Thomas McClintock actually said...

"I specifically asked the head of their sovereign debt division if the budget adopted by the House last year, the so-called Ryan budget, would have preserved the AAA credit rating of the United States ..."

"Can you offer us any examples of a nation that has ever spent and borrowed and taxed its way to prosperity?"

"Sovereign debt default then would not be an act of the Congress, it would be a malfeasance of the executive and not prioritizing payments to ensure a timely payment of the sovereign debt obligations."

"I think we have run a follow of McClintock's first law of political physics which is the more we invest in our mistakes the less willing we are to admit them."