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Nov. 2, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 2, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I have to admit, folks, I'm feeling my oats.
I'm feeling my, it seems like pretty much everything that I predict the Democrats will do, they are doing.
This little stunt they pulled yesterday so transparent that it was just, it was laughable.
The funniest thing about it was, by the way, greetings and welcome.
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The funniest thing about this yesterday, and there are a lot of funny things, and it's hard to pick.
It's hard to pick one that is the funniest.
The funniest thing is the Democrat kook internet reaction.
They thought this was going to result in Bush getting impeached.
They actually thought that the Democrats, Dingy Harry, invoking Rule 21 and shutting down the Senate, going into a closed session, was finally what they've been asking for all along.
It's so much is clear.
So much is obvious.
They were so let down over the lack of Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation leading to a trial on the war with Iraq and the pre-war intelligence.
And I'm telling you, people, they were looking to launch impeachment hearings.
What this was all about, they were going to use an indictment of Rove and whoever else came along, Libby's not enough, to launch impeachment hearings.
The thing that is amazing about this, and we're going to go back and chronicle this today, do you feel like you're Groundhog Day today, Mr. Snerdley?
I feel Groundhog Day.
This is the 2004 campaign being rerun pre-war intel.
Bush lied.
They lost the 2004 campaign.
They're rerunning it.
They keep going back and doing the same things over and over and over again.
And we have audio soundbites from Dingy Harry and a number of people yesterday.
But the thing, the first thing I did, the first thing I'm sitting here, and I couldn't go home very early yesterday because I still don't have internet at home.
Still don't have power at home.
So I was working diligently here at the EIB Southern Command when this thing first happened.
The first thing I did, I went to my document archives and I found the Rockefeller memo.
We told you about this Rockefeller memo back in, I think, earlier in the summer.
That's how long the Democrats have been dreaming of this.
Actually, the Rockefeller memo goes back to November of 2003.
So I printed the Rockefeller memo out.
The Rockefeller memo pretty much dictates the action that took place yesterday.
Now, there are a lot of people saying, well, there are a lot of different reasons for this rush.
Well, you know, they just, they wanted to seize the news cycle away from Bush.
Some analysts are saying there were four senators that decided among themselves, without even talking to other senators or the staff, to go invoke Rule 21 because they were so let down, they were so dispirited over the fact that Bush had regained the news cycle back with the bird flu press conference, the Alito nomination, and the base being ramped up and ready to go over both of those, plus the fact that Rove wasn't indicted.
And so they panicked.
They literally panicked.
Now, the great thing that's happening here, folks, they are showing us who they are.
Once again, this is key.
We want this fight.
We want this debate.
The Democrats, the liberals, have gotten away with for far too long, masquerading as moderates or progressives or what have you.
We need them to display for the American people precisely who they are.
What's happened to them is they are so frustrated.
I'm going to give you the psychological analysis.
Here's where they are.
And I've told you this countless times.
I'm going to repeat it again because it bears repeating.
The Democrats ran this country for 40 years.
They had the House of Representatives for 40 uninterrupted years.
For many of those same 40 years, they controlled the Senate.
The government and its control is their birthright.
It is their entitlement.
It is theirs.
They own it.
Nobody else can have any power in it.
Whenever that happens, to them, it's an aberration.
Well, they lost that power.
They lost their government.
their government.
They think it's theirs personally.
They lost it in 94.
They haven't gotten it back.
They haven't gotten close to getting it back.
And they don't understand it since it is a birthright, since it is an entitlement, since it is theirs.
And as I have told you, when this happens, they construct all kinds of wacko theories to explain it.
They do not look at themselves.
They do not look inwardly and say, what are we doing wrong maybe?
Is there something we're doing wrong?
What they instead do is look at the voters and see stupidity.
Or they look at the voters and they see a bunch of people who are being persuaded by slick marketing and packaging.
They then glom on to conspiracies to explain this.
The election in 2004 in 2000 was stolen from them.
Bush and the Supreme Court stole.
