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March 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 13, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I'll tell you this is one of those days where I I actually ask myself, what would this country, what would America do without me?
It is so absurd and ridiculous out there in the drive-by media today.
Finally, it's time for me.
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I told you, I told you people, I said, I hope somebody asks Rudy Giuliani what he thinks of the Fitzgerald prosecution of Libby.
I told you what would happen.
I told you these guys are a fraternity, and uh and Rudy has confirmed that which I predicted last week.
Uh the the Democrats in the drive-by media are literally uh going nuts.
They're going insane over a non-story, and that is the firing of eight U.S. attorneys by the Bush administration.
And now they want to call Rove.
Congressional Democrats yesterday singled out Carl Rove for questioning about the firings of eight federal prosecutors and whether the dismissals were politically motivated.
Even if they were, it's entirely permissible.
This is a non-story.
Uh Bill Clinton, in uh one of his first acts after being inaugurated, crowned, whatever, 1993, fired all 93 U.S. attorneys.
Uh this is quite common.
You get your own people in there.
These are appointed positions.
Now, the thing with Clinton was he really only getting it, I mean, he he he was aiming for one U.S. attorney, and that was the guy in Arkansas, the guy Little Rock.
I forget what it was about, but Clinton wanted a guy gone.
And to cover or mask the fact that he was aiming at one single guy, got rid of all 93.
Nobody said a word.
Chuck Schumer's out there demanding all kinds of things today.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
We'll start with Good Morning America today, and George Steffi Stephanopoulos.
Uh he was uh filling in as uh as a guest, I guess as a guest host here.
Remember now, a former Clinton Easter.
A former West winger in the Clinton White House now with ABC at the pinnacle of the drive-by media, Robin Roberts said to him, hey Steffi, uh how how big could this be?
Democrats are going to try to take this right to the White House based on these stories this morning.
They're gonna say the president's top former top lawyer, Harriet Myers, was involved.
His top political advisor, Carl Rove, was involved.
Even the president himself knew about it.
You can expect subpoenas to call Rove to come up and testify.
He might try to fight it, but it's gonna be hard for him to resist that.
And on top of that, Robin, as we said already, there are calls for Attorney General Gonzalez to resign.
This frosts me.
This is nothing.
This is a non-story.
Zip zero nada, but it fits in with the pattern the Democrats said that they were going to employ.
They said they were gonna emulate the Newt Gingrich tactic of just whatever the president does.
Just criticize it, uh, consider it a violation of law, violation of ethics, uh, violation of something, and they're just relentless, not gonna let up.
Chucky Schumer today, where was it in Capitol Hill?
And he held a press conference, and here's a portion of what he said.
Today's staff resignation does not take heat off the attorney general.
Stop the tape a second.
Stop the tape and re-queue that.
What happened is that uh one of Gonzalez, again, Gonzalez uh chief of staff uh stepped down today, and that makes me mad.
Why does the White House give these people away?
Why do they give them up?
I mean, clearly this guy is uh was asked to resign trying to take some of the heat off of this.
This is this is there's a this is a non-story.
You you cannot, you cannot give the left a you give them a scalp, and and they're just gonna want more.
I said this.
The White House dispenses with Rumsfeld, it's not gonna satisfy them, they're gonna move on to Rice, they're gonna move on to anybody else.
Uh and uh and now the they're they're going after Gonzalez uh over this.
Um Gonzalez chief of staff uh you know walks the plank, gets thrown overboard.
I don't know what the White House expects.
Expect everybody to be bought off with that?
That's just no, that's like pouring blood in the water with a bunch of liberal sharks swimming around.
They want more.
Anyway, here's here's the Schumer bite again in total.
Today's staff resignation does not take heat off the attorney general.
In fact, it raises the temperature.
Kyle Sampson will not become the next scooter libby, the next fall guy.
We now have direct evidence that Attorney General Gonzalez was carrying out the political wishes of the president.
So what?
In at least some of these firings.
It's a non-story.
A startling amount of information about the White House's role has emerged in the past few days.
U.S. attorneys have always been above politics.
And this administration has blatantly manipulated the U.S. attorney system to serve its political needs.
All right, I'm going to tell you something.
And I mentioned this to you last week.
I forget this guy's name, but uh when when Bush, I think he was there when Bush was inaugurated in 2000.
I forget his name, but the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, which is Manhattan, which is a big post, was a Chuck Schumer protege.
And he was there for five or six years.
If if there was somebody else prior to him, then uh this guy who was uh Schumer's protege was second.
