Prison life is so comfortable and drugs are so cheap that prisoners don't want to escape.
Says prison officers cheap.
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I'm going to go back and play the audio to the ad.
The North Carolina GOP is running against two Democrat gubernatorial candidates.
Uses video and audio, of course, from the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
McCain's reaction to it.
We'll do that in just a second.
I got a couple other items in the news to get to here, though.
Before we get to that, this is newsbusters.org, Mark Finkelstein.
Lanny Davis is worried that Obama is on track to lose 49 states as a McGovern-esque candidate.
Lanny Davis claimed that Barack Obama could lose in a blowout of epic McGovern-esque proportions.
He was on Joe Scarborough's show, and he said, I feel badly for him.
I have a great deal of respect for this man.
My family members are for Barack Obama, but he's still on the McGovern upper-income liberal class.
He's got to break out of that, or we could lose 49 states.
Only Operation Chaos could have delivered this.
Had Operation Chaos not been implemented, you wouldn't have somebody talking about the Democrat frontrunner from inside the Democrat Party in this fashion.
Lanny Davis, Big Clintonista.
DeRoy Murdoch, National Review, Global Food Riots Made in Washington.
This is about the rice crisis, the riots in Egypt, the riots in Haiti, coming riots elsewhere.
And here's a quote.
It's time for emergency legislation to repeal ethanol market meddling.
Fine.
Newsweek's call for this.
Time is called ethanol a scam.
Who's going to do it?
Who's going to stop it?
Do you see anybody in Washington talking about stopping it?
You don't, and you won't in an election year.
It isn't going to happen.
But it's just another example of the unintended consequences of these good-hearted, well-intentioned, compassionate liberals.
From Slate.com, a blog by Chris Wilson.
Drop out, Obama.
Even as Hillary Clinton trails Obama in pledged delegates, the popular vote, the number of states won, she's made it clear she plans to stay in the race for the nomination, all of which brings me to this logical conclusion.
It's time for Obama to drop out.
If Clinton had the good of the Democrat Party in mind, she would have given up the bid the day after the Mississippi primary.
Delegate math was as dismal for her campaign then as it is now, even after Pennsylvania.
But Hillary isn't going to drop out.
There simply isn't a function in her assembly code for throwing in the towel.
Obama, on the other hand, is fully capable of dropping out.
And if he's really serious about representing a new kind of politics, now's the time for him to prove it in the only meaningful way left.
Moreover, were he to play it right, dropping out now nearly guarantees that he'll be elected president in 2012.
And this guy goes on to draw the roadmap how this could happen.
Operation Chaos, Slate.com, a liberal publication, now asking Obama to quit for the good of the party, and he's leading in everything.
But Hillary won't quit, so it's up to you, Obama.
Let me tell you what's happening.
Obama, as I have said over and over, was the Messiah.
He was being kid gloved treatment.
He's now being tested.
His inexperience is on display.
He can't handle it.
Doesn't want to debate.
Wants to eat his waffle rather than answer questions from the press.
And by the way, do you know what was a Belgian waffle?
It wasn't even an American waffle he was eating.
I read that and I was doubly offended.
It's a Belgian waffle.
So, and then now you've got political correctness rearing its head.
Any criticism of Obama is said to be racist.
Let's go to this ad, ladies and gentlemen, North Carolina Republican Party TV ad, an unidentified female announcer, you'll hear, and then the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the North Carolina Republican Party chairman, Linda Daves.
For 20 years, Barack Obama sat in his pew listening to his pastor.
And then wants us to sing God bless America.
No, no, no.
Not God bless America.
God America.
That's enough.
Now, Beth Perdue and Richard Moore endorse Barack Obama.
They should know better.
He's just too extreme for North Carolina.
The North Carolina Republican Party sponsored this ad, opposing Beth Perdue and Richard Moore for North Carolina governor.
That's Linda Daves.
Now, is there any doubt what this is?
I mean, this ad is about many things.
But one of the things that this is about, this ad is intended to help Hillary Clinton in the May 6th primary.
This is a derivative of Operation Chaos.
There's no question about it.
But the news here is that Senator McCain from his high horse in Washington called the North Carolina.
Well, he didn't even see the ad.
He issued a denouncement and asked him to stop airing the ad.
He said that the television advertisement you're planning to air degrades our civics and distracts.
There's no such thing.
Everything in the ad is factual.
McCain says it degrades our civics, detracts us from the very real differences we have with the Democrats.
In the strongest terms, I implore you to not run this ad.
