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Jan. 4, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 4, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh, this is Juicy.
This, folks, is when the real fun begins.
The new Congress, the Democrat Congress, is in the process of being coronated and sworn in.
And I swear, watching television this morning, I first asked myself, the way the news media is covering this is how many people in this country are actually sitting on the edge of their seats with bated breath, all excited and revved up about the fact that the Democrats run Congress again.
And my guess is that it's not the first couple of things on most people's minds today.
It is certainly on a lot, but not most.
And yet, of course, the Democrats with their arrogance are acting like this is all that is happening today.
It may as well be a national holiday, the way they're treating it.
In fact, Nancy Pelosi's coronation has even irritated Andrea Mitchell.
On PMS NBC, just this morning, she was talking to John Dingell, one of the aging Democrats in the House of Representatives.
And Andrea Mitchell said, are you happy with this big celebration that Nancy Pelosi has planned for herself?
I mean, it's a bit unseemly to have Stevie Wonder and Tony Bennett and the dinners and the lunches and the brunches and the trip to Baltimore to rename the street in her honor.
Isn't this a little bit too imperial?
Dingell said, of course not.
At any rate, greetings, my friends, and welcome this, the Rush Limbaugh program, a program that meets and surpasses all audience expectations on a daily basis.
By the way, late breaking news, White House legal counsel Harriet Myers just now, it was reported, submitted her resignation trying to steal a news cycle from Nancy Pelosi.
Doubt that it'll work.
Harriet Myers gone as White House legal counsel.
So anyway, we're going to back to this.
I'm watching television this morning here.
And by the way, I actually had it on yesterday, but I didn't listen to any of it.
Today I did.
Folks, I can't tell you, I would encourage each and every one of you to try this.
From January 22nd until yesterday, which was January, December 22nd, until January 3rd, I did not watch one second of any television network or channel that had news on it.
Not one.
Well, I watched Sports Center, but Hard News.
Didn't watch any of it.
And it was refreshing and it was rejuvenating.
Today was the first time I actually watched and paid attention.
I had it on yesterday, but, you know, not as people sit down and, you know, spongebob it watching television against soaking it up.
But today I was, and I was just laughing myself silly.
The first thing that happened was that Mitch McConnell, a Republican leader in the Senate, came out with Dingy Harry, the Democrat leader.
And we've got tape of Dingy Harry on this coming up.
He's going on and on and on and on and on.
Oh, this is a new day.
Bipartisanship is back.
Partisanship is over.
And it was utopia, folks.
It literally was, we're going to cure all diseases today because we are going to do embryonic stem cell research and we're going to pass it.
And we are going to end poverty today because we are going to raise the minimum wage.
And we're going to get everybody to college because we are going to lower interest rates for college loans.
And we're going to continue to allow and improve, maybe increase the tax deduction on college tuition.
More on that in a moment.
And we're going to kick out all the lobbyists.
The lobbyists have had it.
They're not going to be influencing us.
This is a new day.
And we are going to bring big oil to its knees.
And I'm watching this, and I'm thinking, these people believe it.
The Democrats actually believe this stuff, or at least they want Everybody watching to believe it, but I think they actually do.
That, you know, government is their birthright.
Power is their entitlement.
And they've got it.
They've got it, ladies and gentlemen.
It's finally back in their grip.
It's in the palm of their hands.
They don't intend to let it go.
In fact, every time Republicans won elections since 1994, the immediate day after, the press would begin stories on what the Democrats have to do to win back their power.
Today, I watched media drive-by media members ask Democrats, what do you have to do to get re-elected?
They are not asking Republicans what they have to do to win back power.
Now, Nancy Pelosi is the Queen Bee today, and that takes us to yesterday, well, today's morning update, and that is Queen Bee Syndrome.
There's a new study from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, and it points to the existence of something researchers call the Queen Bee Syndrome.
Now, simply stated, simply stated, Esther, Esther, are you listening to this?
Did you come by here to watch the program or chew the fat?
I want you to pay attention to this, Esker, because you're a woman.
