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Working on three hours' sleep last night, ladies and gentlemen.
So that portends well for the usual flippancy and giddiness.
You probably are talked out by now or listened out or watched out on the bridge collapse up in Minneapolis.
But I, ladies and gentlemen, haven't said a word about it publicly because I have not had a chance to do so.
And I was at home on Thursday night getting ready to leave for my super secret, or Wednesday night, when the bridge collapse happened.
Wednesday night, I was getting ready to leave for my super secret meeting at Faraway Place.
And I did not have the television on.
I got a flash email.
Boy, you ought to see what happened in Minneapolis.
So I turned on the TV and I saw the pictures.
And like everybody, I was stunned.
But then, well, you know what I did?
I went to Kook Democrat websites.
That's what you, for the real story, that's if you want to find out what really happened and what is really behind all this.
That's where you have to go.
And four minutes, four minutes after I was told about, and I'm sure the bridge collapse happened a little bit before I found out about it, but four minutes after I was told, I went to the Daily Coast.
They're having their convention, by the way, these net roots people here in Chicago.
They want to unionize.
I don't care.
These posts were just incredible.
We spend billions in Iraq while we fall apart at home.
We've been warned by engineers our nation's infrastructure is in dire need of repair and upgrade.
Who needs terrorism when the inept GOP runs our nation into the ground?
No one has the guts to take this on.
Every week there's a new national tragedy, tainted food, nutcases with whatever.
It goes on to talk about this is what you get with militarists and corporate people.
It's predictable.
And it really is a little sad that a disaster like this becomes immediately partisan.
But that's the nature of our society and our culture today.
Tony Snow had to go out on what was it, Thursday?
I'm losing control of the days here.
What was Thursday morning?
Tony Snow had to go out and say, look, that's a state project here.
All these investigations, that bridge has been investigated.
He got 50 out of 120.
You know all this.
But the White House had to go out and try to diffuse some of this.
And I'm glad that they did.
First lady's there today.
The president's going there tomorrow.
didn't want to go today because they already have a traffic mess.
That's a major artery.
When the president goes in someplace, everything gets shut down even more so.
So he's going to go in there tomorrow.
But this says this is one of these classic events that is custom-made for the drive-by media.
The country's falling apart.
Bush spending too much in Iraq, not paying enough attention to what's happening at home.
Meanwhile, all these people complaining about the defense budget taking away money.
Do you know that Minnesota is running or was running in what was the year?
What was it?
Well, it's either this year or last, a $2.1 billion surplus.
These states are running surpluses.
The most of these states are awash in money.
As I have told you countless times, they have more money than they know what to do with, and they still want to raise your taxes.
Federal government, too.
The state of Minnesota is building a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings, you know, rather than fix the bridges.
I mean, how is that the fault of our being in Iraq?
It's not.
The drive-by media had hardly taken a breath before they turned the cars around to blame Bush and Republicans in general for the bridge collapsing.
You had Senator Patty Murray said that Bush has not supported Democrat efforts to increase spending on critical infrastructure.
So they immediately turned this into a let's increase taxes issue.
And this has to stop.
They have enough money.
They just didn't out.
It's the same thing in New Orleans.
I mean, if I, you know, I could get partisan if I wanted to, but I don't think this, I don't think there's anything partisan about this, but I could do a tit for tat.
I could say, have you ever noticed that the infrastructure failures in this country are happening in cities run by Liberal Democrats?
New Orleans and Minnesota.
I could say that.
Well, I guess I just did say that, didn't I?
I could say, what the hell is it today?
Why are they not paying attention to their infrastructure?
What is it that they're not doing?
We know the circumstances in Katrina, the graph down there, the levees not getting fixed and so forth.
You see, the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, the only people who care about roads and bridges, the rest of us, we never have to drive on those roads and bridges.
It's only liberal Democrats have to ride on the bridges.
