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RUSH: From the Politico today, Mike Allen. This is interesting. ‘A well-known anti-war leader has gone public with the transcript of a private conference call that shows peace activists are exasperated with the Democratic congressional leadership and at a loss for a long-term strategy. The Aug. 29 call highlights divisions in the Democratic Party that Republicans are gearing up to try to exploit as Congress debates its response to the report on Iraq this week by Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. … Republicans say the call reflects the degree to which war opponents have failed to gain the advantage that many in both parties thought would build over the summer. Rabbi Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun magazine…\u2019and a long-ago, deeply involved supporter of Hillary Clinton, ‘… posted the transcript Friday on the website of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, of which he is a co-chair. The transcript shows that opponents of the war in Iraq plan to try to convince freshman Democrats from conservative districts that they might not get reelected unless the party produces something serious in the way of resistance to the war. But the call shows the war opponents are having little success because of fears about the impact on next year\u2019s elections if the party is seen as defeatist.\u2019<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, what\u2019s happening here, these freshman Democrats are being called into Pelosi\u2019s office, and they\u2019re being told, ‘You\u2019re going to vote with us on these resolutions or else.\u2019 Now, folks, they\u2019re being bribed or they\u2019re being blackmailed. I don\u2019t know which it is. But clearly the anti-war activists are not getting their money\u2019s worth out of the Democrat Party. I mentioned this in my stirring monologue in the first hour. Why don\u2019t we get any reports on the numerous conference calls between Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi with the people at MoveOn.org and the Daily Kos and the rest of these literal lunatic fringe websites? Because that\u2019s who\u2019s pulling their strings. Who knows what they\u2019re being told, but we had stories out this morning that Democrats were not going to personally call Petraeus a liar, they\u2019ll leave it to their surrogate groups. ‘We\u2019ve got them for that,\u2019 said one unidentified senator. Well, apparently the surrogate groups are not happy with that. They want to hear these words come out of the mouths of Democrats, and so right on cue, Tom Lantos today called a four-star general sitting before him in a House committee hearing room, in full military dress, a liar, with no credibility, a puppet trying to discredit anything and everything that is said. Petraeus is a smart guy. I\u2019m hoping that these Democrats with this have once again opened the door right into their nose and will be walking out of this committee hearing room this afternoon a bit bloody. If it happens, the American people will not know about it, because the Drive-By Media will not report that. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Alan in Arlington, Texas. Hi, Alan. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. I just want to thank you for being the anchor and mouthpiece of America. Today has been the worst day of my life. Up until today, 9\/11 was the worst day in my life. And as I sit here and listen to this congressional hearing, I have shaked, rattled, and rolled, and cried and everything else. I can\u2019t believe our country, what has happened to our Congress?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not that hard to explain. The answers may be tough, they may be tough to accept, you might not want to believe them, but it\u2019s not hard to explain what\u2019s happened to the Democrats in Congress.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I understand, Rush. I\u2019ve listened to you for 18 years and I think you\u2019re the greatest man in this America, and I think you\u2019re one of the top five individuals that have walked this earth. When I was in the third grade, I remember walking home from school the day that Kennedy was killed, and I knew then right from wrong, and I cannot believe that these Democrats, not the Democratic Party, but these Democrats, do not know right from wrong. They\u2019re evil.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Whistling.) Evil?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Evil. And I don\u2019t know why Lieberman hasn\u2019t flipped and become a Republican.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s called being reelected in his —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t care, but we helped him, and he needs to be on our side of the fence —<\/p>\n

RUSH: He is. Hey, hey, hey, he is on our side on this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know, but he needs to be 50-50.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, that\u2019s not a big deal. Democrats aren\u2019t able to get anything done, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re doing all this. Their left-wing lunatic fringe supporters are just livid and leading them around. If there are puppets here, it\u2019s the damn Democrats. They\u2019re the ones who are puppets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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