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September 29, 2005, Thursday, Hour #2

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	Hey, have you seen the headlines, the headlines of the cable cable news network, Chiron or graphic slugs?
	Something along the lines of wind-fueled fire threatens Southern California homes.
	Now, this fire started in Chatsworth, California.
	Chatsworth, California happens to be where the Fox TV series 24 is shot.
	So I sent a note to my friend out there, Joel Cernow, the creator and executive producer, said, hey, did whatever terrorists you're using in the upcoming season, they started shooting the new season back in July.
	I said, whatever terrorists get upset with the scripts that you're right about them and they set the fire.
	Anyway, wind, wind-fueled fires.
	I wonder if this wind is hotter than it has been in previous years, brought about by global warming.
	Anyway, Joel wrote me back and said, no, My terrorists are not unhappy with the script yet.
	They're still winning.
	Bush started to fire.
	Don't you know Rush?
	At any rate, here's telephone number, 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
	The Clinton legacy.
	I just have some bullet points here.
	For those of you who, again, are new to all this, and I know that our tune-in factor on this program during crises like this spikes at new high levels each and every crisis.
	And so delay is corrupt.
	And there's a, what are they calling it?
	A climate of corruption is the phrase that the media is using to describe the Republican Party.
	All right, here are the records set during the Clinton administration.
	The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance.
	The most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates.
	There's a little asterisk here, and the asterisk says, according to our best information, 40 government officials were indicted or convicted in the wake of Watergate.
	A reader computes that there were a total of 31 Reagan-era convictions, including 14 because of Iran-Contras, 16 in the Department of Housing and Urban Development scandal.
	47 individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton administration were convicted of or pleading guilty to crimes, with 33 of these occurring during the Clinton administration itself.
	There were, in addition, 61 indictments or misdemeanor charges.
	14 persons were imprisoned.
	A key difference between the Clinton story and early ones was the number of criminals with whom he was associated before entering the White House.
	The most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation, Clinton administration.
	The most number of witnesses to flee the country or refuse to testify, Clinton administration.
	The most number of witnesses to die suddenly, Clinton administration.
	The first president sued for sexual harassment, Bill Clinton.
	The first president accused of rape, Bill Clinton.
	First, first lady to come under criminal investigation, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
	Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case, Bill Clinton.
	First president to establish a legal defense fund, Bill Clinton.
	The first president to be held in contempt of court, Bill Clinton.
	Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions, Bill Clinton.
	Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad, Bill Clinton.
	And all of these records are backed up by pages and pages and pages of the documentation to prove it.
	It's the progressive review, the Clinton legacy.
	And I stumbled across this last night.
	It's a very long piece.
	I have five pages of it.
	I'm not going to read the whole thing, but I just wanted to give you these bullet points.
	Just to put things in perspective, you know, people's memories are sometimes short.
	I was reading conservative publications today, too, the American Spectator, which is, it's one of my all-time favorites.
	Bob Tyrrell has just done an amazing thing with the American Spectator and their website.
	And it's a very independent publication.
	They've got a number of writers from different walks of life writing about a whole bunch of different things.
	And they don't always, you know, they're not in lockstep, and they're not right down the right side of the aisle in a predictable fashion.
	And one example is today a piece by a man named John Tabin.
	And I just want to read the last line of the piece by Mr. Tabin today in the American Spectator.
	Whether or not Tom DeLay is actually dirty, Republicans should let him hang out to drive.
	And I'm sure Mr. Tabin's not the only person saying this.
	I'm sure that there will be a number of conservatives, and primarily those who live and work in Washington, who will want to, you know, this delay guy, he's been a problem.
	He focuses all his attention on himself, takes the attention off the agenda.
	He is a problem for us.
	Let's just use this as an opportunity to let Delay hang out and dry.
	I just got to get somebody else in there to run the show.
	And we conservatives, for all of you out there who think that there's this united front, the conservative movement today is not nearly as united as you would think.
	It's grown.
	It's large.
	There's a tremendous competition within the conservative movement for leadership and primacy and all this.
	And so conservatives, you know, they're all trying to be the smartest people in the room.
	And none of them want to be typecast.
	And some conservatives don't want to be associated with others.
	It's like any other large group of people.
	And the Beltway conservatives do like to say and write things that occasionally they think will curry favor with the D.C. liberals.
	Liberals still do run that town and they still do define that culture.
	And I think, I don't know if Mr. Tabin lives there.
