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RUSH: over the weekend the Democrat Congress totally caved and gave Bush spying authority. (Laughing.) They just did, and the reason is very simple. They know the threat we face, and when push comes to shove, when that FISA judge made his ruling that these two phone calls fell outside the limit, that\u2019s when the Bush administration ran. Look, folks, the Democrats know what the threat is. They see the intel. They know what\u2019s going on. That\u2019s why, if they\u2019re in the White House in \u201908, whoever it is, Hillary, we\u2019re not pulling out of Iraq. We are not, and they are lying to their own base, and they are lying to the American people about getting out of Iraq. I mean, they\u2019d love to get out now. They\u2019d love to engineer a loss, don\u2019t misunderstand, that they could saddle around Bush and the Republicans and that could destroy them, but once defeat can be laid at their feet, it ain\u2019t going to happen. When the push came to shove on this security proposal, all of this talk in the past two years about ‘domestic spying,\u2019 and civil liberties, was bunch of BS, because when the pedal hit the metal, when the rubber hit the road, the realities of national security overcame it — and he kept \u2019em in Congress on Saturday.<\/p>\n

He told us. Bush is showing how to be a great parent, how you deal with kids. You put \u2019em in a detention center. You deny \u2019em their vacation on the first day. You do whatever. You be tough. He got what he want — and the netroots, the kook fringe is beside themselves. They feel sold out! They\u2019re angrier at the Democrats in Congress than they are at Bush, and that is saying something! You gotta hear this sound bite by a fellow fringe kook, who used to be a pretty responsible news guy in New York but has totally gone off the cliff for the Democrats. It\u2019s amazing to watch what\u2019s happened to Jack Cafferty. It is amazing to see. When I moved to New York he was on Live at Five was doing all this stuff, and he was great. He has just totally, like all these people on the left, lost it. He has no sense of reason, unless this is just a purposeful attempt to appeal to a certain segment of the kooks. Here\u2019s a montage of his little segment. He does a thing with Wolf Blitzed — Blitzer! — on The Situation Room, where he puts a question out then and then reads e-mail from viewers who react to it. This is a montage of Jack Cafferty reading some of the e-mails he has gotten from the wacko-fringe base.<\/p>\n

CAFFERTY: Lisa, Fairfax, Virginia: ‘I can\u2019t believe this happened. This is not what the Democratic Congress was elected to do. I want them to restore our civil liberties, not help King Bush and his minions take them away.\u2019 Mary writes, ‘The Dem leadership are just too cowardly and gutless to be trusted to defend our country. Claire writes, ‘The Democrats caved on the issue and allowed themselves to be, as you put it, ‘strong-armed.\u2019 What\u2019s left? Hopeless.\u2019 Jonathan in Connecticut: ‘Of course the Democratic Congress shouldn\u2019t have allowed the warrantless wiretapping bill to go through.\u2019 Samantha in Arizona writes: ‘Congratulations to our Congress in backing a president who continues to violate our Constitution and prolong a lie-based war,\u2019 and Tom in Delaware writes, ‘The Democrats have joined the Republicans in scuttling the Constitution. I am less afraid of a terrorist attack than I am of my own government.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. (Laughing.) So they are livid, and they are livid at the Democrats. But the bottom line here is, aside from the substance of the issue, every time, every time these Democrats go up against George W. Bush, they lose — and they lose embarrassingly. They lost on all of their resolutions. They lost so bad Dingy Harry had to pull them all. Now they\u2019re left with trying to discredit General Petraeus. There\u2019s a thing they\u2019re trying to blame on him. What is it? Oh, ‘all these missing weapons.\u2019 They\u2019re trying to blame Petraeus as incompetent in advance of his report, which is coming out in September. For this guy, Bush, to be such an idiot and such a brain dead Alfred E. Newman and frat boy and all this, why, he just skunks them at each and every turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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