{"id":13003,"date":"2013-03-08T17:34:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T17:34:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-08T17:34:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T17:34:41","slug":"rand_s_stand_shakes_up_washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/08\/rand_s_stand_shakes_up_washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand\u2019s Stand Shakes Up Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/48256\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:  It has.  I mean, no question about it.  There\u2019s no question this Rand Paul business has totally upset the power structure in Washington, the Senate particularly.  Low-information outreach working, successful.  We have audio sound bite proof coming up.  We are loaded today.  McCain has called senators Paul and Cruz &#8220;wacko birds.&#8221;  Senator McCain is calling them wacko birds because of the filibuster.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13015\">We got more on Rand Paul<\/a> and the sequester, and the filibuster. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><img xhtml:id=\"eZObject_73807\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/McCainWackoBirds.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">There is &#8212; I can\u2019t tell you because I would be betraying confidences &#8212; but I\u2019m telling you the power structure there has been totally turned upside down, in the Senate and in Washington.  Even members of the Drive-By Media are talking about how they sense something major has changed here.  All it really was, and the reason why it stands out, one guy stood up and dared challenge the regime.  When you boil it all down, that\u2019s what happened.  That\u2019s how absent that kind of behavior has been.  I mean, it\u2019s important it went for 13 hours, but still, somebody did it.  Somebody challenged the administration and they\u2019re alive today to talk about it, and they\u2019re heroes.  They\u2019re heroes. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">I\u2019ll tell you who else upset by this, and I\u2019ll explain this as the program unfolds.  The neocons are paranoid.  The neocones are paranoid because Rand Paul comes from his father\u2019s gene pool. This isolationist wing is worried about maybe there\u2019s something more going on here than simply opposing drone strikes.  There\u2019s all kinds of ramifications.  Well, they might think he\u2019s a kook, but they\u2019re worried that he\u2019s a kook that nobody thinks is a kook, and so they\u2019ll follow him.  He\u2019s a stealth kook. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">(interruption)<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">It\u2019s their thinking.  I don\u2019t think this.  I\u2019m answering questions from the eager beaver staff here, who love getting me in trouble, by the way.  It\u2019s entertaining for them.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: Ventura, California.  Dale, thank you so much for calling.  Great to have you on the program, sir.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER:  Hello, Rush.  I\u2019m calling about Lindsey Graham and John McCain.  I am really ticked off as a veteran the way John McCain and Lindsey Graham have basically sold out somebody that they should have supporting.  They went and had a nice party with Obama, then they come back down to the floor of the Senate and act like his attack dogs.  They may be calling it bipartisan, but in the old days &#8212; John McCain will be well aware of this term &#8212; it\u2019s called being a collaborator.  They need to quit straddling the fence, land on one side or the other, \u2019cause the people are sick and tired of it.  You know, it\u2019s getting to be too much.  They are not working for us.  They really need to go back to the floor of the Senate, maybe make a public apology to Rand Paul. They need to make an apology to Marco Rubio, to Cruz, and I can\u2019t remember the name of the Democrat that also came out and supported, \u2019cause this is just back-stabbing gone way beyond the pale.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13019\"><img xhtml:id=\"eZObject_73817\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/MccainPaulCruzRubio.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:  You are more right than you know.  And you\u2019re pretty right.  And you know you\u2019re pretty right.  This incident, the Rand Paul filibuster, has turned things upside down in Washington.  And McCain\u2019s behavior is Exhibit A in this.  What happened?  McCain and a bunch of other Republicans decide to go to dinner with Obama on Tuesday night.  Now, I don\u2019t pretend to know why the Republicans did it, but I know why Obama did it.  He wanted the photo-op and he wants to make it look like he\u2019s cooperating, because the people are not buying this sequester argument of his.  It\u2019s not working.  The country coming to an end, all falling apart, and Republicans being blamed for it isn\u2019t working.  There\u2019s a big, huge backlash, in fact, going on. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">For example, the CDC has confirmed that the White House has been caught in a lie about child vaccinations in the sequester.  &#8220;Congressman Andy Harris, M.D., R-Md., confronted Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), about misleading statements made by the White House.  