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Sept. 14, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 14, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday.
And you know the drill, folks.
Call a number, 800-282-2882, and you can discuss anything.
We go to the phones.
You own the show.
Monday through Thursday, you have to talk about things I'm interested in because I'm not going to sit here and be bored because it is my passion, which is the magnet attracting and holding the audience of this, the highest-rated radio talk show in America.
But on Friday, I cast all that aside and take a great risk, lovingly, adoringly, and eagerly.
So again, 800-282-2882 if you would like to join us.
And as a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, Lanny Davis, Democrat spokesman and sometimes hack, accused me today of challenging the patriotism of Democrats.
Can't understand why Fox spends so much time on moveon.org, but ignores me and my hateful remarks about Democrats.
Let me just remind everybody once again.
Throughout two days of hearings last week or earlier this week, Monday and Tuesday, General Petraeus, the House and the Senate, not one liberal, not one Democrat asked General Petraeus, what can we do to help you and the troops?
Not one Democrat, not one liberal on either committee asked General Petraeus, what can we do to help you win the war?
What can we do to help the war effort?
Not one Democrat asked such a question.
Not one Democrat ever has.
Well, not at least in the last three to four years.
The Denton Independent School District has removed an employee from her position because she smells like cigarette smoke.
Her name is Suzanne Lidster.
She was really excited when she was recently hired to assist a student with disabilities at the L.A. Nelson Elementary School.
It's something that God sent me here to do with this child, she told a TV stage.
She's like, okay, this fell in my lap.
But after less than two weeks on the job, she said she received a voicemail informing her that she'd lost her job.
School's principal left a message on her cell phone Tuesday morning saying a doctor said that the odor of smoke on the Lidster had aggravated a student's allergies.
The principal also said that Lidster was not a good fit for the job.
Like getting a voicemail from the school saying, hey, don't come back to the school because you stink from smoke, said she smokes eight cigarettes a day, but never on campus.
I don't stink, she said.
But she admits that she may be used to the smell after smoking for 32 years.
You would never, ever do anything to harm a child.
We mentioned the first hour how the Brecht girl, John Edwards, got screwed by MSNBC.
They charged him, who knows what, to run his little response to President Bush's speech.
They waited 30 minutes to air it, and in those 30 minutes, they interviewed a bunch of other presidential candidates for their opinions on this, but charged the Brecht girl.
Anyway, it has been learned here, this is from the New York Post, that Edwards has invested a big chunk of his personal fortune in a hedge fund tied to subprime lenders foreclosing on the homes of dozens of New Yorkers.
The 64 homes are scattered across suburban Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, and Putnam counties, according to court records.
The families either have been kicked out of their houses for failure to keep up with mortgage payments or are still fighting foreclosure proceedings in court.
Edwards, who, as you all remember, last December launched his Democrat presidential campaign in New Orleans, promised last month to pull his money out of any fund linked to foreclosures in the flood-ravaged city of New Orleans.
His promise came after the Wall Street Journal reported that subprime lenders tried to tie to Fortress Investment Group, which is the one place he went to work because he said he wanted to learn about poverty.
Went to a hedge fund because he wanted to learn about poverty.
And of course, what he learned about poverty was he didn't like it.
And he didn't want it for himself.
And that group, the hedge fund that he went to work for, were suing 34 New Orleans homeowners in foreclosure proceedings.
Edwards invested $16 million of his estimated $30 million fortune in Fortress, which has subsidiaries that offered subprime loans.
I will not have my family's money involved in these firms that are foreclosing on people in New Orleans.
Well, now they're foreclosing on people in New York.
Helping down-other luck New Yorkers would be comparatively easy, however, because their names and addresses are readily available in public court records.
So again, look, the question that I, as your host, have about this is, once again, why is this man still viable?
He's running an anti-poverty campaign, and we know that poverty is improving in this country.
It's getting better, and it's not bad in the first place, given poverty around the world.
