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Aug. 31, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
And greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruit and plain.
It's time for broadcast excellence from the EIB building high atop the EIB building, Midtown Manhattan.
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Now be and by the way, special welcome to those of you watching on the uh Ditto Cam today.
President Bush just concluded his speech to the American Legion in Salt Lake City.
We are at this moment.
Prepping the audio sound bites, the highlights from that speech.
Got a tremendous audio soundbite roster here today, ladies and gentlemen, to uh treat you too.
And I also I made a promise last night.
I promised that uh I'd say hello to a couple future young Republicans.
Uh young uh young ladies, daughters of a friend of mine, Lily Thomas's, as well as uh Phoebe Smush Bush uh uh Thomas's.
Uh they asked me if I could tug my right ear just to say hello.
And I no, I'll say I'll say hi to you.
I'd be I'd be happy to do that.
So great to have you in the audience.
Uh their mom's a big time lib, but they are future.
In fact, Lily is gonna be the uh founder of the Long Island Young Republicans, of the Fire Island uh young Republican.
There aren't any Republicans out there except her, but she's gonna found the club in uh in due course.
Ladies and gentlemen, you know, throughout the stacks of stuff today, more stories on what's gonna happen to Washington when the Democrats win.
I've got a pretty interesting story from a Monterey newspaper, Moderator California newspaper, what's going to happen to George Bush's Washington when the Democrats win the house.
And it's it's just it's another in the you can get one of these every week, sometimes two of these a week.
They're counting their chickens before the eggs hatch.
They have the uh uh all of these polling uh uh data that suggest like Al Hunt.
Do you know where Al Hunt ended up?
He used to be the Wall Street Journal in CNN, Al Hunt's over Bloomberg.
Al Hunt had a piece earlier this week.
It's a foregone conclusion, Democrats are gonna win the House.
And the Senate too, as a foregone conclusion.
Uh yeah, still he's it it it read like a Democrat National Committee press release or or or faxed talking points.
It really did.
And about a half hour after I arrived here at the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan, Drudge puts up this lead story, President Bush assassinated in new TV docudrama.
And this docudrama is going to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival or some Canadian film was it?
Uh yeah, the Toronto Film Festival.
I just want to read this story to you.
Because you put you juxtaposed this with all of the cockiness that the Democrats have that they're gonna win.
Uh and you just something about it doesn't they're just I I I they're insane.
They have descended into utter madness.
And they I I think they're unaware that people see this.
I think that, as I've said before, they actually believe that their animus and sheer unbridled, totally focused hatred of George W. Bush is shared by a majority of Americans.
This is the dramatic moment.
When President Bush is gunned down by a sniper after a public address at a hotel and a gripping new docudrama soon to be aired on TV.
Set around October of 2007, President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago.
Whatever happened to the notion that if you talked about this, threatened to do this or what have you, the Secret Service was knocking on your door inside of ten seconds.
Death of a president is the title of this docudrama.
Shot in the style of a retrospective documentary, looks at the effect of the assassination of Bush and had and what it has on America in light of the war on terror.
The 90 minutes feature explores who could have planned the murder.
We get this a Syrian born man wrongly put in the frame.
Oh, of course it couldn't be one of our enemies that did it.
No, no, no.
Couldn't be an Islamo fascist.
Couldn't be a terrorist.
Hell no.
It has to be an American.
I don't know where this goes, but they're going to set it up where the obvious suspect is obvious suspect, but it can't possibly be.
Peter Dale, the head of Moore Four, which is due to air the film on October the 9th, said the drama.
Now listen to this.
The drama was a thought-provoking critique of contemporary U.S. society.
Remember last summer during the or uh two summers ago during the 2004 campaign, the lame brain wrote a book on how to assassinate Bush.
And the left's out there saying, you know, we really need to delve into this.
Uh this is a very important work.
Um examine this within the zeitgeist, the uh the spirit of the times.
Uh well worth the literary time one might spend immersing oneself in these shocking pages.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And this guy sounds the same.
Yep, it's a thought-provoking critique of contemporary U.S. society.
