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The Senate is going to begin its debate here on all these resolutions, and Mitch McConnell, if this holds, the leader of the Republicans in the Senate has done a good job. “Senator John Warner will join,” this is weekend news, but it looks like it\u2019s still held, “a unanimous Senate Republican caucus, 49 Republicans opposing a Senate vote on Warner\u2019s anti-Bush administration resolution unless competing resolutions are also voted on.” This is a spokesman here for Warner saying, “‘Senator Warner supports the Senate Republican leadership\u2019s effort to establish a free and open debate on Iraq on the Senate floor, including possible amendments.\u2019 Earlier in the day…” and this goes back to Saturday. <\/line>“Earlier in the day Mr. Warner told colleagues during a closed door strategy meeting at the Library of Congress that he opposes the manner in which Harry Reid is conducting debate on his resolution, which condemns the surge. Senate Republicans are opposed to a vote on a Warner resolution unless they get votes on two others. One of those alternatives supports Mr. Bush\u2019s plan and the other would prohibit cutting funds for the war. Republicans also want each resolution to require 60 votes to pass,” so they\u2019re invoking the filibuster rule here. “Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, told reporters that he expects to have all 49 Republicans in the chamber, nine votes more than are needed for a filibuster to vote today to block the nonbinding resolution unless Reid relents and allows other resolutions to be voted on, one of which is a show of support.” Imagine how controversial that is! Reid allowing a resolution which supports the surge is “controversial,” and I can\u2019t help but think: “What if the Senate came out with a united resolution in favor of victory?” I wonder what that would mean to the troops. I wonder what that would mean to their morale. I wonder what it might mean for the country\u2019s morale? It\u2019ll never happen of course.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Doug in Sacramento, my adopted hometown. Hello, sir.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, 60 degree global warming dittos from Sacramento.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line>CALLER: Hey my idea, Rush, was that I think the Democrats would happily and vigorously support a war that they could get credit for and could control.<\/line>RUSH: Nah. You think that. Everybody\u2019s tendency is to think that, but the behavioral pattern of Democrats is to oppose war. You might find instances where they started wars, in Clinton\u2019s case, but he fought it from 15,000 feet. He went in, by the way, without a UN resolution, but he was going in for a noble cause, ethnic cleansing.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, remember how wistful they were, though, when he didn\u2019t get to handle 9\/11?<\/line>RUSH: Yeah. Well, they were upset that such a major event did not occur during Clinton\u2019s presidency so that he could show his toughness and his skills and his brilliance and his genius by dealing with it. They were a little wistful, as you say, that it happened during the Bush administration. But if you go to Vietnam… I read a New York Times editorial today from 1916, and the New York Times editorial of 1916 was ripping the Democrats for sounding just like Germans in the pre-World War I days. It was uncanny. The only thing different about it was that the New York Times was not with the Democrats then, as they are now. This was a scathing editorial, accusing them of propagandizing, not joining the war effort. It even challenged their patriotism because of their position on the war. Democrats in the Civil War wanted to lose! It\u2019s just something about these people, and it really isn\u2019t unique, and it would be a mistake to say that if the Democrats were in power now, they would want victory here if they could take credit for it. <\/line>If they wanted that, they could change what they\u2019re doing and secure victory, do what they could to secure it; raise morale and so forth, support the country — they can\u2019t do it, though, because they don\u2019t support the country; they don\u2019t support the president — and then if we emerged victorious, they could claim credit for it, or partial. What they\u2019re doing now is the exact opposite. Not only are they invested in defeat; they can\u2019t permit victory! They cannot allow it politically. It will destroy them, if this works — and some of these Republicans that are joining them as well. They\u2019re in a precarious, precarious position. They\u2019ve already got their minds made up the war is lost. It\u2019s just a matter of finding a way to convince everybody else and “bring the troops home,” but I\u2019m telling you: if you\u2019re going to judge Democrats and you\u2019re going to roll the dice, always assume they are anti-war, because they are — and their base clearly is. Look, the Democratic Party is a party of liberalism, folks! Make no mistake about it. Shreveport, Louisiana, David, thanks for calling. You\u2019re up next.<\/line>CALLER: Hello.<\/line>RUSH: Yes?<\/line>CALLER: Mr. Limbaugh —<\/line>RUSH: Sir.<\/line>CALLER: — a pleasure. My thought on this global warming issue is that I don\u2019t see that as being viable or having much proof, but the other issue with the accumulations of these emissions in the atmosphere? I do think those are a concern, and I just hate to see the baby thrown out with the bathwater, so to speak, on that particular issue.<\/line>RUSH: You think I\u2019m suggesting throwing the CO2 baby out with the bathwater?<\/line>CALLER: Well, no, not completely, but people have a tendency to discredit science, different areas of science and then maybe take their eye off the ball, so to speak.<\/line>RUSH: Are you basically saying we shouldn\u2019t forget our efforts to clean up pollution?<\/line>CALLER: Definitely. Especially as more and more countries come online.