It just, I don't understand it.
There's nothing that I don't understand.
Frankly, to be quite honest with you, I don't understand what recommends any of these Democrat candidates, something special, something, people super qualified.
None of them are the brainiacs.
I mean, look at folks.
Who among them knows military strategy better than a four-star general?
And yet they think they do.
They ought to be the ones determining military strategy.
They think they're the ones who ought to be determining health care policy, not professionals in that business.
They think they ought to be determining energy policy.
They're not in that business.
They think they ought to be determining retail policy, as in we got to get Walmart.
They're not in that business.
They claim to have all these superior qualifications.
They know better than anybody else.
And I want to know where the proof is, or as Lanny Davis would say, the poof.
Where's the poof?
What have these people done to recommend them as great military strategerists or anything else?
They're nothing but a bunch of big government liberals who want to control people's lives.
And what they do is create in the minds of as many Americans as possible all these other large entities are screwing the hell out of them every day, cheating them and ripping them off and all this.
And the Democrats are going to go in there and they're going to make it fair.
They're going to make it right.
They're going to tell these people how to treat people.
And of course, these people that have been lied to and exposed all this class envy ever since FDR and the Raw Deal are out there going, yeah, yeah, yeah, you get even with them.
That'll make me feel better.
Yeah, yeah.
It's a never-ending and repeating cycle.
But you get past that.
That's the politics of it.
Just what is it that recommends these people to be experts in anything other than screwing up the country?
They've shown they can do that.
They've shown that they can screw up the government.
They have shown they can screw up the military.
And yet, nobody questions their expertise.
Nobody questions their qualifications.
By the way, from the Mine is Bigger Than Yours department, the United States just said that it's got bigger bombs than what the Ruskies just lit off the other day.
You have a 14-ton superbomb, more destructive than the vacuum bomb just tested by Russia.
A U.S. general said, this is retired Lieutenant General McInerney, chairman of the Iran Policy Committee, former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
He said the U.S. has a new massive ordnance penetrator.
That's a bomb for those of you in Riolinda.
When they hear the word penetrator, the Riolindans get excited.
And we're talking bombs here for those of you in Rio Linda.
New massive ordnance penetrator, 30,000 pounds really penetrates.
said the general.
Ahmadinejad has nothing in Iran that we can't penetrate.
He also said the new Russian bomb was not a penetrator.
And also, the Russians said, don't worry, our bomb will not destroy the environment.
Our bomb will not harm the environment.
As they showed videotape of apartment buildings and tanks being blown to smithereens and a giant fire consuming a forest where they set the bomb off.
And from Davenport, Iowa, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, in my mind, another incompetent failure, said that Hillary Rodham Clinton is the best presidential candidate to repair America's image.
She said that Clinton is a caring friend.
Albright, speaking at an event in Davenport, Iowa on Thursday, said the Bush administration's caused many problems, but that Clinton could restore America's reputation.
Right.
Repair the nation's image.
I think, folks, this depends on what image one would want to project.
If you want to project the image of a broken, cowering, collapsing nation sinking rapidly toward third world status, and Hillary is your girl.
Or man, whatever she said she is.
Whatever Elizabeth Edwards said she is.
But if the image is a nation that's prosperous, self-assured, battle-ready to defend ourselves, not be shaken by frivolous events or fad theories of impending doom, then I think we have to look elsewhere for a president than under Madeline Albright's skirt.
And by the way, isn't that the primary job of a president to repair the nation's image?
Is that what we're to do?
We want a PR department running United States of America, folks.
Open Line Friday rolls on, and we go back to the phones to Greenville, South Carolina.
This is Brooks.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you, Rush.
It's good to talk to you.
Appreciate that.
I just want to say I was pleased to hear the influence that you still have over your audience as of earlier today with the book sales.
I have to say when I was in high school, I read the textbook that I read actually cited you as being influential in, I believe it was one of the Reagan elections, and this was just proof.
