Jim DeMint: “It's good to see a little indignance here about a country arbitrarily slapping a tax on us and us trying to protect our…”

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

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

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.

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