0 difference to me. even if they default on the debt, i don t see any economic implications. i was told that sequestration was going to be armageddon and i haven t seen the impacts. are people discounting this? that is to me the single scariest things. if you look at polls of americans who say, should we raise the debt ceiling? most of them say no, we shouldn t. if you poll my readers on wall street, in banks, they are terrified when they hear john boehner say something like, let s move this thing to the debt ceiling. let s raise the drama and the risk and the stakes of when we re fighting over and that will be our way out of the crisis. all it does is make things worse. josh, you write in the cover of this week s bloomberg business week, john boehner doesn t run the congress, you meet the man who does. you write two things are apparent, conservative activists have rejected a call for moderation and boehner has lost control of the house. the second has everything to do with the f