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"Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life I am proud of Massachusetts, as I paraphrase Michelle (My Belle) Obama."
"This is not just one election.
This is the third blowout involving two or actually three dark blue states.
It is not about Coakley's campaign or Corzine's problems or Creigh Deeds being a lightweight.
The common thread here is Obama.
This one's for you, Mary Jo.
This one's for you, Judge Bork."
"It is perfectly fine to gloat today.
It is called for.
This is a day of celebration.
But, it is also a beginning. I
t is not by any means the end of anything."
"Conservatism won in Massachusetts.
Statism, liberalism lost."
"There's no way a reasonable person will understand anything on MSNBC."
"Have you seen what's happened in Chile?
They have had a huge turn to the right.
We may all be moving there someday, folks, instead of New Zealand."
"Be unabashedly eager.
Do not be ashamed to be conservative.
Do not be ashamed to articulate conservatism.
Learn to do it."
"If you are a Republican and you run against government run health care;
if you are a Republican and you run against massive spending and deficits and taxes;
if you run for smaller government, you will win.
You do not need to throw Ronald Reagan overboard.
You do not need to cross the aisle.
The independents came to us, big."
"Conservatism is the answer.
The era of Reagan is not over.
We don't dare use this as a launching pad for a third party.
We have shown it's totally unnecessary.
Just get back to Reagan conservative roots."
"Do not make the mistake that there's anger at both parties.
There need not be any anger at the Republican Party if they finally learn the
lesson of what happened last night and the past three weeks in Massachusetts."
"The health care system that extended Ted Kennedy's life may have been saved."
"As much as Jim Webb's smack down of the president was spot on, these cowards didn't say any of this last week.
Where was all this statesmanship last week?"
"After last night, every Democrat seat is in play.
That's what they know.
Ted Kennedy's hometown, Hyannis, Cape Cod, went for Brown.
Barney Frank's district went for Scott Brown.
There is not a single Democrat seat that's safe."
"We can get our party back, folks.
We must.
And Scott Brown has given us that chance.
We cannot get distracted by people saying this was simply an anti-Washington result.
Do not fall for that, I beg you.
This was voting for somebody to go to Washington to fix it and to stop Washington dead in its tracks."
"The Republicans are not responsible for what's happening in Washington.
They don't have the votes to stop anything.
Everything that's advancing is advancing because of Democrat votes."
"If you want to know what everybody is really thinking in Washington,
whether they're saying it or not, you go to David 'Rodham' Gergen.
He is the personification of Washington conventional wisdom."
"If the vote on the Senate bill today took place, five Democrats would vote against it.
That's the extent of the fallout from Scott Brown's win, and what this tells me is that there have
been a whole bunch of Democrats (privately) totally uncomfortable with this whole process:
Thumbing their noses at the American people, not listening to them, passing legislation that nobody wants,
having it done behind closed doors."
"My friends, who knew -- who knew! -- that there were so many racist, redneck, bitter clingers in Massachusetts?
Even in Hyannis Port!"
"Did you see John Kerry on CNN hobble up to the stage on crutches?
What a metaphorical heaven it was!
What an idiot! John, just stay off the stage! I mean, the whole party's been crippled!"
"I think that it is time for Mrs. Clinton to start gearing up for a run for the White House in 2012.
I firmly believe that she is."
"We had a referendum on Obama.
His approval numbers are plunging.
No issue he supports enjoys majority support of the American people."
"The myth that conservatives cannot win in blue states is exploded by this year's elections in New Jersey and now Massachusetts."
"Properly articulated, issue-oriented conservatism will beat liberalism every time it's tried in whatever part of the country."
"Nobody could have ever expected (except me) this big and this fast a failure on the part of the president of the United States.
But I have no doubts because I know, and knew, that his policies were going to take us right where we are."
"Those of us who are conservatives from morning to night -- 24/7, 365 -- are the ones who are vindicated here.
Liberals can be beaten.
This is the time.
This is the year.
No more excuses."
"Folks, do not discount how ticked off people are about closing Gitmo and this Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial.
Make no mistake that's part of the rage and anger."
"It seems to me that all those good people in Massachusetts want Obama to fail, even the people in Hyannis Port."
"If this were a Republican seat in Orange County that had been held for 40 years and went down the tubes, that's all we'd be hearing."
"These Democrats, these liberals, do you understand everything is identity politics with them?
None of it is substance.
Or very little of it."
"Most people in America -- the vast majority, in fact -- have health care coverage and they like it,
and they don't like the prospect of going to jail if they don't have it.
That's why they don't like this bill."
"Maybe if they investigated why people are angry they might reveal some original take on this story,
but no sense trying to look for facts.
Mr. Alter and Mr. Fineman are as predictable as the sunrise."
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life I am proud of Massachusetts, as I paraphrase Michelle (My Belle) Obama. For the first time in my life I am proud of Massachusetts. I seem to remember some hack saying you never want to waste a crisis. Some hack in the White House said that. I think his name was Rahm Emanuel. That's exactly right. Well, they are in a crisis right now, and turnaround is fair play. So let me say, ladies and gentlemen, you never want to waste a crisis, especially when it's the libs experiencing the crisis. So keep up the pressure. Now is the time to keep hammering away. This is not just one election. This is the third blowout involving two or actually three dark blue states. It is not about Coakley's campaign or Corzine's problems or Creigh Deeds being a lightweight. The common thread here is Obama. This one's for you, Mary Jo. This one's for you, Judge Bork.
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An EIB twin spin party day on the EIB Network. These are the good times. We're all feeling good, and we will revel in it.
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And welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the one and only Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB party zone today. The telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882. E-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. So much to comment upon today, and I'm going to relish every moment of it, ladies and gentlemen. So many wonderful sound bites. It is perfectly fine to gloat today. It is called for. This is a day of celebration. But, it is also a beginning. It is not by any means the end of anything. There is a common theme that I am seeing through State-Controlled Media, from Howard Fineman to Jonathan Alter to a guy named Tim Rutten here at the Los Angeles Times: "The Lesson of Massachusetts? Anger." Yes, it's angry white voters, they've gone back to that mime, they have revised that template. Even had Donny Deutsch on MSNBC today saying, (paraphrasing) "Well, you know, Scott Brown, voters were just comforted by Scott Brown's white maleness." This was substance, Mr. Deutsche. This was issues. They continue to group people in victimization status. They continue to see people by the virtue of the color of their skin or their gender, sexual orientation, or what have you.
Now, this guy in the LA Times: "The Lesson of Massachusetts? Anger. -- The electorate is increasingly restive, and it's not just about the Democrats." See, my friends, this is the danger. LA Times, voters are mad at both parties. This is the danger, that we not allow the liberals and the Democrats to reinterpret what took place here. Conservatism won. Statism, liberalism lost. If you are a Republican and you run against government run health care; if you are a Republican and you run against massive spending and deficits and taxes; if you run for smaller government, you will win. You do not need to throw Ronald Reagan overboard. You do not need to cross the aisle. The independents came to us, big. Rasmussen's numbers are incredible. Like 69, 70% of the independents went for Scott Brown, and that was an issue oriented campaign that he ran. These are Reagan Democrats that crossed over. Conservatism is the answer. The era of Reagan is not over. We don't dare use this as a launching pad for a third party. We have shown it's totally unnecessary. Just get back to Reagan conservative roots.