Well, you know, back then, the drive-bys were not afraid, nor textbook writers, to refer to me as influential.
But now that I've become so effective, I'm hateful.
I'm a hate monger.
I'm a bigot.
I'm a racist.
And they despise the fact that I'm influential.
But that's the league I play in and I can handle.
I appreciate your nice words.
Well, here's my question.
Do you really think, or what is your opinion, rather, on Hillary's unveiling of her health care plan on Monday?
Do you think it will cover up for what she said about Petraeus?
No, she doesn't have to cover up for what she said about Petraeus because nobody's holding her to account for it in the drive-by media.
She can't.
Moveon.org is Hillary.
Hillary is moveon.org.
Nobody's going to ask her to change her statement.
Rudy is, but I mean, the drive-bys are not going to keep pounding away on this.
Now, this is, let me talk about this a minute.
Since you bring it up, she is planning to roll out the rest of her health care plan Monday in a speech in Des Moines.
And she says that this will be rounding out a policy proposal that's been in the works for months.
She has given few clues as to how her policy will differ from those already introduced by Senator Barack Obama and former Senator the Brecht girl, though she has hinted that she will address questions about her approach to the lobbying industry, attacked by her rivals as being too weak.
She said, I intend to dramatically rein in the influence of the insurance companies, she said during a forum hosted by Yahoo, Slate, and the HuffPoll on Wednesday, because frankly, I think they've worked to the detriment of our economy and our health care system.
Oh, really?
Insurance company lobbyists are working to the of course they are.
Everybody.
She's taking money from all of them.
Every damn one of them.
She's taking money from all.
But they're working as a detriment.
See, liberals, my friends, in their own mind, are never, ever responsible for anything that goes wrong.
They're never, ever a detriment to our economy.
They're never a detriment to our society.
Liberals are not a detriment to our health care system.
No, it's only the people in those businesses who are.
Isn't that amazing?
Only the people in these businesses are detriments to the country.
Why, the government and those of us big, wonderful, good people who run the government, why we are never a detriment.
Now, you know, this is go-round number two for Mrs. Clinton because she bollocksed the first effort in 1993.
And listen to the way Ann Kornblutt, the Washington Post, describes it.
We read this sentence.
Clinton, whose unsuccessful attempt to overhaul the health care system in the early 90s, led to her being criticized as a fan of big government.
So that's just what the critics say, right, Ms. Kornblut?
How about the fact she is a fan of big government?
She is big government.
It's not just what the critics say.
Anyway, it goes on to say here that Mrs. Clinton has tried to turn the botched effort into a plus.
She often says in the campaign trail that she at least has tried to fix health care and has the scars to prove it.
But her opponents are gearing up to undercut her message by pointing out that her failure during her husband's administration ultimately set back the movement for health care overhaul and by arguing that she's done a little to remedy it while in the Senate.
It's pretty close to accurate.
She did botch it.
She hasn't done much about it since.
And I think one of the things that was heartwarming about the 90s, folks, was when people found out what this plan of hers was, they wanted no part of it.
It wasn't just socialistic.
It was an abomination.
It was going to tell doctors where they could and couldn't practice.
It was going to assign doctors what specialties they could study in medical school and thus go into.
It was, you talk about a socialistic reach, an overreach.
I mean, it was abhorrent.
And people found out about it and wanted literally no part of it.
Of course, this always shocks the libs when they find out that when people really are educated on how big government they are, they don't want any part of it.
And the same thing is going to have to happen here.
I don't know what her plan's going to say, and I don't know how she's going to mask it.
And I don't know, but I just can't believe at this early stage, she's going to be totally upfront and honest about it and allow people to go out there and cherry-pick the thing.
And even if she does come out with the wholly open and honest plan, remember, this is a plan designed to get elected and would probably differ greatly from the real plan that would be implemented should she be elected president somewhere in Tennessee.
