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	Even when I think I'm wrong, I'm right.
	It turns out that uh Brian Cunningham did work uh in the Bush 43 administration along with the Clinton administration.
	This is the man who's done yeoman's work, great work.
	Uh we're gonna link in we haven't already.
	I told Coco, sent Coco the link, the webmaster, and I want to link to uh not Byron or Brian.
	It's going back and forth.
	I've been I said both, but his name is Brian, not Byron.
	Um Brian Cunningham, and he's got a website with all the data that I used to summarize a couple monologues in the uh in the previous hour.
	I want to go back to this Chris Matthews soundbite.
	There was there was there was one thing in it that I failed to react to that I must.
	He's talking here about uh the Republican strategy uh vis-a-vis these hearings.
	Bush doesn't want to bring in the right witnesses to quell congressional anger.
	He wants the liberal Democrats like Lehi to keep angry.
	This is a win for them.
	They're convinced of it, and the only way you get a win in politics is if you get the other side to fight.
	And the Democrats are playing their role.
	They're playing to the liberals in this country, the civil libertarians, the ACLU.
	They're concerned about the intellectuals of the country who early can imagine themselves being surveilled.
	Most Americans cannot imagine themselves on the telephone with somebody from Al Qaeda over in one of the Emirates.
	Okay, that's true.
	Most Americans cannot.
	But did he really intend to say that Democrat intellectuals can?
	Did you heard him say this?
	He said the Democrats are appealing to their base, the intellectuals who can imagine themselves being listened to.
	These paranoia Who are these Democrat intellectuals?
	I hope he's not talking about the blogosphere.
	I think he's probably talking about well, I don't want to mention any names, but you know, the scholars.
	Uh the learned people, uh people, you know, the intellectuals, left-wing intellectuals who can who can who can imagine themselves being surveilled.
	I guess the roots of the what are we going to go back to the McCarthy days?
	The Democrats, as Matthew's saying here, the Democrats have not forgotten the Hol forgotten the Hollywood Blacklist days.
	What's he saying?
	Yeah, we Democrats, we have a history.
	Just like the blacks have a history of slavery, we're never going to forget it.
	We have a s we have a history of being spied on.
	Maybe so, but by your own presidents.
	I mean, that's you Chris, you should be worried if a Democrat were in the White House.
	Now, here is here's the Pat Lahey uh uh bite that the caller Tom from Denver referred to.
	My concern is when we see peaceful Quakers being spied upon, when we see babies and nuns who can't fly in airplanes because they're on a terrorist watch list put together by your government.
	Uh what in the world does this have to do with this program?
	That has more to do with these bumbling people at the at the Transportation Security Authority or the TSAP, whatever that is, you know, waving wands while uh while while real potential targets are waved right through, right waging w waving these these wands over nuns and babies.
	Senator, this is this is absolutely pathetic.
	And just to use these hearings to make more political points have nothing to do with the purpose of the hearings.
	Pat Lahay, folks, has been in the Senate for some 30 years.
	And for 30 years, Pat Lahey is always lamenting how somebody else hasn't done enough of this or that.
	Today he's trashing a president who's done more to fight terrorism than any president in history.
	Pat Lahey, on the other hand, who's always complaining that somebody hadn't done enough of this or that, opposes the Patriot Act.
	Pat Lahey opposes aggressive interrogation.
	Pat Lahey opposes long detentions of terrorist suspects.
	Pat Lahey opposes NSA intercepts of the enemy.
	It's time to ask, what does Senator Leahy support other than his Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights.
	He is wasting one of 100 seats in the U.S. Senate.
	Eh, but he was elected, so he's there.
	But I mean, it's just it's to me, this is this is just preposterous.
	And what makes it even more so is how these guys just continue to not get it, make absolute fools of themselves in the process and make it appear as though they are on the side.
	Let me let me phrase this carefully, because they make it appear they are on the side of the enemy.
