The brilliantly stupid new plan to raise the debt ceiling without raising it

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. We should just eliminate it period

It got raised almost completely without objection time after time again in the past and didn't start becoming an issue until 2011 when Republicans started experimenting with the idea of not raising it and now that President Obama has been re-elected they're (surprise) making it an issue again and they appear to be planning to keep trying to use it as leverage to force through things that would never pass on their own merits. The time to talk about spending begins in Congress when dealing with appropriation bills and ends in the WH where President Obama has to decide whether or not to approve it but once it's approved we need to pay what we owe. Period.
I can't believe we're going through all of this........