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March 9, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 9, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And it's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
All right, I apologize.
I've an optimized the entire first hour with rhetoric and residence.
My own.
So I'm going to take more phone calls for this hour because open line Friday.
Remember, when we go to the phones on Friday, you own the show.
You can talk about whatever you want.
If I I mean, we're not going to relax standards, so we're not any of that.
We're not going to take calls that would bore you, but I will take calls that'll bore me.
I don't care about it, we'll still take the calls.
It's not a requirement as it is Monday through Thursday.
It can be a question, it'd be a comment.
It could be if you want to whine and moan about something, you got something on your chest you want to get it off.
Here's the number, 800 282-2882 and the email address rush at EIB net.com.
Well, the uh the Democrats are out there with their now 17th resolution on getting us out of Iraq with a date certain, and they are making an absolute joke of themselves.
Meanwhile, this is from uh the Associated Press.
George W. Bush's troop buildup in Baghdad apparently will be bigger and more costly, and perhaps will last longer than it seemed when he unveiled the plan in January as the centerpiece for a new Iraq strategy.
Bush plan, the original plan call for sending 21,500 extra combat troops to Iraq, mainly to Baghdad, with the uh the last of the five brigades arriving by June, the estimated price tag 5.6 billion.
Officials have refused to say exactly how long it'll last, but uh Robert Gates, the defense secretary, suggested it could be over by fall.
In recent days, though, a different picture.
Is climbing.
Well, what are these poor Democrats gonna do?
What are their kooks going to do?
The kooks are coming out of the wood when they're beside themselves.
They are starting to protest at Democrat offices and on Capitol Hill.
When Bush announced the boost to 21,500 combat troops, the Pentagon said still others would be required to go with them in support rolls.
The initial estimate of 2400 support troops is now doubled and it may go higher still.
When when asked about the duration of the buildup, the defense secretary noted that funds for this purpose are only budgeted through September, which marks the end of the government's budget year.
This week, however, it was disclosed that Lieutenant General Ray Odiarno, a top commander in Iraq, has recommended the build-up stretch into 2008.
I'm laughing only because the Democrats are just gonna be polite.
They can't stop it.
No matter what they do, no matter how much they caterwall and belly ache, they can't stop it.
On the Today Show, Jack Mertha, author of the Slow Bleed.
He appeared with Meredith Vieira, who said, Congressman General Petraeus also said that it's gonna take months, not weeks, to see if the surge is working, which would fight against this notion that you can remove all the troops by 2008.
Months.
Months is two months away.
I believe we'll be able to tell if this surge is working within a couple months.
Everybody in Iraq says we ought to be out of there.
We become occupiers.
Everybody in the periphery says we ought to be out of there.
The American public spoke at the last election.
Well, if they did, Congressman Mertha, why in the hell are you having so much trouble getting the Congress to go along with your 17 resolutions?
I think it back.
That's 17 in the Senate.
Maybe it's combined.
What have you?
But if that's what the election was about, and if the polling data that you think you have is so accurate, why are you having so much trouble?
Seems like the American people would be storming the gates in Washington themselves to get us out of Iraq if what you believe to be true is true.
Also, it is not accurate to say that everybody in Iraq says we ought to be out of there.
There are countless many in Iraq who want us nowhere but there.
Ditto Afghanistan.
The mayor of the Vieira then said, Well, look, the White House has already said that if this bill ever reaches the President's desk, he'll veto it.
So how is it different from the purely symbolic non-binding resolution that was passed a few weeks ago?
It forces the president to certify that there's making their progress in Iraq.
Now people say, well, he'll certify anyway.
That's not true.
He's not going to certify the troops are not trained and not equipped before they go into combat.
So this is a very tough bill.
And then we'll work our way through uh the committee.
We'll work with through the House, and then we'll we'll negotiate with the Senate for a bill that is that will reduce the the cost of this war and reduce the war itself.
It's pipe dream.
Uh it's not going to happen.
The Senate is uh is not going to go anywhere near this.
So uh at any rate, uh just just great news here.
