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Feb. 1, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 1, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, now tell me, what time's Cheney coming on?
2.30.
Well, actually, that means 2.33.
Okay, so we got Cheney.
So I knew Cheney was coming on, but nobody told me what time.
For all I knew, he could have been waiting now.
It's kind of like when I got the memo or didn't get the memo, we were all off on January 2nd or 3rd or whatever it was.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
Nice to have you with us.
Here we are, the EIB network and El Rushbo firmly ensconced between the null behind the golden EIB microphone.
I wouldn't mind being between a couple things, but they're not available now.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, rush at EIBNet.com.
Before I get started, folks, I'm just, I have to tell you, I'm bored, silly.
It started yesterday.
The Democrats are boring me.
The liberals and the media, the whole thing, they have become my parodies.
I'm sort of lost.
I mean, they don't even make me mad anymore.
They just, I don't even, I don't even, it's not even worth laughing at them anymore.
They just flat out have become so predictably boring.
That's State of the Union dress last night.
If you only saw it, I mean, if you only heard it on the radio, you didn't really see what the message of the State of the Union was.
We've prepared some sound bites for you.
We haven't done this this way before.
Little short bites of what the president said.
And on each of these bites, the Democrats either remained seated and did not applaud or stood but did not applaud.
I don't think they even stood.
A couple times they stood without applauding, but for the most part, they just sat on their hands.
And it's almost like somebody, and there had to be signals.
There had to be, I was thinking of this.
By the way, Mr. Sturdley, you might know this.
Was Edward R. Murrow gay?
Well, I don't know.
I've never heard it.
Don't misunderstand.
I just looked at the rest of the Oscar nominations and it made me wonder.
What was I saying?
I'm so bored talking about the Democrat.
I forgot what I say.
What was I saying just before the Ed Murrow question?
Yeah.
No, that's not what I was saying.
You've even forgot what I was saying.
It's so boring.
It's what?
What?
Oh, the signals on how to read.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They acted so in unison.
I'm wondering if somebody on the Democrat side was giving out hand signals or if they had a, you know, they had the pre-draft copy or pre-speech copy of the text.
And I wonder if they went through it.
So we'll sit down here, we'll sit down here, or if it was just instinctive.
I think it's, I know, a silly question.
It's purely instinctive.
At any rate, let's get started with this because we've got a lot of other things to do on the program today.
America stands and cheers and the Democrats sit down is the way to cast what happened last night at the State of the Union speech.
And the media spin today on the Democrats sitting and the Republicans cheering is that it demonstrates the partisan divide.
But that's wrong.
The Democrats didn't sit for partisan reasons.
They sat for ideas that any average American sitting in his living room would agree with.
I'm sure there's a partisanship here, but they're trying to blame Bush for the fact that Democrats were rude.
They're blaming Bush for the fact that the Democrats wanted to make it plain as day to the American people that they have nothing in common with most of the people in this country.
Trying to blame Bush on it.
And I'm telling you, these media people are so out of touch.
They do live in a bubble.
They watch that speech and they see something totally different.
They don't see what other people watching that speech saw.
And what we saw was a great, when Bush is walking in after he's been introduced, Mr. Speaker, the president, and all that phony cheering erupts from the Democrats, Nancy Pelosi was stalking Bush.
She was like she wanted a date, like she wanted to have an affair.
And, you know, all these Democrat women wear red in the State of the Union.
Ever wonder what that's all about?
That has to be color coordinated.
Something about red on television.
So nothing's real at this thing last night.
But there was a German Shepherd.
There was a seeing eye dog German Shepard up there in the gallery where Mrs. Bush was.
The dog was more polite to President Bush than to Democrats in the chamber last night.
The dog was paying attention.
Dog even looked eager.
Democrats just have made it a point to look dour, disrespectful, and it is just getting boring.
That's all I can.
But we're going to go through this.
The media looks at this and they just don't see it the way average Americans watching this speech.
So they don't see the same things.
They see the Democrats sitting down, and it's Bush's fault.
Did you hear what happened to Bob Schieffer?
