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Sept. 14, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 14, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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I just saw the Rasmussen numbers.
It is 47% approval for Bush, 50% disapproval.
In the Fox News Opinion Dynamics poll, it's 40% approval for the president.
All these are significant increases.
The NBC Wall Street Journal, 42% approval.
It's starting to get humorous now to watch all this go against all of the conventional wisdom and prayers that the drive-by media and the liberals have had from the Hill newspaper today.
House Democratic leaders passed around to colleagues Tuesday a plan that would focus on if their party wins control of the House.
But although the document was drafted to achieve consensus, it has already angered Democratic-Hispanic leaders.
The cause of the consternation is not something the Democrats included in the agenda.
Instead, it's something lacking, and that's any mention of immigration.
While Republican candidates around the country are trying to make immigration one of the biggest issues of the elections, Democrats appear to be tiptoeing around it.
Some Democrats fear that the issue will hurt them in conservative-leaning districts such as in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, that they must win in order to capture majority control of the House this November.
Hispanic lawmakers in the Democratic caucus question the absence of immigration in the new Democrat agenda.
Now, why would they be tiptoeing around this?
Well, the dirty little secret is they always have been.
When you hear about immigration debates, among who is the debate?
Between who?
Republicans.
You got the president, McCain, and Kennedy was in there on it.
The Senate Democrats have made some noise about it.
But they were just going along with Republicans.
In the House, it was Republicans opposing all of those guys.
House Democrats have a sad diddly squat.
They've been out there trying to sabotage these rallies and register voters among these so-called protest rallies, but even these protest rallies have died out now.
Not nearly as many people as forecast are showing up.
And we had the news last week, ladies and gentlemen, that the voter registration that was supposed to really, really, really pick up here because of all these rallies just is not happening.
And so the only interest Democrats have ever had in immigration is getting new voters because they're running out of victims elsewhere.
And you know why they're running out of victims, by the way?
I'll go back to a subject we mentioned earlier, Walmart.
Walmart is doing what liberal social programs have always promised to do.
They hate Walmart.
They despise them.
They're running out of victims.
They're running out of the needy, the hungry, the tired, the thirsty.
They're running out of dependent people.
They looked at this new illegal immigration rush as a chance to recruit more of them, but it ain't happening.
And so no mention of it in their agenda whatsoever.
Discord is now rampant in the Democrat caucus.
Loretta Sanchez, Democrat California, member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said, I think immigration is a big issue.
It's a big issue to the Hispanic community.
They deserve some sort of answer.
on where the Democrats are on immigration.
Hey, a lot of us deserve some sort of answers, Loretta, but we're not getting any answers from Democrats on what they really think, Loretta.
You're just a victim of it yourself as a member of the Hispanic caucus.
Democrats are not telling anybody what they really think about anything.
I take it back.
They do want to make the world like us again.
They want affordable health care and are going to destroy Walmart.
That's about it.
They don't have a position on the war on terror either.
I'll take it back.
Yes, they do.
Lose.
Troop redeployment to Okinawa.
Destroy any effort we might have at interrogation to continue our success in preventing attacks taking place in this country.
So they do have positions.
They're just not positions that they want to really articulate.
This story is replete with quotes.
Grace Napolitano, Democrat California Hispanic caucus chairman, said she wasn't even familiar with the new agenda document, but that she would follow up on the concern expressed by Gutierrez, that would be Luis Gutierrez, and others.
She said the Hispanic caucus was 100% unified behind the view that there needs to be comprehensive immigration reform, which means nothing.
Comprehensive immigration reform as proposed in the Senate is just a continuation of the failed policies of the past called reform.
Napolitano said, I can't give you a reason for why they've not been inclusive.
I think they know it's a big issue.
It'll continue.
They know it's not a winning issue for them, Grace.
They don't care about issues on which they're not going to win anything.
This is just so simple.
I've never understood why people are afraid of these people.
They don't stand for anything that is positive, upbeat, and productive.
It's well known.
Look, I'm becoming a broken record on this, but I get so frustrated with people being so afraid and so frightened.
We're going to lose the House.
If we lose the House, as I said last week, it's going to be over two things.
It's going to be because Republican anger at Republicans and Republican anger at not having done anything on immigration.
It ain't going to be to war, and it ain't going to be to war on terror.
