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Nov. 10, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 10, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you, my good friend Zell Rushball on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
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I I read this uh headline today, ladies and gentlemen.
And I just busted out laughing.
I didn't even need to read the story.
Here's the headline: Rhode Island Senator, and that would be Lincoln Chafee may leave the Republican Party.
May leave the Republic.
Link, you never were a Republican.
You left the Republican Party a long time.
He's in such a snit over the fact that he lost.
He's so upset that Bill Clinton didn't come campaign for him.
That uh Lincoln Chafey has promised to kill a Bolton nomination.
He it his vote wouldn't help anyway, because the Democrats are not going to allow this to happen.
Uh Biden has said so, but uh two days after losing a bid for a second term, Senator Lincoln Chafee said he was unsure whether he would remain a Republican.
Don't make me laugh.
And I am certainly not going to cry.
Folks, let me tell you a lot of people are trying to describe what happened here.
I myself have uh come up with my own theories.
And I do believe the primary theory is, and I'll back this up with some polling data here in just a second, is that that the country is not moving left, the country's moving right, and didn't like the direction the Republican Party at large was going, which was left.
Look at the Medicare entitlement.
That was that was aimed to pick off seasoned citizens.
They didn't want it.
And these moderates, the independents, uh they're not into new entitlements.
That's not the direction the country's been going.
They don't want that.
They don't want bloated budgets, they don't want earmarks or any of that.
And that's what the Republican Party came to stand for, be identified with.
No elected conservative leadership at the top, and so they said hell with it.
But they didn't vote for liberalism because liberalism was not per se on the agenda, other than Democrats.
But that Democrats and a lot of these, the Jim Webb, Jim Webb is not a liberal, conservative.
Uh the uh the guy running against J.D. Hayworth out in Arizona tried to out conservative J.D. Hayworth.
Uh, all of these conservative House candidates, freshmen now at the uh Democrats nominee.
There's no question the direction the country's going, and that's what's really frustrating.
The McLaughlin and Associates polling firm issued a release.
I happen to get it, uh what did I get this thing?
Last night, yesterday evening.
It appears that the Republicans have lost their advantage on the philosophical issue of the size of government.
Among the people who voted in this past election, 59% favor a smaller government with fewer services, and only 28% favor a larger government with many services.
Among those who voted for a Republican for Congress, they favor smaller government by a five to one margin.
However, the plurality of voters who voted Democrat also support smaller governments.
Six in ten Americans favor smaller government.
The real frustrating thing about this is it to me it means we won the argument.
Those of us who have been making those of us who have uh been informing and attempting to educate the American people for all these years, we won the argument, and guess who blew it?
Our own party.
Leaders of our own party blew it sky high.
They forgot or thought they could get by without being held accountable on this.
And now to have this current crop of Democrats elected who make no mistake about it, have no intention of going anywhere.
Let me uh go to the audio sound bites.
I want to play number four, Mr. Mamone, and then number five.
We'll play four, five, and six here.
This is what I said yesterday, and I repeated it today, but just from yesterday from the archives, what uh I said about the Democrats' number one goal.
I'm telling you what the one thing in their mind now is how do they never lose the power they won on Tuesday ever again, and that's what will motivate them forward.
And let's go to a pep rally yesterday.
Senator Chuck Schumer.
Our joy today will vanish if we can't produce for the American people.
We must never lose sight of them.
And it is our job.
It is the mission that they have entrusted us to make their lives a little bit better.
If we can do that, if we can keep our focus on the average family, we will stay a majority for a generation.
And that is what we aim to do.
Stay a majority for a generation.
Then Schumer slobbered all over dingy Harry and his uh roommate, Dick Durbin.
I just want to say to Harry, thank you, especially during those tough times for bucking me up and being there and doing every single thing we have asked.
And to my roommate Dick Durbin.
I eat his cold cereal.
He buys a whole box of soda.
And it's gone before he gets to drink one can.
