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Aug. 16, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 16, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #2
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So another Democrat wants to get in on this immigration business.
Today it's an Arizona governor, Janet Napolitano.
She declared an emergency yesterday in four border counties because of problems related to illegal immigration.
She moved to provide local governments in those counties with up to one and a half million dollars in state funding, just as Bill Richardson did the day before.
Janet Napolitano said that failure by the federal government, i.e.
Bush, to secure the border, allowed a flood of illegal immigration that threatened public health and safety, thereby necessitating immediate action by the state to aid its border counties.
Napolitano's order directly released uh 200,000 from the state's emergency fund for disasters.
Where have these people been?
This is so transparent.
The problem is it's transparent to us, but it the the transparency may not matter.
There are so many people have been so upset about this for so long, and look who now is on record as having taken the first serious steps about it in New Mexico and Arizona because the federal government wouldn't.
A Democrat governor, New Mexico Bill Richardson here, Janet Napolitano from Arizona.
As the uh as the AP story says here, Napolitano's action, followed by three days, a similar declaration by New Mexico governor Bill Richardson.
A Republican legislator who's introduced numerous bills targeted uh targeting illegal immigration said that Napolo's Napolitano's action was welcome but way, way overdue.
It's Janet come lately, said Representative Russell Peirce of Mesa.
She should have done it months ago.
She should have done it two years ago.
All right.
Um, what what do you have to know about Janet Napolitano?
We talked about Bill Richardson yesterday, and and I again I want to tell I like Bill Richardson.
He's he's uh he's a likable guy, but but at the same time both Governor Richardson and uh Governor Napolitano have records that can be consulted, and they have not been helpful to the immigration, the illegal immigration cause.
Suddenly they've both received an epiphany that says, hey, you know what, we can get out on the political uh lead in this if if we uh if we simply make a move.
Uh Governor Janet Napolitano vetoed bills mandating the use of photo ID for voters.
She's blocking a voter initiative at this moment to require proof of citizenship to register.
Uh so we we we've got major contradictions here.
Okay, so she's gonna release some funding, and so she's gonna declare an emergency, and she's gonna take some action on the border, but at the same time, she has vetoed, listen to me on this, vetoed bills mandating the use of photo ID for voters.
Why in the world would you and and this became a big issue in the last couple of weeks?
Somebody said we need photo ID for every voter, and of course, the Jesse Jackson's the world.
That's racism.
That's turning back the clock, the turning back the hands of time while a voting rights act to blah, blah, blah.
What?
In fact, this was you know where this was?
This was in Georgia.
This was in Georgia, and the state of the state of Georgia said we will send somebody to your house to take your photo to give you a legal ID.
And the civil rights uh community in Georgia still opposed it, still said it's racism.
Now what does this tell you?
They don't want there to be legal ID.
It'll cut down on the number of potentially illegal voters they can turn out.
And it's the same thing probably with the Governor Napolitano.
Why in the world would you oppose if we require photo ID for everything else?
Photo ID and a passport, photo ID and a driver's license, photo ID to cash check, photo ID to do anything anymore.
But not to vote.
Not to vote.
No photo ID that somehow is discriminatory.
How in the world is it discriminatory?
What are we doing?
Protecting the ugly?
We don't have to have them the ugly, take their photos, take it.
What are we doing?
Makes no sense whatsoever unless there's some way somebody can be harmed by having everybody in possession of a photo ID.
And don't start shouting Patriot Act at me and don't start shouting big brother and all.
That's not this is.
I mean, you have to register to vote, and you have to have a photo ID to do all kinds of things.
Why oppose a photo ID?
But she's vetoed it.
She's vetoed bills mandating the use of photo ID for voters.
She's blocking a voter initiative to require proof of citizenship to uh to register.
A little story uh again from uh from national uh review uh online uh that that publishes actually a story from the Phoenix Business Journal back on May the 11th.
Story by Mike Sonnox.
