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April 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 28, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Say, folks, we might die, or we might not.
Swine flu could get really bad, or it may not.
AIDS was going to get really bad, but it didn't.
Swine flu 76 is going to wipe us all out, but it didn't.
SARS was going to wipe us out.
Ebola was going to wipe us out.
Kofi was going to kill us, but it didn't.
Oatbrand was going to save us, but it didn't.
So it could get really bad.
I mean, we could all die, folks.
Or we might not.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Another three hours of broadcast excellence at 800-282-2882 at the email address, L. Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
About 20 minutes ago, my email started going nuts with emails from members of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate, Republican side, that Arlen Specter was going to switch parties, become a Democrat, leaving the Republican Party.
If he does that, then that gives the Democrats their 60 votes.
It gives them a filibuster-proof Senate.
So it makes the Senate essentially as big a slam duck dunk for Obama and the Democrats as the House of Representatives is already.
A lot of people say, well, if you're Specter, take McCain with you.
And his daughter, take McCain and his daughter with you.
So we'll have to wait and see.
I mean, it's out there.
Human Events has it.
The Washington Post is reporting it.
Apparently, Senator Specter, unhappy when he met with Republican, potential Republican donors.
Joe Pat Toomey is going to oppose him for the Republican nomination for Senate in Pennsylvania.
Apparently, Senator Specter met with some Republicans.
He was not happy with the lukewarm response he got.
He thought he would really be received as a hero because he came out against Card Check, the sign-em-up union bill.
And, of course, the answer to that is my good friend Annie McCarthy is you don't get brownie points for doing the right thing.
But that's where we are.
So few people do that.
When you do the right thing, wow, you want accolades.
You want a medal.
And you want a band to play in your name.
So let's see.
Who else could go over there?
Brownbeck, Sam Brownbeck.
Now, he's going to run for governor of Kansas.
Now, Kathleen Sebelius, confirmation hearings are up to, of course, with the swine flu out there.
Everybody is saying, we got to get weisha.
They're doing a Geithner.
She's the only one.
She's the only one that can head up health and human services.
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter that she hasn't paid her taxes.
It doesn't matter.
She's the only one that can do it.
We need somebody in there.
It doesn't matter that she's for every abortion that ever happened and she's for health and humans.
It doesn't matter.
We've got to have her in there.
Now, this vote on Sebelius, this is a defining moment for Republicans on the committee hearing her confirmation.
They can do one of three things.
They can vote for her to show bipartisan kip.
They can not vote, showing cowardice, or they can vote against her standing up for principal.
Brownbeck is, I think he first said he was going to vote for her.
Now he says he may not vote.
But he wants to be governor of Kansas.
And of course, any Republican seeking office somehow has been made to believe that the only way to win is to run out there and become a Democrat or moderate.
It's interesting.
We have a story from the estimable Charles Babington or Babington in the API.
Do you know how he pronounces the name?
Only one B in there.
B-A-B-I.
So the way I learned that's a long A, Babington.
But I haven't heard it pronounced.
It might be Babington, so I want to cover myself both ways.
The economy will determine whether Barack Obama achieves what few U.S. presidents have, a far-reaching change in American politics that might even earn its own title and legacy.
Will there be an Obama version of the New Deal, the Great Society, or the Reagan revolution?
Of course, 100 days is just the start, too little time to determine the results, let alone the wisdom of Obama's decisions, but it is enough time to discern the path Obama has chosen, the overarching philosophy that'll shape his administration, and history's eventual judgment of it.
In a way, this is the key paragraph.
It's just one little sentence.
In a way, Obama, a Democrat, is reversing the famous dictum of Ronald Reagan, who said government is the problem, not the solution.
So here it is.
It's on the table.
Finally, somebody's come out and said in a drive-by media, Obama believes government is the solution, not the problem.
A total reversal of Reaganism.
And yet, we have many conservatives and Republicans who want to throw Reagan overboard as well.
I guess now that means that those people on our side who believe Obama, and I frankly think a very frustrated email from a friend of mine today wanting to know, Rush, could you explain to me why it is that all of these learned intellectual conservatives seem so hell-bent on praising Obama as something unique and we've never seen him before and what a great manager he is.
It's very simple.
There is a term.
I cannot use the real term because it requires the use of the F-word.
And of course, we don't do that on this program.
