Paul Begala couldn't resist poking fun at Rush Limbaugh when the topic on CNN's The Situation Room turned to the conservative radio host potentially b...
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Best and worst lines of the evening, wonkiest detail, most chilling line, best reference to a meme, worst moment and more.
Paul Begala | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Obama's speech rallied dispirited Democrats, reassured disenchanted independents and intimidated Republicans. He called out lies, and pledged to call out the right-wing thugs if they continue lying.
Michael Winship | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home
Despite their grossest and most callow foibles and failings, among the three younger Kennedy brothers there was a deep, moral -- and literal -- concern for the nation's health.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
Paul Begala and Newt Gingrich have decidedly different views on whether former Governor Sarah Palin can make a political comback. Gingrich outlined h...
Nancy Snow | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
Just last Friday we lost the most trusted man in America. This week we've anointed a fake journalist his replacement. Or so Time magazine would have us believe.
Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 08.05.2009 | Media
It has been merely twelve days since Mark Sanford's disastrously-rambling press conference in which he admits to an on-going affair, not to mention le...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
Moments after former Sen. Norm Coleman conceded the drawn-out Minnesota Senate election to Al Franken, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said that that he would sign ...
Abby L. Ferber | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living
Health insurance companies are not in the business of making healthcare easier for us; they are in business.
Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics
Meghan McCain got taken to task by Paul Begala during her appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday, leading her to tell Begala at one point "y...
Paul Begala | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
If 3,000 Americans had been killed on your watch, in an attack that could have been prevented, perhaps you'd be a little hesitant to accuse anyone else of endangering America.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics
As elected Republicans and former Bush administration officials whack the president for pursuing policies - from the closure of Gitmo to the release o...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.26.2009 | Home
Mark it down. The bar has been set. We now have the test by which we judge all actions taken by the leaders of America: Is it worse than burning 120,000 people to death? Call it the Buchanan Hiroshima-Nagasaki Standard. Appearing on Hardball this week to defend the Bush administration's use of torture, Pat Buchanan tried to offer a little perspective: "Is waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a worse thing than dropping two atomic bombs on people and burning 120,000 people to death? Sending 40,000 more to death by radiation?" I guess he preferred that WWII reference to the one from Paul Begala about us executing Japanese soldiers who waterboarded American POWs. Elsewhere on the torture front, Sean Hannity offered to be waterboarded for charity. A little like one of those charity auctions where celebrities agree to have lunch with the highest bidder. Only with a suffocation appetizer.
Paul Begala | Posted 04.15.2009 | Entertainment
As a fan of his movies and television roles, I will miss his acting. But as a political hyperbolist who sometimes goes too far, I will miss his civility even more.
The Plum Line | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
Conservative bloggers have managed to create a big stink over this Politico story reporting that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel privately tal...
Politico | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
So begins another morning in what may count as Washington's longest-running conversation -- a street-corner bull session between four old friends who ...
Paul Begala | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
As President Obama ushers in a new era of good feeling, allow me this potentially discordant note. As we finally stop torturing people, can we please start humiliating sleazeballs?
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics
As he prepares to take the oath of office, Barack Obama's biggest political roadblock may end up being institutional hurdles rather than a united Repu...
James Carville and Paul Begala | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
We have a message for our Republican friends: It is time to point fingers. We are pro-finger-pointing. And here's the most important thing about finger-pointing: you have to start early.
Michael Russnow | Posted 11.15.2008 | Media
The TV panel has to justify its salary and keep interest in the campaign for the next few weeks, so most of these folks propped up McCain.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
Since Sunday, Democrats have been buzzing about the re-revelation that during the 1980s, Sen. John McCain served on the board of a far-right conservat...
Politico | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
Paul Begala, in a shot on Meet the Press that sounds like something other than an offhand remark, suggests an Obama comeback to an expected McCain ad ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics
In Palin, we saw a repeat of Bush's pseudo-folksiness and fundamental dishonesty, together with his unquenchable thirst for power.
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
Most people think they're in a way higher income bracket than they are.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
With members of Congress, President Bush and John McCain each taking various amounts of blame for the failure to pass a financial bailout package, a q...
Posted 10.07.2009 | Media