	I'm not saying that they are, but when you come up with a position that demands sensitivity and understanding of these terrorists, and the uh attempt to give these terrorists uh access, if you will, to the U.S. Constitution because of our laws.
	We must be fair, and we must not, we must not deny them their constitutional rights for what will become of our own, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	So you've got an essentially a terrorist bill of rights, an al-Qaeda Bill of Rights, what these guys want to put together.
	Now, it's not to say that they have chosen sides and they and they have linked up arms with Al Qaeda, but the practical result, if they were to get what they want would be the same thing.
	It reminds me of all the the skirmishing that was going on back in the 80s over the uh the Contras and the Sandinistas.
	And back then, Daniel Ortega taking all kinds of money from the Soviet Union, and the Democrats were voting against any effort to send money to the Contras.
	Didn't want a Soviet beachhead established in Nicaragua.
	And so they had this Bolden amendment which said that we couldn't send any money down there, and that led to the Iran-Contra scandal.
	But before all that, there was an ongoing debate about whether we should fund the Contras, and the Democrats didn't want any part of it.
	Sandinistas just like the Hugo Chavez of his day, except he didn't have any oil.
	And the Democrats linked up arms with the Sandinistas and Danielle Ortega.
	They brought him to New York and he went walking down Madison Avenue in New York, uh, escorted by Peter Paul and Mary buying buying sunglasses.
	I kid you not.
	Well, one of these times after the Congress voted no to send money to the Contras, Ortega celebrated, got on an airplane, very very much fanfare, went off to the Soviet Union and came back with something like 500 million dollars.
	This embarrassed the Democrats, and they dispatched George Miller, who's a congressman from uh Northern California, Bay Area.
	They sent him down there to slap Ortega's hands.
	You can't embarrass us this way.
	If you're gonna do that, do it quietly or don't do it at all.
	And people started saying, you know, well, you guys may have as well, you Democrats may as well have just voted.
	Don't challenge my Americanism, don't challenge my patriotism.
	I'm not choosing sides with the Sanders.
	Well, you may not be choosing sides, but what's the practical difference when you vote against their enemy?
	You may not be endorsing them, which of course they were.
	This this is the same thing.
	These guys are uh coming up with all these obstacles to national security that would make you think that they actually think George Bush represents the bigger threat to, and I think some of them actually do.
	I think a lot of Democrats don't even think we have an enemy.
	I think they cringe when they hear Bush mention the word.
	But it matters not what their motivation, what matters is the end result of their actions, and when you've got somebody like Leahy, who is not the slightest bit interested in the Patriot Act, aggressive interrogation, long detentions, uh, NSA intercepts, you have to suggest to yourself that if he were to prevail, he and his team are to prevail, our hands would be tied.
	The terrorist hands would be not.
	So that's why I say working on the Al Qaeda Bill of Rights.
	Quick time out.
	We'll be back and roll right on right after this.
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	All right, the situation in Iran uh and and nukes.
	This again, this this uh on on one hand is just laughable.
	On the other hand, uh nothing funny about it at all.
	Okay, so as I understand it, they were negotiating two tiers of uh TIER at two different levels of fake backbone.
	They were going to make a referral to the uh uh United Nations about the Iranian nuclear program, or they were gonna write a report.
	Now, referral would be the stronger of the two fake ways to show backbone.
	Uh submitting a report would be the weaker way of showing fake backbone.
	And uh the weak chose the weaker.
	They chose to submit a report on the status of Iran's nuclear program.
	And I think, you know, the United Nations has a new anthem.
	Iran from Iran.
	A report is gonna tell the Security Council at the United Nations what it already knows.
	A referral would have at least drawn another line in the sand.
	Uh referral might have led to some sort of a resolution.
	But then when you stop and think about that, how many resolutions does it take for UN action?
	How many resolutions did we get at the Security Council on Iraq?
	Four sixteen.
	And they still didn't act.
	So one resolution were it to eventuate from a referral, nothing would happen if it took sixteen or seventeen of them uh uh before anything happened with uh with Iraq.
