Paul Begala actually said...

"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 around with."

"My Republican friends just don't have credibility talking about debt."

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