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Dec. 8, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 8, 2005, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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All right, on with the news of the day.
The Islamic Army in Iraq, a so-called terrorist group, said today that it had killed a U.S. security consultant according to an internet statement.
This is a Reuters story out of Dubai.
The group said that the man was killed because the U.S. government did not fulfill its demands, which included the payment of compensation to Iraqis affected by U.S. attacks.
Now, the statement's authenticity could not be verified, and no pictures or video accompanied the statement.
It was posted on a website that's often used by Reuters as insurgents.
Reuters not allowed to use the word terrorists, but that's who this is.
This is verified, and if it's true, I just want to tell you what will come next.
The Democrats will blame torture for this.
And if we just wouldn't have tortured people at Abu Ghraib and Club Gittino and wherever else we're doing it, why this wouldn't have happened.
I just want to prepare you because that's what's coming.
Early Christmas present here for the Democrats.
Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, has released a new video.
Appears in this new video that was first released on Al Jazeera.
That's the terrorists' favorite website and network.
Zawahiri says, quote, Iraq is a catastrophe for America, and Americans will leave.
It'll only be a matter of time.
That's the early Christmas present for the Democrats at Democrat National Committee headquarters.
Because this guy, Al-Zawahiri, is in complete agreement with Howard Dean.
He is in complete agreement with Mirtha.
He is in complete agreement with Dingy Harry Reid.
He is in complete agreement with Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi.
Howard Dean, just days ago, predicted our military can't win in Iraq, trying to clarify his statements, by the way.
Now, he was cherry-picked.
He was taken out of context.
He makes a stab here at explaining what he really meant.
We'll get to that audio in mere moments.
Now, in this pre-Christmas video, Eamon Al-Zawahiri, in a gift-wrapped present to the Democratic Party, says, I say to Bush, you entered Iraq with lies, you will lose Iraq and lie about it, and you will leave with the pretext that you have completed your mission.
America only has to decide on the number of troops it wishes to lose before withdrawing.
My gosh, folks, what a bonus this is for Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Dingy Harry, Barbara Boxer, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and all the, I mean, perfect.
Right out of their playbook.
Zawahiri's obviously been listening to them.
You entered Iraq with lies.
Oh, do you know what that got to make a Democrat activist feel like today when they hear Zawahiri say that?
You will lose Iraq.
You imagine, folks, the rush that Howard Dean got when he heard Zawahiri say that.
And you will lie about losing in Iraq and you will leave with the pretext that you have completed your mission.
America only has to decide on the number of troops it wishes to lose before withdrawing, right out of the Democratic Party handbook.
I mean, it's a bonus, folks.
A bonus.
It's like two Christmas gifts in one.
Zawahiri also echoes Murtha and Nancy Pelosi's claims that we've made no progress.
He even says that we are stealing the oil from the Iraqi people, which is that's a favorite talking point of the Cindy Sheehan mob and the Michael Moore mob, the kuk fringe liberal Democrat.
Yeah, we're stealing the oil from the Iraqis.
It's their oil and we're stealing it from them.
There's something in the terrorist goodie bag for hardcore kook fringe anti-war environmentalist wackos too, according to a new book.
I mean, what a day for the Democrats.
They just have to be unable to contain their joy over this.
Osama bin Laden, the CEO of big terrorism, says that he wants America to sign the Kyoto Global Warming Accord.
Worldwide climate destruction is because of the United States, and we've got to sign Kyoto.
Osama bin Laden in bed with environmentalist wackos on the left.
Zawahiri and bin Laden in bed with the Democratic Party.
Apparently, the liberal Democrats of this country have finally found their political soulmates.
Al-Qaeda terrorists Saman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden.
You know, politics, it does make for strange, sometimes deadly bedfellows, but remember, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, is the active philosophy here with the Democrats.
And because we can't beat these guys, and they're telling us we can't beat them, and the Democrats agree, so had to be a great day.
Let's talk about this air marshal shooting to death a passenger down in Miami yesterday.
But we'll do that after the break because I got a little, I want to go a little different way on this for what you may have heard so far discussed.
Remember the phone number is 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
Other shocking news, by the way, out there today.
In Charter School in New York, run by the United Federation of Teachers, first graders have been made to clean a bathroom.
They made a mess of the bathroom.
