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Watch The Final Senate Vote On The Debt Ceiling Live

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/02/2011 11:55 -0400

The farce is ending. Watch the Senate vote on the debt ceiling live below. The vote is expected to pass comfortably.

Watch live streaming video from cspan at livestream.com

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Tue, 08/02/2011 - 11:59 | 1516923 Cognitive Dissonance

Oh goody, the "Asshats and Useful Idiots" channel is back on.

Who brought the popcorn and beer?

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:02 | 1516935 wang (not verified)

NO! I will not watch this political porn anymore

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:14 | 1516976 Cognitive Dissonance

Take two Prozac and return when it's in your blood stream. And next time stay on your meds like all the other mindless idiots.

I love my Congressional Critters.

http://www.drugs.com/prozac.html

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 11:59 | 1516924 slaughterer

The only thing that matters is market reaction to the pass.

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:00 | 1516929 slaughterer

4:1 put/call ratio on SPY August options. Nice moment to squeeze shorts. Just saying.

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:00 | 1516930 Cdad

Hooray! I got my $17 trillion dollar or bust debt hat on and a bucket full of confetti.

Bring on the Moody's and S&P downgrades!

Oh, and of course, to Speaker Boehner and Senator McConnell...it's resignation time. Let's get ready to Rumba!

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:12 | 1516975 Conrad Murray

I like the hat idea; it reminds me of the sponsor patches plan. All these political pieces of shit should have to wear a sponsor(campaign contributor) suit like NASCAR drivers(maybe outfit all of their personal vehicles too), and a hat that says, "I indebted you and your children X Trillion dollars in 2/4/6/ short years".

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:16 | 1516983 Pool Shark

How about taking it one step further, and making them wear hats with constantly-updating digital displays showing the total amount they have personally contributed to the national debt based on their votes.

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:52 | 1517178 Pool Shark

Speaking of hats:

Looks like it might be time to once again dust-off those "DOW 10,000" hats.

DOW 10,000!!! WOOO HOOO!!!

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:01 | 1516933 slaughterer

Nice to have the vote planted right in the middle of the normal trading day. Time to follow market reaction in real-time.

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:02 | 1516934 weltvermesser

ASK WHY, bitches! -

meanwhile in europe:

up next: italy will have to save their banks, then downgraded, bonds plunge, germany to save italy ...the show must go on

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:13 | 1516941 caerus

uh-oh...beer run...tell them to wait like 5 mins, k...thanks...

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:08 | 1516946 Pool Shark

Woo Hooo!!!

"Satan Sandwiches" all around!!!

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:06 | 1516948 pods

Wow, it was really great for them to work so hard and get this done the day before we defaulted. /sarc

This is merely the denouement of the play. Tomorrow they can go back to finding better ways to screw our grandkids.

pods

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:16 | 1516985 fuu

Pretty sure today is when they bend our great grandkids over a barrel.

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:07 | 1516954 Dr. Engali

No thank you I'm about to eat lunch and I'd like to keep it down.

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:15 | 1516980 caerus

they should call it "raising the roof" it would garner more support from the public

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:15 | 1516981 GEM_Warrior

Nothing new, unfortunately... just words "No, we can't"

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:16 | 1516984 JLee2027

Where's the promised filibuster?

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:17 | 1516991 tooppy

Unbearable !

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:17 | 1516992 JW n FL

Super Committee is the Cat Food Commission

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/01-6

JANE HAMSHER, firedoglake at gmail.com
Hamsher, founder of the blog FireDogLake, just wrote the piece “Whip the Super Congress: Call and Ask Your Member of Congress if They Like Their Job.” which states: “You won’t find a Super Congress mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. It will be an elite body of 12 members of Congress who write legislation behind closed doors and then announce it to the public. Whatever they decide will then be fast-tracked through both chambers, where it can’t be amended by simple, regular lawmakers.

“This is the ‘Catfood Commission’ on steroids.

“The creation of a ‘Super Congress’ is how Congress intends to insulate themselves from taking unpopular votes to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits — by investing a small group of elites with extraordinary powers, and then tying their own hands from stopping them.”

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:26 | 1517012 thedrickster