On the president’s campaign-style speech on Friday:

So much error, so little time. Number one, the president didn’t say if you have insurance, you’ll have another kind of insurance. He said if you have a plan, you’ll keep the plan. Not true.
He says we’re going to save $1 trillion. Look, this sounds like the last hours of a presidential campaign in which the truth is stretched, bent and tortured to an unbelievable extent. And everyone accepts it because it’s the end of a campaign and everybody knows it’s fib-time.
The $1 trillion is a hoax. The CBO talked about the second decade, but it said this is extremely chancy, iffy, this is not a hard number. And look, that trillion dollars of saving in the second decade assumes that Congress in 2018 is going to pass the tax on Cadillac health plans, which Congress today under all the pressure of the president won’t even touch.
So of course it’s not going to happen in 2018. Of course you are not going to have a $1 trillion surplus. We know that in the first decade, it’s not a plan of $1 trillion. It’s a plan that will cost us $2.5 trillion. We’ll be deeply in debt.
And the Blue Dogs are running around holding up the CBO number. It’s not a new number. It’s an old number. It’s old and wrong because the assumptions it had to accept — like ten years of taxes in, only six years of benefits out — are fraudulent, and they were engineered in order to produce the right number.
It isn’t as if the Blue Dogs had a revelation. It was cover, and that’s all that is happening now.

On Russia’s announcement that it will go ahead with completion of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran:

Interesting week. A study in contrasts. The Israelis announce the construction of a bunch of houses for a few Hasidim in Jerusalem. The administration issues a condemnation and then a barrage of threats against Israel.
Same week, the secretary of state in Moscow gets slapped in the face as she is standing there, and the Russians announce that the they’re going to complete a nuclear power plant in Iran contrary to American requests — Iran, a country that is the chief exporter of terror according to our own State Department — and her response is: Nothing.