”如果国会拒绝提高债务上限，就不可能满足所有这三项法律义务，但在没有国会批准的情况下提高债务上限 — — 虽然是不合法且可能被弹劾的过错 — — 却是最不坏的选择。
Honoring all three of those legal obligations simultaneously is impossible if Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, but raising the debt ceiling without Congressional approval, though illegal and an impeachable offense, was the least-bad choice.