The confrontation occurred during an oversight hearing for the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">So what\u2019s happening here is that McCain and others are complaining that Rand Paul is out abusing Senate rules and is appealing to extreme, kooky Libertarians in their college dorms, while everybody else sees an assault on freedom and liberty and the economy and everything else taking place, and they see the Republicans sitting at the same table of the guy who\u2019s doing it.  Who are they siding with?  And this has got the old bulls upset.  So they go out and they dine with the architect of this disaster, who is intentionally inflicting pain on the American people via his sequester.  That\u2019s the point of it. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13274\"><img xhtml:id=\"eZObject_73819\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaLyingtoAmericaWheresObama.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">They go out and dine with this guy, who still will not tell them what he was doing when <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13274\">Americans were dying in Benghazi<\/a>, for example.  But he wants the photo-op, and they of course, listening to the Republicans, listening to their consultants, think that they\u2019re making great gains by appearing bipartisan here, which is not what the people that vote for them want. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">There has been such an upside down turning of the power structure.  Our office is getting phone calls begging us not to lump certain Republicans in with the ones we\u2019re criticizing.  &#8220;Hey, don\u2019t talk about me.  I wasn\u2019t at that dinner.  Don\u2019t talk about me.  I came out and I stood up with Rand Paul.&#8221;  There has been a major, major shift here.  There\u2019s more to it than you can see inside the power structure in Washington, inside the Republican Party.  And for McCain now to come call these guys kooks and wackos illustrates exactly what\u2019s wrong. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">But here\u2019s the substance of this.  There is a fear among McCain, Lindsey Graham, and others who favor an interventionist foreign policy.  Think of the neocons. Think of going into Iraq and not just securing Iraq, but building a democracy. Nation building, if you will.  Think of the outbreak of the Arab Spring and the people on our side who thought, &#8220;Wow, this is wonderful. This is the outbreak of American democracy,&#8221; when it wasn\u2019t.  It was the exact opposite.  Rand Paul, they\u2019re asking themselves, is he his father\u2019s son or is he on his own here?  They\u2019re worried that he\u2019s his father\u2019s son.  They\u2019re worried that Rand Paul is an isolationist.  They\u2019re worried that Rand Paul\u2019s diatribe on drones really means that Rand Paul wants to bring the military home and not use it unless we\u2019re attacked.  He doesn\u2019t like it being used in an intervention.  This is what they fear.  And as he succeeds in making a connection with the American people, they are worried, the neocons are worried that they are being undermined by this.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">I\u2019ll tell you why.  Rand Paul made a connection with the American people.  These other people do not.  He made a connection.  Therefore, he has the ability to influence and motivate people.  I\u2019m telling you what their fears are.  They thought that Ron Paul was absolute nutcase, wacko. That\u2019s why they\u2019re calling Rand Paul a wacko, \u2019cause that\u2019s what they thought of Ron Paul.  Libertarian, fruitcake, nutcase, isolationist, shut down the US military, speak positively about Islamists, all this kind of stuff.  They are afraid that\u2019s who Rand Paul is, and they\u2019re afraid that what Rand Paul was doing with this filibuster was not just speaking out against the use of drones on American citizens on American soil.  They\u2019re afraid that Rand Paul is actually setting the stage for building up public support to stop the interventionist usage of American military might and foreign policy all over the world.  It\u2019s a fear that they\u2019ve got. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13015\"><img xhtml:id=\"eZObject_73821\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RandPaulMcCain.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">And there\u2019s more to it than that, too.  It\u2019s also the whole notion of jealousy in power politics.  Let me put it this way.  They, I think, are worried that Rand Paul might be skillful enough to move the Republican mainstream away from the McCain, Kristol, neoconservatism view of the world and toward a position that is not as extreme as his father\u2019s, but is suspicious of interventionism, suspicious of Islamic democracy building, suspicious of financial and military support for dubious regimes. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">So there\u2019s all kinds of stuff happening with this filibuster.  In addition to the optics, in addition to what was on the surface for everybody to see, the reason McCain is calling Rand Paul and the people that stood up with him wackos is because he thinks that they are extreme kook Libertarians who don\u2019t want the US military going anywhere for anything, any time, anywhere, not even to oppose the Islamists, and so there\u2019s this fear about it, but he made that connection with people.  