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Nov. 2, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 2, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Greetings to you once again music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
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How about Joe Biden up there to a 65% of the place packed?
250 people, 50 of them media.
Hey, Sarah.
Hey, Sarah, meaning Sarah Penn.
Hey, Sarah, it's a little bit more complicated than drill, baby, drill.
No, it's not, Joe.
It's real simple.
How do you think we get oil in the first place, Joe?
Drill, baby, drill.
You know, these guys, Axel Rod, these people run out.
Now, I used to run the Republican Party last week, but now, ever since Sunday, I'm just an entertainer.
I'm just a fulminating entertainer.
Let me tell you something, folks.
It's the libs who are a bunch of entertainers, although they are dangerous.
Look at Barney Frank.
Barney Frank reminds me of Buddy Hackett.
I don't mean to mean the late Buddy Hackett.
And look at Harry Reed.
When Reed speaks, he makes as much sense as Teller of the comedy team Penn and Teller, and Teller doesn't say anything.
He's the foil.
And then there's Pelosi.
Reminds me of the late Liberace.
Nothing against the late Liberace, but she looks like him.
She sounds like him, although Liberace did not want to destroy capitalism and liberty.
These people are just off the charts, extreme.
They're funny as hell, except that they're dangerous because they have amassed so much power.
This headline, ladies and gentlemen, on the Drudge Report, Atlanta poised to elect a white mayor.
That has become news?
Does Eric Holder know about this?
The Justice Department might find that illegal.
Has somebody called Eric Holder?
He's the Attorney General.
Atlanta is going to elect a white mayor?
How in the hell can that happen?
And it's news?
And it's a female, by the way.
Well, I know it's been so woman, but, you know, I keep living in a colorblind society here, but the press is putting it.
Atlanta poised to elect white mayor?
She's a woman.
Why didn't they say Atlanta poised to elect babe?
Atlanta poised to elect female mayor.
Atlanta poised to elect...
Get the picture.
Atlanta.
Everybody there is poised.
You know, they're just, they're in the starting box.
They can't wait for the election.
They're going to come charging out of those blocks.
They're going to go in there and they're going to pull the lever where it says white.
I mean, what is happening to us?
What in the world is happening to us?
It ain't good, folks.
It isn't good.
Have you heard – now, this is from – I heard this news all over the weekend, and it's published by State-Controlled Associated Press.
The detainees at Guantanamo Bay are going to receive a swine flu vaccine.
Kids in the Midwest, parts of North Carolina, can't have the swine flu vaccine, but detainees at Club Gitmo are going to get the vaccine.
I don't know.
We're just out of whack.
Everything is just surreal.
By the way, I want to go back and play something.
And let me take a call.
Yeah, let me take Bill in Pensacola first, and I want to go back and play an axle rod soundbite from yesterday on Face Nation.
Bill, Pensacola, I'm glad you called, sir.
What's up?
Mr. Lama, thanks for taking my call.
I just wanted to go back to Vice President Biden's speech there.
He's contradicting himself because the part where you said you're not sure what he means about Canada Hoffman ever going against anything you say.
What he's trying to imply there is you're this puppet master and Mr. Hoffman is just one of your puppets.
But at the same time, in the same speech, he's saying you're nothing but an entertainer.
So really, he's just falling all over himself.
I know.
They're just trying to get my name out.
I think you're right.
Biden is saying that Hoffman is in lockstep with me, that I'm actually pulling the strings up there.
I mean, in light of that, thanks.
Thanks, Bill.
In light of that, listen to Axelrod again.
We played this soundbite earlier in the show, and it escaped me, part of what he said.
I don't know.
That's for the Republican Party to decide.
I think we've seen an interesting development over this weekend in a special election up in upstate New York in a congressional district.
The Republican candidate withdrew because of the strong third-party movement behind a very right-wing conservative, and certainly Mr. Limbaugh and others were behind the state.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
So now I hand-picked Hoffman, and now I'm giving Hoffman his marching orders.
I'm just an entertainer, but I also forced Scaza Faba out of the race.
I, El Rushbo, I was playing golf yesterday when Scazafaba, I didn't know it till I, wait a minute, was it was Saturday.
