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March 7, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 7, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And good afternoon, uh good morning.
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Um Clarice Feldman, who I admire greatly and is a lawyer, she blogged the Libby trial.
She was there each and every day, submitted her piece to AmericanThinker.com as a powerful influential member of the media I received an advanced copy.
And it's really a powerful piece.
How many of you people watch Rome on HBO?
You love Rome Snertley, you like you like Rome.
I like it too.
I watched it.
Well, then, did you watch last Sunday?
Okay, well then this this episode uh in this piece by Clarice Feldman will appeal to you.
In this week's episode uh of Rome, an HBO series which increasingly reminds me of the nation's capital, deemly uh deeply wronged Servilia, whose son was killed, knelt before the door of Athia, Octavian's mother and Mark Anthony's lover, calling out Atia of the Julia I call for justice.
She did so because the unavailing legal system was broken, and curses, uh taken seriously in those days were the only remaining way most people had to redress grave wrongs.
So Clarice writes, I call for justice for Scooter Libby because he is he's had none in this ridiculous matter, but at whose door do I stand to shout my curses?
Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame, who cooked up a series of lies to undermine the administration in the middle of a war?
The media, which megaphoned them and falsely suggested that someone had deliberately outed an undercover agent for political reasons, following the lead of the nation's David Korn.
Former CIA head tenant for refusing to clarify the record about Wilson, who sent him and what he found and what happened to those findings, for dragging out the declassification of the National Intelligence estimate, which showed the Wilson report supported rather than contradicted the estimate.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and his deputy Dick Armitage, who knew that Armitage leaked and hid from the president and the public the fact that letting Libby and the entire White House staff be put through the ringer?
The FBI, which poorly investigated the matter, jiggered the notes of the interrogations, and somehow lost the key in culpatory notes.
Former Attorney General Ashcroft, who allowed himself to be nose-ringed into recusing himself from looking into the matter.
Ashcroft's deputy James Comey, who promised Senator Schumer when he was being confirmed that he would appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter, and who then, in direct contravention of the Senate, made the appointment of Patrick Fitzgerald, an appointment at odds with the U.S. Constitution.
Comey, who tap danced the nature of the appointment to make it appear that there was an actual crime being investigated, and not, as it turns out, that he was handing an open season fishing license to a proven master angler, and who days later, after unlawfully handing Fitzgerald the powers of the attorney general, authorized him to look into the process crimes, which in truth is all they were ever after.
That's one of her theories.
That they were never all this was as a process crime pursuit.
Just get somebody on lying on something.
That's why Libby under the lights in the grand jury for eight hours.
Should I um stand at the door of Fitzgerald and curse, who set it upon himself to find any process violations he could find, and who tricked an unsuspecting Libby who knew he had not leaked Playm's name to anybody into repeated FBI and grand jury interrogations in the hope of finding any memory inconsistency, no matter how immaterial or insignificant?
Shall I curse the right side of the aisle, which never likes to get its skirts dusty in the forum, even if their enemies are armed to the teeth and eviscerating their allies right before their noses?
You know who I mean?
Charge a Clinton knight with wrongdoing.
The entire Democrat Department of Justice sits on the news Until his friends have worked out an appropriate spin and a time to leak it when we'll do him the least harm.
By the way, speaking of that, how about the way Ken Starr was literally destroyed by a never ending relentless attack machine, the Clinton war room during the impeachment proceedings?
Just ask yourself this.
How is it during the Clinton period, the independent council can be hated and reviled and discredited and attempted to be destroyed, and no other time does that happen?
She referenced it earlier when she said Republicans just don't do this.
At any rate, here's how she concludes it.
Sorted the episode is, but not because of anything Libby did, and a troubling picture of Washington it is, but not of this administration.
The Bush crowd's guilty only of terminal naivete and the foolish idea that high standards of probity will ever beat the opposition's utter unscrupulousness and willingness to misuse the legal system to their own partisan ends, even if it means the ruination of an innocent and capable man and an enormous hardship to his family.
She concludes, Democrats in the media, I call for justice.
This powerful piece is really a is really brought to a great conclusion here.
The Bush crowd guilty only of terminal naivety, the foolish idea that high standards of probity will ever beat the opposition's utter unscrupulousness.
Sums it up.
In fact, you sit back and...
I don't know.
I've had it with this Libby stack, I've had it with the whole thing, we've had what we had to say about it, that's that.
