Bill Bennett: “What made him look good? What brought us to this point? And that was the surge on which John McCain risked his political…”

You're looking at a government that people distrust.

Lord, no. I mean, I -- if there's one thing that's clear in Washington right now, it's that there's a huge difference between the parties.

I think he runs the choice of either being ineffectual if he doesn't get it or imperious, if he does. I don't think this is going to go down well.

Look, there's one huge dominating issue in America right now. And that is the deficits and the economy and that's got everybody's attention, properly so.