Patricia Schroeder: “humorist Al Franken, in his book ``Rush Limbaugh Is a Big, Fat Idiot,'' I think was absolutely right. He points out how…”

“humorist Al Franken, in his book ``Rush Limbaugh Is a Big, Fat Idiot,'' I think was absolutely right. He points out how Rush plays so fast and loose with the facts, and, believe me, he did it again this week. For those of you who saw his show, he took my comments on this floor that I was talking about as we celebrate Woman's History Week, or History Month this month, and he was saying that it was all a bunch of poppycock. Well, I am here to set the record straight, and I think it is time every woman in America straightened her back and say enough of this nonsense. The first thing he took me to task for was saying that there was a revolutionary soldier, who was a woman, who was buried in West Point. Well, Rush has been chortling, ``Ho, ho, ho, Mrs. Schroeder is absolutely wrong, that can't be true.'' Well, Rush you are wrong, and I am right. Let me tell you why. We were both referring to a woman named Molly Corbin. Molly Corbin indeed was in the Revolutionary War. She was a recipient of the first female veterans pension in American history, and, yes, she was reburied in West Point. That is what he keeps saying, ``Oh, but she wasn't even buried there, way after it, so it could not possibly have happened.'' But she was buried there in 1926 at the request of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Now, if he wants to pick a fight with them, go ahead, but I think they are going to win.…”