Rush Fed Up with All the Phonies

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RUSH: ".... and I'm just about ready to chuck all this and head to some island, get everybody's hands out of my back pocket as soon as I frigging can because I have had it.

I've had it with the state of New York. I've had it with the federal government. I've had it with everybody with their hands in my back pocket wanting this and wanting that. Nothing is ever enough for anybody and it's not worth it. At some point you just decide it isn't worth it and let people fend for themselves.

...and it just frosts me, and when I couple it with all of this rigmarole I hear from the liberals in this country about (sigh) taxes and who's not paying their fair share and stuff, it just makes me boiling mad with livid rage.

Okay. I wanted to share some of this with you, but none of the details because they say that blowing off steam is somewhat helpful. I'm not bleeding on you people. I'm not whining and moaning. I am explaining what may be an attitude that you will hear today because I tell you I'm getting fed up with so much.

I'm getting fed up with so many people like Rick Santorum who is a conservative one day, decides he wants to be president and then starts moving to the center.

I'm fed up with people like Christopher Shays. I'm fed up with this attack on Tom DeLay. He's not done one damn thing. There's no charge. He's not guilty of anything!

I'm fed up with phony baloney, plastic-banana, good-time rock and roller so-called moderate wimps like Chris Shays and all these other clowns that are going after Tom DeLay simply because he's effective.

I'm sick and tired of phonies that live their lives only to get media coverage instead of be real.

I'm sick and tired of... I can't find people who are real to hang around. All I get is a bunch of phonies that want to use me or find a way to use me to get their names out there, make themselves famous or what have you in the meantime I'm trying to get things done here and everybody else is playing a game and I don't like the game.

I hate the game. I'm into reality. I just can't deal with the phoniness of it. I can't deal.

You know, I've talked to a lot of people who have gotten out of politics for the same reason. They find they can't deal with it anymore. They can't deal with the lack of sincerity they run into in people who are in politics, and I understand the needs to go out and get votes and expand and mix coalitions and constituency groups and this sort of thing, but I've always believed: Do the right thing and the politics will follow.

This judge business, the left and the way they're behaving here with John Bolton and the Dingy Harry Reid and these absolute wimps that have nothing positive to offer anybody in this country, doing nothing but trying to instill fear and loathing, build coalitions built on seething hatred and rage. These people get to certain positions of power, and it's just irritating. It's just flat-out irritating.

Yesterday I said on this program, "I wonder if they're trying to bore me, because for 16 years it's been the same old rigmarole." You know, the left hasn't changed in I don't know how many decades, but it's the same old rigmarole, and I just get tired of explaining it and talking about it to people, and when you do something about it that causes -- or is supposed to cause -- change, like elect a bunch of people that are in the majority, who are supposed to affect the change everybody believes in and then they pokey along and act afraid to do it, you throw your hands up and say, "What the hell?"

Which is I guess why some people run for office themselves, but I, frankly, am not interested in it, have no desire. All right. .....

RUSH: Now on to one of our favorite linguini-spined Republicans, good old Christopher Shays up there in Connecticut. I think he spent too much time with John Kerry -- who, by the way, served in Vietnam. Christopher Shays says he thinks DeLay should step down but he's not demanding it. Oh no, and you know why? Let me tell you why. Because Chris Shays isn't enough to get rid of Tom DeLay! Chris Shays gave it a shot. He went out there and said, "I think he ought to go," and guess what? Nobody cared because Chris Shays doesn't speak for Republicans!

Even though he is a Republican he may as well be a Jim Jeffords; he may as well be a Lincoln Chafee, because it's going to take a lot more than you, Chris Shays, to get rid of somebody who's decent and good and moral and upstanding and a fighter and that's Tom DeLay.

He doesn't call town meetings to ask a bunch of constituents including Paul Newman how he should vote on impeachment. He knows because it's in his heart, Chris, but you don't have the guts to follow your own instincts because you are afraid so you go through this big charade of a town meeting. (Chris Shays impression) "How should I vote on impeachment?" and C-SPAN covered, everybody said, "Ooooh, this is really great, a town meeting! Why, this is civics at its best."

It was a charade. It was phony, and so Chris Shays decides over the weekend, "You know what? I'm going to move up. I'm going to get plaudits. I'm going to get great coverage in the New York Times and the Washington Post and I'm going to suggest that DeLay should go," and guess what? His suggestion wasn't enough. DeLay is still there.

DeLay is going nowhere, and so Shays has moderated. "I never said he should resign. I'm not demanding it. I'm simply suggesting it." The reason he's now moderated this is because he's not big enough.

It's going to take a lot more than Chris Shays' desire to get rid of DeLay. It's going to take a serious charge that's got some evidence behind it that's not brought by a political prosecutor down in Texas to get rid of Tom DeLay.

Here are two sound bites from Chris Shays. This is yesterday, what he said about DeLay.

