I swear that was the most amazing thing I've seen.
Well, I can't say it's the most amazing thing I've seen, but anyway, it gets close.
Yeah, have audio soundbite number five standing by again, and then we're going to jump forward to seven and stay in order, all right?
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We've had some great Open Line Friday phone calls today.
Big news out of France today.
The president Nicolas Sarkozy has presented a draft bill that would effectively scrap the 35-hour workweek.
Excuse me.
35-hour workweek, one of France's sacred cows.
French labor unions caught off guard by the move were meeting late yesterday to decide whether to call for strikes.
He surprised the unions.
He didn't even consult them.
Now, during the top-of-the-hour break, I moseyed into Mr. Snurdley's office where he goes to re-energize for another hour of screening calls.
Much tougher job screening calls than anybody can possibly imagine.
He has to decide in seven seconds, no more, no less, whether somebody's got it.
After seven seconds, if he can't tell, wait, you can tell.
He's good at it.
Seven seconds, then you move on.
If somebody doesn't have it, sorry, move on because there are too many people trying to get through.
Got to get the right one.
But it takes, it's a pressure-packed job.
So he goes back to his office to re-energize, decompress oil, and refocus.
He didn't have any cheese this time.
He had CNBC on in there and one of his TV sets.
And the Street Sweetie show is on.
Now, we like the Street Sweetie here.
I mean, she's a superb journalist, a superb economist.
I mean, she knows her stuff.
But they open their hour with exactly what I was talking about earlier in the program, what has become news, that isn't news.
Any news story that tells you what might happen without telling you anything that has happened isn't news.
It's speculation.
It's bias.
It's opinion.
For example, every global warming story.
Let me just give you an example.
Let me see if I can find one here in the stack.
Okay, let's see here.
No, the stories I've got today are all about the cap and trade deal next week, which we're going to talk about next week.
The thing goes before the Senate.
Let me, I've got one here that I haven't used.
Sit tight.
Well, you look at it.
You know what I'm talking about.
A story that talks about what might happen is speculation.
It isn't the news.
So they did a feature on the worst.
Hurricane season starts Monday.
Sunday, June 1st, whatever, Sunday, June 1st.
Whenever it is, it's June 1st.
Hurricane season starts, and of course, the drive-bys all go camp out on the beaches looking for the next hurricane.
There already is one done in Central America.
At any rate, they did a feature on the apocalypse.
The right hurricane at the right place would be the apocalypse.
Would be the perfect storm.
Would be the right hurricane at the perfect.
It was all about the right hurricane at the right place destroying our all business, our all fields.
And it was complete with footage of hurricanes from years ago.
The palm trees sideways, cars rolling down the streets.
And they got some guy from the Oil Price Services Coordinator Complex on there, whatever it was called, and he was describing what would happen.
Now, some people might like to see these kinds of stories.
Yeah, we're a rush.
We have to be prepared for this.
It's good that we're being prepared.
Oh, I'm sure the people in business are preparing for it.
I'm sure the oil companies have a battle plan.
But to present this as a news story, we don't know that we're going to have any hurricanes this year.
We don't know that.
And if we do, we don't know how bad they're going to be, and we certainly don't know where they're going to be.
But we're not hoping for the right hurricane at the right place, giving us the perfect storm.
None of us are hoping for this.
Except maybe Scott McClellan.
But besides him, I don't know that anybody's hoping for this.
So don't call a street sweetie.
I'm not being critical of her.
It just cemented my point in my mind about how much, so much news out there is what might happen, not what has happened.
And all of global warming is that way.
Speaking of all, interesting story today in the Los Angeles Times.
U.S. regulators are investigating whether large institutional funds have been snapping up futures contracts for oil and other commodities and whether that may have skewed the market and contributed to rising prices.
Buying up these contracts may have skewed the market.
Futures contracts are being bought and then they're held and not sold.
Big investors such as pension funds have moved into the commodities market via the so-called index funds that invest in futures contracts and securities that are tied to them.
Regulators acknowledge that their knowledge of the fund's activities is less than complete.
Part of the investigation is to simply figure out which investors are buying what kinds of financial instruments.
Under the new agreement, the Commission will have access to trading data from London markets for delivery in the U.S. Index funds have been buying and holding commodities futures, including oil, much as they do stocks or bonds.
