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Jan. 9, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 9, 2006, Monday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, my good buddies, good friends.
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Ladies and gentlemen, let me be honest with you about something here.
I feel the need to apologize for this program today.
I'm not going to make any excuses, but I just, I don't feel like this program is up to the usual standards today.
And this bothers me.
I mean, I come in here each and every day hoping to meet and surpass expectations of the audience on a daily basis.
And I just don't think I've done it today.
And one of the two main reasons, I still have not shaken what turns out to be a bad bronchial infection that I've had since last week that I thought was the flu because there was fever where there wasn't the flu.
So I finally relented.
I got hold of a doctor, name not going to be mentioned here for his privacy's sake.
And I got one of those Z-Packs.
So I started taking that today.
He said antibiotics.
As a result, over the weekend, I literally could not concentrate.
And so I didn't spend a whole lot of time as I usually do on the weekends doing show prep.
At the same time, if I can be honest, and I don't know any other way to be, these hearings just bore the heck out of me today.
It's nothing new.
It's so predictable.
I just, I feel like I'm not doing my job if I say, well, how many times have I told you about Ted Kennedy?
It's no mystery to people in this audience who he is, what he's saying, the subterfuges and techniques that he uses.
And yet I feel compelled to do it nevertheless because there are, I know some of you have expectations of hearing that.
In addition, there are new people tuning in each and every minute on this program all over the world.
And so I've almost, I've felt compelled to talk about something I really have not much interest in, and these hearings.
And, well, I mean, it's not that I don't have interest in the outcome.
It's just today.
This is just the opening statements.
This is just a bunch of huffing and puffing.
And we're going to blow the house.
It's a bunch of lying.
I just, folks, I can't.
One of the things that rubs me wrong, I mean, the roughest, the toughest to deal with in the human character is condescension and arrogance.
Arrogant and pathological lying.
People know they're lying, but they don't care because as long as they believe it, they think it's true.
And that's, I don't care whether it's Schumer, I don't care whether it's Ted Kennedy.
I don't care whether Dick Durbin.
These people are reprobates as far as I'm concerned.
And to sit here and have to dissect what they're saying and point out, it's, I don't know.
I tried to do a little cramming this morning to come in and give you some information of what I thought they would say about Alito with some of these claims about his 85 job application and his membership in this little group at Princeton.
And so far I've been right.
That's been the primary area that they've been hitting the guy.
But if this program has not seemed up to its usual snuff, so to speak, today, then I apologize.
And I, what, what?
What?
What?
Well, Snerdley says the only thing missing today is football.
Well, you know, I was 50-50.
I blew the Giants and the Panthers and I blew the Redskins and the Bucs.
But I got the other two.
I got the Steelers right and I got the Patriots right.
And what else is there to say?
I mean, I guess the most controversial game would be the Steelers and the Bengals.
But I, well, if time permits as the hour unfolds, well, I want to talk about football.
I want to talk about Joe Paterno, though.
Joe Paterno, who's one of my all-time favorite guys, Joe Paterno once asked me to autograph my first book to him.
I've never met Joe Paterno, but it was somebody sent it to me with a note saying he would appreciate it if I would sign it, send it back, so we did.
And I've always have admired Coach Paterno.
A story yesterday from Penn State, a leader from, I'm just going to read this, what's this, a Newsday story, actually, AP, a leader from the women's rights group now, affectionately known here as the NAGS, the National Association of Gals, has asked Joe Paterno to resign over comments that he made about an alleged sexual assault.
Joan Tosti-Vasey, president of the NAGS in Pennsylvania, said yesterday she was appalled by Paterno's comments last week and that they represent an institutional insensitivity that endangers women.
Paterno's remarks came a day after the Orange Bowl when a reporter asked about Florida State linebacker A.J. Nicholson, who was accused of sexual assault earlier in the week, well, the week before and sent home before Tuesday's game.
Paterno replied by talking about past suspensions of Penn State players.
This is what he said.
There's some tough, you know, there's so many people gravitating to these kids.
This Nicholson kid, he may not have even known what he was getting into.
They knock on that door.
Somebody may knock on the door.
