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Nov. 16, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 16, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the bountyful fruited plain, Rush Limbaugh on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
Great to have you with us, ladies and gentlemen.
The fastest three hours in media.
We are at number two.
And you know the drill on Friday when we go to the phones, the program is yours.
The one day of the week where I don't care whether you're talking about something that interests me or not.
The one day of the week that I will fake it if I have no interest what you were saying.
Monday through Thursday, it has to be what I care about or it doesn't get discussed.
Being the benevolent dictator that I am.
I give you the opportunity.
Say whatever you want on Friday.
Telephone number 800 282-2882, email address rush at EIBNet.com.
I asked Snerdley during the break here.
I've been kind of stunned at how few calls on the Democrat debate uh well, I wasn't really stunned.
I didn't expect them, actually.
I wanted to confirm with him that we weren't getting that many, and we aren't.
It was it was no fireworks.
There was no car wreck last night.
Um it was it was not that exact first ten minutes was all you needed to watch, and the rest of it was uh slowdown time.
Um a programming note on Monday, doing something we've never done before, ladies and gentlemen, and that is simulcasting a portion of this program with a television program.
Martha McCallum's live disc.
Uh her program is in fact on right now.
She's going to be down here on Monday.
She's been asking me to be on her show.
Can't do it because we're on the same time.
So I came up with the idea of simulcasting a portion.
We're going to simulcast the uh second half hour of the second hour, 133 Eastern time, uh, on the Fox News channel on Monday afternoon.
Want to welcome to our microphones here.
We had to put in a microphone because we never have guests in the studio, but this is a rare and uh and valid exception.
Mark Levin is here.
Uh how are you doing, sir?
How are you, brother?
We got we got a new ditto cam over there, so that you are the primary focus of the uh Ditto Cam today.
Got a big canvas up here.
What are you uh What are you in town for?
I know you didn't come down here to appear on this show uh to talk about your book.
No, not in the least.
Uh course I did.
I'm also here for the uh Restoration Weekend, which is the conservative uh weekend, but uh fact of the matter is you invited me to come on your show, which I'm extremely uh thrilled about.
Well uh Did you see the debate last night?
I did.
You did?
Uh anything uh uh that you saw that I haven't commented on?
I did.
You have second rate candidates, second rate media, second rate audience.
It was uh it was pretty bad, I thought.
Yeah.
Of all places to try to get an audience, Las Vegas.
Yeah.
Who in Las Vegas would have go watch a bunch of dry ball Democrats debate?
All right, rescuing Sprite.
I told people about this book uh a little over a week ago, and you uh have been uh talking about it on your own program, of course.
You've guessed it on Sean's television show with uh with Combs.
Uh things that I I told people about this book were the uh the just the the indescribable devotion that you had to this dog to your pet and to your family, and how the passing of this dog and the way it happened uh caused uh a degree of pain in you that I've never seen you express about anything else.
Uh I've always wanted to ask you, since I and I was with you when you were writing this.
What was your reaction first off when you heard about the Michael Vick story?
Because that that came within such close proximity to your dog's death in your writing of this book.
I I was so disgusted because this guy has the whole world at his feet.
You know?
He's uh he's got all the money he wants.
He's a tremendous athlete, he's got uh tremendous fans.
And uh here he is uh not just gambling, but he is uh he is involved in funding and transporting and torturing and murdering dogs.
And as you know, uh I'm you know, I'm uh I'm a big dog lover.
You're a cat lover and a dog lover.
And uh I was absolutely stunned by this.
And first he lied about it, as as most criminals do.
Uh but the way and also the way in which they did this, you know, uh uh The way he tortured them, the way they were thrown to the ground, the way they were hung and electrocuted after they were they the they threw water on them and everything.
The thing is that the dogs are supposed to and do bring out the best in human beings.
They really do.
Anybody who owns a dog or has owned a dog, or a cat for that matter.
Well, I wouldn't say that you look like cats.
Well, your cat's like a dog.
On certain days.
Yeah.
But uh does your cat bark?
No.
All right.
But anyway, so the thing is, uh dogs dogs are really innocent, fun-loving, joyful creatures.
And I think God's give them gives them to us to help bring out the best in us.
