Whats going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. Were getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when youre in charge. – Lindsey Graham
I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasnt responsible in terms of what our country needed right then. – Claire McCaskill