The logical progression of this manufactured crisis will be the ouster of Speaker Boehner and his regime of Canter & McCarthy. This political grandstand punts of Cut/Cap/Balance and now the Balance Budget Amendment is not effectively governing it is merely politically posturing. What I see happening is Reid forming a bi-partisan plan, passing it and moving it to the House where a GOP will have to stealthy bring it to the floor, have a majority of 21-22 GOP'ers and 195 Dems to suspend the rules and then pass the measure this weekend in a dramatic legislative event (again spiking CPAN ratings). Then after returning from the August recess, those 21-22 GOP'er grow to about 35-40 and team with Dems to oust Boehner (pronounced BONER) and Canter/MCarthy forming a temporary coalition government in the House, effectively moving the Tea Party to being the GOP's minority 3rd Party.