Paul Begala

He has never been a man accused of heretical thinking or challenging basic assumptions. the president likes a tight circle. And, frankly, he likes a lot of yes men and women.

What Governor Kaine did that the Democrats did not do in 2002 in the last midterms is Governor Kaine went right at Iraq and he said, basically, the president misled you.

The president's problems are twofold. The huge majority of the country has turned against the war; 60 percent of Americans think the president is not doing a good job in prosecution the war effort in Iraq.

An enormous amount of time, absolutely. He's got to fix Iraq.

He has more time left in his presidency I believe than President Kennedy had in the entire time in the White House.

But Iraq makes everything worse because Iraq goes at the central pillars of his presidency, that he is competent and strong in defending America, that he is trustworthy and honest.

I think Democrats should say, we are for energy independence, period. And here's how.

Support for the war is collapsing and a speech can't reverse that.

I just wish the president would stand up and say, look -- hey, I think abortion is murder; it ought to be outlawed. I don't like gay rights; I want to stop it.

I think he has. And he should be respected for that. The president was re-elected despite being relatively unpopular, and despite having a soft economy and an unpopular war.

Yes. I think it's -- I don't want to read too much into the tea leaves -- but, look, there's clearly some there, there. And it could well be that Karl -- we know that Karl misled the country and misled Scott McClellan. He said he had -- I…

The White House tried to smear Joe Wilson.

The president told the country that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellow cake uranium in Africa. Now that turned out not to be true. Mr. Wilson went and investigated it.

The policy, yes. Bob is right. Democrats and a lot of Republicans no longer support the way that the president, through his defense secretary, is prosecuting.

Not to rest. Obviously, the secretary serves at the pleasure of the president. He clearly has the president's support. But that does not stop people from speaking out.

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

If they think something is wrong, they have a duty and obligation to say so.

Some people were right about the war, some were wrong. The ones who were right are getting fired.

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

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

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.

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 policy debacle since 9/11, which also…

He did win fair and square, and I never said that after 2000.

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.