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Nov. 14, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 14, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, I didn't see this one coming.
This is rather odd, but between the start of this show and right now, a matter of about 30 seconds, 430 more Al Franken votes have been found in Minnesota.
You didn't see that one coming.
I mean, they're coming out of the woodwork up here.
We are at the Northern Command.
Welcome to the great state of Minnesota, the only state in the union where our poll-watching teams are staffed by Acorn.
Kind of tells it where the Frank and Coleman race is headed.
We're going to touch on that a little later.
I am Jason Lewis.
Great to be in for the great one once again, El Rushbo, who I would presume is on about the fourth tee right now, but always nice.
He'll be back on Monday.
Always nice to be behind the golden EIB Mike in the Attila the Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, a la the northern command.
You know, Rush is gone, but it is a Friday.
And I am, yeah, that's right.
I cannot run against tradition.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
You got it.
Thank you, Mike.
That's exactly right.
This is your time to call at 1-800-282-2882 when you get to, well, you, the ranked amateur, gets to play kind of quasi-host with another, well, kind of quasi-host.
That would be me, Minnesota's Mr. Wright, and for the great one today.
Hey, I've got some interesting stuff in the category, the Democratic category of tolerance, unity, and inclusion.
Up here in the Twin Cities, there's a little college called Augsburg College, and a Sarah Palin supporter from Alaska was beaten on election night while walking to her dorm, called a racist by a group of four large women who surrounded her after they were done watching the returns.
Under a skyway connecting the two buildings, four women came up, called her a bunch of names because she had a Sarah Palin pin on.
They knew she was a McCain Palin supporter.
She's 5'2 ⁇ , weighs 120 pounds.
She's from Alaska, but I think they reside in Minnesota now, she and her mother.
She's on the college hockey team.
They grab her by the shoulders, start threatening her.
She's scared.
She wants to get out, so she does shove one of them.
She's trying to get away.
Bam.
Smash her in the eye, punch her right in the eye.
Her eye is swollen, blurred vision.
Back of her head hits a brick building.
She holds her eye, goes through a room.
The next day, the team trainer from the hockey team checks her out.
Probably had a concussion.
Probably had a concussion.
Guess what?
Augsburg says she ought to attend counseling.
I'm not making that up.
She said this young woman said she's also been required by the school to attend counseling, and she missed a day of classes.
Strange.
I don't know.
Maybe the other girls might need a little more counseling or some jail time.
Now, we don't know if they were students or not.
There's some evidence to suggest they weren't.
This isn't the first time that this has happened to this woman at Augsburg.
Apparently, a PETA person, according to local reports up here in the Star Tribune, had to be removed, perhaps forcibly, from her dorm room because she was upset by a photo that this young girl had of a black bear she had shot in Alaska.
Higher education, the greatest oxymoron known to mankind these days.
Oh, more in the category of Democratic tolerance, unity, and inclusion.
You're going to love this.
Representative Rah Emmanuel, this is president-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, as you know, called the president of an Arab American group today to apologize for the comments of his father.
Apparently, his father made these comments to an Israeli newspaper when asked about the potential impact, according to the New York Times today, about his son's new position on U.S.-Israeli relations.
Israel is very concerned about the Obama-Biden administration.
And so Rahm Emanuel's dad says, quote, well, obviously he'll influence the president to be pro-Israel.
Why wouldn't he?
What is he?
An Arab?
He's not going to be mopping floors at the White House, close quote.
Oh, shrewd, shrewd.
This is the best and the brightest coming into the new administration.
You know, that ought to play well in Dubai.
Reaching out to those moderate Arab countries whom we need in the war on terror, that ought to work pretty well.
And finally, if you thought the president-elect was going to reach out, I've seen no signs of it yet.
I don't know about you.
Maybe who?
Richard Luger at the Department of Agriculture, Chuck Hagel, the Department of State?
No.
The name now being floated, Department of State, Hillary Clinton.
President-elect Obama reportedly has narrowed the possibilities for Secretary of State, and Clinton is among those being strongly considered.
I'm not quite certain how that would work.
I mean, you either cease the hostilities, Iran, or we'll send Hillary over.
Maybe this whole diplomacy thing might work.
I'm not altogether certain.
