"Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office."

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Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

— Diana Gabaldon