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This is Vice President Bite Me.
Joe Biden on February 10th of 2010.
So four years ago.
On Larry King Alive on the CNN.
This is Biden.
This is when they think that they have won the Iraq war and they're out there taking credit for it and they're predicting it's going to be peace and tranquility from here on out.
I am very optimistic about Iraq.
I think it's going to be one of the great achievements of this administration.
You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer.
You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.
Right, political process.
We're not going to see any guns and ammo and weapon or any of that kind of stuff because we know how to do these things.
They're claiming credit for it.
I remember when he said this, and we had a bit of incredulity here because they had just spent three years trying to kill this war effort and they hated it and despised it.
And now they were claiming victory and all the credit for it.
And now it's all falling apart.
Boehner just said that the president's taking a nap on Iraq.
And that's not what he's doing.
I'm guarantee you there is a political calculation that they're making about this.
And this is an election year and their base.
If Obama does anything militarily and doesn't clear it with the Service Employees International Union and with the Hollywood people and some of the big global warming donors, if he doesn't square it with them and the Michael Moore crowd, the Code Pink, there's going to be hell to pay.
Because people are going to, it's not going to be just me, and it's going to revive at Biden soundbite.
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I have a piece here for Real Clear Politics by Sean Trende that has some really timely observations on the Eric Cantor loss, but also on the victory by Senator Graham, South Carolina, who is also identified with Amnesty, but yet he won.
So what is the explanation?
And there's a good point that's made in this piece, and that is, depending on the network that you watch, you can hear within one program that the Tea Party is either dead or it's taking over the country.
You can watch 30 minutes of MSNBC and you can hear analysts say one or both of those things.
Oh, yeah, Tea Party, it's very, depending on the latest election.
So after Bratz victory, Tea Party taking over, oh, no, Tea Party this, Tea Party that, you can hear this full range.
And I think it always helps to remember just who the Tea Party is.
And the biggest, I think the most confusing thing for people about the Tea Party is the word party in it.
There is a Democrat Party and there is a Republican Party, but there is no Tea Party in the same sense.
So who are they?
Who are these people that say they're in the Tea Party?
Well, as Mr. Trende points out, analysts need to really try, be honest with themselves and understand the Republican base is a large part of the Tea Party.
And the Republican base is furious with the Republican establishment.
And in large part because of the Bush years.
Let me read some excerpts of this piece.
From the point of view of conservatives I've spoken with, the early to mid-2000s looked like this.
Voters gave Republicans control of Congress and the presidency for the longest stretch since the 1920s.
And what do Republicans have to show for it?
Temporary tax cuts, no child left behind, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, a new cabinet department, Homeland Security, increased federal spending, TARP, and repeated attempts at immigration reform.
And this is not what people elect Republicans to do.
This is an important point.
The early to mid-20s, voters gave Republicans control of Congress and the White House for the longest stretch since the 1920s, and there's nothing to show for it.
There's nothing conservative to show for it.
There's nothing particularly Republican to show for it.
And this is why there's a Tea Party.
This is why the Republican base is volatile right now.
Basically, despite an historic opportunity to shrink government, almost everything the Republican establishment achieved during the time they were in power moved the needle to the left on domestic policy.
That is undeniable.
And it's very frustrating to people, and it's one reason why 4 million people who voted in 2008 did not vote in 2012, because they didn't perceive that Mitt Romney was going to do anything other than move the country slower to the left than the Democrats would take it.
And Mr. Trende is exactly right.
People in Washington do not understand, and even if they do, they won't act on it or believe it, that the Republican, the standard Republican-based voter, cannot believe the opportunities that have been squandered, cannot believe that there has not yet, even after six years of Obama, they do not make one effort to contrast themselves with liberalism.
This is something we've spoken about prior to on this program.
It is the most amazing thing to me.
We've never, ever, these last six years had a better opportunity to contrast what we believe in.
Because with the regime that's in power, we don't have to talk theoretically.
It's actually happening.
We don't have to, as part of our discussion, warn people about what will happen if Democrats are elected because it's already happening.
Half of our job, if not more, is already done for us.
The American people can see what happens when Democrats and liberals have unchecked power.
And yet nobody on the Republican side wants to contrast what they really believe with what is going on, and it's made to order.