In fact, let's not start with Soundbite 1.
This is, go to Soundbite number 9.
Bob Schieffer, the anchor.
Oh, by the way, have you heard that the cookie cutter, John Roberts, the cookie cutter Ken Dahl, the weekend anchor, CBS News is fleeing CBS to join CNN?
It's a new sitcom called All in the Family.
It doesn't matter what networks these people work at.
Well, John Roberts is upset because he's out of the running for the anchor job.
The new Prez over there at CBS, Sean McManus, says, no, we're not going to pick anybody from inside this unit.
Who the hell would?
We're going to go outside.
Everybody in this unit's been tainted.
Well, he didn't say that, but that's what he means.
I mean, if you were running CBS News, would you pick anybody they currently have working there to make your anchor?
I wouldn't pick Katie Couric either, but still, they're going to go out.
Anyway, thank you.
I see that Cut 9's.
I expect Cut 9 to be ready when I asked for it two minutes ago.
Just be patient, Alderman, and I'll get to it.
All right, now, where was I?
Staff, everybody wants to get into the act.
Oh, yeah, John Roberts goes to CNN, and he's going to report.
And he sent an email to his CBS colleagues.
I will miss you all.
I've developed fine working relationships.
These pompous people and their emails to each other.
Half the people at CBS probably think good.
But anyway, so he's going to go over there.
It is.
It's all in the family.
It doesn't matter what network these people work on.
Nobody's leaving CNN that I know of.
If somebody's leaving CNN, they didn't say so.
He's going to be a roving correspondent in various places.
Don't mention Aaron Brown.
Aaron Brown was down in Palm Beach a couple of days ago or last week and made a speech about how a network news has gone to hell that it's not serious.
It's just a TV ratings game anymore.
And proof is that they got rid of him.
You know, here's a guy can't find a job, can't hold a job, can't find a job out there complaining that the business fired him has gone south.
People just bore me, folks.
I don't know what else to tell you.
Here's what Bob Schieffer said.
They were doing flash polls.
They had a flash poll on people watching the speech or what their opinion of it was.
And Bob Schieffer about chokes on the CBS flash poll results and makes sure to tell everybody, well, you really can't believe these numbers.
77% of the people watching the speech approved it.
Here's the bite.
Now, remember, this does not necessarily reflect the feelings of the country because traditionally, we found out in recent years, more Republicans watch when a Republican makes the speech.
More Democrats watch when a Democrat makes the speech.
But did our viewers tonight approve of President Bush's proposals?
77% approved.
23% did not.
It's got to be tough being in the mainstream media today because daily you are confronted with your ongoing failure and your ongoing irrelevance despite all these five years of trying to gin up genuine hatred for George W. Bush, their own audience, which they have to go out and insult in reporting their own poll shows that 77%.
Well, keep in mind, it's all Republicans.
And what's unsaid.
And you can't trust them.
Republicans, they're just partisan.
Why do it, Bob?
If it's so unscientific, if it's so worthless, why do it?
And then why report it, Bob, you idiot?
Back in just a second.
We are ditto camming today, by the way.
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Anyway, it should be working now.
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I apologize for the problems.
You want to hear one more media take on this.
This is Terry Moran.
You know, I've been watching Terry Moran, and I saw this guy, Jay Carney from Time magazine.
I look at these guys.
I said, are they out of high school yet?
You know, I wonder if they shave.
These young little MTV types.
Just an observation.
And you know, you know the speech was a home run when the media starts asking, is all this even necessary anymore?
And we have a montage here of Moran that was basically, that was his point.
A lot of tonight's words and deeds here in Washington were pretty predictable.
People are beginning to ask a question about these speeches.
What's the point?
Is it really necessary?
In the end, how you view these speeches may depend on how you feel about the president giving them with all the tricks, symbolism, and such.
That means it was a home run, folks.
These guys can't handle it.
You'd never hear them complaining if Bill Clinton did a big home run like this.
Well, the tricks he's talking about are putting a dog up there.
The Iraqis up there with Mrs. Bush.
