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Aug. 8, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 8, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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You know, look what's happening out there, folks.
Russia invades Georgia, and everybody thinks, oh no!
The oil price is gonna spike way back up.
It went down four bucks.
How can that be?
How can that be?
I'll explain in a minute.
Silly experts were all wrong.
The oil price went out four bucks.
The dollar is rallying.
The stock market's going crazy.
And there's one reason for all this.
The NFL is back.
All is right in the world.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
That's it, kids.
Telephone number 800 282, 2882.
If you want to be on the program, they email address L Rushbow at EIV netcom.
Yeah, I heard that.
I heard that Brett Favre is playing for the Jets now.
I don't remember where I heard that.
I've been asked if I'm happy that he's playing with the Jets.
Now you know me.
I am a huge sports fan.
Football fan.
I love the National Football League.
And even though I said to a woman the other day who wanted me to analyze this Favre thing, I said, look, at the end of the day, it's just sports.
And so it's not that significant in terms of really impacting our lives, other than maybe your self-esteem when your team wins.
You might feel depressed when your team loses, but the NFL's not going to raise your taxes.
They'll only raise your ticket prices.
You have an option not to pay it.
It's, you know, the great thing about sports.
The great thing about sports.
It's the one thing in which you can invest total passion.
Everything you've got without consequence.
Try that with your boss.
Try that with your spouse.
Try that.
Well, you can do it with a dog.
Dog will love you no matter what you do.
Can't do it with a cat.
Cat will take advantage of you.
Well, you can go through emotional things, I know, but but but it's at the end of the day, it's sports.
It's an escape from whatever people consider the humdrum of their life to be.
That having been said, I watched Brett Ferve and his press conference with the Jets in Cleveland last night about 6.30.
Just didn't look right.
Well, no, but it's not it's and this is nothing against anybody.
It just the guy spent 16 years.
He never missed a start with the Green Bay Packers.
He says in his press conference, he's always going to be a Packer while the Jets are introducing him.
He says he's just one of 53 guys, but he's not.
He is now the team.
As goes Brett Favre, so go the New York Jets, at least in the early stages.
Um from a fan standpoint and from a uh uh league standpoint, media standpoint, good for the game, exciting for the for the attention.
Yeah, it's great.
It's great that he's playing, and it's great this little soap opera happened, and it's great that all this drama's going on.
But I guarantee in Green Bay, they're happy to have lost the drama, and they're glad to have switched and passed the drama on to uh to the Jets.
But the purest, the purest in me says, don't become a Willie Mays.
Don't don't don't don't play to the point where you can't catch a simple fly ball anymore.
He could have a Joe Montana year.
It could do a couple years, but the drive-by sports guys are even ripping Montana, and they ripped Montana because he went to a small market in Kansas City.
He revived that franchise.
I would he Montana was great with the Chiefs, took him to the playoffs a couple times.
Never got the Super Bowl, but trouble uh in the later rounds of the playoffs, but yeah, I don't know.
I just, I just uh I can't express this.
You know, I'm I'm I'm I grew up in sports when when players were with teams their whole careers, unless the odd trade happened before free agency and stuff, and we real fans have had to adjust to this free agency stuff and look at sports in a different way because it's a business reality.
You have you know, it is what it is.
Uh but I wish uh wish Favre the best.
And I wish the Jets the best.
And it is good that it's good that the Jets are now, you know, they have finally have a personality on that team.
They've got a star.
They're not also Rans as a uh as a franchise.
So, but do you know what Woody Johnson did?
And I have met Woody.
Woody owns the Jets.
As soon as Favre landed on Woody Johnson's private jet in Morristown, New Jersey, they put Favre on Woody Johnson's helicopter.
And the helicopter toured the new Jets practice facility, which is uh, oh, I forget where in New Jersey.
I'm a metal block I don't know where it is.
And then didn't they flew Favre out over Woody Johnson's farm?
So Favre could see that there's farmland in New Jersey.
Because Favre likes farmland.
His and hunting, his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi is on a farm.
And of course, people don't think of uh New Jersey as as uh agriculture except for nuclear waste.
So uh they had to show Favre that there is a genuine agricultural community there, and if he wants to buy a farm, he can.
So they and then they flew him to Teterborough.
He hopped another jet to fly to Cleveland to do the press conference because the Jets are playing the Browns in their uh their first preseason game.
All right, to the audio sound bites.
As you know, yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama was asked a question by a seven-year-old little boy.
