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RUSH: So I see that James Risen\u2019s book, the publication date is moved up to today. Ha! Fashion that. He\u2019s on the Today Show — exclusively, of course — talking about some things that he finds very troubling about the spy scandal. While we were out, the justice department announced an investigation to find out who\u2019s leaking all this, and that really is what\u2019s important about this. It\u2019s still much ado about nothing. There\u2019s a great Victor Davis Hanson<\/a> piece that ran on December 29th in National Review Online, and it dovetails so nicely, ladies and gentlemen, with one of my ongoing theories. One of my ongoing theories, let me just spell it out here for you, is that we have such a cushy life compared to our ancestors. We have so much prosperity, we\u2019ve got so much time on our hands that we are free to invent our own psychoses, our own traumas, our own disorders, because there\u2019s nothing out there that\u2019s really that stressful unless we make it so. <\/line> Now, I know everything is relative and I\u2019m not saying there\u2019s not stress in life, but compared to our forefathers and our ancestors we don\u2019t really know what it is. You take the baby boomer generation, which is, I think, the prime culprit in thinking everything revolves around them — and I am one, by the way, but I of course am immune because I am far more mature than the average spoiled brat baby boomer because I had to mature early for a whole host of reasons. But anyway, bottom line is we really have a lot of time. We have a lot of free time. We have a lot of prosperity; and as such, we all get a little bit reluctant here to admit how good we have it and how well off we are. There always have to be problems out there. When I was out — I played golf starting Tuesday, because I haven\u2019t played golf since the week before Thanksgiving, and I\u2019m not scheduling myself this way next year. <\/line> I mean, I moved down here to Florida to be here this time of year. Every weekend I\u2019m off to some snowbound northern city either at a wedding or at a Christmas party or some such and I\u2019m not doing it again. Anyway, I made up for it, I played golf from Tuesday through yesterday, and I was out in Los Angeles — in fact, I got a big thrill. Monday night, last Monday night in New York, I was in the ABC broadcast booth for the last Monday Night Football game with the New England Patriots and the New Jersey Jets, Al Michaels and Madden, and it was a hoot. And then I (laughing) met some ESPN people in there. They didn\u2019t know I was going to be there. I met \u2019em down on the field and so forth. (Laughing.) I mean, management types. Oh, yeah, they were a little surprised. They were nice as hell, and I was just my usual, charming self. <\/line>I said, “Hey, tell everybody back in Bristol I said hi and I wish them the best.”<\/line>“Well, okay. Good to see you, Rush.”<\/line>“Yeah, it\u2019s great to be here with you, too.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway, I went out to LA and played golf a couple days, and after golf, you know, you always go to the clubhouse and repair there for a snack or something, and whenever I leave I always come back (interruption). What? (interruption) No! There\u2019s no business deals being made out there. What do you mean? There were no business deals. No. (interruption) Ah, that\u2019s not what goes on, not when I go to a country club. I don\u2019t make business deals. It\u2019s strictly golf. You go out there and you socialize with people. When I\u2019m around, the talk always turns to politics ? and look, I\u2019m leading up to something in a very circuitous way, and I\u2019ve mentioned this a couple times before, but generally when I go away I always get a question that seems to be thematic of the time, wherever it is, and there was a theme this week. Whenever I talk to people, and some of these people were acquaintances and not good friends or on the way to becoming good friends, and some of them were liberal.<\/line>But the theme of the question was: “Rush, why does Bush not respond to all these things that are being said?” Even though he\u2019s starting to do so now. “Why doesn\u2019t he respond?” And I give them the answer that I have given you, and I think — now, this is going to dovetail into this great piece by Victor Davis Hanson<\/a> and the whole point that I want to make here about how fortunate we are in this country and sometimes don\u2019t have the sense to know it. I said to them, “Can you conceive…?” All these people, by the way, are daily immersed in media as consumers. They\u2019re not in the media business. They\u2019re immersed in it as consumers, as many of you are, and when you\u2019re immersed in the media on a daily basis as a consumer, that becomes your world. What they report, what they say is going on, that becomes your world. That becomes what they see.