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Aug. 22, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 22, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So the Iranians want to negotiate now, huh?
On their uh on their nuclear stockpile, huh?
Yeah, new all of a sudden here on the 22nd of August, their promised date of reply.
Uh the Iranians want to sit down and seriously talk about their uh development of nuclear weapons, right?
Let me just tell you this, folks, you're where you ought to be.
You are where you need to be in order to understand what this really means.
Oh, let's not send Chuck Hagel.
Greetings.
Greetings, folks, and welcome to EIB Network, L. Rushbo, at another three hours of broadcast excellence from right behind this.
The uh golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Before we get into the uh meat and potatoes of today's program, I have to share an email with you that I received uh about what was it, uh six days ago, August 16th.
It's uh it's sent by Soldier in Iraq, and it was uh mailed to me at my uh newsletter super secret email address, or the website super secret email address, meaning at the soldier is a subscriber.
Let me just read the note to you.
Greetings, Rush.
My name is By the way, I've got that hum in my ear.
Do I sound hoarse?
I sound like my voice is about to break up to me.
All right, good.
Greetings, Rush.
My name is Sergeant First Class Ken Bibolt, proudly serving in the United States Army, Minnesota Army National Guard here in Iraq.
My wife Sarah and I are members and longtime listeners.
I'm fighting the war on terror here in Iraq along with 5,000 other soldiers representing the 34th Infantry Division, 1st Brigade Combat Team from the great state of Minnesota.
We are proudly serving our country and answering its need to fight those who wish to kill us just because we are not Muslims.
I download all of your shows while I'm here as a keepsake to give to my children years from now, so that they will know the real history of this war on terror here in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the war between Israel and Siran.
That would be Syria and Iran in Lebanon, and now the so-called ceasefire or what it really is for the Hezbollah is a reorganizing time.
I'd like to ask you to do me a huge favor.
On my birthday, which is the 22nd of August, I'll be forty-three years young.
Would you pass along the following message to my beautiful wife Sarah from me?
Dear Sarah, I love you, Sarah.
You are the greatest gift I could ever have been blessed with.
You are the love of my life, and I will forever honor you.
There could never be another you.
I am forever grateful for all you do and for the support you give me while I'm here.
The days and nights are long sometimes, but the thoughts of you are forever etched in my mind.
I will always know your love is near, for I feel your hands in mine holding me each step of the way, as I hope mine do the same for you.
My hands are your hands and your hands are mine.
This um this is from Sergeant First Class Ken Bibalt.
And I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
It's B E Capital B A U L T could be Bebo.
Not sure how they pronounce it.
Proudly serving United States Army, Minnesota Army National Guard here in Iraq.
And when I received this, when I read this back on August the 16th, and I I read it at uh almost nine o'clock in the morning.
I uh I sent copies of it to Snerdley and a cookie in New York and uh kept one for myself.
So don't let me forget this.
So Snerdley had placed it right here on the desk.
Uh first thing I got here today.
This is the first thing I saw.
And I was really touched by this uh when I when I first saw it for a host of reasons, and I wanted to make sure not to forget it, and to um uh uh uh acknowledge the request here of again Sergeant First Class Ken Bebolt, proudly serving in the U.S. Army, Minnesota Army National Guard here in Iraq.
And by the way, Sarah, all of us here at the EIB would like to wish you a happy birthday as well.
Uh we're honored that people like you are are regular readers of Rush Limbaugh.com.
And I couldn't be more um uh humbled by the fact that uh Sergeant First Class Bebolt is saving all of these programs as a keepsake for his kids, so that they uh they know the truth.
I also couldn't escape noticing he's 43.
He's not the 19 to 20 to 21 that we always hear of.
Nothing or no, they don't misunderstand this.
They're saying that these people are a cut above, folks.
These are these don't forget these are volunteers.
And uh these are the people among a hundred and fifty thousand in Iraq and Afghanistan who are putting their lives in harm's way on a daily basis, despite all of the attempts uh to discredit them and do a pugn them uh that that occurred daily in this country, and they are clearly aware, because I've talked to them in Afghanistan.
They are clearly aware of the efforts that uh occur in this country to undermine the effort in which they are engaged.
