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January 12, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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I'm staring at it in stunned amazement here.
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The Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, have already started their implosion.
Nancy Pelosi has exempted Starkiss Tuna, which is actually Del Monte, from the minimum wage bill.
They are in her district.
Del Monte is in San Francisco.
And the Starkist tuna factory on American Samoa, which employs about 5,000 Samoans, and it's, I guess, 75% of the island's workforce.
They have a minimum wage there of $3 and something, and they have been exempted from the new minimum wage law by Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi then told Chuck Wrangel, hey, look, get going on that tax increase for people to make half a million dollars or more.
And Wrangel said, screw it.
I'm not doing that.
This is not the time to start talking about taxes.
And if we do this, I'm going to have hearings.
She said, no, you're not going to have hearings.
You're just going to do it.
He said, no.
And he had hearings anyway in private.
This is not time to talk about this.
Then yesterday, there was just these people, I've never seen people who are more angry in victory than this bunch.
I don't care if it's the elected officials or Democrats in general out there.
Barbara Boxer hit below the ovaries yesterday with Condoleezza Rice during the hearings that they were conducting on the president's new strategy.
Listen to this.
Condoleezza Rice says, I could never and I can never do anything to replace any of those lost men and women in uniform or the diplomats.
Some of.
Madam Secretary, please.
I know you feel terrible about it.
That's not the point.
I was making the case as to who pays the price for your decisions.
Now, the issue is who pays the price?
Who pays the price?
I'm not going to pay a personal price.
My kids are too old and my grandchild is too young.
You're not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family.
So who pays the price?
the american military and their families that is i don't i don't know where to start with this let Folks, this is, well, it's unbelievable.
This is.
How can you even describe this kind of thinking?
you have a rich white chick with a huge big mouth trying to lynch diss an African-American woman right before Martin Luther King Day hitting below the ovaries here what about the childless Gloria Steinem drum her out of the feminist movement I'm going to tell you I was joking the other day about setting up a lobbying group for the childless This kind of thinking is exactly where we're headed with Democrats.
If you haven't done anything, you can't comment on it.
You can't participate in it.
And so according to Barbara Boxer, since Condoleezza Rice has nothing personal at stake in this, then her policy can't be trusted.
Only if I guess the same thing would have to be said about Barbara Boxer, but see, she's on the right side of this because she doesn't want any little nasty old war.
She doesn't want people getting killed.
She doesn't want victory.
She doesn't want any of this.
This is, I think, just a great illustration of the anger and the arrogance of who these people are.
And I told you, it wouldn't take long.
And this implosion is happening even sooner.
I thought they'd at least get through their first 100 hours without this kind of mess.
But there are so many messes that are starting.
And have you heard about this guy, Kagan or Hagan?
Let me find this.
This is just hilarious.
But it's, well, it's hilarious, but it's also as well illustrative here.
Guy named Kagan, Steve Kagan, freshman congressman.
He is from, where is he from?
Wisconsin, I believe.
And he went up to the White House during the little orientation they had there, the reception for arriving freshmen.
And this is how he described it himself.
While meeting last month with a group of area peace activists, Congressman-elect, then Congressman-elect Steve Kagan told a story of his first visit to the White House.
He told the group one of the first lessons that he learned in Washington is to never pass up a restroom because you don't know when you'll see one again.
He'd already had a long day of freshman orientation when he and his wife Gail were expected at the White House.
Upon arrival, he asks a Marine where he can find a restroom.
He's sent down a long flight of stairs to another Marine who directs him to the restroom.
It's a small room, two spots on the wall, one stall, one sink.
I see in the mirror, the door opens, and who walks in but Carl Rove.
After Rove washed his hands, at least he's a hand washer, Kagan said, he attempted to leave, but Kagan prevented his departure by holding the door closed and said to Rove, you're in the White House and you think you're safe, huh?
You recognize me?
My name's Dr. Multi-Millionaire, and I kicked your...
Don't tell me I put these out of order.
