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Dec. 8, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 8, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
You know what the wind chill in New Orleans is right now as we speak.
You know what the wind chill in.
Well, I happen to know because it's my business to know.
The wind chill in New Orleans today is 14 degrees.
The wind chill in Atlanta is around 20.
Now in New Orleans, 14 degrees.
That's colder than Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana's Cash.
But the interesting is that New Orleans is a global warning.
Emergency state.
Mive from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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Well, guess what we also have today?
In addition to the wind chill at 14, but it's really cold out there.
Uh, all across the uh the fruited plain.
The wind chill up in the northeast is in the zeros, single digits in some cases below zero.
Uh wind chill here is about sixty, temperature sixty sixty-three here, sixty-seven in Miami.
It doesn't feel that cold because the humidity's way up.
Uh actually a very nice day here today, other than it's raining.
But uh, as you can see, if you're watching on the Ditto Cam, we're we're dressed here as we always are in short sleeves, loose fitting clothes to deal with the heat and humidity here.
Well, that's it's on the wind, it's on the map.
It's on the nationwide Vortex wind chill map.
It's 60 degree wind, that's what it says.
You gotta understand that some people in South Florida, 60 degrees anything, wind chill or real, they light the fire, bring out the overcoats, the sweaters, and so forth.
Uh we, of course, are real people here and don't don't take it to that extreme.
But in addition to the wind chill being at 14 degrees in New Orleans and 20 degrees in Atlanta.
You know what else we're getting today?
The hurricane season prediction for next year.
Bill Gray from the University of Colorado has issued his prediction, as has uh a group called Tropical Storm Risk.
Uh they are in London, and we're looking at 14 storms, seven of them becoming hurricanes.
The season, the 06 season, just ended a week ago.
This is this is irresponsible, folks.
Look at how worthless this year's predictions were.
It just it's just I don't know.
Why why did predicting this stuff is is uh uh a fool's errand anyway.
Nothing against these people.
I just I I just this constant crisis mentality here it is.
We're heading into the Christmas season, already trying to get people revved up about hurricanes.
Speaking of the uh Christmas season, Americans are ready to put Christmas, Merry Christmas back into the holiday shopping.
A new poll shows a majority of Americans surveyed, 95% said they weren't offended by a Merry Christmas greeting in the stores, according to a poll by Zogby International.
However, 32% of respondents said they took offense at Happy Holidays.
The uh religiously excuse me, neutral uh alternative promoted over the last few years.
Uh and there's conflicting stories here uh about consumer.
Consumer confidence is way up, according to one story.
Um the conference board's consumer confidence showing up, but there's this no, sorry.
Consumer.
Well, yeah, there are conflicting stories.
One says people are feeling pretty good, this one says no.
Uh consumers less cheery as holidays near.
Consumer confidence dipped in December, suggesting Americans are feeling less cheery, and not downright gloomy as they hit the malls during the holiday season.
The RBC Cash Index, based on the results of the international polling firm Ipsos, showed that confidence came in at 86.9 down from 92.4 in November, the lowest reading since October.
Makes sense to me.
Democrats won the election.
I know a lot of people have been uh uh depressed out there over that, so it that uh it could be a factor.
President Bush moved quickly to distance himself uh yesterday.
As I pointed out, I played for you those two sound bites on this program, and I said this those sound bites that came in answer to an insolent, arrogant, condescending question from a Brit reporter to BBC came from the president's soul and came from the president's heart, and they disagreed.
Well, they they they they were at great variance, shall I say, with his previous statement on how useful the Iraq surrender group's report was and so forth.
But what's happening here is that President Bush moved quickly to distance himself on Thursday from the central recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq surrender group, even as the panel's co-chairman opened an intensive lobbying effort on Capitol Hill to press the president to adopt their report wholesale.
Now, this is interesting, you know, because uh uh Baker was answering questions from these idiot reporters on Wednesday when the thing came up.