Well, uh, let me ask you a question.
In contemporary U.S. society, if I were to ask you the question, I'm asking you now, who do you think would like to assassinate President Bush?
What group of people comes to your mind?
What group?
Come on.
Liberals.
The blogosphere, the Kook Fringe.
That's what I'm gonna be.
I'm gonna be so eager to see their reaction to this.
You know, I bet we're gonna be able to go to sites like Democrat Underground and uh the daily whatever it is, Co's Kaz, whatever, and all these other places move on.org.
They're probably gonna sponsor the movie.
They're gonna probably try to get domestic import rights.
They're probably gonna demand that uh elected Democrats support the movie and go to the premier, and then they're gonna want the DVD rights.
Uh or at least a percentage if they sell them on their websites.
They're gonna demand, they're going, this is the age of insanity.
They're gonna demand that elected politicians actually endorse the movie.
At their own uh peril if they don't.
Keep a sharp eye on Ned Lament, ladies and gentlemen, because he's the one that's currently leading this train of insanity on part of the left-wing blogs.
Listen, there's more description from the guy that did the movie, Peter Dale.
It's an extraordinary, extraordinarily gripping and powerful piece of work.
A drama constructed like a documentary that looks back at the assassination of George W. Bush as the starting point for a very gripping detective story.
It's a pointed political examination of what the war on terror did to the American body politic.
I am sure that there'll be people who'll be upset by it, but when you watch it, you realize what a sophisticated piece of work it is.
It's not sensationalist or simplistic.
It's a very thought-provoking, powerful drama.
I hope people will see that the intention behind it is good.
Well, yeah, the assassination of George W. Bush.
I'm sure that is a uh positive intention for some sickos in the in our country.
So you put this back to back with uh the new Survivor Show coming up on CBS, uh, and you take a look at where the uh not just the American left is or the worldwide left, uh, and then you ask yourself, these people really think they're gonna be elected to majorities of anything?
Do they think the country is running around here wishing somebody would off Bush?
They really think that this is a way that they're going to get an inroad into the minds and hearts of uh of likely voters.
And how about this phrase?
It's a pointed political examination of what the war on terror, war on terror did to the American body politic.
What the war on terror did to the American body.
Do you know how I interpret that?
It's not at all what terrorists are doing to Americans.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's not at all what uh what what our enemies are doing and threatening to do to us.
No, no, no, no, no.
This is a movie about what Bush is causing to reverberate in the American body politic.
And that's why they're doing a movie called What is the name of this?
Uh, what's the name of the Well, it's it's it's not called the Assassination of George W. Bush, but that regardless, that's what the whole focal point of the movie is.
So in light of that, we've got to take a quick break.
We'll come back with some audio sound bites from some Democrats.
Uh Not about this, but uh movie, but about the whole concept of the war on terror and where Democrats stand on it.
Some of the stuff you'll hear is unbelievable.
Sit tight.
We've only just revved up.
We'll keep going right after this.
All right, this is interesting.
We go to the audio sound bites.
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Howard Dean, Democratic National Committee Chairman said this yesterday about President Bush.
The President has used the war on terror to win elections, and that's not going to happen anymore.
You say to voters, the majority of whom now oppose the war that they're Nazi sympathizers or their appeasers of fascism.
People don't like that kind of talk.
Yeah, really.
You know what I noticed about this, Dr. Dean is every time like Rumsville goes out and makes a speech, hits these things pretty hard.
AP misquoted him uh in another well put took him out of context in a number of ways and suggesting he was calling uh uh uh some people uh appeasers of fascism and so forth.
Simply, you know what the Dems can't stand, a libs cannot stand is a recitation of history.
You'd start talking about Churchill, you start talking about Neville Chamberlain, uh, you start talking about how it is the use of force that leads to peace, victory, i.e., rather than the words issued by diplomats, they don't like it.
They don't like it because history gives us truth.
And it's they who are trying to shade the truth and create their own alternative reality.
The idea that President Bush has used the war on terror to win elections, and that's not going to happen anymore.
How's that gonna be, Dr. Dean?