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You know, up in Minnesota, let me fill you in on what's going on because it is very, very crucial.
The Senate, the Democrats just need 58 members.
They've got Susan Collins.
They've got Olympia Snow.
They may have Lamar Alexander with what he's been talking about, moderation in the Republican Party.
Basically, they don't need 61.
They need 58, and they can flip a couple of moderate Republicans, and they can prevent the Republicans from then filibustering bad legislation, or dare we say, a judicial appointment.
You thought the gang of 14 was over?
Remember when the Dems were thinking about a judicial filibuster for, was it Roberts or Alito or both?
I think it was Alito, if I remember correctly.
Oh, you can't filibuster a judicial appointment.
Hasn't been done since Abe Fortas.
Well, the Republicans better get ready to be called hypocrites because when some of these radical judges come up, they need to filibuster them.
Gang of 14, be damned.
They need to say, no, we're not going to allow this.
We got 41 votes and we're going to filibuster this judicial appointment because it is a radical departure of, oh, I don't know, the Constitution, separation of powers, federalism, enumerated powers, doctrine, legislative deference, all of the good things that make someone a strict constructionist that defines original intent or originalism, if you will.
They've got to be ready to filibuster.
Now, they'll be called hypocrites because you were complaining about the Democrats filibustering.
But folks, you've got to fight the Democrats with their own game or in their own game, in their own way.
You've got to fight fire with fire.
I'm so tired of these Namby-Pamby, pell-mail Republicans saying we're going to rise above, and then they get the tar beat out of them and wonder why they lose elections.
So if you're worried about the Supreme Court, and I think many conservatives and people that don't like the consolidation of power in a judicial oligarchy are, then you better be ready for a judicial filibuster.
Well, you've got to have enough Republican senators willing to do it.
Olympia Snow won't do it.
Susan Collins won't do it.
The rest of the moderates won't do it.
So the Democrats figure they'd get 58 members.
They've got a filibuster-proof Senate.
Well, that's why they're fighting for Al porno Rama-Franken.
You probably aren't aware of Al's writings.
Maybe you are.
The guy writes porn.
He engages in the most salacious talk you could possibly imagine.
He failed to pay his taxes in 17 states under the Al Franken Corporation, but wants to raise yours.
He failed to pay his worker comp premiums in New York, but says it ought to be easier to get workers' comp for everybody else, which would socket two employers out there.
I don't have to mention that this guy is just to the left of, well, Karl Marx.
I mean, Al really is an uber liberal.
And so that's why so many special interests are flooding Minnesota.
They want to come in and get Al Franken in the U.S. Senate.
So this is a fight up here.
The status quo right now is this.
Norm Coleman has already won.
The incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman has won this race twice already.
On election night, 725 votes he was up by.
Now those votes started to dwindle.
They found 100 here in the Iron Range.
The Iron Range is part of Northeast Minnesota, represented by the demagogue in chief, Representative James Oberstar, who was last seen in the rubble of the I-35W bridge collapse a little over a year ago saying this proves it.
We need a higher federal gas tax.
I'm not making that up.
But that is solid Democrat territory in northeastern Minnesota up by Duluth.
And surprisingly, that's where all of Al Franken's newfound votes came in in the days following the election.
246 from one little precinct north of Duluth.
Didn't find any Coleman votes, just Franken votes that somehow were missed.
Had 100 in St. Louis County, 100 in Pine County, an absentee, 32 absentee ballots found in somebody's car.
Now, they're denying it was in the car, but they're not telling us where they found them.
This is all after midnight on election night.
You're wondering how this can happen with optical scanners.
You know, if you throw in an improper ballot in an optical scanning machine, which Minnesota has, it rejects it immediately.
So you get to redo your ballot on election night.
So how are these new votes being found?
Well, a lot of suspicions being raised.
Statistician extraordinaire Dr. John Lott, a good buddy of mine, looks at this from a statistician viewpoint and is amazed at how many extra votes they are finding in just three precincts out of 4,100.
Franken's new votes, over 500, came from three precincts.
That's it.
Half the gain from one precinct.
Of the 500-plus new votes for Franken from all the precincts that were found, that's greater than adding together all of the changes, other new votes, found in all the other precincts in the entire state for all the other races.
Now, even considering that, my friends, I sound like John McCain, don't I?
