What kind of pathetic sour grapes crap is this, TB? Surely you can do better than that? So the Young Republicans in the House try and pull a fast one and step on their dick big time, and now all they can do is try and defuse the coming humiliation by trying to predict precisely how the Great Community Organizer is going to hand them their ass on a platter. These guys are not only greedy and mean, they are stupid too.

No, this isn't "Plan Nine from Outer Space". It's more like "The Ransom of Red Chief". You're surely familiar with the O. Henry classic, aren't you, TB? Two sleazy con men try to kidnap a kid and wind up getting more than they bargained for. The Tea Party crowd and their Junior Achievement henchmen figured they'd take the economy hostage and now they are about to get Gingriched big time.

Cantor's dream of stabbing his own Party establishment in the back and stealing the Majority Leadership is over, and after Boehner and McConnell salvage what they can from this disaster they are going to go back to the Tea Party and settle accounts and discipline the children. In 2012, it will be the Minority Leadership, and Cantor won't have it either.

And what is really pathetic is if these strutting little punks had acted like real men, they might have gotten a much better deal than they're ever likely to get now. The President knows the budget has to be brought under control, that it is inevitable, that this was the perfect time to do it in a way that he could placate his base by shifting some of the blame to the Republicans. Everybody could have won. The country could have won.

But noooooooooooo, the tough guy, bully boy Cons thought they could pull a fast one and humiliate the President. They figured they could Putsch him around. Now they're going to have bend over and get spanked as Obama and the Democrats come off as the reasonable, responsible statesmen, willing to compromise and save the nation from economic disaster and the aged and the sick and the military from brutal financial hardship. And the Tea Party comes off as a bunch of irresponsible thugs and whiny cry-babies.

Yeah, you saw it here first, all right. What a fucking rout.