{"id":25930,"date":"2007-06-14T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:25:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:25:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:25:04","slug":"democrats_raise_white_flag_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/14\/democrats_raise_white_flag_again\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Raise White Flag — Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Late yesterday afternoon, sometime last night, Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi challenged the president over Iraq. They sent him a letter, ahead of a White House meeting later today, and they said, ”As many had foreseen, the escalation has failed to produce the intended results,\u2019 the two leaders wrote. ‘The increase in US forces has had little impact in curbing the violence or fostering political reconciliation.”<\/p>\n

In other words, the Iraq surge is a failure, Pelosi and Reid have told President Bush. Then a companion story to this, ‘Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ‘incompetent\u2019 during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported. Reid made similar disparaging remarks about Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said several sources familiar with the interview,\u2019 but the Drive-Bys didn\u2019t find out about it, they weren\u2019t interested in it. This is just the latest example of how Reid, under pressure from liberal wacko kooks to do more to stop the war is going on the attack against President Bush and his military leaders. The timing of this is done specifically to coincide with the current life support status of the Comprehensive Destroy the Republican Party Act of 2007, otherwise known as the amnesty bill. Now, what\u2019s especially egregious about this, Reid has gone I think where he was finally destined to go. From criticizing the war to now criticizing the troops and the military leaders, is it any surprise he did this in an interview with liberal bloggers and not Drive-By Media reporters? <\/p>\n

The Democratic attacks on General Pace, General Petraeus are especially Bush league — excuse the term — because under traditional rules of civil-military relations, neither man can defend themselves. They have to shut up. They can\u2019t say one word about this. Now, this is Flag Day. June 14th is Flag Day. And while most of us raise the red, white, and blue, Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry have raised once again the white flag. They surrender, they proclaim defeat. After declaring the war is lost, the terrible twos now say the surge has failed. The thing is, it\u2019s really debatable as to whether the surge has failed. I got a couple stories. There\u2019s one in the Washington Post. You know what? Baghdad is quieter. Baghdad is a little more stable. The Washington Post story says that the violence has spread to other areas. Now, excuse me, but wasn\u2019t the point to stabilize Baghdad? Wasn\u2019t the point to go in there and root out some of this violence and make it a little bit more stable? So under those terms, that has happened. The Post story admits, yeah, Baghdad is a little quieter, but the violence has spread elsewhere. Well, in Afghanistan it\u2019s the same situation. Kabul is pretty quiet, the capital there. Other parts of the country, where they\u2019re growing the poppies, you still have some of the warlords out there, there\u2019s not as much order as there is in Kabul, but, you know, a stable capital is a great first step. <\/p>\n

So you got Dingy Harry pronouncing it a failure, Petraeus and Pace are incompetent, which leads me to say something. I\u2019ve held this in long enough. I really suspect that these liberal tactics are damaging, maybe even killing the morale of our troops. We hear that it does not undermine their morale. They tell us they don\u2019t like hearing it, they tell us it bothers them, but it doesn\u2019t affect their morale. But who is the one telling us this? Reid, Pelosi, they get defensive, ‘Oh, no, no, no, we\u2019re not hurting morale out here. No, we support the troops.\u2019 And who knows more about the troop morale than Reid and Pelosi? Dennis Kucinich? Now, I just think this is the height of irresponsibility, and it\u2019s in response to the plummeting numbers that Pelosi has, the plummeting approval numbers that Reid has — they\u2019re add 19%. Everybody is making hay here about Bush\u2019s approval numbers at 29. Congress is lower than that. <\/p>\n