And this guy uses his position to brutalize them and torture them and murder them.
I have nothing but contempt for him.
Uh by the way, I forgot uh stupid of me.
The the title of your book is Rescuing Sprite, a dog lover's story of joy and anguish.
And uh for those of you watching on the ditto cam, there it is.
Uh there the the the this book is selling so fast, folks, they're having trouble keeping it in the stores, but new supplies are even as we speak en route to bookstores around the country.
This has been a little bit of a frustrating thing, because you and I talked about this.
You know, it's a dog book, uh and you're a conservative writer, and that's what you're known as, a conservative thinker policy guy, and the publishers, eh, okay, well, we'll maybe print 30,000 of these and see what happens.
And I told you to tell them that they had no clue how big this was going to be.
So how many they printed now?
Well, you know, I think it was the retail outlets because they wanted to get them to them, but they uh we're on our eighth printing in nine days.
Yeah.
Three hundred and fifty thousand copies.
Congratulations.
And uh well, you know, let me I I gotta tell your audience something.
We're very, very close friends, and I was gone through hell, and uh and we instant message frequently, and uh the night I the day I had to put down Sprite, our family did, I was instant messaging Rush.
And um people need to know what a compassionate human being you are, and don't don't interrupt me and don't tell me don't.
What a compassionate human being you are.
They need to know that, you know, here I am talking to you, and we're two grown men, and I'm crushed, and I'm traumatized by the whole thing, and the advice you gave me, and and and you know, I was thinking about quitting this whole industry.
I was thinking about quitting my legal practice, quitting radio, the whole thing, because I told you at the time, what the hell am I doing?
Get behind the microphone and talk, or these legal cases.
There are doctors and nurses and veterinarians out there save and and shelter folks, you know, saving lives and helping people, and you said to me, Look, we all have our roles, and you reminded me of that vet that you met at the National Review, 50th anniversary.
You remember that?
The veteran, yeah.
And he said to you, we all have our roles, Russian.
He didn't have an arm and he didn't have an eye.
And uh and you also said to me, you you don't realize how many people you help, family, friends, strangers, and uh but you were just so compassionate and helpful.
And um and you also relayed to me the passing of uh of your cat and what happened over that weekend when uh when she had a uh stroke, as I recall.
Trevor Burrus Yeah.
I that that I I surprised me was I cried over the death of that little cat.
It's five years old.
You're right, essence of innocence.
And she had they had uh uh this one had such a great little personality.
And she was a fighter.
Sprite was a fighter, too.
That's that's the that's one of the things you mean when you say they bring out the best in us.
This little cat we were had to give her Valium one day just to keep her quiet.
She fought that.
Uh uh and I know that the the the Sprite fought it.
You know, the thing that I told you during all this is that you you need to find the positives.
You got a lot of joy, a lot of love, uh, a lot of enjoyment, and look at the life you gave the dog.
Tell them I I let me set it up.
You're you're you're you're you'd like to take rides in Virginia.
You like to drive around, you got a new house, the transition of the new house, even though you love the house was tough on your wife and kids.
Um and then all of a sudden out of nowhere.
Sprite comes into your life.
How'd that happen?
Well, my wife Kendall, my kids, Lauren and Chase, and uh as you you know them, and they were very persistent on bringing another dog into the family.
We have one already named Pepsi.
Yeah, you can see the pattern, all the soda dogs.
But anyway, uh I resisted it.
I objected to it because I didn't want to create a problem for our other dog.
But my wife insisted, and they found him on the internet, and he was a shelter dog, and we went over to Maryland, and we brought him home, and this dog, when I saw him, these pictures don't do him justice, was the most magnificent dog I'd ever seen.
And you know, I do my radio show when it's done broadcast live, and it ends at 8 p.m.
Eastern.
So the family's already eaten.
They're gone, you know, whatever they're doing.
So I eat dinner with my dogs, I talk to them, they bark at me.
We take long, long walks, I broadcast from my home.
The dogs sit with me.
If they're not barking at people out the back, every now and then you'll pick it up on the microphone.
So they're my buddies.
I am very, very close to them.