The troops build up is gonna be larger, it's gonna be longer than the Democrats can't do a thing to stop it, which is only going to drive them crazier.
You have to understand in context here, the Democrats have all these resolutions.
They think they have this electoral mandate from last September last November, and they're out there and they're huffing and puffing, and they're gonna get us out, and they're gonna paper this administration with a resolution after resolution after resolution.
They're gonna isolate George W. Bush.
And they're having no impact at all on the substance of all this.
They're getting nowhere near getting troops out of there.
They're getting nowhere near defunding or even partially funding, nowhere near it.
They've got defections in their own caucus.
The blue dog Democrats, the conservative Democrats are giving Pelosi fits on this.
They did have some Republicans that were peeled off to support them.
Then Mertha leaked the plans of his slow bleed, and a bunch of Democrats, uh Republicans uh we can't be part of that.
So they don't even have some of the Republican votes uh that they had.
All right.
Now I'm gonna go to the phones here for the remaining moments of our monologue segment because I monopolized all the time in the first hour.
Who are we starting with?
John in Tampa, Florida.
Thank you for waiting, sir, and welcome to the EIB network.
Well, Russell Limblog, God bless you, and it's good to talk to you for a first time.
Hey, uh something that you know has been on my mind for a while, and I think it kind of falls on the laps of both the puppet Congress of the Liberal Party that's in there and our own conservatives is that the oil prices we we keep hearing a lot of excuses for the gas prices um being a result of oil prices going up or refineries, you know, just producing and converting to oil.
However, when I'm reading the Wall Street Journal and I'm watching Exxon, you know, quarter after quarter, um, every since Katrina reporting record profit.
I just don't understand, you know, is there anybody out there, you know, that you see, whether it's at Congress or any of our presidential candidates that is actually gonna, you know, come from the puppet strings uh the oil company maybe actually do something about you know this group of the colours.
Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what I mean.
Are you upset that the uh gasoline price is rising?
Oh, not at all.
As a matter of fact, I love supporting XI.
Well, I mean, I don't understand the question that why do you want the government to do something about it?
Well, I I think that's you know what's bothering me is that they're using the excuse that it's the war and it's everything else, you know, that's causing that when they're in the record, you know, they're reporting record profits.
I think this is a case of the Democrats not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
Gasoline prices up thirty-one cents in the last month.
Under normal circumstances, they would be belly aching and whining and moaning, and they would be demanding the heads of big oil company executives.
And they'd be doing story after story after story on the human toll, and the terrible suffering that is taking place all across America because the gas price is now back over three dollars.
The only thing I've seen on it was yesterday, I was watching PMS NBC here on one of my many monitors, that little crawl at the bottom of the screen, which said, gas price back over three bucks with a couple exclamation points.
They were excited about it because they thought it was gonna be another avenue to attack Bush.
Then today, all I've seen is uh there's a reason, and that is that uh refineries are not operating at capacity.
And that's normal for this time of year.
Uh refineries, we haven't built a refinery since 1976, and the refineries that we have are doing other things with the oil other than making most of it into gasoline and and uh jet fuel and so forth.
Uh And that'll happen.
That'll that switch over, by the way, will change pretty soon because they will have to start refining more and more for the so-called summer driving season.
Yeah, it's boutique fuel time.
It's ethanol and uh, you know, all these other little happy go-lucky phony baloney plastic banana good time alternative fuel deals that Bush down there and where is he, Brazil or is in Argentina?
Is in Brazil.
Well, they do produce some pretty good looking models, but beyond that, uh then they're using ethanol down there.
They make it from sugar.
Uh well, it is the number one export is models.
Underweight size zero models.
It's about it.
Uh Argentina's got a pretty good social security reform program, but they're just messing around down there with ethanol and runway models and so at any rate.
I just don't think the Democrats have it on their agenda.
They're they're so flummoxed trying to appease their their stupid kooks about Fox covering the debate.
About the Iraq war, and you've got the elite strike force of the Democrats in the Senate led by Kerry threatening Pakistan if they don't get up to speed quick and start preemptively taking out terrorists, while at the same time we're abandoning the war on terrorists in Iraq.
