GEORGE WILL: The last time we faced cataclysm over this was when Standard & Poor's lowered our credit rating, people said disaster. No, the cost of borrowing actually went down 40%. I don't think the markets are as irrational as some of the people on Wall Street say. I repeat what I have said here before, default is a choice. A choice in the sense

DIANA WILLIAMS, WABC-TV: You were the one many years ago, when you were running for this office who said, you know, 'I'm going to create a bipartisan atmosphere in Washington.' Yet, Washington is more split than ever before. This country is more divided than ever before. Why have you not been able to create a bipartisan atmosphere here and do you t

RUSH: I want to go back to the lady on the phone who says this doesn’t feel right. What’s happening here to the country just doesn’t feel right. You know what’s happened here? You know what this feels like, folks? I’ll tell you exactly what it feels like to me. You tell me if this isn’t close. It feels like we’ve lost a war to a commu

DIANA WILLIAMS, WABC-TV: One other quick question. My daughter asked me to ask you, what is the coolest thing about being president? She says it's because you get to be friends with Beyonce and Jay-Z. So, I said, I'm going to ask the president what's the coolest thing? PRESIDENT OBAMA: You can tell your daughter that that is a view shared by Mal

BANFIELD: When I asked you about this deal -- I get it. This whole thing has been embarrassing and that involves you as well, sir because you're part of all this. What I'm asking is the deal that we've just learned about, the provisions that have just come out today from the House Republican leadership. I wanted your reaction to those specific thre

TOMMY CHRISTOPHER, MEDIAITE: First of all, I don't know if you're aware of this, but when I had a heart attack a few years ago, I was uninsured and I haven't been able to get insurance ever since then. Listen to all the pressure on the president to negotiate, some of it coming from inside this room, made me think: Is there a chance the president wo

THOMAS ROBERTS, MSNBC: Congressman, let me ask you, when it comes to Obamacare, do you hate Obamacare more than you love your country? REP. MARSHA BLACKBURN: I’ve got to tell you something. I think that comments like that that you are making are just incredibly inappropriate. What we have to realize -- ROBERTS: You don't think it's incredib

White House press secretary Jay Carney says HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius has the "full confidence" of President Obama.

SEN. HARRY REID: I'm very disappointed with John Boehner, who would once again try to preserve his role at the expense of the country. I've worked hard to rise above partisanship, to find common ground in the Senate, and Mr. President, we've done that together for the good of the nation.

House Speaker John Boehner pitched a plan Tuesday to counter an emerging Senate deal on the debt limit and reopening the government. House Speaker John Boehner said he's 'trying to find a path forward' but underscored there have been 'no decisions.'

REP. DARRELL ISSA: We have a Republican alternative that is very similar to the Senate. We think it's considerably better. It does deal, as you're going to hear again and again, it does deal with the medical device tax. It also deals with the so-called Vitter Amendment for members of Congress, the president, the vice president and the cabinet, as i

WOLF BLITZER, CNN: Have you always voted to raise the debt ceiling? REP. STEVE ISRAEL (D-NY): I voted against it several times BLITZER: Why? ISRAEL: -- we're now in a situation BLITZER: During the Bush administration? ISRAEL: Yes. BLITZER: But why would you vote against it then and say that the Republicans now can't vote against it

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: Well, clearly the rollout of the website, and the peoples' ease of getting on to the website has been a little bit of a struggle, and that needs to be fixed, and they're working on that aggressively. I think the good news is that the website was designed for fewer people than actually logged on. We had exponential interest and th

Charles Krauthammer argues the Washington Redskins should change their name. George Will disagrees.

This ad from the Democratic Governors Association celebrates the Republican Party's all-time low in public polling numbers with a Halloween theme. 

Chris Hayes hosts a discussion about the "Million Vets" march in Washington DC. Was their "non-partisan" message overshadowed by Sarah Palin and Confederate flags? Also, why did Occupy Wall Street fail to get into mainstream politics, as the Tea Party succeeds at grinding government to a halt.

O'REILLY: The military benefits chaos shows just how poor our leadership is in Washington. And the folks know it.

Polls are showing just how shattered the Republican Party is, with a stark divide in public opinion on Tea Party and non-Tea Party members. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank and The Hill’s A.B. Stoddard join Chris Matthews to discuss.