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RUSH: What\u2019s the mantra of the left here right now? The mantra of the left is, ‘We gotta change! Time for a change. We demand change,\u2019 right? I got to thinking about this the other day. The president has changed the secretary of defense. The president has changed the commanders in Iraq. The president has changed the ambassadors to Iraq. The president has changed the entire Iraq strategy, and those changes changed the momentum! Now, the left, the Democrats, they haven\u2019t changed Harry Reid. They haven\u2019t changed Nancy Pelosi. They haven\u2019t changed their talking points. They haven\u2019t changed their lack of cooperation. They haven\u2019t changed their defeatism. About the only thing that\u2019s changed — and this is with routine consistency — is Mrs. Clinton\u2019s position of the day on the war. Of all the words, of all the concepts, the lament of the left is ‘change,\u2019 and they haven\u2019t changed a bit! The president is offering all kinds of change. The left offers nothing but chump change. Here\u2019s Charles in Ft. Lauderdale. Hey, Charles, welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My pleasure to speak with you. If the Democrats don\u2019t believe General Petraeus in his sworn testimony to Congress, how are any of them going to react as the chief executive when the military comes to them and brings them information to respond to a political or global crisis? What are they going to do, tell the military, ‘We don\u2019t believe you. You\u2019re not telling us the truth\u2019?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. No. That won\u2019t happen. Let me answer. It\u2019s a very, very timely and important question asked of the most important person in the country you could ask it to, and this is the answer: The dirty little secret, Charles, is that if one of these Democrats becomes the chief executive in 2009, we\u2019re not leaving Iraq, and the military, whatever they tell President Clinton, will be what she goes by. We are not going to get out of there, not with the Democrats in office. You people in the audience, this illusion is purposeful here to show you just how disingenuous they are at this very moment. They have no intention of getting out of Iraq with themselves in charge and the noose of defeat hanging around their necks. Now, the way that they will do this is Mrs. Clinton will get into office… You remember her husband promised this middle-class tax cut throughout his campaign, and within the first 30 days calls this national address (impression), ‘I\u2019ve worked harder than anything I\u2019ve ever worked on before in my life. I tried, but I just can\u2019t. They didn\u2019t tell me all that was going on here in the campaign. I have looked at the books, and I have discovered we can\u2019t afford a middle-class tax cut. I am sorry. I worked hard trying to bring it about, but we just can\u2019t do it.\u2019 They\u2019ll do the same thing. Mrs. Clinton will say, ‘I, finally, as your president, have seen information the previous administration withheld from us, and what I have seen informs me we cannot leave now.\u2019<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how it will happen. They\u2019re not going to dare pull us out of there. They\u2019re not going to secure defeat when they\u2019re in charge. It ain\u2019t gonna happen. By the way, you anti-war Democrats, you lunatic-fringe kooks out there, you had better come to grips with this, because it was made plain last night. You are not going to get these troops out of there before the presidential race. So you\u2019re not going to get these troops out of there before whoever assumes office in January, 2009. You\u2019ve lost. The president has skunked you again. In fact, Obama said we\u2019re not going to challenge Bush. ‘Despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war, Barack Obama predicted yesterday Congress will not directly challenge President Bush\u2019s plan, will focus instead on putting a ceiling on the number of troops deployed. [He] said the most likely scenario would be to grant troops more time at home between deployments, a politically popular step that\u2019s difficult to oppose and one that would have a practical impact. ‘You have to at least give people a one-year break for every year served in Iraq,\u2019 Obama said.\u2019 So the top-two Democrat candidates for president are members of this ineffective Congress. <\/p>\n

They can\u2019t get anything done, and the Democrats think all of a sudden their guys, whoever it is, when they\u2019re elected are going to pull the troops out? It isn\u2019t going to happen. They\u2019re not going to get them out of there before 2009 — and Bush brilliantly alluded to this last night when he talked about the role his successor is going to have here in continuing this policy to secure the defense of this country. So if the Democrats do win the White House, whoever it is, I can\u2019t wait to see the implosion that\u2019s going to happen on the left when the troops don\u2019t come out of there. That\u2019s going to be fun to watch. By the way, ‘Only a third of the public is satisfied with the job President Bush is doing. Even fewer are pleased with Congress, according to a poll by the AP and Ipsos released\u2019 yesterday. ‘With the clash between Bush and congressional Democrats over Iraq continuing to dominate the news, 33% said they prove of Bush\u2019s performance, Congress\u2019 approval number 26%.\u2019 Speaking of which, Bush, of course, has higher approval numbers than Congress, but the Democrats, despite all of this, can\u2019t move public opinion? If they were able to do that, and if the things they were saying about the American public opinion and the war were true, we would not have heard the speech from President Bush that we heard last night. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Back to our audio sound bite roster, because it\u2019s timely, folks; it fits in with some of the things that I have been suggesting about the Democrats today. First, let\u2019s go to The Situation Room on CNN last night. Reporterette Suzanne Malveaux was interviewing Tony Snow, the White House press secretary. She said, ‘In terms of whether or not they approve or disapprove of the way the president\u2019s handling the situation in Iraq, 71% disapprove of the execution of the war and what he\u2019s doing there, so why should the American people listen to him in the first place?\u2019 Now, that is the question. Before we play you Tony\u2019s answer, if that stupid CNN poll were right, we would be out of there. The Democrats would have had no problem getting their resolutions passed if 71% disapprove of what\u2019s going on that stridently. So her question to Tony Snow: ‘Why should anybody listen to the president in the first place tonight?\u2019<\/p>\n

