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            <title><![CDATA[No Cash for You, Kentucky]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While its small-government crusaders decry Obama's budget and government spending, the Bluegrass State is thriving on D.C. welfare. Paul Begala says it's the perfect place for a truly democratic experiment.
The great Mark Shields has said that most...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[It's the Jobs, Stupid]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Republicans took the House, but are misreading their mandate. Paul Begala on what the GOP needs to do to show they're serious-and why Democrats have cause for hope in 2012.
It's jobs, stupid. That's the lesson I take from this election. For all the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Karl Rove's Colossal Hypocrisy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The man they called Bush's Brain blasted Obama for putting the country on the road to fiscal hell. Clinton strategist Paul Begala on the outrageous claim by the real villain. 
Stop, Karl, you're killin' me.
I mean it.  This stuff is hilarious.  Your...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Swoops In to Save the Day]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama entered the Oval Office on the run for critics blasting his response to the BP oil spill. He left having once again shown why his calm, cool approach connects with the country.
In his first address from the Oval Office, Barack Obama was forceful...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:55:53 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Liberal Democratic Flash in the Pan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sure, his debate performance was impressive, but the results show  good rhetoric doesn't win elections. Paul Begala on why he hates third  parties.
So much for Cleggmania.
It looks like Nick Clegg's Liberal Democratic Party actually suffered a net...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 07 May 2010 01:51:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gordon Brown Scores an Upset]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In Britain's first TV debate, the dour PM faced a tough fight against his flashier Conservative rival. Paul Begala, former senior strategist for Bill Clinton, on Cameron's shortcomings, the battle for Obama's mantle-and Brown's surprise win. 
Debates...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:58:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Karl Rove's Book of Lies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Needs to Keep Attacking]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  In his first year, the president acted as if the GOP recession just happened. Clinton strategist Paul Begala on taking a page from the Gipper-and blasting the opposition party.
President Obama needs to get his ass on offense and keep it there.  For...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Forget Bipartisanship]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Health-care reform passed the House with just one GOP vote, and the fetishists of bipartisanship are clucking. But Paul Begala says that after the bipartisan march to war in Iraq and other disasters, the Democrats are making a smart bet. 
Led by the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Traitor Joe]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The ex-Democrat now says he'll join the GOP in a health-care filibuster. Paul Begala on Lieberman's latest and most shameless betrayal.
It's journalistic shorthand to note a politician's party identification and state after his or her name.  For...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Last Sane Republican]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Olympia Snowe's yea vote on health care seals the deal for Obama-and leaves Limbaugh and Beck venting the rage of the impotent.
When Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus slammed down his gavel, passing health-care reform through his committee on a 14-9...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Remembering Robert Byrd]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died on Monday at the age of 92. He rose from rural poverty to the pinnacle of power, and journeyed from racism to racial enlightenment. His finest hour came in opposing the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Speech Worthy of Hillary]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Candidate Obama attacked Clinton for her support of a universal mandate. President Obama gave a full-throated defense of one. Will liberals follow him?
Xtra Insight: Read more Daily Beast takes on Obama's health-care speech.
Let me pay President...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:03:17 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Paul Begala's U.S. Open Photo Diary]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Feisty American teenager Melanie Oudin dispatched Russian No. 4 Elena Dementieva, and The Daily Beast's Paul Begala caught all the action. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
 Click Image Below to View Our Gallery

Paul Begala is a CNN political contributor and a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Victory for Georgia Mojo]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast's Paul Begala reports from Day 4 of the U.S. Open, where a plucky American teenager took down the No. 4 seed, Russian bombshell Elena Dementieva. 
Forget the statuesque Russian babes. New York has fallen in love with a 5-foot-6...]]></description>
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