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	It's a disaster down in Houston.
	11 inches of rain today.
	Part of Houston received that much rain.
	And there's panic down there telling only essential employees to come to work, leaving it up to the employees to decide whether or not they're essential or not.
	Greetings, ladies and gentlemen.
	It's El Rushball at the Cutting Edge of Societal Evolution, also known as the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute.
	for advanced conservative studies.
	The telephone number, if you'd like to join us, is 800-282-2882.
	And the email address, rush at EIBNet.com.
	I've been looking at these pictures from Houston all morning on television.
	I went, where's FEMA?
	Where is President Bush?
	Are the Katrina, Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans okay?
	Those people just can't get a break no matter where they go.
	Floods seem to follow them.
	Devastating situation.
	But we'll just see.
	There was another disaster recently.
	I forget where.
	And there was no FEMA and there was no Bush and there was nobody complaining about it either.
	At any rate, telephone number is 800-282-2882.
	If you would like to be on the program, E.J. Deion Jr. today has actually was from Friday in his Washington Post column actually an interesting piece about evangelicals and how they are changing and how they're just growing tired of fighting the liberals.
	Just tired and they're worn out.
	It is a never-ending battle and they're just they're getting they're going to concentrate on other things.
	We'll get into that as the program unfolds.
	Audio soundbites up next.
	This is classic.
	As you know, there was a threatened subway attack.
	Al-Qaeda was going to put some poisonous gas in the New York subways.
	Yesterday on CNN's late edition with Wolf Blitzer, I interviewed Pat Roberts, who is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
	And Wolf said there's a report that there were cyanide gas attacks planned for the New York subway system that were inexplicably called off.
	What can you tell our viewers about that?
	Well, not very much, except to say the Intelligence Committee is briefed on these kinds of threats.
	I would simply say that we've had a briefing.
	It points up once again the value of the terrorist surveillance program, the NSA program that's been in the news so much.
	We are able to detect and deter and stop such attacks.
	And we were very fortunate that that did not happen.
	Wait a minute.
	Let me see if I heard that right.
	The NSA spy surveillance program uncovered this attempt, this threat by al-Qaeda to put poison gas in the cyanide gas and the subways, the NSA program?
	The ones that Democrats say that Bush is spying on Americans about?
	Is that what he said?
	And following that same program, Wolf Blitzer says to Senator Feinstein, or Feinstein, I'm sorry, I know you're restricted on what you can say about these kinds of sensitive intelligence-related matters.
	Two former intelligence officials have told CNN that there was such a plot in the works of the New York subways.
	Two former intelligence officials have also told CNN that there was a plot in the works.
	We've not been able to confirm that they were only 45 days from actually launching it.
	Go ahead and add whatever you'd like.
	Well, I think the chairman said what could be said about it.
	I don't think anybody doubts that there are people that want to do us harm, that they're those that want to launch these attacks.
	They will if they can.
	And so, you know, there's the need for eternal vigilance.
	And I think Senator Roberts is correct.
	The terrorist surveillance program is an important tool in this area.
	Ooh, so it sounds like a confirmation here that it was the NSA foreign surveillance program which uncovered this plot and then derailed it and prevented it from happening.
	It sounds like exactly what the purpose of the program was for, or was.
	And yet the Democrats have tried to make big gains, gain a lot of ground, overlying about the program and saying that it was intended just to spy on Americans.
	Of course, that never flew, according to polls, and some of them dropped it.
	But just so you remember, let's go back to the archives.
	Let's remember what some of the Democrats have said about this program.
	This was Russ Feingold on the actually it was a news conference March 16th of this year.
	If the right wing really believes in this country that Rush Limbaugh and others that they can somehow turn the president's reputation around by saying, you're darn right he violated the law and it's a good thing.
	I think they're just as confused as they are about their Iraq politics.
	People aren't buying it anymore.
	So not only do I not regret it, I felt an absolute obligation to do it.
	He was talking about his censure of the president for the NSA wiretap program that prevented the attack.
	He was suggesting President Dutch are breaking the law.
	Yeah, breaking the law, right?
	Uncovering a plot by al-Qaeda to put cyanide in the New York subway system.
	Pat Leahy, February 6th of this year at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing, said this.
	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.