Governor Janet Napolitano defended her immigration record Wednesday.
This is in May now, amid criticism of several recent vetoes and increasing expectations the GOP will paint her as weak on border issues in next year's election.
Last year, Napolitano opposed Proposition 200.
That's the one that passed, and that the uh they tried to get it declared unconstitutional, but thankfully the decent federal judge told them it was constitutional, Prop 200 denied welfare benefits to illegals.
It was approved by the voters, but she opposed it.
She also favors allowing illegal immigrants to receive state driver's licenses.
This is just from last May.
This year, Napolitano has vetoed several conservative immigration-related bills, including measures requiring federal, state, or tribal ID to be presented in order to receive government services.
She has vetoed a measure to tighten up identification requirements for prospective voters, vetoed making English the official state language, vetoed contracting for a private prison to be built in Mexico that would hold illegal immigrants who commit crimes.
And yet, lo and behold, yesterday she comes out for all this massive new anti-illegal immigration movement on the border.
And guess what?
She's up for re-election next year.
And guess what?
It's it's point the guns at Bush time again.
Federal government isn't doing enough.
It may not be.
But what we I think what's important here, folks, is it I and I was afraid of this.
I warned everybody this is going to happen, that the Democrats are going to beat us to the finish line on this.
And this is this is a passionate issue in so many parts of this country.
It is a single issue to many people.
It's the only thing that really matters.
It's more important than gas prices, more important in the than the uh than the economy, more important than a war on terror.
It's got people riled up, particularly this the lack of action, particularly action such as that taken or not taken here by Governor DePolitano.
Her actions have contributed to people being fit to be tied over this.
And now all of a sudden here she is doing a 180.
But will she change her mind on any of these uh pieces of legislation?
Will she change her mind on photo ID to vote?
Will she change her mind on uh any of these ballot initiatives?
We'll have to wait and see, but I would doubt it, folks.
She'd probably continue to veto the whole thing.
She's trying to kill two birds with one stone here and take advantage of the apparent lack of concern on the part of the uh of the Republicans.
Now, from this story from the Phoenix Business Journal on May 11th.
Um Republicans in the legislature are readying bills for the governor that allow local cops to enforce federal immigration laws that prohibit local governments from funding day labor centers that help illegals and uh that extend Prop 200 provisions to include child care subsidies.
So the Republicans in Arizona have been all over the issue.
Republicans in Arizona have been dying to get something done, And the governor has stood in the way.
The governor has vetoed it.
The governor is opposed.
Governor DePolitano hasn't done one thing.
The Republicans have been trying to carry the water, but she's she's the roadblock.
And now all of a sudden, yesterday, guess what?
Stories all over the press.
Napolotono, get tough with the border.
Emergency funding.
1.5 million dollars to stop this crisis.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Well, go back and compare her record and see if her action yesterday bears any resemblance or has anything in common with the way she has governed as governor.
And you'll find there is no similarity whatsoever.
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It was in response to a doofus liberal claiming the war in Iraq and the war in terror is ignoble because Bush's daughters aren't there, nor uh enough sons and daughters of uh elected officials in Washington.
Now to the phones, Bob in uh Clinton Township, Michigan.
Welcome, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Mega August 15th, secondary programming ghettos.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Listen, I've been watching uh yes, PN.
Lately, I I watch it all the time, but uh the past couple of days since they've had this uh T. O. and uh McNabb thing going on.
Yeah, they seem obsessed with you.
Who isn't?
And you know, I mean, when you when you get down to it, who's not that it's it's it's surprisingly, but who's not?
So what uh we've got some audio from what these guys have been saying.
Uh and we've got let's see, I've got uh let's see.
I got two examples for me.
Yes.
What were you watching on ESPN?
Uh PTI and then the we got PTI.
What was the other one?
Halftime of the show.
Uh the game between uh Eagles and uh Steelers.
Oh, okay.
The pregame show.
