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Feb. 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 27, 2006, Monday, Hour #3
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Word out of the Defense Intelligence Agency and law enforcement sources has the FBI and the Department of Justice comparing notes and dates on who in the U.S. Senate received national security briefings on both the overseas terrorist prisons and the NSA overseas terrorist monitoring programs, and when those briefings took place.
This is in the American Spectator today, uh in their Washington Prowler column.
The number of senators who received briefings is not as large as people think, says one law enforcement force.
These are programs with a limited need-to-know list on Capitol Hill.
Federal investigators looking into the leaks of both those programs to the press are zeroing in on the Senate and are expected to continue to hold interviews of both Senators and their staff in the coming days.
This investigation is moving forward at pretty fast clips, says the law enforcement source.
We're not looking at a two-year probe, we're talking about moving fast.
As yet, cooperation from the media outlets, the Washington Post of the New York Times has been minimal.
Investigators aren't sure they will need full cooperation to make the case.
Source says the Hill may be all we need.
I I I why stop?
Even if you don't need them, if they're involved, go get them.
That's what I say.
Go get the media on this too.
Now you're wondering, well, who in the Senate are they looking at?
Well, the focus of the investigation remains on the staffs of two senators, Jay Rockefeller and Dick Turban, as well as committee staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee and career intelligence staff detailed the U.S. Senate offices and committees.
Last week it was revealed that on February 17th, and get this.
Last week, February 7th, or on February 7th, we learned last week that on February 17th, Senator Rockefeller sent a letter to the White House claiming that the Bush administration had illegally leaked classified materials to Bob Woodward for a book project he was working on with cooperation from the Bush White House.
Rockefeller also last week raised hell about Bush explaining the foiled terrorist plot that we busted up in Los Angeles.
He said the accused Bush of giving away national security and technique secrets in dealing with Al-Qaeda.
Now, a number of people on Capitol Hill and in the intelligence community interpreted Rockefeller's letter as an attempt by Rockefeller to play defense should it be revealed that his office or staff tied to him on the Intelligence Committee are somehow involved in the serious leak cases.
That sure's what it looks like to me, too.
If he's sending out all these letters accusing other people of leaking national security secrets, it appears to me, ladies and gentlemen, he's trying to soften a possible future allegation involving him doing the same thing.
It's the old CYA is what's happening here, and and uh keep a sharp eye on this.
I I have learned to be suspicious of law enforcement sources.
So we only hope that this source is uh telling the truth, is accurate about how fast this investigation is moving and who they're looking at, and how soon uh we can expect action on it.
Remember the poll last week, and I reported this CNN uh USA Today Gallup poll that said registered voters in the generic congressional survey preferred Democrats by 50 to 43 percent, seven-point margin that could give Democrats enough victories to take control of the House if their supporters participate in November's elections.
There are a lot of polls like this.
A lot a lot of polls say that the majority of registered voters uh would vote Democrat if the elections were held today.
But a new independent analysis of this poll finds that Republicans could lead among people who actually vote.
Once again, it was a it was a poll that the results were not fully conveyed.
Likely voters is far different from registered voters, people who actually vote.
A deeper analysis of these numbers by David W. Moore for the Gallup poll said it is likely many voters will not do so, i.e., vote Democrat, because turnout among registered voters tends to be lower than among likely voters who say they plan to vote and usually do.
In his analysis.
Mr. Moore writes that Gallup's experience over the past two midterm elections in 98 and 2002 suggests that the registered voters' numbers tend to overstate the Democrat margin by about ten and a half points.
Well, hubba hubba, hellsbells, folks.
If that trend is still active, and the Democrat margin is overstated by 10.5% in this poll, because it's registered voters and not likely voters.
That means that Republicans actually lead by three to four points in this congressional the generic ballot.
If you just tabulate likely voters rather than registered voters, and there's a whole different subset.
Republican election strategists long have maintained that the so-called generic numbers in which voters are asked which party they will support in the elections without mentioning a specific candidate always skew in favor of the Democrats.
It's sort of like, and you've heard these polls too, incumbent Congressman A opposed by nobody and they go out and take a poll.
And the uh unnamed candidate always ends up polling higher than the named candidate because the unnamed candidate's never done anything to make anybody bad because nobody knows who he is.
So there's a there's a lot of ways that uh these pollsters can report their results to create an impression that even they know is a little misleading.
Uh Senator McCain.
Now, I know some of you uh upset that I am mentioning this, uh, because a lot of you would would prefer that the Democrats continue to believe that they are winning.
