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Oct. 27, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 27, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my good friends, and welcome back.
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Saturday afternoon on ESPN, Minnesota versus Ohio State football.
Here is a oh, wait, grab number nine.
I missed it first.
Nine and then 10 and 11.
Let me make sure of that.
Yeah, here's down by number nine.
This is Bob Greasy, ESPN.
He's done the color commentator, commentary of Minnesota, Ohio State.
First time we saw Jeff Gordon up there in the top five, isn't it?
Where's Juan Pablo Montoya?
He's out having a taco.
That was Bob Greasy.
Now, it's interesting.
I'm looking at people's facial expressions here who have not heard that.
Dawn had not heard it.
Brian had not heard it.
Snerdley had heard it.
And it's interesting.
Don, oh, oh, it's a pill.
What did you get?
Oh, how can he say, oh, no?
Brian's in there yucking it up.
Snerdley's in there yucking it up.
Bob Greasy, then later on during the broadcast, they hurried up in there and they made him apologize.
Earlier today on our game, I made an offensive comment regarding Juan Pablo Montoya as part of the NASCAR promo.
It was regrettable, and I should not have said it.
I really enjoy NASCAR, and I follow it closely, and would like to take this opportunity to apologize to Juan, NASCAR, and everyone else who heard my comment.
All right, and now ESPN has announced that Bob Greasy has been suspended for a week.
Bob Greasy has been suspended for a week over a racial slur.
I mean, it is.
He's out there probably having a taco.
A racial slur.
Fine, before we get to New York 23 here, let's see.
Last week on the syndicated TMZ, unidentified reporter had this exchange with hip-hop producer Dr. Dre.
What do you think about Rush Limbaugh trying to buy the Rams?
Man, f ⁇ Russian Mba.
You know what I'm saying?
That was a F-bomb in there that was bleeped.
Now, that's the hip-hop culture the NFL lovingly embraces, as epitomized there by Dr. Dre on TMZ.
Anybody see double standards here?
Greasy suspended for a week over a racial slur.
I'm history over a comment about the media on ESPN.
At any rate, I'm not crying about it, folks.
I'm just pointing out how this all works.
Now, let's move on to New York 23 because you people, you people are beating me up here over my stance at the third party business.
I want to try to walk you through this as I see it.
Now, this is from PoliticsDaily.com by Matt Lewis.
Newt Gingrich takes seat from the right, but will it stick?
A few days ago, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich irritated many movement conservatives when he endorsed liberal Republican Didi Scazafaba over Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman for the upcoming special election.
And that's key to remember here.
Special election in the 23rd Congressional District of New York running in a conservative district where the incumbent went off to be Secretary of the Army.
All three candidates have the distinction of seeing their race attract national attention and national surrogates.
Hoffman had previously earned the backing of prominent conservative organizations such as the Club for Growth and the Concerned Women for America PAC.
In the end, Gingrich's endorsement may not matter to the outcome of the race.
Scazafava seems to be losing steam anyway, but down the line, it may matter to Gingrich.
The former House Speaker drew immediate fire from popular conservative blogs like Red State, MichelleMalkin.com.
Eric Erickson of Red State wrote that Gingrich's endorsement of Scazafava aligns Newt with Acorn, which has twice endorsed Didi Scazafava, and Planned Parenthood and NAROL are active supporters of Scazzafava as well.
Now, in response to this, Gingrich invoked big tent Reaganism, saying if you seek to be a perfect minority, you'll remain a minority.
That's not how Reagan built his revolution or how he won back the House in 1994.
This revisionist history is upsetting to me.
This is not how Reagan won.
Reagan was not out there talking about a big tent.
If I recall correctly, Reagan publicly invited liberal Republicans to go their own way.
His tent was a little narrow, but it was crowded.
His tent was just mainstream conservatism, the kind of conservatism that founded the country.
Now, this little article here says, make no mistake, this special election in New York is not just one mere congressional race.
As Erickson at Red State has tweeted, it's a hill to die on.
Now, this is a teachable moment here, and it's nuanced.
You've got to be careful.
In New York, the rules allow for very strong third parties in certain elections.
The Conservative Party in New York, generally now, only runs candidates when the Republicans are liberal.
Otherwise, they don't work against the Republicans to help the Democrats.
But here, you have an off-year election.
You have an extreme liberal Republican.
This is not a rhino.
This is not a Republican in name only.