I want to move on to something that's just as disgusting, and that's Mr. John Edwards.
During his first failed bid for the presidency, John Edwards, the Breck girl, was touted as a brilliant trial lawyer, in part because he channeled the words of a dead child during his summation on a big case, and he got a huge award.
Well, here at the beginning of another presidential election cycle, retread candidate Edwards has set his sights higher.
He has appointed himself spokesman for Jesus.
Edwards said that Jesus would be upset with America's willingness to go to war when it isn't necessary.
He further said, I think Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs.
I think he would be appalled.
Mr. Edwards, would he be appalled at your 28,000 square foot mansion that nobody can get to because it's gated?
Would he be appalled at your 2800 square foot beach house near Wilmington, North Carolina?
What is it that's close to 30,000 square feet of living space for you and your family, and you dare sit there and accuse everybody else of misplacing their priorities and saying they're not doing enough to help the unfortunate.
Jesus might be appalled that you have the guts to speak out and point fingers anywhere but yourself, sir.
Senator Edwards, let me tell you something.
This is why your campaign is gonna fail big time.
Americans are the most giving people in history, and not just during times of calamity like tidal waves and hurricanes and tornadoes.
Americans give daily to cure people we never met.
Here and across the world, we feed, we educate children in cultures who are taught to hate our guts, Mr. Edwards, every day.
Americans offer countless acts of kindness to strangers, because that is our nature, not to mention the gifts granted to others from all of the taxes we pay.
Yet you, former Senator John Edwards, patron saint of stiff hair, hairspray, and empty heads.
You use Jesus to mischaracterize Americans as selfish warmongers with no right to defend our country when attacked?
Senator, would you dare ever attack our enemies?
Would you ever say one negative word about our enemies?
Just one time.
Would you ever try to characterize our enemies as they are?
What is it about you, Senator, that when you look at this country, you see nothing but failure and selfishness?
Could it be because you're looking at this country in the mirror, sir?
And you see yourself.
If anything is appalling, Senator Edwards, it is you.
And your shameful view of your fellow citizens and your transparent and sophomoric attempt to use Jesus.
And to suggest that Jesus would be appalled at this nation as a whole.
You, sir, need to get out there.
You think there are two Americas there might be, and you are in the one part of America, and I don't see any sacrifice from you, sir.
You think your words and your compassion expressed verbally count for something?
You think it makes the poor and the downtrodden better off?
Words are not deeds, nor are they actions.
And in your case, sir, in addition to what they aren't, they are also empty.
Back in a second.
I have one more thing here for the esteemed former Senator from North Carolina.
Hey, Senator, you want to talk about Jesus being appalled.
You ever heard of abortion, Senator?
You ever heard of euthanasia?
Have you ever heard of a culture led by your side which decides who lives and dies based on the convenience to the living, sir?
You want to talk about Jesus being appalled.
Don't make up a bunch of BS about Jesus being disappointed about the way Americans treat the underprivileged.
The entire world has a better living standard than it would otherwise have because of the existence of the people of the United States of America.
All right, Lynn in Van Wert, Ohio.
Uh, thanks for waiting.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hello, good morning.
Uh yeah, morning.
Yeah, I think it's morning.
Anyways, hey, Rosh.
Uh Megadeth's first time caller.
Great, great to have you here.
It's afternoon, even in Ohio, though, I should tell you that.
Yeah, I guess it is.
I guess you should look at the clock.
Anyways, um, just wanted to want to say I'm I'm a little disappointed in you, I left y'all.
I like what you have a lot of what you have to say.
But as far as the last caller goes, I mean, I think he has somewhat of a valid point.
Well, you talk about.
I think I think that the Libs are to get him either way.
No matter what he did, I think they was wrong to get him.
And I'm not sure.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold it, hold it just a second.
You're talking you're speaking a little fast.
I've got a read here to catch up with you.
I think that the Libs really got, you know, they got, I think the Libs are out to get him.
I mean no matter what he did, I think the Libs.
You're talking about Libby or me?
Libby, Libby.
Okay, let me go back further.
Uh disappointed uh the last caller goes, uh you oh yeah, you said he had a valid point.
Tell me what it's tell me.
Huh?
Tell me what it was.
Okay, well, the fact that you just kind of cut him off, didn't let him finish his point, but the point I think he had was, had, Libby stood on on integrity and and not uh uh trying to embowage the truth or whatever it was he did that they hung on him.
