The next idiotic political fight

Coming up: round N of "the debt ceiling" fight. TL;DR version: the Republicans are making a mountain of this molehill. They have the ability to box Obama in, but in fact they don't want to because if they do it will go very badly for them. What they want instead is to use the threat of boxing Obama in to give themselves leverage.
( How is a threat not a threat )

It's frustrating me that instead of doing the real, hard work that needs to be done Congress is wasting time with these idiotic side-shows. So I write more political ranty stuff and I appreciate you all indulging me.