This is an extreme liberal Republican who may as well be a Democrat.
You also have a far-out wacko-lib Democrat.
And then people say this is a real chance for a third party.
But this is not the same as running a third party in a national election against a Republican in name only like McCain.
This is a totally different circumstance.
Let me see if I can explain this.
New York 23 is a special election.
There was no primary.
Doug Hoffman would have challenged Scassafava in the Republican primary had there been one.
And he would have had the backing of New York's Conservative Party, as is often the case there.
You have to understand that the Conservative Party does not look at themselves as a third party.
Only do they get in gear when the Republicans nominate some liberal.
Ronald Reagan opposed third party races because he believed that conservatives needed to take back the Republican Party and not surrender it to liberals.
He told the liberals, go your own way.
He didn't go his own way and form Republican Party.
And it took a while.
He narrowly lost to Gerald Ford in 76.
was the most popular Republican emerging from that convention, but Ford, the establishment, Republican, I mean, the fix was in.
Reagan didn't slink away and start a third party.
He began to take over the Republican Party.
Third parties lose.
Speaking personally, I am not interested in creating another reform party like Perot did, like Buchanan did.
It's a losing proposition.
I want to defeat what's going on.
Now, if Hoffman loses, he can run again in the GOP primary next year, a primary that did not happen this year.
If there had been a primary, he would have run, and he would have had the backing of the Conservative Party.
I'm sure that the Republican Party would have backed Didi Scazafava.
And then you would have ended up with a traditional two-party race had there been against the Democrat, whoever that would have been in their primary.
But there wasn't one.
He can run as the Republican candidate if the Democrat, the guy's name is Owens.
If Owens wins, he can come back and run a year from now.
But I wanted to win.
He's a conservative Republican.
And the national, you know, the Congressional Campaign Committee's out there saying there's no clear path to victory for Doug Hoffman.
And he's, now the Club for Growth is running polls up there, and they've got Hoffman up five.
Everybody watching this race admits that Didi Scazafaza has lost steam.
I mean, she's a pretender.
But this is a, it's a teachable moment here.
40% of the public now, according to Gallup, identify themselves as conservative, 20% as liberal, and 36% as independent.
Now, Hoffman wanted to run as a Republican.
He is a Republican.
He was passed over by the GOP, who picked Scazafava instead.
So he's running on the Conservative Party ticket because the GOP passed him over.
But this is a wake-up call for both parties.
Look what's happening in Virginia now.
Creed deeds.
Last Friday, the Washington Post comes out with this front page story, dumping on Creed Deeds, Obama White House dumping on it.
It's their fault.
He didn't use Obama wisely enough, didn't use Obama enough.
The Democrat Party has no clue.
They have no clue.
Well, maybe they do have a clue, which is why they're trying to rush all this stuff in so quickly.
But I don't think they understand just how much the people oppose what they're doing.
Corusine in New Jersey, down three points.
Now, that's margin of error.
But this is a corrupt Democrat state.
I mean, this Chris Christie guy ought to be nowhere close.
And he still may not win, but as close as it is, and the Democrats are already sensing a Creed deeds type situation in New Jersey.
Well, of course he ain't losing Corazine losing.
You can't.
Can't blame Little Obama.
Of course not.
Obama will be blamed for anything.
He'll only take credit for things that go well.
But if you fail, it's your fault.
If you fail aligning yourself with Obama's policies, it's not Obama's policy or him.
It's you.
And he'll throw you under the bus as fast as you would kick a paper cup under the bus as soon as pick it up and put it in a trash can.
So I know the temptation for a third party is tempting, but what we're on the cusp, right now, conservatism is in the ascendancy.
It's actually good to be a conservative, and this is the time to reassert control over the Republican Party.
It's not going to be easy, but the Democrats, you know, the far left didn't go out and form a third party.
They took over the Democrat Party.
Anyway, I got to take a break.
I know a lot of you are still looking at this and seeing a third party here, but this is not the way a third party candidacy, a third party would actually operate.
It's really key to understand there was no primary here.
I got to go.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Your phone calls are next after this.
And by the way, just to remind you, Sarah Palin, when she endorsed Hoffman in this race, she said it was a message to the Republican Party, not a third-party movement.
And something the Republican Party needs to ask itself.
Do you people running this show actually think that Doug Hoffman's not going to vote with the Republicans in the House when he gets there?
What in the world are you thinking?
Scazafava will vote with the Democrats just like Olympia Snow and Susan Collins do.
