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July 15, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 15, 2005, Friday, Hour #2
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All right, yesterday the Senate uh oh, and you know, one thing.
I'm I keep I keep saying I'm gonna move off this this Rove business, but there things keep popping into my mind.
I'm gonna move off of it at some point.
It's over.
Uh the the Democratic temp attempt to get rid of Carl Rove has failed miserably, and they've been led down the path by the exact wrong person that uh should have been leading them.
That's Joe Wilson.
Uh but it leads to some questions now, because I mentioned in the first hour, and by the way, welcome to those of you watching on the Ditto Cam.
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We've got that ready to go.
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Now, last hour I mentioned to you that Clifford May, who's a former writer for the New York Times and now posts occasionally uh at National Review Online, uh has a theory that the actual person that outed uh Valerie Plame's identity to the media was Joseph Wilson in an interview about a year ago that led to a story by David Korn of the Nation.
And the way uh and and and May theorizes here, uh, putting on his reporter's cap that the conversation between David Korn and Joe Wilson had Wilson giving corn hypotheticals.
Well, if my wife were a covert agent, if my wife had been if she were super secret agent and this had happened, what do you think the result would be?
And he went out and spelled out the results.
Uh and corn said, are you saying that's what?
Well, I can't confirm or deny that.
Then Wilson went on to say, hypothetically, what if she wasn't one and this happened?
What would be the result?
May says, any reporter knows that when you're talking to somebody and they give you a hypothetical, that it's a pretty good indication that uh the truth is not far away.
And uh, and so anyway, David Korn's now on television answering for this because of what Cliff May has uh has said today.
So the attention has been turned away from Carl Rove.
And now who in the media?
Who in the media informed Rove?
Because Rove has said uh that he found out from somebody in the media, he doesn't remember who the second person he heard it from was Novak.
So he doesn't remember who the first media person was.
So the attention's off of Rove.
The story is over.
Wilson's even said on TV his wife was not a clandestine agent when the Rove piece came out, or when the uh when the uh Novak piece came out.
So my question is there's a grand Jury on all this.
And I don't know.
I'm just, I'm wondering if the um uh if the independent counsel here, Mr. Fitzgerald, paying attention to what's going on, will want to talk to Joe Wilson and have him be questioned before the grand jury.
And I'm wondering if he'll uh ask David Korn.
He's asking other journalists to come in and give testimony.
I wonder if now the uh independent counsel will seek uh uh notes from the journalist David Korn, uh the notes and records from uh Joseph Wilson.
Uh you know, I I uh I don't know, but I'm just this is all happening.
The independent counsel has to be seeing all of this.
Uh I I I think it it's logical to assume that David Korn would be asked about his contacts with Wilson in the same manner that Robert Novak was asked under oath in front of a grand jury, and we know the independent counsel is said to be a competent guy, and he's watching all this.
Uh and of course, he's watching and learning.
So might we be treated to other invitations to appear before the the uh the grand jury?
And uh, how about Chuck Schumer?
Chuck Schumer had a big role in all this.
He was eager to go out there front and center.
Uh I'd like to know when uh when Schumer knew that Plame was Wilson's wife and her status.
And I would think the independent counsel might want to know when Chuck Schumer knew this, too.
So Rove spoke to Novak.
Um I I guess he should have known in advance not to talk to him or any other reporter.
That can't be the case.
So we'll see now if there's um if there's any effort to um bring any of these new players uh before the uh grand jury as the effort to get to the bottom of whatever this now is uh on is is is ratcheted up.
Senate yesterday turned back a democratic-led attempt to deny White House aide Carl Rove access to classified documents as the dispute over the revelation that President Bush's top political advisor spread information about a cofort CIA agent reached a new level of bitter partisan sniping.
This is Rick Klein writing in the Boston Globe today.
And of course, he wrote this last night, I'm sure, before the New York Times uh came out and said, hey, Rove didn't spread anything around.
