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November 1, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, are you doubting Thomases out there willing to admit now that I know what I'm talking about?
Are you willing to admit that I was right about this whole thing?
Greetings and welcome.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program, and here we are, ready to roll.
Another exciting three hours of broadcast excellence.
I am America's anchorman here at the Distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, 800-282-2882.
If you'd like to be on the program, email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
I have here a column by our old buddy Jim Pinkerton.
He's a columnist of Newsday.
He also appears on Fox's media analyst show or analysis show.
And basically, let me just read the opening here.
There's a paradox in George W. Bush's nomination of Sam Alito for the court.
The coming fight might not be good for Alito, but it's going to be great for Bush.
Well, what did I say when Harriet Myers was nominated?
What we need is the fight.
The fight's what we need.
We need to go ahead and have the debate.
Now, guess who's picked up this theme?
No less than the Wall Street Journal, George F. Will, Robert Novak, and countless others.
Meanwhile, when the nomination of Myers came up and I didn't go along, you people, some of you, and you know who you are, doubted me.
And now look.
Now, why you would have thought this the greatest thing that's ever happened.
I told you it was going to come down exactly this way.
Let's go to audio soundbite.
Mike, I'm changing my mind.
Go to audio soundbite number three.
NBC News last night even had to focus on me, America's anchorman, and what I had to say about the Alito nomination.
Here is David Gregory.
On the radio, Rush Limbaugh argued a fight with Democrats is exactly what this embattled White House needs.
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.
But diverting attention from the Scooter Libby indictment won't be easy.
Mr. Gregory, it's not what this is about.
Nobody's trying to divert attention from the Scooter Libby indictment.
This is even better than I thought.
They think it's just a diversion.
They don't think we really mean it.
They think this Alito nomination is just intended as a distraction.
Oh, folks, I'll tell you what, the day is going to unfold here.
The upcoming days and weeks are going to unfold even better than you would have thought a mere week ago.
And here we have an AP story.
David Espo, Bush choice of Alito could mean historic shift of Supreme Court.
The key line is this.
Republicans said that any attempt to deny Alito a yes or no vote would return the Senate to the brink of a showdown that was avoided last spring only when seven lawmakers from each party brokered a compromise.
This time, they said they would crush Democrat opposition.
This is the Republicans.
You got Spectre, you got DeWine, you've got Lindsey Graham, you got a number of the Republican members of the gang of 14 fired up, ready to crush any Democrat opposition.
The Democrat opposition, by the way, is they're having trouble.
I told you yesterday, too, they're not having a good day.
They've had their research people looking into this, and every time they think they find something great against this guy, he comes around in another case and surprises them.
He'll go lib one way, conservative another way.
And I think this is just, it's just setting up very nicely.
This is another pick.
It's going to be tough to oppose a guy that's been confirmed twice by 100 to zero votes and been on the federal circuit for 15 years.
Well, we will have more on that in just a moment.
Have you seen the latest AP story, however, on Alito?
Nominee is a big investor in big oil.
I love it.
I do.
I just love it.
Let them go back to their playbook.
Let them go to the clichés.
Oh, yeah, he's an investor in big oil.
Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito's net worth got a major boost last year when a family friend died and left him ExxonMobil Corporation stock worth between $100,000 and $250,000, according to his 2004 financial disclosure statement.
Alito did not disclose the name of his benefactor, and White House officials could not immediately provide the identity.
The oil company stock raised the value of Alito's holdings at the end of 2004 to between $615,000 and $1.6 million.
Five years earlier, his disclosure form valued his holdings at between $455K and $1.17 million.
The ExxonMobil stock was Alito's largest single holding in 2004.
Well, this is amazing.
I wonder, you think Sam Alito has as much oil stock as, say, Jay Rockefeller?
I wonder about that, folks.
We ought to do a little investigation.
Find out just how much oil stock Jay Rockefeller owns.
And then I wonder, you think John Kerry may have more ketchup stock than Sam Alito has oil stock?
Those are two.
Well, snurdily saying he doesn't own anything himself.
But, you know, by virtual association with his wife, a marital privilege and so forth, in his mind, what's hers is his.