So I'm always uh uh I can't tell you how honored and and uh blown away, I guess, is uh is a term I could use to find out just how many of these guys, these people are um are actual listeners uh devoted so on this program.
It's it's a high honor to have all of you as uh as members of this audience.
So again, Sarah uh Bible, happy birthday, your lucky woman, and your husband is a lucky man.
He didn't know if his wife would be listening to it.
He was going to try to get her to listen without giving it away as to why.
And um uh he was uh gonna also try to get some other people to get her to tune in at some points.
Even if she's not listening live, she will hear it later today on the uh on the podcast.
What do you mean if you're getting me a note here?
What do you mean?
Uh you have to do the negotiation how the n oh you mean the thing I did at the end of the program yesterday?
Uh how do you negotiate with terrorists?
Okay, I'll do that.
Because you think I need to do it again because it came at the end of the program.
All right, Snerdley loved this, and I frankly I did get a lot of email about this.
Uh uh we had a call that spawned the thought.
Uh, and I don't even remember what the caller said, but but and it wasn't a it wasn't a harassing caller, but it got me off on this how do you negotiate with terrorists?
We're here where everybody wants to negotiate now with Iran, wants to negotiate with the uh with the Hezballs.
Uh and oh, I know it was about John Kerry and these guys thinking that if they were in leadership positions, that just the force of their personality would enable them to get these enemies of ours to stand down just because they're smarter people.
They have a way with these people.
They go over, talk to them and get this done.
So I imagined this.
Okay, we have a negotiation.
Each side has its list of demands or objectives.
On the terrorist side, we've got to be very honest about this.
What is the number one objective of the terrorists?
If you're unwilling to be honest about this, it's time to wake up, slap yourself upside ahead, like that, and get with the program.
The terrorists seek the death of any who disagree with their religious ideology.
There is no doubt about that.
This is an enemy which celebrates its own deaths and considers them victory.
This is an enemy which straps bombs on its own children, sends them out into public thoroughfares of innocent civilians to blow them and the innocent innocent civilians up.
This is an enemy that it's paid or was paid twenty-five thousand dollars per family by Saddam Hussein when this happened.
Uh so the objective that the terrorists have, they want to kill us.
Our objective is what?
Oh, our objective is to get them not to kill us, but we're gonna do this with negotiation.
We're not gonna do this with the aggressive use of force, because of course, diplomacy and negotiation are the only way to solve this problem.
Uh maybe some indictments and uh trials in court uh going the legal way.
But let's just stick with the negotiations here for just a second.
Okay, starting point is from the terrorist side, you die, they say to us.
We say, okay, uh, well, we don't want to die.
Well, that's not the way we have a non-starter terrorists say.
Because we want you dead.
And we're not gonna stop.
Everybody disagrees with us is dead.
This has been going on for a long time.
We've spread our power around the world.
Why would we give it up?
You are dead.
That's our objective.
Well, we don't want to die.
Um uh could would you would you delay killing us, say, for 40 years?
No, we're not gonna delay anything.
We're gonna keep killing you till you're all dead.
Okay.
Um well, then would you would you uh maybe just agree To take an arm uh uh say the next five or ten years, and we can keep talking- No, no negotiation.
We can't compromise.
You die.
Uh, okay, well, how about how about if we give you an arm and a leg uh over the next ten years?
No, you die.
There is no other term we are interested in.
You are dead.
That is the point.
What are we talking about, the terrorists say?
And John Kerry and the like say, well, this is not a realistic expectation because we don't want to die.
Terrorists doesn't matter what you want.
You are dead.
Don't you see what's happening out there, Mr. Kerry?
You are dead.
A lot of us are going to be dead, but we're going to have 72 virgins, and you're going to hell.
We want you to go to hell.
You're dead.
Kerry said, How about if we give you all the Republicans?
You can kill all the Republicans in the next 20 years.
Nope, we're going to kill you too.
There's no difference between you and Republicans.
You're both Westerners, and we don't think that you can survive compatibly with our belief system.
Uh, how about if we throw in Mel Gibson?
Nope.
Doesn't matter who you throw in.
Mel Gibson, we actually would kind of like.
You are dead.
Terrorists say, uh, you don't get this.
You can give us an arm and a leg, we're going to take that anyway.
