Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"I do not want to take really any more time on it, but one part is, if the debt ceiling is not increased, which I think most people think it ultimately will be--what kind of budget will we have based o..."

"I always resist the business/government analogies because they are not quite perfect because government is held to other standards than businesses."

"But it has to come from OMB."

"In other words, those are efficiencies, elimination of waste, duplication. So I appreciate that."