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Nov. 6, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 6, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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You know, something else about this, this idea we got to get something done.
That is, I believe, at the root of our problems.
What is great about congressional recesses?
Nothing gets done.
We have too many laws.
Since when has this country been defined by the greatness of its legislation?
That's not how things got great.
Legislation didn't make the country great.
What about the GI Bill?
Oh, spare me.
The GI Bill enabled people to work hard.
Hard work makes things happen.
Innovation, creativity, entrepreneurism.
This idea that we've got to be doing something.
We've got to get things done.
Congress has got to be doing something in order for there to be Obama and the Democrats had total control, the White House and the House of Representatives and the Senate the first two years.
What'd they get done?
A lot of bad crap is what they got done.
Just because something gets done doesn't mean good is happening.
There's way too much that's been done.
There's been way too much doing something going on out there.
We just need to stop it.
It's the first order of business, and that's what this election's message was, to stop this.
Put the brakes on it.
But yet it survives out there.
Well, but that would mean, that would mean, that would mean we wouldn't be getting things done.
Yes, it would.
It would be a major thing to get done to stop Obama's regime, to stop this agenda.
It would be huge.
Look, I don't mean to be beating a dead horse here.
I guess I am.
But I'm trying to get through.
This to me seems inarguably perfectly clear.
And I'm not trying to stir things up.
I never try to stir things.
That just happens.
I'm not trying to do that.
I mean every bit of what I'm saying, just like in 2009 when I said I hope he fails.
I meant that for exactly what it said.
And ditto here.
Greetings, welcome back, Rushlinbaugh, EIB Network, 800-282-2882, and the email address, LRushbo at EIBNet.com.
But Rush, they want us to work together and they want us to get things done.
No, no, no.
If that were the case, they would have sent a bunch more Democrats back.
This isn't that hard to figure out.
They don't want compromise.
They want this stuff stopped.
They've had six years now.
They know they made a mistake in 2008.
They didn't vote for more of it.
How can anybody take any other message?
If people wanted more of what is happening in the country, they would have returned Democrats to the majority.
Republicans would have lost all those Senate seats.
The Democrats would have picked up seats in the House.
If people wanted more of this, then they would have guaranteed that Obama had what he needed to get it done.
And what'd they do?
They sent people to stop it.
Mr. Snurdley, you have a vacant look on your face.
Is this hard to understand?
Look, you're confusing me, looking like you don't understand what I'm saying in there.
And it's got me, this is simple as hell.
How can I make it any simpler?
I know legislators, surgeons love to cut people open too, but sometimes you don't need surgery.
Surgeons like to do surgery.
That's what they do.
I like to talk, but sometimes it's better when I don't.
Well, not for you, but for me.
Sometimes I get tired of talking.
Sometimes I get tired of the expectations and the pressure.
Sometimes I like to shut up.
Most of my life I shut up, by the way.
Most of my life I don't talk.
I listen.
But that's another story.
Just because surgery, wait a minute, just because surgery is getting something done, does that mean you should have some when you don't need it?
Well, okay then.
But we do.
We have this silly idea, it's settled in, and it's been there for decades, that the only time things are getting done is when they're passing legislation.
And that's crock.
That is absolute total BS.
We have enough laws.
What is legislation, but new law?
You don't think we have enough limits on our behavior already?
We don't need any more limits on our behavior.
We don't need any more people being regulated out of profit, regulated out of prosperity, taxed out of profit, taxed out of profit.
We don't need anymore.
We need to cut it back.
We need to reduce some of this stuff, in fact.
That's the kind of doing stuff that we need done.
Great artists will always tell you that the final step in any great work of art is what you take out of it, not what you add to it at the last moment.
And if you doubt me, Google it.
However, you can produce search results.
Google it, and you'll find every great artiste, and not just painter or what any artist in anything.
When they go in to edit a movie, what do they do?
Take stuff out of it that's confusing, not relevant.
They might add some things now and then.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but you take out.
And we got the idea that we need more laws and we need more legislation.
Congress working together.
