David Axelrod: “I think my hope is that Democrats use this new majority to do what the members who got elected said they wanted to do…”

Unless the economy and his numbers rebound, Republicans are going to feel less willing to follow him blindly.

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.

I hope we’re not all complicit in assisting an unintended suicide.

The nature of presidential politics is the bar gets raised constantly.