I think there are a lot of things that the president can do, and hopefully that he will do that will put him back in good speed with the American people.

We should have done something about compensation for these banks that got bailout money.

I think that the Democrats paid a price because it looked like we were too lackadaisical about what happened during these bailouts.

I don't blame people for being mad about this. It's something to be mad about.

I don't know, but I'm the guy on the campaign that said if Hillary gave him one of her balls, they'd both have two.

I think they could have explained to us what their strategy was and what they're doing.

I think questions are fair to ask here. I mean, it was a decision that had severe impact on the people in my state.

the decision to impose this drilling moratorium was based on manipulated data by the administration.

I think they're going to probably invoke the Cheney doctrine here. But you know, again, I think questions are fair to ask here.

Well, of course it is. I mean, look, there's going to be a lot more. It's -- it's -- it's -- this is what happens. You have an election, and everybody is going to come in as an outsider and they are going to change Washington, and they…

Well, I think that -- I think the House Democrats made them transparent. I think they changed the rules, if -- if -- to -- my memory serves me correctly. And, you know, they -- they come in, and spending is the big thing. Well, we're going…

But they have pledged to cut $100 billion -- 20 percent.

We do have some guidance from the Republicans in the Pledge to America, which was a campaign document in which they pledged to cut $100 billion out of the $477 billion in discretionary spending.

It's early, but it's later than you think.

I think -- I think he makes an eminently fair point. So, January the 4th, two months, when they come back, let them specify the $100 billion cuts out of $477 billion. I think that's an eminently reasonable proposal that Mr. Card has made.

If I were Sarah Palin's political adviser, that I'd say, 'Governor, we shouldn't go for this.' That poll gives me more of a green light than anything.

Yes. If we were a parliamentary government, the government would have failed after Katrina. But we're not a parliamentary government. We're a constitutional government.

Because you can't do it. There's not -- you can't cut $100 billion from $477 billion of some of the most essential parts of the federal government. But they have pledged to do it, so let's see if they can do it.

What happened here was, you had unregulated, speculated, greedy bankers that caused a financial crisis unlike anything we had since World War II.

Yes, but it's little bit of a different communication problem that I would say is, is that we have been very consistent.

You should never go out and tell people what you're doing is working, because they don't believe that.

This was a tough night for the president, the public -- public expressing pretty serious reservations here.

He sets that up and says every day, we're coming out and fighting and we're doing things, fighting as hard as we can against this enormous thing that we're facing.

I think he let the banks off way too easy. I think he -- way, way too easy when they signed off on TARP. I think they should have gone for justice. I think they should have gone after them.

I think that what those banks did -- I think what these banks did and what -- what the greed that was exhibited there is on a level and a scale that we can't even imagine.