'Debtpocalypse'

Talk about the Monday blues. I've been lying in wait, Vietcong-like, for the Media-Blog Complex to leap beyond the pale on the debt ceiling impasse. Talking Points Memo finally "went there" this afternoon, calling the crisis: "Debtpocalypse." This means the made-up word has forded the Rubicon and entered the lexicon along side "carmageddon." Swell. Naturally, this please-please-click-me teaser is paired an equally bombastic story on TPM (cue the WWE Raw voice-over guy): "DEBT DEATHMATCH! Reid And Boehner Introduce Incompatible Plans To Avoid Default." How's that for reducing our latest economic Dunkirk to a punchline -- sung to the tune of R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)?" But unlike Charlie squatting beside a Mekong Delta trail, I don't have a satchel of Soviet RPG-7s to consummate this rhetorical ambush. All I can do is watch and weep as the politicians potentially drive us over a cliff to the cheering taunts of the media.