The family of Sergeant Clay up there, whose letter home was totally, erroneously botched on purpose by those kooks at the New York Times.
And who else was up there?
Mrs. Alito's wife, I think, or Mrs. Alito was up there, although she wasn't called on.
I think I saw her.
That's what they mean by the tricks.
Of course, Reagan started those and they become a copycat item.
Symbolism, all this is, when I hear people are beginning to ask a question, who peep, who people?
What people, Mr. Moran?
Give us a list of names that people start asking this and listen.
I'll bet every damn one of them is a socialist liberal Democrat, either elected to office on a staff of them elected to office or a member of the media.
That's who's asking, do we actually have to sit here and allow this guy to look good?
We have to actually have to broadcast this.
It's our cameras making this guy look good.
They're panicked out there.
All right, now to the actual speech.
America stands and cheers.
The Democrats sit down.
Issue number one, Bush says we are winning.
The Democrats can't stand to hear him say this because they've positioned themselves to benefit only from American defeat.
I am confident in our plan for victory.
I am confident in the will of the Iraqi people.
I am confident in the skill and spirit of our military fellow citizens.
We are in this fight to win, and we are winning.
All right, we've cut the applause on all these to three seconds in the interests of time, but on each one of those, the Democrats sat down and didn't say a word.
They glared.
They looked bored, occasionally would turn and chat amongst themselves.
And this was on full display for everybody watching.
And when you're talking about American victory, when the president's talking about persevering, we will win, talking about all of these things, and the American people see half the House sitting down.
And Bob Schieffer warns us that 77% of the people liking the speech, it really can't be believed because it's mostly Republicans watching.
As I say, why even do the poll, Bob, if you're going to then throw it out as credible, as not credible, why do the poll?
On the off chance that the people would hate Bush.
You know, there was a lot of hope in the media of the Democrats last night, and it didn't, it didn't turn.
By the way, speaking of tricks, speaking of tricks, how about that stunt that Lynn Woolsey tried to pull with Cindy Sheehan?
Now, Lynn Woolsey is a ranking member of Code Pink.
Code Pink's this upper left-wing way.
I mean, and they are pink.
They're so close to red, they're pink.
Sort of like environmentalists, they're watermelons.
They're green on the outside, red on the inside.
And she's a member of Code Pink, and they did disrupt last year's State of the Union speech.
They got 16 tickets last year, and they got in there.
And if you remember, there was some cheering and booing, and people had to be hustled out.
So here's Cindy Sheehan.
Now, oh, question for you.
If you are the Capitol Hill police and it's your job to keep that place secure, and a woman who has said that the president is 10 times the murderer that Saddam Hussein is, that he's Hitler, that if that woman has gotten a ticket to come in, aren't you going to be on your toes?
Now, CNN reported that she unfurled a banner.
Other people say she just wore a T-shirt.
Regardless, none of that is allowed during the state of the year or at any time in the Senate gallery.
It's not a place where you go.
You guys shut up.
I was in the Senate gallery once as a kid.
I'll tell you a little story.
My parents took my brother and I to Washington.
I was could have been more than 10, maybe 12.
And we went to Washington and went to the Senate gallery.
And Barry Goldwater was making a speech on the floor about the Farm Bill, I think.
That's what my dad told me.
Anyway, and I've got some catalog or some programmer pamphlet that I have been given when I walked in, and I'm sitting there turning the pages.
And a page came and took the book away from me because I was creating too much noise.
Made another person spit out their gum.
So this is not new what happened last night with Cindy Sheehan.
They're trying to talk about Bush Gestapo tactics.
The real question is, what kind of stunt and what kind of trick was Lynn Woolsey trying to pull off last night?
That's the real question.
Yeah, they've thrown out Republican Congress.
They've thrown out a Republican congressman's wife.
This is not a new stunt last night, a new thing to happen.
All right, here is soundbite number two.
America stands and cheers.
Democrats sit down.
This is the subject of victory.
The road of victory is the road that will take our troops home.
As we make progress on the ground and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.
