Wall Street and other establishment Republicans know full well that a debt-limit crisis is bad for business, bad for the nation, bad for the GOP reputation and -- unless you represent a totally-gerrymandered congress district -- bad for re-election.
So what are they going to do when the nutbar caucus and primary threats prevent the credit limit from being raised (or -- at the very least -- create economic uncertainty over the prospect it won't be raised.
Will they limit themselves to backroom arm-twisting (establishment WASPs always prefer the mess be kept out of sight, lest things become undignified.)
Or will they publicly dismember a couple of the less-controllable Frankenstein monsters they created by unleashing teabagism on the land.
My preference is the latter -- nothing more satisfying that seeing the air let out of a blowhard during a slow-motion political execution in public.
What is your preference (see poll) -- and what is your prediction (see comments)?