Gary Peters actually said...

This is all games that they play, and they go back and forth, and it is just another example of the dysfunction that exists in the U.S. Cong...

The triple-A credit of the United States is the bedrock of the global financial system.

You cannot cut enough to deal with it, and you cannot grow yourself out of it. You have to do all three.

We simply cannot continue to rack up the debt at the rate we are.