I was a little girl.
Well, seven-year-old, well, yeah, seven-year-old little girl.
Why do you want to run for president?
Because my country stinks, basically, is what he said.
Country stinks.
He did, Rachel.
Don't give me that look.
He said, Rachel's in for dawn today, he said, our country's not what it once was.
I'm sitting here saying, when was it better?
When's it better, Barry?
All of 143 days in the Senate.
You tell us, Barry, when it's been better.
So he puts down his country.
Then uh yesterday, as well in Norfolk, Virginia.
Uh Michelle Obama visited a second grade classroom, and after reading a book to the kids, Michelle Obama asked him if there were any messages that they wanted her to pass on to her husband, the Messiah.
Listen to this exchange that she had with an unidentified seven-year-old boy.
What do you think?
Finish what we started in Iraq.
Okay, I will.
I died in Iraq!
Well, uh, did it sound like she could you hear what the little boy said?
Could you hear what little boy said?
Yeah, it's kind of dicey.
Let me let me read what the little boy said.
Okay, Michelle Obama, okay.
What do you think, little boy?
Well, I think that we should finish what we started in Iraq.
And then a little silence from Michelle My Bell.
She said, finish what we started in Iraq.
I'll pass that along.
Here is a seven-year-old who has more maturity than the Messiah.
I'll never forget.
I went down to um to uh Shreeport, Louisiana some years ago.
I was asked to speak at an annual fundraiser that the uh PGA tours Hal Sutton and David Toms do.
Uh to they're trying to build uh uh the equivalent of a St. Jude's uh children's hospital in in Shreveport, and they do this golf outing every year.
And David Toms got up and was giving a few remarks before I got up and gave my stellar uh standing O remarks.
And he was talking about a conversation he'd had with his son at some point in his career things were not going well, and uh he was not practicing as much so from he said his son said to him, Dad, why don't you finish what you started?
So I guess Tom's raising his kids and always put finish what you start.
Don't start it if you're not gonna finish it.
So here's a seven-year-old.
Finish what we started in Iraq.
And Michelle My Bell, you know, she's probably expecting some question about SpongeBob SquarePants, and she gets finish what you started in Iraq.
Here, look play the bite again.
And now that you know the little kids in there, gauge Michelle My Bell's reaction.
What do you think?
Well, we started in Iraq.
Okay.
I will.
Let's go back.
Wednesday El Cart, Indiana campaign event.
Barack Obama's seven year old little girl says, why did you start running for president?
America is is no longer what it could be, what it once was.
And I say to myself, I don't want that future for my children.
Our children want you to finish what we started in Iraq.
We, ladies and gentlemen, have put together another montage here of the Obamas bash America.
They get better and they cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren't like them.
Well I know that there's a hole in our souls.
I know my country has not perfected itself.
It's easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions.
It makes you feel justified in your ignorance.
That's America.
We're confronting the history and stain of slavery in this country.
We're confronting those scars.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country.
America is no longer what it could be, what it once was.
I'm sitting there listening to this and I'm thinking, I'm hearing sort of a cleaned up version of what Jeremiah Wright thinks.
The New Yorkers chickens are coming home to roost.
Evil white people!
Oh!
Back in just a second, my friend.
By the way, Vice President Cheney is now going to speak at the Republican National Convention.
But what I told you the other day was true.
What I told you other day that and I I didn't go as far as I know, and I didn't tell you as much as I know, but he was specifically told he wasn't welcome.
Vice President Cheney was.
And there was, you know, they were not, this was not wise.
It was not handled the right way.
And this is, it's leaked out in not that form, but of course the stories that Cheney wasn't going to speak, might not speak.
Why not?
You know, McCain is going to need the votes of people that love Cheney and Bush.
They're going to need them.
And you just don't cast them aside.
Don't put Lindsey Graham up there and all these five senators here after the stupid deal they did with the Democrats on energy.
So Vice President Cheney will be there the same night that President Bush will be there.
This is Doug in Columbus.
Doug, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
How are you today?
Fine and dandy.
Fine and dandy.
I think there's going to be a lot of Packers jerseys in that Jet Stadium first game.
Well, it's tough.
That place is sold out.
Which, by the way, is another reason for Favre.
You know what?
I saw how many jerseys he sold first day out there.
So if there's not Packers jerseys, there'll be number four jerseys all over the place.
But, Russ, let me get to my point.
At the very end, I want to ask you one other question.