But far more important than that, Dick Durbin has been a true friend, and even more important than that, somebody who carries in his insides the integrity and desire to make our country a better place.
They say that their desire is their power, cementing it and holding on to it and creating as much dependency.
When they talk about never losing sight of the average family, don't forget and don't ever forget, they have contempt and they condescend.
There is an arrogance about these people when they look at the average family.
And by that I mean they don't see them as competent.
They don't see them as having the ability to escape whatever dire circumstances they see them to be in.
They can't do it without liberals, can't do it without Democrats and their programs and their compassion and so forth.
And they seek to create as much dependency as possible, and that's how they hold on to their power.
And it's gonna be interesting because 60% of the American people favor smaller government.
These guys are not going to be able to resist the urge to grow government uh in in ways that make people dependent on them.
Uh it's entirely possible they're gonna misread what happened here as well.
A lot of, you know, a lot of victors do.
A lot of people that win misread the reasons, and they are primed to do that, not predicting this is too soon.
We'll just have to wait and see.
But the best way to describe what happened on Tuesday, folks, we had a giant toilet flush.
When I saw this Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island Senator May leave for the party.
Sir, you just got flushed down a toilet of politics.
And we lost some good people when that toilet got flushed.
You know what a toilet flush happens, circulates down there like a hurricane in reverse, and bam, you're in the pipe, and nobody's ever seen from you again until you get to the sewer.
And uh we we American people flushed the toilet.
They just had a giant toilet flush, and uh there were a lot of people in that toilet, and the American people deserve or thought deserve to be flushed.
And so Link, um we'll see if the Democrats will have you.
Uh if you change.
He's not the only one.
Uh there will be others.
Let's see, before you have a little minute here before we have to go to the umide for later.
Uh oh, yeah.
Well, I mentioned Afghan Afghans express confidence in countries' direction and security, a new poll.
USA Today story, more than sixty two hundred surveyed in Afghanistan say they're satisfied with democracy.
And interestingly, good war news now shows up after the election's over.
Pretty soon we're going to be getting glowing reports of what's going on in Iraq.
You wait.
And I had this from the uh from the stack yesterday, and I didn't have a chance to get into it.
New York doctor given go ahead for world's first womb transplant.
Now I don't know how many years ago this was, but uh we were talking about um I don't forget what subject was.
It wasn't gay marriage, it was something uh like that.
Uh and I I think it may have been some argument or discussion about feminism and how women were complaining that it was it was unfair that they were the only ones that had wombs.
And I said, Yeah, for now, uh, until we uh figure out how to you know come up with male pregnancy, and who knows?
If you can transplant a womb, you can transplant a womb.
If you can have an atactomy, you can transplant a womb.
If you can do a choppatick off of me operation, you can transplant a womb.
And when we read in New York earlier this week that if you want to be a man when you're a woman, just say so.
You don't have to go get an operation to change it.
There has to be no physical change about you.
You just want to be a woman when you're a man, say you are.
You have to invest in your new identity for two years, and then you are a woman, even when you're a man.
Think of the doors that could open.
Like to all girls' schools, bathrooms, gay marriage, any number of things, ladies and gentlemen.
See how all this plays out in the uh weeks and months to come.
Quick timeout, we'll be right back.
It's open line Friday.
El Rushball having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Uh Dingy Harry just got back to Capitol Hill from his meeting with President Bush.
I'm going to wait till we get the audio cut for you to hear this.
I don't want to try to paraphrase it.
Uh, but we do have a uh little bite from Dingy Harry yesterday uh at the Democrat Pep rally.
Now get this.
This time for new direction has given us an opportunity, a chance to prove to the American people that we can work with the Republicans.
They've set a very bad example in not working with us.
We're not following that example.
We're reaching out to them as we have in the time the election.
Man, and that got applause.
I I folks, this this is becoming surreal.
This is there were many, many Twilight Zone days this past year.
And this is one of them.
I couldn't say that this is a biggest Twilight Zone day of them all, but it's been it's close.
