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Nov. 9, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 9, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yes, greetings, my friends.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And the now famous Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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We had a call earlier from a guy from Fort Smith, Arkansas, who Yeah, Andy.
And he wanted to know if uh if Bush well, his point was that Bush doesn't carry a conservative agenda forward next two years, and we're sunk.
And I said, I know I disagree.
I don't think it's Bush's job to carry the conservative agenda.
You know he's not going to, and he's not in a ballot anyway.
But Bush is not uh other people to start carrying this banner.
He said, Well, who?
And I said, Well, throwing some names out, I said, What about Newt?
How do you react?
Well, I kind of like Newt, but I don't know if he uh just don't know if he can get past all the baggage.
I said, wait a second.
One thing you're gonna have to learn real fast is there's not a conservative out there.
Jesus Christ could come back and announce he's a conservative, and they would give him baggage.
If he doesn't have it, he's gonna be given it.
Uh there is not a conservative in the world who will not be treated as a suspect, who will not receive the traditional media anal exam.
They're gonna dig deep and find out everything they can.
They're gonna look at George Allen.
George Allen is a classic example.
Here is one of the most decent, nicest guys on the face of the earth, uh, in many ways, and an average Joe.
He was done in by one word.
One word, ladies and gentlemen.
Makaka.
An alleged racist slur.
The slur-e, the macaca, didn't even know what the word meant.
The Washington Post then conducted a three-week expose and investigation.
They would not let it go.
The Washington Post, drive by media became the de facto Jim Webb campaign headquarters.
And they put out the Jim Webb campaign statement and PR statement each and every day.
When George Allen uttered the word macaca, the crowd at the appearance, watching the slurry, the macaca, didn't even know what the word meant.
Nobody knew what it meant.
Nobody heard the word.
Well, what a macaque, what's this?
Media defined it.
Media got to go out there and tell everybody George Allen is a racist pig.
The media covering this event at the moment didn't know what a macaca was.
Then they went to the dictionary, they found a dictionary, they played it up a gazillion times.
So you have to ask yourself, how can anyone slur anybody else with what for all intents and purposes is a nonsense word that nobody'd ever heard of before?
Well, the drive-by media can, the drive-by media did, and the drive-by media turned the Senate.
One race.
So the idea that there are uh lint-free, cleaner, and pure than a wind-driven snow.
Conservatives out there who are not going to have baggage is uh a mistaken assumption that you shouldn't make.
Now, speaking of the Senate, here is uh Hugh Hewitt.
Uh he had a column yesterday at Townhall.com, and it's entitled The Road Not Taken, Forfeiting a Majority.
The postmortems are accumulating, but I think the obvious has to be stated.
John McCain and his colleagues in a gang of fourteen cost the GOP its Senate majority while the conduct of a handful of corrupt House members gave that body's leadership to the Democrats.
The first two paragraphs of my book, Painting the Map Red, published in March of this year, read, and he goes on to basically predict in these two paragraphs what happened.
I'll just read one of them to you.
It's break the glass and pull the alarm time for the Republican Party.
The elections losing in November are shaping up to be disastrous for the GOP as the elections of 94 were for the Democrats.
Most GOP insiders seem unaware of their political peril.
Some are resigned to a major defeat is the price we have to pay for a decade of consistent gains, which they think couldn't have gone on forever.
Now, as cooler heads uh sort through the returns, they will not see a Democratic wave.
They will see a series of a long series of bitter fights, most of which were lost by very thin margins, the sort of margin that could have been overcome had there been greater purpose and energy array on the Republican side.
The country did not fundamentally change in 2004, but the Republicans had to defend very difficult terrain in very adverse circumstances.
Step by step over the past two years, the GOP painted themselves into a corner from which there was no escape.
Excape for those of you in Rio Linda.
Congressional leadership time and time again took the easy way out and declared truces with Democrats over issues which ought not to have been compromised.
The easy way led to Tuesday's results.
The criminal activities of Duke Cunningham, Bob Nay, and Mark Foley were anchors around every Republican neck, and the damaged leadership could not figure out that the only way to slip that weight was by staying in town and working around the clock on issue after issue.
The long recesses, the unwillingness to confront the issues head on.