And he was there for a number of years.
Uh a Chuck Schumer protege was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Manhattan of New York.
They finally got a new guy in there, I don't know, a year and a half or two years ago, a man by the name of Mike Garcia, finally a Bush appointee after four or five years of his administration, and Schumer now has the audacity to say that U.S. attorneys have always been above politics.
See, the trick here is that when you get your clout your crowd, Clinton holdovers uh in any of these agencies, be it justice or the State Department of the CIA or the Pentagon, why that's fine.
And if you start weeding them out and getting rid of them, well, all of a sudden you're turning political.
I I just and Schumer went on to say, well, the more we learn, the more it seems that people at high levels in the White House have been involved in the U.S. attorney purge.
We're talking eight U.S. attorneys.
I've looked at some of these people that are being fired, and some are being fired for cause.
Uh that some of them just haven't been doing that good a job, some of it may be long overdue.
Uh but as I say, when Bill Clinton axed all 93 U.S. attorneys at once in one day.
Did Chuck Schumer say anything?
Did he talk about the disarray that it caused?
Folks, I want you to hear this.
I want you to listen to me.
The president can fire any U.S. attorney he wants.
They work for him.
He has the constitutional authority.
What the hell is this debate all about?
Does does uh does Schumer ask the president who he can fire in his office?
Does the president get on the Democrats' case when they fire any of their staffers in the House or Senate?
This is called separation of powers.
And the Democrats in Congress have no control over this.
They I guess they can conduct hearings and all they want, and the White House will deal with it as they will.
But this is a contrived phony controversy.
It's been concocted by the Democrats, and of course the drive-bys just fall right in line and broadcast this as if there is something to it.
Chuck Schumer is a demagogue of the first order.
If you hear the word demagogue, and you're not quite sure if you're from Rio Linda, and you're not quite sure what it is, just think Chuck Schumer.
Uh 90% of the time that he opens his uh his mouth.
Uh, and they're not gonna let this go until they get a scalp, and this this uh chief of staff to Gonzalez is not going to be nearly enough for them.
But it's a non-story.
It's pure politics, just like the drive-by media is uh carrying the water for the Democrats in the war in Iraq.
That's that's purely politics.
And even the Washington Post today in their second editorial in so doing really scorches the Democrats for their irresponsibility in the way they're going about this.
And it is hilarious.
We have uh what a replay some audio for you that we had from uh Sunday on CNN's uh late edition, uh John Roberts was filling in.
It's actually a replay of audio that happened last Thursday when Pelosi was announcing the latest of these multiple resolutions.
The Democrats had up their sleeves to uh get the troops out of Iraq and secure defeat for the United States while securing victory for our enemies.
On the uh on the Rudy Giuliani thing, let me get this out of the way before we go to the break.
It's in the New York Sun today.
I told you people last week, the uh uh, you know, when discussing the scooter libby verdict and the controversy of whether or not there should be a pardon, and if so, when should it be immediate, should it be after the November 08 elections?
Uh I I saw I want somebody, I hope somebody asks Rudy about this, because these U.S. attorneys are fraternity.
They hang together.
Uh and of course, the reason this is important, the reason this is interesting to me, is that the Libby verdict and the accompanying scenario of destruction that was brought about by the drive-by media on on Libby has galvanized the Republican base.
Uh Republican base is fit to be tied over this.
It's one of these things that unknown to the Democrats is going to keep festering in the uh in the minds of the base.
And so Giuliani is a is a presidential contender, of course, and he's leading in uh in all of the polls.
So the New York Sun today says in a story by Russell Berman, uh, Mayor Giuliani is cool to the idea of an immediate presidential pardon for scooter liby.
A position that puts him out of step with some conservatives who say that President Bush should not wait to grant the former White House aid a legal reprieve.
Uh Rudy told reporters in Washington yesterday the pardon power is a very, very important power that the president has.
It has to be exercised very judiciously and very carefully.
You certainly don't s shouldn't speculate about it while a criminal case is ongoing.
Seems to me you let it go through the uh the process.
Uh so the on the this is not on the conviction.
Uh this this is it wasn't asked to comment on whether or not he thought the trial was okay and the prosecution was handled responsibly.
This is simply on the um on the pardon.
But uh it shouldn't be any surprise.
Uh fraternities are fraternities in the U.S. attorney clubs, not large a club, and they they uh they they do hang together.
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Uh something somebody needs to ask Chuck Schumer a question.
