My Republican friends just don't have credibility talking about debt.
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.
I think -- first, let me just say, John Boehner's a patriotic American, he's a good man, he's a good congressman. He leads his party ably. But what he is proposing is to purposefully damage our country, to take the full faith and credit of…
And for Speaker Boehner to say we're going to risk the full faith and credit of the United States, it's just something you should never mess around with.
I think that Speaker Boehner is a good person, but I think what he is doing here is really dangerous.
The debt ceiling has been raised for 95 years. We used to not have a debt ceiling, and there's no real need to have it.
He wants to reinstate don't ask/don't tell, which was a discriminatory policy.
He wants to change our most precious founding document to write discrimination into it.
Governor Romney wants to kick people out of the military because they're gay.
The president wasn't reading talking points, he wasn't reading a teleprompter, he wasn't repeating cliches.
I think the worst thing a president can do is vacillate and he has been vacillating on this for quite some time. Now he's taken a strong position.