Well, no, no, no.
We need to halt it.
And that's what the vote meant.
Now, Boehner, going to do his press conference, and I want to expand on this.
I've got an idea.
It's not a new one.
It's been done before.
There will be legislation.
In fact, part of stopping Obama is going to be sending him stuff that we would hope he would sign.
He won't.
He'll veto it.
So there will be stuff getting done, but they will be working.
They will be coming up with legislation.
For those of you who think that's important, then here's what I think they ought to do.
With every bill the House and Senate come up with that they send to Obama, it must be a package.
And the package that's sent to Obama contains the actual legislation and a letter and polling data.
If you remember the contract with America back in 1994, that campaign, one of the promises made in the contract with America, only legislation that featured 60% support or more of the American people would be passed.
It was part of the promise to do the work of the American people, to govern with the will of the American people.
The Republicans running for Congress in 94 promised they would not govern against the will of the people because the Democrats were and always have and have been doing that more than ever in the past six years.
Virtually everything that's happened has been against the will of the American people, Amnesty, Obamacare.
It's never had majority support.
So what I think Boehner ought to do, give himself some cover.
You know, these guys are looking for cover anyway.
So you come up with whatever your legislation says to repeal part of Obamacare.
Okay, whatever it is, repeal the medical device tax.
Fine, send it up there and accompany it with a letter from McConnell and Boehner to President Obama, complete with polling data showing this is supported by the American people by whatever percentage the poll says, and then publicize it.
Release it.
Today, we sent legislation up to President Obama in our effort to get along, in our effort to get something done, and our effort to compromise with the whatever gobliny gook you want to say, and then include the fact that 60, 65, 67% of the American people support this and want this, and then make Obama react to it.
But Mr. Limbaugh Obama will say he doesn't care because that means two-thirds didn't, and he's got to stand for all America.
Doesn't matter what he does, what you do is what his reaction to, we know he's going to veto it anyway.
The point of this is not for Obama.
You assemble this package, this bill and the letter and the polling data for public consumption so that the public knows what Obama is doing.
When Obama vetoes something, it's not a war on women bill.
It's not something that Democrats and the media lie about in contact.
You submit the bill, a letter explaining it, complete with polling data showing massive public support, release that so that the American people know what Obama is vetoing.
So the American people know what Obama and the Democrats oppose.
Thereby putting gridlock on their shoulders, thereby putting opposition to getting things done on their shoulders.
Thereby making them the obstructionists.
The Republicans are simply representing the will of the people.
The people want the medical device tax removed.
Here's a piece of legislation.
It'll do it.
Sign it, Mr. President.
Who knew?
Screw you.
And Michael Jordan, too.
He vetoes it.
Case closed.
What's so hard about this?
Not even confrontational.
It is a great idea.
It's not confrontational.
There's no racism in it.
There's no bigotry.
There's no homophobia.
There's no sexism or no war on women in it.
You can help, it would go a long way to rebranding the party.
All kinds of things to recommend it.
Let me grab this call.
This is John in Mount Clement, Michigan.
Hey, John, are you still there?
I am, Roger.
Sorry.
I humbled that you're talking about my call before I even get on the air.
Well, that's, you know, I could have, most hosts would have stolen your idea, never mentioned you, and had the screener hang up on you.
Nobody would have ever known you existed, but I have more integrity than that.
I can separate you from the PAC.
I think your idea is your thinking on this is simplistically brilliant.
And it's one of those things I wish I would have thought of myself.
Well, you would have.
And you really, it's the thought processes that you inspire throughout the day that made me think of this last night, watching all these talking heads paid millions of dollars to tell us this about working together.
It's really irritating, I know, for you when a Republican like McConnell says that, because it's so opposite.
And finally, I just said to someone.
It's not entertaining.
It's frustrating to me.
And the reason it's frustrating is because I honestly think he misunderstands.
I think a lot of these people misunderstand what the voters want and what the election meant.
And I think because they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by constant media attacks, I think they've got a misconception of what the American people want.
They too buy this notion that they were sent there to compromise and work with Obama.
