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RUSH: You know what my problem is, folks? I want to be very honest. I have never been an oppressed minority, even though I am in a minority. I don\u2019t think like one. Conservatism is an oppressed minority today. The Republican Party is an oppressed minority. The only problem I have is I don\u2019t think that way. But they all do. When you\u2019re an oppressed minority, what do you do? You willingly go to the back of the bus and you willingly shut up and you willingly don\u2019t make waves. If ever a civil rights movement was needed in America, it is for the Republican Party. If ever we needed to start marching for freedom and constitutional rights, it\u2019s for the Republican Party. The Republican Party is today\u2019s oppressed minority, and it knows how to behave as one. It shuts up. It doesn\u2019t cross bridges; it doesn\u2019t run into the Bull Connors of the Democrat Party; it is afraid of the fire hoses and the dogs, it\u2019s compliant. <\/p>\n

The Republican Party today has become totally complacent. They are an oppressed minority; they know their position; they know their place. They go to the back of the bus. They don\u2019t use the right restroom and the right drinking fountain, and they shut up. I don\u2019t think this way. I don\u2019t think of myself as an oppressed minority or as a member of an oppressed minority, and I hope I never do think of myself as one. I\u2019m just an American. Truth is the truth. I\u2019m an enlightened individual, and an enlightened individual is one who seeks truth. Barack Obama is not an enlightened individual. He is a narcissist. Barack Obama seeks himself, seeks adoration, adulation. He\u2019s like narcissists. He\u2019s stuck on his own reflection in the mirror, in a pool of water. He\u2019s not substantive. He sees himself the way he sees a reflection of himself, and he wants everybody else to see him the same way. <\/p>\n

Barack Obama thinks of himself as a member of an oppressed minority, but he\u2019s not taking it, he\u2019s fighting back. He\u2019s going to go so far as to desecrate the Constitution to address his grievances. The Republican Party, they\u2019ve mastered it, they\u2019ve got it down pat. Washington, DC, may as well be — (interruption) what, Snerdley? Washington, DC, is the Old South for Republicans, if you want to draw the analogy. They have gotten comfortable being an oppressed minority and they play the game; they don\u2019t speak out; they shut up. And when they do get gutsy and try to shut up or speak up, they do so in a way that won\u2019t offend anybody. <\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal, November 15th, 2003, Review and Outlook: ”Why The Democrats Borked Estrada, In Their Own Words\u2019 — Now that the Senate has concluded its 30-hour talkathon on judicial filibusters, we thought readers might like to peer inside the filibustering Democratic mind, such as it is. This plunge into the murky deep comes from staff strategy memos we\u2019ve obtained from the days when Democrats ran the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2001-02. Or, rather, appeared to run the committee. Their real bosses are the liberal interest groups that more or less tell the Senators when to sit, speak and roll over — and which Bush judges to confirm or not. Here are some excerpts.\u2019<\/p>\n

This is a memo to Dick Durbin. ‘You are scheduled to meet with leaders of several civil rights organizations to discuss their serious concerns with the judicial nomination process. The leaders will likely include : Ralph Neas (People For the American Way), Kate Michelman (NARAL), Nan Aron (Alliance for Justice), Wade Henderson (Leadership Conference on Civil Rights), Leslie Proll (NAACP Legal Defense &amp; Education Fund), Nancy Zirkin (American Association of University Women), Marcia Greenberger (National Women\u2019s Law Center), and Judy Lichtman (National Partnership). … The primary focus will be on identifying the most controversial and\/or vulnerable judicial nominees. The groups would like to postpone action on these nominees until next year, when (presumably) the public will be more tolerant of partisan dissent.\u2019 <\/p>\n

November 7th, 2001, memo to Senator Durbin. ‘The groups singled out three — Jeffrey Sutton (6th Circuit); Priscilla Owen (5th Circuit); and Caroline [sic] Kuhl (9th Circuit) — as a potential nominee for a contentious hearing early next year, with a [sic] eye to voting him or her down in Committee. They also identified Miguel Estrada (DC Circuit) as especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment. They want to hold Estrada off as long as possible.\u2019<\/p>\n

