Republicans and Obama versus US?

Well, the last act if the great play is ready to begin but we know how it will end now.  And here's what will make the audience scream in agony and tear their hair and rend their garments and smear their faces with ashes:  just before the curtain descends, the main player, Obama, will announce to the world that Social Security and Medicare will take significant hits.  He says they will remain strong, but everyone in the audience will know that is a lie.

The barbarians, played by republicans, will remain at the gate, and continue to shake it and shout, but their tone of despair will be as fake as Obama's ring of endurance.

How do we know the outcome so early?  Some of the key players have tipped off that they know the outcome.  How could they all know it?  That would have to be because they have been briefed.  We're talking now about the Chamber of Commerce, among others.  Also the great players on Wall Street.  These are the people who would be the great big losers if the debt ceiling does not get raised.  If there was a chance that it would not be done, they would by now be conspicuous by their actions on Capitol Hill.

So they know.  And they know more than that.  They also know that it is all a great play so that the tension can be raised so high, that Obama can cave.  He would have to know that too.  And that's where the play comes in.  Because it will all look like Obama navigated a dangerous strait, that he brought his ship in safely and only had to concede a minor amount.  But that amount will bring an end to the "Social Welfare" programs that the republicans hate so much.

That's my hunch.  I hope I am wrong.