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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This is only a "crisis" because the Republicans are not content to do what Congress has always done before -- use the lifting of the debt ceiling as an excuse to score a few political points. Instead, they're trying to extract substantive concessions. It is a completely fake crisis, in that it goes away if Congress simply agrees to permit borrowing to pay for the spending it has already authorized. In that sense, the crisis is all the GOP's fault. The Tea Partiers were determined to change things, and they have. This is on them.
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I actually agree with this. The budget is when they should seek reductions, not using covering bills due. Of course, I'm aggressively ignorant on the topic.