So the Democrat leaders in the House and Senate go out and talk to these kooks, I mean these fringe kooks and just give them the red meat that they want to hear in order to shore up their own support. I think Dingy Harry also, didn\u2019t he once criticize Justice Clarence Thomas, saying his opinions are stupid and uninformed and some such thing? I\u2019ll tell you who\u2019s incompetent: The guy who can\u2019t run his own shop right now is Harry Reid. The guy who cannot get anything done in the Senate is Harry Reid. Over in the House, if you want Miss Incompetent, it\u2019s Nancy Pelosi. I got a couple stories about Pelosi and how hard it is to get anything done on the war, just really hard. They can\u2019t come up with enough Democrat votes on getting rid of ‘don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell.\u2019 She can\u2019t get anything done other than harass Bush. The true incompetence is in Dingy Harry\u2019s office and Nancy Pelosi\u2019s office, and to insult yet again the troops and their commanders is beyond the pale, folks. <\/p>\n\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ron in Bend, Oregon, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, you know, Rush, there\u2019s nothing sacrosanct about Peter Pace and his career. If he deserves criticism, he deserves it. He does, but the important thing is the lives and well-being of the soldiers. Now, I\u2019ve spent a lot of time in the Marine Corps and the Army, and I\u2019ve known a lot of guys like Pace. There\u2019s a reason he\u2019s called ‘Perfect Peter.\u2019 He\u2019s career comes first. You call these guys ‘careerists.\u2019 They make their way up by pleasing their superiors in the civilian world, and you know their\u2019s an old saying: ‘If you live by butt kissing, you die by butt kissing.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you don\u2019t die by butt kissing. If you live by butt kissing, you die of anal poisoning. That\u2019s the phrase.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the point is once upon a time you and I talked and we said the important thing was the lives of the soldiers, right? And you agreed with that, and these are the guys who are getting short changed by crummy leadership whose career comes first. That\u2019s the sad part of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, you may be more informed. You\u2019re retired military, correct?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Marine?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I started out in the Marines. I retired from the Army Reserve.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. You may be more informed about this than I. I\u2019ve met General Pace, and I was profoundly impressed. I met him and Donald Rumsfeld the same night, at a Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation dinner. It\u2019s a charity that raises money for scholarships for the children of Marines killed in action, worldwide. I\u2019m on the board. Rumsfeld was the featured speaker that night. He gave a great speech, and it was where I first met General Pace. I\u2019m telling you, I was profoundly impressed with him. I\u2019ve never heard the nickname ‘Perfect Peter.\u2019 But let\u2019s say you\u2019re right. Let\u2019s say he\u2019s self-focused on his career and so forth. I\u2019ve not heard anybody else say that, but it doesn\u2019t matter. Maybe he can be criticized, but for people like the Democrat majority leader in the House and the Senate to come out and attack him as incompetent, in the middle of a war, in a situation where they can\u2019t respond — protocol and structure prevents Pace and Petraeus from responding. It\u2019s not that I believe people are above criticism. Lord knows that would cut off 90% of the speech that happens in this country, but I\u2019m saying there\u2019s got to be some…civility, let\u2019s say. There\u2019s gotta be some reason here. <\/p>\n

You talk about being oriented toward their career? That\u2019s Harry Reid. Harry Reid\u2019s oriented toward his sagging approval rating. Harry Reid is trying to get some stature back, and he\u2019s dumping on people whose uniform he couldn\u2019t wear, whose job you couldn\u2019t do. He\u2019s proving his own incompetence. Now, Pace may be what you say.; I\u2019ve not heard that from others. I don\u2019t even want to be go there. I don\u2019t want to debate whether he is or not. What Reid and Pelosi are doing in the middle of a war — trying to secure defeat for the sake of their own political advancement and their party\u2019s advancement — is repulsive, and it\u2019s repugnant to me and it angers me to no end, and they\u2019re going to pay a price for this. They are paying a price. The American people are fed up en masse with the United States Congress. They\u2019re not doing anything on earmarks. In fact, they\u2019re still doing them. They\u2019re trying to hide them, and the Republicans are playing hardball on this and succeeding in trying to get this stuff into the sunlight. They\u2019re an absolute disgrace. They are a mess, and for them to sit there and start talking about the competence or incompetence of people who are leading American troops in battle, while trying to secure the defeat of the mission of these troops is just beyond the pale, and they should pay a huge, huge price for it. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Janet in Augusta, Georgia, it\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have an article in the Des Moines Register —<\/p>\n

