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Originally Posted by whell

Well, don't look now, but the die have been cast.

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-mar...ling-on-monday

Let's see who blinks first, or if we compromise ourselves again.

That is the problem. The GOP sees this as a game of chicken or a blinking contest, notwithstanding the fact that their economic policies were, in large measure, responsible for getting us to this point. I think the nation is wising up to the hypocrisy/incompetence of the GOP in economic matters.