Brit Hume says how the media will portray and treat the Democrats during the debt ceiling battle will be a "test" on how fair they really are. "Reporters who cover this town know this. They know entitlement spending is out of control and must be restrained. They know the Republicans are trying. And they can see Democrats are not. But will they c

"All I know is, whenever you have any type of a problem and the problem is one that you spend more than you are actually bringing in then you have to bring in more and spend less. It just makes so much sense, Judge, it's all we have to do," Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) told FOX Business this evening.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) blows up on Ted Barrett, CNN's Congressional producer.

MARTIN BASHIR: "It's time now to Clear the Air and to ask a question: what is the purpose behind Sarah Palin's current bus tour? It's difficult to ask that question directly because Sarah Palin specializes in checkbook journalism. That is, she only gives interviews to a network that pays her in excess of $1 million a year. So we're forced to make j

GRETA, FOX NEWS: "How's that fire in that belly?" FMR. GOV. SARAH PALIN (R-Alaska): "The fire in the belly is still raging when it comes to energy independence and when it comes to many, many common sense decisions this country can and shoul

White House press secretary Jay Carney says President Obama is not "paying much attention" to Fmr. Gov. Sarah Palin's bus tour. "Having spent a lot of time with him over the past few days, I don't think he's paying much attention to that," Carney said.

"Tell Obama 'Shirley said that and she lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama,'" the victim told ABC News.

Chris Matthews seems to have some sort of excitement for Sarah Palin's voice. A tingly feeling?

Bill Kristol, Mara Liasson, Charles Krauthammer on White House defense spending.

"We also believe, quite strongly, that we have to raise the debt ceiling. There is no option in doing that," White House press secretary Carney said today.

"Well, when we were in charge, when the President of the United States wouldn't let you do some of the things you wanted to do, Bill Clinton was there to veto things, we had a surplus for four years in a row and we didn't increase the debt [limit] once. Under George [W.] Bush we increased it seven times. I yield back the balance of my time and urge

ROMNEY: If I become president, I will repeal ObamaCare. My bill was 70 pages. His is over 2,000. He’s doing a lot of stuff that’s devastating to the health care system in this country. He’s wrong.

REP. ALLEN WEST (R-FL): I can tell you as an executive officer when we did not have enough money to buy tools to repair our howitzers, or we did not have enough money to get toilet paper for some of our soldiers." "We did not have enough money to buy the ammunition so that guys could stay out on the rifle range. And we find ourselves going down

REP. WEINER (D-NY): "I'm going to return to working on the things I care about. I participated in the story a couple of days now, given comments on it. This is a distraction and I'm not going to let it distract me."

"I'm like a) I don't think I owe anything to the mainstream media. I think that it would be a mistake for me to become some kind of conventional politician and doing things the way that it's always be done with the media, in terms of relationships with them," Sarah Palin said in an interview with Greta on FOX News Channel.

Herman Cain campaign: The official Herman Cain Train Music Video.

AP: Rep. Michele Bachmann, who is considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination, says she thinks the race can accommodate both her and Sarah Palin. Both women are favorites of the tea party movement. But Bachmann says she doesn't compare herself to Palin — she compares herself to President Barack Obama. Bachmann says there's

Environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr. is fighting with community activists to save West Virginia's Coal River Mountain from the hands of major coal corporations that practice mountain top removal -- a mining practice known to create health and environmental hazards. A new documentary, "The Last Mountain" documents this struggle. Robert Kennedy Jr. jo

KRAUTHAMMER: "I think if she is still here with Fox, she is not running. She is not running. What I think she is doing to trying to keep the brand vibrant. During the next 18 months when all the attention will be to other candidates, and she showed what she can do."

"There's still a lot of unanswered questions," Politico's Martin Kady told MSNBC. Politico says Weiner has basically "clammed" up at this point.