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Nov. 14, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 14, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, my good friends, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Not only am I the man who runs America, you know it and I know it.
I am now the man who has changed America, and as far as liberals are concerned, I have ruined it.
I have ruined it for them.
Liberals loved it, ladies and gentlemen, back in the old days, prior to 1988, 1990.
When the Republicans had 135 geriatrics as members of the House of Representatives led by Bob Michael, and the Democrats and the Liberals loved it when Michael hell half the time didn't even show up, whatever the Democrats wanted, they got.
Sometimes Republicans weren't even let into committee meetings, no big deal, just go play golf.
It was cool.
There was no real opposition.
Whatever the left wanted, they got.
Those days are over.
And they still do not know how to deal with it.
You've heard this monologue many times on how the left had their media monopoly and they had monopolies on many other things and politics.
Those monopolies have been busted.
They now have to work for what they want, and they hate that.
They despise it.
They have power as a birthright.
They shouldn't have to fight for it.
They shouldn't have to convince you to vote for them.
It should just happen, and it doesn't any longer.
This most recent manifestation I am holding in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
It is a story from Variety.
And it's uh it's by Brian Lowry, and the headline of the story, Strike Fight Rages On in a Bubble.
This is about the Writers' Strike, the Writers Guild of America, the Hollywood Writers Strike.
Last time there was one of these was 1988, and it was long.
But it eventually got settled.
I'm not going to read the whole piece to you.
Let me read to you just a couple of relevant paragraphs.
Amid the emotion surrounding the writer's strike has been vitriol from some scribes toward any news outlet failing to echo their position.
A blame the messenger attitude vented at coverage by variety, among others.
See, right here is the truth.
These scribes are upset that news outlets are not just following along against management, promoting the labor side of an issue like they always used to.
Scanning the message board and blogs uncovers all manner of allegations about kowtowing to corporate interests.
In this way, strike rhetoric is oddly mirroring modern politics, where partisans now filter straight ahead reporting through an us versus them prism, seeking out accounts that buttress their views, while shunning those that might challenge them.
This represents a relatively recent dynamic fueled by the Rush Limbaugh era.
Of talk radio, the Rush Limbaugh era of cable news, the Rush Limbaugh era of the internet, which barely existed during the last strike in 1988.
That happens to be the year this program debuted.
It is an especially poisonous environment, the Rush Limbaugh era, when applied to this writer's strike fracas, since talent and the studios must eventually reunite once the saber rattling and the marching ends, whereas political combatants, or at least their public mouthpieces, are now locked in a state of perpetual warfare.
The better to spice up the give and take on a Hannity and Colms type program.
In political extremes, both sides eagerly play the victim with conservative talk hosts and liberal bloggers self-servingly encouraging hostility toward mainstream media, while promising in the same way some websites are pandering to disgruntled writers, the real story the corrupt old traditional media won't provide.
The rest of this is sort of hard to decipher.
The whole premise here is uh I must admit, uh uh at first when I saw it, this is absolutely nuts.
They're blaming me for it.
And then I got to thinking, you know what, this they may have a point here.
As I was just saying, in 1988 and prior years, the left got whatever they wanted.
There was no opposition.
I mean, that was opposition and that they didn't get everything they wanted, but I mean it was it was pretty much rubber stamped.
What they wanted to do, the the the the what they the way the media covered things was never challenged.
What the media covered was never challenged, what they didn't cover was never challenged.
Now all those days are gone, and the left doesn't know how to deal with it.
That's the reason for the anger in this country, and that's the reason for the partisanship.
The anger and the partisanships, not us.
We're just equal time.
We're just showing a different way.
We're just highlighting different news.
We're quoting people the drive bys won't quote.
We're actually telling you what liberals say.
We play sound bites where you actually hear them say it.
In the old days, amnesty would have happened.
In the old days, the Wet Dream Act would have happened.
In the old days, Spitzer would have got his driver's licenses for illegals.
That's why they're mad.
They're not getting what they want.
There is opposition.
And so there has to be somebody to blame for this.
It can't be them.