And we could have done it when Bush was in the White House, but we didn't.
The only unambiguous win for conservatives were the Roberts and Alito appointments of the Supreme Court.
And Roberts is viewed with suspicion today.
The icing on the cake for conservatives is that these moves were justified through an argument that they were necessary.
The moves he's talking about here are the moves to the left.
And the icing on the cake, the final straw, what drives Republican-based voters batty is when Republicans say that temporary tax cuts, no child left behind, Medicare prescription drug benefit, Homeland Security, increased federal spending, TARP bailouts, immigration reform,
the Republicans say they had to do that in order to continue to win elections.
And they had to do that to try to take those issues away from the Democrats.
Instead, what happened?
After eight years of trying to take the Democrats' issues away from them, what happened?
We get the most liberal Democrat presidency since LBJ, accompanied by sizable Democrat House and Senate majorities.
In other words, the Republican way doesn't work.
And this whole defensive posture of doing things to take the issue away from the Democrats.
You know how that's metamorphosed now?
Well, we can't do the debt limit.
We'll kick that down the road.
Really come at them on X.
Yeah we we, we got to let them have this.
We can't, we can't do it, but we'll really hit them and we keep kicking cans down the road and never do anything.
But the real frustrating thing is that this is directly tied to the Cantor loss.
The TEA Party, the Republican base, cannot understand why there's no effort to stop this.
Why do we have to do immigration reform to take the issue away from the Democrats?
We're never going to do.
We can't outdo the Democrats at being Democrats.
We can't make ourselves loved by doing what Democrats do, just not as much of it.
And it's a very, very frustrating thing and it's it's.
It's what people are going to have to.
Analysts and so forth in the establishment are going to have to understand that.
This is why people are mad.
It's, it's not the reasons they concoct.
Well, talk radio is making them mad.
Talk radio is pursuing ratings and getting people all round up and that's why they know people are mad, because substance and ideas matter.
It's real simple and the things that are happening in the country are destroying it or are doing great damage, and there's no pushback, there's no perceived effort to stop any of it.
the tone deafness in washington on the republican side not understanding their base is such that it actually makes you think it isn't tone deafness that it's defiance i can see by your reaction that that's what you think it is
well i would go that far but i do snurdle he says i think they hate us meaning the republican establishment of conservatives i hate schmate they resent deeply they didn't like reagan they don't look at the they're they're in one way they're just like the democrats they want the power
Talking to Andy Mccarthy about his new book, next interview, Limba Letter and he said one of the biggest problems with Obama is the precedent that he said all these executive orders and executive power I mean next Republican president can do this stuff too and I said, you think the Republicans would elect somebody?
He said, look at Romney.
I said, what do you mean?
What was Romney running around saying?
The first thing he'd do is repeal Obama.
I'm sorry he doesn't have that power now because we want it repealed.
We supported it, but we shouldn't have because he doesn't know.
President should have that kind of power.
He said, see, this is how we all get sucked in.
We all want the executive to do our bidding for us and the constitution falls by the wayside.
It's a good point, but on that, my friends, a brief obscene profit, Profit break with a promise to get back to your phone calls when we get back.
Here is Rob in Annapolis, Maryland, as we head back to the phones.
Thank you for waving.
Rob, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Yes, hi, Rush.
It's great.
Honor to speak to you.
Thank you very much.
I just wonder what your thoughts were on the news reports about the Iraqi soldiers, you know, when those jihadist terrorists come in trying to attack and take over the cities in Iraq.
They're taking off their uniforms and putting their weapons down and running and leaving.
And after we spent all the time trying to train them, and it's all our infrastructure and weapons and material we left there for them to use, and then they run away and then the terrorists take it over.
I mean, how can we help them if they don't only want to help themselves?
So, two things.
I mean, I want to help them, but, you know, how can you make progress if they don't even want to do that?
Yeah, yeah.
Look, we don't know that the people doing that are not al-Qaeda infiltrators in the first place.
Number one, the phony soldiers, fake soldiers, if you will.
The second thing is, and I'm not saying they are, I have no idea.
Possibility, however.
Those kinds of things do happen.
Bad guys do infiltrate good guys' camps.
Another thing, when you say, how can we help them if they don't want to help themselves?
