"If the president and Sen. Reid and John Boehner all said to me today... let's put Simpson-Bowles on the floor, I guarantee you, given the urgency, we could cobble together something to solve this problem. But nobody's willing to pull the trigger. Everybody wants to play the blame game. And this blame game's about to put us over the edge."

-- Retiring Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-OH), in an interview on CNN.