We don't need any more people like David Brooks or Frum or any of these people in the middle who got this all wrong. One year ago they're telling us we had to cross the aisle, we had to hope Obama succeeded, we had to work with him, we had to show the electorate that we were for larger government because they were, we had to show the electorate that all the services we want are gonna require a lot of high taxes -- that's what our pundits, that's what some in our party were actually saying one year ago. There was one man, ladies and gentlemen, who stood tall and opposed every aspect of that, and I don't mind saying it was I, your host, El Rushbo, at 800-282-2882. Do not make the mistake that there's anger at both parties. There need not be any anger at the Republican Party if they finally learn the lesson of what happened last night and the past three weeks in Massachusetts.
You understand, despite how you're seeing Democrats on television, folks, this is the Berlin Wall coming down. This is a Ted Kennedy seat. They're still calling it that, and they've lost it. And they lost it to a rookie, and they lost it to a rookie who was talking anti-Washington, anti-government, anti-spending, anti-Obama. He was talking conservatism. He may not be a full-fledged conservative. In fact, the press conference today that he had, the first question: "Why are you so eager to get down to Washington?" He said he's gonna make a courtesy call. The next question: "What are you going to do concretely to prove that you are an independent?" The third or fourth question: "You ran as an independent. How are you going to prove to voters that you are an independent?" What they're trying to do, what the press is trying to do is get this guy to say he's not a Republican, and he's not a conservative, he's a moderate, they want the Republican Party to continue to fall for the things that got them in trouble, that we gotta be like Democrats, that we gotta be more moderate, that we gotta cross the aisle, we have to work with Obama. The lesson is right front of us. This is no time to let up, folks, this is pedal to the metal time. Keep the hammer down.
The health care system that extended Ted Kennedy's life may have been saved. The health care system that extended Senator Kennedy's life may well have been saved. This was a great victory for all Americans who desire the same quality health care that Mr. Kennedy received during his life, and especially during his courageous and well-fought battle against cancer. If Obama's health care succeeds, the great health care system that sustained and elongated the life of Senator Kennedy will be fini, it will be over. Peter Wehner today writing a piece at Commentary, the blog, number six, this is important: "There is a slew of bad data for Democrats to pour through in the aftermath of Scott Brown's victory. But here is the most frightening data point of all: Mr. Brown won unaffiliated voters by a margin of 73 percent to 25 percent, according to pollster Scott Rasmussen. This 3-to-1 margin comes after independents broke for Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie by 2-to-1 margins in Virginia and New Jersey, respectively. This is a stunning, and for Democrats an ominous, development. More than anything else, it explains why they now face the prospect of losing both the House and the Senate in November."
Folks, this is bigger than 1994. The level of outrage and disgust with the statism, the expansion of government, the accrual of wealth or debt that is being piled up, it's worse. The public outrage, the fright, the fear, the demand for something different is worse than 1994 when the Republicans took the House. The Boston Globe editorial page today, Brian McGrory has a column. I'm thinking about reading it to you. It is a column that somebody who got date raped would write about. Voters were date raped by Scott Brown. I kid you not. I kid you not.
"I'm going to need some Advil and a cold compress, please. I'm the Massachusetts Electorate, and I have what is bar none the absolute worst hangover of my entire voting life. Seriously, I was so drunk on power, so caught up in the moment, so free of any of my usual inhibitions, I can't remember what's gone on these last two weeks. Think, Electorate, think. What did I do? This much I'm starting to remember. Martha and I walked into the party and everything seemed to be going fine. She wasn't talking much, but she never really does, and she wasn't exactly pushing me to bare my soul, either. That's what I've always liked about Martha: She's a low-maintenance politician. And now I'm vaguely recalling that stranger across the room, the one in the barn jacket who kept smiling at me and seemed to know my name. Martha vanished for a while, and -- is it bad that I'm saying this? -- I didn't really care.
"Suddenly, that tall, handsome man was standing at my side doing something that Martha rarely did -- offering to pay for drinks, chatting me up, curious what was on my mind. Every time I ever tried telling Martha about my day, my hopes, my dreams, she shushed me and said she was preparing a legal brief or watching 'Law & Order.' And now there's a stranger telling me he could change my entire world. Scott! That was his name. Lived near the outlet stores. Talked a lot about being smarter with money. I know, not like Martha, who always had some expensive home renovation project up her sleeve. And then, I remember that time itself seemed to stop. The mundanity of everyday events gave way to the exhilaration of my suddenly unpredictable existence. No more Martha taking me for granted. No more Martha calling all the shots. I was living the moment, immersed in the life I always wanted before caution overwhelmed desire.
"We were on the dance floor, Scott and I, moving to the music, his hands all over my body politic. Everyone was watching, and I mean everyone -- fellow partygoers, bartenders, passersby staring in the windows. Look at me, the Massachusetts Electorate, the bellwether of America! I think I took my shirt off. I think I didn't care. I remember something about Scott in a pair of Calvin Klein jockey shorts, but it may have been a picture he showed me from his wallet. Out of nowhere, there were video cameras filming us from every angle. Analysts were describing the events. Scott's important friends were texting and calling my cell. Get this: Curt Schilling, talking to a regular old Electorate like me. ... And just like that, there she was, back at the bar, giving me that aloof prosecutorial look I knew all too well. I went back to her, sweaty and out of breath. Amazingly, she didn't seem angry. She didn't really show any emotion at all. She just pretended like nothing ever happened and tried to continue on.
Oh, but something did happen. I knew it, she knew it, and so did Scott, who was still beckoning from the other end of the bar, asking me to take a walk outside. And now it's coming clear: I did. He was talking nonstop, but I noticed he was repeating himself over and over again -- 41st vote, and drawing boards, and being a 'Scott Brown Republican.' He was starting to lose me until we were standing in front of a GMC pickup and he said, 'This is my truck.' Oh, you bad boy. You bad, bad boy. I remember catching my breath. I remember pulling a curtain shut. I remember having to make a really important choice. I needed to send a message. I don't know much about Scott, and I have no idea how long he'll be in my life, but I do know that nobody will ever take me for granted again."
This is a metaphor column for being date raped. Can't remember what happened, but you ended up liking the guy, you ended up with the guy but you're fuzzy on the details. You woke up with a hangover. I mean it's unreal. It is unreal. We double-checked and Mr. McGrory is purported to be a male. We double-checked on this. But I mean this is hilarious. Even according to the Globe standards, these people on the Democrat side and in the State-Controlled Media, ladies and gentlemen, are literally flipping out and losing it. They have lost it. And we have only just begun. Rush Limbaugh and the EIB party zone today. Mary Jo, this one's for you.
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RUSH: A lot of Democrats are running for the tall grass, ladies and gentlemen. Bill Delahunt, in the House for Massachusetts, says let's break this health care bill into a whole bunch of smaller bills. Jim Webb from Virginia made an incredible, incredible statement. Let me find what Jim Webb had to say, because it's just great. He said, "In many ways the campaign in Massachusetts became a referendum not only on health care reform but also on the openness and integrity of our government process. It is vital that we restore the respect of the American people in our system of government and in our leaders. To that end, I believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated." Ladies and gentlemen, there are a number of Democrats coming out of the woodwork.
