Firedoglake writes, Today’s big Washington, D.C. political news was noted by Jon Walker here this morning: House Republicans are about to fold on the debt limit. They are no longer going to demand that any increase in the limit be matched with spending cuts. What makes this development particularly notable is what Jon (among many others) was writing earlier this week here… Effectively, the position of the White House is that this fight will only end if Obama folds or the Republicans fold… … Obama doesn’t want to get around the debt ceiling, he wants to beat the Republicans on it. Obama seems to…