David Gergen actually said...

"It is now going to be I think the basis of the Republican campaign. I would imagine it would be in their platform and it's hard to see how a candidate for the Republican Party could now run away from ..."

"The demagoguery we're seeing right now is intense."

"I think the president and John Boehner both need to be involved with this. I think we need a very intensive set of negotiations between now and the deadline on this debt ceiling."

"There is a certain madness in the air right now. There's a certain -- there's a distemper in our politics that -- that is making this extremely difficult to reach what is critically important for the ..."