re: "Obama might in the end get a "clean bill" to simply raise the debt ceiling, as most have been through the years."
And maybe there will be a pseudo-default, in which case Obama will cite the 14th Amendment as justification to print money and pay bills, and thereby create a Constitutional crisis.
As with everything these days, it will be interesting.

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