Speaker 1: Okay, look, ladies and gentlemen, there is so much out
Speaker 1: there that that seems on the surface, uh, to be inexplicable.
Speaker 1: The problem in this country as the a majority of
Speaker 1: people recognize, I want we get this pole here, look
Speaker 1: at this. This is a this is a it's a
Speaker 1: new poll. It's it was a Pew poll. I think,
Speaker 1: I don't know what. Why don't they just put what
Speaker 1: the poll is early in the it's a yeah, it
Speaker 1: is a a poll from the Pew Research Center. And
Speaker 1: the bottom line, eighty one percent of the people in
Speaker 1: this country are dissatisfied. Eighty one percent are dissatisfied. Do
Speaker 1: you think they're dissatisfied with Ted Cruz? Do you think
Speaker 1: they're dissatisfied with the Tea Party? Do you think they're
Speaker 1: dissatisfied with the um the opposition to Barack Obama the
Speaker 1: Republican Party? Obviously think so, but that is tantamount insanity.
Speaker 1: New poll shows more frustration with Washington over the government
Speaker 1: shutdown and a risk of default. Number of people satisfied
Speaker 1: with the state of the country's plummeting to the lowest
Speaker 1: level since the two thousand and eight financial crisis, and
Speaker 1: it's only four percent of Americans say they're satisfied with
Speaker 1: the way things are going in the country. The survey
Speaker 1: picked up a strong throw the bums out sentiment. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, what this pole attempts to convince people of
Speaker 1: is that everything in Washington was fine and that everybody
Speaker 1: was happy with Washington until the shutdown. And I mean everybody.
Speaker 1: We were just robustly happy. And then the shutdown came,
Speaker 1: and whoever is responsible for that, why everybody's really ticked
Speaker 1: off at them, And that would be Ted Cruz and
Speaker 1: Mike Lee and the Tea Party, and of course the
Speaker 1: Republican and Democrat establishments are lined up that way. And
Speaker 1: that's what the polling data is attempting to establish. The
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is a majority of people in
Speaker 1: this country have been dissatisfied for a number of years
Speaker 1: about the way the country is going. And you know,
Speaker 1: and I know that the people in this country who
Speaker 1: are dissatisfied with the way it's going are not dissatisfied
Speaker 1: with the Tea Party. They are not dissatisfied with Ted Cruizer,
Speaker 1: Mike Lee. They are the only opposition to what's been
Speaker 1: going on. I don't think I was I was trying
Speaker 1: to think earlier today. If ever in my life I
Speaker 1: could remember any political major not a third, but any
Speaker 1: major political party being so irrelevant. I have never seen it.
Speaker 1: I have never seen a major political party simply occupied
Speaker 1: placeholders as the Republican Party is doing. There hasn't been
Speaker 1: any opposition, not any serious opposition. There may have been
Speaker 1: votes against this or that, votes against Obamacare, there may
Speaker 1: have been votes against the stimulus, But in terms of
Speaker 1: a a policy oriented, a package of policies, a package
Speaker 1: of principal beliefs of opposition expressed daily by party leaders
Speaker 1: against what's happening in this country, there hasn't been. And
Speaker 1: I know why, and you do too. The Republicans have
Speaker 1: been hoodwinked. There are two things that have happened. Hey,
Speaker 1: they are literally paralyzed because Obama is African American. They
Speaker 1: literally paralyzed. Before that happened, the Democrats in the media
Speaker 1: ran one of the most brilliant political tricks I have
Speaker 1: ever seen pulled off. That political trick convinced Republicans, and
Speaker 1: more importantly, they're brilliant moderate consultants that criticizing any Democrat
Speaker 1: president would anger the independence. Remember that because the independence,
Speaker 1: the God bless them Independence. Oh my god, folks, the
Speaker 1: princes and the queens, the princesses of our culture, the
Speaker 1: moderate independence, the only reasonable people out there. They only
Speaker 1: open minded, non bigoted, non closed minded human beings in America.