Remember the House's inexplicable refusal to condemn the New York Times by name in a resolution over the SWIFT program leak.
This was the leak that exposed how we were successfully tracking terrorist financial transfers and so forth.
It conveyed a smugness about the majority, which was rooted in redistricting's false assurance of invulnerability.
Only on rare occasions would the Republicans set up the sort of debate that sharpened the contrast between the parties.
In wartime, the public expects much more from its leaders than they received from the GOP.
In the Senate, three turning points stand out.
April 15th, 2005, less than three months after President Bush had begun a second term, one in part because of his pledge to fight for sound judges, Senator McCain appeared on hardball and announced that he would not support the constitutional option to end Democrat filibusters.
Then, stunned by the furious reaction, McCain cobbled together the gang of 14 compromise that in fact destroyed the ability of the Republican Party to campaign on Democratic struc obstructionism while throwing many fine nominees under the bus.
Judicial nominees.
Now in the ruins of Tuesday, there is an almost certain end to the slow but steady restoration of originalism to the bench.
Had McCain not abandoned his party and then sabotaged its plans, there would have been an important debate and a crucial decision taken on how the Constitution operates.
But the result, Gang of 14, was the complete opposite.
Yes, President Bush got his two nominees to the Supreme Court through a 5545 Senate, but the doors now closed.
The court still tilted left.
A once in a generation opportunity was lost.
Thank you, Senator McCain.
A few months later, there came a debate in the Senate.
Over the Democrats' demand for a timetable for withdrawal for Iraq led to another half measure.
A Frist Warner alternative that demanded quarterly reports on the war's progress.
A move widely and correctly interpreted as a blow to the administration's Iraq policy.
Fourteen Republicans voted against the Frist Warner proposal, including Senator McCain, and the press immediately understood that the half measure was an early indicator of erosion in support for a policy of victory.
Then came the two leaks of national security secrets to the New York Times and an utterly feckless response from both the Senate and the House.
Not one hearing was held, not one subpoena delivered.
A resolution condemning these deeply injurious actions passed the House, but dared not name the New York Times.
The Senate did not even vote on a nonbinding resolution.
Nor did the Senate get around to confirming the President's authority to conduct warrantless surveillance uh surveillance of Al Qaeda contacting its operatives in the U.S. Weeks were taken up, jamming the incoherent McCain Kennedy immigration bill through the Judiciary Committee, only to see it repudiated by the majority of Republicans, and the opportunity lost for a comprehensive bill that would have met the demand for security within a rational regularization of the illegal population already here.
And while the Senate twiddled away its days, Crucial nominees to the Federal Appellate Bench languished in the Judiciary Committee.
The most important of them, Peter Keisler, who remains nominated for the D.C. circuit, didn't even receive a vote because of indifference on the part of Chairman Spector.
Now, a lot of people wondered why the president didn't bring up the judges issue in the campaign, and then only last week, and then only in Montana.
The reason's obvious.
Senators DeWine and Chafee were struggling, and any focus on the legacy of the gang of 14 would doom DeWine's already dwindling chances while reminding the country of the retreat from principle in early 05.
As summer became fall, the administration and Senator Frist began a belated attempt to salvage the term.
At exactly that moment, Senators McCain and Graham threw down their still murky objections to the administration's proposals on the trial and treatment of terrorists.
Precious days were lost, as was momentum and clarity.
The NSA program left unconfirmed, though still quite constitutional, and Judge Kaisler et al.
hung out to dry.
It is hard to conceive.
Well, but Chafee was a one-man wrecking crew on the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee Finances, a drain of resources and energy, and a billboard for the ideas that the Senate is first a club and uh only secondarily a body of legislators.
It's hard to conceive how the past two years could have managed worse.
The presidential ambitions of three senators ended Tuesday night, though two of them will not face up to it.
He's including McCain in the three.
The Republican Party sent them and their fifty-two colleagues to Washington to implement an agenda, which could have been accomplished, but the opportunity was frittered away.
The party raised the money and staffed the campaigns that yielded a 55, 45 seat majority.
The Republican Party expected the 55 to act like a majority, and it didn't.
Will they get back to one, a working majority?
