{"id":26804,"date":"2007-09-12T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:00:12","slug":"petraeus_hearings_cook_democrats2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/09\/12\/petraeus_hearings_cook_democrats2\/","title":{"rendered":"Petraeus Hearings Cook Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: The president of the United States is going to address the nation for 15 minutes tomorrow night on the Iraq war and the war on terror, and I wonder what the left is going to say about this. Will they say that Bush is just a mouthpiece for the evil General Petraeus, or will they say that Petraeus put the words in Bush\u2019s mouth? Are they going to do a 180 now? Folks, here\u2019s a headline, and this is all you have to know about how the Petraeus hearings went on Monday and Tuesday: ‘Democrats Scramble for Iraq Strategy.\u2019 These headlines are all over the Drive-By Media. When you see that, you know they got cooked, and they know they got cooked. Petraeus ran rings around them. This was another Wellstone Memorial moment for the Democrat Party, these past two days of hearings. Everybody in politics claims to want to go after the independents. This is the kind of thing that infuriates the independents. They don\u2019t like to see a decorated four-star trashed, his reputation attacked and impugned by people. I have finally figured it out. I\u2019ve been all wrong about this. I figured Mrs. Clinton was ahead, so far in the primary polling for the Democrat presidential race because of name recognition and other things. I\u2019ve had to revise this. After watching Barack Obama at these hearings yesterday regarding General Petraeus, I have to conclude he\u2019s a blithering idiot. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also thought that about John Edwards for the longest time, and that I\u2019ve told you. We\u2019ve been sort of respectful and hopeful for Barack Obama here because the left has tired to take him out on the fact he\u2019s ‘not black enough;\u2019 he\u2019s not ‘down for the struggle,\u2019 all those columns about, ‘Is he black enough?\u2019 And then the guy in the LA Times writes the piece about ‘Obama, the ‘Magic Negro,” and so forth — which inspired a great parody, by the way, heard exclusively here on the EIB Network. So here\u2019s Barack, presidential candidate. We\u2019ve got audio sound bites of this we\u2019ll get to in a while, but you had Dodd; you had Biden; you had Obama, and all of these people took the time for their questioning to simply pontificate, and lecture, and make campaign speeches, and then Obama started whining and moaning he didn\u2019t have enough time for questions. He never intended to ask any questions, is the point, because he was at least smart enough to figure out that Petraeus would run rings around whatever questions he asked. So he just kept pontificating and saying things, and General Petraeus sits there and is professional about this. So you have the Democrats, who will not denounce MoveOn.org, which is good for us. We don\u2019t want them denouncing MoveOn.org. They are afraid to denounce MoveOn.org, and they probably agree with what MoveOn.org did. In fact, I won\u2019t forget the quote that we found last Friday from some unnamed senator, who made it plain, ‘No, we\u2019re not going to call the guy a liar. We have our support groups do that. Our surrogate groups are going to do that.\u2019 <\/p>\n

They couldn\u2019t restrain themselves. From Tom Lantos, to Biden, to all these guys, they called him a flat-out liar in so many words. Then when you see this headline: ‘Democrats Scramble for Iraq Strategy,\u2019 listen to how this story reads. This is from The Politico: ‘[I]n public, Democrats maintained a brave front, dismissing recommendations from Army General Petraeus as too little, too late and suggesting he was the puppet of an unpopular president. Behind the scenes, though, Democrats are scrambling to deal with a new dynamic on Capitol Hill — they\u2019re the ones who are trying to come up with a new political strategy on the war.\u2019 Does that not say it all about who they are? The one thing that will never enter their calculations is victory. I\u2019m sorry to sound like a broken record on this, but it is true. Here we have the nation at war, and the Democrat Party is ‘scrambling\u2019 for another political strategy because they just had their goose cooked. It is over. Bush is going to get what he wants. This surge is going to go as long as Petraeus recommends it. The Democrats have bombed miserably, and I knew they would. I\u2019ve been confident. I\u2019ve been trying to allay many of the fears that you people have out there, born of history. I understand the fears. But these guys are sabotaging themselves. They\u2019re McGovernizing themselves all over again. They\u2019re doing it in plain view, and they\u2019re doing it arrogantly and proudly, as far as they\u2019re concerned. <\/p>\n

