Paul Begala actually said...

"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."

"No, no, she'll be overwhelmingly confirmed, and I think that's a tragedy. Again, what I come back to is the stunning incompetence."