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April 11, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 11, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Say where Fred Thompson uh said he had cancer is in remission and never had any problems from it.
Uh uh supposedly a mild form of some kind of lymphoma.
And uh I guess there's a reason he's is getting this out there now.
I mean, that's is obviously uh getting closer to making a decision on whether or not to go for it in terms of the Republican nomination, which reminds me we have our annual leukemia and lymphoma Society of America Curathon uh coming up on the 20th this month, Friday, the 20th of April.
Uh we have raised Boku bucks, and you people have just been amazing in the uh in the number of years that we've been doing this.
It's coming up again.
This little heads up here on Friday, April 20th.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limboy here, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, fun frolic and frivolity for all, as well as the serious discussion of issues.
A program reminder, I will be out this Friday once again.
But my good friend Tom Sullivan from KFBK Sacramento will be here.
Uh he, of course, uh head of the Sullivan Group, the opinion auditing firm in Sacramento that has audited my opinions for accuracy uh since the late 80s.
And of course, ladies and gentlemen, you should know that I'm thinking of dropping these audits from the uh from the Sullivan Group, not because of any problem at the Sullivan Group.
Their fees are very reasonable.
It's that by virtue of consensus of the American people, it's established that I am the most accurate, that I am the most listened to, and that I am the most correct uh radio talk show host out there.
I got far larger audience than anybody else.
Uh, and the that more Americans agree with me than anybody else in the media.
Uh any single individual, and therefore by consensus, by verge of consensus, I'm it.
And if you're not one of those who are part of the consensus, then you are a rush denier.
Time for some global warming news, shall we?
Yes.
The crazy world of Arthur Brown.
Hit the top of the charts in 1968, used to play that song as a struggling young disc jockey star of the future.
My second year in broadcasting, 1968, back in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Okay, global warming update time some doozies today in the uh in the stack.
First off, I know I've been pummeled with emails from people who happen to see Newt Gingrich and John John Kerry, who served in Vietnam in their their so-called debate on uh global warming, yes, it was on C SPAN.
When I first heard that this is going to happen, I said, Well, it's about time.
But I and I hate saying this for you, you have to understand.
I hate saying this.
I something happens to Newt when he gets up there face to face with these libs, and it's like make nice, it's like kiss up.
I mean, it's it's almost like he gets starstruck in front of these people.
Remember the joint press conference with Hillary on uh on health care.
And uh he was on the program after that.
I I I told him I was I was a little incredulous at at that.
He said, Well, forget partisanship, a good idea is a good idea, and I said, Well, that's the problem.
I'm not sure.
But I mean, Carrie, I mean, give the Sitting duck, sitting duck time, and to sit there and agree with the notion that uh we we're we're in a crisis because of humanity is is is to just uh ignore the the central political theme of this whole issue.
So I was I I like you, I was I was I was sad.
It was just it was very sad.
That that's that's about the best way I can characterize this.
Now, one of the things uh during the entire effort of mine here to educate as many people as possible on the real truth of the political movement of global warming has been to tell you that what this is all aimed at is you and your lifestyle and the entire American lifestyle.
And by uh extension, the lifestyles of Western democracies in general, but uh the focus is on us.
We're the bad guys.
It is our excessive consumerism, it is our attempt to drive bigger cars that is the problem, they say, and that becomes the target.
We're supposed to roll back our lifestyles.
We're supposed to have uh less expectations of the future because our actions, human beings, using their brains as God created To create longer lifespans, a better standard and quality of life is become the focus and target.
I've told you this over and over again, a looky here from the UK guardian.
Stop shopping or the planet will go pop.
In the week that saw Primark Mania, Jonathan Porrett, the government's green guru says consumerism is now a lethal disease.
Many big ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet, begins the argument by Jonathan Porrett, government advisor and all-round environment guru.
Fascism, communism, democracy, religion.
He lumps them all together.
He's a lib.
Fascism, communism, democracy, religion.
These are the primary ills and evils of the world.
But only one of these has achieved total supremacy.
Its compulsive attraction robs its followers of reason and good sense.
It has created unsustainable inequalities and threatened to tear apart the very fabric of our society.
More powerful than any cause or even religion it has reached into every corner of the globe.
