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113: NYT Columnist Paul Krugman on The Debt Ceiling

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The Debt Ceiling Is Unconstitutional

The substance of the particular package should be irrelevant, and I think is not the point. It's probably easier if there's actually a vote on the bill, then it's probably easier to find some vertebrates on the Republican side of the house. But signing a petition that's being advanced by a Democrat might be a little harder. We just sort of say, hey, you know, let's have a vote. And the debt ceiling gets raised and the story.

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