McDonnell speaks on the debt crisis

RICHMOND, VA. - Gov. Bob McDonnell has put himself on the right flank of the Republicans' battle lines against President Barack Obama in the increasingly desperate rhetoric over raising the nation's debt limit.

The conservative governor on his monthly radio show on Washington's WTOP accused the White House of "ineptitude" and injecting politics into the debt limit debate with days left to raise the borrowing ceiling or default on U.S. obligations for the first time.

And after some Republicans rebuked him a week ago for urging bipartisan compromise on revenue, McDonnell emphatically said new taxes should not be in the mix.

He also said state employees should be called on to pay more into Virginia's public pension fund, which has an unfunded liability of $18 billion.