Life Comes At You Fast...

So I was at school, welcoming new students and getting curious updates on my phone.

Apparently, Hair Furor has realized that he can't govern with the Republican majorities in the Congress, so he will need Democratic help to keep the country from falling apart.

Therefore, he has agreed to raise the debt ceiling and add three more month onto a continuing resolution that keeps the government open until Christmas.

As Martin Longman has predicted (and is now taking a victory lap) the entire GOP leadership from Trump to McConnell were staring into the abyss.  They had a HUGE workload for September and the Far Right was barking mad about their demands.  Ryan and McConnell (and whatever passes for adult leadership in the White House) knew they had a host of must-pass legislation and a restive group of Teanderthals ready to make a hash of everything.  The only option to keep from defaulting on the debt and keeping the government functioning was to secure Democratic votes.

As Longman notes, McConnell and Ryan can shake their head ruefully as these votes pass and the government is funded because Trump is just such a loose cannon.  In reality, they have to be relieved that they won't be overseeing a sovereign debt crisis and the collapse of the dollar.

The worry was that Trump and the Teanderthals would demand that the debt ceiling increase would come with strings that Democrats couldn't stomach.  And then there would be a default. And that would be a disaster.

Instead, we are going to get a clean debt ceiling increase, push the government shutdown until December and allow the Congress to work on other pieces of must-pass legislation, including the FAA, CHIP and potentially disaster relief (though Harvey relief appears to be covered in this deal).

It also decouples any shitty DACA patch that might have been attached to the debt ceiling.  Now they will have to vote on a real DREAM bill.

Democrats were ecstatic and you can understand why.  As for Republicans, they are furious.  It will be interesting to see how much longer Congressional Republicans can stomach Trump.  He's already "killing the brand."  If he starts siding with Schumer and Pelosi to keep the government funded and DREAMers from being deported...why not impeach the SOB?