	It's not the point.
	His last line here is just something I have you seen it elsewhere?
	Have you seen it, Mr. Snowdeley?
	Others?
	No, you haven't seen it elsewhere.
	Well, you will in time, I predict.
	But my reaction to this idea, okay, let's just let DeLay hang out to dry.
	Does anybody know really why Delay is being pursued?
	DeLay has been the most effective guy in Congress getting the Republican agenda through.
	You can say Newt Gingrich did a lot and he did.
	But particularly during the Bush administration, I mean, Delay has pushed the Republican agenda.
	He's kept that caucus in line and he has, and he is a conservative, and he's also a born-again Christian, and that doesn't help him with his enemies.
	They really despise him for that.
	That's just something they, you know, the only religion you're supposed to have is no religion.
	You're supposed to be a secularist.
	And even those people are religious.
	They just don't even know it.
	But that's beside the point.
	Here's the point.
	DeLay is innocent.
	He hasn't been convicted of anything yet.
	All these charges, all these allusions to charges, all of these horror stories about what Tom DeLay is.
	He's not been convicted of anything.
	And this indictment doesn't specify one thing.
	I don't want to beat a dead horse to death, but it doesn't specify one thing that he did.
	The indictment does not connect Tom DeLay to any crime.
	Not a single fact is alleged in this indictment.
	And experienced lawyers will tell you, lawyers who've seen gazillions of indictments will tell you that indictments carry a list of charges.
	That's how you know what you're being charged with.
	When you're accused and you're being charged with it, you have a right to know what it is.
	There's nothing in this indictment that specifies what DeLay did.
	So you have to ask, do we still live in the United States of America?
	Is someone charged with a crime?
	They have a legal right to know exactly what it is they're being accused of.
	Otherwise, they can't defend themselves.
	If we can't accept that principle and defend that principle, then just how far have we sunk as a movement and as a party and as a country?
	Throw the guy out because we don't think he's going to be effective anymore.
	Why should we let Delay or anybody else that's accused in this manner on our side hang?
	What's the point here?
	Just because the Democrats have succeeded in criminalizing their differences with not only Delay, but the president and the Republican Party, and we might do better politically by buying into their conduct, we can have more political success if we accept the notion that we have some bad apples in our bunch and get rid of them, except when there's no proof that they're bad apples, just when a bunch of liberals say they are.
	Oh, okay, okay, fine.
	We'll clean the decks and we'll get some people in there you like.
	What the hell is this?
	You can't surrender to this kind of criminal intimidation.
	I mean, how could we look ourselves in the mirror?
	This is an attack on who we are and what we believe.
	And make no mistake about that.
	By going after Tom DeLay, these guys are going after the conservative agenda.
	It's not just DeLay.
	He's effective.
	They're trying to criminalize and make corrupt all of conservatism.
	That's the agenda here.
	That's the purpose.
	It's an attack on the congressional majority.
	It's an attack on the institution of Congress generally.
	If some hack local prosecutor can bring an indictment at the 11th hour based on no facts whatsoever, then our Democratic institutions are endangered.
	People ask, I've got emails all over them.
	Well, how can this happen?
	How can some prosecutor just level an indictment here with no charge?
	How can it happen?
	That's the power they have.
	That's why there are such phrases as abuse of power.
	Prosecutors are invested with a lot of it.
	You hope they use it wisely and responsibly.
	But what can you do?
	If you're the victim of it, what can you do?
	You know, well, why don't you sue for wrongful prosecution?
	You can't do that till after the fact when the damage is already done.
	Look at Ray Donovan.
	He was indicted by, who was the well, Casper Weinberger was indicted by a special prosecutor.
	I forget this local weed's name, but he was indicted right before the 1992 reelection of George Bush 41.
	There was nothing to it.
	And Ray Donovan was acquitted by a jury after being indicted by an independent counsel, acquitted in like five hours or something.
	He came out of there saying, where do I go to get my reputation back?
	Yeah, you can do that after the fact, but by that time they got your mug shot, they got your fingerprinted, they have you booked, and they like in Tom DeLay's case, there's going to be a mug shot.
	And if Ronnie Earle can pull it off, he'll get a perp walk in handcuffs, folks.
	And that will be the video for the rest of his life that the media will use when talking about Tom DeLay, even after he beats the charge and even after he retains his leadership in Congress.
	He'll be referred to as the accused, Tom DeLay.
	Tom DeLay accused of ethics violations and corruption by a prosecutor in Texas.
	And there will be his mugshot.
	Today said that the Democrat minority of 50 members of the House of Representatives will be reduced by five in the next coming election, no matter what happens.
	And that's what they want.
	The purpose of it, I'll bet you there's not even a trial.
	I'll bet you this doesn't go.
	Now, they're going to schedule a trial.
	They want to schedule one for 90 days, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's not a trial.
	I wouldn't be surprised if something happens and all this gets tossed at some point because there's nothing here.
	But they're going to have their mugshot, and they're going to have the video they want, and they're going to have all that.
	That's what this is about.
	And if you say, what can you do to stop it?
	There isn't much.
	Who can go tell a prosecutor you can't do that?
	Who can say to a prosecutor, you can't, after the prosecutor does it, who can go?
	Only the judge.
	Only the judge, only the jury can tell the prosecutor to go to hell.
	With a verdict of not guilty.
	A quick timeout.
	We'll be back.
	Stay with us.
	To the phones, we go to Aurora, Illinois.
	Mike, I'm glad you called, and I appreciate your patience and waiting.
	You are on the EIB Network.
	Hi.
	How are you doing?
	Good, sir.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I just wanted to comment on this indictment of Tom DeLay.
	And just from what I read in the Wall Street Journal this morning, I don't really have all the facts on it, but it basically said that he was accused of funneling corporate campaign contributions to help people running for office in Texas gain a seat.
	And I just wondered if you feel that that's going to, if the Democrats are going to be able to gain any traction on that and using that against them.
	Well, I don't, because I think this is all going to blow up in their face.
	And I'm probably one of the few people that you will talk to today that thinks that.
	I will tell you that most of the Republicans are panicked and are scared to death and are in fear, and that's why more and more of them want to throw DeLay overboard.
	I don't remember anybody suggesting in the Democratic Party they get rid of Clinton, do you?
	During all that era of malfeasance and sexual harassment and cigars and so forth.
	But I think this is going to backfire.
	And I'm basing this on the fact that I don't think there's anything to this indictment.
	I don't think there's anything to the charge.
	I don't think there's anything that's going to stick.
	And I don't think there's anything in this that anybody else in both parties hasn't been doing for a long, long, long, long time.
	It's called politics.
	It's no different than any of the other stuff that goes on in the crystal clear, clean and pure as the wind-driven snow world of campaign finance.
	But I think, as usual, the Democrats are overplaying their hand, and they're going to continue to with their buddies in the media.
	Don't forget, they continue here to run for office, not on any agenda.
	They're trying to set up their reelection chances on the basis that Republicans now operate a climate of corruption.
	This is a dead on repeat and replay of what they think the Republicans did to defeat the Democrats in 94 and to get rid of Clinton.
	Now, well, and not re-elect Gore.
	There's a big difference.
	While all that was going on, and I have no dispute with the fact that there were ethical problems all over the Democrat-run House of Representatives, Post Office, the House Bank for crying out loud, and a number, Jim Wright and his books and so forth.
	And that's another thing that really got him when Newt forced Jim Wright to resign Fort Worthless Jim over that book deal that he had where the unions bought him in bulk and nobody else did.
	And Jim Wright just cut and pasted a bunch of speeches.
	And on some pages of his book, there was one word.
	Other pages, two words or three words just to get the pages up over 300 or something.
	So there's been a lot of desire for payback.
	But while all that was going on, the Republicans were also advancing an agenda.
	Contract with America was first part of it, and they had all kinds of ideas about tax cuts and a number of other things.
	They were telling the American people what we want to do.
	And that continues to this day.
	The Republicans have an agenda, and they're acting on it.
	The president has one.
	We disagree with some of it, agree with other parts of it.
	But you can't find an agenda on the Democrat side.
	What about Iraq?
	What are they going to do?
	All they can do is whine and moan and blame and say we should listen to Cindy Sheehan.
	Hurricane Katrina, what are we going to do?
	Disaster relief, 9-11, war on terror.
	What are we going to do?
	You don't know from them.
	They haven't got an idea.
	Folks, I have a piece here.
	Howard Feynman submitted a piece to MSNBC, which is the, Serves really as the internet arm of Newsweek magazine.
	This is where Feynman, who is published in Newsweek, can write pieces after the magazine comes out.
	And this came out just before the delay indictment was handed down.
	And it's a laundry list of problems the Democrats have.
	And it's a laundry list of problems Howard Feynman has with the Democrats for not coming up with solutions to problems and having any ideas and not having any star power and not having a whole lot of things they need to win elections.
	And he's wondering why.
	He's accusing them of being timid and cowardly and a number of other things.
	I will share this with you when we get into the next segment.
	But I just, I don't think that this is going to have an effect on the 06 elections in the sense that Republicans lose the House.
	Too many things can happen between now and then, as we have seen just this week and last week with the hurricanes.
	We don't know what's going to happen between now and then.
	And to start acting defeated and dismal and doom and gloom is just a bit premature here.
	Plus, I'm not, well, I'm not going to sit around here myself.
	I'm not going to speak for others.
	But I'm not going to sit around here to host this program as though this kind of behavior on the part of Democrats and partisan prosecutors in the media is all it takes to beat us.
	No, sir, not here.
	That's not going to be the reality on this program.
	Lawrence Walsh was the prosecutor of Casper Weinberger.
	Here is Mike in Woodbridge, Virginia.
	Welcome to the EIB Network.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rush.
	How are you doing today?
	Fine, sir.
	Thank you.
	Commenting on your talk about the Republicans and the Beltway Republicans that are panicking and want to abandon our man Delay there.
	And my question to them, and I was listening to a comment from you, is what good has that ever done us?
	Every time any conservative becomes effective, he finds himself under indictment, whether he's in radio or whether he's a congressman or a senator or a president, Carl Roe, you, whoever.
	And we always get these guys that are saying, well, let's get him out of the way and get him off the screen, but it never does us any good.
	And I had a question to see if you remembered David Bonnier and is bringing all those ethics charges against Newt Gingrich.
	And it was an abuse of the ethics procedures, if you ask me, he was day in, day out, just constantly doing that to him.
	And I remember him saying back when Speaker Wright went down, and I remember it like it was yesterday on television in front of God and country, saying out loud that no matter how long it takes and whatever it takes, I'm going to bring Newt Gingrich down.
	He said that in 1989 and he made it come true.
	What good did it do us to abandon our man Gingrich or Delay or whomever is effective for us?
	It doesn't, but there are other things at work.
	And it all goes back to the competition that I mentioned earlier.
	I mean, there are a lot of people in the House that would love Delay's job.
	This is a cutthroat business.
	It's like any other competitive business where power is the thing you're trying to achieve.
	A lot of people want it, and a lot of people will throw you overboard.
	But at the same time, throwing over the movement, that's not going to happen on this program.
	You're listening to Rush Limbaugh on the Excellence in Podcasting Network.
	Now, again, folks, for those of you who are just joining the program, remember a lot of attempt being made at the Democratic Party level and at a certain place in the media to gloss over the partisan nature of Ronnie Earle, an elected Democrat in Travis County, Technic.
	Remember, all roads lead to Travis County.
	Dan Rather, his daughter Robin, leading fundraisers for Ronnie Earle, Bill Burkett, Travis County, the forged documents of CBS, Bush being AWOL, Travis County, all roads lead to Travis County.
	That's Austin, Texas, the political power base.
	Ronnie Earle, people have forgotten this, offered some companies deals in which the charges would be dismissed.
	Ronnie Earle, the man behind the indictment of Tom DeLay, also indicted several corporations in this probe.
	Earlier on, much earlier on, before he got around to delay, he indicted several corporations in this.
	You've heard about, well, Delay took corporate money and he laundered it.
	There is no money laundering here.
	This is getting a little personal, but there is no money.
	It's not even alleged in the indictment.
	Nothing specifically is alleged in the indictment.
	Just this catch-all of conspiracy.
	But yet, there's everybody out there saying, well, he washed the money, Rush.
	What he did was he took this corporate money and then took it to the GOP, a national party, and then they parceled it out to these state Republican candidates in Texas.
	That's how they washed the money.
	Not money laundering.
	He hasn't been charged with money laundering.
	I've been charged with money laundering.
	The jail time would be far worse.
	The charge would be specific.
	It's not money laundering.
	It's criminal conspiracy and it's not specified.
	Delay still doesn't know what he's been charged with.
	But the corporations that you keep hearing about here have been indicted by Ronnie Earle in years previous.
	Last June, Byron York of National Review online learned that Ronnie Earl offered some of those same companies that he had indicted deals in which the charges would be dismissed if the corporations came up with big donations to one of his favorite causes.
