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RUSH: ‘Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday criticized President Bush for not spending enough on law enforcement and said police officers were ‘invisible\u2019 to him. At a meeting of the National Association of Police Organizations, the New York senator promised more spending on police programs, including an anti-drug initiative and bulletproof vest program. ‘Honestly, it is like the police officers of our country, along with your families, who stand with you every single day in the dangerous and difficult work you do, are invisible to the president,\u2019 she said. Clinton chastised Bush for a 2008 budget that she said would further cut the Community Oriented Police Services program…\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, does anybody remember a hundred thousand new cops? This was her husband\u2019s program, which was a sham from the get-go. The way the hundred thousand new cops or whatever the number was worked, was the federal government would pay for these communities to hire new police officers, and then after each year, the federal government\u2019s share of what they paid — the salaries of these new hires — would decline, would decrease. Finally, after a few years (and we\u2019ve reached the years), the states or the local communities have to pick up the salaries of the hundred thousand cops that were hired, and it never ended up being a hundred thousand cops in the first place. So now the program is supposed to be expired. It has run its course. ‘That program was created under President Clinton to put more officers on the street. The original program expired seven years ago, but Congress has kept funding it.\u2019 This is a great, dramatic example. We don\u2019t have enough money for infrastructure, says David Yepsen (paraphrased). What are you going to do, Rudy? Where are you going to cut spending if you\u2019re not going to raise taxes and so forth to fix the bridges?<\/p>\n

We have more money than we know what to do with! The COPS program expired seven years ago, and we have continued to fund it, ladies and gentlemen. The House of Representatives last May voted to give more money to the program. Democrats have complained it was cut! It was not ‘cut.\u2019 It was supposed to be expired! It had an end date, just like the SCHIP (with a P) children\u2019s health insurance program. This was not to be extended. So here\u2019s Hillary complaining that President Bush doesn\u2019t spend enough money on police and law enforcement, says the police are ‘invisible\u2019 to Bush — and of course, as with all socialists, what is her solution? Spend more money! So let\u2019s see if this makes any sense. Hillary gets upset because the 2008 budget cuts funding the Community Oriented Police Service program. Of course, the program created by her husband. The program expired seven years ago. Congress has continued to fund it. Isn\u2019t it funny how that works? Incremental, hardly noticed control of the feds over the state government. The program expired seven years ago, and they\u2019ve kept paying it. There\u2019s redundancy after redundancy after redundancy. So Hillary is upset because the president has cut funding for a program that her husband said would cease to exist seven years ago. It just literally it makes no sense. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is an amazing story. This is from our buddy Ron Fournier, of the Associated Press. ‘Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for president on her husband\u2019s White House record, and it\u2019s a strategy that cuts both ways.\u2019 I have to tell you something. If there were a Republican equivalent here, and a female wife of a former Republican president, were running with such a paper-thin record of competence that she had to run on her husband\u2019s record, she\u2019d never hear the end of it, and the feminists would be out there bellyaching and so forth. But here, with Mrs. Clinton ‘running on her husband\u2019s White House record…it\u2019s a strategy that cuts both ways. The New York senator and her husband, former President Bill Clinton,\u2019 it says here, ‘constantly remind voters of the U.S. economic prosperity in the 1990s…\u2019 compared to like what? Today? ‘and his record on the environment, college aid and family medical leave. Press releases from the campaign often include sentences that start, ‘Under the Clinton administration …\u2019 ‘Yesterday\u2019s news was pretty good,\u2019 Bill Clinton said last month in Iowa while campaigning with his wife. But yesterday\u2019s news,\u2019 meaning his eight years in the White House, ‘is not always easy to explain today. <\/p>\n

‘A San Francisco blogger made that painfully clear to Sen. Clinton during the Yearly…\u2019 whatever, the kook fringe convention, ‘when he asked whether she would support or repeal four major pieces of legislation enacted during the Clinton administration — the Defense of Marriage Act, the Telecommunications Act, the North American Free Trade Agreement and welfare reform. All four laws are unpopular with liberal voters who historically dominate Democratic primaries and caucuses.\u2019 Everything is unpopular with these unhappy people. In fact, I just read on one of these kook blogs that some Kos kid, one of these kook fringe in the convention, said he would rather die in a terrorist attack than to have Valerie Plame\u2019s name to have been outed! These people are sick, just genuinely sick and deranged. Anyway, ‘The San Francisco man,\u2019 according to Ron Fournier, ‘had put Clinton on the spot. So she hedged and dodged in a complicated set of answers to explain herself. The Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal recognition of same-sex marriages and gave states the right to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages, ‘served a very important purpose,\u2019 she told the blogger. The law staved off Republican efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage, Clinton said, an argument that seems to consign her husband\u2019s support of the law to the ‘necessary evil\u2019 category.\u2019 <\/p>\n

