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May 10, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 10, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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And greetings one and all.
I am Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light through times of chaos, tumult, torture, humiliation, biblical plagues, early, tropical storms, and even the good times.
And we are here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network doing what we do best.
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Ever since I said yesterday that we got our first shipments of Nobel Peace Prize mugs in honor of my Nobel Peace Prize nomination, people have been, well, where's mine?
Where's mine?
Well, I get mine first.
You have to understand this.
I'm the grand poo-ba.
I get mine first.
That means that yours are on the way, though.
They were shipped at the same time.
But I do, I do want to apologize for how long this has taken.
I personally find it outrageous that it would take two months to get some mugs printed up.
But we had all kinds of problems.
They came back.
The color wasn't right on a bunch of them.
And so I apologize.
But they're manufactured now and they look right.
They look good.
And they're on the way to those of you who have become new subscribers at the Limbaugh Letter newsletter or the website, rushlimbaugh.com, or both.
But frankly, I've blown my stack about this.
You people don't know how many times.
And it means it's ridiculous for something like this to take two months, print up some mugs.
It is.
It's totally ridiculous.
Anyway, it's done now, and it's out there and they're on the way to you.
Well, we have the Democrats are now proposing a new Iraq funding bill.
What would fund it only through July?
Fund the troops only through July.
And of course, the president's out there saying that they'll veto that.
I'll tell you what happened, you know, the thwarted attempt to kill hundreds of soldiers at Fort Dix, which is a dropping off point for troops being sent to Iraq and Afghanistan.
And then these Republicans, now, a bunch of Republicans showed up at the White House yesterday, and there was a word that was cleverly left out by the drive-by media in discussing the Republicans that showed up at the White House and told the president, you better get Iraq and Gear over there because our support's waiting too.
Now, this is what the Democrats never do.
We were talking about this in the previous hour.
The Democrats never kill their own.
The Democrats circle the wagons and protect themselves.
Liberals of all stripes will do this.
Well, the truth is, this was moderate Republicans that went up to the White House yesterday to warn the president that Iraq must start showing some gains or their support is going to be fleeting.
This is the drive-bys, folks, they were orgasmic.
They were playing this as though it was the Republicans walking up to Nixon and saying, all right, we can't support you anymore, Tricky Dick.
You got to resign.
They're playing it up that way.
Of course, these are moderates, and I have a news flash for you.
Moderates are constantly uneasy.
They're always uneasy about everything.
And the closer we get to their own reelection, why, they're going to get even more uneasy.
Lawmakers said Mr. Bush made no commitment, seemed grateful for their support up to now.
The moderate Republicans said a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq had caused a sort of chaos that occurred in Southeast Asia after the Americans left Vietnam.
Now, they didn't bail.
They went up there and they made news on the basis that they threatened the president.
They warned the president that they were going to bail.
Representative Charles W. Dent of Pennsylvania, co-chairman of the Tuesday Group.
It's an alliance of about 30 moderate Republican lawmakers helped arrange the meeting.
He said lawmakers wanted to convey the frustration and impatience with the war that they were hearing from voters.
We had a very frank conversation about the situation there in Iraq.
Even so, the Republicans who attended the White House session indicated they would maintain solidarity with Mr. Bush for now by opposing the latest Democrat proposal for two-stage financing of the war, scheduled for a vote on Thursday in the House, and that's the vote to permit funding only through July.
I mean, that's a laugher if it weren't so damn serious.
It's comical.
But this is all about Republicans wanting to fly the coop, protect themselves.
And one of the easiest outs, one of the easiest scapegoats.
Well, I'm hearing from my constituents out there.
Well, you've been hearing about them on immigration, too, and you have a deadly squat on that.
You've been hearing from your constituents about a lot of things that you're not listening to them on.
But let them call in about Iraq, if they even are in these great numbers.
And since they're moderate Republicans, they might be.
And then you've got, here's another thing that's happening, folks, and this is not good.
And I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but you've got some Republicans out there saying, we've got to move to the center here.