And so John Kerry is rolling in ketchup stock far more than far more than Sam Alito has.
The president was on TV today and announcing his plans for the big bird flu extravaganza that's coming up here, announcing his big vaccine plans and so forth.
And this is so predictable, too.
The left is out there.
How dare he?
This is just an excuse to funnel big government money to drug companies.
Well, that's generally what happens, folks.
Drug companies provide vaccines.
Politicians provide bird droppings.
You know, take your pick.
You want to go with these politicians and end up with bird droppings?
You want a bird flu vaccine?
But here's the thing.
Stop and think of this.
After Hurricane Katrina, the left was all upset.
Bush didn't prepare.
Bush didn't care except to kill the blacks and except to steer the hurricane there.
But Bush was unprepared.
FEMA was unprepared.
Bush sucks.
Now, Bush goes out, makes a speech.
Got a bird flu endemic out there.
Pandemic, perhaps going to hit this country.
Could be in big trouble.
Here's my plan.
Bush sucks.
Plan goes, too much money goes to the big drug companies, big pharmaceutical.
And of course, we can't discuss this without discussing previous attempts to have the government be in charge of the vaccine business.
Anybody remember the last time that happened?
Anybody?
It was when Hillary and Bill Clinton screwed it up, and I have the sound bites or the soundtrack.
Sorry, try three.
The transcript from my website.
The last time we discussed this was October 14th of 2004.
Just about a year ago, folks, we had the, remember, we had a shortage of flu vaccine.
Bush didn't care.
Bush didn't plan.
Bush sucks.
Now Bush is planning.
Bush is making advance preparations, but the money goes to drug companies, so Bush still sucks.
But here's what the president said this morning, trying to calm the panic out there that bird flu is going to be here tomorrow.
But he makes it clear we need to prepare now.
There are no reports of infected birds, animals, or people in the United States.
Even if the virus does eventually appear on our shores and birds, that does not mean people in our country will be infected.
Avian flu is still primarily an animal disease.
And as of now, unless people come into direct, sustained contact with infected birds, it is unlikely they will come down with avian flu.
While avian flu has not yet acquired the ability to spread easily from human to human, there is still cause for vigilance.
The virus has developed some characteristics needed to cause a pandemic.
It has demonstrated the ability to infect human beings, and it has produced a fatal illness in humans.
If the virus were to develop the capacity for sustained human-to-human transmission, it could spread quickly across the globe.
Our country has been given fair warning of this danger to our homeland and time to prepare.
Okay, up to that point, blibs are okay.
This is cool, but this is where for them it all fell apart.
I'm also asking Congress to remove one of the greatest obstacles to domestic vaccine production, the growing burden of litigation.
In the past three decades, the number of vaccine manufacturers in America has plummeted as the industry has been flooded with lawsuits.
Today, there is only one manufacturer in the United States that can produce influenza vaccine.
That leaves our nation vulnerable in the event of a pandemic.
We must increase the number of vaccine manufacturers in our country and improve our domestic production capacity so Congress must pass liability protection for the makers of life-saving vaccines.
This was after he had suggested $2.8 billion for such development.
And of course, since the money is going to go to the drug company, why we can't have that?
Why, that's just that Bush sucks.
This is nothing more.
He's raising fears about something that doesn't even exist.
You wait till you hear the conspiracy theories on this.
This is just, folks, you got to put yourself in the place of these Democrats who last Thursday, well, last Tuesday night was Fitzmas Eve.
On Fitzmas Day, nothing happened on Wednesday.
Then on Fitzmas Day plus one, nothing happened.
But then on Fitzmas Day plus two on Friday, here came the indictment of Scooter Libby.
Joe Wilson, a national hero.
Rove couldn't only be far behind.
Now we've got a Lido, everybody ramming up and ramping up for the fight that we know we're going to have in the Senate that we're going to win.
Here's Bush taking control, taking charge of the agenda, ramrodding the agenda through.
And the Democrats do not know what hit them because they live in this false reality that they think they're triumphing.
Remember, it was just a week or two ago that they already figured it out.
206 was theirs.
208 was theirs.
They had won it all.
The elections were a mere formality.
A quick timeout.