You're like...
I kicked you.
Well, you know what he's saying?
I kicked your ass.
Kagan expected to make Rove squirm, but he said it acted like a tennis match.
And Rove said simply, oh, congratulations.
We're walking up these long steps, and I stopped him.
I said, look, the race is over.
We're here to do the people's business.
I want you to join me on something, but you can't steal it.
I've got the trademark.
No patient left behind.
And Rove says, I like the sound of that.
We get to the top of the steps.
There's Vice President Cheney with a glass of white wine and a hand in his pocket.
So I wasn't going to miss this opportunity.
Gail wasn't there to hold me back, his wife.
Mr. Vice President, said Kagan, thank you for your service to the nation and thank you so much for coming to Green Bay and campaigning against me.
I couldn't have won without your help.
He then asked Cheney to enunciate his vision for Iraq.
He says that Cheney said, well, I'd like to see a stable government that could take care of itself and its people.
I said, at what price?
Cheney said, I don't understand your point.
I walked away.
Then we had an opportunity to take a picture with the president and his wife.
I was feeling real good at this point.
I said to my wife, honey, just follow my lead.
She said, Stephen, it's the president.
I said, yeah, but he's not any taller than I am.
So the camera's here.
We're introduced by a Marine.
I said, Mr. President, thank you for coming to Green Bay.
My name is Dr. Multi-Millionaire.
That was before the race.
Now they call me Dr. Thousandair.
I couldn't have won without you coming.
He said Bush gave one of his smiles and said, I've lost a lot of money in my life, too.
Then I go to his wife and I said, hi, Barbara, how are you?
I did that because I learned in the campaign that the meanest thing you can say to another gentleman is he's a fine fellow.
And then you refer to his spouse by a different name.
This is what passes here for Democrat civility and Democrat class.
Again, this guy's name is Steve Kagan.
He's a freshman from Wisconsin.
And this is the story that he's bragging about.
John Fund has written about it as well in his political diary at the opinionjournal.com website.
So you couple this with Pelosi.
Well, not Pelosi, but Barbara Boxer.
I mean, even Democrats in the hall yesterday in the room were appalled at the way she was treating Condoleezza Rice and what she said.
But let's not forget what that thing was really all about there before Barbara Boxer started hitting below the ovaries.
You got to go back to the start.
Well, that's what happened.
And you have to go back to the start, which was the Foreign Relations Committee hearings.
The media is watching.
They are covering what they think is oversight of a serious Senate committee looking at Iraq.
But in truth, what they were watching yesterday, what everybody else was really watching, is a gaggle of second-tier politicians with illusions of getting nominated for president in 2008.
And they were all on display and they were all pontificating as campaigners and as presidents because when they look in the mirror and then see themselves, they see a president.
That's part of the ego, apparently, of being a senator.
And so what happened yesterday was not a search for wisdom.
It was a search for television FaceTime, for name recognition, for campaign donors, and of course for the all-important fawning drive-by media coverage.
So rules of engagement in this hearing are the lower you go, the more bucks the kooks will kick in.
Biden suggested that Cheney knows the war is lost.
Dodd called the plan a fool's paradise.
Obama got off an also clever, tasteless, we're not going to babysit a civil war.
But all the sound bites from all the second stringers, including John Kerry, who served in Vietnam and the shameless Chuck Hagel, none could get as low as the statement from the San Francisco Treat, Barbara Boxer, the mouth that shall live in infamy.
If no children disqualifies Condoleezza Rice, does no brains, no class, and no taste disqualify Barbara Boxer?
By the way, this Kagan guy, this Democrat freshman Steve Kagan of Wisconsin, now that his comments are out there, they're out there all over the blogosphere.
He's clamming up.
He's not talking about this.
And the theory is that he either said it and is this borish, rude, classless, typically angry, enraged Democrat, or he made it up.
Or he is a fantasist who's telling everybody that he did all this, but he didn't.
