Congress Is Terrifyingly Ignorant About the Debt Ceiling

Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat from Virginia, seems like a decent enough skin, although his selection as the 2016 Democratic vice-presidential candidate was the first ominous indication that Hillary Rodham Clinton was running a no-risk, milk-the-clock strategy against an obviously charismatic wildman. Now, though, he's got his dander up in a good cause. As part of the proposed debt-ceiling extortion, a provision was inserted that would green-light the approval process to finish the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a natural-gas delivery system beloved by Senator Joe Manchin (also a natural gas delivery system) and despised by people living along its proposed route, many of whom are Kaine's constituents. 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