You can give us the Republicans, we're going to take that anyway.
My point is, how do you negotiate with people whose objective is to kill you?
Whose dream?
Whose pathway to so-called paradise is our death.
How do you negotiate with these types?
You can't.
You can offer them.
How about if we give you our illegal alien population say, oh, a million every year for the next five?
Nope.
We're going to kill them anyway, the terrorists say.
Okay, how about how about if we uh and the then the diplomats, you know, start running out of ideas here.
Because no matter what death, and no matter what uh body part, and no no no matter what time frame, the terrorist said, No, no, we're gonna do this anyway.
And Terrorists say, but look at where we're going here.
You're offering to kill your own people just to make a deal with us.
You're offering us the Republicans, you're offering us Mel Gibson, you're offering an arm and a leg.
Look what you'll do to yourself in order to come to some negotiated peace.
Bottom line is what we know is you're gonna kill yourself anyway, even if we don't, but we're going to.
So you don't have to.
You're dead.
John Kerry slinks to the French, so what do we do now?
America's real anchor man, Ill Rush Bowl here.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
One of the things I um left out of my negotiation scenario, the uh the the left negotiating with terrorists whose objective is to kill us.
Do you remember the movie Mars attack Mars attacks or was it Independence Day?
What was it?
Was it Mars attacks and Jack Nicholson's?
I know it's a comedy, but I mean a lot of people derive reality from movies, so uh let me uh let me just give you the example.
Uh these little Martians show up, these little bobblehead things living in glass uh uh bubble heads and uh Nicholson things can make a deal with them and uh says you little people and so forth, we can put our differences aside.
Just tell us what you want.
And the Supreme Commander of the Martians says, We want you dead and kills him.
Um what what we can do, I mean, I have one thing I left out is that that uh uh John Kerry and the Libs who think that you can negotiate with these people could always offer to convert to uh Islam.
Um it'd be a tough thing giving up liberalism and environmentalism, but uh, in order to save their lives, what might they do?
But just can you imagine it?
Well, why do you hate us so much?
What is what can we do to reduce the tension?
Die.
And we're gonna kill you.
I'm telling you, there's there's there's no negotiating with these people is the is the point.
You can you can do whatever you want, but these are a bunch of mad caps, and it's it's it's uh never been the case that negotiating with these types has uh led to any peaceful solution of any duration.
Peace follows victory.
The limbaugh doctrine.
And you know, I I I I have to tell you, I've I've been saying for the longest time.
I believed everybody when they said that we were in a war on terror, and I believed everybody when they talked about the axis of evil, North Korea, Iran, and Iraq.
And I believed everybody when they said we weren't gonna allow these nations to go nuclear.
Uh and that's one of the reasons I've been so frustrated since the ceasefire Between the Israelis and the and the and the Hezbos is it seems like a total 180.
Uh I have no idea what future plans are, of course, but it just seems like we're sitting by an Iranians uh their nuke program.
But the nuke program of the Iranians let's let's let's let's I was go ahead and get into this now uh uh now.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator said today that Tehran was ready to enter serious negotiations over its disputed nuclear program, but didn't say whether it was willing to suspend uranium enrichment, which is our key demand.
The negotiator, Ali Larajani hand delivered Iran's response to a Western package of nuclear incentives aimed at persuading it to suspend enrichment.
He gave the reply to ambassadors from Britain, China, Russia, France, Germany, and Switzerland.
It is uh uh prepared as of August 23rd to enter serious negotiations.
Iran is with the countries that proposed the package.
Officials said Iran offered a new formula to resolve the dispute as part of its formal uh response to the Western incentive package.
Now forgive me for being dubious.
But I don't uh believe that this is serious or substantive at all.
I think it is a delaying tactic, and I'm gonna just hit you between the eyes what I think it is.
I think that this is it is uncoincidental, not coincidental that this comes one day.
I know this was the day they promised to respond, and I know this is the day that that everybody has been waiting for with breathless anticipation.
What are the Iranians going to do?
Will the Iranians gonna do?
Will they be nice guys?
What are the Iranian gonna do?
But I think it's not coincidental that this response comes on the eve, or on the day after, rather, of President Bush's uh firm resolve not to get out of Iraq until a mission is accomplished and to not leave there at all while he is president.