Cute girl knocks on the door.
What do you do?
Geez, I hope, thank God they don't knock on my door because I'd refer them to a couple of other rooms, Paterno said.
But that's too bad.
You hate to see that.
I really do.
You like to see a kid end up his football career.
He's a heck of a football player, by the way.
He's a really good football player.
It's just too bad.
Now, the story involving this Nicholson guys, I understand it is that it was like 3 o'clock in the morning and there was a girl in his room, in a hotel room down in Miami, where Florida State's headquarter hotel was.
And this girl, who was an acquaintance of his, knew him from the past, I think was a student at FSU at some point, but it's not now.
After the encounter at 3 in the morning, went to the cops and filed a report about assault or some such thing.
And then Nicholson went down to the police station and talked without any lawyers being present.
He went down and cooperated fully, and Florida State suspended him for the game.
Now, I don't know anymore.
I don't know what the specific allegations were, and I don't know what he said to the cops.
I just know that he went down there.
And after he did so, a lot of people said, who in the world at that school let this guy go down there and talk to the cops without a lawyer?
Who did this?
So that's what the questions were about that the Paterno got.
And he basically said, hey, look, you got this kid.
It's three in the morning.
And a girl knocks at the door.
What would you do?
Now, Joe Paterno's close to 80.
He's 78, 79, 80 years old, something like that.
Now, there are just are generational differences here.
I don't know if the girl knocked on his room at three in the morning or if he took her to her room.
I don't know the details of this.
But the way Coach Paterno said it, hey, girl knocks on your door.
If he knocked on my door, in fact, I have to send her to a couple other rooms.
And I'm implying he's not worth much to some girl at three in the morning anymore.
He said he hates to see a kid's career end this way.
A kid's a good football player and so forth.
But this is one of those things.
The accusation apparently is true according to the NAGS.
Whatever this young woman says happened.
And so there's no question about it.
We don't really know what happened, but Paterno did say, well, you never know.
You don't know how women chase these kids.
You don't know how people chase these kids.
Somebody may knock on a door.
Cute girl knocks on the door.
What do you do?
Now, he's speaking for normal, red-blooded American 19- and 20-year-old folks and older than that.
It's a fantasy.
It's a fifth three o'clock.
The doorbell rings.
You open a door and there's some Playboy model.
Whoa, when does my ship come in and I'm not at the airport?
This is my lucky day.
Especially when you know the girl.
When you know the girl.
This is just, this is just, but see, we're supposed to be sensitive.
He's supposed to say, it's 3 in the o'clock in the morning and I'm here playing football and you need to scram.
I am in training, so forth.
All kinds of questions.
Where's the security?
Where's Penn State security?
You usually have people on every floor.
Oh, sure.
They've got security people on.
You damn right keep gamblers away.
But one thing, Paterno's right.
You don't know who's trying to reach these players for a big game like this.
They've got security on every floor.
They've got bed check and this sort of thing.
This is a college football team.
This is not pretty.
And professional football teams travel with security, too.
You just never hear about it, but they've got, I don't know if they still plant them on every floor, but they do.
Now, the NAGS babe in Pennsylvania issued a news release calling for Paterno to apologize and stepped down from the post that he's held for 40 years.
She sent an email to Paterno and the university president the next day, but said Sunday she hadn't heard back from either of them.
Allegations of sexual assault should never be taken lightly, the statement reads.
Making light of sexual assault sends the message that rape is something to be accepted and expected.
Oh, did she allege rape?
Oh, I didn't know that.
She alleged she had been raped.
Sexually assault.
Okay.
Penn State spokesman Bill Mann on Sunday said that Paterno's comments were taken out of context.
A spokeswoman at the NAGS headquarters in Washington said that the NAGS president Kim Gamdy supports the call for Paterno's resignation.
Guido DeLia, the communications director for Penn State football, said that Paterno made his remarks in the larger context of distractions in the bowl game environment.
Nor did he say that Paterno intend to make light of the assault allegations.
Last year, by the way, former Penn State women's basketball player Jennifer Harris started a discrimination complaint against the coach Renee Portland, claiming she was harassed by the coach to change her appearance because she wasn't feminine enough.