They came up with the pregame show of the Steelers.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh.
And you know what?
The video that they used of you, they must have got that when uh before Al Gore uh invented the uh internet.
You know what's amazing, they've got video of me that they could use.
That's that just makes me laugh.
The newspapers of America find the oldest pictures they can.
ESPN's got five weeks of video of me.
They're own on their own set.
Uh, and I didn't see it.
I I don't know what they uh what they used.
Uh they probably burned my no, I guarantee you they haven't done that.
Uh let's here's here's uh here's a sample of what he's talking about yesterday and around the horn.
This is uh, I guess the 5 p.m. show that precedes pardon the interruption, the host Tony Realli talking with uh Woody Page of the Denver Post and Chicago Sun Times reporter Jay Mariotti.
Next up, Rush Limbaugh talking Donovan McNabb again.
The radio host who once committed a stir when he criticized the Eagles QB says he liked to settle the T.O. McNabb feud on his radio show.
Quote, I am here to offer and to assist, end quote.
You alright with Rush stepping in?
Woody Page.
He should stick to just whipping liberals.
What in the world is he back talking about the Philadelphia Eagles and Donovan McNabb?
He got into trouble before.
Leave it alone, Rush.
We don't want to hear your opinion about it.
We don't want you to mediate.
You you spew your opinions five times a day on this network.
He's he's not allowed to talk.
You're allowed to talk about anything you want.
Restaurants and politics.
Why are you any different than Rush Limbaugh?
Well, for one thing, nobody knows who Woody Page is uh outside uh outside of audience size-wise outside of Denver.
Uh, so nothing he says can get him into trouble because nobody will hear it.
Uh Jay Mariotti is the second voice you heard here, and he's from the uh Chicago Sun-Times.
And then in the show that follows, this is uh pardon the interruption, Michael Wilbon uh talking to Ron Jaworski.
I'm discounting for now.
Rush Limbaugh's offer to mediate the dispute between Donovan T.O. on his radio show, which leads me to ask you about a guy who I guess could at least address the two of them, get the two of them in the room.
Andy Reed, can Andy make this work, Josh?
No, I I I think the damage is irreparable right now.
I I think it's a very bad situation.
That's why I totally disagree.
I think this is totally fixable.
It is reparable.
It's not gonna be easy, but there are ways to do this.
This is not impossible.
I mean, it's uh one guy's a child, you just have to understand you're dealing with a child.
But but it it's it I don't don't look, I'm not under any illusions.
I don't expect this to happen.
Uh but I I couldn't let it go on without offering my services, as I said last week.
Some of the most memorable events in my life have uh have occurred in Philadelphia.
I uh I uh oh the people of Philadelphia um a lot.
Uh but you know, it's it's I'm offering an opportunity, and if nobody wants to avail themselves of it, fine.
I don't expect them to.
But I just disagree with all this fatalistic pessimism that it can't be done.
It most certainly can.
Bob, I appreciate the phone call.
Thanks much.
Where where are we going next?
Uh Tucson.
Tom, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Thanks, Rush.
I just wanted to comment on Janet Naponatano and what she's not doing for Arizona.
We've lost all of our trauma one hospitals in Tucson.
We're down to one trauma one hospital, and we have listen to this, Davis Mother, Air Force Base, University of Arizona.
Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I want to take a stab at why, because I've heard this story uh from Californians.
Are these hospitals by any chance closing because they're being flooded with illegals who don't pay the bill and can't pay the bill?
Bingo.
Yep.
It's that's they have closed eleven.
I was told by somebody in Southern California acting in Palm Springs earlier this year, eleven emergency rooms, I think he said have been closed in Southern California, because the and and and and the uh the the cable networks, the Spanish language cable networks are advising their viewers uh how to get a cab.
Don't call an ambulance.
Yeah, they're just or don't get a cab, call an ambulance because the ambulance won't charge you the cab will.
And when you and go to these particular places because they have to treat you uh even if you can't pay.
