"A basic clean #DebtCeiling increase will not pass" only if you assume that it is required that we compromise with crazy people and resign ourselves to accept some crazy but just not as much crazy as the crazy people want
Wow, that's quite the conspiracy theory you have there.
But in the end this crisis was set up by the last Congress that appropriated money out of accounts that wouldn't have enough to fund the appropriations, thus leading to the crisis.
I hardly think the Democrats who passed that legislation were focused on helping out the fossil fuel industry. I'd say they were just bad at their jobs.
@VuAustern