The long and short of it is, there is going to be a negotiation here. We can't raise the debt ceiling without doing something about what's driving us to borrow more money and to live beyond our means.
House Speaker Boehner discusses the necessity of negotiations regarding the debt ceiling and the underlying issues of borrowing.
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Let me just be clear here. A debt limit increase without any reforms to lower our deficit just isn`t going to cut it.
I think there’s a point here where the American people are wondering, is the president above the law? The president could have put this whole issue behind us, not put the country and the world through this misery, if he had just told us…
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