See, the problem is we have Janet Naponotano and me, me, me, me cane, and between the two of them, they're just not servicing the people.
Hey, Rush, real quick question.
If I want to send you something for 911, can somebody give me a contact phone number or address, please?
Uh you want you have you have uh classified information.
I have something you'll really like, and I don't want to waste airtime.
It's a small package.
It's it's stuff for 911.
It's it's some banners and posters and whatnot.
I do it.
I do it freelance.
I'd just love to send you a few.
Oh, I see.
Okay, well, here let the uh sit on the call screener will uh uh I'll dump this in his lap.
Just from one dead ahead, thank you for what you do, okay?
Yeah, thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Vince in Brooklyn, hello, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hey, FDNY Ditto's L. Rushwell.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Going back to the Kurt Weldon issue, um, you know, I find it very hard to believe that that Congressman Weldon uh would come out on such a limb like this.
Um he was very specific.
I think he if I remember correctly, he said he had up to 11 people.
He says he's got more than one source, and he's getting angry about this.
Well, you know, he he made a he made a big splash on all the cable shows and the newspapers.
Uh you are right when you say there is definitely a Washington culture where politicians, you know, tend to back one another up in certain instances, and uh, you know, will not come out with something like this.
Um and not that I doubt Mr. Garrity, who's uh uh, you know, on the money most of the time.
Um, but it it haunts me to believe that Weldon would come out and say what he has said and not have some kind of some kind of proof to really back the I know it would it would it it it stretches the credulity to think they would go out on such a limb like this.
Well that's I guess that's my concern.
Um I I don't believe he would do this and and stretch his credulity either.
Well, look at look at let's let's let's uh let's assume here, just for the sake of this discussion.
Let's assume he's telling the total truth.
He's one guy against the whole political class now.
He's one guy and whoever his sources are.
One guy.
I can't tell you the odds that this these are these are long odds.
And and but uh I can't get past the fact, folks, human nature's human nature.
And when these stories about Abel Danger and all these people that knew of the Otta-led cell in Brooklyn when that hit, and we learned it wasn't in the 9-11 Commission.
What did various members of the commission and the staff do?
They they divided first.
Well, they denied it, but then they divided and went into different camps, and they started changing their story back and forth, acting defensive.
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I told you that the uh the Cindy Sheehan trains about to come off the tracks.
So I'm trolling around these uh lib uh you people watching on a ditto camp can see me turn to the cameras or to the computer.
What I'm doing there, I'm checking email, and then I occasionally go to some websites to see what's happening out there.
And I've been trolling around.
I'm not gonna mention it.
I want to plug these people, but I've been trolling some of these these mad cap wacko Democrat websites to get this one.
One of the one of the one of the guys submitting a chat, I guess, on one of these websites, uh, is now saying that the left is making serious errors in framing the Sheehan debate.
Now, why would that be of concern?
Because it obviously ain't working.
The author argues for various shifts in rhetoric, such as emphasizing her sacrifice, the useless war, and calling the Camp Casey Crawford site a vigil.
Don't call it Camp Casey, call it a vigil.
We should call her Mother Sheehan.
We should never call her Cindy.
I don't know her.
Mother Sheehan is her title, expresses her ceremonial status as a bereaved mother, calling f ceremonial.
Calling forth over the dead body of her son.
She's not a person now, she's a mother, which is not an expression of her individuality, but rather the expression of her eternal character.
The mother, the bringer of life, who has been wronged by state power.
Well, this inane, absurd post got 109 comments, at least when I was looking at it, many of them hostile to some of the suggestions.
One of the uh one of the comments says the new moniker makes her sound like an ancient crone in a mist in a nursery rhyme.
Um so they're already arguing out there amongst themselves on the left as to how to characterize this woman.
And what does that mean?
It means two things.
It means his train's about to come off tracks, and it also means they can't they they they have to strategize even how they portray themselves.
