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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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.
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.
It was a wholly unnecessary, self-inflicted wound that resulted, for a time period, in people losing their jobs and not getting a paycheck.
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.
Illegal immigration is a self-inflicted wound.
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Why inflict a self-inflicted wound?
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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.
Clifford Baxter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, as was suspected.
The 37-year-old died from an "apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound", Arkansas sheriff Marty Moss said.
Auvinen died at a Helsinki hospital late Wednesday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
In April, former Atlanta Falcon safety Ray Easterling also committed suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Ms. McCready was pronounced dead at the scene from what appears to be a single self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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They were called there after a fire alarm, and found a dead man with an apparently self-inflicted gun wound.
The autopsy confirmed Seau died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.
Myers, Florida, died this afternoon of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at a lake home in Heber Springs, Arkansas.
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The man who shot her was pronounced dead at the scene, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Paquet said.
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