But basically, let's take a look at a lot of these people who loved Reagan at the time.
And they were out there and they were claiming to be within the Reagan administration.
And they were in the loop, the policy advisor loop.
And they were with Reagan at the Justice Department.
They were with Reagan wherever.
And all it was, because now a lot of these people are just full-fledged with Obama.
What they are, folks, is stargazers.
They just love stars, celebrities.
That's all that matters.
They want to bask in the glow of the moment.
They are followers.
They are not leaders.
And wherever the leader is that has the brightest light, that's where they're going to go.
And it's simple human nature.
It has nothing to do with the intellect.
It has nothing to do with how bright Obama is or how great a manager Obama is, because none of that we really know for sure.
We know he's a bad manager.
This thing in New York yesterday with the flyover, Air Force One, getting some pictures there, flying past the Statue of Liberty, buzzing, ground zero at a thousand feet.
Do you see the videotapes?
People scramming from their office buildings, running through the streets like the blob had been turned loose in their office building.
And then they went, they asked Gibbs about, why is this a big deal?
I don't even, I don't, how am I supposed to know where Air Force One is?
Obama was reported to be furious.
Chuck Schumer, oh, this is outrageous.
These photo ops and it blamed Reagan or Bush and they blamed the Bush FAA for doing all this.
I will guarantee you, if this incident had happened with George Bush, we would not know the name of the military officer who ordered this, who's been forced to fall on the sword.
What's this guy's name, Calera or Cordillera?
Caldera, Caldera, this guy's being made to.
Let me tell you the truth about this.
The whole Obama administration's a photo op.
But folks, this is only common sense.
Obama cannot credibly say he didn't know that this was happening.
There are two Boeing 747s that suffice as Air Force One, and every time Obama goes someplace, both of them fly.
These travel schedules are worked out days, weeks in advance.
It takes a major movement to get Air Force One in the air on a presidential trip.
So, Obama, they had to go through to schedule, and they had to say we want to do the photo op this.
Now, maybe not to Obama personally, but he had to be told at some point you can't travel on Monday the 27th.
Are you traveling on the 20s?
Are we going to go anywhere on the 27th?
I might go through Ram Emanuel, but eventually somebody's going to go to Obama.
And he's going to say, why?
Well, that's the day we schedule a photo op up there.
We're going to get new pictures of Air Force One flying by the Statue of Liberty.
Here's Obama.
Just like our guy Victor from Boca Raton called Obama doesn't know.
He just doesn't know any of these things are happening.
He's just totally unaware.
He's furious.
I guarantee if Bush for president would have only Bush would have made the decision, we wouldn't have heard of this calderon guy or anybody else in the FAA or the office, White House Office of Military Planning to explain.
Well, of course they wanted to keep it quiet.
Their notion of security is crazy.
Now, they did tell the New York PD, and they told an assistant to Mayor Bloomberg, who forgot to tell Bloomberg.
So Bloomberg, the mayor, was also furious.
The cops knew and the fire department knew, but nobody else knew.
And the reason they didn't want anybody else knowing is because I guess they're afraid somebody's going to try to shoot the plane down.
If they're given advance notice, it's going to be flying that low.
So it's a security thing.
But to do this at that altitude over that part of Manhattan, over any part of Manhattan, but particularly down there over ground zero, it has to mean that you're in a 9-10 mentality.
It has to mean that this is not even on your mind.
It means if you remember the Obama administration, that that's a Bush problem.
That happened.
We weren't here.
We have nothing whatsoever to do with that.
Whatever it is, it was profoundly stupid not to tell the general public about this.
And number two, it was terribly insensitive.
Terribly, I mean, scared these people left and right in New York City, running out of their office buildings, running for cover.
Before we go to the break, I need to play you an audio soundbite.
Last December, on this program, December 22, three days before Christmas, I had a phone call.
I took the phone call.
This was how it sounded.
Don't worry.
The automobile industry is not going to go kaput because the United Auto Workers will not be allowed to go kaput.
Well, God knows that.
What's going to happen is the UAW is going to end up owning it.
After the government invests and nationalizes the auto industry, the Obama administration, out of a sense of compassion, will transfer ownership free of charges, transfer the deed to the United Auto Workers.
Today, ladies and gentlemen, the Wall Street Journal has the dirty details.
55% of Chrysler owned by the United Autoworkers.
35% owned by President Obama.
