Barack Obama actually said...

The challenge is to do it in a way that doesn't hurt future economic growth and hurt investment in the United States.

It would be catastrophic to the United States. Default by the United States would precipitate a crisis worse than the one we just went throu...

the Congress passed gave us much more power.

The international community made clear that all attacks against civilians had to stop; Qadhafi had to stop his forces from advancing on Beng...