Are you guys gonna say that you're gonna run against the war on terror, that there is no war on terror?
Are you gonna try to make people think that you're actually interested in fighting it and winning it?
Here is George Stephanopoulos this morning on Good Morning America.
And by the way, one more thing.
You know, these these people I've noticed the reaction of Rumsfeld's speech.
You know, and they're all saying, Hey, you don't challenge our patriotism.
Hey, getting Who did?
How about the defensiveness here that these people, every time they are criticized when it comes to the U.S. military, a war, uh any kind of foreign entanglement, they always jump to the conclusion without anybody having accused them of it.
Well, I have, but say, Well, you can't challenge our patriotism.
You know what?
You can.
If you are a person in this country who is invested in the defeat of your own country, then I'm sorry.
What other word for it is there?
You are not patriotic.
You are not acting in a patriotic fashion.
It's gotten so bad.
Remember, Mrs. Clinton attempted to redefine the word patriotism by having the guts and by having the courage to criticize the president.
That's the Democrats' new definition of patriotism.
They may think others have forgotten that, but not I. The idea here that they get so defensive and so riled up about this is uh an indication that my it's hitting pretty close to home.
Uh but I I I don't know what else, you know, you for the longest time, folks.
We've sat around and said, Oh, no, no, no, no.
We're not questioning your uh patriotism.
No, no, no, no.
We're just questing your judgment.
Well, I'm gonna tell you something.
As I said before I uh I left last week, the uh when when people are invested in our defeat, when people are attempting to secure our defeat.
What else do you call it?
What else can you say about it?
You have to say we're challenging your patriotism, because that's exactly what it is.
Now, Stephanopoulos, good morning, America, Diane Sawyer said to him, So this use of the word fascism to evoke the idea of a worldwide kind of World War II enemy.
Is it working?
Will it work?
What's the other most potent thing the Republicans are doing?
They have now settled on that word, and they say these fascists are what unites the war in Afghanistan, the war in Lebanon, the war in Iraq.
The president has to convince the country this is a world war.
The president will always say this war can be won.
The White House has actually brought in political scientists from Duke University who say this is key, that people have to believe the war eventually will be won, or they'll cut out.
So now we're gonna get all tied up in knots and caught up over what we're calling the enemy, as though we're gonna offend them or we're gonna offend the Democrats.
There is an enemy out there, and the fact that people in this country don't want to face it squarely is uh is gonna present and pose a challenge down the road.
And uh trying to take everything here as a tactic.
They to this day don't understand Bush, and they don't understand Rove.
They think the war on terror is a tactic, a political tactic.
Did they do they forget 9-11 happened, 3,000 Americans died, and that was just the last massive attack on innocent U.S. citizens.
Today's show, Matt Wauer talking with Tim Russert.
Matt Hauer says, Tim, no Democrats ever spoken out saying that we should retreat in the war on terrorism.
Nor has any Democrat that we can find suggested cutting off funding for the war in Iraq, something the president floated the other day.
Matt, this is 68 days before a midterm election.
The Republicans know that in 2002 and in 2004, using the issue of the global war on terror, national security has worked for them politically and philosophically, and they're going to emphasize it day after day after day, all the way through November 7th.
I hope somebody does.
We're at war.
There are people that want to kill us, Tim.
It's a political tactic to focus on it.
And I can't believe this.
Can't find anybody suggesting cutting off funding for the war in Iraq.
That's a very narrow definition.
We've got the Democrats promising to get us out of there, Tim, the hell with the money.
They have floated two resolutions in the Senate.
One of them got 13 votes, but to deny, they say you can't find any Democrats out there that uh suggests cutting off funding for the war in Iraq or the war on terror is is ridiculous.
You're just not looking very hard.
Ladies and gentlemen, as I said just a moment ago, it is time to face a hard cold fact.
Militant Islam wants to kill us just because we're alive and don't believe as they do, and they have been killing us for decades.
I think it's time to stop pretending these are mere episodic events and face the reality that our way of life is in grave danger.
