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Feb. 1, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 1, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Boy, I about panicked here a moment ago.
I thought I had three more John Kerry soundbites to go when I told you there were only two.
But I was right.
There are only two.
Two more John Kerry bites to go.
And doozies.
But it's still boring.
These people, they have become my parodies.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, my friends.
It's a delight to have you with us.
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All right, let's just keep rolling here.
On the Today Show Today, the perky one, Katie Couric, interviewing Senator Lurch.
And she says, Senator Kerry, in our latest NBC News Wall Street Journal poll, 63% of those asked that the Democrats are doing a poor job at presenting a clear agenda and putting forth new ideas.
That's 63%, Senator.
It's a pretty sizable number of people, Senator.
If the President and the Bush administration had such a rocky year in 2005, why weren't the Democrats able to capitalize on that in a more effective way?
Katie, it's very difficult.
Just take a look at last night.
For response, which I thought the governor did a good job with, we get about 10 minutes compared to the president's hour.
Most people aren't watching.
All of you commentators are busy commentating.
Oh, you can't blame it all on the media, Senator Konny.
What I'm saying is, of course, we're to blame too.
We need to do a better job.
He wouldn't have blamed himself if she hadn't called him on it.
So here's Lurch blaming the media.
Senator, if it weren't for the media, you people would be in your coffins already.
The media, the only thing keeping you afloat.
The media is promoting your dreams, promoting your illusions, promoting your delusions, promoting this alternative universe you people live in.
You believe Bush has had a bad year, but he hasn't.
Bush has had a fabulous year, but you've got it in your heads that with all that you've done, that he should have had a bad year, so he had a bad year, but he didn't.
He had a fabulous, yet a great year, and this one's going to be even better.
Now, about this response last night, this is a new governor.
What's his name out there?
Timothy Kaine, New Virginia governor Timothy Kaine.
And I have a story on this from Liz Sadoti or Saddafi.
I'm not sure how she pronounces it, from the Associated Press.
And it says, Democrats, who hope to regain control of the House and Senate this year, countered President Bush's take on the state of the nation, saying there is a better way to govern.
We don't know what it is, but there has to be a better way.
Governor Timothy Kaine said the federal government should serve the American people, but that mission is frustrated by this administration's poor choices and bad management.
Families in the Gulf Coast see that as they wait to rebuild their lives.
Americans who lose their jobs as they look to rebuild their careers.
As Americans, we do agree.
10 minutes and the one thing Kerry got right, nobody was listening.
Do we have soundbites of this guy?
We do.
We have one soundbite of this guy.
It was a disastrous rebuttal.
I mean, it was no more than soup line America again.
Now, this theme, where have you heard this, Mr. Snerdley?
There is a better way.
Where have you heard this?
Where have you heard this?
That's right.
Kennedy used that, but the Democrats don't know that.
I reminded everybody that Kennedy used that.
I remember the 1960 campaign.
And we're coming off some pretty prosperous years of Eisenhower.
And the Democrats back then weren't in this mold that they're in today.
They were more optimistic.
So the basic theme of the Kennedy campaign was, hey, yeah, things are going great, but we can do better.
We can do even better.
Now, saying there is a better way is not saying we can do it.
They still didn't get it right.
So don't fret over this.
There's a better way.
There's a better way.
Yeah, we got to look at America and see what it isn't and then deal with problems that don't exist because that's all we know how to do because all we know of are problems that we created and came up with programs to fix that failed and that kept us in power.
So we want to create the same problems all over again and never solve them and tell voters that we are in the process of solving them and that'll keep us in power.
And that's their new way.
Their new way is to go back and recreate the history of 30 to 50 years ago.
Sorry, Governor, it won't fly.
They sent you out there and you had no chance.
Mr. Snerdley, Snerdley, Snerdley is telling me he couldn't get past the guy's eyebrows last night.
Well, you know, I have to admit something, too.
I normally, you know, we're all raised when we're young children, ladies and gentlemen, we're not to make fun of people's appearance and we're not to notice it and we're not to certainly not judge people on the basis.
