The key lesson President Biden needs to keep in mind over the next few weeks, is that if you bend to the will of extortionists, you only encourage further extortion.
It is not clear that, if Kevin McCarthy had any control over his caucus, we would be in this mess. But his fragile speakership is dependent upon the continued support of a small handful of conspiracy theorists (with apologies to actual 'theorists'), and at least one high-school dropout. I'm not sure what areas of constitutional law were covered in the GED courses Lauren Boebert took as she was running for Congress three years ago, so I won't assume that she is unaware that it is unconstitutional to default on our nation's debt - or to even question it.
Sadly, in our current state, we may not even have a majority of Supreme Court justices that are aware of this ... or even care.
Train Dodging