It can't be that their ideas stink.
It can't be that their ideas are unattractive.
It can't be that nobody wants what they want done.
Can't be that.
Their arrogance and elitism will not permit them to accept the fact that their ideas are no good.
There has to be somebody to blame.
And who is it?
It's always me.
It is always me.
And so, in fact, there's a straight didn't bother printing this out.
There's a climatologist scientist out at uh University of Arizona, who I highlighted.
He's written a book.
He's he's a uh he's somebody that doesn't go along with the uh the consensus of science.
And the Arizona newspapers castigating this guy simply because I highlighted his work and spread his work beyond the university and academic arena in which he worked.
Once again, I am to blame.
So the way this works here, reason I am to blame for the writer's strike is that because I have created the Rush Limbaugh era has created this perpetual argument that never gets solved.
This constant bickering and partisanship, which never ends, and it's infected both sides, and so essentially what we have here is an argument over the issues in the writer's strike.
And they see no end to this because the fight is what it's all about now, not the solution.
There is a solution to all of this.
If you people on the left will just realize how wrong you are and give up.
But by the same token, we talk about principles and compromise.
Well, when they talk about compromise, they conveniently leave out principle.
Come on, you have to compromise, you have to be they always say that to us.
Now we're saying it to them.
And if you won't compromise, we're gonna beat you.
After all, that's what they're trying to do to us.
They're trying to beat us, they're trying to ruin us, they're trying to impugn us.
But in the old days, we just gave up.
We didn't mount much of a fight because we didn't have the numbers, we didn't have the power.
Now we have a few more numbers, a little bit more power, and we're not compromising on our print.
Well, some of us aren't.
And it just boils them mad.
They're just enraged, and then they come out with this kind of stuff.
Limbaugh, responsible for the writer's strike.
Uh may have a point.
There may be some of this, not specifically about the writer's strike, but uh the the fact that um the limbaugh era of talk radio, cable news, and the internet ha has presented an entirely new paradigm for the left to have to work in.
Mr. Snerdley just asked me over the IFB, is there anybody upset over this writer's strike?
It's an interesting question.
I don't well, I don't yeah, the picket line marches are going on, but I don't see the public marching outside David Letterman studio demanding fresh shows.
Uh I don't I don't see people marching outside wherever they do the st the John Stewart show demanding fresh shows.
Uh I don't see anybody demanding fresh episodes of uh the the stuff that runs at night in prime time.
Now some of that stuff's not gone into reruns yet.
Uh, but the timing for the writers couldn't be worse because all the popular series like uh Gray's Anatomy, uh Prison Break House, uh, they're doing part of the season in the fall and quitting for the holidays, resuming the rest in February with no breaks till the end of the season in May.
And so reruns were scheduled anyway.
A lot of people, on the other hand, this is not going to please the writers, but a lot of people on the other hand said, hey, if the writers are going on strike, that means the crud is not going to be on the air, and we might have an opportunity for some better stuff somewhere down the line.
Liz Smith, even raised my point last Sunday in the New York Post.
Wait a minute, how come Letterman and Lennonese guys can't write their own stuff?
Why can't they go on and do their own?
These are talk shows.
Why can't they just go if you can't hire somebody who can talk without a bunch of writers?
There are no writers here at the EIB network.
What I've just said to you has not been written, other than what I read from the non-striking writer at Variety.
We have um uh the CBS news uh division writers are threatening to go on strike, too.
And what's gonna happen to the reporters?
They're gonna realize writers.
I love by the way, the writers of the heart and soul of things.
I'm I I actually uh have a great deal of respect for them.
Uh but in like a in a movie, this the series television show.
But talk shows, that's a different thing.
Needing, you know, 15,000 writers.
Uh to do a half-hour or an hour talk show.
We do three hours a day here with uh with no writers.
Yeah, we have no producer here either.
At any rate, ladies and gentlemen, I single-handedly now have upset the equilibrium that the liberals used to have, and they're striking out and blaming me.
It's gotten to the point now I am responsible for the friction between the screen writers, the writers' guild of America, and the producers in Hollywood.