You said that for two or three election cycles, and I agreed with it, John, but now the message is too loud and clear now.
And they're not going to be able to do that.
It's not going to be able to happen.
And I'll tell you what the point is that you were talking about that I told your screener is that, you know, they could have very easily sent Democrats back to the Senate, sent Democrats back to the House.
They did that.
Genet.
Exactly right.
Listen, if you want to work with a Democrat president, who do you send other than Democrats?
That's what you do.
Not only did they not gain, they obviously lost.
So what other conclusion can you possibly make?
These people are sitting around debating on CNN, not so much on Fox, as CNN, et cetera.
We want to work.
The American people want them to work together.
No, they don't.
Give them Democrats to work with if you want them to work together.
They want it to be a lot of fun.
It's so right.
It's nothing more than a media game.
It's meant to trap Republicans.
It's meant to trick them.
Because you're exactly right.
If the voters wanted more of Obama and more what the Obama agenda is, send the guys to make it possible.
Send the Democrats.
Obama even said they're the guys that make it possible.
They're my buddies.
Okay, send them back.
Send Democrats.
The idea that voters in an election like this turning out Democrat, as many Democrats as they can see, means that they want Republicans to work with Obama instead of Democrats is literally insane.
Well, and I think it's worse than that, too, because if you're a Democrat and you want this agenda pushed, and now you see this wave of Republicans, what better way to try to guilt or push and pressure Republicans into doing what you want than to say, you know what the public really wants?
They really want us to work together.
Exactly.
And they do it.
It's the president's agenda.
Exactly.
And they do this every time they lose.
That's their analysis.
Well, all it means is they want you working with us.
They're full of it.
Before you let me go, Rush, I know you've got to move on, but it's interesting that before I got on the air, you were using the physician and the surgeon analogy.
Yeah.
And the fact that sometimes not doing anything, isn't the first rule of medicine, do no harm?
Yeah.
That should be the Republicans' battle cry.
That should be what takes them forward the next two or four years.
Do no harm.
You want to know what our agenda is?
Do no more harm to this country.
Knock it off.
There you go.
That's the agenda.
That's the slogan, do no harm.
Now, John, because I said your comment so brilliant, so simplistically, but you say I would have come up with it, and you may very well be right, but I didn't.
You did.
So I said it's worth an iPad or an iPhone.
Do you want either one of those?
I've got iPhone 6 or an iPad Air 2.
You name it.
Which do you want?
Yeah, you don't have to.
iPad Air 2.
I really appreciate that.
Didn't expect that at all.
iPad Air 2 would be iPad Air 2.
Yeah, this is cool.
This is state of the art.
It looks the same as the iPad it's replacing, but it's nowhere near like it.
It's much more powerful, and you'll like it.
So if you hang on here, and I will get it out to you today, you'll have it tomorrow if you just need your address so Snirdly can get it in the FedEx label.
And I appreciate that.
I'm so excited.
You bet.
That is so great.
The only problem is I called my wife at home to tell her to listen, and now I can't pawn it off as a new Christmas gift for her because she's going to know it came from you.
Life's problems.
It's a good problem to have, my friend.
Try 1-800Flowers.com.
There's any number of things.
Anyway, hang on here.
We'll be back.
Don't go away, folks.
Sometimes we strike gold.
Sometimes we find out just how petty people we think are profoundly serious and important and statesmanlike can be.
Of all the things that are going on out there that could have Barack Obama upset and angry, which seemed to me the last would be somebody commenting on his golf game.
I mean, after all, he is the president of the United States.
And as anybody can tell by looking, he's not an athlete.
So nobody expects him to be good at golf.
You can just tell, folks, don't doubt me on this.
Clint Eastwood once said as he was mowing down some bad guy in Dirty Harry, he's just pulled a trigger on the 357 magnum.
Blowing the smoke off the barrel.
Man's got to know his limitations.
And that is something is as strange and foreign to Barack Obama as to a bad guy in a hairy, very dirty, hairy movie.
