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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 Zel Rushball on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
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It's Friday.
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I read this 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 Republican Party.
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 Lincoln Chaffee has promised to kill a Bolton nomination.
His vote wouldn't help anyway because the Democrats are not going to allow this to happen.
Biden has said so.
But 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 sort of not going to cry.
Folks, let me tell you, a lot of people are trying to describe what happened here.
I myself have 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 sec, is 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 aimed to pick off seasoned citizens.
They didn't want it.
And these moderates, the independents, 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 Democrats and a lot of these, Jim Webb, Jim Webb is not a liberal, conservative.
The guy running as J.D. Hayworth out in Arizona tried to out conservative J.D. Hayworth.
All of these conservative House candidates, freshmen now at the Democrats nominate.
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.
Where 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 government.
Six in 10 Americans favor smaller government.
The real frustrating thing about this is to me, it means we won the argument.
Those of us who have been making, those of us who have 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 go to the audio soundbites.
I want to play number four, Mr. Mamon, 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 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 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 going to 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 in ways that make people dependent on them.
It's entirely possible they're going to misread what happened here as well.
A lot of victors do.
A lot of people that win misread the reasons, and they are primed to do that.
Not predicting is 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 chafey, Rhode Island Senator May leave 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, when 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 we, American people, flushed the toilet.
They just had a giant toilet flush, and there were a lot of people in that toilet.
The American people deserve or thought deserve to be flushed.
And so, Link, we'll see if the Democrats will have you.
If you change, he's not the only one.
There will be others.
Let's see, before we got a little minute here, before we have to go to the Later.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I mentioned Afghan, Afghans express confidence in countries' direction and security.
New poll.
USA Today story, more than 6,200 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 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 we were talking about.
I forget what subject was.
It wasn't gay marriage.
It was something like that.
And I think it may have been some argument or discussion about feminism and how women were complaining that it was unfair, that they were the only ones that had wombs.
And I said, yeah, for now, until we figure out how to come up with male pregnancy.
And who knows?
If you can transplant a womb, you can transplant a womb.
If you can have an addictomy, you can transplant a womb.
If you can do a choppy tickophamy 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 weeks and months to come.
Quick timeout.
We'll be right back.
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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.
But we do have a little bite from Dingy Harry yesterday 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 from the time the election.
Man, and that got applause?
Folks, this is becoming surreal.
There were many, many Twilight Zone days this past year, and this is one of them.
I couldn't say that this is the biggest Twilight Zone Day of them all, but it's close.
I mean, what with this Al-Qaeda and Iraq leader and what he said about blowing up the White House?
They're not finished till 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 recruiting 12,000 new insurgents.
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 how Dingy Harry out there claiming that they're not going to be partisan.
These are the most partisan people in Washington.
Dingy Harry, in my experience, Dingy Harry, Tom Daschell, 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 Reid and what's his George Mitchell and Daschell, they're all so spoken and they never get mad and they're very even-tempered, Tim, with what they say.
You have to strain to hear them.
They speak so softly and gently.
These are the most partisan people.
Democrats are reaching out.
Tell that to John Bolton.
My gosh, folks, if anybody's reaching out, it's the White House.
President Bush this morning, actually this afternoon, after, and this is funny, he had Reed and Durbin up there for coffee.
Pelosi got lunch.
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, you know, Senator Reed and I are both from the West.
I'm from West Texas.
He's from Nevada.
And we tend to speak the same language, pretty plain spoken people, which should bode well for our relationship.
Slobber, slobber, slobber.
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 personally to the President and Vice President for their conciliatory gesture by wearing blue ties today.
From our side, we think that is a symbolic indication.
And we're off to a good start.
You would notice, Senator.
I was hoping you would notice it.
Let me find this.
There's a puff piece, a couple puff pieces in the Washington Post about Nancy Pelosi.
Now, get this.
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 4th 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, 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 Hastrat, will go unmentioned here except to say there's nothing chic or particularly polished about him.
Reading the symbolism in that Armani 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 Ell.
This is the front page of the style section.
Front page of the C section.