It was people spreading around calling Rove.
Yeah, I've heard that.
Rove's just sitting there answering his phone.
Reporters are calling him under other pretenses, wanting to talk about welfare reform, war in Iraq, or what have you.
Uh and then they also mentioned this uh subject of Valerie Plain.
So Harry Reid on the Senate floor, Dingy Harry, all upset when the Senate yesterday failed uh to to um vote for his attempt to deny White House aide Carl Rove access to classified documents.
This is what Dingy Harry said.
How in the world can anyone in this body vote against this?
The only reason I can figure out is that there's an attempt to divert attention, an attempt to cover up, and it's an abuse of power.
This is absolutely something that everyone should vote for.
This is a cover-up, it's an abuse of power, it's diversionary.
It's time to quit playing partisan politics with our national security.
Don't make me throw off to come clean.
Don't make me get sick.
It's time to start playing or quit playing partisan politics with our national security.
That's all this is.
And Dingy Harry is now among the royally embarrassed, folks, because he now knows there wasn't any cover-up.
There wasn't any abuse of power.
What I guess the lesson here is that people like Carl Rove in the future don't dare talk to reporters.
It can get you in front of a grand jury.
I mean, you people in journalism better stop and think about this.
It's because Carl Rove talked to some of you people that this all started.
And one of you is now in jail.
And that would be Judith Miller.
Christopher Dodd, this is last night also on the Senate floor during the discussion of the Reed Amendment that was to deny clearance uh uh security clearance to Carl Rove.
Here's a portion of Chris Dodd's comments.
If we're going to be more secure as a people, then we need to stop revealing important information and the identities of people who we depend upon to make us more secure.
That's what the Reed Amendment does.
Mr. Rove is not directly the subject of this amendment.
It's simply a response to a problem that exists in our country and one that needs to be addressed.
These guys haven't cared a rat's rear end about the CIA since I've been an adult.
They couldn't have cared less about a CIA or a CIA agent.
And now all of a sudden they are just appalled and upset at this sorrow disgrace that's happened to Joe Wilson and his innocent wife.
I don't know if Leahy co-sponsored this or not.
It's a good question.
But here's here's Dodd.
This is not even about Carl Rove specifically.
This is all that we need to stop revealing important information and the identities of people who we depend upon to make us more secure.
Yeah, like Senator Leahy, let's not forget he was on the Senate Intelligence Committee once.
He was thrown off of that committee because he leaked information about a future bombing run on Libya that President Reagan had planned because he disagreed with it.
That's why we call him Leaky Leahy.
And let's not forget Jay Rockefeller, Ron Wyden, and who was the other senator?
Who was the oh yeah, was it John Kerry?
It was yeah, those those three guys who revealed just within the last year a super secret Air Force slash CIA plan, come up with a new stealth plane to gather intelligence.
They didn't like how much money was being spent on it, and so they leaked the existence.
And let's not forget the New York Times, Senator Dodd, which just in the last two months ran a story in its newspaper about a clandestine CIA charter air operation, which had it one purpose, and that was to blow the cover on this charter operation and destroy its ability to operate.
And you there, and this is why you guys do not understand how the American people, even moderates that don't pay a whole lot of attention to politics, are not getting you and think that you are poisonous to the fabric of the political society that we have woven in this country.
It's just amazing to watch.
And uh it'll be interesting to see now that this Rove thing has been put in perspective, uh, where they go from here, because they've they've just got to be deflated and depressed like they haven't been in the longest.
Because folks, you gotta understand this, they had it.
Just like the Forge documents, they had it.
It was it.
That was the end of Bush.
And they had Rove, they already had him decapitated and they were passing Rove's head around in the Senate around a Democratic National Committee, and they were going to make carbon copies and send it around to the blogs.
They had Rove's head and they had it on a silver platter, and they just knew it, and that meant that they had Bush and Bush was finished, and that meant they were going to be able to hold on to the court, and now they have been made to look like asses.