Can we assume then, Senator Schumer, that if a Democrat is elected president, say hypothetically, Mrs. Clinton is elected president in uh in 2008.
Are you telling us that Mrs. Clinton will not be free to fire any United States attorney?
Because to do so would be political.
Is that the standard now?
Why didn't Stephanopoulos ask him that?
I'll tell you why I didn't ask him, because it never is going to come up.
If they want to fire U.S. attorneys, they're gonna do it, and they're not gonna have anybody say anything about it.
The press will go right along with them.
Oh, yeah, this is normal presidential policy.
In a way, in a way, in a strategic or maybe tactical sense, this is what you get with the new tone.
The only reason Bush didn't put a bunch of his own guys in, but I say his own guys, uh people with his view of the law, people with his view, these are appointed positions, U.S. attorney positions are.
And if he'd had done this in his first term in the first year of his first term, then yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
Now all these other so-called scandals are piling up, and anything Bush does is gonna come under the same rubric, fall under the same umbrella.
It's a scandal.
And Bush is covering something up.
And uh, of course, the drive-by's are smelling blood.
They are defining their relevance these days By whether or not they will be able to destroy a presidency before that second term has been completed.
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Well, now I have a fascinating editorial here from a college campus.
And as we all know, college camp I are uh frequented in the majority status by liberals.
And so this is interesting.
Chris DeMoro writing in the uh editorial and commentary section of the uh what is this?
The Connecticut Central Connecticut State University recorder online.
Here's the headline Prius outdoors Hummer in environmental damage.
The Toyota Prius has become the flagship car for those in our society so environmentally conscious they're willing to spend a premium to show the world how much they care.
Unfortunately for them, their ultimate green car is the source of some of the worst pollution in North America.
It takes more combined energy per Prius to produce than a Hummer.
Now, before we delve into the CD underworld of hybrids, you must first understand how a hybrid works.
And you uh probably get the best example of this for a Toyota Prius.
The Prius is powered by not one but two engines, a 76 horsepower, one and a half liter gasoline engine found in most cars today, and a battery-powered engine that puts out about 67 horsepower and a whopping 295 feet pounds of torque below 2,000 RPMs.
Essentially, the Toyota Synergy Drive System, as it is so called, propels the car from a dead stop up to 30 miles per hour.
That's where the largest percent of gas is consumed.
Anyway, goes on to say if you are really an environmentalist, ditch the Prius instead, buy one of the most economical cars available in a list of what they are Toyota Scion XB.
The scion costs only a paltry 48 cents per mile to put on the road.
If you're still obsessed over gas mileage by a Chevy Aveo and fix that lead foot.
It takes five years to offset the premium price of a Prius, meaning you have to wait 60 months to save any money over a non-hybrid car because of lower gasoline experiences.
This from a college newspaper, ladies and gentlemen, where you would think that the Prius would be among the most prized possessions among the environmentally conscious.
That's just a tip of the iceberg of what's coming.
A New York Times and a pretty big hit piece on Al Gore today and his uh his uh propaganda documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Also in the uh Canada Free Press, a real big expose on these carbon offsets, these carbon credits, and they have discovered who Gore's partner is in the whole concept.
A guy named Morris Strong, who was instrumental in the Earth Summit back in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
He is a guy working way in the background, a conniver.
Uh it was responsible for the Kyoto Protocol.
It is so political.
Al Gore says it's not it's not uh political.
This is uh this is not even science, it's a moral issue, which uh is indicative that it's not a scientific issue.
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Jim, you're next.
Nice to have you.
Well, actually, you're first today, so it's good to have you with us.
Hello.
Okay, it's nice to talk to you.
I was just making a point to your screen with that.
I think uh Schumer and the Liberals are sucking everybody in.
They're always on the offense.
Always uh demanding people resign.
And it just seems like the whole strategy is keep everybody playing defense all the time.
And I think you're uh using a lot of time doing the same thing.
Playing defense when you should be playing offense.
Uh, I play offense by playing defense.
Oh, and Not really.
Uh one of the do you hear me defending and not attacking?
You know, when people go out and and attack the institutions and traditions, I think it made the country great.
When people attack people that I admire.
Uh what am I supposed to do?
Sit here and ignore it.
The only thing, you know, when it comes to that, when when when people attack me, I ignore that because they're small fry.
You know, why elevate them?
We're talking about people here who are trying to destroy the president of the United States and his presidency.
Right.
And there's a drive-by media out there that's trying to saturate the country with this stuff, and it has to be explained to people because that people like you who hear this can influence other people and and provide hopefully provides some sort of a uh an obstacle or a bulwark uh to this.
