[rodguy911]

Your link refers to a debt ceiling rise of 2.1 to 2.4 trillion but does not say when any of that kicks in! If it kicks in immediately we will have been rolled again and all the wrangling/hand wringing we have done for so many weeks has been for nothing. We need more specificity.

[don-o]

I posted a comment upthread related to "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" which I last read in high school, oh so many years ago. That memory / image of the Mariner having the albatross, which he killed, hung on his neck strikes me as exactly what we do with the Dem win.

"And I had done a hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,
That made the breeze to blow!"

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner