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Oct. 31, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 31, 2005, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, I'm watching television here.
It's absolutely amazing, folks.
I'm watching history repeat itself.
Everybody's all excited about it.
And of course, temptation just put the index finger in the air and do a little circle, say, whoopee-doo.
The U.N. Security Council just passed a resolution against Syria.
You know what that means?
Diddly squat.
How many of those were there against Iraq?
12 or 13?
How much do those mean?
Diddley squat.
So, yip, yip, yip, yip, yahoo.
They've passed a resolution requiring Syria to cooperate with their investigation.
Now, what is behind this resolution?
What is it that gives the resolution teeth?
Diddley squat.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's great to have you with it.
It's great to be back to a place where there's lion power.
It's great to be back where there's a place that's got telephones.
It's great to be back to a place where there's a computer that works getting online.
I, of course, speak of the EIB Southern Command at the home residence.
None of that has generator power, but no phones, no online.
And I guess they got Direct TV satellite working, though.
Had a hurricane.
By the way, I had a friend tell me yesterday that lives up near Jupiter.
They clocked the winds at 130 miles an hour up there that it wasn't any category two.
It was 130 up there.
At any rate, here's the phone number if you want to be in the program today, 800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
And the DittoCam is on, and it'll be up and running for the whole three hours of this program.
All right, folks, look.
We got this.
We got Samuel Alito.
I keep confusing him with Joseph Alioto.
We have Sam Alito now nominated as the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
He's been on the circuit court for 15 years.
He has been confirmed unanimously twice, 100 votes, in two separate Senate votes.
He has more experience than any Supreme Court nominee in 70 years.
Even Spectre likes him.
He's in the Third Circuit, which is in Philadelphia.
Third Circuit covers part of Pennsylvania.
Now, I don't want to hear, I don't want to hear any whining or moaning about what the Democrats are saying.
I don't want to hear about how unfair they are.
I don't want to hear about how they're mischaracterizing him.
I don't want to hear how they're impugning him.
I don't want to hear, they're going to say it.
What I'm telling you is I don't want to hear any complaints about it because, my friends, this is what we wanted.
This is what we wanted.
We want the Democrats to be who they are.
The president's made a great pick here.
Chuck Schumer, we need to give him his full-time 24-7 cable service called the All-Schumer Service or ass.
Let Chuck Schumer be out there all the time saying what he says.
Let Ted Kennedy, the swimmer, come up for air and say what he wants to say.
Let Dingy Harry say, let them all talk about it.
Let McCain sit on the fence all he wants.
Let them sit, do all.
I'm telling you, this is exactly what we want.
We want the libs to be who they are.
We want a debate about the Constitution.
We want a debate about the role of the judiciary in our society.
We want such a debate that the American people are listening to it.
We want this debate to be informative.
We want this debate to be educational because we will win this debate.
This is a huge pick.
It's a fabulous pick.
It will go a long way towards setting the standard for future nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court.
It will go a long way toward establishing the role of the Supreme Court in American life and hopefully returning it to its original intent by the founding fathers, watching the media panic, bring more of that on.
I got notes from people.
I can't believe they're calling him Scalito.
Let them call him Scalito.
All they're doing by calling him trying to impugn him.
They're trying to say that he's nothing more than the little stepchild of Antonin Scalia.
He's a mini Satan.
He's a mini-devil.
They're trying to deny that he is his own man.
And so let them try, folks.
This guy's got a record.
He's got 15 years and two 100 to zip votes, confirmation by the U.S. Senate to sit on the federal bench.
Here's the president's announcement today.
Came early this morning.
Here's what he had to say.
Judge Alito's nomination received bipartisan support, and he was again confirmed by unanimous consent by the United States Senate.
Judge Alito has served with distinction on that court for 15 years and now has more prior judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in more than 70 years.
Judge Alito's reputation has only grown over the span of his service.
Yeah.
He has participated in thousands of appeals and authored hundreds of opinions.
Radon.
This record reveals a thoughtful judge who considers the legal merits carefully and applies the law in a principled fashion.
Radon.
He has a deep understanding of the proper role of judges in our society.
He understands that judges are to interpret the laws, not to impose their preferences or priorities on the people.
