We are way, way beyond mere political polarization. House Republicans can't even see Earth from wherever they are. It's expected that Iowa's Steve King would appear, as he did moments ago on MSNBC, to reeducate us about a default not really being a default, or that Tennessee's Marsha Blackburn would have appeared earlier to deny that Speaker Boehner's plan yesterday wasn't actually "in trouble."
But this, from The Hill, suggests a whole new plateau of abject, otherworldly self-delusion:
Despite vows by the Senate to defeat Boehner’s plan, many House Republicans, including Boehner, had thought a strong vote on the Speaker’s initial debt measure would have forced Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to accept the plan and send it along to President Obama [italics mine].