Paul Begala actually said...

"Look, the president has a perfect right after winning an election to put together whatever team he wants."

"The president has a perfect right after winning an election to put together whatever team he wants."

"She's been in charge -- directly, the president's put her directly in charge of the management of the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq, which has been a colossal debacle, the biggest foreign poli..."

"I mean, she just didn't get things wrong, she misled them. She told them things that were simply factually false."