From Tuesday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On widespread disapproval of President Obama’s handling of the economy and the president’s public defense of his policies:

Look, I don’t think it’s a communication problem. This is not Cool Hand Luke. This is a reality problem. No matter what Obama said, no matter how he spun it, if he used the phrase “bump in the road” or “blip” or whatever, it wouldn’t make any difference in the world. It’s the fact that we have historically high unemployment and it is staying there.
With Reagan you had a really deep recession like the one that we have just had. But we had this remarkable snap back. We had 6, 7 percent growth. Even though we had high unemployment on Election Day 1984, everybody had a sense that we were in recovery, and you could, with a straight face, run an ad saying: It’s morning in America.
You can’t now. It’s dusk in America. It’s evening in America. It’s midnight in America. But it’s not morning in America. That’s why no matter what he says, it’s not going to make any difference.

On the next steps for America in Libya:

I think the next steps are the same steps. It looks as if there is not going to be any increase or change in the American role. There clearly is no appetite in the country to do that. The president got us into the war … He talked about the obligation to rescue Benghazi. But he appears content with what we are doing and to let the French and the British lead.