We're not getting out till a mission accomplished while he is president.
I think what's happening here is this is simply a buy time maneuver.
It's designed to appeal to the mushheads of the left, the world left, the American left, and the uh and the UN diplomatic community.
It's designed to make them think that progress is being made now.
The Iranians have finally snapped too.
None of this makes any sense in a psychological sense, however, unless you add other factors.
For example, I mean the Iranian response today makes no sense given their victory over Israel in the uh recent war with the Hezbos, given the fact they were not punished whatsoever for their involvement, given the fact that Syria was not punished, given the fact that their their satellite leader, Hasran Nasrallah, Hassan Nasrallah, is now the uh number one terrorist hero in the world who has uh uh supplanted and replaced bin Laden and Al Zawahiri.
Uh this doesn't make any sense.
This is a this is a essentially a capitulation.
Okay, okay, we give, we back down.
We'll talk to you about this.
This doesn't make any sense.
But they know their audience.
They know the the uh the world drive-by media, they know the diplomatic community, and they know that they are throwing a giant bone and dangling a huge carrot of hope in front of these Neville Chamberlains.
In fact, they're worse than Neville Chamberlains, because Neville Chamberlain eventually realized his mistake, apologized for it, and got on board with the right side.
These guys in the American left, the worldwide left, and the diplomatic community continue to veer further and further left without admitting any mistake or error about anything.
The Iranians know this.
The Iranians want time.
Why do they want time?
They don't want to have to deal with George W. Bush.
I will guarantee you, no matter what the president says, and no matter what Condoleezza Rice says, the Iranians and their their grand Ayatollah, Ali Khamenei, and their lunatic president uh Mahmood Ahmadinizad are sitting there unsure what Bush will do.
They have they cannot be certain that Bush will not launch an attack on them.
They can't be assured of this.
The one thing that they are desperately afraid of, I think, is the Bush administration, despite all that has happened uh in just in the past two weeks, what with the ceasefire and so forth, especially coming off that press conference of the president's yesterday morning, just 24 hours ago.
So I think they're biding their time, folks.
I think this is to buy another year or two while they continue to have the enrichment program go on, while ostensibly on the surface, talk about uh the a deal that can be made, trying to appear reasonable.
This is designed to fool the gullible.
The gullible, the American Democrats, the Democrat Party, the American left, the world left, and the diplomatic community, with the hope being that in the year 2008 a Democrat president exists in this country, and they then will be relatively confident that nobody will stop them.
But they just can't trust Bush.
They just, and I guarantee you, they are afraid of him.
He has uh created doubt and fear and uncertainty in their minds.
They don't want to be bombed.
I don't care what anybody says, they don't want to be hit.
They're they're rattling all these war drums and uh rattling their sabers, but they don't want to be bombed, and they can't be sure that Bush won't do it.
They have much more faith that will never happen with a Democrat in the White House, and that's what this response today is all about.
Nothing more complicated than that.
Yes, yes, yes, your host for life, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Welcome to Broadcast Excellence, 800-282-2882, and the email address rush at EIB net.com.
I gotta get this one out of the way.
Uh there's a story here in the Boston Globe today.
Teams woo female fans with freebies, but a lawyer cries foul.
Disputes outcome could have ramifications for Major League Baseball long before the Baltimore Orioles passed out lipstick, and a Red Sox and other baseball teams began selling pink.
Now, stick with me on this, folks.
And other baseball teams began selling pink hats.
Ladies' night giveaways have been a fixture of America's pastime.
And the reason for that is they want more babes to go to the games.
A California lawyer denied a free hat at an Oakland A's game because they were reserved for female fans.
Has filed suit against the team to put a stop to the practice.
Alfred Ravea, or Rava, not sure how he pronounces it, calls such giveaways sex discrimination on steroids.
And he is also suing a Los Angeles Angels for giving away tote bags to women only on Mother's Day.
Said he filed a suits on behalf of other males who were denied giveaways because of their sex.
He's seeking damages of four thousand dollars for each man at the games who didn't receive gifts.
The outcome of the dispute could have ramifications to Major League Baseball as well as for minor league teams, which uh frequently run promotions targeted at women and other specific groups.