Hubba, hubba, hubba.
Here's Judge Alito himself, a portion of his remarks after the president introduced him this morning.
Every time that I have entered the courtroom during the past 15 years, I have been mindful of the solemn responsibility that goes with service as a federal judge.
Federal judges have the duty to interpret the Constitution and the laws faithfully and fairly, to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans, and to do these things with care and with restraint, always keeping in mind the limited role that the courts play in our constitutional system.
Rado.
And I pledge that if confirmed, I will do everything within my power to fulfill that responsibility.
Radon, radon, radon.
Bring it on, baby.
Bring it on.
These are fighting words of the demons.
What do we got here?
We have a male.
Sandra Dale Conner seat.
This is supposed to swing vote.
Schumer's all up.
So this is a swing vote.
This is fabulous.
We've got a male.
We have a married male.
He's European.
He is anathema to the libs on this, folks.
He is anathema to them.
The exact opposite of what they were hoping for.
And this is fabulous.
Now, listen to this.
This is even better news from the American Spectators blog.
After three hours of serious and patient consideration of Samuel A. Alito's qualifications and judicial temperament, the NAGs are taking to the streets.
The National Association of Gals is taking to the streets.
The NAGs are protesting outside the Supreme Court building at 4 o'clock today.
Isn't the Supreme Court in the wrong building?
He's not there yet.
Perhaps their choice of venue to vent reveals the NAGs' resignation that Alito's confirmation is a fait accompli.
That's already been posted at the American Spectators blog.
So bring it on.
Here go that the NAGs are going to show up at 4 o'clock.
Burn the bras, ladies, and go get Maureen Dowd out there with you because you've destroyed her life too.
Did you read that piece that she wrote in the New York Times?
Anybody have a pet cat?
Have you heard that?
Have you heard when your cat gets upset?
What does it do?
It hisses.
Oh, baby.
She hates men.
She's upset at the feminist movement for destroying the life of women because she followed their rotes back in the late 60s and early 70s.
Long piece.
I'm not, I'm, I'm not, it's too long to read, Mr. Snow.
I'm not going to read it.
It's too long.
I mean, it is, it is an essay.
It's in the New York Times magazine, I think.
And I don't have time for excerpts.
We've already covered it.
We've covered Maureen.
She's got this book out, and I think it's adapted from the book, but she's just clearly wounded, a wounded dove.
A wounded, wounded angel.
Maureen Dowd just can't get over it.
And so put her on the march with the Nags.
This is fabulous.
The Nags are going to come out.
The NAROL babes are going to be demanding that these Liberal Democrats senators on the Judiciary Committee follow their lingo.
This is exactly what we wanted when we got Harriet Myers.
This is it.
You understand?
We're ready for this debate where we can win this debate.
We're up against a bunch of people who don't have any ideas.
We're up against a bunch of people that can't be honest about who they are, but they care so much about this court, they have no choice but then to be honest about who they are.
They will not be honest in a campaign.
They will not be honest when they're running for office.
But when you put somebody up on the court that's going to threaten their control of it, they've got no choice.
And they're going to bring the nags out.
Every pervert oddball group in this country is going to be on parade opposing this guy, who basically is such a normal down-to-earth guy.
He's a little geeky.
I mean, this guy poses no threat to anybody.
He's just, he's just an ordinary nice guy.
He's studied the law.
He's made it his life.
So I want these people to go bananas.
Here's an example of the media going bananas today.
This is a little montage we put together.
We've got Diane Sawyer, Matt Wauer, Jessica Yellen, she's with ABC, David Gregory, Kelly O'Donnell from NBC, George Stephanopoulos from ABC, Thalia Assurance, I'm sorry, Assurus, Asurus, whatever, she's for CBS, and Gloria Borger of, I guess she's at U.S. News, reacting to Judge Alito's appointment.
They've called him Scalito and is actually nicknamed Scalito because his opinions mirror those of Justice Scalia.
He is so conservative, he's been called Scalito, a comparison to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
He's sometimes nicknamed Scalito.
This guy is in the mold of Antonin Scalia.
That's why he's called Scalito.
He is a Scalito light.
He has been described by some as in the mold of Antonin Scalia.
