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Aug. 3, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 3, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
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So that that portends well for the uh usual flippance uh flippancy and uh and and giddiness.
Um you probably are talked out by now on the uh or listened out or 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 uh I was uh I was at home on uh on Thursday night, uh uh getting ready to leave for my super secret or Wednesday night uh when the bridge collapse happened, uh, Wednesday night I was getting ready to leave for my super secret meeting at Faraway Place.
And uh I did not have the television on, and I got a flash email.
Boy, you want to see what happened in Minneapolis.
So I turned on a 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 that's that's what you the for the real story.
That's 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 I'm sure the bridge collapse happened a little bit before I found out about it, but four hours, four minutes after I was told.
Um I I went to uh 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.
There was a there was these posts uh 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 inep 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.
Uh uh, it goes on to talk about this is what you get with militarists and corporate people.
Uh it it it's you know, it's predictable, and it really is a little sad uh that that a uh a disaster like this uh becomes immediately partisan.
But that's the nature of our of our society and our culture today.
Uh Tony Snow had to go out on uh what was it, Thursday?
I'm losing control of the days here.
What was yeah, Thursday morning.
Tony Snow had to go out and say, Look, this is a state project here.
It's uh all these and all these investigations that bridge has been investigated, got 50 out of 120.
You know all this.
Uh the White House had to uh uh go out and and and try to defuse some of this, and I'm I'm I'm glad that they did.
First ladies there today, the president's going there tomorrow.
Uh didn't want to go today because they already have a traffic mess.
That's a major artery when the president goes in someplace.
Uh everything gets shut down even more so.
So he's uh he's gonna go in there uh tomorrow.
But this is 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, uh all these people complaining about the defense budget taking away money.
Do you know that Minnesota is running or was running in uh uh what was the year?
What was it?
Well, it's either this year or last at 2.1 billion dollar 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.
Um the state of Minnesota's 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.
Uh the the drive-by media had hardly taken a breath before they turned the cars around to blame Bush and Republicans in general for the 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 can say, what the hell is it today?
Why are they not paying attention to their infrastructure?
What what what is it, what is it uh that they're not doing?
We know the circumstances in uh Katrina, the the graph down there, the uh levies 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.
Uh country's falling apart because we're in Iraq.
Uh it's absurd.
Uh but it's it's a perfect template, the perfect action line for our buddies in the drive-by media.
I think in 2005, for all these people saying that we uh uh spend too much on the military, there was uh the federal budget in 2005 was 2.47 is a trillion?
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 uh uh they ought to change it.
Uh get the health care for the little children uh out there.
Uh defense spending is a percentage of the total federal budget has been it's been declining since the 1960s.
Uh here's the thing.
Uh you can see this in states all over the country.
Uh lots and lots of instances of Democrats screaming for uh 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 is 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.
Uh 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.
Uh so when the Democrats are out there demanding all this new investment at infrastructure, they just want to raise taxes so they can pay off their buds in the uh in the unions.
Uh now, uh there's a Nick Nick Coleman uh at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and I've got the story here.
Uh says that this collapse of the bridge uh would never have happened if it wasn't for the governor Tim Polenty, a Republican, and his refusal to raise taxes.
This is in the state the Minneapolis paper, the 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 Polletti, has been no new taxes.
It's been popular with a lot of voters, it has mostly prevailed, so much so that Poletti 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 Polenty vetoed the gas tax increase.
At the time when Tim Pollenti vetoed this five cent gas tax increase, the state of Minnesota had a 2.1 billion dollar budget surplus.
The surplus comes from what?
It certainly doesn't come from government not spending.
The surplus comes from over taxation.
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 taking over with the collapse of the bridge.
Democrats into drive-by's 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 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 might uh I think I have it here as a PDF file.
I might upload it to the website today if it's if it's the same thing I've got here.
But uh it it mirrors what is happening in many, many states.
Uh they spend millions for animal exhibits at the zoo, millions for stupid art projects.
Every county has a stupid art project, state funds uh in in a number of states.
All that they spend money on so many things if you stop to think about try this.