They're telling uh Pakistan you're not going to get these F 16s that you've bought, and you're not going to get any repairs on the others that you've got.
You guys got to start fighting terrorism.
Democrats tell them this while we're pulling out or why they want us to pull out of Iraq.
Uh I just don't think they can walk and chew gum at the same time.
I I think they're sitting there, okay.
We got the gas price up.
Well, how do we use this?
Uh but they're just they're they're not it'll happen.
Give them give them a week or so, and if the price stays up, they'll they'll uh they'll be back there.
There are always market reasons for this.
But there's an interesting thing here, folks, and I don't want you to forget this, and I don't want you to overlook this.
The gasoline prices up thirty-one cents per uh in in the last month, right?
Have you seen anywhere any signs of outrage on the part of the American people over it?
Uh I haven't.
I frankly didn't even know the price was up 31 cents in the past month.
Uh but I'm sure you did, but I but there is no outrage over it.
Now, but so it takes the media for there to be the perception of outrage.
Since the media is not caterwalling and belly aching about this, there doesn't appear to be any crisis, does there?
Nobody's really upset about this.
I mean, nobody's breaking down the walls in Washington and demanding we don't there aren't protests.
Uh it's a great illustration of how the media creates a bubble and leads you along with it.
If they were doing stories on this and doing in-depth expla explanations on how po uh uh big oil is profiteering and uh so forth and so on, uh uh, I guarantee you there would be public outrage, or their perception would be that there was public outrage.
But there isn't any.
And it's a this a crucial point to remember.
Now, you some of you individually may be upset about it, but I'm telling you, it is not made national news because of the people being upset, even if they are.
The media hasn't picked up on this.
And by the way, the Democrats, you know, in Pelosi's first hundred hours, hey, we're gonna have this windfall profits tax, and then of course Jack Bingaman, the senator from uh New Mexico, uh in uh in the Senate sort of shut that down.
So it was on their agenda to do something about this, along with the minimum wage.
Where's that?
The minimum wage are still arguing about it in conference committee.
Democrats, all these promises are gonna get all these things done.
They aren't accomplishing anything.
Back in a sec.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbo Talent on lawn from God, Tucson, Arizona.
I've been there.
This is Brian.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, A10 Warhog Ditto's to you.
Pleasure to speak to you.
Well, thank you, sir.
Focus of uh the so-called Walter Reed scandal uh is not that the military and the Bush administration are abusing our servicemen.
Uh the way the libs are caterwalling, it's like the they're they're pretending like it's uh Gitmo North up there.
Uh the focus needs to be and should be, and if you listen to the comments of the people that have been complaining, it's the bureaucratic hell that is everything that is government run.
Uh I've been active duty for nine years, and every time I come out of appointment or dealing with anything with the medical service, um it it's through no fault of the people in there.
It's a bureaucratic it's bureaucratic nightmare every time.
Well, exactly right.
And this is an excellent point, which is why uh I made it in a morning update a couple of days ago.
Um if you if you want government run health care and you want to see what it's gonna be like, take a look at the mess that uh supposedly exists at Walter Reed and some of these other hospitals.
Uh i it's classic.
It's it's uh not necessary though to look at Walter Reed.
You can look at the Canadian system or the uh or the British system, and uh you can uh you can you can see the same thing.
What the left, however, what the Democrats are going to do, uh, and it's it's funny too, because they always point to the VA and related uh uh agencies as as being uh uh great examples of uh how the thing should be run.
And of course, talk to veterans who have to deal with the VA, you'll get a different story.
What they're gonna do, they're gonna look at this and they're gonna point to it, and they're gonna say, this is why we need the government in charge, not the army.
And of course, doofuses around the country go, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's stupid army can't do anything, can't win in Iraq, can't be terrorists, yeah, hate the army, yeah.
Let's get the army out of it, put the government in the.
There are people, the left has done this, they've weaned people to think the government's the answer to everything.
And so they're gonna use this to try to promote Hillary's already made reference to this.
Use the uh the squalid so-called conditions at uh at at uh Walter Reed uh as an example of why we need the government to step in when in fact this is the uh the government.
