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March 14, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 14, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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I want to start today with the continuing scandal over the U.S. attorney flap.
Uh because there's a lot to be said about it, but but but but besides the substance of the issue.
Uh there's a great indication here, or great lesson uh that we can all learn from about how to respond when you're under some sort of silly attack.
And I have noticed, like I got a Bloomberg news story here today that um uh attorney general Alberto Gonzalez found few defenders in Congress among fellow Republicans as Democrats escalated demands for his resignation.
And the administration itself is having uh trouble getting its message out.
There are no defenders.
Uh John Kyle did did uh try to draw analogies to the hypocrisy here over Bill Clinton and his 93 uh U.S. attorney firings in 1993.
Um but for the most part, I I know what's going on here.
The Republicans are afraid to tie themselves to President Bush.
The drive-by media, the Democrat Party is trying to destroy this presidency.
If they can, they will take him out prior to the election in 2008.
If they can't do that, what they're trying to do is isolate him in such a way that no Republican will come to his defense or the defense of his administration, because they still afraid of the drive-by media, are afraid that they'll get tied to the Bush administration.
And they just they're they're they're they're cowering in fear of the drive-by media.
And the problem with that is that you don't have to defend the Bush administration in attacking this whole story as put out by the drive-by media.
There's nothing that says you can't go on offense here.
You don't have to go out and defend Bush or defend Gonzalez if you don't want to, although it wouldn't be a bad idea if they did.
But they just they they view Bush as he's a gauner, and anybody tied to him is a gawner.
It's okay, fine.
You don't want to defend Bush.
Well, go out and defend your party.
Attack the Democrats and make it clear what's going on here.
I mean, this is uh this this is much more than just uh, you know, the Democrats trying to rev up anything they can.
Um this is much more than the drive-by needy media needing to fill 24 hours, seven days a week of news.
This this is an agenda.
There's an effort here to totally destroy this presidency on any issue that comes up, be it scooter libby, be it this, uh, be it the lies and distortions of the number of anti-Bush protesters down in uh South America on his trip down there.
Uh and of course, if there's any scandal uh in this, and and by I've got a soundbite here.
Nobody can find anything illegal about what Bush did.
Well, that ought to make this a non-story.
And the New York Times is full of editorials today in news and newspapers.
Why, why, these emails going back and forth, why there were political calculations.
Yeah, in Washington, D.C., a political calculation might have happened in the Bush administration.
Washington, home of politics.
Of course, this is political.
There's it always has been.
It was political when Clinton did it.
A little self-preservation, too.
Uh with uh with Clinton.
But some of these U.S. attorneys were not investigating voter fraud in their jurisdictions, and this is one of the reasons why uh some in the Bush Justice Department wanted to get rid of them.
But the I guess the best way to really illustrate what's happening here and and to give you an idea of the ammo that the Republicans have that they are not using is an editorial today in the Wall Street Journal entitled The Hubble's Standard, Hillary Clinton Knows All About, Sacking U.S. Attorneys.
Of course, this is laughable.
Mrs. Clinton on Good Morning America Today, and we have the soundbite, uh suggesting that uh that the Gonzalez needs to resign, that this is just horrible, this is just terrible of all people to be saying this, and of all people to make herself a target, a juicy target, the presumed Democrat front runner.
The Republicans could, especially the Republican presidential candidates.
The announced presidential can't could come out.
She just painted a big target on herself, front and back.
It's easy to take aim here.
Listen to this from the Wall Street Journal editorial today, as everyone once knew, but has tried to forget Webb Hubble, who was named Assistant Attorney General, former partner of Mrs. Clinton and a Rose Law firm in Little Rock, went to jail for mail fraud and tax evasion.
He was also Bill and Hillary Clinton's choice, Bill and Mrs. Bill Clinton, I'm sorry, choice as Associate Attorney General in the Justice Department when Janet Reno simultaneously fired all 93 U.S. attorneys in March of 1993.
Reno, Hubble, everybody thought that Hubble was running the show.
