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RUSH: I want you to hear this audio sound bite. It\u2019s a little montage of the media coverage of the sad situation involving Tim Johnson, the Democrat Senator from South Dakota yesterday.<\/line>GIBSON: Senator Tim Johnson has suffered a stroke. The Democrats\u2019 control of the Senate could be in peril. It could have enormous political implications.<\/line>STEPHANOPOULOS: If Senator Johnson were forced to leave the Senate his replacement would be picked by the governor of South Dakota, a Republican. That would mean that it would go back to 50-50. Republicans would control the Senate.<\/line>GIBSON: So the narrow control —<\/line>RUSH: Oh, no, no, say it isn\u2019t so!<\/line>GIBSON: — would disappear.<\/line>COURIC: Big change may be coming in the balance of power on Capitol Hill.<\/line>RUSH: Oh, no.<\/line>COURIC: — Senator Johnson may have had a stroke. What might this mean for the new Senate?<\/line>BORGER: His condition could really determine control of the Senate.<\/line>WILLIAMS: A member of the US Senate has suffered a stroke. With control of the US Senate decided by a single vote for the Democrats, this could affect the balance of power.<\/line>CHIP REID: There are possible political ramifications here. His replacement would be chosen by the Republican governor.<\/line>WILLIAMS: But this is a political matter, Tim, and what are the ramifications?<\/line>RUSSERT: They\u2019re enormous, if the Republicans were to become the majority party of the Senate again, Brian, in terms of Iraq policy, Supreme Court nominees, environmental policy, tax policy, very, very significant.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, it didn\u2019t take but five seconds for the news to hit, and that\u2019s all anybody started talking about, the media, the Drive-By Media. That town up there — it can be so cold. Here\u2019s the truth of the matter. If Tim Johnson doesn\u2019t die, the Democrats will keep him on a respirator for two years, if they have to, to maintain control of the Senate. They\u2019re not going to let this happen. If he were to die, I can tell you right now what\u2019s happening. Folks, I guarantee you that MoveOn.org and a number of Democrats are getting ready to lobby the South Dakota governor, and you can just hear what they\u2019re going to say, you can just hear it. “The people spoke in November. Governor, you must recognize that the people of this country spoke and want a Democrat controlled Senate.” <\/line>The governor in South Dakota is Republican, both houses of the South Dakota government are Republican. Republicans have been elected there recently in droves. But the pressure would be brought to bear, and the media would join in and dump on this governor and try to pressure him into appointing a Democrat if it ever came to that. Make no mistake this is what\u2019s going on behind the scenes, every eventuality being planned for. But it still misses the point. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard this by now. If he doesn\u2019t die, he doesn\u2019t have to resign. There\u2019s all kind of precedent. He doesn\u2019t even have to show up. “Well, how does he vote?” He passes. Or they find a way for him to vote. This is not an unprecedented thing. It is a sad, sad commentary, I think, just to listen to the total concern for this to be the control of the Senate and not for Tim Johnson. Dingy Harry had a press conference, didn\u2019t say much. Let\u2019s go to sound bite number five. This is Dingy Harry this morning, Capitol Hill, about 11:35 or so.<\/line>REID: I spent yesterday afternoon and the night with the Johnson family. Senator Daschle was with me all that time. I was at home for a few hours last night, came back this morning. I was in his room with him. He really looks good. I saw him, he looked great. To me he looked very good.<\/line>RUSH: It\u2019s that simple, he looked very, very good, he looks really good, I saw him, he looked really good. He said, “I\u2019m not going to answer any medical questions because no matter what I tell you it\u2019s not going to be enough for you.” It really didn\u2019t answer a whole lot of questions. Everybody coming out of brain surgery ends up on the critical list so there\u2019s not a whole lot to read there. The doctor that treated him issued a statement, (paraphrased) “Well, we don\u2019t know if he\u2019s going to need more surgery or not. Everybody\u2019s hoping for a normal recovery.” <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>Now, I was just thinking, if I\u2019m Tim Johnson, I hope he\u2019s sedated in the hospital when Dingy Harry showed up. Dingy Harry showed up there to spend, he said, the whole night, and he had Tom Daschle with him. If I\u2019m in the hospital and I see Dingy Harry walk in the door, I\u2019m thinking the grim reaper has arrived, especially with Tom Daschle in tow, because Daschle\u2019s always reminded me of a mortician. So my hope is that Senator Johnson was sedated when Dingy Harry showed up. Dingy Harry did not say that he had spoken to him, so I\u2019m hoping he was sedated. <\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>Richie, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, Rush, first and foremost, this is a huge honor.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you very much, sir, I appreciate it. I\u2019m glad you called.<\/line>CALLER: The Tim Johnson thing, it\u2019s like with all these pundits and whatever, first and foremost let\u2019s get this guy healthy. You know, I don\u2019t like Tim Johnson, I\u2019ve never voted for him, I\u2019m an NRA member, pro-life, I\u2019m as Republican as you can get, I believe, but let\u2019s get him healthy. Let\u2019s pray for him and his family that everything\u2019s going to be fine, he\u2019s going to be upright and we can knock him out of the Senate with votes.<\/line>RUSH: Let\u2019s be honest about this, shall we?<\/line>CALLER: Sure.<\/line>RUSH: Let\u2019s just be honest about this. In Washington — and this is not everybody there — but the moment this news broke, the first thing that went through a lot of Democrat minds was, “Oh, no, we might lose the majority.” What about Tim Johnson? “I don\u2019t care! We\u2019re going to lose the majority.” And there are probably some Republicans going, “All right, all right, we get to screw the Democrats again.” It is human nature. That town is very cold. The media, the drive-bys, they are just beside themselves because they think they engineered this majority for the Democrats, and so that\u2019s the first area of thought that they experienced. I went to Democrat Underground, one of the kook websites this morning, and you know what they think? They are speculating — it\u2019s not just one or two of them, either. They are speculating that just as the GOP was behind the death of Paul Wellstone, so is the GOP perhaps involved in the illness of South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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