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RUSH: The Democrats have withdrawn their plans to de-fund the war, and the LA Times — and their kook fringe on the left — is going to be beside itself over this. They don\u2019t have the votes; they can\u2019t do it, and it adds up to the fact that there is not popular support among the American people for so doing. Zilch, zero, nada. They are backing off of it. There\u2019s an LA Times<\/a> story today that the divisions in the Democrat Party are even deeper when it comes to hamstringing the military, budget-wise. When you read this story, you have one conclusion: Is this a Democrat quagmire yet?<\/emphasize> Is the Democrat Party in the midst of a quagmire? The Senate is frustrated they can\u2019t get anything done. We have Dingy Harry sounding more and more like that cry baby, whining Tom Daschle — sound bite coming up. Pelosi? They\u2019re just not able to do anything that they promised they were going to do. They\u2019re finding it tough to govern. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m getting e-mails from people. “What do you mean, the Murtha plan\u2019s going to go forward but there\u2019s a provision in it that lets Bush ignore it? You just make this stuff up.” No, I have the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> here: ?Dems to Push Tough Bill on Redeployments — Measure Says Troops Must be Fully Rested, Equipped, Trained,? blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, the same old thing. “House Democrat leaders who have decided they cannot de-fund the war are now defending the Murtha plan,” the slow bleed plan, and said yesterday they\u2019re going to ?press ahead with legislation requiring all U.S. troops be fully equipped, trained and rested before being sent back to Iraq. Despite rumors that Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco was backing away from the plan, which Republicans have decried as a ‘slow bleed\u2019 on the war, the speaker said Murtha\u2019s proposal on troop standards would be debated next week in committee and that she hopes to move it quickly to the floor.?<\/line>But here\u2019s the money line: it\u2019s all worthless and irrelevant. ?The proposal, however, would allow President Bush to waive the rules if he wanted to deploy troops faster or under different standards than allowed by the measure.? So they\u2019re going to put forth the law; they\u2019re going to advance it; they\u2019re going to say, “But, by the way, the president doesn\u2019t have to abide by any of it.” It\u2019s right here in the San Francisco Chronicle. This is not going to sit well out there with the kook fringe on the left. <\/line>This hasn\u2019t gotten a whole lot of play, ladies and gentlemen. But Carl Levin, at an Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday, said, “I think we ought to take action on all fronts, including Syria. I think we ought to take action on all fronts including Syria and any other source of weapons coming into Iraq. Obviously Iran is the focus, but it shouldn\u2019t be the sole focus.” He asked John McConnell about whatever steps are being taken to cut off weaponry coming from Syria. He asked this question: “I was just wondering. Does the military have a plan to, if necessary, go into Syria to get the source of any weapons coming from Syria?” Our source on this is RedState.org<\/a>, one of our favorite blogs here. They write that he wasn\u2019t arguing against such a plan. ?I think we ought to take action on all fronts including Syria.? I haven\u2019t seen this anywhere, have you? On the same day the Bush administration says, (paraphrasing) ?You know what? We didn\u2019t mean it six weeks ago when we said we weren\u2019t going to talk to the Iranians and Syrians. We\u2019re going to have a good neighbors meeting. Well, the Iraqis are going to have a good neighbors meeting and they\u2019re running our foreign policy now, so we\u2019ll join \u2019em under the palm trees there for the good neighbors meeting.? That same day Carl Levin is wondering whether or not we have a battle plan for Iran and Syria! Go figure. Anyway, that\u2019s the news out there. <\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: I also mentioned Dingy Harry is starting to sound like Daschle: he?s concerned. He\u2019s upset. Senate Democrats are going nowhere. I\u2019ve told you Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is running the Senate. He\u2019s the most powerful man there. We put together a little montage to illustrate this. Dingy Harry\u2019s remarks after meeting with his fellow Democrats regarding their new resolution for the war in Iraq…<\/line>REID: The last vote we had on this, virtually every Democrat voted for. So don\u2019t — no one should be concerned about the Democrats not sticking together. We have stuck together on our approach to Iraq. We will continue to do that. We are so concerned about what\u2019s going on and so determined to change the course of the war in Iraq, we\u2019re going to continue to talk and do what we can to make sure that\u2019s the case. I would hope that at a time in the near future that I will be able to offer an amendment on behalf of the Democratic caucus.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m sure you can. That\u2019s really <\/emphasize>bold leadership there. Well, we\u2019ll continue to do that. We\u2019re concerned. <\/emphasize>I mean, there\u2019s a word popularized by the Puffster, Puff Daschle. (Doing Daschle impression) ?Uh, we\u2019re concerned, Tim. Very, uh, concerned about what\u2019s going on. We\u2019re determined to change the course of the war in Iraq. We\u2019re going to continue to talk, uh, and do what we can to make sure that\u2019s the case.? Do what we can?<\/emphasize> You got the majority, Dingy Harry! We\u2019re going to do what we can? He knows the score in the Senate. <\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: All right. We have about a minute here, and we\u2019re going to Medford, Oregon. Mary, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the program.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/line>RUSH: Hi.<\/line>CALLER: Thanks for taking my call. Hey, I just wanted to tell you: I am a mother of a 20-year-old Marine who is serving his second time in Iraq, and when I heard that these people, these liberals and some Republicans were going to cut funding and support to my Marine and the guys that I know that are there, I just went ballistic. So I wrote a bunch of letters, handwritten letters. So when I heard yesterday that they reversed their decision, I told my family that it was because I wrote all those letters. So, anyway, my point is I think that a lot of people have let them know that that\u2019s just the wrong thing to do. Punishing our soldiers!<\/line>RUSH: Well, there are two things at work here. There\u2019s no question that tagging them as owners of defeat has reverberated and got back to them, but there\u2019s also something else. They\u2019re figuring out here that the November elections were not the mandate to do this, that they claimed. They have failed to mobilize public opinion on this to make it happen. That\u2019s an indication. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Bad news<\/a> for the Democrats here. The story is from the Associated Press. ?The Baghdad security operation,? i.e., the surge, ?has been under way less than three weeks, but it has already registered a success: a sharp drop in the number of bullet-riddled bodies found in the streets ? victims of sectarian death squads. The number of bodies found so far this month in Baghdad ? most of them shot and showing signs of torture ? has dropped by nearly 50 percent to 494 as of Monday night, compared with 954 in January and 1,222 in December, according to figures compiled by the Associated Press. ? U.S. commanders have also said Sunni and Shiite extremists were shifting from the capital to surrounding provinces such as Diyala. All that may have also led to a drop in the execution-style killings. Bombings and other violence continue in the capital despite the crackdown; on Tuesday three U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb on the southwestern outskirts of the city.? No problem there because we\u2019re going to go talk! We\u2019re going to have a good neighbor meeting with the people that produce these bombs and we\u2019re going to get this stopped. <\/line>(singing) ?Like good neighbor, State Farm is there??<\/line>?Nevertheless, execution-style killings are clearly down. This shows a big reduction in terror and killing operations in Baghdad.? Now, I know what the Democrats are going to say, ?Well, of course they\u2019re down. The enemy\u2019s moved out. Sadr is gone, taking a bunch of people with him. They\u2019re laying low. They\u2019re not going to hang around and be targets.? <\/line>There might be some validity to that, too, by the way. We did announce to the world what the strategery was going to be. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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