[Candor7]

a few bondholders want to hold the entire deal to squeeze out another nickel.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I take it you have never played poker?

And now the government half way through the game doesn't want to play?

BUahahahahahahaha

Then the government needs to back away from the table and go play with their money elsewhere.

[JasonC]

I've played poker, and the treasury has a full house. The bondholders have a pair of fours and a 'tude, betting on tilt. They lose, simple.

The only mystery is why conservatives think there is some grand principle involved, or that they are scoring. It is the dumbest sort of fight to pick. It simultaneously makes them look like all they care about is absent moneybags to mainstreet and that they don't understand business or finance to business.

If the democrats picked the issues the right was to stand on over the last 4 months they could not have done a better job than conservatives did to themselves. Just clueless.