That\u2019s what that whole thing was all about.  He\u2019s now a national figure.  He wasn\u2019t wild-eyed and screaming and pounding. He was very rational and very reasonable. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">He was asking a very simple, easily explained and understood question.  It was as simple as the whole House Bank Scandal was.  The reason that the House Bank Scandal worked so well, the exposing of it, was because these guys in Congress were able to walk into a bank, in the House of Representatives, and cash a check when they didn\u2019t have any money in their account.  You can\u2019t get more simpler than that, and there\u2019s nobody else outside the House of Representatives that can do that.  If you write a check for money you don\u2019t have, it bounces, you pay a fee or worse.  But these guys were walking into the House bank and writing checks and having the money given or paid with no limit. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Some of these people had hundreds of thousands of dollars in checks they had written for which they didn\u2019t have the money. The House Post Office was another. Honest-to-goodness, a congressman could take a donor\u2019s check to the House Post Office and buy a couple bucks\u2019 worth of stamps and get $9,900 in change. It\u2019s just the way they had it set up. Nobody knew and it finally got exposed. This is one of the many reasons the Republicans won the House in 1994.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">It\u2019s one of the many reasons that the then-speaker, Fort Worthless Jim Wright, was gone. The House Bank Scandal was late eighties\/early nineties, and it built and built. There were other reasons for the Republican victory in \u201994, of course, but this thing was at the beginning of people easily understanding corruption. This was what Rand Paul was doing: &#8220;Should a drone be able to kill an American sitting at a cafe, Starbucks, surfing the Internet?&#8221; No! It\u2019s very simple. No! But he couldn\u2019t get an answer.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">So it was easily understood. It was a very simple question he was posing, and all this was going on while our guys are out dining with Obama, dining with the architect of this current nationwide mess. Rand Paul was standing up opposing this while these guys were out yukking it up with the architect of it all. You know it was a great example of the ruling class and the country class, and the ruling class not liking what this country class senator was doing. It\u2019s no more complicated than that, but a lot of people are ticked off about this, too. I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><img xhtml:id=\"eZObject_73833\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/randpaul2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: I think another reason why McCain and the boys are so upset at Rand Paul is&#8230; You gotta remember now. Here they are out at dinner at a public restaurant, not in the White House residence. They\u2019re in a public restaurant at dinner with the president, with Obama. Obama takes a 20-vehicle motorcade to get there. So this is something they wanted everybody to notice. It\u2019s on the verge of the sequester and it\u2019s all downhill, and bipartisanship is what all these people &#8212; all these Republicans &#8212; think everybody wants.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Amazingly, they still think that.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">So I want you to imagine the scene. That was their big night! The guys at dinner with Obama, that was their big night. The next day there\u2019d be pictures, news stories, accounts on cable news of Republicans dining with Obama. It\u2019s a big, big bipartisan evening. It\u2019s major progress! They\u2019re gonna finally everything working together, getting things done. Now, imagine you\u2019re sitting at dinner. You\u2019re at that table wherever they were, and you\u2019ve got your iPhone. You\u2019re a Republican senator or whoever else was there.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">You\u2019re a Republican. You\u2019ve got your iPad Mini, maybe, or your iPhone, your smartphone, and all of a sudden they start going nuts and you pull out your iPad or you pull out your phone and you look at it, and you see Rand Paul has the nation captivated back in the Senate chamber with a filibuster &#8212; while you\u2019re sitting there with Obama and nobody\u2019s noticing. You look this, and you start beating your head against the table, \u2019cause Rand Paul\u2019s getting everything that you intended to gain from that dinner.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">And he\u2019s a freshman.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">And he\u2019s a wacko!<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">&#8220;Rand Paul\u2019s his dad. He\u2019s an absolute nutcase Libertarian, and he\u2019s talking about drones? Nobody wants to drop a drone on the American people. What the hell is this?&#8221; But he has the nation captivated. It\u2019s caused a real reversal. Not a reversal, but the whole structure of things has now been upset, and it\u2019s got a lot of people concerned, and it has legs. It does have legs. So I think it\u2019s fascinating to behold, and once again it illustrates that these guys going to dinner with Obama, they were not challenging him.