	And I have the story and we will link to it.
	It's six pages here and I'm not going to read the whole thing to you, but we'll link to it, put it up on rushlimbaugh.com.
	But here's the essence.
	A grand jury in Travis County, Texas last September indicted eight corporations in connection with the delay investigation.
	All of them were charged with making illegal contributions.
	Since then, however, Ronnie Earl's agreed to dismiss charges against four of the companies, Sears, Cracker Barrel Restaurant Chain, the internet company Questera, and the collection company Diversified Collection Services, after those four companies pledged to contribute to a program designed to publicize Ronnie Earl's belief that corporate involvement in politics is harmful to American democracy.
	He's a prosecutor and he's got this public interest group that he runs and he raises money for it.
	Dan Rather's daughter, Robin, helps raise money for Ronnie Earl.
	He dismisses this is extortion, folks.
	When a prosecutor indicts you and then said, by the way, I'll forget all this if you'll donate to my pet little project here.
	It's extortion.
	Now, who's going to file charges against Ronnie Earle?
	Who's going to bring an indictment against him?
	I don't know who can.
	The Bar Association.
	I don't know how it happened.
	I'm not well versed enough to know in these matters, but the idea that this man is lily white, clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, untainted by partisanship, is, again, one of these falsehoods that the media reality that was being created starting yesterday continues today, continues to pump out there.
	Now, I want to go back to the caller who asked me, do you think this is it for the Republicans in 06?
	And I don't.
	And I know I'm one of a few small voices here.
	There are a lot of people on my side of the god.
	Oh, God, this is where we got to get rid of Delay.
	Why are we going to clear him out of there?
	Why is it going to kill us?
	I don't believe that at all.
	I think this is going to backfire on the Democrats.
	What the Democrats are doing wrong here, and it's okay for me to advise them because it's too late for them to change this.
	Let Ronnie Earl hang out alone.
	Let this be a legitimate criminal indictment.
	Nancy Pelosi, shut up.
	Charles Wrangel, shut up.
	Harry Reid, shut up.
	Don't comment on this.
	Don't make it look political.
	When they come asking, you say, I can't comment on this.
	I mean, it's a legal matter before the court.
	I have no idea.
	But Pelosi's out there.
	Yeah, this is, she's got him convicted.
	Oh, yeah, this is nothing more than corruption of the Republican Party.
	They're overstepping their bounds as they always do.
	The smart thing to do would be not say a word and talk loftily about the criminal justice system.
	I am going to wait to see how this pans out.
	Ronnie Earle is a respected prosecutor, and I'm eager to see how this all unplays at trial.
	But they're all the fact that they can't shut up, the fact that they're piling on, the fact that they got Delay convicted is all the proof I need to know that this whole thing is political.
	Not to mention the indictment.
	An empty indictment, an empty shell of an indictment.
	Five grand juries refused to return an indictment.
	He finally got one to come back with one count of criminal conspiracy.
	After all of these rotten things we've been hearing for years that Delay did, this is it.
	I mean, there's one way you could look at this and say, this is a huge home run win for Delay.
	Now, nobody's got the mind to do that today, but one way of looking at this would be to say, this is it?
	This is all they've got.
	The reason nobody's looking at that is because, of course, mugshots, fingerprints, perp walking handcuffs, that's damaging video footage, and the Democrats can't wait to get it.
	And sadly, it'll all happen.
	And that's what's going to be the real damaging outcome.
	And that's why Republicans, oh, we can't have a mugshot guy to be our leader.
	We've got to get rid of it.
	But I'm telling you, the Democrats are overplaying this like they overplayed the Hurricane, Cindy Sheehan, everything else.
	I'm going to find that poll here in the next segment that it's a Gallup poll on the American public.
	Here it is.
	I just happen to turn to it right here.
	Nearly three times as many of those polled in a new Gallup survey said they believe the media are too liberal than too conservative.
	Press release on Tuesday from Gallup, which is earning publicity for how it found that trust and confidence in the news media is up from last year, reported when asked about the news media's political slant, Americans are much more likely to say they are too liberal, 46%, than they are to say they are about right, 37%, or are too conservative, 16%.
	Those views are consistent with what Gallup has measured since 2001.
	The percentage of Americans saying the news media are too liberal has ranged between 45 and 48%.
	It's always been the plurality response.
	There's been a slight increase in the public sentiment that the media are too conservative.
	It was 11% in 2001.