The state bailout of the Minnesota Teachers Retirement Fund, which put state taxpayers on the hook for its $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 dollars 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, one 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 will never have enough money no matter how much they raise, no matter how much they increase taxes.
Quick timeout.
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Total, total chaos in the House of Representatives last night and this morning.
We have audio soundbikes 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've sure you've seen it, but uh you haven't heard it until you hear it as we uh present it.
We have a a montage here.
We have Craig Crawford of PMSNBC.
We've got Joe Scarborough, we've got uh reporter from CNN Greg Hunter, we got Lou Dobbs, we got uh Barney, my boy Lollipop Frank.
What?
What do you you're you're you're you're talking to me, but you're not talking to me.
Oh, okay, okay.
Uh we got Jack Cafferty is seeing it, we got Bill Tucker seeing it, and we got we got Senator Amy Clobucher, or I think that's how she pronounced it.
I remember I don't watch TV with a sound up, so uh 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 I mean, four minutes after I heard the story, uh, for the real story, I went to these these fruitcake websites, move on.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 hear, but I wouldn't to who, but I wouldn't be surprised if these people at the drive bys, because they're going nuts.
All these presidential candidates are at one of these kook websites conventions in Chicago.
So I they 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, you know, 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 two billion dollars 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.
We've spent what, almost 500 billion dollars in Iraq.
Look at how long it took that or how little time it took for them to come up with this.
So, you know, everything says zero sum game with these clowns.
We're spending five hundred billion dollars in Iraq, and lo and behold, to fix all the infrastructure to be 552 billion.
Well, you ever think about cutting some of the absolute how about getting 150 million back from Jack Mertha?
Some of these people that are scoring some of these big earmark pork projects.
Have you ever thought about maybe going to some of the c the the the redundancy?
How about the fact that the people that run the food stamp program advertise for applicants, keep their budgets up?
You have you know, you know how baseline budgeting works?
We 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.
Uh and let's say, you know, it varies every year, but let's say just for round numbers, it's 10%.
Uh and so let's say that uh the president proposes an increase in line item A of seven percent.
The Democrats squawk, this is a cut!
It's a draconian cut, you can't no, no.
We're gonna spend seven percent more than we did last year, it's just not ten percent more.
Well, no, it's in the baseline, ten percent.
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 gonna go out and buy a car, I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna buy one of those humongous, really cool Cadillac Escalades, and I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna spend sixty 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 well, I don't think you know what?
I think I'll buy a I'll think I'll buy a crossover.
And oh, I'll spend 38, 40,000.
I just saved 20 grand.
No, you didn't.
You just spent 38.
You didn't save because you never spent the 60.
You went this is how the federal budget works.
So this just to sit 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 uh 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.
Uh, and if they do win the White House in uh in 08, as I have told you, we are not getting out of Iraq when they win it.
And they're gonna have a huge problem with their kook fringe.
They already do.
They thought the November election was about that.
So they they know what's going on, and they know we're winning, and they got a pretty good idea what the Patrayus Report's gonna say.
They do.
They just don't want anybody else to know that they.
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 gonna be a bunch of lies.
We're we're we're we're gonna get out.
There's no progress that can um that can be made.
Here's Katie Couric last night.
We have time to squeeze.
We do.
Here's Katie Courick 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 dungeon.
That's right.
A man, a living legend, a way of life.
Learn it, love it, live it.
Two more audio sound bites to illustrate the uh the hysteria, the panic, and the uh the liberal agenda ism of the uh drive-by media of the Democrats.
Last night on MSNBC Hardwall fill-in host Mike Barnacle talking to uh Barney Frank said, Does this help the Democrats?
Can you can you believe?
Does this bridge collapse?
Does the death of these five people and the injured whatever does this help the Democrats?
Does it help you this sort of a disaster?
I am hoping that we can get this request to people that again, if we do not pool our resources, there are some things we can't do to improve the quality of life.
And by the way, if you're rich, you might be able to buy yourself you know some private police, but you can't buy yourself your own bridge.
You can't buy yourself cleaner air.
So even the wealthier people would understand that there is some things as a civilized society giving together in a tight set of spaces, we have to poo our resources to deal with them.
Well, this is just absurd.
