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Iowa Democrats say that notoriously disciplined Senator Hillary Clinton may need to loosen up if she wants the state to support her presidential plans.
Gordon Fisher, the former Iowa Democrat Party chairman, said Clinton's carefully controlled demeanor might prevent her from connecting with voters.
I don't know that you can win in the Iowa cauckey and be a control freak, said Gordon Fisher, who supports the presidential perspirations of Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack.
Fisher said that Hillary can improve her chances by visiting every county in the state before the Hawkeye Cauckey, which are scheduled to be the first in the country in 13 months.
You get a bus and you go to all 99 counties.
You got to spend some time.
You got to really talk to people.
There's an interesting companion story to this, unrelated to the details of this, but it's quite telling at the same time.
The whole concept here, Hillary needs to loosen up.
Nobody really knows her.
Nobody really knows who she is.
She just, she's so tightly wound that she appears fake.
So what do they want her to do?
Dance, smile, tell jokes, wear low-cut dresses?
Hell, wear dresses.
They wanted to act human.
They wanted to take a position on something, wanted to cry.
This woman cannot hold a press conference unless it's totally planned and scripted to protect her.
She hadn't been asked any tough questions about anything from anybody in six years.
I mean, she's not going to visit 99 counties in Iowa and subject herself to this.
And here is why.
Raymond Hernandez of the New York Times informs the world in a story that Hillary Clinton has long enjoyed the services of a chief aide, someone who plays an absolutely key role in her life, whose existence has received zero media attention until this story.
In other words, Hillary also has a Carl Rove.
Here are the relevant passages from Mr. Hernandez's story.
The person Senator Clinton is relying on to run things is a reclusive advisor who is intolerant of leaks, who demands strict loyalty from her staff, and who, on those rare occasions that she speaks publicly, measures each word.
Her name, Patty Solis-Doyle.
And the job of mapping out the senator's national political strategy falls to her.
Indeed, as the news media buzz grows around Mrs. Clinton's political perspirations, Ms. Solis-Doyle has been worked in the shadows, wooing prominent donors over dinners, meeting with some of the Democratic Party's top talent, and conferring with Mrs. Clinton on an almost daily basis.
Officially, Patty Solis-Doyle is 41, the executive director of Hill PAC, known widely as Hillary Inc., a vast political operation that has employed as many as 50 press assistants, opposition researchers, media specialists, and fundraisers at any one time.
But her title doesn't begin to convey the singular role she has played for Mrs. Clinton since the two women crossed paths 16 years ago.
Thomas Lifson at theAmericanThinker.com says, if anyone ever doubted that Hillary's public persona is a completely manufactured product, bearing only tangential relationship to the reality of the woman, the public oblivion of Patty Solis-Doyle should provide evidence of the divergence between image and reality in the case of Hillary.
Which takes us to the Tom DeLay story.
Tom DeLay said yesterday that Senator Clinton would be elected president in 2008 and would probably tap Senator Barack Obama as her running mate.
DeLay met with conservative bloggers at a weekly lunch meeting hosted by Human Events and the Heritage Foundation.
He's making the rounds in Washington to promote his new blog and activism website, tomdelay.com.
He said, look, she's going to be the next president.
They've built a coalition.
He also implored conservatives to start digging into Obama's past.
He said Obama's record in the Illinois Senate was on a par with a Marxist leftist.
Now, here's the thing about Hillary.
She is always hiding.
She's rarely out doing things.
She's rarely out there giving speeches.
She doesn't have very many photo ops.
She doesn't give many interviews except to the New York Times every other year when they put her on the cover of their magazine as St. Hillary or the Virgin Hillary or whatever.
But they're always puff pieces.
She's been this way pretty much through two elections and one term in the Senate.
When she does let loose, and we have it on tape, she's just out of control.
The screaming and the squawking and the screeching, that reminds you of an ex-spouse or two.
And so the effort is going to be to get her the nomination almost by acclamation without her having to go out and meet people and be Miss Warm and Fuzzy.
Which takes us now to Barack Obama, ladies and gentlemen.
Yesterday on PMS NBC Live, here is a montage of the Wonquette blogger.
And this is a classic illustration.
There's this blogger out there named Wonquette.
Her name is Anna Marie Cox.
Or Anna.
I'm sorry.
It's Anna.
Anna Marie Cox.
And because she had this blog that nobody read, Time Magazine snuffed her up.
She's now a culture writer, political writer.
She's the hot infobabe of the moment.
And she was on PMS NBC Live discussing Barack Obama.
He is a rock star.
He hasn't gotten old for us.
He hasn't developed some joke that he tells over and over.
He's the new vaguely exotic foreign exchange student.
He's the sexiest of the new people.
We talk about him being vaguely exotic, sexy, and rock star, drop-dead sex appeal.
He's someone who you want to follow.
Sure.
I like Obama, too.
I actually was at a cocktail party where Barack was...
Talk about sexy.
He's so young.
It's the first blush.
Obama can do no wrong.
Sexy.
All right.
That's the appeal to Anna Marie Cox.
Well, there's no question that power's crackling through his jeans.
Hell yes, snerdly.
That's the translation of this.
Vaguely exotic, sexy, rock star, drop-dead sex appeal.
Now, we have some EIB exclusive audio here.
From Sunday in New Hampshire, when Barack Obama made a speech up there, after his speech was over, he made a B-line for Maureen Dowd in the audience.
The camera kept rolling.
We have this.
I haven't seen it.
I mean, it's not really exclusive to us.
It's exclusive in the sense we're the only ones that are going to use it.
Just listen, he goes up to Maureen Dowd.
This is your sexy Rock star, drop-dead sex appeal, somebody you want to follow, somebody firm in his conviction.
This guy is a rock, not just a star.
And this is what he said to Maureen Dowd.
Talk about my teeth.
I just want to put you on notice.
I'm very sensitive about it.
I told him was I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my bees.
Trying to toughen you up.
Did you hear all that?
Were you able to hear it?
You want me to translate this?
All right.
Maureen Dowd has written about his big ears.
And after his speech, Barack Obama made a B-line to Hillary Clinton.
He said, don't talk about my ears.
I just want to put you on notice.
I'm very sensitive about what I told him was I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.
Maureen said, we're just trying to tough you up.
Just trying to toughen you up.
So, you know, I tend to personalize a lot of these things.
I'm sorry, my friends.
I'm like everybody else.
Everything is about me.
And I hear this, and I'm thinking, can you, if I went to a reporter and said, you know, don't talk about X aspect of me, I'm very sensitive.
I was made fun of my whole life because of X. Would you just, by putting you on notice, I'm very sensitive about that.
I don't want to be instead of Maureen Dowd saying, come on, Rush, we're trying to toughen you up, it would be the subject of the next column.
The weak, cowardly, insecure, and insensitive Rush Limbaugh begged me not to make fun of X.
But Maureen Dowd has decided that the drive-by media needs to toughen Barack up.
Listen to the bite again now that you know what was said.
Talk about my teas.
I just want to put you on notice.
I'm very sensitive about the way I told him was I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my bees.
Trying to toughen you up.
We're just trying to toughen you up.
You sexy, exotic rock star.
Sexy, sexy, sexy.
We are just trying to toughen you up.
One more Maureen is, well, you think that means that she's lonely?
Making fun of his big ears?
Oh, come on.
Don't start.
Snerdley.
Maureen.
Maureen.
Snerdley is convinced that Maureen wants Barack, Hussein Obama.
I don't even want to go there.
I know more than you do about this, and I'm not going to talk about it.
Here is a question.
Unidentified reporter said to Barack, what do you make of the recent fascination that people have as they're getting to know you about your middle name being Hussein?
It'd be one thing if my name was John Hussein Smith, then this might be a real problem.
When you're already starting with Barack Obama, let me put it this way.
If my name's going to be an issue, then I don't think my middle name is relevant.
The American people are not concerned about middle names.
The American people are not concerned about middle names.
It doesn't matter to people.
Middle names, Limbaugh, people keep focusing on this.
I mean, my name's Jefferson Blath, and nobody cared.
I mean, I'm Bill Clinton.
Good old boy.
Okay, so that's our Barack Obama segment for today, ladies and gentlemen.
Maureen Dowd trying to toughen him up as he tells her he's very insecure about being made fun of over the size of his ears.
Doing everything we can and just a little more to ignite the Christmas season and spirit in America, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
Go back to the archives here, April 28th, 2003.
You talk about Hillary a moment ago and how she's so tightly wound and controlled and programmed.
They don't let her loose.
She doesn't take tough questions.
Here's an example when the control slips.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic and we should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
That's what happens when Ms. Soltis, whatever, isn't around.
