CNN's Gloria Borger says the tea party has "hijacked" the Republican Party and the "John Boehner's of the world" that would have made a deal on the debt limit with President Obama.

"Could I just say he's winning this thing. I mean, really, he is coming across as the most reasonable guy in a crazy city because, because he seems reasonable," TIME magazine's Joe Klein said on "The Chris Matthews Show" over the weekend. Klein not only thinks the President is the adult in the room, but he believes the rhetoric Obama uses is som

George Will, Cokie Roberts, Matthew Dowd, Jon Karl, and Rep. Raul Labrador.

Marc Morial thinks the “tax earmark business is bigger than the spending earmark business,” and businessman David Cote says to make tax policy “the most simple, easy-to-do thing.” Gov. John Kasich (R-OH), Diane Swonk and David Faber weigh in as well.

Bill Kristol, John Podesta, Liz Cheney and Juan Williams debate.

White House Budget Director Jacob Lew dodged CNN's Candy Crowley's question if the administration would prioritize Social Security payments if a default occurred. Transcript of the exchange below: CNN's Candy Crowley, HOST: "More immediately, you'd have to make some spending priorities -- payment priority decisions: Social Security b

"The way the deal is currently structured right now, it gives the President the ability to raise the debt limit. But as I've said already on the problem: The debt limit is not really the problem here, the problem here is the debt. "The debt limit is actually the easiest part of the problem. It's one vote away from being solved. But, if all we d

CBS News host Bob Schieffer to Sen. Marco Rubio: "Aren't you going to have to concede, though, Senator that maybe the previous administration might have had a little something to do with the bad economy?"

"We've got to draw a line in the sand now, because the day of reckoning is going to come," Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) said about the debt ceiling talks.

"No one should be fooled about this. They're not proposing a clean balanced budget amendment (BBA). What they are proposing is to manipulate the constitution and use it to impose the Republican budget plan. If you look at that plan, it does end the Medicare guarantee. It slashes Medicaid. It slashes deeply to education. It protects tax breaks for s

“What is calamitous is the path we’re on as a nation,” Sen. Lindsey Graham said. “We’re becoming Greece.”

Fmr. New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) says he doesn't know yet if he'll launch a 2012 presidential bid.

HERMAN CAIN: "The problem is it’s all political posturing. They do not need to raise the debt ceiling."