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Jan. 24, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Snurgley, have you been watching the uh the these what's supposed to be a committee vote?
The committee votes going on longer than the hearings did.
You know, you know how they always say uh that mobsters have to go out there and make their bones to mean to earn their keep.
What we're watching here today, the liberals on the Alito hearings, making your bones means keeping your base.
Some of the things that they are saying, and we've got the tape, we've got lots of stuff to do today.
Looking forward to the next three hours.
We're ditto caming uh at rushlinbaugh.com.
Happy to have you along, folks.
Telephone number if you want to join us, 800-282-2882, the email address rush at eIB net.com.
How about Canada?
How about hey?
Conservatives win in Canada.
The uh conservatives won in Germany, the conservatives won in Portugal, and they won in the United States last year.
Now this has to upset the libs, uh the media, all but ignoring this.
They're all but ignoring it.
But the Democrats, Marxist buddies in South America are making gains, and that is something to watch, ladies and gentlemen, as far as the media is concerned, media is concerned.
Um those those those Marxist and communist gains in Venezuela and in South America.
That's that's the thing to watch, um, according to the press.
All these conservative victories mean diddly squat.
Telephone number 800 two eight two-2882.
Uh Vice President Lindsey Graham uh was perhaps the stellar Republican today on the uh on the well, I don't know what to call them.
The hearings, this is this is the committee vote, and it's gonna be a party line vote 10 to 8.
Some of the things these Democrats saying, wait till you hear it.
But Vice President Lindsey Graham was the best one today.
He told the Democrats that if they tried to use a lead out as a campaign issue, the Republicans would clean their clocks.
Meanwhile, E.J. Dion Jr. today has a column.
I I I I've I really when I say I'm on the cutting edge, I mean I really on the cutting edge.
E.J. Dion Jr. has a column today that basically regurgitates what I've been asking for the last five years.
You Democrats, you know exactly who we conservatives are because we do not hide it.
We run on who we are.
So E.J. Dion Jr. is coming.
Why can't the Democrats beat Carl Rove when Carl Rove comes out and tells them 10 months in advance what the plan is?
It's sort of like there you can do the Super Bowl coming up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the and the Seattle Seabirds.
You could say, let's say that Bill Cower announces today his game plan.
Let's say here are my first ten plays, and the coach of the Seabirds, Mike Holmgren, could game plan for it.
But if Mike Holman were a Democrat, he wouldn't be able to.
I'm not dismissing the Hawks at all.
I just I like the look.
The term seabirds comes from the Hutch.
And the Hutch lives in Seattle and he's a huge Seabirds fan.
He calls the Steelers the plastic curtain, you know, so we got this little thing going back and forth.
He calls them the plastic curtain.
He could if he's gonna call his team the seabirds, and I'm gonna call them the seabirds.
The Hutch called yesterday, emailed yesterday.
He said, How about you and I go at it the Friday before the Super Bowl?
Since his team is the Seabirds.
This is fine.
I said, I don't know much about your team.
Uh they live in the upper left-hand corner of the country.
And in a place more known for coffee and computers.
Uh but I'll I I I know you got the MVP running back, Sean Alexander.
Now you got the bald-headed quarterback whose sister-in-law's on the view.
Uh beyond that, I'm gonna have to do some research on the team, uh, individuals on the team, but I'll be ready for the Hutch on the Friday before the uh Super Bowl.
Let's go, ladies and gentlemen to the audio tape.
Let's oh, the EJ Dion Jr.
Here you have you have Rove announcing 10 months in advance what the election plan's gonna be, and Dion Jr. is just frustrated.
Why can't the Democrats figure it out?
Why can't the I mean the game plan is on the table?
Why can't they?
And this has been the case since Rove's been running the show.
Well, here's why.
It's very simple, E.J., I'll tell you, because Rove's electoral plan, the game plan, is to run on your lack, the Democratic Party's lack of commitment to national security.
And since you don't have a position on national security, there's no way You can game plan it.
Because your position on national security, the Democrats game plan is not one.
