JOHN ROBERTS: Do you agree, Charles? With all this rhetoric that we'll shut the government down if need be, but we don't want to. They don't want to shut the government down. When push comes to shove, they'll bolt? CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: No rational Republicans want, I'm not even sure the irrational Republicans want to. The entire history of shutd

CHRIS HAYES: I want to talk budget process with you, which, man, will that keep the viewers around. But before we get to that -- no, because I have to confess, I do this for a living, and I am so GD confused. I want you to explain things to me. First of all, I have to get your response to Ted Cruz on the well of the Senate today: forced into law

NEIL CAVUTO: The issue isn't so much as what Harry Reid has been saying about what Harry Reid has been saying about Republicans but what some mainstream Republicans have been saying about those Republicans. MARK LEVIN: First of all, I just saw a poll that Harry Reid is the most hated man in Washington. Go figure. With his totalitarian mindset,

President Obama was caught by an open mic saying he quit smoking six years ago because he is scared of first lady Michelle Obama. "I hope you've quit smoking," Obama said to the U.N.'s Maina Kiai. "No, no, I haven't had a cigarette in probably six years. That's because I'm scared of my wife."

STEVE SCHMIDT, MCCAIN 2008 ADVISER: For the last couple of years, we've had this wing of the party running roughshod over the rest of the party, tossing out terms like RINO, saying we're going to purge the moderates out of the party, that, you know, it's all of the people that she's attacking in her statement. We've lost five U.S. Senate seats over

Bob Beckel blasts moderate Muslims for their continued silence to these displays from the "religion of peace" during a discussion of the Kenyan Mall massacre on "The Five."

SEN. TED CRUZ: "No American wants a government shutdown. I don't want a government shutdown. No one on this side of the aisle wants a government shutdown. The House of Representatives doesn't want a government shutdown. Mr. President, five minutes ago the Senate could have acted to prevent a government shutdown. The request that I promulgated to th

FOX News' Jim Angle reports.

SEN. HARRY REID: We’re not going to bow to tea party anarchists who deny the mere fact that Obamacare is the law. We will not bow to tea party anarchists who refuse to accept that the Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare is constitutional. They ignore the fact that President Obama was overwhelmingly reelected a few months ago. These fanatics rea

RCP political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns gives us the latest updates from Washington on the battle over Obamacare implementation. TRACE GALLAGHER, FNC: Clearly, it is a political poker game here. You look at the Republicans' hand. Is it a good one? Are they bluffing? What do you see coming down in the next week? CAITLIN HUEY-BURN

"First, there is legitimate concern and indecision," former Clinton pollster Doug Schoen told Newsmax. "It's a big decision. She served a long time as secretary of state, four years in the Senate before that. So she has to decide if she wants to go through the rigors of the campaign." "But that being said, she's the front-runner on both sides if

Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the heart of the scandal involving the targeting of Tea Party groups, is retiring.

ZAKARIA: When you look at her poll numbers, can any other Democrat even get into the race? I mean how would you raise money when you have -- I don't think I've seen numbers like this -- close to 70 percent Democrats say they would vote for her. CLINTON: Well, I think partly that's because she served well as secretary of state. And because people

JONATHAN KARL: So, Speaker Gingrich, the Republicans, what are they going to do with this and what should they do? NEWT GINGRICH: I think they should get plenty of sleep. The next three, four, five weeks are going to be very tense. They're going to be very challenging. I mean, all these people who want the House Republicans to surrender -- under

SEN. RAND PAUL: "I think Congress should never exempt themselves from a law. But then again, I think John Roberts, you know, if he loves Obamacare so much, he should get it. Right now, he's getting a federal employee subsidy. He's not part of Obamacare. He makes the rest of America -- through, I think, convoluted Constitutional logic -- he makes us

"We'll have a vote where every Republican votes to defund ObamaCare and practically every Democrat will keep it in place and that will be a defining issue in 2014. This is an albatross around their neck. ObamaCare is going over like a lead balloon in the economy and the only way we can screw this up is to make it about us," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S