On President Obama’s talk that he’ll move forward with health care and let elections decide the aftermath:

I think what he is signaling when he talks about elections — elections are a contest between parties. And what he is saying basically is after the seven and a half hours . . . we’re ready to go and have a contest of parties.
Meaning: He knows there is not going to be any acceptance by Republicans of the bill and he is not going to accept the idea of starting all over again, ditching the bill. So he is ready to go to the mat with a partisan bill.
I think the whole thing is a theatrical production — [it] starts with the meeting we had on Thursday. Then he will have the speech on [next] Wednesday in which he will speak about the summit Thursday and he will say, look, I gave it a shot, seven and a half hours. I offered to incorporate a few ideas here, a couple of ideas.
He knows even if he takes an idea or two, the Republicans are not going to accept the monstrosity of the bills as they exist, even with a slight amendment here or there. And then he will say, well, I offered it, I went the last mile, and now I’m going to go to ram it through.
The reason he is doing all of this is because independents — who went against him in Virginia and in New Jersey two to one, in Massachusetts three to one — are the ones who are most upset about the process, about the idea of it being corrupt.
He wants to show the process is now a clean one. It’s his process. It is no longer of the Congress. He has taken control, and that’s why I think this is all a set up.

On the 2012 Olympics:

Well, I don’t know about you, Bret, but I’m racing home tonight after the show to watch curling, which one wag this morning described as a cross between horseshoes and housekeeping.
I know you have got a graphic of hockey and it’s a lovely game, but curling has had me up all week. Curling is perfectly ridiculous, agonizingly slow, and, I have to admit, for the first two hours I watched, I had no idea what the rules were.
But I didn’t care. I was mesmerized.
I have heard they also had skiing at Vancouver.