Judd Gregg: “I am also concerned about climate change, and I think we should try to move away from carbon-based production of energy.”

If our goal is to reach a deal, we should not get engaged in this fight.

America is one debt deal away from leading the world out of its economic doldrums.

Your careers may end happily before the reckoning. Your reelections may not be threatened by your inaction. But your consciences should be.

To get this done, you are going to have to have compromise--compromise on both sides of the aisle.