RUSH: A credible source!<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Yeah, I know. By John Carlson, and it was surprising.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. Wait. Wait. Is it a column<\/a>?<\/p>\n

CALLER: ‘John Carlson\u2019s Iowa,\u2019 it\u2019s called.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s a column.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So this is a local guy that writes about things going on in Iowa?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You got it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And —<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it\u2019s an opinion piece. Well, hell, everything in the news is opinion pieces. anyway.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, my mother-in-law sent it to me because she was shocked, because he actually interviewed a chief warrant officer who is a Black Hawk helicopter pilot from Ames, and it actually gives the pilot a chance to say what he thinks about the media, and I was going to read a little bit of what he said<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, we don\u2019t read. How long ago was that story printed?<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is… Oh, she cut off the date, I think.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a few days or a week ago or so, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, I remember this story. This guy, the Black Hawk pilot lays into the media.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He sure does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He just rips \u2019em a new one. What does he say. Just tell us in your own words. If you start reading, you\u2019re not a highly trained specialist here. You\u2019re going to sound monotone. I\u2019m doing this to protect you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Only people highly trained like me can read and make it sound like I\u2019m telling and speaking. So in your own words, tell me what this guy said about troop morale.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he says for morale, he says, ‘We\u2019re treading water.\u2019 He says, ‘We continue to kick butt on missions and take care of each other, even though we know the American public and government does not stand behind us.\u2019 He says, ‘Hello, media? Do you know you indirectly kill American soldiers every day?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He goes on to say that you are ‘the enemy\u2019s greatest weapon.\u2019 They can\u2019t beat us on the battlefield but basically all they have to do is turn on the television.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. There are two fronts in the war: here at home and over there on the battlefield, and we\u2019re losing the war here at home. No thanks to people like Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi — and I don\u2019t care. however incompetent Peter Pace is, he is not doing anything to lose the war at home. He is not befriending the enemy, as the Drive-By Media here does —<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and allow themselves to be used as a propaganda megaphone by the Al-Qaeda in Iraq crowd. Yeah, I remember this. I didn\u2019t see the actually story, but I had a lot of people telling me about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he says, he\u2019s tired of busting my butt over here and coming home every night and turning on the TV and hearing out how we\u2019re failing miserably.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t blame him.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t blame him. You know, it\u2019s rare for him to speak out like this, too. Most of these guys, for attribution are really not allowed to do things like this, either, so…<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s evidently had it, and I don\u2019t blame him. My husband is former Army. So I don\u2019t blame him, and she was surprised to see an article like that in the newspaper, and that\u2019s why she clipped it out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah, especially the Des Moines Register. That\u2019s incredible.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. So we got it in the mail.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The only thing they care about is whether or not Hillary is going to show up for the straw poll. All right, I gotta run and take a break here, Janet. Thanks much. It\u2019s been great speaking to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. You, too, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And, by the way, I knew you were reading in defiance of my rule but because you were doing okay, I let you. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I was nervous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right, and you\u2019re so sweet and you\u2019re so nice, I decided to just waive the rule.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Janet is not in my top ten names of all time. I like the name, but I gotta limit it here sometime. It\u2019s not in the top ten. No offense, Janet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s my middle name.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s your first name?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Janet. My middle name is Evelyn.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Evelyn?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Evelyn.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Evelyn. Evelyn.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Is that any better? Is that in your top ten?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, that\u2019s an 1800s name. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (Giggles.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Janet\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (Laughing.) Rush, you better just hang up and save yourself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve been trying to. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (Giggles.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: See ya.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Bye.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