But does the president is if he uh is he have to implement all of these?
Can he terrible uh cherry pick some of them?
Uh uh and Baker said, Well, he's not bound by anything.
There's nothing in here that's binding.
But the president has said, I don't like this talking to Iraq business, talking to Iran and Syria business.
I'm not gonna do that, and I'm not gonna pull the combat troops out of there.
So one day after the group issues its report, James A. Baker III of the Iraq surrender group said the White House must not treat the report like a fruit salad.
While the Democratic co-chairman uh Lee Hamilton called on Congress to abandon its extremely timid approach to overseeing the war.
That was rich, too.
He goes up there to testify, look, I'm not happy about what you guys have been doing.
I mean, you can sit there and say the president's been doing this or hasn't been doing this.
Well, I'm I'm sorry, you guys have not uh you guys not shown more backbone and more metal here.
Now, what was the purpose of this report?
As we have discussed on this program, the purpose of this report was not to solve Iraq.
The purpose of this report was to come up with consensus among the American people.
There, you know, this have you ever remember this uh uh the phrase we talk about it on this program constantly?
Politics ends at the water's edge.
That originated with Harry Truman.
In fact, Daniel Henninger today in the uh in the Wall Street Journal has a column about this.
The commission's two chairs, James Baker, Lee Hamilton, make it explicit in the report's first pages, U.S. foreign policy is doomed to failure if it's not supported by a broad consent a sustained consensus.
Leon Panetta, uh Democrat in the House of 97 to 93, said at their news conference, this country cannot be at war and be as divided as it is today.
Now, these are essentially restatements of Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg's 1952 dictum amid the Truman presidency that quote politics stops at the water's edge, more than a sentiment.
Vandenberg's point was, as he put it, to unite our official voice at the water's edge so that America speaks with maximum authority against those who would divide and conquer us.
For the past three years, we have had the opposite: a domestic political war waged relentlessly at the water's edge.
Now comes the Iraq surrender group report.
And based on the Beltway reaction to it, you have to wonder whether the call yesterday for unity and bipartisanship was disingenuous or naive.
Washington took their little study and went completely over the edge.
The uh morning after press reporting on the Baker Hamilton report can only be described as neurotic glee.
Over endless columns, reporters ransacked their thesauruses for words to unload pent-up antipathy toward the Bush White House.
So the bottom line here is that the purpose of this report was to unite all of us in a consensus measure against the concept of victory.
There's no mention of victory in this report, and so the point was this report From these these elitist, arrogant eggheads, uh was to codify the anti-war mentality that is shared by uh much of the Democratic Party and the American left.
This report was supposed to be that which influenced the American people to finally join the anti-war effort in consensus, and that was how America was going to stand.
We're going to be put back together, we're going to be made whole in an anti-war position.
Well, in an anti victory, in a surrender circumstance.
But that's not working.
The whole point, and these guys have made a big, and I love telling you this, by the way.
I think this is fabulous.
I love the fact that this has failed.
Their effort was to bring bipartisanship and consensus, and it's not done that.
There is as much arguing, there is as much partisanship, and these guys who wrote this report are being savaged by people who disagree with it and they don't understand it.
Because they, ladies and gentlemen, are the wise men.
Somehow the wise men are not being listened to in mass.
And so Baker branches out.
Well, you can't treat my report as a salad.
I mean, you it's all or nothing here, Mr. President.
And then Hamilton goes up there and starts telling Congress what he thinks of their lack of performance here.
So, as Mr. Henninger concludes, and as we have pointed out many times on this very program, Leon Panetta is already getting an answer to his belief that a divided nation cannot be at war.
Oh, yes, it can, if defeating the enemy at home is more important than defeating the enemy abroad.
Who is the enemy at home?
George W. Bush.
There has been a war in this country against Bush waged by the left, a war essentially against America, with the pawns being our troops who are in harm's way over there.