He's a morph of Antonin Scalia.
He thinks like Scalia.
He's modeled himself after Justice Antonin Scalia has been given the nickname of Scalito.
He may be called Scalito because he's quite conservative, but he is not bombastic like Justice Scalito.
All right.
So the talking points went out.
The facts went out.
They all got it.
And it's just a montage identical to the one when they said that Bush didn't have gravitas or whatever that was about.
Cheney gave him gravitas, whatever.
You remember that montage we played for you?
And it just illustrates the point.
No matter where you go in the mainstream press, you're going to get the same story.
Again, it doesn't matter who the reporter is.
It doesn't matter what the network is.
You're going to get the same story.
Scalito.
Scalito.
And I'm telling you, all that is, is an attempt to impugn him.
Now, there's also a little bit of upset in the media that Alito is not a woman.
He's just another guy.
Another montage here from Linda Douglas of ABC, Soledad O'Brien from CNN, Candy Crowley, CNN, Ed Henry, CNN, Katie Couric of the Today Show with our own separate montage here.
Now there is less diversity than ever on the Supreme Court.
This is another white male, not a woman.
He is the opposite of Harriet Myers.
He's a guy and not a woman.
This is a white male replacing a female, leaving just one female on the court.
You hear the word man in there, Democrats, hitting the gender card.
And I guess ideology trumped gender in this case, right?
So, fine, bring it on.
Let them be folks.
They're irritated, they're upset about this.
And this court matters so much to them that they're going to tell everybody who they are.
This is fabulous.
I don't want to hear any complaining about what they say.
I want to hear thanks.
I want to hear gratitude for the left being open and honest about who they are, what they think, and what they think of this particular nominee.
I don't want any calls from anybody talking about how unfair or biased the press is.
That's what we want.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the anchorman for America.
Servant of humanity, lover of mankind, protector of motherhood, supporter of fatherhood in some cases, except mine, and in general, all-round good guy.
Here is a harmless, lovable little fuzzball at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
As I say, we need a 24-hour cable network with 24 hours of Chuck Schumer.
Just keep playing his statements over and over again.
We can call it the all-Schumer service or ass.
We have two sound bites from Senator Schumer today.
He compared Judge Alito and his seat on the Supreme Court to Rosa Parks and her seat on the bus.
Like Rosa Parks, Judge Alito will be able to change history by virtue of where he sits.
The real question today is whether Judge Alito would use his seat on the bench, just as Rosa Parks used her seat on the bus, to change history for the better, or whether he would use that seat to reverse much of what Rosa Parks and so many others fought so hard and for so long to put in place.
By the way, do you hear what Ted Kennedy said?
I think he's stealing lines from me.
He said that this choice that the president made is made from a position of weakness.
That's what I said about President Bush's choice of Harriet Myers.
They got so many of you people upset at me and in a tizzy at me.
And here's the swimmer now out there suggesting that this choice made from weakness is just the opposite.
Has who apologized?
Have I?
No, I haven't gotten any apologies.
No, I'm not.
Well, I may have gotten a few.
I don't know.
I can't look at email over the weekend, so I haven't had time to go through it all.
I got 30,000 emails here when I got here this morning.
I can't go through all that.
You know, it's impossible.
So at any rate, at any rate, I did come in for a couple hours yesterday to do some pre-pub, some pre-prep, I should say, but I didn't have a chance to go through all those.
I went out and played golf yesterday.
Finally, got the golf course open.
There's no power out there, but we charged the golf carts up.
We stole a generator and we charged the golf carts, about 12 of them.
Went out there and played.
It was like there's a mother-in-law convention in town.
It was so windy out there, and I was trying a new ball.
A new ball is supposed to go just as far as my old ball, but be a little softer.
I couldn't tell because the wind, it was just – so, no, I haven't seen any apologies.
But I'll tell you, folks, here, can you put yourself in the position of Democrats?
During the month of October, they thought they'd pulled it off.
And last Friday, I'm telling you that when that indictment came down, it was only Scooter Libby.
The wind went out of the sails of the Democrats.
They thought it was going to be Rove, and they thought they were going to get an indictment that would cause an investigation of the whole reason we went to war.
