I can almost see the veins popping out of her forehead from here.

Via The Hill:

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said Thursday that the United States is one week away from being a “deadbeat nation.”

“We are on the verge of being a deadbeat nation,” Mikulski said on the Senate floor. “A deadbeat is someone who does not meet their financial obligations. … That is deadbeat, deadbeat, deadbeat.

“I think it’s humiliating; I think it’s despicable. … We must not be a deadbeat nation.”

Lawmakers are working against an Oct. 17 deadline for raising the nation’s borrowing limit.