Political Pundits

We need to fix Obamacare, upgrade Obamacare, but right now everybody is just scoring political points and nothing is getting done.

I do think that the president was overly broad in his assurances to the American people, and I think that that was a mistake and I think that he will pay a price for that in some quarters in terms of his credibility and his standing.

Paul Ryan has kind of made his bread and butter saying, Americans, some are makers and some are takers.

I think there's actually a, an economic model that he's trying to champion.

The trickle-down economic model that says -- that says, you know, when the wealthy do well, everybody else will do better, I think has been discredited.

I think what Obama believes is that -- that when you have too much inequality, you can't get the growth.

He saved us from the Great Depression. I don't think he has to give you a speech about how much he cares about the economy.

He was strong in his beliefs. He didn't back down from the fight of what he believed in.

I think he spent too much time trying to be too nice. It's amazing to me to hear conservatives say he never reached out.

I think he needs to say that he wants unity. But not unity at all costs, there's something more important than people just getting together in this town.

I think Americans are pretty wise about wanting the people who have done well in America to do well by America and start paying America back.

We can't even have a discussion about where to cut because Republicans have gotten themselves so far out on this one tiny issue.

The Republicans have a problem now all the polls show the vast majority of the American people say that and people have done well in America should do well by America and start paying America back.

I think the president is taking a balanced approach. We are talking about spending cuts.

Republicans have a problem now that all of the polls show the vast majority of American people say that people who have done well in America should do well by America and start paying America back.

You're talking about Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. These are programs that are popular and that are working.

You will have a hard time getting ordinary people to understand why we should take a chain saw to middle class programs that are working.

Well, for sure that people are now ready to say, you know what, all that stuff we were telling ourselves about the electoral college, that obviously doesn't stand up.

Well, whether the president has a mandate is a matter of opinion. Whether he has power is a matter of fact.

This is a big defeat, and it's not just the mechanics of voter turnout, although those were bad.

There has been a real shift in power dynamics between the president and the Republican parties, the Republicans' disadvantage.

The election changed a lot. The election changed the underlying power dynamic between the two parties. You know that great line of Al Capone's, you can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with a kind word alone? The…

The GOP's big problem now is that they've backed themselves in this sort of demographic cul-de-sac.

The Tea Party is one of the most impressive citizen movements in the history of the country.