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Nov. 19, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Well, Barack Obama has gone from the magic Negro now to the House Negro.
According to Amon Al-Zaway, the Al-Qaeda number two puts out this tape and refers to uh uh Obama as uh as a House Negro.
Now, where did he get this?
Let's go back.
Isn't it amazing what these Al-Qaeda guys know about our culture?
October 7th, 2002, on a radio station in San Diego.
The host was interviewing Harry Belafonte.
There's an old saying in the days of slavery.
There were those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house.
You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master.
Colin Powell is permitted to come into the house of the master.
Now, this is this this can't be allowed to stand, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
This is and it's amazing.
There were a lot of things that Zawahiri said in this tape.
He said the election of Obama proves that you've lost in Iraq.
Uh he really ripped the United States all to shreds, and AP didn't care about that.
What they cared about was Obama, the president-elect, uh, was referred to as a House Negro by Amon Al-Zawahiri.
Now, look, folks, Al-Qaeda.
I mean, these people, they they cut people's heads off.
Uh, they have murdered and mutilated the bodies of our troops.
They killed 3,000 innocent Americans.
But now, now they have crossed the line.
Now, finally, we might have our own drive-by media upset at Al-Qaeda because of this insult to Barry Obama, our president-elect.
It's bad enough that they were mounting up casualties for Americans, slicing their heads off and doing all kinds of horrible terrorist things, IEDs and so forth.
Understand their rage back there.
That's exactly right.
We had to understand why they were mad.
We had to convene seminars at the State Department to understand what it was we were doing that made them behave the way they are.
But now, now, my friends, they have crossed the line.
This, this cannot stand.
All of a sudden, as far as the drive-by's are concerned, Al-Qaeda has become human debris.
They have crossed the line.
Sticks and stones can break bones, but words matter.
Politically incorrect words matter.
Insulting Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, that was okay.
I mean, they're Republicans.
They were picked by Bush.
But you start using hate crime words with a liberal Democrat, i.e.
the Messiah.
I'll tell you what, my club Gitmo merchandise, our thriving merchandise line might have just gotten a reprieve.
It could well be now that Obama, oh, yeah, you're gonna call me a House Negro, okay, fine.
I was gonna do you guys a favor and club close down Ditmo.
But maybe now he'll see fit to um keep it open.
The headline, Al Qaeda number two insults Obama in new audio message.
He said a lot of things about America in this audio message.
From the magic Negro to the House Negro.
Now, the question about this that we all have, ladies and gentlemen, is is uh what what will uh Obama's reaction be?
Uh I don't know that he can turn his back on Al Zawahiri uh any more than he can turn his back on his own preacher.
But but don't don't I mean don't jump to any conclusions.
We don't know what he's gonna do here.
No one has any idea what he's gonna do about Al-Qaeda or terrorism or taxes or the economy or anything.
We have wild guesses, but we uh we don't really know.
The election, of course, was not about specifics.
It was about hope and it was about change.
From a newspaper in Australia.
Did you know that today is World Toilet Day?
Ladies and gentlemen.
I don't know what annual, I don't know how many World Toilet Days there have been, but this is it.
No, we don't get the day off.
Um I forgot about this.
I, you know, normally I send greeting cards out on meaningful holidays, but I forgot that today was World Toilet Day, and so I didn't send anybody any toilet greeting cards.
Well, I don't know what kind of paper that I mean, flushable, obviously, is uh the kind of paper that the toilet greeting cards, toilet day.
Sanitation experts have called for the end of the flushing toilet to save water and to provide fertilizer for crops.
Leading health, there's a great piece to a great editorial today, but actually two of them, one in the investors' business daily and the other in the Wall Street Journal, and they're both talking about environmentalism.
The Wall Street Journal's point is that this whole bailout of the auto companies is really nothing more than a SOP to environmentalist wackos, because if you look at what the auto companies are agreeing to and what they're being forced to do in order to get their bailout money if they get it, and they're gonna get it.
