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The Anti-Climactic Debt Ceiling Endgame Is Coming Into Focus
Jim Newell · 07/18/11 11:29AMWhat will be the final budget-cuttin' number Congress agrees on before raising the debt ceiling, assuming they don't go with "the apocalypse option" instead? Two trillion? Four trillion? Nine trillion bajillion dollars? Let's go with "zero trillion but something that lets Republicans pretend to look tough anyway" as the probable end to this farce of a government negotiating process.