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RUSH: This is Regina in Crugers, New York. I\u2019m glad you waited, Regina, great to have you here with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I want to wish you a very happy Veterans Day, and as a Vietnam-era vet, and former commissions officer of the United States Navy, I commission you as honorary admiral of the fleet of conservative talk radio programs.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I\u2019m honored by that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you. I am also a Feminist for Life, and as such, I am very concerned about this Freedom of Choice Act which is in Congress and has been promised by Mr. Obama to be passed, or he\u2019s going to sign it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me… I want to define terms here. You said you\u2019re a Feminist for Life, which means you consider yourself a feminist, but you\u2019re pro-life?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, when you\u2019re talking about the Freedom of Choice Act, which act are you talking about?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s a bill that\u2019s in Congress, and what it will do is it will shut down parental consent laws nationwide and cause right-to-know laws to be overturned.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah. Well, you know Obama can\u2019t wait for that bill. He supports infanticide.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know that. There were many people who were running for Congress who are very pro-life. Deborah Honeycutt in Georgia.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yup.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Allen West in Florida.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — New York, Michael Lawlor. I can\u2019t remember all of them, but many, many, many.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And Russell, who is running against that guy Murtha out in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So I think most of these guys lost.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So a lot of our hopes were dashed. Now, I know that in former cases we\u2019ve flooded the lines of these representatives —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and senators to get them to ward off this horrible thing, but I don\u2019t know if there are other types of pressure that we can put on them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, let me be blunt. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (silence)<\/p>\n

RUSH: May I be blunt?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Elections have consequences.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And we lost, and we lost numbers. The Democrats are dangerously close to having a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority. If they get Franken, they\u2019re one step closer, and all they need is a couple of pro-choice Republicans to go along with them and they got a filibuster-proof vote in the Senate on this. I don\u2019t think too many pro-life Democrat senators are going to buck their party on this thing. You go to the House, and we don\u2019t have the numbers to stop these people. I\u2019m telling you, Regina: Obama and his team are good old-fashioned Chicago machine politicians. What they want, they are going to ram through, and they\u2019re going to do it as quickly as they can. I laugh at all this talk that Reid and Pelosi are going to be dealing with this little man-child amateur and they\u2019re not going to let him get away with all he wants because there\u2019s a natural tendency for these two branches to fight it out over power. (snorts) I\u2019m going to tell you who\u2019s going to lose these fights: it\u2019s going to be Reid and Pelosi. They don\u2019t know what has hit them. You think you\u2019re going to be burning up phone lines opposing the Freedom of Choice Act? Obama\u2019s going to have 3.1 million people e-mailing recalcitrant Democrats, threatening them with loss of fundraising if they don\u2019t go his way. Regina, hang on. I have to take a break here but I want to hit you between the eyes with reality when we come back.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to Regina in Crugers, New York. Regina?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, Rush, can I just ask something, being it\u2019s Veterans Day? I have a nephew, Major Edmund Riley over in Afghanistan. I\u2019d ask that you keep him in your prayers and thoughts and all of the people that are listening, and all of our troops that are over in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: By all means. You know, Veterans Day is an important day. I just want you to know that I, all of us here at the EIB Network and throughout this audience, we celebrate veterans every day. We thank God for veterans every day, and we always have. We always will.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The other thing I wanted to ask you is relating somewhat to this pro-life stuff. There are a number of organizations, basically constitutional lawyer firms, that are pro-life that go after abortion mills and try to help them out. Jay Sekulow has one. Sears has another one. Liberty Council is another. Anyway, how many openings are left in the federal circuit court and other federal courts that Bush was not allowed to fill and will be filled?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t even want to know. You don\u2019t want to know. The numbers are striking. The Democrats have blocked them. There are so many vacancies. There are so many nominations for the circuit courts, the appellate courts. There has been some action on the district courts, but even there. There are nominees that have been waiting for three years, Regina, and the Democrats are just stalling everything — and they stalled it on the basis they knew Obama was going to win. Obama is going to get these appointments. Look, here… (sigh) Again, I hate doing ‘I told you so.\u2019 I just hate it, but I gotta hit you between the eyes. You want to know how we\u2019re going to stop the Freedom of Choice Act? <\/p>\n

