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Oh brother. Would someone please tell this guy to stop trying to be just one of the guys. It’s an unforced error my little mobsters. but is it as bad as the young president laughing at the stimulus failure? The comment came at some kind of coffee shop in Tampa, Florida as Mitt continues to pile up the endorsements, the cash, and the poll numbers. So generally when you’re leading the pack it’s best just to keep plugging away on your plan and the President’s failures. But instead some staffer must’ve said, “Gov, you need to loosen up.” Well Governor...

Two former White House aides launched a pair of independent groups Friday to defend President Obama and fight the array of conservative efforts that poured money into the last elections, adopting the same tactics condemned by Obama. The move by Bill Burton, a former Obama deputy press secretary, and Sean Sweeney, who was a top aide to former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, confirmed the sharp reversal by Democrats on the use of undisclosed political spending. Burton and Sweeney said they were moved to create the outside groups to fend off conservatives such as the billionaire Koch brothers and American...

Republican political strategist Mark McKinnon – veteran of McCain and Bush presidential campaigns – acknowledged in an interview with David Frum that a third-party presidential effort for 2012 was not far off, and hinted at his involvement in one. In the podcast interview, McKinnon, who was discussing his recent Daily Beast column “A Centrist Manifesto”, lamented that “there’s nobody that gets rewarded for bipartisan behavior, [and] in fact they get punished.” To that end, he said, “there is a very real possibility for a legitimate third party effort for 2012 … American voters are so hungry for more voice, and...

Tonight's genius brought to you by the CNN Situation Room, Paul Begala on the alleged bribe of Joe Sestak says 'there is no violation of the law' and that 'this is not a bribe'...oh ok...(Video)

Well everyone, the SPIN JOB has begun on Connecticut’s Attorney General’s (ETERNAL GENERAL) “mispeaking” to the press and the vets on his military record. This comment from Paul Begala will not only, IMHO, go “viral”, but become a “classic” real soon. Keep this in mind come November folks when you step into the voting booth!

Paul Begala does some serious spinning...

Here is video of CNN's Paul Begala and Anderson Cooper discussing the news that Democrat U.S. Senate Candidate Richard Blumenthal has repeatedly lied about having served in the military "in Vietnam." Begala said it is "indefensible" if in fact - as it appears to be - that he never served in Vietnam. BEGALA: "There is no good or ethical reason that he could have done that, Anderson. Uh, the guy ought to have a chance to respond. I saw the Times story as well. . . . You read those four words - 'I served in Vietnam.' That appears to...

Good thing Tony Blankley pushed back on CNN. Lord knows Wolf of the Clinton New Network wouldn’t. And in truth I find what the President had to say was disgusting too. As I have said before, it’s “by any means necessary” with this crowd. First there’s Clinton skillfully trying to leave an impression that Republicans and talk show hosts are responsible for whipping Tea Party folk into a dangerous frenzy … after all, he points out, all of the threats are coming from conservatives toward Democrats. Not to mention racists.

The Bush guru's new memoir offers a brief and compelling personal narrative, followed by 500 pages of dishonesty and deception. Clinton strategist Paul Begala reviews the Bush presidency. In writing his memoirs, Karl Rove faced a choice. He could reach for history: Fearlessly face the numerous failures of the Bush presidency, account for his role in the destruction of the American economy and a disastrous, dishonest war. Or he could play to his base: Deny everything, admit nothing, assert baldly that white is black. Guess which path he chose? I am not, I must admit, a fan of the political...

It looks like someone has gotten me on the DCCC e-mailing list and I get a daily SPAMMING from them. I have decided to reply in kind and counter-SPAM them. Today, My counter-SPAM message is to Paul Begala. Mr. Begala, So, when Congressman Joe Wilson told truth to power you call him a clown. And calling his statement "Classy"? Spare me. Apparently you Democrats can dish it out, but you sure can not take it. Stop whining. Quit sounding like a gaggle of spoiled kindergardeners denied their icecream. Your party complains more in a week than President Bush did in...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Longtime Democratic strategist Paul Begala hammered former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Friday — calling her "flaky and an intellectual lightweight." Begala was asked on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" to respond to a Politico story in which former House Speaker Newt Gingrich outlined several ways for Palin to repair her image. Although Begala called Gingrich "a brilliant political strategist," he said giving advice to Palin is an exercise in futility. "Here's the problem," said Begala, a CNN contributor. "He is trying to treat her like a serious person. She is not. OK? She is...