It is consumerism.
According to Jonathan Port, the most senior advisor to the government on sustainability, we have become a generation of shopaholics.
We are bombarded by advertising from every medium, which persuades us that the more we consume, the better our lives will be.
Shopping is equated with fun fulfillment and self-identity.
It's also, he warns, killing, killing the planet.
He argues in an interview with The Observer that merely switching to ethical shopping is not enough.
We must shop less.
This guy better watch out.
He is going to lose female support here.
The men will love it if he keeps this up.
It's what he says.
He said ethical shopping is not enough.
Meaning, you know, buying Priuses and compact fluorescence.
We got to stop buying everything.
We gotta stop buying all.
We gotta shop less.
You think women want to hear that?
Men might, but uh HR gonna use it on Teresa tonight.
Hey, Teresa, your shopping's destroying the planet.
But that that actually turn this around and use it.
All of a sudden, all of us deniers, all of us skeptics, go home and tell your wives, your spouses.
I, of course, have uh none, neither.
But you can do it for me.
You can go home, and you can say, honey, I just read the most amazing thing.
I heard it on the Rush Lindbaugh show today, and he cited the source, it's the guardian in the UK.
We gotta stop shopping.
Shopping is killing the planet.
Go tell all these parents that are watching Al Gore's movie and coming home thing, oh my God, we're killing the polar bears.
Tell them no, it's shopping that's killing the polar bears.
We've got to stop shopping.
That's what the guy is saying here.
Uh there are growing number of dissenting voices, though, such as the so-called frugals, individuals who use the internet to seek a simpler lifestyle, and organizations and websites which urge people to kick the retail habit.
Porrett has concluded that consumerism is central to the threat facing the planet, cannibalizing its natural resources, and producing the carbon dioxide emissions which result in climate change.
I think capitalism is patently unable to go on growing the size of the consumer economy for any more people in the world today, because levels of consumption are already undermining life support systems on which we depend.
So if we do it for any more people, the planet will go pop.
So, okay, keep the poor poor, make the rich as poor as possible, and save the planet.
Now, Paul Ehrlich tried this, and he's still a guru, even though every projection and prediction he made was deemed to be wrong.
The population bomb, he made the bet with Julian Simon, Julian Simon says, I'll make you a bet.
By the year 2000 or whatever his apocalyptic year was, I'll bet you we got more of the following minerals, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, than we have today.
And Earling said, Oh, I'll take that, I'm gonna skunk you.
And of course, Ehrlich was dead wrong.
We had more of everything.
We had more abundance, we had cheaper prices on a number of things, factored for inflation, of course.
And the reason was the good old supply and demand.
When there's demand, people are gonna go out and supply it.
Yes, Mr. Snerdley, what's the uh Well, d we're not Snerdly's question, how is society supposed to function if people don't buy what they need?
He's not advocating total end of shopping.
This this is the but we're look at you you're asking me to analyze some guy rationally.
This is a kook.
The point is this is kooky, but it's being passed off as brilliance.
It's being passed off as insightful.
It's being passed off as enlightened.
Uh and and it's it's you know, but but it's going to attract its fellow kooks here.
So first they take away our big cars, then they're going to take away the light bulbs, and we've got to get these little screwy things.
Then our paper bags, LA is going to get rid of uh of paper bags, and they're gonna get plastic bags rather.
LA is gonna move get rid of plastic bags and grocery stores.
Then they're gonna get rid of hairspray, which they tried to do with the aerosol spray can.
Now they want us to stop consuming or we all die.
I'm telling you, folks, the environmental movement is the new home of displaced communists, and their attack is on capitalism.
Pure and simple.
If you just listen to them, you don't even have to trust me.
Meanwhile, the groundhog's prediction for an early spring is proving wrong in New York City.
A cold front has kept temperatures about seven degrees below the historical average this month.
Just ten days into April.
Temperatures have averaged 42 degrees.
That's about a degree warmer than the average for April of 1874, which is the coldest on record.
So the bottom line is that New York temperatures rival the record for the coldest April since records have been taken, 1874.
Baseball games in the upper, they got a snowstorm in the upper Midwest State.
