[Mia T]

Rush is nothing if not perceptive. ;) What, precisely, was he commenting on?

[Congressman Billybob]

Remember a year ago November when the House held open the final gavel on a Medicare drug benefits bill? The preliminary count had the bill losing by two votes IIRC at about midnight. But when all the changing of votes had occurred, the bill passed by three votes IIRC at about 5 a.m.

The next day the entire lamestream media was filled with stories of how the White House had helped Speaker Hastert strong-arm Republicans to get the bill through. I had been working all night that night. I had C-SPAN running in the background. I watched the votes as they occurred.

It turned out that the entire MSM was lying through its various teeth. Two Republican votes changed; one yes became a no, one no became a yes. But the total Republican vote on the bill DID NOT CHANGE. All of the changes which allowed the bill to pass, occurred on the DEMOCRAT SIDE. Two of them changed from no to yes, and one who had abstained, voted yes.

Rush found it delicious that the whole MSM had the story wrong, and all they had to do was replay C-SPAN and see who voted how, and when, and the story would fall in their laps. Rush read more than half of my column verbatim on the air. And I found that delicious.

John / Billybob