Common shares, which means voting.
39% of General Motors owned by the United Autoworkers, the rest owned by President Obama.
This was so easy to predict.
For me, of course it was easy.
Once I figured out what his plan is to return the nation's wealth to its quote-unquote rightful owners.
So in Obama's worldview, the United Auto Workers has been screwed ever since it was founded by the auto companies.
The executives have gotten rich.
The white-collar guys have gotten rich.
The salaried people have gotten rich.
And the union guys have gotten dirt.
They've had to eat excrement sandwich.
Payback time.
It is payback time.
And so today, once again, do you realize what this is going to do to my opinion audit?
I mean, this is a big, big, big addition to the accuracy rating.
Details of that and conflicting polling data.
New York Times CBS poll out.
Obama more popular than ever.
Gallup poll out the same day says Obama is near a record low approval rating at this stage in his presidency.
Lots to do today, folks, plus your phone call.
So sit tight.
We'll be right back and get started with all the rest of it after this.
Okay, I have the template, folks, that the Drive-By Media is using here to report on the Arlen Specter change of parties.
The Drive-By Media template is this.
How can the Republican Party be a national party?
How can it claim to be a national party if it cannot keep a moderate Republican like Arlen Specter in the party?
What's wrong with that question, Mr. Snerdley?
You have an idea what's wrong?
Exactly right.
What's wrong with the question is that Arlen Specter's not a moderate Republican.
Arlen Specter is a liberal Republican.
And he has been ideologically closer tied to the Democrat Party for years.
I have his whole statement here announcing his switch.
I've been a Republican since 1966.
I've been working extremely hard for the party, for its candidates, for the ideas of a Republican Party whose tent is big enough to welcome diverse points of view.
While I have been comfortable being a Republican, my party has not defined who I am.
I have taken each issue one at a time.
I have exercised independent judgment to do what I thought was best for Pennsylvania and the nation.
Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan big tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right.
Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats.
Senator Specter, that was Operation Chaos.
A large part of that was just a game.
Large part of that was a trick was Operation Chaos.
I now find my political philosophy, he says, more in line with Democrats than the Republicans.
When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party, but I saw the stimulus as a necessary way to lessen the risk of a far more serious recession than we are now experiencing.
Since then, I've traveled the state.
I've talked to Republican leaders and office holders and my supporters.
I have carefully examined public opinion.
It has become clear to me that the stimulus vote caused a schism which makes our differences irreconcilable on this state of the record.
I am unwilling to have my 29-year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate.
I have not represented the Republican Party.
I have represented the people of Pennsylvania.
I have decided to run for re-election in 2010 in the Democrat primary.
I am ready, willing, and anxious to take on all comers and have my candidacy for re-election determined in a general election.
I deeply regret that I'll be disappointing many friends and supporters.
I can understand their disappointment.
This is a stimulus, and it may be a party, but it really is about KardCheck.
I think he really do believe that he expected accolades and huge support for voting against KardCheck, and it didn't happen to the degree that he wanted it.
So the stimulus is now a way to back out.
But here, again, the drive-by-media template.
How can the GOP claim to be a national party if it cannot keep a moderate senator like Senator Specter in the party?
He's not a moderate.
He is a liberal Republican.
And this is a natural winnowing process that is taking place out of necessity.
Defeats have a tendency to do this within the Republican Party.
People who are not really Republicans are now leaving.
People who are not really conservatives are now really leaving.
And so it's going to be not much smaller, but it's going to be a little bit more focused party to base.
And this may cause some ripples elsewhere with others making similar moves.
But as I say, if this is to be the order of the day, next to go could be Senator McCain and his daughter Megan.
Get them officially moved over, and it just facilitates reality.
Now, as for the United Auto Workers ending up owning 55% of Chrysler and 39% of General Motors, the General Motors deal is really a screw job for people who invested in GM bonds.
The people who invested in General Motors bonds are going to get maybe a dime on the dollar.
It is just, Larry Kudlow puts it a good way.
The government's about to take over GM in a plan that completely screws private bondholders and favors the unions.
Get this.
GM bondholders own $27 billion and they're getting 10% of the common stock.
The UAW owns $10 billion of GM bonds.
They're getting 40% of the stock.
Did I miss something here?
Uncle Sam's going to have a controlling share of the stock with something close to 50% ownership in GM.
