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March 13, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 13, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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It is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
And yes, I am Eric Erikson, Mark Markson, if it makes you feel more comfortable.
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We gotta begin with the Tom Cotton story.
The Democratic just pain over this Tom Cotton story.
Over what Tom Cotton did at redstate.com this morning where I'm the editor.
I put up a post, it's my syndicated column coming to a newspaper near you that I I will submit to you.
The reason the Democrats are upset about Tom Cotton is because he is now the most powerful man in Washington.
And they thought that uh the Obama Saya was the most powerful man in Washington.
Tom Cotton has played them like a fiddle.
And the outrage from the Rhino class is profound.
I mean, you you got Michael Gerson out there today in the Washington Post, the the Bush guy out there.
Oh, he just there was a problem.
He shouldn't have done it this way.
He they rushed, they didn't contemplate, they didn't debate how dare the Republicans do.
I mean, you've got Republican rhinos who are upset with what Tom Cotton did, who are as set upset as the Democrats.
And do you know why the we know why the Democrats are upset?
Do you know why the Republicans are upset?
Some of the Republicans, not all of them.
It's very simple.
Tom Cotton got forty-seven Republicans to rush into a fight, knowing the media was against them and the Democrats were against them, and they've won it.
I mean, it's immigration, the amnesty deal, Obamacare, the Republicans are so convinced they can't do anything because the media is going to be against them, and the Democrats are going to be against them, there will be national outrage.
And yet they did this with Tom Cotton, and now some of them are thinking, oh no, they don't like us in the press anymore.
They didn't like you people to begin with.
They've done it.
The true scandal of the GOP Senator's letter to Iran.
This this is Michael Gerson, opinion writer, st right of center, Bush guy, and he's upset.
He's upset because they did it with little close analysis.
Now he get to the crux of this.
This is so silly.
This is so silly.
Apparently, Bob Corker, the the the little man in charge of the foreign relations committee in the Senate.
He has been trying to get two-thirds of the Senate to craft legislation that would require Senate approval of any deal with Iran.
And now he can't do it because that meanal, nasty Tom Cotton, who's only been in the thinet for two months.
He's run circled around everyone.
They were never going to get Nancy Pelosi to sign off on this and Democrats in the House.
We're never going to get to this.
Gerson completely ignores the fact that this legislation would have to pass the House and the Senate.
But...
He completely ignores it.
But there's more, the politico today.
Oh.
Politico caucus.
Iran letter backlash spreads to early states.
Policy-wise, this is the subtitle.
Policy wise, the deal Obama is trying to cut is a bad one.
Politically speaking, however, the letter has been a disaster.
Says who?
Says who.
We got the list on this.
Oh, it's it's a bipartisan group of key activists, operatives, and thought leaders.
Thought leaders.
What the heck is a thought leader?
Hi.
My name is Bob.
I'm a thought leader.
I mean, that that is that what you put on your resume, you Nimrod?
No.
No.
So these thought leaders, liberals feel strongly the GOP would cry treason if Democrats said, Well, you know what?
The Republicans would call treason if the Democrats did it.
Because if the Democrats did it, they would be siding with the bad guy.
I mean, this is the first time in American history that Democrats have identified something as treason and not sought to join the traitor.
This is the very first time in American history this has happened.
I mean the Democrats calling something treasonous is laughable.
I mean, since Jefferson Davis headed south to start a new government, the Democrats have been siding with traitors, and now suddenly they're going to call Tom Cotton an American veteran, a traitor for wanting to stand up to the president's capitulation to the enemy.
I don't think the Democrats know what treason is.
They're upset about it.
But this, I mean, the president has come out and said he's embarrassed for Republican senators who signed the the Iran letter.
You should be embarrassed that you lack the testicular fortitude to stand up to anyone other than your wife, Mr. President.
I don't think you stand up to her either.
She's got you eating all those veggies from the White House guard.
You should be embarrassed by your conduct.