Threats not just going to go away because we have a political campaign or a change of political power in Washington, or because we choose to ignore it.
A lot of people out there say we should use diplomacy.
Well, as I've asked, how do how do we negotiate with people whose starting point is our death?
You know darn well, folks, that when good negotiates with evil, evil always wins.
When right negotiates with wrong, wrong will always win.
Peace, which is what everybody seems to want here, follows victory.
Peace doesn't come from words issued by diplomats.
Ask Neville Chamberlain.
Go out and ask Saddam.
Ask Saddam if words, 16 UN resolutions resulted in his defeat and his capture.
I get the impression that some Americans are not interested in victory and uh they want us to believe that their irresponsible behavior is patriotic.
Well, it isn't patriotic.
When the critics, Tim, listen to me here.
When the critics are more interested in punishing this country over a relatively few incidents at Abu Ghrab and Guantanamo than they are in defeating those who want to kill us.
When they seek to destroy a foreign surveillance program designed to identify those who want to kill us and how they intend to do it, when they want to grant those who want to kill us U.S. constitutional rights, I do not call that patriotic.
You want to know what patriotism is.
Patriotism is rallying behind the country, regardless of party affiliation to defeat enemies such as these we face now, the Islamo fascists.
Patriotism is supporting our troops on the battlefield, not undermining them, the mission and morale.
But despite the best efforts of Howard Dean and Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi, et al.
This country will prevail because we are the same America that survived a massively bloody civil war.
The same America that annihilated the Nazis, the same America that defeated the Soviet Union.
Every generation of Americans has a responsibility to the next.
And I have no doubt that this current generation will not disappoint.
We live in an era, ladies and gentlemen, where it's the age of madness, the age of insanity.
We have a movie in Canada about the actual assassination of George W. Bush, and it is characterized as a responsible and important work.
Something that uh uh is extremely telling about the U.S. war on terror.
There's no guilt, there is no shame over this.
Uh it's it's uh it's clearly a new age.
And the people that are behind all of these things actually think they are speaking for a majority of Americans based on polling data put together by their allies in the drive-by media trying to create the very attitudes the polls say exist.
We'll be right back.
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Just to make it fair, a couple more sound bites, the second of which is well, they're both good.
It's a continuation of Matt O'Hauer talking with Tim Ruster.
We're up to number four in there.
A question from Matt O'Hauer.
By the way, the media took a hit from Secretary Rumsfeld as well, accused of spreading, quote, myths and distortions that are being told about our troops and about our country.
We got 2600 Americans dead in Iraq, 46,000 Iraqis.
Anybody still gonna blame the media for the bad news coming out of that country?
I found it particularly interesting that those words were used during the first anniversary of Katrina, because one year ago there was a major debate as to what was reality, what was being shown by the media who were on the ground in New Orleans, or what was being said by official government spokesmen.
And we know later that the media told the truth about Katrina.
What?
In terms of Iraq, our reports have been accurate, and the secretary can try to distinguish himself from them or criticize them.
The voters have a big decision to make.
Come on, what's happening here?
Tim!
My friend, gee, this pains me.
This this wounds me to the heart.
Katrina, the reporting was accurate, the rapes and the murders in the Superdome and in the uh in the convention center and the toxic soup that was to become of the floodwaters?
Shooting and helicopters and all of these things?
The fact that Bush purposely wanted a levees to break so that the blacks should be flooded and leave town, relocate elsewhere, and make Louisiana Republicans for crying out loud.
And how this is utter denial.
I I to say that that the uh the media has not distorted negative news coming out of Iraq.
What about the body counts alone?
The breathless panting.
We're almost to a thousand dead, yay!
And we got the 1,500, heh, hey, we're almost a 1,500 dead, yay!
Because every battlefield death was an opportunity to gin up anti-war support in the American people.
Come on, Tim, you guys have been trying to relive the Vietnam War for two years now.
You've been trying to relive Watergate for four.
Unbelievable.
Oh, sadly, totally believable.
Run out of descriptive words.
Last night on uh the O'Reilly Factor, guest host was John Kasich.