	He thinks that we're making all kinds of mistakes.
	We're spying on the wrong people, spying on the American people.
	This is quintessential.
	It's just the Democrats trying to make hay out of an issue they think the American people still have a 1940s or 50s mentality or attitude about.
	And let's go back to January 16th, which, incidentally, in case you've forgotten, that was Martin Luther King Day.
	Former Vice President Al Gore gave—oh, speaking of Al Gore, the funniest thing.
	Drudge has a little blurb on his website about Al Gore's movie, Falling Off at the Box.
	Falling Off at the Box Office.
	It ever got high enough to fall off of anything.
	It's collected like $5 million since its opening.
	That's embarrassing.
	It's horrible.
	Left-wing blogs are out there talking.
	It's no better than these left-wing bloggers selling 5,000 or 6,000 books.
	Nobody cares.
	And yet his movie, what is it, Inconvenient Truth, been touted as one of the most important movies of our time.
	Well, Americans are not rushing out to watch it.
	More Americans have probably never heard of it than have taken the time to see it.
	And yet the liberals and the Dems continue to build up this illusion in this dream world in which they live.
	And that is that everybody has seen Al Gore's movie and everybody is moved by it.
	And global warming will eventually become the big political issue after Iraq and after domestic spying and after cutting and running and after health care and after getting the oil companies and getting the drug companies and getting Starbucks, getting Kentucky French, getting McDonald's, getting Walmart.
	All these things are going to vault them back to power.
	Here's Al Gore talking about Bush breaking the law, the NSA program, Martin Luther King Day, last January.
	What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the President of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and insistently.
	What did that sound like to you?
	Now, we're not supposed to, you know, my parents told me we're not supposed to judge people who may be suffering mental deficiencies or loss of mental capacity.
	I'm sorry here.
	Play that again.
	Does this, are you ready?
	This just play it again.
	What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping.
	Stop it.
	What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the president of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and insistently.
	I get the impression I'm listening to a blithering idiot.
	At any rate, this is just another example.
	It's come back to buy them, come back.
	They've opened a door right into their nose.
	NSA spy program, save the day.
	No cyanide in the New York City subway.
	And even Dianne Feinstein agreed that that's the case.
	This is just a little microcosm of what's yet to happen to them down the road as we move into this election year.
	Be right back.
	Before we get back to the phones, just some really funny information on Al Gore's movie.
	Listen to this.
	You know, the movie is an inconvenient truth.
	And after 26 days in American theaters, it has grossed about $6.4 million.
	After 10 days, the number one movie has grossed over $114 million.
	But that's not even the story.
	Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, is all about global warming and how we're destroying the atmosphere, right?
	His number one movie is Cars.
	It's a cartoon thing, but it's so Al Gore's movie at the bottom of the heap being outsold, I think, of a factor of maybe five to one or more by a movie titled Cars.
	Doug in Chicago, I'm glad you waited, sir.
	Welcome to the EIB Network.
	Mr. Limbaugh, it really is an honor to talk to you.
	I've been a fan.
	I've been in a long time.
	This is my first time to call.
	Thank you very much.
	It's great to have you with us.
	Well, before I make my point, let me also say thank you for everything you do for our country that the rest of us don't have time to do.
	This is in reference to Jack Murtha.
	Just because someone has served in the military is certainly no guarantee of future conduct.
	I love the military.
	My son is in the Navy.
	But just because someone has served in the Marine Corps is no guarantee that everything that comes out of their mouth is going to be pure gold.
	Lee Harvey Oswald was a Marine.
	Charles Whitman was a Marine.
	And Jack Murtha's a Marine.
	You know, it doesn't mean that.
	I appreciate that comparison.
	That's really great.
	Well, it's the truth.
	Yes, that's what I'm saying.
	Well, Mr. Limbaugh, keep up the good work.
	It was an honor to talk to you, sir.
	Thank you.
	Doug, no, no, no.
	Don't go away.
	I'm glad you called.
	I think it's very clever.
	I wish I'd have thought of that myself.
	Lee Harvey Oswald was a Marine.
	Jack Murtha was a Marine.
	But your point is exactly right.
	But what you have to know is that the Democrats will rally behind.
	How many military heroes do the Democrats have?
	Not a whole lot.
	That's right.