And the independent counsel, regardless of what you think of this indictment, we'll talk about that at some point.
He said two things in that press conference that will stand out above anything else that I hear about it.
Despite all of our investigation, we did not find any evidence of the outing of a covert agent.
So it means that our investigation turned up nothing.
So we decided to turn up a crime as part of our investigation.
So they got they.
They've got this crime of Libby covering up a non-crime.
The second thing he said was that don't I don't want anybody to read into this indictment that there's anything here about our policy of war in Iraq.
I'm paraphrasing, but that's what he said and I tell you the wins came out of the sails of all of the Democrats and the left and the media, because they were hoping that that's what this would ultimately be and I think it's something that a lot of them have participated in in setting up.
There was a third thing that Fitzgerald said that I also found that it didn't register immediately.
But as I pondered it, he said I would have just as soon this investigation had been over in october 2004, not 2005.
Now, when he said that just kind of skated over my head because I was, I was still listening to all that he was saying within the context of his press conference.
Then I got to think, in october 2004 is he saying that he would have just as soon been able to, and preferred to, indict Libby in october of 2004 as opposed to october of this year, because october 2004 is right before november 2004, which was the election month of 2004, the presidential race.
And then I got to think, well, what stopped him from indicting anybody in october 2004?
And Judy Miller Judy no, she chose not to testify.
She's one of the people that fingered Scooter.
And so she.
She decides not to testify and ultimately ends up going to jail.
No wonder the media hates her, no wonder the media despised.
Not only did she do the wrong thing by promoting the weapons of mass destruction angle, she refused to finger Scooter soon enough to get an indictment in october of 2004 anyway.
The point is that the Democrats i'm sure folks they thought they were going to 22 indictments.
You had Lawrence O'donald, all these 22 indictments, and Rove was going one to five indictments.
Rove Libby, perhaps Cheney could go all the way to the White House.
What did they get?
They got zilch.
Okay, so they've lost Libby.
Well, we've lost Libby, they've lost Dan.
Rather, they've lost Andrew Hayward.
We've gotten rid of a lot more key players of theirs than they've gotten rid of ours in these last five years.
The way I tally this, we're still on the top folks in getting rid of key players.
Brokaw's gone.
Peter Jennings passed away, rather gone away in shame.
The Evening NEWS, the mainstream media's evening news, is no longer a big deal.
People don't pay that much attention to it anymore.
Gasoline price now below 250.
Did I tell you this?
You can drink the water in New Orleans.
There was no toxic soup.
All of this horrible stuff that had happened on the Bush Watch.
We've had three successful elections in Iraq.
We've got a constitution.
Everything is happening on a timeline basis, as the president promised.
The Democrats think they're sitting in the driver's seat, but they know that their car is about to come to that edge of the cliff.
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We have one more bite from Senator Schumer, and then Byron York just sent me a little blurb.
You know, how Ked Kennedy came up with that statement, Robert Borks America.
Women will be forced to go to Lamarga.
Well, a group has tried that today with Judge Alito.
The Center for American Progress has tried to rewrite Ted Kennedy's famous Robert Borks America speech in its news release on the Alito nomination.
I'll get to that here in just a second.
But first, one more bite from Senator Schumer.
It's sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us.
Stop the tape of Sega.
Senator Letterman's going to happen.
He is going to unify America, and you're going to be at a losing end of it.
This is not going to divide America whatsoever, and you know it, and it's something you're deathly afraid of.
You want to sit there and continue to define yourself and your far-leftist fringe buddies as the mainstream, but you couldn't be more out of the mainstream if you had charted a course to be out of the mainstream.
And this is all posturing.
It is Schumer who is genuinely sad that he wasn't able to roll the president.
Because what's happened here, folks, the president has chosen to pick a fight with his real enemies this time.
He has chosen to pick a fight with the left.
And he's really not even choosing to pick a fight.
He's just choosing who he thinks would be an excellent nominee for the court.
Here's the rest of Senator Schumer.
America needs unity now.
America needs reaching out to one another more than ever.
Why?
But the president seems to want to hunker down in his bunker and is more concerned about smoothing the ruffled feathers of the extreme wing of his party than about governing all of America and changing history for the better.