More often than not, she's an Obama Republican.
She is such a liberal, the Democrat has run ads being critical of all the tax increases.
She is four.
It's absolutely absurd.
It doesn't surprise me.
It made me mad when they ran an ad against him.
It just made it running.
Ads against a conservative.
Run the ads against a Democrat for crying out.
Okay, to the phones.
Kirsten in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Great to have you.
You're up first today on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I just wanted to talk about Newt Gingrich and how I've lost all respect for him since he endorsed Scarza Fava and basically on Fox News implied that the rest of us who aren't from upstate New York need to butt out of it.
I didn't hear him say that, but I have only been tuned in sporadically over the course of the past couple, three days.
Well, he said something about if the rest of us think that we know what's best for upstate New York or wrong or something like that.
Well, there's a little subtext here.
And it is to me, it's disappointing that arguably the architect of the conservative revolution, the Republican revolution in the House in 1994, has drifted so far away from what it was that got him there.
But here's what I don't, if you recall the 2008 presidential election, one of the Republican Party laments was, oh, no, oh, no, we don't have one elected Republican from the Northeast.
Oh, no, we can't, because, you know, Christopher Shay's lost in Connecticut.
Oh, no, we don't have a single Republican from the Northeast.
Well, our constituents aren't being represented.
You've got to understand that people who live in the Northeast are liberal and moderate, and if we want our party to be strong, we've got to – and it's just – that, I think, is – when Newt says – I'm just guessing.
Newt says, you don't understand New York 23.
This is a – it's a solid Republican, almost conservative district.
And that's why putting Scazafava in there is just an insult.
But I think I'm got lots of emails like your call from people who are just mystified by Newt, who don't think he's reliable anymore.
Nobody denies his intelligence.
Nobody denies his ability to think strategically.
But, you know, this is not the first time joining Pelosi in a global warming commercial and joining Hillary in a healthcare commercial or a healthcare appearance.
People have been scratching their heads over this for quite a bit.
I remember seeing him on Hannity's show one night about six months ago or four months ago, maybe three, sometime this past summer.
And it was during a, I forget the exact news cycle that was going on, but it was clear by now what a radical Obama was.
And Newt was apologizing to Hannity for not recognizing it as soon as Hannity had, which was a year and a half ago.
So, I don't know, Beltwayitis, I don't know what it is, but it's something.
This is Deanna in St. Louis.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Great.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
First of all, it's an honor to speak with you.
Second of all, before I get to my comment, I want to thank you on behalf of Military Moms of America for your voice and the lack of action on the Obama's administration with the current situation in Afghanistan.
We appreciate it because as military families, we're so frustrated.
We're so frustrated because I personally have firsthand knowledge of the situation on the front lines there because I have a son and several family members and friends serving there.
So I hear all of the things that are coming in from the front lines, basically.
And my point is this: it's demoralizing to our troops over there that NATO can stand behind the crystal and his strategy, and our president cannot.
And military families all over this country should be infuriated.
We shouldn't be worried about health care right now or cap and trade or any of these.
These politics are not.
I think they all are.
Look, Deanna, I think they all are.
I think there's so much opposition to Obama and the Democrats.
It just doesn't get reported.
It gets mocked.
Whatever opposition to Obama there is is made fun of.
It is impugned.
Even this Doug Hoffman in New York 23, no matter where you go in the drive-by media as they report on it, the objective here, they're just dying to set up a big-time loss here.
They just want Hoffman to lose because they want to be able to write the story that mainstream conservatives have been so marginalized, they're just freaky now.
They're out on the kook fringe.
And it's the media is scared to death of the conservative ascendancy.
The Republican Party is scared to death of it, parts of it.
And of course, the Democrat Party is as well.
And people sense this.
And it's well within the realm of possibility that Doug Hoffman can win this thing.
Skaza Faza, whatever.
She's lost.
She has no base to bring her back here.
She has no base.
So this is a conservative versus a liberal Democrat in New York 23.
It's going to be fascinating to watch this play out.
And this is happening all over the country.
You talk about military families ought to be upset.
Remember Anthony Zinni?
Anthony Zinni was one of a few generals that the Democrats all of a sudden fell in love with.
The Democrats generally abhor the military.
But during the Iraq war and the early days of the war on terror, whenever any general came out of Rip Bush, why did he become the Democrats' best friend?
And one of those was Anthony Zinni.
