Beating a dead horse

Guilty as charged, but oh my god - did anyone see Ed Meese on Hardball last night? He may have broken the seemingly unapproachable LPS* record set by Ken Mehlman on Monday's show. And by Ben Ginsberg every time he appears. Anywhere. On any show.

Transcript here for the masochistic.

MATTHEWS: Well, you know, you mentioned the fact that the president notified the Congress. He notified the intelligence committees, and when he did so, the ranking Democrat on Senate Intelligence Committee wrote a letter—because he was told he couldn‘t tell his staff about it. So Jay Rockefeller wrote down in a letter complaining about it. That didn‘t do any good.

MEESE: No, he didn‘t write a letter complaining about it. He wrote a very short note saying he had some questions about this and then he didn‘t follow up on it. I think it was kind of one of those CYA letters to tell you the truth.

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MATTHEWS: So you—as your confidence in this administration not breaking the rules or is it a confidence you have in the government processes?

MEESE: I have a confidence in both, this administration because the president is a very honest man of great integrity. I also have a great belief that the proper rules are in place to prevent improper use of this particular technique....

Don't mind that loud thudding noise. It's just me banging my head against the wall.

*Lies Per Second