They I there's another senator that really there were three senators, Mr. Snurdley that released the identity of this plane, the super secret plane.
It was it was I know that it it might have it was Wyden and it was uh Jay Rockefeller and one other John Kerry uh did divulge the name of a CIA agent on the uh on the Senate floor.
Uh and by the way, John Kerry, the Harvard Crimson is back, John Kerry back in 1970, so I want to get rid of the CIA.
Remember this?
I want to get rid of the CIA, I've got it in the stack here.
I want to get rid of the CIA, and I only want U.S. troops dispersed under UN authority.
He said that in 1970, and people said, Well, you gotta you gotta forgive him that.
I mean, that occurred in the context of Vietnam.
Uh and uh and so forth.
So quick timeout, a little long here in this segment, but Open Line Friday continues right after this.
In fact, uh Grab Audio Soundbites 15 and 16.
Since the Democrats are so worried, ladies and gentlemen, by the way, welcome back to Open Line Friday.
Since the Democrats are so worried about compromising identities and uh and and challenging uh our national security is so so so worried what Carl Rove now turned out not to have done as he was accused.
Uh the reason why we don't believe it, folks, and for those of you in the audience who are Democrats and Liberals, the reason we don't believe it is because we listen to what your leaders say.
Let's go back to May 12th on the floor of the Senate.
Here is dingy Harry Reed sliming a Bush judicial nominee whose name is Henry Saud.
Henry Saud would have been filibustered anyway, he's one of those nominees.
All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the FBI, and I think we would all agree that there's a problem there.
This is not done.
Nobody divulges contents of any nominee's FBI raw file.
You just don't do it.
And as uh a non-member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Harry Reid's not even legally allowed to see that file, but he apparently has.
And so he just slimes a Bush judicial nominee on the basis of a raw FBI file.
It's not been vetted.
It's just what the FBI's collected from neighbors, ex-wives, ex-girlfriends, whoever.
They go out and find the worst they can find about you, and they back it up, follow it up, see how much of it's true.
This is what Dingy Harry is referring to.
And these people want us to believe that they're concerned about privacy and national security, and who can have clearance to see private documents and all that.
This is why we can't take these why we laugh at you.
This is why we just belly laugh over these people's complaints.
This is I mean, it's it's I could I could give you analogy after analogy.
Uh i i it it's if you if you needed one, but it's it's preposterous.
Here's another example.
April 11th of this year, Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearing during the questioning of John Bolton, who's Bush's nominee to be ambassador to the U.N., Senator Kerry said this.
Could I just take one moment, Chairman?
30 seconds, Mr. Chairmike.
This is reading from Mr. Flight's interview, where he says, Did Otto Rice share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed from his position?
The answer is yes.
Did John Bolton share that view?
Mr. Flight said yes.
As I said, uh I had lost confidence in Mr. Smith, and I conveyed that.
I thought that was the honest thing to do.
What you just heard here was John Kerry blowing the cover of a CIA operative in his zeal to attack John Bolton.
He identified him by name.
This is exactly what Rove is accused of doing and didn't do.
Here is John Kerry actually having done it.
This is why when you Democrats start making these charges, we know that they can't possibly mean it because they do this times 10 themselves.
And they don't care about the privacy of individuals who are their enemies.
They'll out them and destroy them any way they can.
They will lie about people like George W. Bush and the National Guard, lie about Carl Rove.
And so I don't think they realize how uh practically impossible it is for them to be taken seriously by an increasing number of people uh across the spectrum in this country.
John in Cleveland, as we go back to the phones and open line Friday.
Hello.
Yeah, mega data's first time caller.
Thank you, sir.
What's with this John Bolt?
He seems to be lost in a mix with this uh Carl Rolf controversy.
Can you that's one of the objectives of this is to is to delay the Bush agenda to derail it.
Uh it's part of throwing the mud up against the wall.
