Paul Begala actually said...

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

"but I don't think Democrats should give this president a blank check to go off on any more foreign misadventures given how desperately he has blotched it in Iraq."

"If the Democrats just sort of say, please, Mr. President, work with me, he's going to crush them."

"He's going to come right at the Democrats and roll right over them, and the only thing he's going to respect is strength."