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RUSH: Logan, Utah. This is John. Great to have you here with us on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Dittos. I appreciate everything that you\u2019re saying today, and you\u2019re exactly right. Both sides are not to blame for the root cause.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: And the House Republicans deserve a lot of credit for not caving. I\u2019m really frustrated, though. But it\u2019s not with the media or the House Dems because they\u2019re doing exactly what I\u2019d expect, and in fact I even have to say McCain is living up to my low expectations of him. The one Republican that I think deserves my ire is President Bush. I put a lot of frustration right there at his feet, because it\u2019s not that he didn\u2019t fail to stand up against this bill and the whole concept. In fact, I\u2019ve heard that he sent a clear signal to the House Republicans that they need to vote ‘yes\u2019 and he\u2019s jumped on the Armageddon bandwagon. And it\u2019s not just the Democrats. We are truly without a conservative leader or even what I would think a fair-minded fiscally conservative leader.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I feel your pain, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I do not want to step aside and point specifically to the Dems and to the media. Bush I think in this particular instance — now, if he\u2019s pandering, and it\u2019s like the No Child Left Behind Act —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this is why a lot of Republicans are confused because they see the — you\u2019ve gotta reserve for the president the same right you reserve for McCain and others to be who they are. I mean, he was for letting Ted Kennedy write the education bill. He was for massive amnesty immigration. He\u2019s been for a lot of things that we weren\u2019t particularly in favor of.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. But if we then take the step — you\u2019ve put out there that the Democrats wanted to hang this around the neck of the Republicans. Now, if that\u2019s true, and we\u2019re cynical about this, either Bush is really ignorant of the politics that\u2019s happening on Capitol Hill —<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s not a partisan.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — or, he walked right into their trap and he\u2019s playing it. And so I have a really hard time being able to say —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I don\u2019t pretend to be able to speak for George W. Bush. <\/p>\n

CALLER: True.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not going to try to explain it. I\u2019ll tell you the thing that surprises me most about President Bush.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ve talked about it here, we\u2019ve produced the evidence on our website. This man personally tried to stop the shenanigans going on at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac multiple times this decade. I mean 12 to 20 times there were efforts to reregulate and to stop this. So it would seem to me that politically the president would have an opportunity to step up and say, ‘I warned everybody that this was going down, we did our best, the Democrats stopped us at every turn,\u2019 but that\u2019s not who he is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, so I guess we\u2019re right back at —<\/p>\n

RUSH: So all of a sudden what surprises me is, I guess he\u2019s gone beyond the blame aspect, it\u2019s too late to blame people, we\u2019ve got a problem, we\u2019ve gotta fix it. See, I disagree with that because the reason we need to focus on who\u2019s to blame for this is because the same people that broke it now claim to be able to fix it and monitor it and make sure it doesn\u2019t happen again. It\u2019s senseless to put the people in charge of this who broke it in the first place.<\/p>\n

CALLER: See, but that\u2019s the other part of the story in terms of the leadership that we need right now, and I guess we\u2019re back to that same point where Bush doesn\u2019t articulate well the things that we really need to be hearing. So, yes, I\u2019ll buy it that he has his principles, he\u2019s acting in harmony with his principles, but, boy, his PR machine needs a lot of work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s nothing new, either.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do know for a fact the president refuses to be partisan. He thinks it dishonors the office. He\u2019ll do it on the campaign trail now and then, but he will not do it while conducting official Oval Office business to a lot of people\u2019s dismay and frustration. There\u2019s another factor that you throw in here, and what\u2019s he got here? October, November, December. Three and a half months left. He basically has three months left in his administration. I don\u2019t think he thinks there\u2019s enough time to fight — well, I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve gotta stop there. Three months left, you connect the dots. It is what it is, and at this stage, the conservative leadership you\u2019re looking for is in the House of Representatives, and they stood up and they buck their own president. You know, here\u2019s another thing. I mean it\u2019s just an interesting observation. The very Democrats who have made it plain they despise George W. Bush, they hate his guts and they have for eight years, they have done everything they can to tar, feather, ruin, destroy his character, his life, his presidency. And yet here they are on the same page with him on this acting like all of a sudden he\u2019s their best friend. <\/p>\n

I hope these guys are learning something. I\u2019m talking about the Democrats, and the president, too. It was stated earlier on this program, and it\u2019s true. Two presidential candidates, the one thing that they don\u2019t get here is the degree of opposition to this among the population. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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