They must be proud of what they\u2019re doing, but it\u2019s coming back to hurt them, coming back to harm them. But I think, ladies and gentlemen, the pi&egrave;ce de r&eacute;sistance (also found at The Politico.com, and other places): ‘Senator Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the Democrat presidential nomination, opened her questioning of Petraeus and Crocker with the standard ‘I honor your service,” blah, blah, blah, blah, ‘then she let the two of them have it. ‘You have been made the de facto spokesman for what many of us believe to be a failed policy in Iraq. Despite what I view as your rather extraordinary efforts and your testimony both yesterday and today, I think that the reports that you provide us really require a willing suspension of disbelief.” Of all people! Of all people to suggest that ‘to accept what somebody says requires a suspension of disbelief\u2019! Mrs. Clinton, for 20 years, we have been in a state of disbelief about you and your husband, and you won\u2019t go away! This is coming from the person who invented and spun all the lies which kept the Clinton administration running. I think, ladies and gentlemen, it\u2019s beyond the pale, and addressing Ambassador Crocker, she said, ‘It\u2019s not only the Iraqi government that\u2019s failed to pursue a coherent strategy. I think our own has as well.\u2019 When she was done, by the way, many of the reporters and about two-thirds of the audience left the hearings. They got out of there. <\/p>\n

Willing suspension of disbelief? This is the woman, ladies and gentlemen, may I remind you, who told us she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. Well, Sir Edmund Hillary was not known when she was born. He hadn\u2019t yet climbed the mountain. It was a lie. It was a flat-out lie, and she told it to a bunch of Australians. Now she has to give back $850,000 of dirty money saying that she didn\u2019t know where it came from. She couldn\u2019t vet the donor. By the way, you go buy a car, and they can find out if you\u2019ve got a criminal record, and they can do it like that. (snapping fingers) Don\u2019t tell me, Mrs. Clinton, Howard Wolfson, and the rest of Clinton Inc., that you couldn\u2019t find out who Norman Hsu is. It\u2019s even worse than we thought. The Wall Street Journal has a front-page story today. Do you know who funded Norman Hsu? Everybody is asking, ‘Where did this guy get the money?\u2019 He got the money in part from a New York financier who was one of the sponsors, founders, creators, whatever, the guy that put on Woodstock; $40 million, this financier gave Norman Hsu! By the way, Norman Hsu, is that his real name? You know, there have been a couple of things I\u2019ve seen, and I can\u2019t confirm this, but he\u2019s apparently got a lot of names. One of them is Hsu Xiao Ling, which is why I\u2019ve been using it, throwing it in there in the first hour. So she says she\u2019s named after Sir Edmund Hillary.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I don\u2019t have time to chronicle all the fundraising scandals of the Clintons in the nineties, because we did that already. She has to give back this 850 grand, but it\u2019s a shell game because the money is going to come back to her. These people can re-donate it if they want. They just don\u2019t have to go through Mr. Hsu. Then she has the audacity to question General Petraeus and to say to believe him requires ‘a suspension of disbelief.\u2019 Now, some of you might support Hillary. Some of you might hold your nose and vote for her. But I don\u2019t know anybody — I really don\u2019t know anybody — with a modicum of honesty who thinks that Hillary\u2019s strong suit is integrity. I don\u2019t hear that said about Hillary Clinton. I don\u2019t hear it said about her husband. Yet this wife of a former president, this junior senator from New York, this no-star senator, challenges a decorated four-star general. What was the phrase that was attached to Bill Clinton? Bob Kerrey, the then-senator from Nebraska called him ‘an unusually good liar.