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Will Pass Last Minute No One will Let the US Default
Marcus 9/19
“Ruth Marcus: On debt ceiling, a different feel” By Ruth Marcus, Published: September 19 , Date Accessed 9/20/13, (Ruth Marcus is An editorial writer specializing in politics, the budget and other domestic issues, she also writes a weekly column and contributes to the PostPartisan blog.) The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/year-end-tax-cuts-have-nearly-doubled-projected-size-of-national-debt-cbo-says/2013/09/17/cda802d2-1f9c-11e3-94a2-6c66b668ea55_story.html VED
We’ve been down this idiotic path before,
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Panic, solve, repeat.
Obama will exhaust PC fighting restrictions
Walker 13 Richard, Richard Walker is the pen name of a former N.Y. news producer who now works as a political corrspondent for American FreePRess.com, "Obama Expands War Powers; Can Unleash Cyberwar Any Time", http://americanfreepress.net/?p=11966, August 02, 2013; DOA: 9-12-2013JCP
Obama had given to himself new powers
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more of as hawk in this field than people imagine.
PC Key and Obama THINKS its finite – unrelated fights spillover and prevent deal on debt ceiling causing economic collapse but that wont happen now
Paletta, 13 (Damian, covers economic policy for The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau. His areas of coverage include the federal budget, tax and spending policy, the White House, Treasury Department, and Congress, Wall Street Journal, 6/30, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323689204578569833242567970.html)
President Barack Obama knows he has a limited amount
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big budget deal late last year during the fiscal-cliff fracas.
Negotiations over debt ceiling risks possible failure and causes massive drawn out fight and hostage taking – tanks economy
Chait, 7/12
Jonathan Chait, commentator and writer for New York magazine. He was previously a senior editor at The New Republic and a former assistant editor of The American Prospect. He also writes a periodic column in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, 7/12/13, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/john-boehners-coming-sharknado.html
Meanwhile, the tornado is the debt ceiling.
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should take an even harder line on the debt ceiling.