We'll give you a little brief history of why there's only one vaccine manufacturer, flu vaccine manufacturer, in the country today right after this.
Hey, hubba, hubba.
The backup T1 line at my home just came online there, Brian.
So it's coming back there incrementally.
Still no power, still no phones, but the backup T1.
So I might be able to use the internet when I get home if nothing else changes.
They don't all come back up.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
El Rushbo here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
All right.
I went back to my website today because we last discussed this flu vaccine business about a year ago, October 14th of 2004.
This is when the president, there were presidential debates going on.
Didn't that seem like a long time ago?
Presidential debates going on, and there was a flu vaccine shortage.
And of course, John Kerry was trying to score points.
President was out there suggesting, you know, not everybody needs a flu vaccine, Shami.
Just take the risk.
Don't run out there.
If you don't really need one, don't get ones.
Let's save the stock that we have for the elderly and the young, those who are most vulnerable for it.
And that bad, all hell broke loose.
How dare he?
What do you mean?
Just take the risk.
Wait, this is the United States of America.
Where would he mean just take the risk of getting the flu?
Which is what 99% of the population does anyway.
It's like saying, just take the risk of living in New Orleans.
Just take the risk of living in South Florida.
We're all on the circle of chance, folks.
We are all there on that circle of chance.
All of our numbers are going to come up at one point or another, many more, perhaps more in our lives.
This flu vaccine business, all the Democrats are just trying to have a heyday with it.
I just want to go back and read to you what I said a year ago on the radio that ended up in our website.
This instance, this reality, ironically, that we are short of a flu vaccine is the best medicine that we could get right now for fixing the problem and to illustrate how our health delivery system in the hands of liberals sounds great but doesn't work.
Do you remember something called the Clinton Government Vaccine Buying Program?
It was sold to us as a way to get prices down and get more children vaccinated and, of course, to keep the evil drug companies from making an evil profit.
Wall Street Journal says today that companies that decided to run these regulatory traps also know that they'll be doing so for very little reward.
Before her big health care reform crashed and burned in 1994, Hillary Rodham Rodham managed to get Congress to pass a government vaccine buying program for children.
Her sales pitch was free vaccines for all kids and higher immunization rates.
If we would give the stuff away, she said, more children would be immunized.
Oh, goody.
Wonderful, wonderful.
Thus, as a result of Hillary's plan, the government now buys about 60% of all pediatric vaccines, forcing huge discounts and imposing price caps.
The manufacturers were told, you can only make so much profit and you're going to make this amount and we're going to give it away.
Meaning, you can only make so much profit, you're going to make this quantity of vaccine, and we, the government, are going to give it away.
What all this did was screw up the whole private sector mechanism of manufacturing and distributing vaccines.
In 2001, the private sector cost of immunizing children with the 20 recommended doses of vaccines was $600 per chow.
The government price was just $400 per chow, with the vaccine makers swallowing the difference.
Well, what has it achieved?
Vaccination rates for two-year-olds have stagnated at about 74% for the past several years, while adult rates are significantly lower.
And with the profit margin squeezed to practically zero, some manufacturers have simply said we're not going to make stuff anymore.
It doesn't make any sense.
We got this government program that tells us the maximum we can charge, regardless what it costs to make.
We're going to be threatened with lawsuits the first time somebody gets sick for whatever vaccine, so screw it.
And that's why American companies are out of the business and why we have to import vaccines from Great Britain.
It's a combination of Hillary's plan that put a cap on profits plus a cap on prices.
Nothing to do with the manufacture price.
You combine that with the fact that these manufacturers are subject to constant lawsuits, and they said, screw it.
We're not going to make this stuff anymore.
And that's why there's a shortage.
You can trace this back to Hillary Clinton's great-sounding compassionate idea to make sure that every child had a flu shot, that every child had a vaccines against very vaccination against various childhood diseases.
Well, the fact is, only 74% of children do because there's not enough vaccine.
And this isn't the first real shortage, but because American manufacturers have thrown up their hands and said it makes no sense.
We're in business and we don't give things away.
We're certainly not going to take a loss on this.
They simply got out of the business.
