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Sept. 26, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 26, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All righty.
So Barack Obama called me if you need me, went to the gym this morning, took a quick shower, got in his airplane, headed for Mississippi, told the reporters he's been in constant contact.
He'll stay in contact.
He'll be available if he's needed.
McCain about a half an hour ago said, okay, I'm going to go down to Oxford.
I'm going to go do the debate.
I'm going to come back here to Washington, D.C. to continue to work on this, uh, work on this over the uh over the weekend.
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Okay, so the debate tonight is on big whoop.
Just another media event.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
Yes, I will watch it.
So as to, well, I'm just uh you know, this this uh Snurdly says you don't sound excited about it.
I'm not excited about it.
I guess it's gonna be it's gonna be like watching paint dry.
It just is gonna be dull as it's gonna be a dry ball affair.
At any rate, unless they talk about some of this economic stuff.
But any rate, uh what what interests me, I I want to, I want to tell you what's happening in Washington, and it is all politics on the Democrat side.
My friend, I I know that some of my liberal and moderate listener friends here you go again.
It's all part.
No, I it I'm telling you the truth.
I am going to tell you the truth of what happened in a White House meeting yesterday.
I'm gonna tell you the truth about what this is all about.
The Democrat Party is looking at this through one prism, and that is the presidential election.
Now, you have three factions out of four who agree with the so-called rescue.
And the rescue, the the best way to explain what what the immediate objective is is to provide liquidity for banks.
It's about the banking system, so they can loan money, borrow money, and all of that.
So you've got Paulson and Bush and the Democrats that make up three legs of this stool, and then you have the conservative House Republicans who make up the fourth leg.
Now, here's what you have to know.
There's something very simple.
All you have to know is this.
The Democrats can make this happen in both the House and the Senate without a significant number of Republican votes.
So you might ask, well, then why all this hassle?
Why are the Democrats insisting on Republican support for a deal that the Democrats and Bush and Paulson could do without without the Republicans, and they could cut the Republicans out of it.
Now, the Democrats, Harry Reid this morning, Chris Dodd, and all the Democrats yesterday, say we had a deal, we had a deal.
And then the House Republicans showed up and they sabotaged it.
Let me ask a very simple question.
Everybody knows the House Republicans are conservative.
How in the world can it be a surprise that the House Republicans' attitude about this is going to be conservative?
There never was a deal.
The announcement of the deal yesterday and the Democrats are continuing that lie today from Harry Reid to Clerk Claire McCaskill on down the line at Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer.
They are all trying to say there was a deal done yesterday until McCain showed up and inserted presidential politics into this.
This this is a clear attempt by the Democrats here to ace out McCain, but there's something else going on.
The Democrats have a majority in both houses.
They can do whatever they want.
The House Republicans, Boehner and his gang, God bless them.
They were cut out of this process by the same Democrats who are demanding their support.
The Democrats are demanding that the Republicans cave on what they believe.
Capital gains, what do you talk about?
What are we talking?
Oh, what do you What do you guys you guys from Mars and the House Republicans so far are holding firm?
Now you why don't the Democrats just want to do this on their own?
They don't want to be on the hook alone because their mail and phone calls on Capitol Hill is overwhelmingly opposed to this, and Dingy Harry, whether people understand it or not, they're overwhelmingly opposed to it, and Dingy Harry admits that in a uh lame and very aggravating press conference this morning with Chris Dodd.
Now, if this bill that the Democrats and Henry Paulson and Bush want, if it's so wonderful, why don't they do it?
And why don't they say, screw you, Boehner, and screw you, House Republicans?
We're going to do this wonderfully great bill, and you're gonna get left out of getting any other credit for it.
The Democrats want it both ways.
If this bill is so good, they should pass it, they should brag about it, they should take credit for it.
But what do we know?
What can we learn?
What we can learn is that the Democrats understand this bill's dirty as hell.
Lindsay Gramnesty last night was on Greta Van Sustran show on Fox and said, Look, what one of the things that the House Republicans have found here is that 20% of something in this bailout is going to go to Acorn.