We're talking about the Queen Bee syndrome.
And simply stated, the Queen Bee syndrome is this.
Women bosses are more likely than men to prevent other women from advancing.
They will do everything they can to slice competing women out of the picture.
Get them off the corporate ladder.
When applications for promotion were put in front of women, they overwhelmingly rated male candidates more qualified than women.
They didn't want women competing.
This is why when you see a female CEO at any company, you don't find too many females on the board, and you don't find too many subordinates that are female.
They are always mostly men.
Now, the lead author of this report says that female and older participants showed more prejudice against the idea of a female leader than did male and younger participants.
According to this syndrome, the Queen Bee syndrome, women take out potential threats to their power to secure their role as the only female at the top.
There is no power sharing, which takes us to Nancy Pelosi and two other women in Washington.
First program, right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers in No Less Than The Washington Post today, passed over by Pelosi.
Harmon doesn't get even.
She gets mad.
This is the first bit of evidence of the Queen Bee syndrome.
Jane Harmon, for Lib, I mean, she's the wife of the Harmon of Harmon Cardin Stereo.
Did you know that, Craig?
Yeah.
So she's reputation is that she's bright.
She's liberal.
I mean, she's a commie babe, but she's bright, educated, intelligent.
And she was in line to become the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
And of course, Pelosi said, nope, you're not going to be that, and put some guy who doesn't even know what religion al-Qaeda is, Silvestre Reyes, in her place.
So she got one woman out of the way, got Jane Harmon out of the way.
Jane Harmon, they had a personal spat.
Nobody knows what it was really about, some couple of years ago.
And once Nancy got to the speakership, that was it for Jane Harmon.
Queen Bee Syndrome playing out.
Now, the way Harmon is reacting to this has to have been to openly complain that she was cut loose by Pelosi.
She's a Harvard law grad, has a gold-plated political resume, and was the ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee when the Republicans ran the whole place.
She has lamented that Congress has lost its luster for her now, and she's going to hang in, but she hopes for a job in a Democrat administration.
She's obsessed, says a source to the Washington Post.
It's been hard for her not to take this Pelosi thing personally, but it's over.
But there's another woman involved in the Queen Bee syndrome in Washington, and that happens to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Now, in setting this up, let's go to audio soundbite number five, Mike.
This is yesterday in Washington, one of these numerous brunches, lunches, cocktail parties, teas that Pelosi attended.
It was an afternoon tea, 500 women.
It was actually $1,000 a ticket fundraiser, and here's a portion of Pelosi's remarks.
I thought you were going to say, when you placed my name in nomination for speaker, you said she will be the most powerful woman in America.
Now, I want you all to join me in how I acknowledge Rose's introduction.
All right, let's earn for the power.
She was, she had a Rosie the Riveter arm symbol up there next to her, so that's what Rose's introduction is.
So here's Pelosi openly acknowledging that she is the most powerful woman in America.
Now, over in the Senate, wearing bright red today, having just taken her oath, is another woman who thinks that she is.
And that is Hillary Rodham Clinton.
So you have to apply the Queen Bee syndrome to this as well.
And I would advise somebody, if you know Nancy Pelosi, I would advise you to pass on this research from the Max Planck Institute to her because, I mean, if she's inclined, Ms. Pelosi's declined, inclined to dismiss this research.
All she has to do is keep getting media attention as the nation's most powerful female Democrat leader because the other woman who thinks she's the Queen Bee, Hillary Clinton, will have something to say about this.
It's going to be interesting to watch.
And I pointed out yesterday, I'll talk about this politically just for a second.
Pelosi is as far left as you can get and still not be considered a fringe wacko.
I mean, it's close, but she's, and Hillary does not need that.
She can't stand for that to be the party ID as she seeks the presidential nomination, Democratic Party.
She's spent the last two or three years trying to fake everybody out into thinking she's a centrist and even conservative on some things.
And here's Pelosi.
I'm the most powerful woman in America.
She's defining a Democratic Party as this far-left fringe bunch.
