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RUSH: Okay. We\u2019re back. What do I want to do here? H.R., is Janet in Manhattan cool? Is she cool with holding on to the next segment? Okay, make sure. Make sure. She\u2019s been on hold for a long time. I really want to talk to her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Frank in Chicago. Frank, great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, you don\u2019t know what an honor this is. I spent ten years trying to get on your show at different times with different things that have invoked my interest. Please allow me to thank you for many, many years of guidance, support. My grandfather and I, when I was a kid — he\u2019s passed now — but we used to sit on our porch before the Cub games would come on, we would flip over to you, and we would listen to you. And some of my best memories, some of the things that get me through —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — times now in my life are because of you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I remember conversations like that with my grandfather. I\u2019m honored that you and your grandfather sat around and listened to me. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Some of our best memories. Rush, let me say this. I\u2019m a kid who grew up in the eighties; I\u2019m a Reagan kid. My political sort of awakening came under him, and I was very fortunate that that happened for me. Today, watching this — and it\u2019s what I called about — today watching this thing disgusted me. I don\u2019t know what has happened to our party. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on, but all I know is, people like yourself, people like Reagan, I mean, they\u2019re just gone. Our leaders are horrible. This was like a campaign ad for Hillary Clinton, for God\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I\u2019ll tell you again<\/a> what this was today. I\u2019m very serious, folks, when I say this, and I mean this. At age 62, I\u2019m still learning. I\u2019m a babe in the woods on a lot of things, and, you know, idealism crashes every day with me. I still do have idealistic desires, tendencies, hopes, when it comes to the country, the people who run it, and every day I learn a lot. I\u2019ll tell you what happened today was, what I call, what others call, the ruling class, the political elite saw a vulnerability.<\/p>\n

Any time a ranking member of the government who is already in the protected class, which is the Democrat Party, is in the crosshairs, they\u2019re gonna circle the wagons and protect that person because they\u2019re protecting themselves. And they\u2019re protecting the institution of the government, in this case the State Department. They are not gonna permit a black eye. The purpose of this, not only to cleanse Hillary and her record and setting up her future, but this was about cleansing the oversight people and cleansing everybody in Congress, from the Senate or whatever that was supposed to make sure this kind of stuff didn\u2019t happen and held people accountable, that didn\u2019t happen. This was circle the wagons time and put on a dog and pony show to make the people think it\u2019s been dealt with.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me put this another way, folks. Very simply, what was the consensus of this hearing? What did Mrs. Clinton ultimately say was the problem in Benghazi? They needed more money. The real agenda here — the real objective at the end of the day of this hearing — was the State Department needs more money. The consulates need more money. The CIA stations need more money. We need more funding. At the end of the day, at the end of the Senate version of these hearings today, everybody was on that page. We need more funding. The attacks happened and we were unprepared. We didn\u2019t have enough money.<\/line>\"original\"Our resources are spread thin after the two wars that Bush started in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have Al-Qaeda running loose in Iraq and so forth. So, in truth, what happened this morning and what\u2019s gonna happen this afternoon with Hillary over at the House is really the ruling class staging a performance so that they can once again make the case for growing government. “We need more money. We need more consulates. We need more people, more security. It\u2019s a terrible lesson that we\u2019ve learned! We\u2019re sorry that this happened. Four brave Americans are dead, which I take very personally. I know these people very, very, very well.”<\/line><\/p>\n

But at the end of the day, the ruling class makes a pitch to expand the ruling class. The political elites, at the end of the day, have laid the groundwork for greasing their own skids, and that\u2019s what this was today. This is not a cynical view. I\u2019m just telling you what I heard everybody say. “The State Department, government, needs more money.” That was the consensus. When Mrs. Clinton said that it was a funding problem, that we need more resources, there wasn\u2019t one senator who stood up and said, “Oh, I think we got plenty of money here, Mrs. Clinton!” That wasn\u2019t said. I didn\u2019t hear it said. Now, I don\u2019t know. Rand Paul went into it pretty good and so did McCain.<\/line>But McCain let it drop after he got his statement in with the questions. Rand Paul said (paraphrased), “If I\u2019da been president, I\u2019d have fired you,” and that was as tough as it got, but that\u2019s one guy. One guy. Every base was covered, and as far as those of us that are considered low-information people are concerned, our concerns were dealt with and now they move on, and there will now be the appropriate requests for additional funding to ensure that this kind of tragic event never, ever happens again. Because one time is one time too many. We can\u2019t afford to lose American treasure in this way, and with additional funding and additional resources and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/line>So the political elites take care of themselves.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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