I mean, you should be embarrassed that John F. Carey is your Secretary of State.
You should be embarrassed that Hillary Clinton used a private email server the entire time she was your Secretary of State, and you people did nothing about it.
You sh you got a lot to be embarrassed about Obama.
But it's not about these guys signing a letter.
See, what you're really embarrassed about, Democrats, and it's showing in the objective polling.
You know, the polling where they actually call people as opposed to doing an online online poll of left-wing activists.
The polling where you actually call people shows that most people are opposed to the president's deal.
That is why they have fired up the press.
That is why they fired up Democratic activists.
That is why they are screaming like stuck pigs, because they know it.
You know what this reminds me of?
And there are some analysts out there who are pointing out the same thing.
This reminds me of 2009.
Now I know that for most people in the press, history hadn't started then.
History only started the moment they got their love affair with Barack Obama.
They weren't paying attention.
But if you remember in 2009, there were the series of town hall meetings that August.
People were showing up at the town hall meetings to demand answers from the Democrats over Obamacare and what they were going to do.
And the Democrats were trying to avoid the town halls.
And the press was sticking it to the Tea Party activists, they were sticking.
If you showed up to a town hall meeting and dared to ask a question of a Democrat, the press labeled you a bigoted homophobic racist tea partier.
Never mind, you were also called a constituent.
And the press and the Democrats convinced themselves that this was a losing issue for the GOP, that opposing Obamacare was a losing issue.
You've got to say yes.
I mean, the handring in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
I mean, they were just soiling themselves for you've just got to come along with the Democrats, Republicans, you've just got to do it.
We've got to come together as a country and pass Obamacare.
And they wouldn't do it.
And the press and the Democrats, they bought their own polling.
They generated polling to show themselves exactly what they wanted to see.
And it turns out it didn't work for them.
Tom Cotton got forty-six other Republicans to come out and sign a letter to Iran, which was essentially a press release saying to everyone, this deal will not pass the Senate because it is a terrible deal.
It is a sellout of the American Republic to the Iranian nut jobs, allowing them to go on and build a nuclear bomb, which essentially is what the president wants them to do.
Why, again, I be repetitive for those of you who have not heard me fill in for Rush before.
I have my overarching theory to explain everything Barack Obama does.
And his deal with Iran also fits into it.
It is the single unifying theory of the Obama administration.
Barack Obama believes that for the world to be more safe, the United States must be less safe.
For the world to be more stable, the United States must be less stable.
Barack Obama believes the United States of America is a destabilizing arrogant force in the world.
We need our comeuppance and we need to be humbled.
And so everything Barack Obama does domestically and in foreign policy is designed to humble the arrogant crackers who have always run the United States, the awful, evil former colonists who don't recognize that their American imperialism and American hegemony was a bad thing for the world.
Barack Obama looks at the United States and sees bad and intends to fundamentally transform it into something good.
and in so doing take us down a peg.
That's exactly what this deal does.
This deal sells out to Iran.
This deal allows Iran to g acquire nuclear weapons.
And his outrage, the Democrats' outrage, the circle of jerks of the media's outrage over what has happened, what Tom Cotton has done, all stems from the fact that he and the Netanyahu speech before Tom Cotton shed a great big spotlight on what a bad deal it is, and the Democrats were caught screwing around like roaches when the light comes on.
And they're they're all upset.
They've been called out, and the American public, like with Obamacare, is not with them.
And their only solution is to squeal like the stuck pigs they are.
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Some goober on Twitter.
I won't even give his name out, says, Your lies are so blatant, and the right wing has the nerve to call Dim's low information voters.
I mean, you're the guy who's willing to sell out to Iran.
You good Lord.
Okay, let's go to the phones, shall we, here on Open Line Friday.
Mark calling from Manhattan, you're first on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, good afternoon.
It's good to be first.
Um the reason I'm calling you is to let you know that the reason why liberals like myself, Democrats and Republicans are united in our outrage, our disgust or disappointment in this letter is very simple, which is it doesn't matter who's in the office right now.