And this is going to present a problem for Hillary that Hillary is going to have to deal with.
You know, I've, and I don't mean this, folks, this is not a sexist comment.
I mean this, I'm making this as an anthropological, sociological comment.
This Queen Bee syndrome, Dawn's rolling her eyes because you think you know what's coming.
This Queen Bee syndrome, there is something to it.
I mean, everybody talks about how men fight for what two women want the same thing.
Get out of the way.
Just get out of the way.
And it can become as nasty as everybody think men can be.
And this is going to be one of these circumstances.
We're going to have a lot of fun watching this because Pelosi's running around acting like Tarzan and Jane all in one.
I mean, it's one thing.
There's no humility being involved in this or being exhibited.
And, you know, the Clintons have their FBI files and on whom we don't know.
But their war room is in.
Now, Hillary doesn't fear Pelosi in terms of Democratic presidential nomination, but she's going to be very bugged by the fact that Pelosi continues to run around acting like she's the only Queen Bee in town or in the country.
And more concerning to Hillary will be the way Pelosi defines a Democratic Party or tries to.
Anyway, quick break here a little long back with your phone calls and other exciting things in mere moments.
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Here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, Cindy Sheehan and the Kuk Fringe left literally took over Capitol Hill yesterday.
House Democrats tried to unveil their lobbying reform package, which is a folks.
This is one of the biggest scams yet.
They say they're going to get rid of all the lobbyists.
The lobbyists aren't going to have any influence at all.
And yet I got an AP story here to stack coming up.
K-Street, Lobby Avenue, is being repopulated with people put there by the Democrats gearing up.
If you think lobbyists are ever, and this is one of the things that attracted people to Perot.
You know, he was going to get rid of the lobbyists.
And now the Democrats have his new ethics reform, but they're going to get rid of the lobbyists.
You want to bet?
It isn't going to happen.
I mean, they're as much a part of government as voters are.
Getting rid of lobbyists is like saying we're going to get rid of voters.
Anyway, more detail on this as the program unfolds today.
But the press conference the Democrats had to unveil their lobbying reform package was drowned out by chants from anti-war activists who want Congress to stop funding the Iraq war before taking on other issues.
We have audio soundbites, a sample via audio soundbite of what happened yesterday afternoon when Rah Emmanuel tried his heart out to explain and announce the Democrat Party lobbying reform package.
Every step of the average, we're going to keep going here.
Truth's home now.
We're going to have a story.
Investigate.
Truth's home now.
Thank you.
We're going to come back right after our meeting, okay?
They fled.
Cindy Sheehan and the Democrats forced the Democrats.
Cindy Sheehan and Kook Fringe protesters forced the Democrats to leave.
They didn't, this doesn't happen to Democrats, folks.
They do not get heckled like this.
Rahm Emmanuel finally gave up trying to be heard over the chance, retreated to a caucus room where Democrats were meeting.
Cindy Sheehan had this to say.
We're here to let the Democrats know that the grassroots movement and the peace movement elected them for change.
We elected them to bring the troops home, stop funding the war, and for accountability.
Oh, that hurts.
Even I, who am deaf, that is painful to listen to, but it's funny as hell.
But it's still, I thought I was covering my ears, which doesn't do me any good because I hear electronically.
I feel like punishing myself.
Play that again, Mike.
This is Cindy Sheehan.
This is the woman whose ragtag bunch.
By the way, they were pretty choreographed and in unison on their chant, de-escalate, investigate, drooms home now.
And it really, it sounded like it were bigger than a college football stadium.
Here, listen to it one more time.
We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass...
What happened?
No, that's the one.
Play number two again.
That's what I want to hear.
We're here to let the Democrats know that the grassroots movement and the peace movement elected them for change.
We elected them to bring the troops home, stop funding the war, and for accountability.
Okay.
She then said, we wanted the Democrats to know they're back in power because of the grassroots.
Now, when Cindy Seahan was finished, Rom Emmanuel slinked back to the microphone there.
