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The GOP is playing chicken with Obama on the debt ceiling and there is a good reason for doing so. Obama sucks at the chicken game. His advisers show him polls which indicate that the GOP has convinced the public that government spending and budget deficits must be cut, and he has decided that he can't run against public opinion. Besides, the GOP won't let him do anything about stimulating the economy anyway. Running the economy is less of a priority for either party than the 2012 election. Contractionary austerity appears to be politically correct at the moment. The administration must believe that it cannot shape public opinion as well as the GOP.
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