raising the debt ceiling is essential or not, whether it could hurt the country if it didn t happen, do you sense any difference in the body language or nuance, based on your reporting between speaker boehner or mitch mcconnell or are they communicating in sync whether to blink if that becomes necessary. i don t see daylight between mcconnell and boehner and some who believe in the tea party realm, a default would not be as critical and world shattering as some predict. that s not the mainstream view i hear. one of the views you re also hearing discussion about, trigg triggers, caps, ways to force the hand of congress if they cannot get it done themselves by having a deal if in some future time there is not the kind of spending reductions or a point the deficit is reached it would automatically trigger and real differences of opinion whether that makes sense. you have boehner calls those gimmicks and democrats say that s a way to bring about