So Michael Jordan is being interviewed by his good buddy, Ahmad Rashad, on the Ahmad Rashad show on the Back 9 network.
This is back on October 28th.
The Back 9 network.
I don't know where it is.
I guess it's on the golf network.
Maybe it's a – no, because that would be the golf.
I don't know the golf channel.
The Back 9 network, whatever.
I don't know what it is, but it's Ahmad Rashad show.
And Michael Jordan went on the show, and they're talking about a Foresome.
Every famous golfer is asked, pick your favorite.
Of any three guys you could play golf with, who would it be?
I never played with Obama, but I would.
But no, that's okay.
I take him out.
He's a hack, man.
I'd be all day playing with him.
You really want to say that President of the United States?
Don't worry about it.
I've never said he wasn't a great politician.
I'm just saying he's awful.
The word that was bleeped out there is the common street word for excrement.
It begins with an SH.
So Michael Jordan called the President of the United States an excrement golfer.
Okay, so if you're Obama, yuck it up, laugh.
Don't even react to this.
But in Milwaukee on Mondays on the radio, and they asked him about it.
And instead of a lighthearted, hey, you know, that's just MJ.
MJ and I are inseparable.
We're good buds.
You know, MJ, he just ragging me.
He just rag.
He wishes he could do what I do.
No, no.
Obama got his backup.
He was offended.
He was mad.
How dare?
How dare anybody say things like that about me?
There is no doubt that Michael's a better golfer than I am.
Of course, if I was playing twice a day for the last 15 years, then that might not be the case.
You know, he might want to spend more time thinking about the Bobcats or maybe the Hornets.
That's a whole nother issue.
Ah, he's really bothered by this.
And to go dirt.
Well, Jordan kind of went there first, but that's it.
The president's supposed to be above this kind of stuff.
It's exactly right.
The President of the United States is supposed to be.
You know, Bill Clinton couldn't pull this off either.
He's on Air Force One, heading into St. Louis to dedicate some new train station or something.
And he's talking to our buddies doing the morning show on KMOX in St. Louis.
And out of the blue, out of the blue, they didn't even ask him about me.
Out of the blue, Clinton said, I tell you what's going to happen.
You know what?
I'm done this interview with you.
And then Rush Limbo's going to come on after this.
He got three hours.
Say whatever he wants to say.
And there's no truth detector.
This guy.
I mean, this guy can say whatever he, and the guys at Cam Office.
So what did this come from?
And they said, well, you want to say something to him?
I mean, he's coming up right in the front.
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
The guy's got three hours right on the radio.
He can lie and say whatever he wants.
And there's no truth detector.
And we're all sitting here when this happens.
We're stunned.
So anyway, you're supposed to be above this kind of stuff.
But you could tell Obama was really, really ticked.
He was really bugged by this.
Sit tight, my friends.
We got much more straight ahead.
I just checked a little bit of the Boehner press conference.
You know, it's good to know that journalists still have to know how to be impolite and ask adversarial questions.
I had thought maybe they'd forgotten how to do it because they haven't done it in six years.
But clearly they know how to be rude and ask adversarial questions.
They just did it with Moehner.
He just finished.
I don't need any soundbites from it.
What he said today, it's like polling data, two months for an election, it doesn't matter.
I still can't get over Obama's petty, childish reaction to Michael Jordan, telling the truth about Obama's golf game.
You know, what you do if you're president, okay, so you sit in the Oval Office and you just got this big shellacking and you're trying to figure out what to do next, and you find out that Michael Jordan's on television calling you a bad golfer.
So what do you do?
You don't say anything and you treat him like he just joined the Tea Party.
You call the IRS and you demand that they audit the guy.
And then you find out about everything you can and so forth.
You harass him now, but that's what Nixon would do.
I'm sorry, that's what Obama would do.
Obama did that.
What am I saying?
Obama, he's got people in play can already do that.
He's probably got that phone call on speed dial to the IRS to harass somebody.
What am I thinking?
Nixon, sorry, folks, it was a faux pause.
Nixon only thought about doing it.
This guy did it.