The Democrats' position on national security is to try to impeach George W. Bush.
Okay, so run on that.
Run.
The Democrats need to run an 06-4 uh Congress on the impeachment of George W. Bush for trying to protect the country.
Which leads me to Leahy.
Get this.
This is you may not know this by listening to it, but this is Leahy in his speechifying as his prelude to announcing his vote on the uh Alito nomination.
The president is in the midst of a radical realignment of the powers of the government and its intrusiveness into the private lives of Americans.
I believe this nomination is part of that plan.
I'm concerned that if we confirm this nominee will further erode the checks and balances that have protected our constitutional rights for more than 200 years.
We have a president who is prone to unilateralism and assertions of executive power that extend all the way to illegal spying on Americans.
Preventing government intrusion into the privacy and freedoms of Americans is one of the hallmarks of the Supreme Court.
There's no assurance that judge Alito will serve as an effective check and balance on government intrusion into the lives of Americans.
Indeed, his record suggests otherwise.
Anybody gonna believe this?
So they're gonna set up the fact that we can't get a leader because Bush is spying on Americans.
Can't confirm Alito because Bush spying on Americans, and because Alito wants to do that too.
Alito wants to shred the Constitution.
He doesn't care about privacy rights.
He doesn't care about civil liberties.
He just wants to destroy people, like Bush does.
Okay, so you guys can have at it.
E. J. Dion Jr. in his piece says if if Democrats aren't willing to take on this issue of NSA and intercepting calls from Al-Qaeda, what's the point of being an opposition party?
Now E.J., you know, essentially here is urging Democrats to get into a big robust debate about national security.
But they can't, E.J., because you just heard their position articulated by Pat Lahey.
As you listen to this, E.J., do you think that anything legion that that that uh Leahy said here uh that might form the the basis or the foundation of a campaign is a winner?
This is this is lunacy that we're here.
This is paranoid illunacy.
Actually, it's Lahey just continued to make his bones with the base.
I mean, really to get too far into this ideologically or intellectually is a wasteful exercise because we've been doing that for 18 years.
These guys are now just trying to make their bones, keep their bones with the uh this mobster lingo uh for uh f with with with their base.
Lahey was not through, he continued on.
This president has made some of the most expansive claims of power since American patriots fought the war of independence to rid themselves of the oppressive rule of King George III.
Oh man, this president is claiming power to illegally spy on Americans, to allow actions that violate our values and laws protecting human rights, and to detain U.S. citizens and others on his say so, on his say so, without judicial review, without any due process.
This is something I have not seen in my lifetime.
Was Leahy not alive during FDR's internment of the Japanese?
Uh I don't know.
He looks like he could be old enough.
Uh, and of course, the Clinton years with the echelon program.
But beyond beyond all of that, uh have you d any of you remember the the the Hamdi case?
The Hamdi case, the Supreme Court pretty much said, this is a judicial review, uh, by the way, the Supreme Court pretty much said that the 2001 congressional authorization for the use of force authorized the president to behave in a certain manner in the Hamdi case, which is pretty much what he's doing now in the NSA case.
And as the president said yesterday out in uh in Kansas that we have the audio of this coming up, hey, if I'm trying to break the law, why would I why would I include Congress in the briefings?
And the audience applauded.
Pure paranoia here, comparing George W. Bush to King George.
But I want to go back to this uh first soundbite we played.
We have a president who is prone to unilateralism.
This is another illustration of the of the uh uh I don't know problem, the the the I think the delusional derangement that the uh that the Democrats are in.
You go back to Iraq, and we went to the UN and we went there for 18 months, and we reminded the U.N. that they had passed what, 14 or 18 resolutions requiring Saddam to get rid of his weapons, that the U.N. Security Council didn't want to play ball after 18 months of trying.
We said, okay, U.S. national security at stake here, we're gonna go act, and we did, and we put together a coalition despite the U.N. Now we've got Iran.
And the Democrats all said, he's acting unilaterally.
Why he went in without the UN, why he went in without a Security Council vote.
Why, he can't do that.
Where are the French?
