I hate to say it, but she's trying to copy Miley [Cyrus] and Miley's trying to copy her. The era of Madonna is over.

I also think the party needs to work on a couple different fronts. There are so many fault lines within the party: conservative vs. moderate, the more fiscally minded Republicans vs. the more socially minded Republicans, the Old Guard - the sort of Newt Gingrich-Karl Rove Republican - vs. the New Guard - the Michael Steele-Sarah Palin sort of emerging sect of the party. And the party has to decide what direction it's going to go in.

White House is ranting up its rhetoric for Republicans, using wild words to attack them over the budget standoff.

I would prefer the teacher to focus on teaching and have a security officer worry about keeping the kids safe.

Republicans and conservatives have to figure out that Democrats have plenty of rope to hang themselves on their own. But you have to give voters a reason to vote for you as well.

I think Republicans forgot how to communicate with the American people.

Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them.