Bill Bennett: “I take a piece of paper and I write simply ``1 percent equals $48 billion.'' ... we will have done more than a good…”

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.

If Herman Cain cannot stand up to these charges, if he refuses to, then he should step out of the race. A man big enough to run for president should be big enough to have a full and candid press conference on all of this.

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.