But I can't ignore this, and I'm I I'm not gonna.
In fact, I I would like to go a step further with this Schumer business.
I I uh th and and this whole U.S. attorney thing.
I want every Democrat you tell me if this sounds like defense out there, Jim.
I want every Democrat senator to stay I know what the charge of, by the way.
If you keep talking about this, you're not talking about our side and our guys and so forth.
Uh and uh we're not going on offense by we handle it all here, folks.
It's a three-hour program.
We got 15 hours a week.
We do everything.
This falls under the category of I'm not doing enough.
Now I'm doing what I do wrong.
I'm being sucked in.
I am being used, I am being tricked, I'm being fooled into going on defense every day.
Not true.
But I want every Democrat, every Democrat senator to state that they will not urge a Democrat president to fire any of the current U.S. attorneys should a Democrat become president, including Schumer.
And I would like for Chuck Schumer to release all records maintained in any of his offices in which he has advocated the hiring or firing of any U.S. attorney, including those in his own state.
This is common practice.
Senators recommend judges to the president.
Senators recommend U.S. attorneys from their states.
Senators will argue against certain U.S. attorneys.
All of this goes on.
It's just not in public hearings.
But these kinds of things happen frequently.
Let's see Chuck Schumer's file.
You want offense, Jim?
We can go on offense all day.
Where are the Republicans on this?
Republicans sitting around letting this happen.
Let the Republicans return some fire here.
Let the White House return some fire.
Let's see some files.
Let's see some nut letters from Senator Schumer.
Let's see some records from him.
Records he's maintained in any of his offices.
Because I I will my friends, I know, but I don't know.
But I know because I understand how this stuff works.
I know that Schumer and a lot of other senators have advocated the hiring or firing of a lot of U.S. attorneys over the course of their careers, including those in their own states.
So let's see any letters and any emails that are in Senator Schumer's office.
You see, the drive-by's are not going to ask any members of Congress what their roles are in influencing the selection process.
So why is that?
What has Schumer done in this process?
We want to see his records because I can tell you right now, he's done a lot of things to influence, as have all other senators.
But we're only hearing about one senator.
And that's um who isn't a guy out in Arizona?
What's his name or New Mexico?
What's his name?
Uh Dominici?
Pete Dominici got hold of somebody, I think in Gonzalez's office.
Look, the U.S. attorney out here is screwing up.
This guy's not doing a good job and so far.
Oh, they're zeroing in on that.
You think that's unique?
You think that's unprecedented?
This is the kind of thing that happens all the time.
Uh now my demanding records from Senator Schumer's not going to get it done.
Uh somebody in government elected is gonna have to do it to get it done, or it maybe won't get done, but could put Schumer on the defensive uh at least.
That's a non-story, folks, and it's being trumped up because it fits the template here and the uh the storyline, the action line of the story that Bush is corrupt, and we got to get rid of him.
And everything he does is secret and in private, and it's the most power-crazed administration that we've ever had, and all of this is bunk.
Lorraine in Baltimore, you're next on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Hello.
Hello.
I'm so glad God loaned you the talent, and thank you for using it.
My point, Rush?
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate the comment.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Get going.
Okay, my point is related, although it's not about judges.
Um the Clintons did not shrink in travel gate or in getting rid of the medical doctor immediately when they got into the White House.
I I think that's sort of related.
Yeah, it's a good point.
Travel office firings.
I'll tell you who made a big deal out about that.
It was the uh the new media, the conservative media, the drive-bys were not interested in that.
Uh this was the Clintons, if you're if you've forgotten, they got rid of uh a lot of people in the travel office of the White House.
Travel office of the White House books the travel for drive-by journalists who are going to accompany the president on various junkets and uh trips.
And the travel office arranges hotels and uh and airplane flights for those who can't uh fit aboard Air Force One, and even assigns those who will be on Air Force One.
And uh what they did, they got rid of uh the couple people running the travel office and tried to put their own local travel agent people involved, get them in on a deal uh with a with a commissioner a financial cut.
Uh the travel office people weren't just fired.
Hillary Clinton went out and tried to destroy their reputations, accusing them of all kinds of crimes in conducting the way the travel office was operated, and they were exonerated, and uh it was almost like a Ray Donovan circumstance.
Where do we go to get our reputations back?
Now it was made a big story, but not by the drive-by media.
They did get rid of the White House position, but that's okay.
