MSNBC Morning Joe October 8, 2021 10:17:00
Our obligation to raise that debt ceiling. it's now become this game of chicken. and this, again, was an escalation to a point that we haven't seen before. and i think what gets lost in the conversation is just exactly what the debt ceiling is about. it's not as though the debt ceiling is a ball work against future spending. it's about living up to the spending already incurred. when you look at this from the perspective of the rest of the world, from china and other u.s. creditors, it signals that one, we may not be good to our word. but two, that our political system may not be up for the ch...