I told you the last hour, Dingy Harry called a bunch of liberal bloggers and said, ‘We\u2019re going to renew our efforts here, get our troops out of there and end this war. We\u2019re going to renew our efforts here to secure defeat.\u2019 He also told them that Peter Pace is incompetent. He also said that General David Petraeus is incompetent. Now, there may be arguments about General Pace. I, frankly, have not heard anybody say that. We had a caller say that he\u2019s called ‘Perfect Peter\u2019 because he cares about his career more than anything else, and there are going to be opinions about people like this in public life. I\u2019ve not heard the criticism, just the exact opposite. I\u2019ve met General Pace once and was profoundly impressed. But nobody that I know of is saying Petraeus is anything other than brilliant. So Dingy Harry gets on the phone to these bloggers and he gives them what they want to hear. I have a New York Times version of these events, right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. ‘President Bush had barely left the capital after immigration talks there on Tuesday when Senator [Dingy] Harry Reid of Nevada walked onto the Senate floor to call for a moment of silence.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I told you this was going to happen 20 minutes before it did. ‘It was time, [Dingy] Harry said, to pay tribute to American soldiers in Iraq as the death toll reached 3500. A short time before the moment of silence, [Dingy] Harry convened a conference call with liberal bloggers, offering assurances that Democrats would revive debate over the war, and he pledged to revive it soon, ending the silence that followed the White House\u2019s outmaneuvering of Democrats last month to win more money for the war without a timeline to end it.\u2019 That\u2019s the extent of their reporting about what Dingy Harry said to the liberal bloggers. They\u2019re giving him cover on this, because they know that it\u2019s not something that\u2019s going to help the Democrats. So after huddling with the liberal bloggers, Dingy Harry is going to try and run the same play on the war. They got four principles here, four proposals, will not be new. ‘The Democrats intend to reprise at least four ideas when the Senate considers the defense department policy bill. The four things are these: A measure to reverse the authorization for the Iraq war, set a deadline for troop withdrawal, block money for major combat operations after March 31st of next year, and increase readiness requirements for troops to be sent back to Iraq. On Iraq, [Dingy] Harry said, ‘we\u2019re going to hold the president\u2019s feet to the fire.” Every one of these things has failed previously. They\u2019re going to bring it back up. <\/p>\n

They know they\u2019re going to bring it back up and they know they\u2019re going to fail, and they\u2019re doing this simply to massage this literal insane train of kooks in the liberal blogosphere. ‘Nancy Pelosi said it had been difficult to convince some Democrats that despite their majority, they are limited in how they can change the president\u2019s policy. ‘Some Democrats don\u2019t understand, we don\u2019t have the signature. We can only do so much. Others are just very unhappy. I include myself among them being very unhappy that we\u2019ve not been able to bring the war to an end.” Ah, the pandering. Folks, if you knew to whom they are pandering! It\u2019s a bunch of Alfred E. Newmans! Find the biggest kook nerd in your life\u2019s memory and amplify that by, you know, a couple hundred thousand, and that\u2019s who they\u2019re talking to on these blog phone calls, and that\u2019s who they\u2019re catering to here. ‘It\u2019s so hard, these wonderful bloggers, our kooks, just don\u2019t understand how hard, we don\u2019t have the signature. There\u2019s only so much we can do. I\u2019m unhappy.\u2019 They haven\u2019t been able to do diddly-squat. They haven\u2019t accomplished anything in there other than harass the president. Well, they got their minimum wage, but they had to attach that to something else that was going to go through. <\/p>\n

So that was going to happen anyway because Republicans, you know, cowering in the corner in fear on that issue were going to — the defense bill. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tony Snow in the White House press briefing today talking about the comments of Dingy Harry on Generals Pace and Petraeus.<\/p>\n

SNOW: We are a little bit concerned about some reports on the Internet that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in a conversation with liberal bloggers, had referred to General Pete Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, as ‘incompetent,\u2019 and apparently — again, according to the reports — had said disparaging things also about General David Petraeus. We certainly hope it\u2019s not true because in a time of war, for a leader of a party that says it supports the military, it seems outrageous to be issuing slanders toward the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and also the man who\u2019s responsible for the bulk of military operations in Iraq. Indeed, Senator Reid has at some point declared the war lost and also has declared the surge a failure even though it has not yet been fully enacted. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s true or not. If it is true, I certainly hope he does apologize.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Well, that\u2019s sent the Drive-Bys in the White House Pressroom over the edge. Here\u2019s a little background here. You\u2019ll hear the press cackling in the background and some overlapping hubbub here in this bite.<\/p>\n

