Mitch McConnell actually said...

"Let me be crystal clear about this. Republicans are united in opposition to raising the debt ceiling. We will not support legislation that raises the debt limit. They will not get Senate Republicans` ..."

"I will not be a party to any future effort to mitigate the consequences of democratic mismanagement. Your lieutenants on Capitol Hill now have the time they claim they lack to address the debt ceiling..."

"To leave Americans with a socialist country."

"the party that pumped itself up on the ideas of family values and fiscal probity only for Mitch McConnell and his ghoul army to play a game of chicken with the debt ceiling and nearly tanking the econ..."