Key GOP chair: This is ‘the best time’ for a debt ceiling crisis
"If it was a bad idea to threaten default on U.S. debt before, it would be astoundingly, colossally idiotic now," one observer said. If only the GOP cared.
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### Response: "If it was a bad idea to threaten default on U.S. debt before, it would be astoundingly, colossally idiotic now," one observer said. If only the GOP cared.