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Jan. 17, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 17, 2008, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, and this is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee yesterday continued to move to the right on immigration during the presidential campaign, signing a pledge to enforce immigration laws and to make all illegal aliens go home.
The uh pledge offered by Immigration Control Advocacy Group.
Hang on, folks, I had a belch here and I'm not going to do it in front of you.
The pledge offered by uh immigration can No, I had no, no, no.
I have I can tell by the facial expressions in there that you think that was planned.
That was not.
Shows I have manners.
The pledge offered by Immigration Control Advocacy Group Numbers USA commits Mr. Huckabee to oppose a new path to citizenship for current illegal aliens and to cut the number of illegal aliens already in the country through attrition by law enforcement, something that um Huckabee said that he will achieve through his nine-point immigration plan.
You know what?
This may work.
If Huckabee announces that the official meal of illegal immigrants is fried squirrel.
Make that mandatory.
So he he also he supported yesterday, well, a couple days ago, supported a federal ban on smoking.
And he flip-flopped on that, said no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that should be left up to the states.
And of course, we all know his immigration position was the exact opposite.
So now get them all out.
Uh the that's the uh the the new Huckabee um position.
Uh he has faced, as you know, some questions, uh, some of these questions, and yesterday's pledge, um, pardon me.
Yesterday's pledge, which is signed at a press conference uh with numbers USA executive director Roy Beck was an effort to provide answer because it is a major reversal from less than two months ago when Beck told the Washington Times that Huckabee was an absolute disaster on immigration during his time as governor.
Americans for better immigration, another group that Beck runs, has rated Huckabee's record as poor.
Uh as you know, Huckabee fought for tuition breaks for illegal alien college students.
He failed to complete uh an agreement to let state cops enforce federal immigration law and criticized enforcement efforts both at the federal and state level.
But Beck said yesterday that Huckabee has made a number of key promises going forward, including to not grant illegal aliens long-term legal status, to reject the guaranteed right of return for those who go home voluntarily under his nine-point plan, and uh to not increase green cards as a way of allowing them to come back more quickly.
I look, folks, we're just reporting the news here.
Uh, you make of this uh whatever you want.
Uh I don't think this is the kind of thing that um deserves any commentary or analysis from me.
How would you like it?
You're on a jet, you're on a commercial jet, and all of a sudden, it's time for the instructions to tell you what to do as a planes taxiing out for takeoff to your destination, and you hear this.
In a few minutes, I'm going to switch off the fasten your seatbelt sign.
However, I've learned lately that things can get awfully buffy, least expected.
So you might want to keep those seatbelts fast.
And in the event of an unexpected drop in poll numbers, this plane will be diverted to New Hampshire.
If you look out from the right, you'll see an America saddled with tax cuts for the wealthiest and a war without end.
If you look out from the left, you'll see an America with a strong middle class at home and a strong reputation in the world.
Once we've reached cruising altitude, we'll be offering in flight entertainment.
Once again, thank you for joining us at Hell Force One.
We know you have choices when you fly.
And so we are grateful that you chose to play with the most experienced candidate.
Hillary Clinton pretending to be a woman, a flight attendant yesterday on uh on board her campaign charter from I think it was Las Vegas to uh to Reno.
I'd tell you if you get on an airplane and you hear that, you're definitely not flying the friendly skies of ignited.
Quite the opposite.
Carl Rove, uh, yesterday in Washington spoke to the Republican National Committee's winter meeting on how to beat Hillary.
We have one, two, three sound bites of the first of three here.
Democrats, independents, and Republicans have real questions about his accomplishments as a first-term senator and whether he has the experience that equips him to be a commander in chief in a time of war.
He was elected the United States Senate three years ago.
He spent almost the entire time running for president.
He's not talking about Hillary there.
He's talking about Obama.
He's actually describing how to beat both of them.
Here's the second of three.
Senator Clinton.
She claims to fiscal responsibility.
She talks about the need to be fiscally responsible.
And yet, if you look at it, she's already proposed 800 million dollars in new spending, and the campaign is less than half over.
How can you claim to be fiscally responsible and want to increase the federal budget by 800 billion dollars in four short years?
And here's a C I told you so from Carl Rove.
Uh and he's by the way, he's made this point on this program before.
She's running against nobody, and nobody gets 40% of the vote.
The other five percent of the vote went for three other people.
Twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and twenty-four votes.
Went for the guy who believes in UFOs, the guy who dropped out, and the guy who last held public office somewhere around 1855.