And here it is in the Wall Street Journal today, yesterday, I'm sorry.
Anthony Zinni stepped up his call for the Obama administration to quit dilly-dallying and send more troops to Afghanistan to fight the insurgency.
The retired Marine Corps general who had been the top commander in the Middle East and Central Asia said the Obama administration needs more forces in Afghanistan quickly.
Zinni said his own son was among the troops waiting to be deployed, adding, I think we owe them a decision for the life of me.
I can't figure out why we're still waiting for one.
Zinni spent a lot of time working with the Pakistani and Indian governments while he headed CENTCOM during the Clinton administration.
And it wasn't just Zinni.
Remember, John Kerry's favorite general was Shinseki.
You know, now all these guys, so Deanna, I'm telling you, the people of this country are upset over a lot of what Obama's doing, and particularly leaving military personnel out to drive.
Got another endorsement for Doug Hoffman, New York 23, the former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
This is the bunch running ads against Hoffman, but Tom Cole does not run the thing anymore.
Tom Cole is a Republican from Oklahoma.
He's former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
A member of the GOP steering committee, a deputy GOP House Whip, says that he will be endorsing Doug Hoffman in the New York 23 race.
So a lot of prominent Republican conservatives are stepping up here.
And look, I want to emphasize on this third-party business again.
In a functioning two-party system, the primary system is the check on the worst impulse or impulses of the party bosses.
That's the theme here that I think people need to understand because it's easy to understand and it's right on the money.
If it weren't for the primaries, let's look at Reagan.
1976 and 1980, it was the primaries where Reagan got the chance to show the strengths that he had.
Reagan would not have gotten the nomination in 1980 without the primaries.
The Republican Party did not want Ronald Reagan in 1980.
People have forgotten this.
I have not.
They didn't want him in 1976.
They didn't want him in 1980.
If there were no primary system and if the party bosses in the smoke-filled rooms, as they used to do, picked the nominees, you'd have had some hack that the Republicans would have picked.
And in 2000, had there not been a primary system, I guarantee you, McCain would have been the nominee because the media wanted McCain.
Remember the Straight Talk Express?
Remember all the stuff that went on in South Carolina.
Remember all the crossover Democrats in the primaries that were crossing over and voting for McCain because they wanted McCain because they knew they could beat him.
And McCain was out.
He was the media's favored candidate in 2000 and so forth.
If it weren't for the primary system, Bush might not have gotten the nomination in 2000 because the media and the party bosses would have preferred McCain.
So when you have primaries, the rank and file can not only overrule the party bosses, they can actually make the party bosses behave better.
If Scazafava had had to face a primary and the prospect of getting drubbed in the primary, people like Michael Steele and Newton might not have supported her because they don't want to be associated with a drubbing by the base.
They tried to get away with one this time because there was no primary.
So they sense an opportunity to show everybody how nuanced and centrist they are so that they can attract respect and love and adoration from the Beltway media and so forth.
They run around and they go, oh, we don't have any elected representatives from the Northeast.
That's right, because they've all run as moderates and liberals and been shirked.
If you're going to be a moderate or liberal, be a Democrat.
If you want to be a Republican and you want to win, be a conservative.
That's the message.
But these guys are all missing it.
They've been in Washington too long, and they get the sense that Washington is America because it's their world.
This happens to Republicans and Democrats alike.
You go back to 1980.
Can I ask you if you remember who the number one challenger to Ronald Reagan was in 1980?
Anybody take a step?
That's exactly right, Sterdley.
It was Bush 41 voodoo economics.
George H.W. Bush voodoo economics.
And had there been no primary system, George Bush 41 would have been the nominee.
Now, the relevance here is that there was no primary in New York 23.
It's a special election.
Had there been a primary, Hoffman would have run as a Republican against SCUSAFUVA as a Republican, and he would have Schillacher.
And then the Republican Party would be supporting this guy because he had won the primary.
Now, they might have still thrown in with SCUSAFUVA because they think they have to show that they're sophisticated and not closed-minded by being able to support moderates or even liberal Republicans.
But it is a huge error, ladies and gentlemen, to think that what is happening in New York 23 is a portend of third-party success.
Hoffman tried to get the Republican nomination.
He is a Republican, and he's going to be voting with the Republicans in the House of Representatives if he's elected there.
The primary system is key here, and it was not present in this race.
Had it been, none of what's happening now would be happening.