The first graders have been made to clean it up.
This is cruel and unusual punishment.
Meet it out to kids.
I'll have the, well, I'm just telling you, I say so.
I say it's cruel.
You don't treat kids.
They don't make kids clean up the...
Let me tell you a little story.
Saturday afternoon.
Saturday afternoon, Saturday, I'm at George Brett's house in Kansas City.
We're getting ready to go to Stroud's.
We're sitting in there watching UCLA USC.
I look and outside the front door goes one of George's kids, one of his sons.
I think it was Jackson.
Had this giant trash bag hanging over his shoulder.
And I stared at that.
I haven't seen a kid with a trash bag in 40 years.
So I looked at George and says, is he taking out the trash?
Yeah.
My gosh, take a picture of that so I can remember it.
I haven't seen a kid take out the trash in 40 years.
And now kids are being made to clean the bathroom at this charter school.
This is going to scar them for life.
This is going to make these kids feel they're worthless.
Well, they messed it up, but that's the point.
The janitors are supposed to come clean.
These kids are not supposed to have.
This is demeaning to make these kids.
We'll talk about it.
All kinds of other exciting little things out there today, folks.
Oh, the CBS New York Times poll.
Bush's numbers are up on the economy.
And the press is leaving out one of the great contradictions in this poll about the war in Iraq.
We'll get to all that, plus much more, right after this, here on the EIB Network.
Stay with us.
All right, you asked for it.
You asked for it.
Here you go.
People don't want to wait for this story.
A charter school.
It's in the New York Sun today.
A charter school run by the United Federation of Teachers has hired a new consultant this week after the principal raised the ire of parents by allegedly ordering a group of first graders to clean up human waste in the bathroom.
The president of the teachers union, Randy Weingarten, apologized to parents at the school in the East New York section of Brooklyn.
On Tuesday night, the first year principal, Rita Dannis, also told a group of about two dozen parents that she was sorry.
Last month, Ms. Dannis instructed four first-grade boys to tidy up the bathroom after she found them mucking it up.
Two of the boys went home and allegedly told their parents they had been forced to clean up feces.
This is not something a six-year-old should go through.
The mother of one of the boys allegedly involved in the incident told NBC TV reporter before the Tuesday meeting.
Her six-year-old son said, when I was asked to do it, I felt a little unhappy.
Another parent said the incident had brought down her son's self-esteem.
There's only one word for this, and this is, it's torture.
This is torture, folks.
This is undignified treatment.
So these kids, they're just children.
They're just children.
So they muck up the bathroom with feces on the floor and on the walls.
And the school makes them clean it up?
What are these rotten school people thinking?
Where have they been during sensitivity training classes?
Next thing you know, the school's probably going to make these kids put their underwear on their head and really make them feel embarrassed.
Of course, don't knock that if you haven't tried it, folks.
I mean, our school just says this is an outrage, folks.
It's absolute outrage.
Our school children deserve at least as good a treatment and legal protections as terrorists, don't you think?
I mean, this is it.
We ought to be apologizing to the people at Abu Ghrab.
This is the lesson here.
Mr. Snerdley, it's a good thing you're not a parent.
Snurdley just said to me, these kids deserve to clean up bathrooms for a month because of this.
It's a good thing you don't have a kid that's young anymore.
It's a good thing your kid's grown up now.
You would scar that kid for life.
You would ruin that kid's future by me.
Clean up feces, clean it.
Six years old, first grade.
Whatever.
It's theirs.
Own it.
It's not theirs.
They're children.
They don't know anybody.
We're concerned about their self-esteem.
Well, here's, here's, oh, spank.
Now you're really talking torture.
You are brutal.
You are unbelievable to me.
Spank these kids.
Spank these kids.
Next thing you know, you're going to be saying send them to jail.
Next thing you know, you're going to be, well, not jail, but to the corner with their chairs turned around, maybe a little detention.
Well, you're so out of touch, I can't believe it.
I can't believe it.
This is an outrage what went on in this school.
The school, publicly funded but operated by the union, disciplined the principal and explained that she shouldn't have made the students clean the bathroom.
She also was disciplined for failing to report the incident to the Scruel's Board of Trustees until November 22nd.
That's about two weeks after this sordid tale took place.