The RNC got in on a gig, too, said Senator McCain's been very clear that he expects to run a respectful campaign based on the critical issues confronting the nation.
The RNC has been in contact with the NC, the North Carolina GOP, communicated that we do not believe the ad's appropriate or helpful, and we've asked that they refrain from using it.
The state Republican Party, however, will not relent.
They are going to run the ad.
My question, multiple questions, how in the world do you build support for your campaign within your party acting like this?
Is this how you help rebuild the Republican Party in these states?
Is this how you treat fellow Republicans by trashing them to highlight the ad and then come off like you're above the fight?
There's a theory going around here that McCain's doing this in a brilliant stroke of genius, that he gets to stand above this, condemning the ad that gets the ad played all over the place at no charge to the North Carolina GOP.
But I don't see it that way.
I think this is an absolute disaster.
And it means exactly what I said was founding reason for Operation Chaos.
The Republican Party is gutless.
They're not going to attack Obama on anything.
They want to have a civics debate, Civics 101.
And because they're afraid of being called racists and so forth, which they will be.
But so what?
If you're not, don't worry about it.
Broom it.
The idea that you can't criticize a black candidate, you can't criticize a potential black president.
You know, people have said to me, you know, Russia, if we elect a black guy, though, that's the end of racism in America.
Hardly, it's only going to get worse.
Every time the black president's criticized on anything, policy, you name it.
The Jesse Jacksons of the world, all the liberals are going to come out racist, racist, racist, and try to shut it down.
And MSNBC last night aired this ad, and they're trying to proclaim the ad's totally racist.
They're trying to get the North Carolina GOP to be tagged as racist and intimidated into stopping running the ad.
Nora O'Donnell talked to the North Carolina Republican Party chairman Linda Daves and said, Look, McCain wants you to pull the ad.
Are you going to heed his call?
We plan to run the ad because I think that we're thinking about the people of North Carolina.
This is not about the president's race.
This is about the people of North Carolina.
And they are a loyal Republican.
Well, of course I am.
But I'm also the chairman of the state Republican Party, and it is also my responsibility to point out the weaknesses of the Democrat candidates in North Carolina.
Absolutely.
Who is McCain?
Well, he's traveling all over the country.
What Republican candidates is he trying to help?
I haven't seen any.
Might be.
Not saying he's not.
I just haven't seen him stumping for anybody running for the House of the Senate or as governor in the state.
And this woman's job is to make sure Republicans get elected in the state.
And she's doing the exact right thing, drawing a contrast.
Okay, our two gubernatorial candidates on the Democrat side have nominated, have endorsed Obama.
And look who he's tied to, Reverend Wright.
It's a great ad.
And then Nora O'Donnell's, aren't you a loyal Republican?
She needs to ask that of Republicans in Washington, not of Linda Daves.
And then the PS d'Ersistance question from Nora O'Donnell, PMS NBC, to Linda Daves, are you playing the race card?
No, none whatsoever.
If this had been Hillary Clinton, I'd do the same thing.
And I really would encourage people to get past that race card thing.
That is an accusation that is frequently made by people when they want to divert the discussion from the real issue at hand.
And the issue at hand is good judgment and patriotism.
Yeah, this is not about diverting discussion.
It's about silencing people.
It's about stopping discussion.
The media, you already can't, we can't call Obama by a middle name.
Can't use that.
Can't call him a liberal.
He doesn't like that.
And now you can't associate him with Reverend Wright.
And it's only going to get worse.
Reverend Wright will not go away.
Reverend Wright is going to be speaking in the National Press Club soon.
Yes.
On what goes on in black churches.
Now, what brainiac is running the Obama campaign?
They're going to bring him up to the National Press Club.
I'm going to tell you what this is all about.
Reverend Wright is going to speak in ways that we haven't heard him speak.
And he's going to come across.
He's going to talk about great charitable works and how they're trying to cure AIDS in Africa, do all this stuff.
And the drive-bys are going to say, see, what was all the hubbub about?
This is a great humanitarian preacher.
Blah, That's what the purpose of that speech at the National Press Club is.
Anyone to bet that Obama's preacher does not go to the National Press Club and start sounding like he does on those sermons?
You want to bet that he will not make a statement blaming America for the creation of AIDS, CIA, whatever.
If he does that, then there's something seriously wrong with Wright and the Obama campaign.
But it's got to be obviously just the opposite of that.
So the full court press is on trying to get the magic of the Mafia back, this aura of hope and change and larger-than-life personality of Obama.
And that's what this is all about.