Let's go to Surprise Arizona, uh line one that is surprise Arizona with Kansas City Royals trained there, by the way, a couple of other major league baseball teams.
This is Robert, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Mega Ditto's rush.
I've been listening for 15 years.
Thank you.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you, sir.
I have a question.
In all the changes of administrations through the years, why does the Ninth Circuit remain so liberal?
Uh let me take a stab at this.
Uh one one of the reasons is that for the eight years of the uh Clinton administration, there were a couple three vacancies there, and of course the they got populated with Clinton appointees.
Uh the the left has a claim on the Ninth Circuit, uh, and if a Republican president tries to nominate a Republican there, a bunch of parliamentary maneuvers are utilized to stop it, uh senators could put holds on the nomination uh for any reason uh without having to announce why, uh, and without even having to identify who they are uh that's placing the hold.
Uh what you generally happens in the general back and forth and bargaining of Washington, this is not the total explanation.
One of the things generally happens is that the left, the Libs will say uh to the Republicans, look, we want we want our guy on a Ninth Circuit and we'll back out of the way and let you have your guy on some other circuit.
Uh and the reason the Ninth Circuit is huge.
I mean, the fact that it encompasses all of California alone makes it huge.
But do you know that the vast majority of cases that the Supreme Court now it's not the vast let me get this right.
It's a George Will column, and I'm trying to recall it.
Uh the the George Will wrote a piece.
He basically said we need two Supreme Courts.
We need one Supreme Court to deal with appeals from the Ninth Circuit, and another Supreme Court to deal with all the other cases, because there are so many appeals that come from the Ninth Circuit, and the Supreme Court overturns the vast majority of them.
So whatever they do out there ends up getting overturned, but it is the left just has a lock on it.
Um you could almost look at that and say, why does the lect left have a lock on uh on academic?
There was a story in USA Today that was on the front page of USA Today a couple days ago.
And you know Congress, the Democrats Pelosi and this in this crowd, they announced they're gonna have the most ethical Congress in history, and they came up with a whole bunch of new uh uh regulations and uh rules that uh take away some of the privileges members of Congress have, such as From whom they can accept charter air flights and from whom they can accept gifts and from whom they can accept uh financial assistance and so forth.
And there are a lot of exemptions that are now in the law.
But guess what one of the uh what there were a lot of new restrictions.
There was one major exemption to these new ethical rules, and it is this.
There are no restrictions on members of Congress from accepting travel offered by major universities.
Major universities can pay to have Congressmen fly all over the country, all over the world, and speeches, lectures, come in and do whatever.
And there's a little symbiotic relationship.
Uh, you know, Congress comes, we're gonna cut, we're gonna increase the deduction that you get for tuition on your tax return.
And that everybody goes, yay, tax cuts for two weeks, and we love education.
Just allows major universities to raise tuition.
Uh it's symbiotic, and the same thing as with the left and the ninth circus.
We'll be back.
Yes, sir, rebub.
Here we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
From the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
Here's the money quote for the George Will column on the Ninth Circus in relation to Supreme Court that I just referenced.
There should be two Supreme Courts, one to reverse the Ninth U.S. Circuit, the other to hear all the other cases.
Last term, more of the Supreme Court's caseload, 18 of 82 cases, 22%, came from the Ninth Circuit based in San Francisco than from any other circuit, and the ninth was reversed in 15 of the 18.
The ninth's winning percentage at the Supreme Court, 167, is worse than that of the 1962 Mets, which was 250.
On Monday, in the first decision of this term, Supreme Court reversed the ninth's fretfulness on behalf of Fernando Belmontis.
That's so those are the details.
Speaking of courts.
A divided three-judge D.C. circuit panel has held that the District of Columbia's gun control laws violate individuals' Second Amendment rights.
According to the majority opinion, quote, the phrase the right of the people, when read intra-textually and in light of Supreme Court precedent, leads us to conclude that the right in question is individual.
The majority opinion sums up his hobbling on this point as follows.
To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms.
That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution.
