What if the House GOP still cannot take yes for an answer? PM Carpenter wonders:
Here's a fascinating possibility. Through a coalition of conservative Democrats and giddy Republicans, the GOP's extortion of course sails through the Senate. Yet the House Tea Party Caucus (who all along have insisted they'll vote against any increase in the debt ceiling) votes in negative alignment with infuriated House Democrats, thereby constituting the death of the deal. Whereupon the GOP, given its far superior messaging skills, delightedly relates to the American electorate that it was Congressional Democrats who precipitated what would then be a materialized default.
Things cannot get any weirder than they are — and at this grotesque point, no speculation is unthinkable. American politics is now defined only by unrestrained lunacy.
What if the House Dems revolt in greater numbers than now imagined? Thomas Lane considers that possibility as well.
The Dish 