athletes that abuse drugs, that juice themselves, more than using illegal drugs where somebody doesn t juice themselves. all this over the psi of footballs. i ll admit, i just don t get this. i don t understand why the nfl front office can t ever seem to get it right. i agree with you, joe. i do. you can t cheat. he shouldn t have deflated the footballs. there should be some kind of punishment. but a quarter of the season and largest fine in the history of the league. this will amounts to i get it. the infraction is no big deal. every team every quarterback does it. the reaction was huge. it was fused with arrogance by repeat offenders, the spygate doesn t three or four years ago. it was handled very poorly by the patriots. the way out was to say, look, i
clinton and almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence. this morning laura ingraham saying you can t still think that going into iraq now as a sane human being was the right thing to do. if you do there has to be something wrong with you. end quote from laura there. and byron york writing if bush sticks to his guns it will represent a step backward for the republican party. we re calling mitt romney s 2012 stance saying he would not have invaded. joe, is this a problem for jeb? i m actually confused. and i m confused because the question was asked knowing what you know now would you have still authorized the invasion. well, i mean everybody would say no. but jeb goes back in his answer to what people knew at the time. which is the same argument i make and i ve made it in a book and i ve got quotes from the new york times and i ve got quotes from the washington post and i ve got quotes from every liberal that called george
private junket. it s as much about congress as it is about republicans. this time, okay. but congressional ratings went down to 10% last week. so you know, i just think it s a pox on everybody s house. the missouri remarks were unfortunate. but i think they ve been everybody s cut those, ras off at this point. romney separated themselves. .other candidates. i m curious. you heard scarborough this morning. joe thinks, martin that romney s got to come out and say akin has to get out of the race. it s not that s not something you would expect from a mitt romney. no, quite frankly, you don t expect that from a presidential candidate. todd, i went to school at the university of missouri. i m with the missouri-based law firm, and this is a serious story. akin could lose this race. missouri is a lot like my home state of texas in that they are conservative but don t want to be embarrassed. akin is an embarrassment for them right now. this puts the race in play. claire s got a re