-Caveat Lector- Subj: BuzzFlash Interviews Paul Begala (Part Two) Date: 4/1/02 11:51:31 AM Central Standard Time
BuzzFlash Interviews Paul Begala (Part Two) http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/03/29_Paul_Begala.html For Part One of the BuzzFlash Interview with Paul Begala, visit: http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/03/27_Paul_Begala.html March 29, 2002 A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW WITH FAMED DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL STRATEGIST PAUL BEGALA Paul Begala is famous as a key architect of the Clinton war room strategy. Most recently, he and sidekick James Carville (now dueling partners on CNN's "Crossfire") authored "Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up." Click here to purchase: http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/Buck_Up_Suck_Up.html BuzzFlash interviewed Begala about the key strategy recommendations in "Buck Up, Suck Up" -- and, of course, about all things political. * * * PART TWO BUZZFLASH: We still haven't found, or the government claims they haven't found, the presumed perpetrator of the anthrax attack. Of course, there have been strong indications that it is someone who is deeply involved in military biological weapons research and that the FBI may be going slow about the whole thing because it's sort of too close to home. This is clearly a domestic terrorist, not a foreign terrorist. PAUL BEGALA: I think so, according to the press leak. BUZZFLASH: But in any case, as you said, Senator Daschle was the subject of the most treacherous mailing and his staff was exposed to anthrax. And yet, as you say, the Bush administration gave the thumbs up to ruthlessly -- and if it weren't politics, libelously -- attack him in his home state without any compunction. And I think sometimes the Democrats are just sort of taken aback by this. They don't quite know how to react because it's so distasteful to them. And yet we know negative campaigning works in many cases. PAUL BEGALA: The reason that they raise all this kind of nonsense -- they impugn our patriotism and such -- is they know they can't win on the merits and on the ideas. Therefore, that is where we should take the argument. Clinton was not a "so is your mother" kind of politician. He didn't stand out and say Henry Hyde cheated on his wife. Guess what? Henry Hyde cheated on his wife. But Clinton never went there. He was smart to never go there. Where we ought to take it to is not their lives, but the American people's lives. We ought to point out that the Republicans have stolen $2 trillion out of Social Security surplus and given it to Ken Lay and the rest of their cronies. We ought to point out that the economic stimulus bill that Bush wrote had a secret quarter of a billion dollar bailout in it for Enron. And so thank God for Tom Daschle and the Senate for killing it. We ought to point out that in Bush's prescription drug plan, you don't get any prescription drug help if you're a senior citizen who lives on more than the kingly sum of $17,000 a year. So that in George Bush's America, if you're an old couple, retired, living on $17,000 a year, you're so rich you can't get prescription drug help. But if you're an Enron executive living on $17 million a year, you're so poor that you get a tax cut and a bailout. That's obscene. That's what we ought to be doing. We ought to be on the floor of the Senate and the floor of the House, you know, and the street corners every day, shouting these things out. That's what'll beat 'em. (more) Part Two of the BuzzFlash interview with Paul Begala: http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/03/29_Paul_Begala.html Part One of the BuzzFlash interview with Paul Begala: http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/03/27_Paul_Begala.html * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Support Independent News Media! 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