You know, just I'm gonna go out and buy a bridge.
I'm gonna go buy a bridge, and I'm gonna make sure I got the cleanest air in the country inside my house.
He says it can't be done, I'm gonna say it can't be done.
What is this?
I am hoping we can get this to course do people to the giving if we if we do not pool our resources, uh there's some things that we can pool our resources, try three trillion dollars 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 uh some way of of cre you know let's make the bridge dependent on the federal government.
And here's um here's a quote.
This this is uh this is uh Amy.
This is this morning uh during a I guess news conference at the site of the bridge collapse.
This is the uh Senator Amy Klobucher.
I hope I'm pronouncing it right.
I'm not if it's not Clobishar, okay, thank Clobushar.
Amy Kloboshar, 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 gonna 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 hope with the immediate recovery, but for the long-term rebuilding of this bridge.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Senator Reed's gonna handle this along with Senator Schemer and uh and Senator Durbin.
They're gonna get out.
Oh, they they'll get the bridge built.
Never mind, they had nothing to do with it falling.
They're gonna get it rebuilt.
A bridge in America just shouldn't fall down.
Why not?
Everybody's gonna die of AIDS, everybody's gonna die of caffeine, and we're all gonna die in the next 25 years or next 25 minutes.
We're trying to, I mean, it paid 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 search circumstances here.
All right, let's uh it's open line Friday.
Let's go to the phones.
Justin in Puyallup, Washington.
Nice to have you uh, sir, and you are first up.
Good morning, Mr. Limbaugh.
Uh Megadetto is from the home state of the most unintelligent member of the U.S. Senate.
That would be uh Patty Murray.
Yes, sir, indeed.
Uh I I am a rush baby.
Uh I started listening to your show in uh in 1994 at uh Lunch with Rush.
Uh restaurant I worked in uh in Wausau, Wisconsin.
Well, I'm I'm 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 uh I've heard uh the accounts of many of your colleagues meeting uh with uh the president when Wednesday morning.
And uh I was wondering why the man who is running America, you know it and I know it, was not there.
Because I I went yesterday afternoon and last night.
So that was your super secret meeting.
Super secret meeting in a faraway place.
Yeah.
I uh went to the uh we had uh president and I, uh Ed Gillespie in the room who took over for Dan Barton.
We had uh cigars and beverages for a couple hours in the treaty room up in the residence.
Uh it was it was so much fun.
Uh Pardon?
Was this meeting off the record as well?
Yeah, yeah.
Well, uh yeah, it it it they did I get y 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 would be stunned if they did.
Then I went in and had dinner uh uh with the president and uh and Mrs. Bush, the first lady.
Uh and but it was about two and a half hours in there, and it was cool.
It was uh tremendous amount of fun.
I got up early today.
One of the reasons I'm low on sleep, I get up at 4 30 for breakfast in the White House mess today uh with Carl Rove and uh Pete Wayner.
Uh what a privilege for you, I'm sure.
Well, it was a privilege for them.
So they're not.
You know, people have been asking me, uh, well, what did the president tell you last night?
Since that's not what did I tell the president is the correct question.
So he also uh recognizes that you're the man running the the country.
Well, who doesn't?
I mean, there's certain things that don't need to be said.
Now he's you know, the the the uh I I'll just tell you this.
Um and I've I've well this is nothing new.
I I tell people this every time that I have been with him.
Uh he is the most confident.
He is uh a barrel of laughs.
He is at ease.
He is unfazed uh by any of the criticism that he gets.
Doesn't care about it.
Uh he's uh one of the things he said to me, uh talking to a a world leader, doesn't matter which one, uh, was European world leaders.
And 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 gonna be.
Uh he's he's uh loves the country, he has great belief and devotion to what he's doing.
Uh and it it was just uh you know it was an honor.
It was a thrill to be there.
This is the uh 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 uh, by the way, is 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 uh in that room.
Uh I I asked the president, I said, Well, cigars, he's we were originally gonna go on the Truman balcony, but it's so hot out there, it's hotter than that it is now in Florida in Washington these days.
Same thing in a lot of the Northeast.
So I I I said I I thought this is a smoke-free zone.