If we're going to win the House back in 2008, if we're going to win the White House, we've got to move to the center.
No, no, do you know how the Democrats won the House in 06, you idiots?
They ran 12 or 13 conservative Democrats who ran to the right of their Republican opponents in these southern states.
People like Heath Schuler, South Carolina, North Carolina, whatever one of the Carolinas.
The Democrats knew full well what they had to do to win the House.
They had to get a bunch of conservative Democrats, pro-life Democrats, to run to the right of these Republicans who don't get it for who knows whatever reason.
And those conservative Democrats are the ones that gave us this Stalinist Democrat leadership in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, on down to Stenny Hoyer, and you name it.
And they can't pass anything.
They can't get anything done.
All they can do is pass these meaningless little war bills that, well, they're not meaningless.
I don't mean to characterize them that way.
They're quite dangerous.
But they can't pass any legislation.
About the only thing they've done of note is name a courthouse in Cape Girardo, Missouri after my grandfather and the Department of Education of Washington after LBJ.
And that's about what they've done.
All these promises that they made, they haven't gotten anything done.
And yet it's being portrayed that they're having a romantic success and robust success, and all kinds of great things are planned in the future and so forth.
And now you add to the mix the Republicans, moderate Republicans, trudging up to the White House for dialogue with the president to warn him that their patience is not limitless on this.
And while all this is going on, you've got people like Mookie Al-Sadr and Uncle Benny, according to the Fort Dick Six call him Uncle Benny, Osama bin Laden.
They're sitting over there and they're playing everybody in this country like a strativarius.
They're playing weak-minded Republicans like a violin.
They're playing the drive-by media.
You had Zawahiri over the weekend with their tape saying, hey, you know, that bill of Democrats lost.
That proves that Washington's defeated.
That proves it.
I wonder how the Democrats, I don't think they even care.
I wonder the Democrats feel that number two man to Uncle Benny is on their side, praising their efforts while praising, saying, hey, this proves it.
We've won.
They've lost.
Washington's admitted defeat, which is exactly what they hoped to get from the Democrats in the last election, and they did.
In the middle of all this, the troops who are in the middle of a surge don't think they don't hear about this, and don't think it doesn't affect them either.
Petraeus, their commander, comes to town.
Nancy Pelosi doesn't have time.
No, no, no, no, don't have time.
Much more serious things on the agenda.
Got to funnel some money to the company out there close to where my husband owns property, and Diane Feinstein, the same thing.
We've got more important things to do here.
And we've got to bash Bush.
And we've got to politicize that tornado out there.
We've got to make America think 10,000 people died.
And Bush doesn't care.
And the federal government's not prepared under Bush to do anything to protect people and so forth and so on.
Yeah, the governor of Kansas get in on this bit, kind of came back and bitter in the rear end.
But all these things are happening, and it's understandable.
I mean, it's understandable in one sense, and that is Republicans are afraid.
And in a way, you can understand how they're afraid.
They look at the election results of 06, they see how the drive-bys are giving a pass to every Democrat doing anything about anything, and they see the drive-bys joining the Democrat agenda, and they're looking at their future and say, well, gee, what do we got?
And this is, I'm telling you, I hate to say this again because it sounds like a broken record.
The absence of elected, strong, conservative leadership in Washington leads to all these individual Republicans heading out on their own, bailing out, doing what they can to save and protect themselves, and while in the process of doing it, not in the slightest way understanding what they have to do to actually win.
They actually believe that running away from George W. Bush, this is how the drive-bys affect them.
They live in Washington, they work in Washington.
They actually think that distancing themselves from Bush and putting themselves out there as warning Bush is going to get them accolades and applause and votes from Republicans in November of 2008.
And they haven't the slightest clue how their voters are actually perceiving this.
I wouldn't be surprised if these guys are being victimized by organized phone campaigns and email campaigns from people who say they are their constituents.
They're actually from a moveon.org mailing list or an ACLU or People for the American Way mailing list or what have you.
Anyway, little long.
Be back with more after this, plus your phone calls.