\u2019 William Safire called her ‘a congenital liar.\u2019 But nobody talks about her integrity. What she did to General Petraeus is as absurd, folks, as Alger Hiss grilling General Eisenhower. (If you don\u2019t know who Alger Hiss is, we\u2019ll put a little short history at RushLimbaugh.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Every respected journalist… You know what a ‘respected journalist\u2019 is, and that\u2019s like a journalist respected by other journalists, not respected by the customers, not respected by the American people. Every respected journalist, every one of them, knows the Clintons are notorious from campaign contributions from unseemly characters — and every one of them knows Mrs. Clinton has been on every side of this war, from getting Saddam, to sucking up to MoveOn.org. She has been wherever she\u2019d had to be on this war. Yet what do we hear? What do we read? She says to General Petraeus, his progress report ‘requires a willing suspension of disbelief.\u2019 What really requires a willing suspension of disbelief is Mrs. Clinton\u2019s standing on the war. The media keeps saying Mrs. Clinton hasn\u2019t made any mistakes on the campaign trail. Translation: The media keeps saying, ‘She hasn\u2019t made any mistakes that we\u2019re going to tell you about,\u2019 but she has made plenty of mistakes on the campaign trail. Anyway, they\u2019re cooked, folks. They\u2019ve shot all they\u2019ve got. It came back and backfired on them just as the Wellstone Memorial backfired on them, and now they\u2019re out there trying to cook up ‘a new strategy for the war.\u2019 They don\u2019t have any other strategy other than to lose. So their new strategy, obviously, is going to be a new strategy to secure defeat for the United States of America.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: We had a story in the last hour, ladies and gentlemen, from The Politico.com in which it was stated that the Democrats are searching for a new policy now, a new strategy, if you will, on Iraq. They don\u2019t quite know what to do. Well, here it is. Headline: ”Democrats Scramble for Iraq Strategy.\u2019 Democrats are scrambling to deal with a new dynamic on Capitol Hill — they\u2019re the ones who are trying to come up with a new political strategy on the war.\u2019 That alone says a mouthful. Here we have a war over the US national security, and they\u2019re looking at it as a political issue and trying to come up with a strategy. But they have. Bottom line is, they\u2019ve come up with a strategy. Senate Democrat leader Dingy Harry Reid, just saw him on the tube, says that Senate Democrats ‘reject the call by General Petraeus for a reduction of as many as 30,000 US troops in Iraq by next summer, saying it is not enough.\u2019 Withdrawing 30,000 troops does not go far enough. So the new strategy is the old strategy. The new strategy is, ‘No, you gotta pull \u2019em all out, much more than that, and do it much sooner.\u2019 We disagree. That\u2019s their new strategy, which is their old strategy.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Another brilliant observation made by me, El Rushbo, because I, ladies and gentlemen, can read the stitches — I can see the stitches — on a fastball. The Democrats now have their ‘new strategy\u2019 — and that is their old strategy — of saying, ‘Get us out! We need to have a timetable! We need to get troops out of there.\u2019 So Petraeus comes up with one and they say it\u2019s not good enough. They reject it. They wouldn\u2019t agree with anything. If Petraeus said, ‘We want to get out in six months,\u2019 they\u2019d find a way to disagree with that. It\u2019s too soon or whatever. But what do they keep saying about President Bush? He has a closed mind. He can\u2019t be changed by new information. He refuses to deal with reality! He will not admit his mistakes. Well, General Petraeus has spoken, not glowingly, but realistically, about Iraq. So has Ambassador Crocker. Now, let\u2019s see. Who has the closed mind now, the president or the left? Who refuses to be changed by new information? Who rejects it? Who doesn\u2019t even want to hear the new information, the president or the Drive-By Media and the left? The answer is obvious. Sorry I brought it up, folks. I may have been wasting time (whispers)…not!<\/emphasize><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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