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Just dithering on the debt ceiling

Republican House Speaker John Boehner holds a press

Photo credit: Getty | Republican House Speaker John Boehner holds a press conference in Washington, D.C. (July 30, 2011)

If it's this hard to raise the debt ceiling, how can Washington even think of solving real problems?

That's the next question we'll get to face, once this debt-limit fiasco is finally behind us -- and not a minute too soon. What used to be considered little more than a clerical tweak has paralyzed the nation's politics and rattled the world's most powerful economy. Now the same brittle people...

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