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Originally Posted by Tchocky
Massive confusion in this thread of a government shutdown with a failure to lift the debt ceiling.
They are very different things with very different results.
Government has shut down seventeen times. Debt ceiling has always been raised.
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The two have a link though in that Obama or the Republicans have chosen this week to have their stand-off rather than defer it to next week. I suspect, given that it's the Democrats that have rejected the Republican backed bill that it's Obama who has decided to have the showdown this week, since the Republicans wanted to push the funding for 'Obamacare' into next week, which would then be the same time that the debt ceiling vote comes through and they would be able to torpedo the 'Obamacare' package by using the debt ceiling as a threat to try to force Obama to back down. By fighting his battle this week, Obama then has crucial time to take what measures he needs to take to undercut the Republicans so that the debt ceiling raise goes ahead with little to no fuss.
That's mine and a few other peoples take on it anyway.
razark, good luck, it's easy to forget the people in the middle have faces too.