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RUSH: I\u2019m going to tell you why we\u2019re having fun here, because we\u2019re getting the truth out. This is a program exclusively devoted to the truth, a relentless, unstoppable pursuit of the truth. I don\u2019t say this bragging even though I can because it ain\u2019t bragging if you can do it. <\/p>\n\n\n
I\u2019m watching everywhere, there\u2019s one exception, there\u2019s a couple people on Fox and one person on CNBC that\u2019s getting this right. Other than that, this program and other similar programs on talk radio are the only place you can go to get the truth about what is happening here, what precipitated this, what caused it, and what the solutions are and what happened yesterday in the bailout vote. That\u2019s why we\u2019re having fun. I am jazzed here to be able to provide the truth to people, which is what we always do, and it\u2019s frustrating, but it\u2019s also comical to watch these so-called wizards of smart, the so-called elite media, they\u2019re not elite in<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

any way you would define it, except a superiorist attitude. They\u2019re not elite in social standing, not elite in income, they\u2019re not elite in job status, they\u2019re not elites, period. But they are all on the same page and they are all blinded. They have blinders on. They are not interested in truth. Truth eludes them because they don\u2019t seek it. The truth is not even afraid of these guys, in the Drive-Bys, because they\u2019re not trying to find truth. By the way, here\u2019s the phone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882 is the number. And if you want to go e-mail, it\u2019s ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/line><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another reason why I\u2019m having fun. As I alluded briefly in the previous hour, do you all understand the glorious opportunity this whole thing presents conservatism? We\u2019re just absent a conservative leader, but we\u2019ve got the greatest opportunity we\u2019re going to have in I don\u2019t know how long. Every disaster, every aspect of this disaster can be laid at the feet of liberalism. The blame, we can show how this has happened time and time again, every time liberalism has unchecked power and unchecked control to assert itself, people are feeling miserably, in terms of economics, they are feeling the crisis. They\u2019re being told in the Drive-Bys it\u2019s the Republicans\u2019 fault. It\u2019s liberalism\u2019s fault. If there\u2019s somebody out there who could make this case, we could wipe out Obama in a landslide; we could retake the House and retake the Senate. It\u2019s just sitting there. It\u2019s like Allstate, we\u2019re in good hands here. It\u2019s right in the middle of our hands here, and yet our presidential nominee is out there saying, bipartisanship is tough. Bipartisanship isn\u2019t tough. Bipartisanship is gutless. <\/p>\n

Bipartisanship is just like liberalism; it\u2019s the most gutless choice you can make. What\u2019s tough is standing on and for your principles when you and they are under assault. That\u2019s what\u2019s hard. That\u2019s what\u2019s challenging. Bipartisanship is easy. You simply compromise part of what you believe to go along with people who want to destroy you and say, ‘Look at me. I can get along with the other side.\u2019 I could do that 25 times a day. We all could. That doesn\u2019t take any effort, just like it doesn\u2019t take any effort to be liberal. Now, I want to explain something I said in a previous hour. In talking about the blame game here, because I sit here and I smile at the opportunity it presents me. I still cringe at part of it, though. So much of the so-called conservative media is out there saying, with their hands wringing, ‘Both sides are at fault. This is a bipartisan problem. Both sides have nothing to be proud of today.\u2019 Wrong. Both sides are not at fault. Both sides are not to blame. I\u2019ll give you the names and you tell me what their ideology is. Barney Frank, Franklin Raines, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Jamie Gorelick, Jim Johnson, Janet Reno, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid. Tell me, are any of them Republicans? Any of them Democrats? Yeah. Are any of them liberals? Are any of them conservatives? <\/p>\n

There\u2019s one ideology here that\u2019s to blame here, and in the last hour I said the only thing that the Republicans screwed up was when they conducted oversight hearings in 2004 where the regulator came in and spelled out the problems. Four years ago at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Republicans didn\u2019t do anything about it. Well, here\u2019s why. As was pointed out yesterday, this whole subprime thing and the whole concept of lending to people who never, ever stood a chance of paying back the loans over the turn of the loan, it\u2019s a racial thing, it\u2019s a minority thing. You listen to what Barney Frank was saying yesterday and Maxine Waters and Lacy Clay, the things we pointed out they said four years ago. It\u2019s clear what this was about. The liberals use race to get away with everything because it stifles any legitimate criticism. Imagine, 2004, if those hearings had occurred and the Republicans said, okay, we\u2019re going to clean this mess up, we\u2019re going to shut this down and Franklin Raines is gone, we\u2019re going to do this, that, and the other thing, we\u2019re going to straighten this out, you know what would have happened? <\/line><\/p>\n

