as a "hostage that's worth ransoming." he described it as a template moving forward. "what we have done is set a new template. in the future it will not be clean anymore. whoever the new president is, it's probably going to be asking us to raise the debt ceiling again, then we will go through the process again and see what we continue to achieve in connection with these debt ceiling requests." that is not some tea party fringe member pressuring. that is the leader of the senate republicans saying you like getting within hours of defaulting? well, get used to it. we're going to keep doing that whenever we can. of all of the republican presidential candidates this year, all of them but one, all of them but jon huntsman, said they'd vote against raising the debt ceiling, meaning that as presidential candidates they are advising members of congress to raise the debt ceiling. they are advising congress to