It's got all kinds of airports bogged down.
Chicago O'Hare and others.
Major League Baseball having to cancel even more games.
Cleveland Indians moving games to Milwaukee, where they got a retractable roof there.
They can play the Anaheim Angels.
I'm sorry, Los Angeles Angels.
This is normal stuff.
This is the snowstorms in April happen.
But the PS didere is tons of today.
Cheryl Crow and Lori David in a biodiesel bus traveling the country to uh raise consciousness on global warming.
And there are numerous stories out there with quotes like this.
Lori and I just met in November, she's Sheryl Crow speaking.
Lori and I just met in November and now we're sleeping together, she said with a laugh.
Yeah, we're sleeping on a bus in separate bunks.
On a more serious note, she told People Magazine, when I learned how serious global warming is, I wanted to do something to help.
So when Laurie and I were talking about what we could do, well, my answer to everything is to get on the bus and take it to the people in the true Troubadour fashion.
What is she doing to be eco-friendly?
Well, I try to wash my clothes in cold water as much as I can.
I turn off lights in rooms that I'm not using.
I drive a hybrid.
I'm getting solar panels for my house.
To save water, I'm only going to shower once a week, she joked.
Like I did when I was a kid on Saturdays.
She also had her tour bus retrofitted to use eco-friendly biodiesel fuel.
We're in a bus powered by vegetable oil, so we're craving French fries the whole tour.
This is like Hillary's bus tour for education, except Lori David and uh Cheryl Crow on a bus tour across the country to raise consciousness about global warming.
The tour began at Southern Methodist University in uh in Dallas.
And uh she said uh yeah, I know it snowed the day before they got there, and it was snowing.
It's um it's it's just it's laugh, it's a joke, except these people are treated as heroines.
These people are treated as, you know, they're they're they're Paul Reveres.
They're riding across the country and they're sounding the warning the British are coming to the British.
Global warming is coming and it's gonna kill us.
I'm here because the more I learn about global warming, the more I feel compelled to do something in my own way, whatever it is.
Just do something.
Whether it matters or not, just do something, and that's the clarion call.
Just do something.
By the way, April is currently tracking as the coldest April in 113 years in the whole country, not just in New York.
How does this square with global warming?
Well, Mythroombaugh, global warming is not per myth primarily happening in the United States, uh, Mr. Limbaugh.
It is our accent in the United States, Myther Limbaugh that's affecting climate other places on a planet like Greenland and the Arctic.
And that's the problem, Myth.
They've already said that we're free thing of uh for heating up America.
If We're gonna suffer for what we're doing at Trying to warn everybody as best I can, it is a pure liberal political issue and nothing more.
And we will be right back.
Stay with us.
Well, poor old Rudy Giuliani, he got tricked into going on the prices right and didn't know the price.
The usual setup questions in the drive-by media.
They asked him uh what a loaf of bread cost and a gallon of milk was.
And he didn't know.
He hadn't stepped into a grocery store lately.
So there's a little bit of embarrassment out there.
Uh on both counts he said uh I don't know what he said the bread was, but he said the gallon of milk was a buck fifty.
Uh how many of you really know the price?
No, no, no, no.
I mean, really know the price of a loaf of bread or of a gallon of milk.
And I'm not talking about how many of you remember what it cost you the last time you go.
The fact of the matter is, most people when they go to the grocery store, it doesn't matter what it costs, because they have to have it.
You gotta have milk, and of course you gotta have bread, the so-called staff of life.
You buy it.
It whatever it costs, like gasoline, you buy it.
Now you remember the gasoline cost because that's a little political there, but I mean most people uh would have to search their memory banks.
And of course the the point that we're trying to get with Rudy was, well, he doesn't get to the store.
And that means he can't represent America's president.
Well, it hadn't been a real guy, doesn't go to grocery store.
Uh but my question is, how many of you really know what the price of a gallon of milk is in a loaf of bread?
Not what it is in the grocery store.
For example, how much how much is a gallon of milk really cost?
If you factor out the taxes, federal and state, if you factor out the subsidies to the farmers, if you factor out the transportation cost, what is a gallon of milk really cost?
Is it like gasoline where the feds get some, I don't know, 17 cents a gallon in tax, and the states get 28 cents?