And so the North Carolina Republicans run a great, great ad here, and it is being broadcast all over the place and not costing them anything.
And the criticism of the ad started from the Republican presidential nominee.
Back to the phones we go here on the EIB network from the Limbaugh Institute for unwavering, advanced conservative studies.
This is Tina, New Lennox, Illinois.
Hi, Tina.
Hi, Russ.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
I wanted to say, a few days ago, I actually heard the producer of this commercial in a local radio station here, and he had a really interesting story about how this commercial ended up getting made.
And I heard it.
And afterwards, when the criticisms of this commercial started coming out, I was really personally offended by McCain and the Democrats and the liberal media that this commercial was about race.
To me, when I heard this commercial, I thought it had more to do with the content of Mr. Obama's character rather than the color of his skin.
To me, the liberal media and McCain and the Democrats, they're the ones that are making this commercial all about race.
Well, I don't think McCain's making it about race.
I don't think the RNC is making it about race.
They just don't want Obama attacked.
And they don't want Reverend Wright used because that will detract from the lofty nature of the campaign that McCain says he wants to run.
He wants to have a civic-minded, serious debate on issues with Obama.
And he's afraid all this is going to distract from the lofty perch he hopes to occupy during the campaign.
I don't think they're concerned about race.
The Democrats obviously are, and are going to label any criticism of Obama racist.
And, you know, I have to give, I'm not a member of the Hillary Fan Club, but, you know, I have to give it to her.
At least he's treated Mr. Obama like a contender and not, you know, a black man or a black person.
Amen.
You know, it wasn't that long ago, and this is an important point to make.
It wasn't that long ago in my lifetime, when you'd run into black people in the middle of the civil rights movement, post-civil rights movement, they really wanted equal treatment.
They really want, that's all they wanted.
They didn't want to be discriminated against.
They just wanted equal treatment.
We've come to the point now, that's not what Obama wants.
He wants special treatment.
The Democrats want special treatment.
Because of the racist past of this nation and the original sin of slavery, we are being told now that the first legitimate contender for the presidency who is a black man is above criticism because criticism is racist.
And you're exactly right.
Hillary is treating him as a competitor, and she's not being called a racist, by the way.
The only people who get called racists are Republicans when they criticize Obama or use Reverend Wright.
Yes, and the irony of that is I think Mr. McCain fought harder against Mitt than he is against the Democrats right now.
He doesn't seem to have the fight in him against the Democrats the way he had the fight in him with the primary man of his own party.
What do you mean right now?
He doesn't seem to have that fight or that fire in him to fight with the Democrats.
He's always fighting with his own racism.
But that's not new.
I know it's not new, but it's troublesome.
Well, not, yes, it's troublesome, but if you understand that he is seeking a lot of votes from Democrats.
And it tends to want to build this civic-minded coalition.
I agree.
And it seems like our choices in November are going to be a Democrat or a Democrat.
And it's looking more and more like that.
Well, I know it looks that way, Tina, but don't go pessimistic on me yet.
Remember, the presidential campaign will be fought on this program.
I agree.
And, you know, the other thing, too, is I thought that during the primaries, the only person that I thought was actually positive about this country was Mitt Romney while he was running.
I listened, and I'm like, wow, he's actually saying what I wanted to hear.
And I was disappointed at the way things turned out.
And a lot of people are, but it is what it is.
And this is a point like this is when you've got to buck up even more and not slink away.
I agree.
All right.
Thanks, Tina.
Okay.
Very much.
I appreciate it.
Interesting.
Speaking of being optimistic and positive, there's a fascinating story today in the New York Times by Monica Davey.
Indiana voters talk of change may fall flat.
With all the talk among the Democrat presidential hopefuls about change, they may wish to consider this as they wander around Indiana.
People here practically revolted a few years ago when the governor, Mitch Daniels, pushed to change daylight saving time like most of the country.
What are we going to change to? said Ron O'Brien, 58, retired auto worker, said he was still trying to decide which Democrat to vote for in the May 6th primary.
You mean change some other country system?
What do you think they mean?
What are we going to change to?
We're manufacturing workers.
We're farmers.
We're beer drinkers.
We're gun owners.
We're pickup drivers, said Karen Leslie, 64, who was volunteering yesterday morning in Senator Hillary's field office in Kokomo.
We are full of pride for this country in Indiana.
We are full of pride.
No, they're not bitter.
Obama thinks they're not bitter.
We're manufacturing workers.
They're bitter about change.
They ought to be bitter about what in the world, they're exactly right.