When the controls are off and with Mrs. Clinton freelances.
And you don't see that much because they're paranoid of this happening.
So it's a she's got her own Karl Rowe, but nobody knows about it.
Sonana in Sanitas, California.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you, Rush.
Merry Christmas.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
Same to you.
I wanted to mention a conspiracy that has been brewing in my mind.
I love conspiracies.
Show is made on them.
I believe that CARE is waging an aggressive campaign against what we consider to be civilized society.
I think that this UCLA incident where the student would not show his ID and was asked to leave and he wouldn't leave, and then he was tasered and then tried to get others to join his protest.
And now he's filed federal charges against UCLA is connected with the United incident where the Imams acted suspiciously, moved all about the plane, demanded all these seatbelt extensions, and then screamed discrimination as they were escorted off the plane.
Right, exactly.
I think that's part and parcel of what's going on.
There's no question.
Quality conspiracy probably is if, you know, two or more people conspired to come up with the strategic it was U.S. Airways, by the way, but I'm only saying that so I don't get tons of emails demanding it.
I correct it.
At any rate, there's no question trying to break down security.
They're trying to break the will.
They're trying to move as many Americans as possible further and further into passivity.
What do you think is going to be the outcome of this?
Do you think that UCLA and U.S. Airways are all just going to bend over?
No, U.S. Airways is not bending over, and they deserve credit, and they deserve support for it.
That flight crew and that airline deserve to be supported because they have not caved.
I don't know what UCLA is going to do when you talk about a college campus today.
Who knows?
It's a roll of the dice, a flip of the bird.
But in case of U.S. Airways, they are hanging tough.
And now the Imams want a financial settlement, which is a first move before you go sue the airline, try to get some money out of them so it doesn't cost you any money to get the money.
When you go to court, it's going to cost you some to get what you want.
And they're probably willing to do that too.
But this is just intimidation.
And, folks, I'm going to tell you, I don't think it's just U.S. Airways that needs to be supported.
I think every one of us, when in a circumstance, we see something like what happened with the flying Imams, we have to speak up about it.
And because it's our own safety that we are speaking up for, this was such an obvious example.
And we now know that it was a pre-planned stunt.
If not stunt, there was an operational plan to this, and there was an objective to it, more than just having fun, trial run for something, who knows?
And this airline is hanging tough.
And I'll tell you why.
Once that airplane's loaded and that door's closed, there is one man to whom all responsibility falls, and that's the captain, the pilot.
And he has that authority even more so today because of what happened on 9-11.
And he executed a command decision.
And the airline's backing him up.
They have investigated this every which way, but someday, and they're backing him up.
But the care crowd is a relentless bunch.
And this is just one of many events like this that probably on tap.
Well, I mean, look, we now know what was part of because Doug Hooper, who now calls himself Ibrahim Hooper, who is the press spokesman for CARE, now out there urging every American Muslim to charge discrimination and be on the lookout for it as they fly from here to Mecca for their annual Hajj.
Steve in New Albany, Indiana, you're next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Greetings and Merry Christmas from a gun-totin former Marine in the heartland.
I've been to where you live, and I know what kind of people are there, and I love you.
They're the best.
Thank you.
I know.
Just a little comment.
I think our president's finally going to break out of this rupa dope that he's been pulling of late.
And I think the lives are upset that he's going to wait until January to tell the whole world his plans on Iraq.
I think there's a little December surprise.
Oh, Muki's going to wake up to a squad of Marines and a rifle down his throat sometime the end of December.
Then old GW is going to come out and say, this is what I'm going to do.
I really want to see you.
Well, you'll see, now you are engaging in projection.
You are associating with the president what you would do and what you would love to do.
A lot of us would love to see.
What Steve here just said is president says his speech announcing his new Iraq policy, new plan is in January.
Sometime in December, Mookie Al-Sadr will find himself surrounded by special ops and Marines, and maybe the last thing Mookie sees on this earth will be uniformed military personnel aiming at him.
And then after this is announced as having been accomplished, the death of Muki El Sader, Bush then says, you want to know what I'm going to do in January?
This is it.
We'd all love to see this.
In fact, one of the stories today that I'm reading that tells me we're not going to go anywhere near the Baker Hamilton group on this says that a lot of the recommendations the president's getting have to do with taking out Al Sadr.
Moktada is his.