But those decisions will be made by our military commanders, not by politicians in Washington, D.C. Once again, once again, the Democrats sat on their behinds.
The whole rest of the chamber stood up in applause.
And that is a good line because you could have finished it this way.
But those decisions will be made by our military commanders, not by politicians in Washington, D.C., Congressman Murtha.
Or throw in any other name.
America stands and cheers.
Democrats sit down.
The subject, the Patriot Act.
The Democrats can't stand the Patriot Act because it violates their terrorist Bill of Rights.
This nation has superb professionals in law enforcement, intelligence, the military, and homeland security.
These men and women are dedicating their lives to protecting us all, and they deserve our support and our thanks.
They also deserve the same tools they already use to fight drug trafficking and organized crime.
So I ask you to reauthorize the Patriot Act.
Run on, run on, run on, run on.
Can't do that, though.
Democrats can't stand up and cheer that because how do you reauthorize the Patriot Act if you're going to give terrorists a Bill of Rights in our attempt to engage in the war on terror?
So there they sat, fat, dumb, and happy, looking like they owned the world last night, not having the slightest idea how they appear to the people of this country.
America stands and cheers.
The Democrats sit down.
Issue number four, terrorist surveillance.
The terrorist surveillance program has helped prevent terrorist attacks.
It remains essential to the security of America.
If there are people inside our country who are talking with al-Qaeda, we want to know about it because we will not sit back and wait to be hit again.
And they sat down!
They remained seated.
They remained seated when the president said we will not be hit again.
I'm telling you, folks, they remain seated.
They didn't stand up.
The whole concept of being hit again, they had to sit down because their base expects them not to be supportive of the surveillance program, you know, domestic spying.
And so Bush, it cleaned their clocks last night.
Folks, there are a lot of Republican bloggers out there talking about what a boring speech this was.
Bush took it to these people.
He handed the Democrats their head on a platter last night.
This is a classic example.
He gives an applause line they can't possibly stand up to because he sets it up in the context of surveillance.
So he's making them look like unsupportive Americans in the concept of a war on terror.
And they didn't have the time to figure out, do we stand up here?
Oh, no, surveillance can't stand up for that.
No, no, no, it's domestic spying.
That'll destroy an issue.
So we got more examples of this, too.
We've got a few more before we finish up with this.
This special treatment will do that.
Continue right after this.
Stay with us.
Just got a quick email note here from my North Carolina mistress.
She says that John Roberts going from CBS to CNN is like getting off the Titanic and hopping on the Andrea Doria.
That's a pretty good description.
All right, we are back.
Here's the telephone number, 800-282-2882, Rushland Ball, America's anchorman, firmly ensconced behind that, the golden EIB microphone.
America stands and cheers.
Democrats sit down.
Issue number five, tax cuts.
Tax relief is set to expire in the next few years.
If we do nothing, American families will face a massive tax increase they do not expect and will not welcome.
Because America needs more than a temporary expansion, we need more than temporary tax relief.
I urge the Congress to act responsibly and make the tax cuts permanent.
Permit me a brief aside here.
I know a lot of you people watching the program or watching or listening to the program saw this State of the Union address last night.
So you've seen the Democrats sit down.
You must understand that this is a purposeful thing.
They want to be seen showing this kind of opposition, disrespect, or what have you.
During, you know, what is largely, I think what they're missing, this is largely an American ceremonial event.
The State of the Union is a ceremonial event.
And it is the height of hypocrisy that the casual observer even can notice.
The president comes in, the whole chamber goes nuts.
They start cheering.
I've always thought that's phony, too, because, you know, I was sending some instant messages with people watching the speech last night.
And at first, every time I see this, the president walks in and the Democrats in this case stood up and cheered.
Here's Pelosi stalking the president.
All these Democrats trying to get close to him and say, so it'll be in the light that he gives off and in the camera shot where he is.
Phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rocking rollers.
They hate his guts.
They have been trying to destroy him for five years.
Now they want to cozy up to him.
And he is as gracious.
He puts it all aside.
He is as gracious to them as he is to his friends, maybe even more so at times.
