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	You know, I really am wondering if Gibbs is in trouble today.
	I'm really wondering if Robert Gibbs in trouble.
	Well, his boss told everybody not to listen to me.
	His boss told the Republicans in Congress, don't listen to Limbaugh.
	That's not how things get done in Washington.
	You've been telling everybody, don't listen to Limbaugh.
	Here's Gibbs out there, obviously listening to Limbaugh.
	Or somebody in that shop is, in order to rip into or swerve in, I'd say they totaled whatever they had.
	Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
	It's open line.
	It's great to have the fastest three hours and the fastest week in media.
	I am L. Watchball at EIV net.com and 1-800-282-2882.
	We're going to get to the phones quickly in this hour.
	We haven't had enough phone calls today because we've had this teachable moment of Gibbs and Obama Motors.
	Uh see.
	You know, Snerdley came up.
	I was in the kitchen.
	And I was in the kitchen here at the EIB complex, and I didn't know anybody.
	Snurdly was behind me, and I didn't know it, and I hear this booming voice.
	You know how lucky we had it as boys growing up.
	What the hell's what's in here?
	Turn around at Snurdley there.
	Oh my gosh, what's coming next?
	He said, look at look at all we would we're the last generation of guys, and it was fun to grow up as guys, as boys.
	We had our muscle cars.
	It was okay to want to have and spend time with beautiful women.
	You go out there, you could smoke, you could drink and do whatever.
	And nobody said a word of me.
	You could just be really who you now look at these guys today.
	They're being raised as wusses.
	So much so they don't even go to college.
	And what's in their future?
	The Chevy Vault.
	A bunch of electric cars, no muscle cars, no car and driver for them.
	What that's uh, and they are he's got a snurdly's got a point.
	Guys growing up today, a bunch of wusses.
	Or at least that's how they're being uh uh shaped.
	So that's how they're being the feminazis have um have had this magical cultural takeover, or at least impact.
	Has it worked, though?
	Joe Arpayo, a guy's guy.
	Joe Arpayo.
	Our generation, a man's man, lost in the hoop law over Arizona's immigration law is the fact that state and local authorities for years have been doing their own aggressive crackdowns on the busiest illegal gateway into the country.
	Now, this is the uh Arizona or the Associated Press, and they're livid about this.
	I mean, you can just you get the anger dripping off of the uh the story.
	Lost in the hooplaw over Arizona's immigration.
	How in the world could it have been lost when the AP has been doing stories of what a rotten SOB Arpayo is for years?
	How the hell can it be lost on him?
	It's also hard to see how that the associated press can call this aggressive, their own aggressive crackdowns, meaning Arpayos are local guys, when Arizona has been acting in a partnership with the federal government in what the AP in this story derisively terms the so-called 287G program.
	I mean, giving you heads up on the rest of the uh of the story.
	Nowhere in U.S. local and in the U.S. is local enforcement more present than in Metropolitan Phoenix.
	So the bottom of the line story is that that uh despite the ruling, Arpayo hasn't stopped.
	Despite the Pio.
	Joe Arpao is still out there trying to find the illegals.
	He's still trying to put them up in jail.
	He's still trying to get them out of the state and out of the country.
	That mean evil guy.
	The law's not stopping.
	The judge didn't stop our pyro.
	That's the thrust of the story.
	Dan Ball's in the Washington Post.
	Maybe Robert Gibbs was right.
	We're going back here a little ways to where Gibbs said it was totally understandable.
	He said this in one of the Sunday shows.
	Totally understandable that the Republicans would win the House.
	Uh remember when he said that?
	And Pelosi had a conniption fit.
	Here's Dan Ball's the Washington Post.
	So Robert Gibbs was right.
	Remember the uproar that Gibbs created when he said on national TV that there were certainly enough seats in play for Republicans to take control of House in November.
	House leaders upbraided him, expressed their anger to the White House.
	But now the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee has confirmed the accuracy of Gibbs' assessment by reserving tens of millions of dollars in television advertising time this fall in about five dozen congressional districts.
	For those of you in realidad, that's 60.