I can understand somebody wanting his own doctor in there.
They probably got hold got rid of the White House tailor.
I mean, who you people understand sorry, I don't mean that to sound condescending when I say you people.
It's just a figure of speech with me.
But you understand the president doesn't pack his own bags for a trip.
And do you understand the president probably doesn't pick out what he wears every day?
Do you understand that there is a White House tailor, and there's a White House barber, and there's a White House, this and that, and a White House chef.
There's a White House interior designer and decker, it's a White House Social Secretary, all these people.
Um been there a long, long time, but presidents, if they want their own tailor, bring somebody in.
Uh if they want uh populate their travel office with their own pig and do it.
Uh somebody in the travel office was assigned to guard duty at the Washington Monument, I think, or something like that.
Remember?
Some lowly position that the Clintons did.
But again, no no uh no no ruckus was raised over this.
It's just a a 100% non-story.
Thanks, Lorraine, for the phone call.
Great to talk to you.
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This is John, nice to have you on the program, sir.
Great to be with you, Rush.
Yes, sir.
My pleasure to have you.
Fred Thompson for president.
What's your take?
Well you know you've taken me into our next series of audio sound bites.
Uh I continue to receive a plethora of emails from people who are excited about Fred Thompson.
And the drive-by's now are starting to do stories about well, you know, the Republicans really aren't that excited about the current crop.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Let's start with uh CNN.
And this uh this was yesterday, last night, actually, on the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, a portion of the report by InfoBabe Mary Snow.
Republican strategists say conservatives are particularly interested in Thompson's possible presidential run.
So is conservative talk radio's Rush Limbaugh.
He is uh thought to be authoritative, uh a lot of presence, so forth and so on.
So uh it gets uh it gets more and more interesting out there.
Now let's listen to what I said in context.
Because the drive-by's dare uh uh Mary Snow and CNN have me all revved up about Fred Thompson.
They have me out there saying, you know, this is finally my guy, but this is what I actually said yesterday on this very program behind this very golden microphone.
I got a bunch of emails from people over the weekend uh after this had been announced from uh and it very excited.
Look at this is anecdotal.
I'm not saying this means anything.
I'm just sharing with you some of the reaction.
But I haven't gotten it about any of the others.
Closest to it would be Giuliani, I guess.
But not in the scope of what we got, what I got from people talking about Fred Thompson.
He is thought to be authoritative, uh a lot of presence, so forth and so on.
So it gets more and more interesting out there.
I was quoting essentially uh what emailers were saying to me about Fred Thompson, CNN, and I'm not complaining.
I'm not demanding a correction.
It's jump change.
It's just trying to put it in perspective here and in context.
CNN was out uh uh making it look like those were my sentiments.
And why are they doing that?
Because they cannot forget this.
Here's a montage of the last time the press reported uh that uh I was not revved up about any of the candidates.
Rush Limbach.
He told uh his listeners none of the current Republican candidates rev him up.
With all these guys angling for the job of Mr. Conservative, the base is underwhelmed.
Here's conservative talk show host, Rush Limbach.
There's nobody out there that revs me up, so why should I pretend that there is?
This is January 30th and uh February 5th of this year.
So they've all got it in their Nexus database that I've said nobody out there revs me up.
So talking about Thompson and reporting some of the emails I got about him yesterday all Limbaugh's getting excited about somebody in the race.
Um as to your question, John, uh you're just another in the long line of people here thrilled as they can be with Fred Thompson.
Uh I I don't know what to tell you.
I don't how many times do I have to say this?
You know, I uh uh I will have to admit this is exactly what I was talking about three weeks ago, four weeks ago, when everybody was demanding that I pick somebody and get on board and start being proactive about this.
And I said, it's too soon.
Anything can happen.
We don't know who's gonna get in this race yet, and we might have some of the so-called underdogs come out of nowhere and lead the pack.
You never know what's gonna happen.
McCain has now snubbed the Club for Growth, the fourth conservative conservative group uh in uh not too long a time that's asked him to speak.
He didn't go to C-SPAC to CPAC to speak, and he's not gonna go that's Steve Moore's bunch, by the way, the Club for Growth not going there.
McCain's, you know, sort of corkscrewing down in the polls.
Uh and Giuliani is uh is riding high at the uh at the moment.
So this is a classic example of uh what I meant when I said it's too early here to pick somebody and start getting on the bandwagon.
Uh way too soon.
First primary is not for uh for nine months.
And I don't I have a tradition and the histoire of not getting involved in primaries till we're down to the final two.
