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Jan. 31, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 31, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
You guys, you guys have lost your courage.
You have lost your courage.
Okay, I'll do this.
I'll tell him what I was planning on doing.
Do it that way.
Greetings.
Greetings, folks, and welcome.
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Senator Biden.
In the New York Observer, quote.
I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who's articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy.
I mean, that's a storybook man.
I don't recall hearing a word from Barack about a plan or a tactic, although he has put one out now.
And everybody, you know, says, what what what?
I mean, clean?
He's a clean black guy.
He is a clean African American.
If if if Biden thinks that that Obama is clean, then he has to think that some others are not clean.
Does he mean that he knows that Jesse Jackson's not clean?
Does he mean that he knows the Reverend Sharpton is not clean?
I was debating how to handle this, folks, and I'll tell you how I was going to do it.
And everybody, the staff, people I ran advice, don't do it.
Don't do it.
It's too dangerous.
It's dangerous territory.
Don't do it.
And I said, All right, all right, all right.
But I'm gonna tell you people what I was gonna do.
Again, here's why.
Let me tell you why first, and I'll tell you what I was gonna do.
Biden has put his foot in his mouth I don't know how many times.
He once called Delaware a slave state.
Uh and the drive-by media yawned.
He then said something.
He was walking through a train station or somewhere, and somebody helped my memory on this.
He was talking about the fact that every employee at uh at a 7-Eleven in Delaware is is what Indian or Buddha Hindu or some such thing, and you had to speak a certain kind of language to be able to shop there.
Well, I mean, let anybody else say that.
Let me say.
You know, let me say that a Barack Obama is a clean black guy and watch how few seconds it takes for this to reverberate all over the place.
Now, Drudge has it up, but it's gonna be real interesting to me to see if this if this reverberates within the drive-by media.
Uh because I'll tell you what's gonna happen.
Biden is gonna be asked about this, he'll go on Matthew's show or something, and he will be um given a chance to clarify.
He'll be given a chance to explain his remarks to come up with something.
Oh, come I can't believe people are taking it this way.
No, I was an ultimate compliment.
I was trying to compliment the guy.
Oh, thank you, Senator Biden for clarifying this for us.
And it'll be over with.
Uh, and so my plan was to open the program today by asking everybody what was so wrong about what he said.
I mean, he says Obama's a clean black guy.
Look at Obama, I see a clean black guy.
What's so bad?
What's so wrong about what he said?
Now, my strategy for doing this was to have Biden held accountable to it.
Because you know, if I agree with it, then the drive-by's and everybody will go bonkers.
I knew that if I did it, though I would become the story.
Limbaugh agrees with Biden and I would become the villain while Biden would get to pass, but it would still call attention to it and still, you know, focus attention on him in a way that we'll just have to wait and see.
But I bet it is not uh uh gonna become a big problem for it.
Now the other the other two in it incidents uh didn't at all.
And this, by the way, is by no means the first time Senator Biden has uh has stepped in it.
Uh but you know, the the the thing is, if if he thinks Obama is clean, it is logical to conclude that he thinks somebody else or some others are not.
So who did he mean?
I mean it's a really, really odd statement.
And see, folks, this is the problem for the libs.
Once they get off script, they expose their idiocy, they expose their prejudice, they expose their bias.
It's like Hillary and her evil men comment, which Carville is trying to spin by saying, Wow, you reporters, why you just don't understand her sophisticated sense of humor.
James, you know I love you, man, and you know I respect you.
But come on, not even you can convince any of us that Hillary Clinton has a sense of humor.
I mean, I've she doesn't.
When she smiles, they stop everything at old folks' homes and declare it Halloween.
I mean, there's just no sense of humor about her, even when she wears pink.
Or John Carey trashing the education of our troops.
You know, they what when these people get off script, they tell us exactly who they are.
And they and they tell us of all their prejudices, they let us know of all their their own bigotry, and but more than that, uh they tell us that they're not that bright.
Now, it wasn't just Barack Obama uh uh at whom Senator Biden took aim.
Here's what he said in the New York Observer piece on uh Senator Clinton.
He said, Quote, everybody in the world knows her.
Her husband has used every single legitimate tool in his behalf to lock people in to shut people down, legitimate.
And she can't break out a 30% for a choice for Democrats.
Where do you want to be?
You want to be in a place where 100% of the Democrats know you.
They've looked at you for the last three years, and four out of ten is the max you can get.