There are other memos in the story to Senator Kennedy telling him who to meet with and how to react and how to behave. But here\u2019s a memo to Dick Durbin from the special interest group saying that Miguel Estrada on the DC circuit must be opposed because he\u2019s Latino. Why? The Democrats get away with opposing people because they\u2019re Latino. We get punished if we oppose somebody because they\u2019re Latino. And we have to shut up because somebody\u2019s Latino. We have gone out, we\u2019ve had two people in our party literally, John McCain and George W. Bush, grant amnesty to how many millions of illegal Hispanics in the country. Did it get anybody anywhere, electorally? Estrada, nominated for a high court position, Alberto Gonzales, they were opposed because they\u2019re Latino, by the Democrats. Now, they didn\u2019t say so publicly. These are internal memos. But the Democrats can oppose Latinos left and right and they can oppose blacks left and right, and they never seem to pay a price for doing that. Why is that? Why does nobody get concerned if Democrats may be alienating voters from these various groups? <\/p>\n

Why when they opposed Clarence Thomas did they not suffer one loss of a black vote? Why? And yet the Republicans have been made to believe, in their currently extinct status, that opposing Sonia Sotomayor simply because she\u2019s Latina will ruin their chances for the Hispanic vote, a vote they don\u2019t have anyway and a vote they\u2019re not going to get this way. They\u2019re behaving like an oppressed minority. Whatever their masters tell them to say or do, not say or don\u2019t do, they say or don\u2019t say, they don\u2019t do. They are entirely compliant. They\u2019re obedient. The Republican Party today is totally obedient. Now, there are some exceptions. We got some great conservatives in the House. I\u2019m talking about the old guard, country club blue-blooders that are trying to define the party and run it. They\u2019re obedient. They are so obedient that many of them endorse and vote the Democrat candidate. That\u2019s how obedient they are to their masters. They have mastered the art of thinking and acting as oppressed minorities who are not interested, by the way, in emancipation or freedom.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Lou in Pullman, Washington, as we stay on the phones. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for a great 20 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to get right to it. I want to take issue with my fellow subscriber Nancy. I think that we ought to be just like the Democrats. I think we should ignore gender, race, class and sexual orientation when the person that we\u2019re looking at doesn\u2019t agree with us. That\u2019s what they do. Look at Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We should emulate the Democrats and ignore what?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Gender, race, class and sexual orientation when the person doesn\u2019t agree with us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, who\u2019s doing that now? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the Democrats. <\/p>\n

RUSH: No. No, no, no. Tell me the Republicans who are opposing Sonia Sotomayor because she\u2019s a woman or a Latina?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, none. But I think we should ignore the fact that she is and go right for the issues.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it doesn\u2019t matter if we do. The media is all over the place with the fact she\u2019s a Latina, the first one ever nominated, first one nominated to the Supreme Court, the first woman, her compelling story. We\u2019re the ones that do ignore this stuff. We\u2019re the ones to whom none of this does matter.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. But my point is that Nancy thinks it\u2019s going to come back and bite us, but the Democrats do it all the time and it doesn\u2019t seem to bite them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, that\u2019s been my point all day.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. I\u2019ve been on hold for a long time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I thought you said you agreed with Nancy. <\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no, no, no. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nancy, I want to take issue with her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. I thought you were disagreeing with me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I apologize for the contentiousness.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you\u2019re just echoing what I said? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I think we ought to ignore — they always do one thing. They take into account gender, race, and class.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s the point I\u2019ve been making all day. These people, the Democrats can trash all kinds of blacks, minorities, Latinos, and it never seems to hurt them. Why does it only hurt us? When we do ignore it, it\u2019s not a factor to us. I couldn\u2019t care less, for example, where Sonia Sotomayor came from, what her race or gender is. She\u2019s a disaster on the basis of her history as a judge. <\/p>\n