He really did, kind of snuck up on the microphone so he wouldn't be noticed, and promised hearings.
Ron, they don't want hearings.
They want impeachment, and they want us out of a rock.
Here's what Emmanuel said.
It is a comprehensive package.
It will alter the way business is done.
The most important thing that a Congress can do is begin to hold the hearings and ask the questions that our constituents are asking and finally demand the answers that have been missing from this policy in Iraq.
They don't have a chance to affect policy unless they actually do defund it.
And I don't think they can't get that done in both houses.
And they certainly can't get that past a presidential veto.
And they also don't have the votes for impeachment, so that isn't going to happen.
So he had to come back.
He was going to talk about lobbying reform.
He may have talked about that as well, but he had to make sure that, well, we're going to investigate, but they don't want investigations.
Now, about this lobbying reform business.
In fact, let me find the story.
Yes.
This is, I had it in the stack from yesterday.
It's old buddies at AP.
New Democrat lawmakers aren't the only ones measuring for drapes and unsealing boxes.
In a job-swapping cycle unseen for some time, Democrat congressional aides and former members are leaping to lucrative lobbying posts.
Washington's $2.3 billion lobbying industry is undergoing one of its periodic adjustments to shifts in government power, the first since the White House changed hands in 2001.
Now, the question is, why are the lobbyists, the Democrat lobbyists, flying back into town, gravitating when the Democrats are saying, we're not going to be dealing with you?
When the Democrats are saying we're going to have lobby reform, we're not going to be dealing with lobbyists.
Why are the lobbyists flocking back?
Because the Democrats are going to deal with them.
It's a way of life.
They say money is the mother's milk of politics.
Lobbyists are the oxygen, just like voters are.
Those of you who actually think that there's ever going to be serious lobbying reform and a reduction in power that lobbyists have can forget it.
It's how do you think Congress can arrive owning nothing on a salary of whatever it is, $140 or $50, and five or 10 years later have a net worth of three or four to five, $7 million?
How do you think this happens?
And do you think that the mechanism by which this happens is all of a sudden just going to be, it would be like if Congress decided, you know what?
We're going to hand over the power to write tax law right to the president.
You think that, well, you're going to give up that kind of power?
They will never give up that power, social architecture, the tax code.
Same thing here.
What really needs to be pointed out is that when the Republicans won the House and Tom DeLay successfully took over K-Street and put lobbyists sympathetic to Republicans, the drive-by media, the Democrats attacked him as somebody who was corrupting and perverting the political process.
This story today is exactly what DeLay did.
And everybody's hailing it as a shift in power.
And it's something that happens periodically in cycles.
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Here's the Andrea Mitchell bite.
Some of you find that so unbelievable that Andrea Mitchell would actually be critical of any Democrat, particularly Pelosi.
Here it is with PMS NBC this morning, Andrea Mitchell and John Dingell, Democrat Michigan.
I always, you know, every time I pronounce Dingell's name correctly, I thank God I haven't screwed it up because it's so close to profanity.
Are you happy with this big celebration that Nancy Pelosi has planned for herself?
Is it a bit unseemly to have Stevie Wonder and Tony Bennett and the dinners and the lunches and the brunches and the trip to Baltimore to rename the street in honor of her?
Isn't this a little bit too imperial?
No, I think not.
Of course not.
Each individual and each party celebrates events of this kind in their own way.
Let's look at this.
Nancy Pelosi is the first woman speaker in history.
This marks an extraordinary event.
Yes, yes, it does.
There you've heard it.
And one more bite here, and then we'll get to the phone calls.
This is last night on CNN Anderson Cooper's 360.
He's talking with David Rodham Gergen, and Cooper says, now, if you were Hillary, what would you do about Barack Obama?
There's nothing you can do.
You can't attack him.
And it's conceivable that she might even want him to be a running mate.
So I think to have any kind of vitriolic campaign, it would be a mistake.
She needs to emphasize what she believes in, where she's going, her experience, and most importantly, show that she is not the sort of this heritan from the left that has that around the country she's so easily stereotyped.