	Now, this is you're gonna think this is funny, but this is deadly serious.
	If uh if these people in Iran can't develop a nuclear bomb before the UN can come up with at least four resolutions, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
	They have got time because the UN's gonna bumble along and spend all their time if if the Iranians can't come up with a nuclear weapons program by the time the UN will act, they don't deserve to be a nation anymore.
	That ought to disqualify them.
	If I'm sitting there looking at Iran, okay, you guys want to be considered serious, then come up with a nuclear program before the UN stops you.
	If you can't do it, anybody could do that.
	Mauritius could do that.
	Baileys, the Caribbean superpower, could come up with a nuclear program before the UN would make them stop it.
	If you guys in Iran don't pull this off, I'm gonna lose respect for you.
	So here we have the the Nobel Peace Prize ends up with more dung on its face.
	A peace prize to Mohammed Al Baradai, the man who is enabling uh an Iranian nuclear program.
	We got a peace prize to Jimmy Carter, the man who enabled the Iranian fanatics in the first place.
	Yeah, every day I get up, I say, how would I like to be a liberal today?
	And there hasn't been one day in my life when I wish I were a liberal, and I I just wonder what it is like for you liberals out there to get up and ask, gee, I'm a liberal today.
	I never see you smiling, I never see you happy.
	We got Muslim rage torching uh an embassy because of a cartoon that mocks Muslim rage.
	Now we've got this this absurdity.
	The UN and the European Union trying to diplomatically deal with this nutcase that uh that runs Iran right now.
	In fact, Orno de Borgrov has a uh a piece out that I'll get it in the stack here in just a second.
	But he basically says this guy is an absolute nut, and he believes in a in a uh uh uh uh uh part of Islam that thinks the apocalypse will happen in his lifetime.
	He actually believes it that the twelfth imam, who has been dormant since the ninth century or the fifth century, whatever's gonna come back, pestilence wars, global warming, who knows what kind of garbage is gonna beseech us all and uh uh besiege us, and and that uh then there will be everlasting peace having he thinks that this is all gonna happen in his lifetime, and he's fifty.
	So I don't know what the average life expectancy is in Iran uh, but so you gotta figure the next thirty years this guy thinks it's all gonna end, and he's running the country.
	And he's trying to get a nuclear program.
	Here's uh here's Josh in Boise, Idaho.
	Josh, I'm glad you waited you're up uh today.
	Nice to have you on the program.
	Megadiddles Rush from the Gem State.
	Thank you, sir.
	First of all, I want to say congrats for your uh Pittsburgh Steelers last night.
	Thank you.
	And uh I myself uh rooted for Seattle.
	Super Bowl's what I wanted to talk about, actually.
	Um I wanted to uh beat some of those whiners uh from the emails that you were gonna read to the punch on this.
	Um you still there, Rush?
	Yeah, still here.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	You know, I I watched the game last night and I disagreed with a lot of calls, but there is no way that the referees in in any way influence the outcome of the game.
	And um you know, if if I were Holmgren, I would be really insulted um as a coach for the Seattle Seahawks, uh, that the player or that the uh fans would whine about the referee calling.
	And the reason why is is that would say that the Seahawks um you know didn't have any power to come back to the game, which I I thought they put up a really good fight.
	And um, you know, the bottom line, Rush, is that Pittsburgh deserved a win.
	Um as a coach, I've always told my players and my parents to uh shut up to the referee, don't talk to the referee, and after the game have never told them to come up with excuses uh uh leading to the idea that that the referees had something to do with the outcome of the game.
	Well, here's the here's the thing, though.
	I do think the NFL's got an officiating problem.
	This was a pretty I mean this this this postseason did feature some uh pretty disastrous calls that the league admitted to uh a day or two after after games were played.
	But you know, the old theory is they even out uh over the course of a season or over the course of two or three seasons, the human element and so forth.
	Uh but it's just it's just I have never seen it before.
	I've uh the email today was just loaded with whining Seahawks fans about about the officiating.
