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RUSH: Another teachable moment today. A veritable object lesson in how it is that the Republican Party continues to — I mean, for Mitch McConnell saying, there\u2019s no way, I don\u2019t care what anybody says, there\u2019s not gonna be a government shutdown. Let me tell you something, folks. If you\u2019re not willing to shut down the government in a fight to defund Planned Parenthood, they get — do you know how much — what did I see the other day, $2 billion, and they do not provide any health services that women cannot get anywhere else outside of the number of abortions that they provide. <\/p>\n

But they don\u2019t even do mammograms. They\u2019re not a women\u2019s health organization. It\u2019s a front for what they are. But Mitch McConnell, trying to head off anybody that talks about a government shutdown in September, heading off the pass, no matter what there isn\u2019t gonna be one, \u2019cause the Republicans still are afraid of themselves. They\u2019re afraid of whatever they might say and do, and a government shutdown, they think it\u2019d be the horrible, worst thing, of course everybody loves government, panics if the government gets shut down. <\/line>It\u2019s getting tiresome. <\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s getting tiresome to have to, I don\u2019t know, report this, pass this stuff on to you. It\u2019s getting tiresome. And along the same lines an object lesson, Jeb Bush, in an innocent comment that happened to be right on the money about federal funding for women\u2019s health issues, Hillary Clinton started squawking. And Jeb, within two hours, apologized and essentially asked for forgiveness and a chance to restate it. <\/p>\n

And the Democrat media\u2019s out there applauding Mrs. Clinton, “Way to go. Way for changing the subject. Way to take Jeb down. Way to go.” And there was no reason to apologize. He didn\u2019t say anything wrong. He said something, in fact, that a lot of Republican voters believe. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s just go to this object lesson here with Jeb Bush. The Washington Post has a story here that the latest in the aftermath of everything, and the headline is: “Jeb Bush\u2019s Quick Turnabout on Women\u2019s Health Funding, and What It Tells Us,” and it is by Janell Ross. It\u2019s a textbook example of how the Drive-By Media works. It\u2019s also a textbook example of why and how many Republican candidates are afraid of their own shadows. <\/p>\n

Jeb said absolutely nothing wrong in his original comments, absolutely nothing wrong. But the Drive-Bys cherry-picked his comments and it didn\u2019t matter that there\u2019s no taking him out of context. They didn\u2019t have to. What he said was not wrong. It made infinite sense. And I have to tell you something: I was kind of all excited. I was excited to be able to come here and say something positive about Jeb Bush. <\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t even get to it before they raked it over the coals and Jeb had to try to walk it back. But the Drive-Bys think that they can use Jeb\u2019s remarks to give Hillary the moral high ground here on “women\u2019s health” and “women\u2019s rights” and “War on Women” and all of that. Janell Ross at the Washington Post says, “If nothing else … Jeb Bush\u2019s quick turnabout on women\u2019s health funding … is a testament to the power of social media. [B]y Tuesday afternoon, word went out via Twitter,” which is a sewer.<\/p>\n

Well, I should say, Twitter has several sewers. <\/p>\n

<\/a>The whole thing may not be a sewer, but it\u2019s got several sewers in it. I mean, the absolute dregs of human debris lurk there anonymously, and that\u2019s just testament to the power of these people. This is the army of the great unwashed, the army of low-information voters sitting around tweeting all day. Anyway, “word went out via Twitter. Jeb Bush had told a group gathered at the Southern Baptist Convention that he was less than certain that ‘half a billion\u2019 dollars was needed to cover ‘women\u2019s health issues.'”<\/p>\n

He thought we don\u2019t need to be spending that kind of money, and here\u2019s what Bush said at the Southern Baptist Convention. This is what got this ball rolling. He says, “The argument against this is, well, women\u2019s health issues are going to be — you\u2019re attacking, it\u2019s a war on women, and you\u2019re attacking women\u2019s health issues. ‘You could take dollar for dollar — although I\u2019m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women\u2019s health issues…” That was it. That is all: “[A]lthough I\u2019m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women\u2019s health issues…”<\/p>\n