Because it will affect the way they behave and so forth.
Folks, don't worry about me reporting the poll.
They don't listen to a thing I say.
When I say this, they're gonna think I'm making it all up.
They are the last thing they will do is I know I know exactly how to curr uh uh change behavior among Democrats.
And the last thing to do is tell them the truth.
I have helped them.
I can't tell you over how many recent years I have sat behind this, the golden EIB microphone.
I've told the Democrats what you people need to do if you're gonna ever, and then don't listen to me.
And then they're not gonna believe this.
And especially since this story appears in the Washington Times, they won't believe that because it's owned by the Reverend Moon.
So they'll ignore all this.
So they don't worry, they're gonna continue to act.
It's it's got to be a cease off for these people.
One week, you know, they think they've won it all back and they think they've won the White House already in 2008.
Then the next week, all that blows up, and they're back to having closed door meetings trying to figure out what they think, what they believe, back to hiring George Lackoff rhymes with, in order to help them say things.
So I'll say, did you see the d- did you see page six in the New York Post yesterday?
This is hilarious.
Bill Clinton has put out his one of his foundations or his office in New York somewhere, has essentially posted on a bunch of websites job openings for interns at the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor at his office in New York and other places.
Yes, he has.
He's put a and and they don't, they're not gonna get paid anything, but uh they their requirements uh uh uh and uh the stated interest that they have to have and so forth.
But it's it's clear as as a as a bell, the word intern is is used throughout the uh the job posting.
Now I think I think Clinton needs to call Lackoff rhymes with as a can you can you give me another name for an intern for my job posting here?
Uh this is just I don't I actually don't think this is tone deaf.
I think this is how Clinton confronts the issue.
You know, Fox periodically is running little blurbs here that there's a mountain lion on the loose in uh Altadina, California, and that the school out there is in lockdown.
They're not letting the kids out.
And they think they've spotted the mountain.
Let's say mountain lions, it's cougar, right?
Mountain Lion is uh Bobcat, maybe it's uh it it there is a there is uh an actual name for it, is Mountain Lion, but it's a cougar bobcat, one of the two.
And uh of course this is not the first time this has happened.
These things have come out of the woods and uh and attacked joggers out there because you can't hunt them anymore.
And so they're no longer intimidated uh by humans or their uh or their surroundings.
They think they've got this thing cornered, or at least it's in a bush, and the camera's zeroing in on it so we can all see the uh the uh mountain lion, cougar, bobcat, whatever.
All right, quick time out, we'll be back.
Lots more straight ahead than just a sec.
The official program observer, Mr. Snerdley was wrong.
I was right.
Uh Mountain Lion is a cougar.
Also can be a puma.
But Snerdley has redeemed himself because he went to the uh Clinton Library and Massage Parlor website and he he found the job posting for these interns, and it actually does say they have to have hands-on experience.
Okay.
Something too, but they get all they want to eat, but they don't get paid.
Jerry in Austin, Texas, welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hey Rush, ditto.
Thank you.
My daughter at Golden West College says you rock.
Anyway.
Hey, Buckley just needs to check his history.
Uh the fact of the matter is, every time a dictator is deposed, the society just runs amok for a while.
Until finally people get it together.
Now the exception to that rule, of course, is Hitler, and it's only because the whole world was there making sure it didn't run amok.
No, it did.
I was just gonna tell you, it did run.
But the it was not as bad as it is in some other cases.
But the fact of the matter is usually a generation is what it takes to finally get the new stuff going and get people used to you know getting out there and pursuing what they want to do, because that's what a dictator does.
He holds people down, he keeps the society from its natural.
I under I no, no.
I I understand all that.
I th I think the uh the guiding the guiding fundamental with with uh the conservatism of Mr. Buckley is that it's not even necessary to bring these people down.
I mean, we can't we can't love everybody, we can't save everybody, we can't bring everybody to our way of life, we can't we can't do it, and and and there's no there's no value in trying in a in a place like a rock uh uh because it there was no national security interest at stake.
There was no uh uh uh direct benefit to us.
It was a net loss given the the loss of life among our armed forces and uh and this sort of thing.
I uh look, I'm just guessing at this.
I don't really uh it it's I mean it d it's ridiculous of me to try to say what's in his mind other than quote from his column.
And I I just know that that uh he thinks it's been a failure that we cannot unite these warring factions over there in Iraq that we're not gonna be able to.
