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October 18, 2007 |
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Story #1: McCain for Senate Apology on Slavery, Segregation
RUSH: Listen to this. This is from Bill Sammon today in the Examiner. It's a story out of Columbia, South Carolina. "Republican presidential candidate John McCain said [yesterday] the Senate should apologize for slavery and segregation, calling them 'dark chapters in our history.' McCain said he would support a planned resolution by fellow Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, who is also seeking the presidency" -- he's dropped out, I've heard -- "to apologize for racist laws, some of which ended more than a century ago." This makes your point. The current Senate did not author those bills! The current Senate had nothing to do with it. The current Senate cannot apologize for what the old Senate did. Now, if McCain wants to apologize personally for it for whatever reason, here we are in a presidential primary and he's trying to resurrect himself -- and, by the way, I should point out that there are a lot of people, well, I don't know "a lot," but there are some in the Drive-By Media who claim that he has revitalized himself. Joe Klein is one of them. I'm looking for the piece now. I've got too many stacks here. Anyway, he's starting to revive himself. "John McCain is back!" Well, not with this. You know what he's trying to do? He's trying to get his base back, and who's his base? The Drive-By Media. This is nonsensical.
 Story #2: Mrs. Clinton's Thirty-Five Years of Experience at What?
RUSH: Let's go presidential politics here for just a second. In the Hill newspaper today there's a story by Bob Cusack in which Mrs. Clinton is saying she has "35 years of experience." You know, she's being hit pretty hard by Barack Obama (who's fading away, by the way, big time) and the Breck Girl. The Breck Girl is saying, "She doesn't have any experience. What experience does she have?" It's getting a little rough out there. So Mrs. Clinton feels the need to come forth and suggest that she has a lot of "experience."
"In a concerted effort to deflect attacks on her presidential credentials, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and her allies repeatedly say she has 35 years of relevant experience. She has been an elected official only seven years, but the drumbeat of sound bites and statements touting the 35-year figure appears to have paid off. Even her Democratic rivals prefer to assail her electability rather than her experience." What experience does she have? You know, folks, she's got 35 years of experience in bimbo eruptions, and I'm not trying to be funny. Well, Dawn, you can sit in there and laugh, and I know it is funny, but she does. Thirty-five years experience with bimbo eruptions. But what else does she have experience doing that you can point to and say it was done well? She took over education in Arkansas. I think Arkansas ranked like in the low forties when she took over. When she left, when they left and she was through running it, it was 49th. She bollixed that. About the only thing you can say she did well and did right was the cattle futures thing, $10,000 became $100,000, or $1,000 became $100,000, whatever it was. But she goofed up the administrative duties of the health care plan in 1994, '93. She messed up handling the Paula Jones case.
You can go down a list of things here. I ask people every time Hillary comes up and they start talking about her, "Stop, stop. Would you tell me why in the world we're even talking about her? Why in the world does this woman qualify as being the only one person who can be the architect of health care reform in this country? Where did this notion settle in? The first time she tried it, it was horrible, and the details of her plan were frightening. It went nowhere once people found out about it." Where does this assumption come from? It's remarkable that somebody who really has done nothing of any consequence -- even in the Senate, frankly -- can talk about how she's going to change various industries, how she's going to fight wars. If she's elected, folks, she's going to have less experience than any president who comes to mind. Her entire record, such as it is, is full of talk about what she supported, what she said 35 years ago, where she traveled to, who she spoke to. There's nothing there. There's no "there" there. All she can point to are the things she cared about, the things she thought about, the people she "fought" and beat, but there's no résumé here. This is something we were talking yesterday, about don't accept the premise or the various premises of liberalism.
One of the premises here is: "She's the smartest woman in the world."
"Evidence, please? Can we have the evidence?"
"She's the only woman that can handle health care! She cares about it so much."
"Evidence, please? Can we have the evidence?"
She was not a great lawyer based on her own activities in Arkansas. She's never run anything of consequence. She never produced anything. She has never employed more than 14 people or so in her Senate office, but she doesn't have to make that payroll. You make the payroll! You pay for her staff. You pay for her. She can talk about bills that she introduced and advocacy groups that she supported, but that doesn't mean very much. She damns every industry and insists that they need to be controlled by government, their profits need to be taken. We've been sold a bill of goods, ladies and gentlemen, about how smart and about how experienced Hillary Rodham Clinton is. The fact is, she has never shown us anything in anything she's ever done, how smart she is. She has no experience that relates to serving as president. The things that we know that she's done, we all question. We all wonder why in the world she's receiving accolades for this stuff when they were botched. Yeah, she was first lady. But I'm talking about the kind of experience you earn on your own, that makes you prepared for the presidency. First lady is the first lady, but at the end of the day, nothing was on her shoulders. No full-fledged constitutional responsibility was on her shoulders, and she didn't get elected. She probably doesn't realize that. "Blue plate special: Buy one, get one free." She probably thinks she was, but she wasn't. So she can take on whatever she wanted to take on that her husband gave her. At the end of the day, it's not her responsibility. She's never been a diplomat. She's never been a governor. She's never been a general. She's never worked in any of the industries that she wants to regulate.
Story #3: Harris Poll: Americans Less Pessimistic on Iraq
RUSH: A poll out there: "Whether because of the news from Iraq, or the messages from the White House, Americans are less pessimistic than they were about the future prospects in Iraq. The percentage of those who believe that things are getting better for U.S. troops has increased from 13 percent in March and 20 percent in August to 25 percent now. Those who believe things are getting worse..." this is a Harris Poll, by the way. "Those who believe things are getting worse have fallen from 55% in January to only 32% now." The Drive-Bys have been covering stuff like this up. We're not reporting any good news out of Iraq.
Story #4: Democrats Wasted Lots of Money on SCHIP Fight
RUSH: By the way, folks, it would be worthwhile to point out that the Democrats spent a ton of money trying to override the president's S-CHIP veto. They were running commercials against various Republicans in their districts about this. It didn't work, but they spent a lot of money out there on this and still failed to override that veto. That's salient, and needs to be mentioned.
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