And then, unfortunately, Washington got involved in a self-inflicted wound with the debt ceiling fiasco.
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Our economy is poised to take off but we cannot afford a self-inflicted wound from Washington.
The self-inflicted wound it too deep to bind, the bleeding too profuse to staunch.
But the fact is that was a self-inflicted wound and we can't have that kind of nonsense anymore.
It spares the Obama administration continuing damage from the self-inflicted wound of yet another very bad personnel decision.
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When you look at this recent debt ceiling debacle and the downgrade, that was a self-inflicted wound, completely unnecessary.
Law enforcement officials entered the barracks two hours later and discovered the shooter dead, apparently of a self-inflicted wound.
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The good news is that, as with any self-inflicted wound, the power is in our hands to change course.
Think about it: We just went through this debacle with the debt ceiling -- an entirely self-inflicted wound.
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That endorsement could disappear, though, if the company suffers another "self-inflicted wound" that sinks its stock price, said one large investor.
The president said that by not doing a budget deal to avoid the cuts, Congress would impose a "self-inflicted wound" on America.
Of course, this was a self-inflicted wound, or, rather, another union-inflicted wound.
Another prisoner cut his head by banging his head on a cell door in what the military officials said was a self-inflicted wound.
When they finally entered the building, they found the gunman dead of a self-inflicted wound and a second victim fatally shot, Zahn said.
It was a wholly unnecessary, self-inflicted wound that resulted, for a time period, in people losing their jobs and not getting a paycheck.
To give you a good example is this so -called wall between the intelligence agencies, between the FBI and the CIA. Totally a self-inflicted wound.
This is an example of a self-inflicted wound that is unnecessary.
Well, we're now at the last minute, and the American people are not going to have any patience for a politically self-inflicted wound to our economy.
The more puzzling self-inflicted wound was Mr. Carney's decision to float the idea that the BOE might drop its inflation target in favor of a nominal GDP target.
It was a drag on our economy, and the kind of self-inflicted wound that we should not be self-inflicting here in Washington when we have so many challenges that we need to solve.
To prevent a costly, self-inflicted wound to our economy and middle class families, President Obama put forward a plan to avoid these harmful cuts and reduce the deficit by cutting spending and closing tax loopholes.
Al Qaeda in Iraq's (AQI) unrestrained violence and imposition of Taliban ideology on Iraqis was a self-inflicted wound provoking a countrywide Sunni backlash against AQI in the form of 'Awakening' militias allied with the United States.
Illegal immigration is a self-inflicted wound.
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Why inflict a self-inflicted wound?
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That self-inflicted wound was compounded by the failure simultaneously to explain that it chronicled not their day-to-day treatment, but a single moment in time: The exceedingly dangerous transition of hardened and ruthless terrorists from the plane that brought them to Cuba to their cells.
So the fact is, Congress should simply extend the debt ceiling, and do so in a manner that causes no concern to the economy and to global markets, that does not in any way suggest that Washington is about to engage in another process that results in a self-inflicted wound to the economy.
This is just the sort of reset - read, self-inflicted American wound - that he relishes most.
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