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July 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 27, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And a pleasant greetings to you, thrill seekers and music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
We got broadcast excellence three straight hours here from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
A special welcome to those of you watching on the Ditto Cam today at rushlimbaugh.com.
And I hope you've all recovered from the picture of the bust of Hillary Clinton.
And I hope those of you that went to look at it did not encounter any impotence last night.
Should you have been in the mood.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Tour de France champion, Floyd Landis, has apparently tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race.
His team said today on its website.
What does this prove?
It proves that he's a man.
At least he wasn't taking estrogen out there.
You know, I saw, I was telling Snerdley this morning, I forgot to mention this to you.
Well, I was reading the New York Times on Saturday during my hermit weekend, and I turned to a section I never turned to.
I actually had the paper.
For some reason, Edwin put it on the kitchen table.
I said, I didn't even know we got it.
Obviously, the staff's reading it, and they're not even telling me, but he put it there.
So I'm pouring through this thing.
And I guess it's the style section, business section, whatever.
There was this story about how bicycle riders, you bicycle riders want to listen to this.
And they were dead serious.
Bicycle riders cause more pollution that leads to global warming.
Now, you're asking, how can this be?
Because that's supposed to be one of the healthiest things you can do, and you're not driving cars when you're riding a bike and so forth.
The answer in the New York Times on Saturday was, it's because they live longer.
And the longer a human being lives, the more pollution he creates.
So I guess the Times is advocating either early death for bike riders, because everywhere else in this wacko leftist movement, everybody is talking about living longer.
I told you people yesterday that this maggot-infested, long-haired, dope-smoking anti-war protester during the Maliki speech or Maliki speech before the joint meeting of Congress, the one that was shouting and had to be taken out of there, I told you, I said, the odds are that this woman was invited, was given a pass, get an invitation by a Democrat member of the House and Senate.
And it turns out I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body.
It was General Major Owens, congressman from New York, who passed out the pass to this code pink babe.
It's all over.
It's in the New York Sun today.
It's in Newsday.
New York lawmakers led a boycott yesterday of the Iraqi prime minister's speech to Congress, furious that he still has not condemned Hezbollah's actions against Israel.
This leads us into Howard Dean at some point.
Be patient on that.
Howard Dean is just, oh, this is too good.
Every time I hear Republicans talk about, you know, I really think we're going to lose the House.
I'm hearing people say we're going to lose by as many as 30 seats, Rush.
Mr. Really bad out there.
Republicans are really mad.
They really mad.
I understand that, but for crying out loud, some of the things Dean's out there saying, anyway, I got an email from a subscriber at rushlimbaugh.com saying, I love this Iraqi prime minister.
He's done something that we in New York have been trying to do for years, and we have always failed, but he succeeded at it.
He kept Chuck Schumer out of Congress yesterday.
I thought that's a pretty positive way to look at it.
ExxonMobil Profits.
Oh, folks.
I'm going to try to put this in perspective for you, but first I have to tell you, on his page, Drudge has the story about the ExxonMobil obscene profits, of course, with a picture of the retired CEO, Lee Raymond.
This guy is obviously at Exxon headquarters or somewhere with an Exxon logo behind him.
And he just is a big guy.
This picture looks like the caricature of the evil CEO that people conjure up.
Big face, lot of jowls, crooked smile, laughing himself silly, just having the best old time.
People are going to look at this, and they're not going to know this is the retired CEO.
And they're going to think that this picture was taken right after the profits were announced.
They're not going to see any sensitivity on the part of the ExxonMobil CEO.
But let's try to put this in some sort of perspective, shall we?
Exxon made a lot of money.
Whatever that means, they made a lot of profit.
General Motors has lost a lot of money.
Now, as a society, they continue to post losses.
Ford Motor posted a $123 million loss the other day.
Let me ask you, which is better?
General Motors is laying off people through early retirement, cutting back on benefits, and Exxon isn't.
Now, which one are you going to be mad at?