That's a pretty remarkable testament to the deep concerns the Democrats have about Senator Clinton when she can't barely beat nobody else.
This is the Michigan primary, and there were no delegates awarded, so no other candidates campaign.
Mike Ravel was on the ballot, Dennis Kucinich is the UFO guy.
Uh, but that's a pretty good line.
He says run against nobody and gets 40% of the vote.
Now let's move on to Obama here for just a second.
Um in a Reno during an interview with the Reno Gazette Journal editorial board.
Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that you know Richard Nixon did not, and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.
He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it.
I think they felt like, you know, with all the excesses of the sixties and the seventies and you know, government had grown and grown, but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating.
And I think he tapped into what people were already feeling, which is we want clarity, we want optimism, we want you know a return to that sense of dynamism and and entrepreneurship that had been missing.
Holy smokes.
Now the Democrats out there using Reagan.
This is heresy.
Meanwhile, we got our guys trying to re relegate Reaganism era as over, and here's Obama, who's out there now appropriating certain aspects of Reagan as his own.
Uh this is now you might it it's it's heresy, but notice he's getting away with it on the Democrats.
Democrat side not going nuts over this.
Uh Clinton Inc.
might have something to say about it later, but he's not citing Reagan's specifics.
He's citing attitudes.
He's citing inspirational aspects of Reagan, entrepreneurship, this sort of thing.
Uh the excesses of the 60s and 70s.
Now that's purposeful, because whether you know it or not, Obama is running a generational campaign.
He's basically running against himself, the excesses of the baby boomers of the 60s and the 70s and the anti-war lift and all that.
He's trying to pass himself off as JFK in the sense it's time to pass a torch to a new generation.
But the Democrats invoking our guy here.
So this has inspired Pete Weiner, who uh is the editor of the contentions blog uh at the um uh uh uh the Commentary magazine.
Yeah, it uh the ethics and public policy crowd uh but it's it's the contentions blog at Norman Pedor's shop.
Uh and and he uh reacts to Obama and Reagan.
I just want to read a few excerpts here of what what Pete says.
Ronald Reagan attempted to limit the size of government, but his greatest legislative success was in cutting tax rates and changing how his party and much of the country viewed taxes.
Second, Reagan was a sharp critic of Nixon and Kissinger's detente policy.
He utterly now listen to this.
He utterly rejected the pessimism that believed that the key to American statecraft was to manage our decline.
That's exact the so brilliantly put, Pete.
That's exactly how you would say the Democrats' foreign policy is it's based on the fact we're declining, that we should decline, that we should no longer be the world's superpower, and we need competent Democrats and liberals to manage that decline.
And this is something else that Reagan rejected.
This is conservatism, American exceptionalism.
He believed in it.
Reagan believed the U.S. could go beyond containment and prevail against the Soviet Union.
This is a view that was met with utter condescension within the foreign policy establishment and those in the so-called realist camp.
In addition, Reagan made morality a centerpiece.
This is so crucial here.
Reagan made morality a centerpiece of American foreign policy and used explicitly moral language when talking about it.
For example, in suggesting the Soviet Union was the evil empire, and suggesting it would implode of its own immorality.
He was a relentless advocate for spreading democracy around the world.
And Reagan established the Republican Party as a pro-life party in a way it had never been before.
Those achievements were significant and lasting.
Reagan's influence in a Republican Party's hard to overstate.
He is to Republicans when FDR has been to Democrats, and you never hear the Democrats say the era of FDR is over.
Senator Obama's words about Reagan that you just heard, not only true, they are a reminder of what an intriguing political figure Reagan is.
In the midst of an intense Democrat primary battle, Obama had good words to say about President Reagan, a very popular figure with most Americans, while he succeeded in linking Nixon and Clinton in terms of their impact on our country, properly so.
But Obama's words also reflect on him.
So far, his campaign is largely about capturing a mood rather than about advocating a set of ideas.
And at the end of the day, changing the trajectory of America depends on the ideas and policies, not sentiment.
Reagan was an optimistic person, but that is not his lasting achievement.
And if Reagan's policies had failed rather than succeeded, his optimism would have looked badly misplaced and would now be used against him.
Barack Obama, who so far has shown himself to be an utterly orthodox liberal, as has Hillary Clinton, now has to take the next step and show that he is bold and creative in the realm of ideas and policies, which was a hallmark of Reagan.
So far, Obama has not done that, and that has been the glaring weakness in his otherwise impressive campaign.
