JONAH GOLDBERG: In effect, we really have a coalition going on on the right in Congress, it's the Republicans who follow Boehner and the tea party caucus that essentially doesn't. They'll work together on some things. What usually happens in the wake of these kinds of things is that most Republicans -- and in other circumstances, the Democrats, but

A stenographer for the House of Representatives lost it Wednesday night as Congress passed a fiscal compromise that would open the government and raise the debt ceiling. As the vote was ending, the stenographer took to the microphone and began shouting about Freemasons and religion. The woman, reportedly named Dianne Reidy, was escorted out after h

NEWT GINGRICH: It's a sad day, first of all, because the president adopted a strategy of vilifying his opponents and refusing to negotiate and it worked. He got what he wanted, on his terms, in a way that teaches us what he's going to do next, which is vilify his opponents and refuse to negotiate. It's a sad day because -- does any rational person

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The fundamental issue has always been Obama has no interest in reducing the debt and the deficit. That's never been a priority; the priority is to increase entitlements. He believes he is a leveler. He wants to spread the wealth. He has been open about that. He wants to do Obamacare, which obviously he did. I mean, that's not h

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good evening, everybody. Tonight, the Republicans and Democrats in Congress have come together around an agreement that will reopen our government and remove the threat of default from our economy. The Senate has now voted to approve this agreement, and Democrats and Republicans in the House still have an important vote to take,

PAUL BEGALA: Ted Cruz is a big winner. The Republican brand is weighed down, but the Cruz brand is way up. I'm from Texas, I grew up there and I talked to friends today, and the business community is furious. Business Republicans are furious, but the grassroots loves this. And we'll know soon. We'll see. I bet you'll see invitations rolling in to S

REP. NANCY PELOSI: It’s going to pass in the Senate. We’re going to pass it in the House. I can't believe that many Republicans will vote against opening government and lifting the debt ceiling, but we'll see. We’ll see in a few hours or maybe tomorrow morning. But whatever it is, we have to use it as a template on how we go forward, recogniz

"There's a body of congressional people that want to paralyze the system. I think what sits underneath it unfortunately is there's probably some racism involved, which is really awful," actor Robert Redford said on CNN.

REP. SEAN DUFFY: Mika, I gotta tell you, my mom is a good liberal. She loves you, she's happy I’m on your show. But I think are you a part of the problem. You are a part of the problem, because the Republican caucus sometimes can be unreasonable. But look how far we have moved. We said we want to defund it. Now we want to delay it. Now we are jus

SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): Now, I want to commend the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives has taken a bold stance listening to the American people, but unfortunately, the United States Senate has refused to do likewise. The United States Senate has stayed with the traditional approach of the Washington establishment of maintaining the

"I am the first to acknowledge that the website that was supposed to do this all in a seamless way has had way more glitches than I think are acceptable," President Obama told Des Moines TV station KCCI.

REP. JOHN MICA (R-Fla.): I think nothing has resonated more with the public than to see an open-air monument such as the World War Two memorial, and closeby, the Martin Luther King memorial. It just seems that common sense did not prevail. Did you, now, you aid you take full responsibility for that action, is that correct? JONATHAN JARVIS, NPS D

"McKay [Coppins], do you think Ted Cruz is a bit like the David Koresh of the Republican party? He's a bit like a character who believes himself to be anointed, believes himself to be a prophet, ignores everything, and torches the place in the process," Martin Bashir asked on the Wednesday broadcast of his MSNBC show.

MICHAEL GRAHAM: We had a local shop employee who was -- the store was being robbed at knife point, and he happend to have a legally owned concealed carry pistol on him, against the policy of the store, but he used the gun in a way, Sen. Paul, that you and I know law-abiding Americans do all the time. He brandished it, no fire, nothing. He ended the

BILL HEMMER, FOX NEWS: With a Democrat in the White House and Harry Reid with the majority in the Senate, what can you do [to stop Obamacare]? MICHAEL NEEDHAM, HERITAGE ACTION: Well, everybody understands that we're not going to be able to repeal this law until 2017. And that we have to win the Senate and win the White House. But right now, it i

REP. PETER KING (R-NY): John Boehner and Eric Cantor both told us in early September that this was doomed to failure, but they had no choice because we have 35-40 Republicans who insisted on this path. I think that once the government was shut down, it took away the edge that we would have had. I think that if we would have kept the government open

JAY CARNEY: The president believes that the bipartisan agreement announced by the leaders of the United States Senate will reopen the government and remove the threat of economic brinksmanship that has already harmed middle class families, American businesses, and our country's economic standing in the world. The president applauds Leader Reid and

GEORGE WILL: Republicans now feel embattled whereas in fact they should feel empowered. Three years ago, we were talking about the Simpson-Bowles approach. The framework was going to be, cut some entitlements or cut the growth of entitlements in exchange for tax increases. Now the argument has shifted radically in Republicans' favor because of the

PIERS MORGAN: You're a top lawyer. When he is basically taking an established law like ObamaCare -- whether you like parts of it or not, or even the whole thing --and you're using that as a stick to shut down the American government, that is taking it a bit far, isn't it? ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Not only that, but I think it raises very serious constit

O'REILLY: The American people elected President Obama twice. He told us he was a moderate. He told us healthcare costs would generally go down. We now know those things are not true.

With the U.S. on the brink of catastrophic default, a number Tea Partiers are still holding out, refusing to sign onto any agreement that doesn’t gut Obamacare.

Republicans insist the Treasury can simply prioritize payments to creditors-- despite a system not set up to do so. Chris Hayes and Steve Rattner discuss the myth and the reality about the debt-ceiling and default.

Rich Lowry, Juan Williams, and Charles Krauthammer discuss the late-breaking developments on the Hill Tuesday night.