It has been totally irresponsible, and that is not going to change with the issuance of this report.
So practically any way you look at it, this report ends with a thud.
I mean, it'll get some play on the Sunday shows this weekend.
It's a dud, folks.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
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Well, the feds have arrested a would-be terrorist allegedly planning to attack a uh Chicago area mall during the uh the Christmas rush.
Be interesting to see how they got this guy.
Uh, wonder if they used wiretaps to get this guy.
Uh he had planned some kind of attack in Rockford, Illinois, was acting on his own, he had no connection to any cell.
Um he planned to set explosive devices off in garbage cans at a shopping center during the busy holiday shopping centers twenty-two years old.
He lives in Chicago.
Well, obviously, folks, this is happening because of our relationship with Israel.
If we would just abandon Israel, when are people going to understand this?
Now we got terrorists trying to blow up Chicago, and we know it's because of Israel.
I'll bet this guy, what do you bet this guy, 22 years old?
Let's see.
Twenty-two years old, blah, blah, blah.
What do you bet he's a Methodist?
We're going to profile here and assume this guy's a is it a Methodist or he's a Presbyterian.
You think they're not going to understand this, Mr. Snerdley?
Mr. Snerdley is worried that I should mention to the drive-by media I'm being sarcastic here.
Doesn't matter what I say here.
They don't listen.
They're going to listen to this and get taken out of context someplace else.
They don't have a sense of the left does not have a sense of humor.
Can I tell you this?
Can I I I was I was just laughing myself silly the other day.
There was a letter to the editor in my hometown paper, the Southeast Missourian in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
You remember the cat story I told last week?
Well, some lib resident of my hometown quoted the story and had his as his intro to it, uh uh he was very sarcastic and snide uh uh about what a rotten, mean guy I am.
He didn't use those words, but there's there's been an ongoing uh letter to the editor debate in my own hometown paper about how I brought dishonor to my hometown.
I brought dishonor to my hometown, I brought dishonor to my family, and letters to the editor have been pouring into my hometown from people in town and neighboring towns.
So this guy is the last or the le the latest um to enter the sweepstakes, if you will.
You know, I told a story about the cat.
I'll try to recreate the story.
I love my cat.
I've got the greatest little cat in the world, you people know it.
I pet this cat, I love this cat, I feed this cat, but I'm smart enough to know she only really wants me when she wants to be fed.
I have learned enough to know that when she comes and starts headbutting me or walking around my legs, she wants to be fed.
So I take her, I feed her after I feed her.
She wanders off to whatever part of the estate that she wants to hang out till she's next hungry.
And I said that she's a very smart cat.
She gets fed, she gets petted, she gets caressed, um, she gets shelter, all these things, and she doesn't have to do anything for it.
And then I said, This experience has been more valuable to me than anything else in learning about women.
Well, there is no sense of humor out there.
I don't know how you get offended at that.
I really don't.
You gotta be wound too tight.
I mean I uh well the objection was not clear.
It just I'm I'm assuming that in the long line of complaint letters to the letter to the editor of my hometown of what a rotten guy I am and how I've dishonored my hometown, I've dishonored my family and its name, uh, that this guy were just piling on.
Okay, here's more evidence this guy's an SOB.
Listen to this lovely story about his cat.
I have to laugh.
So when you tell me, hey, you better tell the drive-by media you're being sarcastic that terrorism in Chicago's because we're support Israel.
I'm telling you, uh uh there is well, I think one of the greatest divides that exists.
You know, talk about bipartisanship or partisanship, the left has no sense of humor.
Liberals simply have none.
Even today, we've had a couple calls callers this week, if you recall, just enraged, and they won the election.
They're just angry as they could be, and they still are.
Go to their websites.
They're still PO'd.
They are still beside over anything.
I don't know what it's like.
I've said this constantly.
What what must it be like to get up every day and be a liberal?
