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It as made into a law specifically in order to raise the debate about public debt every time it comes up. That it was voted on an passed automatically as a matter of course since the law existed, whatever. It is interesting to find out how Democrats felt about it when Republicans held all the cards, though. Obama himself back in '06 said it was irresponsible to raise the debt ceiling. And now his position is "give me all the power".
Because when one dem does it, it's exactly the same thing as when all the repubs in congress do it