{"id":24121,"date":"2011-05-19T06:10:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:10:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-01-29T10:45:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T15:45:50","slug":"sheehan_says_jump_pelosi_asks_how_high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/sheehan_says_jump_pelosi_asks_how_high\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheehan Says Jump, Pelosi Asks, “How High?”"},"content":{"rendered":"
“Democratic leaders who had hoped to emphasize their domestic agenda in the opening weeks of Congress have concluded that Iraq will share top billing, and they plan on aggressively confronting administration officials this week in a series of hearings.” What this means is that Bush, with his speech Wednesday on plans for Iraq and the so-called surge, is intruding on Nancy Pelosi\u2019s first hundred hours. In fact, “Joe Lockhart says, ‘The challenge for the Democrats is this: Iraq\u2019s the central issue. It\u2019s an enormous problem for the president and the Republicans, but it has the suffocating effect of taking attention away from the Democrats\u2019 domestic legislative priorities, and I think they understand that.'”<\/p>\n

So basically what\u2019s happening here is that Lockhart is basically saying the Democrats are being suffocated. Bush — this unfair, unfeeling, insensitive president — knows full well that this is Pelosi\u2019s day to shine. It\u2019s her time, the first hundred hours, domestic issue after domestic issue, and he\u2019s Bush doing? He\u2019s gumming up the works by suffocating the Democrats. So the Democrats, in order to not be suffocated are going to come out with their positions on Iraq, which is — remember Dingy Harry said he would support a temporary troop surge? That\u2019s off the table now, ladies and gentlemen. It\u2019s not going to happen. By the weekend, Rahm Emanuel had “acknowledged that Democrats\u2019 strategeric shift here in the first hundred hours from domestic issues to Iraq was a necessity, but Emanuel said he\u2019s not worried that Bush might be scoring points, but he said the Democrats do have to respond.”<\/p>\n

Well, I thought there was a new bipartisanship, a new centrism here where we take the best of both? Only in today\u2019s Democrat Party would winning the war in Iraq be a provocative idea! Only to the Democrat Party today would winning the war be something confrontational and something they have to fight back against, something they have to respond to. Only in today\u2019s Democrat Party. Emanuel said, “This isn\u2019t a surge, it\u2019s an escalation, and we want to make sure the definition is correct. When the American people voted for change in November, this is not what they had in mind.” So we\u2019re going to have a fight on semantics? Where did this word “escalation” come from, I wonder? Let\u2019s listen to Nancy Pelosi here. This is a montage. She\u2019s on Slay the Nation yesterday with Bob Schieffer.<\/p>\n

PELOSI: If the president chooses to escalate the war. If the president chooses to escalate the war. The president wants to escalate the war. Escalation of the war is opposed by the Democrats. Escalation? What is the justification for that. The generals on the ground had said that the escalation, the increased number of troops.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, so we\u2019ve got a new buzzword out there: escalation, escalation, escalation. Where did we first hear this? Well, yes. The modern incarnation, I\u2019m sorry, folks, but we\u2019ve gotta give the credit to Cindy Sheehan. Cindy Sheehan at her press conference where they totally disrupted Rahm Emanuel, tried to announce all their great things, shut Emanuel down, and they had to send Emanuel back behind closed doors with his group of people to get anything done. This was last Wednesday on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

EMANUEL: At every step of the —<\/p>\n

KOOKS: (screaming) Deescalate! Investigate! Troops home now!<\/p>\n

EMANUEL: Okay. At every —<\/p>\n

KOOKS: (screaming) Deescalate! Investigate! Troops home now!<\/p>\n

EMANUEL: All right, why don\u2019t you let…?<\/p>\n

KOOKS: (screaming) Deescalate! Investigate! Troops home now!<\/p>\n

EMANUEL: We\u2019re going to keep going here.<\/p>\n

KOOKS: (screaming)<\/p>\n

EMAUEL We\u2019re going to have a…<\/p>\n

KOOKS: (screaming) Deescalate! Investigate! Troops home now!<\/p>\n

EMANUEL: Thank you. We\u2019re going to come back right after our meeting, okay?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It seems to me, ladies and gentlemen, Cindy Sheehan says, “Jump,” and Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats ask, “How high?” Here\u2019s more from Nancy Pelosi with Bob Schieffer on Slay the Nation Sunday. His question: “But you will not vote any more money to expand the size of the force there? Is that what you\u2019re telling us?”<\/p>\n

PELOSI: I\u2019m saying two things. We will always support the troops who are there. If the president wants to expand the mission, that\u2019s a conversation he has to have with the Congress of the United States. But there\u2019s not a carte blanche, a blank check to him to do whatever he wishes there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? That\u2019s not what Joe Biden says. Joe Biden is saying the president, this is his responsibility. In fact, Pelosi said it, too! Pelosi last week said it\u2019s his responsibility to fix this Iraq mess. Biden went further and said there\u2019s not really much we can do about it, and they\u2019re not going to cut the funding so he doesn\u2019t have to have a conversation with Congress. He does not. I\u2019m not saying he won\u2019t. Those are two different things, but he doesn\u2019t have to. He\u2019s not required. He\u2019s the commander-in-chief. He doesn\u2019t have to go consult with these people. He can negotiate with him whenever he wants to increase funding and so forth and that sort of thing, but on policy, giving them a say-so in this? That\u2019s something he doesn\u2019t have to do. She went further. Schieffer said, “So, at this point, the Democrats in Congress are not prepared to pay for or to fund an additional number of troops in Iraq.”<\/p>\n

PELOSI: We have to see what the president has to say. It\u2019s not an open-ended commitment anymore. But we will always be there to protect our troops and to support our troops. The burden is on the president to justify any additional resources for a mission. The president is going to have to engage with Congress in the justification for any additional troops he may wish, but escalation of the war is opposed by the Democrats.
\nRUSH: Again, Cindy Sheehan creates a new word, the Democrats — Nancy Pelosi particularly — picks it right up. Sheehan says, “Jump;” Pelosi says, “How high?” Of course the bottom line is, when you strip this all away, nothing\u2019s changed from before the election to today. The Democrats regard victory in Iraq as a problem. They regard victory in Iraq as being “provoked.” When you start talking victory in Iraq, you may as well be punching them in the eye and they\u2019re not going to sit there and take it. They\u2019re going to fight back. They want to withdraw. It\u2019s back to the John Murtha argument, we want to “redeploy.” We want to redeploy. Just get \u2019em out of Iraq.<\/p>\n

If we get out of Iraq, it\u2019s going to be a cesspool, and if they\u2019re worried about body counts and death now — which I maintain to you they are not, if they are worried about it now — they\u2019re not going to have enough calculators to count \u2019em all up after we pull out of there before this is completed. By the way, this new general that\u2019s been appointed to deal with this is a really, really smart and tough guy. His last name escapes me at the moment. Petraeus, exactly. This guy served two tours over there. He is exactly what this mission calls for at this time. I told you a couple weeks ago, and you looked at me like I was some kind of arrival from Mars when I told you he was going to get rid of George Casey, and you looked at me… You hadn\u2019t seen anything where, and George Casey will soon be gone and Petraeus will be taking over, and he\u2019s not taking over to lose. This current crop is not taking over to lose, and just stop and think: the Democrats find that something to fight about!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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