The party bosses would have stood back.
You'd have had two Republicans running.
They would have stood back.
They wouldn't have gotten involved and endorsed one.
But now, since Hoffman says, well, okay, screw it.
You guys don't want me in the Republican Party.
Fine.
There's a conservative party here that gets in action when the Republican Party goes liberal.
The Conservative Party is not active all the time.
They're a stopgap in New York.
All right, who's next?
Jeff in Austin, Texas.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor.
Actually, Jeff from Wemberly, Texas, just working in the liberal mecca here on the weekdays.
Your first area, you were talking about the state to opt-out and what a farce that is.
This is a dangerous farce because if the governors elect to opt out of this, what does it do to the unemployment in their state, in the business in their state, where my business operates in the states and produces in this state, if Texas, which I hope they do, opt out of this if it gets that far, my business is going to move to a state that does not opt out because then they can abscond from their responsibilities to their employees, either pay for their benefits.
By the way, again, conservative governors won't be able to opt out of this because there's going to be no place to opt out to.
This is the thing that I must continue to hammer home with the anvil that is my tongue.
And that is there isn't going to be a place.
And even if for a while, you know, this stuff's not going to happen overnight.
Even if there is a temporary place to opt out, the taxes of the people in that state and whatever charges they're going to face going private to subsidize the people who have not bought insurance, it's going to cost everybody.
It's all a smokescreen.
There is no opting out if this thing goes through.
All this is, all this is dingy hairy to Democrats realizing they're in trouble.
When Pelosi says, we need a competitive option.
We need to call it a competitive option.
Ah, that's not a public option.
They know they're in trouble on this.
And they're being, well, they are, there is a big poll today to the public option.
Yeah, well, that's smokescreen, too.
That's going to be the second fraudulent poll with no doubt a rigged sample that the public wants a public option.
I'd like to know what public, who they are, where they're asking them, and what state of sobriety they are in when they are contacted.
And whether they have health insurance or not, because I guarantee you, to a lot of people, public option means free.
Public option means free whenever public options associated with government.
And people think what they get from the government is free, the kind of people we're talking about.
Well, yeah, your food stamps come in and you didn't pay for them.
Yeah, government gave them to me.
Obama's dash.
The poor people in Detroit.
Oh, Obama giving me the money.
Obama from reserve funds or from his stash.
So you can find people like that.
You support the public option.
Is it free?
Yeah, fine.
Count me in.
And then some reputable polling organization puts the news out there.
Here's Carol in San Francisco.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Oh, hi, Rush.
Thanks for having me on.
You bet.
I just want you to please keep the pressure on with this defense issue with Obama ignoring General McChrystal.
My son is in a first-class university in this area.
He's in ROTC.
He's going to be graduating next June, and then he's going to be commissioned.
And I am just totally irate that Obama is ignoring General McChrystal, who is, I think, the world-class authority on counterterrorism, and putting all these men and women at risk.
I mean, these are bright, bright people who have volunteered to serve their country.
I know.
And Obama and his crowd just treat them like trash.
I am just livid, absolutely livid.
See, what I don't understand about all this is why people are surprised.
Now, I know I'm a bright guy, but I don't think I'm the smartest person around.
Well, I'm not surprised.
I mean, I was, I was.
You heard the Democrats during the Iraq war.
You.
You heard them guaranteeing defeat.
You heard them advocating for defeat.
You heard them trying to make it sound like they were supporting the troops when they were, here comes some charge that they're raping and murdering Iraqis in Haditha.
And there's Jack.
Yep, they're rapists and they're murderers.
I mean, the idea that Democrats have ever supported the troops, I don't know where people get this.
So it's not a surprise Obama to leave him lying.
He doesn't care.
This is the state.
No commander-in-chief, grab soundbite number 16.
No commander-in-chief would say this if he had any idea what his job was.
I will never hesitate to use force to protect the American people or our vital interests.
I also promise you this, and this is very important as we consider our next steps in Afghanistan.
I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm's way.
I won't risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary.
And if it is necessary, we will back you up to the hill because you deserve the strategy, the clear mission, and the defined goals, as well as the equipment and support that you need to get the job done.
We are not going to have a situation in which you are not fully supported back here at home.
That is a promise that I will always make to you.
That is a 10 on the puke scale.
A full-fledged 10 on the puke scale.
You know what that is?
That is a continuing campaign against George Bush and the Iraq war.
That's what that is.