It ain't going to be Iraq if the Republicans lose the House.
And it isn't going to be because Democrats come along and offered something so much better than what's already going on out there.
It ain't going to be any of those things.
Also from the Hill newspaper today, with Democrats and many independent analysts saying that the field of competitive races in the House is growing, Republican officials yesterday claimed that some Republican lawmakers can now rest easy, seizing on recent news reports.
The RNC distributed a list yesterday declaring that 14 once competitive House GOP seats are no longer endangered.
Whoa, just like that.
14 that were up for grabs are now over, as far as Democrats having a chance are concerned.
The RNC and the Republican campaign chief in the House both point to the decision by National Democrats not to fund Democrat candidates in seats throughout the country.
Citing articles in local media, the RNC list distributed yesterday included 14 GOP-held seats that it's confident now it'll retain.
The list was broken into two-tier, though it was unclear at press time why the RNC split the lawmakers into two different groupings.
Let's go to the audio soundbites quickly before we have to go to the break.
The John Boehner remarks still causing fireworks throughout Washington on Capitol Hill.
Let's go back to Tuesday.
This is Boehner responding to Dingy Harry, who was ripping President Bush for his partisan speech on the night of 9-11.
Boehner had this to say about Dingy Harry.
Sometimes, based on the votes that get cast, you wonder whether they're more interested in the rights of the terrorists than in protecting the American people.
How in the world is that indisputable?
And you'd have to throw some Republicans in there too, Congressman Boehner.
Throw in there John Warner, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham.
Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights.
Oh, these poor terrorists, why they might be mistreated.
Why they might, their defense counsel might not be able to see all the evidence against them for crying.
Do you know how, you know how, if these people succeed, you know how terrorist news is going to be reported in the future?
Today, 87 terrorists went on trial in 14 different courtrooms in America today.
That's going to be how the war on terror is reported.
And ACLU lawyers today moved for dismissal of the case on the fact that A, B, C, or D patently absurd.
So here is Senator Mary Babyfat Landrew ranting on the Senate floor that she's tired of bonehead Republicans.
America is tired of the wrong-headed and boneheaded leadership of the Republican Party that has sent $6.5 billion a month to Iraq when the front line was Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia that led this country to attack Saddam Hussein when we were attacked by Osama bin Laden.
Americans are tired of boneheaded Republican leadership that alienates our allies when we need them the most.
I most certainly am not going to sit here as a Democrat and let the Republican leadership come to the floor and talk about Democrats are not making us safe.
They're the ones who are in charge and Osama bin Laden is still at loose.
And you are so short-sighted and dense.
It's a shame.
You know, even if we had captured bin Laden, what do they think that's going to end the war on terror?
If we captured bin Laden, they'd be saying that that was politically timed and that they would say that they would not end any of this criticism whatsoever.
It would have still been going on.
But I still am amused that they're just squealing like stuck pigs here when it is said that they are not keeping us safe.
The Democrats are more interested in protecting the rights of terrorists.
It's undeniably true than they are in protecting the American people.
Can't take any criticism.
They can dish it out.
They just can't take it.
David Olby at a press conference on Capitol Hill with Jack Murtha took questions from the press.
Unidentified reporters says, I'm wondering, does John Boehner need to go to the floor and apologize?
I come from the state of Joe McCarthy.
I know a first-rate McCarthy when I see one.
And I also know a third-rate McCarthy when I see one.
And we saw one yesterday.
Holy cow.
McCarthy be spinning in his grave.
What was McCarthyism?
Anybody remember?
McCarthyism was accusing Americans of being communists, oftentimes correctly.
Now all of it, McCarthyism is attacking what?
The eagerness of Democrats to protect the country as opposed to protect terrorists.
Telling you, folks, they're too outraged.
They're too angry about this.
They have to deflect it because they know it might be hitting home.
On the Today Show today, James Carville was on with Matt Wauer.
You think John Boehner should apologize for his remarks about Democrats?
You know, unfortunately, that kind of language has become sort of every day and people are not even shocked by it.
I pay attention to it.
You know, of course he should apologize for it.
Of course, the Republican caucus should chastise him for it.
It shouldn't be enough that he apologizes, do that.
Sounds like mock outrage to me.
Carville doesn't even sound that mad about it.
Next question from Matt Wauer, the Democrat strategy.
