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RUSH: All righty, so Barack Obama, ‘call me if you need me,\u2019 went to the gym this morning, took a quick shower, got in his airplane, headed for Mississippi, told the reporters he\u2019s been in constant contact, he\u2019ll stay in contact, he\u2019ll be available if he\u2019s needed. McCain, about a half an hour ago, said, (paraphrasing) ‘Okay I\u2019m going to go down to Oxford, I\u2019m going to do the debate, and I\u2019ll come back here to Washington, DC, to continue to work on this over the weekend.\u2019 Greetings, my friends, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, it\u2019s Friday.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: Live from the Southern Command in sunny south Florida via New York City, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you know the rules, very simple, Open Line Friday, we go to the phones, the show is yours, whatever you want to talk about is fair game. That\u2019s not the way it goes Monday through Thursday, but we loosen the restraints on Friday. Telephone number is 800-282-2882, the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Okay, so the debate tonight is on. Big whoop, just another media event. Yip yip yip yip yahoo, yes, I will watch it. Snerdley says, ‘You don\u2019t sound excited.\u2019 I\u2019m not excited about it. It\u2019s going to be like watching paint dry. It\u2019s going to be dull, a dryball affair, unless they talk about some of this economic stuff. But any rate, what interests me, I want to tell you what\u2019s happening in Washington, and it is all politics on the Democrat side. I know that some of my liberal and moderate listener friends, ‘Here you go again.\u2019 I\u2019m telling you the truth, the truth of what happened in the White House meeting yesterday. I\u2019m going to tell you the truth about what this is all about. The Democrat Party is looking at this through one prism, and that is the presidential election. Now, you have three factions out of four who agree with the so-called rescue. And the rescue, the best way to explain what the immediate objective is is to provide liquidity for banks. It\u2019s about the banking system so they can loan money, borrow money, and all of that. <\/p>\n

So you\u2019ve got Paulson and Bush and the Democrats that make up three legs of this stool, and then you have the conservative House Republicans who make up the fourth leg. Now, here\u2019s what you have to know. It\u2019s something very simple. All you have to know is this. The Democrats can make this happen in both the House and the Senate without a significant number of Republican votes. So you might ask, ‘Well, then, why all this hassle? Why are the Democrats insisting on Republican support for a deal that the Democrats and Bush and Paulson could do without the Republicans, and they could cut the Republicans out of it?\u2019 Now, the Democrats, Harry Reid this morning, Chris Dodd and all the Democrats yesterday, say, ‘We had a deal, we had a deal, and then the House Republicans showed up and they sabotaged it.\u2019 Let me ask a very simple question. Everybody knows the House Republicans are conservative. How in the world can it be a surprise that the House Republicans\u2019 attitude about this is going to be conservative? There never was a deal. The Democrats are continuing that lie today, from Harry Reid to Claire McCaskill on down the line, Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, they are all trying to say there was a deal done yesterday until McCain showed up and inserted presidential politics into this. <\/p>\n

This is a clear attempt by the Democrats here to ace out McCain, but there\u2019s something else going on. The Democrats have a majority in both Houses. They can do whatever they want. The House Republicans, Boehner and his gang, God bless them, they were cut out of this process by the same Democrats who are demanding their support. The Democrats are demanding that the Republicans cave on what they believe. ‘Capital gains, what are you talking about, capital gains? Corporate tax cut, what are you talking about? Are you guys from Mars?\u2019 And the House Republicans so far are holding firm. Now, you say, ‘Why don\u2019t the Democrats just want to do this on their own?\u2019 They don\u2019t want to be on the hook alone because their mail and phone calls on Capitol Hill is overwhelmingly opposed to this, whether the people understand it or not, they\u2019re overwhelmingly opposed to it, and Dingy Harry admits that in a lame and very aggravating press conference this morning with Chris Dodd. Now, if this bill that the Democrats and Henry Paulson and Bush want, if it\u2019s so wonderful, why don\u2019t they do it? And why don\u2019t they say, ‘Screw you, Boehner, and screw you, House Republicans? We\u2019re going to do this wonderfully great bill and you\u2019re going to get the left out of getting any of the credit for it.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The Democrats want it both ways. If this bill is so good, they should pass it, they should brag about it, they should take credit for it. But, what do we know? What can we learn? What we can learn is that the Democrats understand this bill is dirty as hell. Lindsey Grahamnesty last night was on Greta Van Susteren\u2019s show on Fox and said, (paraphrasing) ‘Look, one of the things that the House Republicans have found here is that 20% of something in this bailout is going to go to ACORN,\u2019 — the illegal Democrat fraudulent voter registration group that is directly tied to Barack Obama. Not 20% of the whole amount, but 20% of something in this bailout is going to ACORN. Well, how can the House Republicans support that? They have to fight that kind of thing. ACORN is in court half the time defending what they\u2019re doing, and half the time the liberal judges find them not guilty. What they really want, what this is about, folks, in addition to many other things, they want the Republicans in the House to repudiate their own philosophy. They want the Republicans in the House to repudiate their base: us. Why? It\u2019s not just for bragging rights. Because if the House Republicans will cave here on conservative principles — you know, principles are principles. You don\u2019t cave on principles. You might cave on a tactic or a strategy, but you don\u2019t cave on principles. <\/p>\n

Now, if the Republicans can be forced into caving on their core principles, then can you imagine the pressure on them when to do all of this all over again, only the subject of health care comes up? Well, you did it once. So politically here, there is a lot at stake. You could say that Boehner and the guys, you know, Jeb Hensarling from Texas, they are fighting a hugely important battle, and they are doing terrific work. If this bill gets signed as it\u2019s apparently designed by the Democrats, then the Republican base will be very angry at their Republicans in the House, the conservatives, for abandoning them and so forth. So that\u2019s part of what\u2019s going on. The Democrats cannot get their story straight. Jennifer Rubin has a good little blog on this at Contentions today, which is Commentary magazine website. It\u2019s beyond dispute at this point that congressional Republicans were never on board this, and yet the Democrats today continue to lie that they had agreed to a framework yesterday. It is equally clear that the Democrat majority doesn\u2019t want to act without the cover of a substantial number of Republican votes. <\/p>\n

Now, again, it needs to be pointed out, if this bill is so wonderful, and if it\u2019s so great, and if it\u2019s got so much in it that will save America, why don\u2019t the Democrats, ‘Okay, you guys don\u2019t want to be part of this, fine, we\u2019ll sign it, we\u2019ll handle it, we\u2019ll take all the credit for this, and you guys are going to be left holding the bag when America ends up loving us.\u2019 If it\u2019s that wonderful, if it\u2019s that great, why do they want Republicans with them on the hook? Well, I\u2019ve just explained all of this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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