And they end up creating this alternative reality and living in it.
It is not just rhetoric anymore.
This is psychological now.
It's not just rhetoric.
They literally believe the election was stolen in 2000.
They literally believe that voting machines in Ohio were tampered with and that Kerry was denied his birthright in 2004.
So they had two elections stolen from them.
They then believe, despite the fact that a majority of Democrats voted for the war after receiving all the pre-war intel that we have all been treated to since 1998, 1999, they have created this alternative reality where they got lied to.
They didn't vote for it.
Nobody saw it.
It didn't exist.
Bush lied.
Bush made it up and they can't let go of it.
Just like they couldn't let go of the story about Bush and the National Guard.
So they have immersed themselves in this false reality, and it has become their world.
They are living in and living a lie at a series of them day in and day out.
The problem with doing so is reality has a tendency to rear its head.
They've created this fantasy world where none of the problems they have are of their own making.
And yet the reality sometimes rears its head and they can't bear to deal with that.
When the reality that conflicts with their alternative reality shows it, such as the lack of any investigation by Fitzgerald into the reasons we went to war, no indictment of Rove, no trial on the lying, they can't deal with it.
And they have to go right back to their alternative reality.
So they invoked Rule 21 yesterday demanding an independent investigation.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong.
Has the 9-11 Commission not already investigated this?
Didn't the 9-11 Commission already conclude that there was no attempt to lie and make things up about the pre-war intel?
There, another commission I know for sure has found the same thing.
And I've got this all here in the stack.
We went back last week, I'm going to do it again partially on the program today, chronicling all the New York Times and Washington Post stories about all the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam had and all the warnings that the news media was giving us that we had to do something about it.
We got Bill Clinton's statements from 1998, 1999, Democrats that went along with him.
The only way you can follow this, the only way any of this can make any sense to you as you watch this is to realize this.
You are watching a literal implosion.
They are resisting, even though the evidence abounds, that they have lost.
Roberts got close.
Alito is the next little nail in their coffin.
The fact that Fitzgerald decided not to investigate the pre-war intelligence as part of his independent counsel work, all of this slowly and surely, it pops up now and then is reinforcing the idea that they have lost, that this is not a dream, it's not an aberration, that they really have lost the government.
They do continue to lose elections.
There's no end in sight to this.
They do not offer any substance whatsoever.
They don't dare talk about substance.
They are still stuck in the same old playbook, criminalize their opponents, criminalize their opponents' policy, or try to impugn and destroy the character and reputations of their opponents.
But they dare not discuss anything of substance.
So they're sitting there not knowing what to do.
So if you've created this alternative reality, and I'll tell you something else that's going on about this, the purpose of this invocation of Rule 21 yesterday and whatever they do today, tomorrow, and in the coming days and weeks, is designed to provide an opportunity for those Democrats in the Senate that voted for the resolution in Iraq to do a flip-flop and to say, I retract my vote so they can please the liberal Democrat kook base,
because that's the one stumbling block that they have.
The liberal Democrat kook base is out there demanding Cindy Sheehan for something, president or senator, in the village voice yesterday.
They are not happy with Hillary.
By the way, did you see this news story that Camilla Parker Bowles travels around with 50 dresses?
She brought 50 dresses for this week in America.
And I've said, more power to her.
I mean, Hillary travels with two pantsuits.
The Duchess here travels with 50 dresses.
My kind of babe.
Point is, they're trying to set up circumstances where the likes of John Kerry and all the other Democrats that voted with Bush on a resolution they demanded in the summer of 2002 to go to war with Iraq to allow them a chance to flip-flop because they are trying to cement it in people's heads as it is cemented in theirs that Bush lied and their votes were the result of trickery and deceit.
I'm just telling you that any group of people this large that is so studiously and assiduously avoiding reality and creating a fantasy world, an alternative reality in which to live, is doomed.
And every action they take cements their doom as imminent and sooner rather than later.
I got a quick timeout.
We'll come back.
We'll start with the audio sound bites.
We got your phone calls on this.