We call him Muki here affectionately.
Moktada Al-Sader.
So they've already publicized the possibility that that may be one of the military objectives.
Mookie has to go or Maliki.
They can't.
Oh, yeah, Mama.
Yes, Mama.
That's too bad.
I've been talking about my cute, lovable, loyal little cat Punkin lately, ladies and gentlemen.
I just had a story here.
A friend of mine sent me this saying that Punkin asked her to send me this.
It's a story titled Holiday Gifts for Your Cat.
And it's about a story that CBS2 in New York did, Channel 2 in New York did about inexpensive simple treats for your cat at a store called Happy Paws in Soho.
And it lists all these things you can get the cat.
Some of these things I have for the cat, and they don't work.
That cat's not as stupid as people that make these toys for cats.
Like one of them, a friend of mine gave me a remote control mouse.
You hand it with a remote control, and mouse goes running across the floor, and the cat's supposed to chase it.
My cat's not dumb enough to believe that a piece of plastic running on batteries is a real mouse.
Looks at me like I'm the biggest idiot to face the earth.
Anyway, it got me all to thinking.
I mean, people argue about cats and dogs, and I've got it figured out.
And this may not be unique.
People may have heard this or said it even before.
But to me, dogs have masters and cats have staff.
I mean, that's the simplest way to explain the difference in the two.
And this story says that there are more cats as pets in America than there are dogs.
The Democrats, House Democrats, decided Tuesday that Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, will not return to an influential committee, the Ways and Means Committee, until a federal corruption investigation involving him is completed.
Once again, white plantation Democrats throw the black guy overboard, yet one of the leading Democrat corrupters, corruptees, whatever, is this Malahan guy, is going to head up the committee that investigates the FBI while the FBI is investigating him.
So the white guy gets a committee, a plum committee assignment.
The black guy gets thrown to public works or something off of the Ways and Means Committee.
Now, I mentioned yesterday David Duke was over in Iran attending the Holocaust Didn't Happen convention sponsored by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
And I said, well, if you listen to David Duke, you can't tell the difference between Jimmy Carter.
And a lot of people wrote me, you can't say that.
David Duke and Jimmy Carter, you can't say that.
Yes, I can.
And now I'm going to prove it.
We have two side-by-side comparisons.
First up, David Duke, yesterday on PMS NBC Live with Rita Cosby, she said the president of Iran just said a short time ago that the Zionist regime will soon be wiped out.
Do you understand why that's so offensive to so much of the world?
What he said was that the Zionist government, a government that oppresses and has ethnically cleansed the Palestinian people that commits torture, that's invaded Lebanon, that commits human rights violations, and that, by the way, has led America into the disaster of Iraq because we're in Iraq and America's in Iraq because the Jewish extremist neocons have brought us into Iraq.
Do I even need to play Jimmy Carter for you?
I mean, I will, but I mean, Jimmy Carter's out there talking about the neocons and how Israel is responsible for us being.
And so he was on a tonight show.
Jay Leno, what are you thinking?
You had a comedy show there, and you got Jimmy Carter on.
By the way, Jimmy Carter was in Tempe, Arizona today to sign his book, and a lot of protesters showed up, which is healthy news.
So here's Jimmy Carter, and Jay Leno was interviewing Jimmy Carter about apartheid.
I don't want to say apartheid, but in Palestinian territory, there's horrible persecution of the Palestinians who live on their own land.
They have occupied the land.
They have confiscated.
They have colonized it.
And they forced Palestinians away from their homes, away from their pastures, away from their fields, cut down the olive trees, and severely persecuted the Palestinians.
David Duke, Jimmy Carter, you can't tell the difference.
By the way, this business of cutting down the olive trees, I'm sorry, Jimma, but it's the other way around.
If anybody desecrated the Mount of Olives, it was the Palestinians or one of the wars.
This is just, it's cockeyed.
But we got two more.
David Duke blaming the Jewish lobby for preventing criticism of Israel.
Why should we be supporting Israel, which has violated every nuclear idea?
They have nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction.
Iran has been a member of the Atomic Energy Inspection, allowed inspections.
Yet Israel allows none.
We have a double standard because of the Jewish lobby and its power over the American government.
Here is Tim Russert asking Jimmy Carter about the Jewish lobby.
He says, I read your book.
This struck me, particularly from somebody in political life.