Maybe.
Perhaps sooner than you think.
The Democrats have at least six vulnerable senators running in 08.
Well, the situation looks pretty good for the GOP.
But the majority's not going to return unless the new minority leadership, however it's composed, resolves to persuade the public and to be firm in its convictions, not concerned for the praise of the Beltway Manhattan Media Machine.
That's something I cite all the time.
That's one of the reasons for all the fear.
That's why they won't go out and pound conservatism and beat their chests.
They would rather fact this infects some of our punditry, too.
I have to be honest about it.
There's a plenty of plenty of conservative pundits who are just mealy-mouthed and thinkweenie-smite as they can be, because they know uh they'll get press in the big papers.
The Washington Post and the New York Times will be quoted, and so forth.
Uh drive-by media remains one of the biggest obstacles uh conservatives face in the future.
Quick timeout will be back and uh continue to stay with us.
All right, greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
We go back to the phones.
And it's Dave from Glenn's Falls, New York.
Welcome, sir.
Thank you for your patience and holding on.
Hey, Rush.
I love you.
I love you, buddy.
I've been listening to you for 20 years.
Thank you, sir.
But you know why you're not helping us, Rush.
When I started listening to you, you took a middle of the road.
You you you've you looked at every side and you educated us, and I really appreciated that.
But lately, I swear, you're you're a mouthpiece for the administration now.
You're defending their policy.
That's the way I'm hearing you.
Obviously, the country just spoke and we changed things.
Rush, I think I'm I'm not I'm not a liberal buddy.
I'm with you on this.
But what you got to do is you gotta get to the truth of the matter.
Like take that war.
Let's go right to the war.
It's a failure.
We're not gonna win that war.
Everybody.
Wait, wait, wait, wait a wait a second.
I want to go in order.
I want to go back.
Don't forget your train of thought there on the war.
I'm not trying to avoid this.
I want to go back the first thing, and I want to forget things as you run through your litany.
You said something about me um uh never criticizing the administration or um uh what did you say?
Uh uh Well, I I won't say you don't know.
I'm a mouthpiece for the you say you call me a mouthpiece for the administration.
Many times you're you're defending Bush and Rumsfeld and Cheney and most of the American people, no way are they going to buy that.
Well, you're confused.
Wait a sec, you're confusing something.
In the first place, I am not a mouthpiece for the administration.
I have I've been critical of this administration on immigration.
I've been critical of this administration on the new tone.
I have been critical of this administration as spending more time with their enemies and coddling them than with their friends.
I have been critical on this administration in a number of cases.
I have had I have had emissaries in the White House been sent to me to try to get my mind right on a bunch of things.
Now you know this if you're a regular leader, you've been listening for 20 years.
This comes up periodically, and I have to say this over and over and over again.
I am not a mouthpiece for the administration.
I criticize them and have on a number of things.
Now you want to go to the war?
What what do you you think I should moisten my finger, put it in the air, figure out what the American people want to hear and say that?
Do you want me to say what I believe?
Yeah, oh hey, what that would be exactly right.
Hey, Rush, by the way, we're exactly the same.
You're born in 51.
I feel so close.
You're both 55.
We think alike.
Let's get to the truth.
That thing needs a change.
I just told you the truth.
See, what do you mean get to you are now trying to say I'm skirting your issue.
I just told you the truth.
Let's stick with the truth, shall we?
I mean, take a look at what's going on.
That's it.
I mean, that's why we had a change in administration.
That one issue changed it.
You, you know, Bush says, let's stay the course.
Come on, these people they're never going to be able to defend themselves the way we want them to govern.
And it was a horrible.
In other words, we keep trying to train them.
That'll go on for four years.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
You're not calling to criticize me.
You're calling to advance an agenda that is anti-administration, and you're doing this under the guise of being critical of me.
Now you're free to do that, but don't be afraid to be honest with me.
You obviously have not, and the fact that we're 55 doesn't mean anything.
Uh uh you have obviously missed me say countless times that if it were up to me, we would have launched full force.
We wouldn't have worried about infrastructure.
We would have gone in there and won this thing and then built the democracy.
I would you've I've said this countless times.
