sum up the state of congress, it is this one. democrat joe manchin head in hands, listening incredulously or maybe dispairingly to democratic leader chuck schumer. it's a scene out of washington's latest flirtation with economic calamity that let's just call mr. mcconnell or how i learn to stop worrying and embrace the debt ceiling. some of senate minority leader mcconnell's own republicans accusing him of caving to congress as he delivered the necessary gop votes to raise the country's borrowing limit. so, did he cave? well, in so much as he decided to other vert total economic disaster, the downgrading of america's ripple effects that would have left us in a recession or worse at least until december anyway, yes, he caved. he did what needed to be done. he got 11 republicans to join democrats. was he met with thanks from his democratic counterpart? not even close. >> leader mcconnell and senate republicans insisted they wanted a solution to the debt ceiling,