No joy in your life, no happiness, and no humor.
The things they do laugh at are are I mean, they're funny in a way, but not with you laugh with them, you uh you laugh at them.
So anyway, I'm I'm just I'm just assuming that of course the terrorist could not be Islamist, this guy in Chicago, has to be a Presbyterian or a Methodist, maybe a Baptist could be upset about something there.
Uh and as well, the Iraq study group makes it clear, ladies and gentlemen, that that uh uh Israel's to blame.
Uh for Iraq and for every wherever there is terrorism, uh Bali, Singapore, doesn't matter, New Zealand, it's Israel.
And so I'm just trying to learn what's been stated in the uh Iraq's surrender group report, and I'm just assuming I want to be as smart as those guys.
Don't you understand?
They have so much to teach us.
Uh and life is an ongoing continuable education.
Uh and something I had never considered before, that Israel was to blame and responsible for all of this, and so Israel might be responsible for 9-11, too, for all we know.
Of course, wait till you hear what Barbara Stri Bar Barbara Streisand's husband, James Brolin.
Don't have time to play the bite now, Mike, don't panic, but he was on the View yesterday.
Uh and uh sounds like he's gone over the edge joining the crowd that thinks Bush blew up the World Trade Centers.
Trade Center believes.
We'll get show you that, play that for you in the uh in the next hour.
One more story here on the uh on the failure of the Iraq surrender group to uh succeed in their bipartisanship.
It's from the Los Angeles Times.
Iraq report gets mixed reception in Congress.
The co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group urged Congress on Thursday to build a bipartisan consensus around their recommendations and blah, blah.
They didn't get their wish.
I hope we don't treat this like a fruit salad and say I like this, but I don't like that, said Baker.
The senators promptly ignored his request, picking and choosing among the panel's findings, praising some and condemning others.
You know, the uh Democrats really aren't saying whether they'll swallow this salad hole either.
So I just I like the fact that it's bombed, folks.
It uh it's still going to be talked about as I say over the Sunday shows, but it's uh it it has failed to achieve its mighty uh uh fantasy and dream, and that is the unification and a bipartisan nature of consensus, the American people uh on the concept of defeat and surrender and hopelessness and despair in Iraq.
Back in a moment.
Thank you.
We are here executing assigned host duties flawlessly on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
I also I love this next story.
I saw this last night when I was working feverishly preparing today's excursion into broadcast excellence.
I can't wait for the first hour tomorrow.
Dubai Ports World.
Remember them, folks, Dubai Ports World of the now ill-fated ports deal?
Wait till you hear this.
Dubai Ports World, the Arab-owned company which set off a furor with its purchase of six U.S. port operations earlier this year, has been cleared to join a federal pilot program to test the methods used to screen U.S.-bound cargo for radiation.
The Security Freight Initiative involves the use of existing technology, including streaming video and nuclear detection devices at foreign ports.
This, according to details announced yesterday by the Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
Uh, the United States, however, well, we're not going to outsource our security, Chertoff said, uh, adding that all decisions about whether cargo is allowed to continue to the U.S. will be made 100% by U.S. officials.
But nevertheless, Dubai Ports World will now participate in a screening test for U.S. bound cargo.
This test is to take place at six foreign ports.
DP World, as you know, set off this furor in February with its purchase of port operations, and the American people, and more than the American people, the U.S. Congress, Republicans and Democrats got in a silly race to be the first to cross the finish line and say they killed the deal.
Tiger Woods has announced his first ever golf course hotel condo development will be in Dubai.
And now Dubai is going to participate in a test screening for radiation.
Radiation, screening for radiation at ports where cargo will be shipped to the United States of America.
Just love it.
I told you about James Brolin.
It was on the View Wednesday.
This is the Rosie O'Donnell show with the three other women taking up space on a couch.
And a question from Rosie O'Donnell.
You've been playing politician lately in your career.
