US debt ceiling clash will be resolved but hurt Obama

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  • The fiscal showdown of 1990
  • Failed compromise, Republican rebellion
  • Bush-Democrat agreement
  • Fiscal showdown of 1995
  • Why Bush failed and Clinton succeeded
  • Current confrontation

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