With NO support in The Senate and their latest bargaining point is just a "delay"...

[MrScorpio]

The House Republicans and everyone else knows full well that they don't have a leg to stand on.

They're begging now. Even if a shutdown happens, it'll be a short one and the GOPers - The Tealiban in particular - will get all the blame in this country.

I don't know about you, but I'm preparing to break out a case of Republican Tears for hearty imbibing.

Go ahead, Motherfuckers, shut the Gubmint down. Even if it happens, Obamacare is still going forward anyway and your lives will be a living hell in 2014.

It won't come soon enough for most of the electorate.

P.S., if a shutdown plugs up the revenue stream for the GOP's big business masters, they won't be too happy with this Tealiban nonsense either.

Bring it.

[BlueStreak]

1. Don't give an inch. Make the GOP own this.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Right now it's just a sort of simian threat display.

Baring fangs, wagging weenies, flinging poo. And the dumb bastards chose the wrong hostage - their Wall Street masters will never let them prevent raising the debt limit. In the end all the poo they've been flinging will blow right back in their fat faces.

[notadmblnd]

3. Government contracters won't get paid

No monthly check or Halliburton, or private federal prisons (are there any?) Let's see.. who else is a part of the MIC who wont get paid?

[Mellow Drama]

4. The END of the GOP!

Finally, the end of the GOP is nigh. If they pass the senate bill, they will destroy their cred with the Tea party and we will destroy the remains. If the GOP shuts down the goverment, then the more reasonable (comparitive, they are all extreme from our progressive position), then the Tea Party will destroy THEIR crd with the reasonable GOP.

Either way, we win, we wipe up the floor and run the table in 2014, get another justice on the Supreme Court, and Hillary will have a completely clear path to finish what Obama started: the destruction of the Republican Party and the era of true human enlightenment!

I'm SOOOO gonna have a thrill packed victory week with a bunch of likeminded guys and girls here in the SF bay....

[MoonRiver]

5. Ooooooh, I like how you think!