Simply abolish it, or put it under the unlateral control of the President.

To ensure that there are no more crises like the debt ceiling impasse last year, Mr. Geithner proposed permanently ending Congressional purview over the federal borrowing limit, Republican aides said. He said that Congress could be allowed to pass a resolution blocking an increase in the debt limit, but that the president would be able to veto that resolution. Congress could block a higher borrowing limit only if two-thirds of lawmakers overrode the veto.

Once again, that annoying division of powers keeps getting in the way of Progress, doesn’t it.

Three guesses what happens to the U.S. credit rating the day after something like this happens.