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RUSH: This morning on Morning Joe, PMSNBC, the guest is Charlie Cook, Editor and Publisher of the Cook Political Report. Joe Scarborough says, ‘What\u2019s your number right now? Are there more seats actually in play in the House now than at any time since you\u2019ve been doing this?\u2019<\/p>\n

COOK: We\u2019ve got about a hundred seats in play.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Wow.<\/p>\n

COOK: There were some times back in the early nineties when it got up a little higher than that, but it\u2019s been a long time since we had anything like this happening. We\u2019re looking at — you know, our sort of official range is somewhere between Republican gain of 48 to 60. My hunch is this is around the size of 1994 when it was eight and 52, but it could go higher than that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Eight and 52, that\u2019s the Senate was eight, the House was 52. What\u2019s your prediction, Snerdley? Do you have a prediction on this? What\u2019s your prediction, give me House and Senate. Okay, 11 Senate seat pick up in the Senate. What about the House? Okay, so Snerdley: 55 House, 11 Senate. I like the number 69. So I\u2019m gonna say 60 House, nine Senate. And it could be, as Charlie Cook says, it could be higher. I mean you got a hundred seats in play, you got a hundred seats&hellip; I shoulda printed this out and I didn\u2019t. But I did commit some of it to memory. I don\u2019t know the guy\u2019s name, but there is a district, North Carolina 4. This district has been gerrymandered specifically to be a Democrat district in perpetuity. It includes Chapel Hill; it includes Durham. This race has been moved into the ‘in play\u2019 column by Charlie Cook, from ‘safe\u2019 to ‘in play.\u2019 There are eight of these that are supposedly Democrat locks forever, have been moved to ‘in play.\u2019 Peter DeFazio is in the news for proposing something. I was reading it last night, and I thought I printed it out. I may be having printing problems. DeFazio just proposed something, but I\u2019ll remember what it is, but it\u2019s clearly oriented toward the election. It\u2019s absurd what he\u2019s proposing. Democrats would like it but it will never happen. So Scarborough said, ‘What are the chances on the other side that the Democrats hold onto the House by one or two seats? Is there any chance of that?\u2019<\/p>\n

COOK: To be honest I think the odds are higher that it\u2019s over 60 than it\u2019s under 40. There\u2019s always a chance. We\u2019re talking about human nature. I\u2019ll be sacking groceries if that\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So here\u2019s Scarborough, I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing asking Charlie Cook, (panting) ‘Is it possible Democrats could hold on by a couple seats, is it possible, Charlie?\u2019 And Charlie says, ‘To be honest, I think the odds are higher that it\u2019s over 60 than it\u2019s under 40. I\u2019ll be sacking groceries if your scenario happens, Joe.\u2019 Okay, and then Obama. This is yesterday on the Al Sharpton radio show called Keeping It Real. Obama was the guest. Sharpton\u2019s question, ‘Even though your name isn\u2019t on the ballot, this is about your agenda, about the progress we\u2019ve seen you begin to make over the past 20-odd months.\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: A lot of your listeners may live in places where there\u2019s early voting, and if you got early vote, take advantage of it now. The key is to make sure everybody understands this election is — is important. My name may not be on the ballot, but our agenda for moving forward is on the ballot, and I need everybody to turn out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: His agenda is on the ballot. Absolutely. He is happy to note that his agenda is on the ballot. David Price, North Carolina 4. Now, I want you to stop and think of something, and I am dead serious about this. It may sound funny to you; it may sound like I\u2019m trying to be my usual sarcastic funny. I\u2019m not. I\u2019m dead serious about this. Think how far, think how low the office of the presidency has declined if Obama is happy to appear on a program hosted by such a race-baiter, Al Sharpton, self-appointed reverend. Think of how low. It used to be presidents wouldn\u2019t deign to do Sunday shows. That was beneath them. Clinton changed all that by playing the saxophone with Johnny Carson. Oh, it was Arsenio Hall, that\u2019s right, Arsenio. Yeah. Carson wouldn\u2019t even go that low for his own show, have Clinton on. <\/p>\n

Peter DeFazio wants to impeach John Roberts for perjury during his confirmation hearings. It\u2019s over this Citizens United case. This case, Citizens United, which simply affirms the constitutionality of people who work at corporations to be able to make political donations. The left is fit to be tied over this. They just can\u2019t abide this. Corporations are evil, and they think that Roberts just lied through his teeth during his confirmation hearings. So Peter DeFazio wants to impeach Justice Roberts. Now, I know where I saw this. I saw it at National Review Online. There was an intellectual response to this, and I thought it was a brilliant intellectual response, but an intellectual response is not what\u2019s called for here. An intellectual response is taking DeFazio\u2019s premise seriously. So who is DeFazio? Big whoop, member of Congress wants to impeach John Roberts. So we get into gear with an intellectual reply. No. The response needs to be political and ideological. It\u2019s insane. It is pure politics. There\u2019s nothing about law, there\u2019s nothing about the Constitution that is at the root of DeFazio\u2019s desire to impeach John Roberts. <\/p>\n

