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You best settle in, folks, because the ongoing debate surrounding the debt-ceiling talks between the White House and House Republicans is just starting to get good. Detect a sense of optimism in my writing? You should.

I’m not as optimistic about an impending deal as I am excited over this entire process â€" IF (and that’s a big “if”) this continues on a current path of both sides doing some real soul-searching on what they can and can’t live without.

We must stay the course. As someone said early yesterday morning, “In Washington, the obvious has become the impossible.” The federal government is no closer to avoiding default on its loans, which makes these negotiations all the more imperative.

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