If the vote on the Senate bill today took place, five Democrats would vote against it. That's the extent of the fallout, and what this tells me is that there have been a whole bunch of Democrats (privately) totally uncomfortable with this whole process: Thumbing their noses at the American people, not listening to them, passing legislation that nobody wants, having it done behind closed doors. There are, apparently, a few Democrats who are breathing a sigh of relief over this -- and let's not forget, ladies and gentlemen, as President Obama himself has sung...
(The Day National Health Care Died song parody)
RUSH: That's "white comedian Paul Shanklin" and The Day National Health Care Died.
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RUSH: My friends, who knew -- who knew! -- that there were so many racist, redneck, bitter clingers in Massachusetts? Even in Hyannis Port! Well Obama, when he was at that fundraiser in San Francisco, was talking about the bitter clingers and when things weren't going well they picked up their guns and went to church and so forth. He was talking about people that didn't agree with him. Who knew there were so many racist, redneck, bitter clingers in Massachusetts! I mean, I'm just throwing their reasoning back on them.
I have here a letter. It's an op-ed, maybe, from Andy Stern who is the president of the Service Employees International Union and you know where this op-ed is published? It's in the People's World magazine. It's the Communist Party USA's magazine, and it carries a theme that I have seen throughout State-Controlled Media and some Democrats today. "'Massachusetts Voters' Message to Washington: It's Time for Action -- Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern released the following statement after Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts. 'Today is no different than yesterday or the day before or the day before that. Pat DeJong will still wake up in Libby, Montana.
"Pat is still mourning the loss of her husband and the selling of his family's ranch because of his medical bills. And, Pat will still go to the bed side of her patients each day, providing excellent care, still lacking coverage of her own,' said SEIU President Andy Stern. 'Pat's reality is the reality millions of working people face every day. ... The reason Ted Kennedy's seat is no longer controlled by a Democrat is clear: Washington's inability to deliver the change voters demanded in November 2008. Make no mistake, political paralysis resulted in electoral failure,' Stern said." What he's saying is -- and I hope they believe this; I really hope they believe it and I hope they keep saying it (and we must encourage them to) -- that the reason this happened is because they have not passed health care. They really believe it!
These people are delusional, but let them keep thinking it. They really believe this. This was a repudiation of the attempt to nationalize one-sixth of the economy. This is a repudiation of a president who has destroyed the private sector on purpose. This is a repudiation of a president -- who, by the way, has just announced yesterday that he's going to appoint a special commission to make it easier for Congress to raise taxes. He is going to appoint a commission to make it easier for Congress to raise taxes. (interruption) You don't believe me on that, Snerdley? He also has announced today his intent to nationalize the student loan program, which he has already done. They own the student loan program. We had that story for you back in December. But on the day after this shellacking... He said he was gonna double down. He said that he was going to get serious, fight back twice as hard. So he is announcing the nationalization of student loan program.
By the way, Brian McGrory, Boston Globe, who thinks that he got date raped? Put some ice on it, Brian. Just put some ice on it. That's Bill Clinton's way of dealing with it. (Clinton impression) "Hey, just put some ice on that, Brian, and, uh, go away."
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RUSH: Let us remember, ladies and gentlemen, success has a thousand fathers. Failure is an orphan. Scott Brown deserves all the credit in the world for turning Washington upside down. But we must also recognize the contributions of the following people. David "Rodham" Gergen for asking the question that inspired Senator Brown to respond, "It isn't the Kennedy seat. It's the people's seat." Thank you, Mr. Rodham Gergen. We must also thank President Obama who came to town for Coakley and added to the energy of the pro-Brown supporters. Thank you for that trip, Mr. President. And, of course, we have to thank Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry without whose bad ideas and bad leadership and even worse tactics this would not have been such a triumph. And, of course, my friends, we must also thank the State-Controlled Media, who did everything in their power to push Obamacare, Obama cap and trade, Obama banks, Obama automobiles, Obama takeover of everything. I could go on forever in thanking so many people on the left for contributing mightily to the result in Massachusetts yesterday. But I can't, ladies and gentlemen. I must pause for an obscene profit break. We'll be back.
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, we have exclusive tape. Our microphones and our wiretaps are everywhere. We have the phone call between President Obama and Martha Coakley.
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From the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites, my friends, it's Paolo Conte, EIB Network.
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RUSH: Happy Feet. Happy Feet. Love it. Paolo Conte, from the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites. Did you hear all those voice mail messages to Coakley's phone? Obama telling her to take a blue pill and never call him again? Senator Kennedy calling from the grave saying he's still rolling over? Whoa ho-ho. I guess I'm admitting that we wiretap phones. We'll wait for a call from the Fibbies.
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RUSH: Okay, let's compare Brown's days in office before 2012 elections to Obama's. From January 3rd, 2005 when Obama became a senator to Wednesday, November 4th, 2008 when he was elected president: 1,401 days (or three years, ten months, and a day). From January 19th, yesterday when Brown was elected, to November 6th of 2012, Election Day: 1,022 days (or two years, nine months, and 18 days). So Brown will have 400 fewer days under his belt than Obama did. However! However, let us never forget that Obama was on the campaign trail for many of those days.
He actually worked 150 days in the Senate, combined. Most of those days were prior to the announcing of his campaign. But then, after that, was mostly on the campaign trial, went back to solve a financial crisis with McCain a couple times. He'd go back for a couple of votes, go back to listen to a State of the Union speech, but 150 days is what Obama was elect president on, that kind of experience in the Senate.
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RUSH: Public Policy Polling's Tom Jensen: "Here are my biggest takeaways from tonight's results: This was a repudiation of Barack Obama. Certainly Martha Coakley was a bad candidate and ran a terrible campaign but that doesn't change the fact that we found Obama's approval rating at only 44% with the electorate for today's contest [in Massachusetts], a huge drop from the 62% of the vote he won in the state in 2008.
"Brown won over 20% of the vote from people who cast ballots for Obama in 2008, and we found that most of those Brown/Obama voters were folks who no longer approve of the job the President is doing." Can you say Reagan Democrats? "And in one of the bluest states in the country barely 40% of voters expressed support for the Democratic health care bill." Only 40%, and yet there's Andy Stern out there saying that this happened because nobody got the health care bill passed. Nancy Pelosi is saying the same thing.
Oh, by the way, did you see...? I was channel surfing around last night. What a metaphor! I have never enjoyed watching meltdowns like I saw last night on CNN and PMSNBC. Did you see...? Did you see John Kerry on CNN hobble up to the stage on crutches? What a metaphorical heaven it was! What an idiot! John, just stay off the stage! I mean, the whole party's been crippled! The whole party's on crutches! Massachusetts voters just cut the legs out from under the Democrat 60-seat majority, which could cripple Obamacare and cap and tax, and Kerry gave us that image. Oh, man. I was digging it, folks. I was digging it up. One year ago -- one year ago -- we were told that Republicans had become a regional party with no chance of winning in the Northeast. We were told (sadly by some alleged conservatives) that it was time to get over Reagan, that the era of Reagan was over. We were told Republicans were doomed to wander in the wilderness for a generation, that we were a white regional party.
