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outside the open bar at the no labels party. It's the professional left with drift class and blue gal.

We always want an open bar at the no labels party.

We want to drink and drink and drink.

And we'll get into that in a minute.

Right now, this is the opposite of the old Elvis Costello song.

I used to be amused.

Now I'm just disgusted.

Yeah.

Oh, and we should, well, I mean, this is coming up Friday.

This is breaking news for us because we're recording this on Thursday afternoon.

But right before we started recording, Dricklas walked into the living room to tell me something about Ted Cruz.

I went into the west wing of our stately manner where we keep our recording studio.

Yeah.

And told her that, hey, guess what?

Ted Cruz did cut John Boehner's balls off.

And Ted Cruz.

Not that I care that much about John Boehner's balls, but really.

But he, Ted Cruz just went out of his way the day they go on break for six weeks so that we can all talk about them

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