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Jan. 26, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 26, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, on a day like this, I I can't help but reflect on all those media wizards who said back in 2000, well, now that now that Bill Clinton's gone, what's Rush Limbaugh going to have to talk about?
Man, oh man.
Hey, great to be back, folks.
Great to have you with us.
The fastest week in media rolls on.
Here we are at Thursday.
And we're at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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It'll be uh TVing, televising the entire three-hour excursion into broadcast excellence today.
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Here's just a few things that are on the agenda today.
The Hamas upset win in uh well, let's call it what it is in Israel.
Uh we have the New York Times.
The New York Times lost it.
The New York Times become totally unhinged.
You can't tell the difference in this New York Times editorial today and one of these left-wing kook websites, they are demanding the filibuster editorial page, lead editorial, calling these senators on the Democratic Party spineless.
And it's interesting because, in a way, our morning update yesterday did the same thing.
Of course, we have a different take on it than the New York Times does, but it literally, this is the the idea that well no, I think there's some people saying the idea they represent the establishment's long gone.
They do represent the Democrat establishment with a kook left wing fringe.
So we'll talk about that.
Today uh there's a there's a well, uh key key vote in the uh in the Republican caucus uh on who Tom Delay's successor will be.
And I, ladies and gentlemen, is uh as an honorary member of the freshman class of the nineteen ninety-four House of Representatives uh on the Republican side have decided to weigh in on this with an endorsement.
Uh and so that will come today.
General Motors has announced that they lost almost five billion dollars.
That's five with a B. Almost five billion dollars in one quarter.
That's with a Q. Five billion dollars in one quarter.
And uh, you know, Kanye West poses as Christ but doesn't have the guts to pose as Mohammed.
Uh or Allah.
Uh whichever you would choose.
Uh uh trying to cause attention to himself.
We also have the judge in Vermont who has raised the 60-day sentence on that rapist now to three years, claiming he did it because he got permission to send the guy into rehab and treatment during those uh during those three years.
That's probably not why this happened.
He probably did it in order to stave off all the criticism that he's getting.
And another Democrat's come out, said he's gonna vote for Judge Alito.
This is Tim Johnson of South Dakota, announced he's gonna vote for Alito to become the nation's 110th justice.
Uh he follows Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, as the only members of the Democratic Party to announce Senate support.
Then he goes on and says, I'm troubled and I'm troubled and I'm troubled, but I'm gonna vote for him anyway.
Uh Mary Landrew uh was asked about the possibility of filibuster, said no.
No, no, no, because we have such a full plate of pressing issues before Congress.
A filibuster would in my view be very counterproductive.
She wants the Senate to concentrate on the rebuilding efforts, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina says we simply cannot afford to bring the Senate to a halt at a time when we need its action most.
The president had a BAFO press conference today, and I learned a new word.
And I thought, well, somebody just misspoke, and then I said, No, I looked it up.
There was a a reporter named Angela uh near the end of the press conference who asked the president if he had conversated with somebody.
What?
Is it April?
That was That's April from Urban Oh the April.
What's her last name?
April uh what if her okay, so she's she's the bomb thrower.
She's the one well, this question was kind of my I thought the press was kind of mild all day.
David Gregory couldn't even get off the ground today.
Um and I think that reflects that there's just no confidence.
Richard Cohen today in the Washington Post uh writes a column reacting to the uh the latest what is it?
I forget what maybe it's a gallop poll, I don't know what it is on the on the favorite Hollywood movie stars of two or through the 2005, and John Wayne's at the top of the list.
John Wayne hadn't been in a movie in 40 years or 30 years, and he goes on to say, you know, we Democrats don't have a John Wayne, and every Democrat running for every Republican running for office looks like one.
And if John Wayne's the most popular movie star in America, and it isn't somebody like Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt, then we're in trouble.
I'll share the details of that with you.
Anyway, this conversation.
I said, I this has to be a misspeak.
I I uh and I said if Bush had used the word, it's all we'd be hearing about.
So I Googled it.
And it's actually in the urban dictionary, Mr. Snerdley, the word conversated is actually in the urban.