Remember last year, everybody talking about the only manufacturer outside of the country was in Great Britain and we had to import it, but then we had problems importing that because it somehow was, I forgot what was wrong with it.
Tainted?
Yeah, their license was revoked.
So they were a quote-unquote tainted company.
So here we are.
We're back now, and we've got this avion flu thing out there.
And then the president's trying to ramp up and plan for this.
And we'll just sit patiently by and wait for the left to consult the 30-year-old page that's appropriate in their playbook to figure out how to respond to this.
But it's very predictable what they're going to do.
Bush wants to funnel $2.8 billion to big pharmaceutical on an epidemic that hasn't even hit the country yet.
It's not even here.
And even he said it might not be here.
So he just wants to funnel a bunch of big money to big pharmaceuticals, create a panic, all to divert attention from the Scooter Libby indictment.
And it's so easy to predict what they're going to do.
And then, you know, after that, they will talk about how Bush is trying to react or overreact to gain political ground from all that he lost during the Hurricane Katrina aftermath.
So the fun just keeps on, folks.
There's no stopping it.
There's no limit to it.
The good times just keep on rolling.
I love this story, too.
Tom DeLay has asked that the judge, hearing his money laundering charges and trial, be removed from the case, as you know that.
But gets even better.
DeLay has subpoenaed that judge, the guy named Bob Perkins, to testify at a Tuesday hearing about money Perkins has donated to Democrats, saying the judge is biased against Delay.
Perkins, the judge, responded with his own motion to quash the subpoena.
Perkins said Delay showed no need for him to testify and that his testimony would harm public confidence in an impartial judiciary.
Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle also opposed replacing Perkins.
Retired District Judge C.W. Bud Duncan was to oversee today's hearing regarding Perkins.
So this is fabulous.
I love this.
Subpoena the judge.
Yeah, you're the target here.
We don't want you to try any case because you've been contributing to Democrats and moveon.org and John Kerry and all this.
And we want to hear your testimony on this judge.
No, no, no, I can't testify.
That would harm public confidence in an impartial judiciary.
Well, isn't that the point?
Are you impartial?
We got to find out.
I love this.
This is off it.
Subpoena the judge.
Yes.
Next, subpoena Ronnie Earle.
I absolutely love this, folks.
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All right, so on this bird flu vaccine, we stand for health care.
They, the liberals, stand for trial lawyers.
The liberals talk about national health care all the time, do they not?
They come out and say it's an unconscionable crime that we have so many people uninsured, unvaccinated, uncared for, cast aside by the rich and powerful who'd rather not have to deal with them anyway.
Yet, when the president comes out, acts against a possible epidemic, libs are out there looking for the trial lawyers and their buddies.
Hey, you got to stop it.
We can't get rid of these lawsuits.
What do you mean?
What if somebody takes a bird flu examination and grows a beak?
What if somebody takes a bird flu examination and starts bird dropping?
What if somebody gets sick?
We need to be able to sue big pharmaceutical.
That's their concern.
Their concern is not health care.
Their concern is government.
Their concern is big government and paying attention to their contributors and donors.
In this case, the trial lawyers who would bring lawsuit after lawsuit against whatever company that makes the bird flu vaccine, just as they have with the swine flu vaccine 30 years ago.
So I think it's all falling apart on them, folks.
I have not wavered in this.
I hadn't waiver in it during the lead up to Fitzmus.
I didn't waver during the Harriet Myers thing.
I didn't think, because the Democrats are still who they are, no matter what we may be doing.
If we get off track a day or two or whatever, it doesn't matter.
They're still not on the track, and they're nowhere near the nowhere near the train station.
You know, we're near the terminal.
They're just in a perpetual.
I mean, you hear the dingy Harry call of Howard Dean.
You say, hey, Howard, tone it down on Alito.
I don't think we got as big a target here as we thought.
And Dean basically said, screw you, and went out there and started trashing Alito.
And the Democrats and their Kook websites are continuing this.
Larry in Chicago, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Thanks, Rush.
I was bringing up the point that not only you're talking about the bureaucracies getting in the way of each other, the Securities and Exchange Commission has put out rules on accounting that preclude the vaccine manufacturers from recording the revenues of all these billions of dollars worth of vaccines that the government wants them to produce in the stockpile.
