Democrats claim that the Tea Party is responsible for the state of the economy. Rand Paul, Republican senator and member of the Tea Party, fired back at these remarks. Illinois Congressman, Joe Walsh, is a House member as well as a member of the Tea House party. “This is just pathetic,” Joe Walsh said, “I’ve never known of a president wh

"I understand why extending unemployment insurance provides relief to people who need it, but how does that create jobs," Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler asked Jay Carney at Wednesday's WH briefing. Carney responded: "Oh, uh, it is by, uh, I would expect a reporter from the Wall Street Journal would know this as part of the entrance exam."

Jon Stewart explains why he is against the Newsweek cover showing an unflattering image of Michele Bachmann. However, Stewart says if Newsweek wants a photo that makes Michele Bachmann seem a little off, they should make one out of her words.

In his weekly video about emails he receives, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) decided to respond to the following letter: SUBJECT: You've got to be kidding me! MESSAGE: "You've got to be kidding me. Why are you going on a five week vacation when you have not even done anything regarding jobs and the economy?" Rubio says i

Newsweek's Tina Brown joins Morning Joe to discuss and defend the highly controversial Newsweek cover featuring Michelle Bachmann and the headline "The Queen of Rage." Brown also refutes the notion that the picture was taken during a lighting test. (Morning Joe

"What's happening today and what I see is such a serious thing is I think what we're dealing with is the end of the dollar reserve standard. That's a worldwide phenomenon. It's not just for the United States, just think of how many dollars we've exported. How many people hold dollars. If this dollar is in big trouble, which is what I think is the p

White House press secretary Jay Carney defends President Obama's upcoming 10 day trip to Martha's Vineyard. Carney is asked why the President is taking such a vacation when he constantly says he "will not rest" until the jobs issue is resolved. Here is the exchange: Jake Tapper, ABC News: "You said the President will not rest until the joblessne

KMSP-TV: Republicans remained in control of the Wisconsin state Senate early Wednesday after recall elections, but Democrats said vote-tampering could have influenced the results.

"Blaming the Tea Party is like blaming the fireman when he comes to put out the fire. A lot of us were elected to put out the fire, handle the debt. That's why we went to Washington. That's why we ran for office. Now they are going to blame the debt on us, when we came to try to fix the mess? It is ludicrous on the face of it. I think it is an exam

Lawrence O'Donnell suggests that because Rick Santorum is in a race against Mormons Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, he "will always link same-sex marriage to poligamy."

MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan on Tuesday's show: "We've got a real problem! This is a mathematical fact! Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America. Democrats aren't doing it, Republicans aren't doing it. An entire integrated system, financial system, trading system, taxing system, that was created by both parties ov

White House scrubs any reference to ‘Jerusalem, Israel’ from whitehouse.gov.

CNBC's Rick Santelli reacts to those attacking Standard & Poor's for downgrading the US' credit rating. Santelli on the floor at the CME: :And it's sad that we haven't learned much since our credit crisis. Pick on rumors. All this liquidity, the unintended consequence was collateralized financial leverage. And when things get dicey, it's the log

Eliot Spitzer, former governor and attorney general of New York, joins Keith Olbermannn to discuss the latest on Murdoch-Gate, the debt deal, ratings agencies, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, politicians on magazine covers and more.

From Tuesday evening's edition of Current TV's "Countdown" with host Keith Olbermann and guest Markos Moulitsas of the liberal blog "Daily Kos."

Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points memo discusses the number of ways the federal government has "failed to protect" Americans from costly problems.

After the deaths of over thirty servicemen in Afghanistan, Chris Matthews asks many questions about why the United States is still in Afghanistan.

E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post: "There are things for Obama can do and the striking thing is he's let the Republicans move the entire debate to the budget deficit when the plurality or majority of the country says job creation is the problem. And this recent, you know, unpleasantness on the stock market, what's happening in Europe tells us that

Charles Krauthammer: "Well I thought that late day rally that we saw probably started at 3 oclock when word went out that the president would NOT address the country. There was cheering, hats thrown in the air." (via

Charles Krauthammer tells Bill O'Reilly that after years of controlling the House, Senate, and White House "liberalism doesn't have a good story to tell."