	I mean, I you know, every fan of every team can cite a big game that you've lost and the officiating didn't go your way.
	Uh and it's just it's just it's the way of the world.
	It just it's it's uh the way it is.
	I I don't want to get into an in-depth game analysis here, but I I'm just I'll just say one thing.
	I saw some of the worst clock management on behalf of a professional football team in my life in that game last night by the Seattle Seahawks.
	I I just I was stunned.
	They just seemed out of control.
	And it's and and the game started, it looked like the Seahawks were gonna own that game in the first quarter.
	I was I don't know, I was really biting the nails.
	Josh, I I appreciate the uh phone call.
	Who's up there?
	John in Forrest Park, Illinois.
	Nice to have you on the EIB network.
	Good morning, Rush.
	How are you doing?
	Fine, sir.
	Thank you.
	It's really this NSA flap comes down to this.
	It's a successful Republican president using tools to protect us with Democratic losers who had a chance to use them and protect us before and didn't.
	And now they're whining more than this Seahawks fans.
	I think you've nailed it.
	I think they're just whining because they keep losing.
	That's right.
	And they can't figure it out.
	They don't know why they're losing, and so they're they're just acting like spoiled brats and trying to turn the the uh the tables of fortune, uh, but they haven't the slightest clue how to do it.
	They don't want to.
	They still want to.
	They don't want to they don't want to win.
	No, they don't want they don't want to take the steps necessary to protect us.
	They had their chance and they blew it.
	They muffed it.
	And now they because we have a president who wants to protect us, they can't stand him.
	This is more against Bush than it is against anything else.
	And if they say otherwise, they're lying.
	They're the liars.
	No, I think you're I uh look at this party McGovernized itself uh well back with George McGovern, and they've never escaped it.
	Because when the pedal hits the metal, when the rubber meets the road, the Democratic Party since the nineteen sixties can be counted on to side against this country and its military and its objectives.
	Particularly when there is a Republican president in office.
	Now it's interesting that uh when when they had Bill Clinton in office, uh and he was rattling the sabers about Saddam and the weapons of mass destruction, why those Democrats, why they sounded like equally large sable rattlers.
	They were just saber rattles, hey, but they're gonna but they I think knew in the bottom of their hearts Clinton was never gonna do anything.
	So they could be safe in flexing their verbal muscles, their oral muscles.
	Nope, better say verbal.
	Clinton flexed his.
	No, it was Monica who I got sidetracked here.
	The thing is, Clinton fights his Kosovo war from 15,000 feet and have to worry about casualties there.
	They just they are on the wrong side of history so often.
	It is striking.
	But when it comes down to something like this, I think you're right.
	They don't want to take the steps necessary to protect us, uh largely because they don't really think we're that big and much in danger.
	Quick timeout, stay with us.
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	Well, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Melman offered a broad attack on Senator Hillary Rodham Rodham, Mrs. Clinton of New York on Sunday, describing her as a Democrat brimming with anger and a representative of the far left wing of a party.
	Mr. Melman, this is a New York Times story.
	Mr. Melman disputed the suggestion that Mrs. Clinton, a former first lady, had moved to the center of her party.
	And while he declined to say in response to a question if he thought Mrs. Clinton would be the Republican's dream candidate or the Democrat you most dread, he left little doubt that Republicans had settled on new lines of attack on one of the leading Democratic contenders for the 2008 presidential nomination.
	I don't think the American people, if you look at it historically, elect angry candidates, Melman said on the Stephanopoulos program on ABC, referring to Mrs. Clinton's assertion that Republicans were running Congress like a plantation.
	He said, Well, whether it's the comments about the plantation or the worst administration in history, Hillary Clinton seems to have a lot of anger.
	There's a lot of talk about a new Hillary Clinton, but if you look at the record, it's a very left wing record.
	A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, Howard Wolfson, dismissed the attacks.
	He said the RNC and the White House are attacking because she has effectively pointed out their failures and offered ways to address them, and they don't like that.