This is Daniel on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
In the NASA Guard, and my blood is just boiling with the way Senator Clinton had talked to General Proteus.
Suspending disbelief in order to listen to what he has to say.
That probably is what irritates you.
Roger, that is just, that just makes my blood boil.
The guy's a four-star general.
I believe he's got a doctorate degree in military science.
He's been over there three times.
He sees, he gets the intel data every day.
He sees what's going on.
He is the best qualified person to tell everybody what's going on, what he needs.
Exactly.
Now, I got two other points.
Congress, they need to let us do our job.
Not only us in the NASA Guard, but our brothers and sisters in the active duty side.
They need to let us do our job.
Stop handcuffing us.
If they can do the job better, take my M16, take my gas mask, take everything I got, and do my job.
I'm tired of these guys sitting down there telling me how I'm going to do how I'm going to fight this war, so on and so forth.
This is ridiculous.
They sit there, they don't know what we do, they don't see what we see.
They've never been shot at for crying out loud.
Daniel, they don't want you to do your job.
They are trying to see to it that you can't do your job.
They know exactly what your job is.
Your job is victory.
They don't want that.
They are trying to undermine your job.
It's not that they're dense and don't understand your job.
They know it very well.
They resent the hell out of your job and that you might succeed at it.
Well, then the general public needs to stand up and say, you know what?
If you're not going to let our boys do their job, we're putting somebody else in there that will, regardless.
And my last point on this, and I'll stop on it, is we're a nation where we don't go after world leaders and so on and so forth.
I wish the president would take a bully's stance on world leaders that we're going after and eliminate them.
I know we're not supposed to, but from the time that was written till 2007, the playing field has changed and we need to adapt to that.
I wish he would take that bully mentality and go after these world leaders.
Well, that would require a change of the law.
The Frank Church Committee, I'm sure you know, who was in charge of in the 70s emaciating the CIA, came up with this, and that would require a change in the law.
But I love you, and I love your call, and I love your passion, and it breaks my heart to have to tell you, Daniel, but they don't want you to do your job.
Well, it's more bad news out there for the Brett girl, ladies and gentlemen.
This is from the state newspaper out of Columbia, South Carolina.
And this is last Sunday, September the 9th, when this was published.
We just now found it.
And if we just now found it, it means it did not escape South Carolina, which means the drive-bys weren't interested.
A subprime lender with ties to the Brett girl has moved to foreclose on more than 130 homes in South Carolina since the South Carolina native went to work for its parent company.
This, according to another analysis of courthouse records.
So the Brett girls investment firm is foreclosing on people in New Orleans, 64 people out on Long Island, and now 130 people, 130 homeowners in South Carolina.
The lender is Green Tree Financial.
Also, it was once the subject of a $30 million class action verdict involving thousands of South Carolinians.
Edwards' ties to the company are disquieting to some of his supporters.
On the campaign trail, Edwards has insisted he's the champion of lower-income families.
His ties to Green Tree also could hurt him with voters in South Carolina.
A state he's got to win if he hopes to win the 2008 Democrat nomination.
I hate to hear that, said Sue Berkowitz, an Edwards supporter of his relationship to Greentree.
I just hate to hear that.
They're horrible.
They're disgusting.
They're slimy, she said of Greentree, which says it's the nation's largest lender from manufactured housing purchases.
Now, from October 2005 through 2006, Edwards worked for Fortress Investment Group, a hedge fund.
Its subprime lending subsidiaries, Green Tree Financial and NationStar, foreclosed on 34 homes in New Orleans, now 64 homes in Long Island, in New York, and 130 in South Carolina.
There is a child in every one of those houses, I would bet.
You would guess there would be a child in every house.
I mean, maybe more than one in some houses.
Maybe some, there are no children.
But I tell you, he must have, he had to have learned a lot about poverty.
He went to work for Fortress because he said he wanted to learn about poverty.
