Did you hear Rush "snoring" as she blathered on... and on... and on...?
...Dr. Laura would have said...."so uh what is your question for me?"
RUSH: Let's go to Donna in South Windsor, in Connecticut. Hi, Donna, welcome to the program.
CALLER: Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh. Um, you know, I just wanted to, um, share a couple of thoughts and then, um, ask you for your take on them, where you think my thinking might be going off the rails or where it might be right. I'm foolish and naïve enough -- well, I'm not foolish and naïve enough -- to believe in any of those, but certainly in an ideal world you could hope that you could just not be a liberal or a Democrat or a Republican or Democrat or a liberal or a, um, conservative and just do what's right, and I have to say that truly on a number of occasions I feel like you've vacillated back and forth between the two depending on the circumstances, depending on what would be the easiest or most politically correct thing to say, so forgive me for that if it's too pointed. But essentially what I see with, um, President Bush when I look at what he has done or not done in, um, New Orleans, and really a lot of times in a lot of places -- and I wouldn't just use this for this case specifically, but as a general method of operating from what I see --
RUSH: (snorts)
CALLER: -- is that, um, he's moved to action either in front of the cameras or more and more likely behind the cameras when what he's doing or not doing is affecting what he has categorically called his "base," and, um, your screener asked me to define that, and I'm -- I'm certainly confident that you can, um, better do that than I can, and the second thing is that, um, being that there's nothing going on down in these areas that --
RUSH: (yawns)
CALLER: -- will significantly impact his base, um --
RUSH: (snoring)
CALLER: -- he's not really moved to ask that much, and secondly, the fact that when you consider that Texas has the lowest per capita spending by its government, and I believe that, um, --
RUSH: (snoring)
CALLER: -- Governor Bush was instrumental in that when he was the governor of the state of Texas, that we're also seeing his general philosophy about how it is that the government does or does not intercede with assistance or lack of assistance, and also the whole issue of whether or not this person is responsible or that person is responsible. All those arguments can really turn on a dime, and that's the part that I have an issue with when I, you know, listen to some of your commentaries on these things. So, you know, I'd like to just hang up and ask you what your perspectives are in relation to those comments. Thanks very much for taking my call.
RUSH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa-ho-ho-ho!
CALLER: Oh, okay. I'm not getting away that easily?
RUSH: No, no, no. I want to thank you, Mrs. Schumer, for the call. But the --
CALLER: Mr. Limbaugh, no, no, no.