	It is 16% today.
	So, 16, again, it's 4, what is it, 46% too liberal, 37% just right.
	So on balance here, it's possible that this is going to result in that number going even higher once this is all played out, once it's all over and done with.
	And, you know, one of the things, too, that it's a fact of life in America.
	And it's just, it's nobody's fault.
	It's just what is.
	Law enforcement is viewed as almost infallible.
	Now, that is changing.
	Tom Sneddon wouldn't think he can get away with it anymore after the Michael Jackson trial.
	And some other prosecutors have had their lunch handed to him, like Marsha Clark and so forth.
	But for the most part, let me just do a little personal test.
	When you hear that citizen A has been accused of crime B, what's your natural instinctive reaction?
	Guilty.
	Why charge if they're not guilty?
	Why go to the trouble if they're not guilty?
	I don't care whether somebody famous or not.
	When you hear a prosecutor say that citizen A engaged in this activity and this activity and this activity and its felonies and da-da-da-da-da, pretty much it's over in the arena of public opinion.
	Prosecutors are believed.
	They always are.
	It's a fact of life.
	It's always been the case.
	And it's going to be a long time.
	Now, Ronnie Earl's doing his best, along with Tom Sneddon, to make people doubt prosecutors now.
	There are more and more people are beginning to see, wait a minute, something screwy about some of these prosecutions, because a lot of people who do worse don't even get prosecuted.
	Some people who haven't done anything do.
	Why would that be?
	People are starting to ask these questions now, but for the longest time, prosecutors said this, law enforcement said that, guilty.
	And it's even if even after you're acquitted, look at Michael Jackson.
	He's acquitted.
	Everybody still thinks he did it.
	OJ probably did, but everybody thinks he did it.
	You could anybody who's charged and gets away with it.
	That's always a, oh, they got away with it.
	Not that they were found innocent.
	Nobody's really truly exonerated, even when they are, in the eyes of public opinion, because this natural bias toward the assumption of guilt, just on the basis of the charge.
	And even when there aren't charges, by the way, all you have to do is have a prosecutor leak something.
	How many of you thought Delay is guilty for the last three years without one charge?
	And forget whether you're Democrats or Republicans.
	How many of you thought he's guilty just on the basis that look at all this stuff they're saying of it?
	Some of it has to be true.
	People don't take into account this is just modern-day political warfare.
	And you can say the same thing about Clinton.
	How many people thought it was true just because it was alleged?
	And how many people didn't?
	Now, what, Mr. Snowden?
	Well, I know there's a big difference there with Clinton when you're talking about the president of the United States.
	People don't want to think their president does these things.
	That's one of the reasons Clinton skated.
	Look at Bush.
	Nobody really wants the, the majority of people don't want to believe that Bush was able to national.
	They elected him president.
	They don't want to believe these things.
	They don't want to believe that Bush doesn't like black people.
	They don't want to believe that Bush moved Hurricanes to New Orleans to kill poor people.
	People don't want to believe this.
	This is why it's cockamame crazy to allege it.
	But when you get away from high-profile, powerful national figures that people elect, and you just start talking about average citizens, it doesn't even take an indictment.
	It just takes a media leak.
	And the people that hear it, ooh, wouldn't be leaking that if it weren't true.
	That's just the media wouldn't be reporting it if it's not true.
	Well, all these things now are starting to come under more scrutiny.
	And that's why I think, and besides, I have confidence in myself.
	And I think we can do a lot of help here in helping shape what's happening to Tom DeLay so people have a better way of putting it in perspective.
	Talk about the indictment, what's not in it, Ronnie Earl's past.
	Media is not doing that.
	Well, he indicted 12 Democrats.
	Why, out of 15 people, how can you say he's partisan?
	There weren't any Republicans back then, and those 12 Democrats were conservative.
	He said, India, you log.
	You're not going to hear that in the mainstream press.
	They're just going to go on party affiliation.
	So I'm just, folks, if you bail out on Delay or anything like this, you run the risk of bailing out on a movement because that's what's being attacked.
	The conservative agenda is what's under attack here, what's under assault, trying to derail it.
	They don't, you think they care about Tom DeLay as a person?
	They'd be happy to destroy him.
	But if all that was at stake here was getting rid of delay, they wouldn't bother with it.
	But if they can derail the conservative agenda, especially when they don't have one that responds to it, that's what this is about.
	And that's why you just can't be so eager to throw people overboard back after this.