You know, I've been to the White House and I know those steps that you have to walk down to get to the bathroom.
And I've been in that bathroom.
And I have to tell you, I have the idea that Karl Rove would be in that bathroom.
These people have, I mean, this is that's the, when I read that, I said, this can't, this doesn't make sense.
There's no, that bathroom, well, they sent this guy way down two flights of steps.
I mean, that was, I was at the White House Christmas party a couple years ago when I saw this.
Didn't go this year, been there, done that.
But hard to know.
The guy is either a fantasist, a liar, he makes it up, a braggart, or he's classless and a boer and enraged, and probably a little bit of both.
Charles Wrangell, butting heads now with Nancy Pelosi, just a week into the new Congress controlled by their party.
Wrangel yesterday, this is, by the way, an exclusive to the New York Post.
Wrangell yesterday swatted down a tax hike that Pelosi had floated, and he made an end run to round her decision to bypass House committees in a rush to bring bills to a vote.
There's a lot of tension there, a Democrat said of the relationship between Wrangell and Pelosi.
You know, Wrangell runs the Ways and Means Committee.
And Pelosi had an idea on Sunday.
She'd raise the idea of repealing tax cuts for those earning more than $500,000 a year.
And Wrangell told the New York Post, wait a minute, we haven't even, we haven't gotten that far to be talking about tax increases.
She hasn't discussed it with me.
We haven't gotten into tax policy.
Pelosi had said that nixing tax cuts for half million dollar earners might be more important to the American people than ignoring the educational and health needs of America's children.
Now, stop and think about that.
Nancy Pelosi thinks that she can score more political points by effectively raising taxes on people who earn half a million dollars a year or more than she can by securing health care and education.
I mean, this is odd.
This is odd and it's crazy.
But it just goes to show you what they think they've created.
They think they've created a nation of boiling, enraged, angry Americans filled with class envy who are not doing well at all.
It's soup line America out there.
And by God, it's time to get even with the achievers.
It's time to get even with them.
And if she really thinks that she can score more political points on a tax increase on that few people, a tax increase which is not going to improve anybody else's standard of living, just wait, folks.
It's going to happen sooner than I thought.
By the way, by calling out Pelosi, Wrangell has emerged as the first old school committee baron with the political juice to spar with her.
And what else happened?
The Senate, big legislation yesterday, the Dingy Harry lost nine Democrats on a piece of ethics legislation about earmarks.
You know, I asked, the real question is, the real bet in Washington, how long is it going to be before Pelosi stops talking to Reed?
Because Reed's not going to be able to advance her agenda.
Whatever legislation comes out of the House, Reed is going to need nine votes to get it passed, nine more votes than he's got, and Mitch McConnell, the Republican, can lose eight of the votes he's got because you need 60.
And so she's going to sit over there stymied and frustrated, especially as her legislation gets changed, such as the minimum wage, because the Senate's going to add some tax cuts to it while Pelosi's wanting tax increases all over the place.
Yeah, this is going to be fun.
Everybody wants to talk about the Civil War in Iraq and all this.
There's a coming civil war in the Democrat Party.
And I spelled it out for you yesterday, and I'm going to do it again now so you understand it.
What's happening as far as the White House is concerned, I don't know if this is purposeful or not, but it is happening.
All of this legislation in Pelosi's first 100 hours, they're ramming it through the House with no committee hearings, no debate.
Well, a little debate on the floor of the House, but no testimony from experts to comment on the effect of the inflation.
They're just ramming it through there.
And it's minimum wage, whatever it is.
It's all going to pass.
I mean, Bush is not going to argue about any of it.
Immigration, but stem cells may be the only thing.
And by the end of the first hundred hours or first six months, whatever it is, the only thing left on the table to argue about is going to be Iraq.
I mean, they're going to be arguing about judges, especially in the House.
And Bush has withdrawn some controversial, so-called controversial nominees, and some of the others have withdrawn themselves.
So, you know, we're waiting for a Supreme Court resignation or something more tragic for another nominee there.
