From Our "No One Could Have Foreseen This Outcome" Department

On Friday, Whatever It Is, I'm Against It did an admirable job once again of dissecting a Presidential press conference.  He doesn't get very far, being brought up short by this gem which shows the Great Collaborator's brilliance, prescience, and gritty, Chicago-style political street-smarts:

On debt ceiling chicken games: "But I’ve got to assume folks aren’t crazy enough to start that thing all over again."

Well, you know what happens when you assume.