Uh and and that uh w with that one quote where he quotes uh anonymously and and and and hypothetically a he wouldn't be a surprise if a soldier someday says that yeah, you know, this place probably would have better off with Hussein still in power.
Which to me is is is that's that's the the window in into into what Mr. Buckley is uh foreign policy conservatism is.
But again, I'm just this is a wild guess.
And at some point I'll get to talk to him and ask him what he means about the real challenge then is going to be for my feeble brain compared to his to understand what he tells me.
But I will um uh I will do my best.
John in uh in Canisa, Georgia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Rush, good afternoon.
You were just mentioning Clinton looking for interns.
He wants people to come work for him for free.
Doesn't Warmart pay more than that?
Yeah, I but I don't that's a good point.
It's a good it's a it's a great point.
I don't know if they're gonna get health coverage.
I don't know if interns at places like the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor get uh get uh.
Uh they they do get checkouts, that's true, from the man himself.
Um so that's that's that's a good point.
But look, the the the no in well, I guess some interns do get paid.
Some interns don't they get isn't there some place where some some interns get a nominal?
Maybe not.
Maybe not.
We don't uh we don't have uh interns uh here at the uh EIB network, we're an efficient, well-oiled machine.
We don't have stuff that needs to be done that isn't already being done.
Uh and plus, uh just as you say, we're not gonna run around and start hiring people to do work and then not paying them.
But Rush, but Rush, it would be such a valuable the value in this program is listening to it.
That the if you're an intern anywhere else, you can also intern at the Limbaugh Institute simply by listening.
All right, let me get to some of these Calypso Lewis sound bites.
It was the State of the Black Union address on Saturday in Houston.
Uh and basically America must burn.
Uh th this was his theme.
Here's the first soundbite.
America must be burned.
America is no good at all.
If you have made a promise that you don't keep, what are you?
You are a liar, a deceiver.
All right, now.
Did they promise the Native Americans?
Did they write it in treaties?
Did they fulfill it?
Did they promise us 40 acres and a mule?
Did they fulfill it?
Oh, brother.
I could run the list down of promises made and promises broken.
The right to vote.
You got it?
But the minute they gave it to you, they were finding ways to take it back from you.
Can't you open your eyes and see the house is burned?
This educational system isn't worth a damn.
I'm not bussing.
The house must burn.
All right.
Now, I will admit, uh, those of you watching on the Ditto Cam can see me laughing and uh shaking my head at the same time on this, because it's it's just it's so ridiculous that you have to laugh, but it's also so sad.
It is you you We had a story about a month ago, I guess, is within the last four weeks, um, shortly after the deaths of Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King about how there are no future icons in the civil rights movement.
Uh their icons are all in the past, and many of them are aging or have passed away.
And all they have is a look back.
If you list to everything that Calypso Lewis used to incite that crowd, and you've you've heard other leaders incite crowds in the same way at differing times in history.
When you listen to this, you understand that it's just trying to keep people fed up and angry by telling them that things haven't changed, that they have been lied to, and they believe it.
It gives them comfort.
It gives them an excuse, it gives them an explanation for things, why they haven't been able to overcome the obstacles, even while they're in the process of doing so, they're being told that they're not making progress.
In the progress, it uh all you have to do is gaze out across the country into any field you want, from the professions to medicine to sports, you name it, you can find countless instances of progress.
That is ignored.
It's all ignored, or it's explained away as being a conspiracy just to make things look like they're really not.
But the real truth is you can't vote and they don't want you to vote, and they're trying to take the vote away from you, that they lied to you, you never got your 40 acres in a mule and so forth.
Um and and the sadness is that this is the exact opposite of what to do to inspire and motivate people.
This just keeping people angry and mad and pant up, enraging them.
Meanwhile, uh there are a whole lot of future black icons and present black icons that are besmirched and bespoiled and impugned by people like Louis Farrakhan.
And many of them and a lot of them are Republicans.
And that's also one of the reasons Why they're impugned, but you look at Michael Steele, Ken Blackwell, Condoleezza Rice, you look at uh at uh Lynn Swan running for the uh governorship in Pennsylvania.
Um these are all black Republicans.
You've got Clarence Thomas.
Uh in the private sector, you have economists like uh Dr. Thomas Sowell, countless others that are just routinely impugned and attacked as traitors or Uncle Tom's or whatever.
And if people like Farrakhan actually cared about progress, you know to change Black History Month to Black Progress Month, and let's start measuring it.
Because this continual looking back is just keeping people mired into the cement of the past.