This from Michael Lynch, the president of Strategic Energy and Economic Research, which is an energy forecasting firm based in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Because such investors buy the securities and don't sell them for a long time, demand has increased.
So you have a huge number of people buying, but there isn't an equivalent group of people selling.
And so that's creating more demand, which is putting an upward pressure on the price.
So they're looking into whether or not people buying oils contracts and then holding them and not selling them, which is the normal procedure, has had some impact on the rising price.
Now, oil is around $127.75 right now, down $127.30 at the moment.
I think that's up a buck and a half from yesterday, but it's down $8.5 or $7.50 just since last week.
And inflation is starting to level off as well.
Oh, and this.
Here we go.
This is from the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Let's see.
I got two stories here on this.
Oh, the ratings are in for that stupid HBO movie on the Sunday Night Recount.
Nobody watched it.
One million people.
One million people compared to like 14 million for the Sopranos, 2.5 million for John Adams.
Nobody cared.
And of course, the analysts were saying, well, Memorial Day weekend.
Nobody watches TV in Memorial Day.
I was.
Don't insult me.
I watched it Monday night.
Or Sunday night it was.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, if just pulling up to the gas pump makes you cringe, think of all the Keith Henrys of the world.
He's in charge of the 98-bus fleet operated by the Melville School District.
Every bus only gets four to 10 miles a gallon, and during the screwal year, they go through 850 to 1,000 gallons a day.
We're definitely feeling it, said Keith Henry.
And with the state shouldering an increasingly smaller percentage of transportation costs, screws are scrambling to conserve with limited results.
The special school district buses about 5,000 students to and from school.
That's the little yellow bus for those of you in Rio Linda.
That doesn't seem like an overwhelming amount unless you consider that many of the students have health conditions that require that they travel in air conditioning or be dropped off and picked up just outside their homes.
The district's chief financial officer, Rich Carver, said the district is considering the fuel hedge.
It may also cut back on the distance traveled for field trips or community-based.
They get this.
One of the ways they're thinking of saving gasoline money in this district.
Cut back on the distance traveled for field trips or community-based instruction.
For example, if students go to a grocery store to practice buying items and interacting with workers.
Now, I took a lot of field trips.
Well, I didn't take a whole lot of field trips.
Went to a slaughterhouse.
I was never taken to a store and taught how to buy things.
Somehow, I just knew how to do that.
Somehow, I just, it just happened.
I think going with my mom to the grocery store or going with my dad to the restaurant.
This is something that I picked up.
I don't remember a field trip to go to learn how to buy things and interact with workers.
So anyway, here's where we are here.
After we've set the table here, oh no, the gas price in school districts and buses, oh no, we're going to hear how they need more money for gasoline.
Or they're going to have to get rid of art programs.
Or they're going to have to get rid of textbooks.
Or they're going to have to get rid of grammar class.
Can't do that.
I already did that.
Here's the thought.
Why not just get rid of a few administrators?
Why not?
Well, now we're no, snurdly, we're not talking about these kids are not being bussed all across the county here.
You could get rid of some kind of the far distance bussing, yeah, but I'm just warning you people, this is how this victim stuff starts.
And it's just, it may not happen here in Melville, may not get any worse than it is, but I guarantee you, everything like this that happens, when the government's involved, they are the only ones that can go out and say, we need more money and we're taking it from you.
You and I, when our gasoline price goes up, when the price of our food goes up, there's nowhere we can go to say, I need more money, and I'm taking it from you.
Nowhere we can go.
The government will do it.
And they pile on these sob stories about the children.
Why we might have to cancel a field trip to Walmart, and the kids won't learn how to buy anything and interact with the workers.
Of course, why are we going to teach kids to buy anything when we're in the middle of a recession anyway and nobody's got any money?
Sir Douglas Quintet is back.
This is so great here.
The attorneys general of 10 states are urging the California Supreme Court to delay finalizing its ruling to legalize same-sex marriage.
The states involved are Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah.
They want the court to say it's ruling, stay its ruling until after the November election, when voters likely will decide whether to amend the state constitution and ban gay marriage.
I'll bet you the Democrat Party was in on this.
The last, you just know that the Democrat Party, no, no, don't start this gay marriage stuff now.
We'll wait till after the election to do this.
Don't start it.
We don't want to rev up those evangelical Christians down in the South.
