The big contributors are being told to ignore the media hype--a deal will be done.

If the pols are lying to their big contributors--that would indeed be the end of the world as we know it. :-)

I find it plausible that Obama truly is willing to play this game of chicken to the end without flinching. In that, he probably thinks his opponent at the other wheel is merely a weepy Republi-turd chauffeuring his Republi-turd passengers who, after the last election, have begun screaming in fear for their political lives.

It's gonna be one helluva rude awakening when the 'Bamster, too late, finds out that the driver of that city bus was actually named "Mr. Math."