But I also want people to know that I had my own health problems, and Sprite had a number of health problems, and I think that his health problems, because he fought through them and so forth, and he was still teaching me lessons about life and so forth.
I had never come to grips with the heart attack I had had in 2000 and all the complications from that and so forth.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
What, in denial?
I just never I just never really probably.
You know, you compartmentalize these things so you can go on, and I'm watching this dog one debilitating illness after another, and he's happy, give him a treat, just bringing out the best in us.
And I also want your audience to know that when I had these complications with my heart after the bypass surgery, we were talking one day when you could hear, and and you said uh and and I said, I'm still having chest pains, and you said, Well, what the hell's wrong with you?
Go get them taken care of.
I said, Well, I need to go to the Cleveland Clinic, and I don't know if I can afford.
I don't know if my insurance covers the Cleveland Clinic.
And you said, the hell would the insurance, I'll pay for it.
Now, luckily the insurance covered it, but the fact the fact I I I want people to know this because you take such a bum rap, uh and you take a bum bum rap because you're at the point of the conservative movement.
You are Mr. Conservative today.
They view us all this way.
They view us all as hateful monsters, and they define compassion through government, through socialism, through appeasement.
And the fact of the matter is, that's not what compassion is.
Compassion is helping a friend, a family member, uh an another even a stranger.
It's not government and it's not liberalism.
Gotta take a quick time out.
Thank you very much.
I He came in here today saying, Don't make me cry.
You turn the tables on me.
We're back Welcome back, folks.
We are at Open Line Friday here on the EIB network, Rush Linbaugh at 800-282-2882.
Your phone calls are coming right up.
Final segment here with Mark Levin, who has uh written a book, Rescuing Sprite, a dog lover's story of joy and anguish.
I'm not I'm not talking about a whole lot of details in the book, because that's for you when you read it, and it's it's something to be experienced read, folks.
So I I don't I I'm uh it's it's I would love to, but I think this is something you really need to read.
But I do have a question or two, uh not just about the process that we went through writing it.
Um what is the reaction you're getting from people?
Uh are people surprised that a human being can get so attached to a dog to think about giving everything up because of the death of a dog.
Um that is a level of attachment to animals that I suspect a few people have, but most don't.
Turns out a lot do.
A lot do, and that's one of the points of the book.
It's not why I wrote it, but it's one of the things people can get out of it that people are crushed.
I mean, physically and emotionally crushed.
I became extremely depressed for about six, eight weeks.
I lost twenty pounds, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, because this dog was put to death on my say-so.
And you know, I didn't want to play God, as a matter of fact, the night before, and I don't pray a lot, I prayed to God and I begged him to take this dog.
I didn't want to make that decision, and We made the decision.
And I I just want people out there who who love dogs or cats or horses or whatever it is to know that they're not alone.
And that you said to me at the time the greater the joy, the worse the grief.
Because, you know, most of us are going to outlive our dogs and cats.
And uh we're going to have to face this.
And it was absolutely traumatic for me to make that decision.
And we'd never done that before.
Aaron Powell Well, that's one of the reasons why a lot of people don't invest in a let go fully in joy in anything, the fear that it's going to end and the pain that will result when it does.
You gave this dog and and the other one gave him everything that you had, it appears.
But I don't know that you realize how much you got back from them.
You've described it, but I don't think even now you realize how much you got.
This dog, Sprite, uh gave you a lot of joy.
This dog had a life he would not have had were it not for you.
Look what he's given you.
He's given you book, he's given you a therapeutic way to deal with his death.
He's uh is given you a a way to immortalize him and your relationship with him.
It's all good.
It's all good.
And you're you you talked about compassion.
Uh you may have hated doing it, but it was the compassionate thing to do to put him down.
You didn't want to.
Uh no, he's uh but the way I look at it through this book in him, uh I can I can tell people that if you're thinking in getting a dog, think about going to these shelters.
There are dogs there that just a day or two or three before had loving families, many of them have have lost these families.
Think about that.
You can do it online.
I've gone to a shelter once and I can't go back.
I love the people there, they're magnificent human beings.
But to see all these dogs and cats in these cages that at one point had loving families and every one of them has a story.
I went there with my son Chase once.
I looked, I said, I gotta get out of here.