It's worked for the Republicans in the past.
We can make you a safer idea.
If you ever have an opportunity to take advantage of it, it's now and the Democrats can't get their act together.
So Lauer is mad.
When are you Democrats going to rise up?
When are you going to start attacking Bush?
When are you going to start attacking Republicans?
As though it hasn't been going on, here's what Carville says.
We're in the middle of election season and we're a congressional party and this NBC poll and everybody's out of breath because the president's up three points or whatever it is, shows the Democrats among likely voters having an 11-point lead in a congressional election.
So people are making decisions out there.
Can the Democrats get a little more focus here?
I think they will.
I think as it unfolds, you're going to see more specificity from them.
He's not going to want any part of this.
He doesn't want anybody to think he's part of this team because they ain't getting it together out there.
And they're not getting it together here.
And they're not anywhere close to it.
And they're not going to become more focused.
They're going to become more splattered because all they are is reactionaries.
They're not advancing an agenda.
They simply react to things.
One more before we go to the break.
Matt Wauer said over and over, we're hearing the president now driving this theme home of the war in Iraq and a war on terrorism are the same thing.
Not more and more, Matt, that's been the operating theory since the beginning.
Anyway, if you're a voter and you look at the polling numbers that show that Americans don't think the administration is doing a good job in Iraq, do people say, wait a minute, if Iraq's doing so badly, then the war on terror is also going bad?
As Richard Clark said, that we're attacked by Japan and we invade Mexico.
I mean, it's proactive.
I mean, I'll say that.
It just didn't have anything to do with it.
I mean, you know, yeah, we knew pretty much at the time there was hardly any reason.
The whole Muhammad out-a-Prague meeting was all shot to heck in the handbasket.
But at any rate, come election day, you realize we'll have been in Iraq longer than when World War II?
Longer than when World War II.
We're there, and we've not been able to get the first troop back.
Oh, they keep coming.
I don't think we've been there longer than we were in World War II, but somebody's put this out there.
James, I don't know what he's talking about.
Yeah, that I didn't.
That's my gumbo.
James, Japan did attack us, but we didn't invade Mexico.
We invaded Europe, James.
Talent on loan from God.
Back to the phones now, people patiently waiting.
Robert in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Welcome, sir.
Rush mega, the right-thinking dittos from Northwest Louisiana.
Thank you.
McCain's latest comments are another reason to be concerned about his veracity.
This is a man who was tortured at the hands of communist terrorists in North Vietnam.
Now, does he really believe that any thinking person would believe him in his stand now?
Well, obviously he does.
But I think McCain honestly was tortured.
It's sort of offensive to me to say or to hear him say that what's happening at Guantanamo Bay is similar or worse than what happened to him.
Plus, there's this, what's the winning?
There's a conventional wisdom out there that it doesn't work.
I beg to disagree.
This notion that torture or let's not even call it torture, let's call it tough interrogation techniques don't work.
Obviously, they do.
Like, waterboarding is something that everybody's just outraged about.
Our own troops go through waterboarding training.
In fact, I was reading something the other day, and I don't remember where it was.
The average human being, the average terrorist, the average prisoner over many, many years can supposedly only handle waterboarding for 14 seconds.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed withstood it for two minutes.
And, you know, if you know what it is, it's waterboarding.
There are many different varieties of it, but essentially it's water in your nose as you're on a board head down on your back, and you just, when the water's going your nose, you can't get it, you just think you're going to drown.
The idea that it doesn't work is one of these myths that has popped up.
If it doesn't work, why would the U.S. military train its own special ops people and others to undergo it and not break?
If it didn't work, then we wouldn't have to train anybody on torture.
This is absurd.
Train anybody on tough interrogation techniques.
Now, as to Eston McCain's prisoner of war past, I don't think that has anything to do with it.
There's clearly other things.
One of the things he obviously believes is he needs the media support right now, desperately craves media acceptance.
Let's face it, the presidential race two years away.
He probably thinks people are going to forget all this by then because other things are going to be going on.
We haven't forgotten South Carolina in 2000, and that was six years ago.
He's sadly mistaken if he thinks people are not going to remember all this.
Phil in Martinsville, Virginia, welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you, Dudos, Rush.
And let me say hello from down here in George Allen and Virgil Good.
