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Sept. 5, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 5, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Man, it's already Tuesday.
Fastest week in media.
It's already Tuesday.
Yes, my friends, greetings and a hearty welcome.
The Rush Limbaugh program from the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Well, we are being pounded here with a thunderstorm.
This is much worse than what Ernesto was when I went through here.
They're going to go on all day, too, by the way.
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A group of biblical scholars said they've they've recalculated their scriptural uh calculations.
They've re redone them.
And uh biblical scholars, where's who's the source of this?
This is uh the the Lord's Witnesses, Gordon Ritchie is the guy's name.
And I have this on the PR Newswire.
Uh the bottom line here is that biblical scholars have performed eleven different scriptural calculations, all of which point to the United Nations being hit by a nuclear terrorist attack this month.
Uh which, of course, that's received with mixed emotions.
Um the UN being hit with a nuclear terrorist attack.
They do make it sound quite unlikely, but the odds are far greater than what they used to think.
This is sort of like the guy who said that August 22nd would be the day that Iran would end the uh in the world.
And of course, that didn't happen.
But I just wanted to get it out there.
You never know.
Um this is September.
What is this?
A fifth.
So we have um we have only 25 days here for the biblical calculations to uh to come true.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, let me uh let me deal with a rumor that uh circulated over the internet, hit the drudge report.
I forget, I guess sometime Saturday or Sunday, the rumor being that I am helping to uh launch uh excuse me, or welcome Katie Couric uh to the CBS Evening News tonight or this week.
The uh reporting on this was somewhat confusing and sketchy based on how you read it.
I had people emailing me all weekend long who were taking different things out of it.
It's amazing to study this.
This is a little aside, but it was an amazing thing to study the way people read things.
Drudge was pretty clear about what this rumor was, but I had people so I see you're gonna welcome Katie tomorrow night with Cronkite.
Meaning tonight.
Uh oh, don't what do you mean?
You're gonna do an interview with Katie?
Why would you help Katie?
What are you doing an interview for?
And then uh, and then uh just all kinds of different takes.
Uh many of you accusing me of being a sellout, a phony, uh uh going over to the dark side, what have you, and I sat there and I smiled in stunned amazement at this.
I've been here 18 years, and uh I even I even got emails from friends.
One one friend sent me a note, nothing but question marks in the subject line.
And I just wrote about do you think I'm an idiot?
Do you think I'm a fool?
Eighteen years I have been sitting here in the prestigious and distinguished at Till of the Hunchair, and yet there are those isolated moments in time where all of you or some of you think uh I'm gonna be the biggest blithering idiot that you've ever encountered.
Well, I understand why this is, ladies and gentlemen.
As conservatives, for being downtrodden for so long, being in the minority for so long.
Uh, you have become conditioned to the left outsmarting even the best and brightest of our movement.
And you have also been betrayed since Ronald Reagan.
Conservative Republicans have been betrayed to one degree or another by every elected official.
Uh well, by many elected officials, certainly elected conservative leaders have gone south on a number of things from Senator McKinney.
Well, you I could mention names, but you know what I mean.
And so I think people are just waiting there on the precipice for the latest example of oh no, we can't trust any of them.
Let me explain to you what happened and tell you what this is.
Early in August, I was approached by Ms. Courick herself, uh, and she told me of a segment that they were going to do in their new newscast called Free Speech or Freedom of Speech.
Free speech, I think it is.
And every night uh there will be a commentator that will get uh between a minute and fifteen to a minute and thirty, depending on how competent and good they are.
I got the full minute thirty.
Uh And on Friday they're gonna do comedians.
And they're gonna do this every night.
And some nights it's it's gonna be a Walmart shopper, some nights it'll be a professional academic, some nights it'll be a pundit.
Uh it'll be full of people that you know or you don't know.
It's they're they hope they're gonna you know run the gamut with uh with this, and Katie asked me if I would uh consider appearing uh on the first week.
And I I said, yeah, but but my experience with these kind of things, Katie leads me to ask you for certain uh promises, conditions, uh and and I got those promises and conditions.
They were met.
