Across The Fruited Plain: Bernie: Typical, Mind-Boggling Liberal (Rush Challenges A Lib Alert)

Christopher Dodd, the senator from Connecticut, is now speaking on the floor of the Senate about election irregularities. Notice again that they never do this when they win elections, and they only do this when Republicans win elections in battleground states, Florida or Ohio. Many other states had much closer results this time around. You remember Christopher Dodd. There used to be, I don't think the restaurant's open anymore, I can't remember the name of the restaurant -- (interruption) -- that's right, what a fitting name, La Brassiere in Washington, Chris Dodd was one half of a technique he and Senator Kennedy employed on the floor at La Brassiere called the waitress sandwich.

Senator Dodd and Senator Kennedy would take turns being the top and bottom of the sandwich with the waitress in the middle. Yes, it's all true, ladies and gentlemen. Christopher Dodd one half of the waitress sandwich technique he and Senator Kennedy used to employ when Christopher Dodd was single -- with Senator Kennedy it never mattered.

Here's Bernie in Long Island. Welcome to the EIB Network. Nice to have you with us, sir.

CALLER: First, thank you for putting that sound bite from C-SPAN on to your program. I was listening to some other programs and they didn't have it on. I thank you for that and I think it's important that we do go in that direction.

CALLER: Well, airing about the citizens of this country's right to vote and making sure that our vote is counted.

RUSH: We gotta do something about this. We've got a huge voting problem in this country, not enough people are voting, the people who vote don't get their votes counted. It's nearing criminal proportions out there.

RUSH: I know you do. And there are lessons that we could learn from the Ukrainians, like poisoning the candidate who looks like he's going to win.

CALLER: Oh, Rush, come on. Let's not take it to the extreme here. The fact that Hillary says that it's important for the Iraqis to vote, I don't think that it's a Democratic or a liberal issue that that's a slam. I think it is important for the Iraqis to have a say in their election.

RUSH: Let's be honest here, Bernie. Hillary made it plain that we've got lessons we could learn from the Ukrainians.

CALLER: I think we do. There are people that say that they want a free, fair election, and I don't --

RUSH: Who in the world are they modeling? Bernie, this is what so befuddles people like me. What is it that you so dislike or distrust about this country that people voting for the first time, who get the idea from us, somehow are better than we are at it and we need to emulate them? Where does this come from?

CALLER: No, I am not saying that. I don't think I've heard anybody say that they are better at it than us.

RUSH: Yes, she did, we got a lot to learn. "Look how much they cared. Look how greatly they went to the effort to make the vote."

CALLER: All right, well, didn't you just say that we need to get more people out to vote?

CALLER: Well, I guess in a sense you kind of agreed with that, then, didn't you?

CALLER: All right, it's our constitutional right. It's on our constitutional duty, and I'll tell you what, I vote in every single election that I can vote in because it's my right as a citizen.

CALLER: See, why do you have to take the attack of, "How many times?" I vote one time, Rush. And if there are people that are out there that are voting more than once, then by God the Republican side of the aisle should be standing up and let's get this thing fixed once and for all.

RUSH: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Why didn't your side stand up? I thought that's what your side did, was protest elections when you lose?

RUSH: But they didn't lose, and they're all admitting they didn't -- wait a minute, they're all admitting that they lost. They're all admitting that Bush won. They're just up there pontificating.

RUSH: Bernie, name for me the last election in this country where there was not one mistake? Name for me the last election where there weren't thousands of mistakes?

CALLER: Why should there be thousands of mistakes, Rush? Is that good enough for you, to have thousands of mistakes?

RUSH: Bernie, it's not a matter of good enough or bad enough or far enough or close enough.

CALLER: Does the fact that somebody other than a Republican made a comment about it?

RUSH: No, it is reality. For crying out loud, perfection doesn't exist in anything, Bernie.

CALLER: No. You demand perfection in your checking account and your savings account, and your investments.