They're already mad at the Republican Party, and this is going to bring them back.
You got to stay this.
This is so the Democrats finally found something here.
They've got to try to keep under the rug.
One more thing here from Nicholas Sarkozy, who told the unions, hey gang, 35-hour work week is over.
He said the 35 hours have delivered a serious blow to our country.
We can't stress this enough.
How can we have this stupid idea to believe that it's by working less that we will create more wealth and more jobs?
Now, the rest of the world's going in the right direction.
And hell, both of our political parties are taking us down the road to socialism.
You know, I'm still thinking about this school district and field trips take the kids out and go to Walmart or wherever they go to learn how to buy things, interact with workers.
In addition to wasting time doing that because we're in a recession, nobody's got any money to buy anything.
When you don't have anything in the country, the government gives it to you.
They need to teach kids how to get in line at a government welfare officer program.
Scott McClellan.
This is choice.
Brian Ross, ABC News.
In an encounter last night in the lobby of the Essex House Hotel in New York City, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan apologized to Richard Clark for denouncing him after he wrote a book highly critical of the Bush administration in 2004.
I should have known how personal it would get when they went after me.
Well, I mean, after what I said about you, Clark says that McClellan told him in the lobby.
Clark told him that he said, I think I can forgive you now.
McClellan said, I'd like to ask you to.
So here's McClellan.
You know, he's been pointed up as a hypocrite because he's out there critical of Bush, and he also ripped Clark's book to shreds.
Now he's asked Clark for forgiveness.
But listen to this is the end of the story.
Richard Clark, who was the source, I guess, of the story to Ryan Moss, Clark says he left McClellan alone, a position the former press secretary is finding wherever he turns.
McClellan's brother Mark, who was a member of Bush's Council of Economic Advisors and later appointed by Bush to head the FDA, isn't coming to his brother's defense.
Mark McClellan, now a fellow at the Brookings Institution, Comma, and Brookings spokesman Adriana Pita, told ABC News he's not making any comment on it.
Clark says he left McClellan alone.
Audio sound by time.
Go back to May 3rd.
Meet the press, Tim Russert show.
Here is Senator Obama talking about Reverend Wright and Reverend Moss.
And he built a terrific church.
I'm proud of that church.
We've got a wonderful young pastor who's there who's doing continuing the terrific work that the church does.
And that's my commitment, my commitment to the values of that church.
He's talking about the replacement for Reverend Wright, the Reverend Otis Moss there.
Wonderful young pastor doing and continuing the terrific work the church does, Reverend Wright.
Last Sunday, the Trinity United Church of Christ, here is this wonderful young pastor, Otis Moss, introducing the visiting Reverend Michael Flager.
We are delighted.
He needs no introduction.
He is a friend of Trinity.
He is a brother beloved.
He's a preacher par excellence.
He is a prophetic, powerful Pulpiteer.
He is our friend.
He is our brother.
He is none other than Father Michael Flager.
We welcome him once again.
And here is Father Michael Flager.
When Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on, I really don't believe it was put on.
I really believe that she just always thought, this is mine.
I'm Bill's wife.
I'm white.
And this is mine.
I just got to get up and step into the plate.
And then out of nowhere came, hey, I'm Barack Obama.
And she said, oh, damn, where did you come from?
I'm white.
I'm entitled to the black man stealing my show.
She wasn't the only one crying.
There was a whole lot of white people crying.
Play number 23 again there, real quick, Mike.
As much as we can get into it here.
He was my pastor, and he built a terrific church.
I'm proud of that church.
We've got a wonderful young pastor who's there who's doing continuing the terrific work that the church does.
And that's my commitment.
My commitment to the values of that church.
Thank you, Barack Obama.
Democrats have got to be quaking in their boots.
I'll never admit it, but this is just too good.
Okay, back to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
Lake County, Ohio.
This is Dr. Mike.
Hello, Dr. Mike.
Hi, Rush.
I have a question for you.
Since you've been talking about speculation in marketplaces all day anyway, I noticed that there is the energy credits.
And I was wondering if you would want to develop a new marketplace for something called a Rush Energy Debt.
And that would be for people that are too busy to drive their SUV or maybe they can't afford to.
Maybe they can't grill their Allen Brothers stakes.
Maybe they can't afford a large home.
Maybe they can't go on a vacation or cut the grass.
