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Fight over debt ceiling likely to be even worse

The 11th hour fiscal cliff deal to avert most of the scheduled tax increases was better than nothing, but it didn’t include a provision to raise the debt ceiling and the scheduled spending cuts have only been delayed for two months. As a result, we are about to be plunged almost immediately into another potentially damaging budget spat.

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