Yes.
John McCain is friends with Lindsey Graham.
I think it's obvious the two of them have worked together in the past.
And do you think that John McCain is behind this anti-drilling or this teaming up with the Democrats on this drilling issue?
Because, A, he's a Republican candidate.
B, he's friends with Lindsey Graham.
If he was behind it, why wouldn't he come out and take credit for it?
If he was what what what would be the point of being behind it and acting like he was upset by it?
Well, I would have to say that um uh possibly he can you know he wants to be the candidate to say, hey, look, I'm the one that could step out as a Republican and work with the Democrats, but we don't see Barack coming over to our side.
But he didn't do that.
No, but he's already established that.
He's already what these guys did was follow in his footsteps.
Yeah, then you know what, then Rush, I'm baffled by it too.
I can't figure it out.
Follow the money.
Follow the money.
I want to I'd like to end with one question that's not related to the topic, but you can discuss it later if you would, please.
I like I like to uh read what the left has to say, and I read Al Gore's book, Earth in the Balance, and he said back in 2000 he was going to raise the price of gas three and a half dollars a gallon Back in two thousand, and then if the free market would have done what it did to it uh today it'd be up to seven dollars a gallon.
How do you think people would be uh uh opposed to that?
You don't need to answer this question now because I know I'm off topic, but nobody has brought up the fact that uh Al Gore wanted to raise gas three and a half dollars to research alternative fuels back in two thousand.
Well govern government would have spent two years, three years working on trying to find some way Well, he would have never been able to do it.
Nobody would have gone.
We found out what the tipping point for gasoline is, it's four dollars a gallon.
So long before we got the seven bucks a gallon, Al Gore would have been frozen out.
Here is Gary in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Welcome, sir to open line Friday.
Hi, Russ.
I wanted to say to you for many years, former long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking FM-type classic banana good time rock and roll ditto.
Great to have you here, sir, as part of the uh part of the stable.
Oh, it's great to be here.
Um I just want to thank you for uh everything you've you've taught me over the years.
Um taught me about follow the money, which you've been talking about today, and you taught me about how words mean things.
Um taught me to appreciate the woman's movement, especially when I'm walking behind it.
Exactly right.
And uh I think most importantly, uh the one thing that really hooked me uh back in my former long-haired magnifested dope smoking days was uh that you taught me the uh that uh why did you call?
Well, I wanted to I just wanted to thank you about for all of this.
I appreciate that.
I really do.
And uh wanted to thank you for uh everything and wish you uh happy twenty years.
I'm I'm a little nervous.
And uh most importantly, I wanted to request a uh song from uh Group Yard of Forgotten Favors.
This is amazing to me.
Thank you very much.
What's the song, Gary?
Well, uh, I got to hear it for the first time last last week, uh, in about twelve years or so.
Uh I'd like to request Rush the Knife.
I love that song.
I wish I could get it on MP3 so I could put it on my iPod.
Well, we uh uh two things here, Gare.
Number one, I really appreciate your call, but it took you about ninety seconds to make your request, which has taken us beyond the time we have here in this segment to play it all.
Uh it wouldn't finish in time before we have to go to the next commercial break.
Had you have you gotten to your request in the first ten seconds, you'd be listening to the song now.
But I understand you were nervous and you wanted to say nice things and I appreciate it.
We'll play the song in the next segment.
I appreciate that.
We we played it last week during our twentieth anniversary uh celebration.
It goes way back to eighty-nine or ninety, and the song it just it just came in one day.
No, we don't know still I don't know who did it.
I don't know.
What I heard was Mike, now correct me, I know that Kiki de la Garza was the broadcast engineer back then.
But I uh my memory, this is like twenty years old ago now, eighteen.
I'm I my memory is that this guy was was uh like a a delivery driver in Las Vegas and just was a big fan and went into the uh studio and put this thing together and said it to us, and we still don't know who it is.
I don't know that if we uh I don't know that we ever did at one time know who it was.
Uh does that it it's okay, Snerdley, who was there at the beginning, uh is is telling me that it it it uh it is, it's very similar to that.
Anyway, as you know it's part it uh it's it's a takeoff on MacPhilife, which is part of the three penny opera.
And uh that's that's who owns the rights to the song.
Carl in uh in Southern Ohio, you're next in open line Friday.
Hi.
Uh hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's a pleasure to get to speak with you.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
Uh I've got a little different take on this uh gasoline price.