Reno was there as a nominal head, and then lady later Jamie Gorellick moved in to run the show after Hubble was sent packing.
Anyway, the uh the Justice Department of Areno and Hubble gave those ninety-three U.S. attorneys ten days.
Ten days to move out of their offices.
At the time, President Clinton presented the move as something perfectly ordinary.
He said, hey, look, you know, all those people routinely replaced.
I've not done anything differently in the president's ever done.
In fact, the dismissals were unprecedented.
Previous presidents, including Ronaldus Magnus and Jimmy Carter, had both retained holdovers from the previous administration and only replaced them gradually as their tenures expired.
Now this allowed for continuity of leadership within the U.S. attorney offices during the transition.
Equally extraordinary were the politics at play in the firings at the time Jay Stevens, who was then U.S. attorney in Chicago.
In fact, and I want you to stand by on um let's see.
audio soundbite number seven for this.
Jay Stevens, who was at the time U.S. attorney in Chicago, Patrick Fitzgerald now holds that slot, was investigating Dan Arostenkowski, who was at the time the Ways and Means Committee chairman.
Jay Stevens said he was within 30 days of making a decision on an indictment against Dan Arostenkowski.
Rostinkowski.
Rostinkowski, who was shepherding the Clinton's economic program through Congress, eventually went to jail on mail fraud charges, was later pardoned by Mr. Clinton.
This is uh this is audio from my television show, March 24th, 1993.
Uh Jay Stevens, U.S. attorney in Chicago, said this about his being fired along with the other 92 U.S. attorneys.
We have expected to make that uh critical decision within 30 days.
Uh we will continue to pursue this investigation.
I'm confident that uh it will be pursued by experienced career prosecutors who are conducting this investigation under my leadership.
I can only trust that in the tradition of the Department of Justice, the integrity of that investigation will not be uh blemished by political considerations.
Well, it it it didn't go forward.
It was uh it was uh not a whole lot happened there with uh with Jay Stevens uh being thrown overboard.
Now, at the um at the time, also at the time, allegations concerning uh some of the Clinton's Whitewater dealings were coming to a head.
By the way, this is the real reason all 93 were fired.
Clinton wanted to get rid of the U.S. attorney in Little Rock over Whitewater things, and to make it look like he was not getting rid of one particular U.S. attorney, he just broomed them all.
Jay Stevens was handy to get rid of too because he was investigating uh Ross Rostinkowski.
By dismissing all 93 U.S. attorneys at one time, the Clintons conveniently cleared the decks to appoint Paula Casey, well-known friend of Bill as the U.S. attorney for Little Rock.
Ms. Casey never did bring any big Whitewater indictments, and she rejected information from another friend of Bill, David Hale, on the business practices of the Arkansas elite, including Mr. Clinton.
When it comes to politicizing justice, in short, the Bush White House is full of amateurs compared to the Clintons.
Number six, audio soundbite number six is Janet Reno, also for my television show, March 24th, held a press conference.
This was her announcement.
I haven't asked for Stevens' resignation.
I've asked for the resignation of all the U.S. attorneys as a part of an orderly transfer to a new administration so that the new administration can choose its U.S. attorneys, which it re thinks is absolutely integral to the Department of Justice and based on what we think the qualifications for U.S. attorneys should be.
Yeah, so she was asking.
Wait, wait, you're getting rid of Jay Stevens because of uh Rustin Kelly.
Oh, no, no, no.
We're getting rid of all of them.
We're getting rid of every damn one of them.
It's part of an orderly transfer to a new administration.
So the new administration can choose its attorneys, which it thinks is absolutely integral.
Uh now, let's uh let's see.
Here's uh well, I'll have to find her later looking for Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Ah, here she has audio soundbite number two.
Here's Mrs. Bill Clinton today.
Good morning, America.
Montage of her remarks about this.
The attorney general, who still seems to confuse his prior role as the president's personal attorney with his uh duty to the system of justice and to the entire country uh should resign.
There's evidence of political interference and pressure being put on them to engage in partisan political activities.
The president needs to be very forthcoming.