That's not about Afghanistan.
He is still running against Bush.
The Democrats have nothing else they can do, except Bush isn't around anymore.
But that's what got them where they are, they think.
And so they're continuing to attack Bush.
And that's all this statement is.
I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm's way like Bush did in Iraq.
I won't risk your lives unless it's absolutely necessary.
Iraq wasn't.
And if it is necessary, we'll back you up to the hilt.
Bush didn't.
The truth is, it was the Democrats who didn't back the troops to the hilt.
It's the Democrats who aren't backing them now.
It is Obama.
He's acting like a candidate here, not the commander-in-chief.
They are in harm's way.
You've already sent some people into Iraq or Afghanistan.
They are in harm's way, and you are not backing them to the hilt.
You are dithering, and their morale is plummeting.
Everybody involved does not understand why, Mr. President, you are not committed to the strategy that you announced in March.
And then he said, because you deserve that strategy.
A clear mission, defined goals, as well as the equipment and support you need.
He's attacking Bush.
He's attacking Iraq.
He's not even talking about Afghanistan.
Because while all of this is going on in Afghanistan, he's pretending he's telling people about Iraq to show how he's not going to be bug Bush.
In the meantime, everything he says he's going to do is not happening.
He is not backing people up to the hilt.
He did send people into harm's way, and he is risking their lives.
Then he said, we're not going to have a situation in which you are not fully supported back here at home.
Mr. President, you are stuck on Iraq and you are stuck in campaign mode of 2008.
We do have a situation in which the troops are not fully backed here at home by you, the commander-in-chief.
That is a promise I'll always make to you.
This is insulting.
It is outrageous.
It is incompetent.
And it's delusional.
Back in just a second.
It is apparent, ladies and gentlemen, that General John Swifty Kerry has taken over Obama foreign policy.
You people who thought you were voting for Obama to change foreign policy were wrong.
You know, I still can't get over that last soundbite.
President Obama, there aren't Bush troops and there aren't Obama troops.
Those are American soldiers, and you've abandoned them while claiming to these naval people in Jacksonville yesterday that you'll never, this is, it's embarrassing.
And worse than that, it's dangerous.
We've gotten John Swifty Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, yesterday afternoon at the Council on Foreign Relations, said.
In 1971, I asked the Foreign Relations Committee, how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
38 years later, chairing the committee, I keep that question very much in mind.
You guys realize George Bush is gone?
They cannot stop talking about Bush.
It didn't help him in Virginia with Creed Deeds, did it?
It's not helping him in New Jersey with corzine, is it?
John Kerry, Swifty Kerry, said more.
After eight years of neglecting Afghanistan as vice president, Dick Cheney has now come out of retirement, criticized President Obama for taking time to examine assumptions before sending troops into war.
Make no mistake.
Because of the gross mishandling of this war by past civilian leadership, there are no great options for its handling today.
One American officer captured well our lack of a strategy when he said, we haven't been fighting in Afghanistan for eight years.
We've been fighting in Afghanistan for one year, eight times in a row.
That is our inheritance.
These people, these people are absolutely shameless.
They have no guts, Nor do they have souls.
The Bush-Cheney administration left them with a plan.
Robert Gibbs was forced to admit they got the plan and implemented it in March.
You inherited a successful strategy, Senator Kerry, that this man-child president imposed.
He implemented it.
The gross mishandling of this war by past civilian leadership, there are no great options for its handling.
Whatever happened to the concept of winning?
There are no great options today.
So you are dithering on troops because of Bush and Cheney?
This is a party that's lost.
This is a party that is dangerous to this country's future and security.
These are people who are in a permanent campaign mode, and right now that campaign mode is anti-Bush, and for the simple reason they think that's what'll get their irons out of the fire.
They get into trouble, and they think all they got to do is mention Bush.
And it isn't going to be long before a whole lot of people are saying, gosh, I wish Bush was running this.
We'll be back, folks.
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Isn't it wonderful how history repeats itself, ladies and gentlemen?
The North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong's favorite senator, John Kerry, back to undermine another war.
He undermined Vietnam.
He undermined Iraq.
And now he's undermining Afghanistan.
So now he's Al-Qaeda's favorite senator and the Taliban's favorite senator, along with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong's favorite senator and probably a favorite senator of the Khmer Rouge of Pol Pot.
He just, we got this now.
He trashed General McChrystal while at the Council on Foreign Relations as well.
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