CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think the Boehner speech was what you would expect. He didn't want to do it and he had to do it and so he had to defend it, and that is kabuki. I think it's going to go to the Senate and if we end up with a shutdown, it is going to be kamikaze, and the Republicans will end up sushi. Very thin slices. And everybody knows this,

SHANNON BREAM: We have this vote today on the House side that funds the government through December 15th, but strips funding for Obamacare and now heads to the Senate. Jonah, is this a kamikaze mission? JONAH GOLDBERG: There is definitely a lot of kabuki theater in this, I'll have to find another Japanese word. In some ways, there has been -- it

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Let me just throw this out there right now, people in those neighborhoods in Chicago, a lot of them, a lot of law-abiding citizens, would say, "do you know if there's a version of stop-and-frisk you can import from New York to our neighborhood?" While there's a lot of white liberals in the suburbs that love like wringing their hand

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, right now the debate that's going on in Congress is not meeting the test of helping middle class families. It's just -- they're not focused on you. They're focused on politics. They're focused on trying to mess with me. They're not focused on you. They're not focused on you.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: If the world sees America not paying its bills, then they will not buy debt, Treasury bills from the United States, or if they do, they'll do it at much higher interest rates. That means somebody wanting to buy an F-150 will have to pay much higher interest rates eventually, which means you will sell less cars. That’s just one

"He has been … open, practically apolitical, certainly nonpartisan, in terms of welcoming every idea and solution. I think that’s one of the reasons the Republicans want to take him down politically, because they know he is a nonpartisan president, and that’s something very hard for them to cope with," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told

Claiming victory, House Speaker John Boehner hailed the House vote Friday to derail Obamacare but continue funding the government. Boehner called President Barack Obama's health care law "a trainwreck," that is "hurting the American people."

CBS NEWS' BOB SCHIEFFER: When the Wall Street Journal compares them to those Japanese suicide pilots in World War II, I think that's apt, but even more apt -- do you remember way on into the 1950s when they'd go into the jungles of the Philippines, and they'd find these Japanese soldiers that thought World War II was still going on? The war over Ob

RON PAUL: I’m not surprised, but the markets were certainly surprised yesterday, but I think it's a major admission by Bernanke that things aren’t good. The fact that he’s doing this and all the markets anticipated, well maybe the economy hasn't improved. He’s literally saying we're in bad shape, but the markets didn't interpret it that way

REP. STENY HOYER (D-MD), House Minority Whip: "Madam Speaker, today we are considering a measure to fund government only if the Democratic Senate and the Democratic President will agree to dismantle the health care reform law that will help millions of Americans access quality, affordable care. That isn't going to happen, and it is a blatant act of

TOM DELAY: Let me put it in perspective a little bit. When the Republicans took over for the first time in 60 years in 1995 we did some pretty amazing things. And the left and the Democrats didn't like it. And the next year they announced publicly that they were going to take me out. And they entered some ethics charges that year, they were dis

CHRIS WALLACE: What's the problem with sitting down and talking? CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Because they are just stringing us along. Any negotiation that starts with a lie as large as the one you just heard -- Rouhani saying, "We are not seeking a bomb, and we never have" -- doesn't have good prospects. It is of course obvious that Iran is seeking th

CBSNews.com Executive Washington Editor Steve Chaggaris talks with RealClearPolitics National Political Reporter Scott Conroy about several Senate races that could decide which party controls the upper chamber after the 2014 midterm election.

WOLF BLITZER, CNN: So it's just -- it's just a debating point, is that what you're saying? You're not really going to shut the government down, if the Senate, which is Democratic-controlled, does not stop funding Obamacare, you will allow the government to remain in business. Is that what I'm hearing? DUFFY: So, Wolf, for all I know, Harry Reid

Matt Taibbi and Chris Hayes discuss John McCain's new op-ed in Pravda--  it isn't quite what he thinks it is.

Charles Krauthammer, Mara Liasson, Rich Lowry and consider the recent friendly overtures from Iran: Are they stringing us along or do they really want peace? Are the sanctions working?

Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for the Huffington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about the level of vitriol in the infighting among Republicans and conservatives over whether the stunt votes in the House to defund Obamacare do them more political harm than good.

O'REILLY: There is no question the American media is opposing the majority of Americans over the Second Amendment. And the reason is that most journalists live in secure places. Here in New York City, many press people live in high-rise apartment buildings protected from intruders. But most Americans don't have the money to do that. So they must p