What the Democrats are trying to do is effectively bring about official lame duck status for George W. Bush as soon as they can by muddying the water, throwing all this stuff up against the wall, uh hoping some of it sticks.
Uh and uh they're trying to make it very difficult for Bush to be who he is when it comes to a judicial nominee pick for the Supreme Court.
Uh and that is one of the uh the uh unfortunate side effects of all this, and it's one of the purposes of fact.
I saw somebody had an opinion the other day that the Democrats may look pretty hapless, but they're actually uh being somewhat successful in their objective of derailing uh whatever items are at the top of the Bush agenda.
Uh the last thing that happened on Bolton was that there was a vote, a vote to end cloture.
He's essentially being filibustered and they failed to get the votes after that vote, or right before it, George Voinovich uh kind of pulled a rug out from under the Republicans and said he couldn't vote for Bolton when he started crying again, worrying about his kids and grandkids in their future.
So um uh the ball's in the in the uh Bush White House court now, and they have indicated no intention of withdrawing Bolton.
And I think what's being debated right now is a recessed appointment or not.
Should they recess appoint Bolton?
Uh and I think they should.
I just go ahead.
I mean, if if if the the the effort here is being made to derail the Bush agenda, okay, fine, derail this and recess appoint him.
He would serve until uh January of 2007, uh at when this current Congress expires.
Uh and some of this, well, you can't do that.
Russia'd go up there weakened.
He wouldn't have the and who cares?
He's not gonna go up there weakened, he's gonna go up there as John Bolton.
He'll be the ambassador to the United Nations.
That's on the table.
Don't know if it'll happen.
Hope that it does.
Be right back.
Stay with us.
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And here's Alex in Tampa.
Hi, Alex.
Nice to have you with us on the program.
Welcome.
How are you today, sir?
Good old fashioned.
Never, never better.
Actually, I'm not all that good.
I'm I'm seething inside over things that have nothing to do with the news.
So I haven't shared it with anybody.
But other than that, I'm fine and dandy.
Excellent.
Uh, I wanted to uh draw your attention to a comment that uh former President Clinton made this morning that Bush should not only appoint somebody to the Supreme Court with a good mind, but with a good heart.
You've been saying ad nauseum we don't need.
We need somebody who's not concerned with good intentions and good feelings, but somebody who is a strict constitutionalist who Clinton doesn't care who's appointed in the court right now.
Clinton cares about his legacy.
Clinton's campaigning to be thought of as a nice, decent guy who cares and has a big heart himself.
That's what the tsunami relief is all about.
That's what getting cozy with the bush is all about.
At this point, I think Clinton could care less is on the Supreme Court because it isn't going to affect him unless somebody charges him with conspiracy or the case probably wouldn't get there.
I don't think he cares.
But we do have the sound bites here.
And Clinton was, in fact, on uh on CNN yesterday, was interviewed by Richard Roth.
And we have two bites here.
Roth says, does the White House, for all its intents and purpose, kind of ran against you in 2000, promising to restore honesty and integrity to the White House.
Do they need to have a higher standard there for themselves?
Now, this is like asking Colonel Sanders, do you have a way to save the lives of chickens?
Colonel Sanders, we've noticed that a lot of chickens are dying in this country.
Maybe you can help us find out who the culprit is.
Going and asking Bill Clinton, do you have any idea on whether or not the Bush administration needs to be held to a higher standard?
Mr. President, we know that you had uh several encounters with an intern in the Oval Office that involved oral sex, and we know that at one occasion you used a cigar, and we know that you lied to the country about this, and we know that you tried to get away with it, and you sent your wife out there to talk about a vast right-wing conspiracy.
We also know that a former FBI agent said that you routinely asked to be driven to motels in the Washington area to meet women, and you successfully had that man's uh life destroyed, Gary Aldrich.
But in light of all of this, sir, the oral sex and the cigars taking place in the Oval Office while Osama bin Laden is bombing Americans, by the way.