He is, such a great way to put it, Obama's campaign is one of mood.
He's out there praising Reagan, but he's not adopting any policies or ideas that are similar.
Because he hasn't gotten the ideas other than, you know, orthodox liberalism on health care, taxes.
And not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrat candidates on any of these things.
That's right, Perot's back in a campaign.
He called Jonathan Older at Newsweek recently to uh be critical of Senator McCain.
Anyway, we are uh back.
You know, I just I I read excerpts of Pete um Weiner's piece at the contentions blog commentary magazine.
I tell you, uh Pete, you need to be writing for the New York Times.
Nufstead.
You just head and shoulders above the philosopher Kings uh appointed by the Libs to lead conservatives.
Anyway, here's Jason.
Jason's been holding on since last Friday from Terre Hodge, Indiana.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
All right.
Thank you, Rush.
You bet.
Hey, I I haven't uh been able to quit laughing ever since I saw Bill Clinton's little temper tantrum uh with that reporter.
It always makes me laugh because it's questions that everybody is asked, but he acts like they just asked if he hates somebody's baby or something.
No, it's not you.
I guess my question is, how in the world do the Clintons continue to be the media darlings?
Even though they won't answer questions, they're uh they're abusive with like with Chris Wallace and different ones like that when the right questions aren't asked.
How do they get away with it?
Well, I tell you what.
Um I'm I I I think they still are the media darlings, and and the they've got a long way to go to not be, but they're losing some of the media.
I think I think some of the media is tired of of of I don't know, for lack of a better word, whoring for them.
Uh covering up for them and this sort of thing.
Um I I I I you know there's a there's a generational link between the Clintons and a lot of the drive-by's.
They are him and he is them.
Uh and and I it's it's they they just they have this attachment here that's very difficult to break.
And what you really saw yesterday when Clint was in Oakland standing there next to Ron Red Dellums, and he's being asked about this lawsuit that there's no question Clinton cronies fell this lawsuit to bust up the culinary caucuses in the casinos.
The Clintons are not used to getting those questions.
Look at what what happened when Tim Russert dared ask her about driver's licenses in New York for illegal aliens.
They are they are used to being covered, they're used to being uh not you know, not gaving tough questions like this, challenging questions.
Whenever it happens, you know, Clinton starts pointing a finger at him and and uh and comes in and don't you know who you're dealing with here, boy.
I don't know, I don't answer questions like that.
Nobody has uh guts to ask me questions like that.
Who are you?
Some local yoko from San Francisco.
You're not even a network guy, and I'm gonna see to it, you never will be.
You don't get away with asking me stuff like that.
That's what's in his mind as he is rambling through his answer on uh on this stuff.
Lou in uh in Valley, Washington.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush, I love you.
Hi, thank you.
And dittoes.
Thank you.
My husband laughs at me because I carry my little portable phone with Rush uh the radio with Rush on it all over the rooms.
Anyways, I talked I want to talk to you about your choice uh when the caller called and asked you if you would support i uh Hillary or McCain, or I feel like a Republican would be better than any Hillary or Bay.
That's not what you you didn't hear me.
I I said uh I said I've I've said this from the get-go.
If Hillary Clinton's a nominee, I'm supporting whoever the Republican nominee is of voting for him.
But but the caller didn't ask me that.
Caller asked me, don't you think McCain would be better than Hillary?
Yep.
And my answer was I don't think Hillary will be beaten.
That's that's the the the bottom line with with with that option.
You know, I the this is this is you know, and in in that in that matchup, we lose.
That that's what I am afraid of.
You know, you're wouldn't you rather have McCain and Hillary?
I don't think it's gonna be a contest.
Uh that's the whole point that I'm trying to convey here.
And fortunately, I'm out of time.
Uh back in just a second.
And this is just amazing, folks.
I I cannot.
I cannot get away from it.
I go to the I go to the email during the breaks.
I have North Carolina mistress dumping on me for not doing enough of that to this candidate.
I got other women.
You you you're just dumping on our own.
You can't, you just we have a saying in my house, we don't dump on our own.
And she's talking about another candidate.
I'm getting dumped on by everybody out here for what I'm doing on the program.
I'm not even going out with these people.
The only thing good about this is I'm getting them dumped on.
It's not going to cost me anything, but still.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just having fun with all this.
You gotta understand, folks, I love stereotypical humor.
When it doesn't cost me anything.
Mike in upstate New York, welcome.
Yes, I know.
I am so funny.