And there's other stuff in the news today, too.
So we're going to try to jam as much in as we can.
Sit tight.
It's all going to continue after this.
You got to hear this.
Brian, if the last thing I'm going to do, I'm going to get this.
Every time I lean a certain way, I get a screeching bit of static in my fake ear that is really starting to irritate me.
I have bited my patience on this for about three weeks.
It just happened.
All right.
Sorry, folks, a little inside baseball.
You have to hear this.
This is last night, MSNBC Scarborough Country.
The guest is Howard Feynman.
And Joe Scarborough says, Howard, was the White House concerned last week because of runaway spending, illegal immigration, Harriet Myers, Katrina, a lot of political missteps?
He was in danger of losing some of his most really vocal supporters, right?
I think so.
I wrote about it.
I called it a conservative crack up.
And Rush Limbaugh came back and said, no, there's going to be a conservative crackdown.
And I think Rush Limbaugh ended up being right because I think the president after the failed Myers nomination realized he had to get the base together.
Thank you, Mr. Feynman.
I'll play it again, but Sterdley wants me to play it again.
I'm not surprised Howard Feynman, he's a man.
He would admit that.
What's amazing is that he's the only one who has acknowledged that I was right about this.
He's the only one who has acknowledged it.
Here's Howard Feynman again.
Snerdley wants to hear it because he doesn't believe it.
I think so.
I wrote about it.
I called it a conservative crack up.
And Rush Limbaugh came back and said, no, there's going to be a conservative crackdown.
And I think Rush Limbaugh ended up being right because I think the president after the failed Myers nomination realized he had to get the base together.
And the conservative crackdown was oriented toward that action taking place.
And there you have it.
So the mainstream press now, they understand what happened.
And they were looking for the crack up, and it didn't happen.
Exactly as I said, crack down.
So just folks, what we're going to do on today's program is going to be more of the same.
We're going to analyze, we're going to predict, and we're going to put all this in perspective.
Now, let's go back to the invocation of Rule 21 by Dingy Harry.
And let's review some of the theories that are out there.
Some of the theories that are out there.
The Democrats did this to steal the news cycle back from Bush.
By all the way, all of these are interrelated, and I think they all have their merit.
And there may not be one specific reason.
But if there is anything that is at the top of the list here that has tentacles connecting to all the other reasons, it is the fact that they are so dispirited and disjointed and depressed and let down.
I cannot emphasize enough, folks, just how much they have been living a lie, a lie that they have constructed, an alternative reality.
And they believe the lie.
They are so immersed in it that that alternative reality is their truth.
They cannot deal with it when the truth, when actual reality hits them upside the face, as did the lack of any action by Patrick Fitzgerald last week with his investigation looking into the reasons we went to war.
He made it perfectly plain in his press conference that anything about the war, nothing about the war is in his indictment.
Absolutely nothing about pre-war intelligence, whether the war is good or bad, whether we should have or shouldn't have, whether we're winning or not, none of this.
And they really thought that this was what it was all about because they've thrown in with a guy who himself cannot tell the truth.
As Max Boot says in the L.A. Times today, Joe Wilson tells more whoppers than Burger King makes.
And that's the kind of, they throw in with these people.
They throw in with the likes of Cindy Sheehanna and now Joe Wilson or before that, Bill Burkett.
And they just, they crack up when the reality hits them.
And so whether it was the fact that they lost the news cycle, whether it was the fact that Bush regained the high ground and the momentum in ramming his agenda through, regardless, it's all related to the fact that they are living a lie and can't deal with the truth when it hits them upside the head.
Now, as to the specifics, they didn't just decide yesterday to invoke Rule 21.
They didn't just decide yesterday in a peak.
I think they may have pulled the trigger on it yesterday, which was a mistake and an error in timing on sort of a spontaneous notion.
But this has actually been in the works since September or November, I should say, of 2003.
Remember the Rockefeller memo?
Mentioned this to you a number of times since this past summer.