Back in a moment.
It's the era of Rush Limbaugh.
And this is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Of course, our first issue of the Limbaugh Letter, back when we published on just plain old paper, right up there at Senate at the top of the masthead.
The era of limbaugh.
The drive-by's have just now caught up.
800-282-2882, if you wanted to be on the program yesterday, I made a prediction to you that the debate with the Democrats tomorrow night uh would have something happen between now and then to distract people from the two weeks slow bleed of Mrs. Clinton.
And of course, we got that.
When New York Governor Elliott Spitzer withdrew his plan for driver's licenses for illegals.
Then we got the note that uh uh the Clinton campaign was warning Wolf Blitzer not to do a russet.
Uh and pile on with personal attack questions, quote unquote, to Mrs. Clinton.
And we started talking about various things that might happen on the debate tomorrow night, and lo and behold, one of the things we talked about was Mrs. Clinton has got to have a Baffo performance.
If she has a baffle gangbang performance, then it will erase the slow bleed of the past two weeks.
And right on cue, dutifully, here's the drive-by media.
Russell Berman, reporting for some newspaper called The Sun.
Don't know what Sun, but it's the sun.
Clinton now under pressure to bounce back against foes.
The pressure will be on Senator Clinton at the Democrat presidential debate tomorrow as she tries to bounce back from a weak that's the New York Sun, a weak performance last month that is cut into her lead in the polls.
She also sent out a missive asking for a million dollars to be raised prior to the debate.
So this story uh is is sort of like an acknowledgement here that she's got to do well.
This sets up the possibility that she might.
I have no doubt that CNN is gonna do whatever they can to help her rebound.
I have no doubt.
If you're if you're expecting a a Russert type performance in the debate tomorrow night, I wouldn't look for it.
We're still gonna watch.
We're gonna watch and uh we're going to see.
Meanwhile, back to Governor Spitzer.
This also from the New York Sun, Joseph Goldstein, New Yorkers going Christmas shopping online at Amazon.com, will find an 8.375% surprise at the virtual cash register, courtesy of Governor Spitzer, who's moving aggressively to collect internet sales taxes that have gone widely unenforced.
Under a new policy, major electronic retailers such as Amazon will be required to collect sales tax on all purchases from New York.
The policies based on a novel legal theory could hasten the end of the Internet's era as a duty free marketplace.
If other stuff what do you mean?
I buy stuff on the internet, I pay taxes on it.
Largely duty free.
What am I missing?
I must be going to the wrong sites.
Anyway, it's just like the driver's license idea.
This is one that's going to trickle down to all of us if New York gets this done.
Taxes and immigration, the two issues that will vault the Republicans to victory next year.
Taxes, immigration, Democrats on the wrong side of both.
New York leaders are wrong on both.
This is exactly how individual states went after taxes on cigarettes.
It was an old law dragged up, if I remember correctly, um by some representative and and spread in New York and Michigan, then on to all, and and now the way to fund health care.
The attorney general's subpoenaed vendors'records.
Vendors are required to report cigarette sales to anybody other than a distributor to the state agency.
The AG office, they obtain credit card info via the vendor records and send out their threatening tax letters.
I'm not aware of any prosecution and so forth.
Doesn't matter.
Having pledged not to raise taxes, Spitzer is increasingly scrounging for ways to close his budget deficit next year.
Why don't you cut spending?
Ever all these states with all these out of the world budget deficits finally struggled away, find ways to uh cut spending.
The one thing they never think of.
State officials estimate this latest initiative, which goes into effect in December for Christmas sales will bring in about a hundred million dollars more every year.
A split between state and local government tax revenue statewide, the sales taxes average about eight percent, although in New York City it's eight point three seven five percent.
Uh the memorandum outlining the state's position says that it is intended to clarify current policy and does not reflect any change.
No, of course not.
Just going to clarify current policy, which is already murky.
Binghamton, New York.
Richard, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes.
Uh thank you, Rush.
This uh driver's license thing is definitely uh not dead.
Not by a long shot.
