Orrin Hatch actually said...

waiting until an always-difficult lame duck session may establish inaction as the default position, which could lead the Nation directly ove...

We should not create an image of an America that cannot even avoid this quite cataclysmic set of self-imposed problems.

it would be difficult to be more wrong than the recommendation I just described.

It is far past time that Congress and the President act to right our fiscal ship.