Uh upstate New York.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Just fine.
Thank you.
Good.
Love your show.
I just had a comment to make as far as uh the GOP candidates running against the way they're running their campaigns.
Um they're really running.
I mean, they're not not one of them is really breaking out.
And I think it's because Bush really kind of fuzzed the lines as far as what a conservative is and what a Republican is and what a Democrat is.
Um he ran as a compassion conservative.
And really, which is redundant, by the way, but he really never was any of it.
And so today they're having to compete against him, who really, I think, uh kind of clouded the wall.
It ain't gonna happen.
That that's it it isn't gonna happen.
Because that's going backwards.
You know, Bush is not on a ballot.
If there is an era that's ending, it's the Bush era, uh defined in his as his presidency.
Uh it's it's not gonna serve Republicans well to start dumping on Bush.
Well, no, not not really to dump on specifically in the in the in the most obvious way, but to really pinpoint his whole administration and the flaws he made where he really signed up with the Democrats.
And what you do is if you take sixteen years out of it from his last floor to the first board of the Claytons, that's gonna bring you closer to the Reagan era.
So you can really pick up the mantle from where Reagan left off to where the new GOP candidates are running today and say this is where we want to.
You mean run against the Bush record without mentioning Bush's name.
Well, yeah.
You mean you mean the the Republican candidates ought to run against helping uh letting Democrats help uh write education bills.
Exactly.
Yeah.
The only the only reason he won the second term, which is very close, by the way, was for the war on terror.
And he did a great job with that, but and we're winning.
And we are will we will win, or probably not by the end of the day.
Look at you know, you you guys uh you are tough.
You callers today, I have to tell you you are forcing me to emote and articulate things that I normally would hold back at this stage.
Now, I I don't think the Huck Huckabee tried it, and he caught hell for it by saying that the what did he say about Bush uh arrogant foreign policy.
You can't if if you're gonna do this, I understand what you're saying, uh uh uh but but you can't it's it's not gonna make sense for Republicans to do that.
I'm not saying they have to go out and sp and and specifically embrace Bush, but on some things they can.
Taxes, appointments to the Supreme Court, uh national security.
Here's the problem, folks, and I oh this is so hard for me to say.
It is just hard, and I I don't mean any of this personally, but I frankly believe that one of the reasons that we find ourselves uh in this current situation where all of us are looking at this roster of candidates and trying to pick the one that we like, dislike the least.
Uh I think it is a direct result that there has not been conservative leadership from the highest levels, either White House or the Republican Party, uh since the year 2000.
You know, it's compassionate conservatism, the Democrats write the education bill.
You know, this is really when you boil it all down here, we can really synthesize all these problems we're having.
One thing in leadership.
The American people will respond to it.
Republicans, conservatives will respond to it.
We're not getting leadership out of the Democrat Party, but whining and moaning and trying to make everybody just feel rotten and miserable.
On the Republican side, we're really not getting any leadership.
We're we're getting policy statements and reactions to the premises that have been set by Democrats, global warming, health care, this sort of stuff.
Uh it really it it just is it's just that simple.
And had there been and I when I say leadership, I'm talking about ideological.
Certainly Bush is led on the war on terror.
Don't misunderstand me, but I'm talking about ideological leadership.
That can you know most people are not self-starters.
They want to be led and they want somebody in the front of the movement who's gonna take them in the right direction for all the right reasons, and they'll do anything for them.
You got a leader that you respect, you'll go out of your way to get that leader's respect.
There just hasn't been that.
Uh and and so that's that's sort of a if you want to talk about a quagmire, it might be a uh halfway decent way to describe circumstances right now.
And all this can change uh on a moment well, on a moment's notice, but leadership can surface as a result of certain instances or events that take place.
But I really think it really boils down to nothing more complicated than that.
And uh uh when that's absent, look what happens.
You got all these people, you got off all these people going off the reservation in their own ways because there's no discipline.
There are no guardrails.
So you got this disparate bunch of people, Republican and Democrat alike, I mean that are just going like it's spokes in a wheel.
And we're not going anywhere.
The wheels are turning, but we're just doing 360s.
The way McCain steered his naval vessels.
Anthony in Royal Palm Beach, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey Rush, how are you doing?
Just fine caller.
Thank you, sir.
Little nervous.
Uh uh illegal immigration.
I don't think Huckabee or McCain get the uh idea here.
Uh uh after, especially how the Americans let their voices be heard on this illegal immigration thing.
