Jarhead
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Why would you call it a 'cave' Athena?
It's just a 'cease fire' nothing else.
it is neither.
He did the math.
He realized that the debt ceiling situation was going to be a disaster for the GOP while he ALSO saw the shutdown trending toward an Obama issue.
So what did he do?
Cleared himself of the debt ceiling issue while forcing Obama to do something about the shutdown.
I say he played his cards perfectly.