They want them to sit on them, and they are going to force them to recognize the cost of making them, but not recognize any revenue from the sales of them.
So the vaccine manufacturers have said that's kind of a non-starter for them.
Yeah, you're talking about Sarbanes-Oxley, are you not?
Right.
Yeah.
See, I'm hoping I know about these people.
And it would hurt their shareholders to, on the one hand, the government wants to say, we're going to give you these billions of dollars to make vaccines, but on the other hand, the Securities and Exchange Commission stops them from being able to do it.
It would hurt their shareholders.
Well, I know.
And it's a classic example of what happens.
So we have the Enron scandal, and we have the media making a big deal of all the people that got hurt in the Enron scandal, which is a big deal.
I mean, it's no minor thing.
But then we got a giant piece of federal legislation that attempts to treat all corporations as Enron and makes the assumption that they're all a bunch of crooks and come up with these new accounting rules and so forth that Larry here is talking about that just add up to more and more regulations that limit the ability of entrepreneurs to do their work.
And this happens within an atmosphere, the left trying to trash the reputations of entrepreneurs and corporations in the first place.
Something tells me a night.
I can't place this.
I may be wrong.
It's going to have been a dream for all I know.
But somebody told me that I think we were discussing it.
So Sarbanes-Oxley, this whole thing that was the outgrowth of the Enron scandal, is going to be done away with at some point.
It hasn't worked out.
It's not working like we people want.
People are not happy about it.
I could be dreaming this.
It seems to me that this is, I've heard this discussed at some point.
David, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, we own Allentown.
We've owned Allentown for decades on this program.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you.
Thank you.
It's an honor to have a chance to talk with you.
Appreciate it.
You are truly a great American.
Thank you.
I don't know how to say it in any other way.
Just a quick segue to Alito.
And I had a question for you that just came to mind here.
What exactly is the reason that you think DeWine of Ohio and Graham of South Carolina have suddenly flipped on the nuclear option issue and the nuclear issue?
Well, they're just wild guessing here.
I think there are two reasons.
I think both DeWine of Ohio and Vice President Graham of South Carolina have heard it in droves for joining the gang of 14.
And DeWine, didn't his son lose?
His son lost a congressional seat in Ohio because DeWine went out there and joined the gang of 14 and upset the base in Ohio that had elected him.
And then I think Lindsey Graham also heard a cacophonous response from South Carolinians, so much so that he talked about it.
The second thing is, I think they're looking at this judge as a judge, as a human being.
He doesn't, the whole notion that somebody could be nominated by a Republican that would be extreme anyway is offensive to me, that Republicans even go along with that premise.
But the seven members on the Republican side of the gang of 14 went along with that notion.
Okay, you can filibuster if somebody nominates somebody that's extreme, has extreme circumstances.
I mean, the idea that only Republican presidents are capable of that is absurd, but they went along with it.
And I think now that you've got this guy, Alito, I mean, he's been confirmed twice by unanimous votes of 100 to zip.
He has served on the circuit court for 15 years.
There is no way the criteria for a filibuster is anywhere close to being met here.
And I think these guys are coming out now and saying, we dare you.
Go ahead.
You want to nuke it?
You give it a shot.
We are going to crush you if you try it.
And the Democrat.
I'm telling you, folks, this is difference.
This whole pick has turned everybody except me because I don't waiver.
My optimism is there.
But there were a lot of people who were cowering in the corners and going, oh, woe is us.
Oh, it's over.
And some of you in this audience were doing it too, and you know who you are.
But I never did.
Now everybody, because Harriet Myers is no longer on the scene, we've got this guy.
It's been chosen.
The Fitzmas indictment was not as bad as people thought it was going to be.
So all of a sudden now, see, these are people that determine their moods on the basis of the news every day.
That's not what I do.
But they do.
And so the news has been favorable recently.
Economic growth is going through leaps and bounds.
The president seems to be back firmly in control of his agenda and appears to be ready to ram rot it down the throats of the liberals.
He, I guess, decided that his real enemies are the Democrats and the left now.
And so they're feeling emboldened and they're feeling confident.
And I think it's welcome.
It's about time.