By the way, 600,000 bridges in this country, one of them goes down.
The country's falling apart because we're in Iraq.
It's absurd, but it's a perfect template, a perfect action line for our buddies in the drive-by media.
I think in 2005, for all these people saying that we spend too much on the military, the federal budget in 2005 was 2.47?
Yeah, 2.47 trillion.
The defense budget that year was $400 billion.
Over 60% of the federal budget is spent on entitlement programs.
Good old Social Security, good old Medicare, good old Medicaid, good old SHIP program with a P in order to, they ought to change it, get the health care for the little children out there.
Defense spending as a percentage of the total federal budget has been declining since the 1960s.
Here's the thing.
You can see this in states all over the country.
Lots and lots of instances of Democrats screaming for infrastructure spending.
It's just, all it is, folks, is a bold attempt to divert money to construction unions and developers and others in the trades as payoffs and thank yous for election donations.
And they scream for it because they've spent the money that should have gone on to fix this kind of thing that caused the bridge collapse.
You know, Democrat Party politics is all about paying off the people that donate to you, raise money for you, vote for you, and so forth.
So when the Democrats are out there demanding all this new investment in infrastructure, they just want to raise taxes so they can pay off their buds in the unions.
Now, there's a Nick Coleman at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and I've got the story here.
Says that this collapse of the bridge would never have happened if it wasn't for the governor, Tim Polenti, a Republican, and his refusal to raise taxes.
This is in the Minneapolis paper, Star Tribune.
The reason this bridge collapsed is because he wouldn't raise taxes.
Here's a quote from the story.
For half a dozen years, the motto of state government, and particularly that of Governor Polenti, has been no new taxes.
It's been popular with a lot of voters.
It has mostly prevailed, so much so that Polenti vetoed a five-cent gas tax increase the first in 20 years last spring.
Millions were lost that might have gone to road repair.
And yes, it would have fallen.
Stick with me on this, folks.
Yes, it would have fallen even if the gas tax had gone through, says the reporter, because we are years behind a dangerous curve when it comes to the replacement of infrastructure that everyone but wingnuts in coonskin caps agrees is one of the basic duties of government.
What Nick Coleman, the brilliant Nick Coleman, fails to point out here is that there was no need for a tax increase when Polenti vetoed the gas tax increase.
At the time, when Tim Polenti vetoed this five-cent gas tax increase, the state of Minnesota had a $2.1 billion budget surplus.
The surplus comes from what?
It certainly doesn't come from government not spending.
The surplus comes from overtaxation.
That's the case in almost, not all, but almost every state out there.
They've got gobs of money, folks.
In North Carolina, North Carolina was running a surplus.
The Democrats there raised taxes by 9%.
So what's happening here?
The political agenda is taken over with the collapse of the bridge.
The Democrats in the drive-by is trying to scare us into believing that more taxes would have saved these people on that bridge at that moment.
And it's all a GOP governor's fault for refusing to increase those taxes.
The fact of the matter is that the problem was not low taxes.
The problem was fiscal irresponsibility.
The Democrats spend money like a teenager that gets hold of your gold card with abandon and little thought to the consequences or effectiveness.
I have a list here of pork in just the state of Minnesota.
There is a book that lists this stuff for every state.
In fact, I might, I think I have it here as a PDF file.
I might upload it to the website today if it's the same thing I've got here.
But it mirrors what is happening in many, many states.
They spend millions for animal exhibits at the zoo, millions for stupid art projects.
Every county has a stupid art project that state funds in a number of states.
They spend money on so many things.
If you stop to think about it, try this.
The state bailout of the Minnesota Teachers Retirement Fund, which puts state taxpayers on the hook for $972 million in unfunded liabilities.
This is just a list of pork in Minnesota.
A new $776 million twin stadium to be paid for with a Hennepin County sales tax increase approved by state legislators with no voter referendum.
