Everyone Looks, Wondering If GOP Suicide Caucus Will Only Kill Themselves

Update II: GAME ALMOST OVER: Boehner to Let The Senate Debt Ceiling Deal Come to the Floor

Update: Markets are banking on this debt deal: 7 charts

The world knows America is pretty foolish, but disbelief is the predominant sentiment as default is hours away.

Rational Americans hold to about the same sense of disbelief and horror.

Matt Taibbi in 2011 described John Boehner as "the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich."

That's Boehner. 

And his betters may be telling him to knock it off, economic catastrophe is a very bad thing.

Tea Baggers can go back to their white homeland and pray, no matter how many rightwing nuts tell them suicide is glorious.

That's what we hope.

Krugman: Kill the Filibuster

Putting aside the notion now pushed by Republicans that policy such as health care reform [vis a vis say war] must have overwhelming, super-majority support before it can legitimately be passed into law and sustained as public policy, the Republicans and tacitly most Democrats support anti-democratic, dangerous legislative procedures choking off the will of the American people.

The most pernicious is the U.S. Senate filibuster, and its abolition is a reform needed, as Paul Krugman writes, "unless you want the nation to sit motionless, with an effectively paralyzed government, waiting for financial, environmental and fiscal crises to strike."

Will Senate majority leader Harry Reid listen to these concerns? Does Harry Reid think?