But then came Virginia, and then came New Jersey, and then came Copenhagen where we got booted out of the Olympics on the first vote, and then came ClimateGate. We had all those e-mails showing the whole man-made climate debate is a hoax. Then we had Virginia and Washington, and then of course we had New Jersey and Massachusetts. The people of Massachusetts have been liberated. It's been almost 60 years but the so-called Kennedy seat has been returned to the people. In New York, recent polling puts former two-term Republican governor George Pataki 13 points ahead of Hillary's replacement, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. And, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, I think that it is time for Mrs. Clinton to start gearing up for a run for the White House in 2012. I firmly believe that she is. I think the Clintons are waiting out there.
They are watching this. They are watching a lackadaisical failure response to the earthquake in Haiti. They are watching this election result. They've been loyal. They've been spouting the Obama talking points all over the place. Hillary has dutifully gone wherever she's been told to go by Obama. Now we had a referendum on Obama; his approval numbers are plunging. No issue he supports enjoys majority support of the American people. Mrs. Clinton, start gearing up for 2012. Her loss was narrow! Operation Chaos (orchestrated by me and executed by many of you) kept her in that race longer than she otherwise would have been. But Obama has failed miserably in record time. And my gal Hillary, who so many of you voted for in the Democrat primary, could be well poised to springboard back into the race in 2012.
I hope she's pondering it. Nobody could have ever expected (except me) this big and this fast a failure on the part of the president of the United States. But I have no doubts because I know, and knew, that his policies were going to take us right where we are. So make no mistake about it: Even without my urging, Hillary Clinton is salivating and Bill Clinton is salivating because (Bill Clinton impression) "A few years ago, that guy would've been getting us coffee. In a couple more years, that guy can get us coffee. Maybe three." In California, Land of a Thousand Liberals, another liberal icon, Barbara "Call Me Senator" Boxer is polling under 50%. She's leading Republican challengers by only three or four points in a state where Republicans haven't won a Senate seat in 42 years. In Nevada, Democrat majority leader Dingy Harry Reid is in deep doo-doo.
In Arkansas, Blanche Lincoln has her hips... Well, she's got her boots on up to her hips. Seven-term Arkansas Democrat congressman Vic Snyder announced he's not seeking reelection. That's number five! The myth that conservatives cannot win in blue states is exploded by this year's elections in New Jersey and now Massachusetts. Liberals can be beaten in their own backyards. We have been aided and assisted by the liberals being arrogant and conceited and showing us who they really are out in the open by virtue of their policies and their arrogant, condescending attitudes. And when people see it they don't want any part of it. Properly articulated, issue-oriented conservatism will beat liberalism every time it's tried in whatever part of the country. This has now been established with what happened. Reagan also carried Massachusetts in a 49-state landslide. The myth that conservatives can't win, the myth that conservatives have to "cross the aisle," the myth that conservatives have to change who they are to adopt and attract moderates -- all of that that we were told by the alleged intelligentsia on our side, in our media, in our party -- has been blown to smithereens. Those of us who are conservatives from morning to night -- 24/7, 365 -- are the ones who are vindicated here. Liberals can be beaten. This is the time. This is the year. No more excuses.
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RUSH: To the audio sound bites we go. State-Controlled Media advising the White House, "Tell the Democrats to pass health care or they'll lose." This is the mantra of the day. "Look, you're gonna get hammered anyway, you may as well pass this thing." That's the message coming out of the White House. Democrat pundits are all advising their pal Rahm Emanuel to tell Democrats they'll lose if they don't pass it.
BEGALA: Democrats had better decide whether they're more likely to lose their seat, will they lose their job if they don't pass health insurance reform or are they more likely to lose their job if they do?
MATTHEWS: If you don't do this, you will lose. He's gotta threaten them with that.
MADDOW: Health care must be passed. Unless the Democrats want to commit suicide, they're going to have to pass something.
DEAN: We gotta be tougher. Democrats haven't been tough enough.
TODD: Failure would make it even worse in November.
MADDOW: This is the time to hit the gas if you don't want to be thought of as failures.
WILLIAMS: This is Vegas, baby, double down. They're going to go for this nuclear option. They're going to say, "This is it. We're doing everything." And you bet they are going to the wire, baby.
RUSH: That's last night when the emotions were fresh and raw after the shock and awe and the surprise of Scott Brown's victory. These pundits are literally advising them to just take a full-fledged dive off the cliff. When you got Jim Webb and Claire McCaskill and Barney Frank and Bill Delahunt, "We need to stop what we're doing right now," but they're just urging them, urging them to just go commit suicide. And of course we hope that they do. Anthony Weiner in New York last night, CNN, he's not buying it. He doesn't like this. Here's what he said.
WEINER: They're talking as if like what our deal and what our negotiations are at the White House. Yeah, if then the last line is pigs fly out of my ass or something like that. (laughter) You know, I mean it's just -- it's just we've gotta recognize we're in an entirely different scenario. When you have large numbers of citizens in the United States of America who believe this is going in the wrong direction, there's a limit to which you can keep saying that, "Okay, they just don't get it. If we just pass a bill, they'll get it." No. I mean, I think that -- that we should maybe internalize it that we're not doing things entirely correctly.
RUSH: So he's not buying what the pundits are saying. He says, "Yeah, this is going to help us like pigs flying out of my ass." He actually said that on CNN. And Lawrence O'Donnell last night on PMSNBC was asked this question: "How is this going to end? How is it going to end?"
O'DONNELL: Every scenario people come up with, I can sit here and tell you why it won't work. But I don't know, maybe this is the time they land the plane on the Hudson. I just have never seen anyone -- any process that could get beyond what's happening tonight. Losing that 60th vote, as far as every maneuver I know, loses you the bill.
RUSH: Loses you the bill. I guarantee you, it's easy for these pundits to tell these elected Democrats, "Hey, yeah, you better pass it, you better pass it, you're in deep trouble if you don't." But the people whose jobs require being elected are looking at this in an entirely different way, folks. They're looking at maybe if we don't sign this we're safer. If the American people don't want it and you pass it anyway, where does that leave you with the American people? Hmm?
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to know what the conventional wisdom is in Washington, DC, you listen to one guy. There is one go-to guy for the conventional wisdom, if you want to know what everybody is really thinking in Washington, whether they're saying it or not, you go to David "Rodham" Gergen. He is the personification of Washington conventional wisdom. And last night on CNN's coverage of the Massachusetts massacre, Wolf Blitzer spoke with David "Rodham" Gergen. And Wolf Blitzer said, "We've talked before about how it's taken them so long, the Democrats, without any Republicans to try to get some health care reform passed. The longer and longer it went on, the more difficult it would become."
GERGEN: We're probably seeing the obituary written tonight for universal access on health care, and it's been a dream of Democrats now for, you know, 70-plus years. This vote is going to be a vote heard around the world because it's going to have enormous implications. I think health care is very unlikely to pass in its current form. Cap and trade on energy and environment, I think that now has -- it's extremely difficult to get that done in this Congress. Immigration reform I think is probably dead this year. Regulatory reform is going to be very watered down.