He continued: “[B]ut if you took dollar for dollar, there are many extraordinarily fine organizations, community health organizations, that exist, federally-sponsored community health organizations, to provide quality care for women on a wide variety of health issues,\u2019 he said. ‘But abortion should not be funded by the government.'” And for this, for what you just heard, Jeb Bush was taken to the woodshed, and the Twitter sewer did its bit along with the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

Once the Drive-By Media got wind of what was happening on Twitter, they joined the party. And it was time to destroy Jeb, time to destroy Jeb for insensitivity, racism, sexism, bigotry, insensitivity to the plight of women. Even though Jeb said, I don\u2019t know if we need to be spending all this money, and then he went on to praise all of the federal organizations that he just knows are there that are providing just wonderful health care for all of these women that are so denied it in this mean-spirited country. <\/p>\n

Why, you would think that women cannot get health care in America even after Obamacare, even after the Affordable Care Act! But yet here\u2019s Jeb Bush citing all of the federal programs and praising them, and it wasn\u2019t enough, was it? Here\u2019s crossing the aisle, folks. Here\u2019s trying to compromise. Here\u2019s working with the other side. Here is showing we can govern. Here is showing that we can cooperate. <\/p>\n

Here is showing that we\u2019re not hate-mongers like some in our conservative media are, and what happened? It all blew up right back, because of one phrase: “[A]lthough I\u2019m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women\u2019s health issues…” That little aside was blown up on social media as precisely an example of the Republican Party attacking women\u2019s health issues, and less than two hours later, the Bush campaign released a statement clarifying Jeb\u2019s comments. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is what that statement said. “With regards to women\u00c2\u2019s health funding broadly, I misspoke, as there are countless community health centers, rural clinics and other women\u00c2\u2019s health organizations that need to be fully funded. They provide critical services to all, but particularly low-income women who don\u00c2\u2019t have the access they need. I was referring to the hard-to-fathom $500 million in federal funding that goes to Planned Parenthood — an organization that was callously participating in the unthinkable practice of selling fetal organs.”<\/p>\n

Can we…? It\u2019s baby! Can we just call this what it is? It\u2019s baby organs. It\u2019s not “fetal organs.” It\u2019s not intact anything. It\u2019s selling baby organs. They are aborting babies, sometimes after they are born, and they are dissecting them and they\u2019re selling baby organs, not “fetal tissue.” Now, as the Washington Post writes here, the Bush campaign\u2019s clarification is essentially an acknowledgement of the candidate\u2019s error. But none of that matters. Sure enough, Hillary Clinton was right there to pounce. <\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton tweeted, “Jeb Bush, you are absolutely, unequivocally wrong.” This from a woman who\u2019s out there running ads announcing how proudly she stands with Planned Parenthood. And then the Democrat media machine had all it needed to swing into action. We got audio sound bites, some here to show you this. But this is classic. He didn\u2019t say anything wrong, and he gets attacked as conducting a War on Women.<\/p>\n

And then tries to correct it, and that didn\u2019t work. When are these people gonna learn you can\u2019t compromise, you can\u2019t cross the aisle, you can\u2019t extend the flying fickle finger of friendship or hand of friendship, whatever? You can\u2019t. There is no bipartisanship. There is no cooperation. There is no showing on the other side we can govern. They\u2019re not interested in that. When, if ever, is the establishment on our side going to figure out the reality?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Jeb Bush yesterday in Nashville, Southern Baptist Convention, the Send North America Conference, and the commission president, Russell Moore, said to Jeb, “Are you for defunding Planned Parenthood?”<\/p>\n

JEB: The next president should defund Planned Parenthood.<\/line><\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n

JEB: The argument against this is, “Well, women\u2019s health issues are gonna be… You\u2019re — you\u2019re attacking, it\u2019s a war on women, and you\u2019re attacking women\u2019s health issues.” You could take dollar for dollar — although I\u2019m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women\u2019s health issues. But if you took dollar for dollar, there are many extraordinarily fine organizations, community health organizations that exist — federally sponsored community health organizations — to provide quality care for women on a wide variety of health issues.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So this is… I mean, I\u2019m… (sigh) Look, this is so hard. This is so much harder than it used to be. But I have to tell you: Here we have many feel that Jeb Bush is the front-runner. I can\u2019t tell you the number of people that think Jeb\u2019s automatically the nominee. It\u2019s done, simply because of money. He\u2019s got more money than anybody else. That\u2019s how the determination is made, forecaster prognostication. I can\u2019t tell you the number of people. And I tell you: All the Democrats think it. Every Democrat analyst on TV, they all think it. And here we have, here\u2019s our “presumptive nominee” here, just to use their terminology, at the Southern Baptist Convention, seeking credit for citing all of the federal programs for women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: My point about Jeb Bush and how hard this is: I mean, here we have a man that a lot of the smart people, for what it\u2019s worth… I\u2019m just telling you what they think. I\u2019m not telling you I agree with it, okay? <\/p>\n

