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RUSH: Let\u2019s talk a little bit about the Democrats for a moment here. I know that some of you, this dispirits. This just depresses you. Ah, it just takes the wind out of your sails, and you go back to \u201972 and Watergate. No matter what was going on the Republicans lost because nobody was going to vote for a Republican after Watergate because so horrible and so forth. How can we escape that this time? Well, you\u2019re talking to Mr. Optimism here, and I still fall back on the notion here that the Democrats don\u2019t offer anything that\u2019s relevant so the American people today. If you are a typical, mainstream Democrat you still see this country as in the post-Great Depression era. You still see this country as a bunch of soup lines. Yeah, Hurricane Katrina! As I told the people at my stellar Broadway show<\/a> the other night, Hurricane Katrina brought back to life the Great Depression for them. Iraq brings back Vietnam. This brings back the CIA business, brings back Watergate. But where are the American people? The American people, for the longest time — if you look at the number of people who are invested in the stock market, it\u2019s called “the ownership society”? The American people don\u2019t look at their country that way. Now, if the Democrats — and, folks, we also don\u2019t know the endgame of any of this. I just want to address some of you who are feeling pessimistic about it, because I know you have to be out there — and it\u2019s possible to win elections if your opponents get so demoralized they don\u2019t show up and vote, and if the Republicans or conservatives get so demoralized after all this, ‘To heck with it; I don\u2019t want to pay any attention to this stuff anymore! All I do is get disappointed,” and, yeah, they could win. <\/line> But if I\u2019m right about the conservative base, all this stuff is going to do nothing more than energize them. Tom DeLay, this phony indictment, this investigation of where it\u2019s going, the mainstream press, the New York Times, all of them are just being so eager for Bush\u2019s downfall. You know, it\u2019s easy to make comparisons to Nixon, but Bush is a far more loved figure than Nixon was even in the Republican Party — and I\u2019m telling you, of the number of Americans who vote, the percentage of them that hold the same view of this country as the Democrats do is a minority. Most people in this country don\u2019t look at life in America as the Great Depression today; they don\u2019t look at it needing the old New Deal coalitions of expanding government programs to protect us and to keep us safe. In fact, a growing number of people are concerned about how big the government is getting, and that\u2019s one of the reasons that there\u2019s so much angst at a Republican president now — and then you add to it this business on the war. I keep trying to tell people, and it doesn\u2019t… It\u2019s easy to forget this because there are other things that are more easily at the forefront of one\u2019s mind like the CIA business and Tom DeLay, but, “Two dozen anti-war protesters camped outside the Los Angeles mansion of…” What was the date of this? Is this old news? This Newsday story, is that from today? Well, there\u2019s no date on this but I thought I had this story last week. <\/line>Anyway, it\u2019s still good. “Two dozen anti-war protesters camped outside the Los Angeles mansion of Friends producer Marta Kaufman on October the 8th hoping to catch Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as she…” Yeah, this is an old story, but there were 30 protesters out there protesting Hillary Clinton for her stand on the war, and you\u2019ve got Cindy Sheehan ginning herself back up. The Democratic Party base, if this CIA investigation… Let\u2019s put it this way: If this CIA investigation doesn\u2019t get us out of Iraq, then they\u2019re still going to demand the Democrats and their candidate do it, and for all this talk about what\u2019s happening with conservatives and Republicans do not make the mistake of assuming that the Democrats are unified. They are unified behind their hatred of Bush, and they\u2019re unified, but that\u2019s always been the case, and look where that\u2019s gotten them! Which is my point. But when it comes to policy, I mean, they\u2019ve got some huge problems, particularly when you start running a national campaign — and I will tell you this: I don\u2019t care what happens in this investigation. This is 2005, and if the 2008 presidential race is about this, people are going to have been tired of it and want to move on and don\u2019t want to relive this kind of stuff, and if they continue looking in the past, if they condition looking backward <\/emphasize>to find a way to go forward, they\u2019re going to have more trouble than they can possibly imagine, folks. So don\u2019t through in the towel on any of this stuff. This is by no means <\/emphasize>an indicator of where we\u2019re headed in the future. It\u2019s easy to fall prey to the press momentum on these indictments; it\u2019s easy to fall prey to all of the rest of it that follows from that. I\u2019m telling you don\u2019t do that because we see how quickly things change and how fast reversals seem to take place, and it\u2019s just too premature to start going, “Ah, hell, I\u2019m out of this. I\u2019ve had it.” <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Susan in Fredericksburg, Virginia, welcome to the program.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, Rush, on the subject of the war I just want to say I\u2019m the wife of a United States Marine<\/a> and everyone kind of forgets that there\u2019s still a war that\u2019s going on.<\/line>RUSH: No, we haven\u2019t. No, we haven\u2019t! In fact the media is out there eagerly counting the 2,000 deaths, Susan. Nobody\u2019s forgotten at this.<\/line>CALLER: Well, at the risk of sounding redundant, my husband is so <\/emphasize>proud to serve under President Bush, and I can\u2019t think of one of our friends or his colleagues that is not. So I just had to say that.<\/line>RUSH: I appreciate it. I understand. But don\u2019t think people have forgotten about Iraq. That\u2019s what the CIA business is aaall <\/emphasize>about.