I understand that.
But what about, forget about helping them.
What about if it's in our own interests to try to keep Iraq from becoming an al-Qaeda state?
No, I agree.
Yeah, I think we should do that.
But again, I guess how do we get, I guess, stuck there forever and just, you know, look, this is a tough call because the way the last three years of the Iraq war were portrayed in the media by Democrats as worthless effort,
hopeless cause, waste of time.
There is, I don't know that there is a public relations way of reviving support for any military action in Iraq.
I mean, even if all it is is a couple of fighter jets dropping bombs.
But that is a decision of the commander-in-chief.
It doesn't matter.
Representing best interests of the United States, national security, that's what should matter to him, not public opinion on something like this.
Public opinion is hopelessly lost on this.
I mean, there's no way anybody's going to ever be talked into military action in Iraq again, not after the way this thing was literally destroyed.
And by the way, it was always a tough thing.
I mean, Bush's stated goal was always a tough thing.
And a lot of people think it was never achievable because people there do not have the same foundation that we did when our country was formed.
The idea to democratize the place.
Bush theory was that human beings everywhere are all alike and that they all want freedom.
And if you open up and have closed and oppressed society, that people will do what's in their own best interest if they're given a right and a chance to do so.
And the theory was we're all God's children, and if we democratize that place, we turn it into a functioning republic democracy, that it will be a beacon in the Middle East and it will show other people who are living in tyranny what's possible.
That was the dream.
That was the stated objective.
And there were a lot of people, even on Bush's side, who thought, wait a minute, this is not the role of the U.S. military.
That's not what the military is supposed to do.
That's a political achievement that has to take place among the leadership and the people.
But even stating that, I'll never forget the first elections in Iraq, all of those people that stood in line for two days to vote.
I mean, a lot of them did behave the way Bush thought they would.
But I don't think corruption was ever rooted out of the place.
Yeah, and that's true.
This country is so tribal.
Kurds in the north, the Sunnis and the Shia.
That's a civil war that's been going on long before there even was an Iraq that no amount of American influence or history is going to change.
What is it?
The Sunnis are the majority.
They vastly outnumber the Shia.
And that disagreed.
Those people hate each other, even though they're all Islamists.
Real, real dislike.
Let's put it there.
I don't like using the word hate very much.
So them not helping themselves.
That's most people.
You get down to it.
Most people don't help themselves.
I'm talking about worldwide.
The old saw, 5% pull the wagon, 95% are in it.
That's not just, it is democracy and freedom is hard because you democracy and freedom, even though freedom, I believe, is the natural yearning of the human spirit, I believe that's how we're created.
It's hard because the history of the world is not freedom.
That's what American exceptionalism is.
We are the exception to it.
And we look how long it took us to get it and how strident and deadly and bloody the battle for it was.
And then after that came the Civil War, where the casualties and fatalities dwarfed those in the Revolutionary War.
It's really hard.
Freedom is something that has to be secured every day.
That's another reason why there's a Tea Party, by the way.
Some people see that vanishing.
Anyway, Rob, I appreciate the call.
Here's T in Richmond, Virginia.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
It is such a pleasure to talk to you after 25 years of trying to get through.
I'm so excited.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
And by the way, the Tea Party is not dead.
No, it never will be.
No, sir.
There's no way to ever end the Tea Party.
It's never going to end.
You know, I live in the 7th.
My daughter and I went and voted.
We voted for Dave Bratt.
She's 20 years old, so she was real excited because I told her, I said, I think we're going to make a difference here.
So when it all came to pass that evening and Eric Canner was out and Dave Bratt was in, we had a long discussion about what Dave Bratt stood for.
And, you know, all he ever talked about, he talked about the basic blanks or the basic tenets of what being a Republican is.
He didn't talk about social issues.
He talked about the basic, this free market economy, the things that matter to us.
And oh, God help us.
He mentioned the God word, and some of the networks went off on that.
Let me tell you, but you know, you wait a minute.
You just said something and went by real fast that I think is important.
We need to go back to it.
He talked about basic things that the Republican Party believes in that are now considered strange or only conservative.
But he talked about what the Republican Party always has been, what it used to be.
And that resonated.
Don't doubt me.
I know it did with you.