Um I was a senior in high school back in 73 and 74 and lived through the what was called the OPEC oil embargo.
Right.
And I think McCain's kind of missing the boat.
I don't think it's so much about the price per gallon as it is the uh as he should be concentrating on the supply and the national security issue because it doesn't matter if gas is even ten cents a gallon.
If you can't buy gas, the country's gonna shut down.
And as far as these five Republican senators, uh John McCain being the maverick that he is, he ought to take it right to their face and say this is not acceptable and get right back on the bandwagon.
I I agree.
I agree, but how can he do it?
They're just they're just trying to copy, I think they're trying to impress him.
I mean, they're seeing look at they're saying this got McCain, the Republican presidential nomination.
This has been my fear all along that Republicans are gonna say uh well, this McCain, this is the way to go.
Give everything away to the Democrats compromise, media will love you and uh you'll party will love you and they'll nominate you and so forth.
It's been one of my uh uh uh big big concerns.
But see, this is it, you live you live as a maverick, you're gonna die as a maverick.
We're all mavericks now.
I mean, McCain wants McCain wants everybody in the party to follow his lead.
He's the presidential nominee.
He wants everybody to tow the line.
And when they don't, why that's not allowed.
That's not all but when McCain doesn't follow the party line, when he crosses the aisle and sits down with Ted Kennedy or whoever to write bills and violates uh the oath with his own president on on things, well then that's okay.
He's being a maverick.
So he's sort of been hoisted here in his own petard.
And uh it it'd be it would be tough for him to tell these guys to stop it.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies to Austin Town, Ohio.
This is Laura, and it's great to have you here.
Thanks, Russ.
Great to talk to you.
I'm calm down a little bit.
I uh called Lindsey Graham's office uh about 45 minutes ago and got into a heated debate with an office worker.
I said, you know, I was not a supporter of John McCain.
I said I've put my checkbook away.
I said the House Republicans are doing something that is inspiring conservatives.
I got out my checkbook to write again, and you just shut me down.
I said you're sabotaging McCain's candidacy and the presidency and you're handing it to Obama.
And he said that we need to get something done expediently or we're gonna lose the House and Obama's gonna have a 60-proof veto majority.
And I said, Well, Republicans are tired of you compromising with the Democrats.
If we wanted a Democrat plan, we would vote for him.
We want to drill on American soil.
I said, conservatives are excited about this.
You would have so much money flowing in if you would fight for our ideals.
And he told me, Well, what exactly uh is the plan that you're against?
And I said, You're raising going to be raising more taxes, you're gonna be giving in to environmental uh concerns, their their their agenda more so, and he said, Well, maybe you ought to read it before you uh just listen to Rush Limbaugh and what he's telling you.
He said, I've been taking angry calls for the past two hours over this.
Maybe you ought to think for yourself.
And I said, Well, Rush Limbaugh doesn't speak for us, but he is the voice of those who ask who get ignored by Washington senators like Lindsey Graham.
So Wow.
Proud of you.
You ladled it on.
Yeah, I was quite upset because for somebody to tell me that I don't have a mind of my own when I think conservatives have the greatest minds to think.
All right, now I want to go back over something that you said, the person in Lindsey Grahamnesty's office said to you.
This person said to you, we've got to do something.
We have to show compromise, because we've got to keep the Democrats from getting 60 seats in the Senate.
Yeah, he said they are going to have a veto-proof majority in the Congress.
Right.
Okay, so what that means is in the office of Lindsey Grahamnesty, the calculation has been made that in order for more Republicans to get elected, they have to show the willingness to compromise with Democrats on an issue the American people overwhelmingly oppose the Democrat stance.
Also, Lindsey Graham, none none of these guys faces a serious re-election challenge.
It's not as though they have to go out and show bipartisanship in order to win re-election.
That's just that's even worse than what they did.
By the way, did you tell this babe or was this a guy or a woman you were talking to in there?
A guy.
Did you tell him that this story is all over the Wall Street Journal?
Well, no, I didn't hear that part.
I've been in and out of the car all day.
Well, that's where I got the information.
So they they the Kimberly Straussel has written a column about it.
We double checked it.
The uh uh there's a there's an energy think tank that's uh that's really good that has even bullet bullet bullet pointed the problems of this bill even more.
I'll get the name of that to you in a second in the next break.
But it's all over the place.
it just happened last Friday, a week ago, Laura, but people just found out about it yesterday.