Extreme wing of his party.
How about Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg?
Extreme wing of his party.
The president didn't want an O'Connor.
It's you people on the left who live in this mirage that there is somehow some swing vote on the court to make sure you don't lose every time that wants an O'Connor.
It's not the president.
If there was supposed to be another O'Connor, Clinton should have nominated another O'Connor.
If O'Connor is the baseline, is the benchmark, then let Clinton have nominated him.
He didn't.
He nominated an ACLU member, Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg.
And here you have Schumer dumping all over Alito, but then says that he will scrutinize.
He says he can't be a fair judge.
He's been a federal judge of 15 years.
He's been in the federal circuit for 15 years.
100 to nothing unanimous votes twice.
You know, and Chuck's not even the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.
That would be Leakey Lakey.
Patrick Senator depends.
And he's had some things to say, too, but he's being outflanked here by Chuck Schumer.
Like I'm saying, folks, we need to be happy that Schumer is saying what he is saying.
We want people like Schumer out front every day, just as we want this.
As I mentioned, Byron York has sent me this note that the Center for American Progress has tried to rewrite Senator Kennedy's famous Robert Borks America.
And here's basically what it says.
Samuel Alito would overturn Roe versus Wade.
Samuel Alito would allow race-based discrimination.
Sam Alito would allow disability-based discrimination.
Sam Alito would strike down the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Sam Alito supports unauthorized strip searches.
Sam Alito is hostile toward immigrants.
And they cite their cases to give evidence of this.
This is what we want.
We want these people to come out and show just how far out of the mainstream they are.
We want them to illustrate that it is they who are extreme on all of these things, folks.
This is, I'm telling you, for those of you who doubt me, and I'm sure there's some of you out there because I know who you are.
You know who you are.
Okay, Rush.
Well, I hope you're right.
What if you're wrong?
Oh, no.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess we got it.
We have to do it.
Folks, we know that conservatism wins every time it's tried and every time it's stood up for.
Conservatism doesn't win when conservatives act like they're not conservative.
Conservatism doesn't win when conservatives try to please liberals and moderates.
That's when conservatism loses.
Conservatism wins when it stands up for itself, and it will.
In this case, here's Cliff in Greenville, South Carolina.
Hello, sir.
You're up first.
It's an awesome responsibility.
Hey, it's showtime.
Yeah, it's showtime.
You and I have to put our trust in these Republicans in the Senate.
And though we agree that we're a nation of laws, when we started out that way, we weren't.
We were a nation of men because the laws hadn't been established.
And I don't think, I hate to say this, but I don't think we have the individuals in the Senate that are up to this.
I know you've pushed it really hard.
Wait a sec.
It's showtime.
Wait a sec.
Wait a sec.
Vice President Lindsey Graham has already come out.
Did you hear what he said?
Yeah, he's one of my senators.
Well, okay.
Well, then Lindsey Graham's a member of the gang of 14.
And Lindsey Graham said, if anybody tries to filibuster on this, it will fail.
This man is not filibuster, but it means he will abandon a gang of 14.
Maybe a couple of Republicans will vote against the guy.
I will bet you.
I'll predict to you right now, Cliff.
And I'll tell you what, if I lose, I'll send you a couple of EIB golf shirts, all right?
Sounds great.
All right.
If you win, you have to do nothing but keep listening.
I'll handle that.
Well, okay, what you're going to do?
He gets 65 or more votes.
Okay.
65 or more.
All right.
65 or more.
Let it be.
I mean, I'm hoping and praying that's the case.
Yep.
65 or more votes.
I'll tell you what else is going to happen.
He's going to be the fifth Catholic.
Oh, no.
The fifth Catholic on the Supreme Court.
Let him come out against religious people, too.
Let all of this surface.
But after what happened with Harriet Myers, I don't think that you're going to have that many Republicans wander off the reservation now.
I think with this indictment of Libby and all that, I think I have a just an instinctive feeling, and I obviously could be wrong about this.
I hope you're right, but I'm so nervous because we know sins can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
And I know that continue to befuddle me, supposed, supposed conservatives.
Well, look, there's some Republicans in the Senate that are not conservatives.
I know that.