But ever since I read that Ariana Huffington, the left-wing blogs were just livid that this guy had been chosen because he was fat, because he looked dumb, and because he was just a recently elected governor, who the hell is he?
They wanted a Michael Moore type out there.
I was forced because of their insult of his appearance, I was forced to notice it last night.
And I noticed the big eyebrows and so forth.
They were distracting.
You see, some eyebrows that big, you are distracted from what you're hearing.
But alerts got it right.
Nobody's watching.
I don't think the last 15 minutes is a speech many people.
The time you get to the laundry list, who cares?
Nobody knows them.
Everybody knows that laundry list is never going to materialize.
It's not going to happen.
Facts, speaking, I still can't get over this.
Last State of the Union, Bush talked about the hydrogen car.
We're all scratching our heads.
I think I figured it out, though.
He's just putting this stuff in there to ameliorate everybody in the audience.
You've got to give everybody something in a State of the Union address, even the environmentalist wackos.
So last night, he starts talking about a new fuel to power our cars called switchgrass.
It's a combination of grass and wood chips.
Not long after that, by the way, if this ever comes to pass, grass will go on the endangered species list.
Do we have more grass or we have more oil?
What are the odds you're going to run out of grass before we run out of oil?
Anyway, so I'm watching CNN International here during the break at the top of the hour.
They've got some BI itch from the, let me just say it.
Let me just looking at her.
It's a BI itch.
She's from the Friends of the Earth.
This is typical of George Bush.
It is nothing.
It's nothing new.
We hang out.
My gosh, he's just offered you switchgrass.
You people ought to be having moldable orgasms.
It was a hydrogen car last year.
Switchgrass cars this year.
Bush did nothing new.
Said nothing new.
He didn't offer anything new.
One more carry soundbite.
This folks is inexplicable to me.
Katie says to him, well, now the president said last night that he wants to train 70,000 additional teachers in math and science.
And that's terrific.
Oh, no.
What happened, Aldemont?
Cart cut out.
Did the cart die?
Can we recue it and play it again?
Or is the cart, did the tape break?
What happened up there?
We're recuing it right now, so we'll give it a shot.
Maybe that's all the machine could handle itself of hearing Kerry, folks.
I wouldn't blame it.
They say these machines have brains, these integrated circuit boards.
Let me know when it's ready there, Aldermont.
I'll give you a little heads up what's coming here in case the tape refuses to play or the machine refuses to play the tape.
Kerry totally makes up a bunch of numbers and statistics about how many people don't graduate from high school in this country.
Is it ready yet, Altamont?
That's what I, well, I knew it folding.
I've been in this business long enough to know when a cart dies.
So the machine refused to play it, but that's okay because we have transcript backup.
Here is what Kennedy said, or Kerry said.
The question was, President said he wanted to train 70,000 additional teachers in math and science.
And Kerry said, well, that's terrific, Katie, but 53% of our children are not graduating from high school.
Kids don't have after-school programs.
Only 9% of the people eligible in America will be able to get Pell Grants this year.
And for the fifth year in a row, they're not going to raise the amount of money to help kids who have a 57% increase in their cost of education to be able to pay for it.
Fact is, what he's doing is fiddling at the margins.
Hey, remember the 100,000 cops program of Bill Clinton, which was never a genuine program.
Oh, there's a wonderful 100,000 cops.
Everybody praised it.
If the Democrats think that education is so rotten, they really have only themselves to blame.
They're the ones that prop up these public schools that are in trouble.
But wouldn't 70,000 teachers in math and science be greeted?
I mean, if you're intellectually honest, if you're really thinking about a problem education, we're going to have 70,000 new math and science teachers.
That's just tinkering at the margins.
Here are the actual numbers.
Kerry's 53% claim.
By the way, that 53%, it means that only 47% of students graduate from Haskrule in this country.
And that number, of course, dead wrong.
It conflicts with the recent press release from the U.S. Census Bureau.
High school graduation rates reach all-time high.
The Census Bureau's own website states that 85.9% of Americans age 20 to 24 are Haskruel graduates.
I looked at it today, 2106.