Needs to be named Black Progress Month, and the progress needs to be shown and demonstrated and illustrated so that these people have a different perspective.
Back in just a second.
All right, that's all we do here, make the complex understandable all clear uh for those of you in uh Altadina, California, all clear on the runaway mountain lion, the runaway cougar.
Animal control specialists have uh tranquilized this big garrol posing next to it for pictures now.
Uh but they they uh I guess they've shot the thing with a tranquilizer dart.
Now, the question I have about this is rather simple, and it came to my mind the first thing.
They can't find anybody to tranquilize a death row inmate so he can be executed, but they can find all kinds of anesthetists and anesthesiologist to go out there and zap an innocent, didn't hurt anybody yet.
Cougar, puma, mountain lion.
Just goes to show you how out of whack uh things are in California.
You gotta hear more Calypso Lewis.
Um here he comes to the defense of Terrell Owens, who got shafted by making a covenant with the white devil.
Now, listen, listen, you can't make no covenant with black America.
Why not?
How if you're a basketball player, a football player like my brother from the Philadelphia Eagles.
What's his name?
T.O. They let T.O. go.
But he gotta wait until the cord is cut before he can make an agreement or contract with somebody else.
You can't make an agreement.
A covenant with black America when you have made an agreement with hell.
And a covenant with death.
Boy, this is just getting worse.
This is this is just this is just getting worse.
Well, uh Farrakhan next says that there are some good white people out there, but but not Bush.
You have good white people who want to see this covenant successful.
But you're not dealing with them when you dial.
When you sit down with Bush, who are you dealing with?
And do you have what it takes to deal effectively with him?
All you can do is petition.
That's all you can do.
You sit and you confer.
You talk and you feel good.
But the Bible teaches you that we warn not against flesh and blood.
The white folk that you have good relationship with, that's flesh and blood.
They don't have the power.
Really?
He's talking about the Democratic Party.
He's talking about the Democrat, he's actually making my case.
These white people that they can make a covenant with, they've been shafting the people because they don't have any power.
They've been promising to fix things for 50 years, but nothing gets fixed, as you can tell by this speech.
Everything that was wrong 50 years ago is still wrong.
And I guess it's because he's he's finally figured out Democrats don't have any power.
Uh now in this next bite, Calypso Louie, uh, Mr. Snerdley, you what what?
Right.
No, no, no.
No, no, I guess I guess in one way you can say that T.O. got screwed because he was trying to make a contract with Bush, uh, and Bush tossed him overboard.
Because Bush, I guess, a secret owner of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Yeah, so that's yes, if that's how you want to interpret it, it makes as much sense as anything else he's saying.
Now, this next one.
Uh, he urges his audience to get some testicular fortitude and to stand up to the crooked industrialist bankers who run America.
Now, can I tell you who they are?
The crooked industrialist bankers are known as the Jews.
This is a government that the founding fathers said, whenever a government fails to guarantee life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that government either needs to be reformed or abolished.
Now, when are you gonna stand up?
Because you don't have the choice to reform it.
It has to be abolished and something new and better set in its place.
You all gotta take your government back because it's been taken from you by a group of smart, crooked industrialist bankers.
You all know what I'm talking about.
But if you don't have the testicular fortitude to say what needs to be said, then sit down and stop trying to say you spit fire people and the hurt of the poor.
Not clones.
Excuse me.
And it's not through yet, folks.
Continue to live the way you were trained.
A loveless Negro that can't do what my sister said, see the problem and plan for it.
Because you're reactive, because you're not mentally alive yet.
Can the leaders wake up?
Because the leaders are blind.
And if the blind lead the blind, everybody falls in the ditch.
America is not going to get any better.
This war is going to spread.
The war of Armageddon has begun and it will not end until an old world goes out and a new world comes in.
What Katrina showed us is why we can't depend on them.
What Katrina showed us is why we've got to depend on God and depend on ourselves.
Okay, the only thing that's made any sense here is the last sentence, but when you couple it with everything else, it's uh it's totally overshadowed.
I mean, we're listening to the ravings of a lunatic here, admittedly, but I just we have one more to go, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
And by the way, Tavis Smiley conducted this uh is he formerly a PBS or still a P, whatever.
Uh B E T, PBS, which of the he was he was the forum prominent African and Development of the Black Agenda, was what this was called.
And Calitzo Lewis was brought in to do the State of the Black Union address, and that's that's uh what you're hearing excerpts of.