Uh what did he say?
What did he know?
What did he ask people to do?
Well, what what what let's take a look at your emails?
Let's look at your files.
Let's look at all of the files in Janet Reno's office back when she got rid of everybody and she admitted it was pr it was pretty much about politics.
You wanted your own people in there.
Well, she wanted Paula Casey and Little Rock and Jay Stevens out in Chicago.
That's why I say she has just painted a big bullseye on the front and back of her tunic or her moo moo uh uh uh pant suit, whatever it is she's wearing out there today, and there's nothing.
There's nothing from the Republicans.
Once again, they leave it up to us here in Talk Radio and in the new media to uh try to try to make this case.
And I guess they're just cowed by the drive-by media that say, well, we can't get coverage.
I guarantee you, if some senator or Congressman called a press conference today to raise hell about this, they would get coverage.
There is no question.
Of course, you're not going to get coverage if you're on a judiciary committee, one of twelve or fifteen people and you're out there raising hell about it, because that's not televised.
You called a special press conference to talk about this and and bring this uh this this this BS to a halt.
I guarantee that uh that they would get coverage.
A little more on this, but I got to take a break here because of the constraints of time.
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All right, back to the Wall Street Journal editorial today on the Hubble standard.
When it comes to publicizing justice, in short, the Bush White House is full of amateurs compared to the Clintons, and that may be the very reason.
This very amateurism, uh, maybe the thing that explains how the current administration's managed to turn a routine issue of replacing presidential appointees into a political fiasco.
There was nothing wrong with replacing eight attorneys, all of whom serve at the president's pleasure.
In fact, here's a montage, ladies and gentlemen.
We've got David Gregory, we got Richard Ben Venist, we have the brick girl.
We have a brick girl update coming up today.
Uh Ed new update.
It's the uh uh I am woman by the Breck Girl have that standing by some time today.
Also Kelly Arena of CNN, attorney David Boy's, Anderson Cooper, and Jeffrey Tubin of CNN, and this is a little montage.
Even the greatest minds and liberalism in the drive-by media admit this is a non-story.
Is there any crime?
What's Schumer talking about?
I don't know that there's a crime.
What he did is not illegal.
No one is saying that anyone did anything illegal here.
I don't think there's anything illegal it's not illegal.
Was this illegal?
Certainly not.
The president has absolute authority to fire people.
Well, then what is this?
Then it is if it's not if it's not political, if it's not illegal, then they're trying to make this kind of politics, Republican conservative practice politics a crime.
They're trying to criminalize via scandal.
They're saying it's a scandal.
It's not illegal, it's a scandal.
It it gets in the way of justice.
It is uh it's uh it's spoiling the whole System, said Patrick Lakey.
Now, this supposed scandal is that Bush had been informed last fall that some of these U.S. attorneys have been less than vigorous in pursuing voter fraud cases.
And the president made that point to uh Alberto Gonzalez, the A.G., voter fraud strikes at the heart of Democrat institutions.
It was entirely appropriate for Bush, any president to insist that his employees act energetically against it.
Take the fired U.S. attorney John McKay from Washington State, the 2004 governor's race.
It was decided in favor of Democrat Christine Gregori or Greg Waugh, whatever, by 129 votes on the third recount.
As the Seattle Post Intelligencer and other media outlets reported, some of the voters were dead.
Others were registered in storage rental facilities.
Still others were convicted felons.
More than 100 ballots were discovered in a Seattle warehouse.
None of this constitutes proof the election was stolen, but it should have been enough to prompt Mr. McKay, a Democrat, U.S. attorney, to investigate.
Something he declined to do, apparently on grounds he had better things to do in New Mexico.
Another state in which recent elections have been decided by razor thin margins.
U.S. attorney David Iglesias did establish a voter fraud task force in 2004.
It lasted ten weeks before closing its doors, despite evidence of irregularities by the likes of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform, not Acorn.
As John Fund of the Wall Street Journal reported at the time, Acorn's director Matt Henderson refused to answer questions in court about whether his group had illegally made copies of voter registration cards in the run-up to the 2004 election.
