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Up Against the Wall, Chumps!

by Josh Marshall
04.12.11 | 12:30 pm

Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has just said that the House GOP will just let the debt limit expire. Without doing anything.

Once things get really bad, then they’ll talk.

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