So last Thursday we um uh we taped it in the uh in the uh uh EIB building in Manhattan after the radio show.
And it wasn't until I guess Saturday that I found out it actually is gonna run on Thursday.
That's the plan now.
And and so the um I don't know who's doing tonight, I don't know who's doing tomorrow.
I've heard that Clinton's done one, that McCain's gonna do one, Giuliani.
I don't know about anybody else.
I have no clue who else is doing this, uh other than I don't know any more than you do.
All I know is that that I did mine, and it will air sometime in the newscast on uh on Thursday.
Uh and uh and and a lot of you um I think are are a little short-sighted on this, and I responded to some of the emails over the weekend, uh questioning my loyalty to the movement, questioning my sanity, questioning my brains.
Uh when the drive by media offers 90 seconds of a 22 minute program, an opportunity for me to express our views, my views, without debate, without somebody coming on afterwards to refute it, uh with uh and that's part of the feature, by the way.
They have uh they've assured me and everybody they've talked to that uh you do your piece on X night, the next night's not gonna be somebody responding or replying.
Although I have heard that George Clooney has already asked for equal time uh to respond to me.
I'm told that's not gonna happen.
Um and certainly it's not gonna happen the next night.
I didn't mention any names in my piece.
I'm not gonna tell you what it's about, because I don't want to give anything of it away, but just believe me on this, folks, it is our views, and they're pretty hard-hitting, and they're gonna be on the CBS evening news, and they haven't appeared, these kinds of views haven't appeared much uh on the CBS Evening News or the ABC World News tonight or the NBC Nightly News uh with uh with Brian Williams.
So I um I did it as an as an opportunity to uh reach that audience, which is about they're looking for I bet she gets over eight million people this week every night.
That's uh maybe uh maybe a little bit more.
The the the hype on this has been what it is.
There's gonna be a lot of curiosity and tune-in factor.
And she was uh she was very open and honest about all this when we were when we were setting it up.
So um and they came in on Thursday, as I say, and it was kind of funny.
The crew uh from CBS was um what what are you smirking at, snerdily?
What time's the CBS evening news on?
6 30 Eastern time.
Some places I think and uh they it they're gonna do a six o'clock feed because some stations take the six do network news at six six thirty uh Eastern and Pacific time on uh on most stations.
But the crew came in, they they were just nice and fun as they could be, uh and they found me to be the same way, which surprised them, uh, which I just always find fascinating.
Guy, it was so funny.
He's such a nice guy.
Yeah, imagine that.
Uh when they all left, they all want to autograph pictures.
Oh yes.
So that's it.
It's no longer a rumor.
Uh the reason I didn't say it, I don't know how Drudge got it, folks.
I've some of you people in the email, well, why didn't you tell us?
How come we have to read?
Because I didn't know that they were even gonna use it.
I don't know how many people they've dubbed, and I don't know how many they of these they have in the can.
And I had until I know it's gonna be used, until I know what date it's gonna be used, what there's nothing to tell.
So uh, you know, folks, uh you're gonna have to learn to trust me.
After We're into our 19th year here, ladies and gentlemen.
I think I have earned your trust for brains, uh uh propriety, uh decision making, and so forth and so on.
I this isn't this is this is in no way going over to the dark side.
This is in no way this this is it may help them, but it's also beneficial to all of us.
So we'll see.
Uh but don't worry it's not an introduction.
It's not an interview it's a straight opinion piece and fired with both barrels, I might add.
Quick timeout we'll be back and continue right after this.
Hi, welcome back Rush Limbaugh America's real anchor man here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Already already having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have ladies and gentlemen we have traveled this road before way way back in the uh early 90s took the Rush to excellence tour to a casino in Reno, Nevada.
Ugh did I hear about that.
I said, Jesus says go where the sinners are.
Then I did a Playboy magazine interview.
Heard the grief over that.
How could you dare do that?
I'm never buying that.
I said, I know.
Jesus said go where the sinners are.
Now I am appearing on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric on Thursday, solo, in a commentary, and all hell's breaking loose out there everywhere, including on my website.