Well, okay, I understand that.
He said, But Senator Biden, it's not just three years.
The American people have known her since 1992.
It's it's more like 15 years, Senator.
Yeah, we've known Senator Biden a long time, too.
Uh and and he doesn't register near 30 percent, but his point is he doesn't have Bill Clinton stumping for him.
He hasn't have eight years uh as uh as uh first lady or as co-president.
His point is that she cannot improve name recognition.
She cannot get any more famous, she cannot do any more than she's done.
She cannot lock down any more money than she already has, and still she's only getting 30 to 40 percent.
Uh on Senator Edwards, he said, I don't think John Edwards knows what the heck he's talking about.
Now, I happen to totally agree with that.
Edwards is one of the biggest phony baloney plastic man had a good time rock and rollers.
Have you seen the stories about his house in North Carolina?
He's got the largest house in the county that Raleigh, North Carolina's in.
The main house, 28,600 square feet.
It's got a rec room, it's got a gym, it's got all kinds of stuff, and you ought to hear his wife's excuse.
Well, you know, John grew up always wanted a basketball court.
He wants to shoot baskets and so forth.
Every North Carolinian grows up wanting to shoot baskets, he has his own gym.
He has his own enclosed gym.
Senator Kennedy has a lot, and he's always done a lot of things for the poor.
Uh I mean it the the excuses that they offer, not look, it matters not to me where the Edwards live.
What matters to me is that he is this guy who's run around talking about two Americas and trying to create the impression that America is a supleine economy.
By the way, fourth quarter growth revised upward to 3.5%.
Uh the economy is in really good shape, very healthy shape out there.
And Edward's running around trying to paint the picture here of supine America while he's uh uh sheltering himself uh in this vast estate, uh off the beaten path that nobody can get to.
Uh it is it's a the libs are just they're just classic.
And I think Biden is right.
So I was gonna say, what's so wrong about what he said?
I mean, the li by the way, the libs are demanding equal time.
The libs say their views are not being heard.
They want the fairness doctrine uh reinstituted.
Well, Senator Biden, he's getting it.
We need to let people know what he said, and my question was going to be what's so wrong with it.
But I was talked out of that by a linguine-spine staff.
And so only kidding in there.
So now that's on the table, and I imagine that it's uh uh where it's been discussed, it's causing phone lines to melt all over the country.
We'll talk about that.
We've got lots of other things on the program to do as well.
Sit tight, glad you're here, folks.
We'll be back and continue in just a moment.
Hi, are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I haven't talked about it a whole lot.
I'm gonna spend some time on it today, the Libby trial.
Ladies and gentlemen, the drive-by media covering the Libby trial leave at noon to go appear on television and to make their deadlines.
They are misreporting totally what is happening in that courtroom.
They are making it look like Libby is being slammed and creamed each and every day, and it's just the opposite.
Every one of Patrick Fitzgerald's witnesses is being successfully challenged on the same basis Libby's been charged.
Faulty memory.
Libby's whole defense is so much going on with national security.
I don't remember who I told what when I wasn't lying to you, Mr. Fitzgerald, and in the grand jury, I just don't remember.
Every one of his witnesses, Fitzgerald's, has been shown to have a spotty memory on all of this.
The latest is this.
Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller acknowledged this morning that she had conversations with other government officials and could not be absolutely, absolutely certain that she first heard about an outed CIA official from Scooter Libby.
This is a bombshell because yesterday in this trial, Judith Miller claimed that her memory was now button-tight.
It was buttoned down, it was unassailable.
Yet her memory when she testified before the grand jury was spotty and sketchy, and if I recall, she refused to answer some questions and went to jail for it.
And spent 48 days in jail or however she says she slept on the floor, not even a cot.
Don't ask me why.
The story doesn't say.
Yesterday it was all it was just everything.
She was dead certain.
And then the defense team went at her and started making uh some progress.
And then the defense team said to the judge, look, Judge, we want to ask her about any other sources.
Because she was making the point that nobody yesterday, Libby was the only person she talked to about this.
And she wasn't even writing a story about Plame or Joe Wilson.
And yet she went to jail for not, you know, ratting out sources or what have you.
And uh the the defense said, Judge, we need to be able to ask her about everybody she talked to.
And of course, Fitzgerald said, No, no, no, no, no, can't do that.
What's uh what are the other sources have to do with Libby?
And the judge yesterday seemed inclined, according to reporters, to limit the scope of the cross-examination of these uh of these media members.