I mean, what with this uh Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader and what he said about blowing up the White House and not finished, they blow up the White House, calling Bush a coward, begging us not to leave Iraq.
They want to kill more of our soldiers.
They're they're recruiting 12,000 new insurgents, they're hair, they're just never been stronger.
And yet they're happy the Democrats won.
And now they're begging Bush not to leave, calling him a coward.
Now, here's our Dingy Harry out there claiming that they're not going to be partisan.
These are the most partisan people in Washington.
Dingy Harry, I'm gonna, in my experience, Dingy Harry, Tom Dashell, and George Mitchell on the Senate side have been three of the most partisan people in Washington.
And all of them, if you note, all of them, Harry Reed, and what's this uh George Mitchell and and Dashell, they're all so spoken, and they never get mad, and they're very uh even tempered, Tim, uh, with uh what they say.
You have to strain to hear them.
They they speak so softly and and and gently.
These are the most partisan people around Democrats reaching out, tell that to John Bolton.
My gosh, folks, if anybody's reaching out, it's the White House.
Uh President Bush this morning, actually this afternoon, after, and this is funny, he had Reed and Durbin up there for coffee.
Uh Pelosi got lunch.
Uh, here's the president after his meeting with Senator Reed and Senator Durbin.
My attitude about this is that there is a great opportunity for us to show the country that Republicans and Democrats are equally as patriotic and equally concerned about the future and that we can work together.
And uh, you know, uh Senator Reed and I are both from the West.
I'm from West Texas, he's from Nevada, and we we tend to speak the same language, pretty plain speaking spoken people, which I should bode uh, you know, bode well for our relationship.
Slobber, slobber, slow and Senator Durbin is next.
This is a day for looking forward, as we should, instead of looking backwards to past battles and past elections.
I do want to say thanks uh personally to the president and vice president for their conciliatory gesture by wearing blue ties today.
Uh from our side, we think that is a symbolic uh indication, and we're off to a good start.
I was hoping you would notice it.
Let me find this.
Uh the the big there's a there's a puff piece, a couple puff pieces in the uh Washington Post about about Nancy Pelosi.
Now get this.
Since since we're Talking about sartorial splendor here.
The image of Representative Nancy Pelosi standing in front of a formation of American flags Wednesday morning, taking questions as the presumptive new speaker of the House was an arresting one, and not simply because she's the first woman to be in that position.
The California Democrat was dressed in a blue gray pantsuit with a blouse in a similar but slightly deeper hue.
She wore a necklace that was a complimentary mix of colors nowhere on her person.
Did there appear to be a flag, an eagle, or any other booming statement of patriotism that can so quickly transform a workday ensemble into a Fourth of July costume.
Holding a news conference in front of flags was plenty.
She didn't feel compelled to drape herself in one.
Pelosi's suit was by Giorgio Armani, the Italian master of neutral tones and modern power dressing, and she wore it well.
She looked po this is like his power was virtually crackling in his jeans, the story the same paper wrote about Bill Clinton.
She looked polished and tasteful in front of the cameras.
It's tempting to even go so far as to say that she looked chic.
Which in the world beyond Washington would be considered a compliment, but in the context of politics is an observation fraught with insinuations of partisanship and condescension.
The appearance of the current speaker, Denny Hastert, will go unmentioned here except to say there's nothing chic or particularly polished about him.
Reading the symbolism in that Armane label, and it's reasonable to do so because designer brands are supposed to communicate an image.
It speaks of a specific approach to authority and clout.
There are many ways for a woman to dress in a professional manner from Ellen.
From El I'm this is the this is this is uh the front page of style section.
Front page of the C section.
Many ways for a woman to dress in a professional manner from I told you this is a Twilight Zone Day.
Actually, this I'm not surprised at this at all.
She got the point of this story is to give her plaudits, to give her rave reviews because there's no American flag on her on her dress.
There's no eagle, there's no booming statement of patriotism on her Armani suit.
The symbolism of Armani is all that's necessary, the value of a winning appearance.
There are many ways for a woman to dress in a professional manner.