	And the military heroes they've got, they try to make infallible.
	They tried to make Kerry infallible.
	You can't attack him.
	Why?
	He's a purple heart winner.
	Why?
	Vietnam veteran.
	Why?
	So his friends die.
	Swift boat driver.
	Why?
	You can't criticize Kerry.
	And the same thing with Merthyr.
	Plus, he's old.
	He's infallible because he's a seasoned citizen, and he's an ex-Marine.
	He's been in Congress 32 years.
	You can't attack Jack Murtha.
	We must listen to people like Jack Murtha.
	Well, listening to people like Jack Murthy is going to get our troops killed.
	Part of what I was saying, Rush, I have an extremely high regard for the military.
	I have thanked more veterans and current service people than I could ever begin to tell you.
	And I was doing it before 9-11, by the way.
	But, you know, this just irks me that people are touting Jack Murtha as everything he says is the gospel truth when as far as I'm concerned, it seems to me he's betrayed the Marine Corps and the rest of the country.
	Well, I don't know if he's betrayed.
	Free to speak his mind, but the bottom line is not everybody's believing what he says.
	Just the kooks who want to hear that kind of stuff, just the people who make up the Democrat base, who want to hear we're losing, who want to hear we don't have a choice, who want to hear we don't have a chance, who want to hear how rotten our troops are, who want to hear it's a civil war and we've got no business being there and nothing great is happening.
	There hasn't been, I can't recall a story in the DriveMy media about one heroic soldier or act throughout the entire period of the war in Iraq.
	Can't recall it.
	Same thing in Afghanistan.
	There may have been in your local newspapers on your local news with some local soldier or something, but in terms of the national drive-by media, just haven't heard this.
	And by the way, Bob Beckel is quoted in John Fun's piece.
	He was, I guess he was on with John Gibson last week.
	And Beckel admitted, yeah, we're winning, but we're not winning fast enough in Iraq.
	We're not winning fast enough.
	So, I mean, that's absurd.
	Can you imagine saying, oh, we're not defeating the Third Reich fast enough?
	This is just a Democrats all over the park here, all over the place, but they're just trying to set certain critics up as unassailable and infallible.
	You can't talk to these guys, can't be critical of them.
	They're Marines.
	He's an ex-Marine.
	He's in Congress 32 years.
	He's Jack Murtha.
	By the way, his opponent that I referred to earlier, Diana Ire, was on Fox just before the top of the last hour.
	And I was reading the closed captioning here, watching the program while hosting this program, because I, ladies and gentlemen, can multitask.
	And she said that she's been getting a tremendous amount of contributions from military personnel from her district in Iraq, maybe from outside her district.
	And it is clear that the uniformed personnel over there are not happy with the comments made by people like Jack Murtha and are investing in his opponent, Diana Ire.
	Here's Mike in Statesboro, Georgia.
	Nice to have you on the program, sir.
	Welcome.
	Oh, man, what a thrill.
	You know how many times I picked the phone up and tried to call you, and of course you can never get through.
	I almost fainted when I got through.
	I hope I'm not too nervous to make my point, but you taught me to analyze what these people say.
	And if you listen to these Democrats, it's hard to figure out what they try to sound tough on security, and they say they want to fight the war on terror, but I guess they just don't want to fight the war on terror in Iraq.
	I mean, I guess they want to go somewhere else in the world where the terrorists aren't so tough, where they can beat them.
	You know, they can't beat them, and they say they can't beat them in Iraq.
	So I guess they want to go someplace else where they can have one of those wars that go well.
	Look, all you have to do is look at this document they released last week from Nancy Pelosi.
	I don't even remember the name of it, but their new stratagem, strategery, their new war plan or what have you.
	It doesn't even say anything.
	This is where they're announcing their policies.
	It doesn't say anything about immigration.
	It doesn't say anything about the war on terror or the war in Iraq.
	Now, they go in and they have these votes now and then on pulling people out, pulling the troops out, redeploying, cutting, running, whatever.
	They never get close to winning.
	Yet they're out there talking about how they're representing the American people.
	You have to understand something, Mike.
	They are liberals.
	They hate the military.
	You have to understand there's a number of things that can upset their apple carts.
	They live an illusion.