Uh but I'm gonna tell you something.
This is a United States citizen who is on trial and could theoretically, if found guilty, go to jail, go to prison for years.
And if the judge actually says no, you cannot ask certain witnesses who are accusing you, in order to challenge their credibility, which is the whole point.
I mean, Fitzgerald is trying to say Libby was lying when he said he had a bad memory.
Every one of Fitzgerald's witnesses that's come forward has been shown to have a spotty, sketchy memory that cannot uh be counted on, and Judith Miller is the latest one today.
So I guess a few few other notes I made about this that we'll uh discuss as the program unfolds today.
But I just want to tell you again that what you're reading in the drive-by media about this trial is isn't is it's nowhere near accurate.
If you're watching Chris Matthews or CNN, you're not getting anything but Matthews actually drooling on television the other night about that.
Actually had Spittle coming down on the chin.
So excited, so rapid fire speech, such rapid fire speech.
Uh just these guys are orgasmic over this because they think that uh that that Libby is gonna take the fall and they're gonna get Cheney once he's called to testify and so forth.
But the defense here is doing a uh a good job.
I don't know yet if the if the judge has ruled on just how far the defense can go in questioning media.
Members that are brought up here to uh testify for the prosecution.
Uh and I uh I'm just telling what I think excuse me, what what I think is is going on uh with this, uh ladies and gentlemen, is the prosecution uh Patrick Fitz Fong has has prepped his witnesses with testimony that fits nicely together, trying to tell a story of Scooter Libby as a liar.
But when pressed to actually explain what they remember, the witnesses can't.
Can you imagine today, under oath, finally, Judith Miller acknowledged that she had conversations with other government officials and could not be absolutely, absolutely certain that she first heard about an outed CIA official from Scooter Libby?
The sound you heard in a courtroom was a giant thud of defense feet hitting the floor.
And the prosecution ex just there I I would have loved to have been in the courtroom when this uh when this was uh said by by Judith Miller.
They put this reporter on the stand and are gonna put others on the stand.
Their credibility is being measured against Scooter Libby's.
Of course, their conduct respecting the play matter should be fully exam examined by the defense.
Uh uh the the government should have uh considered the ramifications of all this when they called these media people to testify against a U.S. citizen.
The defense has a job to do, and that's to grill Judith Miller and every other witness that comes up.
This is a U.S. citizen on trial for something that's a process crime, has nothing to do with the with the original charge that the uh special prosecutor had in this case anyway.
How how can a citizen defend himself if he can't fully expose a witness to the jury?
If a witness can't be fully exposed as uh uh less than honest or with a faulty memory uh or or what have you, then how does a fair trial result?
Now, somebody might ask, well, what is Judith Miller's discussion with other sources have to do with Scooter Libby?
And the judge even wondered that aloud yesterday.
Uh but is this not a trial about memory and recollections?
Is she not on the stand to raise doubts about Libby's credibility?
That's why she's there.
That's why FitzFong has put her up there, and every other witness he's called is to shed doubt on Libby's credibility.
The whole trial is about who you believe.
It's not about some grand criminal activity.
It really isn't.
There's no grand criminal activity that took place here.
The government set this trial in motion.
Actually, you know who set this trial in motion was a drive-by media.
They're the ones that demanded all this.
This was the one leak they had to get to the bottom of.
Any other leak they couldn't care less.
So this leak, they had to get and all the while it was Richard Armitage, and many of them knew it.
So they wanted this trial as a means of getting at the Bush White House.
Now, if if Judith Miller had only spoken to Libby, that's fine.
But this issue is going to arise with all the other media witnesses that FitzFong plans to call.
Uh that what they want to do, the prosecution is a prosecution.
They want to fix the case by limiting what the jury can know.
Uh but of course now we know that Judith Miller has acknowledged today that she had conversations with other government officials and could not be absolutely, absolutely certain that uh she first heard about an outed CIA official from Scooter Libby.
That's dramatic.
By the way, Scooter Libby is clean.
Scooter Libby looks clean to me.
Um Ted Kennedy looks thirsty to me, increasingly so.
Uh yeah, you gotta wonder what Biden meant.
By the way, here's the bite.
This is August 15th last year.
Uh this is uh uh Senator Biden, and he's he's he's walking somewhere in a train station.
In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans moving from India.
You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or Duncan Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
Not much.
Yeah, okay, he said it, and you might be saying, so what's the point is he was brought on some PMS NBC show and the infober porterette pleaded with him.