Yesterday on this program, I actually opened the program by asking if anybody had seen Al Gore or Lori David conducting a press conference on the first subtropical storm out there, subtropical storm Andrea Mitchell, which, by the way, have you seen the latest forecast track?
They got it doing circles out there now.
It was going to come close to making landfall south of Jacksonville, a little south of Jacksonville.
Now it's not going to make landfall and it's going to turn back out to sea.
You watch.
Things are going to go out there, head our way before it's all said and done.
You just watch.
But regardless, I was prescient once again.
Lori David shows up on PMS, NBC, this morning, the morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, taking his shot at the morning show.
And Scarborough asked her about the Malibu fires and the California fires, and she launched.
I mean, do you believe what is going on in this country weather-wise?
I mean, are you guys talking about this?
I mean, honestly, have you, let me just ask you this, okay?
When you were growing up, do you remember that severe weather was a regular category every night on the evening news?
Do you remember that?
No.
And the reason was there was no political agenda behind the weather when we were growing up, Lori.
Now there's a political agenda driving the weather.
It's called global warming.
And every weather, there are no such things as weather phenomenon.
I don't, you know, sorry thing that happened to Greensburg, Kansas, but tornadoes happen.
And they've been happening long before we were born, Lori, before we were kids.
And so do hurricanes.
And they've been happening.
And there's nothing that happens in weather that's unique.
Nothing that happens in weather that is unprecedented.
It's not possible.
This planet's been around too long.
How many billions and billions and billions of years have the planet been around?
All of a sudden, for us, during our lifetimes, all of a sudden, things are happening that have never happened before.
Oh, my God.
And we're the ones responsible.
Oh, my God.
Oh, we're really destroying the planet.
Oh, no.
Oh, really?
My God, we got to do.
We need higher taxes.
Why win it?
One square of toilet paper per bathroom visit.
Why, we've got to change our light bulbs.
This is absurd.
It's patiently absurd.
And of course, I'm going to read something to you from our local paper here, the Palm Beach Post.
And this is about Tropical Storm Andrea Mitchell out there.
I just want to read the first couple lines and see if anything reaches out and grabs you.
Three weeks before hurricane guides appear in local grocery stores, subtropical storm Andrea Mitchell swirled off the North Florida coast Wednesday, a reminder that Mother Nature is in charge here.
The first named May storm in more than a quarter century, Andrea Mitchell, isn't expected to strengthen much beyond its current 45 mile per hour winds and may not even strike land.
What stands out at you in that sentence?
Dawn, what stands out?
No, it's not.
No, no, see, this is how they do it.
Dawn's reaction, it's not going to strike land.
That's what, no, what stands out is this.
The first named May storm in more than a quarter century.
It means that 25 years ago, there was one in May.
There was a named storm prior to June 1st, hurricane.
See, 25 years ago.
25 years ago, they were warming us up global cooling, a new ice age.
So, yeah, we got this thing out there.
Oh, see, and then the Lori Davids of the world hype all over this and claim it's a result of global warming and, of course, man's decadent lifestyle.
But there's nothing happening today in weather that has not happened before countless, countless other times.
More audio soundbites.
Katie Couric, by the way, let me tell you what happened on this.
You know, yesterday I also opened the show and I offered, because when I saw that the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric's ratings are the lowest they've been since 1987, 20 years, I offered myself as an exclusive interview subject to Katie and the CBS Evening News live interview in order to jack the ratings because I'm Rush Limbaugh.
I am ratings.
I offered to help.
And CBS did call.
60 Minutes called.
My old buddy from 60 Minute, who produced the first segment, the only one, the first one they did on me way back in the early 90s, Bob Anderson, calls, oh, well, we would be happy to have Katie interview you for 60 minutes and then run excerpts of that interview on the evening news.
And we smiled and we chuckled, nice try, Bob.
You smart guy.
But no, the deal was I offer myself to Katie for the evening news one-shot live interview, knowing full well it'll never happen, ladies and gentlemen, for a host of reasons.