	The current illusion that they're living is that they are going to win power back, that Bush is hated by the whole country, that the whole country hates the war in Iraq and wants us out of there.
	That the whole country doesn't want any more care.
	Can't handle any more than 25 killed in action.
	It's bad.
	The country's going to hell in a handbasket.
	There's no health care for everybody.
	That's what they've got themselves believing.
	And so they go act on it.
	The problem is that anything other than that that means a success is devastating to them.
	You think that there weren't lumps in throats throughout American left when it was announced that Zerkawi had been killed or when Hussein was captured?
	The worst thing that can happen to them is for America to succeed.
	The worst thing that can happen for them is for jobs to continue to increase and for wages to go up and for the economy to do well.
	The worst thing for them is for the stock market to continue to go up.
	The worst thing that could happen to them is success in the war on terror anywhere, Iraq or anywhere else.
	They are busy constructing the notion that the military can't solve problems, that the military creates them, that the military creates terrorism, that Bush is sponsoring all these terrorists by going around the world and acting too tough and beating his chest like a Tarzan.
	They are invested, whether they, and they know it, they're invested in failure.
	The illusion of success and their return to power can only come after broad failure.
	And they're trying to engineer the failure themselves as best they can.
	And they're trying to convince the American people to go along with them.
	And it's negative.
	And as such, it's not inspiring.
	I think they're going to lose big in November.
	And I'm on record of saying this.
	And the conventional wisdom is it's going to be a nail better.
	Republicans have going to be very, very tough.
	And I'm not even commenting on whether the Republicans do anything right or wrong here, although they're starting to on immigration.
	John Boehner said it's hopeless.
	At a closed luncheon last Wednesday, attended by financial contributors to House Republicans, John Boehner declared the immigration bill was all but dead.
	That change followed Boehner's conversation late Tuesday with Denny Hastert, who made clear he didn't want to pursue the issue that splits the Republican Party, meaning the Senate version of immigration reform is dead in terms of the House going along with it.
	So Republicans are prepared to help themselves in that regard.
	But independently of what the Republicans do, there's just, there's no, you can't go back in history.
	You can't find times historically in this country where during circumstances such as we're in now, and we've been in them before, that a party out of power with such a negative, horrible, rotten image of its own country and of its own military has ever prospered.
	Look at what happened to McGovern after the Vietnam War.
	Another veteran, too.
	A landslide loss after they had stopped the Vietnam War.
	And they call that one of their glory days.
	I want to thank all of you who are sending me emails, particularly those of you sending emails on the super private director rush email line that subscribers at rushlimbaugh.com have access to.
	And I've got maybe three or four of these days.
	Rush, it seems like lately you're always talking about the Democrats.
	You're always talking about the liberals.
	I mean, there's all kinds of things going on.
	Can you not, can you, can you change it up a little bit?
	I understand your complaint, ladies and gentlemen.
	There are times where even I feel like a broken record on some of these things.
	However, we are in an election.
	I just want to give you my reasoning for this.
	I follow my instincts on this.
	There are two things going on out there that I have raised red flags.
	I'm going to get to one of them in just a second.
	Go through a bunch of newspapers today, you will be hard-pressed not to conclude that there's some sort of collusion going on between the open borders crowd on immigration and the drive-by media.
	I have a San Francisco Chronicle story.
	I have a New York Times story.
	What else do I have?
	A Washington Post story.
	I've got a Los Angeles Times story.
	And they all around the same theme.
	That the ordeal of getting into this country illegally is just, we don't even know how hard it is and how tough it is.
	So there's something going on here, and I know what it is.
	And it's because the Senate immigration bill is in trouble in the House.
	So the drive-by media is out there doing what they do.
	They're driving their agenda.
	They're all for open borders for who knows whatever reason.
	I don't even care to bother to analyze that.
	I guess they're opposed to Republicans.
	They're opposed to conservatives.
	Period.
	Feeney matters not what the issue is.
	The other thing going on out there is this ongoing press by the Democrats to get out of Iraq and to proclaim this a failure.
	Now, I'm not going to sit here and just let them get away with unanswered charges, unanswered stupidity spouted on the Sunday shows and others throughout the weekend.
	There's certain things here that I think you need to hear.
	And I also believe that, you know, we've got a large tune-in factor here.