SNOW: You might want to read the poll a little more fully, because it also says that most Americans think the surge is working.<\/p>\n

MALVEAUX: It says 26 percent approve of the way he\u2019s handling it; 71 percent disapprove; and 3 percent unsure. <\/p>\n

SNOW: I know. I know. But you know what? They also have even higher disapproval rates for Congress. People here are tired of the atmosphere in Washington.<\/p>\n

MALVEAUX: We want to talk about the president. Let\u2019s talk about the president.<\/p>\n

SNOW: What I\u2019ve done is taken something a lot more precise which is: Is the surge working?<\/p>\n

MALVEAUX: How does the president… (Crosstalk) <\/p>\n

SNOW: Read your own — wait, wait, wait.<\/p>\n

MALVEAUX: … regain the credibility that he needs to convince the American people that that\u2019s true, Tony? <\/p>\n

SNOW: Well, you know what, Suzanne, your credibility ratings, journalist credibility ratings, are lower than the president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Touche! Touche! Way to go, Tony.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: On to audio sound bite number seven. The Drive-Bys are beside themselves that Bush has beaten the Democrats and extended the war into what, they think, is Hillary\u2019s term. Bush was brilliant about this last night talking about how his successor is going to have much responsibility here in seeing this policy through.<\/p>\n

PLANTE: U.S. troops will be in Iraq for a long time, certainly when the next U.S. president takes office.<\/line> <\/line>WILLIAMS: That is quite an inheritance for the next president. <\/line> <\/line>O\u2019DONNELL: President Bush set the clock to beyond 2009, as he passed the Iraq war to the next occupant of the Oval Office. <\/line><\/p>\n

KORB: The president wants to pass this off to his successor. <\/p>\n

BREZINSKI: It appeared he said he wanted to draw out this war into the next presidency. <\/p>\n

RUSSERT: When the next president of the United States puts his or her hand on the bible and takes the oath of office, there will be 100,000 American troops in Iraq. It\u2019s being passed on to the next President.<\/p>\n

VIEIRA: So essentially he has won, Tim, hasn\u2019t he? <\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.) But, you know what? What is it that undergirds these observations by these brilliant Drive-Bys? See, to them, just as with the Democrats, the Iraq war is a Bush political issue. It\u2019s not about national security; it\u2019s not about protecting the country; it\u2019s not about fighting Al-Qaeda and the enemy. It\u2019s no different a policy than if you were trying to reform Social Security. Now all of a sudden Bush isn\u2019t going to end these politics when he leaves office. They can\u2019t get it through their heads that this is a genuine war with US security at stake. I remember Mrs. Clinton said she would be very upset if this war were not settled by the time she took office. That\u2019s a paraphrase, but she said this within the past six months. They expect Bush to get this off the table for them. They don\u2019t want to inherit this because they ain\u2019t going to lose it, folks. Not with themselves in charge. Now, as you know, the Democrat version of compromise is Republicans giving up. But the liberals don\u2019t like it when it works the other way around. Bush skunked \u2019em and it kills \u2019em. Last night on Hardball with Chris Matthews, he said, ‘Did Bush give you any indication how many troops he would use to support the commitment as he described to you today?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSSERT: No. But Chris, to give you a sense of his mindset, when he is asked to talk about common ground — ‘I want to find common ground with the Democrats in Congress\u2019 — and asked what that means, the response is: accepting the Petraeus report.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: So that\u2019s the common ground?<\/p>\n

RUSSERT: That\u2019s how he views this.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Wow.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They think he\u2019s deranged. They are two different worldviews here. Yeah, common ground is accepting the report. Wow. That\u2019s common ground? They asked for the report! They demanded the damn report, folks. The Democrats in Congress demanded the damn report. Sorry to shout. It just didn\u2019t say what they hoped it would say. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, ladies and gentlemen, I want to remind every one of you, including you Democrats, when the president announced the war on terror, he said it would go beyond his presidency. Wouldn\u2019t it be wise for you Democrats to be looking at inheriting this war as an opportunity, rather than an albatross around your neck? Yeah, but you don\u2019t see anything positive in anything, so why am I asking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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