Now that we have let the hostage-takers gain an advantage in the budget reconciliation battle, there is the obvious threat that the other side will take hostages again over the needed raise in the debt ceiling. There is a frontpager today about his on dKos (Boehner makes plans to take more budget hostages), and items all over the blogosphere to the same effect.
Well, any threatened hostage-taking over the debt ceiling needs to be treated quite differently than our side handled budget reconciliation. The consequences of losing this fight would be much worse, and, better yet, this fight offers us a chance for a big win, should the other side make a fight of it.