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RUSH: Wow! This is great, folks! This is utterly fabulous. Anita Dunn is the White House communications director. Technically she\u2019s the boss of Robert Gibbs. She is out there saying — now, get this — Anita Dunn, White House communications director, is out there saying, (paraphrasing) ‘Hey, go easy on the Senate Republicans. Rush Limbaugh does not speak for Senate Republicans.\u2019 She\u2019s out defending Senate Republicans. What she\u2019s actually trying to do is to manipulate the Senate Republicans into opposing Sotomayor, but about the nomination she is saying, ‘Hey, we got cut some Republican senators some slack here. They don\u2019t agree with what Rush Limbaugh is saying.\u2019 Well, now, wait a minute. ‘And Rush Limbaugh doesn\u2019t speak for them,\u2019 she said. <\/p>\n

Now, wait a minute. It was just last week and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that, I did speak for the Republicans. Since late January, from the White House out, it has been I am the leader of the Republicans, I speak for the Republicans. AP called today, they wanted to roll on my first-hour comments on Sotomayor because even though I passed the leadership baton to Colin Powell they said I\u2019m still the leading voice for the Republicans. The Democrats put up billboards saying that I speak for the Republican Party. And today, the White House communications director, Anita Dunn, says, ‘Hey, go easy on the Senate Republicans. Rush Limbaugh doesn\u2019t speak for them.\u2019 <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Listen to this. This is Anita Dunn on MSNBC ‘Live\u2019 this afternoon, Andrea Mitchell in her TV show. Mitchell says, ‘Rush Limbaugh called Sonia Sotomayor a ‘reverse racist\u2019 and hit her and the president hard in other comments on his broadcast today. How would you respond to that?\u2019<\/p>\n

DUNN: Well, I think, in — in fairness to the Republican senators, I am willing to say that Rush Limbaugh probably does not speak for them. We\u2019ve been heartened by the positive reaction — and really the excited reaction — that this choice has gotten from, you know, many people across the country, an extraordinarily qualified nominee who not only has a compelling personal story —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah? Mmm. Yeah.<\/p>\n

DUNN: — but has extraordinary judicial qualifications as well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She\u2019s not qualified. She\u2019s not qualified because she doesn\u2019t understand justice, but she does have a compelling story. There is no question. And that\u2019s going to be used to sell her, \u2019cause there isn\u2019t a soul that… After they create tears during the Senate confirmation hearings in this story, that\u2019s all she wrote. But, again, all of a sudden now I don\u2019t speak for the Republican Party. You know, she didn\u2019t clear that with James Carville and Rahm Emanuel \u2019cause now I don\u2019t speak for the Republican Party. So they gotta take that part of their agenda down. I don\u2019t speak for the Republican Party anymore. I\u2019m a maverick now! I\u2019m out there on my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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