The Angels tried to make amends by offering a free tote bag, but it did a little to placate the guy and the client he's representing in the case.
Too late.
The discrimination had already occurred, Ravis said.
Now, there's a way around this.
As you know, I was in the marketing department at Kansas City Royals.
We never had this kind of problem.
We never had lawsuits, we never had this kind of because when we did something for women only, it was something the men all looked forward to more than the women.
We at the Kansas City Royals, and I don't think they do it anymore because the heat did get turned up on this halter top day.
We offered halter tops to women.
They would come in, they'd get these little skimpy halter tops, they'd run in the bathrooms and put them on, and you'd have 20,000 of them on a Sunday afternoon, and you'd have men perfectly happy that they didn't get one.
There are countless ways around this.
Uh but this is just classic example.
Everybody's so uptight, this is the feminization of the of the culture, and that is a girly man.
These these are girly guys.
Get upset because they don't get a tote bag.
I mean, it's just it's uh troublemakers and and and just it's it's absurd, and it's uh it's a great indication of just how it is we've all got way too much time on our hands and way too much affluence in this country to be concerned about being offended or slighted in uh in this way.
Somebody bring back halter top day, and I guarantee you that this uh this will end.
Now get this.
This is a great story from Tech Central Station today.
Uh Michael Strong.
Between 1990, and this is why the Democrats are in deep doo-doo.
This is little reality intruding on Joe Biden and the Democrats who are uh admitted now that they are going to target Walmart in the November elections between 1990 and 2002.
More than 174 people escaped poverty in China.
That's about 1.2 million per month.
And this article is footnoted.
With an estimated $23 billion in Chinese exports in 2005, Walmart might well be single-handedly responsible for bringing about 38,000 people out of poverty in China every month, about 460,000 per year.
There are estimates that 70% of Walmart's products are made in China.
One writer vividly suggests that one way to think of Walmart is as a vast pipeline that gives non-U.S.
companies direct access to the American market.
Even without considering the $263 billion in consumer savings that Walmart provides for low-income Americans, or the mi $263 billion in consumer savings every year.
$263 billion.
That's why the Democrats once again have blown it.
They have misunderstood what's going on.
They're siding with the wrong people.
They're siding with special interests, not their supposed constituents.
Or the millions lifted out of poverty by Walmart and other developing nations, it is unlikely there is any single organization on the planet that alleviates poverty so effectively for so many people, including the World Bank.
Moreover, insofar as China's rapid manufacturing growth has been associated with a decline in its status as a global arms dealer, Walmart has done more than its share in contributing to global peace.
Great economic piece.
We will link to it.
There's more to it than what I've quoted, but we'll link to it at Rush Limbaugh.com when we update the uh program to reflect the contents of today's show later on in the afternoon.
It's getting uh it's getting funnier up there in Connecticut.
Critics of Senator Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts yesterday.
One group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democrat Party, and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.
Staffers for Lieberman uh called both efforts dirty politics.
The Senator filed as an independent candidate a day after the loss, running under the new Connecticut for Lieberman Party.
A group whose members described themselves as peace activists asked Sharon Ferrucci, Democratic registrar of voters in New Haven, to remove Lieberman from the party, arguing he cannot be a Democrat while running under another party's banner.
The uh request could lead to a hearing in which Lieberman, the Democrat's vice presidential nominee in 2000, would have to argue that he still adheres to the party's principle.
The uh the group leader, Henry Lowendorff said the law is pretty clear.
He's no longer a member of the Democrat Party in good standing.
There was an open vote, he was voted out, he joined a different party.
Lieberman campaign manager Sherry Brown branded the effort dirty politics and tricks at its worst.
He said that uh this kind of ridiculous partisan game playing is not going to provide anyone in Connecticut with better jobs, better health care, or better schools.
Well, neither will either of you guys.
Uh let's not, you know, folks, I want to say something here.
I know that there is a lot of uh sentiment here attached to Joe Lieberman, and there is a lot of appreciation for Joe Lieberman because he's right on the war on terror, and he is paying a price in the Democrat Party for supporting President Bush and the war.
And that's great, and that's all well and good.
And I know that there are some Republicans out there who uh are going to raise money for him and going to vote for him, and that's fine, and that's all well and good.