They may not get it before the end of the year, but they're gonna get it after Obama's inaugurated.
And look at what they're gonna have to do to get it.
They're gonna have to turn over basically the design and production of their automobiles to the Sierra Club.
Gonna have to make all these cars that nobody wants.
All these environmentally friendly cars, and look at what it's taking to do this, an economic downturn.
What happens any time you have a recession, that's when liberalism prospers.
Because the government takes over things during an ar during a recession or in the midst of one.
Investors business daily makes that point that the environmentalists are the ones that are happy as clams today with the recession because every solution that is being offered to problems we have, they're having input in terms of how the solution to whatever problem must be, be it mortgages, be it uh be it the auto industry or what have you.
So here you come with World Toilet Day in the midst of all this.
Save water by ending the flushing toilet and provide fertilizer for crops.
Leading health advocates have called for the use of dry toilets which separate urine and then uh f Yeah, I know that separate urine and from the rest, and then they remove the need to flush.
Speaking at the recent World Toilet Summit in Macau.
Do you know where Macau is, HR?
Macau is uh very near Hong Kong in Kowloon.
The uh World Toilet Summit was in Macau, which strange if you've been there, might be fitting.
Nevertheless, the World Toilet Organization founder, Jack Sims, said that the concept of the flushing toilet was unsustainable.
He said a culture where people flush their toilets but disregarded the thousands of liters of wasted drinking water every year was one of sanitation's greatest challenges.
Of course, he wants a toilet tax and uh number of other.
I don't ask me.
I don't know how this thing works.
I don't know how the flushless toilet works.
I don't want to know, and if I did know, I wouldn't describe it to you.
This program has standards.
Ladies and gentlemen, Chuck Hagel, uh, who has made the decision to retire from the United States Senate, a Republican senator from Nebraska, has taken on the leader of the conservative movement.
Every country out there has their know nothing party.
And of course, we're much educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbois and others.
I wish those people would run for office.
They have so much to contribute and so much leadership, and they have an answer for everything.
And they'd be elected overwhelmingly if Rush should run for anything.
I mean, or any of those people.
It just they love just to rip everybody else down and try to make fools of everybody, and they always have the answer.
This is just fascinating.
This Chuck Hagel at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies yesterday in Washington.
So he's making a speech on how tough it is to be a senator today, and one of his biggest problems, of course, is not the Democrats.
Uh His biggest problem as a senator was not the real enemy, the Democrats in the Senate who were trying to forestall any progress.
No, no, no, no, no.
The enemy is me.
The enemy is a guy on the radio.
How embittered must he be to still be carrying around this?
I mean, he's quitting, he's moving on to other things.
I hear he's in line for an Obama cabinet spot.
Uh we don't criticize and rip and run everybody down and make fools of everybody.
I can't make a fool of you, Senator Hagel.
Only you can do that.
I can't make a fool of you.
All I can do is and not you know, everything that we talk about on this program from the get-go is about how to improve life for as many Americans as possible.
I can't help it if you don't see the enemy in the same way I see them.
I can't help it if you don't see liberalism the way I do.
And if you if you, you know, you you you want to make all these deals with the people who stand in the way of genuine individual progress in this country, then you're going to come in for some criticism.
But man, oh man, take on the leader of the conservative movement like this, and he wasn't through.
Eighty-seven percent of the American people said America's going in the wrong direction.
You don't need to know another number about anything.
And so the election was pretty predictable.
The American people don't like what's going on.
They want us to start doing what leaders are expected to do.
Address the problems, find some consensus to govern, get along.
There'll be differences there should be.
But in the end, we can't continue to hold ourselves captive to this raw partisan political paralysis.
This is what is wrong with Senator Hegel.
The other side is more partisan than any political party in my lifetime.
The Democrat Party today, in conjunction with the American left, is as raw partisan as you can get.
Compromise?
Who does the compromising, Senator Hegel?
Our side does the compromising.
And when you compromise core principles, what have you advanced?
The American people do not.