They just can't say, here's who we are.
She is Cindy C. Sheehan, but somehow that doesn't work now.
She got to be Mother Sheehan.
These people, folks, I'm surprised any of you get upset about this.
Well, I'm not surprised you get upset.
I'm surprised you worry about it.
We are watching self-imolation.
We are watching self-destruction.
We are watching the enemy literally gobble itself up.
We're watching cannibalism here.
Just stand back.
Stand back and watch it.
And when you watch media shows highlighting all this, just watch it.
Don't sit there and get all bent out of shape about it.
Understand how everybody perceives it.
You're not alone.
James Taranto yesterday in his opinion journal um piece uh called The Best of the Web Today, said there's plenty of blame to go around for the appalling spectacle of Sheehan Oya.
But one name that hasn't been mentioned is that of John Kerry.
Carey might have invented, and he certainly pioneered the tactic being employed by those who are exploiting Cindy Sheehan to further their own political agenda.
As he explained to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April of 1971, I call the media and I said, if I take some cribbable veterans down to the White House, we train ourselves to the gates where we get coverage.
And the media said, oh yeah, we'll cover that.
You remember the media spectacle in Crawford, Texas one year ago.
It was precisely the crippled vet ploy.
Carrie sent triple amputee Max Celand to deliver a letter to President Bush demanding the president denounce the Swift Boat veterans for truth.
The move was stunning in its audacity, though not in its effectiveness.
Here was Carey staking his campaign on his authority as a Vietnam veteran, appealing to the authority of another Vietnam veteran in an effort to silence Vietnam veterans who opposed him.
The media love this sort of story because if it's man bites dog nature.
Vietnam veterans says fellow vets are war criminals.
September 11th widows blame Bush for their husband's deaths.
Gold Star mother says son died in vain.
But isn't the shtick getting a little old by now?
But precisely because of this man by dogs nature, the stories are ultimately meaningless.
John Kerry did not actually speak for Vietnam veterans, most of whom thought their service was honorable.
The Jersey girls do not actually speak for September 11th widows, most of whom understand that Islamist terrorists and not Bush murdered their husbands.
And Cindy Sheehan does not actually speak for Gold Star mothers, most of whom remember their children as heroes, not dupes.
And hardly any of whom agree with Sheehan that this country is not worth dying for.
She anda is a sign of the desperation, not the strength of the left in America.
Yes!
Finally, somebody else out there echoing this.
Publicity stunts are no substitute for an actual political program.
John Walsh writes at Salon, even a Sheehan's PR victories give people reason to be optimistic about the administration's unraveling in Iraq.
Liberals and war opponents have to be careful not to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Rooting for the administration's unraveling in Iraq, that is for America's defeat in the central anti-terror battleground is not what we'd call a political program, and that's exactly what they're doing.
They are actively urging our defeat.
Tom Hayden.
They've even dragged Tom Hayden out of the ashes.
And Tom Hayden's got a piece somewhere here in my stack.
I buried it, folks, so that I'd have trouble finding it.
But it now is brought back to my mind he's got a column.
You know, the the the this springs from the fact that Howard Dean went on television Sunday and said, We need a plan.
We need a plan to get out of there.
We get a plan.
She are finally after hearing it up.
Well, what is your plan?
Well.
And Howard Dean finally said something intelligence.
Well, I don't have access to the intelligence President Bush does.
That's actually the way I interpret it, a reference to Dean not having the smarts that Bush does.
Well, I don't have access to the intelligence, George Bush.
I'm not as smart as Bush is, so I don't have a plan.
Bush is supposed to come up with a plan.
Well, belly ache and whine and moan about a plan, but we come up with you're the leader of the opposition party as it is now.
Well, Carrie's, yeah, Kerry had a secret plan, but he said he couldn't announce his secret plan till he became president because he he didn't want to give away any details of the plan.
Plus he knew that he wasn't being shared, uh all the intelligence wasn't being shared, but he had a plan too.