You went on to say, there's no doubt there's a strong aversion to criticizing Israel in this country.
I wouldn't say it's all because of intimidation, but that's one factor.
It's almost completely unacceptable in this country for any public official to criticize the policies of Israel, even if they are horribly abusive against the Palestinians.
The Jewish lobby may be part of it.
David Duke, Jimmy Carter.
This is Ray in Carmel, California.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hey, thanks a bunch.
A big fan for a long time.
Thank you.
Opinion.
Whatever happened to the U.S.'s drive to fight?
I mean, the sleeking giant that, you know, everybody seems to have lost their will to, you know, stand up for themselves or protect what was kind of bestowed on them.
I mean, being a U.S. citizen?
That is an interesting question.
I'd be hard pressed here on a moment's notice to trace it back to the beginning.
I would have to say the modern incarnation of this passivity has to be the Vietnam War.
I think that is the best I can do here off the top of my fertile mind.
We got it back a little bit when Reagan was president because, I mean, he didn't mess with Reagan.
I mean, that was, and he kept the peace in the world.
But, I mean, after that, it was like, yeah, okay.
Well, Reagan was great, and he made people proud to be Americans again, proud to feel good about themselves.
But look, even, you know, when the terrorists took out 200 and someone Marines at the barracks in London, we cut and run.
We got out of there.
There wasn't the stomach to deal with that.
Then there hasn't been the stomach to really deal with any terrorist attack prior to 9-11.
During the 90s, we treated terrorism as a legal issue and as a criminal issue, not as truthfully as what it was.
I think it's because only one president has dared to tell the American people the truth about what we face, and he's up against decades of passivity and people thinking the opposite.
And I just think it's going to take a long time here to wake people up.
I do think the American people ultimately respond to the tipping point whenever it's reached.
What worries me is what that tipping point is going to be.
And I do think that, look, there's so many factors in this, Ray.
I'm 55, and for the last 30 years of my life, it seems to me that the minority in this country, any minority, I don't care what the minority is, a political minority, a cultural minority, religious minority, whatever, has begun to try to intimidate the majority using guilt.
The majority has no right to be the majority because they attain majority status through slavery, murder, racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia.
And most people don't like being called those names, and most people don't like confrontation.
And so they'll agree and shut up or not argue and not be confrontational just in order to not be uncomfortable.
And I think people have idly sat by thinking these isolated incidents are no big deal, failing to see the cumulative effect.
And we are now starting to see the cumulative effect.
And this is not the first year and not the first time.
It's just now that one of the things that's happening is that we have a people perceived as a minority in this country who are of the same religion as of those who are attacking us and trying to kill us, who are now trying to change the basic cultural designs and traditions of the country along with a lot of other wackos, the atheists and the ACLU and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.
Basically, liberals are mobilizing in new and different ways and capitalizing on so much guilt that exists out there.
And then you add to all that, you add to that recipe, something I say a lot.
I have no patience for this talk about how rotten the economy is in this country.
And I have no patience because I've seen genuine suffering around the world.
We don't even know what it is.
And I'm telling you that the notion here that we are so affluent and there's so much prosperity.
You talk about high expectations.
You see the bonus figures from Goldman Sachs that were announced today.
You haven't seen this?
Let me find the story and give you the numbers.
I'm not going to cite this with any analytical commentary at the moment.
I'll save that for later.
But just within the context of the affluence and the prosperity of the country and the perception by others that it's possible, Goldman Sachs set to throw gigantic bags of money at its bankers, traders, and stockbrokers this year.
They're going to give out company-wide more than $16.5 billion in bonuses.
Top executives will make $100 million bonuses this year.
They've had just a tremendous, tremendous year.
25 top-level managers will receive $25 million bonuses.
A number of others will receive $50 million bonuses.
The average pay at Goldman Sachs, $622,000 this year, including all the low-end workers.
Now, I realize this is one investment banker house, one bank, and so forth.
Wall Street's had a pretty good year, which is indicative of the country having a good year.
People look at this number.
That's not fair.
The rich are getting richer.
Well, they chose to go into this business.
I mean, you didn't.
They did.
And you can sit around and say, my gosh, that's $16.5 billion.
Well, that would wipe out TB in Africa.
Yeah, it would.
But we've probably spent more than that in Africa in the history of this country's lifetime trying to solve every disease they've got.
I mean, until they get rid of their governments over there that oppress and so forth, we can give all the money in the world and it's going to matter.