Drudge has the link to the U.S. Census Bureau website if you want to check it yourself.
But I mean, it's stunning to me.
Just make this stuff up.
Now, where does he come up with the fact that only 47% of American high school students graduate from high school?
It has to just be making it up.
I think, you know, you can go to individual cities and find a number like that.
Wasn't long ago I saw a number.
The New York public school system has a 50% dropout rate among minorities.
And some other cities in the country have a dropout rate that reaches that among minorities.
But the graduation rate nationwide, he doesn't have any idea what he's talking about.
And yet they continue to send him out to be an official, or else he maneuvers himself into these positions before they can stop him, which probably really what's happening.
Got to go quick time out.
Back in just a sec, folks.
I have an idea, folks.
I got to keep up coming up with ideas for these people because they're getting boring and they're getting predictable.
I have an idea for the next time there's a presidential speech that the Democrats get to respond to.
Because sending this guy out there is not the answer.
In fact, there's no one Democrat anymore who can do it.
I'll get to it in just a second.
But first, we have a soundbite here from cute little baby fat Mary Landrieu.
I mean, when this speech was over, she made a B-line like Pelosi did before the speech to get over there and to hug President Bush.
But today, on CNN's American morning, she's out there lashing him again.
Soledette O'Brien said, what did you want to hear from the president?
What did you hear?
We wanted to hear more from the president.
165 words out of over 5,000 and sort of tucked into the last paragraph or two of the speech is not what the people of Louisiana or the Gulf Coast expected.
We would like to see revenue sharing, part of the money that we send to the National Treasury from offshore oil and gas drilling that actually keep these lights on this morning.
If we could use a portion of that to rebuild the Gulf, we could do it leading the way ourselves.
280,000 American taxpaying homeowners have lost their homes, and all we get is 165 words.
I mean, the president needs to focus on America, maybe less international and more right here at home.
Well, you know, interesting story here.
Mrs. Ms. Landrew, because it's not her married name, a ranking Louisiana health official turned down federal offers to help move or evacuate patients as Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans and newly released document shows.
But the state's top medical officer said Louisiana coordinated with the Federal Health and Human Services Department in evacuating hospitals and nursing homes after Katrina hit.
Two days before the storm, the HHS was told by the state of Louisiana's Health Emergency Preparedness Director that help wasn't needed.
According to an email released Monday by a Senate panel investigating the government's response, the state official identified in the August 27th email as Dr. Roseanne Pratts responded, nope, they don't require anything at this time, and then they would be in touch if and when they needed assistance.
This was written by HHS senior policy analyst Aaron Fowler.
But in an interview Monday night, Louisiana Medical Director Dr. Jimmy Guidry said that HHS was helping state officials plan for evacuating hospitals and nursing homes by the eve of the storm.
They sent people to help us out.
They helped us get all those assets lined up.
Anyway, Ms. Landrieu, you've gotten a lot more than 165 words on this whole thing from the president, and a lot.
You've gotten a lot of dollars from the American people.
The big problem they face down there is that so many of the people that left don't want to go back, which frankly surprises me.
I mean, New Orleans was a liberal panacea.
Democrat mayor, Democrat governor, Democrat miss.
They would think that people would be dying to get back to a place where there's no racism, no poverty, no homophobia, no bigotry, no hatred, plentiful jobs.
Isn't that what liberalism offers and promises and says they will achieve?
They would think everybody would be dying to get back to New Orleans and rebuild the shining lib city on a hill.
Baffles me.
All right.
We have one bit of tape here from the Democrat response.
Tim Kaine, new governor of Virginia, disastrous rebuttal, soup line America again.
His theme is there is a better way.
We'll just give you one little portion, what he said with the hope here that our tape machine will not reject this guy like it just rejected John Kerry.
Our federal government should serve the American people.
But that mission is frustrated by this administration's poor choices and bad management.
Families in the Gulf Coast see that as they wait to rebuild their lives.
Americans who lose their jobs see that as they look to rebuild their careers.
And our soldiers in Iraq see that as they try to rebuild a nation.
As Americans, we do great things when we work together.
