Please tell me republicans aren’t going to touch off yet another idiotic debt ceiling fight

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free _Mother Jones Daily_. From Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner: > The 

speaker has said that we should not default on our debt, or even > get close to it, but a “clean” debt limit increase simply > won’t pass in the House. We hope and expect the White 

House will > work with us on a timely, fiscally responsible solution. Somebody please tell me that this is just derpy boilerplate because Steel didn’t have anything better to say. Even

Republicans have got to have better things to do than once again threaten default on US debt unless President Obama caves in to yet another list of hopeless right-wing pet rocks. Don’t they?