Many ways for a woman to dress in a professional manner.
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 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 A.K.R.I.S.
You ever heard of that, Dawn?
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 Asser shirts, by the way, I think Carrie wears them.
I have a couple of them, so I recognize them.
They got three buttons on the cuff.
Nevertheless, this is what we're going to get.
I mean, this is just one of many puff pieces we're headed for down the road from Nancy.
And the appearance of the current speaker, Denny Haster, go unmentioned here, except to say there's nothing chic or particularly polished about him.
Here is Ben in Long Island on a Long Island, New York.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, how are you doing, Rush?
I'm fine.
Thank you.
Glay to have you.
You know, there's a couple of things.
One, you know, I was listening to Ron Emmanuel on TV the other day for about a minute, and the guy's going on and on about this thing with, Iraq, everything was with R's, reconstruction, redeployment, re-vis.
It was like a Bill Clinton said they had 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 think that that's what ended up happening to the Republicans.
We were all packaging, and there was very little substance.
I don't know what happened.
I mean, it's like when I read Dick Army.
You know, let me tell you, I got to tell you, this packaging and substance argument, I'll never forget 1988, Reagan wins in a 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, but we need to improve on that.
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, newly re-elected governor of 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 landslide 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 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 border.
But folks, this is exactly what I'm talking about.
You have to rise above your principles sometimes.
We all must examine this.
From the Washington Times today, President Bush gave Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderón 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 said about a comprehensive immigration vision are words I still believe strongly.
Wait, there's a misprint in here somewhere.
I assured the president this is President Bush talking to Calderón.
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 immigration policy being forged in the Oval Office with President Bush and the president-elect of Mexico, Felipe Calderon.
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 Angelidis, 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 illegal is going to raise the Hispanic vote.
There were plenty of Republicans who did that, and they didn't benefit from it either.
This is an issue.
Democrats didn't dare bring it up.
They wanted 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.
In fact, I know I've got this in the stack somewhere and I just can't remember.
Somebody has done a study of the effect of illegal immigration on Mexico.
It is destroying families.
It's ripping families apart.
It's causing chaos 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 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.
But there are many myths around it.
But the president, after reaching out, finding common ground with the Democrats, did so with the president-elect of Mexico, Felipe Calderon.
Here's Georgine in rural Nebraska.
Nice to have you with.
Is there no name of the town, or is that the name of the town?
Well, no.
I'm nine miles between two towns of about 250 population.
I guess you could say I'm closer to Lincoln.
Okay, so you're surrounded by 500 people.
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.
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 about Bush and his attitude.
I suppose he's a little dumbfounded by what has happened, but it seems like he's 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 more of our guys are in that toilet than theirs.
And the president sees this.
The president sees it.
The American people spoke.
The American people have chosen a new direction.
I think he's misreading it, too.
I think everybody looking at this is 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 Republican loss, and I can pinpoint the reasons for it.
This was not a win for liberalism, certainly.
And 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 for his agenda.
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 that's for later on.
That's to get ready for the next election.
I hope to do something about that.
Well, Georgian, I mean, sometimes, you know, we all have to rise above our principles sometimes.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I love that.
Most people are scratching their heads, Georgian, but you seem to get it.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
Thanks so much for the phone call.
You're not alone in the way you're perceiving this, by the way.
Steve, in Minot, North Dakota, welcome, sir, to the one and only EIB network.
Thank you for having me, Rush.
With a military history, I know that one of the most important aspects of prosecuting an offense is to monitor, jam, or deny communications.
Paraphrase Ann Coulter.
Wait, Monitor, jam, or deny communications, you say?
Yes.
Okay.
To paraphrase Ann Coulter, Republicans, conservatives, 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 1994.
So I see a wave of maybe censorship coming, and with you as probably target number one.
Well, there's a lot of fear of that, the fairness doctrine, but that will require the president.
Well, never know.
That's for down the road.
I'm sure they'll take a stab at it if they win the presidency in 08.
But I think you're right.
You think I'm the number one target because they have long memories in 1994, and they're thinking if I did it again, I could do it again.
