the house republican conference to raise the debt limit but a majority in the house of representatives to raise a clean debt limit, would the leadership be willing to do that? you know, let s look at how do we avoid default on america and america s debt? how do we avoid these issues that are going to bankrupt the country long term? the fighting over what the internal rule is or isn t, republican conference, really isn t the issue here. the issue is can t we get the president the to sit down with us and not tell us it is our way or the highway or his way or the highway p that doesn t produce the kind of collaborative response to a problem. you know, you watch you were at the president s news conference yesterday. you know. it was congress to blame for everything. i m going to tell you, we had a trillion dollar increase in our debt each of the last five years now. by the way, not a dime got spent this he didn t sign into law. and in fact, if you look a his failed stimulus, that was