US Meltdown Day -4, Rough Ride Ahead

The news is bad and getting worse as we approach the day of possible default on the government debt.  If we don't get something going on Sunday, the stock market might finally speak loud enough for all to hear.  Lindsay Graham said today,

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on ABC's This Week that a Democratic proposal to increase spending beyond limits set by automatic budget cuts -- known as the sequester -- cannot be supported by Republicans.
He doesn't anticipate a deal by the Oct. 17 deadline.
"I don't see one," Graham said. "If you break spending caps you're not going to get any Republicans in the Senate."

The Democrats are just as pessimistic, but with such a fluid situation anything can happen.

David Plouffe, a former senior adviser to Obama, said the nation is dangerously close to default. "I think the notion that somehow this is going to be easily solved this week is completely false," Plouffe said on This Week.
Plouffe put the odds of a deal by Thursday at "no better than 50/50. And so I think the country needs to prepare that this could go on for a while."

Lindsay Graham says Torture Him!

It would be comical if nobody listened to him, but he is powerful in conservative circles.  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) suggested on Friday that the Obama administration should toss the court system and Constitution out the window when handling the missing suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.
In a series of tweets that came hours after it was revealed that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect at large in the Boston marathon bombings, is a United States citizen, Graham urged the Obama administration to nevertheless consider treating him as an enemy combatant.  He also complained that there weren't any drones being deployed over Boston.

He is a buffoon, but as I said he is a powerful one and that makes him dangerous.  Other saner opinions being published suggest our criminal justice system is the proper venue for this case, and most importantly, our Constitution requires it.