it will prevent a government shut down but may deepen hit party s bitter divide and the toxic infighting that awaits his successor. ma knew nu new rnu ju with more the bill they released last night raises the national debt limit until march 2017. and assuming this passes it takes that big fiscal fight off the table in an election year. and in addition it raises domestic and defense spending to the tune of $80 billion in effort to relieve some of the pain felt by the across the board cuts, knowns a sequestration. it makes other moderate changes. this is being done in john boehner s final days in office. what he wants to do is really clear the decks for his likely