Where are the Germans?
You remember all that.
Fast forward to the present and Iran.
And lo and behold, if Scarlett O'Hara, Hillary Rotten Clinton, is not out there talking about why we aren't going into Iran right now and doing something.
She's demanding unilateral action by the United States into Iran because of their nuke threat.
This from the same party that opposed that same kind of thing going into Iraq on the same pretext.
Now, th this is this is another uh illustration of why it doesn't matter for the conservatives in Rove to lay out the game plan, because even knowing what it is, the Democrats so discombobulated and disoriented, they can't come up with a plan of their own.
Uh the football analogy.
Bill Cower of the Steelers announces his game plan and in fact throws out exactly what the first ten plays are going to be.
Homegrin of the Seabirds says, Well, I don't know.
I'm not sure that I and doesn't game plan it at all because he doesn't have one of his own.
That that would and that's silly, it's not going to happen.
But the Democrats uh cannot take on the national security issue because to say what they want uh and to say what they believe would be worse than trying to come up with a bunch of lies to cover up what they really believe.
And I think in fact, Rove giving out a game plan is not that big a deal because we conservatives are no mystery.
We know who we are, we're happy in our own skin, we're happy to tell people who we are, we want them to join us.
And we go out and try to change the hearts and minds of as many voters as possible.
Democrats try to fool as many, and that's the name of the game.
More coming up, my friends, but first an obscene EIB profit break back after this.
And after a bunch of bloviating, speechifying, and blowhardism, the vote is in.
And Sam Alito, as predicted, uh confirmed by well, voted uh voted out of committee, 10 to 8 party line vote.
So now the um the debate on Alito will go to the full Senate, and they hope to have the vote on Friday.
Democrats wanted to delay the vote to embarrass the president so that he will not have an applause line in the State of the Union speech.
A little bit of news here.
New York Times earnings plunge on charges.
The uh New York Times company said today that its fourth quarter earnings fell 41% from the same period a year ago, weighed down by charges for staff reductions and an accounting charge.
The Times earned uh $64.8 million dollars or 45 cents per share in the three months ending in December, compared to 110.2 million or 75 cents per share a year ago.
They had to fired a bunch of people and pay them off.
Uh these what do you got of the severance packages?
And uh uh they uh uh they had to take an accounting charge.
But you you want to know why this is happening.
Here, look at look at this story.
What is the president went out to Kansas yesterday and he did an hour and a half.
He gave a speech, did QA, we've got audio from this.
It is a it is just a terrific performance.
Now, I got it, I'm gonna, in fact, I'll tell you something.
Last the week before I went to, I get it's two weeks ago, the president was here in Palm Beach for a reception, and I was there.
I was invited to attend.
And at this reception, the president delivered about 45 minutes of off-the-cuff remarks.
And as I have shared with you uh over the course of many, many years here.
Now, I first met President Bush in 92 uh in the White House, uh when his dad was there, and It was during that campaign, and Ross Perot was wreaking havoc and so forth.
I next spent some serious time with the current President Bush in Texas.
He was owner of the Texas Rangers.
And my friend George Brett was retiring from baseball that year, and the final three games of Brett's career were in Texas against the Rangers.
And so Bush invited me down for that uh for the weekend.
And on the Saturday of the uh of the weekend, he had a lunch for some people in the stadium club.
He was getting set to run against Ma Richards as governor of Texas.
And in that lunch, where there were potential fundraisers and donors, I saw a confident, no deer in the headlight eyes, no stutters, just confidence, rat tat expertise on issues, dazzled everybody.
And I've I've seen that a number of other occasions too, and it's in stark contrast when the president is reading a speech or what have you, and it uh other people have seen it too, uh, and have asked me how do you explain this vast disparity in the way President Bush is in private versus when he's on television.
I have no answer for it.
I I'm not even gonna speculate.
I have my theories, but they're just that.
Well, this 45 minute speech two weeks ago, I wouldn't even call it a speech.
He just got up there and without one note and just I mean, it reminded me of me.