Just go to Google and put in the word conversated, and you'll see the search results.
And uh there's this thing called the urban dictionary.
Uh I know she was mad when I single her out, but I mean, these people have to learn that being singled out elevates their identity.
They have to learn what we all have to learn in the uh in the public eye, and that is that when you get mentioned, you get mentioned.
But uh, I'm sure April would say she likes to just be in the background as a as a as a journalist.
A little bit here's here's my first observation on this election.
And I want to another phrase in in uh in Israel.
Uh I know some people think it's Palestine, still think it's Israel, and I I I want to phrase this and put this within the context of what I have always uh called the limbaugh doctrine.
The Limbaugh doctrine, ladies and gentlemen, is very, very simple.
Peace does not come about with words and doctors and nurses and clean water.
Peace follows victory.
If you look at any conflict worldwide in modern history and and in recent history or you know, long ago history in history period, you will see that peace follows Victory.
We didn't get peace with Germany and Japan by virtue of words until after we had defeated them.
Now, this Israeli-Palestinian thing has is not going to be any different than any any other such conflict.
And in that sense, I think that the Hamas victory in these elections could end up, could end up to be a good thing.
And here's why.
I don't think there's any difference between Hamas and Fatah at all.
They both stand for the same thing.
And that is the elimination of Israel.
Fatah, however, which is uh Yasser Arafat's old party, they uh the the reason the reason Fatah is is uh and they were defeated, and the reason that I I think they posed the greater threat of the two, actually, was because they have the liberal dunces, these these elitists uh in this country and in Europe fooled into thinking they are a party of peace.
Uh and that they are a willing partner of peace.
And I don't think that there's any evidence, I don't think there's any reason in recent history to trust either of these groups when either of them would happen to say we are a partner for peace.
So it's in in the sense that the the side that the liberal intelligence, uh the liberal elites and establishment around the world had chosen Fatah, since they go down to defeat, you know, I get George Mitchell was on CNN today, so well, yeah, President Bush got to be careful what uh what he's looking for here.
Uh he wanted democracy, now we got democracy and democracy has produced uh democracy's produced nothing different than what we had before the elections.
The government hasn't been formed yet, but let me let me keep it's just the the libs, you know, be careful what you what you wish for, go out and it it it just follows from the elitist view that not every people uh are prepared for democracy.
No, not not not every population can handle it.
And so they they feel vindicated here because they think the wacko of the two groups, Hamas, has been elected, which means that Palestinians want war and so forth and blah blah blah.
The difference in this case, though, is Hamas and Fatah are identical when it comes to the thing that we should be concerned with most about them, and that is the elimination of Israel.
So uh now When Hamas acts out with a terrorist attack or whatever, guess what?
They're a duly elected government.
Now it's not a bunch of fringe wackos attacking Israel.
Israel can say, hey, this nation has just attacked us, and they will have a greater reason to response or to respond to this, and a more justified reason uh it to in in doing so.
So this is this is it in one sense it was clarifying, and it is positive because uh it it it will allow the the the militant group now to have some so-called democratic legitimacy, which uh makes the the uh Israeli response more justifiable.
Now, Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the Lakud Party in Israel, uh spoke to the Lakud faction in the Knesset today, and there's what he said.
He said before our very eyes, Hamas has been established, a stepchild of Iran and the Taliban.
It's in firing range of our airport, our highways and cities.
This has to be a day of soul searching because the writing was on the wall.
A policy of giving land for free gave a prize to terror and a winning card for Hamas.
How are Ulmert and Perez uh getting ready for this challenge?
They're moving the fence five hundred meters closer to the Jerusalem Tel Aviv Highway.
They gave more land to the Hamas site.
Any land given to Hamas or Hamas State and any land given to Hamas will give more of a front to fire upon us.
This is a new and dangerous situation.
Sharon said he wouldn't let Palestinians in Jerusalem vote, but Olmert let them.
So it's going to be really interesting to see how this shakes out in the next couple of days, but it's pretty predictable to me what's going to happen tonight.
The president was asked about this at his press conference today.
We'll let you hear that.
Lots of stuff on the program today, folks, as I say, more than three hours worth more than likely by the time we fold in your phone calls.
