Paul Begala actually said...

"It's clearly what he's doing and I have to say it looks like it's just politics."

"I think -- first, let me just say, John Boehner's a patriotic American, he's a good man, he's a good congressman. He leads his party ably. But what he is proposing is to purposefully damage our countr..."

"And for Speaker Boehner to say we're going to risk the full faith and credit of the United States, it's just something you should never mess around with."

"I think that Speaker Boehner is a good person, but I think what he is doing here is really dangerous."