JUDY WOODRUFF, PBS: So, just nine days until the start of the fiscal rear, David, the Republicans in the House have thrown down the gauntlet. They're not going to fund the government for the coming year, they say, unless the president's health care plan is zeroed out. Where is it headed? DAVID BROOKS: I'm Mr. Pollyanna on this. I think we're --

BILL MAHER (@1:20): We're never going to do anything about this and I'm tired of hearing about shooters. I don't care about them. I don't care about what we know for sure. But what I know for sure is that we're not going to do anything, because both parties like guns. Joe Biden said, 'buy a shotgun.' That's what this guy did, he bought a shotgu

BILL MAHER: For the folks who watch this show to catch up on what they missed during the week, here's what you missed: the House Republicans, led by the tea party, really, I think, are holding hostage -- and I don't say that in a snarky way, I've heard them use that phrase themselves, I've heard Mitch McConnell say that -- holding hostage, both the

CHRIS HAYES: Part of the issue, here, right, is you end up with this perverse circumstance is which the only way to pass the bill is to create this massively complicated Rube Goldberg machine to deliver health insurance to people, because that's the only way to thread the needle between the different interests that are trying to kill it. Then, once

Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, Mort Zuckerman and Susan Ferrechio discuss.

MARK LEVIN: I hear this guy Gutfeld on "The Five," who is getting more annoying, quite frankly. Well, Mark, you call out the names.. Hey, I'm watching FOX, what more do you want? They got to get smart, you see. The conservatives have to get smart, we got a fight battles we can win. Really? When I was in the 1976 Reagan campaign against Gerald Ford,

ED HENRY, FOX NEWS: Thanks, Jay. I’m not asking you about a Fed action, but asking you about the President’s performance on the economy. When the Fed says that the economy is simply not strong enough to take the training wheels off, is that not an indictment of the President’s policies, since he’s had five years now? JAY CARNEY: No. I

REP. SEAN DUFFY (R-WIS.): It is a concern. And that's why when these conservatives in the Senate were running ads, raising money and holding rallies about this great strategy and using House conservatives as pawns in that strategy, we were silent. We weren't -- we believe in this rule of Ronald Reagan where we don’t take shots at fellow Republica

JAKE TAPPER But in terms of the details of the law, we can get into those. I agree with you that there are questions. And as you note, President Obama himself delayed one of the provisions, the employer mandate provision. But let me -- let me read something to you from Karl Rove, who wrote in "The Wall Street Journal" -- quote -- "Even the defun

On "Real Time" with host Bill Maher, guest Joy Behar said Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is "good-looking" and "hot."

White House: In his weekly address, President Obama says the economy is making progress five years after the worst recession since the Great Depression, but to avoid another crisis, Congress must meet two deadlines in the coming weeks: pass a budget by the end of the month to keep the government open, and raise the debt ceiling so America can pay i