This is just what I\u2019m hearing. The presumption is that Jeb is the nominee and all of this that\u2019s gonna happen between now and then is just a show, and the reason he\u2019s the nominee is he\u2019s got the money. He\u2019s gonna end up with more money, and who has the money wins, can spend the money to wipe everybody else out. And that\u2019s the theory. Plus, as part of the fact that Jeb is gonna have all the money, he\u2019s the establishment guy.<\/p>\n

And all of the people that live inside the Beltway, both parties, think the establishment gets what it wants. And they do. So that\u2019s why the thinking. So when I refer to Jeb as the presumptive nominee here, it\u2019s just echoing these sentiments, not that I also think it. But here\u2019s a guy, he\u2019s speaking to the Southern Baptist Convention, and he feels it necessary to praise the federal government and all of the different fully funded federal women\u2019s health programs there are. <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019m just telling you, it strikes me, because this is such at variance with what not long ago the Republican Party instinctively opposed. It wasn\u2019t that long ago that the Republican Party instinctively was oriented toward, if not reducing the size of government, at least stopping the growth, reining it in. At least saying so. Maybe they never really meant it, but at least they said it. That\u2019s even out the window now. Now in order to gain favor, even at the Southern Baptist Convention, you gotta praise federal programs. <\/p>\n

And even doing that, he stepped in it, with that one little aside, “Although I don\u2019t know if we need half billion dollars for women\u2019s health programs,” and then Twitter blew up, the media took the lead, and it blew up afterwards. And Hillary comes out with her response. Last night in Denver during campaign event, Hillary Clinton said…<\/p>\n

HILLARY: Jeb said he\u2019s not sure we need half a billion dollars for women\u2019s health issues. I\u2019m reading it because I want to quote it exactly. Now, he\u2019s got no problem giving billions of dollars away to super wealthy and powerful corporations, but I guess women\u2019s health just isn\u2019t a priority for him.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: And then here came the apology and the clarification, “No, no, no! I was talking about Planned Parenthood,” and then he went through a litany of praise for all the other federal programs. The idea that there is a shortage or would be a shortage of women\u2019s health care? We\u2019ve got Medicaid. We\u2019ve got Medicare. We\u2019ve got Obamacare. We\u2019ve got… We are drowning. We\u2019re going broke, folks, in the amounts of money we are spending on health care for people.<\/p>\n

The nation is literally going broke paying some sort of welfare for a growing number of people. We cannot afford it! It\u2019s gonna come due someday. And so the media, they\u2019re all excited \u2019cause Hillary\u2019s been rescued. Hillary was plummeting! Bernie Sanders was creeping up on her. Hillary was making gaffe after gaffe after gaffe. We\u2019ve got sound bites, by the way, coming up, of Hillary in South Carolina being interviewed and she\u2019s trying to put on this Southern accent by dropping the G\u2019s.<\/p>\n

(impression) “Y\u2019know, talkin\u2019 to people like this and tryin\u2019 to make \u2019em think she\u2019s a Southern ol\u2019 gal and so forth and talkin\u2019 \u2019bout when Chelsea was born\u2019d. ‘Yeah, I\u2019m holdin\u2019 Chelsea in my lap and she\u2019juss so messy! Chelsea juss so messy! jusS so loud, and I looked at Chelsea and I said, ‘Chelsea, y\u2019know, you never been a baby befo\u2019, and I never been a mama befo\u2019! We gonna have to do something here.” She\u2019s talking about an infant that won\u2019t stop crying. So here\u2019s an example. Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington) Lester Holt on the Nightly News last night, said, “Andrea, is this a-one-day issue for Jeb,” or did he really, really step in it pretty deeply?<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: Hillary Clinton pounced! She\u2019s been so much on the defensive — all the Republicans ganging up on her, her own poll numbers sliding even among women — and now she\u2019s got an issue, and an issue with the largest voting bloc: Women!<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re so excited. They\u2019re so desperate to reignite the War on Women, and they think Jeb Bush just did it. So that\u2019s today\u2019s object lesson. You want to talk about bipartisanship? You want to talk about cooperation? You want to talk about compromise? You want to talk about crossing the aisle? You want to talk about working together to show that things can get done in Washington? You want to show how you can govern? <\/p>\n