Sit tight, we'll be back and get started with all the rest of it right after this.
Everybody thinks there's something wrong with the ditto cam today.
Is your shirt really green?
Yeah, it's it's it looks just it looks on my monitor just like it should look at when I look at it for real.
Yeah, it's uh call it lime green or apple green or what have you.
Welcome back.
Rush, I think it's a great color shirt.
Don even liked it.
Well, it looks more gr it is green.
What do you mean it looks more green?
It's too it's too toned.
It's it's I'm a radio guy and I'm having to explain wardrobe.
Talk about cutting edge.
All right, folks, I want you to hear what the uh I want you to hear what the president had to say, was asked about the election uh in uh in Israel today.
Oh, uh one one correction.
I misspoke the House leadership election's not this week.
Uh it certainly is wiping his brow, thought there was something it didn't.
I misspoke it's coming up soon, but it's not this week.
But I think it's getting time, the uh getting close to that time where I, as an honorary member of the freshman class of 1994, to yes, but I'm I've I've got a choice.
I I've I've got a preferred choice.
Why shouldn't I mention it?
Well should what this is uh this is a house leadership.
This is key.
You know, we we we d th th one of the problems of the house leadership, you got plenty of conservatives in there, but they're not they're not they're not really governing or leading with their ideas.
They have the ideas you don't hear about them.
Couple people still, Jack Kingston's one who is willing to um and he's not in the race, but he's he's one of these people willing to lead with his ideas and a couple of others.
Uh, we'll get to all that in due course.
President uh was asked today by uh the AP's Terence Hunt, Mr. President, is Mid East peacemaking dead with Hamas' big election victory, and uh do you rule out dealing with the Palestinians if Hamas is the major party?
Peace is never dead because people want peace.
And uh that's why I articulated a two-state solution.
Early in my administration, so that as a vision for people to work toward uh the elections should open the eyes of the the old guard there in and uh in the Palestinian territories.
I I like the competition of ideas.
I like people to have to go out and say, vote for me, and here's what I'm gonna do.
There's something healthy about a system that does that.
So uh the elections yesterday were very interesting.
On the other hand, I don't see how you can be a partner in peace if you advocate the destruction of a country as part of your platform.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
And that's the key.
Uh, will if these guys all of a sudden go soft, this is it'll be the first time in world history some of this has happened.
One more bite, uh uh Steve Holland of Reuters, are you are you cautioning Abbas not to resign?
Will this effect uh in effect aid the Palestinians?
Will you be able to work with Hamas, assuming they take on a large share of the government?
I made it very clear that uh the United States does not support political parties that want to destroy our ally Israel.
And that people must renounce that part of their platform.
But the government hadn't formed yet.
They're beginning to talk about how to form the government, and your question on Abbas was a good one, and our message to him was we would hope he would stay in office.
And work to move the process forward.
All right.
So we're clearly stated there.
We're not we're not gonna work with anybody who d who who still stands up and uh suggests the destruction of Israel.
Uh now that's all Hamas is nine, and Fatah, too.
They're both cut from the same cloth.
Is it's just that the the Fatah people, a little bit more sophisticated, you know, and it the when when Arafat was alive, a terrorist attack would be launched against against Israel, and he'd come out in the morning uh and denounce it in English, and then later in the day, he'd go on television in uh in Arabic and praise it and celebrate it and have a grand old time.
Uh but you know, Arafat was the love child of the Clinton administration.
I mean, if it was a most popular guest in there, the Clinton White, well, unpaid.
I mean, there were a lot of people paid to be in there a lot of time, but Arafat just showed up.
I mean, so the the left-wing establishment really rolled all the dice uh that they had with with uh Arafat and Fatah since he's gone now, think it's even better.
So they've wind up with these guys, and now their side is lost, and and uh they think this is gonna be the death of Bush's whole concept of spreading democracy around the world.
George in uh Windsor, Connecticut, you're up first today, going to take your call.
Hello, sir, and welcome.