DeFazio wants to get rid of a conservative on the court, pure and simple, without cause and for no justification whatsoever. Anyway, his district has been moved from ‘safe\u2019 to ‘toss-up.\u2019 David Price is North Carolina 4, which includes Chapel Hill and Durham. So it\u2019s an amazing thing to sit here and look at all of this. Here\u2019s DeFazio, ‘get rid of John Roberts\u2019 and Obama appearing on the Al Sharpton show in an effort to get out the vote. Stunning, but true. Let\u2019s move to audio sound bite number 13. This is the White House, the press briefing, Robert ‘Fibbs\u2019 during the Q&amp;A, a reporter said, ‘When then-senator Obama was advocating for Senator Kerry for president prominently, isn\u2019t what he was trying to do is to make sure that President Bush was a one-term president?\u2019<\/p>\n

GIBBS: There\u2019s a difference — look, again there will be time for an active presidential campaign, okay? And maybe Senator McConnell\u2019s interested in running for president. There\u2019s time for a presidential campaign. There will be time for a political campaign. But members of the Senate are elected and hired by the people of the United States to get stuff done for the people of the United States, not to posture and play political games, gum up the system.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what\u2019s Fibbs talking about here? You want to know what Fibbs is talking about? Fibbs is talking about something McConnell said. McConnell said — and I know he means this — the number one objective of the Republican Party in the US Senate will be to prevent Obama\u2019s reelection in 2012. That\u2019s his number one objective. So they asked Fibbs about it, and Fibbs gives a derailed, off-the-rails response, and the reporter said, ‘Well, wait a minute, I mean you guys, Obama was talking about making sure that Bush was a one-termer, that Kerry got elected.\u2019 ‘Well that was different.\u2019 Why was it different? ‘Well, it was different because Obama\u2019s Obama and McConnell\u2019s McConnell.\u2019 Clearly irritated, clearly bugged. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Many people are wondering what the Republicans ought to do when it comes to Obamacare. There\u2019s an excuse being floated. ‘Weeell, you know, Rush, they can\u2019t really override a presidential veto. There\u2019s really not much they can do.\u2019 A lot of Republicans are looking for a pass. So during the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Weekly Bloggers Briefing, a conference call with a conservative blogger, Senator Tom Coburn spoke. And during the Q&amp;A he was asked, ‘What do you think is the practical way forward in the next Congress for dealing with Obamacare as passed?\u2019<\/p>\n

COBURN: I think the best strategy is to offer a repeal bill and try to pass that bill, and if you can\u2019t pass it the first time, then offer it again the next month and offer it again the next month. I think the strategy is you offer repeal bills and then you offer limiting amendments on appropriation bills, and make the president veto \u2019em. Ultimately the way you repeal this thing is to change the president in 2012.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But, I like the idea. Try to repeal it monthly. Offer a repeal bill monthly. Hell, offer one daily! (New Castrati impression) ‘But Mr. Limbaugh! Mr. Limbaugh! Don\u2019t you really that your party will end up looking like a joke?\u2019 I\u2019m hearing a lot of people say, ‘Rush, we\u2019ll look like a joke if that\u2019s all we do.\u2019 No, that\u2019s not going to be all they do but offering repeal bill every month. Folks, there\u2019s one or two, three, four good reasons why there\u2019s going to be a Republican sweep, and one of them is not to go there and wait until 2012 for hopefully a Republican to win the White House. Nobody is going to the polls Tuesday to elect Republicans to go to Washington and wait for 2012 to try to make something happen. You can attach repeal measures in the always-existing omnibus appropriation bill. You can defund it. You can offer all kinds of amendments. <\/p>\n

You can play legislative tricks here. You can put it in a piece of legislation Obama has to sign. That\u2019s what the Democrats always did with Bush! I\u2019m going to tell you Republicans: If you think there\u2019s going to be patience to wait to do anything about this until 2012 when we might win the White House, you are sadly mistaken. You may not be there in 2012. Nobody is voting Tuesday to send anybody to Washington to wait. (New Castrati impression) ‘But Mr. Limbaugh! Mr. Limbaugh! What can they do? They\u2019re not going to have the votes to be able to beat the president.\u2019 You continue the education, Mr. New Castrati. You continue to point out where this man\u2019s agenda will take the country. You make every effort to stop it because you love the country. You make every effort to stop it because you disagree on principle and in kind with the president\u2019s agenda. This is not hard. By that I mean the strategy here is not hard. The idea is not hard. The work is, of course. It\u2019s not hard to figure out what to do. I\u2019ll say it one more time: Republicans are not being sent to Washington on Tuesday to sit around for two years and wait for a Republican to maybe win the White House in 2012.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: A closing thought. A lot of people — and you know who you are — sat out 2006 and 2008. You were so mad at the Republicans and you wanted to let the Democrats win just to show everybody how bad it could be. All right, we see how bad it can be and how much worse it can get. So don\u2019t sit this one out if you care at all about the future of this country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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