From Ellen Tracy in St. John to Chanel and I never heard of this, acris.
AKRIS.
You ever heard of that, Don?
How do you pronounce it?
Never heard of it?
Good.
Putting on an Armani suit sends a message as pointed as if a man chooses search from Turnbull and Asser instead of arrow.
That man is not trying to be flashy.
He's intimately aware of the value of a winning appearance, and it goes on and on and on, gag me with a silver spoon.
No flag, no eagle, just that Armani suit.
That's a statement of winning.
Turnbull and answer shirts, by the way, I think Carrie wears them.
I have a couple of them, so I recognize them.
And uh nevertheless, uh this is what we're gonna get.
I mean, this is just one of many puff pieces we're headed for down the road from Nancy.
And they just the appearance of the current speaker, Danny Hastert, go unmentioned here except to say there's nothing chic or particularly polished about him.
Here is Ben in Long Island, out of Long Island, New York.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, how are you doing, Russ?
I'm fine.
Thank you.
Yeah, way to have you.
You know, there's a couple of things.
One, you know, I was listening to Rom Emanuel on TV the other day for about a minute.
And the guy's going on and on about this thing with now all Iraq was everything was with Rs.
Reconstruction, redeployment, revised.
It was like a Bill Clinton type thing, how to remember five steps.
And what really bugged me about it was that it was all packaging.
There was no substance.
And the question is, I also I think that that's what ended up happening to the Republicans.
We we uh our we we were all packaging, and there was very little substance.
Uh I don't know what happened.
I mean, it's something you said when I read Dick Army.
You know, let me tell you, I gotta tell you, uh this packaging and substance argument, I'll never forget 1988, Reagan wins in a huge uh 84 Reagan wins in a huge landslide.
David Broder, the Dean of Washington columnists and pundits said it was a triumph of marketing and packaging over common sense, and it was not.
It was a triumph of substance and ideas.
One of the reasons I think that we fail or fall behind or lag, if you will, in the packaging business, is because we're not packers.
We are not packagers.
We are people who have ideas.
And if we don't advance them and continually mention them and then implement them, we're going to pay the price.
We are going to be in the toilet when the American people hit the flusher.
I know marketing and packaging works in certain instances, but it doesn't give you a mandate.
Clinton people used it well.
I know it's frustrating to people that we need to improve on that.
Back in just a second.
And we're back.
It's open line Friday.
El Rushball, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all concerned Maha Rushi here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, newly re-elected governor in California, one of the few Republicans to shine at the midterm election, said Thursday from Mexico City that Democratic victories were healthy for U.S. politics.
Yes.
That's what I'm talking about.
We're all professionals here.
I think it is good that there are new ideas and new blood because Washington was stuck.
They couldn't move forward.
Not much was accomplished.
I think it was terrible, he told reporters on a trip to Mexico.
The former bodybuilder and star of the Terminator action movie, Schwarzenegger won re-election by a land slide after distancing himself from President Bush and adopting moderate positions on some issues.
This is an Al Reuters story.
Schwarzenegger said fellow Republicans could now learn from his change of tack and work with Democrats.
If anybody in Washington or anyone from other states looks at that, hopefully they got the message also.
So um what you need to do here, you need to think about securing the border.
You have to simultaneously pass a law that says we can legally hire people from outside after we handle the border.
We can legally hire illegals after we secured the uh the border.
But uh got folks, this is exactly what I'm talking about.
You have to rise above your principle sometimes.
We all must examine this.
From the Washington Times today, President Bush gave Mexican president-elect Felipe Calderon an assurance in the Oval Office yesterday that he will push for a broad immigration bill that includes a new guest worker program and citizenship rights for many illegal aliens.
I assured the president-elect that the words I said in the very Oval Office that we s uh that we said about a comprehensive immigration vision are words I still believe strongly.
Bush told Well, there's a misprint in here somewhere.
I assured the president this is President Bush talking to Calderon.