The illegal Democrat fraudulent voter registration group that is directly tied to Barack Obama.
Twenty percent, not 20% of the whole amount, but 20% of something in this bailout's going to Acorn.
Well, how can the House Republicans support that?
They have to fight that kind of thing.
Acorn is a is a they're in court half the time defending what they're doing, and half time the liberal judges find them not guilty.
What they really want, what this is about, folks, in addition to many other things, they want the Republicans in the House to repudiate their own philosophy.
They want the Republicans in the House to repudiate their base, us.
Why?
It's not just for bragging rights.
Because if the House Republicans will cave here on conservative principles, these, you know, principles are principles.
You don't cave on principles.
You might cave on a tactic or a strategy, but you don't cave on principles.
Now, if if the Republicans can be forced into caving on their core principles, then can you imagine the pressure on them when to do all of this all over again only the subject is health care comes up?
Well, you did it once.
So there's the politically here, there is a lot at stake.
And you could say that Boehner and the guys, uh, you know, Jeb Henserling from Texas, they're they're fighting uh hugely important battle, and they are doing terrific work.
And if if this if this bill gets signed as it's apparently designed by the Democrats, then the Republican base will be said to uh very angry at their Republicans in the House, the conservatives for abandoning them and so forth.
So that that's that's that's part of what is uh is is going on.
The Democrats cannot get their story straight.
Uh Jennifer Rubin has a good uh little blog on this at uh at Contentions today, which is the commentary magazine website.
It's beyond dispute at this point that Congressional Republicans were never on board this.
And yet the Democrats today continue to lie that they had agreed to a framework yesterday.
It is equally clear that the Democrat majority doesn't want to act without the cover of a substantial number of Republican votes.
Now, again, it needs to be pointed out.
If this bill is so wonderful, and if it's so great, and if it's it's got so much in it that will save America, why don't the Democrats, okay, you guys don't want to be part of this?
Fine, we'll sign it, we'll handle it, we'll take all the credit for this, and you guys are gonna be left holding a bag when America ends up loving us.
If it's that wonderful, if it's that great, why do they want Republicans with them on the hook?
Well, I've just explained uh all of this.
Now, what happened in the White House meeting yesterday.
I was I did something I rarely do.
I picked up the phone last night and I talked to some people.
I don't use the phone much because generally there's somebody on the other end.
And I didn't call Washington.
I didn't call Washington.
I but I I I call some people that I thought might know what's going on here.
And then I have uh been working on this a little bit this morning.
And what happened in the White House meeting yesterday.
You haven't heard the truth of it.
I'll tell you when we get back.
Stay with us.
Now you can see the Democrats strategic replaying out here.
Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown from Ohio is on Fox right now, and he said, We're not even close to a deal.
We're not even close to a deal.
McCain came in here and blew it up.
They are desperate to blame this on McCain.
Now, folks, I want to tell you what happened at the White House meeting yesterday, and you are going to be stunned.
You will not, well, sadly, you will believe this.
At the meeting, you had McCain and Obama, you had John Boehner, you had dingy Harry Reed, you had uh Barney Frank, Chris Dodd was in there, there were some others, but those are the Pelosi was in there, these are the principals.
The meeting ostensibly was requested by McCain.
Well, no, the meeting was originally requested by Paulson.
Remember Paulson, and this is crucial here.
Paulson, the Treasury Secretary, called Lindsay Grahamnesty.
This, according to Bob Schaefer of CBS.
Paulson called Lindsay Grahamnesty and said, Look, I need the House Republicans, I need Republicans on this.
We can't get anywhere without him.
You got to call McCain.
He's the only one that can do it.
So that's why McCain goes to Washington to end up having four o'clock meeting at the White House yesterday.
They all think they're going into a negotiating session.
The president, in order to let everybody heard, deferred to various Democrats, and every one of the Democrats, Pelosi, Reed, Dodd, and Frank, declined to speak and deferred to Obama.
So Obama became the official Democrat spokesman in the meeting.