No bankruptcy judge here.
So this is a political restructuring run by the White House, not a rule of law bankruptcy court reorganization.
Meanwhile, Valerie Jarrett, who is a top Obama advisor, opened the door wide on CNN yesterday to bank nationalization and the firings of more CEOs.
Now, these stress tests are coming out of the banks, and guess what?
Citibank may need more money.
The stress tests, exactly as I called them last week, possess tests.
The stress tests are possess tests.
More government ownership, more government control of the banks.
UAW, the unions, now the official payback for all these years of supporting Democrats and President Obama.
Folks, come on, I'm reading this email here.
Okay, I have to explain everything and I will explain it.
Arlen Specter, it's not a big loss.
Come on, folks.
It's not a big - the only reason Specter's doing this.
Well, I can't say the only.
What is a politician's first job?
A politician's first job is to get reelected.
Specter knows he's going to have trouble even winning a primary.
He's going to be running against Pat Toomey again.
This is about Specter's political survival.
He knows that he is more at home in the Democrat Party with the way he's been voting in recent years and the things that he's been saying.
This is all about the fact he faces a strong primary challenge.
He wouldn't be changing parties if there were no Pat Toomey out there, if there weren't anybody challenging him on the Republican side.
Doesn't want to lose his upcoming election.
This does not say anything bad about the Republican Party.
That's why I tell you that the media template is going to be and is, well, this just shows the Republican Party is no longer a national party, but they can't have big tent guy like Specter in there.
Notice we never ever hear about the giant big tent that is the Democrat Party.
No, we never hear about all the diversity of views that you can find in the Democrat Party.
A bunch of pro-lifers in there, aren't there?
Bunch of pro-life Democrats, a bunch of them, right?
And they have a voice at the Democrat Convention.
It's a giant, giant myth.
The effort here, but the drive-by is going to be to paint the Republican Party as finished.
Now, it will be interesting to watch Specter on Card Check because he was the deciding vote.
He was the guy who's going to vote against it.
I guarantee you, folks.
I know this without knowing it.
I don't know it specifically, but I know that one of the things, in addition to facing a tough primary fight was with Toomey, he really thought he was going to get back at everybody's good graces opposing card check.
And he didn't get the big band.
He didn't get the big fanfare.
He didn't get the bow downs.
Oh, thank you, Senator Specter.
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.
So he's saying, oh, the stimulus bill that made everybody mad at me.
I can't go on in this party.
We'll see if he changes his tune on card check now since he's going to become a Democrat.
It'll be interesting to see.
But regardless, this is good.
This is good.
Toomey didn't have to spend a lot of money now in a primary, a bruising primary.
Specter, I mean, there's no guarantee Specter is going to get the Democrat nomination in the primary.
He's got to secure that.
So it's any time you have liberals leaving the Republican Party rather than trying to change the party to become liberal, it's a good thing.
I wish more people who are not really Republicans who claim to be liberal Republicans would do the same thing.
Yeah.
And here's another thing.
This is another way to look at this.
If you listen to people like David Brooks and some of the other conservative intelligentsia out there, you'll be reading that moderates, independence moderates are on the march.
Moderates are now taking it because that country hates partisans.
That country hates partisanship.
They just want everybody to get along.
Moderates are in the ascendancy.
Moderates are in the ascendancy.
Moderates have to become Democrats.
Moderates are fleeing anywhere.
It is to the Democrat Party.
Now, I also had some people, and I checked email during the break.
Rush, are you sure your numbers are right on this GM deal with the bondholders and who gets what percentage?
Yes.
Yes, my friends, I am.
What has just happened is that Don Obama has made Don Corleon look like Daffy Duck.
Don Corleone was nothing compared to Don Obama.
You want to talk loan sharking?
Let me tell you how this loan sharking worked.
Bondholders, people who purchased General Motors bonds, did so to the tune of $27 billion.
Big government, Don Obama, put up $15 billion, just a tad less than that.
So basically, the private sector bondholders put up almost twice as much money to save General Motors as Don Obama did.
And at the end of the day, Don Obama gets 50% of the country, and the bondholders get 10% of the company.
The bondholders put up twice as much as Don Obama, and Don Obama gets half the company.
The bondholders get 10%.
That means they invested in the bonds wanting a profit.
There are bondholders who were using the $800,000 throwoff.
That's how much some of these bondholders had gained over the years.
