"We're not going to stand by and let publicly regulated radio and television just go for marketing and promoting this kind of racism," Al Sharpton said about his campaign to take Rush Limbaugh off the airwaves. Sharpton says he will be going to the FCC next week to demand Limbaugh be taken off the air. "Rush Limbaugh has the right to say what

The rich needs to "give up a whole lot of things," Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said on MSNBC. "The fact is the Republicans are try to impose a lot of pain on the middle class," Ellison said.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL): "I'm confident that President Obama is in there swinging."

"In essence it borrows 700 billion dollars from China, charges it, puts it on our children and grandchildren's credit cards and gives it to the wealthiest two percent tax payers," Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said on CNN about fully extending the Bush tax cuts.

"I completely disagree with this," Obama said about Republicans wanting to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts. "Tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires do little to grow our economy," Obama said. "I'm not willing to let working class families become collateral damage for political warfare," Obama said of fighting between Democrats and Re

Herman Cain talks about tax cuts and a possible run for President. (via Daily Caller video)

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says the "compromise" is that Republicans will only extend tax cuts for two years rather than permanently. Bachmann explains that it is possible for the GOP to vote against extending tax cuts for all if the Democrats attach a long-term extension of unemployment benefits. (source: Sean Hannity show 12/6)

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called President Obama's deal to extend tax cuts for two more years "bad politics."Sanders said not extending tax cuts, but extending unemployment benefits is "social justice.""Who is going to believe the president [from now on]?" Sen. Bernie Sanders said on MSNBC."This is absolutely wrong," Sander

Dan Rather says if President Obama compromises on extending the Bush tax cuts, he will face a "political nightmare" of a primary challenger in 2012. Rather says "many contributors" to the Democratic party are in shock and Obama only has 4-6 months to turn things around before they consider another candidate.

WSJ: House Speaker-designate John Boehner (R., Ohio) wants to elevate anti-earmark crusader Rep. Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.), to the committee that doles out federal funds.Note: Rep. Jeff Flake has never attached an earmark to a bill.

RealClearPolitics political correspondent David Paul Kuhn talks about how the tax cut is a hurdle for the Democrats in the lame duck session. Kuhn says the liberal wing of the Democratic will not be happy with an Obama compromise of tax cuts in exchange for extending unemployment benefits.

Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) talks about the alleged compromise between Democrats and Republicans over the extension of Bush tax cuts.

"Republicans want to make permanent the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. I have argued that we can't afford that right now," President Obama said in North Carolina, taking a jab at the GOP. "We should also extend unemployment insurance for workers that lost their jobs through no fault of their own," Obama said. "I should mention that is no

"I think that the Congress should cut the lame duck session short and go home," Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX said on FOX News. Cornyn says Democrats are confused and think that the money involved with tax cuts was originally the government's money and it is being given back to the taxpayer.

KATHY GRIFFIN: "Come on boo me, I love it. I love it, war is hell, war is hell."

"One myth that's out there is what we're doing is printing money; we're not printing money," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told CBS. "The money supply is not changing in any significant way," he added. "What we're doing is lowing interest rates by buying Treasury securities. And by lowering interest rates, we hope to stimulate the econom

SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D-Missouri): "I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for. If they think it's okay to raise taxes for the embattled middle class because we don’t give more money to millionaires, it

"I don't like anybody, whether it's the Republican establishment, D.C. insiders trying to tell the Republican voters who their nominees should be," Gov. Jindal (R-LA) said on Bloomberg TV.

Brit Hume's analysis of politics of process.

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth woul

Andrew Sullivan says the GOP wants to "keep nailing the debt on Obama."

"I'm a military commander. I've got a military mission. He is the leader of a sovereign country. He has a political foundation that he has to maintain. And we do need occasionally, I think, to walk a mile or a kilometer in his shoes and in these mountains to understand the challenge that he has," Gen. David Petraeus told ABC.