Jim DeMint: “One difficulty that you will have is balancing protecting our sovereignty as a nation with international cooperation.”

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.

Absolutely not. We cannot shut the government down, regardless of what happens here.

To paraphrase Ambassador Ryan Crocker, we need to be in the business of risk management, not risk avoidance.