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RUSH: Okay, Democrats and Republicans have reached an agreement in principle on the rescue plan. Now, what does this tell us? Well, it tells me a couple of things. One, that the Obama Democrats panicked into a quicker compromise to try to show that McCain didn\u2019t matter. You know, McCain\u2019s not meeting with Bush \u2019til four o\u2019clock and Obama\u2019s going to be in the meeting, too. So they get this done before four o\u2019clock, before Bush and Obama and McCain meet, so the fear of McCain coming in and getting this done forced the Democrats — \u2019cause, look, one thing, despite all this talk about how great the bailout plan, how huge it is, how it might really just expand the size of government in ways we\u2019ve never seen, the Democrats here, their strategery was to try to only commit to about 25% of the 700 billion at first, sort of like a trial balloon to see if it would work. <\/p>\n

Now, what does that tell you? It tells you they\u2019re afraid to do nothing because they are in control. I\u2019m very cynical about Democrats, as you know. I think if they could, their preference would be to not fix the whole thing more authoritatively because they thrive on chaos. They thrive on chaos and despair, particularly with 40 days to go to the election, they love this! They love this chaos and despair. That\u2019s why Harry Reid said, (paraphrasing) ‘Stay away from here, McCain. We don\u2019t need you.\u2019 That\u2019s why Obama said, (paraphrasing) ‘Hey, call me if you need me.\u2019 So two things happened. Everybody says it was the Republicans holding this up. Do not be fooled, my friends. It\u2019s the Drive-By Media telling you that. The Democrats did not want this thing to go this fast. They wanted to string it out; they wanted us to be teetering on the verge of national destruction and bankruptcy. They wanted you to be thinking that. And then all of a sudden McCain decides to suspend the campaign, leaving Obama in the bathroom primping in Clearwater, Florida, for the debate tomorrow night that now wasn\u2019t going to happen. He\u2019s going to go to Washington. (doing McCain impression) ‘That\u2019s right, leadership, I\u2019m going to get this done, somebody has to.\u2019 Democrats, ‘Oh, no! No!\u2019 So they got rushed. Now, that tells me we coulda gotten a lot. I don\u2019t know what we got, as Republicans, we coulda gotten a lot for the haste the Democrats wanted to get this done before McCain could get credit for it. I hope we didn\u2019t screw up too bad.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Audio sound bite time here, competing sound bites in a sense. Chris Dodd, one of the architects of this mess and one of the profiteers, in a sense, all the campaign donations he received and a favorable mortgage rate from Countrywide, Chris Dodd this afternoon in the rotunda of the Capitol.<\/p>\n

DODD: We\u2019ve reached a fundamental agreement on a set of principles, one for taxpayers, which is tremendously important. We\u2019re giving the secretary authority that he will need in order to act and the funding that he will need. We also have dealt I think effectively with the issue of effective oversight with home ownership preservation as well as executive compensation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: White House caved on that, by the way, they caved on exec compensation yesterday. Okay, so Colonel Sanders walks out and has just told us that the chickens he killed are okay and that we don\u2019t have anything to worry about. Here\u2019s Barney Frank who apparently — this is at the same place, but I don\u2019t know that he got the message.<\/p>\n

FRANK: Some of us have been invited to go to the White House today to try to break a deadlock, and I\u2019m glad that we\u2019ll be able to go and tell them that there\u2019s really not much of a deadlock to break, but I\u2019m always glad to get to go to the White House.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll bet they\u2019ll be glad to have you up there at the White House. So Barney is going to go to the White House. But there\u2019s not much of a deadlock to break. Did you understand that? Did you understand? You didn\u2019t? Let me see if I could help. Snerdley said he didn\u2019t understand what Barney said. (doing Barney Frank impression) ‘Some of us have been invited to go to the White House, to — to — to — to — to — to — to — to — to — to — to break a deadlock — it\u2019s not a deadlock — I don\u2019t know why because all of — run into.\u2019 Barney Frank. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: John Boehner is saying that House Republicans have not signed on to any bailout deal. It may yet require John McCain to get this done. The Democrats went out there and announced that there\u2019s a deal, that they have a deal in principle, and I think they did this prior to four o\u2019clock. That\u2019s when McCain is meeting with Bush and Obama at the White House, and they wanted to preempt any involvement by McCain in this, but Boehner is saying that they have not signed any bailout deal. The House Republicans haven\u2019t. Chris Dodd is also saying, (paraphrasing) ‘Hey, look, we\u2019re going to negotiate this; we\u2019re going to have a couple days here to debate this; we hope we get this legislation passed very soon.\u2019 A lot of people are waiting to see what this so-called deal in principle has in it. Now we learn that there is no deal in principle from John Boehner. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: From Marc Ambinder at TheAtlantic.com: ‘John McCain\u2019s vow to return to Washington and get this mess settled has lit a fire under the behinds of Democrat negotiators who worry that his presence will suspend their negotiations and give House Republicans a figure to rally around in opposition to a compromise and generally weaken their negotiation position. ‘ See? They are desperate that McCain not get any credit for this, whatever happens. That\u2019s why they\u2019ve come out and said we\u2019ve got a deal in principle. And then John Boehner, the House leader, said: No, no, no, no, we\u2019ve not signed anything. Now, Marc Ambinder then adds this to his blog post. ‘My colleague Nora McAvalnah tells me that sources close to Senate Democratic leadership,\u2019 that would be Dingy Harry, ‘now fear that McCain\u2019s true motivation for calling off his campaign and coming back to DC is simply to cast a ‘no\u2019 vote against the bailout, despite his private statements to the contrary. <\/p>\n

‘And it\u2019s a smart maneuver: Nothing says ‘maverick,\u2019 like voting against Bush and standing with the American public, who remain very wary of the proposal.\u2019 That\u2019s true. I have e-mail here from all of you. I\u2019ve spot-checked it, and I can\u2019t find a whole lot of support for this. Your instincts on this are right, but I\u2019m not going to bother repeating the analysis of the first and second hours. It will be up at RushLimbaugh.com later. But they\u2019re worried he\u2019s going to come in here, steal the credit, and then vote ‘no\u2019; vote against Bush, side with the American people, and totally screw up the plan. Frankly, folks, George Bush is gonna get what he wants, and so are the Democrats, and I think it would be worthy of maybe a minute of fanfare music to celebrate McCain voting against the Democrats. It doesn\u2019t happen much, and it would be noteworthy. We would raise the flag here symbolically. It could be a big event. We\u2019ll keep a sharp eye. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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