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RUSH: This is Jamie in Virginia Beach. You\u2019re next. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi! Oh, my goodness, it\u2019s such an honor to talk to you. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve been a faithful listener of yours for like 20 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You can\u2019t do any better than that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. A viewer, too, when you were on TV, I used to love to watch and listen to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re welcome, dear. And thank you for being brave and courageous, and keep it going. Real quick, Rush, I just want to bring a little bit home right now. Myself and some friends made a special trip up to the Capitol yesterday just to encourage the Republicans that are on the floor fighting for us concerning the energy bill. It was an absolutely unprecedented day. It was absolutely fantastic. These men and women are there without, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. They\u2019re coming in off their vacations to spend time —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And, by the way, I love these stories that Pelosi has relented, and she\u2019s now considering a vote. Let me tell you something. This is all for show because Pelosi can see that nobody\u2019s buying her book. There were 5,333 copies in two weeks, and she\u2019s been on all the usual chat shows that supposedly sell books to women. She\u2019s been on The View. Nobody is buying her book because nobody cares about who she is, she\u2019s got a 9% approval rating in there, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Gas prices are the tipping point, four-dollar gasoline, the American people want something done about it. It\u2019s easily understandable. She\u2019s the one, along with the Democrats, standing in the way of this on purpose. Now we learn that she\u2019s invested in Boone Pickens\u2019 company that, for their little plan to pay off we need gas prices to stay high, to make the alternatives that Pickens is trying to sell to people attractive, and she\u2019s joined that effort. There\u2019s a great question here of conflict. So she\u2019s seen all this, ‘Okay, I\u2019m open to scheduling a vote.\u2019 But they\u2019ll come up with a piece of legislation that\u2019s as reckless and worthless as what the Gang of Ten came up with in the Senate.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That will not lead to new drilling. That\u2019s why what these guys in the House are doing is crucial; it\u2019s an election-year issue. There\u2019s not gonna be a bill on this before the election. These guys are continuing to focus attention on it because it is the issue.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is the issue that can launch McCain ahead. Obama, I just got a story here, this just cleared, they\u2019re all worried in Philadelphia because Obama is narrowly ahead in Pennsylvania. He should be up double digits in Pennsylvania. And I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re surprised because he barely — well, he lost Pennsylvania to Mrs. Clinton, didn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In the primaries. Where is the evidence that Obama\u2019s going to get votes out of these states?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not there and they know it. In the Democrat Party, there\u2019s a little buyer\u2019s remorse going on. Here\u2019s the story. Dave Davies wrote it: ‘Obama hasn\u2019t been able to pull away despite signs it should be a big Democratic year in Pennsylvania. ‘He\u2019s on third base, but so far he can\u2019t seem to find a way to get home.” That\u2019s the whole primary. That\u2019s the story of the whole primary. So these Republicans in the House have come up with this issue, finally employing some legislative tactics that are firing up their base.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right, absolutely right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We don\u2019t want to get along with Democrats; we want to mop the floor with them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Legislatively, of course.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. I just wanted to thank them publicly because they came in from their vacations.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, real quick, Rush, it was so ironic. Congressman Price was so gracious to me. I was sitting in the front row on the Congress floor so, you know, if you can get a chance to go up there, please do, to encourage them, I\u2019m talking to everybody here in America, if you could, but anyway, I noticed two plaques right over the speaker\u2019s head. Number one was ‘In God we trust\u2019 and the other one was a quote by Daniel Webster that said, ‘We should use all our resources in order to make our country great.\u2019 I\u2019m paraphrasing this a little bit. And I pointed that out to the Congressman Price who was speaking, and he was so gracious to me, asked my name, where I was from, and he did a little oratory on that. And it\u2019s so ironic, it\u2019s right over the speaker\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. That\u2019s interesting. Well, look, I\u2019m glad you made the trip. I\u2019m sure they were inspired seeing you there, and I know they\u2019re getting lots of phone calls and letters of support, which is crucial because the Senate as usual, the Senate Republicans, the Senate in general is just undermining, slowing down whatever progress is being made in the House on things, which people say is its constitutional purpose, yip yip. And in fact, the less they do over there the better. A quick time-out. I\u2019m a little long in this section. Thanks very much, Jamie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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