Look to God, look to yourself, break your covenant with hell and death, then make a covenant with black America, and let's help implement a roadmap that will free us and the whites that will be free can be freed by this.
The Mexicans, the Hispanics can be freed by this roadmap.
We are a universal people.
But those at the top, they're on their way to hell.
And if I got any power, I want to push them into hell as fast as I can.
What a finish, folks.
What an absolute finish.
Did you hear that crowd?
Here is uh Phil in Atlanta.
Phil, welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, thanks, Rush.
Uh, mega African American ditto from Atlanta.
And just very quickly, very quickly.
Uh my point is for all the undying support of the African American community to the Democratic Party, what has been gained?
And I would say that George Bush put his money where his mouth was.
And the Democrats have never had anyone in office as high as Condoleezza or an African American male um uh Colin Powell.
And I challenge the Democratic Party to do the same thing, which I don't think that they would do.
And I think that that's a testament in itself that George Bush has put his money where his mouth is, and you have African Americans at the highest level in the government.
All right, so why do you Think a Democrats don't do that.
Why don't the Democrats denounce this guy Farrakhan and try to turn these people loose and actually improve their lives rather than keeping them where they are?
Well, not so much about Farrakhan.
I would say that that uh I think that you have a lot of people who uh who are who perpetuate and and tell a lot of people what they want to hear.
Okay, let me take that off to say you're right.
They're not gonna denounce Farrakhan.
But why why do you why do you suspect that no Democrat has appointed a black Secretary of State, uh male or female?
Why do you Bill Clinton didn't come anywhere near having as many high-ranking uh minorities, blacks in his cabinet or in his administration as Bush does?
Why we get all the talk from Democrats about how they're gonna bring this about and they're gonna make this happen.
Why doesn't it ever happen?
Because they don't have to.
Because they don't have to work for the for the vote.
So it's taken for granted, in my estimation.
Well, that's partly it.
It's you're right on the money when you say because they don't have to, but they also don't want to.
And they don't want to, because they don't want to free these people, so to speak, because they need them too much as voters.
So they need them as victims.
They need them as downtrodden, they need them as angry and so forth, thinking that all of their problems are brought about by a racist Republican party.
That's how they ensure their continued uh support for the and they get guys like Jesse Jackson and others a seat at the Democratic Party power table, and uh then Jesse goes out and makes sure that the uh the 98%, 90% of the black vote always turns out to vote Democrat, uh, and that's the seal of the deal.
Uh they don't want to they don't want to turn them loose.
They don't want them to become Michael Steeles.
They'll be happy for him to come Barack Obama's now and then, but they still have to know their place.
Don't want to become Clarence Thomas.
Don't want him to because you gotta be careful.
As I told you during the Clarence Thomas hearings, folks, the biggest problem, the biggest problem Clarence Thomas posed to Jesse Jackson, the civil rights coalition and the and the Democrats was that here's a man who has reached the pinnacle of his profession without them, showing it can be done.
I know this is done constantly, but you those people are are not highlighted as role models.
They're called Uncle Tom's.
But Clarence Thomas was the most public one.
And he was uh he was he was the most independent, and that was the big threat.
Not ideology, too.
I mean, they can't take that out of the uh uh equation, in fact, he was a conservative, but the threat that he posed, because he is a living, breathing example, that you can reach the pinnacle of your profession on your own.
You don't need the Democratic Party, you don't need the Civil Rights Coalition or Jesse Jackson, you don't need affirmative action, you don't need any of these things uh that have been set up as the only way out, so to speak.
That's why the big guns of Anita Hill and pubicares and a Coke can were brought up back after this.
Now let me make let me make one more observation.
We just played for you six sound bites from the State of the Black Union address delivered by Calypso Lewis.
Have you seen or heard any of this on a cable news station or a broadcast news cast?
You have not, and you won't.
Contrast that with any time Pat Robertson opens his mouth on his own show, 700 Club, and talked about what was his name, Hugo Chavez, uh and so it's news for a week.
It's fodder for chats and discussions for a week on the cable shows.
And they make all kinds of fun of Roberts and and but Calypso Lewis can come out and say this stuff and you never hear it.
It's totally ignored.
And I'll tell you why.
Because in the mainstream press, a bunch of libs, he's entitled because he's disadvantaged.
And with the racial history of this country, his comments are totally understandable.
But for Pat Robertson, a member of the privileged white majority to say anything kooky, why we have to call attention to that.
Because we must speak truth to power.
