Pat Caddell, Doug Schoen and former Rep. John LeBoutillier (R-NY) discuss who will be blamed for the government shutdown, public opinion of the tea party, Harry Reid's bizarre response to a reporter's question about children with cancer, delaying vs. defunding Obamacare, the debt ceiling, and more.

CHRIS WALLACE: Well, leaders of both parties this week continuing to talk at each other while they fail to talk with each other. And we're back now with the panel. Relations between the two parties, I think, it's fair to say, were pretty miserable before the standoff, after this, and all of the splits we're seeing in the parties, between the partie

BILL MAHER: "The other thing that was apparently so important for the Republicans to keep open was the World War II Memorial in Washington. That was closed, so a bunch of the World War II vets knocked down the barriers and stormed it. And then I love this -- they posed for pictures with Michele Bachmann, who showed up. Michele Bachmann, one of the

STEPHANOPOULOS: You heard Speaker Boehner right there. He is not going to put a clean vote for a -- a clean government funding resolution on the floor, not going to put a vote for a clean debt limit extension on the floor unless the Democrats start to negotiate. SCHUMER: Well, first, the speaker said there aren't the votes on the floor to re-ope

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN: You would agree it's not good for the U.S. not to be able to borrow past where it is? Because at some point it will have to default. How should the Republicans handle the debt ceiling? Do you want, for instance, some faction of the president's health plan to be attached to that in exchange for lifting the debt ceiling? Or becaus

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN: Do you think you hurt the Republican Party brand? SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): Not remotely. But I also think far too many people are worried about politics. Listen, if we worry about what is impacting the American people, the politics will take care of itself. The politicians that are gazing at polls, there is a reason why the mos

PAUL GIGOT, WALL STREET JOURNAL: George I think there's another part of the calculation here from White House's point of view and that's the 2014 elections. When I was here last time I said I think the president may want a shutdown. COKIE ROBERTS: Right. GIGOT: Because his agenda-- GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: He's got the shutdown. He cannot wa

JIM VANDEHEI, POLITICO EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Some day I want to be an optimist, but today I am going to continue to be an extreme pessimist, which is they're probably going to have a solution and it's going to be like every solution we've seen for the last three years -- a bad one, a short-term one. There's no way out of the this box at this point othe

SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: The way to gauge if it's offensive enough right, is to walk into a bar full of Native Americans and yell out, Redskins! Here's what's going to happen, you're going to be beaten up, to near death. Right? So it's offensive. GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You know the owner of the Redskins, his attorney, Laney Davis has said that he keeps

CHRIS WALLACE: I want to ask you about ObamaCare. You brought it up, that's what -- what a lot of this is about. The public exchanges in ObamaCare opened this week. And I think it's fair to say that the government Web site was a mess. In fact -- and you can look at it right here -- the page to sign up to enroll for ObamaCare has been taken down for

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Well, of course you can change it. You can change it if you-- of course, but you have to propose something that can get through the House, the Senate, and be signed by the President. Back in the '80s, they didn't shut down the government to make that happen, did they? SEN. RAND PAUL: Well, h

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, NBC NEWS: Let me let Congresswoman Fudge have the first and the last word. What do you think about this rollout of ObamaCare? Are you disappointed? REP. MARCIA FUDGE (D-OH): Certainly. But let me just differentiate between enrollment and the plan itself. There have been some difficulties w

Cokie Roberts, Jonathan Karl, Paul Gigot, Soledad O'Brien, and Steven Rattner discuss the government shutdown crisis. 

STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, you had a conversation at the White House. The Democrats, including Senate Democrat Harry Reid, has said he's more than willing to have a conference, more than willing to have a negotiation, but not under the threat of a government shutdown, not under the threat of a default. BOEHNER: So it's my way or the highway. That's w

Rich Lowry, Steve Inskeep, Marcia Fudge, Mike Murphy discuss the blame game in Washington.

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA) debate the shutdown and a split Republican party.

George Will, Kirsten Powers, Karl Rove and Joe Trippi discuss the National Park Service and the government shutdown. 

"It's time to stop being politically correct, and start being morally right," says Judge Jeanine Pirro in her opening statement as she focuses upon the rampant level of total chaos and lawlessness throughout the country where no one seems to be held accountable for anything they do.