Well, tell me: How was any of this received by the people we cross the aisle to meet? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This Melissa Chicago. Thank you for calling, you\u2019re up first, and it\u2019s great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. I was just wondering why we even need a Planned Parenthood with Obamacare, because since Obamacare kicked in we haven\u2019t had to pay for any of our lady doctors and lady medicine, so why even need Planned Parenthood at all?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we\u2019re not talking about need here. The federal government and its expenditures and growth and size is not based on need at all. It\u2019s based on what voters want and now expect. Planned Parenthood donates, sees to it that a lot of money is donated to the Democrat Party. Planned Parenthood is the Democrat Party. I understand your question, and your question, in what I would call a clean, unfettered universe, is great. Why do we need Planned Parenthood? Everything they do happens elsewhere. <\/p>\n

Why do we need to be paying for it? They get, by the way, not half a million dollars. They get two billion dollars. I think it\u2019s incredible the amount of money they get, and they do not do anything women\u2019s health-wise that they can\u2019t get anywhere else. They don\u2019t do mammograms. I made that point yesterday. I went out on a limb a little bit because I wasn\u2019t quite sure, but it turned out I\u2019m right. They don\u2019t do mammograms. <\/p>\n

Now, if you\u2019re into women\u2019s health and you don\u2019t do mammograms, you\u2019re not into women\u2019s health. In this day and age if you don\u2019t offer mammograms, you can\u2019t really say that you\u2019re a women\u2019s health organization. It\u2019s too crucial. It\u2019s too important. But there\u2019s so much redundancy. This was Jeb\u2019s point. We got a federal program here, fully funded, federal program over there, fully funded. We got millions of them. Well, tens and 20 of \u2019em. Then Planned Parenthood. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is the money laundering cycle. It\u2019s why the unions all support the Democrat Party. Union dues end up, a portion of them, end up in the campaign coffers of Democrat candidates in the Democrat Party. Same thing with money spent at Planned Parenthood. The federal government propping up Planned Parenthood is a way for that money to get to the Democrat Party, a portion of it. It\u2019s how this works. So it\u2019s not about, you know, we need Planned Parenthood. We\u2019re not making budget decisions based on what\u2019s needed. Baseline budgeting is not about what\u2019s needed or what\u2019s been spent or how much is gonna have to be spent. It\u2019s about making sure the budget gets bigger and bigger by a predictable amount every year. <\/p>\n

So let\u2019s say you fund Planned Parenthood, take the $2 billion figure. They have Planned Parenthood offices all over the place. The people that work at Planned Parenthood, the people that support Planned Parenthood, then donate to the Democrat Party. Some of that $2 billion is donated, comes back to the Democrat Party. It\u2019s a money-laundering operation. But there\u2019s an ideological component, too. I\u2019m not saying that the Democrats support Planned Parenthood just for the money, but you can\u2019t take the money out of the equation. You have to always follow the money. <\/p>\n

Right now we haven\u2019t reached the point yet where, say, Harry Reid or Pelosi or Obama could go over to the Department of Treasury and write a check for, say, $150 billion for nefarious purposes, including the next presidential campaign. So how do they get the money? Well, they go out, they\u2019ll raise it from donors and whatever, but they\u2019ll also do it by funding various organizations who will then send some of that money back to the Democrat Party. So you can\u2019t go to the Treasury and rob it, but you can allocate money to groups that are gonna send a portion of what they get back to you. And that\u2019s how you raid the federal Treasury. <\/p>\n