So, quick timeout here, folks, as you mull all that.
That's right.
This same place it wouldn't take Juanita Broderick's phone calls.
Penn State, yes.
Exactly right.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
And we are back.
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Greg and Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
I wanted to make a comment quick on the Joe Paterno situation.
Back at the end of the 2002 season, he had a player who, I guess, kind of slipped under the radar.
He never told Paterno he was accused of sexual assault.
And I think the NAGS got on him back in January of 03 for allowing him to play.
And they ended up suspending him.
And then eventually he was acquitted.
So I think what Paterno more or less was saying was: but there's a lot of allegations that come against these kids, too.
You know, let the situation play out first.
Yeah.
Well, look, I understand that.
The problem in this case is this Florida State player apparently has, shall we say, other similar encounters on his record from what I've been able to gather.
And I don't know much about this, but I don't think this is a first-time accusation in his case.
What upsets the NAGs is that Paterno basically sanctioned the notion that if you're minding your own business, as you're a young kid in the hotel room at three in the morning, the door rings, doorbell rings, and there's a pretty girl there.
Let her in.
What would you do?
I mean, the normal red-blooded American response is, hey, babe, got me Miller Light.
You know, whatever.
And the NAGs find that is close to sanctioning this kind of behavior.
I just think it's a generational thing.
I don't know Joe Paterno, but I can't imagine he's in favor of sexual harassment, which is what the NAGs are trying to make his comment out to be.
You know, the NAGs are the same people.
I mean, Juanita Broderick tried to alert them of the rape allegation of Bill Clinton.
They couldn't have cared less.
Paula Jones, the NAGs couldn't have cared less about Paula Jones.
In fact, they didn't want anything to do with Paula Jones because she was trailer trash.
The thing nobody wants to admit about the NAGs is that they are an elitist class organization.
They are uppity elitist liberal women.
And if you're not, then they're really not interested in you.
And especially if your allegations concern an elitist liberal guy, they're going to just ignore you as quickly as they possibly can.
Clinton had multiple allegations against him, too.
It didn't bother him.
It didn't bother the NAGs on this.
It didn't bother Clinton either.
Clinton, it's a resume enhancement.
More allegations, the better.
The more rumored girlfriends, the better.
The more he's said to be dating other people in his wife.
Great resume enhancement for Clinton there.
Horn dog in chief.
He loves it.
But there's so much hypocrisy here.
The idea that Paterno's comments sanction sexual harassment is, I think, a bit of a stretch.
Penn State, as I mentioned, last year they also had this, they had another discrimination complaint file against the basketball coach, the women's basketball coach, Jennifer Harris.
Well, the coach is Renee Portland, but a women's basketball player at Penn State, Jennifer Harris, started a discrimination complaint against the coach, Renee Portland, claiming that she was harassed by the coach to change her appearance because she wasn't feminine enough.
I think they started allegations that the basketball, the women's basketball coach, is homophobic.
And this is, you know, this is a Penn State, if you know it or not, just a fine, fine, liberal institution, folks.
It's just hard to imagine these kinds of things happening there.
But there you have it.
Here's Brian in Pontevedra, Florida.
You're next, sir.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, thanks, Rich.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I just wanted to say, I am so tired of hearing people like Ted Kennedy talk about the division in America, a divided America along the lines of race and economics and financial as far as money.
Like he's one of the poor.
And in 40 years, he hasn't done anything to elevate anyone from the poor.
He hasn't done anything, if you look at the record, to create a unified America.
In fact, everything he's done has caused division in America.
And his whole policy is to keep that division out there.
So you think that America is divided.
Well, this is, I think, look, I agree with you.
It's just this whole class envy thing is so old hat, and it's not been demonstrated to work in real recent times.
And it just is old and hackneyed.
It's worn out and it's tired, particularly when you look at the irony of the hypocritical nature of it on Senator Kennedy's part, as you've pointed out.
Here is a guy who, by virtue of his belief in liberalism, believes in keeping people poor, believes that there are some people who don't have what it takes to escape the bonds of poverty in this country.