But when it comes to God, you know, can I tell you how much I hate that phrase?
Ever since I first started hearing it used like John Kerry, we must speak truth to power.
What a crock.
More liberal hieroglyphics, mumbo jumbo, speak truth to power.
How did it speak truth, period?
Start there first.
What is speaking truth to power anyway?
Is is it is it is it telling lies about Bush?
Here's uh here's Mark in Detroit.
Mark, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Ross, thanks a lot.
Appreciate it.
I'm not gonna talk long because everybody wants to hear you, not me.
But uh I grew up in Southeast Louisiana, and my grandfather was a Klansman.
And I used to go to these rallies as a young kid, and what I heard you just play was exactly what I heard when I was a kid.
There is no difference between Calypso Lee and the Klan.
He's he's raging people for hate to go hurt other people.
Right.
I I don't I don't see any, and and like you say about the mainstream media not caring.
What if what if I was to get up and say some things like this?
Well, that's the point.
You you don't you're not entitled to, just like I can't say what I said about the media and Donovan McNabb because I'm white and I've had a privileged life.
I don't, you know, but given the racial history of our country.
Why why these they can say whatever they want.
And we must understand their rage.
We must understand their pain.
We must understand racial history of the country.
So we've got to put up with all that.
Before before I get I got it to these two McCain stories and one other.
John McCain said yesterday that the reaction to a Dubai-based company's proposed takeover of several U.S. shipping terminals has reached a point of near hysteria, and he singled out Senator Clinton.
The near hysteria about this is not warranted, particularly in light of the other major crises that we're facing throughout the world.
He was on Stephanopoulos' show this week on ABC.
McCain criticized Hillary for urging that all foreign operations of U.S. ports be banned, warning that she gets her way.
We got a lot of disinvestment to do.
Does that mean the British aren't allowed?
McCain posited before reminding that the convicted Al-Qaeda shoe bomber Richard Reed was British, as you know.
I think obviously this has to be looked at in a case-by-case basis, rejecting Mrs. Clinton's blanket ban.
Then in what many see as an outreach attempt to conservatives not quite happy with with uh with with his position on things, Senator McCain, who has consistently opposed President Bush's tax cuts, recently voted to extend some of them.
A move conservatives say is a political flip-flop intended to further his White House ambitions.
His vote was a sharp departure from his anti-tax cut posture.
He surprised tax cut proponents last week when he voted to continue Mr. Bush's tax cuts on capital gains and dividends and other tax breaks in a 70 billion dollar tax relief extension reconciliation act.
As I say, the vote was a sharp departure from his anti-tax cut posture, but he has been aggressively reaching out to the Republican Party's conservative base, particularly economic conservatives, who fear that as president he would oppose further tax reductions and might even roll back some of the Bush cuts to shrink budget deficits.
Grover Norquist, the president of America's tax reforms, it's a big flip-flop.
But uh I'm happy is flopped.
Larry Hunter, an economist, longtime Republican tax cut strategist, said it looks like a further morphing of McCain into George W. Bush.
He's mailing to his list of campaign contributors.
Now he's supporting tax cuts.
It looks political to me.
It runs counter to his whole past behavior.
He's got to appeal to the base of the party.
I don't think there's a Republican in the land who can get the nomination who voted against the tax cuts.
Oh.
Um.
Now he'll get a pass on this uh from Chris Matthews and his buddies in the media, because they like him, but it's still it's interesting to um to watch.
Um I uh I'll tell you what, uh Mr. Snerdley asks me if I think conservatives will buy this.
I don't know.
It's early.
It's only two uh two thousand six primaries will get going in earnest uh in less than a year, but uh that two years.
Uh but I I think it all depends on who the Republic the Democratic nominee is because I think for example, if it if a Democrats nominate Hillary, there is no way that Republicans are gonna vote against McCain.
Just to vote for Hillary.
They're just not.
She's gonna redefine uh negative negative turnout.
And I I so that a lot of more Democrats every day are getting concerned about her candidacy on that basis.
They they really I mean you can see it, they're starting to write media people too.
She's cold, she's distant, so forth and so on.
So, uh, too too soon to say what and it's and McCain's not through maneuvering yet either.
With conservatives.
Mark my words.
We'll be back.
Stay with us, folks.
Scientific breakthrough.
I'm not making it up.
A new study says that chocolate milk would be better for athletes than Gatorade or other sports drinks.
Now, didn't they take it out of the schools because it made kids fat?
What a bunch of idiots.
I can't.
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