We had 58 million people vote against Obama, Senator.
If we would have had a candidate, by the way, and he we had a candidate who ran the kind of campaign you sound like you're advocating.
One of reaching out to the other side, seeking moderates, seeking all these groups of people.
Let's go for the Walmart crowd, and let's go for the uh the Hispanic voter.
And instead of just standing for the American people as a s as a whole, you know, a set of core principles that'll lift everybody followed.
And Senator Hagel, this business of reaching consensus.
Consensus is the absence of leadership.
And leadership is what has been sorely missing on our side, uh particularly in uh in the House and Senate for quite a while, and everybody understands it's in that the reason we lost this election is not because we didn't reach out.
The reason we lost this election is because we did.
We reached out and we compromised on what our core beliefs were, and we let the other side redefine who we are.
And you were part of that.
So you think that uh it's hard work to yeah, it's very hard work to stand up for what you believe in.
It's very hard work to say no to people that you'd rather be friends with.
But some point, sometime that's what leadership is all about.
Quick time out here, folks.
We will uh continue with more right after this.
Do not go away.
And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution, America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, the doctor of democracy from high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
So Chuck Hagel says you have to be elected to office to make a difference in this country.
I wish Rush Limbaugh would run.
I have an idea for Senator Hagel.
Senator Hagel, why don't you try to become a talk show host?
Let's see if you can make it in this world.
Let's see if you can handle a give and take of talk radio.
Since being a senator and having people criticize you is so difficult.
Let's see if you can handle this arena.
By the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, this this whole uh notion here of of Senator Hagel criticizing the leader of the conservative movement was picked up by the drive-by media.
Last night on MSNBC, David Schuster, talked about the Hegel criticism of the leader of the conservative movement.
Senator Hagel saved his harshest criticism for the most popular host on right wing talk radio.
Quote, we are educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh.
You know, I wish Rush Limbaugh and others like that would run for office.
They have so much to contribute and so much leadership.
And they have an answer for everything.
And they would be elected overwhelmingly.
The truth is they try to rip everyone down and make fools of everybody, but they don't have any answers.
We do have answers.
We don't rip people down.
We build people up.
We certainly criticize those on our side who fall off the the uh the beaten path.
Uh Senator Hagel, at times it was difficult to recognize you as even a Republican.
What are we supposed to do here?
It was certainly difficult to recognize you as a conservative.
So once again, uh run for office.
The only way you can make a difference is you run for office.
Try doing a talk show, Senator Hagel.
Let's you can't handle criticism, can't handle a give and take.
Uh E.J. Dion on the same network last night, PMS, NBC, DNC TV.
Uh Schuster said, Well, that was a uh that was a pretty unvarnished assessment by Chuck Hagel.
Your reaction, E.J. Dion Jr., how long will it take the party to rebound from this year's elections?
Well, I would love Rush Limbaugh to run for office.
That would be a hoot.
Uh but uh, you know, I think Hegel is broadly right, and I think the Republicans are in a real fix here.
Democrats have won two elections in a row.
That doesn't make a realignment yet, but it really suggests some of the problems the Republicans face.
First, they cannot lose the minority vote in the country the way they did.
And then when the Republicans can't carry the suburbs, they've got a real problem, and the suburbs went for Obama.
This is trying my patience.
This was trying because E.J. and Senator Hagel, I can explain to you and have over the course of the recent days.
In fact, I predicted long time ago that exactly what happened this election was likely to happen, precisely because of what had happened to Republican Party.
Conservatism didn't lose anything here.
Now you can talk about the Republican Party losing the suburbs and losing the minority vote.
I don't know what minority vote he's talking about.
We lost, but he can talk about it all he wants.
Conservatism does not lose national elections.
The problem, E.J., is that conservatism was not on the ballot other than the number two slot.
And we saw what you and others tried to do to Sarah Palin.
We even saw what members of her own party tried to do to her.
So we conservatives are under no illusion of uh what we face here.