One of the great strengths about this country is I don't know who the next president is going to be.
You don't know, and foreign leaders don't know.
But they want to know that when they negotiate with the president who's in office now, when a government changes, as it inevitably does, that their contracts and the word of our country last.
And to have some discipline in our Congress, in our Senate, to have some control and to be able to negotiate as an organized country is vital.
And the person said that.
I mean, the best person of all is look what the I told us said.
He said, and he was right.
No control.
I wonder if the Obama administration gave him those talking points to say.
You know, your your point is sound, that they need to know that the the word of the United States stands.
So in other words, they need to know that this deal isn't going to get through the United States Senate, and any future president can change the deal.
I mean, you know, there's the problem.
And we can say tit for tat, he started it, but I wish that the Democrats who are so vocal now about Tom Cotton had been vocal when the Democrats in nineteen eighty-four sent Ortega a letter telling the the commie leader that we disagree with what President Reagan is doing militarily and and here are all the things that we want you to do.
Never mind what Ronald Reagan said.
I wish the Democrats today who were so upset about Tom Cotton were upset when Jim McDermott and John Bonnier showed up to stand shoulder to shoulder with Saddam Hussein in 2002 against George W. Bush.
I wish the Democrats who were upset about Tom Cotton today were upset when Nancy Pelosi went to stand shoulder to shoulder with Basar al-Assad in 2006 against George W. Bush.
I wish the Democrats today who are upset about Tom Cotton were upset about Ted Kennedy when the Soviet Union fell and the KGB archives were open.
We learned that he had gone to the Soviet Union and collaborated with the Kremlin to undermine the foreign policy of Ronald Reagan.
I wish that the Democrats today who were around back then were as upset then as they are now.
Well, good.
I'm I'm glad you got to let it read your list of items that happen in the past, but this was the usual technique that you use, where rather than addressing the issue that's before us right now.
Okay, let's address the issue that's before us right now.
You need a two-thirds vote of the United States Senate to get a treaty through.
That's the Constitution.
Tom Cotton and forty-six other Republican senators told Iran there is no way this deal is getting through the United States Senate.
What is wrong with them saying up front and publicly this deal is not going to happen?
I I can't believe that's what we're doing.
Do you think we need Tom Cotton or anybody else to be telling Iran how our Congress and our government system works?
Apparently so.
They're a theocracy, and our president doesn't seem to even know how the system works.
Do you think do they so you're saying it's Congressman on their own to inform foreign countries about how our government works?
Well, I mean the Democrats have been doing it for thirty years, so yeah, I mean, precedent set.
They get to do it.
Again, stop trying to judge up other things.
Hey, there's a thing called precedent.
We've got to follow the precedent.
The Democrats have been doing this for years.
So the Republicans can't play by the rules that the Democrats created.
So what you're saying is there's a double standard.
Democrats in the past they could do these things, but we can't say that's a precedent for Congressman.
By the way, the State Department in 1975 said that the Logan Act doesn't apply to Congress because Congressmen in their capacity as Congressmen also do have powers in in considering foreign policy.
Okay.
So again, your defense is not that what he did was right, but that someone did it before, therefore it's okay to do something that's this repugnant.
Hey, oh, it's repugnant now.
It wasn't repugnant then, but it's repugnant now.
Why is it republic uh repugnant for Republican senators to state their position on a matter on which they may vote?
Of course they should state their position.
It doesn't mean you write a letter to Iran.
I mean, I can't understand what you're saying.
They have a vote.
We have a whole system of archives.
Yeah, yeah, that's so they've got a vote, and they told Iran how they're going to vote on the deal.
What's wrong with them doing that?
I I mean, I I I don't understand.
You can't you just don't like it because it's the Republicans who did it.
