it. so what s the plan b? unclear. what is the plan b? i m not going to let them off the hook. well, the plan b is there s no plan b. you ve got to pay your bills. this doesn t acquire debt, this is about paying your bills or not. we go through this dance all the time and it s a dance that s very, very dangerous and in the end everybody i serve with understands that this could be catastrophic if we don t if we don t pass the debt bill. what s the plan b? then that s on the republicans. folks, it is not an exaggeration to say that these next few feeks are the most critical ones democrats in congress will have for a long time and the risk facing democrats is they have the ambition of a party with a big majority in congress but their actual majority is as narrow as it can get and as congressman defazio said, we have no idea how this all works out. let s go to our team of reporters, maybe they have an