And here's a man who's got all the money in the world, has had from the moment he was born, and yet typically, as a liberal, wants to take everybody else's money to give it away to other people.
This Peter Schweiker had a great book.
We interviewed him in the Limball Letter, and he points out all of the hypocrisy on the left.
Now, we find that Bill Dela Hunt, congressman from Massachusetts, went down to meet Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to persuade Hugo Chavez to give away cheap heating oil to customers, poor customers in the Northeast and the upper Midwest this winter.
And Chavez, of course, agreed to do it because it's a great PR thing.
And of course, he's been lauded as this great man of the people, cares about the poor more than George W. Bush does.
Well, you find out reading Peter Schweiker's book that Ted Kennedy's family owns oil companies.
They own oil wells.
They are fully prepared and able to offer the same kind of deal to people, but do they step forward and do it?
No.
We also find, by the way, I mentioned to you that it wouldn't be long before Peter Paul and Mary would host Hugo Chavez on a sunglass shopping spree in New York.
It gets better than that.
Harry Belafonte.
Harry Belafonte has praised Hugo Chavez as a great patriot, a great libertarian, and called George Bush the world's number one terrorist.
And he's standing next to Hugo Chavez making the statement.
Now, we all know what Harry Belafonte believes, and we know on what side of the aisle Harry Belafonte's views fall.
That's why the whole discussion here about class envy and class warfare, the Dow just surpassed 11,000 today.
More Americans than ever before are invested in the stock market.
The bad thing about the Democrats' class envy is that they have the one, the one thing that still lingers, the residue of all this, is guilt.
Even when people in this country prosper, they have been made to feel guilty because they have been made to feel that they're the only ones who are, and that their friends and neighbors in town and around the country are not prospering.
And it's horrible.
So they feel guilty about it.
And that's something that still has to be dealt with, too.
But I'm like you.
I'm just sick of Ted Kennedy.
I'm sick of hearing him.
I'm sick of looking at him.
I'm sick of listening to him.
I'm sick of it.
That's what we do here, folks.
We think about things, sometimes thinking for you.
We make the complex understandable.
All right.
I don't know where this piece comes from.
I've found this over the weekend, but I can't tell you where it came from.
The author, the writer is Sarah Hall.
It could be AP.
Doesn't matter where it's from.
Here's how it starts.
For the most part, the critics agree that Broke Back Mountain is one of the year's most commendable films.
What do you mean, for the most part, the critics?
Well, I guess that's true.
But then there's Gene Shallot.
The veteran today show critic has been taken to task by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Criticism over his negative review of the Gay Cowboy Western, in which he referred to Jake Gillenhall's character Jack as a sexual predator who tracks Annis down and coaxes him into sporadic trysts.
The Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Criticism claimed that Shallett's statements delivered during his segment on the Today Show Thursday promoted defamatory anti-gay prejudice to a national audience, criticized NBC News for providing the eccentric critic with a platform from which to air his views.
Shallot's bizarre characterization of Jack as a predator and Ennis as a victim reflects a fundamental lack of understanding about the central relationship of the film and about gay relationships in general, said the Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Criticism in a statement.
They demanded an apology from both Shallet and NBC News.
Shallot has every right as a film critic to criticize the movie, The Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Criticism, said, but his baseless branding of Jack as a sexual predator merely because he's romantically interested in someone of the same sex is defamatory, it's ignorant, and it's irresponsible.
That's from e-online.
The most surprising thing about this to me is that Gene Shallett's still alive.
I didn't know that Gene Shallett was still alive.
Try this.
A mouse.
A mouse got its revenge against a homeowner who tried to dispose of it in a pile of burning leaves.
The blazing creature ran back into the man's house and set it on fire.
Try telling this to your insurance company.
Luciano Mares, 81 of Fort Sumner, New Mexico, said that he caught the mouse inside his house and wanted to get rid of it.
I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw the mouse in the fire.
The mouse was on fire.
It ran back in the house.
He said this from a motel room on Saturday.
Village fire chief Juan Chavez said the burning mouse ran to just beneath the window, and the flames spread up from there and throughout the house.