Speaker 1: That of the voting population. It's independence. If you win them,
Speaker 1: you win everything. Ask Mitt Romney about that. He won
Speaker 1: big with independence, but his base stayed home. That's why
Speaker 1: we're here anyway. So the Republicans got hooked into this
Speaker 1: belief that any criticism would send the independence running to
Speaker 1: the mild mannerd never critical, never extreme, never loud, never arguing,
Speaker 1: never bickering Democrats. So the Republicans agreed to tie one
Speaker 1: hand behind their back because of Obama's race, they had
Speaker 1: the other hand tied behind their back. By this this trick,
Speaker 1: they got them to shut up you better you you
Speaker 1: and and really double down on that any criticism of
Speaker 1: Obama because now you're criticizing the first black president makes
Speaker 1: you're racist. So they are not going to go there,
Speaker 1: not gonna be critical. The matter's president doesn't matter. If
Speaker 1: if these transforming this country in ways it was never
Speaker 1: founded to be, doesn't matter. We can't criticize him because
Speaker 1: the're gonna call us racist. And then you add to
Speaker 1: it this silly notion that any criticism would send precious
Speaker 1: Independence running to the Democrats. Note that there was no
Speaker 1: behavior the Democrats could engage in that would send the
Speaker 1: Independence running to Republicans. The Democrats can call Republicans hostage takers,
Speaker 1: they could accuse them of taking a ransom, they can
Speaker 1: accuse of them are being terrorists, and that doesn't bother
Speaker 1: the independence. But when the Republicans question Obama's Obamacare plan,
Speaker 1: your racist pigs, how dare you? And some other Republicans
Speaker 1: have been talked into halfway and they agreed on the
Speaker 1: other half to shut up, And they have bought hook
Speaker 1: line and sinker that what the American people want is Kumbaya,
Speaker 1: everybody living together in a circle and loving each other
Speaker 1: and no acrimony, nothing but love everywhere. That's what everybody wants.
Speaker 1: And if anybody interrupts that, they're gonna pay. And so
Speaker 1: the Republicans have done everything they can to try to
Speaker 1: make everybody like them, and what they've ended up doing
Speaker 1: is creating one of the greatest political disasters I've ever
Speaker 1: seen in my lifetime, simply because they failed to show
Speaker 1: up and then when they finally did make a play
Speaker 1: of showing up, they didn't have the gut stick with it.
Speaker 1: Undertake a partial government shutdown, let's call it a slowdown.
Speaker 1: Undertaken shut down the federal government for two weeks, and
Speaker 1: the end game is that Dingy Harry gets to write
Speaker 1: the continuing Resolution and the debt limit expansion and extension.
Speaker 1: That's and then after that two and a half weeks,
Speaker 1: all of it the Democrats side, the Republican side, blamed
Speaker 1: on Ted Cruise. One guy did all this, one guy
Speaker 1: created all his havoc. One guy. If this one guy
Speaker 1: would have shut up and never said anything, why we'd
Speaker 1: be what in fat city? So the Republican establishment, the
Speaker 1: Democratic established, there is a full out now. I want
Speaker 1: to warn you about this because folks, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to hang tough. We're gonna have to You may think
Speaker 1: I'm crazy here. We're gonna have to remain as best
Speaker 1: we can, detached from that mess and stay up, bucked up,
Speaker 1: optimistic of good, sheer as best we can, because there
Speaker 1: is an all out assault now, not just on Cruise
Speaker 1: and Lee, and not just on the Tea Party, but
Speaker 1: on the conservative wing of the party. It isn't new.
