re: #218 blueraven

Like the uncertainty of default?

There was hardly an alternative. As Obama’s recent moving of the budget goalposts with his “American Jobs Act” shows, he still does not take Republican concerns seriously. So we had to use something like the debt ceiling to force him to come to the table. And even that didn’t work for even a month. This bill of the president’s is just going to make things harder without actually doing anything (since it will not pass in its current form).