Charles Krauthammer, after being asked about Michele Bachmann's opposition to any plan that raises the debt ceiling.
"I'm not going to be the psychiatrist, other than to say that it is unbelievably irresponsible.
And even only from the point of view of this -- if you're a conservative, you know that we're overspending, we're going into debt, government is expanding at an alarming rate, it's destroying everything around us. How do you stop it?
The only way to stop it in our constitutional system is if you control the White House and the Congress. You cannot govern from one house of the Congress. You can't even govern from one branch -- all the Republicans, conservatives control now is half a branch.
Under our system, you've got to have it all, and that can only happen if you persuade the country next year in the election that we need smaller, more constitutional government."