SHAYS: I'm not asking him to step down. You're asking me if I think he should? Uh, yes, I think he should. That's just an honest answer to a question. Uhh, But I'm not, uh, arguing and, uh, demanding, uh, that he step down. He's still, uh, the leader. But if I think, umm, uh... but that's what I think, I think he should step down.

RUSH: Boy, that he will really powerful! You know, this is the kind of stuff that really moves minds and really moves people hearts. "Well, you're asking me if I think he should, yes, I think he should that's just an honest answer to your question but I'm not arguing or demanding that he should step down."

What is this equivocation? What is this straddling the fence? What is this wanting it both ways?

Now he's acting like he's afraid DeLay might take it out on him -- and, I'll tell you what, Chris: When you shoot at the king you better kill him. When you try to go and wound a king you better take him out. If the king is still standing and has ammo, guess who he's going to fire at someday down the line?

After that comment he then compares what's going on with DeLay to what Republicans did to Fort Worthless Jim Wright and then tries to clarify his statement again.

SHAYS: He's brought this on himself. This isn't -- this isn't the media. This isn't Democrats. Uhhh, they're doing exactly what we did, uh, with Speaker Wright and, uh, and others like him, and, uh, they're raising important questions that need to be raised. This may be, uh, , uhhh, a difference without, uh, a distinction. But I -- I was asked if I think he should step down. The answer is yes. Am I asking him to step down? No.

RUSH: Well, that's really gutsy. That's the kind of guys we need in the Republican Party, not willing to follow through on their convictions -- because this is isn't a conviction. This is a convenient statement to get praise from our enemies.

Chris Shays wants to be loved and adored by the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, and all the other BSes out there and so he says, "Well, I think he ought to go but I'm not demanding it." Yeah, that's how the country was formed, wasn't it? That's how we won World War II. "Well, I think Hitler is a bad guy but I don't know we should do anything about it."

Now let's talk a little bit more about this DeLay business, because this is a general overview on travel, and I want you people to know that far more Democrats take far more such trips than do Republicans and Tom DeLay.

A little overview here: The National Center for Public policy research issued a statement last month describing its sponsorship and payment of DeLay trips and others reported on in the Washington Post, and in response to a similar story in the National Journal.

Quote: "'The National Center for Public Policy Research was careful to pay all the expenses associated with Congressman DeLay's trip. Reports to the contrary are incorrect.'

"There have been a number of trips reported on by Washington Post and others on which DeLay was a participant with other members of staff, and while the focus of most of these stories has been DeLay, these various stories include other members and staff of both parties who had the same understandings as DeLay as to the sponsor of these trips and they filed the same paperwork pursuant to those same understandings.

Every year hundreds of members of Congress and their staff travel at the invitation of tax-exempt organizations that pay for their trips.

The National Center for Policy Research was a properly registered tax-exempt educational organization.

It sponsored a number of trips that dozens of members and staff participated in. One of the trips under scrutiny." Here is the 1997 Russia trip. "'The []trip was initiated by the National Center,' spokesman Dan Allen said, 'and they were the ones that organized it, planned it and paid for it. Three DeLay staff filed the same paperwork with the same understanding."

The London trips, National Center statement: "National Center for Public policy research sponsored and fade [sic] for educational trips to Russia and to Great Britain in 1997 and 2000 that included, at our invitation, Congressman DeLay, Mrs. DeLay, and congressional staff members. Various members and staff reported this and a similar trip paid for by Center."

The Korea trip: "At least eight House members..." and we had a call about this yesterday from sniveling little liberal trying to pass himself off as a conservative who said he was very concerned about the Korea trip and he thinks if our guys are going to do things like this they ought to have the courage to resign without being forced out because we must main the high moral honor and code and all this rotgut.

Well, listen to this: "At least eight House members and 15 House aides filed the same paperwork and information on the South Korea trips including..." and this is in addition to DeLay, "including [Delegate] Faleomavaega a Democrat. Lisa Williams chief of staff to Faleomavaega said, 'He went through the process of clearing him on the ethics to the Korea trip." Jim McDermott, Democrat on the Korea trip. 'It's a great 20/20 hindsight story,' said Mike DeCesare, spokesman for McDermott," Baghdad Jim if you'll recall, who went on one of the group's trips. "'McDermott's understanding, DeCesare said, 'that was the ethics committee cleared this.' Like the dozens of Republicans and Democrat members and staff who go on trips every year, DeLay reported this and other trips, and provided the appropriate disclosure information.

Privately sponsored trips are a common bipartisan practice, although Democrats took approximately 600 more trips over the past few years.

In the past four years, there have been over 4,800 private trips of the kind DeLay is being investigated for, and they have cost $14.4 million.

Between January of 2000 and May of 2004, organizations ranging from the Aspen Institute," run now by Walter Isaacson who used to work at CNN and TIME and Newsweek and wherever the hell else, "to the World Economic Forum," where Eason Jordan went and accused us of murdering journalists, our military, "they sponsor these trips to Davos, Switzerland.

These groups ranging from Aspen to the World Economic Forum spent $14.4 million to send lawmakers on more than 4,800 trips according to an analysis of congressional trips by a news service, the Medill News Service in partnership with American Public Media's marketplace program and American Radio Works.