Now, if you're moveon.org, the answer is big oil has no right to make that kind of money.
And General Motors deserves to lose that kind of money.
No business should make money.
Profits are disproportionate.
That would be the answer for moveon.org.
But I want you to consider, seriously, Exxon's making a lot of money and they're not laying people off and they're not cutting back on benefits.
And their stockholders, their stock prices at a record.
I told you that the thing you should do is buy ExxonMobil stocks six months ago when these profits started rolling in.
When the price of oil goes up, the smart buyer buys the stock.
And, well, there's no drive-by hysteria because the drive-by media thinks they finally defeated Bush.
Howard Feynman, we have the soundbite, was on last night with Matthews.
He says he can read Bush's body language.
And he says, Bush is defeated.
You can see it.
Bush knows it's all over.
I'll tell you, the drive-by media missing a hugely transformational event in the Middle East because they continue to look at this through their old prism.
Well, let me continue on this ExxonMobil stuff.
If Exxon's profit, Exxon's profit was about $11 billion and it went up a third.
I'm not the best with numbers off the top of my head, but I mean, is that something like the net increase is about $3.5 billion?
Big deal, ladies and gentlemen.
But if you read the article, they round, they go through round numbers like revenue rose to $99 billion, which is not profit.
They throw around numbers like a 36% increase.
They throw around numbers like $10.7 billion profit was about a $3.5 billion increase, which is just a couple pennies a gallon.
It is, snurdily.
It's just a couple pennies a gallon.
And gasoline is now, I guess, officially over $3 a gallon.
And we continue to see stories that people aren't cutting back.
And more economists, and this is not going to impress anybody.
It's not going to mean anything, but economists are coming out and saying, you know, the price of gasoline as part of the family, overall family budget is still not all that high.
It's just a shock based on the price being around $2, not all that long ago.
But in terms of the actual impact on somebody's budget overall in this country, it ain't that big a deal.
Now, to people to whom it is a big deal, and there are many, that sounds like an insensitive egghead analysis, but there has to be some reason why people aren't cutting back.
And the reason has to be economic.
And lifestyle, the price still hadn't gotten to the point.
Oh, don't they can't cut back.
Of course they cut back.
Ride bicycles.
Go out there and shoot up with some testosterone.
Running the Tour de France.
Go out there and contribute to global warming by not riding a bike or riding a bike or what have you.
Anyway, this ExxonMobil story, they save this for the end of the piece.
The company's refining and marketing segment reported a $264 million earnings increase to $2.48 billion.
All right.
Yippee.
ExxonMobil said that it spent $4.9 billion on capital and exploration projects during the quarter, up 8% from a year ago.
So $4.9 billion.
Look at that.
Almost half their profit went back into production.
Over almost $5 billion of the profit goes back into production.
Let me ask you, wasn't government revenue really, really up last quarter?
I mean, way up.
Yes, it was.
July 13th, New York Times, 2005.
Sharp rise in tax revenue to pair U.S. deficit.
Big surprise has been in tax revenue, running nearly 15% higher than in 2004.
Corporate tax revenue has soared about 40% after languishing for four years.
Individual tax revenue is up as well.
Government's doing well.
Nobody seems to be upset about that.
By the way, in New Orleans, what are these numbers?
Jobs, pre-Katrina jobs are back up 70%.
The job level, the number of jobs in New Orleans is now back to 70% of what pre-Katrina job levels were.
And oil and gas is over.
Oil and gas jobs in the Gulf and the New Orleans area are 20% higher than pre-Katrina.
And you might be saying, so, so what?
Well, if you're saying, so, so what?
Then the question to you is obviously, how can that be?
The drive-by's told us the city was devastated and destroyed.
Why, as recently as a few months ago, we were hearing about how woe AR down and nobody's going to move there.
Nobody's moving back.
The only work they can get is from the illegal alien community, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Sounds like things are starting to come back in New Orleans on the all-important jobs front.