CALLER: You aren't looking for there to be thousands of mistakes in that, are you?

RUSH: But it's not the same thing. Look at what happened in Florida, as I just mentioned. There were over a hundred thousand provisional ballots cast.

RUSH: When they looked at them, two thirds were invalid, two-thirds were fraudulent, two-thirds were phony. Who do you think did that?

RUSH: Wait a second. It was an attempt to vote illegally that was caught. It was the Democrats who wanted all those fraudulent ballots counted without question but they were not counted without question, they were counted according to law after the election is over, and they went through every one of them and they found the two-thirds that were invalid. The system works. The system is not broken. You people, you think everything about America is broken.

RUSH: You think the American military is broken. Social Security is the only thing that's working right for you people. Social Security, welfare, and all this, those are the only things going right for you, everything else is broken. And, frankly, there are a lot of Americans that are very tired, worn-out of hearing how rotten their country is every day from a bunch of Democrats.

CALLER: Rush, let's stay on point. I'll call you a different time to talk about Social Security. You just said that there are thousands of mistakes in every election.

RUSH: Everybody makes mistakes. You telling me banks don't make mistakes? You telling me customers don't make mistakes?

RUSH: You may not know around the world and in this country where Americans are doing banking. I wouldn't be so quick to -- you know how many transactions there are every day? Of course there are mistakes. This is the whole point, Bernie.

RUSH: You're not protesting an outcome, you're not protesting the result, you're only protesting one state. It's patently obvious what's going on here. It has nothing to do about the sanctity and purity of elections.

CALLER: Rush, were there people standing in lines until way, way, way late in the night trying to get a vote?

CALLER: Okay, were there people who went into precincts who had one voting machine for the entire precinct?

RUSH: I don't know that, either. I've heard that complaint leveled, but I know the secretary of state certified the result, they looked at all this, and they had a recount, Bernie.

RUSH: The people who have these complaints had them addressed. It's not like they were shut out. The people who had these complaints had them looked at. There was a recount, all kinds of things were examined. There were individuals who certified these results, Democrats in Ohio, 188 of them certified the results in their precincts. Are they all a bunch of cheats as well?

RUSH: -- is rigged, you're saying this is rigged and that's why we've got to have fair elections --

RUSH: It's getting to the point where nothing in this country is good enough for you people.

CALLER: See, there you go, you people. It's you people, and you're putting words in my mouth. I never said the election was rigged. Not one time did I say the election was rigged.

RUSH: I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the kook base. You may not be a kook, I don't know, you don't sound like one, but I'm telling you all these senators standing up there are trying to imply, they want people to conclude that the whole thing was rigged, but it wasn't rigged enough to where they could overturn it so we don't want it to be rigged anymore. That's, of course, when you tell me there's only one voting machine in a precinct and people have to stand in line four hours, four o'clock in the morning, are you saying that happened by accident, it was just pure incompetence? No. The Democrats in the Senate and the House are trying to say that this was done on purpose to disenfranchise. Disenfranchise means not allow people to vote. That's illegal. They're trying to saying that there was cheating that went on here.

RUSH: I don't know. I have no idea if there was cheating going on. I think there was cheating in Florida, I think there was cheating in Florida with fraudulent -- okay, I'll revise and extend my remarks. Yes, there was cheating. There was cheating galore on the Democrat side. They planned to do it, they would have left nothing to chance, that's what I think.

CALLER: Okay, that's fine. Let's take that point, then. What you're saying is, if this goes through, and if there is an investigation, that it will come out the Democrats will look bad, and I'm willing to take that chance.

