Paul Begala actually said...

it's essential. It's absolutely necessary.

Begala stressed the necessity of compromise in the ongoing negotiations.

07/12/2011

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The debt ceiling has been raised for 95 years. We used to not have a debt ceiling, and there's no real need to have it.

What he is proposing is to purposefully damage our country, to take the full faith and credit of our nation to the brink.

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 aro...

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