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RUSH: Open Line Friday. Temecula, California, Brittany, welcome. It\u2019s great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Glad to speak with you, and good morning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good morning.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good morning. I\u2019d like to introduce myself. My name is Brittany. I am the third oldest of ten children, and first generation daughter, born here in America from two parents who emigrated here from Iraq. I have two military brother veterans, one on the way to the Marine Corps, and I would like to speak to you today about Gitmo. And I would like to say, ‘Today I heard on the news that Barack Obama planned either in the first day or the first week of his term in office, close Gitmo and move them either to Pendleton or somewhere in Kansas.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it won\u2019t happen or no…?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not going to happen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, even if it did happen, I\u2019m just trying to say here that from my perspective of being someone who has relatives in the Middle East and being an American full heartedly —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It isn\u2019t going to happen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t deal in things that aren\u2019t real. Don\u2019t get yourself worked up about something that isn\u2019t going to happen. We got real things to get worked up about here. But closing Gitmo isn\u2019t going to happen. It\u2019s not going to happen. It is not going to happen. He\u2019s not going to close Gitmo. They\u2019re not going to pull out of Iraq until they can secure a 100% victory. They\u2019re not going to pull out of there with the possibility that the place falls apart. It ain\u2019t going to happen. They\u2019re going to increase troop levels in — well, Bush has increased them; they\u2019re going to take credit for that. They\u2019re gonna go kick butt in Afghanistan. But about Club Gitmo… Oh, along the same lines, do you remember, Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle about a year ago (and we played the audio of this) that his cap-and-trade program would put the coal business out of business?<\/p>\n

It would be silly for anybody to open a new coal plant. He was going to close them down. It turns out that\u2019s not going to happen, either. Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com points out that Obama\u2019s statements require an expiration date. Let me illustrate this for you — first, Brittany, so you can relax and the rest of you, on Club Gitmo. Today\u2019s lead story in the Washington Post reports that President-select Obama, quote: ‘Will consider it a failure if he has not closed the military prison at Guantanamo Bay by the end of his first term in office.\u2019 Now, that, for those of you who voted for Obama, is four years, not life. Four years. Now, they will issue the executive order on Monday or Tuesday afternoon. I\u2019ll betcha that executive order hits the news while the parade\u2019s going on. ‘Close Gitmo,\u2019 because Obama knows that his Looney Tune fringe kooks in the asylums known as the left-wing blogosphere will be totally placated by Obama. <\/p>\n

‘We\u2019re closing it. I issued the executive order to close it,\u2019 but it isn\u2019t going to happen for four years. So this is how he does it. He does two things at once, both sides of the issue, and gets credit for both, does not end up being criticized. Now, when it comes to coal, ‘A year ago, Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle this: ‘So, if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can — it\u2019s just that it will bankrupt them, because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that\u2019s being emitted,” and he effectively said we\u2019re going to put the coal business out of business. ‘On Wednesday, Mr. Obama\u2019s choice to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, described coal to a Senate panel as ‘a vital resource\u2019 for the country. A day earlier, Mr. Obama\u2019s nominee to run the Energy Department, physicist Steven Chu, referred to coal as a ‘great natural resource.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Two years ago, he called the expansion of coal-fired power plants his ‘worst nightmare.” Is it a flip-flop? Ed Morrissey asks. No. It\u2019s just that his statements have an ‘expiration date,\u2019 and when it expires, it\u2019s time for a new statement. So he\u2019s not going to put the coal industry out of business. He\u2019s saying a bunch of stuff. Well, no, we can\u2019t say he\u2019s not going to put the coal industry out of business because these claims by his people also have an expiration date. We just don\u2019t know what it is. We don\u2019t know how long these statements are operative. But there was never any intention to close Gitmo. Never. As Obama has said, he has learned some of these people down there are really dangerous — and some of the evidence, though tainted, is true. (interruption) Yes. Liberals will stand for it. He\u2019s too big to fail. Listen, this is a cult, man. This is a cult! This is a guy who could get people to go to the Hale-Bopp Comet with him Tuesday afternoon if he said that\u2019s where he\u2019s headed. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I constantly suggest to people that they not doubt me. Don\u2019t doubt me. I checked the e-mail during the time-out. People think that the left in this country is going to be outraged when they find out that Obama won\u2019t close Guantanamo Bay for four years. They won\u2019t hear that! It\u2019s in the Washington Post today but that\u2019s where it will die. What they\u2019re going to hear is an executive order announced to close it. They\u2019re gonna hear that on Tuesday afternoon and it\u2019s a done deal, okay, move on to the next thing. We will remind them of but they don\u2019t want to hear what we say or what we think about it even if we\u2019re quoting their messiah. But remember, the Bush administration shredding the Constitution, suspending habeas corpus in that place called Club Gitmo, where innocents were being held unfairly without trial, without being told what they\u2019re being charged with, without being told when they\u2019ll be released. The Obama administration now hopes — and they, by the way, the Obama administration, campaign, he himself is saying all these things, too — hopes to be able to shut the place down by the end of his first term. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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