Barney Frank, Lacy Clay, Maxine Waters, would have brought into the committee room an endless parade of minorities looking as bedraggled and near homeless as they could make \u2019em, and they\u2019d be blaming Chris Shays and all these other Republicans on that committee for throwing these people out of their homes. The Republicans knew that, and so they said, ‘There\u2019s no reason to tackle this. We\u2019ll be defeated in our own reelection.\u2019 So this whole business of pandering to minorities, affordable housing, meaning they get a house without being able to pay for it or even having to pay for it, shuts off any attempt to correct it. This is a stratagem that the left uses constantly and frequently. It\u2019s on display now in the presidential campaign. If Barack Obama loses it\u2019s strictly because he\u2019s black. It\u2019s not because his policies are reckless and dangerous, not because he\u2019s incompetent, it\u2019s not because his associations and he, likely, are nothing but extreme radical leftists who want to remake this country as socialist, oh, no, no, no, wouldn\u2019t have anything to do with that. It\u2019s just because this country is racist and black. <\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019ve checked the e-mails. People disagree with me, I understand this. Well, no, I don\u2019t understand it. After 20 years plus, I don\u2019t understand how anybody would disagree with me on anything. You always know that at the end of the day I\u2019m proven right on this stuff. So I mentioned yesterday that the Pelosi Democrat Congress got exactly what she wanted. She wanted this bill defeated and she wanted the media blaming Republicans for it, and Barney Frank and the guys went out there on cue, blamed Republicans, blamed McCain, the AP today with the big story, bailout failure lends credence to McCain\u2019s incompetence. He flew into Washington, couldn\u2019t get it done, it\u2019s a Republican problem, they got exactly what they wanted. They got Armageddon, they got crisis, they got destruction, they\u2019ve got Great Depression 2, and they\u2019ve got the media out there running interference for them claiming it\u2019s a Republican problem. This is election-year politics. <\/p>\n

New York Times today: ”Lawmakers Grope for Resolution as They Attempt to Avoid Economic Calamity\u2019 — In the end, only 65 Republicans — just one-third of those voting — backed the plan despite personal pleas from President Bush and encouragement from their presidential nominee, Senator John McCain. By contrast, 140 Democrats, or 60 percent, voted in favor.\u2019 Well, that\u2019s not the story. The story is that 40% of Democrats voted against it. Not the percentage of Democrats that voted for it. Forty percent of Democrats voted against the bill and the Republicans saw that happening, and a lot of these Democrats voting against it are in highly contested reelection races in their districts. When the Republicans saw these guys voting against it, they knew full well what was going on. Democrats can go out and campaign for reelection, ‘I voted against that bill, you know it, I know it. You weren\u2019t for it. I heard what you said, reelect me.\u2019 And then it even says, ‘People\u2019s reelections played into this to a much larger degree than I would have imagined,\u2019 said Representative Deborah Pryce, a former member of the Republican leadership who is retiring. They saw it. They saw that reelection was what this is about. <\/p>\n

Why should the Republicans put their necks in the noose for this when the Democrats, in tight races, were going to vote against it in order to get reelected? And why were they going to vote against it in order to get reelected? Because they knew even in Democrat districts their constituents were mightily opposed to this. So they saw what was coming. Also, from The Prowler today at the American Spectator: ‘House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered her Majority Whip, Jim Clyburn, to essentially not do his job in the run-up to the vote on Monday for the negotiated Wall Street bailout plan, according to House Democrat leadership aides. ‘Clyburn was not whipping the votes you would have expected him to, in part because he was uncomfortable doing it, in part because we didn\u2019t want the push for votes to be successful,\u2019 says one leadership aide. ‘All we needed was enough to potentially get us over the finish line, but we wanted the Republicans to be the ones to do it. This was not going to be a Democrat-passed bill if the Speaker had anything to say about it,” quote, unquote, Democrat leadership aide. This was not going to be and it never was going to be a Democrat passed bill. <\/p>\n

