Theater

Part of the reason it's hard to take any of the dramatics of the debt ceiling negotiations seriously is the fact that you KNOW the zillionaires that Republicans steal your votes to fetishize are whispering in Boehner's ear that he'd petter get the thing raised so they won't stop making record-breaking profits.  And so the combination of a clean raising of the debt ceiling suddenly being hijacked for political theater after having been done a hundred times without anyone in America, including Congress, knowing or caring about it, and Boehner walking out on Obama and deciding to deal with Democratic leadership instead, signals to me that at the last minute a deal will be struck, and Boehner just doesn't want Obama to get credit for it.