Wall Street and corporate America do not want the fringe-right of the House Republican caucus to stop paying the government’s bills and torpedo the nation’s credit rating. How should Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and his caucus proceed as the U.S. hits the $31.4-trillion ceiling Thursday? 

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Also in this column: 

•Do discovery of confidential government files found in President Biden’s garage and his vacated Washington office deflate the seriousness of Mar-a-Lagogate?

•A look at the 15-rounds of ballots for Speaker McCarthy, and the concessions he made to get there.

•Pundit-at-Large Stephen Macaulay on the stiff sentences for members of the Watchmen in their plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, “The Question” (page 2). 

•Macaulay on the final report by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6^th Attack on the United States Capitol, “Bad Fan Fic” (page 2).