I have the full text of the memo from the Office of Jay Rockefeller, Democrat West Virginia, on setting a strategy for pursuing an independent investigation of pre-war White House intelligence dealings on Iraq.
And again, this goes back to November of 2003.
It says this.
We have carefully reviewed our options under the rules.
We believe we've identified the best approach.
Our plan is as follows.
One, pull a majority as long as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding the improper or questionable conduct by administration officials.
We're having some success in that regard.
For example, in addition to the president's State of the Union speech, the chairman, Pat Roberts, has agreed to look at the activities of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Wolfowitz, as well as Secretary Bolton's office at the State Department.
The fact that the chairman supports our investigations into these offices and co-signs our requests for information is helpful and potentially crucial.
We don't know what we'll find, but our prospects for getting access that we seek is far greater when we have the backing of the majority.
We can verbally mention some of the intriguing leads we are pursuing.
Number two, assiduously prepare Democratic additional views to attach to any interim or final reports the committee may release.
Committee rules provide this opportunity, and we intend to take full advantage of it.
Number three, prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear that we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority.
We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation of the administration's use of intelligence at any time, but we can only do so once.
The best time to do so will probably be next year, either after we have already released our additional views on an interim report, providing as many as three opportunities to make our case to the public.
And once we identify solid leads the majority does not want to pursue, we would attract more coverage and have greater credibility in that context than one in which we simply launch an independent investigation based on principled but vague notions regarding the use of intelligence.
In the meantime, even without a specifically authorized independent investigation, we continue to act independently when we encounter foot dragging on the part of the majority.
For example, the FBI Niger investigation was done solely at the request of the vice chairman.
We have independently submitted written requests to the DOD and we are preparing further independent requests for information.
Summary: intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public's concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq.
Yet we have an important role to play in revealing the misleading, if not flagrantly dishonest, methods and motives of senior administration officials who made the case for unilateral preemptive war.
This, I'm reading from it, and it's a leaked memo.
This was not intended to be released.
It was not intended for people to see it.
November 6th, 2003.
Yesterday was the day they pulled the trigger.
And as the Rockefeller memo says, we can only do this one time.
We can't keep going back to the will.
And yet they keep going back to the well, and there's no water in the well.
We'll be back in just a second.
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Folks, I have lived for this day.
I have lived for the day that I would witness almost on a daily basis the disintegration of the American left, the disintegration of the Democratic Party, the evidence that I have believed for the longest time that they are not a dominant force, that they are not well-oiled and smarter than the rest of the room and continually outsmarting everybody.
They are sick.
They are psychologically sick.
And it goes back to the fact that they firmly believe that something that is their birthright, that it is their entitlement, that is the control and power of government, has been taken from them.
And yet, Liz Sedoti, two different versions of her story ran in the Associated Press.
The first story cleared at 3.53 yesterday afternoon, or 3.43, shortly after Rule 21 was invoked.
And here's her lead.
Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session Tuesday, questioning intelligence that President Bush used in the run-up to the war in Iraq, accusing Republicans of ignoring the issue.
Reed's move shown a spotlight on the continuing controversy over intelligence that President Bush cited in the run-up to the war in Iraq, despite pre-war claims.
No weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq.
Some Democrats have accused the administration of manipulating the information that was in their possession.
Folks, it's almost like dealing with children here today.
The evidence that we have to just nuke these people sky high into and to obliterate them is overwhelming.
Some of it I touched on last week, but then Dingy Harry said the Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq and attempted to destroy those who dared to challenge its actions.
The Libby indictment is about no such thing.
The Libby indictment is not even close to that.
The special prosecutor, Mr. Fitzgerald, purposely said the most powerful paragraph in his statement in his press conference has nothing to do with the war.
If you're for it or against it, if you love it or hate it, if you think is anything about the war in Iraq in this indictment, I urge you to think again there's not.
And yet Dingy Harry goes to the floor of the Senate and maintains it's what it's about.
They cannot get out of their false universe.
They can't get out of it.
This really is a case for psychiatrists to examine.