It was funny, it was serious at the same time, it was hard-hitting, it was confident.
There wasn't one stutter, there wasn't one lost train of thought.
There wasn't one deer in the headlight uh look uh that people claim they see him execute when he's on television doing a speech, prepared speech with text.
Same thing happened yesterday out in in uh in at Kansas State University.
Say for an hour and a half.
President had prepared remarks and then took uh took questions.
And it was a baffle performance.
It was uh it was tremendous.
And there was a lot of news made in that in that speech yesterday.
In fact, he he spelled out again why this uh NSA wiretap story is not the story the Democrats are making it out to be.
I mean, they're structuring this as a contemptible lie that Bush is spying on American citizens not true at all, and he we really just hit home run after home run after home run in this thing.
And what's the New York Times story?
After an hour and a half performance like that, here's the headline The Rancher in Chief and a certain cowboy film.
President Bush is in the midst of a campaign-style effort to show that he has broken out of his White House bubble.
And three times this month he's taken unscreened questions from audiences that appear to have been chosen largely at random rather than for their qualities as cheerleaders.
And he goes on to talk about how the uh somebody in the uh in the audience said, Mr. President, you're a rancher.
A lot of us here in Kansas are ranchers.
I just want to get your opinion on Broke Back Mountain, if you uh if you've seen it.
Bush said, I haven't seen it.
I'd be glad to talk about ranching, but I haven't seen the movie.
Nervous laughter as the president added, I've heard about it.
So here's the New York Times after this stellar performance that the president gave performance of his life yesterday.
They focuses uh focus in on a question about a gay cowboy movie.
That I think and then you read the story, New York Times earnings plunge on charges.
Uh there's more to it than just accounting uh that's taking place.
One more Pat Lahay bite from the uh blabbering before the committee vote today.
Uh Senator Leahy compares the Alito nomination to FDR FDR's attempted packing of the court.
No president should be allowed to pack the courts.
Especially the Supreme Court.
An overwhelmingly Democratic controlled Senate.
Stood up to the most popular Democrat ever elected President Franklin Roosevelt.
And we Democrats protected the independence of the Supreme Court by saying that even someone as popular as Franklin Roosevelt could not pack the Supreme Court.
Well uh what packing of the Supreme Court's ago?
Bush had two nominations.
He he's into his uh what, sixth year of his presidency now.
He's had two, two vacancies.
And the Democrats are all packing the court.
He's out there packing the court.
Well, he can't pack the court that way.
We Democrats, we didn't like it when FDR did it.
Yeah, you loved it.
Just got caught up.
By the way, I asked uh Leahy said he hasn't seen anything like this, unprecedented power grab and violation of civil and human rights uh in his lifetime.
And I, of course, you know, there's FDR, there's Clinton.
If you go back to before any of us were born, Abraham Lincoln, Bush's Bush is a romper room kid compared to what Lincoln did during the Civil War.
So I checked it out, and Leahy was born in 1940, so um he was alive during FDR's presidency, but he may not remember it.
Uh so I can't really accuse him of purposely forgetting something here he might not have known it.
All right, there's a lot more of this.
Plus, we have audio from the president's speech and QA yesterday out in uh in Kansas.
So sit tight, folks.
We'll get to your phone calls too at 800 282-2882.
We're coming back right after this.
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Mr. Snurgley, just see 24 last night.
Did you what?
Oh man, I'm I'm not gonna tell you anything.
I'm just gonna tell you.
This show is amazing.
This this I'm not gonna give a thing away if you haven't seen it yet.
But it uh I just when it ended, when it and I I got a tingle up my spine.
I just I just did.
I'm sitting I haven't had a television show, a fictional TV show hasn't done that to me, and I don't know, maybe ever.
Um, because I'm not that emotional a guy.
I'm from the old school.
But uh what?
No, it was not an No, no, no, no, no.
It stirred me.
If no, I'm not gonna No, there was no, it's not it it it it stirred.
I'm just not gonna tell you any more about it if you haven't seen it, you want to watch it tonight on your TiVo.