But let's not forget Joe Lieberman gets a ninety-seven or ninety-eight percent ADA rating.
He is a full-fledged 100% liberal.
And he's a much he's a nice guy.
I've met him uh I've I've spent some time with him.
His wife is uh is a wonderful person, but he's a lib.
And I know what you want to do.
You want to take it to the left.
You want to take it to the anti-war kooks.
You want to take it to the fringe, and you want them to be mightily embarrassed and you want it illustrated and demonstrated, just how little power they really have.
And I agree with you on that.
Uh, but but in the process, you know, if Lieberman wins and he wins as an independent, it looks like he will.
Um he's still a lib.
He is who he is.
He was the Democrat vice presidential nominee six years ago.
And remember, he did all kinds of contortions in order to get that nomination and to keep it.
I mean, he he he changed a whole bunch of positions on morality and the culture in order to be on the same page with uh with Al Gore.
So while I understand the excitement and the eagerness to see uh Lieberman elected uh and so forth and why uh don't think that just because his opponent here is one of these wacko fringe lunatics, Ned Lament that uh that that Lieberman is by some stretch of the imagination now a conservative.
He is when it comes to the war, but uh on on most other things.
You can count on him being with the Harry Reed Democrats in the Senate uh when it comes time to vote on other issues.
Arthur in Nevada City, California, your first today.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Yes, Rush.
Your uh your prescription for terrorism is sound, and we have a real excellent uh precedent in the history of Persia itself in modern day Iran.
Um your listeners might be uh familiar with a group called the Baha'is.
They're uh altruistic, very open, peace-loving religion.
Yeah, they're they're they're they're gods of hummingbird, right?
Well, it's not like that.
It's it's that all religions are one.
And so they they're syncretistic, they get along with the bigger.
Well, no, the Baha'i faith.
No, no, no, everybody who's led the Baha'i Faith, Seals and Crofts remembers the Baha'i Faith.
Remember that DJ Days and Hummingbird, I mean, they their song Hummingbird's about their God.
Oh, well, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, the cool thing is that many people don't know is that their precursors, they came out of a very violent move movement, which if if you looked at it today, it would they would be considered terrorists.
They were from the Bobbies.
They followed this guy named the Bob.
And uh his followers tried to assassinate the Shah, uh fought with government troops, piped their heads around the fort, you know, did the whole chopping the heads off thing.
They did it all.
And uh the government just put him down brutally, completely wiped him out, and then after the Bob was executed, um the leadership of the movement went to Baha'u'llah.
And uh he was sent to Haifa, where their headquarters is now, and his son Abdul Baha brought the religion to the West, and when he did, uh they became quietist, they became peace-loving, and uh now they they're actually they actually have a place at the United Nations.
Well, I didn't know all that, but the um the story is interesting.
Uh uh look, the bottom line with all of this when it comes to negotiating with terrorists is that they're not interested in give and take.
They are not interested in negotiation, not interested in compromise.
And if nobody's interested in compromise, what's the point of negotiation?
I must tell you, folks, when it comes to political battles in this country, I'm not a big believer of negotiation anyway.
You start getting into negotiation.
Uh if you believe in such things as right and wrong, let's just leave it at that.
I was gonna say good and evil for a moment.
If you believe in right and wrong, why would you want to negotiate with wrong?
Why would you want to come to an agreement?
Because I guarantee you, when you get into an agreement with right and wrong, right is going to be the one who compromises.
When you get into an agreement, start negotiating with good and evil.
I'll guarantee you it's going to be good that compromises.
When you get in negotiation with liberals, what's the point?
What's the point of compromising?
Now, I understand people who rush, get legislation passed, so far.
I'm taught that's fine, okay, we'll leave that alone for a moment.
I'm talking about election.
The point is to beat them.
The point is to defeat liberals.
The point is to keep them the minority from now until the end of our lives and the end of your kids' lives and so forth.
It's the best thing could happen in the country.
Why do we want to negotiate with them?
What is the point?
We think they're wrong.
What part of what they believe do we want to incorporate in order to make a deal?
But Rush, we want peace.
And we want tranquility, and we want conflict resolution.
We want to all be able to get along.
Well, fine.
You all be able to get along giving up what you believe in.