So the goal would be to create these Rush Energy debits.
I will call them red debits.
And what we want to do is have more red states in the country.
Well, you lost me.
How do we go from rush energy debits to red states?
Well, R-E-D, Rush Energy Debits.
Yeah, but red states end up by the way people vote.
Right.
Well, we could just use that as a nuance.
If you didn't like that idea, then that's fine.
But my idea was, you know, you have puts and calls.
People don't necessarily believe in a stock, and they will just speculate, as you've been saying.
No one is speculating currently with energy debit.
They're only speculating with energy credit.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
I see what you're saying.
So we invest.
It's sort of like selling short.
Correct.
Right.
And the Al Gore types are selling the other kind and making money.
And my thought was, and it'd be up to you because it would be your system, is that since we are more charitable than the Democrat Party, that maybe the money for this goes to a Rush charity.
Well, now, who is going to pay me the money?
Because by definition, you just described a bunch of people who can't mow the lawn.
They can't go on a vacation.
They can't afford a big home.
They can't afford to grill Allen Brothers steaks.
So we can't get money from them.
Well, maybe they can't afford to do that, but maybe they can afford to pay because they feel guilty about not using energy the way they should.
Oh, because these people are not using enough energy they need to pay to make up for the energy they're not using.
Correct.
And whether it's $5 a megawatt hour or $90 or $20, the marketplace would do that.
I see.
So basically, Al Gore sets up his carbon credits.
I set up debit credits.
I take money from people who don't have much anyway because they feel guilty.
They're not using enough.
You feel left out.
The planet's going to hell and you're not helping destroy it.
Well, we here at Rush Energy Debits are.
You hear all these other people destroying the country with all carbon footprint, and all you've got is a little toe print.
Oh, we can help.
Send me your money.
John in Sioux City, Iowa.
You're next.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, 24-7 Dittos.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Hey, being a 24-7 member, I'm kind of disappointed when on the podcast I can't hear the parodies.
Is there anything that you can do about that?
Well, it's a, you know, the parody songs you're talking about.
Yes.
We can't put any music on the podcasts.
Oh, okay.
Even the parodies, because the parodies are derivatives of actual written melodies and written lyrics, we do not pay a license fee for that.
In fact, we here at the EIB Network, I think we pay a little bit of a license fee to BMI and ASCAP, but our affiliate stations are the ones that actually have to pay for the privilege of broadcasting published music.
And there has not been a deal.
Well, there has been a deal struck for internet delivery, and it's just, it's outrageously expensive.
With the number of podcasts that we have and the number of users, I mean, we'd have to raise the membership, the subscriber rate on the website to a level it would make no sense.
It's just, it's, and you know, these copyright people are trying to get even tougher now.
The, you know, radio stations don't, they really, they pay a little bit of a license fee.
It's not really much.
They are now being hit with the possibility that they're going to have to start paying through the nose to play music.
And there's a lot of, I don't know where it stands now, but there's a lot of controversy about it.
It's a federal issue at some level.
But that's the reason I'm glad you called and asked because this is, you know, people think we're screwing up when we do not put any music on the podcast, including the parodies.
And it's simply, we don't have permission.
We haven't struck a deal to pay for it.
It's just, it's, it's just outrageous.
And it's so outrageous the people who own the music are screwing themselves by seeing to it that their work is not exposed.
And so that's just the way it is.
It's like a government runs things.
When a subway ridership goes down, they raise fares.
In the private sector, you lower fares, lower prices to increase volume.
And these clowns on the other side of this are just doing the wrong way.
We're always looking for ways to do it because, look at this is excellence in broadcasting.
And as a highly trained specialist, it does not satisfy me to have to send this program out podcast-wise without any of the audio in it in terms of the music because the music is a significant part of the program.
So we're always working on it.
But, you know, look at people that I've hired to run this thing, they are paranoid.
I will admit, I've tried to sneak a couple things in that I thought were so good.
Let's just do it.
What are the odds we're going to get caught?
If we get caught, Rush, you don't want to deal with Weddell Henry.
Okay, okay, okay.
I've tried to sneak it by them, but they just are, they will not even.
Can't we just say it was a mistake that Brian screwed up and forgot?
No, we can't do that.
What are the odds we're going to get caught?
They're really small, but Rush, you don't want that circumstance.