But among the reasons at the top, can you imagine if a live interview with me actually did jack the ratings, what would that say?
And we know that it would.
We would make sure that it did because I am Rush Limbaugh.
I am ratings.
Anyway, we have a soundbite from Katie and her news last night, CBS Evening News, about all this extreme weather.
Already this month, federal disasters have been declared in six dates.
By the way, don't think nature has spared the rest of the world.
Australia is dealing with its worst drought ever.
Italy is also suffering through a drought.
Meanwhile, usually dry parts of northern Africa have been hit with deadly rainstorms.
And it seems almost biblical that 2007 is the year of the locusts.
Wait, this is a newscast.
How does that get thrown in?
And it seems almost biblical.
By the way, Katie, your audience doesn't want to hear references to the Bible.
A big, big no-no.
Don't know who put that on the prompter, but somebody should have gotten it off of there.
Now we have a montage here from MSNBC's Amy Roebuck, ABC's Sam Champion, and NBC's Dawn Frantangelo and Matt Wauer on Tropical Storm Andrea Mitchell.
We have a name storm three weeks before the season is even supposed to start.
Tropical Storm Andrea.
It's three weeks ahead of the hurricane season.
She's called Andrea, arriving a full three weeks before the official start of hurricane season.
The first name storm is hovering offshore weeks before it should be there.
Andrea, only the 17th name storm in history to arrive before June 1st.
Only the 17th?
Why, that means there have been 16 name storms before the start of hurricane season before Andrea Mitchell.
Only the oh my gosh, well that indicates some sign of that there's tumult and chaos in the natural order of things out there.
Only the 17th time in history.
No, not in history, in recorded history.
Because until we came along, the Earth didn't know that June 1st was the start of hurricane season.
Do you think Mother Nature knew that June 1st was the...
Do you think that Mother Nature even knows when it's June?
It's just, we call it June.
And we say hurricane season starts on June 1st.
Look at Palm Beach.
We got turtle season starting on March 1st.
They don't show up until May 1st.
Do you think the turtles know that they're supposed to be in here in March because we've got a town council make an ordinance saying they got to turn the lights out?
Do you think your cat, like I have an Abyssinian cat?
Do you think my cat knows it's an Abyssinian cat?
In fact, do you think my cat knows it's even a cat?
I'll guarantee you, my cat thinks it's a person.
Cats have staff, dogs have masters.
We invent all these terms.
So the idea that there have been 17 name storms before hurricane season, did we get hurricane season in the Ten Commandments?
Is there some proclamation from some higher power that says June 1st is it?
Anything happens before that is something's wrong?
Grow up, folks.
Before we move on with telephone calls and other exciting elements of today's busy broadcast, I want to talk about the Kansas governor, Ms. Sebilius.
This is a great display.
It's a classic, as I love to say, classic illustration of the politicization of virtually everything now, including disasters.
Not man-made, natural acts of God.
A tornado that wiped out the town of Greenberg, Kansas becomes a political weapon for the Democrat Party.
You heard what she said.
Well, we can't, we can't.
We can't go in there and help those people.
We can't do anything.
Oh, you got National Guards over in Iraq.
Now, I I have highly tuned antennae, ladies and gentlemen.
I know these liberals like every square inch of my shrinking yet glorious naked body.
And I don't believe this woman came up with that on her own.
I've not known, spent a lot of time studying the pronouncements of the governor of Kansas.
But I do know the Democrat Party.
And it wouldn't surprise me a bit if her statements about this were issued to her from higher powers in the Democrat Party.
They coordinate everything, folks.
Everything is coordinated.
And this is just Toupat.
This is just right out of the Democrat playbook.
It's right out of Hurricane Katrina.
It covers a bunch of what they care about.
A, politicizing an agenda.
It's a disaster.
It's the next Katrina.
And they hate the war in Iraq, and they're doing everything they can to secure defeat.
And so tie it to Iraq.
It was almost predictable.
It was almost too-pat.
Oh, yeah, we can't do anything.
We have no ability to go in there and help these people because Bush has sent the National Guard of Kansas over to Iraq.