So as far as for some of the other fired attorneys, at least one of their dismissals seemed to owe to differences with the administration about the death penalty, another to questions about the attorney's managerial skills.
And not surprisingly, the fired attorneys are insisting their dismissals were unfair.
Perhaps in some cases they might have been.
Wouldn't be the first time in history, nor would it be the first in which an employer sacked the wrong person.
No question the Justice Department of the White House have botched the handling of this from start to finish.
But what we don't have is any serious evidence the administration acted improperly or didn't protect any of its friends, just like we do have with the Clinton administration in 1993.
The bottom line is this if the if the Democrats want to understand what a real abuse of power looks like, they can always ask Hillary Clinton, Mrs. Bill Clinton.
She was there.
I've got this Bloomberg story, as I mentioned earlier.
Nobody coming to the defense of Gonzalez.
And that is the problem.
You go back to 1993.
Janet Reno had every Democrat defending her serial misconduct.
Her serial incompetence.
Yes.
So here we are, the Wall Street Journal and Talk Radio defending the administration again while the administration cowers and fires its own people, the uh chief of staff to Gonzalez, and are essentially out there playing dead on this.
I mean, the opportunity to nail Hillary, who has called for Gonzalez to resign is perfect.
Mrs. Bill Clinton, sorry.
Can you imagine, folks, if if these U.S. attorneys weren't subject to removal?
Are we let's ask the Democrats, are are you telling us that when you win the presidency next time you're not going to get rid of any U.S. attorneys that that would that would cause a problem in law enforcement?
Of course you're not going to promise that.
Can you imagine if these prosecutors were not subject to removal by the president, apart from the unconstitutional nature of such an effort?
Hasn't the Patrick Fitzgerald case just demonstrated how dangerous unaccountable prosecutors are?
You ask me, that's a that's a picture perfect lesson there of precisely why prosecutors are political appointments and why they are not unaccountable.
Loyalty to the executive branch's policies were the issue in some cases.
What's wrong with that?
That's my trying to politicize politics.
They're trying to criminalize it or scandalize it in this case, saying that U.S. attorney's loyalty to the administration is somehow wrong.
And all you'd have got to do is go back to 1993.
But this is the point.
The ongoing effort here is to drive Bush from office.
They can't do that.
The second goal is to destroy Republican prospects in 2008.
I mean, the New York Times has a story today about all these emails that go back and forth to prove some sort of scandal.
Where there weren't any lib emails back in 1993.
There weren't any lib emails.
What about what about all the lib emails going back and forth between Sandy Burglar and whoever else in the Clinton administration about the National Archives theft?
So somehow I'm one do the Republicans have normal instincts for survival.
You don't have to go out and throw yourself on the sword for the Bush administration to defend your party and attack the Democrats.
You can do it in an unrelated way.
They think they're going to go down and suffer if they lift a finger to assist the administration.
And that's been the point.
The drive-by's and the Democrats have been trying to isolate Bush since last November.
It's working, so he doesn't have any support uh whatsoever.
I gotta take a brief time out of just a couple more things to say about this, uh, and we'll move on to other things in the stacks of stuff.
Global warming snack continues to percolate.
Jennifer Garner, the actress admits crying now over Global Warning Warming.
Boohoo.
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We know the rest.
They may not know the rest of the real end.
It's 321.
And we're back in the cutting edge, El Rushball, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Now, I don't know if you people uh remember this.
I of course remember much.
Although I don't remember everything I say either.
That's why Snerdley is here.
That's why H.R. is here.
Cookie remember, I mean, I've said so much, it's hard to remember it all.
But I do remember years ago.
Uh uh remember it was in fact during the first term of the Bush administration, all the Democrats being invited up to the White House, the Kennedys to watch a movie, uh Ted Kennedy to negotiate and sign the education bill, write the education bill.
They were just bending over backwards is new tone business.
And in the process, was not doing enough to build uh loyalty within his own party on Capitol Hill.
Spent too much time wooing the Democrats.