Uh you can do it online, whatever.
But these are great dogs.
I'm not saying, look, I'm not a PETA guy.
I like a good well-done hamburger with ketchup on it, as a matter of fact.
But I'll have one.
But what I'm saying is, you can get them at a pet shop or whatever, but at least give these shelter dogs a thought.
They're millions of them, and they just need a home.
Uh you you had dogs growing up, right?
I did.
Why did the death maybe they did.
Uh but it seems to me the death of Sprite affected you far more than the death of any of the dogs that you've had previous.
Why?
It's true, because I never had to decide when, how, where.
And as I've gotten older, I spent a lot more.
You know, when you're a kid, you're running around, I had a thousand things to do.
Well, when I'm done my radio show, I don't have a thousand things to do.
And I spend a great deal of time with them.
And uh as well as my kids and my wife.
I don't run around all over the place.
I don't travel that much.
And these guys bring me peace.
They bring me peace emotionally and in every other way.
Uh you can trust them a hundred percent, they're loyal a hundred percent, and uh, as people say in the right, the love is unequivocal.
So that that's my little zone of comfort with them.
Uh what about the uh the notion that this degree of attachment to an animal means you're lacking an attachment elsewhere.
Somebody said that to you.
Have you had anybody asking my own?
No, but I think.
I think a lot of people when they read this are gonna be stunned, Mark, at the depth of love and devotion you had for the dog.
And some of them might wonder do you have the same for your family?
Absolutely.
I mean, there's enough to go around, and believe me, I do.
Uh but you know, dogs aren't hamsters, they're not fish.
I won't say birds because Snerdley's a bird guy, and he's right over my shoulder here.
But I'm just kidding you, snurdly.
Uh but they're, you know, dogs are dogs, and and uh I've I've often said I cannot imagine losing a child.
I just can't imagine the unbearable pain uh many of my f not many, but a handful of my friends lost their sons over in Iraq, and they call the show.
I cannot imagine getting through that in any kind of a sane way.
So, as you said to me at the time, you don't compare loss, you don't compare these things, it is what it is.
Aaron Ross Powell Right.
Well, I would uh uh congratulate you for this, because this is uh uh a lot of people wouldn't have had the uh courage to open up like this.
Uh and you you've done it, and you've when you open up like this, it's the greatest thing in the world you can do, but it does expose you uh for people who launch slingshots or either other kinds of attacks, but it's the fact of being open and leaving no doubt about who you are and the love you had for the dog uh that was therapeutic for you.
I want to thank you for the nice things you said about me.
Wow, didn't it didn't mean this to be about me?
You things usually do end up being about me, but I of course they didn't think this would be.
So um uh where are you going in?
I've got fifteen seconds.
You gotta have any book book signings tours anywhere?
No, we I have one more book sign, just two.
One in New Jersey at Bookend's uh When?
Uh Saturday, December one.
And the second one, five seconds.
We already had it.
Oh, this is one more.
This is it.
Okay.
Thanks for showing us.
Nice to see you.
A man, a living legend, a national treasure, a prophet, a general, all round good guy, a harmless lovable little fuzzball, Rushlin Ball and the EIB network.
Uh quick uh Sterley, what's the name of this this Hollywood movie that's out there that's got crews in it and Meryl Streep and uh what's her face?
Uh Redford.
Is that Lions and the Lions and Lambs and it's it's stiffing, right?
It it's bombing at the box office.
It's first, it's first dated two million.
I forgot to check the whole weekend, but it's bombing out.
And it's a it's an anti-Iraq war movie.
It's an anti-Bush administration movie.
And the uh the only reason I bring this up, you know, Drudge had a headline on it, I mean it may still be up there on his page, Hollywood nervous over next round of anti-war films.
Well, how can this be?
If 72% of the American people want us out of Iraq, if 72, 75% of the American people detest Bush and get us out of Iraq.
How come these movies aren't just grossing record box office?
See, the dirty little secret is the Iraq sentiment in this country is not anti-war, and it is not pro-defeat.
It is pure and simple.
Win and do it efficiently and get it over with.
We're the United States of America.
People want us to act that way.
These clowns out in Hollywood start making these movies uh and and uh anti-war movies, and they get stunned.