This is, folks, this is more than just trying to dominate a news cycle.
This is more than just trying to force their views on the American people so the American people will accept it.
It's more than that.
When the evidence is so clearly not what they claim it is, and it's like looking at the sky and everybody sees it's blue and they say, no, that sky is green because they want it to be green.
And everybody, look, it's blue.
The indictment, the indictment's not about the war.
This indictment, this Libby indictment provides a window into what is really happening here.
It does no such thing.
Some of you might say, Rush, you're overdoing this.
This is just a bunch of typical liberal lies.
Well, yeah, it's a bunch of typical liberal lies, but folks, it's more.
It's pathological.
There's something, they are just, they are beside themselves.
They thought that impeachment proceedings would be underway.
They thought they already, last week, they're already talking about how they won the House and Senate back in 06, and the 08 presidential race was theirs.
It was just a mere formality.
Just a week ago.
And now today, it's all gone.
It's all gone.
And everything, they have thought they were in this position with Bill Burkina National Guard.
Then they thought the 9-11 Commission gave them these odds.
Then they thought the Jersey girls are going to put them over the top.
Then Richard Clark was going to put them over there.
Then they thought that Cindy Sheehan was going to put them over the top.
Then they've thrown in with Joe Wilson.
And none of what they believe has ever been true.
They haven't been close to winning in 06.
They are not close to winning the White House back in 08.
They're getting farther away from this.
Their odds of winning continue to shrink.
And in fact, Liz Sadoti, the Associated Press, writing about 12 hours later at 3.34 this morning, unable to win their way with votes, outnumbered Democrats used a rarely invoked Senate rule to force a secret session as a way to dramatize their assertions the Bush administration misused intelligence in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
Now, that's quite a different lead than the lead that ran less than an hour after Dingy Harry invoked Rule 21.
Remember, the first lead, Democrats forced Republicans into an unusual closed session today, questioning intelligence that President Bush used in the run-up and blah, blah, blah, and accusing Republicans of ignoring the issue.
But 12 hours later, unable to win their way with votes.
That sums it up in total.
It sums it up, unable to win their way with votes.
They can't win their way with votes in Florida.
They can't win their way with votes nationally.
They can't win in 02.
They didn't win in 04.
They lost in 2000.
They're not going to win in 06.
They can't win votes in the Senate.
They can't stop Alito, and they know it.
They couldn't stop Roberts, and they know it.
And they're not going to be able to stop the next nominee, and they know it.
But they don't want to admit it.
So they continue to live in their false reality.
And how about this?
They go drag Jimmy Carter.
Somebody put him out of his misery.
Keep him off television.
They bring him out on the Today Show Today, and he says that the whole war and the pre-war intelligence was a lie and it was made up.
And he's all for invoking Rule 21.
Now, Jimmy Carter, they dragged him out of the Democrat convention in Boston.
Jimmy Carter, that's their last.
Where's Bill Clinton?
Oh, I'm sorry.
He's at Rosa Park's funeral.
Priorities are priorities.
But you can't tell me that bringing Jimmy Carter out on television or at your convention is a sign of strength.
You just can't.
Jimmy Carter does nothing to recommend his opinion on anything.
He was one of the worst presidents in modern times.
Here's a guy.
What did he try?
He tried to attack Iran with six helicopters and got sandbugged trying to get our hostages out of there.
Attacks Iran with six helicopters.
And this guy's telling us about pre-war intelligence and how faulty and phony it was, which continues to be the nub of this.
And yes, before the program's over, I'm going to go back and recite that, but I'm not leading with it because they just did it last week, and I don't want to be accused of redundancy.
But I'm going to go through it all, folks, as we get into the audio soundbites.
In fact, let's start with those now.
Here's just in order.
This is the chronology of which it happened yesterday.
Dingy Harry on the floor of the U.S. Senate demanding to close down the Senate.
Dick Durbin's voice seconds it.
I demand on behalf of the American people that we understand why these investigations aren't being conducted.
And in accordance with Rule 21, I now move that Senate go into closed session.