	The Democrats might be speaking with bravado, but they're acting defensively, says Balls.
	On Wednesday, Democrat National Committee Chairman Timothy Kane, the I offered his version of what a 2010 Republican contract with America might look like.
	And of course they're out there.
	We can't go back.
	I'm going to tell you steps backwards and so forth.
	But anyway, the point of the story is that they're panicking.
	And they're reserving all this TV time.
	Much more TV time than incumbents who are confident would be worrying about.
	They are targeting 50 seats.
	The Democrats' expenditure here is targeting 50 or more seats.
	And in the process, they are telegraphing their clear intention to play defense.
	This fall says Neil Newhouse, a Republican pulser, and look at who they're spending money on.
	It's not just the usual freshmen and sophomore suspects, but also the longer term members.
	They are signaling their fear that this is definitely not your run-of-the-mill midterm election.
	No, it's not.
	And the ruling in Arizona just made it tougher for the Democrats in November.
	From the AP out of Jefferson City, Missouri, more than one million people are expected to participate in what amounts to the largest ever public opinion poll on the nation's new health care law.
	Missouri on Tuesday will become the first state to test the popularity of Obama's health care law with a statewide ballot proposal attempting to reject its core mandate that most Americans have health insurance, that you have to buy it.
	The legal effect of Missouri's measure is questionable because federal laws generally supersede those in the states.
	Yes, as we found out.
	But its expected passage could send an ominous political message to Democrats seeking to hang on to their congressional majority in this year's midterm election.
	Hey, AP, what is so hard to understand about this?
	What is so hard to understand about the Democrats taking a bath this fall?
	What is it that you don't understand about the Democrat Party running in sheer opposition to the American people?
	This party is running against the will of the American people.
	This party is siding against the American people, issue after issue after issue after issue.
	This party has singled out American citizens as its enemy.
	This party is siding with illegal immigrants, undocumented Democrats in hopes of winning elections.
	The Democrat Party has given up trying to win elections with American citizens' votes.
	The Democrat Party has essentially said we'll lose if only citizens vote.
	We will lose if the people of this country are the only people vote.
	We need illegal residents voting if we have a chance.
	That's what there's AP, what's so hard to understand about this?
	An ominous message?
	This message has been ominous since about three months after Obama was immaculated.
	No, Snerdley, I'm dead serious when I said that.
	The Democrat Party has determined they cannot win elections if the American citizens is the voting population.
	The Democrat Party is guaranteed to lose if the universe of likely voters is American citizens.
	Barack Obama and the Democrat Party are thus.
	Yes.
	Invested in registering illegals as new voters.
	Because they are governing against the will of the American people.
	Now in the normal, sane political world, this would change the party.
	The party would say, you know what?
	People don't like what we're doing.
	We want to get their votes.
	We got to No, no, not now.
	We finally reached the pinnacle of what it means to be a Democrat.
	And that is, screw you.
	You don't like what we're doing?
	Here's more of it.
	You vote against us.
	Here's how you're gonna pay for it.
	You don't like our legislative agenda?
	Here it is, rammed down your throat, and in other orifices.
	The Democrat Party is running and governing in defiance.
	It's an amazing thing to see.
	And they're media buddies, partisan political operatives disguised as journalists.
	It's an ominous sign what might happen in Missouri.
	The measure may not be legal, but that doesn't matter.
	The message it sends Democrats could be ominous.
	What's your first clue?
	Have you seen the approval ratings, the popularity of Congress, which is owned by Democrats?
	It's 11%.
	Alligator tamers are more respected than Democrats and journalists.
	We'll be back on open line Friday.
	Don't go away.
	Hey, I got a question for you.
	It's not long until we get to August.
	And in fact, well, it's uh the 30 years of the 30 or 31st is August 1st is Sunday.
	It's a 22nd anniversary.
	You realize that?
	22 years on uh on Sunday.
	Anyway, August is also when members of Congress go home for town meetings.
	You think a Democrats are going to be holding any town meetings this year.
	You think you think people are mad.
	Last August, we passed mad several exits ago.