Senator can you can you explain to us what you Oh yeah look and I love these people.
Why this is the fastest growing segment in population of my state I love these people.
I didn't mean it and she batted her eyelashes whoever it was thank you Senator Biden for clearing this up.
And it was over wash your hands of it and it was over we'll see what kind of legs Barack Obama is a clean black guy has.
Because that's got to mean that Biden looks at some people and sees them not clean or dirty.
Who would they be I know somebody has to be why not me right Brian good answer.
Here behind the golden EIB Microphone Rush Limbaugh talent on lawn from God.
I mean you do you've you you've got the first mainstream African American who's articulate and bright and clean Barack Obama nice looking guy clean Jim in Fayetteville North Carolina welcome to the uh EIB network sir nice to have you with us.
Yes, I'm here.
Meggo Ditto's Rush.
Thank you.
I was just giving you a quick call.
One simple, quick clarification.
John Edwards'big retreat palatial mansion is in Chatham County, not in Wake County.
My North Carolina source misinforming.
I'm never wrong.
It's my sources who are.
Okay.
But anyway, I don't know all the details about Chatham County, but my guess is that per capita, it's probably poorer, so it's actually a worse indignation than Wake County.
And then another thing, just a little detail about John Edwards'wonderful new house, $309,000 spent on the gym slash basketball court.
Right.
That's really nice.
And then just one thing about this.
Wait, wait, wait.
Let's not just gloss over this, Jim.
Okay.
You sound like you've got a problem with how much a basketball gym can cost.
Oh, it's a lot.
It's too much.
it's not too I mean if if it's not too much it's only too much in some people's judgment uh most people wouldn't spend three hundred grand on a gym but he's got the money to spend on it that's that shouldn't be the complaint well you start going down the road that uh that that people don't have the right to spend their own money the way they want then you're gonna get in you're gonna become a liberal and you can try to limit salaries and pay and this the the the problem for Edwards is he's a hypocrite about all of this.
Exactly.
That's the point.
Exactly.
And then just getting to the articulate, the Biden stuff, it's just incredible.
But I just had a small anecdote to share with you.
Back about 10 years ago, I was working for a newspaper in North Carolina.
I won't tell you which one or I'll be completely run out of the business, which unfortunately I'm still in.
Although, who am I kidding?
They don't listen to your radio show anyway.
No, but they'll hear about it from Media Matters.
Exactly.
They'll end up all over Pointer or whatever think piece they have.
The headline will be, Reporter Calls Limbaugh Trashes Journalism.
Who is this guy so we can find him?
Exactly.
So anyway, about 10 years ago, the newspaper did some profile piece on a black person of some stature in the community.
I can't remember if it was a sports figure or a community leader or something like that, whatever.
in that they described the uh the person who wrote the story described the person as articulate and the next day you know in the you know the the meetings upon meetings the newspapers have there was of course a meeting to talk about the newspaper from that day and you know talk about the story and blah blah blah well the sports editor who was black uh he's now moved on to be another uh major editor at that at that paper I will tell you which one or then we'll get into exactly which paper it was.
My God I've never heard such fear from a caller in my life you you have no idea you have no idea what it's like to work at news it is incredible.
I don't tell anybody I'm a Republican it's it's it's terrible you know what actors in Hollywood who are Republicans feel like oh yeah uh so anyway we're sitting there talking about this story you know it just comes up and and the the sports editor is just there's this righteous indignation that oh my gosh, we never should have described this person, this black community person as articulate.
Because, well, we would we would never describe when we're doing profiles of white people, but we never use the word articulate to describe them.
You know, this is an excellent point.
Everybody talks about how articulate uh uh Barack is.
They talk about how articulate Tiki Barber is.
Yeah.
Now what that I your your your uh your esteemed black editor was insulted because by implication that means some people aren't articulate.
Right, that you have to point out the ones that are.
It's incredible.
Yeah.
And so Biden has done it here.
Mother would have a clean black guy, we got one who can talk.
Yeah.
Over the top.
Well, anyway, Russ, I'll just leave you with those parting thoughts.
And then uh, and then just one more thing.
I don't want to take up too much time, but anybody who wants to think that John Edwards has a shot, although at times I am frightened of him.
Um it needs to just look at what happened in North Carolina in 2004 when he was on the ticket from 2000 the the race, the presidential ticket, got only point zero two percent more of the electorate to vote for it with someone who's North Carolina from North Carolina.
