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Aug. 15, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 15, 2005, Monday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you, thrill seekers, conversationalists, and music lovers all across the fruited plain.
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And as always, I'm here with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
A couple things here on the John Roberts business before we get on to our obligatory once-a-week discussion of what the Democrats need to do to get back to power.
And for this discussion today, we'll be citing a renowned authority.
That would be Howard Dean, who was all over television yesterday.
This guy said some of the stupidest things I've heard him say yet.
We'll get to that in just a second.
The thing with the Roberts nomination, now this NAROL ad, really what the NAROL ad was, one of the reasons it was also pulled, it's a distraction, because the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are trying, as I told you they would do.
They're making their case on documents.
They've requested all these documents.
They've requested documents that haven't been written.
They've requested documents that have never been printed.
They want everything they can get, and they're asking for so much they know they're going to get turned down.
And the game plan then is to accuse the White House of hiding something.
And that's where they're going to focus on this at the committee level.
That's how they got Miguel Estrada.
It's in the playbook.
And then that's the area they're going to focus on.
These special interest groups come out of the woodwork with some of this off-the-wall stuff.
You know, it'll provide only a distraction.
But this Associated Press story is, to me, if you read every, it seems like every day there's a new discovery about some case that Roberts was involved in.
And it just, it makes me laugh.
Here's today.
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts once offered the National Mining Association some unpaid advice on how to intervene in other people's court cases.
Now, when I read stuff like this, I conjure a mental picture.
It's sort of like we put together the parody of Roberts driving the abortion clinic bomber to the clinic.
When you actually imagine that, create a picture, whatever car you want, put Roberts in it, he's driving, and the abortion clinic bomber is in the shotgun seat, and he's driving along the street someplace and drops this guy.
When you see it, it's apparently absurd.
When you visualize these leads in these stories, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts once offered the National Mining Association some unpaid advice on how to intervene in other people's court cases.
Now, the other day he was praised for doing pro bono work.
Today, he's hit for doing pro bono work.
And of course, the National Mining Association, what are they?
They're rapists.
They rape the environment.
They rape the decent land, the pristine land of the world.
And plus, he was offering them advice unpaid on how to intervene in other people's court cases.
Two years later, he was hired by the group to argue against a citizens group trying to stop coal companies from shearing off the tops of West Virginia's mountains.
That relationship is a number of situations, among a number of situations where Roberts has become involved in environmental issues.
His critics say he tended generally to side with the views of industry.
Oh, we can't have that.
Because industry is guilty just for being industry.
They don't even have to do anything, and they're guilty.
Like big oil, right, is guilty.
They're just plain old guilty.
Roberts has not always argued in favor of development, though, as demonstrated in a case protection involving protection of Lake Tahoe.
Representing the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency in 2002, Roberts persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a moratorium on developing the lakes shoreline.
Okay, so in one case, he's advising for no money whatsoever the National Mining Association with economic interests over public health.
And then he goes and he protects Lake Tahoe from development.
If you read the story, what you learn here is that Roberts was arguing the law in both cases.
And specifically in the actual case, I think it was in the mining operations case, he focused on who had standing rather than the merits of the actual case.
And folks, let me tell you something.
You know, that's relevant.
Some people have no standing to bring a lawsuit.
And it's up to a decent judge to say, you don't even have the right to bring this suit.
You have no standing in this case.
What we're learning here is the guy is just a decent judge.
He's just a really, really, really good judge.
But all of these, every day there's this new thing he is conniving with this group or helping this group or contradicting himself over there with this group.
It's just, it is clear that the media writing these stories hasn't the slightest idea what they're writing about.
They're writing about law as a social instrument.
They're writing about law as environmental policy.
They're not writing about law as the law because few of them, I think, have any degree of understanding about it.
For example, this is a good story.
Three cheers for this judge.
A federal judge in New York expressed reluctance about beginning judicial oversight of pollution issues that affect global warming as she heard arguments Friday in a complaint brought by eight states against some of the nation's largest power companies.
The judge is Loretta Presca.
She said, why should I do something that Congress and the president have decided they don't want to do as a matter of policy?
What a great question.
Three cheers for this judge.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Lubenthal said the states, or Blumenthal said the states would prove that the five power companies are responsible for 10% of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions.
Presca said that she doubted any ruling that she could issue against the power companies would have much effect on global warming.
All it does is slow it down.
Unless something else is done, it's not going to reduce the threat.
