The GOP is ready breach the debt ceiling. Congratulations, Mitch McConnell. You built that

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There are lots and lots of reasons why the nation is looking down the barrel of a catastrophic debt default, in which for the first time ever one of the major political parties is actively working to make it happen. There’s also a lot of blame to go around. Most of it goes to the author of this whole political strategy, Mitch McConnell, but he had help along the way.

Let’s start with the fact that when Democrats had the chance to avert this by dealing with it in the lame duck session of the last Congress—when they knew the House GOP was going to do this—they did not. They didn’t because they couldn’t, because of two people: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat and former Democrat whose purpose in politics is making sure we can’t have nice things. We also knew that was the case even before the midterm election. No one said out loud during November and December “we can’t do a reconciliation bill to fix the debt ceiling because Manchin and Sinema won’t let us,” but they didn’t have to say it out loud.

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