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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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You never saw me hit the microphone button on.
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Well, Barack Obama has gone from the magic Negro now to the House Negro, according to Eamon Al-Zawahiri.
The Al-Qaeda number two puts out this tape and refers to Obama 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 was permitted to come into the house of the master.
Now, this can't be allowed to stand, ladies and gentlemen.
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.
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, was referred to as a House Negro by Eamon Al-Zawahiri.
Now, look, folks, Al-Qaeda.
I mean, these people, they cut people's heads off.
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.
He had to understand their rage back then.
It'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-bys 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 going to call me a House Negro?
Okay, fine.
I was going to do you guys a favor and close down Gitmo.
But maybe now he'll see fit to keep it open.
A headline, Al-Qaeda number two insults Obama in new audio message.
He said a lot of things about America in his audio message.
From the Magic Negro to the House Negro.
Now, the question about this that we all have, ladies and gentlemen, is what will Obama's reaction be?
I don't know that he can turn his back on Al-Zawahiri any more than he can turn his back on his own preacher.
But don't jump to any conclusions.
We don't know what he's going to do here.
No one has any idea what he's going to do about al-Qaeda or terrorism or taxes or the economy or anything.
We have wild guesses, but 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.
I forgot about this.
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.
I mean, flushable, obviously, is 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, 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 going to get it.
They may not get it before the end of the year, but they're going to get it after Obama's inaugurated.
And look at what they're going to have to do to get it.
They're going to 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 anytime you have a recession, that's when liberalism prospers, because the government takes over things 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 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 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 very near Hong Kong in Kowloon.
The 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 a number of other.
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, 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 Limbaugh 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 Russia run for anything or any of those people.
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 is 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.
His biggest problem as a senator was not the real enemy, the Democrats in the Senate who were trying to forestall any progress.
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.
We don't criticize and rip and run everybody down to 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 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.
87% 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 Hagel.
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 Hagel?
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 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 Hispanic voter.
And instead of just standing for the American people as a whole, you know, a set of core principles that'll lift everybody you 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, particularly in the House and Senate for quite a while.
And everybody understands this.
And 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 it's hard work?
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.
A quick time out here, folks.
We will 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 anchorman, America's truth detector, the doctor of democracy from Hayatop, 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, ladies and gentlemen, this whole notion here 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 beaten path.
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, run for office.
The only way you can make a difference is you run for office.
Try doing a talk show, Senator Hagel.
You can't handle criticism, can't handle a give and take.
E.J. Deion on the same network last night, PMS, NBC, DNC TV, Schuster said, well, that was a pretty unvarnished assessment by Chuck Hagel.
Your reaction, E.J. Deion 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 hoop.
But, you know, I think Hagel 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 a long time ago that exactly what happened this election was likely to happen precisely because of what had happened to the Republican Party.
Conservatism didn't lose anything here.
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 what we face here.
And 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. Deion 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.
We 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 for office because as I have long said, I will not tolerate the pay cut, particularly with Obama preparing to be sworn in.
I don't know what's going to happen to everybody's net worth here, but it's too risky to make a decision to 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. Deion 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 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 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. Deion Jr., a professed liberal and leftist, sounds just like many of our own conservative, quote-unquote, media.
E.J., 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 moderate.
This election gave the world, the Republican Party, guys like Deion Warren.
Look what happened.
I still find this funny.
Here you have some slombering libs on MSNBC asking a Republican in name only, Chuck Hagel, what he thinks of me.
And by the way, E.J., Obama, 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 endorsements from people like Colin Powell and a number of other models.
Didn't work, didn't get the Hispanic vote.
Wonder why, E.J. If Obama won the suburbs and if he won the cities, if he won among women and 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 E.J. Deion Jr. is not running for office.
And I also note that Chuck Hagel is not running for reelection.
So what we have here is a retiring senator, upset at being criticized by me, the leader of the conservative movement.
This is from 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 60% of Democrats favor a bailout.
65% of Republicans oppose it.
Now, overall, 49% oppose federal financial assistance for the automakers.
47% support it.
Now, I had a lot of conversation about this yesterday.
But I must tell you, I thought this whole bailout, this $700 billion bailout, this bailout that we could not wait on, this bailout that 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 about?
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 Wednesday.
Maybe it was Monday.
The Treasury Secretary, the total authoritarian, goes out and says, by the way, original purpose of the bailout, we broomed it.
We're not going to buy any toxic assets.
We're not going to clean those up.
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 remember when the first bailout vote was taken and it was defeated in the House, what was it?
Another week or 10 days before the next bailout vote occurred.
Senator McCain suspended his campaign to go save the day.
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 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 going to get fixed.
It's just that simple.
You could even say the market is functioning now.