Nobody was hurt inside, but the home and everything in it was destroyed.
How many of you just, you know, I've been through this, folks.
This is not how you dispose of mice.
This is not, I've done this.
Let me give you a quick, short review of the best way to do that.
I got my first house in Sacramento, California.
Have you heard this story, Dawn?
When I got my first house, it was model how I got the model in this little development out there.
And to me, it was my castle.
It was pristine.
It was clean.
I just loved it.
And not long after moving in, I'm in the kitchen and I hear this thump, thump, thump, and I can't figure out what it is.
So I went around the house trying to locate where it was coming from.
And I finally went into the utility room, the laundry room, and I hear the thump, and it's louder than it can be.
I know, oh, this is where it is.
So I'll open the washer and dryer, nothing in there.
Look underneath them, beside them, nothing in there.
And I finally, the last place I looked was the trash can.
And I didn't have a trash bag in this trash can.
I had not lied.
It was just a plastic, well, it was plastic kitchen grab all things.
And I looked in, and there's this mouse in it, and it's trying to jump out.
And that's the thumping.
It's jumping up, falling down, hitting the bottom, jumping up.
And I said, well, my God, what am I going to do with this?
Because, you know, they don't travel alone.
You got one mouse in your house.
There's probably a bunch more hiding out somewhere.
And I cannot explain this.
I can't explain why.
Well, I can.
The first thing, I went and grabbed a can of Pam, the oil that you spray on to keep things from sticking.
And I sprayed the side of that trash can so that that mouse couldn't get any traction and jump out of it.
I wanted it to be slipping every time it tried to jump because the thumping was driving me crazy.
Then I said, I'm going to spray the mouse.
So I got that pamp shh and I sprayed the mouse with it.
And I thought this stuff, I don't know.
Well, it ended up the mouse loved it.
I mean, it's vegetable oil.
The mouth started licking itself, trying to eat up all this vegetable oil.
So I said, well, this is not working because my whole point here was to trap the mouse and have it die because I was overloading it with fat.
I forgot to realize it takes a lifetime of doing that, screw up somebody's metabolism.
So I grabbed the trash can, and since I had lined the sides of it with Pam, I just started shaking that thing back and forth, and the mouse is bouncing off inside all around.
This has got to do it.
And after I gave it a couple shakes, I'm looking in there, and the mouse is still down.
It's at the bottom, still trying to eat the stuff and breathe.
It's dazed.
So I shook it.
And finally, I think I drove the mouse to unconsciousness.
Now, the next problem was, okay, how do I dispose of it?
Because it was daytime.
I mean, I didn't want to walk out and empty the trash in the street because people would see that I had a mouse.
That's an embarrassing thing to admit that you got a mouse in your house.
I said, well, there's no other way.
I'm not going to put it in the backyard.
The thing's just going to come back in.
I had to take it.
So I did.
Folks, I just got courageous and I took the trash can.
I took it out the street.
I dumped it.
Dumped the mouse in the street.
And I figured, and then I stood watch because that thing started to make it, if it started coming.
I didn't know if it was still alive or not, but it started coming back to the house.
You know, I was going to go out there and make sure it didn't get back in.
I didn't know how it got in in the first place.
And after a while, it got dark and I never saw the mouse move.
So after it got dark, I went out and looked, and the mouse was gone.
And I've not seen it since.
I know it didn't get back in the house.
So I figure that one of the predators in the neighborhood finally got it, or either that or a car did or something, but there was no evidence of it in the street, one way or the other.
But I would never, I would never take a mouse and throw it in a stack of burning leaves.
That would be cruel.
I mean, that's just, that's it.
I mean, to throw the burning leaves and then the mouse, it's just going to run back where it came from, and the guy's house burned down.
You know, I think the guy almost deserved it.
That's cruel.
Throw a mouse in a stack of burning leaves.
Here's Jim in Blaine, Washington.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
How are you doing, Rush?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Megadoodle squared from one of the few Republicans in the state of Washington.
Great to hear from you.
Yeah, a real pleasure to talk to you.
It's an honor.