My grandmother and my grandfather and my mother and father were Republicans.
And I started thinking for myself.
We all used to get along.
We were Americans.
Now we're split and arguing it.
And so whose fault is that and what's going wrong and think about the issues.
And by the way, for starters, can I tell you to have a look at WW.911 We know.com.
And wait till I see you next time.
All right.
What a bunch of hysterical raving.
Um by the way, I would much rather feed caress pet and spend time with my cat to learn about women than to learn about women by watching the view.
Anyway, the website that he mentions here is uh WW 911 We know.com.
We went there to find out what they know at 911 We Know.com.
Let me just read it to you.
You may or may not have swallowed the official story.
Some of us were alert enough to shake our heads and say those buildings came down much too fast.
Others blocked the disaster from their minds, living life as though they had known it.
But the scenery had changed.
The buzzwords were born 9 11, September 11th, September 11th, everywhere you went, they were they were jabbered.
But what if it wasn't an accident?
What if it wasn't beyond our control?
What if it was all planned?
Our consciousness has been altered.
So here's Streisand's husband on the view, telling everybody to go to this place and then to wait for him the next time he comes on the show.
And this is sounded serious to me, Mr. Streisand sounded very, very serious.
You don't, you know, you talk about the drive-by media not getting it taking out of context.
You don't start going down this road as a joke.
Especially with what he'd said before.
Of course I take him seriously.
He's a nut.
They're all nuts.
They've screws loose everywhere.
That's what I mean.
They ought to be happy.
These people, they they won the election.
They got Hillary or Obama to choose from.
By the way, Hillary creamed Obama in a poll out there.
Who did that poll?
Was it Marist?
Quinnipiax, somebody did 33 to 12%.
I've I've I've got it here.
Don't need about to look it up.
It's a everybody's citing the poll.
But Hillary just cream Barack, Obama.
Uh Barack Hussein, uh, Obama.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Back to the phones.
We start to the phones, actually, in uh in in uh Texas via Arkansas.
This is Casey on a cell phone.
Welcome, sir.
Hey, Rush, how you doing?
Good, sir.
Thank you.
I heard uh Sidney Blumenthal on the radio by accident this morning, and he said something which illustrated a point that you regularly make.
Uh he said that the people who disagree with the Iraq report don't understand political language.
They don't understand the political language of reports and memos.
So we're all just too stupid to understand it.
Well, Sidney Blumenthal understands KGB memos.
Uh he understands uh writings of ancient Soviet scholars and so forth.
I guess that's why he has a leg up on the rest.
Sidney Blumenthal, I've always, every time I see Blumenthal, I think Ex-Lax, just take some.
Well, he was very condescending.
I'm sure he was plugged up and just arrogant and snotty as hell.
Oh, exactly.
He was very condescending.
He said a lot of things like the entire foreign policy commission agrees, but the neocons have been cast aside.
And uh rescue mission for Sonny, uh, you know, that's what I'm saying.
Who cares?
Who cares if the neo see to them this is all about domestic politics?
That's the point that I've been making on this program at Daniel Henniger makes in his Wall Street Journal piece today.
This is not this is not even about a rock to these guys.
This is about beating Bush.
This is about destroying an American presidency and its policies.
Pure and simple.
And they think the Iraq Study Group report, the surrender group report does that.
There's nothing brainiac in this report.
There is literally nothing.
In fact, this report is sophistry.
It is I mean, people in that town, if they had guts, and it tell you what they really think, it's embarrassing.
After months and months and months, that is what they produced.
Anybody could have written like recommendation 19.
We urge the president and his national security team to remain in constant contact with Iraq.
Really, Sydney, what do we not understand about?
What what what is politico speak about that that we don't get?
And by the way, if this thing's being written for consumption by the American people, why was it written in code so that only brilliant brainyacks like you can figure it out and then go on television and tell us what a bunch of idiots we are for not understanding it.