RUSH: Folks, he just said that the entire Obama agenda -- well, not the entire Obama agenda, he's going to nationalize banks, he has nationalized Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, he's nationalized car companies. And he's nationalized the school loan program. If you want a student loan you gotta go to the government to get it now, where there's no competition, by the way, for interest rates. Ahem. But David "Rodham" Gergen in crisis. I mean these are the four biggies. Health care reform, done. Immigration reform, done. Cap and trade, done. Regulatory reform, done. That's David "Rodham" Gergen.
Here's Vic in Binghamton, New York. Nice to have you on the program. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Hello, sir. Very much of a pleasure to finally get through and talk to you, a longtime listener. Mega dittos. I'm glad you're doing real well.
RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.
CALLER: I'm calling to I guess join in the passion on the theme for today which is after watching the victory speech last night, hesitantly turning to MSNBC to watch -- I'm still astonished by the spin. I know you've touched on it today but it's just absolutely astonishing to me. I can't figure out if these folks are just plain in denial or if there's a deeper, more heinous deal in the works. I mean it's unbelievable, they couldn't even admit to the very platform he ran on. The folks in America, you know, myself --
RUSH: Let me jump in and help out. You are trying to accomplish the impossible. You are applying rational thought to entirely irrational behavior and thought. There's no way you're going to understand this. There's no way a reasonable person will understand anything on MSNBC.
CALLER: I can appreciate that. I mean basically --
RUSH: It's fun to try to analyze it. It's fun to try to figure it out. It's fun to come up with all the possibilities but you'll never know for sure unless you join the ranks of the irrational.
CALLER: Which I'm not going to do.
RUSH: Good. Because it will all make sense to you if you do that. Do you think doctors understand insane people or are they just trying to treat them?
CALLER: Just trying to treat them.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: I have a little bit of an understanding but, yeah, I understand.
RUSH: Yeah. Anybody insane been cured?
CALLER: (laughing) I don't believe so.
RUSH: Doesn't happen. (laughing) So I mean it's an exercise in futility if you're trying to be serious about it. Make it an entertainment project, tune in to laugh. If you're going to tune in and watch this stuff and get all hot and bothered and lathered up, big mistake.
CALLER: Well, I appreciate that. But it still astonishes me. I mean the folks who voted for the current administration and then they see the folks turn on them like you've talked so diligently about, "We're going to reach across the aisle and have this on C-SPAN and have everyone involved," and then they go lock themselves in the back room like cockroaches in the dark, it's been just pathetic and I think folks like myself are just furious about this.
RUSH: Well, one thing you've gotta understand. I can help out a little here. If you're gonna watch these people at MSNBC, and to a slightly, ever so slightly lesser extent at CNN, particularly on their analyst stuff, you've gotta understand one thing. They are more oriented, they're more animated, they are more focused on defeating and criticizing, impugning conservatives than they are advancing their own agenda. They really are. They will pass a rotten piece of legislation just to keep us from stopping it more than they think it's good. That's why you're hearing all these pundits say, "You gotta pass the bill!" What's unsaid is, "We can't let them win. You gotta pass this bill. It's going to be worse for you if you don't. You gotta pass this bill!" What that means is, "We can't let the Republicans, we can't let the conservatives win! Not when we have these majorities." That's what animates them. Look we're a bigger enemy to these people than Al-Qaeda.
CALLER: But yet they turn on Republicans and say we don't have, you know, free market solutions for some of the same problems, which are presented all the time on this program and Hannity. It's unbelievable to me.
RUSH: Well, look at Chile. Have you seen what's happened in Chile? They have had a huge turn to the right. We may all be moving there someday, folks, instead of New Zealand. I'll find the story here in the stack. This is from the Investor's Business Daily: "Chile's Shift To Right Is A Bellwether -- There's nothing like success to breed a taste for it. Chile's dramatic shift from left to right in Sunday's election is that of an already prospering country preparing to soar. Word of this will spread far in the region. ... Instead of blaming the gringos and waging class warfare in Che T-shirts, they balanced their budget and respected private property. Instead of squandering a $19 billion state windfall from soaring copper prices, they managed it. They continued Pinochet's free-market privatization of pensions without reflexively opposing its origins, and signed free trade pacts with any nation that asked. Result: poverty cut by two thirds from 45% to 15%, and per capita income up from $1,400 in 1986 to $15,000 in 2009. This built a tax base for Concertacion to do what it valued: expand social services." So I mean Chile is rebounding, and they are doing so by moving right. The evidence is all over the place, including in this country. They don't want see it because they want the power of statism. They want the power of control over people's lives. Believe me they're not interested in a roaring economy. If they were they wouldn't be doing what they're doing to the slush funds. It's just simple.
CALLER: Yeah, it's amazing. Hey, can I add one more quick point?
RUSH: Of course. Absolutely.
CALLER: Actually, I just wanted to say as an individual, first Republican, legitimate, that has inspired me. I mean this gentleman is the first one that has ran that was not ashamed, he was unapologetic about his belief system. I mean most of the folks we've had in our leadership position have either, as you've mentioned many times, tried to kind of walk the middle line or reach across the aisle or what have you. This man finally, he came out and said, yes, I support, you know --
RUSH: Exactly right. He was not afraid to say what he believed and he learned how to articulate it in a persuasive, confident way. He wasn't worried about what the people in the salons of Georgetown and on the Upper West Side would think of him. He wasn't worried what they would think of him in the Back Bay. He just, "Here's who I am," with no embarrassment or self-consciousness about it at all. There are so many lessons to learn here, so many lessons, lessons that are taught daily on this program. Thank for the call out there. I appreciate it, Vic.
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OBAMA: Here's my assessment of not just the mood in Massachusetts, but the mood around the country. The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry and they're frustrated, not just because of what's happened in the last year or two years, but what's happened over the last eight years.
RUSH: Is he delusional? Does he really believe this? He can't possibly believe this. To not know that the anger is solely directed at him and his party... He thinks the anger that they drummed up against George W. Bush is the same anger that elected Scott Brown? If he believes this, folks, his ego is more out of control than even I (and I know egos) had imagined. If he really believes this and is not delusional -- if he thinks the same anger at George W. Bush is the anger that existed in Massachusetts -- that's just... MSNBC, get a show ready for this guy. MSNBC proves what happens when you deinstitutionalize the mentally disturbed. And then, from the same interview, Stephanopoulos says, "What happens now...?" and brace yourselves for this. "What happens now with health care, Mr. President?"
OBAMA: Here's one thing I know. Uhhh, and I just want to make sure that this is off the table. The Senate c-certainly shouldn't try to jam anything through until Scott Brown is seated. The people in Massachusetts spoke. Uh, he's gotta be part of that process.
RUSH: Wait a second. That doesn't go with what you just said about all the anger out there that elected Scott Brown. I mean, because when you were elected, the anger was they wanted health care, damn it! They wanted it, they wanted it, they wanted it! Because they thought it was going to be cheap and plentiful and everybody was going to have it and now they realize that's not what it's going to be. Why, there are stories in the paper this morning -- I read one of the headlines to you -- Obama to double down. We gotta get this done! And now he says it's off the table? The Senate certainly shouldn't try to jam anything through until he's seated? Now, I need to say something about this, something that is actually remarkable. It finally hit me. This given assumption, the absolute certitude with which the 41st vote for the Republican gravely damages the Democrats and halts health care.