<\/line> CALLER: What I don\u2019t understand — and I really do not understand this but I guess I do. Sandy Berger<\/a> was at the National Archives, and he was caught red-handed with classified <\/emphasize>documents that would directly relate to terror threats in the United States.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah, but he “forgot” that he did that. <\/line>CALLER: Well, let\u2019s see —<\/line>RUSH: He forgot <\/emphasize>he stuffed those documents into his socks.<\/line>CALLER: Well, let\u2019s see. The first thing he said that it was a lie, which was an honest mistake, then they caught him was under his sock, in his jacket. What happened to him? Nothing. He\u2019s on probation, a $50,000 fine?<\/line>RUSH: Yeah, yeah, that\u2019s pretty big for a guy on a government salary. (laughing)<\/line>CALLER: We\u2019re talking directly could impact lives and the war on terror and the 9\/11 Commission, so, anyway…<\/line>RUSH: Okay. Now, let me take you seriously here. I\u2019m working on very little sleep and a lot of spent energy last night, so I\u2019m getting giddy, and I don\u2019t mean to sound disrespectful to you at all. Please, please forgive me if it sounded that way. Why do you think…? Why do you think…? I mean, here we\u2019ve got Sandy Burglar dead to rights. We\u2019ve got the justice department that\u2019s run by the Bush administration. They choose all the prosecutors and the lawyers, the US attorneys and so forth. Why do you think this is?<\/line>CALLER: Well, I think there\u2019s an obvious, blatant hypocrisy in the media, and they don\u2019t want to fry him. They believe that his intentions were good.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: No, but this is not the media. The justice department could have nailed <\/emphasize>Sandy Burglar to the wall. They don\u2019t do it. The justice department could have made this guy pay a huge price for this. There could have been a damn well big investigation and try to find out what the hell was going on. This is all about 9\/11, doctored evidence. What\u2019s…? The 9\/11 Commission report? We know about Able Danger. Who\u2019s trying to shut this down? What is it about this that they don\u2019t want us to know? Here\u2019s Burglar, and now you\u2019ve got this Barrett report, and apparently — I was just talking about the independent counsel\u2019s investigation of ten years into Henry Cisneros, and apparently — it\u2019s got data in it about IRS abuse during the Clinton years, and the Democrats are trying to suppress that. Charles Grassley is trying to get that report in his hands. But again (sigh) Republicans are just different about the justice system than the Democrats are. Republicans don\u2019t have doubts about their ability to win at the ballot box. You\u2019ve got Burglar here, and they\u2019d rather spend their time going after Martha Stewart.<\/line>CALLER: Well, I just think Republicans have their eye on a bigger prize, and they\u2019re not going to be distracted by gnats like Sandy Berger, and I also… I mean, I know I\u2019m biased but I just think there\u2019s just more honor. You know, they want to honor the office of the national security advisor. As much as we don\u2019t like Bill Clinton, he still was president of the United States, and we have respect for that office.<\/line> RUSH: I think there\u2019s something to that. I do think that there is this desire. “Okay, look, previous administrations. I\u2019m not going to be the guy that goes out and tries to put in jail the previous holders of this office and their associates. I\u2019m just not.” I think you\u2019ve hit the nail on the head. Democrats don\u2019t give a hell\u2019s half acre about that. Whatever it takes them to put their hands back on the government, they\u2019ll do. If it means putting me, DeLay, Bush, Rove, Libby, whoever they can in jail, they\u2019ll do it. They don\u2019t care it\u2019s the only way they can. It doesn\u2019t matter. If they could put you <\/emphasize>in jail for a reason they\u2019d find a way. If they could put your husband in jail they\u2019d find a way to put him in jail. But the Republicans, they\u2019re not cut from the same cloth. There is not this same philosophy <\/emphasize>about waging the battle — and leave it to the experts to explain why. I can only speculate, but I appreciate the call, Susan, and God bless you and your husband, and thank you so much for sharing the truth about him and his love for country with us. Here\u2019s David in Omaha. You\u2019re next, on the cell phone. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/line>CALLER: Thanks, Rush, and God bless you and the work that you do for our nation.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, I\u2019m wondering when — and I believe it will happen that Mr. DeLay will be exonerated and totally set free; I\u2019m wondering when — Ronnie Earle and people like him are going to be, you know, made accountable for their actions.<\/line>RUSH: All right, let me ask you a simple question. When is the last — who <\/emphasize>is the last — prosecutor in this country you can remember being hit up for misconduct, sanctioned, penalized, called on the carpet? Can you name one for me?<\/line>CALLER: No.<\/line>RUSH: Nor can I.<\/line>CALLER: But there has to be a first.<\/emphasize><\/line>RUSH: These guys are elected. Now, Ronnie Earle is elected, and whatever retribution he gets will come at the ballot box. But in terms of… About the only way that this can happen, I think, is for complaints to go to like the Texas Bar Association — and that\u2019s just a bunch of lawyers, and they\u2019re not going to do anything to Ronnie Earle. I\u2019m telling you, you\u2019ve got overzealous prosecutors. You\u2019ve got political prosecutors now. Some of them are out of control. They get obsessed with the power that they\u2019ve got. Who knows what messages they get from higher-ups to carry out their orders or objections. But there\u2019s really nothing anybody can do. You have to try to beat them in court, and it all goes back to what I keep saying: “A prosecutor makes a charge; everybody believes it.” It\u2019s not a political bias; it\u2019s just human nature. We have this thing, and the reason it\u2019s in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, “innocent \u2019til proven guilty,” is because everybody thinks that the minute you\u2019re accused, you are guilty.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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