Carville was one of the brightest guys I ever heard on TV.

Carville- "The last thing that the White House needed was to appear to cave in to the speaker (Boehner) and that's what happened."
The whole affair made Washington seem "fundamentally dysfunctional and broken."
Carville dismissed the possibility of Obama's proposals being enacted, reasoning instead that the president's policy ideas would help with his 2012 re-election bid.
"This Congress is not going to pass anything that the president proposes."

The Daily Caller, http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/01/carville-white-house-out-of-bounds-on-speech-kerfuffle/