Do you think, sir, uh that the Bush administration needs to have a higher standard on ethics?
Now, why in the hell am I even going to play the answer to this?
I'm gonna play the answer to this because it's outrageous the question was even asked, and the answer here's old sanctimonious bill.
Here's the answer.
I'd like to point out they spent a hundred million dollars looking in our administration.
They found one person that violated a misdemeanor for a hundred million dollars that had never been happened before.
So the image was quite different than the reality.
Hold it a second.
Hold on.
What who's he talking about?
What's the misdemeanor?
Who do we get for a hundred mil for the misdemeanor?
I don't even know what he's talking about.
He was found in contempt of court by a federal judge for lying in a grand jury testimony.
Webb Hubble Webb Hubble went to jail, Charlie Tree went to jail, uh Jim Guy Tucker uh went to jail.
What is this misdemeanor garbage?
Hundred million dollars.
Arguably, you know, the hundred million was wasted.
It didn't cost us a dime for him to have the oral sex with Monica Lewinsky, and it didn't cost us a dime to buy him the cigar.
You know, and it and and uh all the Kathleen Willie uh and and all of it that didn't cost us anything.
Maybe did waste a lot of money.
We didn't go for the right areas.
Here's the rest of this asinine answer.
Here's what I think.
I like Joe Wilson, the man who was the target of the wrath of somebody in the Administration.
Stop the tape.
See, he he taped this interview yesterday before he knew what was coming in the New York Times.
We now know somebody in administration did not do anything to Joe Wilson.
Joe Wilson did it to himself, and uh by talking to so many journalists, that how that's how the word got out that uh Joe Wilson's wife was who she was.
So here's a man with no credibility when it comes to ethics and high standards, being asked about it on CNN.
He can't tell the truth even now.
Uh just hilarious.
But he didn't vote for me in 92.
He voted for former President Bush, and he said so publicly.
He's a career diplomat.
He didn't deserve to have his career ruined, and his wife didn't deserve to have her career ruined because he wouldn't stop the tape.
Ruined.
Their careers were not ruined.
See, this is all part of the picture that they're trying to paint.
That that the the uh these of this the sorry, sorry acts of Carl Rover destroyed these two people.
And they've never been bigger stars in their lives.
They got their pictures all over Vanity Fair magazine.
Every time they go out to Washington to eat, some paparazzi snaps a picture and it shows up somewhere.
They're the Darling couple.
These are the two big gets of the cocktail circuit at Georgetown, folks, the Plains and the Wilsons.
Lives haven't been destroyed.
This is in Washington.
This is how you make your career.
What they wanted him to say, which was that in Niger, they sent uranium yellow cake to Iraq.
He knew there was no evidence of it, and he wasn't gonna lie about it, and he shouldn't have been punished for it.
Uh well, we all know that he did find evidence of it, changed his story about.
But here's Bill Clinton.
I mean, it Bill Clinton understands that if you're gonna lie, you gotta have people lie for you.
And that's what his spokesmen were.
You know, if you go out and Mac McClarty, what was your job?
I tell lies for a liar.
Mike McCurry, what was your job of the White House?
Well, I too.
I told lies for a liar.
And so Clinton is now telling lies for a liar.
Joe Wilson.
Here's the next question from Richard Roth.
You told students yesterday, Democratic activists, to look at the movie Advise and Consent, a old Washington political movie.
Uh so what's your advice for President Bush in choosing Supreme Court justices?
I would say that he should pick someone.
He'll want to pick someone who may be quite a bit more conservative than I would pick, because he's the most conservative president we've had since the 1920s.
But I would say pick someone who's broad-minded and can think and has a heart as well as a mind.
Because you can never predict what decisions the Supreme Court's going to have to face.
In the first place, nobody was more conservative in the 20s, since the 20s, than Ronald Reagan.
Number two, uh, the Constitution does not require a heart uh to interpret it.
Uh liberalism requires what they want you to believe is a heart uh to propel it and to interpret it.
