"It is my hope that everybody is going to leave their ultimatums at the door. That we'll all leave our political rhetoric at the door. And that we're going to do what is best for our economy and do what is best for our people," President Obama said during a brief press statement Tuesday afternoon.

"Americans are not like -- 'I demand this, you know, I draw the red line here and I draw this in the sand.' They just want us to get something done that's sensible, that spreads the sacrifice and spreads the prosperity," White House press secretary Jay Carney said at Tuesday evening's press conference.

"Let me tell you how the world watches us. The world's watching Greece. This week the parliament finally got its act together and pushed through a serious budget. All the sudden the world was at ease and we had a serious sense of relief. You don't think they're going to be watching the most important country in the world, us, when we start dicking

"If Barack Obama attempts to destroy the Separation of Powers doctrine, if he intends to seize Congressional power when it comes to borrowing and spending despite the plain wording of Article 1 Section 8 Clause 2. In other words if he’s going to violate his oath of office…then he needs to be impeached," Mark Levin said on his nationally syndica

"Now, I've heard reports that there may be some in Congress who want to do just enough to make sure that America avoids defaulting on our debt in the short term. But then wants to kick the can down the road when it comes to solving the larger problem, our deficit," President Obama said a brief press availability this afternoon.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), GOP presidential candidate, warned President Obama to "be afraid of the tea party." "They want you to think that the tea party is made up of toothless hillbillies coming down out of the hills wearing red, white and blue. But the fact is, they should be afraid of the tea party," Bachmann said at a campaig

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) files a cloture motion on Senate bill 1323, a "Sense of the Senate" bill on "Shared Sacrifice." Here are the details of this resolution: SECTION 1. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON SHARED SACRIFICE. (a) Findings- Congress makes the following findings: (1) The Wall Street Journal repor

"The defense team is inside a bar having a champagne toast, right now," a clearly distraught Nancy Grace said on Headline News this afternoon after the Casey Anthony trial verdict was read. "Now, you know what? I'm not a preacher and I'm not a rabbi, but there is something wrong with that 'cause Caylee is dead. And her body decomposed just fifte

ED SCHULTZ, MSNBC HOST: "A Chris Christie ally calls the Governor of New Jersey a 'rotten ...' Can I say this on air? I don't want to get suspended again! 'A rotten bastard?' I hate to see what this guys' enemies have to say about him."

Washington is engaged in a debate right now over the kind of country we want to be. “The specific issue is this: at some point over the next several weeks, the federal government will no longer be able to borrow the money it needs to cover the cost of promises it’s already made. “So the President wants Congress to raise the statutory de

"Well, I hope that this is a lesson to those of you who have indulged in media assassination for three years. Bias, prejudice and incompetent talking heads saying what would be and how to be. I'm disgusted by some of the lawyers that have done this, and I can tell you that my colleagues from coast to coast and border to border have condemned thi

"We can't tax people so little compared to what we're spending," Chris Matthews complained on his MSNBC show tonight.

Casey Anthony has been found not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony, on Tuesday. However, she was found guilty of lying to investigators. Casey Anthony was only found guilty on several counts of lying to the authorities.

Rush Limbaugh tells citizens of Joplin that "you are the essence of what the Founding Fathers had in mind.""You're going to build back, it is going to get fixed, it is going to get rebuilt, it is going to be better than it ever was. You are going to show the rest of the country how it's done."

NBC's Chuck Todd credits President Obama with bringing the Senate back in session during the July 4th holiday week to come up with a solution to the nation's debt crisis. Todd said "you've got to assume" Obama will "do everything he can to jump start a negotiating session" over the debt. "And while he does want to support a vote on Libya whic

Former Obama administration czar, Van Jones claims at a "Rebuild the Dream" conference that America is "not broke."

Tim Pawlenty's presidential campaign releases its second TV ad in Iowa.