Conn Carroll points out that the fight over the debt ceiling is one that the Democrats chose: “The Democrats decision not to raise the debt limit when they still controlled both houses of Congress was a calculated political gamble. They wanted to use the debt limit vote to separate newly-elected Republicans from their Tea Party base.”

Harry Reid told Talking Points Memo at the time:

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