President Obama on Solving the Republican-Manufactured Debt-Ceiling Crisis

The full text of the president’s speech can be found here.

READ MORE: “Ratings Agency Source: Boehner Plan Would Lead to Downgrade of U.S. Debt, Reid Plan Would Preserve AAA Rating” (Think Progress); “Flashback: In February, Geithner Rightly Warned Against Negotiating Over Raising the Debt Ceiling,” by Pat Garofalo and Faiz Shakir (Think Progress).