Do you realize how universal and automatic that is? We are just being told that it's automatic. "Okay, that's the end of health care. We got 41 votes," but that 41st vote would only matter if it was understood -- if it was known -- that the rest of the Republicans are reliably, categorically together in saying that we need to stop it. Amazingly enough, we need to give the Senate Republicans credit. They have held. This election would mean nothing if Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins were behaving as usual. This election wouldn't mean diddly-squat. He might not have even won it if the Senate Republicans had not held together on this. This is crucial. Because for hanging tough, hanging together, that 41st vote mattered. That's only the foundation upon which the Scott Brown vote in the Senate has any meaning, by the way, folks, is that all 40 Republicans are hanging tough. Everybody knows... (ahem) I say this somewhat sarcastically. Everybody knows that the Senate Republicans are a formidable bloc. I mean, we had defections in the Senate Republican membership all the time. McCain. (impression) "That's right, Limbaugh! Stepping across the aisle. I show how it's done." But they're all holding firm, every one of them, and that makes the 41st vote the tipping point. So if Obama is out there saying, "Hey, it's off the table"... By the way, don't think they haven't been trying to get Snowe. Reid gave a really snarky comment about her the other day. He said (paraphrased), "I knew I wasted my time with her back in the fall." So they're holding together. If they didn't and if they weren't, this vote and the Scott Brown election wouldn't mean anything. If just one of them had defected. Think about that.
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RUSH: I was watching CNN and MSNBC last night and when Brown was going on and on with his speech, they cut out of it, they went to Haiti, they gave up. CNN gave up even before Brown spoke. They cut out of election coverage and headed straight to Haiti. Oh, it was funny. It was hilarious.
Now, I think the defining issue in the Democrat Party right now is busing. Stick with me on this, folks. The defining issue, yes, is busing. Here we are in the morning after. The Democrats are already splitting the not-liberal moderate Democrats. There really are no moderate Democrats anymore, let's get that out of the way. Here's the split. It's between the Harry Reids who would throw swing state members under the bus in order to pass health care and people like Jim Webb who would throw leadership and health care under the bus to save their own seats. So it's about busing. It's about who's going to get thrown off the bus. Jim Webb is trying to throw the leadership off the bus and Harry Reid is trying to throw these other guys off the bus, so busing has come back to rear its ugly head and poison the Democrat process. We of good cheer, ladies and gentlemen, should offer our friends on the other side of the aisle some good advice today: don't change a thing, not one thing. You keep doing what you are doing, Senator Reid and Madam Pelosi, follow the lead of the president of the United States, support the strategery of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. That's what the unions want you to do. We urge you to do the same thing.
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RUSH: Jim Webb: "In many ways the campaign in Massachusetts became a referendum not only on health care reform but also on the openness and integrity of our government process. It is vital that we restore the respect of the American people in our system of government and in our leaders. To that end, I believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated."
God Lord, my friends, from a Democrat, "A referendum not only on health care reform," which means health care reform was rejected, "but also on the openness and integrity of our government progress." From a Democrat! That means Obama's government has been neither open, transparent, nor has it acted with integrity. Jim Webb did a hard pivot. President Obama has just been thrown under the Jim Webb bus. The message for the Democrats today is busing. Everybody is throwing everybody else off the bus, or trying to. As I said in the first hour I really believe, ladies and gentlemen, that a lot of Democrats in the Senate had been scared to death this was going to happen, they were afraid to buck Dingy Harry, they were afraid to vote "no" on this, for whatever reason they got bought off or whatever, I tell you, I really believe if they had that vote today, at least five Democrats would vote "no." Lincoln, Landrieu, Nelson, Webb -- regardless, there are some people doing huge sighs of relief that this has happened, Democrats, I'm telling you. The pressure was brought to bear, "We've got to do this for Obama." And now they're realizing Obama doesn't care about their futures.
After Webb breathed his sigh of relief and blasted Obama, Barney Frank's also out trying to play the role of the reasonable man. It's too late for Barney. We know where they stand and it is not with us. Here is what Barney Frank said: "I have two reactions to the election in Massachusetts. One, I am disappointed. Two, I feel strongly that the Democratic majority in Congress must respect the process and make no effort to bypass the electoral results. If Martha Coakley had won, I believe we could have worked out a reasonable compromise between the House and Senate health care bills. But since Scott Brown has won and the Republicans now have 41 votes in the Senate, that approach is no longer appropriate. I am hopeful that some Republican Senators will be willing to discuss a revised version of health care reform because I do not think that the country would be well-served by the health care status quo. But our respect for democratic procedures must rule out any effort to pass a health care bill as if the Massachusetts election had not happened. Going forward, I hope there will be a serious effort to change the Senate rule which means that 59 votes are not enough to pass major legislation, but those are the rules by which the health care bill was considered, and it would be wrong to change them in the middle of the process."
It's tempting to give Barney the benefit of the doubt here but I think this is a wheelbarrow full of manure. As much as Jim Webb's smack down of the president was spot on, these cowards didn't say any of this last week. Where was all this statesmanship last week? Frank was beating up the Washington Times last week for talking about how there would be delays in seating Brown. Where was all this statesmanship last week? Where was all this concern for the democrat process all of last year? Where is the concern for it this year? All of a sudden now, in the aftermath of a shellacking defeat, there's this concern for the democrat process? They waited to say the right thing when their own careers are threatened? And after last night, every Democrat seat is in play. This is what they know. After last night, every Democrat seat is in play. These people are using Coakley's loss as an excuse to walk back off the plank. Barney's district did go for Scott Brown. Ted Kennedy's hometown, Hyannis, Cape Cod, went for Brown. Barney Frank's district went for Scott Brown. There is not a single Democrat seat that's safe. That's what they know.
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RUSH: It's Claire McCaskill. She's the fifth senator that would vote "no" if the health care legislation was up for a vote in the Senate today. She "has joined Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) in warning leaders not to try to push a revised health care reform bill through the Senate before newly elected Republican Scott Brown arrives. McCaskill said Wednesday morning that the agenda is 'going too far, too fast' and that it would be a 'huge mistake' for Democrats to force a vote on a new bill in the Senate before the new senator from Massachusetts" gets there. As I said, they want this "no" vote. They want the "no" vote! McCaskill, Webb, even Barney Frank. No doubt Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson. They want this "no" vote. They want it. "'As I said to somebody last night, everybody needs to get the Washington wax out of their ears and listen and pay attention that people out there believe that we are going too far, too fast,' McCaskill told POLITICO. ...
"'You take the big things we had to do, as related to the economy, and you combine that with the frustration of the American people and a big health care bill that frankly, because it was big and complicated, it lent itself to this almost virulent misinformation that got out there,' McCaskill said." We just barely get any information. What do you mean? We know what's in it: The whole thing is a public option. Make no mistake. There's one element of this: They've got a public option. By the way, folks, do not discount how ticked off people are about closing Gitmo and this Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial. Make no mistake that's part of the rage and anger.
We'll go to the phones. Dave, we'll start with you in Springfield, Massachusetts. It's nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hi. Mega dittos, Rush. I've been a lifelong Democrat until this year, and I became a Republican.
RUSH: Welcome home, sir.