It was premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self-defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government or a threat from abroad.
In addition, the right to keep and bear arms had the important and salutary civic purpose of helping to preserve this as citizen militia.
The civic purpose was also a political expedient for the Federalists in the first Congress, as it served in part to placate their anti-federalist opponents.
Despite the importance of the Second Amendment's civic purpose, however, the activities it protects are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual's enjoyment of the right contingent upon his or her continued or intermittent enrollment in the militia.
Now, this is uh this is huge.
The majority opinion also rejects the argument that the Second Amendment does not apply to the District of Columbia because it's not a state.
The majority opinion concludes Section 7 2507.02, like the bar on carrying a pistol within the home amounts to a complete prohibition on the lawful use of handguns for self-defense.
As such, we hold it unconstitutional.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals, not to be confused with the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals, has just held that D.C.'s gun control laws violate the Second Amendment rights of individuals.
Now this case uh obviously they're gonna try to get this to the Supreme Court.
Nothing at the Supreme Court says they have to take it.
They don't have to take any case they don't want to.
Uh but this is so groundbreaking.
This is so uh profound that the Supreme Court might consider this a uh you know pretty rosy candidate.
Uh if well, here's the next day.
What'll happen next is that people will go to they'll ask for the whole ninth, uh the whole 12th circus, which you call Mbank.
This is just a three-judge panel.
They'll ask for the whole 12th circuit to perhaps overturn this.
Uh and if it if it is upheld by the whole uh 12th uh uh the whole D.C. circuit and bank, 12 judges, then we're talking about it maybe going to the Supreme Court.
Profound ruling, individual rights to hold uh keep and bear arms is what the second amendment is all about.
DC gun control laws unconstitutional, three-judge panel, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen, for Hegel Mania?
Do you know what Hegel Mania is?
Well, no, I'm not joking.
I'm actually asking if people are ready for Hegel Mania.
Senator Chuck Hagel said yesterday that he's going to announce his political future on Monday.
Everybody thinks that he's going to announce for the presidency, but there's been no word uh whether he will say he's running for president or for re-election.
The Omaha World Herald wrote that Hegel acts like he's already running.
For a guy who hasn't announced a presidential bid, Senator Chuck Hagel's schedule next week looks a lot like that of a candidate.
He's slated to appear with nine declared presidential hopefuls, including McCain Giuliani, Mrs. Bill Clinton, and Barry Obama before a national firefighters group.
Uh his meeting, uh he's meeting with his political action committee steering committee scheduled to attend a Nebraska GOP fundraiser in Washington.
With his solid conservative credentials, opposition to the Iraq War, and disgust with President Bush, told Esquire Magazine before this is over, you might see calls for impeachment.
Uh some observers believe that uh Hegel could surge to the lead of who who is saying this?
Who in the world is saying this?
No, this is from the USA Today blog.
I uh who who's telling the bloggers at USA Today that some observers believe he could surge to the lead.
You know, there's an old saying out there that every senator looks in the mirror and sees a president looking back.
And this it just suggests how self-important they think they are as senators.
It's also why they're rarely elected president.
They've never governed.
They're not executives.
They're they're basically uh delegators.
They got all his staff to go do all the reading and all the writing and prepare the questions for the hearings and so forth.
And something tough comes up and they're gonna just give it to the staff.
I'm busy.
I'm in Vegas.
Get a steer saver.
And they move on and uh then they show up on the right time and make it look like they're all prepared and so forth, but they just the Senate doesn't prepare people for the rigors of executive governance, such as governorships do.
Uh I don't know, just trying to maintain my composure here.
Seem to be doing this, trying to do more and more.
Chuck Hagel, uh perhaps announcing for the presidency on Monday.
Here is uh John in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
You're next, sir on the program.
Yes, sir.
I just want to talk about if you notice how uh breathless the uh media's been and and trying to report all these anti-Bush protests every time he goes to another country like it's something new that uh it shouldn't be anti-American protest, but now it's something new because it's President Bush when this been going on for 40 something years, it's a favorite sport of the left all around the world.
Yeah, but doesn't matter.
