"Congressman Cantor (R-VA) either failed English class or failed logic class or failed history class because these tax cuts for the rich that Bush did twice, in '01 and '03, resulted in very little economic growth. We saw only one million jobs created in the Bush years, 22 million created in the Clinton years when we reached a balanced budget with

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) argues for the millions of Americans who will lose their benefits before the holidays. "Sending Tim Geithner out there to solve this problem -- he's the guy who caused it among other people on Wall Street," Rep. McDermott said on MSNBC.

Outgoing Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) says business has "corrupted" politics and hurt the "electoral process." "Our electoral system is a mess ... our political system at the federal level is completely dysfunctional," Dodd said on the Senate floor. Dodd, perhaps anticipating a Democratic minority in 2012, encourages his colleagues not to change th

"Will anything be done, by the way? you just quoted Eric Holder. No. Democrats are in the White House, so America is standing tall as usual. We're a helpless, pitiful giant. That's the way America stands when the Democrats are in the White House because they will not do anything," Ann Coulter said on FOX News. (via

"I have no doubt someone can or will die as a result of these leaks," Rep. Peter King told CNN. King says Wikileaks should be declared a terrorist organization and their assets worldwide should be frozen.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "should resign." Assange was interviewed by TIME editor Richard Stengel.

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh opines on the bipartisan meeting between President Obama and Republican leaders.

A hot microphone caught a conversation between a male and female Senator. "Because -- because, it's all rigged. I mean, the whole conversation is rigged. The fact that we don't get to discussion before the break about what we're going to do in the lame duck is just rigged. This stuff's rigged," the Senator said.

House Republican Mike Pence (Indiana) calls for flat tax to boost economic growth.

"If it’s between my mom and Gov. Palin, I’ve got to go with my mom, just in general, because she’s my mother," Jeb Bush tells NewsMax.

President Obama says the Republican leadership came "with spirit of working together."

Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) talk to the press after meeting with President Obama and Democrat leaders in the House and Senate.

Howard Dean says President Obama needs a "consistent" message and make Democrats "fall in line."

"This is why the American people have thrown you out of power," retiring Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Indiana) said to the Democrat who controlled the floor.

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters: "This is an attack on the United States, on our security. We have the cyber capability to take down Wikileaks, could have done it before the first dump of information, could have destroyed their operating systems. President Obama decided not to do it because President Obama is a gutless wonder who cared mo

Former Bush speechwriter and Obama critic Marc Thiessen says it's an "incredible sign of weakness" that the administration has not taken action against the Wikileaks website.

"Everybody is going to have to cooperate," President Obama said about the upcoming Congressional session. President Obama says both major parties must refrain from falling back on "the same stale soundbites."

"Special Report" panel discusses the Wikileaks release of diplomatic cables.

Rachel Maddow talks with The Huffington Post's Sam Stein about Republican insistence on tax cuts for the extremely wealthy despite the CBO having shown that to be the least stimulative means of helping the economy.

The Washington Post's Ezra Klein discusses whether that slogan is the GOP's mantra regarding tax cuts and unemployment benefits.

Bill O'Reilly on the latest Wikileaks dump.