Don't know when that's going to happen.
So the only thing left on the table that Bush, I mean, I think really is going to fight for till the end of his presidency is Iraq.
And there's nothing the Democrats can do about it.
And all they can do is conduct their hearings.
All they can do is conduct their investigations, their mock impeachment hearings or whatever else they do, bring all these people up to demand answers on these things.
But is that going to satisfy the kook fringe that elected these people?
They didn't elect them for investigations and hearings.
They elected them to get them out of Iraq, to get us out of Iraq.
And when Pelosi doesn't deliver on that and when Dingy Harry doesn't deliver on that, all these other little bits of legislation that the House has passed that may never be signed into law by the president is not going to mollify these people.
And they're going to look ineffective.
Pelosi and Reid are going to look like they can't get anything done.
This is somewhat of a tactical mistake that they're making.
This is a political sense here.
Because their campaign was on nothing, which was safe as far as they're concerned.
They ran on nothing.
They purposely ran on nothing other than the Republicans are a bunch of crap, and we've got to get rid of them.
Now that they've gotten elected, they're claiming a mandate.
And the things that they wouldn't dare run on, they're now making front and center, and they're attaching themselves to these ideas personally that are not going to happen.
They just couldn't wait.
They'd have been out of power for so long, they just couldn't wait, and they just couldn't be patient, and they couldn't use these next two years to try to build a foundation for continual or continuing election wins.
And now they're going public with all of this behavior that is typical of who they are.
And they've always masked that and tried to camouflage it.
My only question is, is this kind of like what Barbara Boxer did to Condoleezza Rice?
It really is nothing compared to what has been said and done about Condoleezza Rice in the last three or four years, and that didn't seem to bother the American people.
But we keep our fingers crossed that at some point in time, the American people will recognize the classless brutes, the angry, enraged, classless people that these Democrats have come to be in politics.
Back in a sec.
I know, and thank you.
We are here.
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All right, to the phones we go.
And John in Heartland, Wisconsin.
You're up first today.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Morning.
Morning.
Afternoon, what time is it where you are?
Well, it's still morning where I am.
That's what counts.
Yeah, I'd like to bring up a point.
You always like to bring up the goals to Clinton when everything goes wrong with the Republicans.
But, you know what?
I don't hear it with the war because, you know, the two wars we fought under Clinton, we won.
Remember Bosnia, Kosovo?
We won.
What?
Bosnia and Kosovo?
The two wars that we fought, we won.
We didn't think we won.
We won.
We beat the poop out of them.
And guess what?
We're not back there fighting either.
We aren't Somalia.
We are acting.
I didn't say Somalia.
I did.
Two wars we fought with Clinton.
Somalia wasn't a war, and we just went back there.
All right.
I'm not getting everything you're saying, but let me talk about Clinton and his war with NATO forces in Bosnia-Kosovo, the former Yugoslavia.
Number one, Bill Clinton fought that war from 15,000 feet.
That's why there were no casualties.
There were no American forces, ground troops, that were used.
They were NATO troops.
The spokesman for the war was some British guy from NATO named Jamie.
I'll never forget this guy's accent.
It mesmerized me.
Our forces today under the command of Brigadier General Folkleroi Bighorn.
But nevertheless, your boy Clinton didn't have the guts to take any casualties because he didn't want to risk his precious approval rating.
Clinton did that war for PC reasons.
It was ethnic cleansing.
There was all kinds of real ethnic cleansing going on that Clinton didn't dare get involved in anywhere.
And you want to tell us about Clinton's victory in Mogadishu in Somalia, where he pulled us out in the midst of victory after 18 Rangers had been killed.
Go watch the movie Black Hawk Down or read the book.
But that's not the point of all of this.
The point of all of this is that the United States is at war, and there are people who are trying in this country to secure our defeat.
This is not just about stabilizing Baghdad, folks.
This is not just about stabilizing Iraq.