You know, just, I think some of you need to chill on this and,
understand that it represents uh and uh an opportunity uh and that's as much as can be said about it uh I'm not I don't want to sit here and address all these fears and negative concerns uh uh the only thing about that uh that that somewhat interests me is even after eighteen years how many of you well I don't even know how many it is this is just email how some of you think I can just end up being the biggest fool on the face of the earth.
Now I realize you've heard me talk about the drive by media and the American left and so forth um but you're only remembering certain selected things that I have said about them this is uh I think an opportunity and I if if I might if I might say this I probably shouldn't say this because I don't talk about myself much and I certainly don't brag.
Let me just ask you this.
They wanted to get some conservative.
They wanted to get a leading conservative to appear.
Who did they call?
Me.
And so there it is.
It's probably going to be a win-win, ladies and gentlemen.
I understand some of you have said all you're going to do is increase viewership for Katie.
Yeah, but at the same time, viewers of the CBS Evening News will hear things that they probably haven't heard and don't expect to hear on the network.
I don't want to build it up.
It's just 90 seconds.
I don't want to build up expectations that can't be met, but it is what it is.
Here's Bert in Westboro, Massachusetts.
Bert, nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Hi, Russ.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
I told your screener you presented me with a dilemma.
Yes.
I have long since given up listening to network news.
I get my news from you.
an interpretation of news from you I get news from other talk shows I get news from the internet and now you're forcing me to watch the network news I can understand that because wherever I am you have to be that's right it is a dilemma but I will be watching on Thursday but I'm not sure that I'll watch any other night.
I think that if you watch one night you're gonna be safe I don't think they can poison you in 22 minutes.
I don't think so either.
I think you're stronger than that, Bert.
Yes.
I think you have your boundaries up.
You understand what you're watching, and you're not going to be affected by it, other than me.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right, Bert.
Appreciate the interest in this.
John in Temple, Texas.
You're next, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Thank you, Rush.
Honored to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
I've been listening to you since 98.
I don't think everybody's kind of analyzed this the right way.
The way to think about it is that if all the conservatives, everybody who listens to you, watches on Thursday night...
rating is gonna shoot through the roof they should and and then you're gonna then you're gonna be gone and not gonna be there's gonna drop back through the floor, and then maybe they'll get with the program.
They'll think, you know, hey, we're do we're doing this wrong.
You know, they'll get with the conservative side.
That's how they ought to think about it.
Yeah, now let's not let's not take this too far.
I don't I I uh I don't think that would be the uh the case.
Uh who knows?
I mean, I th I think they're they're still in the in the uh for lack of a better term, uh that they've put the program together and they've got their ideas, but once it starts tonight and unfolds, uh they're gonna see things about it they like and don't like, and there'll be changes in various things.
Uh but I I I wouldn't I wouldn't look for them to uh say, you know what, maybe we're missing a boat here by not being a conservative news uh that it I don't wouldn't think that that is something that's ever uh ever in the cards.
I'm just saying if if if everybody watches who listens to your show and the ratings go up, you know, and then they they they go it's all about ratings.
Who cares about conservative liberals as far as they're concerned, because it's about ratings for them.
Well, no, it's it it if look at CNN.
If it were about ratings, there's a place that would be changing things.
Uh MSNBC, there's a place that would be changing things if it if it were about ratings.
Uh you know, uh liberalism's a religion, it's an and and and and news is part of it, and uh and there's a stubbornness that attaches itself to it, uh be it the Democratic Party, be it the drive-by media.
And if you aren't accepting what they say, this is not going to blame themselves.
They're not gonna say, what are we doing wrong?
Why aren't we reaching these people?
They're gonna say you're stupid, you're an idiot, you're just not sophisticated enough, and they're gonna keep pounding the same stuff at you until you do get it.
Uh so I uh it uh I know that that if ratings matter, by the way, if ratings matter, I mean, Dan Rather uh was in last place for for years on that uh on that network.
And it it didn't move anything.
Uh it it took the Bill Burkett forged documents story to start that ball rolling.
Uh but anyway, John, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
Let's get to the issues, ladies and gentlemen.