"Aspen Institute, the top provider of these trips is a favorite of Democrats. They spent a total of 2.7 million on 490 trips with 69.2% of the money spend on Democrats, 30% spent on Republicans, 0.8% spent on independents.

The Aspen Institute forums are held in places like Rome, Barcelona, Honolulu, Porto Vallarta, and the Bahamas. From 2000 to 2004, despite being the minority party, Democrat members of Congress took 54.3% of the trips which is 2,730, at an expense of $7,809,837. Republicans took 45.3% of the trips, grand total 2,095 totaling $6-1/2 million.

Bottom line: Democrats took over 600 more trips than Republicans between 2000 and 2004, and the top five trip makers in the order of most spent on the trips from 2000 to 2004 were all Democrats.

John Breaux [Democrat] [retired: news ] was the top trip taker in Congress. He took trips totaling $158,311.92.

Bob Wexler, [Democrat] Florida, number two. Wexler's only domestic trip was to Greenbrier up in West Virginia.

The Democrats are taking all these trips and they're focusing on DeLay and our guys don't stand up and defend him.

RUSH: One other thing about Chris Shays, and this is from a WorldNetDaily.com story in the year 2000. It had to do with some of the arrangements made to normalize trade with China, and it dealt with some of the relationships that the Clinton administration had with the Chinese, campaign contributions, so forth and so on. There's this little paragraph:

"Then-influential House Republican anti-impeachment leader Representative Chris Shays was able to avoid public notice when his wife Betsy [sic--Betsi] quietly accepted a six-figure appointment as director of AmeriCorps."

That's Bill Clinton's answer to the Peace Corps. Yes, Chris Shays, according to the WorldNetDaily.com, Chris Shays "able to avoid public notice when his wife Betsy quietly accepted a six-figure appointment as director of AmeriCorps" from close Clinton confidante and early damage control aid Mark Geron, who is now the director of the Peace Corps.

"The job came through on October 8th, 1998, eight weeks before the actual House impeachment vote, and these are the appointments that are known."

The story lists some others as well. So I just wanted to throw that into the mix because I had remembered something about this, but I couldn't find it anywhere, and Cookie looked it up for me, found it on WorldNetDaily.com.

Read the Articles... (American Spectator: The Truth About DeLay - Ben Stein) http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8018

(Washington Post: Senators May Have Named CIA Operative) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45280-2005Apr11.html

(NewsMax: DeLay Fundraising Plied Special Interests) http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/4/11/222100.shtml

(NY DailyNews: Bill: Gay GOPer 'self-loathing') http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/299104p-255983c.html

(FPM: Soros Shadow Party Stalks DeLaySoros Shadow Party Stalks DeLay) http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17686

(AP: Santorum: DeLay Needs to Answer Questions) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050410/D89CLA881.html

(AP: Shays Says DeLay Should Step Down) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050410/D89CP0K80.html

(LA Times: In Nevada, Reid Is the Name to Know - 06.23.03) http://www.latimes.com/services/site/premium/access-registered.intercept

(Washington Post: A 3rd DeLay Travel Controversy) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28319-2005Apr5.html

(CST: Quest to get a Republican to fight DeLay may have crossed a line - Robert Novak) http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak11.html

(NRO: Eric Pfeiffer: Can DeLay survive?) http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/pfeiffer200504111009.asp

Oh, I forgot---O'Reilly is also upset that Delay has his wife and daughter in his campaign---

he was griping about how much money they were making, which actually works out to be about $55-60,000 per year, HARDLY a fortune considering the cost of living in Washington...

BUT, O'Reilly was very upset about how much money they are getting even though it is NOT taxpayer money...

well, if people are "getting into his pockets" for no good reason then his selfishness is just and understood. Hell, I live in a city where the mayor is constantly getting into my pockets and I sure as hell do not feel like I just helped an elderly woman with some repairs around the house when he does. I feel ripped off. Why? Because I have read enough and been here long enough to know that at my dollar landed in his pocket to pay for things that make his empire stronger. This is a guy who nobody can get out of office because he has so much power. Even though he has been linked to property tax scams, granting contracts to family members etc etc...The story runs on the back pages and nobody talks about it. Subject is dead the next day. Nobody presses it because they will be black balled forever.

So, when you say, replace them. It's not as easy as 1 2 3. You are trying to removing a link in a network and that is like trying to pull a tree from the ground. What method will you use to get your case against the politician heard fairly?

This whole thing is a lot bigger that you and me...and these days people who use the system to get them and their people ahead instead of serving the country with honor don't think their actions impact this country in any way because they don't see an effect. But one day, there will be and it will be too late but that is how things change for the better. Things have to get bad. That is the nature of mankind. We are poor at being proactive.

I have seen it at work, where those with deficiencies tend to attack others for even a hint of that particular deficiency. i.e. Those who come in late or are late for meetings, attack those who are late once. Those who surf the web the constantly, attack other for doing it. etc.

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