RUSH: Here’s Todd in Ketchikan, Alaska. Welcome to the EIB Network. Nice to have you here, sir.
CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Hey, dittos from the great state of Alaska.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Hey, my question to you is, what do you think about this debacle with our great Senator Stevens?
RUSH: You mean the raid on his home by IRS and other agents?
CALLER: Yes, sir.
The Democrats right now are doing everything they can to water down their own ethics legislation. They’re doing everything they can to get these earmarks to survive. If this is true, it’s an opportunity for the Republicans to take the lead in cleaning this stuff up. It does present an opportunity. The only thing I’m waiting for out there is, when is the raid on Searchlight, Nevada? There’s a prominent US Senator that lives there, and there have been countless stories in the Los Angeles Times about shady land deals with his sons who are lobbyists and so forth. We are speaking here, of course, of the exalted Dingy Harry. So while they’re raiding Ted Stevens, where’s the raid in Searchlight, Nevada? Nevertheless, people are fed up with this kind of stuff. They always have been, but it’s been so blatant and so up front, the earmarks and the pork, bridge to nowhere in Alaska, that kind of thing. There is an opportunity to gain the upper hand here if the Republicans have the mettle.