Because, you know, there is a fear among people around her that the best day of her campaign is going to come the day she announces.
And after that, she's just going to be under unmerciful attack, talk radio, the Russian boss of the world.
And it's going to, you know, they'll just make a piñata out of her.
David, where you been?
We've been doing that since 1993 or 92, the campaign.
Why does he think that we've been waiting to turn her into a piñata?
You can't ratchet it up much more than we already have.
I don't know what these people are thinking.
At any rate, okay, promise to go to the phones, and we do.
Mary Joe in Riverside, California, your first, a distinct and high honor, and I'm glad you are here.
Welcome.
Thanks, Rush.
And Dittos.
Thank you.
It's so great to talk to you.
Thank you.
During the fall, you talked about the demise of the Democrats, and that really encouraged me and made me happy.
But now that they have won the Senate and the House, do you still see their decline?
Yes, in the long term.
But, you know, it disappointed me, too.
And I have to tell you, throughout the whole year, and I was not being disingenuous with you.
I know.
Throughout the whole year, I mean, I tell these stories.
I come back from a golf trip or wherever, and I got tired everywhere I went of people.
Do you think the Republicans can hold the House?
And I said, yes.
I didn't have any question about it because in my mind, I didn't see or hear one Democrat saying or doing anything that was giving anybody reason to vote for them.
I thought the Democratic Party had become a never-ending wellstone memorial.
And I think that had it not, we could, Mary Joe, if we wanted to, we could call this not the Pelosi Congress, but the Mark Foley Congress.
She is the Mark Foley Speaker of the House.
Okay.
Because that one story reversed a bunch of Republican momentum and presidential momentum in pre-election polls.
And it just, I think what happened is the Democrats didn't win here.
The Republicans lost it.
The Republicans failed to govern as conservatives.
They failed to stand up for themselves when under attack.
They failed to campaign vigorously.
They were afraid because the president was under such attack.
They didn't want to be associated with the president because they didn't want to be attacked as well, forgetting that they're always attacked.
It was very frustrating.
I don't think the country has moved left.
I don't think the country is liberal at all.
If you look at the Democrats that won that gave them power, they were conservative Democrats in southern states.
The incumbent liberals, of course, won, but They had to commit quasi-election fraud by running a bunch of conservative Democrats in southern states.
And for the purpose of their victories was to launch a pretty far-left power structure in the House of Representatives.
But no, I think the Democratic Party is still in big trouble because they can't be who they are.
I agree.
I agree.
They're going to try.
This is what's going to make these next two years fun.
They're going to be unable to hold themselves back because they think that just like the Republicans made the mistake in 94, I can tell by watching TV today, these people think the country has embraced their ideology and they are going to go pedal to the metal as fast as they can to get as much of it done.
And they're not going to be able to get much of it done because of numbers and legislative realities.
But still, it perhaps is going to be interesting to watch as they actually portray themselves as they are, and that could end up being informative.
But still, the Republicans are going to have to run candidates people want to vote for.
I mean, you can't rely on, and this is what the Republicans did.
I think they relied on the Democrats to implode and to continue imploding, and that doesn't work.
Yeah.
I just wish that we had gotten the borders closed and the judges elected before we lost.
Well, here you go.
Yeah.
You're in California.
I'm sure you've heard the latest from Governor Schwarzenegger on the immigration.
For those of you that don't know, and I have this, I had it later in the stack, but let me find it here because it's something that you all need to know.
Let me paraphrase it.
Schwarzenegger has said that every child in California, whether they are illegal or not, will be given health care insurance.
There it is.
L.A. Times governor to seek insurance for all children, all illegal children to be covered in California under Governor Schwarzenegger's proposal.
Then, from the Houston Chronicle today, there is another story that's not about that, but it's about immigration.
And it's not a new story.
It's actually a story that has been around, and we've talked about it briefly and an eschatological basis in the last couple of three months.
A confidential 2004 agreement between the U.S. and Mexico could require Social Security to pay billions of dollars in benefits to Mexicans who paid payroll taxes in this country, according to a senior citizens group that forced the document's disclosure.