This was to hype Obama's leadership and presidential aura and so forth.
And what happened next, the first thing out of Obama's mouth, Paulson is in the meeting, and he starts ripping the Republic of the House Republican proposal and asks Paulson what he thinks of it.
This led Boehner and the other Republicans there to think they have been sandbagged.
We found out this morning that Obama had no clue because he was in transit doing other things.
He had no clue what the House Republican position was.
What happened was that on the way to the meeting, sometime during the day, Obama's staff received an email from Treasury Department employees who work for Paulson, detailing the House Republican plan.
So when when they when the Democrats deferred to Obama, he launched into that.
He had no clue what it was.
That's why he asked Paulson for his comments.
Paulson, I don't know what Paulson said, but this is what led to the fireworks.
This is what led to everything breaking down in there.
This is why Dingy Harry walked out because they it didn't work.
Because Obama it ended up with Obama essentially chairing the meeting with the meeting falling apart.
The president was described as beleaguered trying to regain control of the meeting.
McCain didn't say hardly anything.
Everybody was yelling and screaming in there.
McCain did not.
He said, We've got to put these differences aside work together, you know, typical McCain.
According to an Obama campaign source, and this is from the American Spectator blog today.
According to an Obama campaign source, the notes on the Republican position, House Republican position, were passed to Obama via senior age traveling with him, who had been emailed the document via a current Goldman Sachs employee and Wall Street fundraiser for the Obama campaign.
The Obama campaign source said it was made clear the memo was from friends and it was reliable.
The memo, which basically briefed Obama on the Republican position.
So you see, Obama did not defend the Democrat position on this.
He did He led off with an attack on the Republican position as though it was a shock and a surprise under the auspices that this deal had already been agreed to.
When of course, there's no surprise about what House Republicans believe, and there's no surprise what conservatism is.
The memo that Obama got allowed him and his Democrats to box in Republican attendees and took what Bush had billed as a negotiating session off the rails.
Now, a House Republican leader who was not at the White House meeting told the American Spectator that Paulson and his team have not acted in good faith for this president or the administration for which they serve.
Paulson, Goldman Sachs, is a Democrat.
He's very close to Chuck Schumer, and obviously close to Obama.
So this whole meeting yesterday essentially was established to show off Obama's leadership skills and negotiating skills, and he blew it.
People who disagree with him, he has no idea how to negotiate.
And even Obama ended up last night.
I think the Democrats were so frightened that the truth would come out about what happened in this meeting.
Obama started flooding the TV networks about 6:30.
He was on Fox News with Brett Hume, he called him.
He was on World News Tony, was all over the place doing a bit of a CYA without explaining why he was doing a CYA.
But I want you to listen to what he said to Brett Hume on the Fox News channel last night.
Um it was a it was a bit of a press conference.
It wasn't that he called these networks and I want to be on.
Uh, but he held a press conference and listen to what he said.
Well, here's my uh number two.
I think that the way that I've been working over the last week, constantly in contact with the Secretary and the Congressional Leaders, um uh, you know, may end up creating an environment in which you can actually get something done.
So he's admitting nothing got done in there.
It's probably not good for him to be in things like this because he didn't, it's better for him to be our way, somewhere on the sidelines, in constant contact with everybody on the phone.
Obama says, you know what, it's just better if everybody else gets the room and then I arbitrate on the phone.
And when I watched his statement when he got on his campaign point today, headed down to Oxford, Mississippi for the debate, he said the same thing.
Well, I'm in constant contact.
I have been talking with uh, and he mentioned all Democrats, but they've been talking to him all morning today.
I'll continue to talk to them, and I'll continue to be available if um if uh if necessary.
Uh, this uh ladies and gentlemen is a is a is uh I think it's a tremendous uh indication.
I don't know why people have people why didn't the White House put this out?
White House, they don't White House is is is in interested in the deal getting done.
The uh they don't want to insert themselves in presidential politics.
Dana Perino was asked about this at her press conference this morning or White House briefing.