Okay, so you got Lincoln Chafee, you got Susan Collins, you got Olympia Snow, and McCain, depending on what he wants the president.
But look, even in that scenario, see, what I think is going to drive this, don't forget what happened out here with the Harriet Myers thing.
And I say this with great trepidation.
But if you look, I told you that what was going to happen, instead of this conservative crack up that everybody on the left was talking about, Howard Feynman, that it was a conservative crackdown, and here is evidence it's been validated.
This is a conservative crackdown.
You can call it the conservative movement, the base of the party, whatever, brought this nomination about.
And they're not going to sit by.
If some Republican senators want to go wobbly, they will hear about it.
Well, Rush, this is a bet I certainly want to lose.
But boy, they just, this is not the same thing.
What do you think he's going to Defeat Alito?
I think there's enough of them there that when the press puts its full court press on and they want to be the McCain's, they want to be the darling of the press.
I think they have the spines of a chocolatey clair.
Let me tell you something.
You mentioned McCain or any of these other Republicans want to be president.
If they really want to be president, they're going to have to get on board with the Republican agenda right now because we're getting close to primary time.
If they start trying to undermine the president on this pick and other things, they can kiss their chances in 08 or the 08 primaries goodbye.
I think also because of what happened with Myers, I think there's going to be a big sigh of relief now that we can be unified and focus on the real enemy, which is not us and ourselves or the president, but the left.
So how many votes do I get?
65.
Okay.
That's a vote I would love to lose.
65.
60.
Well, okay, he may only get 54, 55.
Oh, let's put it this way.
There won't be a filibuster.
You don't think so?
No.
Not with Vice President Graham already suggesting that he's off that reservation.
Well, Graham did that is because myself and so many of us here in South Carolina just barraged his.
We worked so hard to get him there, and we barraged his office with how disgusted we were with him being a part of that.
That could well be a factor.
There's no question.
There's also, I think he realizes it might have been just a bad structural move as well.
And he was very plain as day yesterday about this.
There will not be a filibuster, meaning the Republican side of this will not hold.
Well, I hope you're right, Rush.
Well, I'll tell you, I don't see any reason for pessimism here because you take a look at, doesn't matter who it is, Schumer, Kennedy, the Alliance for whoever they are, the NAGs, their opposition to this guy is the same as it would be to anybody.
There's nothing specific about this guy.
They're just opposed because he's conservative.
There's nothing new.
It's the same old playbook.
It's the same old song and dance.
And I'm telling you, when the left brings forth these, put Ralph Nees on TV as much as possible.
You want to talk mainstream America.
The guy's not it.
Let Ralph Nees go on television as often as possible.
Let Nan Aaron, let all of the leaders of these fringe groups get on television as much in time, as much as possible, and start denouncing this guy.
There's not one thing unlikable about Mr. Alito.
There's kids' family.
He's not a demon.
They cannot demonize the guy.
Let them try.
This is my whole point.
It's time to swap this fly for good.
The left and their so-called unity and their ideology and all that.
So, Cliff, I'm glad you called.
Hold on there.
We'll get the necessary information here just in case we don't get 65 votes and I send you a couple shirts.
But I don't think it's going to happen.
We'll be back and continue here on the EIB network right after this.
Something else you can add to the list of good news, and that's economic growth.
The third quarter economic growth was 3.8%.
Is that what it was?
And that'll be seasonally adjusted upwards after they get some more data in.
So, you know, all these things are supposed to be falling apart, and they're not.
And it's because the press believes their own alternative reality that they create, and they ignore reality, if I can be redundant, as they create their alternative reality.
So we've got gas prices now moving below $2.50.
That's for regular unleaded.
I got a story here.
This is from Knoxville, Tennessee, Scripps Howard News Service, why some Americans remain optimistic.
Press can't believe that they're Americans.
They're optimistic out there.
And one of the things that it points out among those who are optimistic, They are watching less and less of the evening news and reading less and less of the newspaper.
I've always told you: if you did this, your life would change dramatically.
Now, I know you have this compulsion like I do to stay informed, but some people are really optimistic when they don't read the news, when they don't watch the news, or at least the front page of the newspaper, or whatever.
People have been tuning out the mainstream media for decades, folks.