$97.5 million for the North Star commuter rail line, $34 million in subsidies to ethanol producers that have seen a 300% increase in profits in the last year, and yet they're still being subsidized.
$30 million for bear exhibits at the Minnesota and Como Zoos.
$12 million to renovate the Schubert Theater in downtown Minneapolis.
$1 million for a replica Vikings ship in Moorhead.
Other states are building drag racing museums, and they run around and they say they don't have enough money to fix the bridges.
They don't have enough money to deal with the infrastructure.
The thing is with liberals, they'll never have enough money, no matter how much they raise, no matter how much they increase taxes.
Quick timeout.
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Your phone call is upcoming and a number of other exciting things here on Open Line Friday.
Total, total chaos in the House of Representatives last night and this morning.
We have audio soundbites coming up.
Late arriving show prep.
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We put together some video to illustrate what I was just saying.
And I'm sure you've watched it.
I'm sure you've seen it, but you haven't heard it until you hear it as we present it.
We have a montage here.
We have Craig Crawford of PMS NBC.
We've got Joe Scarborough.
We've got the reporter from CNN Greg Hunter.
We've got Lou Dobbs.
We got Barney, my boy, Lollipop, Frank.
What?
You're talking to me, but you're not talking to me.
Okay, okay.
We got Jack Cafferty is seeing it.
We got Bill Tucker seeing it.
We got Senator Amy Klobucher.
I think that's how she pronounced it.
I remember I don't watch TV with a sound up, so sometimes I'm weak on the pronunciation of names.
But this is a montage on how the Iraq war caused the bridge collapse.
Now, before we play it, I have to tell you, I mean, four minutes after I heard the story, for the real story, I went to these fruitcake websites, moveon.org, Democrat Underground.
And I'm telling you, they were blaming being in Iraq.
Now, I don't know who's given marching orders to here, but I wouldn't, or to who, but I wouldn't be surprised if these people at the drive-by is, because they're going nuts.
All these presidential candidates are at one of these kook websites conventions in Chicago.
So they may be taking the lead, or else they all think alike and they don't need a leader.
Whatever, listen to this montage of what is responsible for the bridge collapse in Minneapolis.
I've looked up what it would take to fix the nation's infrastructure.
It's about $532 billion a year.
Just so happens to be about what we're spending on Iraq.
Certainly American voters would probably decide that it'd be wiser to invest in our own aging infrastructure than continuing to throw good money after bad in Iraq.
We're spending billions of dollars every month in Iraq.
This administration decided to convince us to spend $500 billion in Iraq.
If we did not have the war in Iraq with hundreds of billions of dollars, we would be able to do a great deal more.
How could the U.S. better spend the $2 billion a week that we're pouring into Iraq here at home?
We're spending about a trillion dollars in infrastructure in Iraq.
We're not even succeeding in rebuilding the infrastructure and creating new infrastructure in Iraq.
Priorities in our country have been out of whack the last few years.
We've spent, what, almost $500 billion in Iraq.
Look at how long it took, how little time it took for them to come up with this.
So, you know, everything's a zero-sum game with these clowns.
We're spending $500 billion in Iraq.
And lo and behold, the fix all the infrastructure would be $552 billion.
Well, you ever think about cutting some of the absolute, how about getting $150 million back from Jack Murtha?
Some of these people are scoring some of these big earmarked pork projects.
Have you ever thought about maybe going to some of the redundancy?
How about the fact that the people that run the Foodstamp program advertise for applicants?
Keep their budgets up.
You know how baseline budgeting works.
Explained that once on this program.
Every year, the government has a budget.
They never examine at the end of the year whether or not they spent too much in one area or whether or not they spent too little.
Every line item, I don't care what it is, has an automatically built-in increase.
This is called the baseline.
And let's say, you know, it varies every year, but let's say just for round numbers, it's 10%.
And so let's say that the president proposes an increase in line item A of 7%.
The Democrats squawk, this is a cut.