Whenever I got home and everybody's calling me wanting a comment, the political wanted a comment.
I sent a comment over to Catherine Lopez at National Review online.
I'll tell you what my comment is.
No, no, no.
When I got home from golf course Saturday afternoon, I didn't, oh no, I don't take the cell phone on a golf course.
So Scaza Faba, she splits.
I learned today that I had a role in it.
I had something to do with it.
My reaction to that was, hmm, I thought the era of Reagan was over.
Who was it that told us that?
Oh, yeah.
The smart people on our side told us that the era of Reagan was over.
And in fact, one of the smart people is none other than audio soundbite number 12 here, David Brooks of the New York Times.
He was on PBS, The News Hour, with Jim Olara, and he's the conservative with Mark Maxie Shields, who is the liberal.
And they agree on practically everything.
And so Brooks and Shields have this little exchange about the race in New York 23.
We've got a moderate Republican, Didi Skozafava, who is running against really a conservative Tea Party guy named Doug Hoffman.
A lot of Republicans like Rush Limbaugh and even Tim Polenti from Minnesota have gone off for Hoffman.
I think Sarah Palin, I think it's the suicide acts of the Republican Party, essentially taking a moderate Republican dead center in American politics and saying, sorry, you're too liberal.
That's crazy.
And the next day, I managed to get her to resign the race, making Brooks look even more foolish than he looked Friday night.
Dead center moderate Republican, Mr. Brooke?
Come on.
The woman is pro-choice.
Massive, massive tax increaser.
She is nowhere near moderate.
She is more liberal than the Democrat.
And now she has endorsed the Democrat.
And the era of Reagan is over.
We've got a moderate Republican running against a really conservative Tea Party guy.
Let me tell, folks, I'm being given a lot of credit here that I don't deserve for this.
And I have to step in here.
I have been listening to the soundbites of yesterday, and I've been seeing some things on television today that I put Hoffman over the top, that I am the energy behind Doug Hoffman, that he's in the race because of me, that I single-handedly, well, not single-handedly, but with the sheer force of my existence, forced Didi Scuzzafuba out of the race.
And my friends, I throw up my hands in humility and honesty here.
I didn't have anything to do with it.
No, no, no, no.
As best I can tell, Laura Ingram and Joe Scarborough handpicked Doug Hoffman.
The eyes of the nation are on the North Country.
What we decide on Tuesday will echo from Albany to Washington.
Whose side are you on?
The Pelosi-Patterson tax and spend train wreck?
Or do you believe in Republican conservative values like thrift, personal responsibility, and family?
Let's tell the liberals enough is enough.
No more bailouts, taxes, and budget-busting spending.
It's time to create jobs with proven conservative ideas like lower taxes.
Let your voice be heard.
Join the movement to bring real conservative change.
Tell the politicians no more.
We won't let you bankrupt America.
We need conservative leaders who stand up for our values.
Fight back.
Vote conservative.
It matters like never before.
Now, who do you think ran that ad?
Who do you think, Mr. Snerdley, ran that?
That is an ad that is running in New York 23 for Doug Hoffman.
No, that's a RNC ad.
That was an RNC ad urging people to vote conservative.
Now, after working against the conservative, now the RNC is trying to help him, but they still don't mention his name in the ad.
This is the bunch that endorsed Didi SCZAF.
And this is the bunch that was running ads against, well, that might have been the Congressional Campaign Committee in the House, but some Republican group was running ads against Hoffman.
Now SCUZAFUVA pulls out and endorses the Democrat.
Folks, I'm telling you, she has done one of the biggest favors for us any rhino can do.
She has purposely, openly illustrated exactly who rhinos are.
That's Republicans in name only.
David Brooks loves these moderates.
Who is she really?
She is a turncoat liberal Democrat.
She was going to change parties.
There was talk that she was going to change parties after this election if she won.
I mean, the idiots.
We have people that we have some of the stupidest smart people on our side that I have ever recalled being surrounded by.
So now they're running this ad.
Listen to it again.
This is an RNC.
I just sprung it on you.
This is an RNC ad for Doug Hoffman.
They don't mention his name.