All right, back to the audio soundbites.
We still, I'm taking this slow because, you know, I don't like to make this show all about me, but I could have if I wanted to today, because virtually everybody that drive-bys has been asked to comment on my take on the meaning of the election results.
Here is Kirsten Powers.
Last night on the Kelly file, she asked a question, Megan Kelly did, let's take immigration.
This has been a divisive issue within the Republican Party.
Is there any way Republicans get together on that issue and manage to strike a deal with somebody who sees it through a very different ideological lens like President Obama?
For anything to get done now, someone's going to have to compromise.
I mean, both sides are going to have to compromise because the problem with what Rush Limbaugh said in my mind is how are they going to get anything done if they don't compromise with President Obama because he's going to veto it.
I don't, again, do you see how people are caught up in this age-old trap or belief that the only time anything gets done is when the two parties sit down and somehow agree on something, and that constitutes getting something done.
That that's not what the people who voted in this election want to happen.
They want the stuff that is getting done to stop.
It's no more complicated than that.
And it's not accurate to say for anything to get done, somebody's going to have to compromise.
That's not accurate at all.
Both sides are not going to have to compromise to get something done unless there's only one way that can happen, and that's if you define something getting done as more of the Obama agenda passing.
Because that's the only thing that can happen right now with something getting done.
The Republicans right now cannot advance their agenda.
And by the way, who knows what it is, if I may be so bold.
Could somebody tell me what the, and I'm not being critical.
Can somebody tell me what the Republican agenda is?
They did not run on one.
You can't say the Republicans were elected to implement X, Y, and Z.
They did not run on such an agenda.
So the Republicans don't have an agenda, and they can't get one done anyway.
Everybody knows Obama is going to veto whatever they want to do.
They send bills up.
That's the point.
You send those bills up to make him veto them.
That is getting something done.
That is rebuilding the Republican brand.
That is telling the country what you stand for as a Republican or as Republicans.
That informs the American people who really is obstructing things.
This to me, and again, I'm not trying to sound insulting.
Please don't take it that way.
It just seems commonsensical to me or sensible.
I don't understand what's so hard to grasp here.
Let's just take it in logical order.
We had a campaign, and in the campaign, the Republicans did not advance an agenda by design and on purpose.
The Democrats were committing suicide, and the Republican strategy was to shut up and don't distract anybody from what the Democrats were doing and let the Democrats commit political suicide.
In the individual campaigns, Republican candidates were indeed campaigning on specific things.
At the top of their list was Obamacare and repealing it.
But the National Republican Party does not have an agenda.
They didn't announce one.
So how in the world can anybody say they were elected to do something?
How can anybody say that the Republicans were elected to advance their agenda when nobody knows what it is?
They were sent there to do one thing, to stop what's happening now.
They were not sent there to compromise with Obama, so he only gets 10% of what he's doing or 20% of what he wants.
They weren't sent there to compromise with Obama.
If they wanted to get things done, they would have kept Democrats in power and let the Democrats advance their agenda.
That's not what the voters did.
They elected people who did not have an agenda other than individual candidates.
But in terms of party identity, you can't tell me what the Republicans stood for in this election because it's not a criticism.
I'm just looking at this as logically as I can.
So if you elect a bunch of people, by the way, and everybody will admit, there's no way, even if the Republicans had announced an agenda, they can get it done.
You've got obstructionist number one in the Oval Office, who everybody admits is going to veto whatever comes his way if he doesn't like it.
So then what's to be done?
How do you stop this?
Well, first thing, you don't agree with any of it.
You don't compromise with anything that Obama wants to do, Zilch Zero, unless Obama surprises everybody and agrees with you.
That's the only time you compromise is when he comes off what he wants.
That's it.
That's what the people voted for.
You don't compromise by giving him only 10%.
You don't give up anything.
You're the winner.
You just won big.
You just had a landslide.
You don't give up anything.
Obama does.
He lost.
His party lost.
They're the ones that have to move.
If they don't move, the American people should be told.
The way you do that, you send these bills up there, just exactly as I said.