And now you got Graham campaigning with uh uh McCain in South Carolina, and they're almost taking a condescending tone towards people questioning them on the immigration and uh the illegal immigration.
And every time you ask him, he comes up to secure the borders.
Two million uh criminals will be um deported.
And then there's that leaves ten million left.
So people want his answer, and he keeps coming up with this.
Well, I know an illegal immigrant that's the wife of a soldier, and I'm not gonna send her home.
Well, for like Wait, wait, wait, wait, just a second.
Hold it, hold it.
Who said that?
McCain said, McCain.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute, because McCain's out there trying to tell everybody he's learned from the illegal immigrant fiasco.
That he's seen the light on this.
That's what Deborah Sergio.
Well, that's yeah, I've been wondering about this.
Because I said on Monday, you know, I'm watching the TV and there's Lindsey Gramnesty opening up and doing the warm-up for a McCain town meeting.
And I'm thinking this is South Carolina where Lindsay Gramnesty, negative numbers were just through the roof after this amnesty bill.
And I looked now, the latest Rasmussen poll, uh uh the the anthropest Rasmussen poll has it tied for what this is worth.
This is Thursday, the primary Saturday, has it uh McCain and Huckabee at twenty-four each, Mitt Romney at 18%, Fred Thompson 16%.
The only guy moving up uh in this poll, I guess, Fred Thompson by a couple points of 14 to 16 uh 16 percent.
I've been these polls, I I I this this you're you're you're right about the South Carolina immigration business.
Uh for the anger over that to just have subsided, that's I'll be interesting to see this.
I don't accept that, and I'll tell you what, just a personal experience.
My wife's been in the country for seven years.
She's from Europe.
We've been going through INS for seven years, doing everything the way we're supposed to do and everything.
And he's gonna he uh both Huckab Huckabee and McCain just don't seem to get it, that it's just not fair to the people that do it the right way.
Um I no, I don't I don't I don't think it's that they don't get it.
See, that's the point.
It's not that they don't get it.
They think you don't.
They think we don't get it.
And we don't understand.
Uh I frankly, I happen to believe that members of the Senate are to this at this moment as we speak, are plotting the next amnesty bill.
Figure I do.
They're gonna come back at this just like they come back with everything else that they lose.
Look at what went what went down the uh uh something that went down oh the the the state children's uh health program.
S chip went down to two, so they're trying to incrementally bring back elements of that in in different pieces of legislation rather than go get it all at once.
Uh what do you think driver's licenses for illegals was about in New York?
We've governor Spitzer.
It was about the failure of the amnesty bill.
Okay, so let's go get it incrementally.
We'll do this, and it's all Democrats doing this stuff.
I don't for a minute believe these guys aren't gonna try to get that back.
They just, you know, they they couldn't get it done before The presidential election year started.
They can't do it during a presidential election year.
So this is what they made it very clear what they want in the United States Senate.
Members of both parties.
And we know why.
It's about votes.
It's about registering new voters.
Pure and simple, folks.
We know what this is about.
What always amazed us on the Republican side was that we couldn't understand why Republicans didn't see that this was a destruction of the Republican Party Act.
But nevertheless, we're covering old ground here.
I just be interesting to see how this does shake out in the uh in the in the primary on on Saturday.
But don't for a minute think that they've seen the light on this.
They may say so.
But the uh the bottom line is they're still plotting ways.
All these pro-amnesty people are still plotting ways once they get back to serious legislative action after the presidential race to get what are you are you disagreeing with me?
And are you frowning because you think I'm making an idiot of myself?
Okay, good.
Don't give me that look again, because I know it couldn't possibly be true.
So don't make me ask.
They're plotting ways to get that amnesty done one way or the other when they get back.
If you don't understand that, you don't understand who these people are and how they think.
Back in a second.
Hey, look at this.
A federal judge today has allowed Nevada's Democrat Party to conduct voting to choose a U.S. presidential nominee in casino hotels on a Vegas strip.
A decision likely to boost Senator Barack Obama.
Yes, Clinton Inc.
lost.
Clinton Inc.
lost in their lawsuit.
And the and Reuters, we were just talking about, you know, how come the drive myself, you know, this is so supportive of the Clintons?
Court allows casino vote that may boost Obama.
I got a slogan for the these these the Nevada caucuses.
And I this is gonna be great.
You know, Michelle back at the website does some of the great.
Have you seen you guys did you go to the website?