I also understand the virtues of building a democracy and have a f have a pro-American outpost in that region, but I don't believe that you establish a democracy for democracy first if that if that comes at the expense of winning the war.
I think we've gone in there with uh with a politically correct uh attitude, and I've said this countless times.
Oh, you know you're Rush, you're a real powerful guy here.
I think you're more powerful than you know.
We're listening to you, they're listening to you.
You gotta be real strong on this issue.
If if they didn't hear it the first time, jump up and down.
Uh I'm not a policymaker.
Uh I'm I'm you know, this that's not the point here.
You called and said that you're you're you're you're disagreeing, you're accusing me of carrying the water.
That was your premise.
I have I have if I have a fatal mistake, I believe what people say.
If I have a if I have a flaw, and this is arguable, but if I have a flaw, it is responding to questions and comments that people make to me.
And I am responding, you also you're probably going to mention Katrina.
Let me tell you what I've said about Katrina, because you're probably going to accuse me of having carried the water for the administration FEMA after Hurricane Katrina.
Do you know what I've said about Hurricane Katrina?
It was a failure across the board.
It was a failure of bureaucracy, which is always going to fail in big missions like this.
It was a failure of citizenship, and it was a failure of media.
The failure in we know what the failures of the bureaucracy are and were.
We the the the failure of citizenship was that there were a bunch of people, average, ordinary New Orleans citizens, who refused to take action in their own behalf.
They refused to assert responsibility for themselves.
They refused to leave.
They refused to get themselves out of harm's way despite being warned.
And then when it was all over, they get paraded in front of all of us as innocent victims, as the media and Democrats like to do.
You can't criticize them as I'm doing now.
You can't criticize them because look at Rush, they lost everything.
The murders and the rapes and the toxic soup, which takes me to the third failure, which you can always count on drive by media.
There was no toxic soup.
There were not massive murders and rapes.
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was so misreported.
It was such a big lie that it led to a compounding Of the impression that the government failed.
Which all descends from a silly notion that the government can fix everything.
Which takes us back to a failure of citizenship.
Take care of you.
What did the mayor himself, school bus Nagan say before this last hurricane season started?
He said, We're going to have buses if we get a storm come this way, but you're getting out of here, you are on your own.
They didn't heed that the first time.
They hung around and they waited because that's how they've been conditioned.
The government's going to get them to check.
Government's going to get them their job.
Government's going to get in the bus to get them.
Government's going to do whatever.
Government can't do all that for everybody.
It never has been able to.
It never will be able to.
The media lies, exacerbated all that.
It was a failure all the way around.
And all of this, I have said, I carried nobody's water.
Thank you for the opportunity to clarify it again.
Listen to all of the words, Dave.
Your highly trained broadcast specialist.
We are all professionals here.
We are all professionals here.
That's what the FEMA people were saying after her canker.
We're all professionals here.
800-282-2882 of the White House.
This is going to be fascinating to follow.
White House just resent John Bolton's nomination to the United Nations back to the Senate.
The Senate that has failed to come up with enough votes to confirm him as UN ambassador.
Now, does anybody have any idea what might happen here?
No, there is a there is a uh call from the Democrats for comedy.
Uh that that's not comedy for those of you in Rio Linda, C O M I T Y. Can't we all get along?
Uh we put the partisanship aside.
We we've got we've got now uh a real opportunity to listen to the American people.
They voted for change.
We've got we've got to get along here and show that we can work together.
Okay, so Bush says send Bolton back.
His recess appointment expires in um in December.
Does anybody think that the Democrats in the Senate, as a sign of goodwill, and as a signal to President Bush that they're serious about wanting to get along, are going to say, you know what, let's give him Bolton.
He's in such bad shape right now, and he's bending over backwards to help us out.
He's bending over backwards, inviting us up for lunch.
Can't wait.
Let's give him Bolton.
You think that'll happen, ladies and gentlemen?
Well, let's consult one of these Democrat senators.
I have a Reuters story here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, headline, Biden says UN envoy Bolton going nowhere.
John Bolton's troubled nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is going nowhere, according to Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware.
He's expected to chair the foreign relations committee if Democrats control the Senate is formally confirmed.
That won't be till next January, though.