Well, my point to him was you are trying to save your congressional seats, but you're gonna in turn lose the presidency.
I said, so you are sabotaging McCain's campaign at this point, because if you don't have conservatives behind them, it's not gonna matter you winning all the seats in in Congress.
Well, that's a good point.
I don't know whether they look at it that way, but they are sabotaging McCain's campaign because McCain finally, finally had come around on energy.
He'd finally come around for drilling.
Uh and and except an end war.
But but then these guys come and do this, and it uh it it did take the wind out of McCain's sails for a while, but it's just it's just a deal among ten senators now.
It hasn't gone to the full Senate, but I mean with these five Republicans caving it, it's only going to take four more.
Well, I think they're getting the the wind knocked out of their sales because I don't think they expected the amount of calls.
It was tough getting through.
I'm not sure.
How could they not?
You know, that's another thing, Laura.
How could they how can they be so tone-deaf?
How can they not understand that essentially agreeing with the Democrat position on this?
No drilling, tax increases on oil companies, money spent on renewables and alternatives.
How could they not know that a hell storm would erupt?
I don't think they care.
To be honest, I think they are so beyond almost these senators that have been there forever, almost beyond help, because if they they have sabotaged themselves anymore, if they don't see that this has gotten conservatives, you know, excited and they're starting to write checks, which they've been hurting for money.
I don't understand how they could pull the rug out from under us and say, well, we need to do something expediently.
That just doesn't even make sense.
So I don't think they listen beyond Washington.
Well, the way I hear that is that they they sounds like they think that in order for them to win elections for Republicans to be re-elected, they gotta show a willingness to work with Democrats.
This is just of course their their role model for that is McCain.
So in one sense, it's understandable, but it isn't exp it isn't understandable in the sense that it undercuts the position of their party presidential nominee, as you have pointed out.
Well, I appreciate the uh the feedback on that call, Laura.
Thanks for taking it.
You bet.
Uh oh, oh, we I've got to play the song.
I forgot to play the song.
We can only play it one more time here, folks.
This one is so special.
Song is so special that we cannot overplay this because they don't want people to get tired of it.
Here it is, it runs three minutes, rush the knife.
Gotta be 19 or 20 years old.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, El Rushbo at 800 282-2882.
The environmental protection agency rejected yesterday a request to cut the federal government's quota for the use of ethanol in automobiles.
They uh concluding, at least for now, the national goal of reducing oil use trumps any effect on food prices from making fuel from corn.
So here's an agency of unelected people, the uh environmental protection agency, and you know that this agency is populated with a bunch of leftists.
And so people want to break we could you get rid of this mandate on uh on uh this quota on the use of ethanol in cars?
Nope, nope, nope, not gonna do it.
Not gonna do it.
Uh cutting down on our use of oil is far more important than people eating.
Of course the food.
The agency's administrator Steven Johnson said the mandate was strengthening our nation's energy security and supporting America's farming communities, and that the mandate was not causing severe harm to the economy or the environment.
Severe harm.
See, the harm to the economy or the environment isn't severe enough to reduce the quota.
And need I add, ladies and gentlemen, that the EPA will be given even more powers in this uh gang of ten bill in the Senate joined by five Republicans over uh restrictions and regulations on drilling.
Dalton, Georgia, this is Neil.
You are in the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
How are you doing, Rush?
Excellent two outstanding, sir.
Good deal.
Listen, uh uh the first time I heard about these five Republicans uh trying to uh cut this outrageous energy deal with these Democrats, uh, I heard from you this morning.
And when I heard it, uh it it just outraged me.
And I got on the phones of both Isaacson and Chamless's office, and I told him, I said, Well, what's wrong with these guys?
I said, have they lost their minds?
I said, I said, do they not understand that people in this state and in our country want us to drill for our own oil?
And I said, I don't consider it nothing less than a stab in the back.
And I said, I said, they better back away from this.
And the thing about it is, Rush, I voted for these guys.
And I'm ashamed that I voted for them now.
I can't believe that they would actually I thought Shamless was a pretty good senator because he always seemed to come down on the correct side of issues, but now he just it seems like he just turning out to be another uh another typical politician.
So it appears so on this issue.
Uh I was looking, I didn't know anything about this either.
This is a this this is one of these things that happened very quietly.
I didn't know about this till I read Kimberly Strassel's piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning, and then have it confirmed and backed up on uh on an energy uh activist website.
Uh I forgot to get that during the break, but I will get it.