I assured the president-elect that the words I said in the Oval Office that we set about a comprehensive immigration vision are words I still believe strongly.
Mr. Calderon said that Bush is very open to all the arguments that I have presented to him on immigration.
So we uh uh immigration policy being forged in the Oval Office with President Bush and the President elect of Mexico, Felipe uh Calderon.
Uh then from the Los Angeles Times, Latinos throw more support to Democrats.
69 to 31% was the vote margin for Democrats among Latinos, but guess what?
Immigration was not the top issue.
In a troubling trend for Republicans, most of those voters went for Democrats.
Nationally, a CNN exit poll showed that Democrat House candidates won 69% of the Latino vote this week compared with 55% in 04.
A Times exit poll showed that 61% of Latinos supported Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelitus, compared with 33% who backed Schwarzenegger.
It was not clear, however, that immigration was the top priority for Latino voters.
Several polls showed that education and the economy were more important to them.
In California, a Times Exit poll did not find any significant surge of Latino voters.
They made up about 12% of the electorate, about the same proportion since 1998.
So all these theories that going out there and having all these concessions to illegals is going to raise the Hispanic, but There were plenty of Republicans who did that, and they didn't benefit from it either.
This this is this is an issue.
Democrats didn't dare bring it up.
They wanted a Republicans to die on the vine with it.
But this is an issue, one that got suppressed during the election.
It is going to rear its ugly head.
Somebody has done a s a study of the effect of illegal immigration on Mexico.
It is destroying families.
It's ripping families apart.
It's causing chaos in uh in cities where there are a large number of residents who fled for the United States.
One of the arguments has been that, hey, you know, this is helping Mexico.
It's cleaning out some of the uh uh uh poverty, it's getting rid of some of the negative impacts on their culture.
They're coming to the United States, they're earning money, they're sending money.
It's not true.
It's not helping either country, unless you happen to be in the Chamber of Commerce.
Uh but uh there there are many myths around it.
But the uh president uh after reaching out uh finding common ground with the Democrats did so with the president elect of uh Mexico, Felipe Calderon.
Here's Georgine in rural Nebraska.
Nice to have you with is there no no name of the town, or is that the name of the town?
Well, no, uh I'm nine miles between two towns of about two hundred and fifty mi population.
I guess you could say I'm closer to Lincoln.
Okay, so you're surrounded by five hundred people.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Thanks for taking my call and giving me something to laugh about this morning.
I appreciate your saying so.
Sometimes that's all you can do with some of the stuff that's in the news today.
There's nothing else you can do about it but laugh at it.
That's right.
I'm very concerned uh uh about Bush and his attitude.
I suppose he's a little dumbfounded by what has happened, but it seems like he's uh deserted the Republicans.
I haven't heard him say anything about to thank the people who've worked so hard or who voted for him.
All he is is saying, well, the people have spoken, and I'm going over to that side.
Well, the American people have spoken.
They flushed the toilet on Tuesday, and most of our guys that uh more of our guys in that toilet than theirs.
And the president sees this.
So the president sees it, the American people spoke.
The American people have chosen a uh uh new direction.
I think he's misreading it, too.
I I think I think everybody looking at this as a Democrat win.
I don't say this, but I'm saying this as objectively and honestly as I know how.
I think this was a a Republican loss, and I can pinpoint the reasons for it.
This was not a win for liberalism, certainly, and and uh I mean the Democrats won, and so they are the majority in terms of what the president has to do.
Those are the people he's got to work with now uh for his uh for his agenda.
Uh so uh but how did they win?
I mean, here in Nebraska, they've been voting for three or four weeks right in vote.
I know, but it's over now.
You can't go back and uh that that's for later on.
That's to get ready for the next election.
I hope we do something about that.
Well, Georgine, I mean you sometimes you know we all have to rise above our principle sometimes.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I love that.
Most people are scratching their heads, Georgine, but you seem to get it.
Yeah.
All right.
Thank thanks so much uh for the phone call.
You're not alone in in uh the way you're perceiving this, by the way.
