I do think it's not just a question of -- and as Dana says, it's feeding into each other when you've got this issue now with the IRS.

I think this controversy has now mushroomed into a big league scandal.

The attorney general is saying he's going to launch a criminal investigation. That says there are signals this is very serious.

I think there has been a recognition on part of White House aide, not everybody that they were too reticent.

At some point he has to lead. He has to put some things on the table and he has not yet done that on entitlements in a serious way.

I believe the president deserves the benefit of the doubt on this one.

Anything but. The fact they're meeting tomorrow, both sides are into theatrics now.

This is just a continuation of the lack of responsibility that serious people and serious positions of power, that's what is so -- you know, I don't think the day is far off, frankly, when the Italians can take a clown and have a new party…

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.

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

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.