	Every poll I've seen in New York suggests that New Yorkers approve of Mrs. Clinton's performance in office because they know she's a strong advocate.
	Yeah, but tell the rest of the story.
	Most New Yorkers don't think she can win.
	Tell the rest of the story.
	Melman's just trying to go to these people, just wanting them to get mad in their in their reaction.
	You know, it's it's a it's a toss-up.
	Does Hillary get mad?
	It's just that Hillary is a it's a dry ball.
	Hillary Clinton is a very boring person.
	If it weren't for her varicose veins, she would be totally colorless.
	So she has to jazz it up out there.
	She has to go out and act passionate when she tries to act passionate is is when the yelling and the screaming and this and the screeching starts and and that and you gotta cover your ears.
	Now that to some people might sound angry, I just think it's Hillary trying to sound alive.
	I mean, take a look your random camera shot on Hillary Clinton.
	I mean, is there anything charismatic about that?
	No.
	It's it's it you feel like you're in an insane asylum and in in one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
	You think you're looking at Nurse Ratchet.
	During the State of the Union address, when the camera went to Hillary after uh Bush made a joke about his new brother Bill Clinton, the look on her face was if my eyes were daggers, they would be in your heart right now right at him.
	And there was nothing friendly about it.
	There was no it just it's for somebody who's the smartest woman in the world, someone so politically astute, you would think that at the State of the Union.
	You have to know if your name's Hillary Clinton, the camera's gonna find you now and then.
	So at least maybe you don't want to look like you're smiling or laughing at Bush, but look friendly.
	I wonder if she stands in front of the mirror and practices that's the president.
	So I'm I have no doubt she's I actually I think Melman's I think she's co I think she's constantly boiling with rage.
	I think all liberals are.
	Liberals are constantly, even liberal comedians, are brimming and boiling over with rage.
	You just don't see them smiling out there.
	You don't see them happy.
	And if you were a liberal, would you be?
	You want it's more try this.
	This was in uh the New York Post's page six on Saturday.
	You know, every State of the Union address, members, it's in it's in the House chamber, but the Senate comes in there and the cabinet and the Supreme Court and a number of so they they they use up all the seats in there and then plus some.
	So what generally happens is that members of the House will go in there early in the afternoon and camp out to make sure they get an aisle seat.
	Because as the president comes in, the camera's watching him come in, the camera's focused, and everybody makes this mad dash to shake his hand and pat him on the back.
	And I've always looked at this how phony, all these Democrats running.
	Nancy Pelosi looked like she was stalking the guy last week during the State of the Union, really looked like she was, you know, looked like Chuck Schumer just getting anybody out of the way, running right through them or trying to.
	Well, the fight for aisle seats before the State of the Union address the other night was more exciting than the speech itself, according to the post.
	Representatives Jesse Jackson Jr. and Cynthia McKinney got to the floor early and staked out seats reserved for senators.
	Democrat senators.
	Since none of these Democrats over there in the Senate filibustered elito, why can't we have these seats, Jesse Jackson said?
	We're gonna take these Democrat seats because they're gutless.
	They didn't have the gust of filibuster elito.
	That makes sense to me, he said.
	Then Cynthia McKinney, who is never, never on the right side of sane.
	According to roll call columnist Marianne Acres, McKinney said Jackson went back to his office, leaving McKinney to protect the seats until showtime.
	Three hours after Jackson got back to his office, though his cell phone rang, it was a frantic Cynthia McKinney saying that the sergeant at arms staffers were kicking her out of the seats that she was saving for herself and Jesse Jackson Jr.
	So Jesse left his office, ran back to the floor of the House and argued for a few tense moments, but Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid prevailed, and McKinney and Jackson Jr. had to give up the seats that were assigned to Democrat senators.
	Jesse Jackson Jr. told Roll Call that he needed his face on TV to quote show our constituents our proximity to the president.
	They need to know that their members of Congress have access to the president, unquote.
	Now, what's your first thought when you hear this?
	What is your first my first thought is this?