Well, it turns out none of this is true.
And Sebelius knew it, and eventually the White House, this is why I think she was being led on a leash by this, because she's allowed herself to be made to look like a fool.
It turns out, and the White House has admitted this, hey, look, because she attacked the White House.
The Democrats attacked the White House over this.
And Tony Snow said, we give, you've got to ask for it.
If you want federal assistance, you have to ask for it.
We can't just run out in the states and flood the states with military people and equipment.
You've got to ask for it.
And it turns out she did ask for it, and she got pretty much what she wanted.
So the whole thing was blown up.
The whole thing, I think the whole thing is a staged incident.
And so there's this website, the Armed Forces Press Service.
National Guard troops responding to a tornado that devastated Greensburg, Kansas have the manpower and the resources they need, and they can tap into additional support if they need it, defense officials said today.
And this is some two days ago.
If the National Guard has it, Kansas will receive it, said Army Lieutenant General H. Stephen Blum, the chief of the National Guard Bureau.
Some 566 members of the Kansas National Guard, 366 Army Guard, 200 Air Guard, are on duty conducting search and rescue missions, clearing debris, helping generate power, supporting law enforcement officials, and providing other support.
The Kansas National Guard has 88% of its forces available.
It's working quickly and aggressively to save lives and reduce suffering.
More than 6,800 additional Kansas Guard troops can be tapped if needed, as well as more than 80,000 guardsmen from surrounding states, said the Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman.
The whole thing was made up.
And the whole thing has the stench of an organized campaign from the top to me.
Whole thing was made up.
Besides that, this is where I have to question people's common sense.
But my question is tempered by the fact that I understand the basic human nature predisposition to believing doom and gloom.
Everybody has seemed to be wired to believe the worst of everything.
And so we hear that 10,000 people died from Obama, and people in his crowd nod their heads.
Yeah, that is such a gaffe.
Imagine if Bush had said it or any other Republican presidential candidate had said it.
It'd still be news.
They'd be laughing about it.
Barack is allowed to get off.
Well, I was tired.
You know, I've been flying around hopscotching on my jet.
I was tired.
No, he was politicizing it.
But the idea that we in the United States of America do not have resources in this country because of the war in Iraq is patently absurd.
And yet, people, when the governor first makes this announcement, I'll guarantee you a whole lot of people bought it.
Hook, line, and sinker.
Yeah, Bush set the troops over there to Iraq.
Why there's no way to help these people in Greensburg, Kansas.
As this report discusses, we have National Guard equipment and troops in surrounding states.
We've got military people stationed all over the world.
This is a byproduct of Bush has depleted the military.
People are serving two and three tours.
Guards are over there.
They shouldn't be over there because we're short on enlistment.
They've been running a never-ending bash Bush, bash the military campaign for five years.
And this was just the latest installment of it.
And they used the governor of Kansas to advance this.
Total, total politics.
John in Topeka, Kansas.
Speaking of the devil, great to have you, and welcome to the EIB network.
How you get in, there was Rush.
How you doing?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
I am in the National Guard in Kansas, and my unit is.
Wait, wait, wait.
What part of Iraq are you calling from?
Oh, I guess my cell phone doesn't work in Iraq.
I'm calling from Topeka.
You're coming from Topeka.
Well, you're in the National Guard and you're in Kansas?
Amazing, isn't it?
We're not in Iraq.
Yeah, well, I wonder if the governor knows that you're there.
Well, I guess I'll have to call her right after I get off the phone with you.
Yeah, I just find it offensive that she's using us to for political gain.
Why?
Well, offensive.
You shouldn't be.
Yeah, maybe you'll be offended, but I shouldn't be surprised.
She's a Democrat.
Right, not surprised.
Have you been called to serve?
Have you been asked to go out to help in Greensburg?
Yeah, a lot of us have been volunteering to go.
Yeah, but I mean, have you been officially called?
Because we're told that there aren't any of you there.
And we're left to believe that virtually every scrap of National Guard personnel and equipment is being sent there now because there's such a shortage.
