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America
Stands and Cheers; Democrats Sit Down
-- excerpts from Rush Limbaugh
4/1/06 radio show
transcript
THE PRESIDENT: I am confident in our plan for victory. I am confident in the
will of the Iraqi people. I am confident in the skill and spirit of our
military. Fellow citizens, we are in this fight to win, and we are winning.
(Applause.)
RUSH: We've cut the applause on all these to three seconds in the interests of
time, but on each one of those the Democrats sat down and didn't say a word.
They glared. They looked bored. Occasionally would turn and chat amongst
themselves, and this was on full display for everybody watching. When you're
talking about American victory, when the president is talking about persevering,
"We will win," talking about all of these things and the American people see
half the House sitting down, and then Bob Schieffer warns us that 77% of the
people liking the speech really can't be believed because it's mostly
Republicans watching? As I say: "Why even do the poll, Bob, if you're going to
then throw it out as not credible? Why even do the poll?" On the off chance that
the people would hate Bush! . . .
All right, here is sound bite #2: "America stands and cheers; Democrats sit
down." This is the subject of victory.
THE PRESIDENT: The road of victory is the road that will take our troops home.
As we make progress on the ground and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead,
we should be able to further decrease our troop levels -- but those decisions
will be made by our military commanders, not by politicians in Washington, D.C.
(Applause.)
RUSH: Once again, once again, the Democrats sat on their behinds. The whole rest
of the chamber stood up in applause. . . .
THE PRESIDENT: [T]his nation has superb professionals in law enforcement,
intelligence, the military, and homeland security. These men and women are
dedicating their lives, protecting us all, and they deserve our support and our
thanks. (Applause.) They also deserve the same tools they already use to fight
drug trafficking and organized crime -- so I ask you to reauthorize the Patriot
Act. (Applause.)
RUSH: Yay! Right on. Right on. Right on. Can't do that, though! Democrats can't
stand up and cheer that, because how do you reauthorize the Patriot Act if
you're going to give terrorists the Bill of Rights in our attempt to engage the
war on terror? So there they sat, fat, dumb and happy, looking like they owned
the world last night, not having the slightest idea how they appear to the
people of this country. America stands and cheers; the Democrats sit down. Issue
#4: terrorist surveillance.
THE PRESIDENT: The terrorist surveillance program has helped prevent terrorist
attacks. It remains essential to the security of America. If there are people
inside our country who are talking with al Qaeda, we want to know about it,
because we will not sit back and wait to be hit again. (Applause.)
RUSH: And they sat down! They remained seated! They remained seated when the
president said, "We will not be hit again!" I'm telling you, folks, they
remained seated. They didn't stand up. The whole concept of being hit again,
they had to sit down because their base expects them not to be supportive of the
surveillance program, you know, domestic spying.
. . .
RUSH: America stands and cheers; Democrats sit down. Issue #5: tax cuts.
THE PRESIDENT: [T]ax relief is set to expire in the next few years. If we do
nothing, American families will face a massive tax increase they do not expect
and will not welcome. Because America needs more than a temporary expansion, we
need more than temporary tax relief. I urge the Congress to act responsibly, and
make the tax cuts permanent. (Applause.)
RUSH: Permit me a brief aside here. I know a lot of you people watching the
program or listening to the program saw this State of the Union address last
night, so you've seen the Democrats sit down. You must understand that this is a
purposeful thing. They want to be seen showing this kind of opposition,
disrespect, or what have you. I think what they're missing is this is largely an
American ceremonial event . . . .
THE PRESIDENT: The Supreme Court now has two superb new members on its bench,
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito. (Applause.)
RUSH: Now, I don't expect the Democrats to stand up on that one.
. . .
THE PRESIDENT: America has become a more hopeful nation. Violent crime rates
have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1970s. Welfare cases have dropped
by more than half over the past decade. Drug use among youth is down 19% since
2001. There are fewer abortions in America than at any point in the last three
decades, and the number of children born to teenage mothers has been falling for
a dozen years in a row. (Applause.)
RUSH: The Democrats sat on their rear ends! I mean, folks, occasionally Ben
Nelson would stand up now and then from Nebraska. There would be a couple of
them like a jack-in-the-box, real quick and then sit right back down. But they
couldn't even applaud . . .
THE PRESIDENT: Congress did not act last year on my proposal to save Social
Security. (Applause.)
RUSH: Yay! They stood up and cheered, and then Bush had a couple lines after
that that just nailed them. We haven't done anything to fix this that's coming
down the pike, this big problem coming down the pike, and he went on to -- they
stood up too soon, here they are standing up applauding the lack of progress.
. .
CALLER: I do. It's just so funny. But the reason I called is regarding, I think
you called it issue #4, that was the surveillance wiretapping part? I was
watching the whole thing on Fox and right as -- I'm pretty sure it was on that
one, they showed the gum chewer, and she was rolling her eyes and had a mocking
laughter smile on her face when he was saying all this. It was amazing.
RUSH: Yeah. Well let me explain what Hillary was reacting to there, because the
little known fact is that Bush made reference to previous presidents having done
exactly what he's done, and Mrs. Clinton heard, without his name being
mentioned, his name. And the Democrats are trying to set Bush up as a criminal,
that he has broken the law, and so by invoking all these past presidents, not by
name, but saying, "Hey, we've all done it before with previous presidents," he
brought Bill Clinton into it -- and Hillary doesn't like it when her husband's
name gets mentioned. . . .
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