Better to let Obama go off to the golf courses and eat his peas in front of Michelle so she can make sure he's paying the price for marrying her. The Republicans have to deal with Nancy "Stool Sample" Pelosi and Harry "Cowboy Poetry" Reid in order to get a solution.
Even easier; propose and pass a budget in the House that calls for no new debt, which means no need to increase the ceiling. And remove all pensions for Senators, Reps and all staffers in Congress and the White House. If these people want to keep calling themselves "Public Servants", they can do their public service ad go home. The time to talk and look for a way to blame the other guy when failure happens is long past.
We are at a point where a solution to our spending problem will look like the riots in Greece. Better that than a meltdown like what happened to the Weimar Republic, or the incident at the top of the scale; The Tower of Babel.
I don't need to see John Boehner cry again to prove how much he cares. Do the right thing and go home, John.
Funny you should mention Congressional pensions. I read somewhere, can’t recall, that there is a 400 billion dollar fund that we could raid to pay bills solely for government pensions.