	This is an election year, and traditionally people tune in in even greater numbers, and not everybody listens all day, every day.
	And so it's sometimes necessary to repeat some salient points in the process of educating and informing virtually everybody who listens to the program.
	And I am passionate about what I think what the Democrats are doing and the liberals and the path they have chosen for themselves is absolutely dangerous and people need to be alerted to it.
	Remember, we're all here in the arena of ideas.
	I've always believed that an informed, participating general public is what makes this country work.
	And I'm telling you, there's an agenda.
	The drive-by media is after Zarkowi's death, rather than kind of slink away and rethink this, they have ratcheted up the notion that we're losing, that we have no hope, that it's a lost cause, that it's all Bush's fault, that it's a civil war.
	They trot Murphy out.
	They keep having these votes in the House and the Senate where they lose profoundly on withdrawing, and yet they keep talking about it.
	Well, all of this has consequences in election year.
	And what I hope I'm doing here, what I'm very confident I'm doing, is chronicling for you why come November they're out again and they're going to lose even bigger than they think.
	Now let's go back to the audio sound bites on this.
	Yesterday they dragged out John Podesta on Fox News Sunday.
	I didn't drag him out.
	Podesta will show up anywhere whether there's a microphone or camera.
	Now John Podesta heads up a think tank.
	I forget the New America Foundation or something like that.
	This is the think tank where this idiot from the UN spoke the other day, Mark Malik Brown, accusing you of being a bunch of mind-numb robots with your opinion of the United Nations shaped by me and Fox News.
	And this is a George Soros-funded organization.
	So they bring Podesta out, who used to be Clinton's chief of staff, and there's some interesting things that he said here, and I want you to hear them.
	But of course, I'm going to have reaction.
	First question from Chris Wallace: John, there's not a single word in the new party platform about Iraq.
	Don't have agreement on all of what should be in that platform.
	Maybe they can get that agreement by November.
	But, you know, seriously, unity isn't everything.
	The Republicans are unified in no change of direction.
	They're unified on ignoring the facts on the ground.
	They're unified in no accountability.
	But, you know, unity doesn't make for a uniform good judgment.
	I think they're on the wrong side of the issue with the American people, and they've shown no sense of challenging the president as he's made mistakes.
	And I think that will be the issue when it comes to November.
	Yeah, well, you guys are going to be the issue, John, because you're the ones invested in defeat.
	And whether you know it or not, Mr. Podesta, the vast majority of the American people don't want to lose.
	The vast majority of the American people don't personally despise George W. Bush.
	They may have problems with him.
	Republicans, conservatives do over a number of things too, not just Democrats and liberals.
	But nobody wants their country to fail, Mr. Podesta, as you seem hell-bent on forcing as a reality.
	You and Mirtha and everybody else.
	Yours is nothing more than a raw quest for selfish power being orchestrated by a bunch of spoiled brat little kids who can't figure out how you lost it, and you don't have the knowledge or the guts to take to the fight and actually go back and win your power back via persuading the American people, getting to their hearts and minds.
	No, you somehow want to get your enemies thrown out on scandal, politicizing policy differences and so forth, indicting various members of the leadership, because you guys have virtually nothing to recommend yourselves for in terms of leading this country, particularly in the area of national security.
	And I'm not going to shut up until I convince as many people as possible of this.
	Now, here's Chris Wallace also talked to Simon Rosenberg, who's also, I think, part of the same think tank.
	And Wallace says, so the Republicans Rosenberg.
	Yeah, he's with Podesta.
	So the Republicans, at least they have a course, though, but you may not like it.
	It's a bad course.
	It's a bad course.
	But why is that preferred to a debate?
	Their course isn't working.
	We need a better way to get there.
	We're offering a lot of ideas.
	We're not unified.
	We're not in power.
	We're not in power.
	We don't have to have a unified approach because we're not in power.
	We can't be held accountable for anything.
	And that's what's guiding them.
	They think they're safe to be all over the place.
	But it's a strange way to go about getting power, to keep investing in America's defeat, to keep assuming it's already happened.
	This after killing Zarkowi, after all of these successful raids, I'll bet you this Haditha thing comes back and bites these guys in a rear end, too.
	I'll bet you it is another Dan Rather, Bill Burkitt, Mary Mapes special.
