Huey coughed loudly and resumed bellowing into the phone. "They call me a ‘rogue Governor’—well, what else can I be? All them ’emergency committees’—they’re totally illegal, oppressive, and unconstitutional! Look at this new President! He’s a trigger-happy killer—and that’s the very best man you got! That man wants me driven out of my own statehouse—hell, the President would like to kill me ! I’m under constant threats to my life now! I watch the skies every minute so’s I don’t get fried like a fritter by goddamn X-ray lasers! And you —you think that I wanna lobotomize Nobel Prize winners! Are you as nuts as your boss? My God Almighty, why would I do that? Where is that supposed to get me?"