But I think there are reason to feel this way all the time.
There's a reason to feel this way consistently.
Here's Amanda, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Hi, Amanda.
I'm glad you called.
Hey, Rash, it's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you.
Okay, so I was listening to Barbara Boxer today on Fox News.
And the scene that just gets me is she's going on and on about, you know, we're just so concerned about our individual rights and the Constitution, and we're going to say goodbye to those riots.
Judge Alito is confirmed and yada, yada, yada.
And I'm sitting there thinking to myself, if she's so concerned with constitutional rights, why doesn't she at least acknowledge the fact that majority rules in this country?
If the majority confirms Judge Alito, I don't understand why she's whining and complaining.
Well, you're misreading.
I mean, I don't think you're misreading her, but when she says Republicans will rue the day, when she says the things that you quoted her as saying, those are playbook utterances.
She went back to the playbook.
This is what you say.
We've got a Republican nominee.
He's going to take away our individual rights.
He's going to destroy freedom.
He's going to have women forced in a back alley.
All this.
There's nothing new.
They keep going back to the same old thing.
It's like, uh-oh, they found he's got $100,000 to $250,000 of stock in ExxonMobil.
Oh, you big oil.
That's supposed to, that's a crime.
This guy's got big oil stock.
It was given to him by a friend when the friend died.
But he still has it, and he didn't divest.
He didn't sell it, and it's the biggest holding he's got.
He's big oil.
As though that in itself is a crime.
Barbara Boxer is more than one screw loose and is not worth you getting upset.
You want Barbara Boxer to keep talking this way.
I keep trying to tell you people, this is what we want.
We want Barbara Boxer on television as often as she's willing to go as many places as they will accept her.
And we want her talking this way.
We want the American people to hear Barbara Boxer and all the rest of them.
And we know what the American people's reaction is going to be.
My gosh, I've heard all this.
It doesn't matter who the Republicans nominate.
This is what they always say.
And the Democrats think that they're gaining ground because they're trying to portray all Republicans as they are trying to portray Sam Alito here.
He ain't going to fly.
The polling data shows already on Alito is pretty good.
It doesn't fly.
The Democrats are not able to gin up all this fear.
But look, let's try a different tack here.
Let's try a different tech here.
Let's put this in more stark terms, shall we?
This is a battle between conservatism and liberalism.
That's why you see Barbara Boxer saying what she's saying.
You're making the mistake of assuming that she's actually saying it about Alito.
She's not.
She's saying it.
Alito is simply a symbol for conservative Republicans who she hates.
And so she just has a prepared statement to react to anything any conservative Republican says.
This is a battle between conservatism and liberalism.
This is a battle, the Lito nomination and everything else that we're going through right now, folks, is a battle between those who support representative government and those who support judicial tyranny because they can't win at the ballot box.
So they want liberal judges on courts to pass laws that they can't get passed in legislatures.
This is a battle between those who respect the will of the people and trust them and those who seek to crush it because the will of the people is resulting in their defeat time and time again.
This is a battle between those who believe individual liberty and those who believe in big government.
It is a battle between those who cherish the Constitution and those who are afraid of it and try to reject it.
The Democrats have moved so far to the left that they once voted unanimously for Scalia.
The Democrats voted unanimously for Scalia in the Senate, yet today, 22 of them couldn't even bring themselves to vote for John Roberts.
Now, if they can't support John Roberts, they can't support and won't ever support any conservative for the Supreme Court.
The left is going to be tied up on this big time.
And these people want to talk about the filibuster.
They already lost it.
When you have Spectre DeWine and Vice President Lindsey Graham all indicating that Alito doesn't trigger the filibuster, so even if we lose Chaffee, even if we lose Snow and Collins, we have more than enough votes necessary to win the constitutional option should it be triggered.
So you don't have to worry about Chaffee now.
You don't have to worry about Olympia Snow or Susan Collins and what they decide to do because Spectre DeWine and Vice President Graham have basically put the kibosh on the whole thing.
Sam Alito has never written anything controversial.
He strictly adheres to the law and precedent, which is what I thought I heard Schumer saying he wanted.
Said he didn't want an activist, as he bastardizes the term.