Fakan, the common sense from the bench.
But there's this question, why should I do something that Congress and the president have decided they don't want to do as a matter of policy?
She is admitting I can't sit here and make law.
The Congress and the president have already said, no, we're not going to do that.
I can't sit here and overturn these guys.
That's not my role as a judge.
Yeah, this is a New York judge.
This is, you know, the headline is that she's reluctant to rule on global warming.
Good for her.
This woman understands the Constitution, just as John Roberts understands the Constitution.
While we're on environmental issues, Bay State, that's Massachusetts, for those of you in Riolinda, Bay State motorists will pay up to $400 million more on gasoline this summer than last, said U.S. Representative Marty Meehan, assailing the president for signing an energy bill that fails to solve the nation's energy crisis.
Average pump prices rose about $2.5 now, a record by some accounts.
No, see, they're not a record by any account.
Folks, I know this is not comforting, but please don't misunderstand me here.
I'm just talking about media reporting and how they're trying to gin you up into a further panic on the economy because the economy is rolling along even with these oil prices.
Even with the gasoline prices, the economy is rolling.
It's on a tear.
So much so we got to raise interest rates to try to keep inflation down and slow it a bit.
Now, historically, if you factor everything else with inflation and another sense of proportion, the oil price today would have to hit 90 bucks a barrel to approach its record high, which was during the Carter administration.
And gasoline would have to be over three bucks for it to be a record.
I mean, a national average.
They have to be over $3.
No, it's bad.
Don't listen.
It's up 40, 50% over last year.
That's a huge percentage increase, but it's not a record.
And I'm not splitting hairs here.
And I'm not trying to say it's right.
I'm not trying to say it's not as bad as you think it is.
I'm just saying it's not a record.
And for them to report here, a record by some accounts.
Well, some accounts.
Some of your liberal buddies you want to able to get away with it, but it's not a record anywhere.
At any rate, here's Marty Mehan, and he's all worried.
Bush didn't say, how many of your people in the party, Marty, opposed the energy bill from day one?
How many of you still oppose?
Can I give you the height of absurdity?
Let me just give you the height of absurdity.
Literally the height of absurdity.
And there are countless other examples of this.
The gasoline price is up anywhere from 40 to 50 percent over what it was this time last year.
The oil price is up now, what, over $65 a barrel, right?
And we got people whining and moaning about it, as I'm sure they are justified in doing.
It's a huge percentage increase in the price of any one commodity.
If anything went up 40, 50% of one year, it would cause the same reaction, be it housing or whatever.
In some cases, housing is going up that much.
Okay, so that's happening, and it's been happening for years.
Now, we are importing over half of our oil.
We are dependent, therefore, on decent relations with the nations from which we import it, and other political considerations also factor in terms of keeping the supply open at market prices.
And then people are complaining about all of the price hikes and the various shortages that come about because of distribution.
Then on the other end, on the other side of this, we have over 40 different brands of gasoline that we are required from state, state, state to handle pollution.
We will not.
We will not.
The Democrats in this country, the environmentalists will not allow us to go develop our own supply of this resource, which we have.
We can't drill off of anybody's coast.
We can't drill up in Alaska.
We can't drill anywhere.
The complaining is patently absurd.
If this is our policy, if we're going to be dependent on a foreign cartel, then by gosh, folks, we have to put up with it.
You cannot sit here.
You literally cannot sit here and complain about the price of oil and at the same time oppose developing your own supply of it, our own supply.
This is an absurd policy.
You cannot.
It simply does, it's a non-sequitur.
It makes no sense whatsoever.
You cannot even be surprised at the price of oil going up when we have to import over half of it.
You can't be surprised when an oil cartel, largely made up of people who have a different view of the world than we do, OPEC, is not really concerned about the effect on our economy.
They're more concerned about their own back pockets and other offshoots of that.
It's just patently absurd.
You have to wonder, where's the common sense?
If we want our own supply of oil and if we want to be able to dictate to some extent the price that we pay for it, then let's get our own.
Oh, no, no, no, no, can't do that.
So then what do we do?
We complain to the president or members of Congress for not being able to do anything to get the gasoline price now, like Marty Meehan's doing.
Marty Meehan is a no-growth socialist, and a whole bunch of no-growth socialists like him are responsible for the price hikes.
These no-growth socialists who will not allow development of any kind, particularly oil, are responsible for this, more so than the president, even more so than OPEC.
Because their no-growth socialist policy is what makes us a prisoner to the world price of oil.
