Boehner Pledges Future Hostage Taking

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John Boehner pledges a hostage/credit rating drama each time the debt limit is raised. “It’s the only way to leverage the political process to produce more change than what it would if left alone.”

It’s quite a spectacle to see this since Boehner seems to be promising increasing numbers of reckless grandstanding that will probably lead to more and more credit-rating drama.

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