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RUSH: I\u2019m involved in a feud. I\u2019m involved in a feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I didn\u2019t even know about it. Let\u2019s go to yesterday\u2019s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Schwarzenegger appears, and Schwarzenegger and Stephy have this exchange.<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: Rush Limbaugh does not like your new agenda at all. He looks at what you\u2019re doing on health care, looks at what you\u2019re doing on global warming and says:<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: This sounds like it\u2019s right out of the liberal playbook. I mean this is no different than what Greenpeace could say if they had somebody that was the governor of California.<\/p>\n

SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, at least we still like to smoke stogies together, so we have something in common. (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: We do? At least we smoke stogies together. Okay. To refresh your memory of what this was about, environmental ideas are one thing, but the curious thing from California and the state of Washington is health care for all children, health insurance for all children including the children of illegals in the midst of welfare cuts for American citizens. Now, you know, you have to suspend what you think about welfare. Mostly welfare cuts, if coupled with a jobs program are very good, and that\u2019s what welfare reform at the federal level was all about, but if you take that out, “We\u2019re going to cut benefits for Americans and grant them to illegals,” you scratch your head. Then you combine that with the environmentalist wacko policies, taking the lead here on greenhouse gases and global warming, I was scratching my head. Then Stephy follows up and Arnold says my criticism doesn\u2019t bother him.<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: But does it bother you that conservatives like Rush Limbaugh think you\u2019re betraying them?<\/p>\n

SCHWARZENEGGER: No. I don\u2019t try to please the conservatives. I don\u2019t like to try to please the liberals. I like to please the people. I am a public servant. I\u2019m not a politician. The people of California want to move forward. They want to have their roads built. They want to have their schools built. They don\u2019t want to get tied up into argument, “Are we building Democratic roads or Republican roads, Democratic schools or Republican schools? Do we breathe Democratic air or Republican clean air?” It\u2019s all the nonsense. We all breathe the same air and we all want to enjoy the schools, end of story.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that explains it. This is why I didn\u2019t understand. Arnold is not a politician. He said that he\u2019s not a politician, so that makes all this understandable. Is anybody out there talking about Republican schools and Democrat schools, Republican air and Democrat air, and so forth, likes to please the people. Well, we all make the mistake of wanting to please the people. Generally, you lead the people. Because you can\u2019t please everybody. When you start trying to please everybody, you bomb. You literally will bomb. Then it went on, Stephanopoulos says, “Do you think President Bush would be doing better if he followed your approach? You\u2019ve had very different responses to political setbacks, political adversity. You seem to reach out, President Bush\u2019s critics at least say he\u2019s just doubling down.”<\/p>\n

SCHWARZENEGGER: I figured out after the 2005 special election that I have taken the wrong approach by being too pushy, by being personal about things and attacking people and saying “girlie men” and all these things. That didn\u2019t move the agenda forward. But that was my way of expressing myself then. I didn\u2019t know any better. If I would have known any better I wouldn\u2019t have done it, and then I\u2019ve learned that there\u2019s a better way and that is to bring people together, not to insult them, but to actually bring the best out of people, bring the best out of Democrats, bring the best out of Republicans, because we have such brilliant people in our Capitol.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, basically let me translate this for you. This is I\u2019m sorry, and that is the most successful route to acceptance, forgiveness, whatever else, in the country today, to say you\u2019re sorry, show remorse, admit your mistakes, whatever. (doing Schwarzenegger impression) “Yeah, I didn\u2019t like calling them the girlie men, it was wrong to call them girlie men.” Didn\u2019t that help get him elected? Now, one of the things about that 2005 special election, I don\u2019t want to get into the details, but that\u2019s got its own dynamic, and the reasons that that \u201905 special election, ballot initiatives lost, was because the timing of the election. It was a December election, I think. Nobody votes in December, there was nothing else on the ballot, and, of course, the president was out there campaigning, and Arnold got mad at the president for going out there and competing for campaign dollars at the same time Arnold was trying to get his ballot initiatives passed. I think there\u2019s a lot of payback actually going on here in addition to all that Arnold is saying. But, here, my friends, the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance. KGO television San Francisco, ABC affiliate, a montage of anchor Carolyn Tyler\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

TYLER: Governor Schwarzenegger is having a feud with Rush Limbaugh. Too big personalities are butting heads over political policy. Talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been publicly criticizing Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying the governor\u2019s new agenda sounds like something out of the liberal playbook. Schwarzenegger calls it a centrist approach and says he\u2019s his own man, he doesn\u2019t care what Limbaugh labels him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There is no feud! This is not Rosie and Trump. There is no feud here. It would be a feud if I called Arnold a loser and a girlie man. But I haven\u2019t done that, and I don\u2019t intend to. At any rate, this is how these things get started. I just wanted you to hear it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: As for Schwarzenegger, one more comment here. Here\u2019s a line since you want a feud out there at KGO TV. We heard him outline his agenda here. We know what it\u2019s going to be, and there\u2019s nothing centrist about it and there\u2019s nothing conservative about it. How is big government and massive spending and massive taxes in the public\u2019s interest? What is centrist about any of this? Arnold\u2019s agenda, he may say he\u2019s culling from the best of the right and the best of the left, but I don\u2019t see any conservatism in it, other than these welfare cuts and I don\u2019t see how that\u2019s going to work. But I don\u2019t see much conservatism in the rest of it, which is fine, he can do what he wants to do, but when he calls it centrist, it isn\u2019t, it\u2019s liberal. I\u2019m sure there are powerful liberal forces arrayed at Arnold in many places he goes in that state.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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