I thought we were heading for a government shutdown, almost for certain.

If Speaker Boehner can deliver his caucus, many of whom got elected not to compromise, if he can get them to vote for a compromise, I think that would be pretty remarkable.

We just did a poll, CNN, 85 percent of the American people say we ought to keep Medicare as it is or increase it.

The president of the United States always looks good when he can rise above the partisan fray or kind of resolve a partisan legal difference.

The Ryan proposal is a setback for that, because it doesn't ask rich people to pay more after they've gotten now three tax cuts, each of which were nearly a trillion dollars.

The Ryan budget doesn't even reduce the deficit in the first ten years, because it takes the savings from ending Medicare, get this, and gives it to tax cuts for the rich and for oil companies. It's unconscionable.

Yes, the Democrats did go first. I mean I just said they cut half a trillion from Medicare spending for which they were viciously attacked by the same Republicans who now want to do away with Medicare all together.

Medicare, Medicare, Medicare.

Yes, the president is always at his best when he feels like he can bring both sides together. But they did move a long way, both sides. The continuing resolution that they're about to pass in seven days cuts $78.5 billion from the budget…

The Republicans killed the budget.

This is going to be his choice and he's going to sleep on it, I suppose, tonight. Either he takes the position of the Republican base... or he tries to find a bipartisan solution.