Even considering that, Coleman is still up 206 votes.
So what they've done is they've certified the unofficial results in Minnesota.
So you have the election.
We used to think that's when the actual votes would be taken.
We have the election.
Coleman's up by 725.
Then he's up by 477.
Then he's up by 336.
Then 239.
Then 221.
Now 206.
And those final results, they're unofficial, have been certified.
Well, since it's within a half a percent, there's going to be an administrative recount that starts on November 19th.
And here is where it really gets sticky and where the Franken team is looking towards Florida.
Because under Minnesota law, guess what?
They can go through all the ballots by hand, which the canvassing board is about to do, and they can determine with their omniscience voter intent.
Now, this is perplexing.
They're going to look at ballots that were in the machines, take them all out, and say, gosh, there's an undervote here for Al.
They voted for Barack Obama.
They voted for a Democrat down the ballot, but they didn't vote for Al Franken, which is not surprising because poll numbers showed that he was running behind Obama, even in liberal Minnesota, because he's way out there.
Well, how are they going to determine that someone inadvertently skipped or forgot to fill in the oval for Al Franken?
Omnisciently, they're going to say, well, instead of a hanging Shad, we think this little pencil mark here is actually a vote for Al.
Now, the canvassing board that will determine this during the administrative recount is made up of two Minnesota Supreme Court justices, two trial court judges, and are you ready for this?
Left-wing Minnesota Secretary of State, Mark Ritchie, who came from the community organizing community.
He got into office in 2006 with the help of the Secretary of State project, a project related to the moveon.org crowd.
He has a history of working with Acorn.
In fact, on one of their websites, chieforganizer.org, they praise Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a longtime organizing colleague from the nonprofit sector, and he addressed the ACORN board and talked about his partnership with ACORN.
In 2003, he led National Voice, a community-based organization across the country to increase voter turnout.
So you know where the Secretary of State is coming.
In fact, not long ago, he said that the Coleman campaign's goal was to win at any price.
And this guy is going to head up the canvassing board that is going to count the votes.
You wonder why a few folks might be a little suspicious.
And that's where we are in Minnesota.
And that's why so many people are interested in this race.
The Senate outcome is resting on it.
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I'm Jason Lewis in for El Rushbo to your calls when we return on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Well, that two-day stock rally or one-day stock rally was nice while it lasted.
I guess the market's down, what, 330 now?
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I am Jason Lewis in for El Rushbo playing golf, we think, in the Limbaugh Open.
And of course, he'll be back on Monday.
In the meantime, check out rushlimbaugh.com, 1-800-282-2882.
And we've got to get into the financial markets sometime today.
But before we do that, one more thing on the Minnesota Senate race that everybody seems to be talking about now, because the balance of unchecked power rests on this.
That's why this is so important.
I don't care what particular phase of public policy you're looking at.
If, in fact, the Democrats have control in Washington with a filibuster-proof Senate, you're going to see something akin to the Jimmy Carter era as opposed to the Bill Clinton era.
Now, I'm no fan of Bill Clinton, but the Republicans did hold him in check.
Initially, when he tried to pass the Hillary Health Care Plan, when they tried their stimulus bill, when Al Gore tried his carbon tax, they went down in defeat and the Republicans took control in 1994.
Clinton was then forced to sign welfare reform, cut the capital gains tax, keep Alan Greenspan, although that may not have been a good idea, and to do a number of other things that actually limited the government's power.
So he did not have complete unchecked power.
If, in fact, the Senate race goes to the Democrats in Minnesota, Barack Obama will.
And that will change the fabric of this republic if it remains a republic.
And that's why so many vested interests, from the moveon.org crowd to the special interests to the trial lawyers are up here.
In fact, there was an email circulated by the teachers union in this state looking for volunteers for Al Franken in the recount process.
Now, this is going to end up like Florida, as I mentioned before, primarily because we're now going through an administrative recount where somehow this canvassing board, five members, can determine the voters' will.
Let's let every vote count.
Well, sure, let's count Mickey Mouse's.
Let's count the starting lineup from the Dallas Cowboys.
Let's have all those Acorn registrations.
You know, this thing, in my view, has got to get to court.
This right now is not an officially contested election.
It only becomes a contested election when it goes to court.