Steve in my not North Dakota, welcome, sir, to the one and only EIB network.
Thank you for uh having me, Rush.
Um with a military history, I know that one of the most important aspects of prosecuting an offense is to monitor jam or deny communications.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Monitor jam or or deny communication, did you say?
Yes.
Okay.
To paraphrase Ann Coulter, Republicans, uh conservative and libertarians need the Internet and talk radio just to know of one another's existence.
And liberals have an ugly history of holding very long grudges.
They remember who kicked them out in nineteen ninety-four.
So I see a wave of maybe censorship coming, and with you as uh probably target number one.
Well, there's a lot of fear of that the fairness doctrine, but that that will require the uh the president.
Uh well, never know.
Uh the uh uh that's that's for down the road.
They they uh I'm sure they'll take a uh stab at it if if they win the presidency in 08, but I think you're right.
I think when they the um are you you you think I'm the number one target because they have uh long memories in 1994 and they're thinking if I did it again I could do it again or did it once I could do it again.
I don't think they'll uh I don't think that's necessarily their concern so much as they hate you so much and have been, you know, willing to take for so very long.
What makes you think that they hate me?
I mean, that's a strong word.
Where do you pick that up?
Where are you getting that?
Oh, good lord.
We've had what, twelve years worth of evidence.
I'm just kidding, I just wanted to hear what you thought.
Right.
But yeah, that was my major concern.
And you know, just to make one comment, you know, watch your back.
Uh I'm watching all sides, sir.
Not not just the back, forwards, left and right, bend over backwards, bend over forwards.
I got them uh the three hundred and sixty degree view.
And make no mistake, I I know what I am to them, who I am, I know exactly what I represent.
I mean, I some days I I'm I'm gonna sit here, I think, and I'm gonna toy with ways just to agitate them.
You know, just a quote now to send them into a tizzy and send them into a week's worth of discussions on MSNBC and CNN.
And it's it's not gonna be not gonna be hard to do.
All right, good luck in that, uh, thank you, Steve.
I appreciate it.
Uh let's take a break, folks.
And we'll come back.
More phone calls and more audio sound bites uh right after this.
Talent on loan from God.
Rushlin boy and the excellence and broadcasting network on open line Friday.
We have three sound bites here from Dingy Harry.
Uh after meeting with President Bush getting back to Capitol Hill, the press descended on him and asked, what happened, Senator Reed?
What happened?
The President talked about uh my theme, which is bipartisanship.
And I said to him, like we've been six years and have two years to go to see if this will work.
Um I hope it will.
We have two ways of showing this.
First is in the lame duck, and then of course after come back the first of the year.
There are so many important issues that we can work on together.
We talked about immigration, we talked about education, we talked about the war in Iraq.
Um talked about energy.
Uh there are a lot of things that we need to work on, and we hope the President's sincere.
Having that with him today.
I hope that's the case.
Uh we're willing to do our part.
Nothing can be accomplished in this town unless it's on a bipartisan basis.
That's the way the Constitution set up this country.
It's worked well for more than 200 years.
Six years there's been no checks and balances.
They'll be there now.
And I only way the American people will know if President Bush is sincere, Democratic, Congress is sincere is with results.
And we're willing to give it a try.
I don't have the transcript for this because we rushed this and there was so much extraneous noise.
I didn't hear it all.
I heard him say sincere a bunch of times.
He said he hoped the president was sincere.
They talked about um immigration.
They talked about education.
They talked about Iraq.
Uh talked about energy.
And Dingy Harry said uh and his theme of bipartisanship.
Of bipartisanship, and uh he said, I hope the president's sincere.
Did he say that the Democrat Congress was sincere?
Yep.
Yeah, he said hope the Democrat Congress is sincere, uh is is sincere and hopes that the President is uh is sincere.
Uh okay.
Uh cut two.
A reporter said, Dingy Harry, did did you tell it about your Iraq proposal?
He didn't uh reject it.
He said he thought it was interesting, he wanted more openness on Iraq.
