It’s depressing that only 66 Republicans voted against increasing the long out-of-control federal debt limit, but even so it’s no time to despair.
In the battle forged against the people by elected politicians of both stripes increasing the limit upwards of $2.4 trillion--the largest increase in the debt limit in U.S. history by a margin of half a trillion dollars--writ large in actual records published by the poorly named Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Research Service.