"Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now," New York Times' Paul Krugma

"We've passed major pieces of legislation. Four pieces that will go down in history as one of the most significant Congresses we've had. But two of them -- the TARP -- which was passed by the previous Congress but it gets attributed to us, and the stimulus prevented bad things from happening. There are about ten million people probably who are w

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC): “Going into 2012, we need a really strong Republican party to match the get out the vote that we saw from the Obama machine last time.”

NYT: Among the waivers recently granted were for employers like Darden Restaurants, which operates the Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurants, for 34,000 of its workers. Federal officials have granted 111 waivers to employers, insurers and union plans, who are responsi

White House senior adviser David Axelrod said, "Let me repeat what the President's position is." He said, "We have to extend these middle class tax cuts. Absolutely have to do that. We should do that permanently. Give people the security of knowing that their taxes aren't going to go up ... We cannot afford to go the additional step and permane

"Thank goodness we've got a president now who is standing up, even to some of our allies and saying we're insisting on fair treatment," Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) said on ABC's "This Week."

Brit Hume, Mara Liasson, Bill Kristol and Juan Williams discuss.

George Will, Paul Krugman, Ruth Marcus and Robert Kagan discuss.

Alan Greenspan, Newt Gingrich, Harold Ford Jr. and Bethany McLean of Vanity Fair discuss the long- and short-term stability of the U.S. economy.

SEN. JOHN CORNYN (R-TX): "It has to start not only with the deficit commission but also the president's budget."

Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) says he will challenge Nancy Pelosi for House Minority Leader if she does not step aside.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and David Gregory, moderator of “Meet the Press,” discuss the preliminary recommendations from the chairmen of the president’s bipartisan deficit commission.

Geraldo Rivera talks to people who think 9/11 was an "inside job" and believe WTC Building #7 was brought down by explosives.

CBS: Newly-elected Tea Party Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky said he will not compromise with the Democrats on the issue of tax cuts, but that he will negotiate efforts to reduce federal spending. "Really the compromise is where you find the reductions in spending. I don't think the compromise is in raising taxes," Paul said on CBS' "Face the

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) accuses the GOP of "blocking" middle-class incomes and that will cost them the election in 2012. "He will surprise a lot of people," Sen. Schumer said of President Obama