Uh, she was asked about the the White House meeting and what happened.
Well, you know, I'm uh uh we we we uh uh we're trying to protect things going on.
We really don't want to insert ourselves in the presidential politics and uh and so forth.
But I'll tell you what, it this disaster that was Obama attempting to take over and chair the meeting yesterday, it it makes sense of what's happening today.
The Democrats have unleashed this blitzkrieg of insults and bizarre accusations directed at McCain.
He shouldn't have shown up.
We could have gotten this done without presidential politics.
He came in here and blow it up.
Um McCain did put some stuff out last night to the people in the press on their on their mailing list.
And from the sounds of the things from McCain's campaign, Obama was off they're confirming this too, and but but not in a in his uh slam knuckle way, but they're confirming it without the prompter, he didn't know what he's doing in there.
Uh things broke down quickly after his first point was raised.
It was a disaster with Obama at the helm, and he probably made a fool of himself in that room, and the Democrats running interference for him today, trying to lay all this failure and all this off on McCain.
Uh, it is no wonder he didn't want to be in Washington when the sausage is being made to use a cliche.
It's no wonder he didn't.
McCain forced him there, dragged him there kicking and screening.
And that that post statement, the postmeeting statement.
I mean, and by the way, it took a few hours to come up with this.
You know, he and his 300 PR advisors had to craft that place, play sound bite number two again.
Listen to this.
I think that the way that I've been working over the last week, constantly in contact with the Secretary and the Congressional leaders, um uh, you know, may end up creating an environment in which you can actually get something done.
I I can't get over that.
He's admitting something can't get done with him in the room in uh in charge of things.
He's admitting it here.
He was in charge of meeting ended in chaos.
Apparently Obama works best when leaders get their hands dirty and he can talk to them by phone.
Because that way while he's on the phone, his thinkers can sort out what his reaction should be to what he is hearing on the other end of the phone.
Back in a sec.
Something interesting, uh, ladies and gentlemen from the politico that they posted last night about all of this, and the whole sequence of events confirm Treasury's fears about the decision by Bush at the urging of McCain to allow presidential politics into what were already difficult negotiations.
Now, wait a minute.
Treasury's fears, there wasn't a deal.
There was never a deal all day long yesterday.
The Democrats lied to their noses about that.
There was never a deal.
There was an attempt to pressure McCain or to make it look like McCain was irrelevant to getting a deal.
They announced they had a deal before McCain got there.
The Republicans in the House have been cut out of all the discussions.
Now the Democrats are desperate for the House Republicans to come back and give them cover on what they're telling us is a wonderful bill.
I still don't understand why the Republicans or the Democrats rather won't just go ahead and sign this thing or pass it.
They've got the votes to do it.
Well, I understand why I explained it in the first half hour.
But what are you Treasury's fears?
They had no deal.
It was bleak going into this White House meeting, even before presidential politics, quote unquote, was inserted.
But Bob Schiefer said it was Paulson who contacted McCain through Gramnesty in order to get him there, and yet the political is reporting that it was McCain who wanted the meeting and so forth.
Regardless, what you have to know here, there was no deal on the table that had any consensus.
It was all a setup, folks, to uh make it look like McCain wasn't needed.
It was all posturing to prevent dialogue, to prevent the opportunity, to bring an improved piece of legislation to all of this.
And Obama's postmeeting comments said he thought a deal was done.
Of course it wasn't done.
I don't know what he really knew or what he had been told.
I don't think the guy knows much of anything until somebody tells him.
So I don't know if he was told there was a deal and this is the way to play it in the meeting and in the post-meeting press conferences.
I really don't, but it wasn't done.
McCain was never part of any deal, neither were House Republicans, and probably not Senator Shelby in Dement either.
So Obama wanted a quick and dirty piece of Bush legislation to fly through.
He could taste the money available from the cell sell those assets and uh go into his acorn buddies.
He didn't even pretend not to be obsessed with getting his hands in that deal.
He ran, he ran to it like a half-starved animal.
But when he got there, he indicated and illustrated that he hasn't the slightest clue into handling a meeting.