Or I did it once, I could do it again.
I don't think they'll.
I don't think that's necessarily their concern so much as they hate you so much and have been willing to hate 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, 12 years worth of evidence?
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.
I'm watching all sides, sir.
Not just the back.
Forwards, left and right, bend over backwards, bend over, forwards.
I got the 360-degree view.
And make no mistake, I know what I am to them, who I am.
I know exactly what I represent.
I mean, some days I'm going to sit here, I think, and I'm going to 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 not going to be hard to do.
All right.
Good luck in that, Doug.
Thank you, Steve.
I appreciate it.
Let's take a break, folks.
And we'll come back.
More phone calls and more audio soundbites right after this.
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We have three soundbites here from Dingy Harry.
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 my theme, which is bipartisanship.
And I said to him, we've been six years and have two years to go to see if this will work.
I hope it will.
We have two ways of showing this.
First is in the lame duck.
And then, of course, after we come back the first 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.
We talked about energy.
There are a lot of things that we need to work on.
And we hope the president is sincere.
After having met with him today, I hope that's the case.
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 the 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 immigration.
They talked about education.
They talked about Iraq, talked about energy.
And Dingy Harry said, and his theme of bipartisanship.
We talked about Dingy Harry's theme of bipartisanship.
And he said, I hope the president's sincere.
Did he say that the Democrat Congress was sincere?
Yep.
Yeah, he said, I hope the Democrat Congress is sincere, or he is sincere, and hopes that the president is sincere.
Okay.
Cut two, a reporter said, Dingy Harry, did you tell him about your Iraq proposal?
He didn't 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 it by you.
So I really think it's a good idea that he would meet with a bipartisan congressional leadership.
If he wants to have Hamilton, wants to have Secretary Baker there, that's fine with us.
But we need in this war in Iraq where we're losing soldiers every day.
American people need to know that there's something going on back here which the leaders of this country were talking about rather than just talking past each other.
Right, right.
I do remember the Democrats demanded a summit yesterday on Iraq with the president.
And apparently, Dingy Harry here said he didn't reject our idea.
He didn't reject it.
We talked about that somewhat.
I really think it's a good idea that he would meet with a bipartisan congressional leadership on this war.
We're losing soldiers every day.
And then another reporter said, Dingy Harry, do you have an appetite for several investigations in the conduct of this administration as it relates to the Iraq war and intelligence, Halliburton, and Katrina?
I believe that the 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 agencies we have.
There simply has been no oversight in recent years.
I told you.
And I don't want to frighten anyone about investigations.
Congressional oversight is not a negative.
It's not an investment.
Oh, come on.
It's not a negative term.
People talk about investigations.
There will be times, on rare occasions, when subpoenas will have to be offered, but rarely.
Congress does its job.
It does congressional oversight.
This has been done for more than 200 years.
It's good for everyone.
Hey, 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 in.
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 big agencies here where it had effect on New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina.
hasn't been any oversight.
They're simply, and by the way, Mr. Limbaugh, don't confuse oversight with investigations.
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.
We had a caller that they hate me, and they do, but they hate Bush.
They hate Bush.
They hate Bush, and they are going to do whatever they can to pay him back and dispatch him back to Crawford 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, this is not me saying it.
My buddy Andy McCarthy, writing in, well, actually just quoting a statement from some Democrats, and I'll get it here in the next hour.
After reading it, he italicized the important part of it.
He said, you know what?
These people are Maoists.
It's just like Mao.
As in Jedong, mass murderer of millions.
He's not comparing them that way.
The permanent campaign.
He's a Maoist.
I call them Stalinists.
And people don't understand that who don't understand how Stalin and his boys operate.
We're not talking about famine or mass murder.
Just they go after their enemies, and it's not defeating them.
It is destroying them.
It is wiping them out and including payback.
You dare to stand up 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 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 timeout.
Don't go away.
Just posted on the Drudge Report: Germany's top prosecutor will seek criminal charges of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld over Abu Ghraib.
It's in Time magazine, ladies and gentlemen.
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