	Here's an old Clinton-Easta tactic: accuse your opponent of doing what you're doing.
	Wallace says the Republicans beat the Democrats in 2002 and 04 in the congressional elections.
	Probably the main reason President Bush is still President Bush and not Senator Kerry, because they were able to portray the Democrats as weak in the war on terror, weak on national security.
	You can say it's good for the country to have this debate, as you say, unity isn't everything.
	But given the fact that there's no clear direction, why can't they do it to you all over again?
	I grant that they're better at smearing than governing.
	But I think in this year, the question is going to be the facts on the ground.
	How is it going in Iraq at the time of these elections?
	The public's highly dissatisfied.
	They want a new course.
	And the Republicans just chain themselves to staying the course which the public disagrees with, and I think is wrong for the country.
	You know, they just, what amazes me about this is how they continue to so easily fool themselves.
	There is no clamor from the American people to get out of Iraq or to redeploy or whatever.
	None.
	They're basing this purely on polls that their own buddies in the drive-by media do, polls which project what they hope will be the result of American public opinion, but it simply isn't there.
	The anti-war protest, remember this that occurred the same weekend as the first giant immigration protest?
	What did they get?
	25,000 people nationwide in a number of different cities.
	The first immigration protest, over a million or half a million, whatever it was, in Los Angeles.
	I mean, it is a non-issue.
	These people stuck in the past trying to make Vietnam come true again here in Iraq and trying to make Watergate come true again in the Bush administration.
	One thing back to this power business, and this is fascinating.
	Ronald Brownstein, the L.A. Times, yesterday, what the Democrats need is a little power.
	His whole thesis here is that only power can compel the Democrats to agree on what they want to achieve.
	My gosh, how bankrupt is that?
	And tell me there's no collusion here.
	Here you've got Podesta, chief of staff to Clinton, basically saying the same thing.
	We don't have power.
	We don't have to be accountable.
	We don't have any power.
	We don't have to come up with a unified agenda.
	We don't have the power.
	We're not the ones making the choices.
	It's like people ask Carrie, what are you going to do if you're elected?
	Well, I can't answer that question right.
	Well, because I haven't seen all the information online until I get there and see how they've really mucked this up, screwed it up.
	Why?
	I don't have a plan.
	I don't have to have a plan.
	I'm John Kerry and I don't need a plan.
	I'm just going to do it smarter and I'm going to do it better.
	Yeah, right?
	And people go, all right, that's exactly what we want.
	And so now the whole point of Brownstein's piece is say, well, yeah, Democrats, they just think this is a shame.
	And until they get some power, they really can't do anything.
	Duh!
	Duh!
	All they can do is flap their guns.
	Is the problem a lack of nerve among Democratic leaders?
	That may be part of the equation, but the larger problem, writes Mr. Brownstein, is a shortage of power measured in control of the institutions, the White House, the House, the Senate, that transform ideas into laws.
	Power is the only thing that can compel a party to agree on what it really wants to achieve.
	A president must decide what policies to propose.
	A legislative majority must decide what bills to pass.
	Without that responsibility, parties almost always indulge in the narcissism of small differences.
	Now, Mr. Brownstein, a salient question for you, sir.
	Republicans didn't have any power in 1994 during that campaign.
	Dad, Zilch!
	Silch!
	Mr. Brownstein, no power whatsoever other than me and this program.
	And yet, they won control of the House of Representatives.
	And they had an agenda.
	They had a contract with America.
	They had an idea.
	They had leadership.
	And they were able to do it even though they didn't have power.
	Now here we come.
	Well, the Democrats can't really be expected to unify.
	They don't have any power.
	It's just not fair.
	Is this the same?
	And Democrats is really good at leading a country, but until they have power, they can't tell anybody how they're going to do it.
	It's just an unfortunate thing.
	I've never seen a bunch of bigger babies making excuses for repeated failure after failure after failure after misjudgment after misjudgment after misjudgment.
	And mark my words, all these failures and misjudgments are going to continue.
	Mambo number five.
	What's that guy's name, Lou Bega?
	I guess it started out, started out sort of fast and tapered off.
	One-hit wonder.
	Still a good tune.
	Daniel in Memphis, I'm glad you called, sir.
	Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Wow.
	Mega Young Dittos, right?
