Kill the Debt Ceiling Now and Forever!

President Obama used to criticize Congress for "drifting from crisis to crisis," arguing that it's no way to govern. But as the spectacular leadership crisis in the House shows, Congress doesn't so much drift from crisis to crisis as hurtle or tumble from one to the next, and there's an awful big one coming in less than a month. Yet again, America could default on its obligations, unless we raise the debt ceiling by Nov. 5.