He interviewed Paul Hackett, lost a congressional race last summer, and Dan Seynour, the former spokesman for the coalition provisional authority in Iraq.
I've spoken to C.NOR.
Um, I think Seanor married Campbell Brown at NBC, by the way.
I'm not sure that.
I think at one time they were dating.
I mean, I could be I'm not a gossip columnist, nor am I a social secretary, so maybe behind, I may not be true.
But anyway, uh Kasich says, uh, look to hack us.
Look, I'm not a I'm not a fan of this war.
But if they want to get, they want to just get out of there right away.
The whole bottom could fall out over there, couldn't it?
And and throughout the whole region.
So is that a responsible place to be, Hackett?
Suggesting that the whole bottom would fall out uh implies that somehow it hasn't fallen out.
Uh, I mean, To have Herr Senior on your set as a military expert is somewhat of a joke.
He knows absolutely nothing about the military.
He's never served in the military.
He's never been professionally schooled in the military.
Who are you talking about, Paul?
Is that me?
I'm talking about your guest, uh, a little unterfehrer uh of propaganda, Mr. Senor there, who's an apologist for the failings of the CPA.
I mean, he ought to be ashamed of his service or lack of service.
Paul Hackett, a Marine calling Dan Seynor a little unterfuhrer of propaganda.
See, uh Libs can run around, they can call all these names.
They can call Dan Synor, who who worked for uh Paul Bremer, by the way, can a little Nazi.
Uh, can call him a little the unterfuhrer.
But boy, let Rumsfeld or the president, or even little old me, refer to our enemy as Islamo fascists.
And there is horror and shock and outrage.
You can't say that.
You can't say that.
Why, why you can't say that we're at World War III.
They can run around and they can they can disparage virtually anybody.
In fact, I'm what you know, this this movie uh about the assassination of Bush.
And let me go back to that page.
I've got to find a title of this stupid thing.
I just bear with me here, folks.
It's uh death of a president.
Death of a president, assassination of George W. Bush, uh Canadian uh uh docudrama that'll uh premiere around uh the October 9th era period uh up in Canada.
I wonder if the uh if if Democrats will be forced to renounce the movie.
I wonder if somebody will stand up and ask them if they if they will dissociate themselves from the premise in the concept of the movie.
Because they always do that uh when the right wing says something that they find offensive.
Well, you, Mr. President, distance yourself from the comments made by X. Will you?
So let's just see if somebody says when this thing gets some legs out there, if the Democrats are asked to renounce this and to dissociate themselves from the movie.
Quite the contrary.
You know what I think.
I think these left-wing blogs, they're gonna be excited about this thing, try to get invited to the premiere, uh, urging other Democrats to support the movie is what they'll probably do.
So the phones we go to Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania.
Dave, glad to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Hi, I think um you're forgetting one thing.
When a Republican talks against a um like a Clinton, that's called hate speech.
But when um Hillary Clinton talks about President Bush, that's patriotism.
Uh yeah, so of course, criticizing the president is in fact patriotism.
Mrs. Clinton has so defined it.
In fact, I think that's the screeching.
Cookie, go out there.
I know she's busy putting the Bush bites together, but I think the the sound bite we have at Hillary screeching, like your your ex-wife, maybe some of your current wife for all I know.
Uh I think she's actually saying in that bite, it can be killed, we can't whatever's, and I think that's about being able to criticize the president and patriotism.
But you're absolutely right out there, Dave.
Because when you did it, it was hate speech.
The uh the uh Yeah, all you have it we have that bite all through the administration.
Uh hate speech.
Hate speech.
And it was directed at me.
Of course, I was the leader of the brigade of hate speeches.
And uh I was the Mr. Big of the uh of the hate speechers.
There's no question about that.
Here's that bite.
Let's see if I'm right in my memory.
Because what everybody remembers about this is just the screeching and the screaming.
Here it is.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
Okay, she's there she is.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for the 2008 presidential race.
So that's that's what she was she was defining patriotism there as the criticism, not debate, but criticism of the uh of the president and so forth.
