damage to our economy. a new gallop poll says 77% of americans say washington politics is causing serious harm to the nation. let's talk about it with steven hayes a writer for "the weekly standard" and a fox news contributor. this would give the president unlimited power to raise the debt ceiling any time he wanted because he deems it in theest interest of the country? >> it would indeed. there is another proposal that's been floated out there that suggest -gs that the president mint a trillion dollar coin to allow him to use that money to go beyond the debt ceiling. look, i mean i think one of the lessons from these episodes and these efforts on the parts of democrats mostly in the house of representatives is that they can be awfully creative when it comes to finding ways to avoid having to deal with the debt crisis that we are facing. these are interesting and innovative solutions but they don't solve the root of the problem, they paper over the exoover the extent of the