It might be politics all the way down, but it's economics all the way up and the rip in this ship is that debt.

So we have the obnoxious 12 year old boy and the brat 14 year old girl fighting over who gets to play captain, as the engine rooms fill with water and first class heads for the life boats with the cases of champagne.

When they do blow up the dollar, the states will start issuing their own currencies, then foreign policy is between Texas and California, etc.

When the big tree falls, saplings grow up in its place.