Salon.com editor-at-large Joan Walsh says a lot is just "not known" about GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann. Walsh must not read her own website because a simple search of their archives and a broader

"We're trying to illustrate to the American people that this President just doesn't 'get it' and he's bankrupting America," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told FNC this afternoon.

Chris Matthews: "The Republican party today is not the same Republican party of even a couple years ago. It seems to me it is overrun now by people who are abolitionists. They're willing to abolish government, they're willing to bring it down if they have to. And they really don't a darn or damn about the consequences."

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer says there is not a "Plan B" when it comes to increasing the debt ceiling by August 2nd. "You don't need a Plan B," Pfeiffer said. "What you need to do is what every American wants us to do, which is get together, make some tough decisions, deal with our deficit and make it so we can pay our obli

"Well, you know, here's what I would say. I think we should acknowledge that some welfare programs in the past were not well designed and in some cases did encourage dependency. As somebody who worked in low income neighborhoods, I've seen it, where people weren't encouraged to work, weren't encouraged to upgrade their skills, were just getting a c

When President Bush made the same mistake during his campaign for President in 2000, he was roundly criticized as unintelligent. "We do have to make sure that there are computers in a computer age inside classrooms and that they work and that there's internets that are actually -- there are Internet connections that actually function. And I thin

At his Twitter Town Hall, President Obama said Speaker John Boehner's question that asked "where are the jobs?" was skewed. Obama also made fun of the text formatting error in Boehner's tweet. "First of all, John obviously needs to work on his typing skills," Obama joked. "I mean, we lost, as I said, four million jobs before I took office, b

"Never in our history has the United States defaulted on its debt," President Obama said Wednesday during his Twitter town hall. "The debt ceiling should not be something that is used as a gun against the heads of the American people to extract tax breaks for corporate jet owners or oil and gas companies that are making billions of dollars because

"I will say that today, welfare payments are not the big driver of our deficit or our debt. There are work obligations attached to welfare," President Obama said at his Twitter Town Hall. "The vast majority of folks who are getting welfare want to work, but can't find jobs. And what we should be doing is, in all of our social programs, evaluat

"We froze federal pay for federal workers for two years. Now, that wasn't real popular, as you might imagine, among federal workers. On the other hand, we were able to do that precisely because we wanted to prevent layoffs, and we wanted to make sure that we sent a signal that everybody's going to have to make some sacrifices, including federal wor

"You know, what I don't understand about it is they're [the media] all card-carrying liberals. When does the death of a child bother them? I've never seen them get so upset over the death of a child," Rush Limbaugh said about the Casey Anthony verdict in his monologue on Wednesday. "If the child had died, what, two years earlier in the womb this

(source and story background at The Daily Caller) BUCHANAN: They’re accommodating him on the spending cuts. They’re going to go – I’m sure Obama has got in there spending cuts that Republicans like – maybe in defense

"The United States is strategically overextended worldwide. What are we doing borrowing money from Japan to defend Japan. Borrow money from Europe to defend Europe. Borrow money from the Persian Gulf to defend the Persian Gulf. This country is over extended. It is an empire and the empire is coming down," Pat Buchanan said on "Morning Joe" today.

RNC's description: "Help our Party reach as many American voters as possible regarding the devastating consequences of Barack Obama's presidency."

"It seems to me that if America were really expanding economically, that kind of wealth, that kind of disparity is palpable. But when you have stagnation when you have a chronic case of unemployment, the sense of social injustice can be terribly demoralizing and politically in the long run, very dangerous. It can politicize social economic issues,

"This President is in as full of a political retreat as this town has seen in many years. He was elected to fix the economy, but people think he and his party have failed and have exploded the nation's debt in the process," Brit Hume said during his commentary segment on "Special Report." "His political base is cranky over the war in Afghanist

George Stephanopoulos, ABC News: "Did you feel like you lost?" Nancy Grace: "Did I feel like I lost? Oh, goodness no. I feel like who lost is Caylee [Anthony]. Because yesterday when I was watching the defense team about a block from the courthouse having a champagne toast and dancing and one of the defense lawyers shooting a bird at the reporte

Casey Anthony defense attorney Cheney Mason was caught giving reporters the middle finger at a celebration event after the verdict was reached.

(CNN) – Republican Sen. Jim DeMint said he's "disappointed" Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has not signed the "cut, cap, balance" pledge to slash spending and balance the budget. "I am disappointed," DeMint said Wednesday on CNN's "American Morning." "We have to stop spending more than we're bringing in."

"It looks like the Republicans in Minnesota are playing out of the national playbook from the Republicans. They are just not going to allow anybodies taxes to go up. In fact, they're talking about decreasing the tax obligation in that state," radio talk show host Ed Schultz said on MSNBC. "I think it is a template and this is a story to watch,"

Bill O'Reilly has some "compelling questions" for the jury of the Casey Anthony trial: "They did convict Casey Anthony of lying for investigators. Why would Ms. Anthony lie? Another compelling question for the jury."

"Please don't put me on the far-left because I'm not," Salon.com's Joan Walsh told Chris Matthews "As long as people on the left are not sitting here saying 'these are our principles; this is what we need to do for our economy, this is hurting the economy. And this tiny minority who does not represent the American people is forcing us to do this