They weren't they weren't um trying to hang him for or outing a I agent.
They weren't trying to hang him for any of those stuff.
They they tried to give they got him from mine.
You know, I understand what you're saying.
If if you're if you're saying what this guy was saying, I regret the time I spent with both of you.
After a brilliant two-hour dissertation of what this is about, you call here and tell me that Libby sit there and he shouldn't have tried to embellish things.
I don't have time for this.
I am not gonna waste time with people who listen to this program and don't hear it.
There are too many people paying attention out there.
This is this.
I am slowing down here to gather my composure.
Uh lady, he didn't finish his point.
He made his point.
Didn't have to finish his point because I knew where it was going.
He was a Miss America pageant contest.
Why can't we all just tell the truth?
Why can't we all just not lie?
I'm thick and tired of everybody lying, and we should stop supporting it.
That is you know, you know, go back to the first grade, spend the day in a sandbox and live your life that way.
That's you know, you're devoid of reality.
And by saying this, I'm not saying everybody should go out and lie.
I'm just saying you want to focus on Scooter Libby's scooter Libby was put was was found guilty for telling the truth about Joe Wilson and his wife.
under eight hours of grilling in the grand jury in a case that was designed to try to trip him up.
Oh.
Patience.
Tolerance, compassion.
Understanding.
Lynn, I I appreciate uh I appreciate the call.
Thanks so much.
Uh Charlie in Lansing, Michigan.
Uh welcome Charlie to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, good to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I think the Democrats, Drive by Media Wilson, are intentionally attaining the public opinion of the possibility of the pardon of Libby.
Um I think they're trying to sway the public opinion against the pardon early.
I mean, it just uh, you know, happened, uh the conviction conviction just happened, and they're out there already, you know, trying to spin this as um, you know, we can't pardon him.
I mean, uh on National Public Radio uh Wilson came out and said uh that Bush had a direct conflict of interest in the case.
So I mean they're already trying to criminalize Bush and Cheney.
Um doing this since Florida 2000.
Right.
And you know, it's just amazing to me that you know the the the pardon isn't even come up yet on the agenda for you know the Bush.
I mean, we have to go through the whole appeal process and everything, and uh um, you know, and and and you know, look at all the people that Clinton pardoned.
Um, you know, you can't tell me that he didn't have a conflict of interest in some of those Bob Tyrrell, my buddy Bob Tyrrell has a new book out called a Clinton Crack Up.
And in the book, he's got a source who tells him that Clinton had an affair with Mark Rich's uh strange wife or ex-wife Denise.
She gave a bunch of money to the Clinton campaigning and Democrats and the husband ended up getting pardoned and so forth, and uh Clinton camps with this is a typical tear-roll bunch of BS is not true, but he's got a source has confirmed it, overheard some conversations about I think page six wrote about it or some some gossip colored in the Daily News or page six, I'm not sure which today, but uh you're you're uh absolutely right, and you're uh that's a great observation.
They're doing everything they can now to to uh mount public pressure against Bush uh on this on this pardon of uh of Libby.
By the way, what does that tell you, uh, ladies and gentlemen?
It's not a thing.
The what does it matter?
They got their conviction and they're able to mass uh uh uh take this conviction and and and amplify it into things that they want it to represent that are not true, because they're living a lie.
What does it matter to them whether Libby gets pardoned?
Well, it does, obviously, because they're trying to make sure it doesn't happen.
Uh and uh it's just like the Democrats issue these demands constantly.
This is really nothing uncommon for them.
They issue these kinds of demands on the president and Republicans uh at all times.
Uh I don't know that public opinion is gonna matter.
Uh when when it comes time to consider uh a pardon for Libby Frontenac, Missouri near St. Louis.
This is Barbara, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Um you are absolutely right to say that our country is in serious trouble and that liberals are trying to destroy it.
But the only reason why they are succeeding is that conservatives are allowing it.
And there is no way America cannot figure out this problem and fix it.
It only requires people who believe it can be done and will do it.
You have stated on air before that you know you for one have the power to affect political change in this country, and not through elective office.
And I want to know when you are going to use that power you have and do something about our situation other than what you are doing, which although is valuable, is not going to stop the liberals.
We know, for instance, that it didn't stop the Democrats in our last election.
Uh yeah, because you know.
Uh what do I do?
