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To: koan who wrote (213483)	1/1/2013 11:11:44 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541359

Obama was saying he wouldn't allow the debt to be held hostage. Of course, he says lots of stuff. I don't know if he has the balls to let the limit expire, and take another downgrade, just to overwhelm the R's. I don't know if I've got the balls to hope he does it. Speaking to corporate executives the same day, Obama set down a hard line. "If Congress in any way suggests that they're going to tie negotiations to debt ceiling votes and take us to the brink of default once again as part of a budget negotiation – which, by the way, we had never done in our history until we did it last year – I will not play that game," the president said. "Because we've got to break that habit before it starts," he said. huffingtonpost.com