advantageous for them to take it right up to the last freaking minute to squeeze out as many concessions as possible, and we can look forward to that.

I hope you’re right and there will be a compromise of some kind right at the bitter end, but I’ve never seen the rhetoric so heated and the craziness in the base so intense. With things like this, I think there’s actually a slim possibility that they really might pull that trigger.