[Doctor-CTAC]

...while the US economy is perched on the edge of disastrous government crisis, even default...

LOL

Did you just arrive in the United States or wake up from a decade-long nap?

Here's what will happen, and pay careful attention because when you see it this once you'll be able to make a comment similar to the one I'm making now the next time some partisan tool starts commenting on whatever "disastrous government crisis" is about to befall us next:

• The Democrats will call the Republicans names.
• The Republicans will call the Democrats names.
• The left will claim that the right is on the verge of destroying America.
• The right will claim that it's the left that's on the verge of destroying America.
• This silly schoolgirl bullshit will go right down to the wire.
• In a midnight session of Congress the evening before the deadline, when there are no more partisan points to be scored, the government will come together and reach some agreement or other and the fate of the free world will be saved.
• The Republicans will take credit for this "victory".
• The Democrats will take credit for this "victory".

In summation, move along folks, nothing to see here, or at least nothing we haven't seem many, many times before.