Mr. President, I second the motion.
The motion has been made to go into closed session, and it has been seconded.
The motion having been made and seconded, the Senate will go into closed session.
All right.
So this is all about Pat Roberts' promised investigation into what the Democrats want, that Bush lied, that there was a manipulation of pre-war intelligence.
And Dingy Harry's out there saying there hadn't been any investigation.
Well, if we go back to the Rockefeller memo, we see that this is exactly the strategy.
Whether there's an investigation or not, say there's not.
We can bring the majority along as best we want.
When the time is right, we attack, but we can only do so once.
They judged yesterday to be the time to do this because all else was lost.
More now, this is Dingy Harry, a portion of, I take it back.
This is Bill Frist, Bill Frist's reaction to Dingy Harry's invocation of Rule 21.
Once again, it shows the Democrats use scare tactics.
They have no conviction.
They have no principles.
They have no ideas.
But this is the ultimate.
Since I've been majority leader, I'll have to say, not with the previous Democratic leader or the current Democratic leader have ever I been slapped in the face with such an affront to the leadership of this grand institution.
Every other time, and again, we'll have to go back and look at the history, there has been at least consideration for the other side of the aisle before a stunt.
And this is a pure stunt that is being performed by Senator Reed, Senator Durbin, and their leadership.
I got some problems with this.
I don't think it serves a purpose to go out there and act hurt.
And this is like a slap in the face.
Here's what I would do.
All right.
You want to invoke Rule 21?
You want to play some games like this?
All right, then we're going to get serious.
You think you run this body?
Well, let's see how long you think you can run it after we hold hearings on the lies told by Joe Wilson and others in this whole sordid tale.
There's a guy who has been totally ignored in this whole sordid tale whose lies have formed the basis of you, you Democrats, your total belief that the whole war was unnecessary and the intelligence was manipulated because of the lies of one man, Joe Wilson.
This war was not fought because of the yellow cake uranium niger story.
This war was not based on that.
This war was not based solely on that.
So when Joe Wilson comes back and says, well, I didn't find any evidence of that.
Bush lied about it.
We went to war anyway.
We're going to investigate Joe Wilson and we're going to bring him up here and we're going to demand that he tell us the truth because it's time we find out just what other kind of lies you Democrats are willing to sign on to in order to take everybody through this.
Then we're going to demand a total and complete and immediate top-to-bottom house cleaning at the CIA and the State Department because we think there's some dirt over there that needs to be straightened out.
Now we're going to seek indictments against senators who reveal the names of CIA covert operatives.
We know that Bob Torricelli made the mistake of doing this once.
We think John Kerry did so as well.
If you're going to go out there and seek indictments of people on the basis of what you've done with Scooter Libby, then this is what we're going to do at the same time.
They sit around and I am hurt.
There's a big slap in the face.
I mean, what do you expect from these people, Senator Frisk?
What do you expect?
The Democrats have been pushing a GOP around for years in the Senate.
Why expect them to change?
Why expect them to consult with you first before doing something like this?
The whole point was not consulting with you so as to gain the element of surprise and try to change the news cycle.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue in a moment.
After two hours of closed session, Pat Roberts, who is the chairman of the intelligence committee in the Senate, had this to say.
We have agreed to do what we already agreed to do, and that is to complete, as best we can, phase two of the Intelligence Committee's review of pre-war intelligence in reference to Iraq.
Seems to me it was rather convenient because it was just yesterday that our staff was working with the staff of the minority, indicating that not this week, but next week, we would spend as much time as possible, five or six days, to complete our work in regards to phase two.
And this caused Dingy Harry to go out there.
Okay, we're working on phase two, phase two.
Just like the American people don't know who Scooter Libby is, they're going, phase two, phase two, I got to go to Blockbuster.
I know what phase two is.
I'd rather watch My Name Is Earl.
What is this?
Phase two.
All this inside baseball stuff.
But you see the dirty little trick here.
Roberts went and talked to them yesterday, said we're going to have the report next week.