And uh if if the Republicans want to keep losing elections, they'll continue to follow the advice of Chuck Hagel.
They will continue to follow the advice of you, E.J. Dion Jr., and they will continue to follow the advice of the wizards of Smart in our own conservative media who seem to think that the reason we lost this last election was that we simply weren't moderate enough.
We should have reached out even more to the Hispanics.
should have reached out even more to the Walmart voter, whatever that is.
I don't know how we could have had a candidate any more liberal, any more moderate, any more willing to jump across an ocean to sit down to the other side than the candidate that we had.
Now, E.J., don't hold your breath for me running office uh for office, because as I have long said, I will not tolerate the pay cut, uh, particularly with Obama uh preparing to be sworn in.
I don't know what's going to happen to everybody's net worth here, uh, but it's uh it's too risky uh to make a decision to uh run for office.
I am most effective here behind the golden EIB microphone at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
So after this latest answer from E.J. Dion Jr., David Schuster said, Well, look, the current Senate Republican leadership doesn't seem to think the party needs a change in principles, and isn't that what Senator Hagel suggests they need, especially when it comes to their attitude about foreign policy.
I think on foreign policy, Republicans are genuinely split, and those splits were suppressed in the Bush years because they occupied the White House.
But I also think that the a kind of extreme social conservatism just doesn't serve the Republicans well.
A kind of anti-government ideology at a time when their own administration is engaging in a kind of socialism by having uh take partly taking over the banks.
I mean, their rhetoric doesn't square with the problems, and I think that's one of the reasons they lost.
They need to rediscover a kind of moderate brand of conservatism that could be a lot more popular than what they've been offering lately.
You know what's hilarious about this is E.J. Dion Jr., a professed liberal and leftist.
Sounds just like many of our own conservative quote unquote media.
EJ, I am sure, and I love you, E.J., you know this.
We've had many famous email and phone conversations.
I know you have the best interests of the Republican Party and the conservative movement at heart.
I know that you would really prefer we win these elections.
So I know that you are giving us heartfelt advice on how to do this, not need to reach out and be more mod.
We have this election gave the the world the Republican Party, guys like Dion Warren.
Look what happened.
I still find this funny.
Here you have some slobbering libs on MSNBC asking a Republican in name only, Chuck Hagel, what he thinks of me.
And by the way, E.J., Obama what?
52% of the vote, this is not a landslide.
And he got 52% of the vote against your guy, McCain.
I mean, E.J., you got in McCain exactly what you just said the Republicans need to do.
You got a guy who went out and did everything he could to get votes from people like you, E.J., he did everything he could to get votes for an endorsements from people like Colin Powell.
And a number of other monitors.
Didn't work, didn't get the Hispanic vote.
Wonder why, E.J. I if if Obama won the suburbs, and if he won the cities, if he won among women, if he won among minorities and whites, then why did he only get 52% of the vote?
There wasn't a major third party out there, E.J. I also noticed that um E.J. Dion Jr. is not running for office.
And I also note that Chuck Hagel is not running for re-election.
So what we have here is a retiring senator, upset at being criticized by me, the leader of the conservative movement.
This is from uh the swamp.
This is the Chicago Tribune's blog.
Gallup has done a poll out there on the automobile bailout.
And the Gallup poll found that uh 60% of Democrats favor a bailout.
65% of Republicans oppose it.
Now, overall, 49% oppose federal financial assistance for the automakers.
Forty seven percent support it.
Now I I'm I had a lot of conversation about this yesterday.
But I must tell you, my i I I thought this whole bailout, this $700 billion bailout, this bailout that we could not wait on.
This bailout that if we if we if it didn't happen, tumult, chaos, destruction, despair, the very end of the United States was within days if we didn't do this.
And what was it about?
It was about houses.
It was about subprime mortgages.
It was about toxic assets.
And this bailout had to happen, and we had to get liquidity in the banking system.
We had to give those guys some cash so they go out and loan the money.
Now what are we talking?
We're talking about bailing out the auto industries.