The bonds had thrown that much income off, and it was going to be one guy's retirement.
It's worth nothing.
It's worth 10% of that.
So he's got a retirement now worth $8,000 thanks to Don Obama.
Don Obama owns half of General Motors.
And Don Obama's army, his concigliaries, his Capo de PDs or whatever they are, the unions, they have the other 39% of the company.
How does somebody put up half as much money and get five times as much control of the company?
What makes this even worse is that if General Motors would go bankrupt, the bondholders wouldn't get 10%.
They'd get 100%.
That's what reorganization or restructuring is all about.
So someone has to ask the question, how in the world would any bond buyer trust a bond again?
So in the case of Don Obama, you keep your friends close, your enemies closer.
World War II, ladies and gentlemen, ended with a surrender on the USS Missouri.
Capitalism may have surrendered in the General Motors boardroom.
But if you go over to Chrysler, it's even worse.
There, Don Obama's Capo de TD's the conciglier, whatever, what are the soldiers?
They get 55% of Chrysler.
Don Obama gets 35%.
And the private sector gets 10% of Chrysler.
I had somebody send me a note last night.
I'm never buying an American car again.
Now, let's take a look at some, I mean, some real facets of this.
Let's start with General Motors.
Don Obama has 50% of the company.
His soldiers, the UAW, have 39%, which means, by the way, and I look, I'm going to pat myself on the back.
I predicted this back in December.
I knew this was going to happen.
This was the game plan all along.
It is, you know, it's not Obama's answer to every problem.
It's his objective.
Nationalize every business.
It's not his solution.
It's his objective.
You know, people are getting caught up.
Well, his answer to this problem is he's got to do this.
No, this was the objective from the get-go.
So let's say when the deal here is done, let's talk about Chrysler.
55% of Don Obama's boys own the thing.
You go in to a Chrysler dealership.
Do you realize you're going to be walking in the satellite office of the Democrat National Committee?
You are going, these dealerships will close on Election Day.
You won't be able to buy a car on Election Day.
You could probably be able to register to vote when you buy a car.
I mean, it'll be voter registration will be, and union membership will be automatic, even if you don't work in a union place, be an honorary union member when you go buy a car.
Every car will be produced with Obama bumper stickers built in.
You can't rip them off.
Dealerships will check applications to make sure the applicants who want loans to buy cars are Democrats.
If your car breaks down and you complain about the repair bill, you will get audited.
And you might want to keep a sharp eye on your kneecaps.
And then try this.
This is going to be interesting for me to watch.
At Chrysler and General Motor, Chrysler, 55% of the UAW owning the company.
That means they're going to have a majority of seats on the board of directors.
At General Motors, 39%.
So they'll have not a majority, but they're going to have a lot of people on the boards of directors.
So it's going to be union people deciding how much union people earn.
It's going to be union management telling union employees where they have to work, how much they have to work.
Let's see how the union does as management.
Let's see how the union handles salaries, wages, overtime, and all of this.
Who's going to design the car?
Oh, that's another thing.
Who's going to design the cars?
Who is going to manufacture?
Who is going to sorry?
The Sierra Club will be the car designer.
In fact, the Sierra Club, Earth First.
These will be the designers of automobiles.
Seriously, stop and think of this.
The union on the compensation committee.
The union determining how much the union makes.
Union becoming management and so forth.
This is just, of course, nobody in the union is going to have to have had, nobody is going to have sunk a dime of investment into this company.
They're just being given these positions.
Folks, I opened the program by saying we're all essentially dead.
The World Health Organization has now raised the pandemic pig flu alert from phase three to phase four, and officials now say that the pig flu cannot be contained as global cases rise.
All right, so that's it.
I mean, it's either tomorrow, next week, or next month, but we're dead.
And closing borders, of course not.
Of course.
Of specifically closing the border won't work.
Oh, specifically that.
Well, we can't close the border because we just, we need the, we, we can't, because the voters, sanctuary, uh, people come, well, I know Canadians are screening their borders, but we're not going to screen our border because that's not our values.
We will not abandon our values here.
So, no, we can't close the Napolitano Sen.
We're not going to close a border.
Can't close a border.
But the World Health Organization doesn't matter.
You can't contain it anyway.
So we're dead.
It's a matter of when.
Maybe not.
But we're dead.
Maybe not.
