From Tuesday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’s response to new poll results unfavorable to the Obama administration and Democrats:

Well, he also says they’re way too busy to sit around looking at polls. You know, they say a diplomat is a gentleman sent abroad to lie for his country. [The] press secretary … stays home and does it.
Obviously, these guys are worried about the polls. There’s the generic poll where Republicans are ahead by about seven points, which is really a huge spread. I think it’s historic. And when you consider that registration in the United States, Democrats have about a seven-point advantage over Republicans, this means there‘s been a huge swing in independents. …
On Obama himself, no confidence [in him] is up to about 60 percent. His numbers are way down. But what’s really interesting is on the economy. On the economy, people disapprove of him over those who approve is about a spread of ten points.
But even more interesting is the intensity. Of those who approve, about half strongly approve of how Obama’s handling the economy. Of those who disapprove, three quarters strongly disapprove. …
If [the midterm election] is a referendum on Obama, the Democrats are going to do really badly. They [Democrats] want to make it a choice. Obama will always say: Do you want the guys who drove us into a ditch? … He wants it [to be] a choice between the Republicans and Democrats.
The problem is it’s not going to work. After two years, Bush is a memory — and he‘s an excuse. And the Obama administration has been in charge. I think it always is, in the second year, a referendum. …
Americans like divided government. But in a presidential election, you don’t know who‘s going to win. You don’t know who‘s going to end up in the White House.
Here you know who’s in the White House. It’s a Democrat. So, if you want divided government … to check and balance [the administration], you want to go against Democrats, and that’s why in the midterm election years, the incumbent in the White House almost always loses.

On the conditions at Guantanamo Bay and the Obama administration’s failure to close it:

The issue remains the same. It’s detention without trial, which offends the civil libertarian, whether in Gitmo or not.
I think, ironically, by making Gitmo into a Camp Med, it probably takes away the intensity of that issue. And probably after a year or two with — I don’t hear a lot of people clamoring to have it shut — it may go away as [simply] a promise that wasn’t fulfilled, but that not a lot of people will care about.