	Thank you.
	Thanks very much, sir.
	I know what a thrill it is.
	I know what a thrill it is.
	Well, listen, I've been listening to you.
	I just figured it out for 59% of my life.
	So I've been a student for quite a long time, and you taught me a long time ago that the world is ruled by the aggressive use of force, if I have that right.
	And you made a point earlier about North Korea, and so far all we've given them is words, but the only reason why we're taking them seriously is because they are offering a real threat, North Korea and Iran, of the aggressive use of force.
	And yet we wonder why we don't get any results when they obviously aren't using words.
	They're using their actions and we're just putting words behind what we're doing.
	You are really a good student.
	You really are.
	This 59% of your life invested in this program has paid off.
	Well, I started listening when I was 11 in 1990, and I'll tell you one reason, aside from the inspiration and the great opportunity to live in America that I'm an entrepreneur is because when I work for other people, I didn't have the opportunity to listen to you every day.
	Yeah, no, that could be a problem.
	It's worked out really well, actually.
	So being able to listen to this program at your leisure inspired you to become an entrepreneur?
	Yes, sir.
	Well, see, that's just even better.
	My God, that's fat.
	You use a computer?
	Yes, I do.
	Are you a subscriber to my website?
	Unfortunately, I'm not.
	I keep meaning to do that.
	Yeah, yeah, I've heard it.
	You keep meaning to do it.
	Well, I'll tell you what, I'm going to make you a complimentary subscriber for a full year.
	Also, a little limball letter.
	I'll give you your choice of a couple goodies from the EIB store, including some Club Gitmo gear, if you want some.
	Daniel, thanks very much.
	I want to expand on his point because it really is good.
	He does remember one of my undeniable truths of life, written back in 1986, I believe, states that ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
	Oh, the libs hate that.
	They despise it.
	And that's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
	And that's what's wrong with the world.
	And that's what's wrong with the United States of America.
	The United States of America does nothing but push people around all over the world, take whatever we want, and leave them with nothing, including their own refusive.
	It's just unfair.
	It's not right that we have a world governed by the aggressive youth of force.
	Well, that's the reality of the world, and they can't shape up to it and face it.
	And so we have tyrants and we have good guys.
	And the tyrants never allow themselves to be defeated with words.
	Imagine that.
	A tyrant, a thug, a dictator will never, ever sit down at the diplomacy table and sign away his power.
	Won't happen.
	This little pot-bellied tinhorn dictator in North Korea is not going to do it.
	This wacko lunatic in Iran is not going to do it.
	And they don't do it anywhere.
	And the idea that diplomacy is going to get insane lunatics to drop their weapons, which is the only thing they've got to make them feel like something.
	Otherwise, they're nothing but third world countries is absurd.
	Now, you might be saying, but Rush, but Rush, we just can't run around threatening everybody with war every time.
	We don't.
	We try the diplomatic route.
	I mean, we're invested in it.
	But I'm just telling you that when rubber meets the road, like is happening here in North Korea, let me ask you a question.
	What do you think that we are preparing to do now?
	Okay, this little pot-bellied, dog-eating, tinhorn dictator, North Korea, Kim Jong-il, is out there saying, hey, we're fueling the missile even now.
	We're going to launch this test and we're going to see if we can get our missile to travel as far as it would take to go to the United States.
	What do you think the Japanese are doing here?
	What do you think neighboring countries around there are doing about this?
	What do you think we're getting ready to do?
	Well, it may say in the news stories that we're getting ready for more diplomacy, but I will guarantee you the Pentagon is preparing a contingency to take that missile out of the sky.
	Do we take the chance it's just a test?
	Do we take the chance it's unarmed?
	I don't know.
	I have no pretense at knowing what's going to happen, but I will tell you that among the contingencies is that we are gearing up not to go up and talk to that missile and not to talk to Tim Jong-il.
	We are prepared to do something.
	I don't know that we'll do it, but we're being, I guarantee you, there's a military option being prepared to take that missile out of the sky.
	If they do launch it, quick timeout, we'll be back.
	Stay with us.
	Fastest three hours in media, two of them in the can.
	We get into the next hour.
	I'll give you a little of this oddly appearing collusion between the drive-by media and others on these immigration stories that are just all over the place.
	Sit tight.

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