Re: Any Rush listeners in the house?
Originally posted by PW2:<br /> <br />So Rush liked Bush's speech??? I'm amazed.<br /><br />Most of the criticism that I've heard is coming from the right. Rita Cosby on MSNBC watched it with a bunch of law enforcement people and they, like me, were wildly skeptical.
He has a transcript of his take....I'll go get a piece of it...<br /><br />RUSH: I want to warn you, some of you people out there are loaded for bear. I've been reading the e-mail today, and I just want to warn you, I'm in a fabulous mood today. I'm in a good mood, so don't expect me to be fit to be tied and angry and all that sort of stuff. I understand a lot of you are. A lot of you think, "Well, whatever, what's the difference now between conservatives and liberals, Rush? I mean big spending, big spending, what the hell, it's over with." I mean, I've just got reams of e-mail here. I don't know how many of you in the listening audience have the same view that this speech last night was a disaster when it comes to the future, and of conservatism or government spending, the size of government and so forth. But I do have a plan to deal with this. <br /><br /> Remember, the president made a proposal last night. It's going to go through the legislative process. But one of the things that, again, I want to emphasize, is don't get caught up in the moment. There are far deeper currents that are taking place here, and you know, you talk about the Roberts hearings and the reshaping of the judiciary that is taking place, I can't tell you how crucial that is, as you well know. And the Democrats, folks, are just wandering aimlessly in the desert. They don't have a Moses. They are in deep trouble. What the president did last night, I think a lot of you have a view that this was, "Okay, the president said to hell with conservatism and it's over with." He didn't do that. If you just look at the total amount of money being spent and you listen to the ways you hear it being spent, you might think, "Oh, God, we're just chucking it," but we're not. I think a subtitle of what the president's speech last night was could be this: Okay, libs, we've tried it your way for 60 years and now we're going to try it our way. He was talking about enterprise zones, school vouchers, turning renters into owners, rebuilding this place without rebuilding slums. They're not going to rebuild it the way it was with the same architecture and the same structure politically and everything else. It is a pretty decent opportunity here.