You would be perfectly fine if the Democrats did it to George W. Bush, and don't lie and say you're wrong because there's a huge history of Democrats doing this all the way back to Ronald Reagan and before, and these Democrats who were upset about Tom Cotton didn't say one damn thing about it then.
They're only upset about it now, but hurt across the nation because Tom Cotton and forty-six Republicans told the world this deal is dead on arrival in the Senate.
You're wrong.
I I think it was wrong and I'm not wrong, I'm right.
I'm right by virtue of being right, I'm wrong, right by virtue of being a conservative.
You don't like it because it's Republicans.
No, I'm saying I was wrong with the Democrats did, too.
I'm not saying it was right when they did it.
I'm not trying to jump to the case.
Mark, I'm sorry, I I totally don't believe you.
I I just I simply don't believe you.
And the reason I don't believe you is because Democrats back then, including members of the media who are so upset about it now and outraged about it, refused to say anything about the Democrats doing it back then.
I I have there is no basis for goodwill in this country when it comes to this issue to believe Democrats are upset when they've never been upset about Democrats doing it to Republicans.
There's there's there's no basis for that.
The standard that you hold people to is if someone did something b bad in the past, you can do it again.
That's really pretty.
No, the standard I hold to is that the Democrats were able to do it then and the press said jack about it, so the press can shut up about it now.
The Republicans get to do it.
And by the way, there is a big difference between writing a public letter saying this vote is dead and going to collaborate with the enemy and their country.
Tom Cotton and the Republicans did not get on a plane and fly to Iran to sing kumbaya with the bad guy, like Nancy Pelosi, Jim McDermott, John Bonier, and Ted Kennedy did.
I mean, it really is profound.
This is the first time in American history that the Democrats have identified something as traitorous, as treasonous, and hasn't sought to join the actual traitors.
I mean, the the amount of outrage from the Democrats on this for doing less than what they've done in the past, and this time standing up for the American government as opposed to selling out for the bad guy.
Unreal.
We'll be back.
Welcome back.
It is Eric Erickson, open line Friday here.
Can I just I I need to point out one more thing about Mark from Manhattan, if you're just tuning in.
Mark from Manhattan called it.
It was a moral outrage that Tom Cotton and forty-six Republicans announced to Iran how they were going to vote on any deal that came before them.
Well, because of what Tom Cotton did, John Kerry has had to come out and say, Well, we were never going to Congress with this deal to begin with.
So it should be a moot point.
But no, they're upset because it's been exposed.
What the Obama administration has done has been exposed as a bad deal, and that's why there's so much Democratic angst out there about this from Mark in Manhattan.
Democrats did it in the past and it was wrong and it's wrong now.
If Tom Cotton and these forty-six Republicans had stood on the steps of the Capitol in a press conference and said, There will be no vote on this deal in the Senate.
It will not pass.
The Democrats would still be upset about it.
They would be upset.
They're not upset when Harry Reid stood up and said something's dead on arrival in the Senate.
No, they're not upset about that.
They're not upset when Nancy Pelosi, John Bonyer, Jim McDermott, Ted Kennedy actually get on a plane and go to the bad guy and stand shoulder to shoulder with them for a photo op against the United States.
But how dare these Republicans stand up for the interests of the United States against the president and the Iranian theocratic regime?
Yes.
Yeah, Harry Reid, this war is lost.
Hey, signal to the bad guy that we're in retreat.
Oh, the Democrats are fine with that.
Mr. Eric, it's because we didn't say anything.
You have ceded the right, you've created a precedent, suck it and deal with it, people.
Let's go back to some callers, shall we?
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
Rich in white planes.
How are you?
Hey, Eric.
I I I I found that your previous caller repugnant.
That was a multisyllable word.
I'm surprised a liberal could say it.
Yeah, multi-syllabic.
You know, Eric, Obama has been disrespecting Congress and ignoring the separation of powers since he has been in office.
You've got Obamacare passing major piece of legislative only major piece of legislation passed without a Republican vote, with a backdoor reconciliation process.