What in the world about the greatest country on earth needs drastic, dramatic change?
I got to get this off my chest.
Bloomberg News, Brazil's discovery of what may be two of the world's three biggest oil fines in the past 30 years could help end the Western Hemisphere's reliance on Middle East's crude, according to the company Strategic Forecasting Incorporated, Stratfor.
Saudi Arabia's influence as the biggest oil exporter would wane if the fields are as big as advertised, and China and India would become dominant buyers of Persian Gulf oil, said the vice president at Strategic Forecasting or located in Austin, Texas.
The firm which consults for companies and governments around the world was described in 2001 in the Baron's magazine article as the shadow CIA.
Brazil may be pumping several million barrels of crude daily by 2020.
We're not running out of this stuff.
We are not running out of it.
And in our own hemisphere, in our own country, there's lots of oil to be found.
And the very people who are worried so much about dependence on foreign oil are the same people preventing anybody in this country, in our nearby environs, from getting it.
Boy, is that ever the case?
Real life.
Real life in the here and now.
Rush Limbaugh standing for now on the EIB network.
Now, I have to marvel when I see a story like this from the Independent, UK Independent.
Most scientists involved in AIDS research believe that a vaccine against HIV is further away than ever.
And some have admitted that effective immunization against the virus may never be possible.
According to an unprecedented poll conducted by the Independent, a mood of deep pessimism has spread among the international community of AIDS scientists after the failure of a trial of a promising vaccine at the end of last year.
It was just the latest in a series of setbacks in a 25-year struggle to develop an HIV vaccine.
The Independent survey of more than 35 leading AIDS scientists in Britain and the United States found that just two were now more optimistic about the prospects for an HIV vaccine than they were a year ago.
Only four said that they were more optimistic now than they were five years ago.
And two-thirds of them said that HIV vaccine will not be developed within the next 10 years.
Some of them said that it may take at least 20 more years of research before a vaccine can be used to protect people either from infection or the onset of AIDS.
Now, Again, I'm going to put on my captain common sense cap here.
We're talking about a virus, are we not?
Do we have a cure for any virus?
We don't have a cure.
We don't have a cure for the common cold.
We don't have a cure for any strain of influenza.
What viruses, HR, do we have vaccines for?
Yeah, we have a flu vaccine, but it doesn't.
I mean, you still get the flu with the vaccine, and sometimes the vaccine misses the strain altogether.
We don't have a vaccine against a common cold, which is a virus.
I don't know that, well, you have a vaccine for smallpox measles.
Yeah, but are they viruses?
See, it's virus here.
Infections, you know, we can deal with, but my common sense is we don't have a cure for any virus.
And so the notion that we were ever going to have a cure for AIDS or a cure or even a vaccine for it always was cure.
Who what is?
Okay, smallpox is a virus.
So we do have a vaccine for that.
What else is there?
What's the other chickenpox?
Forget that.
That's what I had, chickenpox.
But polio, that's not a virus.
I mean, admirable effort.
Don't misunderstand.
I just, I never, we've had such little success with viruses.
I mean, if we, if we get vaccine against, vaccine against common cold and flu, and I don't know that anybody researching that even.
So CNN, the ChiComs, a Chinese primary scroll teacher and a beautician, have filed suit against CNN New York over remarks by Jack Cafferty.
They're seeking $1.3 billion in compensation, $1 per person in China.
The case against CNN and its parent company, Turner Broadcasting, and Jack Cafferty, the offending commentator, comes after 14 warriors launched a similar suit in Beijing, alleging that Cafferty's remarks earlier this month violated the dignity and the reputation of the Chikom people.
1.3.
Can you imagine at CNN?
This has got to be one of the most devastating things.
They love communist countries.
They love them.
And in a ChiCom ChiComms are even after they issued an apology, the ChiComs didn't accept it because they didn't think it was genuine.
You want to know what liberalism does?
Give you a headline here from the UK Telegraph.
Los Angeles is a third world city.
Los Angeles becoming a third world city with immigrants making up half its workforce, as a new study.
A third of immigrants haven't graduated from Haskruel.
60% do not speak English fluently, said the Migration Policy Institute.
It said this left immigrants ill-equipped to fill California's fastest-growing occupations like computer software engineering and nursing.
The organization has added that as the so-called baby boomers reach retirement age, a similar pattern will spread across the United States.
I've never heard this asserted, but it's in the UK Telegraph.
Los Angeles, a third world city.
Is it becoming a third world city?
Well, they say it is.
It's a third world city.
