fractious troops
崖っぷちで（と言いますか，ある意味，共和党の顔を立てるためにはこれしかなかった）米国のデフォルトは回避の方向へ向かうことになったようです。
しかしながら，これで問題が「解決」したわけではなく，今回の落としどころもやはり「先送り」だったことは留意しておきましょう。大統領とfractiousなtroopsとの闘いは今後も続きます。fractious "someone who is fractious becomes angry very easily [= irritable]"(LDOCE)。Tea Partyの全面支援を受けている彼らはまさに「むずがる子ども」のようです。（GP）
House Republicans’ Fiscal Plan Collapses
House Republican leaders struggled on Tuesday to craft a new proposal to re-open the government and alter parts of the president’s health care law after a plan presented behind closed doors to the Republican rank-and-file failed to attract enough support immediately to pass.
After more than two hours, Republican leaders walked back from a plan that had emerged this morning. Speaker John A. Boehner told reporters there are “no decisions about what exactly we will do.”
“We’re trying to find a way forward in a bipartisan way that would continue to provide fairness to the American people under Obamacare,” he said, but acknowledged “there are a lot of opinions” among his fractious troops.
