Erskine Bowles: “If you are really concerned about jobs, then we have to tackle this fiscal problem at home.”

What most folks saw was Washington at its worst: too much politics and very little in the way of responsible decision making.

The longer that we kick the can down the road, the worse the situation is going to get.

It will destroy this country from within.

Failure to reach our target will lock us into mandatory indiscriminate cuts and will limit our options in the future.