Not New York State has about 18 million residents.
Now I happen to live in a population island of about me, if you really stretch it at a quarter of a million.
The the entire upstate area is dotted with Gannett owned newspapers.
And they they own about a hundred newspapers.
Uh most of your listeners would probably recognize that wonderful name uh USA Today.
But uh lucky us we got one of those here.
And the headline in the paper today was Spitzer to drop license policy.
Well, the second he came up with that in late September, the polls came out, and Elliot the Aragon has been ignoring them for a long time.
Now, the Gannett organization is liberal, which I've always considered to be an acronym, meaning lazy intellectual debuggers evading reality and always lying shamelessly, but the article quoted him, and here's the quote.
You don't need to read the polls to understand that this is an issue that has touched a nerve.
And so we're attempting to address this in a thoughtful, modulated way.
And then we'll see where we go.
So obviously it's going on to the back burner.
But he also spoke with a New York congressional delegation.
Nobody knows what he said.
The national news is reporting, hey, this is dead.
I don't think so.
I I I think this was just a trial balloon for the old Statue of Liberty play.
You know, that what you're really seeing is a backdoor attempt to do uh an immigration reform act, uh, otherwise known as uh uh an illegal voter registration act.
And it's gonna come back.
And I I I Well, he said so.
I I I mentioned this in the uh first hour.
We had An audio soundbite of him saying it.
The issue does not disappear.
The issue will not be gone tomorrow or next week in the absence of federal legislation.
We know it's not going away.
Just like when the big comprehensive amnesty bill went down the tubes, they came back a short time later with a new piece of legislation called the Dream Act.
And it was just a you know a smaller portion of the whole comprehensive bill.
Uh the universal health care.
They haven't given up on that.
The liberals don't give up on anything.
They just find new ways to get it done without people who oppose it knowing.
They are sneaky.
Their motto, how can we fool them today?
Of course, this is not going away.
This is why you can't ever give up in fighting these people.
We'll be back.
Brief time out now, folks.
A man, a living legend, a national treasure, a prophet, author of the era of limbo.
Here's the story on uh the uh the global warming skeptic.
This is uh more evidence of my power.
More and by the way, I hate talking this way.
You got to be understand this.
This is I'm a very humble person.
My power.
I don't even think of my power.
I don't come in here consciously wielding it.
I don't ever consider it to exist.
I just do what I love.
But these clowns in the media, I'm responsible for the atmosphere poisoning the writer's strike.
I'm responsible for the libs not getting what they want.
Responsible for the driver's license thing in New York going down the tubes, amnesty going down the tubes.
I'm responsible for all these liberal failures in that sense.
I am proud.
Uh flaming Hillary out.
You know, this is the second time we flamed Hillary out the first time.
Remember the pretty in pink press conference?
You folks may not remember this.
Some of you may.
It was back in 1993, and it was in the first six months of the year, and they were pushing health care.
And Ted Copel asked me to be on nightline one night during my television show, and I stayed in my studio and I appeared remotely while everybody else was in uh Iowa, I think, for like a town meeting version of Nightline.
Carver was there in Geneva Oberholzer, who was the editor of the Des Moines Register at the time.
And the subject came up about health care, and Ted asked me what I thought.
I said, Ted, my biggest problem here is these people are not telling us the truth about so many things prior to now, and they're being secretive about what's in the plan.
Why should we just accept what they say in it when there's evidence to suggest we should doubt what they say?
Bam.
That was a Tuesday.
The following Thursday or Friday, Mrs. Clinton is in a room in the White House in a pink pantsuit, sitting under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and she's positioned.
She is uh posing in the exact pose Lincoln is using or was using in that portrait.
And she's getting questions about the health care plan and about the uh the we we it was it was sponsored, it was spawned by uh what happened on nightline.
When I said that, by the way, the Carvills of the world just sort of they didn't requisite Limbaugh always talking about limb, limb stops all the drums out there, this sort of stuff.
But it's it clearly it sparked.
And so this this uh driver's license thing is a second thing.
This was a slow bleed for a week.
