"It is a gift, where this individual receiving it has not worked. It's not double-taxation because the person who earned it is dead. So, the person who receives it should pay a minimal amount of tax," Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) tells Eric Bolling on Fox Business. "They did not earn it, it is a gift and gift taxes are appropriate," she added

"The issue is that more of these plots have been hatched by non-Muslims ... It’s not just one group. 72 Americans. Angry white Americans. People who are angry at the country who fly planes at the IRS building. People like Tim McVeigh. Angry white Americans," Alan Colmes said on FOX News. (source and transcript:

"This has been a capitulation in two weeks of dramatic proporitions of policies that wouldn't have passed in the new Congress. And the [START] treaty could have been made better in the new congress. And I don't have a good reason why we let this happen," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told FOX News Radio today.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) tells MSNBC that he would like the government to mandate that publicly held companies should hold board meetings once a year to decide what is just compensation for officers of the company. Frank also went beyond that and told corporations how they should spend their money and what should be accepted and what should not.

"Fundamentally, there is something to worry about in the way they attempt to protect us. They are long on hasseling ordinary citizens, they are short on recognizing the real threat, which is radical Islam, a phrase they won't use because it's insensitive and somehow offensive to radical Islamists," Tucker Carlson said on FOX News.

ABC News:"First of all, London," Sawyer said. "How serious is it? Any implication that it was coming here? ... Director [of National Intelligence] Clapper?" "London?" James Clapper said, before Brennan ente

"Eating or defeating your own is a form of sophisticated cannibalism," Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA said in his farewell speech on the Senate floor.Specter said the re-election of Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski on a write-in vote against the Tea Party challenger who toppled her in the primary may show the way to "counter right-wing extremist

Economist Peter Morici argues Americans are fleeing from taxes and unions.

Al Sharpton, who is going after the "racist" Rush Limbaugh, now is setting his target on Gov. Haley Barbour. Sharpton asks can you imagine if President Obama did/said something like Gov. Haley Barbour said about the Citizen's Council.

"Obama is doing exactly what he promised during the campaign. He vowed to get rid of our missile defense. Everybody knows the Russians don't live up to agreements. This is not about the Russians. This is about us," Rush Limbaugh said on Tuesday's program.

"There is nothing broken to be fixed, this is unnecessary," Republican FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell said on FOX News. "The government doesn't need to be doing this," he said. McDowell warns this is government injection into the internet.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) says the 2012 election will draw a line in the Senate.

President Barack Obama's spokesman says he doesn't expect the results of the new census to have a "huge practical impact" on national politics.

NBC's Savannah Guthrie joins Morning Joe with the day's top headlines out of the White House, including possible shake-ups within President Obama's communications team.

"That's not the purpose of the treaty, but it will be in furtherance of the goal of helping us defeat terrorism," Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) told FOX News.

"We can do this next year and we should," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) tells FOX News.

"The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens -- raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born," Attorney General Eric Holder told

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski joins Morning Joe for an in-depth conversation on U.S. foreign policy. (

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) applauds repeal of "don't ask don't tell," but says gays also should have the right to get married.

"Well maybe it could be Christmas day because that's kind of what happened last year when that almost-Christmas bomber was able to pull off a major stunt on an airplane," FOX & Friends' Gretchen Carlson said. On ABC's "World News" last night, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano

Bill O'Reilly: Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) used Christmas to justify the government demanding more money from the affluent.

Liberal columnist Howard Fineman says Congressman who voted for the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell were allowed to vote their conscious, not regarding the results of the election since this occurred in the lame duck session.

Dr. Charles Krauthammer: "The greatest advance that we made in nuclear posture over the last decade was the withdraw from the ABM treaty which had put restraints on our ability to build missile defense. The reason that is important is because defense against the great coming century, meaning hyper-proliferation -- the proliferation of nukes and

Bill Press says a lot of publishers resent the type of press she is allowed to have.