If they can run this ad in New York 23, why can't this ad become the basis for their entire existence?
And the reason they want anybody to vote for a Republican if they can do it in New York 23, why not make this their national identity?
Listen.
The eyes of the nation are on the North Country.
What we decide on Tuesday will echo from Albany to Washington.
Whose side are you on?
The Pelosi-Patterson tax and spend train wreck?
Or do you believe in Republican conservative values like thrift, personal responsibility, and family?
Let's tell the liberals enough is enough.
No more bailouts, taxes, and budget-busting spending.
It's time to create jobs with proven conservative ideas like lower taxes.
Let your voice be heard.
Join the movement to bring real conservative change.
Tell the politicians no more.
We won't let you bankrupt America.
We need conservative leaders who stand up for our values.
Fight back.
Vote conservative.
It matters like never before.
Who in the hell wrote this at the RNC and do they still have a job?
Where has this been?
This, obviously, this message is in the building.
Somebody at the RNC actually thinks this stuff because they're running an ad.
That's an ad for Doug Hoffman.
They don't mention his name.
Vote because he's on the Conservative Party line.
So that's why they're saying vote the conservative.
But it wouldn't have hurt to put his name in there, would it?
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
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I do not have a cold.
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All right, who's next on this program?
We're going to, it looks like Janelle in Lakeland, Florida.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi.
Good afternoon.
I really think that you are highlighting a huge issue that is going on in the party today, and that is possibly another crisis of leadership that we have desperately needed since 2008.
I mean, you have Michael Steele, who said that he will do anything to get an R in office.
He defended his Skazafava endorsement by saying that, which is ridiculous.
And even here, which should be near and dear to you here in Florida, you have party leaders who already seem to, even pre-primary, have picked out their Senate candidates, their government, their governor candidate.
I mean, when you say the AT is already saying that we have a fracture, do you think we have a fracture or are we getting the revamp that we really need?
Well, it's tough to say.
I think, are you talking specifically about Florida?
Well, Florida, well, you get New York 23.
You have Florida.
You have, I think this is going to be something that's larger where you still have some leadership that is out of touch.
There's a special election in the Bay Area going on, and nobody's, I think it's California 10.
And nobody's talking about that, but it has the same potential as New York 23.
A Republican could win that race.
You do have this thing in Atlanta with the white mayor, maybe being the first time in a long time, which is news.
You've got in Maine, you have in Maine, they've got a same-sex marriage up there, and they're thinking of banning it.
And there's massive support for banning gay marriage.
And so Massachusetts is sending a brigade of gay activists in there to get out the gay vote in Maine tomorrow.
I mean, there's a lot going on, New Jersey, Virginia.
You call it a revamp.
I think the political scientists talk about this in terms of the word realignment, but that's not actually an accurate way to describe what's going on.
I think what is happening, and we've got to be careful that we don't extrapolate too much from what happens tomorrow.
New York 23 is big.
And well, yeah, maybe we can't overdo it.
I think, like I said on the Fox News show yesterday and on this radio show last week, I think there's a revolt brewing out there.
And revolts in this country take place on election days.
They take place at the ballot box.
And I think, you know, in terms of Florida, you've got a down-the-line Reagan conservative in Marco Rubio, and you've got Charlie Crist, who is the sitting governor, who David Brooks would say is a moderate.
Charlie Crist embraced Obama when Obama first came here to push the stimulus.
When Obama was last here in Jacksonville last week, Charlie Crist was not there, and they got hold of Charlie Crist.
Why weren't you there?
Well, I didn't know Obama was even in the state.
You know, this Creeds guy did not want Obama helping him out.
Independents are fleeing the Democrat Party because in these elections, because of health care.
Creeded said he didn't want Obama, so Obama threw Creed Deeds under the bus two Fridays ago on the front page of the Washington Post, basically blaming him two weeks before the election for blowing it by not using Obama enough.
Now, Obama, that's one thing.
But New Jersey, you know, that one's too close to call if the polls are right.
New Jersey is New Jersey, and I just, I, you know, every time we thought the torch pulls out, hey, the Republicans are going to win.
No, the state Supreme Court there says to hell with our Constitution.
The people aren't being fairly represented since a torch pulled out.