And you've got a trial, literally, that's going to determine the outcome.
And then that determines, or is based upon the view, quite frankly, of the Supreme Court of this state, much like the Democratic Supreme Court of the state of Florida.
People forget how quickly we forget how the Democrats were trying to throw the election in 2000.
People forget that the reason the feds got involved under the auspices of the Equal Protection Clause, which may or may not have been a good idea, but the reason is because the Florida State Supreme Court, liberals all, decided to throw the election.
The statutory language was clear in 2000.
You've got to have the votes in by a certain date.
There were a couple of key deadlines.
That policy was debated in the Florida legislature.
Catherine Harris enforced the policy.
End of story.
If Dade County or whomever doesn't get the votes in, it's too bad.
We can't sit here and say, oh, don't worry, two weeks later, we'll count the votes in the spirit of letting every vote count.
And so the Secretary of State ruled, deadline's over.
Bush won on a number of recounts, administrative recounts.
He won on election night.
He won after the recounts.
Enter the judicial, the raw judicial power of the Florida State Supreme Court.
Well, we don't like the statute.
We don't like the law.
Perfect example of judicial activism.
So we're going to extend the deadlines so that the voters' will can be manifest.
And they rewrote the law.
They imposed their policy preference for that of the legislatures.
Well, we debated when the deadline should be in the Florida legislature.
They made the law, not the judges.
If the judges want to make law instead of enforce it with opinions, then they can run for a state house or run for Congress.
Well, what I'm saying is it is analogous to what's going to happen in Minnesota if this gets to court, which I think it will, because now you're going to go to court and you could have a much wider investigation.
To wit, Acorn, the Uber left, radical Saul Alinsky group, started out as a welfare rights organization that has been indicted in just about every other, you know, members have been indicted in just about every other state in the union.
I'm exaggerating only for effect.
I think the last counter is 12 or 15.
In Wisconsin, they were paying felons to register people.
They registered Mickey Mouse in Florida.
They registered the starting lineup for the Dallas Cowboys in Nevada.
They're finding these Acorns, thousands.
We're not talking a few hundred.
I believe it was the city of Houston refused to count 20,000 registrations.
In Minnesota, in the last two cycles, 2006, 2008, Acorn has had a free hand because county attorneys, Democrats all, and the Secretary of State, the community organizer, Mark Ritchie himself in Minnesota, refused to look into the Acorn registrations.
There's a group up here called Minnesota Majority that says, hey, we found a number of voting irregularities, such as six voters in one house, eight voters in one house.
We want you to look into these Acorn registrations.
They're saying, no, you've got 80,000 Acorn registrations that really haven't been investigated.
If it goes to court, there's an outside chance that the investigation could be broadened to look at that, depending on what the court does.
And if it's appealed, depending on what the Minnesota State Supreme Court would say.
Does this all sound familiar?
That's why the battleground right now for the United States Senate is in Minnesota and why Franken and Coleman are fighting so hard for this.
It's critical to the country right now.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, I'm Jason Lewis, Minnesota's real anchorman with talent on loan today from El Rushbo.
Welcome back to the EIB, 1-800-282-2882.
Let's get to the phones on this open line Friday.
First up, Mylan in Raleigh, North Carolina.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Jason Lewis.
Hi.
Hey, Jason, Megha Dittos from North Carolina.
And I just get so upset when I start hearing about the stuff in Minnesota and, of course, the whole election.
It just seems like the Democrats are ready for these situations and, you know, being fraudulent or whatever, but they're ready.
And the Republicans seem to always take a back seat and is always behind a step or two.
And it's like you have a bully, and the bully keeps on hitting you in the face, and all you do is turn the other cheek or say, well, well, that's, I just don't understand it.
I don't know why.
There is an inane problem with we conservatives.
We don't much care for government.
Do you really want to go and shuffle paper in the state house?
Do you really want to sit on the county commission and just talk about reshuffling resources instead of creating wealth?
Do you really want it's not something that we like?
We are the leave-us-alone crowd.
So naturally, we don't gravitate towards government.
Unfortunately, you've got this well-funded, merry band of committed socialists, neo-Marxists in some case, who don't look at that.
They look at government for power where we're not interested in power.
And what we need are people who are committed to defend free market capitalism.
