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RUSH: Yes, here we are, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have. I\u2019m Rush Limbaugh, on the cutting edge of societal evolution. It\u2019s Jennifer in Fort Bragg<\/a>, North Carolina, as we stick with the phones. Nice to have you with us.<\/line>CALLER: Thank you, sir. So let\u2019s say, God forbid, the Democrats get their way and they\u2019re able to de-fund the war. What is to stop us as citizens, to support our troops, joining together and buying war bonds in order to fund the war?<\/line>RUSH: Well, the correct answer to the question is: “If Congress, the elected representatives of the people, were to ever succeed in de-funding the war — which they will not — then that\u2019s it. The Congress doing that is the equivalent of you doing it. If they refused to authorize funds, government funds for this, then the president has no choice but than to bring the troops home from Iraq.” You could go out and raise all the money you want with your friends, even a national effort to come up with the money to do so. I doubt that you\u2019d raise what\u2019s necessary, but even if you could, the president would be hard-pressed to use that money when the Congress, having passed a law prohibiting that. He couldn\u2019t do it. But the reason I say that\u2019s not going to happen is the president would veto it. They don\u2019t have anywhere near the votes to override a veto. They don\u2019t have the votes in Congress now to pass it. They\u2019ve given it up. That was the early part of the program. They\u2019ve totally given up the idea. They even failed to cut 20 billion, Jennifer, from the latest request the president\u2019s made for Iraq and Afghanistan. Kent Conrad proposed cutting $20 billion in the Senate, and Dingy Harry threw it out. <\/line>CALLER: Do you think that they\u2019re going to continue, to kind of keep this idea of cutting the funding floating because they perceive there to be public opposition to the war?<\/line>RUSH: I think they may keep talking about it and floating ideas, but they haven\u2019t passed anything yet, have they?<\/line>CALLER: No.<\/line>RUSH: They\u2019re in a quagmire, Jennifer. This is the point. All they can do is harass. They\u2019ve issued their first round of subpoenas today to start investigating the administration over everything under the sun, and that\u2019s been their plan all along. They\u2019re not going to de-fund. They don\u2019t have the votes to do it. They certainly don\u2019t have two-thirds in both houses to override a presidential veto. They may continue to talk about it in an effort to gin up continued anti-war support among as many Americans as possible, but it\u2019s backfired on them. What it means — the reason that they\u2019re failing, the reason they\u2019re flailing, the reason they\u2019re in a quagmire, is precisely because the majority of the American people are not in favor of it, despite the polls that the Drive-Bys often cite and publish and that the Democrats cite themselves. If the polling data were there, if there were a mass majority movement on the part of the American people to de-fund and get out of there, it would have happened already.<\/line>CALLER: True.<\/line>RUSH: What bothers you about this? You\u2019re in Fort Bragg. Are you a military family?<\/line>CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/line>RUSH: It just offends the hell out of you, does it not? You\u2019re fed up with this near traitorous behavior and the fact that these people on the Democrat side seem to own defeat and can\u2019t wait to bring it about, and it just offends the hell out of you.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that is part of it. But the other part is the fact that the Drive-By Media is filling minds-full-of-mush: people that cannot think for themselves, people who aren\u2019t even from this country. I cannot tell you how many times people will come up to me and start telling me, you know, regurgitating stuff that they hear on the news about why we shouldn\u2019t be at war. My husband\u2019s life could be on the line.<\/line>RUSH: It\u2019s frustrating.<\/line>CALLER: It is.<\/line>RUSH: I run into it, too, and last night —<\/line>CALLER: To hear people basically say that my husband is wasting his life, you know, everything he does every day…<\/line>RUSH: You\u2019re going to have to learn to laugh at \u2019em.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, and I do, and I just, you know, smile and nod, and think, “Okay, another ignoramus.”<\/line>RUSH: Exactly. If you start arguing with them? Cardinal rule here. If you get into an argument with a fool, people listening are not going to be able to tell the difference between you and the fool.<\/line>CALLER: Right. Never get into a pissing match with a skunk.<\/line>RUSH: Exactly right. There?s any number of phrases like this, philosophies that apply here.<\/line>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/line>RUSH: Big problem is that it bothers you. You need boundaries. Let it bounce off. You know it\u2019s not true, so don\u2019t let it in. Don\u2019t start processing a bunch of stuff. We can all go nuts every day pondering the notion of how many idiots in this country buy hook, line, and sinker what\u2019s in the Drive-By Media. But you gotta take faith, take solace, and comfort in the fact that they are a minority, and that they\u2019re idiots.<\/line>CALLER: Yes. But I would like to see the conservative leadership in the government take a more proactive approach to positively spinning the things that are happening — and instead of fighting to not fund the troops, fight to support the troops, not just financially, but do more of the promoting those that are actually over there.<\/line>RUSH: Well, see, they have. You\u2019re just not hearing about it. During the period of time when the Democrats in the House particularly were passing their nonbinding resolution opposing the surge, John Boehner, the Republicans, wanted to offer two other resolutions that supported the troops.<\/line>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/line>RUSH: And the Democrats said, “No. We\u2019re not bringing those to a vote,” which they\u2019re entirely permitted to do. They run the place. Republicans in the House are totally powerless. If you\u2019re going to look to Republicans in the House to get anything done, please don\u2019t. This is nothing against them. They have no power. It\u2019s their fault they lost and they\u2019re in the minority, and that\u2019s all they can do is sit there and bellyache and moan. The Democrats are not required to bring any of their proposals to a vote. But they tried. They wanted two resolutions for a show of support. Nancy Pelosi shot it down. It got a few news stories, but not very many. I have to run and take a break here because of the constraints of time. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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