So, yep, you can go ahead and pick a Democrat to run.
So the Democrat Party in the state picked retired Frank Lautenberg, the lout, and he's now the senator.
One of the senators from New Jersey to go along with Metal Block.
Oh, yeah.
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
So I think that there is something brewing out there, Janelle.
I do, but It's going to show itself in different ways tomorrow.
There's no nationwide effort or result that will be shown up because there's just a precious few elections tomorrow.
But I have to take a break here, but there is something happening in Washington on Thursday that I want to tell you about.
And if they can bring this off, it will be huge.
Don't go away.
I just checked the Drudge Report and have a little teaser.
The story is not linked to yet, but let me read you the tease.
Because this is just sad.
This is and it just, it makes my blood boil because it's being done on purpose.
Nearly half of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point during childhood.
And fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.
Nearly half of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point during childhood.
That is just unacceptable.
It is just unacceptable.
And there are people in Washington who are happy about that.
That's what they think the proper role of government is.
Now, this thing happening in Washington on Thursday, Michelle Bachman from Minnesota is putting this together.
She sent me a note, and at the end of it, she said, I don't know if you know who I am.
I'm Congresswoman from Minnesota.
Don't know who she is.
I wrote her back.
I sure know who you are.
And here's what they're doing.
Phone calls and emails to members of Congress, it is said, are not having the impact they once did because Washington is being flooded with phone calls and emails against health care, and it's not making a smidgen's bit of difference, according to Michelle Bachman and others.
The Democrats are so committed on this that they don't care what anybody thinks.
Now, Michelle Bachman told me in an email that if they had to vote on this today, it would lose.
But they plan on voting Friday, and by then, Pelosi might have enough time to buy enough votes, however she's going to do it, from Democrats who are sitting on the fence or who are confirmed no votes.
So this is a pretty ambitious plan.
They are trying to assemble a massive, massive human house call, they're calling it, a giant rally, as it were, on the steps of the Capitol this Thursday.
They want people to go to Washington and actually prowl the halls of all the different congressional office buildings, run into members of Congress and look them in the white in their eyes and say, no, we don't want this.
She believes that it's going to take personal contact and a lot of human beings, a lot of people in Washington to convey the message.
Because on this issue, emails and phone calls and faxes and letters are having no impact.
Now, she's got John Voigt.
There are going to be some people speaking at this thing.
She's got John Voigt there and Mark Levin is going to show up and so forth.
Her note to me says this.
Insurgency in Congress is the subject line.
We're asking the American people to make an emergency house call on Congress at noon on the Capitol steps Thursday to remind Congress what the people said at town hall and tea parties last August.
If real freedom-loving Americans come to Washington and walk up and down the halls of the office buildings and the Capitol tracking down congressmen, looking them in the whites of their eyes and getting them on videotape, then I think we can kill this thing.
If we can kill health care this week in the House, I think we will kill it for the next 10 years.
We have John Voigt and Mark Levin confirmed, also Betsy McCoy.
We'll have a meetup at the Capitol steps, and then the insurgency begins.
It's a big ask, but it's the best way to really kill the bill, which is our goal.
Your support in any manner could make all the difference.
Thank you, Michelle Bachman.
Now, imagine if they pull that off.
That would be huge.
That would be huge.
So, I told her, well, no, I'm not going.
Pardon?
Scheduling conflicts, but I've also got other reasons.
But regardless, this is interesting.
They're going to be pushing this, and I'm sure I am not the only talk show host to be talking it up.
But people have been asking, what can they do?
Everybody asks me, what can we do?
How can we stop this?
This is the latest plan that the Republicans and Michelle Bachman has come up with.
And this is a very, very ambitious thing.
So as I learn more about this, as the week unfolds, I'll pass it on to you.
I'll guarantee it.
Sarah Palin, Joe Biden's making fun of Sarah Palin and laughing at her.
Sarah Palin could not keep a crowd under 10,000 if she shows up anywhere.
If she shows up anywhere, it's 10,000 to 15 to 20,000, especially if there's no charge, maybe more.
Biden can't get any more than 200 people in Watertown, New York.
Who is laughing at who?
