I think the White House response has not been adequate in this area.

What Barack Obama very much needs now is a Jack Welch-type figure to come in and to run this stimulus program and especially to oversee the spending side.

This is a man who has very, very large ambitions to change the world, to remake America, remake the world.

This is a time when there's great weakness in political leadership both on the Palestinian side where the leadership is fractured between the West Bank and Gaza.

He's trying to appeal to the moderates in the Arab and Muslim world. He's trying to rally them and then isolate Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda as best he can so that he can overwhelm them politically.

It has been a real circus getting here, hasn't it?

They cannot allow this kind of stuff to creep into bridges to nowhere to creep into this stimulus package.

Trying to get the personalities straight is very important.

I think they're having a very hard time sorting that out. But in appointing these two envoys today, I think they made ideal appointments.

If he can, by following through on his campaign promises, create confidence in the government, maybe it can make people more confident about the economic future.

If he can -- by following through on his campaign promises, create confidence in the government, maybe it can make people more confident about the economic future and help to get the economic wheels moving again.