James Carville

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.

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.

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.

The fact that there was not anywhere close to sufficient accountability, that's what the Democratic Party exists for.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

She's the commander in chief of the National Guard. If there's a prison riot. If there's some kind of an outbreak of a health issue, you know, something like that.

The level of distrust down here to BP is very, very high. And I don't know, the 93 million, better to put 93 million into helping people out as opposed to these ads.

She can do a Sarah Palin and just call all the media impotent and limp, which has got to be my favorite thing.

If this woman wins, it's going to have to be a very good year.

This is the first time I saw the whole clip just out of sympathetic embarrassment.

The level of distrust at BP is at an all-time high.

They can recover. They're going to have to -- and Eric is right. They're going to have to answer this.

I think Mr. Riley and Senator Graham, if their commission has got to look into this, and we've got to get to the bottom because this industry is obviously insufficiently regulated.

We've got to get to the bottom. Because this industry is obviously insufficiently regulated.

It is a dangerous line of work, and I think it's necessary.

But I do think that we ought to pause. And after -- the federal government has put some real skin in the game here. They have rebuilt some things here. Some of it has gone well.