It's a draconian cut.
You can't.
No, no.
We're going to spend 7% more than we did last year.
It's just not 10% more.
Well, no, it's in the baseline, 10%.
So this is how they run around and say they're draconian cuts, yet the budget swells to a larger number year after year after year.
It'd be no different.
If you tell yourself, you know what, I'm going to go out and buy a car.
I'm going to go out and I'm going to buy one of those humongous, really cool Cadillac escalades, and I'm going to go out and I'm going to spend 60 grand for it.
And then you and your wife, you go to the showroom and you start kicking the tires and do all this stuff.
You're like, well, I don't think, you know what?
I think I'll buy a, I'll think I'll buy a crossover.
And I'll spend $38,000, $40,000.
I just saved $20,000.
No, you didn't.
You just spent $38.
You didn't save because you never spent the $60,000.
This is how the federal budget works.
So to say that there's $500 and some odd billion dollars in Iraq, oh, we could get it out of there and put it.
This is such, this is, folks, it is irresponsible.
It's journalistic malpractice.
Everything they can do to wipe out the victory in Iraq.
But again, I remind you, the dirty little secret is they know how well it's going.
They don't have the guts to do this without Republican support.
The Democrats don't.
And if they do win the White House in 08, as I have told you, we are not getting out of Iraq when they win it.
And they're going to have a huge problem with their kook fringe.
They already do.
They thought the November election was about that.
So they know what's going on and they know we're winning.
And they got a pretty good idea what the Petraeus report's going to say.
They do.
They just don't want anybody else to know that.
In fact, Pelosi, I don't care what he says.
We're losing.
I don't care.
I've got the soundbite coming up.
I don't care what he says.
I'm not concerned with the Petraeus report.
It's going to be a bunch of lies.
We're going to get out.
There's no progress that can be made.
Here's Katie Couric last night.
We have time to squeeze.
We do.
Here's Katie Couric from last night.
And nobody watches this, so here's how you hear it.
It's not just bridges collapsing from water mains to pipelines to highways.
America's infrastructure is falling apart.
No, it's not.
What a, what a dance.
That's right, a man, a living legend, a way of life.
Learn it.
Love it.
Live it.
Two more audio soundbites to illustrate the hysteria, the panic, and the liberal agenda-ism of the drive-by media, the Democrats.
Last night on MSNBC Hardwall, fill-in host Mike Barnacle, talking to Barney Frank, said, Does this help the Democrats?
Can you believe?
Does this bridge collapse?
Does the death of these five people and the injured?
Does this help the Democrats?
Does it help you this sort of a disaster?
I am hoping that we can get this across to people that, again, if we do not pool our resources, there are some things we can't do to improve the quality of our life.
And by the way, if you're rich, you might be able to buy yourself some private police, but you can't buy yourself your own bridge.
You can't buy yourself cleaner air.
So even the wealthier people ought to understand that there are some things that as a civilized society living together in a tight set of spaces, we have to poo our resources to deal with it.
This is just absurd.
You know, just I'm going to go out and buy a bridge.
I'm going to go buy a bridge, and I'm going to make sure I got the cleanest air in the country inside my house.
He says it can't be done.
I'm going to say it can be done.
What is this?
I am hoping we can get this to cost you people to give me.
If we do not pool our resources, there are some things that we can pool our resources.
Try $3 trillion worth of taxes from the American people to pool resources.
The problem is not we don't have enough money.
It's how you clowns spend it.
Now they're trying to turn a bridge falling down into some way of, you know, let's make the bridge dependent on the federal government.
And here's a quote.
This is Amy.
This is this morning during a, I guess, news conference at the site of the bridge collapse.
This is the Senator Amy Klobuchar.
I hope I'm pronouncing it right.
If it's not, Klobuchar, okay, thank you Klobuchar.
Amy Klobuchar.
She said this.
A bridge in America just shouldn't fall down.
