From Special Report with Bret Baier | Friday, April 20, 2012

On recent attention paid to Romney’s and Obama’s polygamist ancestors:

This is weirdness upon weirdness. And coming in the week of the Secret Service scandal, you can imagine what people around the world are looking at.
One guy eats dogs, the other guy puts them on the [car] roof.
We’re $15 trillion in debt, we have got high unemployment. There are war drums in the Middle East. Syria is in flames. And people are talking about how many generations you have to go to find a polygamist in the family of an American leader. The world must think the Americans have gone nuts. ….

On Washington’s latest budget impasse:

We heard a couple of weeks ago from the head of the DNC that there would be a budget, that it was being held up in the Senate only as a matter of timing.
But it’s not going to happen. Harry Reid is not going to produce or allow a vote on the budget. And the reason is simple: Sixteen Democrats are going to be up [for] reelection in November. And if you vote on a budget, you have to vote on a dozen issues. And they want to run in the dark….

On the unfolding Secret Service scandal:

I think the Secret Service is a scandal that doesn’t attach to a president. It’s hard to make any connection whatsoever. And, ironically, despite sort of the moral scale you want to put either of the scandals on, the fact is that public money is what the GSA scandal is about.
The Democrats are the party of big government. They want to expand it, spend all kinds of money. And they use the word “invest” every time they are spending. Well, investing in clowns and mind-readers and… hot tubs is not exactly what people want.
So I think that’s going to hurt the party of government. And Republicans argue, we want to shrink it.

On a newly proposed route for the Keystone XL pipeline:

Republicans are hoping that it will remain on the table unresolved, and that the president will stay where he is on this issue. It’s a huge loser. There is no way to explain the killing of the pipeline in any terms, diplomatic, economic, energy, whatever.
And he stuck with it. I’m surprised he hasn’t used the changing of the route as an excuse to parachute off, out of this disaster. But he is threatening a veto. He is going to have to deliver it. It is going to hurt him again and again.
I hope he sticks with it.