David Gergen actually said...

"Symbolic. You know, Tom Foreman just said, he talked about the president bringing an ax to the budget. Unfortunately, it looks more like a set of tweezers."

"I think they can absolutely point to the Bush administration for the huge deficits this year."

"I think the prospect of $1 trillion a year or more of deficits, which is what we're looking at right now over the next four to eight years, is very sobering to people."

"This has become less of the big-tent party than the one that existed 10 or 15 years ago."