And that's why we have called for this investigation, and it's going to take time because we have to get to the bottom of this.
I've already talked with Senator Reed and Senator Durbin, Senator Schumer.
We are going to work to make sure that the resources are there to not only help with the immediate recovery, but for the long-term rebuilding of this bridge.
Absolutely.
Senator Reed's going to handle this, along with Senator Schemer and Senator Durbin.
They're going to get out.
They'll get the bridge built.
Never mind.
They had nothing to do with it falling.
They're going to get it rebuilt.
A bridge in America just shouldn't fall down.
Why not?
Everybody's going to die of AIDS.
Everybody's going to die of caffeine.
And we're all going to die in the next 25 years or next 25 minutes.
We're trying to, I mean, it paint a picture of doom and gloom and crisis.
Bridge ought to be falling every day in this country if the Democrats are right about the state of our circumstances here.
All right, let's open line Friday.
Let's go to the phones.
Justin in Puyallup, Washington.
Nice to have you, sir.
And you are first up.
Good morning, Mr. Limbaugh.
Megadittos from the home state of the most unintelligent member of the U.S. Senate.
That would be Patty Murray.
Yes, sir, indeed.
I am a Rush baby.
I started listening to your show in 1994 at Lunch with Rush, a restaurant I worked in in Wausau, Wisconsin.
Well, I'm happy to hear that.
And I've been listening to you since, sir.
Thank you, sir, very much.
My topic this morning is I have heard the accounts of many of your colleagues meeting with the president Wednesday morning.
And I was wondering why the man who is running America, you know it and I know it, was not there.
Because I went yesterday afternoon and last night.
So that was your super secret meeting.
Super secret meeting in a faraway place.
Yeah, I went to the president and I, Ed Gillespie, in the room, took over for Dan Barton.
We had cigars and beverages for a couple hours in the treaty room up in the residence.
It was so much fun.
Pardon?
Was this meeting off the record at all?
Yeah, well, yeah, this one, yes, even if they had not told me this was off the record, this one was off the record.
I don't think.
I'm just guessing here, but I don't think the things we discussed last night got discussed in these group things.
I'd be stunned if they did.
Then I went in and had dinner with the president and Mrs. Bush, the first lady.
But it was about two and a half hours in there, and it was cool.
It was a tremendous amount of fun.
I got up early today.
One of the reasons I'm low and sleep, I had to get up at 4:30 for breakfast in the White House mess today with Karl Rove and Pete Wayner.
What a privilege for you, I'm sure.
Well, it was a privilege for them.
You know, people have been asking me, well, what did the president tell you last night?
That's not, what did I tell the president is the correct question.
So he also recognizes that you're the man running the country.
Well, who doesn't?
I mean, there are certain things that don't need to be said.
Now, he's, you know, I'll just tell you this.
And I've, well, this is nothing new.
I tell people this every time that I have been with him.
He is the most confident.
He is a barrel of laughs.
He is at ease.
He is unfazed by any of the criticism that he gets.
He doesn't care about it.
He's one of the things he said to me talking to a world leader, doesn't matter which one, was European world leaders.
You know, you Americans, you're the problem with it.
And Bush said, we are not the problem.
The United States of America is the solution.
And the sooner you realize and join it, the better off you're all going to be.
He loves the country.
He has great belief and devotion to what he's doing.
And it was just an honor.
It was a thrill to be there.
This is the third time I've been up in the White House residence and the second time that I've had dinner and the first time I've had cigars in a treaty room.
And a treaty room, by the way, is pretty close to the Lincoln bedroom, and it's the actual room where the treaty to end the Spanish-American War was signed.
And the desk where the treaty was signed is actually in that room.
I asked the president, I said, cigars?
We were originally going to go on the Truman balcony, but it's so hot out there.
It's hotter than it is down in Florida in Washington these days.
Same thing in a lot of the Northeast.