He vetoed the Keetone Tstone pipeline, um unilaterally uh uh uh uh uh amnesty, um uh Bo Bird Dog deal, Bo Birddog deal supposed to inform Congress.
He said who needs Congress.
I mean, there is a laundry list of Obama disrespecting and ignoring Congress, and it's the Republicans who should be um uh uh i uh you know ex uh expressing their genuine outrage, not this this phony outrage um, you know, coming from the Democrats.
I mean, it's it's it's all turned around.
The only thing Tom Cotton has has failed to do so far is throw it back into the liberal media's face.
Yeah.
Richie, you're not saying anything I disagree with.
You're getting I'm looking at Twitter, you're getting hallelujahs and amens from the course.
It is amazing to me that the press will try to do some sort of moral equivalence now and outrage now when they haven't been outraged by anything the Democrats did.
You know, this goes back, I wrote about this at Red State yesterday.
Uh remember, and it was actually a friend of mine who asked the questions to the Republicans, and I think it was the New Hampshire debate.
Uh, would you trade $10 of tax cuts for one dollar of tax increases?
And none of the Republicans would take it.
And the media, of course, sees on us and aha!
They're completely unreasonable.
They completely ignored Michelle Bachman, who was the one Republican who explained why she was a no.
And that was very easily understood as whenever the Republicans agree to raise taxes and do spending cuts, they always get the tax increases, and they never get the spending cuts.
The best they get are cuts to the growth in spending.
They never actually get spending cuts.
And the the reason I say this is because the media immediately seized on this as how unreasonable the Republicans were.
They paid no attention to the reason why they were not in favor of ten dollars in cuts for one dollar in tax increases, because they'll get the tax increases and they'll never get the cuts.
The media is outraged now in a way that they've never been outraged with Democrats who have done the same thing.
And Mark from Manhattan says, Well, that didn't make the Democrats right.
Well, no, in the words of the press, in the mind of the press, and the reporting of the press, they were perfectly entitled to do what they did.
There was no moral outrage in the Democrats actually getting on planes and going to collaborate with the bad guy.
What did Tom Cotton and the Republicans actually do?
They put out a press release.
Yeah, they mailed a copy of it to the Iranians, but they released it publicly.
They released it publicly and said, if this deal passes, it would be considered a presidential executive action, not a treaty, and therefore the next president could change it.
Now, what did Mark from Manhattan?
What was his chief complaint?
The Iranians and people we deal with need to know that if we come into agreement with them that the next president won't change it.
Well, look.
What Tom Cotton and the Republicans did is let them know, hey, heads up, the way our system of government works, unless this gets passed the the Senate, the next president can change the deal.
You're on notice.
Well, yay, good for them.
They explained to the Iranians the way the system worked.
They explained they couldn't get that vote.
But Mark and the Democrats, they're in moral outrage.
By the way, they want these guys to be arrested.
They're calling them traitors.
More than a hundred thousand people have signed a petition to have these forty-seven Republicans arrested.
It's not gonna happen.
You know why it's not going to happen?
It's not going to happen because they didn't break a law.
The only law they broke was the law that says if you criticize the president, you're a racist who should be summarily executed.
I mean, and that is the law that the left has imposed on the country.
It's not an actual law of the land.
It's a law that can come about when we're no longer a country of laws, but a country of men.
And the Democrats are perfectly happy with us being a nation of men instead of a nation of laws because they're in charge of the White House right now.
Do you remember when George W. Bush was president?
Dissent.
It was patriotic.
Dissent was patriotic.
I remember reading the the left-wing kooks after 9-11 lamenting the fact that we had become a jingoist nation.
I remember some left-wing author writing how she was so upset her child wanted to fly an American flag outside their townhome in San Francisco to show patriotic pride.
And she didn't think that was a good thing.
Now suddenly the Democrats have found patriotic pride by cutting a deal with nut jobs in Iran to let them have nuclear weapons.
