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RUSH: I thought maybe today, folks, I would use my opening monologue to explain why I\u2019m going to postpone my opening monologue and turn the contents over to the Russians, so they can take my monologue and give it to people who might want to do things with it. But then I decided why should I go moderate like that? I\u2019m not gonna postpone my monologue. So here we are. <\/p>\n

Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network. It\u2019s already… This is Wednesday, right? This is unbelievable. Yeah, because Snerdley stayed in bed the past couple days. So it\u2019s Wednesday. Well, that\u2019s what he does on his days off. No, actually Snerdley was in Washington yesterday. He told me he had a great time in Washington last night. Snerdley\u2019s back. Thanks to H.R. for doing a magnificent job of call screening. <\/p>\n

You know, Snerdley, you shoulda seen this. <\/p>\n

There were times I had two calls on hold yesterday! Some days, I don\u2019t. I actually had two calls to choose from, something you could learn from. I\u2019m sorry, folks, it\u2019s just a little inside baseball here, because you know, the staff and me, we love each other. Actually, in their minds, I\u2019m one of the staff. So when I talk about the “highly overrated staff,” they always think I\u2019m talking about myself, too. It\u2019s what allows me to get away with it. <\/p>\n

What an historic speech last night! It\u2019s probably the first time in history that a US president gave a speech about not doing something, unless you want to count all of Obama\u2019s speeches about how he\u2019s gonna fix the economy. ‘Cause those have been speeches about how he\u2019s not gonna do anything, either. Do you realize what a laughingstock we are? I mean, I\u2019ve tried to convey this the past couple days. I\u2019m at a loss. I really am, folks.<\/line><\/p>\n

You know me and words, but I\u2019m at a loss to explain this. I mean, even the Drive-Bys saw it. This had to be so tough. AP, they fact checked this thing, dismal<\/a>. The foreign press, of course, never holds anything back, and they\u2019re right on the money, but even some of the domestic Drive-Bys are trying to… You know, their whole job is to position Obama in the best light possible, and they\u2019re really finding this difficult to do, because it is. We\u2019ve learned so much.<\/p>\n

For example, from John Kerry, we\u2019ve learned that size really does matter. After all these years — I\u2019m 62 years old — I finally now learn that size matters. The day before yesterday John Kerry said the attack on Syria would be “unbelievably small,” and you know why he said that? Because his whole party is opposed to it. The anti-war left. I don\u2019t know how they\u2019re shutting \u2019em up. Well, I do. This is the United States of Whatever Obama Wants. <\/p>\n

Not America. <\/p>\n

So to the Democrat Party and the anti-war left and the American left, it\u2019s all about, “How can we protect Obama?” Because the one thing they do really well is they circle the wagons. When any of them — Dan Rather, you name it, when any liberal — is engaged in activity that is highly embarrassing and is going to reflect poorly on the movement, they circle the wagons and they prop up that failure, and they elevate that failure. <\/p>\n

Sometimes they\u2019ll throw the failure overboard and then bring \u2019em back, but they will not allow their movement to take a hit. I don\u2019t know how they did it, but they muzzled the Congressional Black Caucasians. I mean, there\u2019s not a one of those people that wants to fire any weapons in the Middle East, for whatever reason. Nerve gas? Do you know what was the magic word last night? “Children.” “Children.” (interruption) What disappeared? (interruption) Iran disappeared? Yeah. Iran did. Yeah, it was strange.<\/p>\n

What do you call it when you float something out there? I guess that was a trial balloon. Iran was a trial balloon, and it didn\u2019t work, so they\u2019re back to “the children.” Obama was saying that and “pinprick.” Did you watch the speech? Did you? (interruption) He sat there, and because Kerry had said (as we learn that size matters) the day before yesterday that the attack on Syria would be “unbelievably small.<\/p>\n

That was to placate the anti-war left who didn\u2019t want any kind of attack. <\/p>\n

So Kerry said, “No, no, no! It\u2019s not gonna be any big deal. It\u2019s going to be very, very, unbelievably small,” and then last night Obama said the attack on Syria would not be “a pinprick,” and he was trying to sound really tough, and he said the United States military “doesn\u2019t do pinpricks.” What he tried to say was, when the US military hits you, you know it. It doesn\u2019t matter how about the attack. We don\u2019t do pinpricks.<\/p>\n

He was undercutting his own secretary of state, whose gaffe bailed him out of the mess and gave him a solution, which is a disaster, because you know what\u2019s happening to these chemical weapons? What are the odds…? Because this deal\u2019s falling apart. Putin and the Syrians say, “Wait a minute! We never agreed to going in there and counting these things and putting them somewhere around international guard. We just said that Bashar was gonna get rid of \u2019em. Where do you think these weapons are going?” <\/p>\n

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Look, I hate to be a cynic, but with these people it\u2019s practically impossible, and I would wager, seriously, that whatever chemical weapons that Bashar Assad might have are now on their way to Hezbollah. They\u2019re just being moved off site, but to a Syrian ally. We have no way of finding out where they go. We\u2019ve got no way of knowing. We haven\u2019t got any confirmation of the “contents,” if you will, of Bashar\u2019s arsenal. <\/p>\n

These guys just don\u2019t give away their weapons. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ll say they\u2019re gonna give away their weapons, but these are bad people. <\/p>\n

These are liars. Bashar\u2019s got allies. He\u2019ll send \u2019em down to Hezbollah. The Russians might even provide the transportation. Meanwhile, we\u2019re all here happy as clams, giving ourselves pats on the back, giving speeches about what we\u2019re not going to do — and that even if we did it, it wouldn\u2019t be a pinprick. I just sit here and I literally don\u2019t have the words to describe the various ways in which this regime is being perceived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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