It resonated with all of us.
The Republican Party forgot who brought him to the dance, much like Eric Canter did.
You can't forget about us.
You know, we are.
We're not just the Tea Party.
We are conservative.
We have conservative values.
We raise conservative families.
And they talk to us.
They don't talk to us like we can even understand what they're, I mean, I forgot how I wanted to say that, but they talk over us.
They don't talk to us, and they don't listen to us anymore.
That's it.
That's it.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
They seem distant and uninterested.
And you just, you don't know what we're dealing with here.
You don't really understand.
You can't understand.
We're doing the best we can here for them.
And you can understand, and you do understand, and you're ticked off at what's going on.
The fact that they don't see it also does not stand them in very good stead, as far as you're concerned.
Well, so what I'm hearing from you, you voted for Bratt because of Brad.
You voted for Brad because what he was saying.
You voted for Brad because you liked his ideas and you liked what he stood for.
Yes, and I don't think Eric Cantor, I don't think he paid attention to what he stood for anymore.
And that's important, not just to the ninth.
I mean, Eric Canter is up there in his position.
He lost sight of where he lost sight of how he got there, of who put him there to begin with.
And when you do that, you set yourself up for a lot.
You know what I think?
I think that's probably true, but I think there's something else.
It's not bigger or more important, but I think a lot of these guys in the leadership think that voters like you really like that their guy is in the leadership, and you're going to vote to keep him there because he's in the leadership.
And I don't think they get that.
That doesn't matter to you.
Big deal.
He's in the leadership.
What's he doing with it is what bothered you.
And I think they rely on the fact that they're in the leadership and that the local district voters are going to be really impressed by that and want to hold on to that position.
And it doesn't matter if you're not using the role correctly.
One more question.
And honestly, did you vote more for Bratt or against Cantor?
Because you've made it plain here.
You were irritated at Cantor, but you also liked Bratt.
So which was the dominant factor in your vote?
No wrong answer.
I'm just 60, 40, 60, angry with Eric Cantor because I was a big Eric Cantor supporter back in the day.
And 40% I went back and did some homework on Bratt.
We got, you know, he had no money to advertise.
So we got one letter from him last week, and I actually took the time to sit and read it.
And that's when we sat down and had a family discussion about this is important.
This guy's talking about what we believe in.
And I don't like Eric Cantor.
And it may not make a difference, but I'm going to vote.
But like I said, when we went, when we came out of the voting place, I looked at my daughter and I said, I just feel like something's going to change.
And the little guy wins.
The little guy wins.
It sure did.
D T, sorry.
Thanks for the phone call.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for your honesty in answering these penetrating, difficult questions.
We will be right back.
Don't go away.
Here when the last caller said there was something very, very interesting.
She said that she was watching all of Eric Cantor's advertising, $5 million plus dollars worth of advertising.
And Dave Bratt wasn't running any.
I mean, he didn't have $100,000 that he spent.
But she got a letter.
And she decided to read the letter.
Now, understandably, if she had been happy with Cantor, she probably would not have spent much time on that letter, if any at all.
But she was angry at Cantor.
So one letter worked up against millions of dollars of advertising.
And the letter made that woman research who this guy was.
And she learned even more.
So one direct mailpiece was more effective than millions of dollars worth of advertising.
That's going to send chills up the spines of Republican consultants.
That is something important that needs to be get out.
Don't take me there, Snerdly.
The smart Alexa.
I thought it was talk radio.
I thought it was talk radio.
I have.
Try this.
Cybercast News Service, Melinda Gates.
She's the wife of Bill Gates.
The Gates Foundation has decided not to fund abortion.
Melinda Gates, the wife of Bill Gates, she runs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
It's decided not to fund abortion.
I understand why there's so much emotion, but conflating these issues will slow down progress for tens of millions of women.
This is when I get asked, this is why when I get asked about my views on abortion, I say that like everybody, I struggle with it, but I've decided not to engage it publicly.
And the Gates Foundation has decided not to fund it.
That's an earthquake in the feminazi camp.
That is an earthquake.
These are the people building all kinds of, they're fighting AIDS and malaria as best they think they can in Africa and a number of other things.
No more abortion money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
That, I'm telling you, is check to see if California is still attached.
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