It fits the template that they have, uh, and they find all these Brazilian kids wearing Bush-Hitler t-shirts and uh and things like that.
It doesn't matter to Bush, and it doesn't matter to the President of Brazil, who just stood up there and said America's our number one trading partner, and that's gonna isn't just the left being the left.
They're miserable or unhappy, they hate themselves, they hate the world.
Uh and and uh you know, here it's another classic example.
You're right, they've been protesting America all of all of these years, but why hate George Bush of all the country?
What in the world has Bush done to Brazil?
Well, it doesn't anything Brazil, I don't think even has a contingent in Iraq.
What This is purely media manufactured and leftist manufactured.
And when you start talking about why these people have such a personal hatred and disgust for somebody they don't even know and have never even met, uh who is not doing anything to them.
Uh you you have to you have to start digging deeper into their own psyche uh to try to find the answer.
These people are not normal.
There's a, you know, the order of French fries uh short of a full happy meal out there on the left.
And it's just it's a sight to behold.
Uh I don't feel sorry for them.
I just, you know, I I'm wary of them.
Uh, but I think they're nuts, think they're insane and loco.
They gotta be so much more to do in Brazil today than run around and make a fool of yourself.
Could also be a factor everybody wants to be part of the story.
The cameras are out there, uh, as in the Princess Da funeral.
Bill in uh Poughkeepsie, New York.
Thank you for waiting.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush Diddle's uh thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
You you you had a call, you've had some calls lately asking you to do more and and and what can you do, etc.
I was thinking about that.
It seems to me that 2008 is gonna be about one issue.
It's the identity of the American nation.
Who are we?
What are we?
How much control do we have over our own destiny?
The Europeans think we should have none of that.
I think the Republican candidate in 2008 is going to have to say this is what America is, this is what we stand for, and we will make of ourselves what we want to be.
All right.
Now you're confirming what I said yesterday.
We need leadership.
You know what it's exactly what Reagan did.
Reagan talked about America, the greatness of America, the goodness of America, the destiny of America.
We have a rendezvous with destiny, he said.
And uh and right now, and it may happen in this campaign.
Right now, what we're getting is uh candidates talking on policy.
Mrs. Clinton is just is this is in fact, even Dana Milbake at the Washington Post today writing a story about how trite Mrs. Clinton is being.
She's done just go out there and you know, make the right statement on the right issue to the right audience.
Uh I I don't I don't when I look at the Democrat list of candidates, I I don't uh I don't see them even being interested in the definition of the country and what they are.
They're more concerned about what other people think of what we are rather than defining who we are.
And when you when you're concerned about what other people think, you're letting them define you, folks.
Now, I get this big long monologue about leadership yesterday.
It was strictly a riff off the top of my head.
No advanced thought, no preparation, just utter pure broadcast professionalism.
Lo and behold, I get up today and I'm going through the news in the show prep.
And a story here by our buddy Ron Fournier in the Associated Press.
Lies from the White House, incompetence in treating wounded veterans, irrelevance in Congress.
Can't anybody do anything right?
It it's days like these that turn Americans sour on government, stoking a desire for leaders who actually lead.
Exhibit A, the perjury conviction of Scooter Libby, whose trial cast unflattering light on the Bush White House and the mainstream media.
Exhibit B, they just start talking about Walter Reed and so forth.
Nearly three-quarters of America, the CNN poll, no wonder that 78% of Americans said in the CNN poll a few months ago that government's broken and the public's lack of faith in leadership doesn't stop with the government.
Nearly 75% of Americans think U.S. society faces a leadership crisis, according to a report by the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government late last year.
It tracked a loss of faith in the people who lead businesses, churches and scrubles, and to drive-bys, as well as federal, state, and local governments.
Could it be an economic populist like Democrat John Edwards who will lead the nation?
Talks of two Americas, self-styled maverick like McCain who calls Americans to sacrifice and service.
Perhaps the agent of change is in the current field of 2008 presidential candidates, but nobody sees the mantle so far.
What did I tell you yesterday?
That the one thing we're not getting from anybody any can, I don't care where they are, is no sense of leadership.