Two weeks.
Pardon me.
So now here from our buddies at newsbusters.org is the story of the Arizona Republic and the global warming skeptic out there that is now considered to be on the fringe.
Apparently, the Arizona Republic can't discuss the work of a global warming skeptic Robert Bowling of Arizona State without constantly pointing out that his peers think he's an idiot that has been bought off by industries.
The paper cannot write a story about Bowling's career without constantly suggesting that he's a fringe scientist and that he is criticized by those who imagine global warming is the biggest threat humanity faces today.
Even worse, the Arizona Republic seems aghast that Rush Limbaugh has quoted from the man's work.
Bowling 54 has spoken and written extensively against the widely held scientific view that the documented rise in global temperatures is the result of human activity, and that serious consequences will result.
Uh balling also informs the writer at the uh Corinne uh uh Pertill at the Arizona Republic uh that he believes, quote, even if humans are warming the planet by causing the buildup of greenhouse gases, the doomsday scenarios forecast by many climate scientists may never happen.
And of course, you dig your grave with the Arizona Republic when you say things like that, even more outrageous.
The Arizona Republic wrote Rush Limbaugh found his work of interest.
Talk show host Limbaugh began quoting the book.
Sales took off.
An invitation to address the directors of a coal company followed.
The nerve.
The Arizona Republic writer seems confused by our friend Mr. Bowling, because despite his notoriety as a hero of the skeptic crowd, his research and lifestyle contains some surprising contradictions.
The guy lives a totally green lifestyle.
You know, he's uh he's a registered independent.
But because he reads, I have read his work and I've promoted his work.
That makes him even worse.
According to the Arizona Republic.
Greg in Chicago.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Mega Green Bay Packer Ditto's from the blue state of Illinois Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you.
You mentioned the writer's strike earlier, and the only thing that matters in my heart about the writer's strike is will it affect the next season of 24?
And all of the same vein.
What is the status of half hour news hour?
Will it come back?
Uh I think the option on a half hour news hour has expired.
Oh.
I don't think it'll come back.
The uh the 24 has been suspended uh indefinitely.
Uh they have eight episodes in the can.
They got a late start this year.
Normally by this time, they've got close to ten episodes, not fully uh uh postproduced, but they've got they've got them filmed.
They haven't added the music uh, but but now they're at eight.
Uh and twenty-four is a series that runs consecutive weeks.
Right.
There are never any repeats, there are never any dark weeks, and so they can't start on uh their I think their date was January 13th this year, their uh debut date.
They can't start on January 13th because they're gonna have enough episodes to go.
Uh they'll start off normally, they start off with four episodes in two nights.
That would eat up half the inventory now.
Uh, and so it's uh they're not going to announce a schedule for 24 season seven until the writer's strike is over.
And uh by the Joel Cerno, who is the creator, head honcho of the program, thinks that this strike is going to go on a long, long time.
He says he's one of the reasons that there's this there's not a whole lot of sympathy for the writers because a lot of them are doing very well.
It's hard to have sympathy for somebody showing up at a picket line driving a Mercedes.
Right.
And he thinks that the producers are going to succeed in breaking the union here.
And he's he's been saying this publicly.
Uh and I, you know, they were they were distressed that the strike was happening.
They had finally gotten themselves on a roll after having a false couple starts with ideas, uh, and then uh then the strike happens and and uh so they're they're shut down.
Every every show is shut down.
I mean, the the the uh some shows are gonna be able to come back because they're not serialized.
You don't have to see the previous week to understand the current week uh and any following weeks.
But until strike's over and they start uh production again, nobody knows when the next season of 24 will air.
Oh well, yeah.
You know, you feel kind of you you feel kind of like I feel when football season's over.
Yeah, that's how I feel about it, too.
Especially my my my boys are doing great this year, so how is it that you're a Packer fan living in Chicago?
Because I just well, I can't say I shouldn't say despise Bear fans, but you know, uh it's a long story, bro.
Wait a minute, what's gonna get the stick at the Bear fans?
What's wrong with Bear Fest?