New tone.
And that was hostile uh to the base.
And um I remember pointing out the parts of this administration remind me of the Nixon administration, what was the creation of new entitlements and so forth.
Richard Nixon made this fatal error, too.
He was Nixon's not Bush.
I mean, Nixon was obsessed with his enemies and trying to convert them and get them to shut down.
Gave him the EPA, gave him OSHA, gave them he gave them all kinds of new cabinet departments and so forth, but when he needed help, there weren't enough Republicans in Congress there to help him, and that's now become the problem here.
But the fact is this, uh a lot of you people probably don't think Bush deserves being defended, but that's not the point here.
This isn't about defending the administration anymore.
The Democrats are on offense over 2008.
And this case, this this this phony baloney plastic banana, good time, rock and roller, phony scandal over the uh firing of eight U.S. attorneys, is ripe for somebody to stand up and point out the hypocrisy.
Don't even have to mention Bush.
You can just attack the Democrats for what they are doing here.
Republicans had better realize this and and wake up, uh, or this is gonna be their undoing.
If they remain divided like this or timid, because if they continue to operate out of fear of the drive-by media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the networks, uh the they're they're gonna end up losing.
Uh the the they're never gonna persuade those people.
You know, stand up, do a press conference, the hell with what the New York Times says.
I know it's easy for me to say, you know, having an audience, getting an audience is different from getting votes, but believe me, it would resonate uh with a lot of people.
This is outrageous.
This this whole phony scandal over nothing that's illegal.
It's not an abuse of power, nothing that's been said about this is accurate at all.
Speaking of which, if you had uh any doubt that the if you if you think, well, it wasn't political, I know some if if look at it if your kids here I go, I'm gonna get I'm gonna start percolating it.
If your kids can go to school and be forced to watch this this this lying sack of dog doo-doo propaganda movie by Al Gore, and then if you school system tells you, as is happening here in Palm Beach County, Florida, that you parents have to go watch it too, or your kids might suffer grade consequence.
If you if you can go spend an hour and a half or whatever it is to watch this stupid thing and after it have your mind totally changed.
Then I I believe some of you might fall for the notion that there's some sort of genuine illegality.
You're scandal here, because apparently you'll sop up whatever the drive-by media ladles out.
Well, try this.
You go to WWW Hillary Clinton.com, you can uh sign a petition.
Uh to force Gonzalez to resign.
Now, guess what this really is?
This is not about forcing Gonzalez to resign, although that would be a nice answer.
This is fundraising.
This is building a list, building a list of contributors, future donors, and so forth.
There's nothing everything the Democrats are doing from their idiotic parade of meaningless war resolutions.
Uh by the you know what, folks, I I I I'm gonna have to bring this up again.
I'm I'm getting a little sneak preview of what's in the snacks here.
I I really believe there's a civil war breaking out in the Democrat Party.
We got Code Pink trying to protest Pelosi.
We got factions in the House protesting Pelosi and protesting themselves.
We got Senate Democrats angry with Senate House members.
A civil war going on.
The Democrat Party, it's not being reported.
As you know, I'm a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
And by the way, with the New York Times hit piece on Al Gore yesterday in that stupid movie of his, my stock to win the Nobel Peace Prize may have risen a little bit.
Never know.
By the way, where are my peace mugs?
We got the t-shirts today.
Uh you people probably got your stuff before I, the creator, got mine in this case.
I got my Rush for Peace t shirts, we're still waiting on the rush for peace mugs.
They weren't in the box.
I tell you what, there's a lot of lackadaisical behavior going on in some of our departments here.
I'm gonna have to put my foot down over this.
This is in this is uh intolerable.
Well, yeah, I do have some political pointed.
I got people that are here because they agree with me, not because of their competent.
Time to weed them out.
Let them go public.
I don't care.
I'll defend my actions all day long.
At any rate, uh th I guess you you you can you can you can buy anything the drive-by media is saying about this this phony baloney scandal.
If you're gonna buy into Al Gore's uh Al Gore's movie, but this is I don't know, folks, it's uh it's time for some people to uh to step up.