	Oh.
	You think those are some heavily screened town hall meetings?
	We'll see.
	Sure, you're ready.
	We'll see.
	I got some uh email.
	People think I'm making it up about Clinton and the Astro Turf of the El Camino.
	You know, this just goes to show you that that's back in 1994.
	Uh that's 16 years ago.
	You know, we've been here every day since 1994.
	We think all of you have been here every day, but we realize the audience grows by leaps and bounds, and some people listening today who weren't listening in 1994 for whatever reason, too young, they were Democrats or what have you, who might have thought I was making it up.
	Did you think I was making it up?
	Dawn thought I was making it up.
	Dean Carriannis up at the website, Coco Jr. went to the White House website.
	This is from uh February 8th, 1994, remarks by the president to employees of General Motors.
	It was in Shreveport, Louisiana at the GM plant.
	And this is what he said.
	And this is from Archive, it's Web.archive.gov, um Webpub Whitehouse.gov.
	It's a archive site of the websites.
	I'd also like to say that I've been trying to think of a diplomatic way to ask her one of these pickups behind me.
	I own when I was a younger man when I had a life.
	I owned an El Camino pickup in the 70s.
	As a real sort of Southern deal, I had AstroTurf in the back.
	You don't know why what I did.
	You don't want to know why, but I did.
	And I drove it literally until the blocks broke.
	I drove it until it just wouldn't go anymore.
	And you know, when I retire, maybe I can have another one.
	And they started applauding.
	You know, this is a I don't want to make too big a deal out of this, but that's a teachable moment for me.
	Here I tell a true story about Clinton.
	I get inundated with email from people who don't believe it.
	Think of Russia, it's funny.
	Oh, great story.
	Ha ha!
	Wish I'd have thought of it.
	No, it's true.
	Here's why I say don't doubt me.
	Here is Josh in Dayton, Ohio.
	Nice to have you on the EIV.
	Hi, I just wanted to uh get your thoughts on the table sign on ES.
	Does anybody understand what he's saying?
	Oh, you want to get my thoughts on the Bengals hiring T.O. Yes, Eric.
	Where are you, Josh?
	Where are you?
	I have to know where you are.
	I work in a machine shop.
	Aha.
	Are you inside the machine?
	Pretty quiet.
	Yeah, I was gonna say, you sound like you're in a barrel or down in the uh end of a tunnel or something.
	Okay.
	What do I think of the Bengals hiring T.O.?
	I think it's perfectly within.
	I think it's perfectly in character.
	The Cincinnati Bengals have been hiring uh uh questionable characters for a long, long time.
	I think it's probably a good time for them to hire T.O. because TO knows he's a number two receiver now.
	Chad Ochosinko is the number one receiver in the team.
	They're supposedly their friends.
	Chad Okochosinko has a reality show.
	TO has a reality show.
	They're apparently good buddies.
	And uh Pac-Man Jones is on that team now.
	Adam Pac-Man Jones, a quarterback.
	Uh well, it happened in the offseason, Snerdly.
	That's what I mean.
	The Bengals have a track record of hiring some of these uh they take chance like Al Al Davis used to do with the Raiders.
	So I who knows.
	I think they they know something.
	Josh, this is the strangest.
	Uh did he hang up?
	We just lost him.
	I know he's out there listening.
	Josh, here's if you if if you're a Bengals fan, this is it.
	I mean, you're we're we're nearing the point in time where this is it for Carson Palmer, the quarterback.
	He wants the weapons.
	And they got some running backs.
	The and then they've they've been stymied because they've had one receiver at Chad Ocho Cinco, double Chad, and they haven't had a tight end there of any note.
	They do have one now, so they're and Baltimore's coming on with a with a great um offseason, so I know it's it's uh it's gonna be fun.
	Well, who signed anybody a merit?
	What what teams have signed anybody with merit?
	Well, you TO's got merit.
	TO has merit.
	Look at it's a good TO takes two years to take over a clubhouse and destroy it.
	You know, he did fine after one year in Buffalo.
	He did fine down in Dallas.