Speaker 1: We've spoken of it on many previous occasions, but now
Speaker 1: they're things fortified being fortified because now they all think
Speaker 1: they've got all the AMMO they need. And that is
Speaker 1: this last two and a half weeks is brought about
Speaker 1: strictly by the Tea parties. Now you've got moderate Republicans
Speaker 1: who call themselves conservatives, like David From suggesting it's the
Speaker 1: greatest thing that could happen to Publican Party now is
Speaker 1: if the Tea Party just just just branched off and
Speaker 1: formed its own conservative party. You've got moderate Republicans and
Speaker 1: some who call themselves conservatives suggesting that you don't want
Speaker 1: you two party people, why don't you just take a hike?
Speaker 1: And even in the New Republic today there's a column
Speaker 1: the New Republic, a liberal journal of opinion, telling David
Speaker 1: From that if the Tea Party really does that, you
Speaker 1: moderate Republicans are forever going to Louise. You don't have
Speaker 1: a prayer of winning if you succeed in driving your
Speaker 1: base out. This is not the time to abandon Ted
Speaker 1: Cruz or Mike Lee, folks. And I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: sending the money, and I'm not talking about anything traditional.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about your hearts and in your mind,
Speaker 1: because you know they're right. You know that what they
Speaker 1: attempted to do here was was I think valiant. It
Speaker 1: it's it's uh, it's been an illustration of just how
Speaker 1: terribly wrong things are. And there are plenty of opportunities
Speaker 1: for lessons to be learned here. Now. Look, I'm not
Speaker 1: living in a false reality here. I'm I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: this last night too, while I was pondering if I
Speaker 1: can ever remember a greater political disaster in my lifetime,
Speaker 1: if I can ever remember a time when a political
Speaker 1: party just made a decision not to exist for all
Speaker 1: intents and purposes. I mean, do you know what The
Speaker 1: Republican Party now can't wait to move on amnesty? Paul
Speaker 1: Ryan and Eric cantor they can't wait, Obama can't wait.
Speaker 1: After this cave on the shutdown, or whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it, the next move at light speed is
Speaker 1: going to be for amnesty. The Republican Party leading the way.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense to me. It's not in
Speaker 1: the tradition a little political sense. Now, if you throw
Speaker 1: money into it, demands of donors, advice of consultants makes
Speaker 1: total sense. But those are the people that have been
Speaker 1: securing defeat for this party, and those are the people
Speaker 1: who have have set the table that has resulted in
Speaker 1: where the party is. Rather they've been running it. The
Speaker 1: Conservatives have not been running the Republican Party, and nobody
Speaker 1: can say they have. The Conservatives have been trying to,
Speaker 1: but they don't. They have not. The Conservatives do not
Speaker 1: run the Republican establishment. I mean, whatever the Republican Party
Speaker 1: is today is because the wizards of smart that run
Speaker 1: it are not the Conservatives. They're the ones who have
Speaker 1: authored this. It's their signature on all of this, and
Speaker 1: they are like a lot of other children, a lot
Speaker 1: of luck o the victims blaming everybody else. And that's
Speaker 1: where we are. But the opportunity here, I still like it.
Speaker 1: I've I've finished my thought I was I was thinking yesterday,
Speaker 1: I said, and this has picked up a couple of places,
Speaker 1: and I knew it would be. No, I've not forgotten
Speaker 1: the filmustioning thing. I gotta don't worry. In fact, there's
Speaker 1: a there's a new addition to that that the Adrian Peters.
Speaker 1: This guy's got more kids than he knows out there,
Speaker 1: A couple more have just been discovered. But we'll get
Speaker 1: to that at a moment um. I said yesterday on
Speaker 1: this very program that there are times I feel like
Speaker 1: we've just lost a war to the Communists. I used
Speaker 1: the term communists generically, but I can remember back. I'm
Speaker 1: a child at a Cold War, and I as a child,
Speaker 1: the threat that the Soviet Union was going to succeed.
Speaker 1: That was a daily thing you lived with, and if
Speaker 1: you were one who was engaged in all that, that
Speaker 1: was frightening concept. And I almost feel like that's happened here.
