Tea party

"It's nowhere near wintertime yet, but with all the complications, controversies and kerfuffles that have been plaguing the Obama administration all week, it's been like Christmas for the tea party." —John Fugelsang

“A high crime or misdemeanor, as we know from the last time around this track, is whatever the House majority decides it is.” —Michael Tomasky

"I love it when congressmen with socialized health care warn the rest of us of the evils of socialized health care." —John Fugelsang

"We now live in a hyperpartisan, hyperpolitical world where the unifying factor in the Republican Party is a hatred of President Obama." —David Sirota

"The reason why we lost in this last election is because they gave us a moderate." —Scottie Nell Hughes, on Mitt Romney's election 2012 loss

"I give the Obama-Christie alliance a 10. And not just because they resemble that number when standing side by side." —John Fugelsang

"The problem right now is jobs. The problem right now is the economy and economic growth." —Robert Reich

"Whoever the winner is, is going to be an intellectual midget covered in mud, because they are just slicing and dicing each other." —Dick Harpootlian, on the 15 contenders for the GOP nomination in South Carolina's first congressional district

"I think he headed for the doors because he thinks that probably, as he said, the only way that he's going to have a significant impact is through a think tank." —Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.

Just 24 hours after John Boehner put an offer on the table, the tea party is threatening to throw him overboard. His sin? Proposing a budget plan that tea party Republicans say is too much of a concession.

"To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out." —Eliot Spitzer