Listen, Rush, I was watching the news this morning on Fox, and it now appears, or at least the Democrats are headed towards stopping this Alito nomination at any cost.
And one of the costs that they're willing to risk is to filibuster.
So I guess my question is with the total ineffectiveness of Bill Frist leading the Senate Republicans and the group of renegade rhinos led by McCain, do you think that they can pull off a filibuster?
It remains to be, I don't think so, because I don't think the Republicans and that gang of 14 are going to hang tough on this.
I don't think Vice President Graham will stick.
I don't think DeWine will stick.
I don't think if they ever get to this, I'm not sure the Democrats would try it.
I think that they're just huffing and puffing.
I don't think you've got enough Democrats who would support it.
There's some Democrats on record saying that they don't support the idea of a filibuster.
I think, look, it's desperation time here in the Democratic Party.
You have to understand everything they do.
And I'm not saying that none of it works.
I'm not saying that that doesn't have an effect, folks, but I'm telling you that everything they're doing with the NSA spying and all the prison stuff, it's desperation.
If you don't think it is, somebody explain to me, somebody tell me the political strategy in aligning your party with the enemy of this country when it comes to al-Qaeda and worldwide terrorism.
Explain that to me.
That's exactly what they've done.
They have positioned themselves so that anything good in this country, economically or what have you, is bad for them.
Anything bad that happens in this country is good for them.
They've done this on purpose.
Now, I think there's utter desperation happening.
I've told you why.
These people are born as Democrats and liberals with an entitlement to power.
They think that's their birthright.
They've been denied this power since 1994, and they are fit to be tied.
And of course, they can't be blamed themselves.
They're the elites.
So they have to blame voting machines, hanging Chads, fraud, all these other things, elections being stolen from them, the stupidity of the American people in order to explain this.
I think as you get desperate, you do stupid things.
And I think a bunch of them are talking about filibuster, but I don't think there are enough Democrats that support it.
And Vice President Graham yesterday said on Fox, no way does the gang of 14 support it.
So there's let them try it.
I frankly wish they would.
This filibuster deal should have been dealt with last year before this gang of 14 thing put this deal together.
This filibuster needs to happen or it needs to be killed and needs to be voted on so that the Democrats don't try it.
Until that happens, it's always going to be out there and people are always going to be saying, you think the Democrats will filibuster it.
I want them to try it and I want them to backfire it.
Not necessarily in this case.
It's wishful thinking here.
But I just, I'm sorry, folks.
Can I just I don't care what they're going to do.
I really don't care what the Democrats are going to do.
Now, tomorrow I might.
But when it comes to this, this specific thing, and I don't want anybody to misunderstand, it's not that I don't consider them seriously.
It's not that I don't take them.
It's not that I don't think that we don't have to deal with them seriously.
We do.
And nobody can accuse this program of taking them lightly.
They are partially where they are because of this program.
We're very proud of that.
And don't mistake what I'm saying for boredom.
I'm not bored with talking about the Democrat.
I'm just in this case, it's the same old thing.
We were going to get X with John Roberts and just the opposite.
And the Democrat, if you watch the Sunday shows yesterday, I watched a little bit to know.
I mean, every one of them had a panel of these Democrat senators talking about what they're going to do.
I've heard it all before.
And the media gets together with these people and it's all wishful thinking and the reporting is what they hope will happen, not what is happening.
In the meantime, these people are utterly destroying themselves.
If you ask me, in fact, Joe Klein at Time magazine, no shrinking violent conservative Joe Klein, and no friend of this program and me, Joe Klein, has a piece in the latest issue of Time magazine, How to Stay Out of Power, Why Liberal Democrats are Playing Too Fast and Too Loose with Issues of War and Peace.
I'm telling you, there's anybody wonder why you don't see James Carville?
I get this question all over the place.
How come when I was out in LA playing golf, where's Carville?
How come Carville's not?
And I don't know, but I can guess.
And it's just a pure wild guess.
But I will bet you that there are a bunch of Democrats who don't want to have an official association with the leaders of this party in the direction they're taking it right now because they also want political futures and they don't want to go over the falls or over the cliff with this bunch.
