If we just have to stimulate the economy, Mr. President, they say, why don't you just focus on that?
Paul Begala
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Paul Begala is a prominent American political consultant, strategist, and television personality, best known for his role as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been influential in shaping political discourse and strategy in the United States. Begala has also made a name for himself as a commentator on various news networks, where he provides insights on political issues and campaigns.
It's guys like that that are going to bring the Republican Party back.
The Republicans, they do need the president to stumble. They don't like to say that in public, but that's OK.
It seems to me he's making a mistake in saying he doesn't want some independent commission to look at it, because that can take it off of his plate.
This is very different from the Bush administration, which selectively leaked national security information, top-secret information, in order to build what I think the record shows was a dishonest case for war.
What was gained was an insight into, really, the trampling of the American Constitution and treaties into which we have entered that have the force of law and that should have been legally binding, irrespective of political views of a…
One of the reasons we're all sitting here critiquing the Obama plan is because it's the only plan in town.
It lies on Capitol Hill, which is why that's exactly where the president is going.
The negative rating, that is, the disapproval of Limbaugh was 58, higher, significantly higher, I think, than either Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers.
I have the strong sense from my contacts in the White House that they have much bigger fish to fry. They would rather leave political commentators like me to mud-wrestle with political blowhards like Mr. Limbaugh, than themselves get…