It's just that simple.
It's absurd to get upset about this while at the same time maintaining this rigid opposition to producing our own supply.
Back in just a second.
Don't go away.
Okay, we go to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
We'll go to Saginaw, Michigan, start with you, Claudia.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you.
Nice to talk to you.
I just wanted to go back to the Sheehan ranting and raving earlier in the show where you showed her railing against Bush for not getting the Israelis out of anyway.
She is not helping the not getting rid of the Israelis.
Right now, the Roadmap for Peace is underway by Wednesday.
Three generations of Israelis are getting out due to the Roadmap for Peace with the Bush plan, with the Quartet of France and the United States and two other entities.
And I think that she should stop talking and start listening to the truth because she is misinformed, totally.
Yeah, Claudia, I agree totally, but I think we have to understand she's not interested in any truth.
Cindy Sheehan has long ago become immune to that.
She's a left-wing activist.
She's an anti-war activist, and she's anti-Bush.
And she's taking up the pro-terrorist rant here by saying, we got to get out of Iraq.
We need to get the Israelis out of Palestine, and that'll end terrorism.
I think, folks, you waste too much time if you give anything she says serious consideration and want to sit there and come up with ways to refute it.
It's not worth that.
And mark my words, this little train that the Sheehan anti-war bunch is on is going to derail here pretty soon.
It's only a matter of time.
Before even their charges about Bush being insensitive, the news is going to get out about how many trips to grieving families the president takes.
The news is going to get out about how it affects him.
The news will get out about the degree of sensitivity and grief that he and Laura Bush both feel at this.
The news is very soon and quickly going to illuminate the total fraud of this whole little movement out there in a ditch in Crawford, Texas.
I mean, it's sad that it hasn't happened now, even though the news is out there.
You've got her family wishing she'd come home, that she's there, they're embarrassed.
But she's just, you have to understand the left is desperate, folks.
Look, they were willing to have a network forge documents from a guy named Bill Burkett.
She's just the new Bill Burkett.
She just the latest attempt.
These people are, you know what's going on here.
The left is caught in a time warp.
They're desperately seeking feelings that they used to have when they were enjoying life.
Feelings like when they were succeeding in defeating the Vietnam War and getting a president out of office in 1972.
That's when they're happy.
And they're unable to lay a glove on Bush since 2000.
And they're just, their single-handed objective now is to get rid of Bush one way or the other, regardless what happens, regardless the effect on the country or anything else.
They know they can't do this at the ballot box.
They have no ability whatsoever to win at the ballot box.
And they exist by trying to vanquish enemies.
And they do it in a number of ways, political correctness, protests, ginning up public support for their actions.
But it's so transparent now.
She's just a I'm sure she's got a mind of her own, but she's being exploited and inspired by these by these hangers on.
And they can't even generate, what are they, 100 people down there?
100 people?
I mean, if this were really them reliving the glory days, there'd be hundreds of thousands of people down there, and they'd have to move Bush to Camp David for safety.
But it's just, you know, it's to me, it's a mixture of things.
I mean, you have to have some sort of sensitivity and feeling for anybody who loses a son in a war.
And you don't know the effect it can have on people.
It differs from person to person.
Some react to it in different ways.
She's just over the top and her over-the-top attitude is now being exploited.
And she's got a whole new identity based on this.
It's how she's probably deriving a lot of her self-esteem.
And these others are just using her.
But it's just, you watch.
This train's about to derail and it isn't going to be much longer.
John in San Diego, you're next.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yeah.
I believe that Cindy Sheehan is bringing up one important point, though.
What's that?
If this is a valiant and noble cause, why don't we have any senator's sons or House of Representatives' sons volunteering to go over there?
Why isn't the president's daughters doing something for the war effort if this is such a valiant effort?
And that's the primary purpose that she has made this protest for, is the fact that the average person is being used as cannon father, basically, for this effort.
And it's not a noble cause.
John, you disappoint me, but you don't surprise me.
No war is noble as far as you all are concerned.
The U.S. is guilty.
This argument is tiresome, boring, and specious.
Why aren't the president's daughters?
It's a volunteer force.
The president didn't send Cindy Sheehan's son over there.
He volunteered.
If she's doing anything, she is sullying his memory.
She is making his life worthless.
She is making what he volunteered to do worthless.
And you guys, you don't see this.
There are sons, there are family members of elected officials in Washington who have been and are in Iraq.