Chicago's a great sports town.
The fans show up and support losers all the time.
Look at the clubs.
They're great sports town.
That's exactly why you they keep from they keep supporting losing efforts year after year after year for year, and it's like, you know what?
Don't you guys understand?
As long as you support it, you'll never have a winner.
Supply and demand, free market, capitalism.
They, you know, as long as you're gonna fill the seats, who cares what they put out there?
That's why I'm a Packer fan.
That's amazing.
They dislike a team because of the fans.
The fans don't play the game.
You know, well Frank DeFord of Sports Illustrate a long, long time ago, back when NBC Televised AFC games during the day on Sunday.
I mean, I'm going back to the 80s.
Frank DeFord was a commentator on the uh on the Sunday NFL pregame show for NBC.
And I've never forgotten this.
He was talking about this concept of good sports town.
And he said, let's look at Chicago.
Great.
Everybody says it's a great sports town.
What makes it great?
The fans go out and they support losers all the time.
If your town had a laundry that wrecked your clothes every time you took them in, and you continue to wear the clothes, and we say your town's a great laundry town.
And I thought I just thought that was great analogy.
Anyway, I appreciate the call out there, Greg.
Packers are surprising a lot of people this year.
But I think I think, Greg, I think.
Are you still there by the way, bud?
Yes, I am.
I think uh uh the road to the Super Bowl in the NFC is gonna go through Dallas.
Absolutely.
I'm looking forward to November 29th.
Green Bay goes to Dallas, and that should be humdinger.
Speaking of speaking of which, November 29th.
I need to see something real quick.
That's right.
It's Thursday night.
All right, that game.
And uh the and December the 29th.
The Patriots at the New York Giants.
Those two games.
Keep a sharp eye here, folks, because those two games are on the NFL network.
They're not on Fox, CBS, or NBC.
They're on the NFL network.
And the NFL network is only in 35 million cable homes because the league is having an argument with cable companies over where to put the NFL network in the tier.
The NFL wants it basic.
The cable companies want to charge for it, and there is no movement in the era of limbaugh.
There is no movement between the cable companies and the NFL.
We might as well blame me for this.
The NFL and the cable companies cannot come to an agreement on the NFL network.
So if you have satellite, you've got it.
If you've got Direct TV, we're talking cable companies.
There are cables cable is wired, I think, in 125 million homes, and only 35 million of them have the NFL network.
Now the NFL thought they were pulling a you know a smart move here by taking games away starting on Thanksgiving night through the end of the season on Thursday and Saturday, taking games away from their network partners and putting them on their own network.
They thought that would force cable companies to uh uh accede to their financial demands and get the network up.
But the cable company say, look it.
You guys are nothing but NFL films reruns, except for these football games that you have at the last month of the season and uh the draft and this sort of stuff, and it's not worth what you want us to charge our subscribers for it.
And they're nobody's budging on this.
So you've got the Green Bay Packers at the Dallas Cowboys on a Thursday night.
Something's got to give here.
That's a game that every football fan in this country is going to want to see.
And then if the Patriots are undefeated going into the Giants for the last game of the season, which is only on the NFL network, keep a sharp eye on this, folks.
This is this is gonna be fun to watch to see how this breaks.
Uh and and uh and if it doesn't, who who gives a little bit?
Now the theory is here in the era of limbaugh, nobody will give, and the argument will go on and on and on for years and years and years on resolved.
Back in just a second.
I don't know what's gonna happen.
The NFL thing and the cable networks, it's basically I think it's Time Warner and Comcast that they're having the arguments on that.
No Comcast is one of them, I'm not sure the other, but uh.
You know, those games are not even offered, I don't think those games are even offered on local television in the markets of the two teams playing.
Uh yeah, so people in Green Bay and Dallas are not even gonna if they don't have it on cable, if if the cable company doesn't carry it, then they're uh SOL, uh, as we say in sports.
So I don't I I don't know what's gonna some somebody's gonna have to.
That's it's too big uh an opportunity, and I I would guess depends on who the fans blame.
