# What's your debt ceiling endgame prediction? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 23, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-debt-ceiling-endgame-prediction/590097 "2011-07-23T18:36:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-debt-ceiling-endgame-prediction/590097/21 "2011-07-25T20:11:39Z")
Am hoping for an agreement but predicting a default. Maybe it’s the only way people will wake up and realize we’re all in this together. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-debt-ceiling-endgame-prediction/590097/22 "2011-07-25T20:18:40Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > No agreement, Obama calls BS and raises it hisownself. Boehner protests, is found dead of a heroin overdose in a glory hole stall. A unified congress gets in lockstep with President Obama from 2012-2024. From your keyboard to Og’s monitor. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-debt-ceiling-endgame-prediction/590097/23 "2011-07-25T21:11:28Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > And chanting! And pitchforks and torches! I haven’t voted, but I’m going to go with “Dems caving”. It’s what we’re best at, after all. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-debt-ceiling-endgame-prediction/590097/24 "2011-07-26T02:04:47Z")
hhhhmmmm, i’m with the majority. what sort of chants? will there be a theme song? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-debt-ceiling-endgame-prediction/590097/25 "2011-07-26T02:59:55Z")
Obama could go 14th amendment and just raise the debt limit like Clinton has suggested. ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-debt-ceiling-endgame-prediction/590097/26 "2011-07-26T03:25:44Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > hhhhmmmm, i’m with the majority. > > what sort of chants? will there be a theme song? Feme tune?! I ALWAYS get to sing da feme tune! [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dW8NuTfUUCw/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGEcgZShbMA8=&rs=AOn4CLBFCJ-Wv1V9Lf5AwNx1ot8yjIo2Yw "Dennis Waterman (Little Britain Live)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW8NuTfUUCw) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-debt-ceiling-endgame-prediction/590097/27 "2011-07-26T05:27:36Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Obama could go 14th amendment and just raise the debt limit like Clinton has suggested. He’s ruled that out already. Although it could come to a point where he’d change his mind… Here’s my question: as time goes on (or even the time that’s already passed), does anyone want to change their vote? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-debt-ceiling-endgame-prediction/590097/28 "2011-07-26T05:31:50Z")
Not change it, really. Just an addendum: there will also be cannibalism. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-debt-ceiling-endgame-prediction/590097/29 "2011-07-26T05:36:22Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Not change it, really. Just an addendum: there will also be cannibalism. I thought that was a given 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-debt-ceiling-endgame-prediction/590097.md?page=1)