	It took him his second year uh to blow up things for McNabb in uh in Philadelphia.
	It took a bunch of years to blow up the 49ers.
	Now he'll be fine, I think, for one year in San.
	It does, it does, he if he is, as they say, as if it's being reported if he is if he's comfortable and has accepted the fact that he's not the number one guy on that team, then cool.
	Ocho Cinco is.
	You know, Chad Ochosinko, 30 or 31 years old.
	Terrell Owens 35.
	35's the magic number.
	Who?
	TO's 36?
	Okay, even better.
	3536, magic number for skill position players.
	And when the team start looking at younger players.
	Even a running backs, that's even younger than that.
	Uh what?
	Steelers are a big enigma.
	Steelers uh don't know what quarterback they're gonna have for the first four or six weeks.
	Uh their best offensive lineman who was down there in Georgia with Rothisberger in the bar on the pub crawl, uh, blew out his Achilles a couple weeks.
	He's out for the season.
	So the Steelers just picked up the Cowboys rejected offensive uh tackle, left tackle Flozell Adams, who is 35.
	So they've got uh they've got this number one pick, they're Morquise uh uh Morquiss Pencey uh perhaps metal block of his name is Center from uh Florida can play right guard or center.
	Um, it it it Brett Farbrett, Farbrett, Farbrett Favre.
	It's interesting that uh Brett Farbrett Farb Farbrett Favre is not occupying everybody's curiosity.
	This off it's just assumed that after two or three preseason games have been played at Brett Farbrett Farbrett Farbrett Farv will show up uh and play.
	Remember now, the Vikings and Brett Farbrett Far Brett Farbrett Favre open on Thursday night against the Saints.
	In a rematch of the championship game, is the Thursday night NBC opener.
	Brett Farbrett Farbrett Farbrett Farbrett Favre will be there.
	And I think uh pretty much everybody knows this.
	Now, as you know, I happen to be a Steelers fan, and they they're apparently based on the uh OTAs and the mini camps in the offseason, they're gonna go with Byron Leftwich as their number one quarterback.
	He spent some time with them two seasons ago, spent some time With the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last year.
	The guy I like on that team is Dennis Dixon.
	The number two quarterback who got a chance to play in Baltimore against the uh against the Thugs when when Rothlassberger was out with a concussion last year.
	Love Dennis Dixon.
	I think he's great with Dallas, you know, Jerry Jones, Jerry did Jerry Jones had something very interesting the other day.
	He talked down the Cowboys' chances this year.
	Normally he's just bulldozing all the way to the top, the uh championship or bust.
	The Super Bowl's in their stadium this year.
	And secretly, and everybody knows it's it's not a secret.
	Jerry Jones would give anything to be the first ever team to play in its own stadium in the Super Bowl.
	So that's their objective.
	So Jerry Jones with a new procedure is talking a little humility about the team's chances this year, which is uh an indication that he did serious about it.
	And Peter King for Sports Illustrated just finished a visit there, and he said player for player, they got the most depth of any team in the National Football League, especially at the uh at the skilled positions.
	Most depth, best roster.
	Meaning they can afford to lose frontline people and not lose as much as if um in most of the teams.
	So this is a great time of the NFL season.
	There are about 32 teams, and about 28 of them think they have a chance.
	Only four of them know.
	It's hopeless.
	There are four of them know, and their fans, that there's not a prayer.
	But 28, 28 teams think this could be their year.
	Uh gotta take a timeout.
	It's an obscene profit timeout.
	Back after this with much more.
	I keep seeing uh Charlie Wrangle flash up there on the screen.
	I guess they're gonna have a trial of uh ethics charges.
	I'm just wondering if he changed his name.
	Would he give himself a better shot at beating this?
	Well, I don't know.
	Um Khalid Sheikh Lang Ranglishi or something.
	I if it you just never know.
	And with Wrangle, uh, anything could be on the table.
	You know, being the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing Maha Rushi that I am, I already know.
	I already know how you're gonna react to the latest report given to us by the Heritage Foundation.
	In this report, they point out that the Obama Department of Education budget has doubled in the past year.