And yet you're calling from Topeka.
I guess you haven't received orders to head out to Greensburg.
No, absolutely not.
Right now, it's a wildfire.
Why this doesn't make sense?
The drive-bys are saying this thing.
I don't know what to do here.
Well, you should call the governor's office.
Some of I told you to call is that you're available.
Oh, and you've been trying to volunteer to get out there, and nobody's answering.
No.
I know you can't do that.
That's jumping a chain of command.
But I just say this rhetorically to make a point.
I appreciate the call, John.
Thanks much.
This is Rick in Malibu.
Nice to have you, sir.
And welcome to the EIB network.
Thanks, Rush.
Thanks for having me on.
I just had to call because I started giggling a little bit about all this global warming hysteria.
When you played that clip earlier, Lori David?
Laurie David talking connecting the Los Angeles wildfires, the one in Griffith Park, to global warming.
When the conventional wisdom and the current theory out here is that fire was started when a man with a lit cigarette fell asleep in the park.
That's what the news is out there.
So unless global warming caused that man to fall asleep, I really don't see the normal storm.
No, no, That's not what they'll say.
It might have been a cigarette.
It might have been a bum or anybody else throwing a cigarette.
But if it weren't for global warming causing less rainfall than normal, the Griffith Park wouldn't have gone up in flames the way it did.
See, that's what they'll say.
They've got this.
They've got this down pat.
But all they're doing is playing on the fact that, okay, you've got fires.
We've got fires in Georgia.
In fact, I have to tell you, we had fires in Florida here.
It's bad.
Alligator Alley, which connects Fort Lauderdale to Naples, has been shut down for the second day.
Parts of it have been.
And I told you yesterday I walked outside and the sky is totally gray, looks overcast.
There's not a cloud nearby.
It's the smoke from all the fires.
You can smell it a little bit out there.
And the kids are out playing in the schoolyard across the street.
It's highly irresponsible.
And I'm joking about this.
But it's as though these kind of fires, like you heard Katie Couric, biblical proportions.
2007 year of the locust.
And it's preposterous.
All of this is just preposterous.
So global warming is responsible for the fires.
By the way, anybody know when did we start naming hurricanes?
And I happen to know.
Any of you people know when we started naming hurricanes?
1951 happens to be the year that I was born.
1951.
What were hurricanes before that?
What did we call them?
By the way, how do we know this is only the 17th storm to prefeed Hurricane Thiefen?
Because we're only able to see these things around the world with satellites.
And how long have we had satellites?
Not much before 1951, 55, Sputnik, 58.
So how do we even know?
All of this is just, I don't know how to describe it, but it really frightens me for the overall intelligence of the people of this country.
I am starting to agree with those of you who have called me and said that we've got way too many idiots in this country.
And you can define them.
You can see them easily by how many of them just suck up all this BS from the left.
Back in a sec.
Hi, welcome back, Rushland Bought Talent on loan from God.
Johnny in El Paso, thanks for calling and welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Thanks, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Hey, that guy in Griffith Park that burned down the park, if the smoking Nazis had allowed that guy to smoke indoors instead of outdoors, he probably would have just burned his cigarette out in an ashtray.
Well, you know, in New Mexico, when they had a peak of the forest fire season, it was against the law to smoke outside.
You get a ticket for smoking outdoors.
Right, and you can't smoke inside anymore.
But anyway, I think I don't know who started this fire out in the Griffith Park.
The caller said it was a bum.
And if it was a bum, I mean the bum didn't have an indoors to go to.
But it is an interesting thought.
If the bum had been indoors somewhere and threw the cigarette down, it'd just be one house that went up instead of a whole park.
Outdoors.
I don't want to call the guy a bum because that would be an unfair characterization.
He's just an outdoorsman out there trying to enjoy life, had a little cigarette, flipped it off, and bam, we've got a fire.
It is an interesting thing.
It's the unintended consequences of all this liberal do-gooderism.
Great, great, great news here, folks, for the Democrats.