Let's go to the phones.
People want to weigh in on this, uh we'll do that before we uh get into a couple other things.
This is uh John in San Diego.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, hello, Al Rusco, how are you?
Fine, sir, thank you.
You you got my blood boiling this morning.
You said that maybe that that the president doesn't have support from his party.
You want to know what?
He doesn't deserve support from his party.
He hung Rumsfeld out the dry after his last election.
He doesn't defend himself.
He let you know, you know as well as anybody, perception is reality.
If you're if you let people proceed, perceive you're an idiot if you don't fight back, if you don't defend yourself, if he has people like you defend him, other talk radio show hosts, people like me who give money.
I am a black conservative, a young black conservative, 43 years old.
I've already given a thousand dollars to the RNC two election cycles ago every year when there's the election cycle.
They called me for money two days ago.
I told them to stick it.
I said, until someone in my party gets a backbone, it says someone in my party, I said if my president wants my money, he is doing things to basically to to encourage and try to gain favor with the other political party.
I told the young lady, I go, I know you're getting a mouthful, young lady, but you tell him to go get money from the Democrats he's trying to please.
Because I am a person at the base of this party that is being given money to this party, and my president is not doing that damn thing to benefit me.
I know you're out there.
I know I just referenced that, didn't I, that I think there are a lot of people out there who think Bush doesn't deserve defending.
And I, you know, I've I I don't, you know, I have I'm not gonna have a quarrel with you over what you said, but I do want to say this to you, and I that this is this is important.
You know, Bush is who he is.
And I agree with you, firing Rumsfeld is just you give them a scalp and they're gonna want five more.
You can't please these people.
No matter what the liberals ask for or demand, if you give them everything, it's still never going to be enough.
Why this lesson's not learned, uh, I don't know.
I can't, you know, I I've got some theories about why Bush is uh not uh ideological or why he's not confrontational.
But I've I've been through all those things before.
I want to address the other side of this.
Because I firmly believe, John.
I mean, you you think the future of the country is uh worth uh being involved in and trying to direct it a positive way, do you not?
Yes, I do.
All right.
Uh you don't think, do you, the Democrat Party is the uh the pathway to a great future for America and yourself, do you?
They the Democratic Party will lead this country to hell on a handback.
All right.
Now, in that case, and I agree with you, throw Bush out of this equation.
There is still plenty of opportunity for Republicans to come out and put this whole U.S. attorney thing in perspective and hammer the Democrats without defending Bush.
It's called offense.
You go on offense against the Democrats.
You talk about what a shameful episode this is and how it's one of the continuing ep uh parade of shameless episodes where everything in this country is being politicized for their own partisan advantage or gain, regardless what they tear down and destroy, including victory in the war on terror.
You don't have to even mention Bush's name.
You can you can talk about the facts of the 93 U.S. attorneys being canned by Bill Clinton, Janet Reno, and Mrs. Bill Clinton in 1993.
You can do all of this uh uh with with without if if and I understand their their reluctance to defend Bush, they'll think they'll go down the tubes with him uh if if they do.
I know this is the case, but there are ways to do this without appearing to defend what the administration is doing.
Especially now when you got the brightest legal minds on the left saying there's no crime here.
Thrush, here's the problem.
You know as well as I do, since Newt Gingrich left Washington, D.C., there is no one any backbone.
The last person that had backbone in our party was a man by the name of Trent Watt.
He got hung out to dry because of some comments he made about Strom Thurman at Strom Thurman's 94th birthday.
They took him out because even though Trent wasn't the strongest, he was effective.
He had a good message when he was on the Sunday morning shows, his message got out.
He didn't let people take him off message, and he got the point across that they took him out because of that.
Um slight disagreement there, but not w no, it's not worth exploring here.
But you gotta understand it was it w i i again, it wasn't the Democrats who took Lotto.
They could still be belly egging about it.
It was the White House who chimed in.
Well, because they have no backbone.
Is the the last person who had backbone in our party in DC was Newt Gingrich.
