From last night’s “All-Stars.”

On Obama’s health-care strategy:

It’s [health-care legislation] not going to happen before the recess. I’m not sure a Blue Dog would risk his future on a [Senate] committee report that has not been adopted by the whole Senate. He could still end up being left way out there hanging.
But the president’s strategy tonight is not a defense–it will be in part a defense of his proposals in the House and Senate. It is going to be an attack.
He is losing altitude on this issue. He knows it. What does he do? He goes to his strength. And his strength is on the campaign trail. He is going to attack, attack, attack tonight. He is going to go after Republicans.
The real issue, of course, is Democrats who are resisting, and the numbers don’t add up. But he will pretend in the press conference, and as we saw in some of his–in some of the remarks he is going to make in the beginning–that it is all about Republican obstructionism.
And he will actually attack our colleague Bill Kristol–to which I want to ask, who do you have to pay in the White House to have the president of the United States attack you on national television? I want to know how you get that done.
And he is also going to attack Senator DeMint, a Republican, who said it would break the [Obama] presidency if he is defeated on this. He will make it a partisan issue, and when he does that…he can gain.

On Clinton’s remarks about how the U.S. would respond to a nuclear Iran:

On April 16 of last year in a presidential debate, George Stephanopoulos asked Obama and Clinton what they would do if Iran attacked Israel with a nuclear weapon.
She answered very strongly: [We] would retaliate. We would retaliate with nukes, and we would extend an umbrella of protection over Israel, and she added, over other states in the region.
Obama answered weakly and actually cluelessly.
She repeated that idea a few times in the campaign as a way to show how tough she was, as opposed to him. I think what happened today in this show in Thailand is that she was repeating that theme inadvertently.
It is one thing to do it and to say it as a candidate as a kind of a hypothetical. But once you say it as secretary of state, you are implying, as everybody thought she was implying, that America already accepts the reality of a nuclear Iran and is thinking about containment and deterrence, as we did in the Soviet example in the Cold War.
I think it was–if it was Obama policy–it’s a hell of a way to actually announce it or imply it. I think it was a gaffe that she later tried to walk back.