Jim DeMint: “Mr. President, America is fair. It has been patient, more than patient. But after two and a half years, enough is…”

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

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

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

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