Their audience numbers are coming down.
The vast majority of elections in this country are decided by incumbency.
One of the little-known secrets about the Republican takeover of the House in 1994 was that there was a whole bunch of open seats in 1994.
There are 435 House seats up for reelection in 2006, and about 20 of them are competitive.
Only 20.
Incumbency rules these things.
So there's really a whole sector of the country that's noticing positive things.
The situation in Iraq is far better than the alternative reality that has been created.
Rove was not a dead.
I cannot tell you.
I don't care what the left wants to massage themselves and say or how they want to massage it.
There's this is well, let's go through it.
Look, let's just go through what they said.
We had Schumer calling Pat Fitzgerald a prosecutor's prosecutor.
Well, what happened?
Fitzgerald charged no criminal leak, but he still found a crime.
He reported no conspiracy, but he found one.
He didn't charge Karl Rove, but the left says that Rove should step down anyway.
Dingy Harry says that Rove should either quit or Bush should fire him.
He discounted any connection to the war, but the left is out there saying that this whole thing is the cause of the war.
The mainstream media might have the template on this, but they do not have the facts about any of this that went on.
The more the left talks about Libby's alleged perjury, the more you have to ask, did Joseph Wilson commit treason?
Joseph Wilson is out there who has been documented by the Senate Intelligence Committee, bipartisan, to be a liar.
People have poured over his New York Times and LA Times op-eds, found him to be a liar.
If, as the left charges, we went to war because of yellow cake and Niger, then they have to live with that charge or die with it.
Now, I know it's not our argument, it's not the president's argument, the argument in Congress of the UN, but that's the Bush bash of today that we went to war because of yellow cake and Niger, and it was all a lie.
That's what the left wants to believe themselves, and they try to make everybody else believe it.
And so, Wilson came back and found no evidence, they say, when that's not even true either.
His initial verbal report confirmed what the CIA knew at the time.
You still can't convince me, by the way, that this whole thing is not a CIA-hatched plot to destroy Bush, undermine the war effort, and all that.
Mentioned this for the past couple of weeks.
But the real question is: this: Did Bush lie about Yellow Cake?
Did the Brits lie about uranium in Niger, or did Wilson?
Did Wilson lie about Niger?
Did Wilson commit treason?
Did Wilson make up something that did he go out and sip tea and not even investigate, come back and just say what he wanted to say, what the plan was?
I mean, I, you know, it didn't even strike me that this was all that important until the left started making it the reason for opposing the war and trying to get rid of Bush.
That he lied about weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons of mass destruction to get us into war.
And Wilson is the agent for that story being moved forward when Wilson is himself a questionable source.
So Dingy Harry wants Rove to resign.
Why?
Wants Bush to pledge no pardon ever?
Why?
Can't wait till Dingy Harry says this goes all the way back to Barbara Bush.
Well, how far back are they going to try to take all of this?
And then we have Lawrence O'Donnell.
This guy ought to be in the Guinness Book of World Records.
He was 21 indictments off.
And he was the first guy to guarantee us, and he'd heard his sources inside that Rove was it, that Rove was going to be indicted.
This is the guy who pops his blood vessels on TV, writes for TV's West Wing, predicted 22 indictments, or I don't know, multiple indictments.
I think 22 indictments was a rumor in the media about three weeks ago.
But he predicted Rove would be indicted.
And of course, wasn't the case.
And the left all thought that was going to happen.
So I'm telling you, no matter how they phrase it, no matter how they pursue this, and you can tell with the way Wolf Blitzer was pursuing guests on his show yesterday.
Well, even so, wouldn't you have to admit that what Libby did was bad?
Even though the special prosecutor found no crime and he found no covert outing, agent outing, wouldn't you have to agree what Libby did was bad?
Wouldn't you have to agree that what Libby did was bad?
Wouldn't you have to agree what Libby did was a crime?
Anything to associate the word crime in the White House.
They didn't get what they want.
They didn't get what they want in the Supreme Court nominee.
They don't have what they want with the economy roaring.
They don't have what they want with New Orleans not as bad as it was forecast to be.
They don't have what they want going on in Iraq.
Don't believe for a moment they're happy with what's going on because they're not.
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