Is it true that the as in milk or as in gasoline?
You know the federal government makes more profit on gasoline than the oil companies do because they don't have any costs.
They don't have any RD, they don't have any drilling, they don't have any distributed uh distribution costs.
I mean, they're just thieves.
Federal government, every time the gallon of gas goes up and you people start getting crazy and making all kinds of catcall noises out there, stop about the oil company profits, stop and think it's state and local governments are every penny is profit.
And the more the price goes up, the more they benefit.
Well, was is that true in milk?
I wonder.
Does the government profit more from the sale of a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk than the actual manufacturers, producers and distributors of those products?
Even if if they don't, in this case, because the food items are may not be federal tax on it, but the point is it's local sales tax on some of these things in some states.
Point is how many of you really know what the cost of these things is?
By the time you subsidize the farmers and factory at all these other things, what is the real cost?
Rush, you're skirting the issue trying to save Rudy.
No, no, no, I'm not trying to illustrate a point, folks.
Not trying to say you think Rudy Giuliani needs people to bail him out on the prices right.
This this is uh it's just a typical trick question from the drive-by's, and it has no practical relevancy to the election and primaries or whatever coming up.
All right, look, folks, I've had diarrhea of the mouth today, but uh what's so funny in there?
What uh just ask the wife.
Oh, that's a real sexist comment.
That's a real sexist comment, Bryant.
Uh so Rudy should have just asked his wife what the bet she hasn't been to the grocery store in a longer period of time than Rudy.
Be my guess.
But nevertheless, uh I have I've hogged this program, understand, and uh and it's time to get you involved here.
So you're we'll go to your phone calls right after this break, and uh we'll spend a significant amount of time with you.
So 800 282-2882 is the uh number if you'd like to appear.
Sit tight.
We'll be right back.
No need for you to think, folks, I uh do that for you.
Here behind the golden EIB microphone.
I gotta I have a better question than what's a loaf of bread cost or a gallon of milk cost.
I mean, that's a it's a tired question.
It's an age old question.
Reporters need to come up with a new question, such as, what do you think one of Hillary Clinton's pants suits costs?
And the answer to that, well, I'm not sure, but it's probably pretty cheap since she probably buys them by the gross.
Ask Hillary what you don't like that comment, Don?
Smirking in there.
Ooh, maybe hit a nerve.
Ask, okay, if you don't like that, ask Hillary what one of her pantsuits cost and see if she knows.
Well, if you're gonna ask Rudy about all this corner stuff.
But you know, the the neighbor of John Edwards is Monty Johnson guy that that uh Elizabeth Edwards is a slumber and uh this house is a slum, his property is a slum is 42 acres, and this rabid rabid Republican, and she wouldn't ever want to meet her talk, she wants to keep her kids away from the guy.
He's got to sell his property because uh property tax have double because the Edwards built this monstrosity of a mansion across the street from him or down the road from him.
And somebody asked Edwards about this.
Well, you gotta you gotta ask my wife.
Uh, ask Elizabeth about that.
So I guess Elizabeth's out there protecting the homestead.
So your question is good, uh, Brian.
Uh Rudy should have just go go ask Judith about that.
I I've got more things to be concerned about than what I pay for loaf of bread or what have you.
All right, to the phones, Neil in Loveland, Colorado.
Thank you, sir, for waiting, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush, Mega Digos, and thank you for all you do for us.
You are it.
Well, I appreciate that.
Just one of the many forming the consensus I refer to here.
Thank you very much.
All right.
Well, the stuff you're talking about, Speaker Pelosi today is just incredible.
And your morning update on her today got me inspired to call.
Yes.
I need your memory, but it seems to me that I recall the mainstream media started reporting job approval ratings for Speaker Gingrich.
Yes, that's true, they did.
But I didn't hear that on a tip O'Neill, or I haven't heard that on Speaker Pelosi.
So are there job approval ratings for her?
I haven't.
I I I haven't seen any, but I'll tell you what, I I I wouldn't be surprised if there were somewhere down the road.
They may be doing polls on it.
The results aren't what they want, so they're not releasing them, uh, would be my guess.