And Newt got an effective mess out.
We do not have a leader in our party.
I know that's the right question.
This the problem is no conservative elected leadership in Washington.
People are hungering for it, and that's that's why the minute it shows up, whoever in whatever personality it shows up, that person's gonna be enveloped with support.
Well, Rush.
Yeah.
Right, she said.
Right, she said?
Yeah, yes.
You know, I I go to parties with all my my my liberal my liberal friends.
That's a star, I told you, I'm a black conservative.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
You're a conservative and you go to parties?
That'll shock the left.
And I get into some serious discussions with my white liberal friends, and I'm one of those people that I just...
I I find myself defending my president, and I finally told him after Runsfeld got hung out the drive.
I said, You want to know that?
My president, my Republican president may be as big as a bozo as you guys think he is, but not for the reasons you think he is.
Yeah, actually, if Bush were what they think he is, we'd probably be happier, wouldn't we?
We probably they they actually they actually think he's conservative.
They think he's conservative.
And I they go, what do you mean?
I go.
My president is not a conservative.
I mean, they're their hatred for Bush is not related to his being conservative.
It's it's it's it's it's irrational.
It it'd be silly here to try to analyze it.
It still exists.
Look, um uh John, I I have to run.
I appreciate it, but don't uh you do what you want, then say what you want about Bush.
I I uh I know there are probably a lot of people out there who would say the same thing as you, but this this this can be uh uh you say Bush doesn't deserve support uh because he hasn't uh defended himself essentially.
There's a way of doing the party's got to think about the future here.
Uh uh I don't know, it's frustrating to look at this in in in uh in many senses.
And I you know, I ask a couple of them.
They say, well, We can't get any coverage.
Can't get any coverage.
I guess that's why we have McCain, because he knows how to get coverage from him, but there's a way to do this.
I gotta run because of time, John.
Great to hear from you.
Thanks.
It's a joy to have you in the audience as well.
Sit tight, folks.
We'll be right back.
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Well known Democrat presidential candidate, Mrs. Bill Clinton, yesterday, said that there's still a vast right wing conspiracy out there.
If anybody tells you there is no vast right wing conspiracy, tell them that New Hampshire has proven it in court.
We have the facts, and we're going to make that a crime.
He's talking about some push polling or something going on in New Hampshire, but I'm offended.
I have to tell you I am offended by this notion that the vast right wing conspiracy's back.
It never left.
Mrs. Bill Clinton, and I am the Mr. Big of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
She said my only regret was uh using the word conspiracy because there's absolutely nothing secret about it.
That's right, Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Just turn on the radio.
And you can listen to the vast right-wing conspiracy each and every day.
It hasn't gone away, and it never will go away.
The Brick girl upset over the attention being paid to his two homes.
And he's going carbon neutral as well.
Got a little update here.
The Brick Girl, John Edwards, I am woman.
As portrayed vocally by Paul Shanklin, USA Today.
Can Edwards win with an Us versus them pitch?
Basically, two Americas, the basically it's populism.
Uh and his challenge, it says here, is to convince voters in primaries in Cawkey that he is a populist who would uh put their interests above those of big corporations and big government.
The problem is the Drake University political science professor points out that this populist message hasn't worked uh since Jimmy Carter tried it in 1976.
It basically hasn't worked in 30 years.
Brett Girl also exasperated by the focus on his house.
He says, Look, I've lived in every size house there is, including two rooms house.
It's what's inside a house that counts, not what's on the outside.
Brett girl getting sensitive to this.
And also the Bret Girl is going carbon neutral.
He's pledged to run a carbon neutral campaign that would offset any contributions that he makes to global warming.
Often's travel, uh, often travels in a private jet, so forth.
So he's going the carbon route, the offset.
We got details on that.
Uh hey, Bret Girl, why don't you try using gel instead of hairspray?
That might help as well.
Have you heard about the new abortion uh cards?
Electronic cards, you can send the victim of an abortion.
No, no, no, sorry.
Uh, the woman.
And I got that wrong.
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