So the Democrats pull this stunt invoking Rule 21, so it makes it look like Roberts and the Republicans are bowing down and kissing their feet to keep them happy and moving on with the investigation, which they try to imply was stalled, which it wasn't.
Investigation is not going to show up anything differently than any other investigation has.
And in fact, I think I misspoke earlier when I said that the 9-11 Commission looked into this and cleared anybody of intelligence manipulation.
That's not the right commission.
It was the Silberman-Robb Commission, and their report came out in March of this year.
And I've got the basic summary of it here, and we'll get into that in due course.
Up next, Dingy Harry.
He then came out to the microphones after what Pat Roberts just said and claims that this stunt forced Roberts to act.
And he had just heard Roberts say, We're already working on it.
We told him early today we're going to have a report out next week on phase two.
Dingy Harry goes out and tries to make it look like his invocation of Rule 21 brought the Republicans to their knees.
After months and months of begging, cajoling, writing letters, we're finally going to be able to have phase two of the investigation regarding how the intelligence was used to lead us into the intractable war in Iraq.
There's nothing more important to a Congress or a president than war.
We're in a war now.
2,025 American soldiers are dead.
War costing us more than $2 billion a week.
I think the American people are entitled to know how we got there.
That's what this is all about.
No, it's not.
What it's all about is you guys unable to face the reality that you all voted for it, and everybody in this country knows what the war was about because the president spent 14 to 15 months trying to convince everybody of it, including the U.N. Security Council.
There's no mystery here.
This is just a veiled, pathetic attempt on the part of Democrats to flip-flop on their votes for this war as we near the election season for 2006 and 2008 because their Kook base has lost its mind over the war.
The war is the only issue that counts.
The Kook base is directing the Democratic mainstream on this.
And that's why the Kook base yesterday was so ecstatic.
They thought this is going to lead to Bush's impeachment.
This is it.
They are so-I mean, it's, I don't know how to describe it, folks.
If you would have told me 20 or 30 years ago that we would be in this situation, I would react and say the Democrats are never going to be that stupid.
They're never, ever going to be this.
The Democrats are never going to lose that kind of grip on reality.
Democrats are never, ever going to allow that to happen.
This will never happen to them.
But there's so many, they lost their media monopoly.
They lost their ability to bend and shape and control opinion.
They lost their control over the government.
They've lost everything they think their birthright lost everything they think they're entitled to.
And as I said, they got to come up with some sort of a bunch of conspiracy theories to explain it because it can't be them.
Either you're stupid or you've been blindsided by slick marketing and packaging, or the Republicans are stealing elections.
Yeah, stealing elections.
They're manipulating voter machines in Ohio, and they're not allowing black people to vote in Florida and all these crazed conspiracies to explain how something that should never be has come to pass.
We will revel in this because the Democrats are only going to sink further in it.
We will be here to document it.
Sit tight.
There's more coming.
Here's the PS de Resistance.
A reporter said, Mr. Reed, why not go and consult with a leader and say, I have an interest in this.
Consult with a leader so he stops me from going and moving on this?
What do you mean, consult with him?
What are you talking about?
That's what he had suggested that you.
He can suggest anything he wants.
Consult with him.
All they would have done is quorum call him.
We couldn't have done this.
Got to understand a little bit about procedures around here.
So, Dingy Harry losing it.
The press is not supposed to be confrontational with Dingy Harry.
It's supposed to be praising him out there.
Why didn't you consult Frist?
What do you mean?
Why did I consult Frist?
Who the hell do you think you are?
I don't have to consult Frist.
You got to learn how things happen around here.
If I consult Frist, Frist will stop me from doing it because they're the majority.
I got to do things in secret around here.
It's the only way we can get them done.
Screw you.
That's what Dingy Harry was saying.
And these are the guys that demand consultation with the president on the choice of Supreme Court nominations.
When it comes to consultations, a one-way street.
But Dingy Harry soundbite there is an indication of just how on the edge these people are.
And we're going to nudge them over the edge, I predict, by 2006.
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