Even if you forget the ideology, that status quo cannot be very efficient and it is efficiency that the U.S. has lost.

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But again, we cannot forget -- and I think -- I'm sure you talked about, if not wrote about it -- the major step that seems to have been taken by Republicans in acknowledging that using the debt ceiling for leverage did no one any good.

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