You attach polling data to them to show how much the American people support it.
But what you do is you very publicly pass pieces of legislation to repeal Obamacare, whatever your agenda is, as Republicans, you send it up and you veto it, and that's how you tell people who you are as Republicans.
And that's how you portray him as the obstructionist.
But Rush, but Rush, the media is not going to tell the truth about it.
Don't care, you can.
The Republicans can.
The Republicans can tell the truth.
Just as it was just proven, Boehner called a press conference.
They all showed up, right?
And it was all on TV.
People that watched it don't need to have it characterized for them.
They saw it.
Republicans can get on TV.
They're more hated than ever now because they won.
They can get on TV anytime they want.
They can say whatever they want.
There's no excuse now For not calling press conference, going on TV, announcing the agenda, coming up with legislation.
It's very simple.
You make Obama veto what the American people want done.
The American people want things to happen to roll back Obamacare.
They don't want amnesty.
You send the legislation up there and you make Obama govern against the will of the people.
You demonstrate that he's been doing that.
You make the Democrats the focus in your effort to explain to the American people why things aren't getting done.
And you tell them that you heard them and you're going to do whatever you can to make sure no more of this gets done.
You know you were sent up there to stop it, so you do.
I see, me in the eternal optimist mode in which I live in, see this as a golden opportunity.
I see it as a great opportunity.
And it's not even that hard.
You don't have to debate anybody.
You don't have to, there's no racism or sexism or bigotry or homophobia.
There's no war on women.
You just announce an agenda via legislation that you know the American people support.
You send it up and make him veto it.
And then he's why nothing is getting done.
Now, I know it's not going to happen in a vacuum.
Obama at the same time is going to be, I'm working with these guys.
I'm doing everything I can.
But you know what?
I can't work with them.
They're a bunch of extremists, racist pigs.
And so I got to do everything with the executive order.
Fine.
If the American people liked that, the Democrats would have won.
If Obama keeps doing stuff like that, he's only going to be further damaging the Democrat Party and Hillary and whoever else in 2016.
There are too many golden opportunities here.
And we haven't even gotten to what would guarantee decades of Republican dominance, and that's conservatism as their agenda.
But that, well, we'll get there.
But for today, the agenda is to stop what's happening.
Back to Fox today.
Martha McCallum had a new panel to talk about this.
She spoke with Lars Larson, a radio host, syndicated radio host, and Leslie Marshall, another syndicated radio host.
There are a lot of those, aren't there, Mr. Snerdley?
And Martha, yes, they're right.
And Martha McCallum is one who also thinks, but nothing would get done if we do this.
She said here to Lars, is Rush right?
Because this is a debate that'll take place largely on the Republican side of the fence.
If we just stop doing this, how does anything get done?
And here's what Lars Larson had to say.
I think Rush is right from this standpoint.
The voters are unhappy with the president.
They're also unhappy with the Congress because they see gridlock there.
But the gridlock is not coming from the Republicans.
Rush is right when he says that it is to stop the policies of the president because that's what's made him unpopular.
It's what made him so toxic that he couldn't really show up to support Democrats who were running for reelection or for election on Tuesday night because his policies are so unpopular.
Okay, so next it's time to turn to syndicated radio host Leslie Marshall.
A question that Martha McCallum asks, well, if you know, if Republicans do block and stop everything, they can, are the voters going to look at this and be turned back on them in 2016 elections because the party of no and just not getting anything done?
You read my mind because that's what I was thinking.
The party of Noah has an opportunity for two years to be the party of yes.
They're not happy with the president, clearly.
But I don't think this is the referendum entirely on the president.
And quite frankly, that makes it easier on voters that didn't come out, on Democrats that didn't run very good campaigns.
You had both sides not running on issues.
So I don't think this is really about issues.
See, so her, she really concerned people that didn't vote.
That's the future of the Democrat Party, people that didn't vote.
So her theory is to do things like Obama is the same.
Well, yeah, but party of no has an opportunity for two years to be the party of yes.