And last week, or maybe it was the first part of this.
Well, no, it had to be last.
No, maybe it was.
This is this is Wednesday.
We said maybe it's Monday, the Treasury Secretary, the total authoritarian, who goes out and says, by the way, original purpose of the bailout, we broomed it.
We're not, we're not going to buy any toxic assets.
Uh we're we're not going to clean those up.
Uh we're gonna and now you've got credit card companies and the automobile companies and states, and who knows who else getting in line, trying to change the way they're structured so that they would qualify for some of this bailout.
We've been had.
We have totally been had on this.
And I'm I I remember when the first bailout vote was taken and it was defeated in the House.
What was it, another week or ten days before the next bailout vote occurred?
Senator McCain suspended his campaign to go save the day.
Uh, Of course, he got nothing done, nothing happened, and the country didn't go down the tubes.
The country didn't come to a screeching halt.
And for the original purpose of the bailout, we've forgotten it.
And we've moved on now to other things.
So this is this is uh uh even even members of Congress whole thing, the people that have been in charge of this.
We should learn.
These are the last people to put in charge of anything.
But we never do learn, and it happens over and over and over again, and I don't care what these people do, I don't care what plan they come up with, until the market gets a chance to sort this out, it isn't gonna get fixed.
It's just that simple.
You can even say the market is functioning now.
The market is reacting to what the hell's going on in Washington with all this instability and volatility that nobody can make heads or tails of.
Let me grab some phone calls.
Uh I don't want people to have to wait as long as they have been.
Uh today we'll start with Jerry and Phoenix.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Ah, it's great talking with you, Rush.
How are you today?
Thank you, sir.
All right, really fast.
I noticed that the Democrats were saying how we should all be unified and get away from the rancor despite eight years of Bush.
Uh, but I noticed that the gay activists in California, they lost.
Why aren't they gracious?
They've been all angry and full of rage and protesting and knocking all ladies' process.
Well, why shouldn't we be like them?
Well, answer the question why don't why is it that conservatives don't protest and riot and so forth uh like the left does whenever they don't get their way?
Will you have a theory on it?
Well, mostly we have a life and a job and we get to do things, but also we don't have testicular leadership.
Well, but there's another thing, too.
That's all true.
But we also have a respect for the Democrat process.
We have a profound respect for the when we lose, we lose and we regroup and we try to fight our battles internally, as uh is happening now, and we try to come back and win.
And we always try to win by persuading as many minds and hearts as possible to agree with us.
The left isn't that well, they don't care about persuading anything.
They are thugs, and they use this these kind of things they will not tolerate defeat.
They try to look at the the Senate Senate race in Minnesota, they're trying to openly steal that.
Um they the democratic process does not limit them.
You know, and they're now what there's a big there's a big argument going on between gay rights activists and excuse me, and black activists.
You know, they're the the N-words being thrown around by a bunch of leftists, these people of tolerance.
Isn't isn't it fascinating that these people who demand tolerance, particularly the militant uh homosexual uh groups that that mobilize uh politically like this, they're the ones out there demanding all kinds of tolerance for their lifestyle and their desires and who they are.
They have none.
You notice how so many liberal concepts are one-way streets.
Tolerance is a one-way street.
They don't have to tolerate anything.
They don't have to tolerate tradition, they don't have to tolerate defeat, they don't have to tolerate a majority opposing them.
They don't have to talk, they can protest and they can intimidate and they can get judges to overturn the will of the people if they want.
They can go out and destroy or try to destroy the churches that uh are populated by people that disagree with the uh the militant gay rights agenda.
So they don't have to be tolerant.
We have to be tolerant.
We have to be tolerant, understand uh their their grievances uh as a minority.
And when we enter the democratic arena, say Prop 8 and so in California and vote down the whole concept of gay marriage, well, they mobilize and start protesting and intimidating and so forth.
And they always and they're not gonna go away till they get this done.
They're not gonna go away till they get this done.