And you're right.
We get out-organized.
We're now being outfunded by the Soros-funded groups.
Let me give you an example.
And who elected the Secretary of State in Minnesota that is in the crosshairs now as to whether, in fact, he can be even close to nonpartisan?
There was a group, a 527-type group called the Secretary of State Project.
It was based on moveon.org.
In fact, it was co-founded by a former moveon.org leader, James Rucker.
And that Secretary of State project by the lefties was developed solely to put secretaries of state in office in various states to, quote-unquote, protect elections.
Now, that's exactly what you're talking about.
These people are dedicated to assuming power and doing what it takes to get there.
And we on the right better heed your warning.
It is a serious problem.
Yeah, well, I mean, what's the answer?
I know the message didn't get across in the campaign.
I mean, it was just the McCain, wishy, whatever he's doing all the way through.
It was just it wasn't, you know, straight like Reagan and this is who we are, this is what we're going to do.
And I believe that the country will respond to that by getting that message out.
And it's just.
Well, it's funny.
It's funny you should mention that, my friend, because the first thing the GOP has to do if it wants to be a party in ascension once again is stand for something.
There were 4.1, according to Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal the other day, there were 4.1 million fewer Republicans voting this year than in 2004.
Most of them stayed home.
2.7 million fewer veterans.
If you are not energizing the base, and this is why the Republican conference in Miami is so disturbing, there is a clear divide now in the Republican Party.
On the one hand, Mylan, you've got the Arnold Schwarzeneggers, who literally, I mean, Schwarzenegger is amazing to me.
What this guy is doing for the Republican Party is a little bit like what Jeffrey Dahmer did for dining out.
He's destroying it.
And you've got Charlie Crist and Tim Balenny and Sonny Perdue and these green lefty governors going, oh, we've got to veer left.
We've got to veer left.
Hadn't we already tried that?
Wasn't John McCain the most moderate guy we've had for quite some time?
Haven't Republicans been spending money like drunken sailors for eight years?
How much more moderate do you want?
And it fails every time.
You get people like Susan Collins and Olympias No and Lamar Alexander saying, we've got to moderate.
We've got to reach out.
Well, let me give you an example.
In the Northeast, the Republicans have long been a moderate Rockefeller establishment party.
Tell me again how many seats they have up there.
Working real good.
How's it going up there for you?
So on the other hand, you've got Mike Pence, Mark Sanford, Sarah Palin, and the guy I'm really excited about personally from what I've seen is Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.
That's the future that will energize the base and that will get people working again.
John in Dumfries, Virginia, you're next up on EIB.
Hi.
Thank you, Jason.
You know, Open Line Friday, I just wanted to mention that you listen to the media, and I'm doing it less and less, except for Fox News.
They're all talking about how Republicans need to reinvent themselves.
What do we have to do now as Republicans?
What does the Republican Party have to do now in order to overcome their shortfalls?
And it just, I seem to recall that when Bush won against Kerry, they were saying the same thing about the Democratic Party.
I mean, you could just substitute Democrat for Republican.
It's the same voices, the same words.
It's just a difference.
Well, you know, we've got to decide as a movement whether the goal is to place the party over the principle.
I mean, political parties ought to be conduits to an end.
They ought to be the means to an end and not the end of themselves.
And what happens is, and quite frankly, not to be too esoteric about it, but Madison talked about this in the Federalist Papers, Federalist No. 10, about factions and how they're dangerous.
You know, you go back to that great book, Founding Brothers, and John Adams and Thomas Jefferson fighting until they reconcile towards the end of their life.
And there was one passage in there where the worst insult during the founding era you could give another founder or political activist was, you're a party man.
And they detested the notion that you would place a party above principle.
And what I see from these moderates is, what do we have to do for the party to win again?
Well, we have to read the polls.
And if the poll says we have to give up every principle dear to conservatives, well, that's what we have to do if that's your goal.
If the goal is the party over the principle, then you follow the moderate line.
If, however, you want to change the country, if, however, you want to use a party as a means to an end to effect change, you want to change the office rather than just assume an office, why then you've got to get back to the founding principles of what the Republican Party used to stand for under Reagan, what the conservative movement is all about.
I think that's the first order of business, don't you?
I do.