And one final thing before we get back to the phones.
You might have seen this news item.
After her big victory in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton raising money at the rate of $10 million a day.
Have you seen that?
And drive-bys are reporting it, and they're repeating it over and over again.
Let me illustrate what at the rate of means.
Last Friday, on this program, we did the annual Leukemia Society radio-thon to cure the blood cancers.
And during that program, two sisters from Oregon called and generously donated $400,000 in the first half hour if I would match it.
And I did $800,000 in the first half hour.
That is at the rate of $1.6 million an hour.
That is at the rate of $38 million a day.
So we could have put out a press release that said Limbaugh's radio-thon raised money at the rate of $38 million a day during the three hours it was on.
Or here's another example.
Let's say by coincidence, we receive 10 subscriptions to Rush 24-7 and the Limbaugh Letter.
And we'll just use a figure of 60 bucks here as per subscriber.
So that's at the rate of $600 an hour at the rate of $14,400 a day, at the rate of $100,000 a week.
Or we could say that we are subscribing people at the rate of $432,000 a month at Rush 24-7 and the Limbaugh Letter, all because we got 10 subscriptions in a half hour.
We could go even further.
We are signing up people for the Limbaugh Letter and Rush 24-7 at the rate of $5 million a year.
That's how you have to put in perspective this notion that Hillary is raising money at the rate of $10 million a day.
They're making you think that she's getting $10 million every day when she's not.
And they, you know, they just repeat this stuff on and on and on.
So I can say to the drive-bys, Limbaugh Letter gaining subscriptions, new subscriptions at the rate of $5 million a year.
And the drive-by response would be, forget it, Rush.
We only do it at the rate of Barbara Streisand for the Clinton campaign.
We're not going to credit you for the rate of your new subscribers or your fundraising drives.
We only do that kind of thing for the Clintons.
Greg in Dayton, Ohio.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush Dittos from Dayton.
Thank you, sir.
I'm looking the other day.
First of all, I have to thank you for really making conservative politics fun again.
Thank you, sir.
I haven't voted since Reagan.
I've never voted in a primary, and I voted for Hillary when I was here in Ohio.
And I've been watching this whole thing kind of pan out a little bit.
And listening to you yesterday, I haven't heard anybody report about this, so I got on Google last night and I started checking some facts.
Now, apparently, all the blue states that won Democrat primaries or Democrat elections in the last presidential election have all voted except Oregon.
And when you tally up the votes, Google actually wins that battle.
And I thought that would be an interesting input to this whole thing.
Wait, wait, who wins?
Hillary wins.
Hillary, you said Google.
Well, I Googled all the different states to just tally up the vote.
Yeah, I just know Google wins everything they do.
I know that's one of Mrs. Clinton's.
Look, another way to put this, as I have said yesterday, Obama's lost seven of the ten most populous states in the country, and he hadn't won a primary in a major state, large state, since February 22nd.
Yeah, exactly.
But if you look at it from just a pure Democrat standpoint, you've got to shore up the Democrat state.
And if he can't win those, and she wins the big states, and more people would vote for Hillary if they left his camp than vice versa, it just totally makes sense for me for him to just bow out.
We made that.
It makes sense for him to bow out.
We made that point yesterday, and right on schedule, the New York Times has a story today saying none of that matters.
If Barack wins the nomination, he will win those states.
None of that matters.
People talking about this.
It doesn't matter.
There's no evidence to suggest that Barack would not win those states.
No evidence?
He lost them.
You remember, ladies and gentlemen, way back last year during the heat of the Democrat primaries, well, the run-up to the primaries, I said the dirty little secret is, if they win the White House, they're not getting out of Iraq.
They have no intention of getting out of Iraq and saddling themselves with defeat.
Ain't going to happen.
Libs are starting to figure this out.
This is a story in the New Republic by Michael Crowley.
Some Washington foreign policy Mandarins insist at getting out of Iraq in 16 months.
It's not possible.
That a total U.S. withdrawal isn't achievable and Obama knows it.
That Obama, like Nixon, in fact, has a secret plan not to end the war.
The classic storyline is that everybody wants to get out, but we're not going to get out.
Everyone's going to be disappointed, says Derek Chalett, former foreign policy advisor to John Edwards, or at least that Obama's speeches overstate the feasibility of a near-term Iraq exit.
Leslie Gelb, chairman of Council on Foreign Relations, said this is a pipe dream.
I regard that as campaign rhetoric rather than serious policy.
Washington Post editorial page, wildly unrealistic campaign rhetoric.
