David Gergen actually said...

I think they are allowing cuts to go on and that is painful. That's what irresponsible.

The role of the president is first and foremost to protect the citizenry and I think that's where he's got to step up.

It's hard to get change in Washington and you said he has a quote 'a contracted sense of possibility.'

I think there is growing evidence that this White House is looking very closely at 2014 in a variety of ways.