Speaker 1: And and then addition to that, it seems like it
Speaker 1: happened overnight. I mean all through the Bush years, I
Speaker 1: guess the signs were there, but I missed them. I
Speaker 1: didn't see the utter, total transformation, and I will call
Speaker 1: it deterioration of the pop culture. I knew it was
Speaker 1: going on. I thought it was more it's just with
Speaker 1: with the election of Barack Obama, and then the next
Speaker 1: day after that, it is like the country that was
Speaker 1: founded didn't exist at all. And the transformation of Obama
Speaker 1: talked about wanting to make really had already almost been completed.
Speaker 1: And yet we had had eight years of Bush not
Speaker 1: commenting on the specifics of you know, Bushey and policy,
Speaker 1: neo conservative, all the things, the Iraq War. But but
Speaker 1: it was you know, how do you go for Bush
Speaker 1: winning two elections to where we are now in the
Speaker 1: spate of a week is like what it seems to
Speaker 1: me to have happened. And because of that, I don't
Speaker 1: This is where I'm not living in a false reality
Speaker 1: because that I don't really think that's happened. We are
Speaker 1: being asked to believe it has everybody. Oh yeah, Russia's
Speaker 1: got it. These are changing times, country changing. It's passed.
Speaker 1: You buy you know, you're you're sixty two, Rush you
Speaker 1: me as well be eighty two. You're not relevant and
Speaker 1: you don't know anymore. You don't have anything in common
Speaker 1: with anybody in this country. And many people tell me this,
Speaker 1: you gotta get with it. Rice. You're not anywhere near him. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: And this happened overnight. They want us to believe this,
Speaker 1: They want us to accept it. They want you to
Speaker 1: but things don't happen that way. Now. I know they've
Speaker 1: been trying this fifty years and they've been succeeding, chipping
Speaker 1: away education, Hollywood, But all of this stuff happening here,
Speaker 1: coupled with this inexplicable political caven. I mean, no opposition
Speaker 1: to this at all, not serious opposition, no serious pushback,
Speaker 1: nobody standing up until Cruise and Lee came along to
Speaker 1: explain what's wrong with what's going on, to explain what's
Speaker 1: wrong with Obamacare. By the way, the Obamacare stack today.
Speaker 1: That one of the funniest things you heard about this
Speaker 1: the poor little diarist Daily Cause, this little this little guy,
Speaker 1: I guess he posts their regular that's why they call
Speaker 1: him a diarist. He went to his Obamacare exchange and
Speaker 1: he found out he's going to go bankrupt practically with
Speaker 1: what the prices are. So he wrote about that. He
Speaker 1: had a headline they call this reform f This well,
Speaker 1: all the Daily Cause commentary just jumped on this guy.
Speaker 1: Made him feel like three feets. Also, he went and
Speaker 1: changed his headline, tried to soften it. I've got the
Speaker 1: story some of these compensates. Why why don't you go
Speaker 1: shop the market if you don't like what you find?
Speaker 1: Any exchange of saying, who who are these fools? Do
Speaker 1: they not know? There isn't a market anymore, there's no
Speaker 1: market to go shop, And these are the true believers.
Speaker 1: And I think the fact of the matter, the true
Speaker 1: believers don't even know what's really happened here. The true
Speaker 1: believers haven't even really figured out what's going on, who
Speaker 1: Obama is and what he's really doing, and all that
Speaker 1: is yet to happen, because it will happen and they
Speaker 1: will figure it out. And well, I gotta take a break.
Speaker 1: But how about about this headline? Let means it's a
Speaker 1: Clinton's story. Yeah? That does? This dovetail so perfectly with
Speaker 1: the trick. Don't criticize Democrats. The independence won't like that.
Speaker 1: They'll go running right back to don't criticize Obama, don't
Speaker 1: don't be mean spirited, don't be partisan, and Republicans buy it.
Speaker 1: Here's Bill Clinton in a political story. Headline, Bill Clinton,
Speaker 1: conflict is good politics. It's just I'm sorry for penning
Speaker 1: a table.