All right.
What is name?
Nostralitis Nasrallah, the Sheikh Nasrallah, the Hassan Nasrallah, is in Damascus.
He is in Damascus meeting with Basher Assad and the chief of the Iranian nuclear division.
The Israelis have intercepted some communications, internal memos from Sheikh Nasrallah to his fellow Hezbo fighters.
And they conflict dramatically with the public statements of Nasrallah, who's out there being bombastic and boastful and saying, whatever he's saying.
They're not having that kind of conversation amongst themselves.
And it is speculated by those who are in the know that perhaps Nasrallah, things are going well on the front.
You don't bring the guy away from the front.
If things are going well at the front, you don't call a big-time general home.
When things aren't going well, you might call a big-time general home for marching orders.
But it does illustrate who's pulling the guy's puppet strings, Syria and Iran.
And by the way, Nasrallah's, I'm told, driving around through, what is it, Damascus in a Mercedes in civilian clothing.
He's not in his turban garb or his sheikh costume.
He's running around looking as close to like a normal civilian as is possible.
Yes, America's real anchorman on a roll on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Interesting story here from the Associated Press.
And this is an illustration, I think, of just how the drive-by media is blinded by the old prism that they continue to look through events at.
It is, it's a, I don't know who wrote, Tom Rahm, our old buddy Tom Rom at the Associated Press.
And he writes, These are dreary days for U.S. diplomacy.
A string of disappointments in recent weeks has left Washington's role as a global power broker diminished.
The unalloyed U.S. support for Israel during two weeks of fighting with the Hezbos in Lebanon and the American refusal to agree to a quick ceasefire are leaving the Bush administration ever more isolated internationally.
He couldn't have it more wrong.
He couldn't be more backwards about this if he tried to be.
He can't even see, let alone understand what is occurring right under his nose.
This is amazing.
There is a major transformation occurring.
These idiots are, they're just, they're totally clueless.
The fact is that the United Nations and the EU and the Arab League are all looking at us now.
They have to follow us and our lead, whether they like it or not.
And many do like it, but they won't say so.
They don't have the guts to say so, but many are happy we're taking the lead.
There's a whole new approach to dealing with the problem here.
Success is not defined by a Bill Clinton type or Madeline Albright negotiated ceasefire.
But that's the prism that these people continue to look through.
Let me give you another example of this.
I mentioned Howard Feynman mere moments ago.
We have the audio sound bites now.
And to set this up, let me ask you a question.
How many times over the past six years have liberals thought that they finally got George Bush?
Who's in the crosshairs and we've finally taken him out?
And it's happened again.
Howard Feynman says that he can read Bush's body language.
And he can read Bush's body language and he knows that Bush is defeated because of his ability to read his body language.
Chris Matthews poses the question.
The politics of trying to welcome with warmth and real tribute a leader of a country we're supporting like mad with all the lives of our people over there, at the same time getting him to speak the way we speak in this country pro-Israeli.
How do you do this?
It was impossible for Maliki to do it.
And that is one of the reasons George Bush in his press availabilities in the last 36 hours has looked like a defeated man.
I have never seen him look like this in all the time I've been covering him since when he started running for governor in Texas 10 years ago.
You know, this is amazing.
Howard Feynman should stop looking at Bush's body and start paying attention to the events that are taking place around him out there.
Next question, Matthews says, well, we knew that whoever won the election would be a Shia.
They'd be pro-Iranian and pro-Hizbo.
Who didn't know that this was going to happen, the president?
So what's happened is George Bush has been outmaneuvered on the chessboard of diplomacy.
And the key thing for the American people is not all this geopolitics.
For the American people, it's the number of troops in Iraq.
And George Bush having to say that we're moving more troops into Baghdad was like putting up a white flag politically.
Bush's body language is crucial.
George Bush operates physically.
You can read George Bush.
And if you saw that guy yesterday and today, you saw a guy who looked like he wasn't in charge.
That's what scares the American people.
