On his nationally-syndicated radio program Wednesday night, Mark Levin grilled Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) for his strategy to repeal Obamacare. Johnson, an opponent to Ted Cruz's strategy to defund Obamacare, says he didn't come on for an "inquisition." Johnson tells Levin that the only way to get rid of Obamacare is to have at least 5 Democratic Se

PETER SCHIFF: Well, you know, I think the stock market is going down because it was in need of a correction. I don't think it's panicking because of the debt ceiling or the Washington shut down. Although, a resolution to that phony crisis may be the catalyst for the ended of the correction but that doesn't mean it caused it. But the real threat

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think there are two issues here. One is was it a political act? I tend to think that some of these interpretations, clearly, people seem to be always erring on the side of being rough and tough and irrational like the cordoning off of the World War II memorial, which is open-air and where it takes more park rangers to cordon

DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) gave a long, rambling and incoherent answer when asked by an MSNBC host what the Obamacare enrollment numbers are and why the rollout was disastrous. Wasserman Schultz said it would be "unfair" to ask for enrollment numbers right now given that the rollout is set to last 180 days. T

SEN. RAND PAUL: The common ground might be that we together -- we get together and we say there are things that are broken. For example, they're broken not because I broke them or Republicans did or Democrats. Social Security is broken. Medicare is broken. It's broken because we're living longer and this population of kids is smaller than the gener

JAY CARNEY: Jon. JONATHAN KARL, ABC NEWS: Jay -- CARNEY: You have that skeptical look on your face, Jon. KARL: I’m always a little skeptical, Jay. (Laughter.) On this question of families of those who have lost loved ones serving our country, you said that the White House knew that this problem would be there in the event of the shut

RICK WILLIAMS, WPVI-TV REPORTER: In an exclusive interview in the presidential library, President Obama told me he definitely feels the pain of the American people as the government shutdown enters its ninth day. Even the White House, he said, is feeling the pinch. PRESIDENT OBAMA: I mean, I've got young people here who are expecting their first

Students at the University of Colorado Boulder, a bastion of liberal thought, blamed President Obama and Democrats on Tuesday for the ongoing government shutdown which is now entering its second week. A video report by Campus Reform's Caleb Bonham.

Wolf Blitzer reacts to a report from CNN's Brian Todd that the Obama administration was warned that the Obamacare website had glitches yet went ahead with the rollout anyway. WOLF BLITZER, CNN: If they had

ED SCHULTZ (08 OCTOBER 2013): Your take on what we're facing right now in this country. JESSE JACKSON: Looking at the resize of the Confederacy, the same group narrowly conceived -- anti-labor, anti-racial justice, anti-gender equality, anti-the big American dream, that tried to take us down in 1860. It was the Fort Sumter tea party, its progeni

CARNEY: There's no question that he's capable when it comes to using technology, I don't know that he's -- He gets briefed on implementation regularly, and is shown how the system works, so I know he's very familiar with it. I don't know if he has personally gone on the website, absent those breifings that he's had. But he is up to date on the i

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: So what's the best way to end this thing without raising the debt ceiling, without defaulting, how do we do that? SEN. PAT TOOMEY (R-PA): First of all, there is zero chance that the U.S. government is going to default on its debt. It's unfortunate that people have conflated this idea of not raising the debt ceiling immediately o

Tea party-supported Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) says shutting down the government over Obamacare wasn't best approach. GLORIA BORGER, CNN: So -- now I forgot what I was going to say. OK. You're -- you know, you're 100 percent right. Let's say that the president shouldn't have passed this along party lines and all the rest. SEN. RON J

BRIAN TODD, CNN: A week into it, Wolf, still a lot of glitches. People not able to create accounts just to get information to possibly enroll, much less not being able to actually enroll in the plan. A week in, still a lot of problems. I was just with a database company owner named Luke Chung, he's out of Virginia. He has tried to enroll in this si

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) infuriated the House GOP by citing a Public Policy Polling survey showing dog poop has a higher approval rating than Congress. GRAYSON: "What do you have a higher opinion of, Congress or witches? Cong

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Charlie, this thing about Cruz -- now, I don't think cruz could ever be president. He doesn't seem to have the personality or even the manner of a presidential candidate. He's too, way too hot for a presidential candidate. But I think Rand Paul is softening up around the edges. I read your piece, I think he's joining the club, if yo

A local reporter from Georgia station WXIA-TV tries all day, unsuccesfully, to sign up for Obamacare.

SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): There are times when I respect the President and I'm proud of him. I was proud of him for bringing Syria to the Congress and saying we should have a debate, that's what the Constitutions says. But there are other times when I'm not so proud of him, for example on the default or on defaulting over not raising the debt ceiling,

Charles Krauthammer, Nina Easton, and A.B. Stoddard discuss what the president must do about the quickly approaching debt ceiling deadline.

Chris Hayes discusses why he believes that, in the end, the American people will blame the Republicans for the entire Obamacare-shutdown-debt ceiling crisis.

Bill O'Reilly and Charles Krauthammer discuss the fight over Obamacare, the government shutdown, and the debt ceiling. O'REILLY: If Obamacare is a good thing, the folks will know it. If it's a bad thing, then the law should be changed. Right? One year from today, that tale will be told.