Uh I'll tell you, they're to me they're on they're on thin ice, and uh, you know what's gonna happen?
You I uh forget these polls that are taken right now.
People aren't paying that close attention.
You and I, folks, we care deeply.
This stuff runs through our veins, courses through our arteries.
It's in every cell, deep, dark gray cell locked in the cratum.
But a lot of people out there, they don't get into this until near the election.
And an off-term election, turnout is always a wild guess.
So polls now about the war and this sort of just a reflection of news coverage.
But when people start paying closer attention, you're going to watch these polls change.
Well, I don't know if the polls will change.
I can get what they want out of the change.
I just think the Democrats start, they've counted their chickens again before they hatch.
Wait till you hear this story in a Monterey, whatever it is I have.
Let me find out how deep I put it in the stack here.
So I think I uh put it.
Oh, did you see General Motors has pulled its sponsorship from Survivor from race survivor?
Yeah, just a pure coincidence.
Has nothing to do with the subject matter of the show.
No, no, no.
It's just just as a coincidence.
Said uh uh Rindy Carney, who is uh GM spokes babe.
Uh more on that.
Oh, and then the uh the the playam Wilsons.
Uh you know, they got they got a suit, uh lawsuit against uh Cheney and Rove and Libby, and they were asked, you're gonna you're gonna include uh Armitage in it.
No!
No, no, no, no, we're we're not gonna include Armities didn't do anything.
Uh Armites didn't cause any problems.
What he did was totally different.
They're not going to include Armitage in the uh here it is in the lawsuit.
Here's the story.
May as well get to it now.
This is from the It's a McClatchy newspaper story.
That's the bunch that owns the Sacramento Bee to Fresno B. Just bought all these papers and sold some of them off.
This is the Monterey Herald.
It's by Margaret Talliv.
Uh and the headline here, Democrats thinking ahead to possible victory this fall.
Fact.
I let me take a break here, but it's not enough time to get into the full breadth of this before the uh break.
And I got it.
Remind me, I uh I went to a little party last night with the two freed Fox journalists, Steve Cintani and Olaf Wilg.
Uh Roger Ailes had a little get together up at his place, right across the Hudson from uh West Point.
Oh, it's just I'd say it was needed meal money to get up there.
Uh but this gorgeous gorgeous setting.
At any rate, I met Jennifer Griffin, too, the uh just fabulous reporter in Israel for Fox.
She's uh she's just that's just excellent what she does.
All right, now I've got uh quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We will continue in mere momentos.
Who is this?
Uh Greg Kinn, right?
Yeah, one of the early guys on MTV.
Wonder what became of him.
Probably run over by a Volkswagen minibus out in Bay Area.
800-282-288-2 on the EIB network.
Before I give you the uh the the money quote from this McClatchy newspaper story of what's going to happen, uh, the Democrats thinking ahead to the possible victory this fall.
I want you to listen to Tim Russard again from the Today Show this morning.
Matt O'Hauer says, Tim, they're bouncing off Rumsfeld.
Uh Tim, no, no Democrats ever spoken out saying we should retreat in the war on terrorism.
Nor has any Democrat that we can find suggested cutting off funding for the war in Iraq.
Something the president floated the other day.
Matt, this is 68 days before mid- Okay, so these guys what is this talk about Democrats wanting out of the war on terror and Democrats wanting out of this, and Democrats are cutting the road.
What is this cut and run stuff, Matt Tim?
I don't know, Matt.
We can't find any evidence of it out there.
We've turned over every stone.
We've looked under every highway.
We've looked under every bridge.
We can't find a thing out there.
Here's the quote from Margaret Taleb, or the...
The money passage from the story.
Democrats will press to get out of Iraq.
They'll mount investigations into the Bush administration's record that could rival those of Presidents Nixon in Watergate and Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair.
They'll push a boatload of social welfare legislation, such as raising the minimum wage that reflects their pent-up priorities while blocking the Republican agenda on Get This.
Blocking the Republican agenda on social issues such as gay marriage, abortion, and religion.
What is the Republican uh uh agenda on religion?
Somebody tell me what that is.
