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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 12:43 PM
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GOP means 'Got 0 Plans' Paul Begala

(CNN) -- I love Alex Castellanos. Heck, somebody has to. Truth is, we've been known to break bread after our CNN gigs. He is engaging and amusing and whip-smart.

But when he said Tuesday night on CNN that President Obama is already looking like a one-term president, he's full of more beans than a burrito at Matt's El Rancho back home in Austin, Texas.

Obama inherited an ungodly mess: a $1.2 trillion deficit, an economy that was careening from recession into depression, a collapse in effective demand, the disintegration of the real estate market and a financial meltdown that spanned the globe and brought multibillion-dollar institutions to their knees. That's not to mention Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea and the Mexican

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/25/begala.gop/index.html
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 12:53 PM
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1. "like an arsonist who complains that the fire department is wasting water"
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Shoelace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 12:54 PM
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2. no love lost after that remark from Alex
actually, I turned my tv to Rachel Maddow after that very remark last night.
Begala's article is so right on!
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 01:22 PM
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3. pretty soon Begala columns will be full of nothing but cutesy Texas sayings
he's got more crammed into his head than Lyndon Johnson.
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Hellataz Donating Member (804 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 01:25 PM
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4. I like Paul, poor guy used to be surrounded by Obama love at CNN and is hanging on as the last
supporter of the president on that channel these days.
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