And here's a uh quote even from Joe Trippi.
I actually think these people were listening to this program yesterday to put this story together.
Here's Joe Trippie.
You know, he Howard Dean's uh miraculous campaign for the presidency in um 2004.
It's clear there's a growing frustration with leadership in politics and everything.
It started in the nineties, it's been growing with a fever pitch now with a Libby being found guilty, Walter Reed and other stuff.
Where the heck's leadership, any leadership?
Maybe the single most relevant question of the 2008 race.
Drive by Samuel today.
I had it yesterday.
It's open line Friday, Ill Rushbow and the EIB network.
Just checking the uh email.
Rich, rich, rush, right?
When are you going to start talking about Newt Gingrich?
What do they mean?
Uh Newt's announcement that he had at an affair during the uh folks, I hate to tell you that it is not news.
Uh now I know what Newt's doing with this.
I mean, Newt's taking ownership of it, and he's getting it out there early before any of the opponents, if he decides to get in a race, any of the opponents bring it up.
But it's not news.
I mean, everybody's known that this happened.
Uh what's interesting about it to me, he admitted it in an interview with James Dobson, a focus on the family.
And uh uh he admitted, you know, I've failed to meet my own expectations.
I failed to meet the expectations of God, standards of God, and so forth.
Uh I don't know, it it piques my interest uh in the fact he may be considering running.
Get it out there now.
Why bring this up?
Nobody else has brought it up.
It's old news.
Everybody knew this.
I saw it yesterday.
I said, Whoop de-doo.
It's out there.
It's time for Clinton to announce another affair he had that we don't know about.
Or maybe admit again that he had sex with Ms. Lewinsky.
You know, keep the ball uh uh on a level playing field.
San Diego, this is Keith.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hi, uh I love your show, but I disagree with the fundamental premise you take that the conservative movement is advancing.
I just see the conservative principles in America as slowly dying, and maybe they, you know, we slow that down a little bit when Ronald Reagan takes over or something like that, but the secular humanists just seem to be taking over the country little by little.
Well, the brakes have been put on that.
I know it's a challenge out there, but you know, I uh uh I i I just cannot accept the premise that conservatism is dying when I am thriving, and I am conservatism.
Well, I think uh your medium is popular, and there's a lot of conservatives still in America, but I just think conservatives need a major reformation around fundamental principles.
I think we need to re rethink the whole enlightenment, the idea that you don't need God, you don't need, you know, that that intellectualism is gonna save us and all that.
And I just see that Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Uh why why do you think there's been a fallback in that?
Well, uh, in my lifetime.
Let me tell you something.
If there were no conservative movement, we would have already signed the Kyoto Accords.
You would have already lost a bunch of freedom and and and Earth would be your new God, and you wouldn't be allowed to mention Jesus Christ.
Well, uh just because uh it's happened slower in America doesn't mean that it the same pattern that happened in Europe isn't happening in America.
I think that uh we're slowly but surely following the same pattern as France and Germany and the UK, uh, albeit we're a little behind them because we're so fundamental religiously.
Uh good point.
Uh the number of uh quote unquote leaders and uh self-admitted braggart intellectuals in uh in Europe that uh say they believe in God is at an all-time, I say they don't believe in God's an all-time high.
Um but we talk about leadership, and and one thing that uh I think America's lost sight of with regard to political leadership is that in order to be a good leader, you need to say what you believe most fundamentally.
You can't just be a technician like Hillary is.
You need to be able to say, hey, here's what we believe.
And I think that's what conservatives need is some good leaders that'll say, hey, look, we're we're opposed to it.
I I understand what you're saying.
And if I would if I if if I allowed myself to, I could be absorbed and immersed in in uh in all of the uh apparent failures, the Wootz society, the pop culture interests that people have, how they're devoid of substance.
But that's always been the case with young people through any generation.
Uh this is an ongoing battle, and it will always be it has always been.
There's never going to be a triumph, or the country is totally conservative.
It's always something we're gonna have to battle the left on, and you gotta get used to it.
All right, listen up, folks.
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