These people are very serious about their stuff not being them not being compensated when their stuff is used.
I understand it.
In a sense, just their pricing is out of control.
It makes no sense.
Jim in Montgomery, Texas, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Howdy, from the great state of Texas, Rudd.
Thank you very much.
Say, I'd like to talk about Canada, Mexico, and Alaska.
The oil in particular.
I noticed that when we need more oil from the Saudis, the president goes over there and holds hands with some king or something, tries to squeeze a little bit more production out of there.
Why don't we get more from Canada and more from Mexico to make up the difference?
And another thing, why don't we stop selling it to Japan?
Well, Japan's an ally.
Japan's domestic oil production is barely 2%.
Right, but they could get it from the Middle East.
It's just about the same distance as far as we have to tow.
You know, we have to bring it in from the Middle East.
It seems like to me it'd be better if they went ahead and got theirs from the Middle East.
It's all about an allied relationship.
And by the way, when the president look, I agree with it, just embarrassing, humiliating, and maddening to see the president of the United States, a leader of the free world, go ask a Saudi King to increase oil production.
But he was asking, don't sell us more.
He was asking him to pump more on the world market.
The Canadians couldn't pump enough.
They couldn't increase their production enough.
It's a different question of who we buy from versus who produces around the world.
Right.
But what I was saying, my dad was in the service business, oil business for all my life, and he's retired now.
But he said there was a, he's punched holes.
He's a directional driller.
He's the one that goes sideways.
He says there's more oil in Columbia and next to Venezuela there.
It was just hard to get at.
They had to use a lot of it was production costs were too much at the time because they got all those swamps and things down in there.
But he said there's tons and tons of oil there.
Yeah, the Bakken field and where is it, South Dakota or Montana?
Oh, yeah, this is everywhere.
With exactly that kind of technique required to get it.
And he also did some drilling for the government.
And they drilled these geothermal wells down in White Sands and some places.
They couldn't even run a light bulb off of it.
They really tried.
And then they have the well he dug.
I didn't even know they had this.
It was nitrogen in the ground.
He did a nitrogen well for him up there in Dakota somewhere.
I think North Dakota.
Close to Canada out in that area.
What do you mean they drilled a geothermal well in White Sands and they couldn't even run a light bulb off of it?
Well, because they have, well, he complained.
He's the, you know, he's an old school driller, you know, that went back to school and after World War II became a directional drilling engineer.
And they called him out to this.
Well, whenever they do a sidetrack, like twist off or something like that, they've got to get a directional guy in there to go around it.
Anyway, they were drilling this thing.
It was an experimental deal, and he had a whole bunch of eggheads, he said, sitting around the table all trying to figure out.
They'd ask him questions, and then, of course, they'd just ignore him.
And he told them that, you know, they had to do a certain way.
You know, he was used to doing it his way and all that.
You know, I've had this happen to me.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
You're ahead of your time.
You know your instincts and your knowledge.
You have a whole bunch of people who think they know how to do it, a better idea, and they reject it because you're either a lone guy or you're too young or they just are arrogant.
I can relate to what your dad was going through.
By the way, Newt Gingrich sent me a note the other day and asked me to mention something.
And this would be a good time to do it.
He's got his website, American Solutions.
What is it?
I think it's Americansolutions.com or.org.
I'm not sure which.
But anyway, you can go sign a petition there.
What Newt's trying to do is get a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of signatures from people on the concept of drill here, drill now, and pay less as a means of two things.
Get the concept in the minds and hearts of these 535 dolts in Washington that drilling here and now is the answer to these problems that everybody's running around moaning about.
The second thing is it's a way to focus opposition to this Warner Lieberman travesty of a piece of legislation next week, the cap and trade thing, which is McCain's big, he's really, really big under this.
And there are a lot of people that want to stop this.
Now, I was going to spend some time on it today, but the weekend's going to come up.
You're going to forget it.
On Monday, I've got a lot of stuff assembled about what this is, what the outcome of it will be if it happens.
And it represents as large an attack on the U.S. economy as Hillary's health care plan was.
And that's what this is.
It is an attack on the U.S. economy, this legislation, the cap and trade, selling of carbon credits and so forth.
So Newt's looking for a lot of signatures on his website, on these petitions here, so that he can really throw these names and these petitions at these members of Congress.
And I think it's American Solutions.