Because I dare say, if that had been the mission, do you think the American people would have supported that?
I wouldn't have supported what we're going to go to war to stabilize Baghdad, stabilize Iraq.
That's only part of what this is about.
This war is being fought to protect America.
This war is about United States national security.
9-11.
I continue to be amazed.
The number of people are able to wipe that off the map.
So anyway, you can sit out there and Clinton fights wars and wins them and so forth.
I'm not trying to make this a partisan thing between Bush and Clinton.
Clinton's days are gone and he's still looking for his legacy.
If Clinton was a great victor in war, don't you think they'd be out there trumping this?
By the way, the situation in Kosovo, we still have UN peacekeepers there, and they're still doing what they do, which is not much good.
They're still battling and fighting over there.
And of course, when Bill Clinton went to war, there wasn't any criticism of it in the media.
There were no daily briefings on the body count and injuries and the unnecessary tactics being used and oh, how horrible it was.
And there was no where's the plan?
What's our exit strategy?
There was none of that.
So the American people were not treated to a daily dose of news designed to depress them about it.
It was just the opposite because the media, the drive-by media, same generation as Clinton, his success is theirs.
His failure is theirs.
That's why they prop him up and are continuing to help write the legacy.
Renee, in Burden, New Jersey, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Raj.
Hi.
I'm a Democrat, and I just have to say that I completely agree with you.
And I just want to let you know we're not all like that congressman.
If I met the president, I would not act like that, and I think it's disgusting.
And I have felt this way about the Democratic Party for years.
What do you think about what Barbara Boxer did?
It's disgusting.
I can't believe she would say that kind of thing to Condoleezza, right?
Why not?
Look, Renee, please forgive me here.
I don't understand how you can say you can't believe it.
The Democrats have been talking like this for six years now.
I understand, but I'm also 18 years old.
So, you know, I have a lot of been watching the news for so long.
Oh, I see.
We're nailing down the 18 to 34 demographic here today.
You know what?
That's even better than if you're 18 and this stuff offends you or disgusts you.
That's good.
Had you known about this before you heard me discuss it on the program?
Have you seen any videotape of it?
Yes, I have.
Well, it's nice to hear from a Democrat that a Democrat's angry at a Democrat over something like this.
I thought those days were long gone.
And at least before November, I could say, you know, there's a minority party and they're just trying to get people to pay attention to them.
But they're not the minority party anymore.
And they really, you know, they don't have that excuse anymore.
And I'm just getting really tired of it.
Well, trust me on this, Renee.
This is who they are.
It's been this way since you were 12.
Ever since George Bush took office in that campaign, this is who they are.
Okay.
Take that into consideration.
All right.
Renee, I appreciate that.
Thanks so much for the call.
It's nice to talk to you.
Janny in Northport, Florida.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Yeah, Rush.
I'm a longtime listener, and I'm in your Amazon brigade, by the way.
So what does that mean?
Well, I guess you'd just say I'm a tall, blonde, but I like my men manly.
And I'm having a big problem with your male callers of late.
This week, especially after the president's speech, was the worst ever.
They're all girly men.
And I should say that the guy that coined that phrase is the biggest girly men of all now.
And they're just weak at the knees.
They're all whining.
You have just called Governor Schwarzenegger a ghouly men.
Well, I think it's the influence of the other half.
What guys are you?
You're talking about these liberals that called here, like the guy from Redlands, California, who thought.
I wouldn't even say they're all liberals.
Some conservatives who are just, you know, they're abandoning Bush and what he's trying to do in Iraq.
And I just find, I don't think they understand.
I think it's the education system, by the way.
It's 30 years of this liberal education.
It's feminized several generations of men.
And I don't think that bodes well for our future.
They're not able, all they do is whine.
They're not able to understand what's going on over there.
They disgust me that they have this inability to understand what's at stake.
You know, I totally agree with you.
We call the feminized male population of this country the new castrati.
As an Amazon, you'll understand what that means.
Oh, yes.