Oh, man, I'll tell you, this disconnect is growing larger and larger.
You're moving troops into Baghdad.
We're in a war.
It's a strategic move.
Everything these guys do is looked at through a political prism.
In this case, the political prism of how can it damage or will it damage or has it damaged George W. Bush?
But I think Bush is sitting around the White House pretty happy with what's going on in the Middle East.
There's a new paradigm going on.
He's got his confirmation hearings for Bolton going on.
While all this attention being paid to Bush's body language and all this panting and hope, we killed him.
We finally killed him.
He's in that he looks defeated.
He doesn't want to be president anymore.
Bush is reshaping the Middle East right before their very eyes, and they don't even know it.
Now, try this.
The CBS New York Times poll has gone global when it comes to Bush's approval ratings.
Americans generally approve of President Bush's handling of the current Middle East crisis, according to a CBS News New York Times poll.
But six in ten say the president's not respected by foreign leaders.
Now, how does this jibe with Howard Feynman, who just told us what you, the American people, think?
That it's a white flag of surrender to send more troops in there to Baghdad.
Oh, this is horrible.
This is the worst thing Bush could have done for himself politically.
And here's this CBS New York Times poll.
Americans generally approve of the Bush's president's handling of the current Mideast crisis, but six in ten say the president's not respected by foreign leaders.
The poll finds Americans are pessimistic about the prospects for Mideast peace and don't think the U.S. should involve itself in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
Well, that's pretty wise on the part of the American people.
There hasn't been any peace in that region for 40 years.
What's out there to make people think it's going to happen now?
We're closer than we've been in a long time.
We're still a long ways away.
But you're not going to get peace in this region.
I'm telling you that one of these two sides loses.
Let me put something in perspective for you.
Because I keep running into people who say, well, you know, the Israelis just plopped themselves down there and created that country and it uprooted all these Palestinians and so forth and so on.
Do you know how many Jews there are in Israel?
You know what the Jewish population of Israel is?
Give me a wild guess in there, Mr. Snirdly.
That's about five.
Five million.
Give or take, about five million.
How many Arabs in the nations surrounding Israel?
If you're going to count Egypt, count about 500.
So you got 500 people surrounding 5 million people, and look what the 500 are doing.
They're strapping bombs on themselves and they're out to killing themselves.
They're launching all these.
You think if there were 500 Jews surrounding 500 million Jews surrounding 5 million Arabs that this kind of thing could be going on?
No way.
You got to look for ways to put this in perspective, folks.
And welcome, great to have you with us, El Rushball and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Apparently, Fox News has just received an email from one of the UN peacekeepers killed.
Obviously, the email received before he died or sent before he died.
And he had admitted, they're just reading portions of it now.
I was just watching it as the program resumed.
And apparently, this guy, the Canadian peacekeeper, part of the UN mission there, was saying they were not deliberately targeted and the Hezbollahs were putting themselves in close proximity and pretty much buttresses everything that has been said since, that the Hezbollahs were nearby on purpose, hoping to use the UN outpost as a shield, and it didn't work.
In addition to that, CBC radio retired Canadian Major General Lewis McKenzie was interviewed.
He had some very interesting news about the UN Observer post that was hit by Israeli shells.
The Canadian peacekeeper killed there had previously emailed McKenzie telling him that Hezbollah was using their post as cover.
An excerpt of the interview, we received emails from him, the Canadian member of the UN force, a few days ago, and he was describing the fact that he was taking fire within, in one case, three meters of his position for tactical necessity, not being targeted.
Now, that's veiled speech in the military.
What he was telling us was that the Hezbos were all over his position and that the Israeli defense forces were targeting them.
And that's a favorite trick by people who don't have representation in the UN.
They use the UN as shields, knowing that they can't be punished for it.
There's an ongoing controversy about this, as you know, but the truth is leaking out there that this was a stunt that the Hezbollahs pulled.