You Tvoeing it in hard in HD, all right, good for you.
Well, you gotta get HD.
You gotta go out, you gotta get an HD TVO, you gotta get an HD screen, and you and you watch this in HD.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, this is it's uh I want to expand a little bit more on uh E.J. Dion Jr. and and his uh his uh uh column today in the Washington Post.
Because this EJ uh uh is missing something like uh the Democrats just constantly miss it.
They they are just we set traps and they fall right into it.
Carl Rove, in announcing what the Republican Party is going to run on in 06, ended up provoking the exact response that he wants from the Democrats.
Because the Democrats are now insisting they need to make this election about national security, which is our topic of choice.
So they are playing on our turf.
It's it's uh uh just just fall right into it, and especially since they don't have a position.
As I said, their position is that Bush is the problem.
Their position is that Bush needs to be impeached.
That's the national security angle they believe, and that's uh particularly their their rabid base.
Uh Patrick Leahy, Bush wants to pack the courts.
Once again, we have the Democrats redefining political terms.
Nominations.
Judicial nominations now are packing the court.
To nominate somebody to the Supreme Court means you want to pack the court.
So we can say that Bill Clinton packed the court with Ginsburg and Breyer.
Bush packed the court with Robertson Alito, which probably will become the new lexicon in the uh in the old media.
The mainstream media.
They will they they will now say that Bush is packing the court, picking up on Leahy's lead will have a whole new change in definition for the word nominate one to court.
You want to hear little Ted Kennedy this morning?
Here's Senator Kennedy delivering a warmed over uh warmed over version of his Robert Bork's America speech.
We face unprecedented claims by the White House for sweeping expansions of presidential power that are grave threats to the rule of law.
We continue to face serious inequalities and injustices in our societies, as demonstrated so clearly by the immense tragedy a few months ago in the Hurricane Katrina.
We face new controversies over government's intrusion into people's private lives, from the interference with private medical decisions into new attempts to limit or even deny a woman's reproductive decisions.
We face new attacks on the progress we've made in civil rights.
The signs proclaiming whites only may be gone, but we know that discrimination and bigotry in countless other forms still blight our society and limit opportunity.
Hurricane Katrina.
They bring up her folks, it's hail marry time.
It's just it's just go for the long one and hope your guy catches it.
This is this is funny to watch.
Speaking of Hurricane Katrina, have you seen the news that's out about Hurricane Katrina today?
The news that's out about Hurricane Katrina is the government indeed had forewarning about Bush knew.
Yeah, that the Bush knew.
The government, they had a bunch of practice exercises.
They created this tabletop sort of game to replicate what kind of damage would happen in New Orleans.
This was in July from a category three storm, and they figured that what would happen is is indeed what happened.
Now the AP version of this story is fascinating because the story attempts to make the following connection.
Bush knew, therefore, Bush caused it.
If the government this is this is this is the infantile, puerile, insulting attempt by the Associated Press to continue to link whatever the uh uh outcomes of Hurricane Katrina were to George W. Bush personally.
They actually have as the sub the the whole umbrella under which story is written.
Bush knew the government was forewarned, government had documents, government did tests.
And yet, only ten percent of the plan was put into effect in order to evacuate the city and blah, blah, blah.
Therefore, Bush, if Bush knew, if Bush knew that a big storm was coming, then Bush caused it.
That's the attempt that they're making.
And it's I mean it's in the stack somewhere.
I'll give you some exact quotes from it here as we uh move on down the line.
Senator Feinstein is next, summing it up for the Democrats.
It's a very different day and time than when Justice Ginsburg and Justice Breyer was before this court.
There was not the polarization within America that is there today, and not the defined move to take this court in a singular direction.
If one is pro-choice in this day and age, in this structure, one can't vote for Judge Alito.
It is simply that simple.
That's not different.
It's no different.
You wouldn't have voted for Ginsburg or Briar if they were pro-life.
Does she really mean to say now that the uh period of time when Clinton nominated Ginsburg and Briar, we were not polarized?
I thought that that was one of the problems that they always had, that we hated Clinton.