All over the drive-by media, wherever you look, the the story is out there that the Republicans have no hope.
They're gonna lose the House, they're gonna lose the Senate.
It's just a matter of time.
Uh an example just from Sunday, Associated Press, polls show GOP slipping.
If you read into the story, you find out that the Democrats are no better off either.
As battle lines are drawn for the midterms, many Americans are fed up with the status quo, but they don't see electoral options.
Call it the campaign with no margin for Republican error in a nation that is war-weary and eager for change, yet seems wary of the Democrat option.
This is the part of the story that never gets told.
Yeah, there may be some disaffection with the Republicans, uh and there and there may be some uh uh uh uh polling data out there which suggests that the Republicans are in trouble, and if it's true to any extent, it's it's the Republican base, as we were talking earlier, being let down once again by elected leaders who campaign as conservatives, get into office, and then don't govern as conservatives.
But the Democrats are not picking these up.
The Democrats are not it's like the Washington Post story of uh uh three weeks ago now, maybe a month, Jim Van Dee did a story on what was it, security moms.
And the whole the headline, the whole story was about how um uh the news security moms just don't trust the Republicans.
They're just really worried, all this stuff they they're losing the support of these women who really thought the Republicans are best on security.
If you read deep into the story, you found out also the Democrats were doing even worse.
The Republicans were quote unquote losing ground in polls, but the Democrats weren't picking it up.
So the drive-by media, and you know how long this has been going on.
They have this has been going on for at least three months, if not longer.
Wait way back in the spring, uh we were treated to uh stories about speaker to be Pelosi and chairman to be Conyers and chairman to be Wrangell and so forth.
Uh now I want you to listen to this morning's Today show, Chip Reed, and how he introduced uh his report about the upcoming elections.
You know, just a couple of months ago, almost no one was predicting that Democrats would take control of the House of Representatives in the November election.
But now some top analysts say it is very likely.
Now, how do you explain this?
How do you explain a report that says two months ago, nobody was giving the Democrats a chance?
Hill, three months ago, the reporters that I was familiar with and the TV networks were all giving it to the Democrats maybe four months ago.
What this means is, ladies and gentlemen, that the drive-by media is very much aware that most voters haven't even been paying attention to politics this summer.
They've been vacationing or saving money so they can afford gasoline or what have you.
So it's time to start a new storyline that's actually a repetition of an existing storyline that nobody heard.
So they're going to present it as something brand new as people start paying attention now.
It's all part of uh an agenda.
They will not succeed at this because we are here.
Back in just a moment.
Happily, ladies and gentlemen, making the complex understandable quickly.
Eric and Charlotte, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hey Rush, how are you doing?
Good.
I have a quick question for you.
In the 90 seconds on CBS, with your incredible powers of intellect and persuasion, do you think that you'll be able to convert Katie Kirk to a conservative?
Uh well, I doubt that, sir.
I think Katie's probably viewed this thing three or four times already.
I mean, you had to you have to understand that uh uh in order for this thing to get on the air, it's it's have it had a clear the suits all the way to the top of Viacom probably.
Uh so they've seen it more than just the one time Katie knows what's in it.
All of her producers were there and and so forth.
But look, whether Katie gets converted or not, if uh ladies and gentlemen, if my appearance on CBS can save just one liberal, it will have been worth it.
This is a humanitarian gesture that I am making.
It shows that I care about the country and I care about the American people, and that I want them to be properly informed to do the right thing.
And frankly, I am stunned that some of you want to continue to have this line of demarcation where no attempt at persuasion takes place.
If they're going to offer me this opportunity to save America, to save liberals, I'm going to take it.
Pure and simple.
I mean, you know, it's not like they're asking me to go into a war zone or anything here.
Uh although some of you think it is.
All right, now look, uh, there is a uh uh interesting piece, the Prowler column in the American Spectator Online today, and it's all about how and this guy, whoever is the prowler, I don't know who it is.
Could be, well, Bob Tyrrell is the owner, operator head honcho, writes a column.
Don't think Bob's the prowler, could be the prowler.