It's not a great number, but they are there.
But it's not a draft, and the president can't choose who goes.
It's a volunteer army, and everything that you said is doing a disservice to those who have volunteered to represent this country and serve this country and their families.
And if I were you, I would be ashamed and try to grow up and get a little maturity.
Ha!
We are back, El Rushbo, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
My friends, there's another reason why the Sheehan thing is going to derail, why this train's going to derail, and that's because look at who her public relations outfit is.
It's the mainstream press.
They don't have universal respect anymore.
They don't even have any concept of how they are harming her cause by championing it.
And so, but I want to talk about something larger here with you, liberals.
And I know there are a lot of you here in the audience.
We hear from you now and then.
I think you, and it may be a waste of my time, but I'm going to try it anyway.
But I think you all need to look at things a little bit differently than you do.
You need to take your focus off of government.
You know how absurd it is for us to hear that a war is ignoble because the president's kids aren't there or because congressman's kids aren't there?
Do you know how irrelevant that is?
Do you know who makes this country work?
Can I ask you people on the left if you have the slightest idea who makes this country work?
Because I'll tell you, it's not the president, I don't care who he is, and it's not Congress, and I don't care who they are.
The people who make this country work are the people.
And they're people you've never heard of.
They are people, unlike Cindy Sheehan, who are not seeking publicity.
They're not seeking fame.
They take life seriously.
They try to mix their work and pleasure into a proper balance.
They try to raise their kids the right way.
They're doing everything they can to follow the straight and narrow.
But they sometimes slip off.
But the people who make this country work, the fabled average American, that's who you liberals condemn, whether you know it or not.
That's who you impugn.
It's always been the case.
World War II was not won by Eisenhower.
World War II was not won by FDR.
World War II was not won by any particular leader.
World War I was not, or II was not won by Patton.
Everybody played a role.
But without the sons and daughters of the American people, this country wouldn't amount to anything.
It is the people who make this country work.
And the ease with which those of you on the left disparage the people in this country while you seek to focus all attention on government is a sight to behold.
And it is why you are losing elections.
It is why you are losing favor.
It is why you are becoming more fringe and extreme and kooky.
Because you've lost touch.
You've lost contact.
You've lost all ability to understand who it is that comprises the heart and soul of this country.
You have no clue who the backbone of this country is, but I will tell you this, it's not Cindy Sheehan and it's not one member of her entourage in a ditch in Crawford, Texas.
Those people are a bunch of squatters.
Those people right now are contributing nothing to the greatness or future of this country.
Neither are the members of the media who are down there trying to elevate all those people in the ditch to be superheroes.
There's not one of them that comes anywhere near rating the title of hero.
They are nothing but a bunch of squatters who are miserable and unhappy for who knows whatever reasons and deciding to take it out on people who they think have control over their lives.
In this case, with a bunch of liberals, it's government.
You want government to have control over your life.
You want government to be able to do this and that to your friends and neighbors and help you.
But the simple truth of this country is that it's the people who make this country work.
It is the people who comprise the economy.
It is the people who comprise the morality.
It is the people of this country who determine the ethics.
It is the people of this country.
And that's what you're upset about because you're in the minority.
The people of this country, the people who make this country work, differ from you in tremendous ways.
They are religious.
They are God-fearing.
They respect values and morality.
They know what's right and they know what's wrong and they do their best to abide.
You are offended by all that, claiming they don't have the right to make such decisions while you sit around and make no decisions whatsoever because you're willing to totally put your life in the hands of some liberal politician and that'll take you off the hook for having to make any decision about your life or anybody else's.
Well, that's not how the country works.
This country works on the basis of an educated and informed public seeking excellence in their own lives to whatever degree they wish it.
People pursuing life the best they can, using freedom, God-given freedom.
And for you to call here and to come up with something as irrelevant as to say this war is not worth it because the president's kids aren't there or because nobody from Washington's kids are there doesn't say a thing about the war effort.
Doesn't say one thing about it.
Doesn't make it noble, doesn't make it ignoble, doesn't make it anything.
Because the war is taking place.
Whether you agree with the fact that it's going on or not, We all have come to the decision that it's best that we win it.
You haven't even joined us on that.
You hope we lose it.
You want to lose it because you want to embarrass the leaders of the country.
What must your lives be like?
Are your lives so endless, baseless, and void of substance that the only pleasure you get from life is watching the misery of others and trying to cause misery for others?
