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RUSH: Here is our blowtorch affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina, yesterday, WPTF radio, the Bill LuMaye Show. He\u2019s talking to Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling communications, and he says, ‘How important are your polls to a political party, whether Republican or Democrat? Do they look at this and go, ‘Holy cow\u2019? They recognize the trouble they\u2019re in, don\u2019t they?\u2019 <\/p>\n

JENSEN: Absolutely. We\u2019ve had campaign managers for Democratic candidates in other states call us up and ask us not to poll their states because they don\u2019t want the public to know — <\/p>\n

LUMAYE: Really?<\/p>\n

JENSEN: — how bad their status is. So we know we\u2019re in big trouble. (snorting laugh)<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is the Democrat director of Public Policy Polling. I had the story earlier and said we were working on the audio. This is the audio.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: At any rate, here\u2019s Olympia Snowe. She was on CNBC yesterday afternoon. Closing Bell is the name of the show. She was on with John Harwood who said to her, ‘How important is your Republican identity to you as a legislator?\u2019<\/line> <\/line> SNOWE: I\u2019ve always been a Republican, uhh, for, um, the traditional principles that have been associated with the Republican Party since I, you know, became a Republican, uh, when I registered to vote. And that is, uh, you know, limited government, individual opportunities fiscal responsibility and a strong national defense. Uhh, so I think that those principles have always been a part of the Republican Party heritage, and I believe that I, you know, reflect those views, and I haven\u2019t changed as a Republican. I think more that my party has changed.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: There\u2019s just a giant disconnect here. Did you hear how she defined the Republican Party? She gave it a conservative definition, and she\u2019s not one: Limited government, individual opportunities, fiscal responsibilities, strong national defense. Yes! Give it to us! That\u2019s Reaganism! That\u2019s Reaganism, and Olympia Snowe no more believes in that stuff… She is a liberal blue-blood country club Rockefeller Republican doesn\u2019t believe in this stuff. The party left her? (snorts) Be still, my beating heart. She has expanded beyond the scope of the party. All right, people have been waiting. Neil in Charlotte, North Carolina, it\u2019s great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, thanks for having me on, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Hey, listen, the White House is in a serious crisis, and the problem is Rahm Emanuel can\u2019t figure out how to take advantage of this one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Explain yourself, sir. Which crisis are you referring to here?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, look at all the crisis. I think the main crisis is the tea party movement, and there\u2019s the health care crisis. You know, you\u2019ve got a bill but he doesn\u2019t have a bill. You know, they\u2019re running around like chickens with their heads cut off up there and I think what\u2019s happening is now they\u2019re pulling the race card. I think Rahm Emanuel is just having a hard time getting a handle on this crisis that the White House is in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m tempted to agree with you, but, remember, they love the chaos. Now, I\u2019m sure they\u2019re not happy that they\u2019ve got all these roadblocks on health care. But, look, don\u2019t forget: While all that\u2019s going on they just nationalized the mortgage industry. Ninety percent of all mortgages in the country are now either paid for or approved by the federal government, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. In fact, I\u2019m going to tell you a little story. I met with an upcoming advertiser yesterday afternoon after the program, Larry Arnn, Dr. Larry Arnn from Hillsdale College. I can\u2019t wait, by the way, to describe Hillsdale College for you and some of the conversation we had yesterday. I was mesmerized for an hour by Dr. Arnn. <\/p>\n

But he had some people with him and one of the women was from the Heritage Foundation, and she said that she\u2019s buying a house somewhere here in Florida and it\u2019s a foreclosure house. So she\u2019s getting the property for 30% of its value. She still needs a mortgage. She was supposed to close yesterday, but now the close has been put off indefinitely because Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the government\u2019s involved in it. It was a private sector loan, a private sector mortgage but now Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac are involved, and it\u2019s gumming up the works. So they\u2019ve nationalized two car companies. They have nationalized a lot of the banking and Wall Street businesses. They have nationalized the student loan industry. That\u2019s all going to be nationalized.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re to the point now almost, if they\u2019re not stopped, that any time you want money, a loan, or whatever, you\u2019re going to have to go to some government agency or through one to get it. So they\u2019re having trouble on health care, but they\u2019re going to get something. They can\u2019t afford not to produce something that says ‘health care\u2019 on it, whatever it contains. But whatever they get this year, if it\u2019s not everything they\u2019re going to keep coming back and keep coming back and keep coming back. That\u2019s why the 2010 elections are crucial, because right now they can\u2019t be stopped. Yeah, I\u2019m sure this is not what they planned on. I\u2019m sure they thought it would be smooth sailing. I\u2019m sure they thought they\u2019d be able to create the cult-like following that propelled Obama during the campaign. <\/p>\n

But, look, when you have as your mission — and I\u2019m dead serious about this — when you have as your mission to totally destroy the private sector and remake it and rebuild it and make the private sector dependent on government, you have to know you\u2019re going to create chaos. You have to know you\u2019re going to create angst. You have to know it and you have to want it, because the chaos and the angst is part of the entire objective of taking the private sector, getting as much of it under the control of the federal government and Obama as possible. So while they got chaos, don\u2019t think that they didn\u2019t expect it and don\u2019t think they don\u2019t know how to manage it. It\u2019s part and parcel of what they\u2019re doing. They\u2019re angling to get as much chaos and angst as they can. They want as many people on some form of government dependence as they can get — and to get the degree of that they desire, you\u2019ve got to do a lot of damage to the private sector where people normally get their jobs. That\u2019s why I think it\u2019s going to be a long time before there\u2019s a real uptick here. It\u2019s just the way it is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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