"Brag and Blame." With Paul Begala
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Paul Begala is a long-time and successful Democratic Strategist and CNN Commentator. He co-ran Bill Clinton's 1998 campaign and worked as Counselor to the President. Still very active in Democratic politics, he is Research Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy.
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| 0:00.0 | Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original |
| 0:05.2 | from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth |
| 0:10.2 | Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale, |
| 0:15.5 | set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie, |
| 0:22.1 | a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing |
| 0:26.5 | together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the |
| 0:31.7 | impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong |
| 0:38.2 | and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, |
| 0:41.3 | Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated |
| 0:44.0 | than she ever planned. |
| 0:45.8 | She's in over her head and head over heels. |
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| 0:53.3 | Music on Audible. Go to Audible.com slash rich girl summer. |
| 1:04.8 | Hello friends, happy holidays, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:14.1 | Well, here we are at the end of the year, with 2022 almost upon us, and Democrats are more nervous than ever before, |
| 1:20.8 | looking ahead at the midterm elections. They know that history is against them, with very few exceptions the President's party loses seats in the first midterms, and they know that, |
| 1:27.0 | despite President Biden getting a lot done, getting the United States back in the first midterms. And they know that despite President Biden getting a lot done, |
| 1:29.7 | getting the United States back in the lead on climate change and managing one crisis after |
| 1:34.9 | another, the American people are concerned, concerned about inflation, higher prices, |
| 1:41.6 | kids' schools, and especially about that damn coronavirus with all of its variants that just won't go away. |
| 1:50.0 | So is it all over for Democrats? Too late for Democrats? |
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