What Democrats have to say when they head back home to voters...
"What they have to say when they go home is this message:
"We didn't pass a budget. We didn't accept the Republican suggestion for $300 billion in appropriation spending limits. We didn't put a freeze on tax hikes, which are automatically coming on the first day of next year.
"There's 10 percent unemployment. There's an unpopular health care bill, which we'd rather not talk about. We've given you, they would say, too much spending, too much taxes, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and over the next 10 years, the budget's going to double and then triple. That's the message that the Democratic Congress is taking home."
-Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)