It is Americansolutions.com.
And you can somehow go there and you can sign a petition to get your name on it for drill here, drill now, and pay less.
Wednesday in San Francisco, the Queen Bee, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, was interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Board.
Here's some of what she said.
If the resolution is not appropriate, then it remains for the Credentials Committee at the convention to resolve it.
Then, earlier than that, I will step in because we cannot take this fight to the convention.
It must be over before then.
I believe it will be over in two weeks.
Nancy Pelosi is saying, don't worry, I'm taking Hillary out of here in two weeks.
This isn't going to the convention.
If it does, I'm going to stop it before it gets there.
Hillary's toast.
The night before in Billings, Montana, Mrs. Clinton said this, which might have partially inspired what you just heard from Pelosi.
We have not gone through this exciting, unprecedented historical election only to lose.
So you have to ask yourself, who is the stronger candidate?
And based on every analysis of every bit of research and every poll that's been taken and every state that a Democrat has to win, I am the stronger candidate against John McCain.
Operation Chaos.
And it will rear its head again tomorrow at the Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting in Washington.
Pelosi wasn't through.
She also said this to the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board.
Some of the success of the surge is at the goodwill of the Iranians.
They decided in Basra when the fighting would end.
They negotiated that cessation of hostilities.
The Iranians.
This is unbelievable.
She exactly right.
Well, why are you surprised?
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have been waving a white flag of surrender in Iraq for over a year now.
And yes, you heard right.
She is crediting the Iranians for our victory because they stopped their hostilities.
And she wants the Iranians.
This is how invested in defeat and in the incompetence of the U.S. military the Democrat Party is.
We are going to be playing this little soundbite of hers over and over again.
Keep this one standing by.
Now, a lot of people say, Rush, why are you so hot on Bobby Jindal?
We have two soundbites.
He was on with Cavuto yesterday.
Here's the first of the two sound bites.
Governor Rush Limbaugh is a very big fan of yours.
He says you're like a Ronald Reagan.
Now, he was not a fan of John McCain's.
So it's kind of like a weird juxtaposition for conservatives to be in, saying that a conservative like yourself has to be on a McCain ticket or they might think less of that ticket.
You think that's true?
When the choice comes down to Senator McCain versus Senator Obama, I think the choice will be pretty clear.
I've not always agreed with all the stands that Senator McCain has taken, but I do think that he has been a reformer when it comes to going after earmarks and wasteful spending.
I think he is the better of the two candidates to defend our country.
He's always been strong on national security.
I think it'll be a pretty clear contrast.
I think Senator Obama represents the very liberal side of his party.
Now, the next bite, you're going to hear more of Bobby Jindal talking about what he believes rather than praising Senator McCain.
This will give you some idea why I, and we had an interview with him in the Limbaugh Letter, and he was just fabulous.
And the way he's turned that state of Louisiana's around is superb too.
But listen to this.
The reason the Republican Party is in such trouble is that the party has gotten away from spending discipline.
It has started to make excuses for corruption when it would never have done that if the people being accused were on the other side.
It's gotten away from conservative principles.
The party used to be the party of ideas.
You remember in the 90s, welfare reform was a Republican idea.
Cutting taxes, a Republican idea.
We had real solutions to the energy crisis.
We can't just be a party that says we're cheaper than the Democrats.
We're not as liberal as the Democrats.
We can't be a party that tries to win elections by promising earmarks.
We've got to go back to being a party of principles.
The reason I think we're doing well in Louisiana is we're doing what we promised the voters we would do.
We've got the largest income tax cut coming up next week, reformed our ethics laws now among the best in the country.
We're attracting businesses.
A Fortune 1000 company moved here.
A Fortune 500 company is contemplating a multi-billion dollar investment.
That's Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, and he was like that throughout my interview with him at the Limbaugh Letter, and this is one of the reasons I think I was among the first to mention his name as a potential vice presidential running mate for Senator McCain.
But there's credence to the thought, no, save him.
You know, don't let him go down the tubes in this election.
36, let him really fix this state up and so forth.
But he's a great guy, and he's so right on what's wrong with the party.
Be right back, folks.
Stay with us.
Folks, it's been a fabulous week.
It's been tons of fun, and I hope you have a great weekend.
I'll be back here Monday, revved up and ready to go to clean up the messes that have been made.