Superficially, Obama's Iraq rhetoric makes his plan seem rather simpler than it is.
His website states that Obama will immediately begin to remove troops from Iraq and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.
But it's not possible.
And the Libs are starting to figure this.
The whole story, we'll post a link to this at rushlimbaugh.com so you can read the read the whole thing.
The bottom line is they have no intention of pulling out, and they got a secret plan, and it doesn't spell out so much secret plan, but I can tell you what secret plan is, whether it's Hillary or Obama.
A couple days after they were inaugurated, a week, whatever it is, they're going to suddenly discover that Bush had not told them the whole truth of the seriousness of the problem that we face.
And Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are going to say Bush lied or he was withheld.
We didn't know how serious this was, and they're going to become the biggest pro-war people in the world because they're going to want victory for themselves.
And that's how they're going to pull themselves out of the fire that they've built around themselves demanding defeat in Iraq.
You've got to hear these soundbites.
This is last night on Larry King Alive.
He had on James Carville and Bill Richardson.
And Larry King said, okay, we're going to take it.
Let's go back a little bit.
Bill Richardson endorsed, surprisingly, Barack Obama for the presidency, and James Carville called Richardson a Judas for doing that.
Now, it's been a few weeks, James.
How do you feel?
I said it.
I was quoted back.
I was quoted in context.
I thought it was an appropriate metaphor.
And, you know, it's all been bared out.
Everybody's had their say.
But you meant it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Went to Richardson.
How'd you react to it, Governor?
Well, I said I wasn't going to respond and get in the gutter.
I feel very strongly this is typical of the reaction of many of the Clinton supporters.
They feel that they're a dynasty.
They're clinging to the throne.
So it's typical of the negativity that the Clintons right now are using against Senator Obama.
And I think it's wrong.
It's going to divide up the party.
King finally said, look, the governor's saying, James, your candidate is acting if she's entitled to the throne.
I don't know how to address that kind of idiocy, but let me try.
The people are voting.
Because, no, it's not like somebody is sitting here.
And, by the way, they voted in Pennsylvania.
They're going to vote in Indiana.
They're going to vote in North Carolina.
And as opposed to this kind of vacuous kind of comment, why don't he encourage his candidate, Santa Obama, to go debate?
You can't run from this.
You're not going to be able to run from John McCain.
You can't run from the thing and all this foolishness clinging to the throne.
The last time I checked, people out there voting, and they're going to vote some more.
Operation Chaos.
This is Bill Richardson, who served in the Clinton administration, being called an idiot and being called vacuous by James Carville.
More Operation Chaos.
David Broder in the Washington Post today, the column entitled The Democrats' Worst Nightmare, the pull quote from this piece.
That is why so many Democrats are praying for this divisive primary campaign to end.
They sense correctly that the longer it goes on, the better it is for John McCain.
The Democrats have to resolve this somehow.
The longer it goes on, the greater the costs in November.
So the Dean of Punditry in Washington, David Broder, says that Democrats are praying.
Isn't that a sight?
Wouldn't you like to see that?
Democrats praying?
And look what they're praying for.
Bill in Wyo Missing Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very well, sir.
Thanks very much.
Good.
I didn't call on this, but I thank you for your comments about Newt.
I think he's really compromised his conservative credentials.
And I saw that a year ago when he lost the cave to John Kerry.
You remember the debate over global cooling?
I'm global warming name?
But what I really called about was the I called last November to see have things gotten bad enough.
Remember, oil was pushing $100 a barrel and gasoline, $3 a gallon.
Were things bad enough that Congress would finally allow some drilling offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and also in Anwar?
What do you think now, now that we're $20 more on oil and $4 on gas?
Let me ask you.
Well, what do you see?
Well, I see a lot of people suffering.
No, I don't mean that.
I mean, I do too.
What do you see Congress doing?
Nothing.
It bothers me.
Where's the Republican leadership on this?
Well, the Republican leadership's in the minority, number one, but they did do something yesterday, and I mentioned this earlier in the program.
They sent a letter to Pelosi because Pelosi, after the Democrats won the House in 2006, said they had a plan.
They had a master plan to lower gasoline prices.
And the Republicans publicly said a letter, where's your plan?
We want to see the plan so we can study it and start debating it and start working with you to bring gasoline prices now.
Where is your plan?
They don't have a plan.
And it doesn't involve drilling.
This is more on that in another day because this is an important subject.
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Again, that's a very nice thing that guy said.
We got to go, but we'll be back tomorrow, Open Line Friday.