He said, Well, I saw your your spit your your spot on a half-hour news hour, and you said it's not a smoke-free zone, so we're gonna go smoke cigars in the treaty room.
When you were playing the president, you declared this a smoke-free zone or uh a smokable zone now.
He was he was he was um up to speed and clever.
But that's you know, I went in uh I g I guess I got in there about um three o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Uh and got up pretty late.
So uh in dribbles and drabs, ladies and gentlemen, I will divulge certain things that happen, but but it's it was a lot of it love to tell you, but I just even if I had permission, I wouldn't.
Uh 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 uh 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 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 of the American public.
And then for you to say, you know, you're you're right.
You're absolutely right.
I've I I both parties do this.
You're absolutely right.
I forgot Halliburton.
Um, Burton, um Kaiser with Lyndon Baines Johnson.
I mean the list goes on and on.
So I mean, is is the president of you're absolutely right.
I you know, the point I was trying to make with that was that the the the 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, you it's it doesn't take six people, three people sitting in the top, one person standing watching, two people working to fix anything.
But that like you said, they have to they have to make sure they cover the baseline of their project.
That's absolutely that's it.
Oh, you're up to speed with me.
But the problem is we have we as an American public have to decide that we will no longer take this from our elected leaders and show them, Democratic and Republican, that we want things to change.
Well, yeah, you know that that's that's that's gonna be tough.
This is how these political parties have survived.
Uh but you know, even even though I'm gonna 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, uh, with a tax on capitalism.
Look at their enemies list.
Walmart, big oil, big drug, big tobacco, big cigar, uh, big fast food, big trans fat.
I mean, any big big auto.
Uh 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 you want to eat food that not good for you?
Go ahead.
None of our business.
But the Libs want to make everything you do their business.
And uh that's that's uh 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.
L. Rushbow here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, talent on loan from God.
And uh all the while uh remaining my humility, uh maintaining it and meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
You know, people ask me a lot, because I make no bone about the facts that I'm I'm not upset that I've never been a father, never had kids.
Rush, why why why 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 six-one-year-old son's house keys, cut off her sixty-one-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.
That's I've I have had a perpetual fear that they will never leave.
And that's that's uh that's a shortened version of the answer.
That's the answer is actually multifaceted, but nevertheless.
Did you see the latest Zogby poll?
Congress has a three percent 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 that's going up.
It's going up.
That's what 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.
It went up and polled it again.
They had to admit, yep, first poll was right.
Three percent.
Uh I'll tell you something.
I you know, these the the president's negative numbers on this war, we've discussed this on this program on uh countless previous occasions.
I think that 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.
If we want that 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 is as uh as well.
But how do you explain the 3% approval Congress has on the war?
Uh do you 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 uh they haven't passed their resolutions mandating a specific troop withdrawal date?
How many of you what do you think explains a three percent?
Three percent approval rate in the way Congress is dealing with the war.
Steve in Margate, New Jersey, glad you uh called sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Day one did those 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 can 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 another another blue state disaster.
I'll never forget a few years ago, uh Uncle Walter was being interviewed, and you made a point of quoting 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.
It's they have an agenda and they ignore so much that's common sense, and I think it's shameless.
Absolutely shameless.
Yeah, they they have a word for the uh for the of course you're you're talking about Wolvercronkee, right?
Yes, sir.
Uh uh 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 gonna who's gonna try to disrupt it and so forth.
But that's you have a um you have a great memory on that, sir.
That's actually a good point about uh about 9-11 skyscraper shouldn't fall either.
Uh and isn't it interesting that that 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 that believe and think this.
Yeah, he knew.
He knew it was coming down.
And he didn't do anything about it.
Look at the way those buildings fell.
Why 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.
Gotta take a brief time out here, ladies and gentlemen.
Continue.
Uh 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 of 27% of respondents in uh the Washington Post, ABC News poll.
Next, uh Mrs. Bill Clinton and uh the Brett Girl, each at 26%.
Oh, no, the Democrats are tied.
What are we going to make of this?
Well, the real story um is that Edwards once led big in Iowa.
That was his sole saving grace.
His lead is evaporating in Iowa.
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