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Deliberation Going On Right Now, Debt Ceiling Close to Passing
Guardian 51 minutes ago 10/12
“Obama pressures Republicans to raise debt ceiling and end shutdown”
With potential economic calamity looming, president and congressional opponents seek deal on debt ceiling extension
theguardian.com, Saturday 12 October 2013 08.57 EDT
White House talks on Thursday and Friday were seen as a sign of progress. Photography Mandel Ngan /AFP /Getty - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/12/obama-pressures-republicans-debt-ceiling-shutdown VED
President Barack Obama on Saturday pressured Republican lawmakers to agree to raise the US debt
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of them that can pass both the House and Democratic-controlled Senate.
Offensive Cyber Operations is politically contentious right now
Daily Political, 6-8
(“Obama Urges Intel Agencies to Make List of Possible Foreign Cyber Attack Targets.” June 8, 2013. http://www.dailypolitical.com/politics/obama-urges-intel-agencies-to-make-list-of-possible-foreign-cyber-attack-targets.htm Accessed: 8/11/13
The United States and Israel first launched the first known cyber weapon attack against Iran
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involved in attacks on the United States and seen as an imminent threat.
PC Key and Obama has enough now –– even prolonging the fight tanks the economy – our ev assumes thumpers but not additional new controversies like plan
Langenkamp, 2013
Andy Langenkamp, Global political analyst at ECR Research and Interest and Currency Consultants, Huffington Post, 7/13/13, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-langenkamp/obama-to-take-over-baton-_b_3571885.html
Obama's weakened hand reduces the chance that he can move the fiscal agenda forward.
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with the goods and take more decisive action than they have hitherto done.
Loss of PC forces Obama to negotiate over debt ceiling preconditions – causes extended battle
Chait, 13
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, 4/26/13, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/democrats-lost-sequestration-two-years-ago.html
"Obama's mistake wasn't the
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may have had to negotiate.
Prolonged, politicized discussion crush the economy – credit rating, biz con, consumer spending
Madigan 13
Kathleen, Special Writer-Economics for Dow Jones Newswires, “Reminder That Debt Ceiling Debate Still Looms,” Wall Street Journal, 6/11, http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/06/11/reminder-that-debt-ceiling-debate-still-looms/
Investors are focused on how monetary policy will play out this summer. But on
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mar the economic outlook — and the U.S. credit rating.
Economic decline causes great power wars—multiple studies
Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the US Dept. of Defense, 10
Jedidiah, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crisis,” Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, 2010 p. 205-224bg
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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popularity, are statistically linked to an increase in the use of force.