And the real question remains, when discussing this, why were they there in the first place in the middle of a war zone?
In fact, the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, says that Israel's deadly attack on a UN observation post in Lebanon, which claimed the life of a Canadian soldier, was a terrible tragedy, and he doubts whether the bombing was deliberate.
The Prime Minister also said he wants to know why the post was still manned, even though it was in the middle of an obvious war zone.
Yeah, well, it's a damn good question.
Now, getting the truth out is getting tougher and tougher.
Let's go to audio soundbite number two.
We have last night on MSNBC the Tucker Carlson program.
He's dropped the bow tie unit.
He got tired of being Chatsworth Osborne Jr.
So he's now just back to Tucker talking with NBC's Richard Engel.
Tucker says, Richard, looking at these really dramatic pictures you sent back, it raises the obvious question.
You are an American reporter for an American news network in a city that's been bombed by American warplanes used by Israel, but many people here blame America.
Did you feel threatened at all by the crowd at the scene?
He's talking about, do you feel threatened at all being in the close proximity and company of the Hezbollahs?
When the crowd started to get very excited and we were surrounded by people screaming at us and cheering up, cheering Hezbollah, we decided that was the time to leave.
But in general, the Hezbollah and the people here have been very friendly to us.
They are desperate to get their message out.
Yeah, I wonder why.
Israel is not only fighting Hezbollah, but that is using a very, that is using very heavy-handed tactics and saying that entire villages along the border with Israel are being depopulated.
So at this stage, Hezbollah still feels quite confident that it has a story to tell, and I would assume they feel they can use us to try and get that message out.
Would assume you've just admitted it on the Tucker Show.
Just admitted it.
So they're carrying some propaganda for the Hezbos.
Here's Tucker, who was, I guess, live from Lebanon himself.
He's on there with Chris Matthews last night.
Hezbollah is, at least in person, we were not able to take photographs, still or moving, of the Hezbollah leaders who were there, but they were amazingly Western looking.
I expected long beards of the kind I've seen throughout the Middle East.
These people looked very Western.
Baseball hats, Western shoes.
A lot of them have English.
Not at all what I expected.
Wonder why that is.
Why is Hasran Nasrallah driving around in Damascus today in a Mercedes in civilian clothes?
You think it might be part of an effort to disguise themselves?
To make it look like civilians so they don't get hit.
My gosh, I continue to marvel at the what is it?
It's not stupidity.
Well, say stupidity, the blockheadedness or what have you.
Now, we go to CNN last night's situation room with Wolf Blitzer.
Wolf is talking to that famous reporter, Nick Robertson, who admitted that the Hezbollah were steering him around and pointing things out in his first tour into Beirut and that they wouldn't let him go in buildings, but the Hezbollah's thing, who was in there.
And Robertson later admitted, yeah, yeah, yeah, we should have issued a disclaimer.
It was a guided tour sponsored by the Hezbos.
So he's back, and Wolf says, Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Hezbos.
We saw him yesterday appear on Almanar, Hezbo television in Lebanon.
A lot of analysts thought he looked exhausted.
He looked drained.
Body language.
Wolf is noticing body language.
Does this mean that he's defeated?
Is there a sense there that these guys, these Hezbo leaders, may be on the ropes right now?
Nick certainly running for their lives.
I mean, he would, and his supporters would see his death as martyrdom and something to be proud of.
I think actually what a lot of people here really see is that Hezbollah is able to inflict casualties upon Israel that no other army, Arab army, has been able to do.
And I think for the people here, at least Hezbollah's hardline supporters, that's something to be proud of.
I think that's the perception that we get from people here.
I think they do recognize their leadership's in a hard place right now.
But certainly, I don't think we get the sense that people here assess they're on the ropes.
Okay, so I guess can't read the body language.
I guess you can't trust the body language.
Bush is on the ropes.
Bush is defeated, according to Howard Feynman.
And Wolf and the boys think that Haas, what is it?
Nasrallah looks defeated and on the ropes and so forth.