Hey, Russia, I have to agree with you that Hamas could be a good thing, but my concern is that if for some reason they tow the line with Israel and the terrorism between Israel and Palestine goes down, then the elites in this country are gonna say, see, you can keep a terrorist organization in power and not be afraid.
And they'll use that you know, again, in in in a negative way against this fight on terror.
Be very careful with this.
Because two things.
Number one, that is a huge if.
If Hamas, you realize who's praising them to the heavens today is Iran, this new wacko president over there, all over Al Jazeer, hey, the Iran just loves this.
So expecting Hamas to stand down will be the same thing as expecting Iran to stand down to stop its inflammatory statements, to stop its worldwide sponsorship of terrorism, and to dismantle its nuke machine.
It isn't gonna happen.
And it's not gonna happen with Hamas.
They have been all my life.
The destruction of Israel has been the objective of these people, and and they're getting closer to it now.
Now they can say, see, hey, we were democratically elected to destroy Israel.
Now, you're pro you know, wait a minute, Nom.
The second point I want to address, because you know, a lot of people might think that you swerved into something great there.
Well, uh if if the if the terrorists actually call call it all back in and stand down, why it'll prove we can negotiate with terrorists.
Problem with that is that it will also prove that democracy works and brings peace, and the American left is steadfastly opposed to that concept.
They don't think that democracy can work because it's George Bush's idea.
So while they might be uh prone to say, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, see, see, you can negotiate with terrorists, they'd also have to admit that the reason we can negotiate with terrorists is because uh we had democracy and freedom, and that's that they don't win with that.
Yeah, but if Hamas steps out of line, Israel will know though no doubt take matters into their own hands, which will give them every reason to do it, because now Hamas is in the lead doing it and not behind Arafat and and you know the Fatah party.
Well, yeah, it's it's it's it's because you you're you in effect here you will have a duly constituted government, i.e.
a state launching these attacks.
Uh and that that will legitimize an Israeli response even more.
I'll tell you something else, though.
What do you what are you shaking your head about in there?
You've been disagreeing with me a lot lately, and it's putting you on some thin ice.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Uh well, here's that now.
Snurley says, what happens if Hamas doesn't deliver their own people?
You mean government benefits and that sort of stuff?
So I think before we get to that, uh Joel Rosenberg has uh has an interesting take on this.
He says that the immediate danger is the outbreak of a Palestinian civil war.
That Fatah just not gonna say, oops, we lost, we go back home.
They're not just gonna do that.
Uh in the worst-case scenario, Fatah members who have no desire to give up their jobs, their monthly paychecks, their off-the-books slush funds, as well as access to guns and ammo, could simply declare war against Hamas and fight to retain the power that they've just lost at the ballot box because skirmishes between Fatah and Hamas have been going on for months, but uh it could be it it could it could get a lot uh bloodier.
Uh Joel says the Mid East peace process, like Sharon, now lies in a coma.
While we wait to see how this shakes out.
We'll be back.
Stay with us, don't go away.
All right, little other uh interesting news that uh, if true, will not come as a surprise to any of us.
It's also out of the Middle East.
According to the New York Sun today, the man who served as a number two official in Saddam Hussein's Air Force says that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.
The Iraqi general George Seda makes the charge in a new book, Saddam's Secrets, released this week.
He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with the New York Sun.
He said there are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria.
They must be found and returned to safe hands.
I'm confident they were taken over.
Mr. Sada's comments come just more than a month after Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi freedom, Moshe Yalan, told the Sun that Saddam transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria.
Now the Democrats have made the absence of all these weapons a theme in their criticism of the president's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003.
Uh President Bush himself has conceded much of the point.
You remember in a televised prime time address last month, he said it's true that many nations believe Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
Much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong.
Bush said we did not find those weapons.
Don't know if we've searched Syria.
Doubt that we have.
The discovery of any such weapons in Syria could alter the American political debate on the Iraq war.
And even the accusation that they are there could step up international pressure on Damascus.
That government led by Bashar Assad already facing a U.N. investigation over its alleged role in the assassination of a former prime minister of Lebanon.
Now, Mr. Seda, 65, and he might pronounce it Saddam, I'm not sure.