This is you're like the third caller we've had the last two weeks telling me that I'm not doing enough.
You're not.
That's why we're saying it.
Yeah.
Well, and the only reason is because the power you have admitted you have.
What are you doing?
Um I'm calling you and trying to encourage you to use the power you have that I don't.
Okay.
I have to I've I've got a I've got to come up with uh response to this.
I've got I've got to take a timeout here because of it's time to make profit here, EIB network was uh we'll be back and continue in just a second.
All right, so the questions on the table.
Who was the last callishist from uh what was her name?
Uh Barbara from Frontenac, Missouri, right?
Barbara's the uh third call in uh maybe maybe three weeks, uh recent recent past, uh uh suggesting I should be doing more and uh demanding to know what I'm gonna do, uh, using the power that I have.
Of course, the uh implication is I'm not doing enough.
And in some minds I might not be doing anything.
And I sit here, just so you'll know my perspective on this, so we can maybe have a starting point.
What more do you people want?
In 1988, this country was a conservative wasteland.
Our president was leaving.
We had CNN, we had ABC, NBC, CBS, we had the New York Times, the Washington Post, the news magazines, and that was it.
Here I came storming onto the scene.
Look what's happened since.
I gave you a Republican Congress in 1994.
First time in 40 years.
What were you doing before I came along?
I gave you a Republican Senate.
I gave you a Republican president in 2000 and again in 2004.
What more do you want?
Obviously, what I have given you is I've I have spawned an entire conservative cable news network.
I have spawned an entire new media from blogs to talk shows.
There are people who have failed in television and radio and stand-up comedy who are now going into radio.
Everybody from whoopy Goldberg, you name it, thinks they've got to go to radio.
In order to have impact and make a difference.
And why is that?
It is because of me.
There is an entire alternative media now that people are able to rally to and get alternative news from spawned by me.
Is it my fault the Republicans who won the House in 94 didn't know what to do to keep it?
Is it my fault a number of you Republicans wanted to show Republicans a lesson last November and voted for a bunch of Democrats or didn't go out and vote Republicans?
It's my fault.
I have said over and over again on this program that I am a radio host.
I am a media figure.
I am not an activist.
There are many talk show hosts who have tried to be activists, and they've gotten some publicity out of it, so they get even more oriented towards it.
Back when uh started this program, there were people that were urging you to send in your Exxon mobile credit cards torn up, cut in half to show a lesson.
I have never done that.
I have never given out phone numbers to members of Congress or anywhere else.
I've always thought if that happens, it should happen genuinely because you have the passion to take the initiative to do it on your own.
I have not treated you like a bunch of serfs, then I'm the Piedpi.
I don't want to turn this program over to activism.
You will stop listening to it if I do, because it won't be interesting.
Activists have their role, but it's not in media.
And I'm talking about the kind of activism you want.
Uh maybe I could be doing maybe I could write a couple of more books, but do you realize how crowded that I did that first two?
And everybody else followed along.
I guess I could write a couple more books.
You realize how crowded that market has been.
Everybody and their uncle is writing conservative book after conservative book after conservative book.
Why should I become a follower when I was the leader?
Maybe I should do more speeches.
I reach 5 million people every 15 minutes here.
What, you think I should be doing more speeches?
Snerdley snurdly thinks I could be going out to college campaign doing more speeches.
That's a possibility.
I mean, I I will grant that uh that they could be doing that.
Um I don't like it.
I some sometimes you have to do things that you don't like to do.
Although in my life, you know, we all strive for various things, and I've gotten to a great place in my life.
I don't have to do anything I don't want to do now.
And of course, some some people might hear that as, oh no, that's just horrible.
You're misunderstanding the point.
How many of you get up every day because you have to and go to work versus because you really want to and love to?
How many of you have to do all kinds of things that you really don't want to do because and I've had to do it too, and there are still those things.
I mean, I get invited to places I don't want to go when I show up.
Uh, and I get phone calls from people who want to come over, and I wish they wouldn't, but I say, come on.
Uh because I don't want to be mean.
Uh you know, and then the other day uh I had to actually put some dishes in a dishwasher because the staff was off.
So we all have to do things.
I'm just kidding on the last.
I actually did it.
Uh but I have some questions for you who are out there wondering why I'm not doing more.
Are you going out and supporting your state and local party with the money or time, or are you saying, I'm not contributing other dime those people until they start acting right?