Uh that's been my history.
And it's just my instincts, folks.
If there were somebody out there that I said this is it, this is the answer, then I would tell you this.
But so far, I have to be honest, I can't say that yet.
Ha.
Welcome back, folks.
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Once more returning to Senator Schumer.
Schumer's out there saying that we need to fire Alberto Gonzalez, because Gonzalez acted improperly in trying to fire U.S. attorneys.
Gonzalez is the boss, therefore, Gonzalez is accountable for Gonzalez needs to go.
Now, by his own logic, Schumer should resign.
His staffers, when he uh was in charge, I think he still is, the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee remember illegally pulled credit reports on Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele in Maryland, credit reports and credit card information.
is a felony.
Now Chuck got rid of one of the staffers, maybe two, but But shouldn't he he resign if if he knew about illegalities after the fact?
What are we to conclude here that Senator Schubert Saborne's identity theft?
By the way, uh story here, the chief White House lawyer floated the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys at the start of President Bush's second term.
But the Justice Department objected and eventually recommended the eight dismissals that have generated a political fire storm two years later.
That would have been Harriet Myers.
Harriet Myers at the start of the second term wanted to broom all of them.
And of course, they loved Harriet Myers when she was appointed as the Supreme Court Justice.
She's nominated to be on the Supreme Court.
They loved her and they supported her because, of course, those of us in the vast right wing conspiracy, and I am the Mr. Big in the vast right-wing conspiracy said, no, this won't do.
A troubled time for those of us on the right, but nevertheless, we prevailed.
So the White House uh wanted to get rid of all of them.
Harriet Myers did, that's the White House and the Justice Department.
Now, who in the Justice Department says no?
Nobody in Clinton's Justice Department said maybe they did say no, Clinton said, screw you.
I'm president.
Think there are a lot of Bush 41 holdovers in the uh in the Justice Department that wanted to sabotage the Clinton administration.
If Clinton thought so, they were gone, baby.
Of course, Bush had the new tone and so forth.
Do you remember I don't know this was late last year.
Might have been earlier this year because this is March now.
We're time is zipping by out there.
Uh you know, especially for me, this last month has really gone fast.
I vowed not to mention this, but I'm gonna go ahead and mention it.
The reason I don't mention it is obvious reasons.
I have lost 25 pounds in the last 30 days.
And alternately this month is, you know, trickled by and alternately it's sped by.
I can't believe it's been a whole month.
Remember when I came back from the ATT Pebble Beach, and I had this bad case of bronchitis when I didn't have any appetite anyway, didn't feel like eating.
Everybody says, You gotta have some soup.
No, I just I don't feel like it.
No better time than now.
So I started a diet bamboo, 25 pounds in 30 days.
Everybody here is stunned.
I'm not.
I can do this.
I've probably done this ten or twelve times in my life.
But I want yeah, I want to I want to lose enough weight this time.
It'll take me five years to put it back on.
That's my objective, not uh two.
So I'm looking forward to five five years of big fight.
Anyway, did you you remember there was a story in the Washington Post, a huge puff piece about Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin and George Miller and Bill Delahunt.
They share an apartment in in Washington.
And it was all oh, how wonderful was just the biggest puff piece that you can imagine.
We've never got such a puff piece on Republicans.
Jake Tapper, following up on this newspaper story, visited their apartment, and here's a portion of his report.
Hi, welcome to our humble above.
Most Americans might be surprised to learn that four of the most powerful men in the U.S. Congress live here in this dilapidated, dingy democratic dump.
Not surprisingly, they have rats.
I did.
How did you call it?
Uh, with a putter.
With a putter?
One of them.
But I'm not a good golfer, so I had a three-put.
They're laughing at killing an animal.
They killed a rat in their own apartment.
Remember, I killed a mouse uh with a can of Pam.
That didn't kill the mouse, but it prevented the mouse from escaping my plastic trash can.
It's out in Sacramento.
And I shook that trash can and that mouse died.
I didn't know.
I'm not gonna have this brand new house.
I'm not gonna have a mouse get out of there.
It's a cute little thing, too.
I hated to do it.
Anyway, there's a companion story here.
A guy faces in New York a um six-month jail term for killing a rat in his house.
I'll have details when we come back.
Stay with us, don't go away.
As story about the guy getting six months for killing a rat in his house is uh the New York guy, Frank uh Frank Balloon is his name, is 1994 story.
I'll have the details.
And we have a John Edwards coming up, the John Edwards update.
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