Joan in Detroit, you're next.
It's open line Friday.
Hubbahubba, hi.
Hi, Rus.
How you say?
Fine, thank you very much.
I my husband listens to your show all the time, and he just came in and told me about the comment you made about the cat and uh comparing the way you treat your cat to learning about women and how so many people got Instantly offended by that.
I gotta say that.
No, wait a minute.
I don't know that a lot of people did.
I just know that liberals I mean it it's it's shown up, it's it's shown up in three different liberal websites, followed by eighty comments.
It showed up on the Huffington Post, and there were eighty comments, and the comments were so vile that the original poster had to write a piece saying, you know, I don't like the direction this post is taking.
Yes, Limbaugh's an idiot when it comes to women and cats, but we don't need the kind of language here that we They're just wound so tight.
I I I um I I really I look at this in in um with a lot of perplexity.
I don't understand how anybody can stay so revved up, angry, enraged all the time, and not have any break in it, not have any sense of humor.
It must be exhausting.
No, I agree with you.
I think in fact I laughed at my husband, and I said, Are you kidding me?
I said, if you if all you did was take care of me and stroke me when I needed to be stroked, my ego, that is, uh, and then left me alone to deal with my life the rest of the time I'd be in heaven.
Just leave me alone when you be left with the bigger.
I damn well understand it because my cat's in heaven, even if she doesn't have the brains to know it.
Yeah.
Well, I know is she's never left.
Don't compare that to women.
No, no.
I'm just she's but she's never left.
She's never that's right.
She knows where the love is becoming.
But you know, it's it's it's uh well, and uh, she's attached to me.
I'm not saying the cat, you know, I'm not saying that she's aloof, she's certainly not.
But I mean she's she's she's a cat.
And uh when I when I tell this story to women, I love telling the story to w in person, and they all laugh.
They all get it.
In fact, some of them have been very proud.
Uh uh when I when I've love to be offended, though, Russ, really.
Well, I know there are people looking to be offended.
They're always up for opposition.
You know, Jay Leno or Letterman could kill that joke, and it would be all over the media the next day, as a great example of humor that America needs.
That's right.
It it all depends on who's telling these things and these uh these stories.
Right.
Uh but uh it still is uh inescapable.
These people have literally no sense of humor.
And and uh write a letter to the editor about that story of all in my own hometown paper.
Have a great day, Russ.
Oh, the newspaper printed it.
Well, of course, my name in the paper, uh my name on your TV show, my name on your book, it uh uh equals sales.
You know.
Right.
That's another thing you people don't understand.
You don't understand what life is like as a commodity.
You people will never understand.
Uh you won't.
You won't.
I've had this is so many things.
I told you I was going to write a book about success and what I thought it was going to mean to me, or what it was going to be and and and how it's not in a lot of ways what I thought it was going to be.
Um I'm not complaining.
Now don't misunderstand.
I can't wait for the letters to the editor on this.
I can't wait for the posts on the Huffington post on this.
But being a commodity, i it's but the easier way to explain that is that there are people who really couldn't care less about me personally, but will use whatever I can bring them.
Uh and they'll approach under the guise.
And um that's not unique to me.
Every ba every player uh on a major league sports team that goes to the World Series or the Super Bowl has more friends he never met, come out of the woodwork, asking for it's nothing, it's nothing new, but uh you know, it's uh uh and another thing I've learned the more generous I am, the more expectatious people are of continuing generosity.
Uh rather than just express gratitude and say, ooh, that's cool.
They have there's this growing expectation that that's the beginning of a trend.
Uh and that's part of the commodity uh aspect.
So I mean I've you know, I'd learn a lot growing up.
Uh and when I share some of these things I've learned, it gets passed on and these and posts on these liberal websites, it just threw What do you mean it's not miserable, it's human nature.
Snerdily think that's pretty miserable people to do.
No, no, no, it's human nature.
That's what you have to understand.