CALLER: Well, between you and Fox News, I was saved. But basically the reason I did turn Republican was because of cap and trade and the health care bill. And we have much more work to do here, especially in Massachusetts.
RUSH: Such as? What kind of work? Not that I disagree with you, but what kind of work?
CALLER: We have a congressman here in Springfield that needs to be replaced. He's a progressive, and every time you call his office with concerns, you never get any response.
RUSH: Well, that could be all of them. When our talking about? Barney? Who?
CALLER: Richie Neal.
RUSH: Richie Neal, okay.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Because you could be talking any of them. All of them are progressive.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: There's not one moderate Democrat in Congress anywhere.
CALLER: And we have governor that has to go.
RUSH: Yeah. I guarantee you they're all quaking in their boots.
CALLER: And I just do not want the people to get fooled by what the Democrats are saying today.
RUSH: No. We're not going to let that happen.
CALLER: This is my hope.
RUSH: It's not going to happen. The intensity is not going to lessen. People realize this is step five. This is the fifth thing that's happened that's a total rebuke of Obama. Three of them elections, one the Olympics, and the global climate thing being proved as a hoax -- and they are going to continue. Wait 'til you see November of this year. I'm telling you if anybody wants to listen: The mood in the country is far, far more intense and anti-Democrat today than it was in even 1994 when the Republicans won the House. From the Politico today, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, "Dazed Democrats Rethink Entire Strategy." They've got segments here broken down by subheadlines. Really all you have to do is read the subheadlines they used here.
"Scott Brown has turned this town upside down. [N]one of that counters the stunning reality of an election where breathtaking results more than justify breathless analysis. Here's why: The lock is broken. There is no way for Democrats to spin an upside to losing their 60th vote in the Senate. The fear is unleashed. Any Democrat with even the faintest fear of a tough race in 2010 is rattled. It was easy for some to rationalize the defeats in New Jersey and Virginia last year -- and even the flood of polls showing bad news since then. They are in denial no more: If Democrats can lose in Massachusetts, they can lose anywhere." Every seat is vulnerable.
The next subhead: "The leaders are rattled. It has been an ugly 24 hours of blame-casting for Democrats. In fact, it's the first time in the Obama era that so many Democrats aired their private grievances in such a public way. The White House blamed Martha Coakley's campaign. Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to fault Senate Democrats. Senate Democrats, in turn, put the blame back on Coakley, who had campaign officials thrashing the White House and Senate leaders by mid-day Tuesday -- hours before the polls closed." It is a circular firing squad. "Chalk this up to frayed nerves. But the Democratic unity that brought health care to the brink of passage will be tested like never before in coming days." Next headline: "The angry independent wins. Ideologues and hard-core partisans dominate the leadership of both parties and the cable TV debates.
"But it's the independents who are the deciders in most elections. This voting bloc has swung decisively against Democrats..." Next headline: "Grand Old Possibility. Democrats are right that polls show the vast majority of the public holds Republicans in even lower esteem" than Democrats. "But that might not matter because they blew the last two elections -- and no longer own what Washington does." None of it can be tied to the Republicans. "House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and others are bragging that they have a real shot at winning back the House. They would need to net 40 seats to do so." The final subhead: "The Obama magic has vanished Think back a year ago and imagine someone saying Obama would throw his support behind Democrats in New Jersey, Virginia and Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts -- and lose all of them.
"Think back a year ago and imagine someone saying he would celebrate his first anniversary without having gotten health care, financial regulation or energy legislation signed into law. And that less than 50 percent of the public would hold a favorable view of his presidency." I'll raise my hand. Mr. VandeHei and Mr. Allen, it was I, El Rushbo, who foretold all of this as Rushtradamus. "This is not the way Obama — or many of the people watching him at his [immaculation] address a year ago — expected that he would mark his first anniversary." You remember July 17th, 2009? Also in The Politico: "I can almost guarantee you this thing won't pass before August," said Jim DeMint, Senator, South Carolina.
"If we can hold it back until we go home for a month's break in August members will hear from outraged constituents. Senators and congressmen will come back in September afraid to vote against the American people," DeMint predicted, adding, "This health care issue is D-Day for freedom in America," and DeMint famously said (and was raked across the coals for this) on July 17th, 2009: "If we are able to stop Obama on this, on health care, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." Mike Pence was also on the call, the Congressman from Indiana. He said, "The tide is turning," and so it has happened. It will be very interesting. Obama is nationalizing the student loan program; saying publically that he's gonna work even harder, double down now to get health care passed. But it is clear members of Congress, the House and Senate on the Democrat side, are frighten to go forward and pass the legislation.
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SHAYS: We have talk show hosts who have never won elections who define very narrowly who's a Republican. The bottom line of any national party is it has to give you the capability to represent your district. And if it doesn't allow to you represent your district you get defeated and that's what has happened all throughout the northeast and other parts of the country.
RUSH: What do you say about that today, Congressman Shays? A man ran for his state, a state bluer than yours, articulating conservative principles, substantively on the issues. And let's not forget, December 14th of 2008, CNN's Global Public Square with Fareed Zakaria, he interviewed former secretary of state Colin Powell. Zakaria says, "What do you think is going to happen to the Republican Party? Do you think it's moving in the right direction?"
POWELL: I was impressed by an article that Mort Kondracke wrote recently that said, can we continue to listen to Rush Limbaugh? Is this really the kind of party that we want to be when these kinds of spokespersons seem to appeal to our lesser instincts rather than our better instincts. Palin to some extent pushed the party more to the right, and I think she had something of a polarizing effect when she talked about small town values are good. Well, most of us don't live in small towns and I was raised in the South Bronx and there's nothing wrong with my value system from the Bronx. It was that attempt on the part of the party to use polarization for political advantage that I think backfired. And I think the party has to take a hard look at itself.
RUSH: Where's Colin Powell today? Scott Brown's from a small town, Wrentham, Massachusetts. Sarah Palin's from a small town, arguably the two most popular people in the Republican Party today. I'm from a small town. Obviously the most popular conservative media figure today. Colin Powell is not from a small town, and where's he today? Not that small towns are anything special and unique, but they are put down by the elites as we just heard here. (imitating Powell) "Can we continue to listen to Rush Lim[bow], is this really the kind of party we want to be when these kind of spokespersons appeal to our lesser instincts." General Powell, I would suggest that the speech given last night in acceptance by Scott Brown sounded much more like me than like you. And here's Chuck Hagel, November 18th, 2008, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
HAGEL: Every country out there has their no-nothing party and of course we're much educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh and others. The American people don't like what's going on. They want us to start doing what leaders are expected to do: address the problems, find some consensus to govern, get along. There will be differences, there should be. But in the end we can't continue to hold ourselves captive to this raw partisan political paralysis.
RUSH: Three sound bites, three people who could not be more wrong. Hagel and Shays are out of the party, and you'd have to say General Powell is, too, because he only speaks positively of Obama and endorsed him and voted for him. Of course we're much educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh. I love these sound bites. I just love these. Now, we can get our party back, folks. We must. And Scott Brown has shown us the way, given us that chance. We need to not get distracted by people saying that this was simply an anti-Washington result. Do not fall for that, I beg you. This was not an anti-Washington vote. This was voting for somebody to go to Washington to fix it and to stop Washington dead in its tracks. The Republicans are not responsible for what's happening in Washington. They don't have the votes to stop anything. Everything that's advancing is advancing because of Democrat votes.