Listen, more of a press conference here.
This is on Fox News Channel's uh special report with Britt Hume.
After Obama's press conference, Obama did make some rounds of the TV networks.
One of them was Fox.
Britt Hume said, look, if tomorrow midday we are where we are, meaning today, and we still got an outstanding problem with a package that isn't agreeable, so you can get majorities to both parties, both houses.
Would it make sense for you to go down to Mississippi, or would it be better for you to stay here and try to do what you could?
Well, here's my uh observation, Brett, and and I think it it may have been confirmed in the meeting today.
Uh when you inject presidential politics into delicate negotiations, uh Sometimes it's not helpful for us, precisely at this difficult time to be able to say to the American people for 90 minutes, then it's possible to fly down to Mississippi and back fairly quickly, that this is where we want to take the country, and this is what this potentially means for you.
I continue to think that's the most important thing we can do.
All right.
So once again, Barack Obama admitting that his presence in the White House meeting was a disaster.
That's what he's admitting.
Now you wouldn't know that watching last night if you didn't know what happened in there.
But now that you do, it's easy to interpret these sound bites.
Well, here's my observation.
May have been confirmed at the meeting today when you inject presidential politics into delegate negotiations.
McCain didn't say much in the meeting, folks.
The yelling and screaming took place and it broke down, but McCain was not part of it.
What by the way, what is this insertion of presidential politics?
We all we have a president involved in this.
Now, yeah, he's a lame duck, but he's still in there.
It was his meeting, and it was a courtesy call to bring McCain and Obama in there.
Why what why is presidential politics screw this up?
To me, it's the insertion of congressional politics that's making a mess of this.
It's the insertion of Democrat Party hack politics.
They're not interested in a good deal here for the country.
That's not what this is about.
This is about power.
This is about securing the White House for themselves and their majorities in both houses of Congress.
They're looking at this purely through a political prison.
And as usual, the Republicans here are saying trying to stay tried and true to their principles, which are based on what's best for the country.
Again, uh for my liberal and moderate listeners, if this bill that the Democrats and Paulson and Bush have crafted it's such a great bill for the country, why don't they go ahead and sign it and then point fingers of blame at the Republicans?
See, you didn't you didn't want to, you wouldn't want to help us help the country.
We're gonna get all the credit for this, Boehner.
We're gonna get all the credit for this, Senator Shelby, and you're gonna be left out in the cold.
That alone should answer the question why they will not continue, ladies and gentlemen, to um go ahead and make this bill a reality with their own votes.
They want Republicans so that Republicans can share and take the heat, so it'd be bipartisan heat, because remember the messages coming into there are a hundred to one from the public against this, and the Democrats need cover.
And as a side benefit, if they can get the conservative Republicans to repudiate conservatism and get the conservative Republicans to repudiate their base, well then they get a twofer.
Now, since Obama performed so inadequately, caused a meeting to blow up and could not regain control of it after basically one or two questions that he raised or points that he made.
The Democrats, starting last night, had to circle the wagons and get the spin out, and they're being pretty successful at this.
I mean, for how many other places have you heard what really happened in a White House meeting?
And you don't want to know why, by the way, Hank Paulson practically begged everybody in that meeting not to say a word about what happened.
Wonder why.
Wonder why.
So if you don't know what happened in a White House meeting, you'd have to say the Democrats spin today that this is all McCain's fault, that his arrival blew this up.
That's their theme today, and that's what they're trying to sell this morning at a Capitol Hill press conference, Dingy Harry and Chris Dunn.
I can't these guys make me sick.
These guys make me physically angry watching them.
They insult my intelligence.
Dawn asked me today about a half hour before the program.
Do you think Chris Dodd's having trouble sleeping at night?
You think he's I said, why?
Well, what?
Well, because he's he's so involved in this.
I said, No.
Chris Dodd knows nothing's gonna happen to him.
And Barney Frank knows nothing's gonna happen to him.
Nobody's gonna investigate him, and their voters are not gonna throw them out of office.