<\/line>I constantly get e-mails from people, “Are you going to get even with the New York Times?” And I don\u2019t read the New York Times. I read the New York Times only when there\u2019s something in there that somebody tells me after the fact that I should read like this NSA story. I don\u2019t read it. The New York Times does not affect my day, but it does a lot of people, or whatever network news they watch. They can\u2019t understand how Bush is not affected by it. They don\u2019t understand how President Bush can get away without reacting to all this, and so I say to them, “You know, try to understand this. Try to understand a man, anybody, president of the United States or anybody else in the country who has a job to do and goes about that job with just that as his focus. He\u2019s not worried about what is said about what he\u2019s doing; he doesn\u2019t consider his job to be responding to the daily agenda or talking points set by whoever in the media. He has a job to do.”<\/line>This results in Newsweek writing this story that they also wrote back in the early eighties about Reagan, about being detached, being in a bubble, not being really aware. He\u2019s not bringing in us, not bringing in our liberal media friends, the Washington establishment, to have a chat, go back and forth to find out what\u2019s really going on out there. What\u2019s laughable about this is that George Bush knows more about what\u2019s going on in this country than the people in the inside-the-Beltway media culture do, and yet they\u2019re telling him he\u2019s in the bubble and out of touch. He just ignores them. Now, he doesn\u2019t think that it\u2019s necessary to respond to everything they say. Those of us immersed in media every day, if you don\u2019t watch it your world is shaped by that. That\u2019s what you think the world is, and you think everybody in the country is as immersed in it as you are, and so this NSA spy scandal, you think, has just captivated the minds of the American people, and the American people are demanding answers, and they\u2019re talking about impeaching Bush because that\u2019s what you hear the media talking about. <\/line>The fact is, if you look at a Rasmussen poll<\/a> on this, most of the American people get it! Even 51% of the Democrats interviewed by Rasmussen admit that they understand the necessity for taking steps to protect the homeland and the country during a time of war with an enemy such as Al-Qaeda. I\u2019ve got it here. Let me give you the details before we go to the break here. Now, remember, I\u2019m leading up to something with this, and this is not a story about how… I\u2019m not trying to tell you again over and over and over to ignore the press or to not worry about that, that\u2019s not the point here. The point is us. The point is the American people. This poll came out on Wednesday. What was that? December 30th, I guess. That\u2019s when I printed this. <\/line><\/p>\n

(story<\/a>) “A poll by the Rasmussen Reports illustrates the pervasive dishonesty of the American press in dealing with the New York Times story about the NSA\u2019s intercepts. The major dishonesties are demonstrated by the two questions asked in the Rasmussen poll just reported. First question and the responses. ‘Should the National Security Agency be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the US?\u2019 Yes 64%, no 23%. Second question in the responses: ‘Is President Bush the first president to authorize a program for intercepting telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?\u2019 Yes 26%, no 48%.” Now, also in this poll, you can find that the whole Democratic Party leadership is out there accusing Bush of impeachment-type crimes, but “a majority of Democrats approves the NSA program, 51%, even as it might be endangered thanks to the New York Times exposure of it, 51% of Democrats approve of the spying program.”<\/line>So, look, the point here is that I get these questions all over the place: “Why doesn\u2019t Bush do this?” Bush is doing his job and he\u2019s not immersed in this. Bush is a satisfied human being. He\u2019s been through the sewers of alcoholism, folks, and he\u2019s been through recovery, and George Bush, I\u2019m just going to lay it out for you, George Bush has placed his confidence in God. He\u2019s a man of faith, and that intimidates people, and I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s real simple. He is confident that the things he\u2019s going to do will work out. He\u2019s a confident guy. He\u2019s not upset by these people. He\u2019s not deterred. He\u2019s not depressed. He doesn\u2019t sit around and worry why people don\u2019t like him. He\u2019s above it. His job is far more important than responding to a daily agenda set by the media. Look at the latest press conference. They go up and ask him about their reporting! They didn\u2019t ask him about the economy, didn\u2019t ask him about any other news, only their reporting. They\u2019re the ones in the bubble. <\/line> I think as a result of this, a lot of us get drawn into this daily bubble and we get this impression that we have no leadership and that we have no responsive leadership in the White House, leadership of the party, the leadership of the country, and why isn\u2019t he responding to this? He\u2019s above it. He doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s necessary to doing his job. Now, we could have arguments about that, because you do need to keep the rank and file stoked, and everybody needs leadership. I mean, the country is not a bunch of self-starters out there when it comes to this. So when he does respond to it and he does take steps to dig them back, then everybody applauds and loves it, and I like it, too, don\u2019t misunderstand. But the whole notion that he\u2019s not doing his job or that he\u2019s out of touch? It\u2019s just the exact opposite. He is more focused than the average human being in doing what he\u2019s doing. May not always agree with what he does, but he\u2019s more focused on it than anybody would believe. All right, a quick time-out, and we\u2019ll dovetail into this Victor Davis Hanson column that sort of reflects one of my ongoing, never ending philosophies.