Jim DeMint: “We in a sense rewarded bad behavior, hoping we'd create good behavior, and we got worse behavior than we had before.”

We've got to determine what we're going to do about it. A missile defense is going to be a key.

Senator DeMint says let's use the Federal Government as an exemplar for how to reopen.

Three percent, about half the whole sales tax in South Carolina just to collect it.

we are on one side doing things that don't appear to address the true root causes of our problem.