	If you want to anger your supporters in the Democratic Party, get close to the president.
	Give him a hug, shake his hand, and they're gonna put a hit contract on you.
	These blogosphere Cooksville nuts, the any Democrat who shows even the slightest bit of civility to President Bush is be it ends up on the enemy's list hated and despised and is targeted for defeat.
	So for Jesse Jackson Jr. and Cynthia McKinnon say, well, we we got to show our constituents we have access to the president.
	Uh why?
	That's only gonna hurt you with your supporters.
	It's only gonna hurt you with your fundraising.
	These people are not gonna be happy to see you powling around and sucking up to the president of the United States.
	My second thought is this, and I'm sorry I've been taught this by you liberals.
	Okay, you have Jesse Jackson Jr., who is African American.
	You have Cynthia McKinney, who is African American.
	And they're as African Americans, as you know, they're minorities.
	And victims.
	And one of them is nuts.
	I mean, you don't want to make her mad.
	And all they want to do is watch the State of the Union speech close up, and all they want to do is sit in the aisle.
	They want to be in the front row.
	They're tired of sitting at the back of the House chamber.
	They're tired of sitting at the back of the bus.
	They want to be on the inside.
	As Marion Barry, the former mayor of Washington said in the 1984 San Francisco convention, making his speech.
	Tonight, tonight, we're on the inside.
	And David Brinkley said, that is my mayor.
	In one of them funniest sarcastic tones I can ever remember hearing.
	Anyway.
	So here you have these two African Americans, both children of the South.
	Roots to slavery, roots to discrimination.
	We all know how bad it's been.
	All they want is to sit on the front row.
	So that their constituents also with the same profile, same background, could see that they are in the front row, that they are on the inside, that they have access to the president.
	And here came the plantation order, Dingy Harry, a white guy from Las Vegas.
	And he says to these two equivalents of the modern day equivalents of Rosa Parks.
	No.
	You gotta go back to your regular seats.
	So my second thought was that Dingy Harry Reed is running a plantation in the U.S. Senate.
	Okay, back we are.
	I just I just uh was checking the ESPN website and I just found this, and I wondered about this yesterday.
	You know, at halftime, no, pregame, before the game.
	You didn't see this snurly because you're watching episodes of 24.
	But they introduced all of the MVPs.
	Oh, you saw that from the previous Super.
	Right before all the previous I was I I thought this is you know 40th anniversary of Super Bowl XL, bring all these people out.
	But there were two people, uh well, three, Jake Jake Scott from the Dolphins there, but the two prominent names.
	I kept waiting for him to be introduced, and they weren't.
	Terry Bradshaw, the Steelers, who was MVP of two Super Bowls in Montana.
	Joe Montana of the Forders, who was an MVP for he's the only three-time uh Super Bowl MVP.
	So there's this story out today that these two guys didn't show up because they weren't paid enough money.
	Uh they're both denying it.
	This is San Francisco Chronicle uh uh I think it's yeah, San Francisco Chronicle uh is is reporting uh that the players that showed up were given a thousand dollars in uh incremental money, expense money, and that and that Brad Shaw said, No, I got family and town, I've got to go get home for family.
	Montana said, No, my my my son's playing a basketball game I've got to watch.
	But the Chronicle sticking to its story that uh Montana wanted a hundred grand and he didn't get a hundred grand, he said I'm splitting, I'm not staying.
	He was during the week, I think, for some stuff, as was Brad Shaw.
	But the Chronicle sticking with its story that both guys actually didn't stay because they they didn't get enough appearance money.
	Now, this is not a football comment for this is a this is a marketing comment.
	Here you have the largest televised event of the year.
	You are going to be brought back to life as a former Super Bowl MVP, or as a and as an MVP.
	You as a retired athlete probably make most of your money doing appearances and marketing yourself and commercial endorsements and this sort of thing.
	Here's a way to get you more FaceTime to mark to not show up at this thing over money.
	How much is it gonna cost these guys down the road, perhaps, if this is true and if this builds up that of all these I mean you had there was Bart Starr out there, Joe Namath was even limping out there.