Imagine that.
Man, oh man, can you imagine if this were a Republican who were out there campaigning on the same themes as the Brett girl is and all of this information was forthcoming?
This is from last Sunday in Columbia, South Carolina.
Well, if there are illegal, I know if there are illegal immigrants in those houses, they have nowhere to go.
Well, the people in those houses, whoever they are, legal, illegal, from Mars.
Doesn't matter to me, they got nowhere to go.
Well, if they're from Mars, I imagine they could find a way back, you know, if they if they got here in the first place.
You know, what's the mantra of the left here?
Right now, the mantra of the left is: we got to have change.
Time for a change.
We demand change, right?
I got to thinking about this the other day.
The president has changed the Secretary of Defense.
The president has changed the commanders in Iraq.
The president has changed the ambassadors to Iraq.
The president has changed the entire Iraq strategy, and those changes change the momentum.
Now, the left, the Democrats, they haven't changed Harry Reid.
They haven't changed Nancy Pelosi.
They haven't changed their talking points.
They haven't changed their lack of cooperation.
They haven't changed their defeatism.
But the only thing that's changed, and this is with routine consistency, is Mrs. Clinton's position of the day on the war.
Of all the words, of all the concepts, the lament for the left is change, and they haven't changed a bit.
The president is offering all kinds of change.
The left offers nothing but chump change.
Here's Charles and Fort Lauderdale.
Hey, Charles, welcome to the EIB network.
My pleasure to speak with you.
If the Democrats don't believe General Petraeus in his sworn testimony to Congress, how are any of them going to react as the chief executive when the military comes to them and brings them information to respond to a political or global crisis?
What are they going to do?
Tell the military, we don't believe you.
You're not telling us the truth?
No.
No.
That won't happen.
Let me answer a very, very timely and important question asked of the most important person in the country you can ask it to.
And it is this: this is the answer.
The dirty little secret, Charles, is that if one of these Democrats becomes a chief executive in 2009, we're not leaving Iraq.
And the military, whatever they tell President Clinton, will be what she goes by.
We are not going to get out of there.
Not when the Democrats enjoy.
You people in the audience, do you think this illustration is purposeful here to show you just how disingenuous they are at this very moment?
They have no intention of getting out of Iraq with themselves in charge and the noose of defeat hanging around their necks.
Now, the way that they will do this, Mrs. Clinton will get into office.
You remember her husband promised this middle-class tax cut throughout his campaign.
And within the first 30 days, calls his national address.
I've worked harder than anything I've ever heard work before.
I tried, but I just can't.
They didn't tell me all that was going on here during the campaign.
I have looked at the books and I have discovered we can't afford a middle-class tax cut.
I'm sorry.
I worked hard trying to bring it about, but we just can't do it.
They'll do the same thing.
Mrs. Clinton will say, I finally, as your president, have seen information the previous administration withheld from us.
And what I have seen informs me we cannot leave now, blah, blah, blah.
That's how it will happen.
They're not going to dare pull us out of there.
They're not going to secure defeat when they're in charge.
It ain't going to happen.
And by the way, I think, you know, you anti-war Democrats, you lunatic fringe kooks out there, you had better come to grips with this because it was made plain last night.
You are not going to get these troops out of there before the presidential race.
So you're not going to get these troops out of there before whoever assumes office in January of 2009.
You've lost.
The president has skunked you again.
The Democrats, in fact, Obama, Obama said, we're not going to challenge Bush.
Despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war, Barack Obama predicted yesterday Congress will not directly challenge President Bush's plans.
We'll focus instead on pulling a ceiling on the number of troops deployed.
He said the most likely scenario would be to grant troops more time at home between deployments, a politically popular step that's difficult to oppose and one that would have a practical impact.
You have to at least give people a one-year break for every year served in Iraq.
So the top two Democrat candidates for president are members of this ineffective Congress.
They can't get anything done.