So that's why the debate here, folks, is conservatism versus liberalism, and that's why I have wanted the debate.
I'm going nuts here trying to drive this point home.
I have wanted the fight.
It's liberalism versus conservatism.
It's not Alito versus the Democrats in the Senate or on the committee.
It's not Bush versus this is liberalism versus conservatism, and they are losing.
And there's no reason we should shy away from this fight.
We should have this debate and have this fight at every opportunity it is presented.
Chuck Schumer's litmus test is the only liberal activist can serve on the bench.
That's his litmus test.
Meaning that no Republican president can ever appoint anyone to the Supreme Court unless they share Schumer's radicalism.
Well, Schumer's a loser.
Schumer doesn't get to determine who goes to the court.
He's not even the ranking Democrat on that committee.
Senator Pat Leakey Leahy Depend senator is.
And it needs to be said, too, because it rarely is that Schumer, folks, I want you to know this.
Chuck Schumer currently holds the job of running a Democrat senatorial campaign committee.
That means that Schumer is in charge of electing Democrats to the Senate.
It's his job to get the current Democrats re-elected and to go find good candidates to run for senators, Democrat senators who are retiring or maybe in open seats or some such situation.
That's probably unlikely in the Senate.
But nevertheless, with Schumer running the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, he is clearly almost in charge with the responsibility now, putting political activism and politics before country and the Constitution.
He's serving two masters here.
And the first one is the Senate's election of Democrats.
You know, it's no more complicated than that.
So when you see Barbara Boxer out running her gums, welcome it.
Welcome it.
And don't be afraid of it.
Don't say, how can she say this?
She can say it because she's a liberal.
What more do you need to know?
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It should be noted that in one of these votes where Sam Alito got 100 votes in his confirmation hearings, the Democrats had 56 seats in the Senate at that time.
They had a 12-seat majority, and Alito, it was 56, 44 Democrats versus Republicans, and Alito gets 100 votes.
And now they're going to come back and they're going to try to say it is something's changed.
He's got stock in big oil.
I mean, they're cooked, folks.
Their goose here is cooked.
You know, I love it.
The liberals, they speak of the mainstream.
Chuck Schumer loves to go out there and talk about judges who are not out of the mainstream.
It's very funny because there's nothing mainstream about them.
You can't tell me that Ted Kennedy's mainstream.
You can't tell me Chuck Schumer's mainstream.
Dick Durbin is mainstream.
Dick Durbin saying our troops are Nazis.
Schumer's all for gun control.
Kennedy's an ultra-liberal.
And they don't even honestly debate anything because they know they will lose.
Same applies with this nominee.
They're not going to be, they can't afford to honestly debate this guy or their goose is cooked.
Their staff already knows this.
The Democrat, Senate Democrat staff already perplexed.
I'll have the story in the next segment about how they've done research on the guy and they're stymied.
They don't want to have a debate, folks.
They want to try to discredit so that no debate is necessary.
And now they're taken out after Bush's plan on the bird flu vaccine.
They're going to go after the drug companies.
Is there an industry?
Is there any industry the liberals don't hate?
They hate Walmart.
They hate big oil.
They hate big pharmaceutical.
About the only industry that they don't hate, the only industry that they don't want to nationalize or tax into bankruptcy is the abortion industry.
And that's Planned Parenthood.
What were you going to say, Mr.?
Well, Hollywood, too.
But I mean, even then, they go through the motions of trying to shut Hollywood down if they get too racy.
Their television shows or whatever.
And Hollywood's in big trouble.
His out of touch Hollywood is.
Hollywood's out there can't make money at the box office.
They're having another down year.
Their total take at the box office is down.
What Hollywood doesn't understand is when all these big-time actors and actresses with brains the size of a pigeon go out there and start reaming conservatives, they are reaming their audience.
They think they're gaining favor with producers and directors and bigwigs in Hollywood, but they're reaming the audience.
It's like when they rip Bush as a Nazi, as an idiot, they're saying that about over half the movie going public in this country.
It's just let them keep it up.
Let them keep it up.
I keep saying, quick time out, my friends.
We'll be back.
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That's probably what you get here at the top of the hour, but let it go in one ear and out the other.
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