"Speaking of bizarreness, Obama recently said that raising the debt ceiling does not increase debt. That's like thought from beyond the tinfoil mountains."

I reluctantly opened this thread, and noticed this. Songwronger, raising the debt ceiling in no ways increases debt. It just enables us to pay for what we've already committed to. Are you really one of those deadbeats who would attempt to balance his personal budget by not making a mortgage payment?