By the way, she was also asked a question. Ron Fournier said, ‘It is rare to hear Clinton…admit ignorance on a policy issue. But doing so came in handy as she fobbed off the question on Gore.\u2019 So now it was a brilliant strategy to act stupid! It was a brilliant strategy to be uninformed. It was a brilliant strategy to be ignorant on a policy question. Folks, if you ever have any doubts that the Drive-By Media work in concert to maintain and build these people\u2019s images and get them elected, this story alone proves it — and I\u2019ve got another one in here that is going to accomplish the same thing. I actually have a story in this stack by some idiot at Reuters, talking in a marveling and admiring way of all the accomplishments of the Democrat Congress. There aren\u2019t any accomplishments! The minimum wage is it. But this is a piece designed to muddle the minds of people who read Reuters. It\u2019s prop-\u2019em-up time. Anyway, so the bottom line is, Hillary has a paper-thin r&eacute;sum&eacute;, and what it means is that Bill\u2019s record is really all she\u2019s got. The Clinton name is all she has. I\u2019ve been making this point. ‘If her name weren\u2019t Clinton, would she even be considered for this on the basis of anything substantive that she has accomplished or achieved?\u2019 The answer is no. Now, she needs to be called on it, and this blogger may be called her on it, called her on some hard questions and so forth. But the Drive-Bys praise her ignorance as a strategy and say that the strategy of having no r&eacute;sum&eacute; of her own and then running on her husband\u2019s record, well, ‘it\u2019s a strategy that cuts both ways.\u2019 (Drive-By Media person impression) It might work, we hope it works, but it might not. If it doesn\u2019t work, we\u2019ll be there to help her make it work!<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Man, oh, man this is unbelievable, folks, this is — well, I use that word too much. It\u2019s not unbelievable, it\u2019s totally believable. I gotta come up with new words. I use mind-boggling too much, I use amazed too much. Amazing. I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from the New York Times November 3rd, 2000, almost seven years ago. If you\u2019re just joining us here, welfare recipient, Medicaid, just getting up, we just had a story from Ron Fournier in the Associated Press, and the lead of the story is, ‘Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for president on her husband\u2019s White House record, and it is a strategy that cuts both ways.\u2019 I have here — (laughing) — it\u2019s unbelievable. Adam Nagourney, the New York Times, November 3rd, 2000, seven years ago, headline: ‘Clinton Now Running on Husband\u2019s Record — Moving into the final leg of her campaign for Senate, Hillary Rodham Clinton sprinted from Buffalo to Manhattan to Long Island today, trying to do in New York State what Al Gore has studiously avoided doing across the nation: run on the record of the Clinton administration. Looking fatigued and swigging bottled water to fight a dry cough, Mrs. Clinton disparaged Representative Rick A. Lazio at every opportunity.\u2019 They\u2019re recycling even this story! Running on her husband\u2019s record. She had a paper-thin r&eacute;sum&eacute; in 2000, she\u2019s still got a paper-thin r&eacute;sum&eacute;. Is there any doubt that the Drive-By — no, there is no doubt that the Drive-Bys are just mouthpieces for the Democrat National Committee. Here\u2019s more proof positive. <\/p>\n

This is that Reuters story from Saturday that I was telling you about. Here\u2019s the headline: ‘Congress recesses amid Democratic achievements.\u2019 I mean, this is nothing short of a spoof! You tell a big lie, you tell it often enough, somebody will believe it. I\u2019m not going to read the whole thing to you. The telling part of the story is not what it says about Democrats, it\u2019s what it says about Reuters. ‘After months of being flogged for accomplishing little, Democrats who control Congress headed into a summer recess having passed several high-profile bills from raising the minimum wage to bolstering U.S. security and expanding children\u2019s health care.\u2019 Raising the minimum wage, yip yip, bolstering US security? Bolstering? The Democrats? President Bush, by the way, has shown us how to raise kids. You keep \u2019em in detention. Congress is a bunch of spoiled brats. He made \u2019em stay through Saturday. For this to be credited to the Democrats for increasing security is an insult to the intelligence of any citizen in this country who pays even scant attention to what\u2019s going on with this. That\u2019s why I say this is simply the Drive-Bys as mouthpieces for the Democrat National Committee, the Democrats in the House. <\/p>\n

‘Much of the Democrats\u2019 progress was incremental and out of the spotlight of the fights with Bush over the Iraq war, now in its fifth year. While those battles were raging, Democrats were able to plow ahead with bills they say will fulfill campaign promises to improve national security and help the neediest.\u2019 I can\u2019t handle anymore, folks, not with this story. On to the audio sound bites. Let\u2019s go to the kook fringe blogger convention that took place in Chicago. By the way, the congressional leadership bailed on this. Rahm Emanuel, Dingy Harry, and Pelosi, they were supposed to participate in a ‘meet the leaders\u2019 panel on Saturday morning at eight, and they bailed. They never even showed up, because they had to stay in Washington. The House was in session, and they had important votes. But it didn\u2019t stop the presidential candidates from showing up. <\/p>\n

The Democrats presidential candidates showed up, some of them did. I don\u2019t know how many, but they didn\u2019t go to the Democrat Leadership Council. They\u2019re avoiding all these so-called moderate centrist Democrat organizations. (interruption) No. I was just was asked a question. I sometimes don\u2019t think people realize the full scope and breadth of my talent. Here I am in the middle of a brilliant monologue setting things up, and in the IFB I get a question from Mr. Snerdley, who would only ask the question because he\u2019s confident enough to know that his interruption to me will not take me off track. His question is, ‘Is it safe to say that Mrs. Clinton is running on her husband\u2019s coattails?\u2019 No. That\u2019s not how I would characterize it. She\u2019s running on his zipper. I mean, if you\u2019re going to run on the Clinton administration record, you\u2019re running on his zipper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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