	And they did it very quietly.
	Ninety-eight billion dollars in new dollars from the stimulus package is now in the education department's hands, and they can use it however they wish.
	No congressional oversight, no hearings, no resolutions to debate in Congress, nothing.
	They've just had ninety-eight billion dollars thrown their way.
	Instead, we have an education secretary making a speech this week where he says it's all part of a quiet revolution education here in America.
	Quiet revolution.
	And he's right when he says quiet.
	So every state in the country is looking to get a piece of this new hundred billion dollars for their local schools, and in order to get it, they're gonna have to buy into key pieces of Obama's education agenda.
	There's no question that our schools and teaching standards need attention, but even if you have the best plan, if you have the best plan the world has ever seen for educating our students, employing some little checks and balances is a good thing.
	But if they're gonna start throwing 98 billion, 100 billion dollars out there, and you need your percentage of it, and you're gonna have to do whatever Obama wants to get it, I doubt that we're going to be improving education.
	All this is detailed in a report, the Heritage Foundation posted at AskHeritage.org.
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	Conservatism, and that's the Heritage Foundation.
	Become a member today.
	Ask heritage.org.
	If you become a member, you're going to get their Patriots Guide to list of actions you can take to restore more freedoms in America.
	Everybody say, What can I do?
	What can I do?
	They have some ideas.
	At AskHeritage.org.
	Steve and Reno, you're next on the EIB network.
	Hello, sir.
	Awesome, Rush.
	You're awesome, Rush.
	Thank you very much.
	Appreciate that, sir.
	Hey, uh, my comment goes back to the start of the program.
	We were talking about um uh not allowing General Motors to go bankrupt.
	Um over the I'm I've just started a third business over the course of the last thirty years, and fortunately I've had two businesses that have failed.
	And I don't want to minimize uh you know the the trauma of bankruptcy.
	It's not it's not a fun thing.
	But my comment is this.
	Um they were both construction companies, and and uh no less than five of my employees that I employed over those years um have gone on to start their own companies, and they're quite successful, I would have to say, probably to a large degree learning from a lot of the mistakes they saw me made.
	Now wait, you was this did you say construction business?
	Yes, sir.
	And you still have you have you reformed, you reorganized you in business?
	I just uh I I just opened up a cabinet shop about a year ago, so I've gone from building custom homes and now I'm building cabinets.
	But uh my my point is this.
	Uh I don't think people, like I say, uh out of out of the the five employees of mine that have started their own companies, basically I they didn't know which end of a hammer to use when they started working for me, and I trained them, and like I say, they they saw that they took the the good uh points they saw from me and also the mistakes that I made,
	and I think they used used that experience to start their own companies, and they're very successful and they you know employ a lot of people and well let me ask you a question.
	Yeah.
	Do you hate 'em?
	Oh no, I love them.
	I think they're I I look at it, I think, well, that that was something good that came out of my failure.
	And my my point is this in relation to uh to General Motors.
	I mean, if if General Motors had been allowed um to go through bankruptcy, I believe they would have emerged a much much stronger, more viable entity.
	And uh in you know, there would have been some pain, no question about it.
	But in the long term at the time, at the time, let's you know, let's not forget something here.
	The automobile companies themselves did not want to go that route.
	And the reason they didn't want to go that route was very simple.
	I I don't have an agree with them, but I mean this is what they said.
	Nobody's gonna buy a car from a company in bankruptcy, and nobody's gonna think a car that's purchased from a company in bankruptcy will be serviced because nobody's gonna think the company's gonna survive.
	They thought it would not have uh well not it had a negative impact on sales if they were in bankruptcy that uh nobody would buy anything from them.
	And look at I'll tell you something else.
	You know, i th there's a sad reality here, Steve.
	It's one of these many things if I could uh wave a magic wand I would change.
	When the government's passing out money, it's not all that hard to get in line to put your hand out, especially if it'll keep you from going bankrupt.
	If it keeps you out of bankruptcy.
	And you'll okay, you got some strings attached to the money, fine, just give me the money, give me the money, give me what I can.
