Bob Corker, cry baby.

I saw this quote from Senator Bob Corker at WaPo, and it most certainly describes why we're going to hit the debt ceiling:

"[The debt ceiling is] typically a point where you try to create reforms and reduce deficits, so to agree to something that raises spending from previously agreed-to levels, I just can’t imagine that."

So what you have here are Republicans demanding to renegotiate the ACA, but crying foul over renegotiating the sequester cuts.

If you look at the current state of affairs, Republicans believe that Democrats have to negotiate in order to save the economy, while Democrats wonder why Republicans aren't also concerned about saving the economy.  Why are Republicans using the economy as a bargaining chip?

Thus, Democrats have come back and said, "Okay, if you want to alter the ACA, then we want to have the sequester cuts back."

Fair is fair, right?  Nope, not in the Republican universe.

Except, their universe is fake, and in this one, the GOP will suffer the consequences of their false narrative.