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: All right, here. I just got an e-mail. I was just checking e-mail here. Actually, I was deleting a bunch of old e-mail, and I found something here that was sent this morning at 9:30. It\u2019s from… It doesn\u2019t matter who it\u2019s from. “Dear Rush: Below is a small section taken from the Washington Post.com newspaper located in Google…” This is about the miners in West Virginia. “The explosion took place Monday between six and 6:30 as two groups of miners in separate carts were entering the mine to resume operations after the holidays according to Laura Ramsburg, a spokesman for the West Virginia governor. Miners in the second cart who were not within sight of the first heard or felt an explosion ahead of them and swiftly retreated. Mine supervisors were alerted by phone at 6:40 a.m. and began evaluating carbon monoxide levels. Her question is: ‘I want to know if it\u2019s customary in the United States to go back to work six hours and 30 minutes after midnight on New Year\u2019s for people in the mining industry.'”<\/line><\/p>\n

Answer: Yes! And besides, this is not six hours after midnight. I came in yesterday. Yesterday was Monday, January 2nd, and that\u2019s when the miners went to work. The miners didn\u2019t go to work New Year\u2019s Day. They went to work January 2nd, on Monday. It was 18-and-a-half hours. Yes, the mining industry goes to work. What do you mean, “Is it customary?” The shifts start at six a.m. That\u2019s when they go to work. If you noticed the news, “There\u2019s got to be an easier way. There has to be an easier way! Why, we\u2019re the United States of America. Why, we can\u2019t keep subjecting people to this kind of risk! Who do we think we are?” This is what these people do. It\u2019s coal mining! If the environmentalists weren\u2019t around there would be a hell of a lot easier way to get it out of there, folks, but because of environmental regulations and there are some new safety regulations, too, this is what it is. Heck, I came in! Nobody sent me the memo that we weren\u2019t working yesterday. I got in here at the usual time and I didn\u2019t see Snerdley\u2019s car out there. <\/line>I said, “Uh-oh, maybe Snerdley didn\u2019t get the memo,” and so I came in, and I got this eerie feeling that I\u2019m the one that didn\u2019t get the memo. So I started e-mailing people, and I didn\u2019t get any response. So I called them in New York, nobody answered the phone. I got voice mail, and I said, “What dirty trick has been played on me?” Because I was here. I was all ready to go. I started doing show prep and everything else. I finally e-mailed Brian, who was just getting in at about ten o\u2019clock in the morning, and he just chuckled and sent me the memo that everybody else got but my name is not on it. So here I was, and it was about 10:30, and I said, “Well, I\u2019m going to go play golf again,” and so that\u2019s what I did. So not only do miners go to work on January 2nd, so did I. But I mean this question, “Is it customary for people in the mining industry to go to work on the second day of the New Year?” I\u2019ll betcha some of them went to work on the first day of the New Year. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they did. <\/line>Anyway, Victor Davis Hanson<\/a>. Let me get started with this. “After September 11th, national-security-minded Democratic politicians fell over each other, voting for all sorts of tough measures. They passed the Patriot Act, approved the war in Afghanistan, voted to authorize the removal of Saddam Hussein, and nodded when they were briefed about Guantanamo or wiretap intercepts of suspect phone calls to and from the Middle East. After the anthrax scare, the arrests of dozens of terrorist cells, and a flurry of al Qaeda fatwas, most Americans thought another attack was imminent ? and wanted their politicians to think the same. Today\u2019s sourpuss, Senator Harry Reid, once was smiling at a photo-op at the signing of the Patriot Act to record to his constituents that he was darn serious about terrorism. So we have forgotten that most of us after 9\/11 would never have imagined that the United States would remain untouched for over four years after that awful cloud of ash settled over the crater at the World Trade Center. <\/line>“Now the horror of 9\/11 and the sight of the doomed diving into the street fade. Gone mostly are the flags on the cars, and the orange and red alerts. The Democrats and the Left, in their amnesia, and as beneficiaries of the very policies they suddenly abhor, now mention al Qaeda very little and Islamic fascism hardly at all. Apparently due to the success of George Bush at keeping the United States secure, he, not Osama bin Laden, can now more often be the target of a relieved Left ? deserving of assassination in an Alfred Knopf novel, an overseer of Nazi policies according to a U.S. senator, a buffoon, and rogue in the award-winning film of Michael Moore. Yes, because we did so well against the real enemies, we soon had the leisure to invent new imaginary ones in Bush\/Cheney, Halliburton, the Patriot Act, John Ashcroft, and Scooter Libby.”