Brexit or Breaksit?

[Black Aeronaut]

I think the difference is though....  the Obamacare votes were basically theatre, either to be seen to be trying to do something, or to block anything else from being done. This is a shitshow precisely because it's plainly clear it's not going to pass, but they're still trying anyway. Even if the face of a national crisis.

I don't think there really is an American analogue.

Indeed.  This would be like if we decided to cut all alltrade (and I mean ALL trade) and all treaties with the byline of "America for Americans" bullshit, and expected everything to just fine.