David Walker: “Ladies and gentlemen, this is America. We can't have roads and bridges falling apart. We're better than that.”

the base of the Republican Party will not support any type of tax increases -- even if it's eliminating tax expenditures where there can be a bipartisan agreement.

Believe it or not, I am 65 years old. Congress has passed timely budget and appropriation bills four times in 65 years. That is an F minus.

I think we can get there without going to a parliamentary system, but I do think that we need political reforms as well as policy reforms.

It's time to get real.