But if they ever come back with an approval pro for Pelosi that that is higher than Bush's, uh I wouldn't put it past them to put that out.
What they do, what they're doing now is rating Congress.
And you may have heard recently that uh that Congress is up.
The congressional ratings are up around 40 percent.
They used to be lower than Bush, but now they supposedly are up.
Uh and from from yesterday, actually Monday, um, an AP poll indicates the public wants Congress to push for an end to a war that has claimed the lives of more than 3200 U.S. troops.
Forty percent of those surveyed said they approve of the job Congress is doing.
Now, how uh how do you get from 40 percent of the the everybody knows what Congress is doing.
They're withholding funds and they're trying to withhold funds.
And an AP says here that the poll indicates the public wants Congress to push for an end to a war.
How can you say what the public wants when 40 percent of is not a majority?
Well, you can say it because you think your audience is a bunch of idiots.
Forty percent of those surveyed said they approve the job Congress is doing.
That's up from 25 percent approval registered for the Republican majority in the weeks leading to the elections.
The public opinion split is identical on the issue of Democrat handling of Iraq, 40 approve, 57 percent disapprove.
Well, how hell's bells?
How in the world can you get from 57 percent disapproval to the statement that the American people want Congress to get us out of a rock?
I don't believe you can.
You can't.
Support is lower among self-described political independents who deserted Republicans in the last four.
Now only 32 percent of them register approval of the job Congress is doing.
Thirty-six percent favor the way Democrats are handling the j the job, and even anti-war Democrats seems slow in warming to the new majority in Congress.
Fifty-nine percent of that group, the Democrats approve of the way the party is handling Iraq, 39 percent disapprove among Republicans, it's eighty-six percent disapprove.
How in the world does any of this even get to 40 percent overall?
Uh and but but be beyond that, how does 40 percent come anywhere near speaking for the American people?
Doesn't.
It doesn't.
So that that's uh that's that's what's out there.
Uh but there as far as specific polls on uh the Speaker of State, uh Nancy Pelosi, I have not seen any.
Okay.
Well, when you do, I'd like to hear them.
Oh, we'll pass it on when we get that, because I I'll tell you, and I just want you to warn be warned that when and if that day comes, it'll be because she's got higher individual approval numbers than Bush.
Okay, so now it's got to be below thirty five.
If they're doing it, it's gotta be below where Bush is, or they the then that's why they wouldn't put it out.
All right.
Well, thank you so much, Russia.
You bet, Neil.
Uh Michael in Charleston, South Carolina, thank you for waiting.
You're next on the program today.
Hey, Rush.
Uh yeah, let's start the poll right now.
I disapprove of uh uh Madam Speaker.
Uh forgive my passion, but I I found it a ludicrous for the for the democrats to say that they support the troops, that they're gonna base their vote on whether to fund them or not on whether they get a place that store their peanuts.
Give me a break.
I mean, let's uh let's just say uh where's the integrity?
You either support the troops based on your clear beliefs or you don't.
Don't tell me that you're not gonna be a good thing.
You know why one way one way or the other because you're gonna have them?
Hold on here, time on the I have to tell you, I think they've dropped the support the troops business.
I don't think they're even trying to even make that statement much anymore.
They're they just want the phones for the they tried to all last year, but they're you don't hear them say i if you don't hear them make a big point out of supporting the troops when they say they want the withdrawal date to start March 31st of 2008.
They'll throw it in as we do they need to do this to make the troops safer.
I I think the reason I think this so personal is because my son, Sergeant Bunny Hugh was killed in Afghanistan on the 19th of February of this year.
And it just grates on me to have the Democrats with their podium uh that that they have to to to just spew all the the discontent and the hatred and and and the rock don't tell me that you support these guys.
If you want to save money, let's call back the the medics and the surgeons and stuff.
You'll just save money on treating them, and then a whole bunch of more docks just save money from the VA.
Give me a break, don't tell me that you support the troops and want to uh get the uh the Taliban or Iraq, even uh and give the enemies a plan of when you're gonna withdraw.
You know what the root of your anger is.
Yeah, I know.
I got a dead soul on a 23-year-old, it's a widow, and a four-month-old girl that doesn't have a father.