RUSH: I heard twice today -- well, I've heard maybe three times today, all this problem that there's no paper trail recording the votes from the machines. Congressman Bob Wexler in Florida went to federal court to try to get a paper trowel down here, a federal judge, a Democrat federal judge said no, it isn't necessary. It's not the case. This is all an attempt by the Democrats to strike away the notion that they lost genuinely. They cannot have it stated and have it concluded that they genuinely lose elections. They have to have them stolen from them by virtue of irregularities. Before a vote was counted, lawyers had filed protests on disenfranchisement, and voting machine irregularities. All of this talk of the conspiracy theory that the chairman of Diebold who makes the voting machines in Ohio rigged them for Bush. I've talked to the people that write the software for these machines. It can't be done the way the Democrats suggest it was done. It's very hard to do in the first place. There are too many controls on it. There are too many redundancies, too many backups, too many safeguards. These people wouldn't stay in business if this was the case.

The idea that you think all of this is routine and needs to be investigated by the political class especially is what is mind-boggling here, and I don't remember any of it. Bill Clinton never got 50% of the vote. I didn't hear one complaint about voting throughout the nineties. I didn't hear one complaint about voting in the eighties. I didn't hear one complaint about voting in the seventies. The last time I heard about it was in the sixties with Kennedy-Nixon when that was so close, but Nixon didn't have the guts to put the country through what the Democrats have put the country through now for four years and maybe another four. It's just outrageous what is going on here. You complain only when you lose, you charge fraud, you charge conspiracy oriented theories to explain it, and in the process you have to always conclude that the country is no good, that the countries is rotten, they do it better in the Ukraine, they do it better or gonna do it better in Iraq, we've got things to learn from these people, when it's the exact opposite.

What it is with American exceptionalism that Democrats have a problem with I will not understand -- well, other than this: They probably love American exceptionalism when they think they're in charge of it. And that's probably the root of this. Good things are happening in America right now. The Democrats can't claim any credit for it so they have to try to discredit all the good things and claim it's all fraudulent, whether it's an election, whether it's a victory in the war on terror, no matter what it is, it's all fraudulent, it's criminal, it's illegitimate, whatever, the president's election. And that's what all this means. That's all this is, every senator walking to the microphone, "We're not challenging the results, we know that Bush won, we know that Bush won in Ohio." Okay, then what are you doing there? What is the point?

Ladies and gentlemen, there's a question that needs to be asked here. It's a salient question. Why do these things only happen in Democrat districts? Why do UFOs only land in mobile home parks and not at MIT? Why does all this supposed vote fraud only happen where Democrats run the show there? This whole thing in Florida 2000 was in three counties the Democrats own lock, stock, and barrel. If you go in there as a Republican you risk going to jail just for being spotted. Ask me about it. The Democrats ran the three counties in Florida. All these counties in Ohio, only one voting machine in the Democrat precinct? Well, which Democrat's going to be held accountable for that? What happened to John Kerry's 5,000 lawyers? Then we're going to go in there and make sure this didn't happen.

And, by the way, where the hell is John Francois? He sends this e-mail from abroad last night to three million of his wacko constituents saying bombard Frist's office and Hastert's office with your complaints about what happened in Ohio, but he doesn't even show up on the floor of the Senate today, he's not even in the country to join his own protest. Why not? Where is he? Is he trying to retrace his root through Cambodia? What's he doing? If he really believed in this, he's be here leading it. What the hell is he leaving it up to other people to do for? I'll tell you why. It's because he's going to run again in '08 and he doesn't want to have videotape of this, that any opponent in '08 can run in the Democratic primaries and what an idiot he looked like, and what a spoilsport and what a sore loser he looked like. That's why he's not showing up. So he's content for all these other Democrats to look like buffoons.

You know, if Democrats have to stand in line, why do Democrats demand their voters stand for so long? The Democrats are running these districts and they're standing in line till four o'clock in the morning, whose fault is this? Speaking of which, we have Mrs. Clinton on the floor of the Senate today telling us we have a lot to learn from the Ukrainians, how desperate they are to vote for the first time, why, she said they're even willing to go out and die, ladies and gentlemen. They're willing to take one in the heart in order for them to be able to have the right to vote, and yet they're up there whining and moaning about Democrats who had to stand in line till three in the morning to vote. Do you think a Ukrainian would stand in line till three o'clock in the morning and would even get shot to vote. Apparently Mrs. Clinton said a Ukrainian will die to vote but a Democrat won't stand in line till four in the morning to vote.