They blame me for they blame me.
I'm on the cover of Time Magazine, 1995 is Rush Lindball good for America.
I was going to destroy the democratic process.
Me and Talk Radio destroy the democratic process.
They were all concerned the partisanship and the fallout from it.
They were they were we've never seen such hatred directed at all wonderful men like Bill Clinton before.
Now she wants to say that it's different today because we are so polarized.
Does she think that the pro-life pro-choice debate is any less polarized ten years ago or five years ago than it is today?
This is just mealy mouth wandering in vain for some sort of cogent thought or philosophy that uh that will survive or sar serve actually as a as a so-called intellectual reason for her vote, which is plain and simple, and she just said it here.
Abortion.
I mean, I I I want abortion, and I he's not he he might overturn Roe versus Ways, so we I can't vote for him.
Kathy in Williamsville, New York.
I'm glad You called, welcome to the program.
Hey Rush, how are you doing?
Just fine.
You know, I was watching President Bush's speech yesterday at a college.
I think it was Kansas State.
And uh I I think by far it was his his very he was in his element.
He was answering questions, and uh a young student asked uh how he how he maintains his his positive outlook under such character attacks all the time.
And and Bush paused for a couple of seconds, and then he said, uh face family and friends.
And I said, That's right.
And you know, he uh that that is the key.
You know, he talked about uh how he knows that the American people are praying for him, and that sustains him.
He said, I can't tell you how that sustains me, but it does because I feel it.
And he said, and and I I take time to read my Bible.
And then at the end of a stressful day, I go home to somebody who really loves me.
And I know my daughters really love me.
And he said, they really do.
And he was, you know, he was uh he was absolutely uh amazing yesterday.
And I wish you'd hear that.
Uh he, you know, to me, when he's going one-on-one answering questions with people in an audience, he really is a great communicator.
He reminds me of Reagan.
Uh when he's reading, I I don't think he's as comfortable, but I'll tell you, he really is mainstream America.
And I um I I love listening to him.
I really do.
I uh I saw that uh Pat.
Well, actually, I was reading it on close caption.
It was happening uh while I was talking to somebody else on the phone, and uh, as one who can uh uh multitask, I was talking to the person on the phone while while reading what Bush was saying.
Uh I've always been uh fascinated by the answer to that question that people in the public eye get.
Uh the the the and it people it doesn't matter if it's a politics or whatever, but you take a position on something and you are gonna be savaged by somebody, and depending on your orientation, the savagery might be picked up by the mainstream press and amplify, which is what happens in Bush's case.
And your idea the the the questioner came uh the question came from a uh an ROTC person, and uh guy said, uh, look, uh you are the leader of the country.
We are future leaders.
You are constantly under attack.
Your character, and he's specified character, your character is constantly under attack.
Could you help us future leaders who will someday be leaders understand how you deal with such attacks?
And Bush eyes fell to the podium, he thought about it for just a few seconds.
He thanked the ROTC guy for the question and said exactly what you said faith, family, and friends.
Now this gets construed by Newsweek as Bush living in a bubble.
This gets construed and reported as Bush is out of touch.
Why Bush doesn't have us in the White House?
He doesn't bring reporters in like other presidents have done to talk about things.
These journalists think that they are the fourth branch of government, and they do think they have a role in policy.
And Bush is not including them, and that infuriates him because it makes them feel powerless.
And then when they learn that Bush doesn't even care to read what they write, that infuriates them even more.
But it's totally understandable.
Faith, family, and friends.
I know that he's got a very close circle of friends, and that uh uh many of them are in and out of the White House all the time, and that's with whom he feels comfortable, makes total sense.
He would want to hang around with people who love him.
And I'll I'll tell you, uh like like I saw him at this uh reception a couple weeks ago down here in Palm Beach.
I understand the question uh that he got was born of my gosh, how are you putting up with this uh every day your character is savaged?
And the impression that a lot of people might get is that well, they they they uh transfer themselves, put yourself in Bush's position.
