From last night’s “All-Stars.”

On the Sanford affair:

I think he is toast politically.
And resigning from the Republican Governors’ Association chairmanship is not going to do it, and the reason is that there is a dereliction of duty here. I know there’s the titillation of the reason for [his disappearance], but even apart from that, he is the governor of the state.
The governor of the state is chief executive, and if there is a disaster in the state, and this guy is incommunicado, he is nowhere to be seen and he doesn’t transfer authority to his lieutenant governor who calls out the National Guard, you cannot recover from that. I think he doesn’t last a week in the office of governor.
And the idea that he could actually have an affair in Argentina as an acting governor is sort of insane. If you go to Argentina, you have to have your passport stamped. You can’t hide it.
I don’t want to play psychiatrist on the show every night. However, the oddity of this and the self-destructiveness would suggest even to a layman that this is a near-intentional political suicide.

On Obama’s plans to push immigration reform:

There is no question there’s not going to be legislation this year. As you say, all of these bills– huge restructuring of the American economy, health care and financials, all of this stuff–they’re stacked up like planes at La Guardia. And a lot of them aren’t even going to take off.
But what the immigration reform debate does is it helps Democrats. They don’t have to have a bill. All they have to have is hearings in the fall because that helps Democrats.
And a hint of that you got when you heard Eric Cantor, the number two guy in the House for the Republicans, who said today at the prayer breakfast, the Hispanic prayer breakfast, that there has been some overheated rhetoric on the issue of immigration.
And he said that some of the undertones, meaning undertones of what Republicans have said, have alienated Hispanic constituencies. So Republicans are sensitive.
And I think it’s smart on the part of Democrats. If you’re not going to pass a bill, but you could have discussion of it which could help to solidify the gains among Hispanics that Obama had made last year, why not?