head lice, cockroaches, traffic jams, and donald trump. however, congress did score a little better than telemarketers, communism and gonorrhea. it's kind of funny, but unfortunately speaker boehner pulls the strings of government. and today we learned that the united states government may reach the debt ceiling earlier than expected, possibly as soon as february 15th. speaker boehner even floated the idea of having monthly debt ceiling increases in a recent "wall street journal" article. as think progress points out, maybe he got the idea from grover norquist. >> they can give him debt ceiling increases once a month. they can have him on a short leash, on a small here is your allowance, come back next month if you have behaved. >> wait, you're proposing that the debt ceiling be increased monthly month? >> monthly if he is good. weekly if he is not. >> if he is a good guy. let's bring in bob shrum, professor of public policy at