What a perversion of patriotism.
I mean, the world is upside down when letting the Iranian nut jobs have a nuke is somehow a patriotic exercise of Americanism.
And when Tom Cotton and 46 Republicans explain to the Iranians how our system of government actually works, they're traitors.
The world is upside down.
The insane are running the insane asylum.
That is a perfect description for the Obama administration.
These people, that's just pathetic.
Thomas in Jacksonville, Florida, back to the phones.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thomas, how are you?
I'm fine, sir.
How are you doing, Eric?
Good.
How are you?
I'm fine, sir.
I have a couple of things I want to say.
Um The DOJ released two reports earlier this week.
The first one, everybody except We have to all accept the fact that Michael Brown deserved to get shot based on the evidence.
Okay, and regardless of what these things are what we want to happen, we gotta accept that.
Now let's move on to the second report that people don't want to talk about, and they treat it like it's conjecture.
That eighty-eight percent of the people that stop Prince and harass about the Ferguson police department were black.
And everybody's gonna think that the racism that we're screaming from happening in that place is a leg.
It's not a leg, it's documented.
So I also said Darren Wilson, though he was justified in that particular act of shooting Michael Crow, but what about the other act that's documented in the report that people don't want to talk about about how um the city manager was excited about being funded, funding the city off the backs of pulling black people in Ferguson?
That's what they tell me.
Thomas, let me tell you, and and uh I I can actually make this pretty quick because we got to take a commercial time out here in just a minute.
Thank you for your phone call.
You know, I if you watch MSNBC, they they've avoided like the plague, the second part of the report.
In fact, if if you watched major news networks, they've they've kind of not talked about the second part of the report.
Well, it's pretty easy to to understand why the media has moved away from the story, because they hype the mess out of what the police in Ferguson were doing.
By the way, there were more racist emails uncovered from Sony pictures based on North Korean hacking than the DOJ found in the Ferguson police department.
But the moment that members of the press started pounding away at just how terrible the police were, and we got to do something about it, guess what?
Two police officers got shot in Ferguson.
So they decided they're not going to talk about it anymore.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be back.
Welcome back, Eric Erikson in for Rush Limbaugh.
This open line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
You know, I we were going into break, and I didn't want to keep Thomas over on break.
He'd been holding for a while.
There are a couple more points.
I hope Thomas, you're still listening.
You know, the the press hyped the the police angle of the report out of Ferguson until two police officers got got shot.
You know, if if it was Republicans in charge of the White House, they would immediately be blaming Republicans for this.
But it's the Democrats.
But you know what?
Democrats are also in charge of Ferguson, Missouri.
And this is a point that the press does not want to talk about.
Ferguson Major Missouri is a majority black city with virtually an all-white police force, and it is controlled by Democrats.
It is it is a Democratic Party machine city.
It is a city that is managed by Democrats, overseen by Democrats.
Its laws are written and approved by Democrats.
And this happened in a city controlled by Democrats.
And now the media doesn't want to talk about the police report.
Two police officers have gotten killed.
And let's not point out the fact that yes, oh, shot, shot, I'm sorry.
Yes, yes, they weren't killed, thank God.
And the Democrats, that they don't want to they don't want to talk about it now.
They say all that remember when when Congresswoman Giffords was shot, and Sarah Palin had put targets on a map of people to defeat.
Politics is war off the field.
I I forget the actual clause of what's quote.
But it everyone in time immemorial has used military language when it comes to politics it's a battle, it's a fight.
Target your opponents, uh, etc.
etc.
etc.
King of Siam, I am.
And they've always done this.
And then all of a sudden, this was this was hate rhetoric.
This was designed to incite violence on members of Congress.
And how dare the Republicans use the language we've used since time immemorial to talk about politics?
But now in Ferguson, Missouri, we got Democrats in charge of the place.
And two police officers are shot after this DOJ report comes out.
And now nobody in the press wants to talk about it.
Nobody in the press wants to talk about it.