If the fans are sufficiently informed to know that uh the NFL is withholding the game, not the cable company, then the NFL is gonna get pressure.
If the fans think the cable company are the villains, uh then they'll have to cave.
Something will work out in the era of limbaugh.
What ultimately is the best thing, genuinely, generally, there are exceptions, happens.
In the meantime, Tina in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hey, Russ, 24-7 football ditto.
Thank you very much.
Okay, my comments about the latest resolution in Iraq.
Harry Reid sounds really like a spoiled brat, saying that he is not gonna, you know, it's gonna be gonna be the last one this year.
They already know that the uh president's gonna veto it.
So what's his point?
Well, I'm gonna tell you what his point is.
Now I'm gonna tell you.
I'm gonna tell you exactly what it is.
Hang on here just a second.
Grab audio subbite number twenty.
We have Dingy Harry.
Uh yesterday you have a press conference on Capitol Hill, and a reporter said to him, Dingy Harry, do you have expectations that you'll be able to get sixty votes uh for this uh latest uh uh anti-war resolution of yours, and uh Dingy Harry says, I always have expectations to get sixty votes, and then added this.
I would hope that the Republicans have gotten the message American people have had enough of this war.
And we've got to bring our troops home.
Bringing our troops home will be good for our military, but it'll also be good for the American taxpayer.
We cannot afford this war.
Twelve billion dollars a month.
We just can't we can't continue.
I uh folks, this man has literally taken leave of his sentence.
We're not spending twelve billion a month on the war.
We're not spending one and a half trillion dollars on the war, like the Democrats are saying.
Uh, and here, Tina, the reason he wants out is cause we are winning.
Right.
The surge is working, and they can't withstand that politically.
There has never been uh uh uh well, this is hard to say.
I think there's been very clear illustrations of the Democrat position uh on prior occasions.
But but this shows how how invested in defeat that they are.
We have stability in Baghdad.
We have Al Qaeda has been run out of there except for thirteen percent of it.
We got Petraeus uh representatives gonna sit down with Muki Al-Sadr.
Uh other provinces uh it's all going great.
They the the word victory is starting to show up on certain people's lips.
And this scares Harry Reid all to hell.
Uh hit this is this is sabotaging victory, pure and simple.
Well, I have a soldier in Iraq who writes me, and and she honestly has commented people are telling them things, where people are.
I mean, they're sounding nothing but upbeat.
Well, and and this look it get this story.
This is uh this is from uh the blog at Time Magazine.
It's uh it's by Joe Klein.
Are we winning in Iraq?
Wait, no, he's worried.
Winning in Iraq.
In the drive-by media.
It's a blog, it's not the magazine.
It's Joe Klein, and yet the reduction of violence is real, he says.
Also obvious, there are fewer votes now in Congress and less cause to cut off funding for the war than there was last spring.
A renewed campaign on the part of the hapless Democrat leadership to cut off the supplemental funds will only increase the public's sense of Democrat futility.
It will also play into the very real and growing public perception that Democrats are too busy wasting time on symbolic measures like trying to cut off funds for the war and shoveling pork, the water projects bill, to pass anything substantive for the public good.
Too much time and political capital has been wasted fighting Bush legislatively on the war.
I'm sure the president and the Republican Party are salivating over the prospect that Democrats will waste more time and capital over it this month, especially in a moment, however fleeting when the situation on the ground seems to have improved in Iraq.
Democrats need to think this over very, very carefully before they proceed.
Joe Klein, Time magazine sounding a warning.
The drive this is the second Richard Benedetto at the Politico.com yesterday issued the first warning to the Democrats.
Don't do this again.
You're 40 and one.
You have failed for actually you're one in 40 on this.
You're not gonna win this one.
But I predicted this.
They have no way they can claim partial credit for the victory, folks, because they had us losing this two years ago.
There's another factor that's going on here in the NFL versus the cable companies on the NFL network, and that's the NFL Sunday ticket, which is only offered on satellite, and that that doesn't please the cable guys at all.
I think people are gonna blaming cable companies on this more than anybody else.
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