They're stunned that the country doesn't see things the way they do.
They're convinced because they listen to the drive-by's, they listen to Dingy Harry, all the Democrats talking about how Bush is hated, Cheney's hated, Rumsfeld's hated, Rice is hated, the uh war, people want us out of there, and they're stunned that nobody goes to their movies.
Uh and other worried about the next round of anti-war films.
Now the the actors, they couldn't care less unless they're percentage players on this, then of course they're getting hurt, but most of them will take their money up front.
They couldn't care less.
Uh all they do is they they run around to cocktail parties and whatever other entertainment bashes there are, and they get accolades for appearing.
Hey, Tom, wait a take it to Bush.
And you know, crews are running around.
Nobody saw his movie, but he's feeling really hot about himself.
Same thing with Merrill Street.
Hey, Merrill, that was really that was brilliant to wait.
Oh, that was such a great nobody saw it, but uh they get praise for doing it.
It's just the people financing these things that uh that take the bath, and even they probably don't mind because they're getting accolades for trying.
And it'll go out and they'll make a G movie or something that'll gross big and cover the loss on their anti-war movies.
It's the funniest thing to do.
PG or G movies that gross huge, you would think that that would give them a message.
It doesn't.
They just use those things to cover losses on their little political escapades like uh like this.
The State Department, ladies and gentlemen, dropping plans to force diplomats to serve in Iraq because volunteers have filled all 48 vacant positions at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and in outlying provinces.
This according to the AP, uh State Department will announce it no longer needs to move to directed assignments for Iraq once personnel panels give a formal okay to foreign service officers who signed up for the remaining three open jobs.
Uh U.S. officials said yesterday.
The announcement it says here will be a major relief for Secretary of State Rice and the Department of Senior Management, they had struggled to quell a revolt among diplomats who questioned the ethics of ordering unarmed civilians into a war zone under penalty of dismissal now I remember one of these diplomats well what about what about our children what happens to our children
have you ever heard of the troops?
have you ever heard well yeah but they volunteer that's right they volunteer and people like you are the one besmirching them and impugning them and I don't hear any compassion for their families and for them what about their children?
I don't hear any compassion all I hear is about their bush puppets or this or that or they're engaged in a mission that's unjust and so forth but the real thing about this I guess they did get the volunteers that's what the news story says.
However, ladies and gentlemen I am not going to let this point go.
These people are the ones who tell us that wall is never the answer never the answer.
Wall never the diplomacy you watched the Democrat debate last night the last one in Philadelphia the overwhelmingly used word other than Bush is diplomacy.
Diplomacy diplomacy diplomacy we're gonna be good better diplomats better diplomats diplomacy is a way to stop war diplomacy is a way to prevent war both statements are false and these people in the State Department if they are such huge believers in the concept of diplomacy shouldn't they welcome an opportunity to go to Baghdad to the U.S. Embassy and show us how kind words to Muki Al-Sadr and the remaining lingering uh shreds
of al-Qaeda over there will respond to nice words such a golden opportunity for these people to show us how diplomacy works and what do they do in the children you can't warn diplomats in war zones before we've had diplomats in capitals at um at any rate back to the phones.
I know it's overline Friday trying to take more phone calls than we usually do.
Kevin in Largo, Florida nice to have you sir glad you waited um yes sir it's such an honor to speak to you sir thank you thank you very much yes sir the this question I have two questions this question is for um for uh Hillary Clinton and um for actually for Dirty Harry and for Dick Durbin and Schumer and and for uh Grandpa Munster and the rest of them all right there um I want to know what when the French president comes here and says that we're a great nation of people and
that that our grandfathers and fathers went over to France and we liberated we liberated those people from murders and rapists and stuff like that and we saved those people and that our those families would give up their children to save those people and the Democrats can't admit that they can't say that we're a great nation of people they say that we lost our standing in the world.
That's one thing and the second thing is that the the that Bob Dole and them have have had the VA bill ready to go for four or five months now and Harry Reid is holding the money for the veterans he's holding it hostage so they can attach it to another bill.
Now the Democrats can't go shake hands at at Walter Reed one day last year and say that they care about the veterans like that.
