Paul Begala actually said...

"So, probably nothing could be more unkind to Barack Obama than bring up a failed, dishonest man like Dick Cheney and compare President Obama to Mr. Cheney."

"Vice President Gore, no stronger supporter of President Obama, he tweeted right away that he found this obscenely outrageous."

"There has got to be a less intrusive alternative than getting the data of every single cell phone call, both domestically and internationally."

"In fact the guy who wrote the Patriot Act, Jim Sensenbrenner, very conservative right-wing Republican from Wisconsin, Congress Sensenbrenner says that this is excessive and un-American."