Point is, when you have a country with this much affluence and this much opportunity, people don't want to upset that apple cart.
They don't want to be reminded that there are threats and challenges out there when they don't believe there are.
And so the tipping point is always going to be reachable, but I shudder to think what it's going to be.
I do worry that there's so much passivity out there now against the tyranny of the minority, that I call it, that we have a chance of losing some institutions here before the tipping point is reached.
I genuinely have this fear.
Where it all started.
At this point, it's really not germane, other than an interesting intellectual exercise.
I got to run here.
Thanks much for the call.
Brief time out.
Broadcast excellence on the other side.
Ha!
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limbaugh, America's Truth Detector Talent on lawn from God.
Sitting here amidst billowing clouds of fragrant aromatic cigar smoke.
Here's a headline from LifeNews.com.
Hair follicle cells offer embryonic stem cell research alternatives.
Scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin have found what may be another alternative to embryonic stem cells.
Embryonic stem cells are not an alternative.
There's nothing there.
But I digress.
They have found that adult stem cells from hair follicles, which don't involve the destruction of human life to obtain, are different from the other types of skin cells.
Similar to embryonic stem cells, they have a high degree of plasticity.
They can be isolated at high levels of purity and can be expanded in culture.
The hair cells are similar to other types of adult stem cells as they are readily accessible through a minimally invasive procedure, could lead to using a patient's own hair as a source for therapy without the controversy or transplant problems associated with embryonic stem cells.
Who is this guy, Cyber Bloom?
Maya, it's a woman, Maya Sieber Bloom, PhD, did the study.
She points out that hair follicle cells may also be useful to treat Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke, peripheral neuropathies, and ALS.
Certain defects of the heart and bone defects could also be treated through neurals, crest stem cell replacement theory, a neural crest stem cell, which is hair follicles.
Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's disease.
Hmm.
Interesting.
Ladies and gentlemen, I actually think we need to start a new movement.
Conflict-free stem cells.
I mean, hell's bells are moving around out there, conflict-free diamonds.
Why not conflict-free stem cells?
Think the entertainment community, the Hollywood left and the left in general would associate themselves with the conflict-free stem cell movement?
Harold in Ocala, Florida, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Hey.
I'd like to ask your opinion.
I haven't heard this discussed in the general media, but do you think that if the U.S. pulled out of Iraq before the job was done, before we achieved victory, there's a possibility Saddam Hussein could be restored to power?
Anything's possible with the chaos that would result there.
Hell, there's some people in this country in the media who are suggesting that's exactly what we should do is put Saddam back in power because he was able to control these nomads over there and skedaddle back home.
So, you know, if we pulled out of there, you have to wonder if the primary purpose of the Iraqi government would be to go ahead and execute Saddam and hear the appeal or, you know, run for the hills themselves and stay alive.
But it ain't going to happen.
We're not going to pull out.
The Baker-Hamilton group, the Iraq surrender group's recommendation to withdraw combat troops in 2008, isn't going to happen.
Folks, I'm going to tell you again, the drive-by media isn't a tizzy.
The New York Times is agitated.
These people are all worked up into a froth because they thought that Bush would accede on the basis of the election results and the brilliant thinking that put this report together.
If you read, though, I mean, you don't even have to read it between the lines.
Read what's published.
All the military advisors the president consults, active duty and not recommending more troops all of a sudden now.
After the election, more troops.
We can't leave.
It would be utter chaos.
The stories are everywhere now.
Bush doing a press conference right now just had a preliminary discussion with some of these generals.
Said they had a very fruitful discussion.
And he's talking about victory.
And he's talking about how our forces and the Iraqi security forces are working day and night, taking the fight to the enemy.
This does not sound like somebody who's getting ready to endorse the lunacy and the stupidity that was in the Iraq Surrender Group report back in just a second.
So the press is at Mr. President.
Have you heard any ideas you plan to put into action here?
And the president's answer: oh, I'm hearing a lot of ideas on how to lose out there.
Hear a lot of plans defeat out there.
So we'll put this together for you tomorrow.
The sound bites we'll have tomorrow come from the press conference happening today.
Hope you have a great day and night out there, ladies and gentlemen.
I plan to big Christmas bash tonight, secret location.
Can't tell you about it tomorrow either.
Be back and see you.
It's becoming standard operating procedure, isn't it?