Michael Bennet actually said...

"Can you think of a greater self-inflicted wound that we could manage to accomplish through our dysfunctionality than drive our unemployment rate higher when it is at 9 percent?"

"I am deeply concerned about the fiscal condition of this country, I am deeply concerned about the size of the deficit."

"I have spent a lot of time on the floor talking about it. I have got kids that I am worried about, and we have got to get a hold of it--we really do--in a bipartisan way."

"Can you think of anything that would be more destructive to my desire to pay down our deficit than to fail to raise the debt ceiling--raise the interest rate?"