He's not going to be confirming any controlling any committee until the new Congress uh sits.
I never saw a real enthusiasm for Bolton's nomination on a Republican side to begin with, Biden said.
There's none on our side.
I think John Bolton's going nowhere.
I just love of the willingness the Democrats have expressed to uh work together.
Uh to solve common problems, to meet common goals, to uh give the American people what they voted for.
Speaking of which, our old buddy Morton Kondraki, writing uh, where does he write?
Is he still at roll call?
Whatever publication about ten people in a beltway read.
Let's see what it moderates fed up with polarization.
The two thousand six election results were a rebuke, not just to President Bush and Congressional Republicans, but to radio talk show hosts and right-wing polarizers.
The right managed to win seven more anti-gay marriage referendums across the country, but it was reputed, uh, repudiated on Iraq, immigration, and excessive religiosity.
Too much religion out there from you right wingers.
At the same time, while Democrats won control of the House and the Senate, they did so by capturing the votes of moderates and independents whom they could lose easily with demonstrations of wretched excess.
He morts one of these middle of the roaders.
He thinks he's the middle of the road.
He's actually liberal, but he's one of these middle of the roaders, a moderate.
Uh, and that's virtuous.
You see, there's a virtue in the middle.
If you're on the right or on the left, and on the left, it's not all that good.
If you're on the right, you stink.
Exit polls show that once again the self-identified moderates made up a near majority of the electorate, 47%.
And this group split 62 to 36 Democrat, a nine-point Democrat gain from 2002 and eight points above 2004.
Only 21% of voters identified themselves as Libs and 32% as conservatives.
It does seem that the uh the uh conservative turnout was there.
It's just that the uh the moderates oh the independents, the virtuous among us uh went largely to Democrats.
And why would that be?
You know, I think there's a um how many snerdly off top of your head, help me out how many states had minimum wage amend?
Seven states.
I was looking at the returns in Missouri and a couple of other states who have minimum, and it was winning 7525.
Now, when you put and I don't know anybody's making this point, I'm not claiming it's unique, somebody's gonna make it or has you put a minimum wage uh ballot initiative or amendment or whatever on a ballot, and that is going to be guaranteed to draw union voters and liberal Democrat voters.
And I think this was something that uh a lot of I will include myself in this over.
You look at the states where Democrats were elected uh to the Senate, and I'll bet you you will find a minimum wage proposal in many of them, and you will find an overwhelming 75, 25, 60, 40 uh spread for the minimum wage.
And and that I think is one of the things that might have driven turnout.
Uh that's the point.
Republicans have unfortunately whoa.
Not only will Republicans vote for it, the House Republicans before the election were talking about actually doing it.
Because they wanted to show the country that they were not mean spirited and cruel and cold hearted and wanted people to suffer.
That's what people think of Republicans, that they're cold-hearted, cruel and want people to be in misery.
So they were gonna they were gonna go out there and pa get pass their own national minimum wage bill.
Guess who held it up?
Democrats.
They didn't want any part of it.
They didn't want the Republicans getting any credit for it, so they didn't, they didn't, they didn't uh get themselves involved in it.
Uh there were a lot of other reasons, too.
The Republicans may not have had the guts to pull the trigger in the end anyway.
They were just uh they were just out there talking about it.
Sarah in Glen Cove, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I am completely flabbergasted how people can take your words and completely misdrew them.
When you said Wednesday that you were relieved and that you were tired of carrying water, I knew exactly what you meant.
It was crystal clear to me, and I too felt relieved.
I am not a fair weather Republican.
I have been there towing the company line, explaining, talking to people, doing everything I possibly can at every election for over 20 years, and it failed.
They let us down, and I'm just relieved that I don't have to sit there and explain and carry the water anymore.
For me, it's it's not about republicanism, it's about conservatism.
I don't have a and if if as I said earlier in today's Sterling, I might add broadcast, uh the well the uh when a conservative campaigns as a conservative and gets elected that way and then won't govern that way because of fear of the way he's gonna be treated in the media or what have you, uh then it's they're on their own now.
