Promises made and promises broken.

Washington's motto is never do today what you can put off until tomorrow, but tomorrow is a whole lot closer than we think.

We still are spending too much money.

Our total debt is bigger than our economy.

Clearly, a little tinkering isn't enough. We need a whole new approach.

We haven't solved the problem. We're still spending too much money.

We need to make sure we can pay our bills both today--and tomorrow.

So the revenues are rising, but spending is taking off at an unsustainable trajectory, correct?

When you owe more than you make, your creditors get antsy.

We had a problem to solve, and we ended up solving it alone.

The reason this debt limit fight is coming is because when we have had great fiscal bipartisan agreements in the past...