And and it just ins I'm insist that she gives us the the the uh uh minimum wage increase instead of doing something about the increases across the border.
In addition to that, the real reason that you are fit to be tied is because what all of what you've said translates to is and what you know is that the people you're talking about here want defeat.
And that's what frosts you.
That that's that's what you hear, and when they say they support the troops, your intelligence tells you to be angered and outright because you outraged because you know they're lying to you about that, because they want these troops humiliated, they want troops defeated, they want this whole thing to be a giant embarrassment, and they are at the same time trying to massage this with occasional statements that they support the troops.
You've got uh, good about themselves.
They want to feel good about themselves.
Of course it's about themselves.
It's about it's with they're the biggest narcissists in the world.
With all liberals, it's about them.
It's it's all it's it's look at me, I'm claiming my I'm claiming my claim, I'm doing a good job.
They pat me on the back, and look at me.
I'm the first woman speaker, all I all that in a bag of chip.
Yeah, but you look, let me Michael, what you you you uh you should know is that they they create a number of alternative realities in which they then live.
And they believe people like you are so few that they're not running a political risk with any of this.
They they believe that the vast majority of the American people want us to lose in Iraq.
They believe that they want the troops out of there and the Iraq war over ASAP, regardless of the outcome, because they believe it, and they have such an arrogance and a condescension that they assume that whatever they think is what everybody else thinks, too.
Uh and if uh and then then go about trying to make that happen if they have sober moments when they realize they're living in an alternative reality.
I uh look, I share your anger and your outrage, and I I uh totally understand it.
And believe you know the one of the one of the things that I think they've calculated, they look at numbers.
Uh and this country's changed in a number of ways, uh, say, since World War II in Vietnam.
I saw a uh I saw a uh uh figure the other day, and I'm gonna try to just remember this off the top of my head.
Population of the country, it's give or take, adult population, 225 million, somewhere around there.
And I think what I saw was that the number of military families is two million.
Now you're in that group, and the Democrats will look at that and say two million military families versus what well, we'll go with the bigger group.
And no sense of honor, and there's no sense of uh uh of trying to appeal to you.
You're a minority in terms of numbers, uh, and you're not the future, where they're concerned.
So, and you, I think instinctively understand all this.
Your outrage and anger is uh completely understandable.
And it's also indicative of the of so many.
You don't have an outlet for it, and you're looking for leadership throughout the country to express the outrage that you feel, and you're not getting it.
You're not seeing it anywhere, and that just makes you even more frustrated.
I'm glad you called here to vent a little bit.
Um, because you're among friends here.
Uh, and uh people are sympathetic to what you and your family have gone through.
Feel free to call any time.
We'll be back in just a moment.
I I need to uh send out an APB out there for Neil in Loveland, Colorado, who we uh talked to at the beginning of the half hour here.
He wanted to know if there were any Nancy Pelosi approval numbers, and I said I hadn't seen any.
Neil, there are uh approval numbers out there for Nancy Pelosi, and they are from the AP.
And uh Coco up at the website found this on a Washington Post blog with the blog post dated yesterday.
And the headline, Pelosi's approval takes first hit.
But not only that, she took her first hit because of me.
Under near-withering assault from Republicans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has seen her approval ratings suffer its first significant drop in her brief tenure, wielding the gavel as Speaker of State, according to a new independent poll.
While she still remains more popular than President Bush, I told you, Neil.
This is the first one of these I've seen, by the way.
While she still remains more popular than President, but can I uh you do a name recognition survey on Nancy Pelosi?
Let's find out how many Americans can name her or can recognize her name compared to President Bush.
But anyway, Pelosi's job approval rating dropped to 46%, according to an AP Ipsos conducted poll in the middle of last week.
Her disapproval rating climbed up to 44%, which is a sizable shift from mid-January when the same poll had her approval disapproval at 5135.
That mid-January finding held steady in late February, as the Washington Post ABC News poll showed her job performance rated at 50 to 31 in favor of her.
Now it's certainly noteworthy that the AP Ipsos poll was conducted during the peak of attacks against the speaker for leading a congressional delegation to meet Basher Assad.