I mean, if if if they're they're the they're the they're the candidates, they're the ones out there campaigning and getting votes, and they if they if they're gonna get comfortable and rely on uh the bench or a uh uh a backup team of people who they don't look as vulnerable, think of as vulnerable as they are to make their case for them, that's all I'm saying.
They're gonna have to make the case.
Exactly.
I'm a conservative first and a Republican second, and I have held my notes and voted for rhinos because I feel that the Republican agenda, even the Rhino agenda, is better than the liberal agenda.
Not today, not tomorrow, but in the long run.
And 15 years it's far.
I haven't I haven't thought that.
I have these rhinos to me, if we're gonna clean house, they go first.
I agree.
I've never carried a rhino's water.
Ask Chris Shays.
I uh I have never done it.
But but what I look at is majority.
The objective is to win elections.
You get committee chairmanships, you you are in control of legislative agendas and so forth.
It does matter.
And numbers unfortunately matter, and it's it's self-defeating to hold out for nothing but pure conservatives on the Republican side, because that's not going to happen anytime soon.
Uh but as long as people are now talking about reorienting and uh rediscovering their roots and getting back to what it was that won in nineteen ninety-four.
I want to tell every Republican out there who cares to listen.
There is not one Rhino or moderate Republican that has led this party to anything of substance nationally.
They lose for us.
They do not win one darn thing when they are nationally involved.
They may win their local districts and they may win this or that, but the the people that propel conservatism uh in the Republican Party or propel the Republican Party to significant national victory have always been the conservatives.
And we need another unapologetic conservative who is willing to go out there every day, every week, explain the conservative agenda just what it means, and when the drive by media tries to completely distort it, we'll correct it and put it back on track, and we don't have anybody right now.
They're out there.
I know they're out there, they just have to come forward, and we need them.
Well, they'll surface uh at some point.
I don't know when, but believe me, you're right about one thing.
There are a lot, especially of young conservatives out there, uh, who are inspired and motivated, and they just don't have voices right now, and they don't call these shows, but uh they are um just like the people that made up the freshman class in nineteen ninety-four.
Uh they're there and they at some point uh will surface and they'll be discovered as candidates and and uh the process starts.
Anyway, it's not a dearth out there.
There are there are some some really smart people who are just brilliant at articulating conservatism, Newt's one of them.
Uh he's brilliant at articulating it.
Uh i i there's uh you know Romney's a dark horse.
But as far as I look at uh just tell you right now, it is McCain that's out there trying to score all the money and frees everybody out.
And he's also all over the media trying to proclaim himself as the conservative reformer.
We gotta get back, we gotta do this, we've got to do that.
And uh it'll be interesting to see uh how many people fall for it.
I I I have my doubts.
At any rate, Sarah, thanks much for the telephone call.
We'll be back.
We'll continue here in just a second.
And we're back, and that means more telephone calls.
Uh Westchester, Pennsylvania.
This is David.
Thank you for uh waiting, sir, and welcome to the broadcast.
Thank you so much.
Mega digados, Russia.
Thank you.
I wanted to tell you that uh I I wanted to just mention that, you know, when when President Reagan was uh president with a contarly Democratic Congress his last two years, he in fact continued to promote the conservative agenda, and I believe that President Bush uh could do the same thing to give these wimpy conservatives,
because I'm real conservative myself, he could do the same thing and promote the agenda of of conservatives to give these people courage because the class of ninety-four probably took some courage from Reagan, and I thought Bush missed the golden opportunity when the news conference was going on with uh Nancy and the guy, the reporter said, uh, you're gonna get together with uh Nancy Pelosi and talk about uh what they're gonna do in Iraq, and Bush gave the answer of, yeah, we'll have Kumbai and have breakfast together.
There was his perfect opportunity to say, well, to the reporter, when Nancy Pelosi gives me a plan, then we'll sit down and talk about what it is.
But I haven't heard anything.
Take the aggressive position, you know, quit this Kumbayas stuff.
He's got the bully pulpit, he's the president of the United States.
Couldn't he do that?
Yeah.
And it would give them courage.
And the other caller that you had on the air about Iraq, I spent six years over in Saudi Arabia, and believe me, they want us dead.
They believe, those terrorists that they're gonna see seventy-two virgins in heaven, and that's a reward.