They're not worried about these guys are the most arrogant, condescending people that you'd ever want to run into.
Dodd reminds me of just a slick snake oil salesman.
Dingy Harry's just a mean, bitter little man.
And Barney Frank is just Barney Frank.
I mean, he's one of the most outrageous partisans, socialists, that come down to Pike to the R. So here, listen to Dingy Harry today.
Portion of his remarks at the press conference.
The insertion of presidential politics has not been helpful.
I repeat, the insertion of presidential politics has not been helpful.
It's been harmful.
A few days ago I called on Senator McCain to take a stand.
Let us know where he stands on the issue on this bailout.
But all he has done is stand in front of the cameras.
Wait a second, Senator Reed.
See, these these guys want it both ways.
You can't have him here.
It's the assertion of presidential politics.
You want him to take a stand on it.
But that phrase, the insertion of presidential politics, has not been helpful.
I repeat, the insertion of presidential politics has not been helpful.
That's at McCain.
It's not aimed at Bush.
Certainly not aimed at Obama.
It is aimed at McCain.
These are his buddies, by the way.
I want to point out these are his precious Democrat friends.
on the other side of the aisle in the United States Senate, who are trying to wipe him out.
Dingy Harry continued.
We have Senator Bennett, who is a high-ranking Republican senator, standing before all of you saying, we've got a deal in principle.
All we have to do is put it down in writing, and this be this is almost over with.
And then guess who came to town?
And that completely fell apart.
The vehicle came off the tracks.
Now the Republican House has to decide what they want to do.
Are they serious about one of the issues that has to be taken care of is lowering the capital gains tax?
Is that part of what this is all about?
They're going to have to become realistic.
So you see, ridicule conservative ridicule the concept of lower taxes on capital gains to spur in ridicule that spur investment.
Ridicule that.
Make fun of that.
You guys in the House of Republicans.
You're going to get serious.
You really.
You really think that's what we're talking about here?
I try to shame them, ridicule him, made a love for them to give that one up, folks.
And Sherrod Brown just said what you heard Dingy Harry say.
Sherrod Brown just said it this morning.
The thing came off the tracks.
Guests who came to town, and it completely fell apart.
Well, Obama came to town too.
And the fact of the matter is, Senator Reed, and you all know it.
What fell apart was the White House meeting because of Barack Obama's incompetence and inability to conduct one.
And the Democrats, stop and think of this.
Now the president's in there, he's trying to do this meeting with uh negotiation.
And the Democrats all defer to Obama.
They're going to make him their representative in there.
All to set him up to establish his aura.
I guarantee if this meeting would have gone differently, you know what the spin after the meeting would have been?
And Paulson would have not told anybody not to say anything.
The spin would have been, you should have seen Obama.
I have never seen anybody command a meeting like he did.
He walked in there, had command of the issues, and he pointed everybody, see, you do this and you do this, and you take care of that, we'll get it done.
That's what they were hoping for.
That's what they wanted.
They wanted a myth that Barack Obama came in there and took over the White House and was acting as president to get this done.
Except one thing happened.
He didn't know what to do without the prompter.
They forgot to send in the teleprompter.
And so it went off the rails.
If it went off the rails, Senator Reed, it was your boy.
It was your guy.
It was your candidate, Barack Obama who took it off the rails.
Now here's Dingy Harry admitting most Americans don't like it, but that that doesn't matter.
Is this pleasant work?
No, it's not pleasant work.
Look what's happening to the calls coming into our offices and our emails.
People are very unhappy with what we're doing.
But we believe we have an obligation to the country, and that is Wall Street and Main Street.
Well, now isn't it interesting?
When you don't like the Duby Ports dealer, listen to you.
When you don't like immigration, they got the message.
You don't like this, screw you.
You are main street.
You're main street.
You're letting them know you don't like it as you have heard about it, and yet you're gonna do it anyway.
I don't want to tell you something too.
We'll be right back, stay with it.
Stand by audio soundbite number 30, Mr. Broadcast Engineer.