He is a prowler, but I don't think he's the prowler.
But whoever this guy is has sources inside the Democratic Party who talked to him.
This uh this little piece is is one of the most enlightening I have found uh to find out what's really going on in the minds and hearts of uh of Washington Democrat leaders.
And the title of this little section here, not so fast, with polling numbers in the Maryland Senate Democrat primary now showing that relative outsider and former congressman and former head of the NAA L C Pwaizi Imfumi, leading Representative Ben Cardin in some polls above the margin of error, National Democrats are growing progressively pessimistic that they will make serious gains in the November elections.
Mainstream media outlets have been attempting over the past few weeks to slowly let the air out of a balloon that they themselves filled with their abundant hot air about Democrat momentum moving toward a potential retaking of both houses of Congress.
One Democrat political strategist said we probably started at drumbeat too early.
We're losing a lot of that momentum.
You can blame a lot of things, Howard Dean, some of our more established candidates, but I would blame the Lieberman Lament race and the blogosphere.
Things just move too fast nowadays.
I'll tell you, there's there is more and more concern in the bowels of the Democratic Party over the blogosphere than you can possibly imagine.
Uh the especially these Democrats that consider themselves centrists, like the Democrat leadership council.
I mean, they are really afraid that this party, if depending on what happens with Lament and Lieberman, and they they see no win-win in there, by the way.
If Lament wins, it's bad news.
If Lieberman wins, it's bad news for the party, the way this thing is all stretched up.
You go if you go to some of these uh Democrat blog sites today, you will read some of the most virulent move on.org, I think it is, some of the most virulent anti-Semitic comments from the American left about Joel Lieberman.
Uh that you can imagine.
Uh it's gotten to the point that the people that run that site have been asked to take some of these comments down, and the guy that runs the site says, well, we actually don't think it's our members.
We think it's conservatives logging on and making comments trying to uh foul us up.
Yeah, nice try.
Uh the fact is there is so much anti-Semitism on the left.
I find this so interesting, because it's always been liberals who have uh told us they're the open-minded among us, and they are the tolerant among us, and they're the ones who are not bigots and not racists and not sexists and not homophobes.
And yet some of the stuff that appears on these blogs uh gives the lie to that.
These people are just purely enraged with a hatred that uh politics hasn't seen, uh, I think in our lifetimes, and they're they uh if you look at the Lament race.
Uh Byron York has a piece, National Review, uh National Review Online today.
He says, you know, actually, in in terms of where the Democratic Party is, Nancy Pelosi actually is a centrist.
Not that she is a political centrist, but that she is in the center of where the party is.
Well, look at you've got the black caucus and their socialists.
You've got the Hispanic caucus and their socialists, and you've got the blogosphere and some of these other people that are just off the charts.
Hard to characterize them as anything other than social commies.
Uh as you put Pelosi in there, and and by virtue of how far left the Democratic Party has gone, you could claim, Byron York does anyway, that that she could be considered a centrist, even though she's a full-fledged, purebred San Francisco liberal in terms of where the party is, she is a centrist.
And they're Democrats that know this and don't like it.
They don't when has going left ever won them an election?
Uh the Connecticut Democrat Senate primary has put a national spotlight on the inner workings of a Democrat Party, and they weren't pretty.
Voters saw a far left wing of the party with remarkable sway over a mainstream majority with little interest in a fight.
You know what's interesting?
Byron York also points this out.
I think there was four point something million dollars raised by Ned Lament.
He gave himself two and a half million of it.
I think the uh the left wing blogosphere, th which is being credited with with it with this this new trend and this new direction of internet fundraising, and that started with Howard Dean in uh in 2000.
Uh these these people um are 2000 uh four, I'm sorry, these people are being uh uh credited uh uh with all this power, and they only raised with all this publicity and all this attention, a little less than half a million dollars.
All told.
So Democrats are looking at well, if they're not that big in fundraising.
I mean, if Lament got four million and two and a half of it he gave to himself, and the blogosphere basically came up with 25% of it, um, then what are we afraid of?