What is the point?
Like I I I come to these debates uh with core values.
Now, what is there to negotiate about a core value?
It's like abortion.
I'll give you an abortion up to the first month, but after that, no abortion.
Well, Rush, you might want to take that.
That would start the momentum and a trend away from the first trimester.
You might be able The minute you start compromising your beliefs, you lose, especially if they are core principles.
You know, that's what I don't understand about negotiating with terrorists.
I don't understand about negotiating with Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda or whatever else.
The danger is that the left, in negotiating with those guys, will gladly give up a little bit of their freedom for security.
They'll gladly give up whatever it is that threatens, uh whatever they think threatens the terrorists, but they can never give up enough because the terrorists want them to die.
Terrorists want us dead.
I it's good and evil.
How do you negotiate with evil?
What part of evil are you willing to accept?
Back in just a second.
Ah, yes, the Isley brothers and fight the power.
Ooh.
Ooh!
I'd say this guy has one sick puppy, Bill Clinton, writing in the New York Times today, how we ended welfare together.
You know, this is an anniversary of welfare reform, and here comes Clinton on the pages of the New York Times, wanting to claim credit for it, claiming that we did it together.
And I want to go back and play four audio sound bites from our archives to illustrate that this is BS.
Had it not been for a Republican Congress elected in 1994, there would never have been welfare reform, and Clinton vetoed it twice before signing it the third time.
It's a little history lesson for you rush babies out there who um get to read Clinton's op-ed and think that he reformed welfare.
We go back.
The first three bites here are from Rush Limbaugh Television Show July 31, 1996.
Cut one.
We want a bill that actually is welfare reform.
You can put rings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
We want real welfare reform.
And this was considered to be the brightest president in office since JFK.
Here is cut two.
This is after he signed welfare reform July 31st, 1996.
At the beginning of this very Congress, some wanted to put poor children in orphanages and take away all help from others simply because they were poor, young, and unmarried.
Last year, the Republican majority in Congress sent me legislation that had its priorities backward.
It was soft on work and tough on children.
Clinton signed it anyway, right before the Democrat convention.
Right before he's is misrepresenting what it was.
But I'll tell you, when he signed it, the Democrats were living.
You gotta fix this, they said, and they went to their convention, fit to be tight over this.
You gotta fix this.
And they acknowledge Clinton had to do this to get re-elected.
We've got a montage from July 31st, 1970-6, Senator Carol Mosley Braun, Daniel Patrick Mornihhan, Joe Moakley, Chaka Fatah, and Eva Clayton, Democrats all, talking about the welfare bill.
This day, in the name of reform, this Senate will do actual violence to poor children, putting millions of them into poverty.
I pray God when those children end up on the streets, roving in bands, out of control, fact to themselves, danger to others, that we remember what we did.
It puts another million children into poverty and doesn't go far enough.
There will be members who will come to the floor today because they want to be re-elected and will vote for it.
We care about children too much to rob Paul to pay Peter.
These are the Democrats that Clinton's just praised the bill, how he switched it around, made it a great thing, can also go back and realize how wrong these people were, as they always are.
Welfare reform's been a huge success in every measure.
Here is how I summed it up on my television show the day Clinton announced that he was finally signing welfare reform.
A little history on this.
This is the third welfare reform bill the Republicans have presented to the president.
Welfare reform as presented today, part of the contract with America.
The president said as early as 1992 during his campaign that it was time to end welfare as we know it.
During the first two years of his administration, when he had a Democratic Congress to work with, uh, he never proposed it.
There was never one shred of movement on it.
Republicans win in 94, it becomes a focal point.
The president knows the mood of the country is conservative, and he has announced that he's going to sign the bill.
And today, a little over ten years later, a sick op-ed, uh, in which Bill Clinton Writes how we ended welfare together.
Bill Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming to this.
His party was livid over this, and they went to the convention that year demanding that he fix it.
There were even resignations.
Marion Wright Edelman, the children's workshop or whatever, big lib.
Her husband, I think she quit.
They have a bunch of libs quit over this, but it worked.
You guys hear what uh Bryant Gumble said on his HBO show about Gene Upshaw, the head of the players' union, and uh the new commissioner of the National Football League.
This is interesting.
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