Are you so incapable of enjoying the God-given gift of life that you've got that you can only do so when other people are suffering, hopefully as a result of actions you've taken?
What must it be like to be you people?
What must it be like to get up every day and to have to go to your calendar and write, destroy somebody today, destroy something today, destroy America today?
What must that be like?
Well, you look out across the country and you see a burgeoning economy, you see the lone world superpower, and it's not because of any president, and it's not because of any weapon, and it's not because of any military, it's because of the people of this country and our values and our constitution.
We're no different than any other people other than we have freedom.
And you don't even like that.
You only want freedom for yourselves defined as you define it.
So people can't say things that offend you.
They can't do things that offend you.
We can't have stupid names for sports teams.
The absurdity of this whole political correctness movement.
We can't have some team called the Redskins.
We can't have some team called the Seminoles.
Don't you understand these team names do it?
It's an honor?
Do you think a school calls itself the Seminoles to make fun of the Seminoles?
Are they trying to build themselves up?
It's a matter of pride.
But you people are so miserably unhappy that you have to find ways to constantly make everybody else around you unhappy.
And so you go hang around with a woman who's crazed out of her mind in a ditch in Crawford, Texas, and then you have the audacity to call here and tell us that you are the great ones, that you're the ones that care, that you're the ones that have this country's best interest at heart.
If it were up to you people, we wouldn't exist as a country today.
You would have given in to the Soviets long ago.
You would have appeased the Soviet communists.
You would appease Iran right now.
You probably wouldn't have cared about the war on terror or the bombing on 9-11.
You would have sought out bin Laden and tried to make a deal with him.
And this country exists today only because we have been able to prevent you from gaining power to do that kind of thing.
We've had our run-ins with Neville Chamberlain types, and you're the modern incarnation.
To sit here, to actually have the gall to call this program and advance something you think is an intellectual argument that Cindy Sheehan's cause is noble because the president's daughters aren't in Iran or congressmen's sons and daughters aren't in Iraq.
Have you no shame?
Do you realize who sons and daughters are?
Do you understand it's voluntary?
Do you understand these are people who are offering their lives in sacrifice for things they believe in?
And what do you do?
You come along and you try to disabuse them of their belief by telling them that they're wrong and that their country sucks.
Well, to the extent that they think their country sucks, it's because of you and your efforts to constantly undermine this country's best interests and our desires and efforts to protect the people of this country and to bring freedom to as many others in this world as possible.
You people on the left used to be the ones that were all for civil rights around the world.
You were all for human rights.
Now, all of a sudden, you couldn't care less about the status of Iraqis.
You couldn't care.
It's gotten so absurd now that Howard Dean said on TV that if this new constitution is written as or is enacted, is written, that the women of Iraq are going to be worse off than they were under Saddam Hussein.
Do you realize?
Do you realize how patently absurd and bordering on insane that comment is?
No, you don't.
Because you think so little of your own country, you think so little of this president.
You have such little faith in the ideals that have combined to make this a great country that you assume it's worse here than anywhere else.
And the places that it is bad is because of us.
Either through environmental pollution or whatever cockamame, asinine, stupid, ignoramous idea you can come up with.
It's gotten to the point now where it is common to go on Democrat websites and read about the pleasure it would bring if the president were assassinated.
It is now common to read letters to the editors in newspapers which say it would be fun if bin Laden actually came over here and slit Bush's throat, which is what a supporter of Sheehan wrote to a letter of the editor in one of the newspapers in this country.
Yes, it would have been better if bin Laden would have just come here and slit Bush's throat.
Do you people have any idea how you're perceived?
Do you have the slightest idea how the decent people who make this country work perceive you?
It is not with any respect.
It is with contempt and it is with sorrow.
But it's also with this realization.
This country, if it is to survive, cannot be turned over to you people to lead and to run because we will cease to exist as the United States the day that happens.
And mark my word, it ain't going to happen.
We'll be back.
Have a story here from the San Diego Union Tribune on September 13, 2004.
On a visit to Iraq in June, Representative Duncan Hunter gave a short speech to Marines in a Fallujah mess hall, told them how important they were in the war on terrorism.
One Marine in the audience found the congressman's talk so inspiring, he wrote about it in an email to his mother, said it lifted everybody's spirits and erased all doubts I had about being here.
The Marine who sent that note was First Lieutenant Duncan Duane Hunter, Hunter's oldest son, one of a handful of troops in Iraq whose father or mother is a member of Congress.
He's got one son that's there on his second tour.