Some of our leaders in Washington seem to have forgotten that.
I want to offer some good news tonight.
There is a better way.
It's all BS, folks.
It's just, it's worth what it's costing you to hear this.
Zero.
Zip Zero Nada.
There's a better way.
We have a plan.
The problem is nobody heard the plan for two reasons.
A, they fell asleep.
And B, he didn't tell us what the plan was or is.
They don't have any new ideas.
They just hate Bush.
And their hate for Bush is so profound.
They look out over America and they see nobody working together.
Greatest economy we've had in a long, long time.
Nobody.
As I say, it's just boring.
And then David Rodham Gergen, he was on CNN last night.
And get, I don't know what he's on, and I don't know what he's listening to, but listen to this.
This is the first.
Sorry.
Did the machine reject him?
Same machine.
We have got a machine in protest.
What?
You going to try it a different machine?
We have a machine in protest that refuses to play John Kerry and now David Gergen.
It's not the cart.
We've got, what would you call this?
We've got a work stoppage on the part of one of our machines.
Are you ready?
Okay, here's, we're going to give it a shot at another machine.
This is the first year where the Democrats are finding their voice.
And I thought tonight that Tim Kaine gave a surprisingly effective response.
How does he repeat this stuff with a straight face?
How does he keep getting on these television shows with commentary like that?
The Democrats are finding their voice.
This is the first year where the Democrats, we're into February 1st, we've got a month that the Democrats have found their voice.
Who?
I thought tonight Tim Kaine gave a surprisingly effective response.
What's surprising is that you think it was effective.
Anyway, as I say, folks, it's now evident that not one Democrat can do this.
They need sort of like a round robin, a number of people to do a response to a President Bush speech of any kind.
Here's who I would suggest.
The next time there is an opportunity or demand that the Democrats respond to a speech by the president, that they line up first, get the Al Jazeera reaction, then go get the president of Iran's reaction.
He sounds a lot like Democrats.
And then go get Hugo Chavez, put him on the roundtable, give Michael Moore a minute or so, and then you wrap it up with Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry and Al Gore and Kerry.
And they could all flip coins, see who gets to go last, because that's the power position in one of these things.
But I mean, you start with Al Jazeera, the president of Iran, put Saddam in there, too, because Saddam is good at Democrat talking points, because it's clear that Kane can't do it.
Gergen doesn't know a good one when he hears it, or a bad one when he hears it.
And it's just obvious that there isn't one Democrat anymore qualified to deal with all this.
Once again, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rushland bought talent on loan from God.
A lot of people out there, just check the email.
A lot of people just outraged at Mary Landrew whining and moaning and all she got is 165 words in the State of the Union speech.
How many billions in federal and private money have been poured into New Orleans?
And this is the thanks everybody gets.
A comment like this from one of the most dopey members of Congress.
Well, seriously, 165 words, all she got's 165 words.
What are these people?
Within months, their hands are out to the tune of 250, what, million?
That's what Mary Landrew and so wanted.
Was it no?
She wanted, that's right, it was billion.
That's right.
They want 250 billion.
You're right, Snurdley.
You're right.
I had forgotten it was billion with a B, not 250 million.
He's all upset.
I don't think they've gotten $250 billion.
How much have we sent?
Okay, $85 billion.
$85 billion.
And haven't there been stories that some of it hasn't even been spent yet or used or allocated or whatever?
Now, this guy, Kane, I'm really wondering about David Gergen.
I think it's a sign of sheer desperation to go on television.
Yeah, Democrats finding their voice.
I think it's a surprisingly effective job.
The guy has called for $4 billion in new taxes in Virginia within hours of his inauguration, 19 days ago.
$4 billion in new taxes.
And I think during the campaign, he talked about not raising to $4 billion.
I mean, the guy is an absolute disaster.
He was awkward.
He was bureaucratic.
He was ineffective.
But the thing is, compared to Howard Dean, he was a standout.
Why are they hiding Howard Dean?
We enjoy Howard Dean watching it flipping out.
First, they hide his wife, and now they're hiding him.
Actually, they haven't hidden him.
Well, they have.