And the Democrats think all of a sudden their guys, whoever it is, when they're elected, are going to pull the troops out.
It isn't going to happen.
They're not going to get them out of there before 2009.
So you guys better.
And Bush brilliantly alluded to this last night when he talked about the role his successor is going to have here in continuing this policy to secure the defense of this country.
So if the Democrats do win the White House, whoever it is, I can't wait to see the implosion that's going to happen on the left when the troops don't come out of there.
That's just, that's going to be fun to watch.
By the way, only a third of the public satisfied with the job President Bush is doing.
Even fewer are pleased with Congress.
According to a poll by the AP and Ipsos released, that would be yesterday.
With the clash between Bush and Congressional Democrats over Iraq continuing to dominate the news, 33% said they approve of Bush's performance.
Congress approval number 26%.
Speaking of which, Bush, of course, has higher approval numbers than Congress.
But the Democrats, despite all of this, can't move public opinion.
If they were able to do that and if the things they were saying about the American public opinion of the war were true, we would not have heard the speech from President Bush that we heard last night.
Lynn, in my adopted hometown of Sacramento, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Russ.
Thanks for this.
I'm from Roseville, just up the road from Sacramento.
I understand that you're going to be appearing at Arco Arena sometime this month, and your fans would like to know when and what time so that we could be there.
I'm not going to be at Arco Arena, although I could fill it.
The Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce is having an event a week from today where I will be one of five speakers on the roster.
And I think I was looking for my cheat sheet on this, and I can't find it.
It's at the convention center, I think, downtown is where this is going to be.
I don't think.
Yeah, September 21st was a week today, but it's not at ARCO.
Okay, that's September the 21st.
September 20th, one week from today.
I don't know what time.
This thing starts at 8.30, goes to sometime in the afternoon, and each of us speakers have been granted 40 minutes, which is a real challenge for me to fit in everything I need to say in 40 minutes, but I'll pull it off.
Brevity is a solo wit.
No, if I were coming to Arco Arena, Lynn, you'd know about it, and it would be sold out already.
But we, it may be someday.
But this is something for the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce.
My buddy Tom Sullivan out there is the master ceremonies for this event every year.
And it's big.
It's huge.
I think 3,000 people can get into this into the convention center the way they have it configured.
Anyway, I got to run here.
Thanks for the call, Lynn.
Brief timeout.
Open Line Friday resumes after this.
Back to our audio soundbite roster because it's timely, folks.
It fits in with some of the things that I have been suggesting about the Democrats today.
First, let's go to the situation room on CNN last night.
A reporter at Suzanne Malvo was interviewing Tony Snow, the White House press secretary.
She said, in terms of whether or not they approve or disapprove of the way the president's handling a situation in Iraq, 71% disapprove of the execution of the war and what he's doing there.
So why should the American people listen to him in the first place tonight?
Now, that is the question.
Before we play at Tony's answer, if that stupid CNN poll were right, we would be out of there.
The Democrats would have had no problem getting their resolutions passed if 71% disapprove what's going on.
That's stridently.
And so her question to Tony Snow, why should anybody listen to the president in the first place tonight?
You might want to read the poll a little more fully because it also says that most Americans think the surge is working.
It says 26% approve of the way he's handling it.
No, no, no.
71% disapprove.
73% unsure.
I know, I know.
But you know what?
They also have even higher disapproval rates for Congress.
People here are tired of the atmosphere in Washington.
Tell me what Suzanne is.
Let's talk about the president.
What I've done is taken something a lot more precise, which is, is the surge working?
How does it think it is?
Regain the credibility that he needs to convince the American people that that's true, Tony.
Well, you know what, Suzanne?
Your credibility rating, journalist credibility ratings are lower than the president.
To shea.
To shea.
Way to go, Tony.
This morning on CBS.
This morning, co-host Hannah Storm talked to Michelle Obama.