He told the New York Sun that the pilots of the two airliners that transported the weapons of mass destruction to Syria from Iraq approached him in the middle of 2004 after Saddam was captured by American troops.
I know them very well.
They're very good friends of mine, he said.
We trust each other.
We're friends as pilots.
He declined to disclose their names, saying that they are concerned for their safety.
But he said that they are now employed by other airlines outside Iraq.
There were 56 flights in total, Mr. Seda said.
They attracted a little notice, a little notice, because they were thought to be civilian flights providing relief from Iraq to Syria, which had suffered a flood after a dam collapse in June of 2002.
Saddam realized this.
This time the Americans are coming.
They handed over the weapons of mass destruction to the Syrians.
Now, there was also an article in the Fall 2005 Middle East Quarterly that reported that in an appearance on Israel's Channel 2, December 23rd of 2002, Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, stated, Now,
I, I for why have we, We've heard this.
This is like this like third or fourth time I've heard this from somebody who claims to have knowledge of it.
And we still don't have any any eyewitnesses to the existence of these weapons in Syria.
I've just like Osama bin Laden, I'm I'm from the school of thought to think the guy is has been dead for quite a while.
I think the everybody knows these weapons existed and they had to go somewhere.
Uh and it would I'm just saying it will not surprise me, folks, uh if they are someplace someday found, uh, particularly in in Syria, not surprise me at all.
And uh it could well be a Carl Rovian plot to have these weapons discovered this year, uh after we have known all this time that they are there.
This is what the Democrats will say if this actually happens.
Here's Mike in Shreeport, Louisiana.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Russ, good to talk to you.
Thank you.
I'd like to get your well, I guess I'd like to get your thoughts on why Bush um takes a stand against Hamas, which I agree with about uh not wanting to work with the station, uh a nation that is uh bent on the destruction of another state.
But he won't take a hard line against Iran.
I've heard Connor Lisa Rice come out and speak out against the statement uh, especially when you know the president and of Iran made this statement a while back.
But Bush doesn't seem to want to come out very hard against Iran.
I'm not so sure it's accurate to say that he's not play taking a hard line against Iran.
I think he and Condoleezza Rice both are.
They've both denounced everything this wacko new president says.
They have both said that in a a nuclear Iran is not going to happen.
Uh I I th, you know, you it's it's a far cry uh from Hamas to Iran.
Uh you know, you could arguably say that Hamas is not yet a nation.
It's just a group of people that want somebody else's land to call their own.
Uh Iran's a different circumstance, and they're they've been a power broker and a power player uh in the Middle East for decades, and so dealing with them is gonna be far different uh than we'll be dealing with somebody like Hamas uh where we have a direct ally Israel, and of course that's affected by uh by Iran too, but I wouldn't I wouldn't agree that he that that he's he's not been as hard line on Iran as uh as he is being on Hamas.
Would you say that he's making two different categories possibly for um and I understand that the diplomacy need the nuances and everything else like that, but I I don't know if it's just me, but I get the feeling that it's uh it's not so much of a double standard, but this is uh an unwillingness, and I understand it's through diplomacy, you might not be able to do that as much, but to say that this is categorically unacceptable, you know, from any nation to even advocate the destruction of another nation.
Well, but you say that look, the fact that Iran's been around a long time, they have diplomatic ties with other countries.
They're they're in bed with China, they are in bed with Russia.
You have to take all that into account in terms of how you publicly deal with them.
And we don't know what's going on behind the scenes, uh, and we never do, totally, uh, in in these circumstances.
But I I I I think there's also the uh the domestic politics of this.
Uh if if the president I guarantee you, that guarantee if the president were rattling the sabers about Iran today as he was about Iraq, you would have a total meltdown on the left.
You would despite El Baradai and all these other people, hey, they're six months away from having a nuclear weapons program.
You would have you'd have a total meltdown.
So there's got to be uh a different way of dealing with this.
And I've look at I I I think that there's a you know, these the president looks at things in a long term, he's very visionary.
And as I have pointed out, you've got uh there there's a right time to do and say something.
Uh right time to do anything, a wrong time to do everything.
You have side by side two illustrations of how to deal with the same problem.