	I don't want this company to go bankrupt on my watch.
	So it's a it's a powerful, powerful lure when people like Obama come around passing out money.
	So it was I don't I don't I agree with you.
	I think reorganization, take care of the creditors, start a new, uh start clean they even if they had done that, they're still gonna be dealing with these onerous mileage restrictions, cafe standards, and all that sort of stuff.
	I understand that, but they probably could have alleviated it had they, you know, they could have renego renegotiated union contracts, which I think is uh probably the government.
	This is this is a dirty with Obama in office, no way.
	Yeah.
	That that the whole point of these bailouts was to make sure the unions got ownership.
	You know, this the they were never gonna be allowed to go bankruptcy in the first place, even even if they had wanted to.
	You don't think so?
	No.
	I don't think Obama wouldn't it wasn't.
	They they they I think um they I think they had asked for something like fifty million dollars to avoid bankruptcy just to uh keep their health care and retirement pensions funded, and they were turned down.
	That's amazing.
	Yeah.
	Because Obama wanted to own the company Obama wanted UAW people on the board.
	Take a look at what 55% of the uh stock is owned by the UAW, I believe.
	And what's been fascinating about this is to watch now the UAW negotiate labor contracts with itself.
	Uh it's been it's been kind of hilarious.
	Uh $50 billion they wanted to uh just to shore up the health care and pensions.
	Uh, and they would stay in business that way and not and not file bankruptcy, but that that was rejected by the uh by the regime.
	Well, I know bankruptcy is called some people call it creative destruction.
	And it is one of those things that um pops up now and then a lot of people have come out of it and prospered.
	A lot of people have used it to get out of paying bills.
	It's a whole bunch of tools available.
	Anyway, Steve, thanks for the call.
	Ray in San Francisco, you're next in open line Friday.
	Hi.
	Are you there?
	Right here, sir.
	Oh, great.
	Thank you for your show.
	You better the institute.
	Thank you for your leadership and your unwavering leadership.
	Thank you.
	Um I own two F-150s, and I'm a charter member of the Limbaugh Letter, so I gives me credibility here.
	I hope.
	Yes.
	Because uh they're great trucks.
	I've got a 93, and I got a 2001.
	I've even got a Ford Van.
	Uh we're a Ford family, and they all have V eights in them.
	Now, on the bolt, yeah, but see, you have two Ford F-150s.
	That means some Porsche about there does not have one.
	Well, one for me and one for my wife.
	How's that?
	Okay, but I'm sure if Robert Gibbs is listening, you don't need to.
	You are you are a selfish, you're a glutton.
	What do you mean have two?
	Because you have two, somebody really wants one can't have it.
	Um, I'm sorry.
	He's gonna have to go out there and bust his butt like me and earn his own F-150 the way I did.
	Now the vote uh only goes 40 miles because that's part of the plan.
	They don't want us to travel any further than 40 miles.
	And the former uh CEO of GM, a guy named Rick Wagner, uh, when he took over the corporation, he said uh this is in Primus uh publication, they did an interview with him.
	He said he thought he was going to head the world's largest automobile manufacturing company, but he quickly discovered he was going to be the administrator for a health care plan.
	I remember that quote that and then by the way, in Primus, excuse me, in Primus is the hair is the Hillsdale College publication that's free.
	And I remember that quote I remember quoting him from that quote on this program that he thought when he got finally got to the CEO position at General Motors that he was gonna be in charge of the largest car company in the world, and instead what he had to learn was how to administer the largest health care plan in the country.
	And I've never forgotten that quote.
	It was exactly right about it, and it just one of those little missing pieces that you can plug into the puzzle, say what went wrong back after this.
	Don't go away.
	It's uh open line Friday.
	Zero mistakes.
	The most ethical Congress in history.
	Nancy Pelosi gonna drain the swamp, she said.
	Yesterday afternoon in Washington at the House ethics, a judicatory subcommittee hearing.
	Here is Representative Gene Green, a Democrat from Texas, reading the charges against New York Congressman Charles Wrangle.