And by the way, she called herself that, folks, if you're just tuning in.
Well, I'm a tall, blonde, very tall, blonde.
I like how tall.
I've been called Amazon before.
Well, but see, I don't.
You're not an Amazon in my definition of the Amazon.
I'll tell you what that is in a segment.
How tall are you?
About six foot.
I'm not that tall, but six foot is tall for a lot.
Bill Clinton would be salivating right now if he knew you were on the phone.
Pardon me?
Bill Clinton?
I mean, he got.
Oh, he got turned on by a 400-year-old mummy.
You know, some basketball players, college basketball players, showed up in the White House.
And he was looking up at one of them, and he even, his comments were how excited he was about what fun that would be to spend some time with her.
So I just decided, but it's Amazon business, and Amazon is a talking about women in combat.
And the All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion is a battalion or division, whatever, of women who are at the time of combat on PMS.
They're in the middle of PMS.
It has nothing to do with size.
It has to do with just turning them into banshees for the purposes of combat.
But look, I couldn't agree with you more about the wussiness and the passivity that exists in this country, particularly among the male population, is mystifying.
Well, it's not mystifying.
I understand it.
I think you're partly right.
But it's disappointing.
Yesterday, when you talked about, well, we saw it on interviews on the TV when they were asking men, specifically after the president's speech, what they thought.
And I'm tired of war.
I tire of war.
I'm weary of war.
I mean, don't get people.
They're on the golf course.
They're going out to sale in the Gulf.
They're going to Sax to buy clothes that day.
I mean, this is ridiculous, but they don't realize what they sound like.
I mean, I just want to slap them all.
And it's an Amazon.
I could do that.
Yes, yes, I know.
I'd love to see it, frankly.
Well, look, where is Northport, Florida?
I'm in Sarasota County, South Sarasota County.
Okay.
About 30 miles from Sarasota.
Right, okay.
So you're on a list.
And you should be living over here, Rush.
This is the most conservative county in the state, and we've got gorgeous areas along the water.
You should really be living over here.
This is a place for you.
I have Longboat Key.
That's quite seductive.
That's quite seductive.
You should come over and check it out sometime.
There's KCK, there's great places.
I've been there.
I've been to Tampa, and of course I've been over to Naples.
I've seen the.
And Boca Grand.
You've been to Boca Grand?
That's where the Boca Grand.
I've not been there.
I'll check it out sometime.
I think you'd be very comfortable over here.
You'd like it.
Yes.
Well, we'd love to have you.
I appreciate the invitation.
Okay, Rush.
Thanks much for the call, Janny, and have a great weekend, okay?
She's gone.
All right, got a quick time out here, folks.
We'll be back in mere moments and continue on Open Line Friday.
Hi, welcome back.
Hail Rush Beau, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Did a little research here.
Here are some of the childless members of the United States Senate.
Maria Cantwell, single, no crumb crunchers.
Barbara McCulski, single, no crumb crunchers.
Jack Reed, Democrat, Rhode Island, married, no crumb crunchers.
Olympia Snow, Rhode Island, married, no crumb crunchers.
Susan Collins, Republican, Rhode Island, single, no crumb crunchers.
Liddy Dole, North Carolina, married, no kids.
Six members of the U.S. Senate, also without children.
And I'll bet you Barbara Boxer has not once insulted them over the fact that they have no children and told them that their judgment and their decisions on anything having to do with children are irrelevant and perhaps flawed because they don't have any.
This is More and more of this effort by Democrats to disqualify people rather than debate them.
Barbara Boxer was not interested in hearing a thing Condoleezza Rice had to say.
She wanted to disqualify her as a credible source.
And that was it, period, which is another tactic that you should learn to expect from the left because they can't win these debates.
They can't win.
And if they get into them, it doesn't take long before they blow up and start attacking people personally, calling them names, this sort of thing.
The average liberal on this program cannot last longer than 30 seconds before descending into that kind of behavior.