Did you follow me on that, Mary Joe?
I did, and I heard that the other day, and that just made me sick because as a baby boomer, I know Social Security is not going to be there for me.
Well, but before we even get there, the justification for this is that these people, why, Rush, they're working and they're paying Social Security taxes, so why shouldn't they're working on illegal identities?
I know.
They're illegal by definition.
If they've got a Social Security number, they've stolen it.
There's ideas.
And of course, that doesn't matter.
So when you'd say you wish we'd have gotten immigration taken care of and the borders closed and all that and the judges before the election, I have to tell you, they can't wait.
The president is pretty excited to get immigration reform done based on the Senate bill.
I mean, the fence probably won't be built.
Right.
So I think this is one of the problems I was talking about earlier as to what happened in the election last time around.
The Republicans showed up with the anti-illegal immigration or the secure the borders position a little too late.
They showed up in August and it looked political at that point.
So anyway, just a heads up on that.
But look, you know, you can't go through life letting what happens in Washington determine your happiness.
Oh, it doesn't.
I mean, it affects you, but it's like always, you know, people would always say to me, well, Rush, how come, you know, they always raise taxes on the rich.
They always raise taxes on people.
Some people just refuse to accept it, and they work all that much more harder, all that much harder, and just try to earn more money to compensate for the greater tax that they have to pay.
I mean, Democrats today, when I was watching television, they were acting like everybody in this country was getting up today, turning to face Washington, and wait with bated breath for the Democrats to take over at noon today.
Oh, please give me a break.
Well, I'm glad to hear you put it that way, Mary Joe.
Look, I didn't like it that the Democrats won.
I hate losing to these guys.
But life goes on.
Baseball teams, they play 162 games.
They lose.
I mean, the team that does the best may lose 60.
Right.
You don't win every election and so forth, but you can't keep battling and fighting for them.
And that's why I appreciate you, Rush, because you're just out there all the time.
Somebody, let me ask you a question since I have you before we go to the break.
Something that's always amazed me.
I, throughout my life, have encountered people who, and I'm trying to be kind here, who are near the end of their lives.
And I've always been amazed whether I was 12 or 15 or 20 or even now when I'm 55, soon to be 56.
Happy to admit my age because I've always known every year I get older, life would improve, and it always has.
That's a sidebar.
I talk to people 85 and 90, and they care just as much about politics and the country as they did 20, 30 years ago or 40 years ago.
And I've always been amazed by it.
I mean, most of their life has been lived, and yet they are as concerned about who's running the show and what the future is as though they're going to be here when they know they're not.
And when they've spent most of their life, they've lived most of their life, you figure, all right, to hell with this.
I mean, there's things I'm going to do.
I want to make sure I get the most of my remaining.
They don't think that way.
Now, you figure out why.
Do you ever wonder about that?
And do you have an answer for why that might be?
Just to care and just they know it affects their lives.
They love their country.
Well, yeah.
And these are core principles they're talking about.
And most of them have children and grandchildren.
They care about their future.
Right.
And they're not selfish.
But it's always amazing.
The reason I mention this is because you're young.
I can hear it in your voice.
You're young, and it's not time to check out just because you got a temporary disappointment here.
There are all kinds of reasons to continue to try to be optimistic.
And, of course, the new word, hopeful.
And of course, it doesn't hurt to say you're sorry now, and that's supposed to make you feel better now and then, too.
Say sorry, even when you haven't done anything.
Just tell people you're sorry, and they'll think you're a big heart.
But stuff is important, but there are clearly other things in life, too.
Just don't let this determine your happiness each and every day because you can't because you don't really have that much control over it.
You have control over far more things than who's running the show in Washington and what they're doing.
Mary Joe, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
Got to go.
I'll be back after this with much more.
People have been asking me, Rush, are we going to go back to the America-held hostage countdown as we did when Clinton won the what?
No, ladies and gentlemen, this does not rate that.
Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry running Washington Congress anyway does not rate America held hostage status.
