Like many of you I've been curious just what it's like right now in the White House. So I asked Paul Begala if he could share some of his thoughts on how it feels in a White House under siege, in a special counsel's cross-hairs. Profoundly different as the situations are (Clinton Fall '98 and Bush Fall '05), some of the workplace and emotional dynamics must be the same.

Well, he really hit this one out of the park: the hardest-boiled aides cracking under the pressure, a president paying the price for the toady-fication he's surrounded himself with. Check it out here at TPMCafe; Paul just posted.