They were going to hang this around the Republicans\u2019 necks just like they attempted to lose in Iraq and hang that around Bush\u2019s neck. ‘During the floor vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Democrat Conference chair Rahm Emanuel could be seen monitoring the vote on the floor, and gauging whether or not more Democrat votes were needed. Clyburn had expressed concerns, says the leadership aide, of being asked to press members of the Black and Hispanic caucuses on a bill he was certain those constituencies would not want passed.\u2019 Do you realize the Congressional Black Caucus voted against this? ”It worked out, because we didn\u2019t have a dog in this fight. We negotiated. We gave the White House a bill. It was up to the Republicans to get the 100 plus votes they needed and they couldn\u2019t do it,\u2019 said another Democrat leadership aide. Emanuel, who served as a board member for Freddie Mac, one of the agencies that precipitated the economic crisis the nation now finds itself in, had no misgivings about taking a leadership role in tanking the bill. ‘He was cheerleading us along, mothering the votes,\u2019 says the aide. ‘We wanted enough to put the pressure on the Republicans and Congressman Emanuel was charged with making it close enough. He did a great job.” They just fell a little short. <\/p>\n

So contrary to everybody badgering the Republicans for saying they got upset and changed their vote because of Pelosi\u2019s speech, that may be what they said, but that\u2019s not what changed their votes. They simply were paying attention. They were simply paying attention to what the Democrats were doing on the House floor, how they were voting, and they saw what was coming. They saw this whole thing was going to be hung around their neck. Everybody up there knew that 80% of the American people wanted no part of. That\u2019s why Pelosi wanted to hang it around the Republicans\u2019 neck if she could. Now, regardless of what CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post might say about yesterday\u2019s vote, the Democrat leadership knew exactly where they were. They knew the math just didn\u2019t add up. They went ahead and they held the vote. The Dow plunged 778 points, some members of the majority have gone around saying that the Democrat leadership was being a little less than honest about how many votes they had. They knew their count and where we were, and knew it wasn\u2019t enough. <\/p>\n

This is an indictment. They knew they were going to lose. They knew, and they still went ahead, Pelosi did, and trashed the market with this. Here are some vote tallies that are interesting. ‘The number of additional votes needed to pass the bailout was not many. They needed 12. The number of Democrats on Barney Frank\u2019s committee who voted ‘no,\u2019 12. The number of Democrats total who voted ‘no\u2019 on the plan, 95.\u2019 Had Barney Frank been able to get his committee members to vote or Pelosi, the Democrats, or had Barack Obama bothered to pick up the phone and support the plan that he said he favored, it would have been passed. ‘Aides to Obama said he had not directly reached out to try to sway any House Democrats who opposed the measure.\u2019 Democrats had the votes to make this pass. They didn\u2019t want it to pass with their votes being the majority. They wanted to hang this around the necks of the Republicans. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: John Boehner, the House Republican leader, put out a statement today. ‘The presidential candidates\u2019 support for increasing the FDIC cap is welcome news. Increasing the FDIC cap is a proposal put on the table by Roy Blunt and House Republicans but ruled out by Democrats during the negotiations that led to yesterday\u2019s unsuccessful vote.\u2019 So what Boehner is saying here, is, ‘Hey. We tried, we tried to up the FDIC insurance cap from a hundred grand to 250, but the Democrats said, ‘No, wouldn\u2019t let it be part of the bill.” So today Obama is out claiming it\u2019s his idea and wants it in the next bill, wants the president to do it, and McCain\u2019s out there saying it\u2019s his idea, too, when it was the Republicans\u2019 idea, and it was thrown out by the Democrats. Interesting piece from The Politico, by the way. <\/p>\n

Who wrote this? I want to make sure I properly credit them. Ben Smith and Glenn Thrush. ‘Meanwhile, neither [presidential] candidate appears to have fully grappled with the force that brought the House bill down: its deep unpopularity. Many of the ‘no\u2019 voters are members of both parties facing tough reelection campaigns, and many challengers [of these guys] announced they would vote no in the hope of drawing a contrast with a threatened incumbent. The two presidential candidates have signaled they would support a compromise, though neither formally signed on to the House bill.\u2019 Boy, there\u2019s so much profundity in the news today! ‘[N]either candidate appears to have fully grappled with the force that brought the House bill down: its deep unpopularity.\u2019 That\u2019s just a side light. That\u2019s a, ‘Eh, no big deal. So the public doesn\u2019t want it. Screw them! What do they know? Is the attitude of Washington on this,\u2019 and they failed to grapple. McCain being out there talking about bipartisanship is a tough thing. Ugh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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