The first half of this speech I thought was the best.
Frankly, another thing I could do away with his laundry list of stuff that nobody's going to remember, nobody remembers it today, much less two or three days from now.
I don't know where this all got started, but this idea that president stands up there and I think we need to do this.
We need, what did he say?
Cars that run on gas or cars that run on grass?
Grass something, grass wood chips and so forth.
I don't know, he's trying to rope Al Gore in with his speech or Lori David, Hollywood left.
But I could do without that because if he would have stopped after the basic, you know, let me put it this way.
He established, I thought, one of the greatest statements of what this country is, who we are, what we stand for, and where we are going.
He didn't have to get specific with his laundry list of stuff.
Start throwing all that gobbledygook out that nobody's going to remember.
But I mean, that's just, you got to get, it's like 24 has to put love scenes in a show about terrorism.
The president has to put in stuff about giving away things because there is an entitlement mentality in this country.
So he's got to put it in there.
The writer said, now we've got to put it in.
Nobody will remember it.
But the fact that you said it will get credit with the people you switchgrass.
That's the switchgrass to power audible.
I can't wait for that.
Hell, if I know, never heard of switchgrass before.
We're not going to hear of it again.
So that's my point.
But it was a great, great speech.
And the media out there, even some Republicans, was just boring.
And I'll tell you why I thought it was a great speech in addition to all the other things I've said.
Remember, I told you I was at a reception with President Bush three weeks ago now.
And this has happened to me seven or eight times.
He's a totally different guy than when you see him at a press conference or whatever.
Although last press conference out was Buffalo.
Last night was Buffalo.
Last night was as close to the way I know the guy when he's speaking to friends and so forth.
He was relaxed.
He was comfortable.
He was confident.
It was superb.
And so you get the media.
This speech is even really necessary anymore.
They're so predictable.
Everybody knows what's going to happen.
The tricks, the blah, but you know it was a home run.
And if that speech were just 30 minutes shorter, 20 minutes shorter, bam, it would have just been dynamite.
All right, now back to the sound bites.
America stands and cheers.
Democrats sit down, the issue, Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court now has two superb new members on its bench, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito.
Now, I don't expect the Democrats to stand up on that one.
I just expect them to eat the excrement sandwich the president threw at them.
That's what they did.
So that was one time I enjoyed sitting them sit down, seeing them sit down because the president said, here, eat this.
We've got Roberts and Alito on the court and you couldn't stop me.
I mean, he threw down a gauntlet to these people last night.
Two of the justices.
Well, yeah, well, not when you applaud the court.
They will applaud themselves.
Their judges could applaud themselves.
They just can't applaud anybody else or any issues.
But I can applaud the two new judges coming on board.
Sure, absolutely.
Let's see.
Moving on, America stands and cheers.
Democrats sit down.
This just nailed them, folks.
Democrats can't bring themselves to applaud the fact that there are even fewer abortions taking place and that teen pregnancy is down.
I mean, if there was an objective media anywhere, even a media concerned about the plight of the Democrats rather than focused on what they hope to convince people is wrong with Bush.
When the president of the United States, because even the certain members of the pro-abortion crowd love to say, well, we're not really pro-abortion.
We're just for freedom, civil liberties, the rights of a mother, blah, And they go out of the way.
Even Hillary said abortion, we don't want it to happen.
But we can't stand in the way.
So here's a chance.
Okay, abortions are going down in America.
That's something to cheer.
No, not to the Democrats.
America has become a more hopeful nation.
Violent crime rates have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1970s.
Welfare cases have dropped by more than half over the past decade.
Drug use among youth is down 19% since 2001.
There are fewer abortions in America than at any point in the last three decades.
And the number of children born to teenage mothers has been falling for a dozen years in a row.
The Democrats sat on their rear ends.
They didn't, I mean, folks.
I mean, occasionally, well, Ben Nelson would stand up now and then from Nebraska.
There'd be a couple of them like a jack-in-the-box step real quick and then sit right back down.
But it couldn't even because abortion is the sacrament to the religion of feminism.