All these and meanwhile, there is a plan.
Uh so I I'm I'm just, folks, you have to understand what's going on here.
You have to recognize when the enemy's eating themselves alive.
You have to recognize when they're stepping in quicksand.
You have to recognize when they are in self-destruct mode, and they are.
Uh, I mean, I hate to say it, but you think Cindy Sheehan, do you think this woman actually represents even even a measurable minority of American thought in this country?
Nope.
Not measurable.
Not measurable.
You disagree with that, Mr. Snurley.
It ain't that big.
If she represents a body of thought in this country, it is minuscule.
It's not that big.
This is being made to look like she represents a majority of opinion.
This is being made to look like she represents a whole host of people.
She she doesn't even represent the gold star mothers.
Garrity's or Taranto is right here.
Just like, just like Kristen Breitweiser does not represent the 9-11 widows.
I mean, if she doesn't even represent everybody in her group, how can she be representing a measurable minority of Americans?
And frankly, I'm also fed up.
Not fed up.
I retract that.
I'm weary, ladies and gentlemen, of even having to express sympathy.
Oh, she lost just well, yes, yes, yes, but you know, this is uh w we all lose things.
I mean Snerdley thinks the red flags are going up, and I should shut up now, right?
No, I'm serious about this.
At some point, uh, you know, people have been bending over backwards to understand her and give her the benefit of the doubt.
Uh now she's starting to complain that the media's turned her act into a circus.
Uh and, you know, I'm sure uh make this even funnier.
I'm sure you've got some of these non-factor little liberal radio shows out there thinking they're responsible for the crowd down there, and they're probably they can't wait to go down and broadcast live from the place, you know, to extract their pound of flesh and make it look like they're the ones responsible for this.
It's just a joke.
It's it's a flat-out joke in in in practically every which way.
Jack and uh in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I want to say thank you.
I'm a little nervous here.
Uh you were talking about Cindy yesterday and uh how you were hoping that the president would be seen as a compassionate man.
Well, I'm here to tell you he is a compassionate man.
I don't think I don't think Cindy represents any of the gold star mothers.
I don't know.
No, I said what's gonna happen is that Bush will be seen before this is all over.
The facts will come out.
How many how many families he's visited, how many memorials he's gone to, how many, how many uh how how much time he has devoted to the families of people who've lost uh uh children in Vietnam or in Iraq.
I'm I'm I'm I'm just I the story is it's out there now is a he's never been to a funeral.
He doesn't care, he doesn't cry, he doesn't do he won't even meet with these people.
I'm just telling you that's not true, and that's gonna come out and surface someday too.
And well we la I lost my stepson over there in Iraq.
And uh no one was more grief stricken than my wife.
And after she met with the president, she she said that he uh he was really compassionate and sincere and honest, and the truth will come out.
Lancena, your story is is just one of the first steps in that, because the the sheehan crowd, the left, wants to paint Bush as almost robotic and inhuman about this.
He doesn't care, he doesn't have any feelings, he doesn't have any sentiment, he doesn't have any compassion, he doesn't cry, he doesn't care one whit that Americans are losing their lives because all he wants is oil or some such thing.
And this is the picture the man they're trying to paint, but he's been on the scene too long, nobody's gonna buy that.
No, I mean, not other than the kooks that already believe it.
And your story is is, I'm sure one of many.
Uh I am too.
I've talked to lots of people who lost children and most of them.
I'd say 95% of them support the president.
And what we're doing.
Well, tell me why you do.
I mean, I have my own theories about this, but your stepson volunteered, correct?
Correct.
Yeah.
All right.
Uh your stepson thought what he was doing was honorable.
Yes.
Stepson believed that what he was doing was for his country.
Yes.
So how do you feel how do you feel when people come along and uh such as in the midst of this sheehan circus and basically try to say that your son was wrong, he was your stepson was wrong.
Is it dupe?
He was an idiot.
