Ah so Lindsey Graham is planning to take SS hostage on the debt ceiling

[nadinbrzezinski]

Lovely trends as to the end of empire. The warning from the budget director for the administration is exactly what I predicted.

Now I will say it, religious belief is so damned deep that republicans cannot connect default with collapse...will be fun, no doubt.

[aquart]

1. Not really FUN fun.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Absolutely, though I guess Lindsey is showing the radicalism

I am amazed though how easy they are to...read...easier than a cheap novel. We will soon see if there is any rationality left in the GOP.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Of course, NOBODY could see this coming. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Many folks did laugh at the preediction

And we are on the way dowb as an empire. Fun, it will not be, but we are very much on this road now.

[gratuitous]

5. I am reliably assured

That this is just political grandstanding, and doesn't mean a thing. There's just no way this stunt will gain unexpected momentum from the Nitwit Brigade in the House, and spin beyond the control of the instigators. Our staunch defenders of the social safety net will find this a step too far to go, and even though they don't have any skin in the game, for the sake of people dependent on social security to keep them out of abject poverty, they will stand up to the Tea Baggers and face them down.

Okay, we're pretty clearly doomed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Ah and now KO will start with this

Ahem...game of chicken.

[neverforget]

7. Duh. Hostage taking works so you go with what works.

[TheKentuckian]

8. Yup, yup.

[dflprincess]

9. Actually, it's the raise in the debt ceiling (& U.S. credit) that is the hostage

Social Security is what will be sacrificed to save the hostage.

And you know we'll soon hear that the Democrats had no chance but to cave - but don't worry, they'll "fix it later".

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. I know, I know

but in reality sooner or later they are gonna miscalculate and HELP collapse the Empire that much faster.

By the way doing that with SS is another marker that we are there.