And the feminists aren't not going to put up with the Democrats standing up and cheering that number.
Bush nailed them.
He made them look like exactly who they are last night.
That's why this thing was such a big home run.
Now, there was a time of the Democrats, there was an instance when they stood up, they just cheered as loud as they did all night.
Congress did not act last year on my proposal to save Social Security.
Yay!
They stood up and cheered.
And then Bush had a couple lines after that that just nailed them.
We haven't done anything to fix this that's coming down the pike.
This big problem coming down the pike.
He went on to nay, they stood up too soon.
Here they are standing up, applauding the lack of progress.
So that's how I saw it.
I wanted to put it together this way because that's what I saw last night in addition to what I heard.
Quick phone call or two here, Cliff in Portland, Oregon.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Mega out-of-control dittos from Portland, Oregon, where literally three-quarters of the city's citizens still have carry Edwards buffer stickers on their cars.
It's amazing.
Well, you got to feel sorry for them.
I do.
It's just so funny.
But the reason I called is regarding, I think you called it issue number four.
That was the surveillance wiretapping part.
I was watching the whole thing on Fox, and right as I'm pretty sure it was on that one, they showed the gum tour, and she was rolling her eyes and had a mocking laughter smile on her face when he was saying all this.
It was amazing.
Yeah, well, let me explain what Hillary was reacting to there because the little-known fact is that Bush made reference to previous presidents having done exactly what he's done.
And Mrs. Clinton heard, without his name being mentioned, his name.
And the Democrats are trying to set Bush up as a criminal, that he has broken the law.
And so by invoking all these past presidents, not by name, but saying, hey, we've all done it before, he is, he brought Bill Clinton into it.
And Hillary doesn't like it when her husband's name gets made.
There was another instance.
Bush told a joke about, what was the line?
He had a joke about Clinton being his, you know, my brother and I both turned 60 this year, Bill Clinton, and they cut to Hillary, and she was not laughing.
She was glaring because I'm telling you, folks, she is sick and tired of her husband being the butt of all these jokes.
Not sick and tired because it's unfair, but sick and tired because it's warranted.
And it's just embarrassing to her.
So Bush got her twice last night, too.
Now, this was, I mean, here's, you want Hillary looking that way, Cliff.
That's the way she really is, chewing gum during the State of the Union address and glaring at the President of the United States.
It was a home run.
I got to run.
Quick timeout.
Don't go away.
All right, I got to make a correction here, getting all kinds of grief in the email when I said that the German shepherd up there in the gallery near Mrs. Bush last night was seeing eye dog.
It wasn't a seeing eye dog.
It was a bomb-sniffing dog that was injured in Afghanistan.
The dog was given a discharge to be with its handler, who was also injured in the same incident.
So I apologize.
I didn't mean to insult the dog for calling it a seeing eye dog.
It was a soldier dog, a combat dog.
I don't care.
It still showed the president more respect than any of the Democrats did.
The commentary from the media prior to the speech last night, did you hear how Stephanopoulos opened World News tonight?
The country is just in a sour mood.
That's how they opened World News Tonight.
I was feeling pretty good until I saw Stephanopoulos say the country's in a sour mood.
Now I'm sour.
Now I'm bored now everything else because Stephanopoulos led that way.
And there was some jerk on CNN, and I don't know who it was.
In the remaining seconds before the president was introduced, said it was impossible for the president to do a positive speech because we live in times of such pessimism, gloom, and despair.
Not possible to do a positive speech.
And then, of course, we get Bob Schieffer and Terry Murijer.
Let's play 9 and 10 again.
This is hilarious.
This is Bob Schieffer announcing the results of a flash poll that CBS did during this time of gloom, doom, and pessimism.
CBS did a flash poll, and he almost chokes here reporting this.
Now, remember, this does not necessarily reflect the feelings of the country because traditionally, we found out in recent years, more Republicans watch when a Republican makes the speech, more Democrats watch when a Democrat makes the speech.
But did our viewers tonight approve of President Bush's proposals?
77% approved.
23% did not.
