On the fallout from the would-be Christmas Day bombing:

I think if you look back over the last two weeks, what is so surprising and so unsettling is not the individual lapses, the missed information here and there. I think it’s the demeanor and the language of the president, a sense people have that he’s disconnected.
He doesn’t either want to or [is able to] grasp the nature or depth of the threat. The way he waits three days after the attack to say anything . . . casually dressed, looking like he resents being taken off the golf course.
He speaks about [the incident] as if he’s giving a police report, speaks about the incident involving a suspect, an alleged attack, he speaks of him as an isolated extremist. . . .
And it took him the fifth attempt in the remarks he made yesterday to actually use the term, “we are at war” and to make it sound as if he believes it. . . .
The Bush administration allowed the attack of Richard Reid, which we were lucky it didn’t actually succeed. It can happen to any administration, a lapse here and there. But a disconnected and detached and affectless president is rather disturbing, and that’s why I think that the reaction is extremely unsettled.

On the allegation that in a December executive order President Obama signed over U.S. sovereignty to INTERPOL:

I defer to no one in believing the U.N. ought to sink into the East River and disappear. But this is really benign. This basically is saying that INTERPOL has the same rights as the Swiss delegation, so it will not have to pay parking tickets.
Now, that may be a scandal, I think it is, but it’s not a black helicopter landing in your backyard.