I I know that my instinct, my instinct too, is that is that Edwards is uh nowhere and nobody uh but you know, I there's there's too much time to go here in this campaign.
There are too many things that can happen.
Uh too many decisions that can be made.
It's just impossible here to start handicapping this based on all the conventional wisdom and data that people use.
Well, let's examine this policy position that Edwards has versus this.
Let's look at the charisma and the articulation and the cleanliness that Obama has versus the lack of articulation, say, of Hillary Clinton.
Uh all these things just uh don't matter yet.
The too many other factors nobody can anticipate.
I don't rule any of these people out.
I I mean, in in all candor.
It'll shake out pretty quick, but uh but but at this stage.
I understand people in North Carolina who are conservative Republicans just have you know no respect or affection for uh for Edwards uh at all.
Anyway, Jim, I I appreciate the call.
Thank you uh so much.
Uh it was a cold January evening, and a security patrol responded to the latest shooting in a neighborhood that is deadly even by the standards we hear about in the media today.
A man in his early twenties talking on a cell phone about somebody who had just shot him.
Several security officers surrounded him trying to get a description of the assailant who had fled the scene about five minutes earlier.
At the scene of the shooting, a couple of hundred yards away, police found bullet holes all over a wall.
A woman emerged from a nearby little house, says she heard three shots.
She shakes her head in shock at the latest violence that's going on.
Thirty-nine people were killed there last year.
Uh violent crime just seems to be on the rise again.
It it just it's no matter what we do, no matter how we choose to fight it, we just don't seem to be able to stop it.
I mean, these deaths rose seven percent up to four hundred and six last year alone.
Talking about Philadelphia.
And I'm reading to you from the uh from a Reuters story.
Yep.
In Philadelphia, homicides rose seven percent to when you thought I was talking about Baghdad, right?
You thought I was talking about Iraq.
Well, that was my point.
I wanted you to think I was talking about Iraq.
I'm Talking about a U.S. city.
In Philadelphia, despite the fact that Donovan McNabb lives there, homicides rose 7% to a nine year high of 400.
Donovan McNabb is a clean black guy.
It's articulate, too.
Philadelphia, homicides rose 7% to a nine-year high of 406 last year, giving it the highest murder rate per 100,000 people among America's ten biggest cities.
Philadelphia, with a population of about one and a half million, also has the highest poverty rate, 25% among those cities.
Headline to this story, on the streets of Philadelphia, crime is back.
So I suppose we should ask this question.
If the Democrat Party which runs that city, if a Democrat Party runs that state, if the Democrat Party can't keep relative peace in one of the nation's largest cities, how in the name of Sam Hill are they going to be able to keep peace in the rest of the world?
Will Nancy Pelosi hold hearings into the murder of U.S. citizens in Philadelphia?
What about Arlen Specter?
Who represents Philadelphia in the Senate?
How much time has Senator Specter spent on hearings dealing with the rise of violence in Philadelphia?
Don't tell me it's a local matter.
Don't tell me it's state matter.
We're concerned with death here.
We're concerned with body counts.
We're concerned with the breakdown of law and order.
We're concerned about insurgencies, gangs, whatever you want to call them.
They're out of control in major American cities, and Philadelphia is just one example.
And where are the hearings on this?
Oh, I know.
Senator Biden and Speaker Pelosi are too busy trying to weaken the commander-in-chief, so we can't win the war in Iraq.
They are not in only invested in defeat, they can't allow victory.
They said politically, they cannot allow it.
406 Philadelphians murdered last year.
Unbelievable.
We have lost just over 3,000 soldiers in Iraq in nearly four years.
About 600 of those were due to non-combat accident.
There were 821 deaths in Iraq, troop related deaths last year.
406 in one American city.
And consider the media attention.
We hear about how out of control Baghdad is.
We hear about how nobody can control it and Bush can't control it, and the U.S. military can't control it.
Let's get a little proportion and let's talk about the fact that it is not safe to walk in parts of our own American cities.
Democrat run cities, liberal politicians.
The contrast in big media coverage, especially the TV networks, is sickening.
If we were to follow the way Democrats want to deal with a rock and apply it to how we should deal with Philadelphia and other crime-ridden big cities, we should do the following.
Cut off all federal funding for Philadelphia.
Withdraw all federal agencies and FBI offices, any federal law enforcement, get them the hell out of there by 2008, so Hillary Clinton doesn't have to deal with it when she's inaugurated in January of 2009.