They talk about Iraqi veterans now I'm a veteran from Beirut and okay they don't care about veterans from Beirut.
They don't care about Vietnam veterans I have Vietnam friends that I go down here to Bay Pines with that are dying underneath the bridge down here that nobody cares about.
They don't care about them they don't care about anything they won't even fund they won't fund the the Iraq Iraqi veterans now that are over there fighting.
They won't admit that they're doing a good job they won't admit that they that they beat al Qaeda and run them out of of Iraq over there.
They can't even say that they did a good job.
The Democrats are disgusting they can't last night in the debate they couldn't even admit that that the that national security comes above the civil rights of people over there that want to kill us I am disgusted with these Democrats you know that is that is a you've loaded me up here with a lot to say I had to say it No no no that's a good term here under EIB network loaded me up.
Yes sir that's that's a that's a great great term your your comment about Sarkozy and his his guy has has spoken more accurately and positively about America American exceptionalism than most of the politicians in this country not just the Democrats pardon me?
It wasn't even mentioned in the news hardly of course not well well we are the news, and we mentioned it here.
We played the audio sound bites.
But the second you you made a you you've reminded me of something I I saw the debate last night and I forgot it, and that is these guys, these Democrats were asked a question what's more important, the civil rights of terrorists uh uh or victory.
Was that was it was that the was that the question?
That's exactly it, sir.
And they all said civil rights Richardson that that stood up and said that he was more worried about civil rights or of other people than he was about the national security.
Now, uh uh when you take an oath, you take an oath to defend the United States of America.
You're not w you know, civil rights are important.
I'm not taking that away from anybody, but you do you defend the the Constitution of the United States and the people of the United States.
Our sovereignty is more important than anything in the world.
I'm a veteran, and the people that have fought before us, our grandfathers fought for what we have now.
Now, these people that come into our country, they are illegal aliens.
There's nothing wrong with people coming into our country the right way, the way that that most immigrants come in.
But because thirty million people came in here illegally doesn't make it right.
You don't say that 30 million people did because it's the right member when all our life they said, well, if everybody else is jumping off a bridge, you can jump off a bridge.
Are you gonna do it?
No.
You know what they do?
You send them all back out of the country and you come back in the legal way that everybody came in.
I'm tired of all the way the Democrats do.
They pander.
That Hillary Clinton, she did exactly, she just changes her mind and she lies.
She's a liar, like she's a liar.
There's no other way to put it.
She's a liar.
And she should not be president of the United States.
If she can be president, anybody off the street can be president.
Let me ask you a question, Kevin.
Yes, sir.
Uh as a veteran.
Yes, sir.
As a veteran, are these attitudes that you have shared with me today and us, these attitudes about Democrats relatively new, or uh have you have have you have you spotted this behavior in them over a period of years?
I'll tell you one thing.
Through the veterans' hospitals, they are all veterans.
Not I'm not going to say all because that would be a wrong statement, but I'm just gonna say uh I'll just use the way they use the polls.
I'll just make up my own polls like they do.
That's the way CNN and MSNBC make them.
They just go down in the front office and ask their own people and go, oh, well, I made up a poll, you know.
And I I'll say, but you know, mine are more factual because I'm with the veterans out there that are uh are actually doing it.
Uh I'll say that 99% of the veterans stick with the Republicans because on that one issue, a Republican will take care of the veterans that are fighting for this country.
They care about the ones.
They don't just go shake their hand at the thing.
If you're not going to fund me when I'm fighting for your country, what do you care for me?
And then when I get out, you're not going to take care of me.
You don't care about me, man.
That's another excellent point, because Denji Harry and the Democrats.
He's the dirtiest of them all.
He's the dirtiest rotten one of them all.
How a great city or or state like Nevada can elect a dirty person like him.
After what he tried how he tried to disgrace you by turning words around was despicable.
I mean, that was ridiculous.
What do you think of Nancy Pelosi?
She is the dirtiest of the dirty.
They ought to get married and have a dirty baby.
Snurdly standing up, giving you a standing O in there on the other side of the table.
I wanted to always have my own talk show, but I mean they'd have me off the air in a day.
Uh depends on where.
Yes, sir.
