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that s. but they don t want to do anything about it. i would argue very strongly we have a spending problem in this country and there s no political will to do anything about it. the president voted six years ago against raising the debt ceiling. so this is a little bit of a red herring and him being, you know, above the fray on this which is absolutely not true. he was complicit in trying to use it as leverage back then and has been a point of bringing people to the table. let me make a point about that. the norm has been that there is a symbolic vote that people will cost. generally. they get a free ride. they get a free ride. but not crediblebly threaten they had would take it over. there was something different about the 2011 behavior of the congress in that sense. you re right, they want to make the other party walk the plafrpg and own that vote. absolutely. i want to thank heidi moore and marvin glenn.