two said it more articulately than mitch mcconnell at the time you cannot play russian roulette with the debt ceiling. he is willing to eat that right now. are you confident democrats can pass it on their own? we want this to be bipartisan. if we didn t want it to be dooip dooip bipartisan we d have put it in the reconciliation bill. a white house official i talked to compared this to twefrnt when republicans had control and were using the budget reconciliation process to pass a party line bill added to the deficit but they didn t put a debt limit increase in that. they used the government funding process and leaned on democrats on a bipartisan vote. the democrats acquiesced then. the white house believed republicans should do the same. there is no indication that will happen at this moment. mcconnell seems resolute and determined to filibuster that bill and sometime in october the treasury says that the u.s. will no longer be able to borrow money to pay its bills. that could l