Depend Kevin, look, I I I can't thank you enough for calling.
You have been.
And thank you, sir.
You've been great.
And please don't stop.
Please don't stop.
Don't let her be president.
She is the next coming of the antichrist.
Please don't let Hillary Clinton be president.
We got it handled.
Thank you, sir.
Got it handled.
Thank you.
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Here's a story.
This is an example of exactly the kind of thing our last caller, Kevin, was just talking about Congress likely will now hold off on sending President Bush money for Iraq until early next year.
This pushes the Pentagon to the brink of an accounting nightmare and deepening Democrats' conflict with the White House on the war.
I think Gates said they got enough money in the Pentagon for a couple of weeks to uh to fund the war.
And Dirty Harry, Dingy Harry is basically saying, Look, we give you guys four hundred plus billion dollars a year.
Get what you need for Iraq out of there, and no more supplementals until Bush starts bringing the troops home.
Uh the details of this are these.
Democrats say the tough approach is needed.
Dingy Harry, I'm sorry, this is Pelosi said.
Everybody knows that the president's stuck at his place, a place where he wants a 10-year war.
The Senate planned to vote as early as today on the measure, although it was not expected to pass.
The bottom line to all this is, and I know there's some competing theories out there.
One of the one of the theories is that the Democrats are just doing all of this.
This posturing and positioning, all these resolutions to get us out of a rock, just to get through February, just to get all the money they can from Moveon.org and all the money they can from all these wacko Democrat 527 groups.
And then at some point next spring, the Democrats will all of a sudden turn pro-America as the general election heats up, and Mrs. Clinton's a nominee and heading into it.
And there's some pretty smart people who have this theory that this is all just fundraising right now, uh, and that it's all uh a little bit of protection, too, because the moveon.org types are threatening uh Democrats, senators who are up for election next year, and uh House members who are up next year, they all are, uh, that if they don't do the right thing on this, they're gonna find candidates to oppose them in the primaries, they're gonna beat them, they're gonna run a lot of money against you're gonna beat.
If you're not sufficiently pro-war, anti-war, we're gonna do this to you.
So there's little fear that uh uh they'll pull it off.
So the Democrats are continuing to try to provide obstacles, but look at the damage they're doing to themselves.
The thing this is not happening in a vacuum.
And I uh I I am not uncomfortable saying this.
The people of this country do not want to lose the war.
And I don't know how widespread the coverage here of these Democrat tactics is going to get in the drive-by media.
I hope it's sufficient because I think the drive-bys are the same mindset, same mindset as Dingy Harry.
This is all about defeating Bush.
It's all about whacking Bush.
They got so much Bush derangement syndrome, and they don't understand the people of this country don't want their position.
They don't want the military defunded.
They don't want the military humiliated, impugned, particularly when we're on the verge of victory.
Now, we don't know how many Americans know about that, because the news in the drive-by broadcasts has gone relatively silent and dormant on the whole subject of Iraq.
Uh, because we're winning and the surge is working.
Uh the the Senate, but it didn't, it didn't pass in the Senate.
They needed 60 is usual.
They got 53 votes.
There was a Republican measure to fund the war with no surrender terms, and that didn't pass either.
The Democrats killed that too.
That's the point.
The Democrats have killed every option uh to fund what is the president wants?
70 billion or something more for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's included in this too.
But the the smart people's theory that what this what this is eventually going to do a 180 the Democrats next spring, uh, after they've got all the money they need from move on and after they've satisfied these lunatic fringe kooks, that all of a sudden, once you get into a presidential race, uh they will become pro-victory and they will become pro-American.
Let them try.
They won't get away with that.
They do not have one nail in any mini plank of a foundation that will allow them to come back and stand on that platform.
They just don't have it.
They have gone too far investing in defeat.
They have gone too far trying to make sure the troops don't have what they need.
They have gone too far in personalizing this.
They have gone too far in making average Americans, heard Kevin, think that they are actually out to harm their own country.
If it means power accruing to them.
I'm telling you, this is being set up as a big backfire on them.
Illegal immigration is going to be a huge big backfire on them, as well as taxes.
Now, uh backfire if the Republicans have a candidate who can make all this stick.
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