And then beyond that, you build up relationships based on ideological components of liberalism, in which case abortion is the sacrament. So Planned Parenthood is sacred, folks. It\u2019s not even in the equation of why do we need Planned Parenthood because we\u2019ve got everything they do over here and over here and over there, back there, up there, down there, why do we need them? It\u2019s all about maintaining the Democrat Party majority. It\u2019s all about maintaining the phoniness of the War on Women and maintaining a phony theme or meme that Republicans hate women and Democrats love and protect \u2019em. It\u2019s all part of a massive head-fake operation. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mark in Houston, you\u2019re next. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. I appreciate your patience. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Thank you, Rush. I seem to have noticed a couple things that kind of go hand in hand. One of them is that you know you never hear anybody talk about the Tea Party anymore other than a couple of times you\u2019ve mentioned it. It\u2019s almost as if they refer to us now as the Republican base, which I kind of like that. You know, I think it\u2019s kind of what has happened. They go hand in hand.<\/p>\n

But the other thing I heard is when Jeb Bush made a comment before he even announced his presidency was that in order to win the presidency, you have to lose the primary. And that stuck with me. I couldn\u2019t understand what he meant. I\u2019m starting to see what\u2019s happening now. What is a possibility that this guy, Jeb Bush, ends up having to lose the primary of the Republican nomination and turn around and run as an independent himself, which would make the media happy. They would love that entire scenario.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Is that a possibility?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I must tell you now, that is a scenario not even I have contemplated: Jeb Bush running third party. That\u2019s just… His family might disown him, if he did that. I think Barbara would spank him. Not because he lost the primary, but if he ever goes outside the party and runs as an independent, Barbara Bush is gonna track him down and put him over her knee and spank him. A Bush would not do that to the Republican Party. But let me ‘splain to you what he meant by losing the nomination…<\/p>\n

I forget exactly what he said, but his objective is to win the nomination by losing to the base. That, of course, numerically isn\u2019t possible. So what he really meant was he wants to become the nominee and not have everybody think that he\u2019s a Tea Partier. He\u2019s going to win the nomination by getting the votes of those people but he\u2019s not gonna be proud of it. He\u2019s not gonna… The Republican base. It\u2019s an interesting observation you\u2019ve made that we\u2019re not hearing about the Tea Party much. <\/p>\n

That won\u2019t last much longer. The Tea Party is gonna be making an appearance. It\u2019s not anything they\u2019re doing. It\u2019s the Drive-Bys that are refusing to reference the Tea Party. Now, there has to be a reason for that, and since you bring this up, I haven\u2019t actually contemplated it. Off the top of my head I can think of a couple scenarios, but they use Tea Party as a pejorative, whenever they do news about the Tea Party.<\/p>\n

Look at Brian Ross, the Aurora, Colorado, movie shooting, the first thing Brian Ross did at ABC News was try to link the shooter to the Tea Party. So the Drive-Bys want everybody to think the Tea Party is in common cause with the (impression) “Death to America!” Iranian extremists (laughing) like Obama said today. Jeb wants to win the nomination, but he wants everybody to realize he did it without the base. That\u2019s the thing he\u2019s trying to pull off here. Numerically he can\u2019t. <\/p>\n

You can\u2019t win the Republican nomination without your base. It\u2019s too many votes. It\u2019s — and you can\u2019t win the presidency if your base doesn\u2019t show up for you. So he\u2019s he\u2019s he\u2019s got a lot to chew on there, but he won\u2019t go independent. Not gonna happen. <\/p>\n