And, you know, it just seems to me that they're telling us now, I mean, the talking heads are telling us now that the reasons why we lost and what we must do to change so we can win next time.
When I don't trust their opinion of what we need to do, you know, it's like saying, you know, the winner, for lack of a better word, is telling the loser how to win.
What advantage of it is the winner, you know, what advantage is it to the winner?
Not only that, not only that, inverse that.
The losers, Republican moderates, are now telling the conservatives who had won in the past what to do to change or what to do to win.
I mean, again, I go back to the last decade in Republican politics.
What have you had?
You had a government that spent $1.1 trillion more than they had in 2000.
You had McCain Feingold.
You had Ted Kennedy's education bill.
You had no serious immigration plan.
You had every single moderate policy.
Compassionate conservatism was a code word for, I hate to be blunt here, gang, but moderation.
And how did that work out for us?
Yeah, it didn't.
It didn't at all.
Yeah, you know, and it just, it just, I'm frustrated at the people out there who think we need to change.
I mean, let's think about the last conservative Republican win.
It was Reagan.
And I saw a news story last night that apparently they were looking through the Reagan archives, and they came across some of his campaign paraphernalia.
And it almost mirrored what Barack did as far as how he campaigned.
Now, I don't know if I believe that or not, but if that's true, then Barack won the campaign campaigning the way Reagan did.
You talk to young people today.
In fact, I work with a number of them.
And they say, well, Barack Obama's going to give me a tax cut.
Sounds like Reaganism to me.
You're right.
Now, forget about the fact that he's going to soak the most productive.
Forget about the fact that he's going to lower productivity if he goes through with his capital gains and dividends tax increase, as well as taxing high earners who happen to be savers.
And if you take savings out of the marketplace out of investment, you don't get the tools and the machinery, and the truck driver doesn't get the truck to be more productive.
Forget about that.
The masses, especially the young people, heard what?
You're going to get a tax cut.
That's Reaganism.
You couldn't be more correct about that.
And I don't know why we've got to go through this.
I think fundamentally, you've got a number of people who are professional consultants.
We'll call them the political class.
In some cases, they're office holders.
They're consultants.
They run campaigns.
They work for the RNC.
And they don't care about big government.
Let's be blunt about this.
Big government's just fine with them.
They don't mind.
It's not going to affect their paycheck.
They don't care about movement politics.
They care about winning and pushing forward the Republican Party, not necessarily the ideology of free minds and free markets.
And so that's the fundamental problem.
We have placed party over principle.
And look, what they'll tell you is: well, gosh, if you adopt a Rush Limbaugh approach or a Jason Lewis approach, you're going to end up losing.
Well, A, we're losing already with the moderate approach with big spending, with going soft on a number of key conservative issues.
And B, well, even if you do lose, does that mean you ought to change your views?
If the polls say Marxism is in and we ought to shred the Constitution and have a judicial oligarchy or a dictatorship, well, I guess the polls say that.
Let's follow them if we want to win.
This is political suicide.
We need a new generation of Republicans who will change the polls, not follow the polls.
I'm Jason Lewis, and you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Well, what do you know?
Another 250 votes for Al Franken just showed up in the last five minutes during the break.
It's amazing.
These things are coming out of the.
Oh, we can't disenfranchise people, can we?
It's a better rally than the stock market.
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I'm Jason Lewis, in for Rush.
Let's go to Nevada.
It's Guy, and you're on EIB.
Good afternoon, Jason.
That's Nevada Moe, is that right?
Nevada, yes, sir.
Like Nevada, but we were here first.
Oh, very good.
I remember during the first Bush administration, then Speaker, I'm sorry, minority leader Nancy Pelosi ran around invoking minority rights.
Do you recall that?
Oh, yes.
So I don't see why we can't use the same tactic against her.
We can pull up the archives and use that to block certain legislation.
Well, it's going to be very difficult to do in the House.
They are going, with their new band of partisan committee chairs, they are going to ram through as much legislation as they want in the House.
That's why this Senate race is so important.
It's probably the last check.
But you understand that the Republicans, if they could run in front of the TV cameras and we can use her words against her.
Well, you're assuming that the media will cover that.
I mean, when the Republicans are being persecuted as members of the congressional minority, it's not an issue.
It's the will of the people.