I called your attention to Prop 187 in California, same thing.
People of California finally got fed up with paying for health care and welfare and social services for the children of illegals.
They passed Prop 187 in a huge majority.
And of course, the opponents of 187 took the whole thing to court.
And a federal judge found that the whole proposition was unconstitutional, which is what they're gonna try to do here with Proposition 8.
So, you know, the the the playing field for us is um never level.
And we do not engage In uh in these kinds of uh of tactics to intimidate, protest, and and uh and this sort of thing.
I mean, the battle for the uh heart and soul of the country is wide open, and it's happening right in front of our eyes, and in this last go around, the American left won.
But isn't it interesting?
Proper it's a good example.
Isn't it interesting where a a solidly traditional American institution, such as marriage, is on the ballot, even in a place like California.
Look what happens.
So if you simply have a party or a candidate who is willing to stand up and defend and promote all of these various American traditions and institutions rooted in our founding and rooted basically in in uh in conservatism.
There's a whole army of Americans would love to come out and vote and make that happen in landslide proportions.
There is a blueprint for it.
But look at I'm I'm just I'm beating a dead horse here.
Our party doesn't have anybody in it like that right now, or it didn't in this election.
We do have uh those people.
It's just a question of whether or not they bubble up and surface and want to carry on uh uh in in some sort of a national uh way.
Here's Candy in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rice.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
Hey, um I was just calling because every time Chuck opens his mouth, it's it makes everybody in Nebraska sick.
Because everybody here, well, the conservatives that voted for him are totally um disgusted because he went there and changed everything he said he was voting for or everything he was all about.
I think some somebody must have whipped him into shape from the other side because he lost all his conservatism, and now how he does this is hurt our our party.
And so I wish he just shut his mouth or change parties because he's already done it, whether he's done it in the city.
Well, he's right for not.
He's retiring from the Senate, and he's he's I don't know what his plans are, other than I know that his name's been mentioned a couple times in relationship to being in the Obama cabinet, by the way.
Which makes sense.
Well, of course, of course it makes it makes total sense.
But out of they're running out of, they're running out of jobs there.
Tom Dashell, according to the Associated Press has just been named the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Right.
Tom Puff Dashel, who was a big Obama strategist in the campaign, a big supporter.
It's payback time now.
So so uh the Puff Dashel back in Washington uh out of lobbying, and now back to um uh the Secretary of Health and Human Services position.
Chuck Hagel is as is uh is retiring.
I'll I never in fact I'll never forget he was at a big press conference back in Nebraska where everybody thought he might be announcing his run for the presidency, which was always a joke.
I mean, in every poll Chuck Hagel never pulled over two percent.
And there he was even even decided to go to the left of McCain in our party uh during during the campaign a couple of times.
But he had this big press conference, and the drive-bys, of course, drove out there, flew out there with their tongues hanging on the ground, waiting in eager anticipation for Chuck Hagel's press conference.
So Chuck Hagel has his press conference, announces he'd have no decision to make.
Now it's not too many people that will call a press conference.
I have it in my mind.
What I'm gonna do.
Moderates will do it, and they hope to be applauded.
I have called this press conference today to say that I have um no determination about my future.
Drive by the standard and say, what the hell is this?
You want accolades for this?
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
The Lord Messiah, Barack Obama, the most merciful out there making his cabinet selections.
They got Tom Dashell in there.
We got Eric Holder in there, he of the Mark Rich Pardon.
He's an attorney generally the Justice Department.
We've got Tom Dashell in there now as the uh Secretary of Health and Human Services, at least AP says they've been offered, uh, talking about Mrs. Clinton going to the Department of State.
That's still kind of dicey.
They're still going back and forth on this.
Uh something doesn't meet the eye here.
There's this something screwy going on in this.
I think both are still playing games.
Bill Clinton's out there saying, hey, I'll be glad to tell anybody what uh anything they won't know about my library and the massage part, I won't know, daughters, I'll be happy, I'll be happy to open up and tell everybody about this.