Robert, San Diego, California, next up you are. Great-of-you with us, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Let me set my cigar down here, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, I have had a rotten cigar day. I have not had a good one yet. I\u2019ve had tough draw. I\u2019ve had bitter flavor. I\u2019ve had to throw four away today. It\u2019s not a good cigar day. How\u2019s yours?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mine\u2019s good. I\u2019m just over here on Coronado Island and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It ticks me off.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — it\u2019s legal to smoke on your own property, so I\u2019m okay as long as I don\u2019t go too far.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not for long. Enjoy it while you can.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) Thank you. Hey, Rush, I wanted to bring up more on the Jeb Bush situation. I think yesterday, after Hillary spoke, he was at a crossroads. He had the option to do one of two things. Choice one, which he took, was to be fearful that he was gonna lose the moderates (which you correctly define as people who are afraid to admit they\u2019re liberal) or, two, served up to him, he could have doubled down. He could have stated something brash like, “The first thing I\u2019ll do when I\u2019m president is defund defund Planned Parenthood, and I\u2019ll do it by executive action!” He\u2019d been leading in the polls before the debates started tomorrow. He had the opportunity to be a conservative and quickly took the usual way out, not surprisingly. I\u2019m pronouncing his candidacy over.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, don\u2019t do that. I mean, I get your point. But he\u2019s always gonna be considered the front-runner because of money. If his fundraising ever falls that\u2019s when they\u2019re gonna panic at the Republican establishment side. He\u2019s thought to be the guy that\u2019s gonna raise more money than any other Republican, and that automatically to them means he\u2019s got the nomination. But you have a brilliant point. It\u2019s another way of phrasing it. We talked about this in the first half hour of the program. <\/p>\n

So Jeb goes out there and he utters something totally inoffensive and totally true says with all the money we\u2019re spending, “I\u2019m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women\u2019s health issues” as he lists all the other health care programs that we\u2019re spending. And he, by the way, is praising them, and they\u2019re all federal programs. He\u2019s praising them. He didn\u2019t get in trouble with his base for praising the federal government\u2019s health programs for women; he got in trouble for one half sentence: “[A]lthough ‘I\u2019m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women\u2019s health issues.” <\/p>\n

All hell broke loose on Twitter, which led to all hell breaking loose on the media. And you\u2019re right, at that point Jeb could have doubled down and defended what he said and taken the opportunity of all this attention to explain it and double down on it and establish a position on it. And instead he walked it back and he did a Kelly Osbourne. “That\u2019s not what I meant. I was talking about Planned Parenthood,” and then he again rattled off all these other federal health programs for women that he supports and loves. <\/p>\n

Now, the reason he did it is not a mystery. The Republican establishment, we\u2019re getting the point where that phrase is being overused, so maybe it would suffice to define them. Just think of the consultants, the guys these candidates hire to run their campaigns and to advise them on what to say, where to say it, when to say it, and how to say it. There is a universal belief throughout the Republican hierarchy, and it is we cannot be critical of anything happening today. <\/line><\/p>\n

We must acknowledge that people have expressed a desire for these things. We must pledge that we understand that; that we can do it better; that we can do it smarter; that we\u2019re not going to take anything away. And we don\u2019t have a problem with President Obama; we don\u2019t have a problem with women; we don\u2019t have a problem with black people. So any time there is the slightest hint that a comment a Republican makes could be taken as confrontational, argumentative, they\u2019re gonna walk it back. It\u2019s pure defense. It is the prevent defense. It\u2019s make sure we don\u2019t offend anybody. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s this notion, “We can govern. We must show we can cooperate. We must show we are even tempered. We must show that we can cross the aisle and work with our opponents and acknowledge that when they have good ideas, we will incorporate them.” All of that is what was the guiding thought process behind Jeb deciding to walk back what he said and clarifying. But as is always the case, the reaction was not, “Ah, what a good guy. Oh, man, you see, Jeb\u2019s the kind of guy we can –” That was not the reaction. <\/p>\n

Andrea Mitchell went out there and started praising Hillary for making sure Jeb didn\u2019t get away with it, making sure Jeb got told what-for. They were all happy that Hillary humiliated and embarrassed Jeb and made him walk it back. ‘Cause they don\u2019t want to cooperate. They don\u2019t want to get along with us. They don\u2019t like us. I don\u2019t know who came up with this, but it is what\u2019s guiding the Republican Party these days. I mean, even Chris Christie two weeks ago (imitating Christie), “If Democrats have a good idea, I\u2019m gonna tell \u2019em I like their idea. I\u2019m gonna walk across the aisle with \u2019em and met \u2019em halfway. I\u2019m gonna show \u2019em we can get along.” It\u2019s in their blood, now, folks, that\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Another teachable moment today. A veritable object lesson in how it is that the Republican Party continues to — I mean, for Mitch McConnell saying, there\u2019s no way, I don\u2019t care what anybody says, there\u2019s not gonna be a government shutdown. Let me tell you something, folks. 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