But uh liberalism is gutless, liberalism is heartless.
I mean, liberalism is the easiest choice anybody can make.
Liberalism is simple.
It takes no work whatsoever to be a liberal.
All you have to do is see misery and tell somebody you see it and that you care.
And bam, you are said to have a good heart.
Now, do something about it.
Oh no, that's too risky.
All you do is identify the problem and then tell other people it's their fault.
And you get credit for having a big heart.
Uh, you know, so and he's right about the Supreme Court, folks.
You never know what cases they may face.
There may be a nine-to-nothing Supreme Court decision someday saying that a woman can sue a sitting president for a sexual harassment claim.
You never know what might happen.
But I want to go back in time because here is Bill Clinton, Colonel Sanders, being asked to comment on the ethical standards of the Bush administration, and who the Bush administration should choose uh as a Supreme Court justice.
I told Cookie to hold on to these bites because I knew these bites would come in handy.
We're gonna go back now to the that morning at the White House when President Bush, this is in June of 2004, hosted an unveiling of oil portraits of former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton.
And here is a portion of what President Bush said About Bill Clinton.
Now, this is this is the president about whom Clinton was just asked.
Do we need to do something about this administration's ethical standards, Mr. President?
Yeah, what do you say about that?
You can compare what you just heard Bill Clinton say about Joe Wilson repeating all of the lies.
And compare that to how Bush speaks of former President Clinton here.
The years have done a lot to clarify the strengths of this man as a candidate for any office, whether it be the state attorney general or the president.
Bill Clinton showed incredible energy and great personal appeal.
As chief executive, he showed a deep and far-ranging knowledge of public policy.
A great compassion for people in need and the forward-looking spirit that Americans like in a president.
Bill Clinton could always see a better day ahead.
And Americans knew he was working hard to bring that day closer.
Over eight years, it was clear that Bill Clinton loved the job of the presidency.
He filled this House with energy and joy.
He's a man of enthusiasm and warmth.
You can make a compelling case and effectively advance the causes that drew him to public service.
Like free sex from interns in the Oval Office and an unbridled opportunity to approach any woman you want.
Yep, he brought a lot of energy to the Oval Office.
He brought a lot of energy to the presidency.
But it's a classic illustration.
Here's Bush who reveres this office, who is not going to bring dishonor to it by the virtue of his behavior.
He's not going to criticize former presidents.
Quite the contrary.
You just, if you want to compare ethics, you want to compare character, you want to compare class, Bill Clinton's not even in the same university as George W. Bush.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue in mere moments.
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Here's this story on the senators that leaked information to that spy satellite, Justice of this is the AP, December 14th of last year.
Justice Department has been asked to investigate who disclosed secret details about a mysterious and expensive U.S. spy satellite project, according to federal law enforcement officials.
The request came from an unspecified intelligence agency.
And what happened was that you had four senators who got all upset about the money this project was costing, and they went public with it.
They are Jay Rockefeller, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Carl Levin of Michigan, and Ron Wyden of Oregon.
And I'm still amazed that Wyden can find his way home.
I'm not sure he knows where Oregon is.
You put a map of anything up in front of Ron Wyden and say, could you point out Bosnia?
Oh, there.
You know, and he's pointing to the Gulf of Mexico.
He doesn't have any clue, ladies and gentlemen.
He's all upset about uh the costs of this spy satellite.
Uh and uh and and these uh these senators all refused uh the week of uh December 7th of 2004 to sign a compromise bill that was part of Congress's new blueprint for U.S. intelligence spending.
Despite their complaints, the Senate voted to send the bill, including the disputed program to President Bush for approval, but they outed it.
In announcing their lack of support for it, they outed the existence of a secret spy satellite.
This is the CIA, it's the same thing as the CIA.