I'm having a metal block as the name of it, but we'll link to it at Rush Limbaugh.com.
I I just like you, I mean I was I was just stunned.
I d it's it's it's worse than stupid.
It's so stupid there has to be some of the reason for this.
Well, I just I just can't uh uh you know, I I just can't, you know, I don't know what's wrong.
You know, I I've been listening to you for about three years, and I've become so much more informed about what's going on in this country and the government and such.
But you know, here I am out here b busting my hump just to put gas in my car, which is almost four bucks a gallon here.
And you know, here these guys are up in Washington, you know, that I voted for, and you know, it seems like all they care about is, you know, of course, their jobs.
Well, what did um what did they say?
I mean, you what are their representatives say who when you talk to them?
Well, Isaacson's office was was uh uh fairly cordial, but uh Shamless's office, and it took me a while to get through to both of them because their lines were busy.
Yeah, I'll bet you but Shamless's office, uh the lady that come on, she had a real bad attitude.
She said, Well, we've already gotten a bunch of calls about this.
I said, Well, now you got one more.
I said, You better tell the senator, I said he better get his head out of his butt, and he better back away from this, because he's gonna lose a lot of votes, and uh, you know, he's gonna have to pack his bag and find another line of work next time he comes up for election.
And if I hear any more about it, me personally, and I have a a large family and a lot of friends, and they all vote Republican, and they all voted for Chambless.
Uh if he doesn't back away from uh from this, uh none of them's gonna vote for him.
And uh and if and if he is so stupid to do something like this, uh, and and that's another thing, you know, the more I listen about it, the more that it just floors me.
How can anybody not want to go in our own country and get our own oil out when we have got so much?
And talking about all this environmental green stuff and alternative energies, yeah, I'm sure some of that stuff would do some good.
But you know, I'm totally in line with you.
You know, oil's gonna be here.
Everybody might as well face it.
And here we have, we've got a a bucket load or uh tons of bucket loads right underneath our feet, and people like Obama and these other just stupid Democrats, they don't even want to get it.
I mean, they you know, I I don't understand it, Rush.
I'm because because they don't control it.
Because they don't control the oil.
If they were if they could nationalize the oil companies, they'd be all for it.
If they participated in it, but they don't control it.
That's just one of the reasons that it's it's that it's it's irrational, but you're right, they hate it.
But this country of the Western democracies, the advanced industrialized Western democracies, this country is the cleanest in the world.
Oh, I'm not sure.
This oil, this oil this oil, my point is this oil, wherever it is, offshore, underground, is not polluting us.
It's not destroying, it's organic.
It is a commodity, and Democrats hate it.
It's like hating sugar.
It's like hating cotton.
It doesn't make any sense.
And you take oil out of the uh economic equation, and we're back.
We're back to the eighteen fifties.
Well, you know, oil, you know, I totally agree.
Oil is a natural product of the earth.
The plants and soil are.
You know, and and of course it is.
That's what I mean.
It's organic.
Ethanol is the artificial thing here.
Well, I'll tell you what, Rush, I don't know.
Is is is it even possible to elect anybody anymore that actually goes to Washington and stands up for the people and not get caught up in uh uh you know all the all the perks on their job and turn into a typical politician?
Because I'm beginning to wonder, because even the ones that you think uh are fairly decent good, once they get up there, they they turn out to be just like everybody else.
Yeah, there's something about that town that does conservatives uh in.
But look at Neil, let me explain something to you.
And I this is I mean this, it's it's people are gonna think this is a uh uh a lousy excuse for these guys, but look at who the Republican presidential nominee is.
Uh-huh.
John McCain.
What does he even say is his strong suit?
Working with Democrats.
It got him laudatory media time.
He was fawned over and loved for a while by the Washington Press Corps, by the Washington Social Circuit, and now he's ended up as the party nominee.
Well, now it's just in the sense that everybody's a copycat and politics is a copycat game, and you got Lindsey Graham, you know, hanging around with McCain all these years.
It could well be that these guys are simply following the leader, hoping that it will advance their careers as it advanced McCain's.
This is one of the problems that this whole nomination presents us.
At any rate, I gotta say quick time out here, folks.
We will be back and uh wrap up this hour right after this.
It's the Institute for Energy Research, uh website that has analyzed the gang of ten bill in the Senate described by uh Kimberly Strassel today in the Wall Street Journal.
I'll have more on this when we come back.
So sit tight, folks, and and chill out.
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