For awhile it seemed they might be happening simultaneously, but now, maybe not quite. It turns out that the U.S. will be unable to pay its bills in mid-February, requiring that the debt ceiling be raised.
President Obama has been saying for some time now that he will not negotiate on the debt crisis. Before the tax cliff deal, those words were being ignored by GOPers and the media. They figured President Obama would have to negotiate. But he kept saying he won't. And Democrats in Congress kept saying it. And now, media and GOPers alike are beginning to believe him. And GOPers are beginning to back away. Commentators on Lawrence suggested that Obama may even get authority for all presidents to raise the debt ceiling on their own, so that this issue will go away forever.
Partly this seems a judgment that the GOP can't win on this. The polls clearly show that the public believe President Obama handled the tax cliff deal better. Republicans were even harder on Banal than the public in general.
That Congress itself is reviled isn't news. But a new PPP poll found that in head to head matchups, cockroaches are more popular than Congress. So are root canals. So is Genghis Khan.
How much more reviled can Congress get? Well, they're still more popular than Gonorrhea.
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