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					Originally Posted by Adder  How? I don't see the "playing politics" you see. | 
	
 Playing politics would be extending the debt ceiling to coincide with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts.  Which would be a good idea.
We should have conditioned the last extension of the cuts on raising the debt limit.  I said so at the time, but the consensus seemed to be that the Republicans didn't hate America enough to play chicken with default.