The school leader, who is an exemplary instructional leader, made two errors in judgment for which the school is taking responsibility and for which she has been disciplined, said the union chieftain Randy Weingarten.
She said she ordered an investigation immediately after learning about this incident.
And that investigation is still going on, folks.
They're still looking into this.
They're leaving no unturned to find out every precious little detail they can about this incident and this mess.
Ms. Weingarten said, we may never learn exactly what happened.
We think what happened is there were paper towels strewn in the boys' bathroom.
Some people think there was something under the paper towels.
Some people think there wasn't.
But the bottom line is we'll never know.
Next thing you're going to tell me, Snurdley, is that their noses should have been rubbed in it.
Well, okay, Lee, you're not going to go that far.
At least, well, we found your limit.
We at least found your limit on barbarism and torture.
All right.
You asked it all about this, and there you have it.
Let's move on now to the incident in Miami yesterday.
I have a montage here, folks.
Security experts, press commentary.
As the news was breaking yesterday, this is before anybody had the benefit of hindsight.
And the universal opinion was that these air marshals had no choice, especially after 9-11.
Now, that's key.
Everybody that you're going to hear on this montage is talking before all was known.
This is before hindsight, before they had a chance to go back and revise their remarks.
And most of these people you will hear say that the right thing happened based on the information present.
The man said he had a bomb.
He refused to allow inspections.
He acted wacko.
He was warned repeatedly.
Still acted threatening.
And the air marshal did not want to take a chance that he's harmless, not after 9-11.
No way.
I want to ask you if that scenario sounds familiar to you in any way.
Hear first, the montage.
This passenger said that he had a bomb after being told not to.
He reached into the bag.
Then it seems to me that the air marshals did the right thing based on everything we know now, that the air marshals did exactly the right thing.
They have to be on hair trigger alert under 9-11 circumstances like these.
But that was exactly the right thing to do, whether they had a bomb or not.
You can't afford the risk of somebody going into a terminal or a plane exploding the bomb.
So the air marshal was completely proper and did a good job.
The gentleman said he had a bomb in the bag.
He was reaching in, and you don't know whether or not he was going to detonate that bomb.
They took the appropriate action.
Somebody who was mentally deranged.
In terms of security, you have to take every threat as being potentially real, correct?
Absolutely.
You know, even ones that look like they're crackpot threats, we don't have any choice because, you know, maybe if this had happened on 9-11, there wouldn't have been a 9-11.
All right.
So these were comments.
And we had CNN security analyst Clark Kent Irvin, FAA agent Steve Elson, Air Marshal spokesman Dave Adams, PMS NBC's Allison Stewart, and president of the Boyd Aviation Security Group, Michael Boyd.
Those were the voices you heard.
All of those comments made without the benefit of hindsight.
Just the facts that the Air Marshal had.
You've got a deranged and strange acting person.
And his wife is, she's kind of strange acting too.
She's nervous and twitching around.
And this guy claims he's got a bomb.
And then he's all agitated.
He refuses all efforts to be subdued and to open his bag and to let people look in it.
So the air marshal did what he did.
Now, after the mental status of this guy is known, and people say, oh, this is so powerful.
And you're going to hear some people say, it was too hasty.
This action was too hasty.
It needn't have happened.
Let's go back to September 2nd, 2004, RNC convention, President Bush.
We know that September the 11th requires our country to think differently.
We must and we will confront threats to America before it is too late.
In Saddam Hussein, we saw a threat.
After more than a decade of diplomacy, we gave Saddam Hussein another chance, a final chance, to meet his responsibilities to the civilized world.
He again refused.
And I faced the kind of decision that comes only to the Oval Office.
A decision no president would ask for, but must be prepared to make.
Do I forget the lessons of September the 11th and take the word of a madman?
Or do I take action to defend our country faced with that choice?
I will defend America every time.
Much the same scenario on a far more localized scale took place in Miami yesterday.
And Cookie put this together.
It's a great, great contrast.
It's a great perspective on this and a tremendous way to analogize this.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue in just a moment.
Stay with us.
Remember, it is Brooklyn.
It is New York.
Only in some blue city.
Your kid goes to school, makes a number two mess all over the bathroom with some buddies.
The school apologizes to you.
Then they go out and hire a consultant.
They go hire a consultant to investigate what happened.
And they end up apologizing to everybody.