How does the Republican Party become the party of yes?
What do they have to do to achieve that great accomplishment?
Seriously, what does the Republican Party have to do to become the party?
They were elected to be the party of no.
If they want to become the party of yes, what they do is go up and do their own version of political suicide and let Obama have what he wants.
That's being the party of yes, and then you can you can wave goodbye to him in the rearview mirror.
Okay, let's let's head back to the phones here and go to Houston.
This is Joseph.
I'm glad to have you on the EIB network.
Joseph, hello.
Alan, thank you.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet so.
I'm sorry I missed yesterday's program, but I may be asking a question on something you've covered.
But how does this election help Hillary now?
It seems to me that this has been putting a nail in her coffin.
Because all the people she campaigned for, didn't they all lose?
That would be the logical conclusion.
And there's this, in fact, I'm glad you asked me this because I meant to mention this earlier.
And right here it is.
I have a story here, Joseph.
I have any formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It's in Yahoo News, which is a perfect place for it.
How Hillary Clinton won the 2014 midterms.
It is a 30-paragraph article, and it illustrates with irrefutable logic that the Republican control of Congress and governorships and statehouses assures that Hillary Clinton wins the presidency.
So who won the 2014 midterms?
Easy answer is the Republican Party.
But here's the thing.
In politics, the easy answer is always the only answer, or isn't always the only answer.
And the winner of an election isn't always the one who benefits most.
Take a closer look at demography, geography, and the road ahead for the parties.
And it's clear that the long-term winner of the 2014 midterms wasn't the Republican Party at all.
The long-term winner, in fact, wasn't even on the ballot this year.
Her name, Hillary Clinton.
Almost everything about the results, the map, the math, the legislative morass that lies ahead suggests that the former first lady and secretary of state would have a better next two years than the party currently guzzling Champagne.
That's his reasoning.
The Republicans are going to be so hated in two years.
They're going to be so despised.
They're going to make such a mess of things that Hillary is once again going to be seen as the savior because the Republicans are guaranteed to screw everything up, Joseph.
It's not just, by the way, it's not just Yahoo.
There's a Reuters story.
Election results could boost Republican governors and Clinton campaign for 2016.
It's just dreaming.
Joseph, these people are caught in clichés and dreams.
Mrs. Clinton is the anointed Democrat nominee, and she has been ever since Obama was inaugurated in 2009.
2016 has been hers.
It's been in the Democrat book.
2008 was supposed to be hers until he came along.
And there's going to be somebody else come along you watch that will edge her out again.
The Democrats are going to find somebody more attractive, somebody younger.
Look it.
It's like Pascal said, if it happened once, it can happen again.
And I'm telling you, this is going to be the second coronation for Mrs. Clinton to which she doesn't show up.
But they have got it in their heads, the media and everybody, that she has deserved this, Joseph.
She has been owed this since Jennifer Flowers, since Paula Jones, since Juanita Bruderick, since Monica Lewinsky, since the vast right-wing conspiracy, since she left Wellesley and moved to Arkansas.
She has been owed this.
And it was going to happen in 2008, but we all know what happened.
They went for the younger-looking black guy.
Now, it's 2016, and it's hers again.
And it's amazing, just like you're trying to figure, there is no logical explanation for it, Joseph.
This is a total emotional play for everybody you're hearing saying this sets her up brilliantly.
Oh, this guarantees Hillary.
Pure emotion.
There's no rational thinking attached to this.
So don't try to figure it out that way.
You've not lost your sanity by not trying to figure it out.
You will lose your sanity trying to figure it out.
Well, Marshall, thank you for your wisdom.
Well, I appreciate it, Joseph.
I saw it the night of the elections when I first saw this Yahoo story.
Oh, man.
That was my first indication of how bad it was going to be for the Democrats when I saw this Yahoo story on an election.
Question, is the Republican Party known as the Party of No?
They are.
They've been known as the party.
Democrats have been calling on that for years, and they won, didn't they?
They won as the party of no.
And no other way to spin this than my way.
I'm just sorry.
No, I'm not.
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