They voted for the Democrats.
It's a mandate.
Even though Barack's victory was a little bit more hollow than people think, when you take a look at some of the other results in the state house races across the country, there weren't many coattails.
But regardless, when the Democrats are in the minority and the Republicans are exacting the will of the people or implementing the will of the people, why then they get a camera in their face and they get to complain about being treated unfairly.
Do you really think the mainstream press is going to cover Republican complaints?
I doubt that, but I think we could do what we can do on talk radio and get a movement going.
Well, you know what?
What people like you and me are really looking for right now is guts.
People willing to stand up for something whether they win or whether they lose, a conviction.
And people, you know, they often talk about Reagan as the great communicator and optimistic and all of that.
The fact of the matter is people liked him whether they agreed with him or not because they looked at him and said he really believes this.
And that's what the Republicans need to restore.
If they could do that by standing up to taking away the secret ballot, by standing up to judicial activism, by standing up to massive increases in government, the next bailout bill, we'll talk about that a little later.
I mean, we really ought to have a list right about now, guy, of all the companies in the country that don't want to bail out because that would be shorter.
But the point is, if they'd stand up in a filibuster environment, I think that would energize, the media would have to recover it, and it would energize the base like we haven't been energized for quite some time, don't you think?
I absolutely agree.
But that's why the Minnesota election is so important.
They think if they can get Senator Al Franken, take a deep breath, Senator Al Franken, that they will have enough to override any filibuster attempt.
And they're probably right.
I tell you how nefarious this has become in Minnesota.
In one county, up there on the Iron Range, stronghold or strong DFL, Democrat Farm Labor, that's the Democrat Party in the great state of Minnesota, strong DFL country in the state.
They allow their precincts, got a 7,000-mile county, square mile county.
So they allow them to call in the unofficial results before the machines are actually tallied with a little tape that comes out of these optical scanning machines.
And so they call into the county seat.
And lo and behold, a day or two after the election, they find out they've got another 100 votes for Al Franken that weren't registered during the election tally.
So on the election night, they call in these 100 votes and they get this figure for Coleman, a figure for Franken.
Two days later, they say, oh, actually, we undercounted 100 votes for Al.
We didn't find any more for Coleman.
Well, how did you undercount these votes?
The machine automatically counts them.
Well, we were adding it up on a worksheet when these precincts were calling in from afar.
And when we were transmitting the unofficial results to the Secretary of State's office, we were just tallying up on a worksheet and we made a mathematical error undercounting Al Franken's votes by 100.
Now think about this for a moment.
So then they say we corrected that error and it comports also with what the machine says.
But the machine is dated November 2nd, not November 4th.
There are so many mysterious statistical improbabilities here, it boggles the mind.
But how do you make the same error twice?
By that, I mean, I know this is complicated, but they also said they undercounted 100 votes for Barack Obama in that county.
So we are to believe that somebody working on that worksheet, that tally sheet, made a mathematical error in two races, the same amount, and no other races.
There's great suspicion in Minnesota that people are finding votes.
And now that it's going to the administrative recount, it continues because as I mentioned earlier, they have under law the ability to ascertain voter intent, believe it or not, which should not be in play at all because the machine counts the votes on election night.
If the vote is irregular, it rejects the ballot.
So now they're going to sit there just like the hanging Chad in Florida in 2000, and they're going to look at a ballot in Minnesota and say, oh, looks like it's an undervote for Franken.
They voted for Obama, but didn't vote for Franken, which is very common in races.
It happens all the time, undervotes.
People don't have as much interest in a non-presidential race, or they think Franken's too far out there because of his porno rama, Column and Playboy, or his failure to pay taxes, whatever.
And so now that's where we are, and we're going to have a Florida scenario during this recount, I predict.
I'm Jason Lewis in for Rush.
More of your calls on this open line on Friday when we return.
Gosh, did I go long in that segment, Mike?
Just like the big guy, I guess.
More on this when we come back.
This election is very important in Minnesota, primarily because its effect on the Senate.
I've got some judicial activism news for you.
Also, got to talk about the bailout and the failure of the bailout.
Looks like some of the critics like Rush were right about that, to Mike Pence, among others.
There were about 166 economists who said the government cannot fundamentally fix this.
You've got to let the market correct.
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