From last night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On Obama’s campaign promise that negotiations on the Hill would be transparent:

Look, on the process [of creating a single House and single Senate bill on health-care reform]: These negotiations have to happen in secret because something this ugly has to go on in the dark.
And the breaking of a promise [of transparency], I agree with Mara, it is not a strong political issue. After all, Obama had promised he wouldn’t raise private funds in his election, and that didn’t really matter. What matters is substance and not the process, and at heart of substance is the cost.
What happened is that the Democrats last week got away with murder when the Finance Committee bill came out and got the stamp of approval from the CBO…The tricks that the Democrats had included in the bill, which was (as McCain had pointed out) half a decade of [additional healthcare] expenditures, a full decade of [income from] receiving the taxation, made it look as if it came out OK, but, in fact, it is going to blow a huge hole in the budget.
And the opportunity for the Republicans and those who oppose it is to wait for the melded bill to come out of the Senate, the one that will combine the Finance Committee and the HELP committee, and to make sure at the beginning that the gimmicks are exposed so that the idea that it is revenue neutral is exposed as a fraud at the beginning.

On Rush Limbaugh:

Look, he has been libeled. These accusations are truly outrageous, without basis, broadcast on CNN. And Rick Sanchez has apparently not apologized or even withdrawn [the accusation]. He sidestepped and said, well, there are other accusations. That’s disgraceful.
And the comment he [Limbaugh] made about McNabb: I don’t think it makes him any more racist than the comment Larry Summers made about women in the sciences made him a sexist.
And is this all you can pin on Limbaugh who has been on the air three hours a day for 20 years? The total number of words there has to exceed the Bible and Shakespeare combined — and all you got on him is the Donovan McNabb?
I think this clearly is a case where a club, the NFL has decided, it does not want an outspoken conservative. But you can’t say that. It’s obviously about ideology, so you blame it on racism, which is a false accusation, and I think they ought to apologize to him.
He doesn’t have a right to own an NFL team. It’s not a legal case, and they can say no. It’s a private club. But it’s the wrong thing to do.