So I said, I thought this is a smoke-free zone.
He said, well, I saw your spot on a half-hour news hour, and you said it's not a smoke-free zone, so we're going to go smoke cigars in the treaty room.
When you were playing the president, you declared this a smoke-free zone, a smokable zone now.
He was up to speed and clever.
But that's, you know, I went in, I guess I got in there about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and got up pretty late.
So in dribbles and drabs, ladies and gentlemen, I will divulge certain things that happened.
But a lot of it love to tell you, but I just, even if I had permission, I wouldn't.
William in Atlanta, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Great to have you with us.
How are you?
Fine.
Okay, I find it very hypocritical that you say only Democrats make sure their friends get paid when Republicans are guilty of the same thing and have been guilty of it for an extremely long time.
I mean, if you go back to the beginning of the Republican Party, they always made sure their friends got taken care of, no matter the cost to the American public.
And then for you to say.
You know what?
You're right.
You're absolutely right.
Both parties do this.
You're absolutely right.
I forgot Halliburton.
Any number of you.
Halliburton, Kaiser with Lyndon Baines Johnson.
I mean, the list goes on and on.
So, I mean, is the concept of it?
You're absolutely right.
You know, the point I was trying to make with that was that these calls, even before the bridge collapse, to fix the infrastructure, is just a way to funnel money to construction companies, construction unions, and so forth, even when the job doesn't need to be done.
No, I agree with you on that.
I mean, it doesn't take six people, three people sitting in the talk, one person standing watching, and two people working to fix anything.
But like you said, they have to make sure they cover the baseline of their project.
That's absolutely.
That's it.
You're up to speed with me.
But the problem is, we as the American public have to decide that we will no longer take this from our elected leaders and show them, Democratic and Republicans, that we want things to change.
Well, that's going to be tough.
This is how these political parties have survived.
But, you know, even though, I'm going to tell you, William, even though both parties do pay back their donors, there's no question about it.
There is still a significant difference in the two parties ideologically.
And the Democrat Party is the party of the biggest government they can get, as close to socialism as they can get, with attacks on capitalism.
Look at their enemies list.
Walmart, big oil, big drug, big tobacco, big cigar, big fast food, big trans fat.
I mean, any big, big auto.
I mean, any big, they are out to destroy it and punish it and raise taxes on them.
The Republican Party, for the most part, pro-capitalist, leave people alone.
Democrats try to tell everybody how to live.
Liberal Democrats do.
Conservatives don't care what you do.
As long as you keep it to yourself, it's fine and dandy.
As long as you're not destroying the moral fiber of the country and so forth, if you want to smoke, go ahead.
You want to eat food that's not good for you?
Go ahead.
None of our business.
But the Libs want to make everything you do their business.
And that's many more differences than that, but that's a fundamental.
William, glad you called.
We'll take a brief time out and return right after this.
Hi, welcome back.
El Rushbo here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, talent on loan from God.
And all the while, remaining my humility, maintaining it and meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
And people ask me a lot because I make no bone about the facts that I'm not upset.
I've never been a father, never had kids.
Rush, why have you never wanted kids?
I hold the answer to the question in my formerly nicotine-stained finger.
Get this.
A Sicilian mother took away her 61-year-old son's house keys, cut off her 61-year-old son's allowance, and hauled him to the police station because he stayed out late.
The son responded by saying his mother didn't give him a big enough weekly allowance, didn't know how to cook.
His mom didn't know how to cook.
She said, my son doesn't respect me, doesn't tell me where he's going in the evenings, returns home late, never happy with the food I make.
He always complains, I'm tired of it.
How old is she?
It doesn't say the son is 61.
It says here, most Italian men still live at home, late in their 30s, enjoying their mama's cooking, washing, and ironing.
I have had a perpetual fear that they will never leave.
And that's that's a shortened version of the answer.
The answer is actually multifaceted, but nevertheless, did you see the latest Zogby poll?