Tell me how we\u2019re going to stop the tax increases. Tell me how we\u2019re going to stop anything. We do not have the votes to get even close to stopping anything in the House of Representatives. In the Senate, they don\u2019t have a filibuster-proof everyday majority. They don\u2019t have 60 seats, but depending on if they steal this election in Minnesota, they\u2019re going to get close to it, and we\u2019ve got enough wishy-washy moderate Republicans in the Senate who might feel the need to go along with the majority on some of these things. Ironically, ironically — let\u2019s go to the House of Representatives for a moment, because ironically — the best hope that we might have for stopping any of Obama\u2019s stuff is Democrats in the House: Blue Dog, conservative Democrats. <\/p>\n

Rahm Emanuel starting in 2006 was assigned by Nancy Pelosi to get enough Democrats elected to make her speaker. Well, Rahm Emanuel knew that he couldn\u2019t get liberal Democrat members of the House elected in certain regions of the country, so he went and he recruited conservative, pro-life, low tax, small government Democrats in North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, a number of other places. They got elected. They were running against Republican incumbents, who had lost their way, who at one time used to be conservative. But they\u2019ve either come out against the war, they were criticizing Bush, or they had spent wildly or they had abandoned their own conservatism, and they were sitting ducks. <\/p>\n

We had some more of these run in 2008, and there are more conservative Blue Dog Democrats in 2008, or will be next year, than there were in 2006 in that election. So ironically, when it comes to cultural issues, the best hope we might have legislatively is conservative Democrats opposing their own party. But you can\u2019t put a whole lot into that because they\u2019re going to be so outnumbered. All Pelosi has to do is drag them in the office and say, ‘You want to be reelected? In fact, let\u2019s not even talk about reelection. Do you want to ever make it up the leadership ladder in this place? Because if you do, you better vote as I tell you, or as Steny Hoyer tells you — and if you don\u2019t, then you may be here two years or ten years, but you won\u2019t matter a dime.\u2019<\/p>\n

So a lot of pressure is going to be brought to bear on them. Ironically, that\u2019s the best hope that we have at blocking Democrat action in the House. But there aren\u2019t that many of them. There are a significant number, but it\u2019s not that many. It pains me to say that some of the most conservative members of the House are Democrats. It pains me to say this. (Cosell impression) ‘But it\u2019s true. It\u2019s true out there.\u2019 So here, folks, is the reality. Legislatively, whatever Obama and Reid and Pelosi unite on and want to do, we can\u2019t stop. Not legislatively. We can\u2019t stop it. During the election, during the campaign, I went deaf, I went hoarse, I went everything trying to say to people, ‘They\u2019re going to redefine what this country is made of, how it functions, and it\u2019s gonna take a generation to roll it back.\u2019 It\u2019s gonna take 25 years to get rid of this stuff. <\/p>\n

These judicial appointments they\u2019re going to make are for life. They\u2019re going to populate the bureaucracy, even more than it is now, with career liberals. This is what they do. The Bush administration, by the way, announced to its career people that when he leaves, they leave. Bush is not playing that game. Bush is not leaving any, quote, unquote, ‘career Republican appointees\u2019 in the bureaucracy. He\u2019s making them all leave with him, because that\u2019s the right thing to do: leaving it open for the next administration. But we\u2019re playing against a team whose whole reason for living and existing is to control the government. Ours, of course, is to limit it. So we don\u2019t have the same objective even. They live and die to work in government, to get paid by government, to rob from government, to lead it, to populate it, to grow it, to make it the central thing in as many people\u2019s lives. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s their objective, and they have succeeded! The most radical Democrat ever has been elected president by ‘acting presidential.\u2019 They have succeeded. We have an administration led by a guy who is going to do everything. They\u2019re not going to make the mistakes the Clinton people made. They\u2019re telling themselves that. They\u2019re not going to go middle road to get things done. They don\u2019t have to, now. There aren\u2019t enough Republicans who can stop them. They\u2019re not worried about the Republicans winning the House in 2010. I frankly believe that when you have this much hubris and this much arrogance that you can overreach, and I think they will overreach. I don\u2019t know when it\u2019s going to be. <\/p>\n

When they overreach is when all these people that think they\u2019re at the Princess Di funeral again, that\u2019s when the lights are going to go off in their heads and that\u2019s when they\u2019re going to realize, ‘Oh, my God. What have we done here?\u2019 Not all of them, but enough. They will overreach, and on some of these things they overreach, they\u2019re going to get, they\u2019re going to get away with. You remember after the 2002 Wellstone memorial, I said, ‘I\u2019m not worried about this election. These guys, they\u2019re not going to win anything. They\u2019re not going to take the Congress back after that display.\u2019 I was right. But every time I predicted similar things, I\u2019ve been wrong. I thought this kind of rage and hatred aimed at the president, I thought the rage and hatred aimed at the US military, I thought the desire to lose in Iraq, I thought the effort to make people think their country was finished, that there was no economic future…<\/p>\n

