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James Carville: “They're sick of it. They're sick of being second.”

Editor's note · Context

Carville expresses the frustration of Louisiana residents regarding their treatment in the aftermath of the oil spill.

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Aug 28, 2026

Don’t meet with them. Don’t have anything to do with them! Say: Any business we have, it’s going to be conducted with you under oath.

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Sep 4, 2026

Let people know about it. You’re not gonna come up with any better news that’s gonna excite and irritate and turn out more Democrats.

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Sep 30, 2026

Sen. Tuberville, is he dumber than concrete or is he dumber than a box of rocks? I will take his name to equate his I.Q. I think a T-U-B-E-R is a potato. That’s an apt name for him, potato. He’s that dumb.

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Sep 4, 2026

“The midterms will be “about one thing and one thing only,” he continued. “Do you want to continue in the same direction of Trump, or do you want to slow this train down? And I think clearly people want to slow it down.”

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