Well, we need their money, but it isn't that much money, or is it that they can agitate voters and so forth?
They're just they're in a mess over this.
And all of these polls, ladies and gentlemen, that show the Republicans losing the House and losing the Senate.
You throw that out because none of these polls show the Democrats picking up any of the discord, any of the unhappiness.
You throw it all out anyway.
Now, I think it's all uh agenda-oriented and and uh and and bogus.
Uh another Democrat consultant tells the spectators prowler, more important in most primaries, it's the ten to fifteen percent of undecided voters have already vetted about Iraq.
The problem is those voters wanted to express their dissatisfaction with Iraq, but they also want a solution.
Pulling out isn't the solution many of them want.
They aren't going to be voting for an anti-war candidate.
I think my party has overshot its position.
Now that's an interesting point, too.
Uh they want something done on Iraq, but they don't want to pull out.
That's the Democrats' position, cut and run and appeasement.
Uh the The uh I think most Americans want this to be fought in a way that wipes these guys out.
Rather than some prolonged little skirmish governed by political correctness, Republicans and Democrats alike.
By the way, the showing of Michael Steele, a Republican, as well as others like Mike McGavic in Washington, Tom Kane Jr. in New Jersey, along with stabilized numbers for Senator Rick Santorum, have uh Democrats in the Senate scrambling to find some good news to pass along to their donors.
That's that's the inside the Beltway chat.
Uh then we have by the way, Santorum creamed Bob Casey in a debate.
Just literally creep well, we've got audio sound bites, so we've got a couple of them, and will let you hear them as the program unfolds uh before your very eyes and ears today.
Just creamed Casey.
It was the only public debate they will probably have.
It was televised all throughout Pennsylvania.
Uh and Santorum did not run away from President Bush, and he did not run away from the Iraq war, and he did not run away from the surveillance program on terrorists and so forth.
And he forced Casey to admit that he supported the program.
Uh it was uh it's really good.
We'll get to that as I say in just a second.
Then there's the story about Hillary Clinton not running for president in order to run for uh stay in the Senate and become the Senate majority leader.
Now, I didn't pass this on to you because I I thought this is just absurd.
I don't even remember what paper it was in.
It was not a not a major publication.
It was a it was a website somewhere six weeks ago now, maybe two months, that Harry Reed had gone to Hillary and begged her not to run for president because he wanted to leave the leadership and he wanted her to do it.
And I said, What a crock.
I mean, this is this is not even worth passing on.
Well, then over the weekend, here comes this story about Hillary maybe not running for president.
We got a column by Susan Estris today saying, well, that may not be so bad because there are other women that may be better than Hillary, and it is time for a woman, and I'm part of a group that's trying to get women elected to real offices of real power.
She's got her list of potential Democrat women either be the VEP or the the presidential nominee.
Uh but the the speculation here sort of gets interesting if if what the prowler piece, the American spectator says is accurate about uh inside Washington Democrats fearing what's going to happen in the Senate,
if they're not going to take it and they're not even going to get close, then it may lend credence to the notion of Hillary backing out of the presidential race in order to stay in the Senate and be the uh Democrat leader in the Senate.
It was London papers that reported Hillary was looking to fill the minority leader shoes currently uh filled by Senator Dingy Harry.
Her decision to take a leadership slot, if this happens, may be in part determined by the outcome of the Lieberman race in Connecticut, say advisors to uh Hillary Clinton.
If Lieberman wins, it leaves all of the anger on the far left focused on her, says the New York-based advisor.
It might be easier and more appealing for her to become leader of the party in the Senate.
I'm not sure I believed this.
One of the reasons is I know her husband can't wait to get back and live in the White House.
So, but anyway, the bottom line is don't believe all this garbage that you're hearing on a television or reading in the web or in newspapers about Republicans being toast.
Now the Republicans have their own problems, such as, well, this is a real catch twenty-two, the House Republicans deciding to punt immigration and focus on uh terror issues, national security issues.
I will explain to you why they did.
It was a catch-22 and they really didn't have any choice.
Uh but it it's it's sad.
Um and primarily you get Senator McCain to blame for this.