You've got Iraq, and you've got Iran.
The president chose the military angle against Iraq after going to the UN for years.
It's not just the eighteen months that he tried to get permission from the Security Council to have them join us in a coalition to kick Saddam out.
There were all those years of resolutions after the first Gulf War up until the time we went in.
And the and the world was not ready to play ball.
The world wanted to go diplomacy, and we found out that the Germans and the and the French are primary obstacles in the Security Council had deals with Saran and the in with Saddam and the oil for food program.
We had all kinds of sabotage going on.
There were people who had uh invested financially and emotionally uh in Saddam and Iraq, and they didn't want to upset that Apple cart, so they opposed us.
But we finally said, Can I gonna wait anymore?
It's too dangerous after 9-11.
We got a potential threat.
Preemptive actions required.
We've got this evidence and intelligence from all over the world that this guy is trying to reconstitute his nuclear program and blah, blah, blah.
I don't want to recycle all this, but you remember it.
And the president said, I've I've spent all the time I can afford here trying to do this the diplomatic way and put together this giant UN coalition.
But I gotta take action to stop this threat.
Bam o we did.
At the same time, the international community has been dealing with Iran in its chosen way.
And where have they gotten?
Nowhere.
They've gotten absolutely nowhere.
The European Union and all of these diplomats from these various elitist think tanks all over the world were working with uh this El Berada guy that the atomic agency, uh, energy agency at the UN to try to persuade these nut mullash in Iran not to reconstitute, not to expand, not to go weapons grade with their nuclear material.
And while all the talks were going on, while Iran was pretending to play ball, they were go ahead going ahead and advancing their nuclear program, and the the the elitist establishment, pointy headed intellectual elitist technique failed miserably.
You take these two countries side by side, what do you have?
We have an Iraq that no longer poses a threat, and there is no question about it.
They've got a little insurgency going on, and we're fighting terrorists there, but in terms of Iraq posing a threat to the rest of the Middle East or anybody else, they don't.
They have been taken care of.
Iran still does.
So by the time, and there will be a right time to deal with Iran.
The president's well aware of it.
And when that right time comes, we'll have both techniques on display, which ones work, which ones don't.
And that will give even more impetus and justification for an eventual action if it's necessary to deal with the Iranian nuclear problem.
Quick time out, folks, stay with us.
We'll be right back.
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All right, today's morning update.
Uh many of you see it on podcast the day before it airs on the radio via via via video podcast download.
Some of you heard it this morning, some of you may not have heard it.
Uh apparently was prescient.
It was a forerunner to today's New York Times lead editorial.
Of course, our update, far better, far more powerful, and far more to the point.
I'll share with you some excerpts here for the New York Times, and this is a joke when you consider what this paper used to be, or what its image used to be.
This was the paper of reasoned establishment types.
It's been taken over totally by the cockamami lunatic thinking of the fringe left wackos folks, who have come now to not only take over the Democratic Party in the Senate and the House.
Apparently they've taken over the New York Times editorial board.
The headline of their editorial, Senators in Need of a Spine.
They they just, they just they can't believe that they're gonna get another conservative confirmed in a court.
They just can't.
I told you that this is a thing, it's gonna cause them to wake up and realize that they have lost, that they are not the majority, that they are not mainstream, and they don't have the power to stop this.
And they don't know how to deal with it.
They live in their parallel universe, they live in their alternative reality, they live their dreams where despite Republican victories, they still run the show.
They don't.
Judge Alito, whose entire history, listen to this open, suggests that he holds extreme views about the expansive powers of the presidency and the limited role of Congress.
We'll almost certainly be a Supreme Court justice soon.
His elevation will come courtesy of a president whose grandiose vision of his own powers threatens to undermine the nation's basic philosophy of government and a Senate that seems eager to cooperate by rolling over and playing dead.
Shaden Freud going on here, folks, reveling and delighting in the misery of others.
And I can just see it inside the New York Times newsroom.
They've got to be beside themselves.
What kind of extremism is this?
Expansive powers of the presidency and the limited role of Congress.
Do they ever have these concerns when Bill Clinton was president?