<\/line>You see? The theme carries. Bush has done a great job. We have done a great job at securing our safety! Well, there have got to be other enemies because the Democrats just cannot get along. The Democrats cannot say, “Hey, we helped.” The Democrats cannot find a way to try to take some credit for this success. They have to focus on it as a giant failure. Here we\u2019ve had all the success, and what do they do? They want to impeach Bush. The theory I think where it dovetails is, life\u2019s pretty easy compared to the way it used to be, and so we invent problems. We go out and invent traumas and disorders and all sorts of things. They\u2019re simply immune to good news. Even in the economy. While the economy is roaring along, you go talk to the average guy in the neighborhood, “Yeah, I\u2019m doing fine, but I\u2019m worried about my neighbor.” There always has to be an under tone of negativism or pessimism about your outlook because that\u2019s what makes people think that you\u2019re enlightened. When you\u2019re positive and optimistic and happy, they say that you\u2019re vacant and they say that you\u2019re ignorant and you\u2019re not really seeing the horrors that are out there, that you\u2019ve got your head buried in the sand or that you are in a bubble and that you are detached.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to Victor Davis Hanson. Just a couple more points out of this. “Afghanistan in October, 2001, conjured up almost immediately warnings of quagmire, expanding Holy War at Ramadan, unreliable allies, a trigger-happy nuclear Pakistan on the border, American corpses to join British and Russian bones in the high desert ? not a seven-week victory and a subsequent democracy in Kabul of all places. Nothing in our era would have seemed more unlikely than democrats dethroning the Taliban and al Qaeda ? hitherto missile-proof in their much ballyhooed cave complexes that maps in Newsweek assured us rivaled Norad\u2019s subterranean fortress.” Do you remember those maps? I remember Newsweek\u2019s maps of the Tora Bora complex, and I thought I was looking at something that we built in the mountains here out in Wyoming in NORAD. Oh, they had these people portrayed! I mean, they were nuclear powers. There was no way we had a chance against these people. We were suicidal to go, and it wasn\u2019t going to work out. Now we\u2019ve got a democracy in Kabul. We\u2019ve got a democracy in Baghdad. <\/line> “Are we then basking in the unbelievable notion that the most diabolical government of the late 20th century is gone from Afghanistan, and in its place are schools, roads, and voting machines? Hardly, since the bar has been astronomically raised since Tora Bora. After all, the Afghan parliament is still squabbling and a long way from the city councils of Cambridge, La Jolla, or Nantucket ? or maybe not. The same paradox of success is true of Iraq. Before we went in, analysts and opponents forecasted burning oil wells, millions of refugees streaming into Jordan and the Gulf kingdoms, with thousands of Americans killed just taking Baghdad alone. Middle Eastern potentates warned us of chemical rockets that would shower our troops in Kuwait. On the eve of the war, had anyone predicted that Saddam would be toppled in three weeks, and two-and-a-half-years later, 11 million Iraqis would turn out to vote in their third election ? at a cost of some 2100 war dead ? he would have been dismissed as unhinged. But that is exactly what has happened. And the reaction? Democratic firebrands are now talking of impeachment. What explains this paradox of public disappointment over things that turn out better than anticipated? <\/line>“Why are we like children who damn their parents for not providing yet another new toy when the present one is neither paid for nor yet out of the wrapper? One cause is the demise of history. The past is either not taught enough, or presented wrongly as a therapeutic exercise to excise our purported sins. Either way the result is the same: a historically ignorant populace who knows nothing about past American wars and their disappointments ? and has absolutely no frame of reference to make sense of the present other than its own mercurial emotional state in any given news cycle.” Thank you, Mr. Victor Davis Hanson, because that\u2019s the point. I say it constantly: “Everybody\u2019s historical perspective begins the day they were born.” They don\u2019t know that we lost 750 in a &lt;a target=new href=”http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/devon\/3666355.stm”>training exercise&lt;\/a> for D-Day. They don\u2019t know about the Battle of the Bulge. They don\u2019t know how rotten it was, because since the day they were born every generation believes that it\u2019s in its last days. <\/line>“Things are so horrible, so rotten! We\u2019re in the last days, Rush! It\u2019s over. We\u2019re being overrun everywhere. We have no guts. We have no willpower. It\u2019s over,” and Mr. Hanson writes here: “Our grandparents in the