"Frankly, if I was Obama I would have had my speech on the first night and say 'hey, if you guys don't want to show up, you know, that's on you.' Let the cameras pan around to the empty seats and see what kind of message that will send to the public. But that's me, that's not Obama. I sometimes wonder why he's not more of a Chicago-style politician

"When I talk to Democrats outside and inside the White House, as I did today what I heard was a slightly different message," Howard Fineman said on tonight's "Hardball." Fineman reveals that the Democratic strategy for the presidential and Congressional elections will be "down and dirty." "It's not going to be a 'Morning in America' campaign

Mark Levin, 09/01/2011. MORE: Levin to Carney: Americans are sick and tired of you, you creep!

QUESTION: If Congress were to pass the package that the President's going to announce, unemployment would be under 9%? JAY CARNEY: Based on, when you're talking about economic predictions, yes. Economic analysts, economists will be able to look at this series of proposals and say that 'based on history, based on what we know, based on their coll

JAY CARNEY, WH Press Secretary: "They don't give a lick about the day and time." ED HENRY, FOX News: "Why doesn't he give a speech from the oval office tonight saying here's my plan?" CARNEY: "He wants to speak before Congress because he recognizes that while there are things he can do without Congress, and he will do them, there are actions

“I do think this is a really big debate and I think the White House was out of bounds in trying to schedule a speech during a debate,” James Carville said on ABC's "Good Morning America." “Given a choice between watching a debate and the speech I would have watched the debate and I’m not even a Republican or even close to being a Republ

Rush Limbaugh responds to MSNBCer Richard Wolffe who said the opposition to President Obama giving a jobs speech on Wednesday, September 7th was based on the "color of his skin." "If they ever do a colonoscopy on Ob

"At this point, there's a huge shortfall between consumer spending, businesses are not going to hire, on the one hand, and also on the economy's potential at full employment or near full employment on the other hand. Government is the spender of last resort. The only way to restart not only jobs, Simon, but also economic growth, which is terribly i

Joe Scarborough: "It shows they have no fear of the president. In fact, nobody right now politically has fear of this president -- at all. And as Machiavelli said: 'It's better to be feared than loved.' And people come on this set all the time, Mike Barnicle, over the past month at least and when ever you talk about the president's jobs program, th

Transcript of the exchange: SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Do you think that Governor Perry or Michele Bachmann are too far right to win and beat President Obama? JON HUNTSMAN: Listen, all I can tell you is that the people of this country, they want common sense problem solving solutions. They don't want politics at the extreme ends.

This ad from Michele Bachmann's Super PAC asks if Rick Perry is really a "Tea Party guy" and criticizes his record on spending while serving as the governor of Texas.

"… also evidences something that has plagued her from the very beginning since she's been on her own after her stark turn as the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, which is her extreme lack of organization. She just has no organization of her, partly due to the fact that she seems to lack the ability to trust folks to delegate responsibility and

"Our interest is not in having a political back and forth here, at all. Our interest is in the President speaking to people, speaking to Congress about the need to do things, to create jobs and get the economy going. Americans are sick and tired of the partisan bickering, the gridlock. What we saw over the summer, gridlock and partisan bickering is

SanFran Chronicle: In a blow to the Obama administration's efforts to create green jobs, solar-cell maker Solyndra announced Wednesday that it will close its remaining Fremont factory, lay off its 1,100 employees and file for bankruptcy.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski discusses a Los Angeles Times report: "The Justice Department's lawsuit challenging AT&T's $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile was based on worries that consumers would be hit with higher prices and worse wireless service. Worse? But administration officials acknowledged that job losses factored into the decision. According to

Ed Schultz criticizes Speaker John Boehner for delaying President Obama's jobs speech to Thursday. Schultz says that the President has overseen 17 consecutive months of private sector job growth and saved the auto industry. He says Republicans "don't give a damn nor do they respect the President of the United States or the office."

Ron Paul, noting FEMA has only been around since the late 1970s and has a bad record, says the government should not fund it any longer. "If you want efficiency, why don't you look at the way things were handled before we had FEMA?"

Lawrence O'Donnell criticizes corporations for paying more to their CEOs than they did in corporate taxes. He notes that most of them spent more on lobbying and campaign donations than they did on corporate taxes.

In his memo, Bill O'Reilly talks about the latest polling the 2012 presidential race. He believes that the ultimate GOP showdown will come down to Perry vs. Romney.