Have you seen the graphics that she put together for the uncivil war of uh of of Clinton and sh and uh let's see, Hillary, Charles Wrangle, and John Lewis were all decked out in civil war garb, and Barack Obama in a lone, you know, union uniform with this exasperation.
So here's here's our slogan for the Nevada Democrat caucus.
Roll the dice on America, vote Democrat.
That's what we're calling it here.
Since they can vote in the casinos, this is gonna tear the Clintons apart.
This is just going to infuriate them.
Couple more sound bites here.
Fred Thompson on a situation room.
Wolf blitzer yesterday.
Blitzer said Hillary Clinton says if she were president, she'd have a 90-day moratorium that there would be no foreclosures at all.
No foreclosures over 90 days to help keep people from losing their homes.
Is that a good idea?
No, I mean that's totally typical big government, you know, drop money out of a helicopter kind of approach.
You've got to have sound economic fundamentals.
Those who are paying taxes now, who would have a moratorium on their taxes for a year at the lower income tax bracket, you know, that would be people who are paying taxes that uh you'd give a benefit to directly in a child tax credit, for example, as I talked about, you know, that that would find its way into the economy right now.
But if you're going to squelch a particular part of the economy for a period of time, that pressure builds up otherwise.
You're going to create a bigger bubble in the future than you have now.
It might sound good politically, but it's not practical.
You can't freeze what is it for?
No foreclosures for 90 days.
Stop the market.
Just stop them, just put the brakes on the market, no foreclosures.
Of course, this is you know.
We're gonna have to uh do something about this because this appeals to a lot of people.
Yeah, stop those evil lenders from taking people away from their homes, Mr. Limbaugh.
You just don't understand the pain and suffering that's out there.
Right.
Okay, so we'll foreclose on you three months from now, not in the next 90 days.
So give you 90 days to run out on the mortgage, to leave the country, to leave your town.
We'll give you 90 days.
You can't do this, guys.
It would wreck the mortgage industry.
Which is what the Democrat this is just it's so fundamentally simple.
Up next, Mitt Rum, the Hannity and Combs last night.
Hannity said to you, um, you think Senator McCain's a conservative?
You think he's liberal?
Do you think his policies are closer to the Democrats on many issues?
I believe that lowering taxes helps stimulate the growth of the economy and allows us to have more funds for government, and of course, a lot more funds for the people whose taxes are lowered.
So I supported the Bush tax cuts.
He voted against the Bush tax cuts.
He was one of two Republicans to say no to the Bush tax cuts.
And at the time, what he was saying was he was against them because they were a tax cut for the rich.
And that's exactly the wording that came out of the Democratic playbook.
Now he also, as you know, was a co-author of this bill providing a form of amnesty for illegal aliens.
That I think was an enormous mistake.
And of course, I think for a while there, maybe I'm wrong on this, wasn't it?
Wasn't he flirting with the idea of becoming a VP running mate of John Kerry?
I mean, that's not something I would contemplate on, to tell you the truth.
McCain Feingold, I think, was an enormous error.
I'm sure it was done out of the best of intent to try and reduce the impact of money on politics, but in fact, the influence of money in politics has gotten worse, not better.
I'll tell you, this is this business of intentions.
I don't even want to get into it.
Examine results.
Examining intentions is how we've let the left get away with destroying the black family and other poor families with the war on poverty and the great society.
They've destroyed the health care system on the way to uh with with all of this stuff.
But their intentions, uh Rush, they only wanted to help people.
Yeah, well, they wanted to, but look what they ended up doing.
The intentions on on McCain get the money in politics.
But that with that thing was so offensive from the get-go.
I every time I heard somebody say, Senator McCain or who ifs, we're good people.
It's the money that's corrupting us.
Hey, you gotta get the money out of here.
The money is corrupt with good people.
Get the money out.
We got more money in politics every year than we had a year before.
So it was the system that's corrupting everybody, and of course, people bought that.
Um, it's good intentions, garbage.
The intentions of this were to silence critics of incumbents.
It was the incumbent protection.
That's exactly what the intentions were.
We are a bunch of idiots.
You cannot fool me, folks.
I know this.
Roll the dice.
Vote Democrat in the Nevada caucus.
Roll the dice on America.
Somebody's asked me, look, Rush, you can you can drink 24 hours a day in a casino, right?
You can smoke and all these.
Yeah, yeah, but the votes are not.
The caucus is not going to be in the casinos.
They are in ballrooms out there.
Yeah, you can get well, these are culinary workers who'll be taking time off.
You think they drink on the job?
Come on, get serious.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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