Well, what are you doing to make them act right?
Well, you're not donating, is that that's if that's a way?
I understand that.
Are you supporting people who are running?
Are you talking to friends about these issues?
Are you trying to spread the word in your own circle?
You work at polls, do you vote?
Uh I understand the perception that I have a lot of power, but I'm going to be very honest with you people about something, and I I expect some of you not to believe this.
When I come in here every day, or when I'm sitting at home thinking about the program tomorrow, I don't uh this is just me, and it's it's always been this way.
I have no conception of power here.
I it's not some people are oriented toward amassing it and acquiring it and using it, and I'm not.
Uh I do not it's d for some, it doesn't cross my mind.
Uh I'm I'm it it's I I don't it's this is this is a fine line.
I know I have the ability.
I would say one thing is in fact, along these lines, one thing that concerns me, and I mentioned it earlier in the program.
My power, quote unquote, that has uh evinced itself here, is influence over a large number of Americans.
The people who listen to this program uh had a number of their ideas validated and got active and got invigorated, they listen every day and their lives changed, some liberals' minds have been converted and so forth.
There's no question that that there's a power, but that's not why this takes place.
I mean, that's not the objective.
The objective here is this to share my passions, tell people what I think.
But I don't go home every day and say, gee, did people believe me today, or did I get so many converts and then consider myself a failure if the answer is no?
That's you know, it's how well did I do what I'm supposed to do every day is how I judge myself.
But the one thing that I've always said, I consider myself to be in the arena of ideas.
I'm in the arena and I'm competing, and there's all kinds of other ideas out there.
Libs, moderates, communists, socialists, they're all out there.
And I've always I wanted to be in the arena of ideas and compete because I have have always said American people get the government they want by virtue of the election.
Uh if the other side wants it more than we do, they're gonna win it because some of us aren't gonna vote for whatever reasons, and then we sit around and moan and whine and complain.
Get what we want for the most part.
There are exceptions.
Democrats think they never do, because when they lose, they think they've Been cheated.
When they win, they think the American people love them.
They misinterpret both.
But in the arena of ideas, my objective has been to create as many educated, passionate and informed voters as possible, and get them out there influencing other people.
How many college Republican organizations are there today that would not be there were it not for 1988?
How many things have happened on college campuses?
The rush babies, for example, the rush babes.
All these things have happened, and there's a there's a growing movement of people here who uh are more active and passionate about conservatism than there ever were before.
And that that's been positive.
But one of the things that concerns me, and when I hear the question, how are you going to use your power?
This is the real challenge.
One of the things that concerns me is that the left is doing a pretty good job of insulating themselves from election results.
They own universities.
The faculty, the administration, the curriculum, they own it.
They own who gets in, affirmative action, racial preferences, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
They pretty much control the judiciary, the legal system.
They are in charge of uh any number of the media is another.
They they they, in terms of nationwide big media, the left has it, and they're not subject to who wins elections.
College camp I, faculty, curricula not subject to who wins elections.
The legal system, other than the appointments of certain judges, the lawyers out there, public interest lawyers, ACLU type lawyers, not subject to who wins elections.
And so even when they lose elections, they still control the bureaucracies at state, the CIA, the Pentagon, Clinton holdovers, career liberals who target those jobs for the express purpose of controlling government and amassing power.
And they're there regardless who wins elections.
And if our side wins, they start undermining.
Take a look at the last five or six years of the Bush administration.
All of that is outside the arena of elections.
So even when we win, we still have these liberals that are untouchable.
That elections don't touch.
We may get a president, but we get a president who is undermined by his quote-unquote own administration, people think.
And that leads people who supported the president who thinks he runs the whole government to think, well, there must be something wrong with this guy if his own people are trying to sabotage him.
Which is not the case.
So the real question is, what do we do about entrenched liberalism that is out of the reach of elections?
And that is the next area of important focus.
Not saying take elections lightly.
I mean that they they still matter.
I'm don't don't misunderstand.
Uh I don't know what I can do, for example, about Republicans who win elections and then go to Washington and act like wimps and wusses and refuse to stand up for themselves and refuse to govern on the very concepts they campaigned on, other than vote them out.
Other than get rid of them.
When they won't play the game according to the rules set by the aggressor, which in war you must.