Don't know why they wouldn't do this during the campaign, but they're willing to do it now.
Now Hillary's saying, wait a minute, I'm not sure I want this.
Uh, you know, being a senator, you work for yourself.
Uh, not sure that.
I I think there's a little power play going on here between these two to show uh Hillary wants to show she's not beholding to Obama.
She doesn't need Obama.
Uh everything the Clintons do is a calculation.
And remember, nothing that happens with the Clintons is a coincidence.
And in the Washington Post today, and there was a story on this yesterday, and you may have heard this if you're wasting time watching the drive-by media.
They are now comparing Obama to Abraham Lincoln by virtue of his cabinet selections.
You know, one of the things about Abraham Lincoln was that he uh he put together a team of rivals.
He put together a team of people who were opposed to one another.
And this was supposed to bring out the best, and now they're saying that Obama's doing the same thing.
In the Washington Post today, a familiar precedent for a president elect.
Obama inspired by and compared to Abraham Lincoln.
It's it's in relation to a cabinet he largely has not picked yet.
And uh and this basically it's about choosing Hillary.
They think if Obama chooses Hillary, well, that's what Lincoln did.
I mean, Lincoln had his own Hillary as uh as Secretary of State, and now Obama is contemplating Lincoln's particular model of presidential leadership as he moves toward assembling his own team of advisors.
You know what I look at it.
Here you got Hillary if she goes, you have Eric Holder, you have Tom Puff Dashell, Hegel, and they're looking at Jamie Garellick.
This isn't shaping up as the second Clinton administration headed up by Barack Obama.
And if anything, this is not a team of rivals.
It's more like a team of hasbins.
This is a team that's already been there.
And people have said, well, that's true, Rush, they have been there, but now they're seasoned.
They've been there, it's been 16 years.
Um the first Clinton team took office.
They're tougher now.
Well, Greg Craig, the chief White House counsel, he's the lawyer for Elion Gonzalez, helped Bill during impeachment.
He's the White House counsel.
You got Ram Emanuel in there.
I mean, you it this is the Clinton team.
This is change.
This is change.
I I don't see the change.
I don't certainly don't see the hope unless Clinton's a man from hope, and he ends up being in the cabinet somehow, some way too.
I know that's a stretch, but I mean, gee whiz.
Hope and change.
So you got the third Clinton term led by Barack Obama.
Jim in Minneapolis.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, it's an honor to talk here, right?
Thank you very much, sir.
I can understand that, yes.
Yeah, I'll get right to my point.
Right.
When I hear these common national commentators and Republicans like Hegel, it just seems to me that they're really pushing for the Republican Party to redefine who they are.
Yeah, of course they are, but why?
Well, it's for their own obviously for their own gain.
Yeah, of course.
They would love to set the Republican Party up as a mechanism that loses every election.
That's what they let's listen to what E.J. Dion Jr. is saying.
And keep in mind, this could be David Frum on our side.
It could be David Brooks on our side.
It could be it could be Kathleen Parker on our side.
E.J. Dion Jr. and the others are saying, get rid of extreme social conservatives.
Get rid of the pro-lifers.
We got to broom them out of the party.
They are hurting us.
Now we keep winning these popular votes on same-sex marriage.
We're extremists.
We're remorse most Americans don't support part of partial birth abortion, but the libs do.
We are extremists on social issues.
We are for life.
We are for life, and they want to kill babies, partial birth, and we are the extremists.
We want the government to stop telling us what we must accept when our religion tells us otherwise.
When the Constitution Tells the libs to stay out of our churches, and when we win popular votes in response to judicial fiats that have no basis in law or religion.
So what Dion wants us to do, get rid of people of faith, accept global warming.
If we accept the new New Deal, then that's how we conservatives will win.
It's a recipe for defeat.
You know, we wiped the floor with the Libs back in the 80s in 1994.
How come we didn't say, you know, you guys got to become more conservative?
If you want to keep winning, how come they didn't say that about themselves?
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