Mm-hmm

...

in statewide races in, in places like the US Senate races in Idaho, South Dakota, and close to you all in Nebraska, where, um, Dan Osborne, uh, who ran as an independent two years ago and did better than most Democrats do nowadays in Nebraska against Senator Deb Fischer, is now running again against Senator Pete Ricketts.

But he's running as an independent, not a Democrat, uh, so he can dodge all the tough questions that Democrats ought to have to answer.

Yeah

... like the Kansas City Star, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, your, um, local ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates, who pick and choose the stories they're gonna cover in such a manner that emphasize the flaws in the Republicans, and praise the, um, the ability of left-wing candidates, of DSA candidates, who want to spend the public's money-

His

name was Samuel Bodman, and he was recruited into the Bush administration after being the CEO of Massachusetts-based Cabot Corporation.

And before he went to Cabot, he created the venture capital division for the financial powerhouse Fidelity.

And before that, He worked for a professional venture capitalist in Massachusetts named George Dorio, who used to teach at Harvard.

And before that, he was head of the chemical engineering department at MIT.

So he was a really smart guy.

He taught me a lot.

They literally, this is what they do.

They certainly scare me.

Listen, I get it.

To summarize, and it's still a controversial topic, Peter Wright was an MI5 official who posits the theory that Sir Roger Hollis, who was at one time head of MI5, which is the British version of the FBI, was actually a deep cover Soviet agent like Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and the other members of the Cambridge Pirates.

Burgess, McLean, Hahnemann.

Yeah.

And there's actually a new book out about them called Stalin's Apostles, about what we now believe to be the five members of the Cambridge spy ring.

Here's the

thing.

Right, Peter? So

what is up with these people? First of all, the rock-ribbed independent Mainers have been overtaken by the left-wing Massachusetts tax exiles.

The left-wing Massachusetts tax exiles, the same thing that's happened to New Hampshire has happened to Maine.

People have moved out of Massachusetts because it's so high tax, but they continue to vote like they're liberals in Massachusetts.

That's the first problem.

Second problem is people of Maine didn't pick Plattner.

Activist Democrats in Maine who reflect the activist wing of the Democratic Party nationally, especially on the East and West Coast, picked Plattner.

no, no, but I'm not talking about watching

think it is,

frankly.

Something needed to be done about the the radical religious nuts who run that country and who think that they're put on this earth to launch a holy war, to wipe out Israel, to wipe out moderate Arabs, to wipe out the United States so that they're the only ones left.

Is it possible that the president assumes that everybody shares his antipathy to Iran and is aware that Iran has been at war with the United States for 50 years? Possibly.

But he and his national security team have done a very poor job.

Well, look, let's believe in America first.

Here's what bothers me the most about.

America first is turning into the classic version of America first.