There are some, and they're rare, and we enjoy those conversations.
But as I said, they're very rare.
I mean, what do you think?
One out of every 20 liberals we end up having an opportunity to talk to for longer than a minute or two.
Louise in Bakersfield, California.
You're next.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Fine.
Very well.
Thank you.
I'm very nervous.
And in lieu of your recent statement, you just said, I actually am a liberal, but I listen to you every single day, and I love, love, love your show.
You are a liberal.
You are a liberal?
Yes, I am.
Ladies, you have to forgive me here.
I'm distracted as hell by the phone system today for some reason.
At any rate, how long have you been a liberal?
How long have you been listening to this program?
Well, most of my life, but my dad is a long-time Republican, and I've only been listening to your show since I started working again.
And I listen to it every morning when I drive in.
How long is that?
About six months now.
You've been listening for six months?
Yeah.
Wow.
What happens when you tell your friends that you also listen to this program?
Well, they think I'm crazy.
They think I'm insane.
But I feel like I learned a lot from your show.
Let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something, Louise.
It isn't going to be long before you're going to be shedding your liberalism.
You're not going to be able to help it.
The longer you listen to this program.
I know my dad always listened to it, and I was like, well, I'm going to just listen because, you know, I figure the best way to be informed is to know both sides of an argument.
Yeah, I just can't shop.
So anyway, I was supposed to get to my point, which was I was curious what you think about what the Iraqi people themselves in Iraq are thinking of this war because I don't get much information regarding that.
You know, I mean, nobody talks about it.
Well, but as a liberal, why would you believe what I say anyway?
Because I'm interested in hearing your opinion.
I think it's, I mean, because you yourself seem to do a lot of well, I'm being a little facetious.
I'm going to answer your question.
I'm just intrigued by this because most liberals think I lie and make everything up.
And here we are asking for my honest opinion on it.
You cannot hear me.
Look at this.
It's impossible to try to have a conversation with his phone system today.
I'm getting fed up with this.
Nothing to do with you.
No, no, Louise.
It's nothing to do with you.
Let me answer the question.
Okay.
As best I can.
I read something about this just today in the New York Post.
Amir Tahari, who is a frequent columnist in that paper, has actually talked to some people in Baghdad, citizens.
And I think this is true, too, by the way.
I think they'd be mortified if we left.
I think they think we're the only thing keeping that country from totally imploding.
I think this new policy that was announced by the president has got them cheering behind their closed doors in Baghdad and throughout the country.
I think they're desperate for even more action to quell this.
I don't care who you are.
As an average citizen, you don't want to live the way these people are living with terrorists among you, insurgents hiding behind you, effectively making you targets.
You want to be able to get up and go to work or go to the mosque or whatever you do in the daytime without worrying that you're going to get killed and blown up.
Same thing happening to your kids.
Yes, absolutely.
I agree with you.
I was just curious what you had thought.
Now, what did you say you read that article?
Because I'd like to read it.
It was in the New York Post?
Yeah, I read it on their website.
Okay.
NewyorkPost.com.
I think I've got it bookmarked, so I'm not sure the site, but that's pretty close.
Maybe it's nypost.com.
But nevertheless, it's in their opinion section.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I appreciate you taking my call, Rush.
You bet, Louise.
Nice to have you on the program.
And we'll take a brief time out, my friends, and be back.
Stay with us.
Okay, I misspoke a moment ago.
Both Olympia Snow and Susan Collins are from Maine.
My cheat sheets sit here in Rhode Island.
I read them off because it was in a hurry.
They're from Maine.
I also got a note saying that Jack Reed's wife just had a baby, so he may no longer be childless in the Senate.
But even without him, there's still five.
And the idea that being childless means you cannot manage a war, means you cannot run the State Department or come up to the Senate and defend administration policy on the war.
I'll tell you what, the liberals are coming up with new and more inventive reasons to silence people that they don't want to hear.
And you all ought to be taking note of this.
I do, of course.
Back in just a second.
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