Those attacks included Vice President Dick Cheney's remarks on the Rush Limbaugh show.
So I am blamed along with Vice President Cheney for causing her approval number to take a big hit.
How many times when the drive-bys have reported President Bush's approval numbers, have you seen it said?
It's certainly nowhere that uh noteworthy that the latest Bush poll was conducted during the peak of Democrat attacks on the president for X. You never see that.
The Bush poll numbers are attributed to the fact that Bush sucks.
Bush poll numbers are attributed to the fact that Bush is An idiot that Bush is wrong.
Pelosi's plummeting poll number is due solely to the fact that Cheney was on this show.
You just gotta love these people.
In one sense.
Neil, I'm glad you asked the question.
I would have not known this.
I don't read the Washington Post blog, but Coco up there with nothing to do, apparently.
Why else would you read it?
Um went and found it.
Dave in uh in Rosemead, California.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Uh hi, how are you doing, Rush?
Good, sir.
I'm not gonna say uh dittoes because it's stupid.
If I didn't enjoy the show, I wouldn't be listening.
Well, what do you think ditto's means?
It means I I enjoy the show.
I like the show.
That's good.
That's good.
Doesn't mean I necessarily agree with you.
I agree with that.
Yeah.
Well, I'm uh my uh I'm looking at George W. Bush going down as one of the worst presidents in American history.
Really?
He's failed at everything he's done.
No, he hadn't.
First of all, first of all, uh let me establish my bona fides.
I have a PhD in American histories, and I'm a retired retire and I'm a retired army colonel.
Okay.
Um he started a war that he was not willing to win.
He didn't start only his only chance now is to is to let the Democrats defund it and try to blame the debacle on them.
So you think that's what he's gonna do?
I I think that's exactly what you you think do you think he'll eventually go along with the Democrats defunding this and uh and allowing the troop withdrawal to begin?
No, he won't do that.
And blame the Democrats.
They will not vote the funds.
And uh he'll try to blame them, and the media will blame him.
Well, now wait a minute.
You just he said you said his only chance is to let the Democrats defund it.
That means he's gonna sit by and let them do it.
You just said no, he won't go along with it.
No, you're you're still not.
No, no, no.
He's not going to go along with the plan for the for the timetable.
He he will he will he will refuse, and they will they will refuse to accommodate him.
And so they will just they won't they won't vote the f all they have to do is not vote the funds.
It's not something that they could that they have.
Well, let's just continue along with your your theory here.
Will he succeed in getting the Democrats to be seen as responsible for the defeat?
Probably not.
You believe not?
I believe not.
I mean, Clinton managed to get the uh Republicans blamed for not voting the uh budget, but I don't think uh I don't think uh the the mainstream the mainstream me drive by media will allow um Clinton to document.
You think Bush to blame for thirty you think thirty, forty, fifty years from now, uh, when historians probably not yet born go back over this period uh that uh well they're gonna see they're gonna see that he tried to institute a tax cut that he failed at.
He didn't fail at that.
He did well.
They weren't tax cuts, they're rate reductions.
Now wait a sec.
Wait a second.
That's that's that's why I said no he hasn't when you said he's failed everything he's done.
The tax rate reductions have been a boon to the economy and they are real and they were substantive.
But they're they expire in 2010.
Beginning now, they expire one by one until 2010 and then all the time.
How can you Democrats are gonna say, hey, we didn't raise taxes, we just let that let uh Bush's You gotta understand.
No, wait a minute you if you're a PhD in history and science, you understand that with politics is about what you can get when you can get it.
He got ten years on this stuff, uh, and the idea was that it would be so successful and everybody would know it, it'd be renewed now that Democrats take over, of course it won't be.
But you can't chalk that up to uh to uh to failure.
Uh Bush has disappointed a lot of people, a lot of things, but it's it's quite a stretch.
There's a worst president uh American history.
But I'm glad you called I wish I had more time with you, Dave.
I really do, but I'm simply out of it.
Back in a moment.
By the way, on this tax cut business expiring in ten years, don't forget you get people like McCain and Olympia Snow and a bunch of Republicans who don't like tax cuts were opposing Bush on this.
As I said, it was the best he could get.
You get the best you can when you can.
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