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CALLER: It's a great honor and privilege to speak with you, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I'm really upset at the lack of coverage by the Drive-By Media on this election here in Massachusetts. Can you imagine if this was a long-held Republican seat? These Drive-Bys, I'm telling you, they'd have had every talking head on every morning show they could dig up. They would have been saying, "This is a repudiation of the Republicans and their beliefs, their values and their agendas."
RUSH: Oh, yeah.
CALLER: And, you know, you're going to start seeing these Democrats now up for election in 2010 flee from Obama like rats from a sinking ship. This guy is the kiss of death. I truly believe what happened yesterday in Massachusetts, Rush, this is a tsunami, and it's heading fast and furious to the rest of the Democratic Party all across this country.
RUSH: Amen. And most of them know it.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Most of them know it. But boy, you are so right. They'd be wall-to-wall! If this were a Republican seat in Orange County that had been held for 40 years and went down the tubes, that's all we'd be hearing. Let's go to Today show today, audio sound bite six and seven. Meredith Vieira got the first shot at Scott Brown. I think she whiffed the question. "On a personal note you said last night the first call you made after your victory was to Ted Kennedy's widow Vicki. How comfortable was that for both of you, knowing that you're going to do whatever you can to derail what Ted Kennedy caused 'the cause of his lifetime' which was health care reform?"
BROWN: First of all, you're misrepresenting. I never said I was going to do everything I can to stop health care. I believe that everybody should have health care. It's just a question of how we do it. Do we do a one-size-fits-all plan or do we have the states actually get more involved and do what we did. The call to Ms. Kennedy was very nice. I felt it was important to call her because I've known Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy for a while. I've worked with them for many, many years and he was, as you know, a living legend and had a great sense of humor -- and I enjoyed that especially about him as well as the constituent services that they do in Washington.
RUSH: All right. That's their B-roll in the background of Ted Kennedy. That's not double-talk here on our part. But the lesson here is: Don't accept the premise. Do not accept the premise. Very quickly, next question: "Bigger picture here: Some have said this is a referendum on the president. Do you agree with that?"
BROWN: No, it's bigger than that. I really is. For us in our area, we have three speakers that were indicted, three senators that resigned in disgrace. We have out-of-control taxation and spending in Massachusetts. You couple that with what's being proposed nationally, people are angry. They're tired of the backroom deals. They want transparency, they want good government, they want fairness, and they want people to start working and solving their problems.
RUSH: "It's bigger than Obama." Back after this.
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RUSH: Folks, there's another way to look at what happened yesterday in Massachusetts, including Hyannis Port. I mean, I don't know how else to describe this. I don't know how else to characterize this. It just seems to me that all those good people in Massachusetts want Obama to fail, even the people in Hyannis Port. Doesn't it seem that way to you? The people of Massachusetts, by a vast majority, want Obama to fail.
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BUFFETT: No, I don't understand that. I mean it's some kind of a guilt tax or something of that sort because banks were among the whole United States that was saved back in 2008. The government's made a lot of money off Wells, they made a lot of money off Goldman, they made a lot of money off J.P. Morgan. And where they're going to lose money -- well, at least where it's possible to lose money is in the auto companies. So if you're really looking for the people that benefited from government losses, you'd have to look there. Or if you look at Fannie and Freddie, I mean, you know, are you going to go and tax the members of Congress who ran Freddie and Fannie?
RUSH: Whoa! What a 180. This is a guy who was in the back pocket of Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm, and now Warren Buffett is dumping all over the bank tax. He still doesn't understand, "Is it some kind of a guilt tax?" No, it's populism. He thinks everybody hates the banks, he's trying to get people on his side by thinking they have the same enemy. After saying we had to save them, Mr. Buffett, we had to make 'em profitable, now he's going after their profit. So Joe Kernen said to Buffett, "Well, that's exactly what I said, you can almost tax any company in business that wasn't going to be able to float any commercial paper, you could tax them too. Warren, don't give them any ideas because that will be next."
BUFFETT: What was done in the fall of 2008 was designed to save the American economy. It wasn't designed to save the banks, it wasn't designed to save me, it was designed to save 309 million Americans, and a good job was done. They've paid it back with huge interest. The government's made a lot of money on that. And to say that they should be paying for the fact that the government lost a lot -- or may lose a lot of money on Freddie and Fannie and perhaps with the auto companies, it just doesn't make any sense to me. I just think a tax that's enacted with the idea that it will -- the headlines will be appealing and that, you know, a certain amount of vengeance will be achieved, I don't think that's the greatest form of tax policy.
RUSH: Warren Buffett no longer in Obama's back pocket, folks.
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BROWN: A great disappointment to a lot of people. The hype on Obama was entirely unrealistic. I mean in some ways people projected onto Obama a kind of messianic, he's gonna come in and change the world, it was almost New Age. And, as a matter of fact, I mean when Obama was running, I never did drink that Kool-Aid. I always saw him as somebody who was somewhat professorial, you know, somewhat inexperienced but with an amazing oratorical gift and an ability to mobilize the moment. He was only in the Senate a couple years, he has not really had a huge amount of experience at that and I think that some of that is showing now.
RUSH: Whoa. I don't remember her saying any of this. I thought she was in the tank on the messianic stuff. Yes, you heard me right. The host, Stephen Sackur, on the show called Hard Talk and Tina Brown on there. (imitating Brown) "Yes, he's been a great disappointment to a lot of people. The hype was entirely unrealistic." Oh, really? All these people are jumping ship now. All these people are heading for the tall grass. "I never did drink the Kool-Aid. I always saw him as somebody who was somewhat professorial, somewhat inexperienced." Really? And you still endorsed him and you couldn't wait for him to win? I don't believe this. There wasn't one person on the Democrat side who was not saying, "We've never seen anything like this before, we never had a candidate like this before, why, this is going to be postracial, postpartisan, oh, this is wonderful, we're going to get rid of every sin and we're going to assuage all our --" I don't remember anybody on the Democrat side saying, "Wait a minute, he's not a messiah, wait a minute, he's not experienced, wait a minute, he's professorial, wait --" I don't remember any of that. 'Cause if it had happened, my friends, we would have trumpeted it all over the EIB Network, and it didn't happen.
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What was your best part of Rush’s show today?
I’ve highlighted mine.
I enjoyed the parody of Coakley's voice mail.
Clinton thinks she needs to put on a few pounds.
I didn’t care for the “happy feet” music, I felt it went on too long.
What was your best part of Rush’s show today?
I enjoyed the parody of Coakley’s voice mail.
When I heard “this one is for you, Mary Jo” I got goosebumps. My wife said she wondered how many in Rush’s audience “got it”.
We remembered the classic Rush statement that Mary Jo was the most influential women in US politics circa 1990 or so.
So we pondered, what if Ted Kennedy became President in 1980? We may well have had government health care in say 1983. Merck Corporation would not have the incentive to develop statin drugs and I could well be dead. Or perhaps the government would have not allowed PSA blood tests and I may be dead.
This one women deserves the recognition. Thanks Rush.
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