But it's absurd, folks, on the face of it, it is absurd to say that this is somehow a definition of whether something noble or not, whether something's got any integrity or not.
It just, it ignores the role we all play as a people together in whatever national cause we undertake.
And I wouldn't expect too many people on the left to understand that.
Paul in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, welcome.
Nice to have you on the program.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, I just wanted to say, especially after that one caller, I mean, I didn't volunteer because the president's daughters were doing something or somebody, some senator's son was joining or anything like that.
And I didn't join because I was coming from the ghetto and I wanted to get out.
You know, I joined because it was a career choice and I wanted to do it.
And I really feel that if her son was here today, and I understand her grief, I mean, I'm a father as well.
But I've served in Iraq.
I've served in Afghanistan.
I've been over there many times.
And, you know, I've had friends lost right next to me in battle.
And I can understand the grief, but you know what?
At the same time, they're doing what they wanted to do.
They weren't.
So many of these people are stuck back in the Vietnam days and the days of the draft that I used to get emails saying, boy, I'm sorry, you know, that you're over there.
And I would email them back and say, what do you mean you're sorry?
I put myself here on purpose.
This is what I want to do.
It's no more complicated than the fact that the people who are engaged in all this simply don't like this country, and they haven't liked it since the 60s.
They haven't liked it their whole lives.
Thankfully, there aren't that many of them.
There are only 100 people down there with her.
But she's not even, she's gone beyond grief.
This isn't about grief for her anymore.
This is not a woman grieving.
This is a woman reveling in attention.
This is a woman soaking it all up.
This is a woman thinking she matters, which we all want to do.
Everybody wants to matter.
Everybody wants their life to have meaning.
Unfortunately, hers has taken on this direction that the meaning she thinks she's deriving is actually empty.
There's no meaning to what she's doing.
She's a pawn.
She's a tool of a bunch of fellow crackpots upon whom we couldn't depend if our lives were at stake.
And that's why they are so few and far between.
Thankfully, they are not anywhere near the majority of people in the country.
Zach in Marysville, California, you're next in the Rush Lindblaug program.
Hello.
Megan Ditto since 93.
You know, I heard you talk about mediating between McNabb and Owens.
And I got to tell you, for as much as I respect you, you should stay away from this situation.
Instead, patent it as an idea for a reality show.
Give them an apartment and have them share it.
You're just upset that if I succeeded, they'd beat the Cowboys.
You're just a selfish cowboy fan.
Well, I want to see another championship before I have children.
I'll see another championship before I have children.
In Dallas, you mean.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's wrong with a championship after you have children?
Well, then you got kids and you got more responsibilities and that takes more place than sitting around watching the game on the side.
I know what you're saying.
Once you have kids, your wife won't let you watch the Cowboys.
And you won't want to because you'll love the kids so much, too.
I better throw that in as well.
Well, we'll see what happens with the T.O. and McNabb situation.
I'm not expecting them to take me up on it, but I am serious about the offer because I do believe that I have what it takes to put these guys back together.
I'm far enough away from it, and that's what it can't, this is not going to be accomplished unless the head coach.
Now, Andy Reid could do this, but the way it looks now, the attitude the Eagles are going to have is not going to improve T.O.'s attitude here.
And I think that can be done.
I think it can happen.
But I'm not going to give anyway any secrets.
Mark in Torrance, California.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, Dittos for years and years.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, switching gears for a second, I want to go back to Bill Richardson, Democratic governor of New Mexico.
He just jumped to the top of my list for presidential candidate of 08.
Now, I've been a Republican as long as you have.
I have never voted for a Democrat, but I really like his tough stance on illegal immigration.
I can't stand John McCain.
I think Hillary is doing it just for show.
But I think he's real on this subject.
Well, he may be.
You know, I like some things that Governor Richardson's done.
He went in there when he became governor and lowered taxes.
And I got to make this state attractive to investors and people that want to move their businesses here.
Look, John Fund has a story at opinionjournal.com.
It's a free website.
You can go there, opinionjournal.com.
And he's got a piece on this.
And you can read that Richardson's been all over the ballpark on this in just the past two years.
And Fund raises the question, okay, which is genuine?
He agrees with you that Hillary isn't.
But, you know, you have to understand that the way the Democrats operate here, Mark, the Democrats like to convince people by virtue of their words, not their actions.
Don't be too quick to jump here.
Take your time.
You have a lot to figure it out.
A lot of time.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
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