I think the distrust and the rifts are growing deeper. The president is now off and running on his campaign and he's using very partisan rhetoric that is angering the Republicans, stirring up his base.

The demagoguery we're seeing right now is intense.

It is now going to be I think the basis of the Republican campaign. I would imagine it would be in their platform and it's hard to see how a candidate for the Republican Party could now run away from the Ryan approach without splintering…

I think the chances have gone pretty high now that we will not get entitlement reform and we won't get a serious reform of taxes until after the 2012 election.

I think they lost the American people over this whole deal anyway.

They ought to be working night and day to make sure we don't go over the debt limit.

I think he stated his values very well.

It may wrap himself in the deficit commission. He may wrap himself in the gang of six, anything but being bold and concrete, which I think is what is needed now.

The real issue is, are they going to be adults and mature and actually try to come to grips with the program?

It is. You know, as David Walker would say, the -- what we were doing last week was paying the bar bills on the Titanic. And now in the coming weeks we're going to fight over the Titanic itself. And I do think that there is -- this is…

I think Boehner came out as well as the Tea Party; he brought discipline to his party.