<\/line>RUSH: This is what bothers me. We do! We do the best job of cleaning up after our messes of any large industrialized nation in the world. If you\u2019ve traveled you can see it. We hear about it. There\u2019s a story in the stack today: “Even though they contribute the least to global warming, they are going to be hurt the hardest: the nation\u2019s poor in the Third World.” I\u2019m going to tell you: if you\u2019re worried about pollution, go to any country that does not have freedom. You go to any socialist, non-real full market economy, particularly the Eastern Bloc, the old Soviet bloc, and take a look. It\u2019s devastating! Capitalism, market economies depend on efficiencies; cleaning up messes and so forth. We do a bang-up job. That\u2019s another thing that bothers me about all this is that we\u2019re the primary culprits in all this pollution simply because of our size and so forth, and the Chinese and others get off scot-free, simply saying, “Well, we don\u2019t have the ability to deal with it, Mr. Limbaugh. That\u2019s why we must pick up their slack.” <\/line> Don\u2019t make the mistake of assuming that I am a polluter and want to continue to be one. I would only say that to irritate the left. Just because global warming may not be happening as a result of CO2, I\u2019m not in favor of massive CO2 emissions, but don\u2019t forget the primary context in which I am attempting to explain all of this, and that is: what we have here is an element of worldwide leftism attempting to co-opt and destroy capitalism on the basis that capitalism is destroying the planet, and the planet can only be saved if capitalism is dumped! They\u2019re doing this by imposing as much guilt on as many people as possible so that they will blame themselves and their lifestyles for this destruction, and after such sufficient guilt has been implanted, if you will, or transferred, they will readily agree to higher taxes and being punished in terms of freedoms on their lifestyle as a means of making amends for their “sin” of destroying the planet. Pollution? If these same people are going to start lying about pollution and blaming the wrong people for it, I\u2019m going to still attack \u2019em. <\/line>It doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m for pollution! This guy\u2019s point is exactly what I said earlier. You\u2019ve gotta be very careful how you deal with these people because if you disagree with them at all, you\u2019re for pollution; you\u2019re for dirty water; you\u2019re for dirty air! Don\u2019t let \u2019em bulldoze you into that, folks. It\u2019s not the case whatsoever. In fact, opposing liberalism in and of itself stands for continued progress and liberty and freedom and the improvement in the quality of as many lives as possible. Liberalism is what depresses the expansion of the quality of life, because they don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible for people. They don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible. This is a piece by Mary Katharine Ham at Townhall.com. She has a column: “Liberals assume minorities are incapable of achieving.” She\u2019s right, but it\u2019s not just minorities. They assume the poor in general are incapable of achieving. They assume “the average” are incapable of achieving. Let me give you some excerpts of her piece here. <\/line>“This week, the political world is on fire with the news that the first tolerably clean, well-spoken, and non-threatening black man ever has stormed onto the American political stage, poised to take his rightful spot at the head of the pack of Democratic presidential hopefuls. Or so Joe Biden tells us…. Others think the revolution had already begun. To many, candidates such as Harold Ford, Jr., in Tennessee and Michael Steele in Maryland [Lynn Swann?] — both of whom vied smartly and competitively for U.S. Senate seats in 2006 — looked sufficiently showered and sounded sufficiently schooled. For instance, ‘Hardball\u2019s\u2019 Chris Matthews had these words of high praise for Michael Steele\u2019s ad campaign: ‘I love the ads, my wife loves the ads, they\u2019re really funny, some of them. And very unthreatening. An African-American guy, it seems, has to run an ad that\u2019s so unthreatening that he\u2019s almost child-like in his presentation, but it seems to be working,\u2019 he said in October 2006. Question. Why is it always liberals who seem so genuinely, overtly surprised when black candidates are viable candidates, and in their surprise, evoke old, damaging stereotypes about them? <\/line>“If you\u2019ll excuse a Bushism, I think it\u2019s because much of their political philosophy and existence depends upon misunderestimating minorities. Minorities are getting lower grades than other students. Lower the standards! Minorities aren\u2019t getting into colleges at the same rates as other students. Give them special race-based admissions programs! Minorities need help. Give them expensive social programs of questionable [worth]! The liberal solution to these problems has never been one that grants minorities the dignity of achieving success,” which I have always said! They look at the strata. They look at the people at the top; look at the people at the bottom, and think it\u2019s unfair the people at the top should be there. They lower the people at the top! In class, education, economics, socially, what have you, they never seek to elevate people from the bottom, because they don\u2019t think that the people at the bottom can do it, because they have arrogant contempt and condescension for people. This is why this whole global warming business is theirs. <\/line>Capitalism versus socialism? They don\u2019t think average Americans can achieve in the capitalistic system! The capitalistic system is so unfair, and they\u2019re out to destroy it — because it will put them in power when their blessed socialism arrives in as many places as possible. Because you can\u2019t do it on your own they think you\u2019re going to need a little help, and they want to be the ones to offer it so you\u2019ll keep voting for them, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So this whole business of global warming, to me, represents a huge opportunity to illustrate what liberalism is really, really all about and how it contrasts with conservatism. Conservatism only wants the best for people, as many people as possible achieving, meeting their goals, setting lofty ones, utilizing ambition and drive and desire and passion to achieve those dreams and goals. The liberals smirk at that sort of thing. When you go anywhere in the world and look at where socialism, extreme socialism and communism rule, don\u2019t tell me that\u2019s the solution to any problem on the face of the earth, including pollution or global warming or economics or what have you, because it isn\u2019t and there\u2019s no evidence that it is in the history of time.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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