And we talked about that at some length.
No, he didn't reject.
So I think it's I really think it's a good idea that he would meet with bipartisan congressional leadership.
He wants to have Hamilton, wants to have uh Secretary Baker there, that's fine with us.
But we need in this war in Iraq where we're losing soldiers every day.
People need to know that there's something going on back here with leaders in this country that we're talking about.
Right, right.
I do remember the Democrats demanded a summit yesterday on Iraq with the uh the president.
And apparently Dingy Harry here said we didn't reject our idea.
He didn't reject it.
Uh we talked about that somewhat.
I really think it's a good idea uh that he would meet with a bipartisan congressional leadership on this war.
Um we're losing soldiers every day.
And then another reporter said, Dingy Harry, do you do you have an appetite for several investigations in the conduct of this administration as it relates to the Iraq war and intelligence, uh Halliburton and Katrina.
I believe that first order of business.
When we reorganize after the first year, is congressional oversight.
Stop the tape!
Answer yes.
Answer yes.
All right, here's the rest of it.
Let's find out what's going on with the war in Iraq, the different large federal agency agencies we have.
There simply has been no oversight and research.
And I don't want to frighten anyone about investigations.
Congressional oversight is not in not a negative.
It's not an negative term.
People talk about investigations.
Uh there will be times on rare occasions when subpoenas will have to be offered.
But rarely.
If Congress does its job, does congressional oversight, as has been done for more than 200 years, it's good for everyone.
They can't wait.
Folks, he just confirmed it.
Subpoenas are going to be flying the first order of business when we reorganize after the first of the year is congressional oversight.
I told you, I hate to be and I told you, so I told you this yesterday.
All of these investigations and subpoenas are going to take place under that umbrella of congressional oversight, which nothing wrong with accountability, Mr. Limbaugh.
This is something that we traditionally do here in the U.S. Congress.
We're all professionals here.
And there has to be oversight.
We need to look into this war.
We need to look into the intelligence agents.
We need to look into the uh the uh the big agencies here where it had an effect on uh on New Orleans and uh Hurricane Katrina.
There hasn't been any oversight.
They're simply and I by the way, Mr. Limbaugh, don't confuse oversight with investigation.
This is a healthy process.
These folks have no interest in oversight.
Oversight is the technique.
Oversight is the umbrella.
Oversight is the mask or the camouflage, the mislabel.
These are going to be full-fledged investigations.
And it doesn't matter how bipartisan the president promises to be.
And they do, but they hate Bush.
They hate Bush.
They hate Bush, and they are gonna do whatever they can to pay him back and dispatch him back to Crawford as uh as disrespected as they can.
They got payback on their mind for Clinton, and they have this in mind for everybody they think stands in their way.
Let me tell you something, folks.
Andy McCarthy today.
This is not me saying it.
My buddy Andy McCarthy, uh, writing uh in well, actually just quoting uh a statement from some Democrat, and I'll get it here in the next hour.
After reading and he italicized the uh important part of it, said, you know what?
These people are Maoists.
It's just like Mao.
As in Jedong, uh mass murderer of millions.
They're not comparing them that way.
The com the just the the permanent campaign.
My I mean he saw Maoists, I call them Stalinists.
And uh people don't understand that who don't understand how Stalin and his boys operate.
We're not talking about famine or mass murder.
It's just they go after their enemies, and it's not defeating them.
It is it is destroying them.
It is wiping them out and including payback.
You dare to stand up to us to the Stalinists, and you paid the price, and so did your family.
Stand up to these guys when they get the chance, they're going, and he just admitted Oh, of course.
Well, I think uh first order of business.
Oversight.
There hasn't been enough oversight.
Stand by, folks.
We'll see how the American people react to that, by the way, when it starts.
Quick time out, don't go away.
Just posted on the Drudge Report.
Germany's top prosecutor will seek criminal charges of defense secretary rumsfeld over Abu Ghrab.
It's in Time Magazine, ladies and gentlemen.
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