Headline says it all.
Walmart sales are the worst in 28 years.
Walmart stores posted its worst monthly same-store sales results in at least 28 years, tallying a 3.5% decline in April due to this year's early Easter, as well as generally challenging economic conditions for consumers.
Right.
Walmart taking it in the shorts.
Yes.
Oh, the Democrats are going to love this.
This is, I mean, will Walmart biting the dust like this?
The 3.5% sales decline?
Biggest sales decline in 28 years?
This is news made to order for the Denver.
Wait till you see.
Can a recession be far behind?
I mean, but they'll be happy.
This may be a reprieve for mom and pops that threatened by Walmart's existence.
Oh, wait till you see how they politicize this.
Well-known communist sympathizer, Jane Fonda, was on Larry King Live last night, and Larry knew it.
He happened to know who his guest was last night.
And he asked her a question: Do you see parallels between Vietnam and Iraq?
Oh, yes, I do.
Got in based on lies, scared to get out because our presidents are afraid it'll make them look unmanly, I guess, even though they know, at least I hope this one knows.
All the others during the Vietnam War knew, if you read the Pentagon papers, that we couldn't win, but they were scared of pulling out, you know, premature evacuation and all that.
We can't win this.
We couldn't win the Vietnam War.
It was the wrong war.
You don't go to war for lies.
And, you know, a difference is that now it's just poor kids that are going over there and dying and are less well-equipped and less armored than they were during the Vietnam War.
It's a tragedy.
It's just, it's, I don't think anything has hurt this country as much as what President Bush has done to us.
This is unbelievable.
This is one giant cliché.
Did you hear her say, though, premature evacuation?
Presidents are afraid of getting out of wars because of premature evacuation.
It reminded me of the Code Pink Babe back in January.
And we women say all out now.
There you have it.
Premature evacuation.
The women of the left.
Here's Maureen in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Hi, Maureen.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, I'm so happy to be here.
Thank you.
I heard this morning about the GOP moderates heading over to the White House to, I don't know, show some kind of.
They went over there to warn President Bush that their support was only going to last so long and that the Iraqis had better stand up and show some success or they were going to evacuate prematurely.
Well, my first thought was they should be going over to the White House to apologize for not going back to their constituents and getting out the right message about what's going on in Iraq and the larger picture that Iraq represents.
What is the matter with them?
They're scared.
They're scared for their reelection.
They're not going to be able to do that.
That's hideously not what I expect from Republicans.
Maureen, what do you think the first job of an elected official is, and then what do you think the second job of an elected official is?
Well, the first job of an elected official is to, you know, I'm kind of a libertarian anyway, so I, but their job should be to get re-elected.
The first thing that's not.
No, I'm not telling, don't, let's not, we're not, we're not playing idealist here.
We're not running for, you know, we're not trying to become the Miss America pageant winner.
We're talking about reaction.
The reality, the first job of an elected official is to get re-elected.
The second job of an elected official is to be re-elected.
And the third job is to spend money to do it.
Yeah, well.
Yeah, well, that's the way it is.
Then, you know, I'm going to drop out.
I'm going to quit voting.
I can't take it.
No, don't, don't drop out.
That's the last thing that's needed.
But you do need to understand why.
These are moderates.
Remember, you're not a moderate, right?
You're a conservative.
Right.
Well, all right.
You know, moderates.
Have you ever been to the library?
You ever look?
Do this for me.
Go to the library the next time you have a chance, if you know where it is.
We go all the time.
I have five kids.
Great.
Well, go in there and ask the librarian for the book titled Great Moderates in American History.
Do it.
Do it for the fun of it.
See what the librarian says.
You know, the woman or the guy at the front desk?
I'm looking for a book, Rush Limbostin.
It's in her Great Moderates in American History.
And I'll bet you they start looking it up.
Or they'll send you to the Bill Clinton section.
Yeah.
But there isn't one.
There isn't one, and there never will be a book on great moderates in American history.
I'm not trying to turn you off from voting.
Not in the slightest.
Don't do that.
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