As somebody said earlier today on this program, he's getting tired of the Bush administration turning the cheek, cheek, cheek every time something comes in, turn the other cheek, turn the other cheek, hit me again, hit me again, hit me again, hit me again.
More conservative voters, what?
Um HR telling me in the IFB that there are more conservative voters checking out, meaning staying home, frustrated and so forth.
Uh and that, of course, my fault too.
But they are.
That's what happened last November.
They just got fed up for a whole bunch of reasons.
Uh and hey, it's reality.
People get the government that they want.
Anyway, um...
What am I not doing that I could do?
The conflict here is that's always a great question because even I am the one saying there's always something more you can do.
No matter what you're doing, there's always a little more that you've got to give.
And that's why this question gives me pause.
At the same time, insults me.
Back here in just second.
Stay with us.
And I meant to be able, I meant to announce this at the top of the hour, and I had other things to do.
It would have been a scoop then, but it's no longer a scoop.
But I can tell you that the Fox News Channel has picked up 13 episodes of the half hour news hour.
The two pilot episodes succeeded in their mission.
I also gave you that.
And uh Fox had to pick those up, and they're gonna be in production, they're gonna start gearing up.
These are pilots.
Now they're gonna go out and get real production staff, the writers and so forth, four to six weeks of uh putting it all together, and then the 13-week run will uh will commence.
But half hour news hour been picked up for 13 weeks uh by the Fox News Channel.
Uh and that's you know, that's that in in in thirteen weeks is is a gold mine in this business.
Uh that's where you get the chance to really uh strut your stuff.
You've got enough of a financial kit commitment there to uh gin up uh a great staff of people and so forth, so they're off and running with that.
Mark in York County, Pennsylvania, you are on the EIB network.
Mr. Limbaugh, it's an honor.
Thank you, sir.
You know, I I'm really listening today, and I'm sick and tired of people calling in and passing the buck.
You do your job, you do your job every day.
You inform us, you keep us informed, you tell us what's going on.
And you know what?
You get the left going, you dig them, and they hate it because you stand up to them and they don't like it.
And we on the right, and all these people calling in there and passing the buck on you, they need to do their job.
They need to get out there, they need to vote, and they need to write letters to their representatives and say, you know, what's the deal on this?
If the the right side, conservatives, republicans, if they were as half dedicated as the libs are on the left, we wouldn't have the majority of uh the houses Democrat.
See, you know, that's now that also is very interesting because it's it this is a great way of looking at it, and it's it it allows me, permits me to give you a great definition or explanation of the difference between libs and conservatives.
You made the point that the liberals are really committed, and if the conservatives would just be as committed and dedicated as the libs are, then we wouldn't have this majority.
Here's the difference.
One of the differences, at least, and the large one, what are the liberals committed to?
They are committed to power over people.
They are committed to running people's lives.
They are committed to the assumption that people are incompetent, and they are committed to controlling government to run people's lives.
Conservatives are not.
Conservatives do not think government should run people.
Government uh is it should get out of the way as much as possible.
So for conservatives to battle libs for the government is already a bit of a contradiction.
When conservatives get hold of the government, the idea is to slow it down.
The problem is that once you get there as an elected official and find out the amount of money you get to play with, and all the people coming to you offering you all these things if you'll spend it on things they care about.
It's it is seductive.
Uh and it it it can it can soften even the uh the most the most committed.
But none of that happens to the left because that's the game to get your hands on that money to spend it as much and as often as you can in controlling people's lives with new laws and regulations and dealing with social injustice.
So that the liberal view of government is one that's entirely opposite of the conservative view of government.
So conservatives well, you gotta get hold of this government to restrain it.
Uh but the bureaucracy is not easily restrained, and it's populated as I just said with leftists.
And they are there regardless who wins the elections.
And if anybody takes Porter Goss as an example, but in any number of what happened to Connoleza Rice with all those defamatory cartoons and and and other things when she goes over to Secretary of State, they set out to try to destroy her over there.
Uh and it it takes rare people to put up with it.
Um I'm just trying to spell out the scope of the problem here.
I'm not suggesting it's impossible by any stretch of the imagination.
Those of you who've listened to me regularly know that impossible's not in my vocabulary.
Mark, I have to run because of the constraints of the programming format.
Time for more profit.
Back after this.
All right.
I'm going to.
Well, I got to do the video cod podcast in the morning update after the show.
Then I'm going to go home, and I'm going to ponder further uses of my power.
And yours.
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