You say, my gosh, if this was being said about me and written about me all day long, well I'd be a quivering mass, I'd be depressed, I'd think nobody loves me and so forth.
And that's not the way he is.
I don't think his confidence, well, I know his confidence on everything he is trying to do in this in this agenda has not been shaken at all.
He has plans, he's gonna spend the next two years doing them.
What these other people say doesn't matter to him.
He really doesn't matter.
It's like I've told you.
And I think something, uh, Kathy, to help you understand this.
You and I, because it's my job and and you listen as a result.
We can't avoid immersing ourselves in the world that's established by the media every day.
He doesn't.
He does not do that.
Much of this program is devoted each day to smashing the liberal lies and the media misrepresentations that are out there in an effort to educate the American people as to what's true and what isn't, what's factual and what isn't.
I mean, anybody can have their opinion, but you don't get your own set of facts.
There are facts, and if those facts are lied about, then we spend some time talking about it.
Thus, by quirk of fate, we are immersed in the media world.
And one of the reasons I like getting away from this is to get away from that because there's a whole other world of reality out there where people are not caught up in it each and every day, and Bush is one of them.
Bush does not decide what policy he's going to do or what he's going to say about something based on, other than his press conferences where he can't avoid it.
But he really doesn't live in that world.
And that also results in him getting stories written about him, which accuse him of being in a bubble.
Because to the media, their world is the only world.
They are so narcissistic and self-absorbed that their world is the world.
And they can't believe a president would not live in it and get up each and every day and find, okay, what's in the media today?
What do I have to do to deal with that or promote that?
It's not.
His job is to lead the country with whatever's on his plate that day, and without any other influences, particularly influences.
What are people going to think?
Back after this.
Stay with us.
Ah, my buddy here, Al Wilson, show and tell, one of my all-time favorite tunes, definitely in the top ten.
It's not because of the lyrics, is I've never listened to lyrics of songs, folks.
I listen to melody of the production value, and I mean I listen to the lyrics, but I mean that doesn't shape whether I'm not one of these mushy, oh wow, listen, that's not that's not how songs affect me, but if they affect you that way, that's cool.
Here's Rich in Marino Valley, California.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
I'm honored.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Listen, I uh one of the things I learned from you is that it's okay not to listen to the lyrics.
I thought I was the only one that was like that.
I learned that from you years ago.
Thank you, sir.
Uh move from Missouri to Sacramento in 89.
Everybody told me about you, and uh my wife and myself have been with you ever since.
I appreciate that.
Uh reason I'm calling, and my question after this comment, if you would answer for me, is how far left can these Democrats go before they have to start coming back right?
I mean, they're going so far left that I don't even think average leftists can follow them.
Now, my my comment my comment is on Durban today in the judiciary, the um Dick Turbin.
Yes, uh diarrhea of the mouth dick.
Oh man, what a pipsqueak.
Ah Scott.
I mean, you know, I'm a route man, I got more dignity.
This guy's a U.S. senator.
Uh he drug Reagan's name into uh the hearing by uh stating that Reagan's administration was looking for someone like Durbin who wrote the memo on 85 trying to mean Alito.
I'm sorry, did I say Alito?
No, you said that Durbin said that Reagan was looking for somebody like Durbin.
You mean they were looking for somebody like Alito in 85.
Exactly.
He was looking for someone like Alito that was against women, you know, and keeping them out uh through disorganization.
He belonged to uh, you know, 21 years ago or something.
But see, all of this the the the like like Leahy today, once again brought up the fact that Alito wants to strip search little ten-year-old girls.
All of this stuff was dealt with during the hearings and nuked.
That group, the uh the uh whatever the cap concerned uh alumni of Princeton.
Look, what you heard today, you ask how far left they can go, they haven't gotten anywhere near it yet.
I'm a little surprised too, but this is just keeping their base happy here today.
Uh I'm gonna tell you the wisdom of invoking Ronald Reagan to try to get people to vote against somebody.
Did they not remember Reagan's funeral?
All you gotta do is say Alito is in the mold of Reagan, and I'm the American people are gonna love the guy.
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