And the kids, oh, these poor kids, oh, that was humiliating.
It was they're worried about their self-esteem and so forth.
I want to know, somebody tell me, where did this notion that we have to clean up after ourselves begin anyway?
It's so, I can't remember.
It's such a old-fashioned custom here, and it's obviously what's at the heart of the McCain Amendment, by the way.
The McCain Amendment, which seeks to do away with any kind of torture like this, cleaning up your own messes, it prohibits cruel, humiliating, and degrading treatment of unlawful enemy combatants, meaning terrorists.
Well, this bathroom situation, it's cruel, humiliating, and degrading treatment for these kids to have to clean up their own feces.
Wonder what the French would think of this.
You know, this is why they hate us over in Europe because we are so backwards, folks.
Don't understand why this is a controversy.
As far as this guy down in Florida, some people emailing says, I would have shot the guy for delay on the flight.
So air travel out there gets the blood boiling.
Here's Mike in Atlanta.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi there, Rush.
It's an honor to talk with you, O Maha Rushi.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to talk about the man who was shot by the air marshals yesterday.
I have a couple of questions.
First, how long do you think it will take for the liberals and the liberal media to blame it on President Bush somehow?
And how do you think they'll spin it that way?
What'll be the modus operandi for doing that?
Well, I think the first thing I said is that I think that this might materialize or manifest itself in a connection to torture.
Democrats, the liberals will say this is an outgrowth of our inhumane treatment based on the documented cases of torture.
Then we will look into the training exercises and the specifics of air marshals.
Have you heard any liberal doing this yet?
No, not yet, but I see the leanings toward it.
Like you were saying earlier, how they initially were saying the air marshals did everything right, and now they're all second-guessing that.
Yeah, the second-guessing is beginning, and the root of the second-guessing is going to be compassion.
Ah, he was mentally disturbed.
He was bipolar.
That manic depressive, and he didn't have his medication.
And couldn't there have been a little more restraint?
And if possible, this episode will be stored away.
The Democrats will store it away and use it somewhere down the line.
Let's just wait till it happens.
I mean, it's one thing to predict it, but let's wait till it happens.
The odds are pretty good that somewhere down the line, somebody will break ranks on this and try to end up blaming it on our policy, the Bush administration policy.
By the way, speaking of messes, folks, I just, Brian, who keeps up with this kind of news, just sent this to me.
Well, wait a minute.
What did I have?
What did I just had it right here?
Oh, let me print it out real quick so I can.
I know I printed it out, but I don't know what I did with it.
This one that frustrates me.
I've got so many stacks of paper in here that sometimes when I start adding to it after the program's begun, sometimes it all gets jumbled up.
Here's the news.
This is from Malta.
It's not from America yet, but it's from Malta.
Brian reads Maltese websites regularly.
Regulations to control horse dung in the streets by forcing horse owners to tie bags under the horses, i.e., horse diapers, constitutes cruelty to animals.
According to a Maltese court, the bags, popularly known as nappies, were ordered under 2002 regulations to stop the horses from fouling the streets, but the owners never enforced them.
60 of them took the government to court.
A magistrate found that the diapers to breach the Animal Welfare Act after the vets explained that a horse's tail had to be kept free to swat flies.
The practice of putting diapers on horses is also used in other European cities where horses pull carriages for tourists.
So let me tell you something.
Well, horses can't clean up after themselves.
You can't make anybody else clean up after them.
So, you know, the movement here is worldwide.
Apparently, there's nothing anybody can do, but I just wanted to fill you in on that because you never know when things start in Europe, Democrats read about it.
Whoa, that is advanced.
That is forward-thinking.
That's enlightened.
And wait till the PETA gang in this country gets hold of this.
And those of you driving around behind the horses in Central Park.
Matt in Grand Rapids, welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Anytime, sir.
Hey, you have helped me think, and I swerved into something just a moment ago.
And correct me if I'm wrong.
If I'm a Democrat, then my position would be that that marshal had no right to shoot that man yesterday because he had nothing to do with 9-11.
Well, I mean, for a host of reasons.
They had no reason to shoot him because law enforcement is too brutal and nobody should ever be shot.
No right to shoot him because he had not been proved to be a criminal.
No right to shoot him because he's disadvantaged.