recent past endured things that would make the present ordeal in Iraq seem almost pedestrian ? and did all that with the result that a free Germany could now release terrorists or prosperous South Korean youth could damn the United States between their video games. Instead, we of the present think that we have reinvented the rules of war and peace anew. After Grenada, Panama, Gulf War I, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and the three-week war to remove Saddam, we decreed from on high that there simply were to be no fatalities in the American way of war. If there were, someone was to be blamed, censured, or impeached ? right now! Second, there is a sort of arrogant smugness that has taken hold in the West at large. Read the papers about an average day in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Detroit, or even in smaller places like Fresno. The headlines are mostly the story of mayhem ? murder, rape, arson, and theft. <\/line>“Yet, we think Afghanistan is failing or Iraq hopeless when we watch similar violence on television, as if they do such things and we surely do not. We denigrate the Iraqis\u2019 trial of Saddam Hussein ? as if the Milosevic legal circus or our own O.J. trial were models of jurisprudence. Still, who would have thought that poor Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, a mass-murdering half-brother of Saddam Hussein, would complain that Iraqi television delayed live feeds of his daily outbursts by whimpering, ‘If the sound is cut off once again, then I don\u2019t know about my comrades but I personally won\u2019t attend again. This is unjust and undemocratic.\u2019 A greater percentage of Iraqis participated in their elections after two years of consensual government than did Americans after nearly 230 years of practice. It is chic now to deprecate the Iraqi security forces, but they are doing a lot more to kill jihadists than the French or Germans who often either wire terrorists money, sell them weapons, or let them go. For what it\u2019s worth, I\u2019d prefer to have one Jalal Talabani or Iyad Allawi on our side than ten Jacques Chiracs or Gerhard Schroeders… <\/line><\/p>\n

“Precisely because we are winning this war and have changed the contour of the Middle East, we expect even more ? and ever more quickly, without cost in lives or treasure. So rather than stopping to praise and commemorate those who gave us our success, we can only rush ahead to destroy those who do not give us even more,” and it\u2019s absolutely right on the money. Victor Davis Hanson. That ran in the National Review Online back on December 29th. Now, for those of you that follow what goes on in the blog world, a little tidbit here. This Democrat — this kook blog called the Daily Kos<\/a>. I still don\u2019t know how to pronounce that. K-o-s. This guy that runs this blog, Marcus Malute or whatever his name is, has regular phone calls with Democrat leaders in Washington: Rahm Emanuel, Harry Reid, and their staffs — and this guy is perhaps the most influential left-wing blogger that there is, because they have adopted this guy\u2019s policies, beliefs, rhetoric. <\/line> When you hear them on their anti-Bush bandwagon, it\u2019s his rhetoric they\u2019ve adopted. They consult with this guy regularly. He has appeared before them to advise them on how to proceed with their agenda, so forth and so on. Okay, so — so what? Well, his latest rant is that the only reason, the only reason that Bush is fighting a war on terror in the first place is because Republicans are cowards. “So what? We lose a couple buildings in New York, and all of a sudden we got threat levels, we got color-coded threat levels. We\u2019ve got spying on American citizens. We\u2019ve got invasions in Afghanistan, and, what, the Republicans are afraid to deal with these people! Republicans are just cowards?” That\u2019s the latest take from the left. It\u2019s going to get even kookier, folks, as this year heats up, because of it being a midterm election year and so forth. So, you know, I mention all of this primarily because I was hit with this question while I was gone: Why doesn\u2019t Bush get out there?<\/line>I\u2019m telling you. In Bush\u2019s world, he is an overwhelming success at what\u2019s going on here. For those of you that have trouble understanding this. I don\u2019t know how else to explain it to you. He\u2019s confident that everything is going to work out. He doesn\u2019t have to get in a media battle every day. He\u2019s looking at this in the long term anyway and he\u2019s confident that as far as this country is concerned, things are going to work out. It\u2019s going to end up okay, because it is, in his mind, things are working out. They\u2019re doing phenomenally well. But because this is politics, and their efforts to bring him down and impeach him, do this and the other thing. There are people hell-bent on making it look like an utter failure — and that\u2019s the point of sharing with you all this data, to turn what\u2019s happened here, a robust success, into an utter failure, is a great indicator of just who it is that we\u2019re dealing with on the left — and you talk about people that are never positive, talk about people that can\u2019t possibly be happy. They don\u2019t even smile! I don\u2019t even see them laugh. I never see them smile. These people are happy miserable, or miserably happy, unhappy, whatever. Mike, Punta Gorda, Florida<\/a>. We\u2019ll start with you on the phones today. Glad to have you with us, and hello.