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I couldn't believe what I was hearing as I tuned into Hugh Hewitt in the car on the way home.

Listen! Listen, please! You are hurting the Republican Party’s chance of holding the Senate in 2005. You are hurting the Republican Party’s chance of hanging on to the Supreme Court’s gradual shift to the right. You are being completely disingenuous in your arguments and you dress poorly if you do not like Harriet Mier’s nomination.

And then this:

If you’re anti-Miers, you’re anti-the President. If you’re anti-the President, you’re anti-the GOP. If you’re anti-the GOP, you’re pro-Hillary. If you’re pro-Hillary, you might as well just appoint nine Ginsburgs to the Supreme Court. That’s where you’re headed. Does that make it simple enough for you? Hmmm? Do you want to give the Senate back?

“Oh, no, we need a big fight! We need to send up Luttig or McConnell!” I wanted Luttig or McConnell. I still want Luttig or McConnell. But let me tell you something. Maybe they they know something you don’t know. Maybe we haven’t got the votes to get McConnell or Luttig through. Huh? Possible? Just maybe? You might not know something the President and Karl Rove and Andy Card knows? Oh, you knuckleheads! That’s what you are, you’re knuckleheads.

“Oh, I’m not going to put up with this! I’m going to walk away! Oh, this is terrible! This is horrible!” [It’s bringing out people] who haven’t even spelled Constitutional Law. You know what it’s really bringing out, it’s already bringing out the people who say the President betrayed us long ago by spending 4.2% of GDP on the deficit. Reagan, of course, did 6%, FDR about 40% during the war.

And it’s bringing out the people who want machine guns at the border. “Oh, he betrayed us! He doesn’t have machine guns at the borders, mowing those people down as they try and come across.” Nonsense. Knuckleheads, all of you, when it comes to politics. You’ll give back everything we’ve won, just to gnaw off your arm when it isn’t even in a trap.

Oh, yeah, you’ve got your voices on the radio. I know. I know who they are. I know who they are. You know who they are, too. Would you leave your children with them overnight? Would you? Ask yourself: would you leave your children with those people overnight? No! Why would you give the Supreme Court, their opinions on that, the time of day?

In other words, there will be no debate, no questioning of judgment, no differing assessments of Senate politics, no concern about Democratic support for Miers, and loyalty to the President and Constitution are the same thing here. Oh, and it's unpatriotic, too, to even ask "why not the best" for the Supreme Court. So shut up. Just shut the hell up before you help destroy the Reagan Revolution. Spoken and articulated like a Democrat. [Dean scream]

After this rant, John Fund came on for the rest of the hour, the opening segment transcribed at RadioBlogger. Hugh Hewitt ducked and dodged every point John Fund made, who uncharacteristically raised his voice at one point in apparent frustration. Laura Ingraham would have given Hugh a whole brood of "Ducks of the Day."

Hugh, please, take that well-earned vacation with the fetching Mrs. Hewitt. Come back refreshed and return once again as the Voice of Reason, not just another shock jock.