It was just last month, in March, yeah, March 17th, in an interview with the Hill newspaper on Capitol Hill that Arlen Specter said he absolutely would not switch parties.
He said, Democrats are trying very hard for the 60th vote.
Got to give them credit for trying.
But the answer is no.
I'm not going to discuss private talks I had with other people who may or may not be considered influential.
But since those three people are in the public domain, I think it's appropriate to respond to those questions.
I am staying a Republican because I think I have an important role, a more important role to play here.
The United States very desperately needs a two-party system.
That's the basis of politics in America.
I'm afraid that we are becoming a one-party system, with Republicans becoming just a regional party with so little representation in the Northeast or in the Middle Atlantic.
I think as a government matter, it's very important to have a check and balance.
That's a very important principle in the operation of our government in the continuation on separation of powers.
It's March 17th with the Hill Specter flatly denying he's going to change parties.
Now, something's happened.
It's called polling data.
It's got to be really dramatic.
It's got to be something untenable for Senator Specter to switch parties here after just over a month ago, six weeks ago, saying, ain't no way.
We need a two-party system.
We need Republicans in the Northeast.
I'm going nowhere.
Uh-uh.
No way, Jose.
Six weeks later, Sayonara.
Something happened.
And trust me on this, folks, do not discount the notion he was really, you know, people are people.
Human beings are human beings.
He wanted accolades for hanging tough on card check.
And the polling data demonstrates it didn't help him much.
Obviously, I mean, I haven't seen any polling data, but I mean, the only reason to do a six-week change of heart 180 like this is if your fortunes look hopeless where you at present are, which was as a Republican.
All right, let me grab a phone call or two here before we have to wrap up the hour.
Montclair, Virginia, Mary, nice to have you.
Thanks for calling.
Thanks, Rush.
It's good to talk to you.
Yes.
It's a great day in America, and there's a party at the big house tonight.
I've got six bottles of old port downstairs, and one of those cocks, those, whoops, sorry, one of those corks is going to be popping tonight.
We have been waiting for Arlen Schneider.
Did you say she's going to pop some cocks last night?
No, I didn't say that.
She's going to pop some cocks of port.
You are a very bad guy.
No, I did not say that.
We're popping the cork on that bottle.
And we are absolutely thrilled.
I've been waiting for him to either succumb to his Alzheimer's or just plain get defeated in the polls or switch parties and join the party he really belongs to.
What kind of port?
I'm curious.
You've got six bottles of old vintage port.
Tell me which one you're going to open, if you can off the top of your head.
Okay, well, you know what?
It's probably not going to be as impressive to you because I'm sure you have a great and fantastic wine cellar, which we don't.
But I think it's Graham is the name of it.
That's excellent.
Excellent.
What's the year?
Yeah.
Oh, it's just 1998, but you know what?
We've been waiting a long time.
That's fine and dandy.
Is it good?
Is it good?
Fine and dandy.
Graham's 98's fine.
You'll get it.
I got five more bottles.
I got five more bottles, and I'll let you just kind of give some thought as to when we're going to be popping the corks on those babies.
If it were me, I would, of course, light a fine cigar.
Would you?
Well, I'm going to try that.
I'm pretty old.
I think a cigar would kill me.
Are you going to be doing this alone?
You said we're going to pop the cocks on the porch.
I did not say that.
Well, pop the corks.
I'm sorry.
You said we're going to pop the corks on the port.
Well, unfortunately, my husband's on travel in the West Coast, but I'll be doing it.
We'll be talking on the phone.
We'll be having a big party.
Woohoo!
It's a good day in America.
This is, I think, going to be a common reaction of many Republicans.
That's why I say this is ultimately good.
You're weaving out, I don't want to say deadwood, but I mean, you're weaving out people that are not really Republicans here and haven't been for a long time.
Let's see.
Not enough time to be fair with another caller.
Yes, a lot of popping corks all over Republicanville tonight.
Well, remember, now the drive-bys, folks are going to tell you this is the end of the Republican Party.
If you can't keep a moderate in the big tent, why then?
How can you claim to be a national party?
Don't buy it.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
A little warning here, folks.
The Republican Party is not going to be happy about Spectre.
They're losing one of their own.
They're just thinking numbers right now.
And they're not going to be happy about this.
Conservative Republicans, of course, will be far less shattered over this change of parties by Arvind Specter.
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