“Obama has every right to take credit for the Dow hitting 10000 again, which no one would have predicted a year ago. And in fact, Democrats tend to be good for the Dow: compare Clinton with the Bushes who came before and after him. ”

“No question that we’re confronting a “culture war” between those who say that the answer to our problems is unregulated greed...whereas the other side is saying that our salvation lies in doing what’s in the public interest.”

“The White House was, and continues to be, obsessed with “bipartisanship,” which after the Bush years means splitting the difference between new ideas and failed ones”

“Instead of Republican Senators Collins, Snowe, and Specter, which voted for President Obama and the change he promised...having to worry every day about their re-election in their states...they are now in the position to tell the President what he can and can’t do over the next four years...”

“The Senate should ask him much tougher questions about what he will do to rid the Justice Department of a generation of unqualified political appointees with mail-order degrees than about one decision eight years ago. We need to return to competent, honest government, not political theatre.”

“I suspect his speech may have reopened a dialog with, if not the minds of, the kinds of voters he had won over in states like Wisconsin but began to lose for a number of reasons...”