VOICE: Why the preemptive strike?<\/p>\n

SNOW: Well, I just think it\u2019s appropriate to comment on it.<\/p>\n

VOICE: Yeah, but you\u2019re not —<\/p>\n

VOICE: But you don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s true?<\/p>\n

VOICE: You say these things are outrageous, but you don\u2019t know whether or not they\u2019re true. <\/p>\n

SNOW: Well, I don\u2019t know. Do you trust The Politico? I don\u2019t know. We\u2019ll give a call.<\/p>\n

VOICE: You never like us to comment on things that we hear —<\/p>\n

VOICE: Hypotheticals!<\/p>\n

VOICE: — that you say are hypothetical.<\/p>\n

SNOW: Well, you got me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You guys in the Drive-By Media never comment on hypotheticals? You never comment on…? Anyway, they\u2019re all over him for accepting the report on The Politico. Has Dingy Harry denied it? I haven\u2019t seen Dingy Harry deny that he said it, and the source for the Politico is a couple of these bloggers, I think, people that were over on the phone call. It was a conference call. It\u2019s a very serious charge that, Tony Snow is making it up, right, or believing people that are making it up? (interruption) Well, okay, the ‘serious charge\u2019 would be that Reid said it. It\u2019s a very serious charge, but of course doesn\u2019t county when liberals do things. The ‘nature of the evidence\u2019 is all that counts <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Matt in Rock Island, Illinois, I\u2019m glad you called, sir. You\u2019re next.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. It\u2019s great to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m very nervous, so… Right to my point. I don\u2019t think that Democrats are going to pay any price for their antics at this time. Before they got elected in November, they were saying the same thing. They were destroying the leaders over in Iraq. They were trying to destroy Bush the whole time, and the American people knew who they were voting for and they voted them in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t believe that. I don\u2019t believe that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, either that or the American people are stupid, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. No, no, no, no. I think the American people knew what they were voting against, and they were just fed up. The Republican Party was abandoned by enough of its voters last November. The Dems didn\u2019t run on any agenda. They ran on hatred for Bush. They might have made a couple references to ‘we need to get out of Iraq,\u2019 but they didn\u2019t say they were going to do it. They were scared to death to do it. They just ripped the whole concept. Then after the election they claimed the mandate that they never, ever stated. Look, the polls have never backed up what the Democrats say. If you\u2019re right, if the American people elected Democrats knowing full well what they were going to do, they would have had no trouble passing any of their resolutions to get the troops out of there and to cut funding. They haven\u2019t been able to do it, because that is not the will of the people. The will of the people is not defeat. The will of the people is not wave the white flag and surrender. The Democrats retreated from retreat. They surrendered from surrender. They had to put $25 billion of pork in the bill to get enough votes to get to 218 to pass their first resolution, which was symbolic anyway, because it wasn\u2019t going to go anywhere in the Senate. Don\u2019t fall for this. A lot of conservatives think Democrats get away with all of this because the Drive-Bys never hold them accountable. It\u2019s just like the sound bite we just heard with Tony Snow. Okay, so Tony Snow read The Politico today, and he finds out that some bloggers said that Dingy Harry said that Peter Pace and General Petraeus are incompetent. He said, ‘I\u2019m not sure. I read on a blog. If it\u2019s true, I hope he apologizes.\u2019 Dingy Harry hasn\u2019t denied it. So the Drive-By Media in the pressroom are fit to be tied!<\/p>\n

‘Well, why, do you believe it? Why don\u2019t you find out? It\u2019s hypothetical.\u2019<\/p>\n

What they\u2019re really upset about is being scooped by a bunch of bloggers, and they\u2019re also hoping and hoping that Dingy Harry didn\u2019t say it, because it\u2019s not going to help the Democrats. It\u2019s why Dingy Harry said it to a bunch of little kooks on the Internet in a phone call. He didn\u2019t say it to the assembled boobs in the Drive-By Media in the White House press corps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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