Jim DeMint: “That means private gains on the upside and public losses on the downside. And that is not a desirable or acceptable…”

We cannot keep our country shut down. It's affecting people emotionally, as well as financially.

If school is not full speed in the fall, a lot of folks will have to deal with childcare they otherwise wouldn't.

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

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