	The charges in the statement of alleged violations relate to four general subject matters.
	One solicitations and donations to the Wrangell Center for Public Service at the City College, New York, two, errors and emissions on Representative Wrangles financial disclosure statements.
	Three, use of rent subsidized residential apartment By respondents' campaign committees, and four failure to report and pay taxes on rental income on respondents Punta Cana Beach Villa.
	The thirteen charges are as follows.
	Count one, conduct in violation of the solicitation and ban gift.
	Count two, conduct in violation of the conduct of ethics for government service, clause five.
	Count three, conduct in violation of the House Gift Rule.
	Count four, conduct in violation of postal service laws and frank and commission regulations.
	Count five, conduct in violation of the Franking Statute.
	Count six, conduct in violation of the House Office Building and Commission's regulations.
	Count seven, conduct in violation of the purpose law and the members' congressional handbook.
	Count eight, conduct in violation of the letterhead rule.
	Count nine, conduct in violation of the ethics and government acts the take and house rule.
	I didn't know he broke the letterhead rule.
	Of all the rules he broke, that's a new one on me.
	Count eight is conduct in violation of the letterhead rule.
	That's taking it too far.
	Of all these days, didn't pay taxes for rent control department, but he lied on the letterhead.
	Let's listen to the rest of the charges.
	Count 10, conduct in violation of code of ethics for government service, clause five.
	Count 11, conduct in violation of the code of ethics for the government service, clause two.
	Count 12, conduct in violation of code of conduct, letter and spirit of the House rules.
	Count 13, conduct in violation of the code of conduct, conduct reflecting discredibility on the House.
	There you have 13 charges, ethics violations against Charlie Wrangell.
	Here is between 2008 and the present.
	Here is the sum total of Wrangell's responses to these allegations to date.
	What are you talking about?
	You're just trying to make copies.
	Why don't you mind you got business?
	Where I live and how I live is nobody's damn business where I live.
	I don't pay too much attention to irresponsible reporters who report inaccuracies.
	False accusations have been made by a reporter.
	Common sense dictates that members of Congress should not be held responsible for wrongdoing.
	I have to now deal with my lawyer as to what the hell do they mean.
	Sixty years ago, I survived a Chinese uh attack in North Korea.
	And as a result, having survived that, that I hadn't had a bad day since.
	Today I have to reassess that.
	As a sum total of Wrangell's responses to all these charges, 2008, 2010.
	Let's go back.
	April 18th, 2001.
	New Jersey, Senator Bob Torricelli denying corruption charges as they were laid out.
	We have cut-ins of the attorney of the guy who gave Torricelli all of the illegal goods.
	Brad Simon, listing the lavish gifts that Torelli Torcelli accepted while he denies the charge.
	To challenge my integrity is beneath contempt.
	I do not deserve this treatment.
	Two watches, a Rolex watch, diamond earrings for his girlfriend.
	I have never television set ever.
	Oriental rug, grandfather clock, other antique items.
	Done anything.
	Suits at any time.
	Approximately 14 deliveries of uh envelopes of cash to Torcelli's house.
	To betray the trust of the people of the state of New Jersey.
	Never.
	Nancy Pelosi, November 7th, 2006 on election night.
	Today, the American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C. And the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.
	After Wrangell was charged yesterday, Pelosi said this.
	The swamp was described in the press as a criminal syndicate operating out of the Republican leader's office.
	Drain the swamp, we did because this was a terrible place.
	And we have made a tremendous difference, and I take great pride in that.
	Is it going to be individual uh issues to be dealt with?
	Yes.
	I never said that there wouldn't be.
	She maintains that she's uh drain the swamp.
	Culture of corruption never attaches to Democrats, does it?
	Another great week of broadcast excellence is in the can.
	It's come to a screeching halt.
	And people are saddened coast to coast because of this.
	But there's always something to look forward to, especially here at the EIB Network, and that is Monday, when we'll be back.
	Bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and all the other cliches, ready to go to deal with the crap that has handed uh ha happened over the weekend that we need to set right and explain.
	Can't wait for Monday.

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