WEBVTT - The Republican Party Embraces Irrelevance 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.320 Okay, look, ladies and gentlemen, there is so much out 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:09.039 there that that seems on the surface, uh, to be inexplicable. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:16.400 The problem in this country as the a majority of 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.279 people recognize, I want we get this pole here, look 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.840 at this. This is a this is a it's a 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.200 new poll. It's it was a Pew poll. I think, 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.000 I don't know what. Why don't they just put what 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:32.720 the poll is early in the it's a yeah, it 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.839 is a a poll from the Pew Research Center. And 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.680 the bottom line, eighty one percent of the people in 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:46.320 this country are dissatisfied. Eighty one percent are dissatisfied. Do 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.680 you think they're dissatisfied with Ted Cruz? Do you think 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.360 they're dissatisfied with the Tea Party? Do you think they're 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:58.440 dissatisfied with the um the opposition to Barack Obama the 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:03.600 Republican Party? Obviously think so, but that is tantamount insanity. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.400 New poll shows more frustration with Washington over the government 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.600 shutdown and a risk of default. Number of people satisfied 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.319 with the state of the country's plummeting to the lowest 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.679 level since the two thousand and eight financial crisis, and 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.800 it's only four percent of Americans say they're satisfied with 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:24.119 the way things are going in the country. The survey 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.399 picked up a strong throw the bums out sentiment. Now, 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.399 of course, what this pole attempts to convince people of 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.920 is that everything in Washington was fine and that everybody 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:41.679 was happy with Washington until the shutdown. And I mean everybody. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.800 We were just robustly happy. And then the shutdown came, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.240 and whoever is responsible for that, why everybody's really ticked 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.160 off at them, And that would be Ted Cruz and 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.200 Mike Lee and the Tea Party, and of course the 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.600 Republican and Democrat establishments are lined up that way. And 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.480 that's what the polling data is attempting to establish. The 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.520 fact of the matter is a majority of people in 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.520 this country have been dissatisfied for a number of years 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.920 about the way the country is going. And you know, 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.960 and I know that the people in this country who 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.640 are dissatisfied with the way it's going are not dissatisfied 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.280 with the Tea Party. They are not dissatisfied with Ted Cruizer, 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:27.639 Mike Lee. They are the only opposition to what's been 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:33.080 going on. I don't think I was I was trying 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:38.400 to think earlier today. If ever in my life I 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:44.480 could remember any political major not a third, but any 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:49.280 major political party being so irrelevant. I have never seen it. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:55.680 I have never seen a major political party simply occupied 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.800 placeholders as the Republican Party is doing. There hasn't been 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:05.200 any opposition, not any serious opposition. There may have been 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.040 votes against this or that, votes against Obamacare, there may 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:13.120 have been votes against the stimulus, But in terms of 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:19.880 a a policy oriented, a package of policies, a package 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:24.800 of principal beliefs of opposition expressed daily by party leaders 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:29.080 against what's happening in this country, there hasn't been. And 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.959 I know why, and you do too. The Republicans have 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.320 been hoodwinked. There are two things that have happened. Hey, 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:41.040 they are literally paralyzed because Obama is African American. They 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:46.880 literally paralyzed. Before that happened, the Democrats in the media 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.040 ran one of the most brilliant political tricks I have 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:55.720 ever seen pulled off. That political trick convinced Republicans, and 0:03:55.840 --> 0:04:03.240 more importantly, they're brilliant moderate consultants that criticizing any Democrat 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:09.640 president would anger the independence. Remember that because the independence, 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.280 the God bless them Independence. Oh my god, folks, the 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.960 princes and the queens, the princesses of our culture, the 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:22.159 moderate independence, the only reasonable people out there. They only 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:27.440 open minded, non bigoted, non closed minded human beings in America. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:33.640 That of the voting population. It's independence. If you win them, 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.640 you win everything. Ask Mitt Romney about that. He won 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.599 big with independence, but his base stayed home. That's why 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:46.960 we're here anyway. So the Republicans got hooked into this 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:52.040 belief that any criticism would send the independence running to 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:59.520 the mild mannerd never critical, never extreme, never loud, never arguing, 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:06.960 never bickering Democrats. So the Republicans agreed to tie one 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.400 hand behind their back because of Obama's race, they had 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.680 the other hand tied behind their back. By this this trick, 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.240 they got them to shut up you better you you 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.320 and and really double down on that any criticism of 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.040 Obama because now you're criticizing the first black president makes 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.520 you're racist. So they are not going to go there, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:32.400 not gonna be critical. The matter's president doesn't matter. If 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.000 if these transforming this country in ways it was never 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.719 founded to be, doesn't matter. We can't criticize him because 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.640 the're gonna call us racist. And then you add to 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.600 it this silly notion that any criticism would send precious 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:49.160 Independence running to the Democrats. Note that there was no 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.839 behavior the Democrats could engage in that would send the 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:57.279 Independence running to Republicans. The Democrats can call Republicans hostage takers, 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.640 they could accuse them of taking a ransom, they can 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.360 accuse of them are being terrorists, and that doesn't bother 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:08.960 the independence. But when the Republicans question Obama's Obamacare plan, 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:15.040 your racist pigs, how dare you? And some other Republicans 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.520 have been talked into halfway and they agreed on the 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:23.520 other half to shut up, And they have bought hook 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:28.120 line and sinker that what the American people want is Kumbaya, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:33.120 everybody living together in a circle and loving each other 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:39.200 and no acrimony, nothing but love everywhere. That's what everybody wants. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.159 And if anybody interrupts that, they're gonna pay. And so 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.599 the Republicans have done everything they can to try to 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.720 make everybody like them, and what they've ended up doing 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.719 is creating one of the greatest political disasters I've ever 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.799 seen in my lifetime, simply because they failed to show 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.760 up and then when they finally did make a play 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.040 of showing up, they didn't have the gut stick with it. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:08.000 Undertake a partial government shutdown, let's call it a slowdown. 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:16.760 Undertaken shut down the federal government for two weeks, and 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:21.160 the end game is that Dingy Harry gets to write 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:27.320 the continuing Resolution and the debt limit expansion and extension. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.000 That's and then after that two and a half weeks, 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:37.280 all of it the Democrats side, the Republican side, blamed 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:42.239 on Ted Cruise. One guy did all this, one guy 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.600 created all his havoc. One guy. If this one guy 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.080 would have shut up and never said anything, why we'd 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:56.080 be what in fat city? So the Republican establishment, the 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.920 Democratic established, there is a full out now. I want 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.320 to warn you about this because folks, we're gonna have 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.880 to hang tough. We're gonna have to You may think 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:10.760 I'm crazy here. We're gonna have to remain as best 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:18.760 we can, detached from that mess and stay up, bucked up, 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:23.040 optimistic of good, sheer as best we can, because there 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:27.960 is an all out assault now, not just on Cruise 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.960 and Lee, and not just on the Tea Party, but 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:36.560 on the conservative wing of the party. It isn't new. 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.199 We've spoken of it on many previous occasions, but now 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:44.839 they're things fortified being fortified because now they all think 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.120 they've got all the AMMO they need. And that is 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.680 this last two and a half weeks is brought about 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.679 strictly by the Tea parties. Now you've got moderate Republicans 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.680 who call themselves conservatives, like David From suggesting it's the 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:00.880 greatest thing that could happen to Publican Party now is 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.400 if the Tea Party just just just branched off and 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.920 formed its own conservative party. You've got moderate Republicans and 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.120 some who call themselves conservatives suggesting that you don't want 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.360 you two party people, why don't you just take a hike? 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:20.360 And even in the New Republic today there's a column 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.120 the New Republic, a liberal journal of opinion, telling David 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.680 From that if the Tea Party really does that, you 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:33.560 moderate Republicans are forever going to Louise. You don't have 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.760 a prayer of winning if you succeed in driving your 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:41.120 base out. This is not the time to abandon Ted 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.480 Cruz or Mike Lee, folks. And I'm not talking about 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.040 sending the money, and I'm not talking about anything traditional. 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.040 I'm just talking about your hearts and in your mind, 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.480 because you know they're right. You know that what they 0:09:53.480 --> 0:10:00.280 attempted to do here was was I think valiant. It 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.000 it's it's uh, it's been an illustration of just how 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:10.080 terribly wrong things are. And there are plenty of opportunities 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.440 for lessons to be learned here. Now. Look, I'm not 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.959 living in a false reality here. I'm I'm thinking about 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.440 this last night too, while I was pondering if I 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:24.680 can ever remember a greater political disaster in my lifetime, 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.640 if I can ever remember a time when a political 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:32.720 party just made a decision not to exist for all 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.880 intents and purposes. I mean, do you know what The 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:40.000 Republican Party now can't wait to move on amnesty? Paul 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:44.760 Ryan and Eric cantor they can't wait, Obama can't wait. 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.000 After this cave on the shutdown, or whatever you want 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.440 to call it, the next move at light speed is 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.280 going to be for amnesty. The Republican Party leading the way. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.440 It doesn't make any sense to me. It's not in 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.680 the tradition a little political sense. Now, if you throw 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:06.080 money into it, demands of donors, advice of consultants makes 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.520 total sense. But those are the people that have been 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.800 securing defeat for this party, and those are the people 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.560 who have have set the table that has resulted in 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.920 where the party is. Rather they've been running it. The 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.079 Conservatives have not been running the Republican Party, and nobody 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.640 can say they have. The Conservatives have been trying to, 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.840 but they don't. They have not. The Conservatives do not 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.199 run the Republican establishment. I mean, whatever the Republican Party 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.680 is today is because the wizards of smart that run 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.880 it are not the Conservatives. They're the ones who have 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:43.040 authored this. It's their signature on all of this, and 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.400 they are like a lot of other children, a lot 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:52.200 of luck o the victims blaming everybody else. And that's 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:56.360 where we are. But the opportunity here, I still like it. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:03.840 I've I've finished my thought I was I was thinking yesterday, 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.120 I said, and this has picked up a couple of places, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.480 and I knew it would be. No, I've not forgotten 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.160 the filmustioning thing. I gotta don't worry. In fact, there's 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:16.000 a there's a new addition to that that the Adrian Peters. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.439 This guy's got more kids than he knows out there, 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.240 A couple more have just been discovered. But we'll get 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:27.160 to that at a moment um. I said yesterday on 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.640 this very program that there are times I feel like 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.800 we've just lost a war to the Communists. I used 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.920 the term communists generically, but I can remember back. I'm 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.800 a child at a Cold War, and I as a child, 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.440 the threat that the Soviet Union was going to succeed. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:50.960 That was a daily thing you lived with, and if 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.680 you were one who was engaged in all that, that 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:58.800 was frightening concept. And I almost feel like that's happened here. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.360 And and then addition to that, it seems like it 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:07.320 happened overnight. I mean all through the Bush years, I 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.559 guess the signs were there, but I missed them. I 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:19.160 didn't see the utter, total transformation, and I will call 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:23.360 it deterioration of the pop culture. I knew it was 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.000 going on. I thought it was more it's just with 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:30.400 with the election of Barack Obama, and then the next 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:34.480 day after that, it is like the country that was 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:41.160 founded didn't exist at all. And the transformation of Obama 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:45.040 talked about wanting to make really had already almost been completed. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.800 And yet we had had eight years of Bush not 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.880 commenting on the specifics of you know, Bushey and policy, 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.200 neo conservative, all the things, the Iraq War. But but 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.440 it was you know, how do you go for Bush 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:05.880 winning two elections to where we are now in the 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.679 spate of a week is like what it seems to 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:13.000 me to have happened. And because of that, I don't 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.880 This is where I'm not living in a false reality 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.160 because that I don't really think that's happened. We are 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.040 being asked to believe it has everybody. Oh yeah, Russia's 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.640 got it. These are changing times, country changing. It's passed. 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.800 You buy you know, you're you're sixty two, Rush you 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.880 me as well be eighty two. You're not relevant and 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.000 you don't know anymore. You don't have anything in common 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.440 with anybody in this country. And many people tell me this, 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.200 you gotta get with it. Rice. You're not anywhere near him. No, no, no, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.160 And this happened overnight. They want us to believe this, 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.480 They want us to accept it. They want you to 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.120 but things don't happen that way. Now. I know they've 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.960 been trying this fifty years and they've been succeeding, chipping 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:58.800 away education, Hollywood, But all of this stuff happening here, 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:05.560 coupled with this inexplicable political caven. I mean, no opposition 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:10.000 to this at all, not serious opposition, no serious pushback, 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.560 nobody standing up until Cruise and Lee came along to 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.360 explain what's wrong with what's going on, to explain what's 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.640 wrong with Obamacare. By the way, the Obamacare stack today. 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.080 That one of the funniest things you heard about this 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:29.960 the poor little diarist Daily Cause, this little this little guy, 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.160 I guess he posts their regular that's why they call 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.720 him a diarist. He went to his Obamacare exchange and 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.120 he found out he's going to go bankrupt practically with 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.040 what the prices are. So he wrote about that. He 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.520 had a headline they call this reform f This well, 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.760 all the Daily Cause commentary just jumped on this guy. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.000 Made him feel like three feets. Also, he went and 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.960 changed his headline, tried to soften it. I've got the 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.760 story some of these compensates. Why why don't you go 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.800 shop the market if you don't like what you find? 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.400 Any exchange of saying, who who are these fools? Do 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.600 they not know? There isn't a market anymore, there's no 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:11.960 market to go shop, And these are the true believers. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.000 And I think the fact of the matter, the true 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.520 believers don't even know what's really happened here. The true 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.440 believers haven't even really figured out what's going on, who 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.680 Obama is and what he's really doing, and all that 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.080 is yet to happen, because it will happen and they 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.600 will figure it out. And well, I gotta take a break. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:37.080 But how about about this headline? Let means it's a 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:42.960 Clinton's story. Yeah? That does? This dovetail so perfectly with 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:48.640 the trick. Don't criticize Democrats. The independence won't like that. 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:52.520 They'll go running right back to don't criticize Obama, don't 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.880 don't be mean spirited, don't be partisan, and Republicans buy it. 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.840 Here's Bill Clinton in a political story. Headline, Bill Clinton, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:06.080 conflict is good politics. It's just I'm sorry for penning 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:06.480 a table.