Or who should be laughing at who?
Back to the phones.
Dale in Baltimore.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Greetings from the People's Republic of Maryland.
Thank you, sir.
Before I get to my point, you were talking about David Brooks before.
And when I first heard about David Brooks and they said he was a conservative, or he said he was a conservative, and I saw him on these shows, I thought maybe there were two David Brooks, because he certainly isn't.
So I want to know who declared David Brooks a conservative, David Brooks?
Well, the New York Times hired him as their conservative columnist, and he's also the conservative contributor on the McNeil Olara, the news hour with Jim Olara.
Yeah, he used to work at the Weekly Standard.
He actually used to write conservative stuff.
It's hard to believe.
I mean, he becomes the show that you can comfortably have him on, say he's a conservative, and know that he won't say anything conservative.
Anyway, I called to talk about the Republicans and Didi Scazafava and what Michael Steele had to say on Saturday.
And that was that when she resigned from the race, of course, the RNC came out and endorsed Doug Hoffman.
And Michael Steele said, well, you know, we endorse Doug Hoffman, but we're a diverse party.
And I'm getting so tired of the RNC feeling the need to say that we're a diverse party and we have a big tent and all this nonsense.
The liberals don't say it.
The Democrats never feel the need to say it.
And it bothers me that the Republicans always, the Republican leadership, at least the RNC leadership under Michael Steele, feels this need to constantly almost appease the media by saying we're a big tent.
My feeling is, let's just say we're Americans, we're conservatives, and this party should have no difficulty fighting the greatest challenge that we face in the history of this.
That is so, so right on the money.
We have the most radical leftist regime ever.
There is no better time than now to define ourselves and to contrast ourselves with this radicalness.
But you have nailed it because it is appeasement.
It is fear.
It's what happens when you live and work in New York or Washington too long.
The liberals dominate both places, politically, socially, culturally.
When Axelrod goes on TV, oh, the Republicans, they're throwing away valued moderates and a big tent philosophy.
They're trying to pick our candidates because they want us to continue to pick losers.
The last thing we ought to be doing is listening to them tell us what they think we ought to be.
They got enough problems being who they are.
They are the real danger.
We are a big tent party.
Our tent is the United States of America.
We want everybody in this country in our party.
And we do not look at people and see skin color, sexual orientation, or gender or ethnicity.
We see Americans.
We have a message that appeals to Americans.
It's very simple.
It's easy to explain.
We don't have to talk about we're moderates here.
We got some independents over there.
We're a big tent party.
All of that is language created by liberals in the media.
All of those are premises created by the left to try to pick not only our candidates, but to pick our spokesmen and our leaders.
Do you remember shortly after Obama?
Maybe it was he, I don't know if he had been imaculated yet or not, but remember when he went to George Will's house and had dinner with a whole bunch of different conservative commentators.
That was pre-emaculation.
All right, he's going to be a moderate.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
And David Brooks was in the group.
I happened to not be in the group.
In fact, I was at the White House that day having lunch with the president.
And that dinner was going to happen, I think, later in the week or maybe that night or something.
And I'm on the airplane flying home from Washington.
I get emails.
Are you going to this thing?
I didn't know anything about it.
I wasn't invited to it.
And when I saw who was, I understood exactly why.
What Obama was trying to do was pick our official Washington spokesman, our conservative columnists and commentators.
They were the ones blessed by Obama.
He and his team felt that with a couple of exceptions, I don't think they were ever going to turn Larry Kudlow, and I don't think they were going to turn George Will.
I knew they weren't going to turn Krauthammer, but who was there.
But Brooks, Brooks appears to be a lapdog now.
After, I think he was there.
Yeah, pretty sure he was.
So it's no different.
They come up with these terms.
You've got to be a big tent party.
Look at the way they're talking about this New York 23 race.
We're imploding.
We're employing.
We kicked a veritable perfect, wonderful moderate out for this right-wing extreme wacko is the way they're because they're scared, folks.
They're scared of an ascending conservatism.
They know it's the biggest threat they've got, and they react to it that way.
I wish they would treat the Taliban the way they treat us.
I wish they would look at Iran the way they look at conservatives.