I've got to run here a little time over a little overtime in this segment, but we'll make it up.
Well, no, we can't make it up because there isn't any more time than there ever is.
We'll be back.
By the way, folks, don't misunderstand me.
I'm talking about today in these opening pontificating baboonish statements.
I'm sorry, buffoonish statements from these Democrats.
I know what they're going to say.
The fireworks will start once the questioning of Alito starts.
And that's when we get laser-like focus.
But this stuff today is just a bunch of pontificating from a bunch of blowhards who couldn't run rings around whom Alito is going to run rings in these hearings like Judge Roberts did.
You know, you go into something thinking you're the smartest guy in the room and you're the most arrogant, condescending guy, and you don't even know it when you've been made an utter fool of.
And it's going to happen again to Ted Kennedy.
It's going to happen to Dianne Feinstein.
It's going to happen to Dick Turbin.
It's going to happen to Patrick Leahy.
And we're going to point it all out when it does.
And you'll go, yip, yip, yip, yip, yahoo.
We're going to cheer.
But I'm not going to sit here and act with bated breath like I'm sitting on the edge of my chair.
Oh, no, oh, no.
The Democrats are talking about Alito.
I couldn't care less.
I really couldn't care less.
I don't care what they say about me.
I don't care what they say about him.
He's in due course we're going to deal with it.
But now with these opening statements.
Joe Klein, let me just read to you.
I told you, it's Time magazine, How to Stay Out of Power, Why Liberal Democrats are Playing Too Fast and Too Loose with the Issues of War and Peace.
National security is a far more important issue than abortion.
And until the Democrats make clear that they will err on the side of aggressiveness in the war against al-Qaeda, they will probably not regain the majority in Congress or the country.
Bingo.
I have been telling you this.
I couldn't care less about all this other stuff.
They're on the wrong side of history.
They're on the wrong side of their own country in this stuff.
And when, I mean, guys like Joe Klein, this whole thing starts out how he can't support Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi's letter that she released that we talked about last week.
You know, he went and had a talk with her about it because he, well, she didn't even get the importance of her letter.
She's such a buffoon.
She puts the letter out and it's that letter where she asks the director of the National Security Agency, General Hayden, are you acting with presidential authority?
Implying that you better be or else if you're a cowboy on this, we got problem.
But the problem for her is that she implied it would be okay with presidential authority.
And now her whole party is out there trying to say there is no presidential authority.
And she, like an idiot, released the letter thinking it was a home run.
And this Abramoff stuff, that's lurking out.
Now, that's got the potential.
But the lesson on that is primarily going to be, I don't know what it's going to be.
What we're going to try to make the lesson learned is that when the, as a caller to this program last week said, when the Congress decides to involve its tentacles, extend its tentacles into every avenue of American life, there are going to be people who are going to try to affect it.
And the more Congress gets involved, the more people like Abramoff there are going to be that will be hired to go out and try to influence these people.
Now, Abramoff, Abramoff may be tagged as the culprit here, but I'm going to tell you, it's not our system that corrupts people.
I know Hastert and all these guys out there were going to have lobby reform.
That's hocus-pocus and a joke, too.
All we're going to get is just, it's just like campaign finance reform.
There's not going to be any serious lobby reform.
The whole push for lobby reform is to try to get the American people to realize, okay, we get it.
There's serious problems go up here.
We're going to fix them.
And they're the cause.
But the system does not corrupt people.
And that's what McCain said.
Money corrupts.
No, corrupt people corrupt people.
Corrupt people corrupt the system.
And until you weed them out, I don't care whether they're Abramoff or they're elected people.
Until you weed them out, you're going to have circumstances like this.
Didn't get to this today, but Richard Reeves has a great book about Ronald Reagan.
And it's all about how, you know, this guy was smarter than anybody ever knew.
It represents a total shift in elite opinion about Reagan.
I'll save this for tomorrow because you've got to hear this because I think it's just the beginning of other such action.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
All right, folks, be thinking about this.
Ask yourself as these hearings get going, which Democrat on the Judiciary Committee will embarrass him or herself the most.
That's what I'm going to be looking for.
Have a great Monday.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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