HOWARD DEAN: It's silly. It's like Rand Paul talking about getting rid of The Fed. It's a silly idea and if you actually did it, the economy would collapse. This is what you're up against. Ted Cruz is holding up the budget of the United States of America. Senior Republicans in the House, in the Senate, would like to have a conference committee on t

ERICK ERICKSON: "I'm so used to liberals telling conservatives that they're anti-science. But liberals who defend this and say it is not a bad thing are very anti-science. When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it's n

SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): "It's unprecedented, and the degree of willingness of this administration to target a reporter for this network as an unindicted co-conspirator, I mean that is without precedent. And unfortunately I think it's part of a pattern from this administration of not respecting the Bill of Rights. Not respecting the First Amendment,

SEAN HANNITY: Let's start with the news organizations that are going to allow this off the record session. What is your reaction to that? ANN COULTER: It's strange, but I guess, you know, Politico doesn't care if their emails are being read because they were all going to the White House anyway. All their calls were going directly to the White Ho

TOM BROKAW: Because the public is not terribly interested doesn't make it unimportant, frankly, at this point. I think that there are very important issues that are involved here on both sides, by the way. The government feels very strongly that it was a violation probably of the espionage secret acts. That there was intel that they had developed i

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MARTIN BASHIR: Professor, we heard Mr. Sensenbrenner (R-WI) say the Attorney General should step down. Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) is also calling for resignation. Of course, he did that two years ago over Fast and Furious. Is this actually going to lead to something, do you think, or just more of the same, more continuous calls for the Attorn

MICHAEL STEELE: "I love my state. I think the potential in Maryland is huge. I look at the last 8 years. I look at the tax increases. I look at some of the things they’ve done to drive jobs away and opportunity out the door. And you just kinda say, ‘Can you contribute something?’ So we’ll weigh it." (WMAL-AM's Mornings on the Mall, M

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: "It's as if, if you are a conservative women, you are a traitor to your gender. Look at Margaret Thatcher. It's almost as if you aren't a woman because you're a conservative because you aren't upholding all the tenets of, obviously, left, liberal feminism. So I think that really is true, it's an epidemic in the media. The assum

Has the IRS abuse stopped?

Paul Ryan joins Bill O'Reilly to discuss the IRS scandal. 

Frank Rich, writer-at-large for New York Magazine, talks with Rachel Maddow about Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's influence on her Republican colleagues beyond her lengthy catalog of ridiculous gaffes and errors. (msnbc.com)