No right to shoot him for a whole host of reasons.
That's just one to throw in the hopper.
He's got no link to 9-11.
There's no link to 9-11.
What do you mean?
We keep citing 9-11.
You ain't getting no link to - that's an excellent observation on your part.
Thank you.
And the Supreme Court, by the way, has, well, they have ruled against executing the mentally ill.
They have done that.
But there are circumstances, if the mentally ill are aware what's happening to them, there's some stipulation here.
But as you see, there are several potential opportunities here for the Democrats to glom onto this, for the left to glom onto this and try to claim that it's some kind of outgrowth of our horrible, torturous policy that has dehumanized our whole society following 9-11.
Beth in Jacksonville, Florida, you're next.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Nice to speak to you.
It's a pleasure.
Thank you very much.
Before I say what I want to say about the air marshal, I do want to tell you that I saw the best t-shirt I have ever seen the other day.
On the front, it said, got freedom.
And then on the back, it said, courtesy of the U.S. Navy.
And love.
I love.
I'd rank that right up there with our club Gitmo gear.
Exactly.
That's wonderful.
But what I wanted to say is that the man should have been shot.
Forget that.
I mean, that should, to me, is a foregone conclusion.
But I'm bipolar.
Hold it, hold it, hold it, ho, ho, ho.
Now, you have to understand something.
There's some people in this audience who I'm sure probably agree, but they're not as nearly as they don't have the ontological certitude that you do.
Could you tell and share with everybody why that's a no-brainer to you?
One of the reasons that it's a no-brainer is that I wear Birkenstocks.
They have metal in them.
When I go through the metal detector, they make me take my Birkenstocks off when I go into the airplane.
This man stood up and said, I have a bomb.
If I have to take my Birkenstocks off to go into a plane, and I'm completely willing to do that, and this man's threatening everybody on the plane, shoot him dead.
Shoot him dead.
That is just, we're at 9-11 all over again.
That's right.
We're not going to have that again.
This is the whole point of having the air marshals.
This is the whole point of having security at the airports.
This is the whole point.
You deal with it this way.
I just, you know, I just, some people, I'm sure, you know, begrudgingly admit it's the right thing to do, but they might think, eh, I don't want to say it so certainly.
And I wanted people to hear why you thought so critically about this.
Afterwards, they're going to say, and what makes me really mad is that they're going to say, oh, this man was bipolar and he wasn't taking his medication.
Rush, I am bipolar.
I have been diagnosed.
I have been bipolar for 12 years.
I take my medication every day.
If I didn't, I might be a threat to society.
This man was not taking his medication.
That should not be any kind of excuse whatsoever.
Well, what should have happened in this case is if he didn't have it with him and somehow he had left it down in Columbia when he got it.
Well, I don't know if an American said if he left it at home or if it was in his bag and it was in baggage compartment of the airplane, his wife or somebody had a duty to go tell the airline officials about this.
But even at that, even at that, that could have still been a ruse and still been a trick.
Once the guy says, I have a bomb, you can't take the chance, not in this era.
You just can't do it.
We'll wait and see how this is exploited.
But remember the sound bites that we played for you here right before the conclusion of the first half hour.
It's exactly what we were faced with in Iraq, the much grander scale, of course.
But this is precisely what we were faced with.
We had a guy say, I got bombs and I'm working to get more.
And we gave, in fact, this guy, we gave Saddam Hussein all kinds of time.
We gave him 14 months to suggest that he didn't and to prove that he didn't.
And he just laughed at us and he thumbed his nose at us.
And in a circumstance like that, it is pretty analogous here to what happened in Miami yesterday.
This is one individual at an airport in the United States.
The other one was a whole country with which we have had previous squabbles, have had to go to war once.
We've had intelligence from all over the world that the man was attempting to amass further armaments, mass destruction.
It used them on his own people.
So I think it's a great analogy to illustrate exactly what we had to do in dealing with Iraq.
Quick timeout, back with more after this.
Welcome back, folks.
The all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned.
Maha Rushi.
Here during the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
America's seniors, seasoned citizens, if you will, and America's disabled cannot escape debts from old student loans.
The support Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
This frees the government to pursue Social Security benefits as part of an effort to collect billions in delinquent loans.