Bush used him.
Uh there is no honor in any of this.
There is no greatness in any of this, and there is no great cause.
How does that make you feel?
Livid.
Makes me want to slap him.
I don't know how else to put it.
I don't think you have to add to it.
I slap probably not enough, but we get it.
I'm glad you do.
Thanks for the call, Jack.
Appreciate it.
We will uh we'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Interesting column here by uh Kevin Hassett.
Kevin Hassett is uh director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
He was the chief economic advisor to uh John McCain during the 2000 Republican primaries.
His column appears at the uh on the Bloomberg website.
It's why are Americans sour about everything.
And I'll get into this here and just say I want you to think about that before we uh delve into it.
Do you do you get the sense?
But let me just ask you, you get the sense Americans are in a foul mood or in a sour mood.
Do you get that sense?
Uh Brian to you.
You're out there amongst a lot of Americans uh most of the day.
You get that sense.
You do you, Mr. Snerdley?
Um in my in my travels, only when I go to Connecticut.
Uh I'm not kidding.
Only when I go to Connecticut do I find people in a sour mood is generally about Hillary and the New York Times.
But when I'm when I'm out and about, I played golf Saturday, I see anybody in a foul mood other than when I hit a bad shot.
Uh uh, some people have foul mood when you go to gas station.
But I mean, I'm talking about an overall mood.
A mood that is like a cloud covering the country that's um people are perplexed because in the old uh in the old playbook, when the economy's roaring, why nothing else matters.
People are hunky-dory, happy-go-lucky, but they're not noticing this.
Uh, some observers are not noticing this, this uh carefree, happy-go-lucky attitude that existed in the 90s.
And uh why is that?
Well, in the 90s, the administration did its best to not tackle any big issues so that the people of the country didn't think there was anything bad going on in the world particularly.
In fact, we were after the Cold War, and we had defeated DeRuskies, and it was time to spend a peace dividend.
And the big issues were a cigar and uh oral sex in the Oval Office.
Uh, then the impeachment, and that was sort of entertaining.
It was sort of like tabloid television.
Uh that's good, hey, that was this cool to watch this.
Let's see what's going to happen with this today or tonight or what have you.
But there wasn't anybody tackling any big issues.
I mean, Ilian Gonzalez was uh was one of the big issues.
Waco invasion happened earlier.
There were uh weren't tackling any big issues.
We've got a president out there.
Well, we had a big issue, 9-11.
Had a big issue, came knocking on the door.
Uh more on this, because I, of course, as host have my theories.
George in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Hello, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you.
Hey, Rush.
This uh whole Sheehan memorial, if you want to call it, reminds me of another memorial, and that was the Wellstone Memorial.
And it seems like the left playbook is shifting to exploiting death.
And it backfired at the Wellstone Memorial, and I think it's gonna backfire here.
Yeah, that's a good way of the exploiting death.
Yep.
And and you know, and these are basically a bunch of miserable angry people exploiting death.
Uh but that's that's that's actually uh a good analogy out there, George.
It is.
This sort of has the same tone to it and the same hysteria that accompanied the uh the Wellstone Memorial, which, of course, as we know was not a memorial to Paul Wellstone.
It was uh it was a campaign event.
Uh it was uh win-won for Wellstone and so forth.
It was appalling.
It was clearly appalling, and it was a factor in the Democrats' stunning defeats in the 2002 midterm elections.
Quick timeout.
We'll be right back.
Uh sad news out there, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Madonna celebrating her 47th birthday, fell off her horse.
Broke some bones, uh, three ribs, uh, broke her hand and a collarbone.
She was uh she was riding a horse uh at her estate outside London.
Uh the children were not there.
I mean, they were in the house, they didn't see it.
She was not having sex, according to her publicist.
It also appears uh uh, ladies and gentlemen, on the horse.
Uh it also appears uh that not even Viagra could stiffen the resolve of the Democrats now to defeat John Roberts.
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