	You know how many of these guys were having trouble walking.
	You know, but he Joe, they were all there except for Montana and Bradshaw.
	And if it's true that it wasn't that it wasn't enough money to pay them, they've just shot themselves in the foot in ways that they can't even imagine.
	Pass up a marketing opportunity like that, given that's how they probably make most of their income.
	Well, Brad Shaw's on television, I know, but Lynn in Columbus, Ohio, glad you waited.
	You're next on the EIB network.
	Hi.
	Hi, Les, I am scared and I am angry over all this wiretap so-called discussion.
	Because I'm looking at a job in New York City.
	And I am afraid that these Democrats and their allies like Spectre are gonna allow a terrorist attack to occur.
	And my daughter's gonna grow up without a mother because someone's civil rights were protected.
	I mean, people who don't even deserve any civil rights.
	They're playing politics with the lives of the American people, and it's got to stop.
	I don't know what it cannot be more clear that there are people out there who want to kill us.
	What is so difficult to understand about that?
	I uh well, it isn't difficult to understand.
	That's that's that's the thing.
	You are you're you're dead on accurate and right.
	I I think it's it's it's that frustration uh that's it's so obvious to you and everybody else.
	Um but they I think to understand this, and it's difficult, but to understand this, uh let me go through a series of things.
	Number one, they're not going to succeed.
	There will be the the the president has no there's no danger they're gonna succeed in in uh in in in this.
	I don't think they even think they are going to succeed.
	They're not trying to succeed, they are campaigning.
	It's two thousand six, it's an election year, and this is what they think.
	Enough people want to hear to elect Democrats to power.
	I know it makes no sense, but there's no other reason for them to say it.
	Well, it's disgusting, and I trust our president.
	I trust him to keep us safe, but I do not trust my Congress at all.
	At all.
	Well, and you sh that that's that's why Congress is not entrusted with constitutional power in this type of thing.
	That's why, you know, go back and read the Federalist papers on this, and you and you will find the phrase energy in the executive, particularly when it comes to commander-in-chief duty.
	The Federalist papers were the think pieces, the thought pieces that preceded the U.S. Constitution.
	And uh uh it they clearly understood that investing commander-in-chief powers by committee uh to whatever number of senators and members of the House there are combined would be a disaster.
	They worried about the president becoming a king, so they put they they put they put some limits on it by letting Congress determine uh how much money is spent on war, uh all of the uh minutiae, the uh assigning of medals and uh and this sort of thing, but terms of conducting a war itself, that power is fully vested in the president.
	Uh Lynn, another thing, I I know it it it it enrages you, but understand this.
	This is something that the president delights in seeing.
	Because the Democrats are making it plain as day to everybody, not just you, exactly what you think.
	That's how they're coming across.
	It can't possibly, it can't possibly help them.
	Uh the president has referred numerous times in speeches to those who are uh his n his phrase he uses the word defeatism who I I use the word invested in defeatism.
	The president is convinced that those who who amplify and shout just how invested in defeat and defeatism they are can't possibly win.
	Uh and and the Democrats are so predictable, you know.
	When they first started demanding hearings on this, the president was the first to agree.
	Really, can we start them tomorrow?
	He said.
	Let's have them tomorrow.
	Let's put you on display.
	So while it's enraging, and while it is scary, understand that from a political standpoint it's very helpful.
	I mean, when you've got Pat Lahey and these Democrats essentially trying to secure a bill of rights for terrorists for Al Qaeda.
	It's it's magic within the political realm.
	It's also very instructive.
	I've been saying Democrats come out, tell us who you are.
	And they're doing that.
	And that's also helpful as well.
	Uh and it's their rage and anger that's largely making them fall prey to their own tricks.
	We'll be back.
	We'll continue.
	Stay with us.
	What time is flying here, and these are the fastest three hours in media, no question.
	And it won't be long.
	And the third hour will commence.
	Can't wait.

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