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Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images I've been afflicted this week with a disorienting sense of déjà vu that affects any reporter who has covered Washington long enough. Even the most consequential and operatic standoffs begin to seem eerily familiar.

President Obama wants Congress to decide on plan to raise the debt ceiling. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images. The weeklong series of White House meetings with President Obama and bipartisan congressional leaders has apparently produced one concrete result:…