Even if they came up with a bill, it would go to the Senate and it would lose.
It wouldn't stand a prayer.
And the party would look bad losing, even though individual House members might get credit for trying to do the right thing.
People generally don't vote for people for trying.
Uh They vote for people for succeeding.
And if if uh if if the House Republicans take the take a bill like all of us want to the Senate, and the Senate shoots it down, which would happen, then it it just makes the Republican Party look ineffective.
And that's why the strategic decision to drop it.
It really is a catch-22.
I'm sure some House Republican members would love to put a bill together and propose it and get it passed so they can go campaign on it, but the leadership obviously has prevailed against them.
But the bottom line is there is as much state of flux on the Democrat side, and it's it's it's by no means a lock.
And the fact that the media figures they got to start this story as though it's brand new today, that polling data shows it's getting very, very dicey for the Republicans, is an indication to me that it's uh perhaps the exact opposite.
We'll take a brief time out, be back after this.
Stay with us.
One other thing here from the uh spectator piece.
As Republican House members return home from three weeks in their districts, the news is mixed, according to House Insiders, but the news is also more positive than negative.
While a number of House seats are in play, GOP House members who were down as much as ten points before returning home are coming back to Washington with polling data that shows many of them back on solid footing with their constituencies.
I think there is rightly a lot of anger about the way Iraq in the Middle East is looking, says one House member from the Upper Northeast.
But uh, I think my poll numbers, those of my colleagues, had a lot to do with being complacent and hesitant to deal with the issues full on.
I went home, I worked my butt off, and I feel like I'm in a better position than I was a month ago.
I I'm just I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you something, folks, and this is uh, you know, political prognostication of 101.
If the House Republicans lose the House, it ain't gonna be because of the rock.
It's not gonna be because of the war on terror.
It's gonna be because of illegal immigration.
That will be what it is if if they lose it.
Uh that that's gonna be the issue that I don't care what people say in exit polls, I don't care.
That will be the issue that will have royal people the most and probab uh may even prompt them to stay home.
Uh it's that big out there.
In fact, wait till you hear a story I've got from the New York Times.
You know, all the 9-11 families and all the money they got, um, some of them got two to five million dollars each.
A bunch of them are illegal immigrants whose family members were killed at 9-11 in one fashion or another.
Yep.
Some of them are illegal immigrants.
And they're upset they have to keep it quiet, that they can't spend it, they don't want to make themselves conspicuous, and they're uh they're also uh the they're they're also upset that they can get all this kind of money, but they still can't get a green card.
They can't get in, they can't get legal.
Now, you when this kind of news reaches people, and then there was another rally out there in Phoenix yesterday on uh on all this, but there's also some interesting got a couple interesting stories uh here uh that uh the the much sought-after Hispanic voting block that was to come from illegal immigration has or from illegal immigrants has not materialized.
Now, why would that be could it be that they're illegal?
Why I know that there's possibilities for voter fraud that are rampant out there, uh but the calculations of how important the issue was going to be uh have have uh not produced all of the prospective voters for the Democrats that they thought would materialize.
Also, I finished watching The Path to 9-11 yesterday, uh written by Cyrus Norasta, and I uh uh don't have time to get into it uh full review, even at this moment because a break is coming up.
But boy, is this thing powerful.
It's a whole whole thing shot with handhelds.
The cinematography of this is fabulous.
ABC's made the decision to run this without commercials.
They are gonna, and that's how I watched it on the DVDs.
I have not heard anything more about whether or not uh Democrats' efforts to provide uh or to force ABC to make edits and cuts, this movie have uh proved fruitful for them.
Uh Uh it it it the portrayal of Madeline Albright in this is just oh it's wonderful.
I don't know what act I felt like I was looking at at her myself when I looked at this actress.
Uh it is it makes it clear that this country.
Well, I'll tell you when I come back from the breaks.
Stay with us.
Okay, uh have to take our top of the hour break here.
Um give you a more in-depth review of the path to 9-11 in the opening monologue of the next segment.
Your phone calls coming up as well.
Lots to do still today, folks.
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