But Nick Robertson.
Nick Robertson assured, no, couldn't be further than the truth.
These guys are doing more damage to Israel than any Arab country ever has.
No, no, no, no.
They got hardline supporters.
That's something to be proud of.
That's the perception we get from people here.
Nick, what do you think you're going to do?
You think you're going to run around Lebanon and find people who want Israel to win?
You'll find some, but not where you're headed, not where you're going, not where you're spending time.
You're going to surround yourself with Hezbos, especially the Hezbos.
They're not wearing the clerical garb, the chic suits and all that sort of stuff, making themselves look like innocent civilians.
Next thing you know, they're going to start wearing blue turbans, little light blue turb.
Yeah, they'll wear light blue turbans, making themselves look like the UN peacekeeping.
Well, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
Light blue turbans.
If I were running the Hezbo's, that would be one of the first things I would have ordered up.
Jim in Rockford, Illinois, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Megan Nittos from Rocket, Illinois.
Yeah, thank you, sir.
Hey, you know, what struck me is your comments about Feynman and Matthews and the drive-by media criticizing Bush being down in his foreign policy in shambles or whatever.
But I think you need to remind people, you know, of the strategic success of the Indian treaty that Bush negotiated recently.
And also, I found it interesting that the media has given practically no attention to the fact that the Japanese prime minister was here, what, two or three weeks ago?
Yeah, well, he went to Graceland, right.
Yeah, and then within a week of returning back home, when the South Koreans were launching missiles, the Japanese announced that they were thinking about removing something from their Constitution so they could rearm.
And I wonder if Bush, it's not a stretch to think that Bush probably has something to do with that.
Well, all these things are true.
The best way to understand this is you've got the members of the drive-by media are reporting news today.
And this is nothing new.
For those of you to whom this is redundant, I apologize.
But they report news as they hope it ends up occurring.
So this is reading.
Look at it.
We're talking about a serious journalist.
We're talking about one of the big names in drive-by journalism.
And he's pronouncing Bush defeated on the basis of body language.
Now, stop and think for a second.
After you finish laughing, stop and think about the depth of reporting, the depth of understanding and knowledge of policy that that kind of report requires.
That's nothing but hope.
That is nothing but wishful thinking.
That's nothing but their dream of being powerful enough to bring Bush down even while still in office is possible.
That's all it is.
There are transformational events taking place right under their noses in Washington, in the Middle East, in Iraq, and they can't see it.
I told you the story.
A guy came up to me in a golf course when I was on vacation.
Do you feel threatened by the massive disadvantage you have budgetarily with the big networks able to research and report and do things that you can't do?
And I said, no, not at all.
He was quite stunned.
And I said, why?
Why are you stunned?
And I said, because, well, he was stunned too.
I said, I don't fear what they find because they don't use 95% of it.
Whatever research they dig up, whatever news they see, only 5% of it, if that much, ever registers with them.
And that's based on what their action line of the day is, what their template is.
So if Malachi comes and addresses the joint meeting of Congress and doesn't condemn the Hezbollahs, why, that fits right in line with the action line that Bush is losing.
Why, we have made this guy.
We got this guy elected.
Why, why, we've lost over 2,500 people.
We've had many more wounded.
He won't even support us.
Bush is just impotent.
Bush can't do anything.
Bush is losing.
And Bush knows it.
Look at the body language.
Well, that's how they report this.
I'm telling you, you know, I go back to what I have said from day one.
What do they have to offer?
They can sit there and say Bush is defeated and they can cheer and they can do all of this other rot gut.
But what do they have to offer?
What ideas do they have for winning the war?
What ideas do they have for even prevailing?
What have they done to try and win this war?
The answer is nothing at all.
Nothing.
I've got a story in the stack, another story about what the Democrats are going to do to win the election.
It's every day.
Now, I'm going to talk about this one because it doesn't really focus around Hillary.
But every day that's in the news, okay, what are the Democrats going to do?