It's undercover work, it's a covert thing, this satellite, nobody's supposed to know it existed, and yet there they are, Rockefeller, Durban, Levin, and Wyden blowing the whistle on it, which is why when they start worrying about such ign insignificant things as this Valerie Plame thing, nobody really takes them seriously, other than the inside the beltway culture, which is based on the Watergate template of getting rid of Republican presidents, and folks, they thought they had it.
I mean, they were holding Bush and Rove's heads in both hands.
And it was just a matter of days before they were gone, and just a matter of days before they no longer had to worry about the Supreme Court.
They had them.
They had them just like they had Bush on the forged documents.
And it's just another fizzle.
Just another Democrat scandal.
It's fizzled.
Just like the economy was going south, just like where are the jobs?
Just like there's no reason to have this war, just like we're losing the war.
Every complaint that they have made has come back.
It's like I say, you put a you put a bag excrement out there in front of them, and they're gonna fight.
You can hide the bag, and they will still step in it.
They'll walk into a door with an open door, the door will slam on their faces before they get all the way in the room.
That's been their history since Bush became president.
Now they are succeeding in muddying the waters enough to slow down the agenda, but in terms of helping themselves, by inspiring others or coming up with ideas.
Somebody called earlier today and said, Well, you know, you talk about the seething rage and hatred that uh we have for Bush.
I don't know anybody hates Bush, but what do you call what you had for Clinton?
Big difference, and this is where you libs, even if you're trying to copy what you think the Republican policy was after Clinton was elected and we got the House in '94, they I know I know that's what you think.
You think that you got power back, that we got power back because all we did was every day criticize Clinton no matter what it was.
But what you're failing to understand is it was all issue-based.
It was all policy-based.
Remember health care?
You remember socializing the nation's health care system, nationalizing one-seventh of the U.S. economy.
People didn't want that.
That Bill Clinton couldn't tell the truth, the things that he was trying to do, the people he was appointing to the Supreme Court, these were all substantive-based opposition attitudes that people had.
If there was any real anger at Clinton, it was because he couldn't tell the truth, and that's offensive to everybody.
A liar obviously thinks the people he's talking to are stupid, and we sat around here every day thinking this guy's insulting our intelligence.
That'll make you mad.
And then when we see the press willingly amplify all these lies and then marveling, marveling at how well he does it.
Marveling at how clever he is.
Yeah, that makes you mad.
Uh a word you liberals might understand fairness.
It just didn't quite seem fair.
Somebody with all the wrong characteristics, somebody with all the wrong ideas is being promoted as the greatest president we've ever had.
It made us gag.
But our agenda was to not just seethingly rage against Clinton, it was to replace him.
With somebody who was going to take the country in a different direction, which happened.
That's what's missing from your seething rage.
You're just full of seething rage, but you've got no ideas.
You can't join us in the arena of ideas and win a debate.
You lose in ten seconds, because you don't stand for anything.
And what you do stand for, you don't have the guts to admit because you know nobody'd ever elect you for it.
And that's why there's a huge difference between what you're doing or trying to do to Bush and what we successfully did to liberals and Democrats all during the Clinton years.
You'll notice we haven't been run by a bunch of libs since 1994 in the House, and we haven't been run by a bunch of libs since 2000, since Bush won, and you're upset about that.
But you do this with ideas, and you do it by electing people, and you get voters to stand for what you believe in and vote for your ideas.
You don't go out there and just try to jump up a bunch of anti-support for the incumbent and try to ride power that way, which is what you liberals are in the midst of doing.
I know you people are worried, Rush, you're helping them out, folks.
They think I lie just like everybody else does.
The last person they're gonna take advice from is me.
Don't sweat it.
I could give them the answer to every problem they have, and they would automatically reject it and do just the opposite.
And I know this, which is the best way to tell a liberal what to do is to be truthful.
They'll do just the opposite out of spite.
Back in just them, stay with us, don't go away.
There is huge news out of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
Just got it.
I'll pass it on to you as soon as we uh commence the third hour of Open Line Friday in mere moments.
Won't be long.
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