Stacy Porter, 29, can’t remember a time when she didn’t suffer from crippling, relentless migraines before having the surgery that changed her life eight years ago.“I was diagnosed with migraines when I was 2 years old,” the New Philadelphia, Ohio, marketing executive tells WebMD. “I had about 15 days a month of severe migraine pain.” Her symptoms included throbbing pain in her temples, nausea, and sensitivity to light so severe she remembers wearing sunglasses to more than one final exam in high school and college. None of the drugs used to prevent migraines helped, so her only relief came from...

South Carolina GOP Gov. Mark Sanford’s disappearing act is reviving an often-whispered, if rarely written, question about presidential hopefuls: Just how strange is too strange? It takes a unique person to run for the White House, but the dividing line between endearingly quirky and just downright odd can often separate winners from losers. Sanford’s solo stroll on the Appalachian Trail falls short of the character questions raised by changing your name and fudging your age (Gary Hart) or accusing an incumbent president’s campaign of trying to disrupt your daughter’s wedding (Ross Perot). But is the straight-laced Republican base ready for...

That’s right, Republicans. Listen to former Vice President Cheney. While President Bush has exited stage right and refused to comment on his successor’s service, former Vice President Dick Cheney has shown no such reticence. That is fine with me. First, because I think the hoary old chestnut about former officeholders not criticizing their successors is more mythical than real. And, second, because the more the country sees former Vice President Cheney, the more they realize why they love President Obama. Former Vice President Cheney (that “former” part never gets old, does it?) has some excellent advice for the Republicans: don’t...

Clintonista Paul Begala says all you unpatriotic, wimpy, whiney Americans out there should just shut up and pay your taxes. "Why are they out there whining with this Tea Party thing? Just a bunch of wimpy, whiney, weasels who don't love their country and don't want to support - there are guys at Walter Reed who gave their legs for my country, and they're whining because they have to write a check?" the political consultant who worked in Bill Clinton's White House told Don Imus.

Clintonista Paul Begala says all you unpatriotic, wimpy, whiney Americans out there should just shut up and pay your taxes."Why are they out there whining with this Tea Party thing? Just a bunch of wimpy, whiney, weasels who don't love their country and don't want to support - there are guys at Walter Reed who gave their legs for my country, and they're whining because they have to write a check?" the political consultant who worked in Bill Clinton's White House told Don Imus.Begala's rant came after the Center for American Progress Action Fund blog, Think Progress, trashed the tea parties, calling them political...

Sure, there were more clever signs at Tax Day tea parties around the country. Some were clutched by indebted children. Others made "pox on both (political party) houses" statements. And there were the required bailout bashes. But no sign I spotted at any Lipton-lobbing rant fest summed up the nationwide sentiment like the one I saw on Fox News' "Hannity" program Wednesday night from Atlanta. The poster scribe could have condemned any other media formerly known as mainstream. He (or a brash she) could have written "MSNBC Sucks," but what's so bold about stating the obvious? He could have scratched...

CNN) -- Happy Patriots' Day. April 15 is the one day a year when our country asks something of us -- or at least the vast majority of us. So why are a bunch of Fox News clowns and right-wing cranks hosting "tea parties" all over the country? The Boston Tea Party, in case the clods at Fox didn't know it, protested "taxation without representation." Note the second word: without. The goofballs tossing tea bags today have representation. They voted in the election; they lost.

A new effort to pay off Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign debt includes a chance to “spend a day with Bill Clinton” as one of the prizes for contributing as little as $5 online. And talking heads stroke their chins about the “American Idol”-ization of American politics, but now it’s literally the case: Another prize is a trip for two to the show’s season finale. Here’s the e-mail, sent by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: “From James Carville … “I knew it was going to take an extraordinary effort to help pay off Hillary Clinton's campaign debt. But...

The nation sighs in resignation: Blame for catty partisan talk handed out on both sides from Newt Gingrich, Paul Begala.