From Tuesday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On President Obama’s ordering 1,200 National Guardsmen to the border:

The view that this announcement by the White House of half a billion [dollars] and 1,200 National Guard is a serious effort — a serious way to show seriousness about this — is total nonsense. This is a PR stunt. It’s Lucy and the football all over again.
Remember, it was George Bush a few years ago who — [when] all of a sudden there was this concern, the border states were up in arms over immigration – so he sends, I think it was, a couple of thousand National Guard. Well, they come — and they go. And the problem remains, and the traffickers remain, the drug people remain, illegal immigrants remain.
As you said — from [Jon] Kyl — they [the National Guardsman] probably aren’t even going to be on the border, they might even be just in desk jobs. This is nothing but a stunt on the part of the administration to try to show that it’s interested in sealing the border in order that we‘ll get a deal on “comprehensive” [immigration reform], which really is a deal for amnesty.
And it’s ridiculous. McCain had an argument with Obama in the meeting [between Obama and Senate Republicans]. It was described as rather testy. Interestingly, McCain, who was on the Obama side of the argument three years ago, is now (because of a [primary] challenge in his own state) on the other – on the correct side today, in which he said to the president ’close the damn border.’ . . .
And the president of course objected. The only answer here, and it is a simple answer — I say it again and again, because there is no objection that makes sense: Complete the fence. Don’t send the Guard down there. They are going to go, they’re going to come back — [it] won’t make any difference. A fence remains. A fence works. . . .
I mean, this is an obvious issue. The Democrats are unbelievably stubborn on this. If you want to really. . . use stimulus money, you don’t send a thousand Guard. You send 20,000 unemployed and you build a fence quickly. And once that’s done, let’s have an argument and a debate about legalization and all the other steps.

On Obama’s testiness in his meeting with Republicans:

Senator [Pat] Roberts also added, after saying the president was thin-skinned, that he should take a Valium before he meets with Republicans. I’d be happy to write the prescription . . .

On the political fallout from the oil leak:

In the end it will depend [on] if the well is capped tomorrow . . .
Ultimately, it depends on one thing. If you cap the well, he [Obama] will be OK. If you don’t until August, he will be as damaged as Bush on Katrina.