What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

• Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
• Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.
• No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.
• The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.
• President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.
• The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.
• President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.
• President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.
• We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.
• The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.