The Bush administration had argued that the ability to withhold Social Security benefits is an important tool in the pursuit of $5.7 billion in student loan debt that is over 10 years old.
It was a unanimous decision.
It went against a disabled 67-year-old Seattle man who lives in public housing.
He had sued, claiming he needed all of his $874 monthly check to pay for food and medicine.
James Lockhart's benefits have been cut by 15% to cover debts he incurred for college in the 1980s.
He has about $77,000 in unpaid loans.
Essentially, what you have here is the Supreme Court of the United States has just unanimously allowed garnishing Social Security payments to pay off student loans.
You know who wrote the majority ruling?
You know who wrote the ruling?
Take a guess.
No, Judge Robertson.
Sandra Day O'Connor, Sandra Day O'Connor wrote this one.
Great moderate.
The great swing vote.
Here's Linda in Washington.
Linda, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
First time caller, longtime listener from D.C. Thanks, Rich.
It's great to have you on the program with us.
I'm glad you're here.
Thank you.
You asked if I had heard a liberal defend or question the shooting of the marshal, and I did.
I knew I could count on Katie Couric this morning.
What'd she say?
She went after a marshal that she had on the show interviewing him about how marshals respond to incidents on planes.
And she said, now, don't you think maybe they could be taught to shoot maybe a limb or a warning shot or something to delay having to kill someone?
And I knew I could count on her.
When I heard this yesterday, I knew there would be somebody in the news that would question the whole episode.
What did the marshal say?
What did the marshal say?
No, he absolutely said you don't have time to think about that.
You've got people all around.
If you shot a warning shot, you put other innocent lives in jeopardy.
And she had no comeback for that.
But I bet you could get a good soundbite from her.
Well, we're going to wait for some more of these.
I said, that's the rippling indication.
The first implication that let me just put it this way, folks.
You know me.
I know liberals.
I know liberals like every square inch of my Gloria's naked body.
And I am telling you that somewhere in Washington, D.C., or in some other liberal enclave, behind closed doors, they are focus grouping this.
They are polling this.
And they are looking for a way to exploit this so that they can turn this around and blame the Bush administration.
Mark my word, they may not come up with anything based on their focus grouping, but they're trying.
There's not an event in this country that doesn't happen that they don't try to politicize to their advantage.
Why, Dingy Harry said as much just the other day in the Washington Post story.
He wants the flexibility to take Iraqi news day by day and craft a new position every day based on the news in order to establish the Democrats' position.
Everything is about them.
Everything is an opportunity to them.
And so they are crafting where they're probably reading their kook fringe left websites right now looking for ideas, which is where a lot of their real ideas come from.
Michael in Whippany, New Jersey, you're next, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you, Rush.
Mega Dittos from a listener who's been with you since your New York City-only days.
Well, that would be 1988.
Yes, a long time ago.
The news cycle is short, and I wanted to see if you believe, like I do, that the president and conservative members of Congress should make a positive example of this air marshal and reward him.
Give him something like the Congressional Medal of Freedom.
Give him a reward.
Promote him.
Do something to make a note of this person who's really helped to make our land theory.
I don't think giving a medal is going a bit far.
What you're saying is get out in front of this.
Get out in front of it and do something to preempt any reaction the Dems might have so that then you're on defense if you're reacting to what the Dems say.
And I can understand what you're saying, but at this point, you know, the action speaks for itself.
And for there to be public praise and thanks with a ceremony would add to the things that Democrats are able to target.
For example, you can say, all right, we understand it's one thing in their focus group questions of people.
We understand the necessity to not have to take a chance.
But do you think it was appropriate for the president to brag?
Or something like that.
And they did come up with something.
So it's a close call here.
I understand exactly what you're thinking, though.
Quick time out.
Much more to go.
Presidential polls, New York Times CBS poll.
Actually, very good for the president.
And the reporting is leaving out one of the key contradictions in this poll.
Also, interesting information, update on taxes and tax cuts.
Three new tax cuts authored by the House, but a current tax cut, which needs to be extended, the capital gains tax rate at 15%.
There's a vote on maintaining it today, and it's going to be a little too close to call for some people's comfort details.
And all these things, plus more coming right up, don't go away.
Okay, the first hour is already over.
The fastest three hours in media, it's in the can.
A brief break.
We'll be back and roll right on.
Look forward to seeing you then, folks.
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