Appreciate that.
Listen, I think John McCain's an idiot.
If he believes that Curry in favor with Democrats is going to give him anything if he were to run for president or anything, the Democrats are not going to vote for him.
He's not going to give a Democrat vote one when it comes time to, if he tries to run for president, they're going to dump him quicker than they dump Joe Lieberman.
They're not going to, I mean, how can he even imagine that they would support him in any way, shape, or form?
Well, you mentioned Lieberman.
You know, it could be that McCain's looking at that race and thinking that independents are the way to go.
You know, there's always a possibility he's idols Teddy Roosevelt, the bull moose party.
McCain may be planning on not even entering Republican primaries.
Who knows?
None of this makes sense if he thinks he's going to win Republican primaries.
You remember the great phone call we got yesterday from Katie in Arlington, Virginia.
Many of you wrote and said that you thought it was the call of the year.
She had gone to a Jim Moran 9-11 rally, and he had turned it into a political event and started talking about how there's more hate for America around the world than there is love of life.
And she couldn't stop herself and started shouting and said, This is not political.
I lost someone in 9-11.
And later that day, somebody came up to her and said, Your brother is not important.
You're not important.
Let the congressman speak.
I got this email from Oakland, California, from Carroll.
Dear Rush, heard you speaking to Katie today.
I was impressed by her courage and bravery.
First in speaking out against Congressman Moron, and secondly in calling your show.
Neither must have been easy for her during the fifth anniversary week of the loss of her brother.
I understand your point to her, Rush.
That is, you should expect liberals like Moran to act the way that they do, but I understand her point as well.
At the very least, she expected that he would have at least a tiny amount of human decency in him to respect those who lost their lives on 9-11.
Here's my point.
Why do others who have lost close relatives in the war on terror get elevated to infallible status, i.e., Cindy Sheehan, the Jersey girls, when people like Katie and her brother are told they are not important?
I think you know where I'm going with this.
The incredible hypocrisy and double standard continually on display by the left in this country, even on the anniversary of 9-11.
Megha Ditto's from Oakland, California.
Yes, an excellent point.
The person that told Katie, no doubt a liberal Democrat, your brother isn't important.
You're not important.
Let the congressman speak, is the same kind of person who will rally around a Cindy Sheehan because her son was killed in Iraq.
So to the left, selective loss is important.
Some deaths, they don't care.
Other deaths, they rally around.
Great letter.
Great note from Carol.
And it's just typical of the mean-spiritedness, the extremism, and the inconsistency of our good friends, the liberals.
Kurt in Needsville, Pennsylvania.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Yes.
Hi, Rush.
This really is my lucky day.
I just wanted to add yet another comment about the McCain thing and his trying to position himself for 08.
This whole idea of politicians positioning themselves really turns my stomach, and it really disgusts me, especially a Republican.
What that means is you have no values.
I mean, either you have a value, you have leadership, and you say what you're for, and the people can take you or leave you.
All right.
Now, I understand.
If McCain were here, if McCain had a microphone on this program, he would say to you, Hey, Kurt, what's your problem?
I've always opposed this.
This is nothing new.
I've always opposed torture.
What are you getting on me and kissed for?
What would you say to that?
Well, I think this is just one example.
I mean, he always has his finger in the wind.
It's not just this bit about torture and interrogation.
It's, I mean, you've listed many times over the years where McCain has played to the majority or what he thinks is a majority, trying to appeal to the left and the right.
And, you know, this is something Hillary does.
It's something Democrats do.
It's not something Republicans do, or at least I hope never to vote for a Republican who has to position himself.
I mean, it shows an absence of leadership.
The contrast to George Bush and Ronald Reagan couldn't be more clear.
I mean, they say what they're for, and they do what they say they're going to do.
And, you know, the business of trying to position yourself, this triangulation business, I mean, that's a Democratic, demagogic thing.
It's way below conservatives and Republicans.
Do you understand that one of the reasons McCain does this is to continually gain favor with the drive-by media by opposing his president?
Well, of course, and that turns my stomach.
But put yourself in his shoes for a moment.
I'm not defending it.
We're all trying to understand it here.
And I think to understand it, we really have to try to get a read on McCain.
Now, senators are notoriously egocentric.
It's why they really make lousy candidates and why so few of them ever do get elected president right out of the Senate.