I thought, ‘There\u2019s no way a majority of people are going to vote for this. There is no way the people of this country are going to reward this kind of insane, lunatic-based anger, rage, and hate,\u2019 and I was wrong. I was wrong this year, and I was wrong in 2006. So let me ask you something. Do you think we ought to start acting enraged and angry? Do you think we ought to start marching in the streets, even though that\u2019s not who we are? I don\u2019t mean the word ‘acting.\u2019 Should we be angry? I know the rage is real. I know everybody\u2019s mad as hell. I understand everybody is filled with rage out there on our side. There\u2019s 58 million people that are angry that did not vote for Obama. Okay, so should you start replicating the behavior of the Democrats? Should you start calling Obama names? <\/p>\n

Should you start treating Obama the way they treated Bush? It worked for \u2019em, when everybody in the world thought that it wouldn\u2019t. It worked for \u2019em. I noticed Charles Krauthammer on the Fox All-Stars said, ‘Yeah, it did work for them but we should not do it. Republicans ought not do this.\u2019 Why, if it worked? The sad thing is, it obviously did. It did not hurt them. All this insane rage and anger, all of these personal attacks… I mean, writing books and movies about assassinating Bush and to have them critically acclaimed! To wish for defeat of the United States in the war on terror, and countless other things I can\u2019t even recall now. I just said, ‘Human nature is such that this is not going to be rewarded,\u2019 but it was. <\/p>\n

Maybe it wasn\u2019t. Maybe it was just the power and the charismatic demagoguery of Obama who did not come across as angry. But regardless, we lost, and we are hip deep in doo-doo. We have the most radical leftist extremist disguised as something much tamer and milder, who is insisting on putting an imprint on this country such as it has never had. You think the Great Society and all that stuff was bad and you think Jimmy Carter was bad? These people are going to look at that as kindergarten, Romper Room. They\u2019re going to overreach and they\u2019re going to destroy a lot of things; and eventually… Those of you who have kids and grandkids, the primary source of your concern is, ‘What kind of country are my kids going to grow up in? Where will be their opportunity? Is their opportunity going to rest on calling the government agency? Oh, no! We don\u2019t want that!\u2019 <\/p>\n

Well, you voted for it! Or not you, but some people did. So how do we stop the Freedom of Choice Act? We don\u2019t, not in the legislative bodies. How do we stop Card Check? We don\u2019t. We gave up the chance to stop it when we lost the election, when the Republican Party refused to have an identity, when the presidential candidate refused to even campaign on behalf of other Republicans. You could say we deserve what we got and it might be true, but it\u2019s still frustrating as hell. So how do we stop this stuff? The Obama team is going to have three million people whose job is going to be to hassle Democrats who don\u2019t toe the line in Congress and in the House. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re going to threaten them with no more fundraising; they\u2019re going to threaten them with being heckled at various public appearances. Folks, we haven\u2019t run into anything like this before. So what do we do? Do we march in the streets? Do we call Congress? Do we send out e-mails — and to whom? Do we send it to our side, or do we send it to Chuck Schumer? Do we send it to Harry Reid and so forth? What are they going to do when they hear from a bunch of angry Republicans that are not going to vote for them anyway? It\u2019s sad thing to say, but the best option is to let \u2019em overreach and screw it up on their own. It will happen, but in the meantime, they\u2019re going to get a lot done. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s going to take a long time to undo, and I\u2019m not trying to depress you or be pessimistic. I\u2019m being realistic here. I\u2019m not saying there aren\u2019t ways to beat them. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m just saying our guys do not have the numbers in the House or Senate to do so, even if they\u2019re all unified. They may have some parliamentary procedures to play and things like that, but the way I\u2019m hearing everybody talk right now, I think there\u2019s going to be a lot of fear of going against Obama anyway. ‘The first black president is historic! Why, give him a chance,\u2019 everybody is saying. He\u2019s going to run through that window. He\u2019s going to run through that window faster than Deion Sanders. We\u2019re not even going to see him go through that window when he gets all this stuff done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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