No, of course not.
They were concerned about the runaway extremism of Newt Gingrich and the boys.
It is hard to imagine a moment when it would be more appropriate for senators to fight for a principle.
Even a losing battle would draw the public's attention to the import of this nomination.
But portraying the Alito nomination is just another volley in the culture wars vastly underestimates its significance.
The judge's record strongly suggests that he's an eager lieutenant in the ranks of the conservative theorists who ignore our system of checks and balances, elevating the presidency over everything else.
He has expressed little enthusiasm.
No, it it's we just read the Constitution and you guys don't.
Well, we read it and like it.
You guys read it and don't like it.
It's plain that liberals and communists would hate the U.S. Constitution.
It defines the freedom of the people.
It limits.
It limits the power the government.
And the New York Times and other libs just can't come to deal with this.
Judge Alito's refusal to even pretend to sound like a moderate was telling because it would have cost him so little.
They even go after John Roberts here.
He was far more skillful at appearing mainstream.
He's already given indications of whatever he said about the limits of executive power.
Uh uh w uh when he was questioned by the Senate has little practical impact on how he will rule now that he has a lifetime appointment, accusing him of lying to the committee.
Senate Democrats who presented a unified front against the nomination of Alito in the Judiciary Committee seem unwilling to risk the public criticism that might come with a filibuster.
Particularly since there is very little chance it would work.
Judge Alito's supporters would almost certainly be able to muster the sixty senators necessary to put the nomination to a final vote.
A filibuster is a radical tool, but it's easy to see why Democrats are frightened of it.
But from our perspective, there are some things far more frightening, and one of them is Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court.
All right, so that's their lead editorial.
Yesterday is what I said.
The morning update.
And you can see it a video of it, by the way, right now at Rushlimbaugh.com.
Because I always do these things a little different when I'm doing them live on the program because there are no time constraints here, as there are when I'm recording these for our great affiliate radio stations.
The nomination of Sam Alito's now before the entire Senate, and the windbags are blowing again.
Senator Kennedy, the head windbag for the Democrats smear campaign, declared the vote to be one of the most important in history, one that would affect America for generations.
Dick Durbin claimed it's civil rights, women's rights, human rights, workers' rights, all at stake.
Senator Turbin called Sandra Day O'Connor the most important woman in America, because in the last ten years she provided a swing vote in 148 Supreme Court cases.
Diane Feinstein predicted that Judge Alito would overturn Roe vs.
Wade and undermine liberty.
Undermine liberty for American women.
Now, according to these liberals, the stakes are higher than they have ever been.
For millions of Americans, minorities, women, workers, humans.
So I have a question for those of you who go to the polls and put your life and your liberty and your happiness in these Democrats' hands.
If Sam Alito's America is really an America where ten-year-old girls are going to get strip searched, where George Bush will become the unchecked dictator, where the balance of law will be tipped to the wealthy capitalist industrialist pigs at the expense of the poor, the helpless, and the weak.
Then why aren't the Democrats going all out to stop this guy if he's that bad and if he's gonna ruin the country?
If he's gonna take us down a path from which we'll never recover, why aren't you voting again?
Why aren't you going all out to stop him from destroying the country you profess to love?
Why won't you filibuster?
That's what I said yesterday.
Where are your onions?
You have all this talk about what a horrible judge this guy's why it's gonna wreck human rights, monkeys' rights, it's gonna it's gonna wreck civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, gay, it's gonna look everything's all down the everything you've won for 150 years down the tubes.
And you're not willing to go all out.
Stop the guy, right?
I'll tell you why they're not filibustering.
I'll tell you why they don't have the onions.
It's because they're lying about Sam Alito.
He is none of these things.
If he really were these things, they would be filibustering.
They would do, they'd kidnap him.
They'd do anything to keep this guy from getting on the court.
All this tells us is they're making it all up about him.
It's a fine guy.
Back after this.
What the Democrats ought to do is go to Ruth Bader-Ginsburg and say, hey, Ruth, resign.
And then we could put Alito in her place, convince Sandra De O'Connor to stay, and the Democrats could win by saying they save the O'Connor seat.
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