They put him on NBC.
I take it back.
He is still hidden.
He was on hardball last night.
Let's go to 18 and 19.
Now, Aldermont, have you identified that you know which machine's acting up, right?
All right.
It's no, Don't put, we've got to learn from that machine.
Don't pull that machine out.
Tell engineering to wait till after the program.
We got an insurgent machine there.
It's refusing to play our Democrat soundbites.
That machine knows something.
That machine heard me say that I am bored.
That machine is trying to hang on and stay in the stack.
I want you to keep using that machine.
You haven't pulled it out of there yet, have you?
No.
Oh, they're.
Pulled it out.
God.
That's I'm afraid of.
This thing is being re-educated.
This thing is getting a new brain.
They have a machine.
It finally shows some promise.
It chews up libs, folks.
I got a machine that's eating liberals.
And they pull it out.
You know, I can't blame them.
I mean, people are trying to do what they think I would want done, but if they would have asked us, they kept the machine.
Well, anyway, we'll see what flies here.
Maybe another machine can pick up the slack.
Chris Matthews says to Howard Dean, this is after the State of the Union speech.
Is it good for your party to have someone speak rather moderately and perhaps too moderately, like Governor Kaine of Virginia, who really didn't stick it to the president on the most critical issue in the country today, which is the war?
And then you have somebody out in the galleries who's going to get all the media attention.
Is it good for your party to have somebody like Cindy Sheehan stealing the spotlight from party spokesperson?
I think it's pretty hard to steal the spotlight from a governor who's accomplished as much as he had.
I thought Tim did a terrific job in a very thoughtful, moderate way, highlighting the differences between this president and the Democratic Party.
From a governor who's accomplished as much as he had?
He's been in office since he's been in office 19 days.
How do you measure anybody's okay?
Next question.
Matthews says there were divisions clearly in the hall tonight of the House of Representatives where you could see actually Republicans cheering like mad and the Democrats not doing that.
Patriot Act, what's the difference between the two parties on that issue?
There's some issues that have to do with following the Constitution with upholding the rights of ordinary Americans to go about their business.
For example, we don't think the president ought to be able to spy on people who use libraries and randomly go through whatever they ask for.
But I think the problem is the Democrats and I think the American people are out of patience with this president.
This is why I'm bored.
There's just no There's this, you know, I've always said during the course of hosting this program, a lot of you people say, well, how come you don't take more calls?
And I say, well, frankly, not everybody is a good call.
And I've, you know, I've made it a point I learned long ago, don't hang around with idiots.
I'm not calling callers idiots.
I'm going back to Dean.
Don't hang around with idiots because they affect your own IQ.
The more you hang around with idiots, the more likely you are to become one.
So I try to avoid these people are just flat out insane.
You know, I'm already, I feel like I'm dangerously close to needing a little van to come pick me up with the guys in little white coats getting out of it, having to listen to this garbage every day and comment on it.
Two of the most nonsensical answers to two stupid questions, two stupid answers.
And it's getting worse.
It is getting worse.
Now, Dianne Feinstein last night, she was forced to explain the behavior of her primary opponent, Cindy Sheehan.
Chris Matthews interviewed her, said Cindy Sheehan was taken into custody tonight, the gallery, because she was wearing a t-shirt that said 2045, how many more?
That's obviously a reference to those Americans killed in Iraq.
Do you think getting arrested is a good way to develop a campaign against you for the Democratic nomination next time?
I don't think so.
But that'll stand on its own.
Okay, so more brilliance here.
I mean, here is a woman that the Democratic base reveres.
This is their Madonna.
Cindy Sheehan is their Virgin Mary.
And here's Dianne Feinstein forced to diss a favorite daughter of the Democratic Party and ending up laughing at her.
I will tell you, my friends, out there on the left-wing blogosphere and some of these other kook Looney Tunes websites, Diane Feinstein not doing herself any favor here by answering in such a way that provokes laughter at Mother Sheehan.
Diane should have gone down there and oh, speaking of it, folks, have you heard this?
Andrea Yates got bail.
The woman in Texas who killed her five kids, $200,000 bail.
