Jim DeMint: “The Fed has continued to expand its balance sheet with multiple rounds of quantitative easing.”

His proposal was so outlandish, I don't think we should go back to the table until he puts something there that we can work with.

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

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

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