Twitter users "mad as hell" over debt crisis? (VIDEO)

As the U.S. moved a day closer to financial default Tuesday, pressure for President Barack Obama's Democratic administration and its Republican rivals to agree on a debt plan came in many forms.

News outlets and bloggers were reporting congressional phone exchanges and email addresses as being overwhelmed, with lines to the office of Republican House Speaker John Boehner particularly heavily inundated.

Obama — in a primetime televised national address late Monday — had asked Americans to call their representatives in Congress to voice their thoughts about the debt standoff.

Capitol Hill was ringing busy Tuesday due to a high volume of calls to the U.S. House of Representatives, CNN reports, citing an email from the House's call center.

"Due to the high volume ofwere reportedly continuing, and more high-profile calls for bipartisanship being made.

According to Reuters:

With no compromise in sight and the threat of a far-reaching U.S. credit downgrade looming, IMF chief Christine Lagarde urged swift resolution of the political impasse in Washington, warning that failure to reach an agreement would have serious consequences for the world economy.

"The clock is ticking and clearly the issue needs to be resolved immediately," Lagarde told the Council on Foreign Relations think tank, according to a text of her remarks.

And Bloomberg pointed out Tuesday that:

the speaker, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell all voted for major drivers of the nation’s debt during the past decade: Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2001 and 2003 Bush