You people are absolute zanies. Do you understand how easy it is to slice you up, to fillet you, to flake you, to form you, and to illustrate you in all of your utter ridiculousness? It's not only easy, it's fun.

Liberals are the most entertaining and ridiculous bunch of people in the history of man. Read on as Rush tries to reason with Bernie. If a liberal caller to his show doesn't get it, will a DU Dummy? America is a great country but she isn't perfect and neither are the people living in her, folks. Its time for the Left to wake up!

Just like the "homeless problem", "election irregularities" only happen when Republicans are in power. Amazing, ain't it? /sarcasm

While Rush wastes his time on a non-issue, the Dems and the media have mounted a full scale, coordinated attack against Bush's AG nominate. Meanwhile, the Bush administration is acting just the way they acted when his judicial nominees were under attack, i.e they're invisible.

Perhaps Rush might want to take some time to focus on real story, rather than this Dem sideshow.

The Dems ARE the sideshow. They're the ones who cannot accept that they lost with grace and a good smile. They're so predictable. About the only thing consistent about these people is their utter hatred of America and their absolute contempt for our country's institutions.

You're right, but they're damn good obstructionists and character assassins.

It would be nice if the Repubs could figure out a strategy to counter this, but apparently they can't.

Meanwhile, one good nominee after another has his or her reputation destroyed while the Repubs sit around looking at their thumbs.

Notice how this clown wants "no mistakes," holding up checking accounts as an example. However, the libs would NEVER tolerate the kind of identification necessary even to open a checking account: a valid address, photo ID, social security number, phone number, etc. They'd scream disenfranchisement from the roof tops. Rush is right: they don't want to fix the system; they want to de-legitimize our president.

Same thing with Gonzalez: it's a chance for the Dims to grandstand over the war on terror and cut down the president and Republican majority.

Gonzales did just fine today. I'd say more than fine.

The dems provided comic relief during their 'protest' of the electoral votes from Ohio.

Rather unfortunate that Rush chose to use his time for a personal attack on Dodd. Dodd has since remarried, is the father of two babies and while I despise his political views, his personal life seems to have changed for the better.

Rush took a cheap shot for no discernible purpose.

Gonzales did just fine today. I'd say more than fine.

Well, I'm glad of that, but nobody should have to put up with the crap the left is spewing out.

Every major newspaper today had both a hit piece editorial on Gonzales and at least one article on the "prison abuse scandal". I don't watch TV news, but I'm sure they did their part, too.

In my opinion, there's no way that this is just coincidental. If the Repubs aren't going to defend their nominees with at least the same intensity that the left attacks them, they may just as well let the Dems make all the appointments.

Regarding Rush, I don't think he's in any position to criticize someone else's personal life.

Regarding Rush.......people in glass houses.

Gonzales was treated with kid gloves today. The Senate dems know full well that they best not be seen as obstructionists right out of the box.

Gonzales was treated a thousand times better than Ashcroft.

However, watch out when Dubya gets to choose a supreme court justice. All bets are off as to the actions of the lunatic left.

The media is doing the dirty work for the dems when it comes to Gonzales and the prison scandal. However, most have no use for the MSM and the rest don't read the papers.

"It's because he's going to run again in '08 and he doesn't want to have videotape of this,.."

If JF'n wants to run again in 08, he'd better have one of his "band of brothers" cover his back because Preparation H's goons will be armed and dangerous.

I heard that guy... he was another one of those nasty, nasally-sounding leftie-liberal types.

I hear that vocal inflection from most of the leftie attack-dogs who call these talk shows - it sounds like they're sneering out loud... it makes me wonder, why do they all *sound* alike? I mean, I know they *think* alike, but does that somehow manifest itself in their vocal spectrum?

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