CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It is true, they supported the bill, they supported the administration, they helped elect it, had the boots on the ground and they were swindled, but it isn't as if they weren't warned. People who looked at the bill said the way it is constructed, there's this huge incentive for any business, small business, to drop the number

Dennis Miller opines on the jury and the verdict in the Zimmerman trial. Miller says Trayvon Martin's parents were not well served by the prosecutors. "They didn't exactly do a cracker jack job," he said of the prosecutor's performance at the trial. "That Angela Cory woman, she looks like a piece of work," Miller added.

HBO host Bill Maher received several boos after a series of George Zimmerman jokes on the Tuesday broadcast of "Late Show with David Letterman" DAVID LETTERMAN: You're an owner, one of the Met's owners. BILL MAHER: Yes I am. LETTERMAN: Whoa, Mr. Bigshot. Nice going. MAHER: Well, a minority owner, of course. LETTERMAN: Well, still, yo

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Then what we also learned that Rachel Jeantel -- I don't know, accidentally, inadvertently -- admitted that it was Trayvon that was the aggressor, because she had told Piers Morgan that it was silly of Zimmerman to assume he was being killed. It was Zimmerman's fault. He didn't understand that what was going on was a case of "whoop

JAY CARNEY: Can you tell me who you -- since I don't know you -- who you are? QUESTION: I’m Gabe Finger with The Daily Caller. Because of the death threats being received by George Zimmerman and his parents, is the President going to take any action for their security, or are they on their own? CARNEY: Well, I think I would refer you to

CHRIS MATTHEWS: What is Liz Cheney's connection to Wyoming? She went to high school in Virginia, she went to college in Colorado, she spent all of her life back here in Wasshington. Usually you know a person where they went to high school. I know it's simple; that's where you're from, where you went to high school. No connection to the state except

"I'm absolutely not too old to be senator. I'm the median age," Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) told CNN's Dana Bash today. Enzi is 69 years old. "People in Wyoming don't believe in long campaigns," he continued. "In fact they complain about long campaigns. It doesn't take them long to make up their mind. And it doesn't cost a lot of money to have them ma

At a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, Treasury Inspector General Duncan testifies that testing for Obamacare was running behind and may not be adequate leading to problems with the roll out when people go to sign up. "The lack of adequate testing could result in significant delays and errors in accepting and processing [Affordable Care Act]

"She's terrific, and I think she has a future that is very, very bright, I just think that this is the wrong race at the wrong time," Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) said on MSNBC today. "The election isn’t going to be for another 13 months and this is all going to come down to a decision by about 100,000 primary election voters next august, so

JOE SCARBOROUGH: "By the way, people, you say this, and there will be some people on Twitter that say, 'oh you're race-baiting.' If you're in America and you don't know somebody that has been stopped late at night for driving while black, then you just don't have any black friends. It's that simple."

MARGARET CARLSON: You have these districts where House members are doing what their districts sent them to do, which is not to have an immigration bill because they’re gerrymandered districts, majority white voters, older, and for them, immigrants are, you know, people in hoodies. They classify them as we don’t want them. They’re going to low

On Huffington Post Live today, Rachel Jeantel expounded on her thoughts on what occurred when Zimmerman and Martin met face to face. "I believe Trayvon hit first," she said. She went on to describe how she believed that Trayvon throwing the first punch was likely caused by Zimmerman attempting to grab and detain Martin. (via

REP. STENY HOYER (D-MD): "This bill and the other bill are not real. They are purely partisan politics. They have nothing to do with reality. That, my friends and Mr. Speaker, the American people ought to know that is the truth. These bills take time [on the House Floor] with no effect, and everybody in this House, the Majority Leader and 434 of th

JIMMY CARTER: "I think the jury made the right decision based in the evidence presented because the prosecution inadvertently set the standard so high that the jury had to be convinced that it was a deliberate act by Zimmerman and that he was not defending himself and so forth. It's not a moral question, it's a legal question and the American law r

MICHAEL STEELE: I think something that is getting lost in translation here, all of this emotion that's come to the core of the debate here on Trayvon, really needs to -- we need to step back in the black community and begin to have a conversation internally because we have to think about how we also project out to the broader community, acceptance

CHRIS HAYES: Do you get a sense that there's a consensus emerging about what the next steps are, what the fights are now that the verdict is in. The first organizing around this case was to get a trial, to get an arrest, charges for George Zimmerman, then there was a verdict. What are the next steps now? What are the next demands that organizers ar

Nationally-syndicated radio host Tom Joyner offered Rachel Jeantel a full scholarship to any historically black college or university she wanted to attend. Jeantel, a friend of Trayvon Martin, testified at the George Zimmerman murder trial and recently appeared on Piers Morgan to discuss Zimmerman's acquittal. "I will help you get tutors to get

Shaka King, director of the film "Newlyweeds," joins MSNBC's "Hardball." KING: The high incarceration rates are really just another example and symptom of institutional racism and white supremacy. The reason you're seeing so many young black men in jail now is the confluence of racist criminal justice system, racist law enforcement, racist educa

"There is lots roiling beneath the surface on Benghazi," said the Weekly Standard's Steve Hayes. "I don't think anybody should think for a minute that just because we haven't been reading about it in the New York Times or other mainstream news accounts that there's not things happening."

Chris Hayes reports on the details of the filibuster deal reached Tuesday in the Senate and suggests that this might be the beginning of a new era in Congress where threatening "to do whatever it takes" becomes the only way to pass legislation.  CHRIS HAYES: Today, Harry Reid scored a rare and thorough victory for Democrats, because he and Sena

Rachel Maddow retells the bizarre history of former Vice President Dick Cheney's Wyoming residency status and reports on how a similar "carpetbagger" resentment is already plaguing his daughter Liz Cheney's nascent senate bid.

Bill O'Reilly: "The liberal line will always be the same: it's society's fault, past racial injustice is the story, not present social chaos."