They would rather talk about rather even talk about Hillary's emails than talk about that.
I'm it's just it's the nature of the beast.
It's the nature of the press.
They're more interested in advancing narratives than they are reporting stories and telling facts, and when the Narrative works against the Democrats, they would prefer not to even touch it.
Let's go back to the phones on this open line Friday.
How about Larry in Huntsville, Alabama?
Larry, how are you?
I'm doing great, sir.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
I kind of wish I was talking to Rush, but I guess you get that a lot.
I wish I was talking to Rush too.
Well, I have a point.
You know, on the route, we always seem to get jumped behind the conservatives and the I'm sorry.
Republicans But I have a question.
What is the difference between Obama and the Democrats negotiating with Iran and the Mohs, whoever they're negotiating with, maybe nobody, I don't know, to allow them to acquire the bomb, which we know that one day they're gonna get and then eventually use.
What is the difference between that and a Republican voter continuing to vote Republican whenever the Republicans tell us that we'll defund Obamacare, we'll refund this, we'll defund that, and then they do nothing and make us look stupid.
At what point do we go a different way?
Larry, if I were in Huntsville, I'd buy you a beer for that.
That's fantastic.
Yes, that's an excellent point.
It totally is an excellent point.
Um yes, the the Republicans continue to sell themselves out.
This is a point, Larry.
I I've been wanting to make about Tom Cotton and poor old Mark from Manhattan distracted me from another m mild moment of brilliance, which are few and far between for me, because I'm from Louisiana and half Swedish.
The Republicans ran head first into this, and they've won.
The polling shows the public realizes it's a bad deal now.
The public is not concerned about what Tom Cotton did.
Now a majority of political consultants are, including Republican consultants, they're upset.
The press is upset.
The public is not upset.
The Republicans charged headlong into something led by a member of the Senate who's only been there for two months, and they won the PR battle.
They lost the press, but they won the PR battle.
Meanwhile, with executive amnesty, with Obamacare, with you name it, the Department of Homeland Security with the their the dock fix, all the stuff Republicans are going to cave on or have caved on, they are scared of their own shadow.
I mean, they're like puxatani Phil who won't even come out to look to see if he's got a shadow.
They stay inside all day.
They lack any sort of testicular fortitude to get anything done in Washington.
In fact, I guarantee you, had they bothered to sit down, this is Michael Gerson's lament of the Washington Post, is that they didn't sit down and seriously contemplate and read and debate what Tom Cotton wanted, and had they, they would not have done it.
Well, of course they wouldn't have done it.
Because whenever Republicans sit around and think what's the right thing to do, they immediately do the opposite because they're scared of the press reaction.
Uh you're absolutely right.
Republicans should I, you know, let's get back to the war rhetoric.
Republicans, particularly the base voters, need to continue to violently oppose at the ballot box people, at the ballot box.
In the polls.
Republicans who continue to campaign saying they will do what the base wants and then get to Washington and decide they can't do it.
Uh just a bunch of cowardly wimps.
Thank God for Tom Cotton leading them down a path of fighting where they won.
More of that, please.
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Round out the the sh the first hour of the show today.
A group of male submarine sailors traded illicit videos of female officers in various states of undress as though they were Pokemon trading cards.
A U.S. Navy prosecutor said Thursday.
Navy prosecutors presented evidence against two of twelve male sailors accused of acting like male sailors on a submarine that they decided to integrate when everyone said stuff like this would happen.
In a related story, researchers at Northeast University's Department of Psychology conducted a study which claims The politeness of men towards women may be a sign of something nefarious.
Benevolent sexism.
Turns out, when the sailors aren't taking nudie pictures of the female officers, they're being nice to them.
And that too is misogyny and sexism.
These morons have stacked the deck so far.
Men do not know how to behave.
Because if they behave nicely, they're sexist.
If they behave badly, they're sexist.
I guess they're supposed to curl up in the fetal position and die.
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