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        <description><![CDATA[The latest blogs, stories, and Buzz Board picks from Paul Begala]]></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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:50:21 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:57:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:11:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:14:17 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:04:47 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bring Back Fighting Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  For his latest "most important speech" to save health-care reform on Wednesday, Obama needs to ditch cool logic, writes Paul Begala, and revert to his fiery campaign message: change.
The last time a president addressed a joint session of Congress on...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:08:23 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sept. 15: D-Day for Health Care]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama and the goody-goody Democrats desperately want to believe the Republicans are capable of a compromise on health care. They're not.
Ignore all the posturing and pushing and posing of this hot August recess. If you're interested in health-care...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:48:05 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sanford's Dereliction of Duty Trumps His Hypocrisy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[That the South Carolina governor stepped out on his wife is his business, writes Paul Begala-though it does underscore the GOP's culture of hypocrisy. Stepping out on his job, however, is the business of the people of South Carolina.
Plus, read more...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:37:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Newt to the World: Drop Dead]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ In a swipe at Obama, Newt Gingrich declared he is not a citizen of the world. Paul Begala on why the former House speaker's attack on the president was also a jab at his hero, Ronald Reagan.
The old history prof needs to go back to school.
Newt...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:34:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[We Need More Dick Cheney]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  That's right, Republicans.  Listen to former Vice President Cheney.  Don't come up with new ideas.
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...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 08 May 2009 17:24:14 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bringing America Along for the Ride]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Not only has President Obama pushed through an impressive set of legislation, he's made Americans feel invested in his success.
I think 100 days is an arbitrary and not altogether useful point of demarcation. But sure, if you look at the stimulus...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:35:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Paul Begala's Book Candidates]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The former Clinton adviser and political commentator says he has argued about the great American novel with James Carville for 25 years, and he shares some of his favorite reads.
 North Toward Homeby Willie Morris
"Like so many Southerners who grew...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:26:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Memo to Bobby Jindal: Dump Rush]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ambitious young Gov. Jindal tried to stick it to Obama on TV tonight. But Paul Begala says to really make it in politics, he has to break with the kook right.
It wasn't a fair fight.  Watching Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's painful, sing-song...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:13:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Paul Begala on What Obama's Reading]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The president-elect has been reading a life of Franklin Roosevelt and appears to be taking to heart history's lessons on how to fix the Depression.
How wonderful to have a literate president once again. I can still recall scrambling for a copy of...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:27:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Music]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Although I've been in Washington for longer than I care to state, my roots and my boots are firmly planted in the Lone Star State.  I grew up in Missouri City, Texas-about 45 miles due south of Klein, Texas, the home of Lyle P. Lovett.  But even if...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:21:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I'm reading The State of Jones by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer.  Jenkins, one of the most gifted sportswrtiers of our time, teams up with an eminent Harvard historian to bring a little-known (and deliberately hidden) chapter of our history to life. ...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:53:50 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Music]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If there's a better CD this year than Willie and the Wheel, I'll two-step over to your house, kiss your ass, say it smells like roses-and give you an hour to draw a crowd. As an old Austinite, we have a name for people who don't believe in Willie...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:57:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Website]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Eric Boehlert at Media Matters for America has exploded the myth that UAW autoworkers make $70 or more per hour. And yet serious news people like Mika Brzezinski continue to cite it. It just ain't true. UAW workers are paid $28 an hour. That's wages,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:48:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Dictator's Shadow by Heraldo Munoz is a gripping first-person account of the 9/11/73 fascist revolution of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. He was an idealistic young leader with a new American bride. He risked his life to oppose the dictator, who was...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:29:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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