Don in Vermilion, Ohio, nice to have on you on the EIB Network, sir, hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, it\u2019s a pleasure to speak with you. My point was in regard to the e-mail that you read earlier. From the standpoint of a conservative there\u2019s no such thing as an Hispanic vote, an Afro-American vote, a Native American vote, it doesn\u2019t make any difference. It is the same and it\u2019s so basic, just like you have been saying, it\u2019s so fundamental. I don\u2019t understand what\u2019s confusing about this. There\u2019s never been any question what the conservative response to anything should be because the fundamentals of conservatism are what our foundation is and there\u2019s never anything that\u2019s nebulous about that, very easy to understand.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re right. Let me paraphrase this. You\u2019re right as far as describing conservatives. But you\u2019re wrong if you want to include the Republican Party in it today, at least — again, I better specify which Republicans I\u2019m talking about. I\u2019m talking about the old guard, the Tom Ridge, Colin Powell, the country club blue-blood, the Arlen Specter types. They\u2019re the ones who do want to do identity politics. Now, you say that conservatives, you know, the fundamental conservative does not look at people and see Hispanic or white, black, woman or whatever. And I know what you mean by that. You mean by that that as one who believes in the conservative ideology, we see people as people, we see people as Americans. We want a great country, and, as such, we want everybody to succeed. We want everybody to be as good as they can. We want everybody to strive to be the best they can, and in the process, we want to get all kinds of obstacles out of their way. We have faith, we have belief in ordinary people accomplishing extraordinary things, just get out of their way, inspire them and motivate them and they\u2019ll do it. <\/p>\n

The liberal looks at people with utter contempt, condescension and contempt, doesn\u2019t believe people are inherently good or qualified or competent or able to overcome these obstacles in life. By definition, the liberal who seeks power over people thus places these obstacles and makes people dependent and then says you can\u2019t do it without me. The Republican Party has bought into the notion here that we need to get that segment of the vote and then that segment of the vote and then that segment of the vote or population if they are to win. The Democrat Party, for almost its entirety has been a coalition of various interest groups. In fact, it\u2019s an amalgamation of coalitions. You\u2019ve had Big Labor, you have feminism, you have Big Environmentalism, you have anti-capitalist, and they all have their own single issue pet peeves, but the thing that unites them is their belief and love of huge government controlling everybody else\u2019s lives. The Republican Party and the conservative movement was not put together with this kind of attitude, it\u2019s not put together with that kind of mind-set. Controlling people\u2019s lives? <\/p>\n

The basic difference is Democrats live and breathe, liberals live and breathe and they go to school to get trained to work in and control government. On the other hand what we want to do is reduce the size of government. We don\u2019t want to take over. We don\u2019t want to work there. We want to be in the private sector. So we\u2019re already at a bit of a disadvantage because their life, their world, is built around government. Ours is built around avoiding it, you know, making it as constitutional as it can be and function as it\u2019s constitutionally directed to, but then that\u2019s it. The liberals look at it in an entirely different way. Let me read something here real quick. Vin Weber this afternoon on Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, she spoke with Vin Weber, Republican strategist. She said, ‘Is there a real pitfall here for the Republican Party going after Sonia Sotomayor on her ethnicity when we\u2019ve seen how Hispanic voters have flocked to Obama, in a real change from the way many more supported George W. Bush.\u2019<\/p>\n

WEBER: The front pages of just about every paper in this country today described this as President Obama picking the first Hispanic justice, and Republicans should be very wary of challenging that. Furthermore, when Republicans get holier-than-thou about identity politics, I remember how proud Republicans were when President Reagan named the first woman to the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O\u2019Connor. We were proud that we broke that ground as Republicans. They\u2019d better not start abandoning that and start pointing fingers about identity politics to the first Hispanic to go into the court or they\u2019re gonna find themselves in trouble.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I guess we have to throw Vin Weber in the group who\u2019s now a member of the oppressed minority. Vin, I don\u2019t know anybody who opposes her on ethnic grounds. I don\u2019t know anybody. I guess what these people are afraid of is that any opposition to her will be said to be based on ethnic grounds. Okay, so, to avoid them saying that about us, we won\u2019t say anything. We\u2019ll just throw in the towel. And then when we get our chance we\u2019re going to nominate a Latino — oh, we did that, and it didn\u2019t help us. And then we\u2019re going to nominate a black — oh, we did that. Didn\u2019t help us! This is not complicated to me, but see, I don\u2019t think like an oppressed minority. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who said this? ‘If everybody\u2019s thinking alike, somebody isn\u2019t thinking.\u2019 And who said this? ‘Pressure makes diamonds.\u2019 Same person uttered both quotes. Greetings. Great to have you here. It\u2019s El Rushbo on the cutting edge of societal evolution, on the most listened to radio talk show in America. Telephone number if you want to join us is 800-282-2882. E-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. ‘If everybody\u2019s thinking alike, somebody isn\u2019t thinking.\u2019 How did you know that, Brian? How in the world did you know that? What, did somebody Google it real quick in there? That\u2019s right, it\u2019s general George Patton who said both. ‘If everybody\u2019s thinking alike, somebody isn\u2019t thinking.\u2019 Why am I saying this? Well, if the Republicans want to start thinking like Democrats, somebody\u2019s not thinking, and we know the Democrats are thinking and strategizing. ‘Pressure makes diamonds.\u2019 That is also from George Patton. <\/p>\n