<\/line>CALLER: Hi there Rush, honor to speak with you, been a listener for a number of years.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line>CALLER: The reason that I\u2019m calling is that I disagree that Bush doesn\u2019t need to respond.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m not surprised.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: The reason being that if he doesn\u2019t respond it just emboldens his critics, they say more and more, and builds up his critics, his ratings drop, and therefore the Congress feels emboldened to — particularly maybe the moderate Republicans and so forth — feel emboldened to disavow him and not go along with his programs. It\u2019s not a point that he\u2019s responding for himself. I realize he probably is very confident in and of himself. He needs to respond for the sake of his program to put off his critics and to build up his base.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m not saying he shouldn\u2019t respond. I said I\u2019m glad when he does. I\u2019m trying to explain why he doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s not because he\u2019s detached. It\u2019s not because he\u2019s out in left field. It\u2019s not because he\u2019s an airhead. It\u2019s not because he\u2019s an idiot. It\u2019s not because he doesn\u2019t see things. He\u2019s just on a different plane. He\u2019s above it all. He doesn\u2019t think this has anything to do with whether his job is being done well, and I\u2019m sure there are some people in the White House. There is an ongoing philosophy in the White House, by the way, regarding media: Don\u2019t respond to things. Just let each of these fires burn out, because there\u2019s going to be another one, and you can get caught up responding to this stuff and then you will take your eye off the ball. Now, you\u2019re right. When the approval numbers fall, then the cowards at heart rise to the top, be they elected Republicans in Washington or elsewhere, and they feel the need to abandon the president because his numbers are going down and nobody wants to appear with him and so forth. <\/line>But you note that he finally toward the end of the year did respond, and the approval numbers got back up. Has it stopped the Democrats? No. And nothing will. You have to understand, responding to the media is not going to stop \u2019em. Responding to the Democrats is not going to stop \u2019em. The reason you do it is to provide leadership for your side which is what you\u2019re saying, and I totally, totally agree with it. I\u2019m just trying to explain here that you don\u2019t have a president who\u2019s clueless. In fact just the opposite, and his sights are set on things that he considers far more important than the New York Times. In fact, this investigation, I think one thing that woke him up in this regard was this New York Times story. When was it? On the 16th about the NSA leaks, National Security Agency. I mean, this is serious stuff. He takes the war on terror seriously, protecting the people and defending the Constitution of this country, and this is an effort to undermine that ability. The Democrats have gotten so far — and these leaks are coming from somewhere. They may be coming from the justice department but it\u2019s time to find out where, and to get serious about it, and I think that\u2019s got him revved up, too, but it\u2019s all, in the end, all I\u2019m trying to say is that he has an inner — what can I say? ? confidence? <\/line>It\u2019s not the word I\u2019m really looking for here. He has (interruption). No, not a compass. He\u2019s just very secure. He\u2019s just confident he\u2019s doing the right thing, and I don\u2019t mean from an ego standpoint. I don\u2019t mean that he\u2019s right and everybody else is wrong, that\u2019s not his attitude. He\u2019s just confident that all this is going to work out. He\u2019s confident we\u2019re going to win the war on terror, he\u2019s confident that this is going to succeed, confident about Iraq. He just knows that it\u2019s going to work, because he\u2019s doing the right thing. It may take some years. But he just has that belief, and of course when you\u2019re up against a bunch of pessimists, I don\u2019t know about you, but when I\u2019m around pessimists, no matter what you say they want to disparage it, and especially if you just say, “I feel good about it, I think it\u2019s all going to work out.” <\/line>“Oh, listen to you! Your head is head buried in the sand. You\u2019re not able to face reality,” and so forth. The people that aren\u2019t able to face reality are the Democrats today, the American left, they\u2019re the ones with heads in the sand, they\u2019re the ones that don\u2019t see the reality. They\u2019re the ones that are exactly what they accuse Bush of being: detached, in a bubble, in their own world, and everything else be damned. There\u2019s no great sense of purpose to what they\u2019re doing. It\u2019s about them, and it\u2019s not going to take them that far, I don\u2019t care what anybody says.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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