The market is reacting to what the hell is going on in Washington with all this instability and volatility that nobody can make heads nor tails of.
Let me grab some phone calls.
I don't want people to have to wait as long as they have been.
Today we'll start with Jerry and Phoenix.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Wow, 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.
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' crosses.
Well, why shouldn't we be like them?
Well, answer the quote.
Why is it that conservatives don't protest and riot and so forth 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 that.
When we lose, we lose and we regroup and we try to fight our battles internally, as 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, they don't care about persuading it.
They are thugs and they use this, these kind of, they will not tolerate defeat.
They try to look at the Senate race in Minnesota.
They're trying to openly steal that.
The democratic process does not limit them.
You know, and now there's a big argument going on between gay rights activists and black activists.
You know, the N-words being thrown around by a bunch of leftists, these people of tolerance.
Isn't it fascinating that these people who demand tolerance, particularly the militant homosexual groups that mobilize 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.
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 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 churches that are popular by people that disagree with the militant gay rights agenda.
So they don't have to be tolerant.
We have to be tolerant.
We have to be tolerant, understand their grievance as a minority.
And when we enter the Democratic arena, say Prop 8 in California, and vote down the whole concept of gay marriage, well, they mobilize and start protesting and intimidating and so forth.
And they're not going to go away till they get this done.
They're not going to 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 going to try to do here with Proposition 8.
So, you know, the playing field for us is never level.
And we do not engage in these kinds of tactics to intimidate, protest, and this sort of thing.
I mean, the battle for the heart and soul of the country is wide open.
And it's happening right in front of our eyes.
And in this last go-round, the American left won.
But isn't it interesting?
Prop 8 is a good example.
Isn't it interesting where 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 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 just.
I'm beating a dead horse here.
Our party doesn't have anybody in it like that right now, or didn't in this election.
We do have those people.
It's just a question of whether or not they bubble up and surface and want to carry on in some sort of a national way.
Here's Candy in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
Hey, I was just calling because every time Chuck opens his mouth, it makes everybody in Nebraska sick because everybody here, well, the conservatives that voted for him are totally disgusted because he went there and changed everything he said he was voting for or everything he was all about.
I think somebody must have whipped him into shape from the other side because he lost all his conservatism.
And now all he does is hurt our party.
And so I wish he'd just shut his mouth or change parties because he's already done it, whether he's done it in the middle of the day.
Well, he's right or not.
He's retiring from the Senate.
And 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 it makes total sense.
But they're running out of jobs there.
Tom Daschell, according to the Associated Press, has just been named the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Right.
Tom Puff Daschell, who was a big Obama strategerist in the campaign, a big supporter.
It's payback time now.
So the Puff Daschell back in Washington, out of lobbying, and now back to the Secretary of Health and Human Services position.
Chuck Hagel is retiring.
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 2%.
And there he was, even decided to go to the left of McCain in our party 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, waving 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 made in my mind what I'm going to do.
Moderates will do it, and they hope to be applauded.
I have called this press conference today to say that I have made no determination about my future.
The drive-bys are standing there and say, what the hell is this?
You want accolades for this?
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Lord Matthiah Barack Obama, the most merciful, out there making his cabinet selections.
I got Tom Daschell in there.
I got Eric Holder in there, he of the Mark Rich Pardon.
He's an attorney, generally as a Justice Department.
We've got Tom Daschell in there now as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, at least AP says they've been offered, 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.
Something doesn't meet the eye here.
There's 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 anything they want to know about my library.
And then Massage Party, I want no 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.
You know, being a senator, you work for yourself.
Not sure.
I think there's a little power play going on here between these two to show Hillary wants to show she's not beholding to Obama.
She doesn't need Obama.
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 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 in relation to a cabinet he largely has not picked yet.
And basically, it's about choosing Hillary.
They think if Obama chooses Hillary, that's what Lincoln did.
I mean, Lincoln had his own Hillary 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 Dashle, Hegel.
And they're looking at Jamie Gorellik.
This is 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 has-beens.
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 Clinton team took office.
They're tougher now.
Greg Craig, the chief White House counsel, he's the lawyer for Elian Gonzalez, helped Bill during impeachment.
He's the White House counsel.
You got Rahm Emanuel in there.
I mean, this is the Clinton team.
This is change.
This is change.
I don't see the change.
I 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 to you, Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
I can understand that.
Yes.
Yeah, I'll get right to my point.
When I hear these common national commentators and Republicans like Hagel, 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, for their own, obviously for their own gain.
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. Deion 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 Kathleen Parker on our side.
E.J. Deion Jr. and the others are saying, get rid of extreme social conservatives.
Get rid of the pro-lifers.
We've 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.
Most Americans don't support 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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