Congress has a 3% approval number on the war.
The president has a 24% approval number.
Overall, 44% oppose the war, or 55% oppose it, 44% support it.
But that's going up.
It's going up.
That's why the New York Times had to go out and poll their people twice because they didn't believe the first result.
Well, we don't listen.
This doesn't make any sense.
They went out and polled it again.
They had to admit, yep, first poll was right.
3%.
I'll tell you something.
You know, the president's negative numbers on this war, we've discussed this on this program on countless previous occasions.
I think that a large factor in the dissatisfaction with the Iraq war poll is simply people upset that they don't think that we are kicking butt all across that country.
We are the United States of America.
We do not lose.
We are up against a ragtag bunch of seventh century bombers that hide out in various places.
A lot of people think if we wanted to take care of these people, we could do it overnight.
We're the United States of America.
That's where a lot of the dissatisfaction comes from.
And some opponents of the war out there as well.
But how do you explain the 3% approval Congress has on the war?
Do you really think some of you leftists out there, do you really think that they're getting 3% because they haven't been able to bring the troops home?
Do you think they're getting 3% because they haven't passed their resolutions mandating a specific troop withdrawal date?
How many of you, what do you think explains a 3%, 3% approval rate in the way Congress is dealing with the war?
Steve in Margate, New Jersey, glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Day one, Dittos, Rush.
Thank you very much.
Rush, a lot more people died when the World Trade Center came tumbling down than when this bridge in Minnesota came down.
Right.
And I'll tell you, these people that are trivializing the war on terror and saying to get out of Iraq, they're putting their agenda ahead of the safety of our country.
You can do both.
We could help the infrastructure of our country and defend it.
This quote that you had before about bridges shouldn't come falling down in America.
Well, skyscrapers shouldn't come falling down either, and people shouldn't have to jump out of windows holding hands.
Right.
In fact, another blue state disaster.
I'll never forget a few years ago, Uncle Walter was being interviewed, and you made a point of playing a quote of his, and he said he misses what he used to do because he misses setting the agenda.
Yeah.
And that's just what these people are doing.
They have an agenda and they ignore so much that's common sense, and I think it's shameless.
Absolutely shameless.
Yeah, they have a word for the, of course, you're talking about Waldekronkite, right?
Yes, sir.
It's called managing the news.
And the drive-bys are all concerned with the upcoming 08 presidential race.
Who's going to manage the news?
Who's going to protect their agenda and who's going to try to disrupt it and so forth?
But that's, you have a great memory on that, sir.
And that's actually a good point about 9-11.
Skyscraper shouldn't fall either.
And isn't it interesting that it didn't take long, in relative terms, after the World Trade Center towers came down, that the left started finding a way to blame Bush for it.
In fact, you know what?
Steel doesn't melt.
Bush imploded that.
Bush knew 9-11 was going to happen.
These mainstream Democrats believe, well, some mainstream Democrats believe and think this.
Yeah, he knew.
He knew it was coming down.
And he didn't do anything about it.
Hey, look at the way those buildings fell, Wyatt.
It had to be an inside job.
So it didn't take long.
Once again, Republicans blowing up the country.
In a Democrat-run state, Bush steered Hurricane Katrina right to New Orleans.
And Bush wanted the bridge collapse in Minneapolis because he would rather fight the war in Iraq.
Got to take a brief timeout here, ladies and gentlemen.
Continue.
Steve, thanks much.
Great call.
Be right back after this.
Washington Post has this big story today, ladies and gentlemen.
Clinton, Obama, Edwards, tied in Iowa poll.
Oh, no.
That's right, Barack Obama, first choice at 27% of respondents in the Washington Post ABC News poll.
Next, Mrs. Bill Clinton and the Brett girl, each at 26%.
Oh, no, the Democrats are tied.
What are we going to make of this?
Well, the real story is that Edwards once led big in Iowa.