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">They were not. People think this country is falling apart. People think that this country\u2019s on its last legs as they know it, as it was founded. People in this country are really scared. There is a despondency among the population, a majority of the population. This isn\u2019t just politics-as-usual. As far as the population the country\u2019s concerned, the opposition party still doesn\u2019t get it to the point that they\u2019re not even the opposition party!<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Well, Rand Paul appeared to be the opposition, and he had the guts and the courage to stand up and demand that they explain something to him. And not only is he alive to tell about it, he\u2019s not being called names. He\u2019s a hero to people. So they\u2019re sitting there and they can\u2019t figure it out. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: Brian Williams led the NBC Nightly News last night with the same juxtaposition that I led the show with yesterday.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><img xhtml:id=\"eZObject_73834\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushGOPDems.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">WILLIAMS:  The American people get to decide for themselves about what it is we have just witnessed.  It seemed to a lot of people to be an example of our political great divide, but within the same party, the so-called old guard Republicans and the new.  The event that gathered the most media coverage by far was a made-for-TV filibuster by Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.  It was over the issue of drones and presidential power.  And at the same time, across town, actual presidential power was being put to work at a restaurant with another group of Republicans and the president.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:  Now, this was all at the beginning of a report about how, you know, something\u2019s changed in Washington.  This wasn\u2019t supposed to happen.  They were all geared up, I\u2019m telling you, the Drive-Byers were all geared up to report this dinner with these Republicans and with Obama, and this was gonna signify a new era of bipartisanship and agreement and government growth and, oh, it was gonna be a panacea.  Rand Paul went and screwed it up.  Now these guys are trying to understand what it all means.  Next Brian Williams went and got F. Chuck Todd who is their political director, White House correspondent, whatever, and F. Chuck had a report here on this thing that happened, this change.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">TODD:  There\u2019s something about Washington that seems different.  Suddenly it\u2019s a place where Republicans meet with a Democratic president for dinner.  Suddenly it\u2019s a place where a Senator who has an objection channels his inner Mr. Smith from the old Jimmy Stewart movie and actually goes to the floor of the US Senate to filibuster rather than hide behind some sort of congressional mumbo jumbo.  Is this a brief respite or is something happening here?<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:  And they are terribly worried that there\u2019s something happening there and that they are being left out of it.  The power supposedly was at that dinner table.  But it wasn\u2019t.  It was on the floor of the Senate. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Now, listen to this.  Gayle King, CBS morning, speaking with Bob Schieffer.  This is Friday.  She brings Schieffer in to talk about his Sunday show, Slay the Nation.  And Gayle King said to Bob Schieffer, &#8220;Hey, Bob, let\u2019s talk about the dinner that President Obama had.  Some people &#8211;&#8221; See, I\u2019m sure they had this set up last week, this segment set up last week to talk to Schieffer no matter what happens. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:  Okay, so Gayle King to Bob Schieffer (paraphrasing), &#8220;Let\u2019s talk about that dinner, Bob.  President Obama and the other Republicans, some people say that good bonding can come with good conversation and good food.  Bob, it was so exciting, good conversation, good food, bonding, Republicans, Democrats.  Do you think that the Obama dinner was effective, Bob?&#8221;<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">SCHIEFFER:  It was big news yesterday when he invited Chris Van Hollen of his own party to come to the White House and have lunch.  So I think it\u2019s all good.  You know, I\u2019m suddenly creating a reputation for myself as a hopeless romantic here, but I kind of feel like these are good things when you judge where you are. You know the old saying, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.  So here we are actually seeing people, quote, talk to one another.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:  Man, it\u2019s romantic, oh, my God, it hearkens back to the old days when the Republicans knew their place.  Does he think he\u2019s Dan Rather?  In the land of the blind, a one-eyed man is king?  Whose one-eyed in there?  Who only had one eye at that dinner?  Who\u2019s the cyclops? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It has. I mean, no question about it. There\u2019s no question this Rand Paul business has totally upset the power structure in Washington, the Senate particularly. Low-information outreach working, successful. We have audio sound bite proof coming up. 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