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Depression 2.0?

John Boehner

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Wall Street shudders as GOP roots for "chaos"

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Robert Dodd's engraving of the HMS Bounty mutiny.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., holds his hand up as he whispers to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, during a photo opportunity in the House Speaker's office before a meeting on the debt limit increase on Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, July 23, 2011.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) (AP)

What a few trillion dollars in cuts will feel like

The debt ceiling constitutional magic trick

Speaker of the House John Boehner is seen after delivering his response to President Obama's remarks about averting default and dealing with the federal deficit, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 25, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Harsh class warfare not good enough for House GOP

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Natasha Lennard

John Boehner and Harry Reid

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In this photo provided by ABC News U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner talks about the debt-ceiling on ABC's "This Week" Sunday, July 24, 2011, in Washington. Congressional leaders in Washington planned to work on a fiercely hot Sunday to try to reach a bipartisan accord to avert a debt-ceiling crisis on Aug. 2. (AP Photo/ABC, Fred Watkins) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

President Barack Obama sits next to House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Saturday, July 23, 2011, in Washington, as they meet to discuss the debt. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

President Barack Obama makes a statement in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, July 22, 2011 on the break down of debt ceiling talks. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (Susan Walsh)

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Mid adult Hispanic male wearing lab coat shrugging, isolated on white background (Derek Latta)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio waits to speak during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 12, 2011, as the budget talks continued. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (Susan Walsh)

Americans For Tax Reform member Grover Norquist speaks to an audience at the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference meeting at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, February 11, 2011. The CPAC is a project of the American Conservative Union Foundation. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (Â© Larry Downing / Reuters)

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho.

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In this July 14, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama sits with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, as he meets with Republican and Democratic leaders regarding the debt ceiling in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 14, 2011. Obama's decision to haul lawmakers in day by day to negotiate a debt deal comes down to reality: He has no other choice. The president has essentially cleared his agenda to deal with one enormous crisis. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

Sen. Tom Coburn (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trip To New York City with Lucas (Joseph Gareri)

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