It's about time they told us.
But they don't.
They haven't a clue.
In fact, if anything, the Democrats and their allies in the drive-by media have done everything they can do to sabotage victory over this particular enemy.
They can walk out of joint sessions at Congress.
They can demand plans from Bush and from the Iraqi prime minister.
They can complain about timetables.
They can say we don't have enough troops.
We have too many troops.
They offer nothing.
They offer nothing.
Back in a sec.
Stay with us.
That's not going to please Howard Feynman of the Drive-By Media.
But George Bush has just said the entire blame for all that's going on over there belongs to the Hesbos.
There goes the diplomatic solution.
Diplomatic solution out the window.
It's all the Hesbos' fault.
I just love it.
Try these headlines.
Dean calls Iraqi prime minister an anti-Semite.
Howard Dean compares Catherine Harris to Stalin during stop in West Palm Beach.
Howard Dean calls for end to divisiveness.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
This is a speech at a Democratic National Committee, Democrat Professionals Forum, actually.
And here's the first of two bites.
President made a big deal about bringing the Iraqi prime minister to address Congress and met with him yesterday.
The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite.
We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah.
That's right here, Mr. Snerdling.
This happened right across the bridge, right over there in West Palm Beach.
And I didn't even know he was here.
Well, Howard, let me tell you something.
You got a problem.
If you're going to call Malachi, what is it?
Malachi or Maliki?
It's Malachi, right?
I've heard it both ways too.
The Prime Minister of Iraq, if you're going to call him an anti-Semite, shall we also say that John Dengall is an anti-Semite?
Shall we say that John Conyers is an anti-Semite?
How about Fortney Pete Stark?
Could we call him an anti-Semite?
How about Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii?
What do those three people, what these four guys have in common?
They all voted against House Resolution 921 condemning the Hesbo attacks against Israel last week.
So, Howard, some of the most prominent Democrats in the House of Representatives must also be anti-Semites because they have also refused to condemn the Hesbos.
Let's go to the next sound bite from the Democratic Professionals Forum.
Dawn, did you know where this was yesterday?
Brian, you know, where was the Democratic Professionals Forum?
What building was it in?
The Kiwanis Club someplace?
Here's anyway, here's what he said.
Thank God for Bill Nelson because we'd have another crook in the United States Senate if it weren't for him.
He's going to beat the pants off Catherine Harris.
Didn't understand that it is ethically improper to be the chairman of a campaign and count the vote at the same time.
This is not Russia, and she is not Stalin, and she will go back to wherever she came from, and Bill Nelson will be re-elected to the United States Senate.
Talk about holding a grudge.
Man, they still, well, she wasn't heading up the campaign when she was counting the votes.
She didn't count the votes.
She certified the count.
She was the Secretary of State.
But you know what's interesting?
He sits here and he condemns Catherine Harris.
This is not Russia and this is not Stalin.
So he compares Catherine Harris to Stalin.
Now, the real Stalin and the real Soviet Union, they loved.
They love Castro.
They love Yugo Chavez.
I mean, those guys are cool.
The real Stalins, the real Lenins, they love these guys.
Their political enemies, fellow Americans, are the real bad guys.
George Allen had this to say in response.
This is the typical sort of thing that you're getting out of the Democrat leadership.
He's not an anti-Semite.
Do you know who is an anti-Semite?
His predecessor, Saddam Hussein, who was paying families, parents, $25,000, $35,000 to send their son or a daughter into these murderous bombings in Israel.
And so it is just an absurd statement, and this is unfortunate because our country ought to be united, trying to help this government, this fledgling democracy, stand on its own two feet.
Before it's all said and done, there's going to be a knockdown drag out between Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean over the fate of this party when we get to presidential election time.
Back in a sec, folks.
I think it's debatable whether or not Howard Dean makes Terry McAuliffe look good.
They're both punks.
They just come from different parts of the neighborhood.
Anyway, we will continue.
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