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RUSH: There have to be, folks, some hurt feelings out there among the left-wing kook base. In fact, I know that because of this Lieberman thing, there already are. The left kooks, they are fried. They wanted Lieberman strung up and flogged. After all the public threats Harry Reid walked out to the cameras, he said nothing was going to be done to Lieberman for leaving the reservation and backing McCain, and Lieberman is still chairman of homeland security, no punishment, no nothing, and it was Obama who interceded to guarantee it. On various websites out there — I\u2019ve checked it out — they are fit to be tied. They\u2019re saying, ‘We count for nothing, we mean nothing. ‘Democracy\u2019 is a nice word, but it should never threaten the entitlement of the most exclusive club in the world. No matter what Lieberman does, the people who are protecting him hate you much more than they hate him.\u2019 These are libs talking to each other. <\/p>\n

Now, this decision to hold onto Lieberman and not punish him came the same day more bad news for kooks hit the Drive-By Media. Two advisors for The Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, the Most Merciful, told the press there is little, if any, chance the Justice Department will bring criminal charges against Bush officials who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of the terrorists at Club Gitmo. They were saying war crimes. They wanted trials. They wanted Bush and Cheney and everybody in charge of torture strung up, and that\u2019s not going to happen. Adding more insult to injury, another favorite of the kook left base, Senator Pat ‘Leaky\u2019 Leahy was asked during an interview on Vermont Public Radio if Bush administration officials would be brought up on war crimes charges. Leaky said, ‘In the United States, no.\u2019 That implies that maybe some other country will do it. (laughing) So these kooks, do you understand what they were hoping? They wanted impeachment. They wanted war crimes trials. They wanted Nuremberg type things. They wanted Lieberman strung up and flogged. None of it\u2019s going to happen, and they\u2019re the ones feeling sold out, they\u2019re the ones thinking, ‘My God, we bought a bill of goods. We have been used. He\u2019s not who he says he was,\u2019 and this is just the first wave of it. There will be much more of this as we move from the kooks to what we think we call the left-wing mainstream. If you can there\u2019s such a thing, they, too, will have their eyes opened in the coming months. <\/p>\n

Michael Ratner is a professor at Columbia school of law. He\u2019s president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and he\u2019s also mad. He wants the Bushies to pay for protecting us from terrorists. Here was his quote: ‘I don\u2019t see how we regain our moral stature by allowing those who were intimately involved in the torture programs to simply walk off the stage and lead lives where they\u2019re not held accountable.\u2019 So now even a Columbia law school professor has been left out in the cold. Let me tell you, those of you at the Daily Kos and wherever else, you\u2019re all upset about Lieberman, those of you at the Democrat Underground or wherever else, upset that the Justice Department\u2019s not going to bring criminal charges over anybody at Club Gitmo, those of you who lurk at the Huffington Post, if you\u2019re all upset that the Bush administration will not be brought up on war crimes charges, relax. Don\u2019t give up hope for change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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