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RUSH: Open Line Friday to Seattle we go. Peter, thank you for calling, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great to be with you, Rush. Happy birthday to the Surgeon General of Democracy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They don\u2019t hate you \u2019cause you\u2019re on the right; they hate you because you\u2019re correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Effective, yeah. That\u2019s sadly the case. Every time you see me ripped to shreds in the media, folks, understand I\u2019ve just been effective, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m being ripped<\/a>. Or anybody else on the right. Same theory applies.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. Couldn\u2019t agree more. But I just had to put a call in and thank the voters of California for passing Proposition 30, the soak-the-rich tax amendment and helping move the Sacramento Kings to Seattle. It looks like they\u2019re going to be making 13% more on their $60 million payroll, and that would more than cover their losses last year.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Wait, is this a done deal?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it\u2019s not a done deal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because there are local groups in Sacramento that want to buy that team, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They can get it for cheaper than what the Seattle group can. The Seattle group\u2019s gonna have to pay, what, $125 million more than a local group would have to pay simply for relocation fees, actual moving expenses, a number of other things. Of course, the owners of the team, the Maloofs, are aloof. Nobody knows what they\u2019re gonna do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They change their minds on a dime. I guess for you guys Prop 30 is a factor, there\u2019s no question. But it also depends on how active the local Sacramento groups, how desirous they are keeping a team there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Very true. But I think the main thing is you talk about the moderate Republicans are going to soon be talking about guns as an issue that they need to compromise on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s already happened. Some Republican from Georgia — I\u2019m having a mental block on his name. I don\u2019t know. I shouldn\u2019t say a name because I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t remember. But some moderate Republican from Georgia has already made my prediction come true yesterday, that we need to “get serious” about gun control.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think the thing they could say any time they want to say something like is say, “They\u2019ve tried it already in California.” California right now has an assault weapon ban. They have a ban on ten-round magazines.<\/p>\n

RUSH: With all due respect, I\u2019ve been doing this 25 years. One thing I\u2019ve learned that does not win these arguments or debates with people is logic. Facts and logic don\u2019t win. Real world examples are irrelevant. Because we\u2019re dealing here with pure, unadulterated emotion. On the Republican side: Fear. The Republicans who gonna buckle on this are the same moderate Republicans…<\/p>\n

They\u2019re largely from the Northeast, but not all, but they are largely moderate Republicans, they\u2019re the same Republicans who think that abortion is killing the party, that immigration stance is killing the party, that pro-lifers are killing the party. Now they\u2019re gonna think that this gun business is killing the party.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re gonna have to moderate on this. We gotta distance ourselves from the NRA because the NRA is a bunch of wild-eyed freaks and kooks and hayseeds.” I made this prediction. Actually a lot of people think this is gonna be the case. Some Republican in Georgia, I think, already crossed the line. I wish I could remember who it was. Maybe I can find it during the break. But pointing out how this doesn\u2019t work is not gonna matter a hill of beans, because it\u2019s not about policy that works.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right here it is, folks. It was Phil Gingrey, the Republican from Marietta, Georgia. He was speaking at the Smyrna area council of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce breakfast. It took place yesterday at the Smyrna Community Center. Phil Gingrey, said, “There are some problems, and maybe these huge magazines even for someone who says, ‘Look, I just use an AR-15 for target practice.\u2019 But do you really need to be standing there shooting at a silhouette a shot a second or even quicker with that kind of weapon? For what purpose?” Gingrey asked. “I would be willing to listen to the possibility of the capacity of a magazine.” Meaning being limited.<\/p>\n

It was only yesterday. I did not know he said this at breakfast, so he had already said this by the time we offered the postulation yesterday afternoon, but I didn\u2019t know that. I\u2019d heard rumblings. Erick Erickson at Red State sent a note, said, “You mark my words, the Republicans are gonna start fading on this just like they have on abortion and immigration.” And, by the way, just for what it\u2019s worth, Gingrey, after saying he\u2019s open to discussion on the limits of the capacity of a magazine, went on to say that Todd Akin was partly right on what he said about rape. He\u2019ll be forgiven for that since he had the right position on magazine capacity. If Gingrey had just gone out and said, you know, Todd Akin is partly right, today he would have been taken out. But since he got it right as far as the media and the left is concerned on magazine capacity, he\u2019s reported objectively and fairly, ostensibly, in the various places he\u2019s been reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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