{"id":31216,"date":"2008-12-19T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:00:05","slug":"bush_admits_new_tone_failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/12\/19\/bush_admits_new_tone_failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Admits: New Tone Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: I want to play a sound bite here, President Bush. This was yesterday during an interview with Chris DeMuth, who is the president of the American Enterprise Institute. Remember the president\u2019s new tone when he came to office, and I begrudged it, by saying it ain\u2019t gonna work, you can\u2019t make friends with Democrats, they don\u2019t want to be friends with you, they\u2019re just going to take advantage of you. There\u2019s no need for a new tone! We\u2019re not the bad guys! The Republicans are not the bad guys. We\u2019re coming out of eight years of Clinton, impeachment, Lewinsky, and all this sort of stuff. We weren\u2019t the bad guys! We never are the bad guys, very rarely. Yet this defensive need that we have to somehow show everybody we\u2019re not bad guys. So the new tone came along. Bush spoke about it yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: I came with the idea of changing the tone in Washington and, frankly, didn\u2019t do a very good job of it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125118.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: Oh, no.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: &#8212; brings up a lot of heated rhetoric and a lot of emotion. I fully understand that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, no.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: I know that\u2019s the case. But surely we can do a better job in Washington of treating each other with respect.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, no.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: I don\u2019t want to be a self-serving fellow, but I have never used my position as president to personally downgrade somebody. So that\u2019s something I\u2019m not going to miss it at all. Disappointed at the words that came out of people\u2019s mouth, and I\u2019m very disappointed about how the process has treated some of my friends.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: See, he knows it didn\u2019t work, but he\u2019s such a decent guy, he\u2019s blaming himself for this, which is compounding it. He went out of his way. Ted Kennedy writing the education bill, the Kennedy family up there at the White House theater eating popcorn watching a Kevin Costner Kennedy movie. He went out of his way, and today he takes the blame. We\u2019re going to have to get somebody someday on our side who stands up and doesn\u2019t take the hit in the interests of getting along, in the interests of comity, in the interests of bipartisanship. We\u2019re going to need somebody who is willing to point fingers when necessary. We\u2019re only talking about the heart and soul of the country here. We\u2019re only talking about what kind of country we\u2019re going to be. We\u2019re not talking about whether or not Chuck Schumer, Ted Kennedy, Caroline Schlossberg, Harry Reid, like us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I want to play a sound bite here, President Bush. This was yesterday during an interview with Chris DeMuth, who is the president of the American Enterprise Institute. Remember the president\u2019s new tone when he came to office, and I begrudged it, by saying it ain\u2019t gonna work, you can\u2019t make friends with Democrats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bush Admits: New Tone Failed - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2008\/12\/19\/bush_admits_new_tone_failed\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Bush Admits: New Tone Failed - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: I want to play a sound bite here, President Bush. 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