Those are some of the top plans that Democrats would pursue if they won power.
Democrats will press to get out of Iraq.
She's talking to Democrats.
They are telling her this.
Tim Ruster says, well, you know, any Democrat, Matt, we can't find one.
Suggested cutting off funding for the war in Iraq.
We can't f Tim, that doesn't mean they want to pull out of there.
They've offered resolutions in Congress.
The Republican control Congress has worked with the White House to shield them and the government from any scrutiny of corruption and abuse.
Henry Waxman said.
Democrats plan to explose the expose the truth about billions of taxpayers' dollars.
Well, this is rich.
And again, they're back to the culture of corruption now.
They're going to ensnare Dingy Harry.
He's got another sneaky deal out in Las Vegas involving developers, much like the one the LA Times exposed that nobody cared about back in 1996.
And then there was another Congressman in Texas that's uh that's been caught up in in another in another scandal.
I don't anyway.
I want to go back to this quote.
Democrats will press to get out of Iraq.
They'll mount investigations into the Bush administration's record.
That could rival those of Presidents Nixon and Watergate and Clinton.
They'll push a boatload of social welfare legislation such as raising the minimum wage that reflects their pent-up priorities and so forth.
What is the Republican agenda on gay marriage, on abortion, and religion that the Democrats are going to block?
What is it?
Gay marriage amend.
Well, gay what?
Well, that well, but but they can't even get to the vote by the people.
That's the point.
Gay marriage amendments can't pass Congress.
They can't pass Congress already.
They put them up for a vote.
They don't get out of Congress.
They don't get to the people.
So what is there to block there?
Uh probably block the vote in Congress.
We're not going to make sure this never gets to the floor again.
Is there any pending abortion legislation?
I don't know.
So what is there to block there?
Um exactly what religion are they referring to.
Is that the fact that Republicans are still amenable to people having one?
Uh and that upsets the Democrats.
I know it does.
I know Democrats, all this talk yesterday about they got to get a candidate, Mark Warner said they got to get a candidate and go out to these 16 states where they have no prayer and actually relate to these people to values.
How are you going to do that when you resent their religion?
I can't think of a Republican agenda on religion other than they think you should be able to have one.
Thank you.
Uh in stark contrast to the Democrats.
But anyway, if you go as you go through this, and obviously Margaret Talliff, who wrote the story is talk to Democrats.
You go through it, and you can't find anything resembling a positive agenda.
All they can muster is a bunch of talking points strung together that have very little meaning.
Other than I think that I think they would cut and run out of a rock just like that.
I I think they get out of there just like that.
And I don't think I don't think they have any clue or desire to take the war on terror seriously.
Uh it it's uh but this is nothing but and I'll tell you the main thing they want to do is mount these investigations.
They want to impeach Bush.
They want to get it on record how dirty and sleazy he is, is because their objective is to destroy conservatism, folks.
And the problem with that is there's some uh uh you know Lily-skinned uh uh Republicans, moderates who wouldn't mind the same thing happening.
Somebody might have to explain this to me.
A leading anti-war Democrat now criticizing Hillary Clinton on her stance on the war in Iraq, Jack Mertha called on the Bush administration to immediately withdraw American troops.
Tim Russert couldn't find evidence of that, even though Mertha's been on his show.
How many times saying it?
Now, in an interview uh airing tonight on New York One's inside with aired last night, actually, uh, inside City Hall, Mertha is turning his tough talk on Clinton.
And I think we've got the audio from this.
Yep.
Um we have it.
We'll have time, Derek.
Don't sweat.
I'm not gonna try to squeeze it in there.
Busy broadcast seconds evaporating right before our very eyes.
But out there, Mertha attacking Hillary.
Uh somewhat interesting to me.
Let's take a brief time out here, my friends, as the programming format dictates that we must.
This is what they call in the broadcast business business a hard break.
It doesn't move, it doesn't float.
We have to take it whenever we have to take.
I can keep talking, but we go to the break.
That's right.
Folks, folks, we may have a hurricane.
We may have a hurricane!
Yes, Al Gore was right.
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