When you look at the poll numbers, your husband really trails with women by some 30 points to Senator Clinton.
Can you do something about that?
Why is that?
You know, we are working hard to ensure to the women of America that Barack Obama is who we need.
You know, some women just feel like that it's a woman's turn, you know, that they just feel like it's Hillary's turn.
That I reject because democracy isn't supposed to be about whose turn it is.
Yeah, I know, it's also not supposed to be about cowardice.
And I find it there's something, I understand it, but I don't like it.
These candidates' wives have to go out there and be the ones to attack Hillary.
You know, Michelle Obama has to go out and do it for her husband, and Elizabeth Edwards has to go out there and do it for the Brett girl because you just can't attack the girl because Hillary is a professional and making herself sound like a victim.
Oh, yeah, they're going to really be tough on Al-Qaeda, right?
Yeah, they'll be tough on Al-Qaeda.
Phew.
My, whatever.
This is just, I don't know.
You disagree with me on this, Mr. Sterdley?
The look on your face is somewhat dubious.
Well, I like Michelle Obama.
I'm not this critical of Michelle Obama.
I just think it's, I just, you know, let me tell you something.
Let's get to the general.
Take your pick of any Republican nominee.
Rudy, Fred Thompson.
Is it going to be their wives have to go out and attack Hillary?
Well, it better not be is my point, too.
On the Democrat side, of course, that's what's happening.
On to audio soundbite number seven, drive-bys beside themselves that Bush has beaten the Democrats and extended the war into what they think is Hillary's term.
He has a brilliant list last night, brilliant about this last night, talking about how his successor is going to have very much responsibility here in seeing this policy through.
U.S. troops will be in Iraq for a long time, certainly when the next U.S. president takes office.
That is quite an inheritance for the next president.
President Bush set the clock to be on 2009 as he passed the Iraq war to the next occupant of the Oval Office.
The president wants to pass this off to his successor.
It appeared he said he wanted to draw out this war into the next presidency.
When the next president of the United States puts his or her hand on the Bible and takes the oath of office, there'll be 100,000 American troops in Iraq.
It's being passed on to the next president.
So essentially, he has won Tim, hasn't he?
But you know what?
What is it that undergirds these observations by these brilliant drive-bys?
See, to them, just as with the Democrats, the Iraq war is a Bush political issue.
It's not about national security.
It's not about protecting the country.
It's not about fighting al-Qaeda and the enemy.
It's no different a policy than if he were trying to reform Social Security.
But now all of a sudden, Bush isn't going to end this politics when he leaves office.
They can't get it through their heads that this is a genuine war with U.S. security at stake.
And I remember Mrs. Clinton said she would be very upset if this war were not settled by the time she took office.
That's the paraphrase, but she said this within the past six months.
They expect Bush to get this off the table for them.
They don't want to inherit this because they're not, they ain't going to lose it, folks, not with themselves in charge.
Now, as you know, the Democrat version of compromise is Republicans give up.
But the liberals don't like it when it works the other way around.
Bush skunked them and it kills them.
Last night on hardball with Chris Matthews, he said, did Bush give you any indication how many troops he would use to support the commitment as he described to you today?
No.
But, Chris, to give you a sense of his mindset, when he is asked to talk about common ground, I want to find common ground with the Democrats in Congress and asked what that means.
The response is accepting the betrayalist report.
That's a common ground.
That's how he views this.
Wow.
They think he's deranged.
There are two different worldviews here.
Yeah, common ground is accepting a report.
Wow.
That's common ground.
Right?
Because they asked the report.
They asked for the report.
They demanded the damn report, folks.
The Democrats in Congress demanded the damn report.
Started a shout.
Just didn't say what they hoped it would say.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, I want to remind every one of you, including you Democrats, when the president announced the war on terror, he said it would go beyond his presidency.
And wouldn't it be wise for you, Democrats, to be looking at inheriting this war as an opportunity rather than an albatross around your neck?
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