Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

("Biden, G.O.P. reach debt ceiling deal, now Congress must approve it to prevent calamitous default")

Now comes the difficult part of this equation.

It was a near certain outcome that the President and Mr. McCarthy would reach an 11th hour agreement to avert a financial tsunami. Sanity, after all, still exists in the atmospheric regions in which they reside.

However, in the trenches there are those zealots who would not likely be repulsed by the sight of an economic bloodbath. A default and its devastation not a scarlet letter but a mark of relentless pursuit of their definition of perfection. These are the men and women who have both the capacity and the apparent willingness to severely wound our nation. 

The time is short and the danger grave. Let us hope lunacy is not allowed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.