This is why um you uh I don't know if you've heard people say this.
You gotta be careful with whom you are charitable.
Because some people are gonna have a different uh reaction to it.
Uh and that's why see, motivation counts at a lot of things.
If if if one is charitable for the gratitude of it, if you're just giving money away or being generous, contributing and donating because you want people to thank you and so forth, uh wrong motivation.
Uh uh and they're gonna sense it and are gonna keep coming back and ask you for more so they can keep thanking you.
If you donate because you believe in a cause, if you if you if and you do it quietly and you don't make a big hullabaloo about it.
Uh I think the motivation matters in terms of how you react to those people with whom you are generous and uh and charitable.
Look, I would love to continue to wax eloquent about this, but I am up against the programming format.
It's commercial time, folks.
Back in a second.
HR, stop yelling at them.
I heard that.
Stop yelling at the call.
It's open line Friday.
Don't start, don't go snerdling on me here.
Just ask them what they want to say, put them up there.
I love this next story.
Headline says it all, but there were some great quotes in here.
European socialists eager to work with U.S. Democrats.
And American Democrats are not smart enough to understand that this doesn't make them look good.
They don't get it.
In fact, uh John Kerry's presidential campaign pretty much said these are the people that we must run our global test by before we uh we defend ourselves.
Uh the story is from Oporto, Portugal.
European socialists promised yesterday to work to rebuild Europe's strategic alliance with the U.S. now that the Democrats control Congress.
Socialist leaders attending a meeting of the European Socialist Party pledged that with the Democrats on the rise, strong ties could be renewed with the U.S. after years of cool relations with Republican President George W. Bush.
Howard Dean, chairman of the National Committee of the U.S. Democrat Party, is attending the two-day conference together with the uh leaders of leftist governments of several countries and party leaders from across Europe.
Former Danish Prime Minister said uh Naul Syrup Rasmussen, we're not uh anti-American.
We want the real America.
We want your America, he said in remarks directed to Howard Dean.
Europe needs an America that's back on track, said Portuguese Socialist Prime Minister Jose Socrates, whose country is hosting the meeting.
We need today, more than ever, to reinforce and renew that strategic alliance between the United States and Europe, Socrates said.
We know that a stronger Democrat Party is the key for this to happen.
Socialists are center-left governments currently hold or share power in just over half of uh Europe.
So Krates said that uh Howard Dean's Democrats should know that they can count on European socialists.
Now, I know it's funny in its own right, but let's put it in perspective and in some context.
The Democrats are doing everything they can here to fight their leftist image.
In winning the House, they had to nominate a bunch of conservative Democrats to go out and talk about a love Jesus.
Jesus is my man, and I love God, and I am pool life.
And uh also love my guns.
Bang bang.
And these guys go out there and they get elected as conservative Democrats, all for the purpose of securing leadership positions for these far leftists that run the House on the Democrat side.
So the Democrats trying to fight their leftist image by by claiming to be church-going, troop supporting, economic conservatives, and their party chairman flies off to Europe to attend a socialist convention where the socialists are happy.
Finally we can work with America again.
We're eager to work with the real America, socialist America, the uh U.S. Democrats.
It's sort of a mixed message, isn't it?
I mean, when you put these uh little the blue dogs, the conservative Democrats up to run for office as conservative Democrats, and then after you secure, run off and uh have tea, or maybe read a little Karl Marx with uh Western European Socialists.
Wait time out, ladies and gentlemen.
Open line Friday will resume before you know it.
Well, some towering figures of conservatism are passing away.
Jane Kirkpatrick, the latest.
She was absolutely brilliant.
I attended a lecture at the University of California at Davis when I was working out there that was just because it just made mince me to these little liberal students who thought they were gonna bury her.
Milton Friedman is gone, Cap Weinberger, uh Lynn Knopfziger.
Towering figures, folks.
It would behoove us to remember them.
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