So all she got to do is come up with $20,000.
And she's out to walk in.
Now, I'm going to Houston Saturday.
I'm rethinking it.
If she comes up with the $20,000, nobody's safe.
Well, people are saying, but Rush, but Rush, she'll never see her children again.
I wonder why.
I'll never forget the jury in the Menendez trial.
Couldn't convict old Lyle, even though he admitted blowing his own mother up point-blank range with a shotgun.
Made a special trip to the car to get the shotgun after the first time she wasn't dead.
The juror went on Oprah somewhere.
Such a nice boy.
He's not going to ever have his mother now.
Why?
He's the one that just killed her.
Let's go to the phones quickly before we have to take a quick timeout.
Sheboygan, I've always loved the name Sheboygan.
When I was growing up in my little town of Cape Girarda, for some reason, the weatherman, Don McNeely, always told us what it was in Sheboygan.
Wait a minute.
Is it Michigan or Wisconsin?
Oh, there's a Sheboygan.
Well, okay.
That's what I thought.
Sheboygan in Wisconsin spelled with an S, and it was always the Sheboygan, Wisconsin that Don McNeely told us low overnight, not Sheboygan, Michigan.
This is Mike.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hell, Megan Didditz Rush.
Hey.
What is your insight into the absence of Mr. Kennedy or am I an idiot?
You know, frankly, I didn't even know he wasn't there.
Are you sure he wasn't there?
I didn't see him anywhere.
Well, that doesn't mean much.
They don't put cameras in the Senate bar.
That could be true.
Or he might have been passed out under the chair.
I mean, there could be any, or he could not have been there, too.
I mean, it's a distinct possibility.
What's that?
Blood pressure problems.
No, if he wasn't there, it's just pure unadulterated childishness.
It's nothing more than that.
I was reading some TV blogs this morning, and it seems like all these people are upset with the direct.
If you wonder, folks, there's one every year they rotate this.
There's one or two cameras in there, and they have one director that cuts the program, that directs the program.
And last night it was somebody from CNN.
And I guess this rotates.
But it's pool coverage.
All the networks get the same camera angles, the same shots, save expenses, and so forth and so on.
And I don't really know why I didn't pay much attention to these.
Some of these people were really complaining that it was directed horribly, such as when they shot, when they changed from President Bush, he'd say something, say about AIDS, and they cut to John Kerry sitting there.
And the complaint was, Kerry hasn't done anything about AIDS.
Why did they cut away to Kerry?
Those kinds of complaints.
So my point is: if the director was not good, and I, you know, who knows?
Who cares?
Maybe Kerry or Kennedy was there.
They just didn't find him.
You know, I don't know that he wasn't there, but the fact that I didn't even notice that till you called illustrates one thing.
I don't care, and I didn't miss him.
Back in a sec.
Here's an interesting headline in the Washington Times about the State of the Union speech last night by Bill Salmon.
Well, the story is by Bill Salmon and Joseph Curl.
The headline, Bush calls for an optimistic America.
President Bush last night implored the nation to reject the idea that our culture is doomed to unravel.
Addressing a joint session of Congress just hours after the swearing in of Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito, Mr. Bush said the bitter partisanship that has cleaved the two parties is leading to a defeatism that endangers the nation.
But Democrats taunted him on that very topic by cheering and applauding when Mr. Bush noted Congress did not act last year on my proposal to save Social Security.
So this story is missing a subheadline.
Headline, good headline.
Bush calls for an optimistic America.
The subhead should be, Liberals Demand More Pessimism.
By the way, I got an email note from somebody saying that he thinks that Ted Kennedy was there, saw Ted Kennedy.
Not sure.
Could have been Senator Debbie Stabenow from Michigan.
She looks a lot like him.
But he thinks that he saw Kennedy.
April in Crossville, Tennessee.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Yes.
I was surprised last night that I could even hear President Bush's speech.
I thought for sure he was going to be drowned out by pots and pans.
And after the speech, I flipped around.
I thought for sure the media would have been there showing us those protesters.
And I didn't see them on any channel.
Yeah, no, I'm just like you.