And one of the reasons is Kerry was a great example.
These people are total egomaniacs.
There's only 100 of them at any one time.
They all think they should be president.
They have staff, but they are intimately involved in virtually everything they do.
They do not delegate much.
Kerry didn't.
McCain doesn't.
And in this little world in which they leave, live, the sense is that they're very, very powerful.
And McCain, you know, when he was in the Commerce Committee, as chairman, was threatening broadcast networks with various things, now trying to come up with this bill, the cable a la carte bill, where you thought it's a mess going to raise cable rates like crazy.
But he's sitting there.
The bottom line is he's sitting there.
He thinks it's very powerful.
And they get out on a campaign trail and they don't delegate.
And they end up micromanaging everything according to their own egos and they lose control of the campaign.
In McCain's case, I think there's no question that the constant adulation he gets from the media, and you don't know, you cannot possibly imagine not being in this world, not being inside the Beltway, how the liberal culture rules that town, socially too, which is as important to these people as anything else.
Getting invited to the right places and being a star when you get there matters big time.
And so he's got this idea, he's got this notion in his head that he is really all-powerful because he gets all this adulation.
He is celebrated.
He is loved.
And he keeps doing things to keep that coming.
And now, where it all breaks down for me is I think this explains some of the positions he takes.
You talked about values and positions, and I think this explains it.
It's a desire.
Everybody wants to be loved.
And man, if you're adored and worshipped, it's got to go to your head.
Where it breaks down for me is what in the world does he think this is all getting him as a Republican presidential candidate who's got to go through the primaries?
I had a guy call here earlier, said this is, what did he say?
So McCain, a smart move or some such thing, a master stroke.
What's a master stroke in engaging in a position that is making it harder to protect the country?
What's a masterstroke about?
It might be a masterstroke politically, but what about the reality?
And that's essentially what you're saying, is it not?
I think more or less.
I think if people coming up from the Senate don't work out as presidents because they're egomaniacs, I think that's just as it should be.
You say over and over again how much confidence you have in the population and the electorate, the electorate.
I don't share that confidence so much, but apparently the people can see through all that and they elect true leaders rather than egomaniacs.
And I think if it's harder to become president coming from the Senate, then that's a good thing.
Well, it is.
And, you know, there are days I think the people of this country are absolute idiots.
There are days that I think a lot of this country is just stupid.
What I know is that we have such a great country, such an affluent country, so much prosperity, so many entertainment options, so many leisure time options that are very affordable, that most people don't even get involved, or at least half of them don't care.
And they don't want to care.
They don't think it affects their lives.
So you strike that.
That's why I've never worried about voter turnout.
People aren't turning up.
Thank God for them.
If they're turning up and they're ignoramuses, it's a bad thing.
You're running a great risk.
The fewer that turned up, fine with me.
Not going to start wringing my hands over it.
But all in all, the country, you can look at the vote results in 04.
Yeah, Bush got more votes than anybody ever, and Kerry came close.
Kerry still lost by 4 million votes.
You talk about an egomaniac.
And it was so on display.
Gore in 2000, too, with his size and his acting all arrogant against Bush and the debates.
I do have continual faith and optimism in the people of the country because I know what affects them negatively.
Everybody that pays attention to all this stuff is absorbed in the media bubble every day, and it's designed to be apocalyptic and doom and gloom and pro-Democrat.
The only thing positive in the media these days is about Democrats.
Everything else, it's the end of the world.
And that can't help but affect people.
By the way, I'm getting email from people who've been taking my advice and not watching anything for five days or 10 days.
You would not believe how they tell me their lives are changed.
Their attitude every day is entirely different, not absorbing the apocalyptic presentation that is drive-by media each and every day.
You ought to try it yourself.
Just two or three days is enough to see.
You can listen to this program.
Don't watch cable news.
Don't watch broadcast news.
Don't read a newspaper and do that sort of stuff.
And you'll be amazed at how okay the country is, how okay life is.
You're about to be out there living it rather than watching a bunch of dunderheads tell you how rotten it is each and every day.
So you'll end up thinking, well, I guess it's okay for me, but man, look at how people are suffering out there.
It's all myth.
Back in just a second, we will be right back.
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If you'd like to join us, Steve in Cypress, Texas, welcome.
Nice to have you with us.
