Here's what Rush had to say:
The Politico wanted me to talk to them about the fact that there were Republicans running around saying the Tea Party is responsible for the fact they didn't pick up the Senate. I'm not gonna comment on that. I'm gonna comment on it today because they got the story out there, it begs being placed in context, and of course nobody better than I, nobody better than me to do it.
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From the Huffington Post: "Top Nevada Republican Endorses Harry Reid, Slams Sharron Angle." A bunch of Republican moderates in Nevada were endorsing Reid. Now, we'll get to all this in just a second. You don't want to miss this. Also, we're gonna replay the full-throated statement, the full-throated treatise for freedom that I mentioned yesterday at the top of the next hour. We're gonna replay it because some of our affiliates covered the Obama press conference yesterday and this needs to be heard by those of you who didn't get a chance to hear it. Those of you who did hear it, I am sure, judging on my e-mail you will want to hear it again.
Okay, at the moment, at the moment the net gain to the Republicans in the House seems to be 63. They seem to have lost three races and won 66. Now, if that ends up being the final result, you count the GOP pickup as six seats in the Senate, if that holds, my prediction on the total of 69 congressional seats will have been proved exactly correct. The number 69 seldom fails, and in this case it appears it's gonna come through with flying colors. Now, here's another thing, for months the news media was assuring us that the voters were angry at the incumbents in both parties. This was not an anti-Democrat election; it wasn't an anti-Obama agenda election; it was an anti-incumbent election. Well, look at the results in the House. The GOP lost three seats as I just mentioned. They gained 66. What does that tell you about the honesty of the media? What does it tell you? If you're not going to question their honesty, what does it tell you about their smarts? What does it tell you about their accuracy? They simply lie. And they lie without fear because no one has ever called them on it and if anybody ever does call 'em on it they don't care, 'cause that was yesterday, and they accomplished what they wanted with the lie as far as they're concerned, and they move on. That's why we call 'em the Drive-Bys. I'm glad it's all over, folks, to tell you the truth. Obama can now get back to his bipartisan unifying self.
Thirty-four warships will now be docked off the coast of Mumbai in India, 34 warships. We've got 40 aircraft, we've got over 800 people, 34 warships, and to top it all off they're running around cutting off all the coconuts off the trees, off the coconut palms because they might fall off and accidentally hit the president on his head. This looks like exile to me, invasion, what have you, I don't know, but it's amazing. It is unprecedented. Why is he even going to Mumbai? Isn't that a little dangerous in and of itself? We know he doesn't want to appear on Slumdog Millionaire game show, and two days after the election, he's long gone.
At any rate, here's The Politico story and it's just predictable. I knew this was going to happen. What you need to know about it and what's interesting about it is who is behind this. The Politico story: "GOP Senators Fight Over Failure." That's the headline of The Politico piece. Now, what is the failure? Would somebody tell me where the failure was yesterday? Yesterday was a wipeout. Yesterday was an unprecedented wipeout. It was a deep wipeout all the way to governorships and state legislatures. It was huge and the Democrats and the people at The Politico know it full well which is why they want to take a look at another direction. What failure? The failure here is the failure to capture the Senate. And of course we know that the people at The Politico are terribly upset about that. And we know that people at CBS and NBC and ABC are just wringing their hands, "Awe, damn it, the Republicans didn't get the Senate. Why, what a shame, why, who's responsible for this failure?" So we have to start looking to see who's responsible for this.
"Long-simmering tensions within the Republican Party spilled into public view Wednesday as the pragmatic and conservative --" what do you mean, spilled into public view? Did you see this, Snerdley? Dawn, did you see this? I didn't even hear about it until The Politico called me with the usual, "Hey, Rush, there's some Republicans out there --" I wasn't given any names. "-- they're really saying that it was the Tea Party that blew the chance to win the Senate. This is a contrived, created story, probably created by moderate Republicans, but certainly with the willing accomplices in the media. Failure? Long-simmering tensions spilled into public view? They have been in public view for a long time. It's why there is a Tea Party. They didn't spill into public view yesterday. And I'll tell you, if it weren't for the Tea Party there would not have been anything to talk about yesterday. There would have been reasons to write headlines denoting failure. If it hadn't been for the Tea Party the Republicans would be inconsequential, insignificant, which in the case of the establishment Republicans, they are, but just don't know it yet. And they're trying to stave it off.
What is this pragmatic versus conservative? That means conservatives cannot possibly be thoughtful, cannot possibly have any meaning. They're just knee-jerkers. "With tea party-backed candidates going down in Delaware, Colorado and Nevada, depriving Republicans of what would have been a 50-50 Senate, a bloc of prominent senators and operatives said party purists like Sarah Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) had foolishly pushed nominees too conservative to win in politically competitive states." Okay, ladies and gentlemen, it is obvious now that the establishment Republicans are in open revolt against the people, and that's what this piece means. That is what this story is all about. Lindsey Graham is featured prominently in this story, as is Trent Lott. Trent Lott is now all of a sudden in the mainstream media a Republican elder statesman. There are also anonymous Republicans in the leadership. I wonder who that might be.
So we have Lindsey Grahamnesty and Trent Lott speaking on the record and there are some anonymous Republicans in the leadership who remain anonymous. And now they sit here a couple days after the election and they whine and they moan and they go crying to the Politico and the media about how sad and how unfortunate and what a big failure Tuesday was. Most of them did not lift a finger in the primaries for conservatives. In fact, Lindsey Graham originally endorsed Charlie Crist in Florida, as did McCain, as did John Cornyn. So they want to sit here and talk about failure and there's nothing forward looking about the Republican leadership here. This is a circle-the-wagon bunch of people, perfectly happy being in the minority and cutting deals, and now they're not unhappy they're in the minority, folks, don't misunderstand the headline, "GOP Senators Fight Over Failure." They're not happy they're in the minority. That's not what this is about. We told you it was gonna happen. This is ruling class versus country class, is all this is. This is all about the ruling class elder statesmen GOP establishment laying down markers here.
Now, Lindsey Graham loves to talk about being on a team, loyalty. Whatever he says, it's amazing, isn't it? This is the guy Obama would call on to cut deals. This is the guy who was in charge of the Gang of 14 undermining Frist and the others who were trying to stop Schumer from filibustering judges. Lindsey Graham is now the anointed leader, the man of reason. It was Trent Lott I think who authored the power-sharing agreement with Tom Daschle when we had 50 seats. "We're not gonna act like winners, we're not gonna rub their noses, genuine power share, we're gonna give an equal number of positions on committees, we're not gonna have a committee chairman, we're not gonna do all this." We just basically gave it all away and then Jumpin' Jim Jeffords changes parties and, bammo, we're in the minority. And these are the people that we're supposed to take advice from. These are the people who are supposed to guide us into the future. These are the people that didn't lift a hand, a finger to help anybody during the primaries. Why is it that Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are not trashed by these same people for their independence?
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