Let's go back.
Uh, we doesn't matter.
Here's Harry Reed.
We're up to Soundbite 7 here.
I want to get one more here on Senator Ree because I just had I had just had a brilliant memory flash.
I'm embarrassed that I had forgotten this.
Here's here's Dingy Harry uh speaking to the press about the meeting.
This is uh this is his version of what happened at the White House meeting.
I would uh suggest that anyone in that meeting that tried to understand what John McCain said at the meeting, couldn't.
He was the last person to speak.
The meeting, talk for a couple of minutes, and um really didn't say anything substantive.
I don't know how somebody does this.
How do you go out and do it when you know the exact opposite happened?
Well, that may have happened.
Who knows?
McCain may not have made any sense.
I don't know, but how do you go out there knowing full well that your plan backfired totally, that your effort to make Obama take over that meeting and look presidential and come out and spend my we don't even need Bush.
We can just put Obama in there now.
He was magnificent.
He was brilliant.
He took over this meeting, he made it sing.
That's what they wanted to say.
Now, is this Harry Reid who says he doesn't want McCain anywhere near this?
Get out of town, McCain came here, screwed it up, took it off the rails, insertion of presidential politics.
Here's the memory flash.
Wasn't it Harry Reed, the same Harry Reed, who said last week, we don't know what to do.
We don't have any idea.
We don't know what to do.
I don't even know if we had that soundbite last week.
I don't but I know he said it.
We don't know what to do.
And it was it was that soundbite that led me to start.
These guys are going to leave town without doing anything.
Remember, I started saying these guys are gonna split the scene without doing anything, as they weren't, but they were they wanted no part of this back then.
Harry, we don't know what to do.
Nobody knows what to do.
Less than a week later, they have all the answers, but only if the Republicans will sign on.
This stinks, and I am focusing on the politics of this instead of the substance, because nobody knows what the substance is going to be yet, folks.
Nobody knows, but the the politics is frankly, it's what interests me.
It's what's instructive.
It is what's the most informative about this right now.
We have the Democrat Party's presidential candidate, this magnificent man, this man who has graced us with his birth and his presence, this man, the likes of which we have never seen trod the soil of the American political turf.
Can't chair a meeting without it falling apart.
The great unifier, ladies and gentlemen.
The great unifier who screwed it up.
No wonder he really didn't want to be involved in all this, because it would be easier for him to be able to say he had no idea.
Acorn, his community agitator group was getting all that money.
Here is Sherrod Brown this afternoon, Fox News Live, Jane Skinner talking to him.
She said, he's Senator from Ohio said, how how are we gonna reconcile this if something isn't done?
The White House just said the Treasury Secretary thinks that started business Monday by the opening bell Monday, we need to have something.
Before Senator McCain went to the White House, um there was general agreement among um Senate Republicans, Senate Democrats, House Democrats on the broad outlines of a package.
Not unanimous.
I mean, I'm not I'm not there yet because of the because of several things, but generally broad consensus, and the House Republicans and Senator McCain kind of blew it up.
Well, isn't he saying there wasn't a deal then?
He's admitting essentially slips up and there really wasn't a deal, and he wasn't even signed on to it.
Admittedly, I'm not there yet, uh but and then he dumps on the House Republicans in McCain.
That's what, folks, the politics of this is what's instructive.
The politics of this is what is informative.
Sadly, as well the politics of this is what is just infuriating and maddening.
It's very seldom that I say TGIF.
I'm glad it's Friday.
But I need a break from this garbage.
I I just I'm about my skull is about to blow up.
I'm that angry over what the Democrat Party, and there's a lot to be mad at them about, and it's cumulative.
You will how if this bothers you, why didn't it?
It all bothers me.
And it's just a cumulative.
I hate, I hate criminals getting away with it.
I hate liars getting away with it.
I hate the people who destroy institutions getting away with it, and then being put in charge to fix them, which will only screw them up more.
I hate that.
I cannot stand that.
Harry Reid, nine days ago.
No one knows what to do.
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