It sounds to me like there's a civil war going on in Philadelphia and in other major American cities.
And we ought not be in the middle of it.
We need to well, diplomacy.
Okay, I guess that's try diplomas.
Send some diplomats in there.
Negotiate peace between the gangs and the citizens who are at war with them.
But before anything, before anything is done, a resolution.
We need a resolution from the United States Senate, which forces President Bush to remove all federal presence from Philadelphia and now.
He is not the decider.
Senator Spector said it yesterday.
He's not the sole decider.
They have co-deciders in the United States Senate.
Well, Senator Spector, maybe you should take your eyes off of Iraq in Baghdad and focus on your hometown.
All right, we got a little movement out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Um, somebody did call the uh clean and articulate spokesman for the clean black guy uh Barack Obama and ask, what do you think about Senator Biden's comments that he's clean and articulate and so forth?
And the uh the spokesman for the clean and articulate Obama said, Senator Biden's words speak for themselves.
And he said it very articulately.
So that's kind of a slam, you know.
I mean, that's that's that's kind of the dagger going in.
Up next will be Mrs. Clinton, because Biden took after her today on Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer said, uh Senator Hillary Clinton, she's talked about a proposal to cap American troops, also threaten Iraqi leaders with cutting off funds if they don't uh meet some of the benchmarks.
You're quoted as saying in the New York Observer that the results of her position would be, quote, nothing but disaster.
It'd be a disaster if that is her plan.
To one, cap the American forces.
I think we should lower American forces, and two, cut off funding for the local Iraqi forces.
They're the people we're supposedly be tra we're supposed to be training so that we can rely on them to aid us in the efforts that we undertake.
The next president of the United States, because of the policy of this president, is gonna have no margin for error.
He or she, the moment they take office, is going to have to figure out how to extricate us from Iraq without making the Middle East even more destabilized.
Okay, the Clinton camp now is figuring out how best to respond to this salvo.
Remember Kennedy or Carrie's joke, uh, botch joke uh supposedly about the stupidity of the troops.
Uh I forget what Hillary said, but leveled him.
It just just it just, you know, it was the end of Carrie once once Hillary came out, and the same thing could possibly happen here.
Uh regardless.
I mean, regardless of what Biden has has said, I don't think.
I'm gonna have to ask Cookie, because she was rolling tape on this whole interview, Good Morning America.
But I don't think Diane Sawyer asked him about the Barack Obama being a clean, articulate black guy.
Just about Hillary.
Now let's go back in time, shall we?
July 31st of 2002, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the possible military campaign to evade Iraq to remove Saddam.
Just a few comments here from Senator Biden.
President Bush is right to be concerned about Saddam Hussein's relentless pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and the possibility that he may use them or share them with terrorists.
Other regimes hostile to the United States and our allies already have or seek to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
So you see, it's easy for these guys.
They say it in 2002, they say it in 2003, then they pretend they never said it, or they blame Bush for tricking them into say it, saying it, then they can change their minds because they don't have any accountability.
They don't have any responsibility for it.
So here's Senator Biden on Good Morning America Today, ripping Hillary's plan, ripping Bush's plan.
Bush has put it as an untenable situation.
Back in 2002, Senator Biden was just one of countless Democrats who couldn't wait to walk to the floor of the Senate and get on board with this whole notion of taking out Saddam Hussein.
Back in just a moment.com.
And I haven't seen it anywhere else, uh, but this uh Bayou Buzz.com is reporting that yesterday, Senator Mary Landrew, Louisiana, uh, had an outrageous outburst in which she remarked, quote, we would have been better off if the terrorists had blown up our levies.
That's what she's reported as having said we'd be better off if the terrorists had blown up our levies.
You know, Kathleen Blanco is out there, you know, whining and moaning about all the federal money that hasn't shown up.
And this you've got local officials down there that botch this left and right.
It's just easy to dump on Bush.
That's all you have to do today is deflect attention from yourself if you're a politician, any part.
Just dump on Bush.
But what is this?
Louisiana would have been better off if terrorists had blown up the levees.
Does she think there would have been aid money coming faster?
Faster efforts to rebuild the levees.
Would there have been more national sympathy if terrorists had blown up the place rather than a hurricane?
But think of a U.S. senator saying this.
Not that far from 9 11, folks.
We'd have been better off if terrorists had blown up our levies.
Anyway, sit tight, lots to go.
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