I wondered where the pots and pans protest was.
I'm surprised it didn't get any coverage.
There were some people, some 60s retreads, we talked about this yesterday, that were going to gather outside the Capitol and bang pots and pans together in an effort to drown out the president's speech.
And I didn't see this is unacceptable media bias because I didn't see one shred of reporting on this worthwhile protest.
I didn't see it.
No, that would have made today interesting for me.
I looked for it and I wanted to see it, but they didn't give it to us.
Well, maybe somebody was there.
I don't know.
Maybe somebody was there.
Maybe somebody caught it somehow.
If it actually happened, somebody got it, and we will learn soon.
Okay, great.
All right.
Thanks, April.
Yeah, Steve in Birmingham, Alabama.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Good.
Thank you, sir.
Mega Dittos.
Thank you.
With respect to this, the Dems cheering that they blocked Social Security reform, how long till they realize how bad that made them look and then claimed that it was a Rovian scheme to unfairly embarrass them.
Never.
Never.
If after five years, they don't know how bad they look, they're not going to learn for anything last night.
It's impossible.
I mean, when you look at the press reporting of this speech, the president can't possibly give an optimistic speech.
There's too much doom and gloom.
Bush had a horrible year last year.
Well, there's only one explanation for this.
They're living in an alternative universe.
They've set up a competing reality.
And they've tried so hard to convince people that Bush is having bad years, that Bush sucks, that Bush is horrible, that they've come to believe it.
They think they still have the power to bend and shape public opinion as they used to be able to do.
And so they actually think, they actually think Bush is taking it on the chin.
They've just lost two Supreme Court fights.
They've lost a lot of legislative battles.
They think they've succeeded in stopping some.
But the fact is they can't win elections, and yet somehow they think they're winning.
They think they got Bush on the ropes.
I'm watching Bush do a speech now.
He's at Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
He's doing a speech, and I haven't been able to listen to any of it, obviously, because it's on now, but people have been emailing me about it that it is just he's kicking butt and taking names.
That is just a fact.
And he's been at it here for at least an hour, 45 minutes.
And I'm sure we'll have some sound bites of this tomorrow as we cull through it.
But I mean, this is what I say.
They're getting boring.
They have become my parodies.
They're not going to realize they goofed up.
They're sitting around all day thinking they scored big home runs last night with these antics of theirs of sitting down during a discussion of victory, of sitting down during a discussion of freedom, of sitting down during a discussion of cultural improvements, like fewer abortions, fewer teen pregnancy.
Sit down on that.
Like sitting down during a discussion of Iraqi success, sitting down during the discussion of security in this country.
I mean, they think they hit home runs.
I'm not lying to you, folks.
I know it sounds incomprehensible to you.
But why do they keep doing these things?
If it's so obvious to us that they have made fools of themselves, they obviously keep doing these things because they think it's working.
I can't explain it.
Don't ask me to anymore.
Well, just when you think it can't get any more ridiculous, it gets more ridiculous.
From www.delawareonline.com comes this headline.
Biden says White House bid more likely.
You people understand just what fun the year 2008 is going to be.
Can you just wait for these debates?
I mean, the rest of the Democrat candidates are going to have to shoot Biden or gag him to get him to shut up.
And then Hillary, after she gets the nomination, can you see that debate that she'll have with McCain?
If he gets the Republican nomine, both of them start shouting at each other.
It's going to be a doozy.
Senator Biden ended 2005 with $3 million in his campaign war chest, enough money, he said, to push ahead with a potential White House bid.
It's no secret I'm considering a presidential run.
Biden said in a statement yesterday, what we did in 2005 gives me a strong level of comfort that we can take this to the next level.
He obviously thinks he did a bang-up job at the hearings, folks.
This isn't about money.
He thinks he really scored points at the Alito hearings.
Uh, tell you, I well, I don't know what else to say.
I, these people have the fact that anybody takes them seriously anymore, is part of the incredulity that I go through here each and every day.
We have a Biden soundbite, in fact.
We'll share that with you in the next hour, and lots of other news as well outside of the State of the Union context.
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