Look it's Sunday OK?
;-)
Let me explain.
Promises of the end of times and the woes of the debt come around at regular intervals.
Armageddon: Jesus/financial markets battle it out for the souls/checkbooks of the faithful against Satan /liberals.
If you repent/cut you will be saved, and that's a promise.
Before nobody noticed the vote except the odd fiscal hawk touting a "beware the ides of march" scenario. Now it's Jesus/Standard and Poor will smite you with a terrible swift blade/lower credit rating if you refuse to repent your evil/socialist ways.
It's as if someone just noticed the holy grail/deficit and all the knights/politicians have been sent on a noble quest to chop the head off any dragon/cut any social program out there. Heaven help you if you think of stopping by the nearest castle/corporate HQ with revenue collection on your mind...there will be alligators/tea partiers in the moat.
Now we all know default is about as likely as the rapture happening next week, god[the elite] knows what they are going to squabble about next year. Oh right....tax cuts...because as we all know they are good for the deficit.
BTW what is that stockpile of wood and nails doing over there....Oh right, gotcha...just for illuminating the Colosseum....nice...Oh.....
Normally at this point I would embed a Monty Python sketch...but...but I can't think of one absurd enough to fit.