You know, I sit here, ladies and gentlemen, as I think about all of this debating within the GOP and with the Democrats. We conservatives, we really do have the best arguments. We have the most responsible policies. We have the most humane principles. The more we confront these people, the more we debate, the more we expose, the clearer that will become, not just to us, but to others. And that\u2019s why we have to keep it up. I\u2019m getting a lot of e-mails, ‘Rush, please don\u2019t quit, please don\u2019t stop!\u2019 I have no intention of it, folks. I was telling Snerdley here during the break, I fully expect at some point in the near future to receive a phone call, a private phone call off air from somebody, somewhere in elected Republican Party politics asking me to tone it down. I fully expect this to happen. They are scared. This Supreme Court nomination, coupled with the election of Obama, this is, to them, these oppressed minorities rising and up finally saying we\u2019re not taking it anymore and you guys are going to find out what it\u2019s like to be an oppressed minority, and they\u2019re scared and they\u2019re willing to be oppressed minorities, the Republicans. They\u2019re willing to think that way. <\/p>\n

On the other hand, if we surrender to the left, if we surrender to these old guard moderates in the Republican Party who want to surrender to the left, none of this would be happening. Even in this, what do the moderates offer? They just repeat their platitudes, they tell us to keep quiet. They don\u2019t even want the debate. That scares them. The old guard moderates in the Republican Party have no faith in who they are because they have no idea what principles that they will defend. They don\u2019t even know what principles they will surrender. They have no confidence in who they are and what the nation is, but we do, we conservatives do. We are overflowing with confidence about who we are and what this nation is. But the Republican Party old guard, the blue-blood country clubbers do not. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Englewood, Florida. This is Tom. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great to have you with me also.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree with you 110% on the Sotomayor deal. The only thing is, I think that we need an attack dog on this situation, somebody in Congress that can take her over the coals just the way they did Bork and as you described. Look, they\u2019re gonna think of us anyhow has hypocrites and homophobes and racists so who cares anymore, you know, let\u2019s go after it, let the news media do what they want to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, there\u2019s —<\/p>\n

CALLER: The only thing —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. That\u2019s an interesting point. How can the Republican Party get in worse shape than they\u2019re already in? That\u2019s kind of what you\u2019re saying, how can they get themselves in any worse shape than they\u2019re in now? So what you\u2019re saying is a tried-and-true principle. If they\u2019re going to rip you anyway, at least tell the truth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. You know, and I\u2019ll tell you who was on the other day on your show, I was listening, was Cheney, Liz Cheney.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I couldn\u2019t believe how easily she made those limp liberals look bad, you know. Too bad she\u2019s not a Senator. I\u2019d like to see her question this woman.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Liz right now is focused on the foreign policy aspects of the Obama administration. But I know what you\u2019re saying. <\/p>\n

CALLER: She\u2019s bright.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She\u2019s bright, but she\u2019s showing how it\u2019s done. She\u2019s going on television and she\u2019s giving a class, a tutorial on how not to accept the premises of the media and the left in these interviews. Look, I don\u2019t want to dishearten you out there, Tom, but there is no indication I see that this attack dog you envision exists. I don\u2019t see it. I see Chihuahuas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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