	I'm sorry.
	I forgot to tell Brian to turn it on at 1 o'clock.
	So I owe you an hour.
	I'll give you an hour sometime between now and the end of the year.
	DittoCam is on at rushlinbaugh.com.
	And no, I have not forgotten this Feynman piece.
	I'll do it.
	I'll do it in a monologue segment next hour.
	I'm going to need some time to go through this because it requires some commentary as I do it.
	In the meantime, Dale in Brookfield, Connecticut, welcome to the EIB Network.
	Hi, Rush.
	Dittos.
	Thank you.
	I just wanted to call and give you a heads up.
	I've received a computer-driven call on the phone just prior to calling you from some Democrats group of some type demanding or requesting that we call Nancy Johnson and demand that she return the funds that Tom DeLay gave her and that she demand Tom DeLay's resignation.
	So what it would appear is that this whole thing has been programmed and all set up, waiting just to push the button.
	It wouldn't surprise me a bit.
	I don't have any evidence that there was collaboration between Washington Democrats and Ronnie Earle, but if I were to learn it, I wouldn't be surprised by it.
	So they've got their phone banks up and running, got their computerized phone banks.
	You're wandering around the house.
	You're minding your own business.
	Phone rings ringing and getting picking up some computer voice saying, demand Tom DeLay.
	And Nancy Johnson's obviously your congressperson.
	But this is what's curious about this to me.
	Nancy Johnson did not get elected in Texas.
	This indictment is all about what apparently happened down in Texas.
	So why are the Democrats calling you and demanding that your representative give back money that she supposedly got from Tom DeLay?
	Now, DeLay raises money for all House members, or as many as he can, and the Republicans, like the Democrats, have their congressional campaign committee, which is designed to get all Republicans elected as they can, as many as they can, re-elected and elected.
	But what's this got to do with Texas?
	Nancy Johnson's a Connecticut congressperson, and why should she give any money back?
	Now, look, folks, as far as I know, the Republican caucus is holding behind it.
	When I said there's some Republicans out there feeling the heat, I'm not talking about the Republican caucus in the House.
	I think they're holding fast.
	Everything I've heard, the Republican congressional members, they're cool.
	I'm talking about the other Republicans, voters, some members of the media, this sort of thing, that there's going to be some.
	Well, there already is.
	I don't like this.
	Let's throw Delay overboard.
	It's the only thing we can do to save ourselves.
	And of course, this is the exact opposite.
	He didn't do anything.
	He's not even been found guilty.
	Why throw somebody?
	We're going to throw somebody overboard because they're accused?
	Folks, that is scary.
	I mean, that really is scary.
	You want to give them a tool?
	They can just start accusing people left and right and go find another prosecutor to come out with an indictment or a charge.
	And they start getting rid of us like flies.
	If that's how our linguini-spined leaders are going to act.
	And I hope it's not.
	So, well, you're probably going to get one of these phone bank calls yourself in certain districts.
	But if they've already got their phone bank operation up and running, I know you can do this fairly quickly, but it does seem like there might be a little coordination going on here, doesn't it?
	Well, apparently a lot of these Democrat computer phone call operations are already up and running.
	I just got this note.
	Hey, Rush, I got the same call as your last caller about my congressman, Clay Shaw.
	My call came just after 11 o'clock this morning.
	So apparently it's happening all over the country.
	People are getting phone calls saying, tell your congressman to give back the money he got from Tom DeLay.
	This is not, this is, folks, they have found their issue.
	That's what this means.
	They have found their issue for 06.
	And it didn't just happen to drop into their laps.
	This is happening now too slickly, too quickly.
	There's some coordination here.
	And this is their issue for 06.
	This is it.
	Everything else has failed.
	They're admitting everything else has failed.
	Katrina failed.
	It didn't work.
	Well, they think it has.
	They're going to add on to it now.
	But Bill Burkett didn't work.
	Cindy Sheehan.
	They probably think all these things have worked cumulatively, but this is the issue.
	So Bush sucks, but that didn't work.
	So now we're going to try Delay sucks.
	And if that doesn't work, Republicans just suck in general.
	They're just corrupt as they can be.
	But if you get one of these calls from a Democrat computer saying, ask your congressman to give back the money he or she got from Delay, remember that whatever this indictment's about is about what happened in Texas with state legislators.
	I'm telling you, they're overplaying it.
	Sit tight on this, folks.
	We'll be back.

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