Something could happen that would trigger it, but it's not this.
Meanwhile, Topeka, Kansas.
Frank, welcome to the program, sir.
Well, sir.
Yes.
I just want you to know where I'm coming from.
I'm a retired 32 years Navy, retired as a W-4 warrant.
The question I want to ask you most of all, and let me tell you this.
I voted for George the first time.
I didn't vote for George the last time.
And the reason I didn't is I was upset with the House and the Senate.
And for six months, you kept saying, Do you want Pelosi in the House?
Do you want Harry Reid there?
Do you want Pelosi?
Do you want Harry Reed?
For three months, you got my attention.
I sat down and started recording when I couldn't be home, and I watched these people.
I watched the doctor on your side, or used to be my side, and I watched Hasler.
And I got confused with what the four were doing.
And the more you kept saying that, the more I kept watching them.
And to tell you the truth, I'll become an independent.
I did vote for the Democrats this time.
I'm hoping they'll do a better job.
All right, what are you saying here?
You kept saying Pelosi.
Frank, are you telling me that I made you vote for Pelosi and Democrats who should be in power?
Well, you made, well, they were going to get ahead of the parties, and you made me change my mind, sir.
I'm not saying I'm going to stick with this, but I started watching the four of them.
I made you change your mind?
You did because.
I had nothing to do with it.
Well, you kept saying every day you almost said, do you want to see her?
Yeah, but then you went and started paying attention, and what they did changed your mind, which is, that'd be an embarrassing thing for me to admit.
Well, I watched the other side, too, sir.
I watched the doctor.
Well, that's why.
What doctor?
Oh, Frist.
You speak in code out there, Frank.
Well, he's stepping down too, I noticed.
Well, fine.
So I told you, do you want Pelosi and do you want recently?
You went out and studied him and fell in love with him.
Well, they weren't doing anything.
You can't blame me for that.
I watched them for two months, and then I went back and I started watching the doctor and Hasler.
I watched them.
I watched them and I watched them.
And they were not giving the other side time to even say what they wanted to say.
All right, I get it.
So you're calling here to gloat.
You were telling me that you said, Go, do you want these people?
You thought that paying attention, Rush, would drive me away.
And I ended up liking these people.
So it's your fault.
Yeah, you're calling to gloat over the fact that if it weren't for me, you wouldn't be happy today.
We'd a go, Rush.
I can take it.
No problem.
Here's Don in Chicago.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
28 Day Bitto's Rush.
Hey, Rush, I felt like an honored EIB student yesterday when I was watching the Rob Emmanuel conference, news conference.
Yeah.
And he got heckled.
The first thing that came to my mind, and this is how I know I've been listening to you long enough to get it, was a tiger is a tiger is a tiger.
These people, you can't appease them.
They're going to turn on them.
It's amazing.
It's going to be so good to watch for the next two years.
Yeah, because they're not going to be able to be made happy.
Getting out of Iraq and impeachment and all this sort of stuff cannot be done.
And they're going to be livid.
It will be fun to watch.
The more interesting thing to me will be to chart whatever impact these people have.
The Democrats are not used to getting heckled.
This does not happen to them.
I mean, I can remember Clinton, it was in Chicago, in fact, a couple, a man and a woman heckled him or something as he was walking by, and they ended up being absconded by the Secret Service and interrogated.
I forget what else happened to them.
It might have been something even more.
Democrats aren't used to this.
And if this keeps up, if Democrats are routinely shouted down by their own people, action will be taken to deal with Cindy Sheehan and her mob.
This just does not fit with the mold, with the drive-by media caricature and image that is presented of Democrats, where everybody loves them, everybody supports them, there is no controversy about them.
This is not going to be tolerated for very long.
And I'll tell you, when these guys, led by Emanuel, went back to this room after they got shouted off the stage, in addition to whatever else they were talking about, it was what to do about this in the future.
Mark my words.
Back in a second.
All right.
Let me put it on the table.
Any others of you out there want to blame me for this today?
Come on.
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