Unlike Hitler wanted to conquer the world, but the the German soldier wanted to live.
These idiots want to die.
They think there's a reward.
Yeah, it's it's tough uh when the people you're trying to kill consider their own deaths of victory.
And uh, you know, Osama bin Laden did watch Black Hawk Down and thought that there was no fight in Americans, and I've actually had Saudis say to me, We don't understand America.
In World War II, you you went to victory and you made the the people surrender.
And why did you not how you say wipe out Fallujah?
You know, and then they would surrender because they they regard it as a sign of weakness when we're going out.
Exactly.
We'll tell you to answer your own question.
Why didn't we wipe out Fallujah when we were there and had the chance?
Politically correct.
You got it.
You know, all the way, so keep up the fight.
But I I just wish that the President would take the stand like Reagan did.
I know that he's not as ultra-conservative as Reagan is, but he's got that bully pulpit and said.
Well, let me ask you.
Let me ask you, do you think he will?
I don't know.
That's the trouble.
I've called the White House and gave that suggestion to them too.
And I don't know whether he will or not, because he hasn't really promoted the conservative agenda thus far, but he's got a golden opportunity here to not to use that bully pulpit to call the Democrats on their own.
Look, I I I I agree totally with that.
I uh as I said not only yesterday, but a number of uh times and months leading up to the election, I think one of the biggest problems that Republicans in Washington have had is that there has not been uh elected conservative leadership, consistent conservative ideological leadership.
Uh agenda building type thing uh consistently, uh if if at all.
And that created a bunch of freelancers on the Republican side.
Uh cover their own rear ends, protecting themselves, doing what they want to do to make themselves look good.
There wasn't much uh there was certainly no conservative discipline, and it's arguable how much party discipline there was.
But that's right.
And the president has the ability to to do that if he wants to.
Will he?
I don't know.
But I wanted to tell you one other thing.
It used to frustrate the daylights out of me that Armed Services Radio only had you on for an hour in Saudi Arabia because you just give going, and then it'd be cut off.
But uh, that's a that's it that's a deal we made uh that was it that was either that or nothing.
I got it.
But anyhow, thank you so much for what you do for America Rush.
Because you're you're a voice of light in this darkness.
I appreciate that so much.
Thank thanks very much.
Speaking of the meeting uh between uh Nancy Pelosi and President Bush, I have the AP wire copy of the story on that lunch.
Let me just read it to you.
President Bush made nice with speaker to be Nancy Pelosi after Democrats gave his Republicans a trouncing on election day, but not before handing House GOP leaders a long legislative wish list for the lame duck session that they'll orchestrate.
After a bitter campaign that sometimes got personal between the president and the woman to be House Speaker, the two had a make-up luncheon at the White House, appearing publicly in the Oval Office after an hour of private discussions.
The uh the pair emphasized finding common ground and ignoring talk of bedeviling specifics such as their division over the Iraq War, they took no questions.
Neither Bush nor Pelosi, however, completely ignored that they often degree disagree.
When you win, you have a responsibility to do the best you can for the country, Bush said, with Vice President Dick Cheney sitting glumly on the couch to his left.
We don't agree on every issue, but we do agree that we love America.
Well, I'm relieved because I had doubts.
Um they all love America.
Well, this is cool.
Got Cheney sitting glumly on a couch to the uh president's president's left.
It is going to be very interesting to watch because the the Democrats.
I have my doubts as to whether they will make a fast move on getting out of Iraq or redeploying or whatever it is they're talking about.
And it'd be interesting to see the people who voted for them on that basis how impatient they uh they end up being.
Brief timeout, we'll be back and continue after this.
One of my all-time favorite babe bands.
This is uh Hart.
I'll always love to see them riding their horses.
Okay, we are uh back, ladies and gentlemen.
How many of you have uh at one time or another done the Atkins diet or a version of it, the low carb diet?
And then you heard people say, You're gonna die!
All that fat my God, cholesterol, you are going to die.
And they tried to ruin the name of Dr. Atkins.
And anybody else who practiced this headline today, the Associated Press, low carb diet doesn't raise heart risk after all.
It never fails.
The science and health panic Nazis always have to end up correcting themselves.
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