I mean, conservative rebellion kicks GOP stalwart out of party is a headline.
GOP rebellion or conservative rebellion.
Damn right it is.
Conservatives are just angry.
Damn right we are.
Anybody with half a brain would be mad at what's going on in this country.
Anybody with a brain would be mad as hell at what's being done to this country.
But anger, oh, that's not to be productive.
Oh, those Republicans and conservatives are running around mad.
Damn, we'll ought to be mad.
Quick time out.
We'll be back.
Stay with us, Mike.
Along the lines of what we were just talking about, the story here in the Politico today, conservatives take aim at leaders Chrised other races.
If you look at the Bellwether races, we're still going to be on opposing sides, said Brandon.
This is Adam Brandon, the spokesman for Freedom Works, an organization to help gin up the Tea Party protests and town hall flare.
No, those happened on their own.
Nobody ginned those up.
That's what everybody's missing.
Anyway, if you look at other bellwether races, we're still going to be on opposing sides, said Brandon, who pointed out the Florida Senate race where a conservative former state House Speaker is taking on Governor Christ in the next major conservative electoral stand.
There are going to be other conflicts, said Brandon.
We have a lot of work to do.
The Doug Hoffman campaign was the beginning.
It is not the end.
And that's exactly right.
Tom Davis, former head, National Republican Congressional Committee, Virginia, a squishy moderate, said this rage against the GOP machine might feel good for disgruntled conservatives, but it could also land Republicans deep in the minority for years to come.
Where are you now, Mr. Davis?
Where are you now?
When was the last time you won and had power in Congress?
Was it not on a conservative platform?
And you lost when, Mr. Davis?
When you gradually abandoned that platform.
You are looking at a very minority status for decades if you stay constituted as you are in the Republican Party.
Now, this is what happens when you make people hysterical about something.
I have a soundbite and then a story.
Sanjay Gupta, the medical reporter at CNN, Obama's original choice for surgeon general on CNN State of the Union yesterday with John King.
People out there criticizing this vaccine.
Rush Limbaugh says the government tells me to get this vaccine for that reason alone.
I'll not get it.
Anywhere you go, even down in our unit, we've had several people get the H1N1 and people say, is this safe?
There seems to be two reasons people don't want to get the vaccine.
One is that, you know, is it safe?
Two is there's a lot of people out there who still don't think it's a big deal, this whole H1N1.
I think that may have been some of what Rush Limbaugh was talking about as well.
I did give them to my kids, and I say it that way only because I think at the end of the day, that's what people want to know.
I looked at a lot of papers.
I looked at the studies.
That's the decision I made.
So we've got a hysteria out there.
It's been fanned by the media.
And what happens when you make people hysterical about something?
This is a story from El Dorado Hills, California.
A couple, seasoned citizen couple, suing their neighbors over cigarette smoke.
Conflict with neighbors was the last thing Donna and Richard Gangay expected to encounter when they moved into a gated community for people age 55 and older.
It's a senior community.
You think we'll all be compatible and have the same values, said Richard Ganguet, or maybe it's Ganguette, I'm not sure he pronounces, a retired El Dorado County Sheriff's Deputy.
But three years after settling into their single-family home in El Dorado Hills' four seasons development, the Gangays are suing their next-door neighbor over cigar and cigarette smoke they say wafts into their backyard and their house because of the smoke.
The couple say they no longer sit on their patio.
They also try to sandwich in swims in the side yard lap pool between their neighbors' smoking sessions.
Doug Smith, attorney for the neighboring homeowner, Florence Salone, said the issue is a trivial one, ought to be resolved by neighbors talking with each other, not with a lawsuit.
But disputes between neighbors over secondhand smoke are increasingly making their way into courtrooms of city council.
This is what happens when you make people hysterical about something.
And hysteria is what informs people about the dangers of secondhand smoke.
It's not dangerous.
May you may not like it, but it does not kill you.
But everybody thinks it does.
I got to go.
I'm over time.
Back after this.
It was just a month ago, folks.
The state-controlled media couldn't have cared less about Republicans' chances in the off-year elections.
Tomorrow, tonight, they are in full panic mode, and we love it.
See you tomorrow.
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