Oops.
Sorry, we're going to Gary in Lake City, Florida.
You're next.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
My husband and I have listened to you forever, and we think you're great.
And I have a question to ask you.
You're welcome, by the way.
My question is, do you think it's possible that Powell and McCain are planning to get together and McCain run for president and Powell for vice president?
It's possible, but I don't think that's what's motivating anything right now.
I'm not sure Powell would be vice president.
Wife doesn't want him to run for anything because the afraid first black president, you know, angering the usual angry white guys in America, typical old stereotype.
I don't think that has anything to do with this.
I think there are two things, maybe three, going on with the Colin Powell thing.
And if you are just joining us, what this is about is Colin Powell sent a letter to McCain that McCain released.
Powell didn't.
McCain released it.
Letter from Powell basically supports McCain and opposes President Bush on his plan for military tribunals of the 14 terrorists, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, at Club Gitmo.
And McCain's waving that letter around and touting it around and trying to set up a credibility contest between Colin Powell and George W. Bush.
Who will the American people trust and believe more, Bush or Colin Powell?
I don't know if Powell wrote this letter on his own volition just watching all this and decided or RFC was asked to.
And the reason I say that, the reason I mention that it might be that he was asked to, is that there has been off for a long time a real battle going on between the advisors and diplomats in Bush's dad's administration.
You remember that Brent Scowcroft has been opposed to the Iraq thing since the day it was proposed and has written numerous op-ed pieces in the Wall Street Journal and I think the New York Times, maybe the Washington Post.
James Baker has written a couple himself from the previous Bush administration.
Baker, by the way, now a behind-the-scenes advisor to George W. Bush on Iraq.
Insight magazine reported this yesterday.
I don't know about that.
That's sort of...
At any rate, there has been this battle.
And the Bush 41 people have been very bold in criticizing Bush 43 personally and Bush 43's own staff.
Basically saying, this kid doesn't know what he's doing.
This kid's going to get us in trouble.
And I think there's something unknown or unexplained about this and that aspect.
And Powell has thrown in with the Bush 41 crowd now.
Well, obviously, Powell was asked to leave by Bush as Secretary of State.
Powell was humiliated when he had to go up to the UN Security Council, present all the pictures of weapons and mass destruction.
And then the Armitage situation with Valerie Playman and Joe Wilson, that's, you know, I haven't gotten to it yet today, but Novak's column on this just makes Armitage look horrible.
And an accredibility contest between Novak and Armitage on My Money's Going with Novak.
So I don't know if this letter was written to sort of, and publicized here to sort of take the Armitage-Novak stuff off the front page today or off the lead.
But there's so many things going on here.
I think the Bush 41 people, you know, they did it right.
They had this giant coalition before going into Kuwait and kicking Saddam out.
They did this.
And I think, folks, it just, I hate to say this, but inside the Beltway, preservation of one's legacy, preservation of one's reputation sometimes trumps everything else.
And I've never understood the men who worked with George Bush's father openly attacking George W. Bush in newspapers.
There's just been something unseemly about this.
And to me, it's gone way beyond policy, or it's about much more than policy.
What it's about, we can only speculate, but it's unseemly.
And I can't help but think that some of the people in the Bush 41 administration, worried about their legacies, if this doesn't work, worried they'll go down in flames along with Bush 43 and his people.
Can't have that happen.
So they got to distance themselves.
As to Powell, he's obviously thrown in with them, but I don't think it has anything to do with wanting to be on a presidential ticket.
I think it's all about getting even for being fired, for being sent to the UN to make that presentation that ended up, apparently, in a lot of people's minds, being totally made up by intelligence people, forced to do it by Cheney or what have you.
And I think Armitage is, and that whole story is a central factor.
Remember, when you talk about Armitage, you can't leave Powell out.
Armitage, as everybody said, doesn't go to the bathroom without asking Powell first.
So he's not going to call Novak and call him in for an interview for an hour without Powell knowing about it.
Do you think that most of what's going on here today with all this is just to distract everybody from that because it's easy to get the drive-by media on, ooh, look at who's criticizing George Bush today.
Okay, folks, that's it for today.
Tomorrow, already Open Line Friday.
We might possibly have Secretary Rice with us in our third hour tomorrow.
As well as our fourth hour is coming up here in mere seconds.
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