Bob, let me give you a clue.
I don't know any Republicans that watch CBS anymore.
I'll bet there aren't a whole lot of Republicans that waste their time watching CBS anymore.
And the only time they would watch is if I was on it.
And since that's not going to happen, CBS has no hope with Republicans.
So why report it, Bob?
If you're going to go on and discredit your own poll and say it's not even worth it, you can't count on it, then why even do it if you know full well that your sample is so stacked?
This is clearly not what they expected to get.
And here's our montage of Terry Moran of ABC.
And of course, I said when they say this, you know the speech was a home run.
A lot of tonight's words and deeds here in Washington were pretty predictable.
People are beginning to ask a question about these speeches.
What's the point?
Is it really necessary?
In the end, how you view these speeches may depend on how you feel about the president giving them with all the tricks, symbolism, and such.
Yeah, like Cindy Sheehan trying to cause a protest up in the gallery.
So are these, and who?
Who people?
Who people, Mr. Moran?
Who's beginning to ask questions about these speeches?
What's the point?
Is it really necessary?
Tell us who.
This is anecdotal storytelling rather than reporting the news.
And then Ashley Wilkes, the esteemed General Wesley Clark on Hannity and Colms last night after the State of the Union speech.
Combs said to him, Bush said that we're on the offensive in Iraq with a clear plan for victory.
But again, I didn't hear what the plan was.
Alan.
Alan, we love you here.
But if you, if you, how, of all the things, how do you not know what the plan is?
Alan, the line is you disagree with the plan.
It's not that there isn't one.
You guys are the ones that have a plan about anything.
Anyway, here's what Ashley Wilkes said.
When you use phrases like offensive, well, you know, we're not going to go down.
I hope we've gotten over this sort of kicking in the doors and roughing up the women that some people said that we did some of.
Some people?
I remember who said it.
There is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, women, breaking sort of the customs of the historical customs, religious customs, whether you like it or not.
Iraqis should be doing that.
Yes, Iraqis ought to be doing the terrorism, not U.S.
So here's Ashley Wilk last night.
Well, you used the phrase like offensive.
He's a former general.
Offensive.
Well, you know, we're not going to go down.
I hope that we've gotten over this kicking down the doors and roughing up the women.
Oh, and then, as you know, my friends, I have a spy who is on the moveon.org mailing list.
And listen to this.
Dear Pete, this is a moveon.org mass mailing that went out.
With President Bush's State of the Union address last night and the confirmation of Sam Alito, it can feel like a dark moment.
But here's the important thing to remember, Pete.
The 2006 elections are only a few months away.
And if we keep our eyes on that goal, we're in a position to win big.
So instead of griping about the lies and inaccuracies of the president's speech last night, admitting there weren't any, we're going to go on offense big time.
We're going to start kicking down the doors and beating up the women.
No, he didn't say that, but if Wesley Clark read this, I'm sure Wesley Clark's on the mailing list.
Probably had that thought cross his mind.
We're going to go on offense big time.
We have a new plan.
We have a new plan to change control of Congress in 2006.
3 million of us on this email list.
If we all commit ourselves to making this happen, Pete, it'll happen.
But we need to start now.
Victory this fall won't be easy.
It'll require people on the ground, ads in the air, and of course, money to pay organizers.
So this week, we're aiming to take the fight to the Republicans by raising the first $250,000 for our plan.
It's just $2,500 of us.
Contribute $100.
We can do it.
Will you join us, Pete?
Our goal is to raise $250,000 before tomorrow night.
I didn't read the whole letter.
I don't know what the plan is.
I don't know if they actually get to the plan, but anyway, the State of the Union, another evidence, a bit of evidence.
It was just a Grand Slam home run last night.
Quick timeout.
Stay with us, my friends.
I'm going to apologize here in advance, folks.
As you know, I'm bored silly with the Democrats.
I got a couple of John Kerry says that only two that we have.
Yeah, thank goodness.
Only two of them.
You have to hear them.
I'm sorry, but they're coming up.
And I just wanted to give you ample warning.
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