Story #1: How Mrs. Clinton Can Assure No More Affairs
RUSH: For the last couple of days, ladies and gentlemen, I have been trying to get to the bottom of how in the world Mrs. Clinton’s going to enforce her claim. When asked about her husband, “Why, what about future scandals?” “I can assure you,” she said, “there won’t be any,” and I have been desperately seeking answers. How can she make this claim? She’s made it affirmatively. She made it decisively. She said she couldn’t predict the future but “there will be no future scandals” involving my husband. Now, I’m incapable of answering this question myself. I’ve asked women in the audience to tell me if they were in similar shoes, circumstances, girdles, as Mrs. Clinton; how would you handle this. I mean, how could you make that kind of claim? And we’ve only had two responses, and they said divorce. But here’s another one, and this is not even related to the Clintons. This is held over from yesterday. It’s a Valentine’s Day story. “Repairing a relationship requires openness and candor from the person who cheated.” This is how you recover from an affair. When I read this, I said, “Maybe we have an indication of what Mrs. Clinton plans on doing.” “He has to admit…” Note that the cheater is always the guy here in this story. You have to understand this. The cheater is always male, always the husband.
“‘He has to admit that he made a mistake and recognize the hurt of betrayal and say I want to be faithful,’ says author John Gray, who examines relationship problems in his latest book ‘Why Mars and Venus Collide’. The person who cheated needs to end the affair and take responsibility, he said. The adulterer must be willing to disclose all the details of his affair and agree to new degrees of openness, says Rick Reynolds, founder of the Affair Recovery Center in Austin, Texas. The new rules might include sharing e-mail and voicemail passwords,” so you don’t have separate e-mail accounts, “being constantly accessible by phone and checking-in regularly with a spouse. Angela Gilbert requires her husband to take an annual lie detector test. ‘I don’t trust him the way I did before,’ she says. ‘I feel safe because of the measures we put in place.’ At first, Chris Gilbert resented the new rules. But he’s gone along with it. ‘Deep down, you know it’s for the best.'” A yearly lie detector test would not work for the Clintons. It would have to be daily, maybe hourly. Aside from that, it says here, “It takes about 18 months for the hurt spouse to work through all the emotions that come with an affair, said Reynolds, who worked with the Gilberts. He counsels the spouse who cheated to answer any question his or her partner has. But he also sets a date when the questioning must end.” That’s where it breaks down (laughing), because the cheater hears about it the rest of his life. He’s gotta eat it for the rest of his life. There’s no question about it.
Story #2: Nostrilitus Waxman Regrets the Clemens Hearing
Story #3: FISA Failure: Bush Says Congress Putting US in Danger
RUSH: There’s an Associated Press story on this FISA business out there about how Congress has failed to re-up the FISA program. Bush is going to go ahead and go to Africa. The legislation passed on Tuesday in the Senate lapsed because the House didn’t even take it up. Recess started at noon today, or did it? I don’t know if they’ve actually left yet, but are taking a week or ten-day recess. Surveillance can continue against known terrorist groups but any new groups that form, no surveillance — (laughing) — all you gotta do, “Okay, we are no longer Al-Qaeda. We are Il-Qaeda, Incorporated, and you can’t surveil us.” But the AP story, the headline is: “Bush Says Congress Putting US in Danger.” The headline should be: “Bush Says Democrats Putting US in Danger,” because it’s the Democrats in Congress who are holding it up.
Story #4: Another Shooting in Gun-Free, Hate-Free Zone
RUSH: Northern Illinois University. I am told we have, what, seven people dead now? Another campus shooting. I am told that this is another one of these wonderful, Utopian, marvelous little college campi that is a gun-free zone. “That’s right, Mr. Limbaugh, gun-free. It’s the only way that we’re going to get rid of guns and random shootings in America.” Really? This guy, who was taking medication, whatever, this guy walks in there, starts mowing people down, has time to reload because there’s nothing anybody can do to stop him. Everybody’s gotta run away. Everybody’s gotta take cover. This is liberalism on parade. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve had conversations with, even Republicans, liberal Republicans here in New York, and these liberal Republicans in New York love to single me out and poke me, you know, put their finger right in my chest and say, “Why do you conservatives believe X?” These are Republicans I’m talking about. Some of these guys served in the Nixon administration.
The subject that always came up was gun control. “Why are you conservatives so opposed to gun control?” I said, “I’ll be happy to support gun control,” this was a Fifth Avenue apartment dinner party, this is way back in the mid-nineties, I said, “If you can convince me that after taking guns out of the hands of law-abiding people, that you’re also going to go into Central Park and get the guns out of all the creeps hanging around in there and everywhere else in this city. You get the guns out of the hands of the criminals, too, then maybe we can talk.” But you’re never going to be able to do that. This is another case in point where you have a liberal gun-free zone, hate-free zone. You go out and say you got something, but you don’t got it. Just because you say it doesn’t mean you got it. This wacko planned it. He planned it and executed it, and he knew that there wouldn’t be anybody else in the time he had to do his damage that had a gun to fire back at him. “Well, what are we supposed to do, Mr. Limbaugh, let every student walk in with a gun?” No. But you certainly don’t disarm security people around the place. You don’t disarm perhaps the professor. This is going to keep happening because there are demented people walking around in our society. Who cares what motivates them, they’re there.
You can debate all day why and you’re not going to solve the problem. Even if you diagnose somebody as schizophrenic or bipolar or whatever, you give them the medicine for that and they stop taking it, where are you? They freak out, they go get a gun, and they know full well nobody’s going to be able to stop them with another gun until after. They gotta know the cops are going to show up at some point, but they can still wreak their havoc long before anybody shows up to stop ’em and a number of people are dead in a gun-free zone. This is like these stupid sanctuary cities that will announce, “We’re not going to have this in our city. We’re not going to have that in our city.” It’s all around them. This is just classic symbolic feel-good liberalism that ends up putting people at risk because it fails to recognize that people are different. When it looks at either the demented or the sick or the truly sane who are yet criminally oriented, they look at them as no different than anybody else, we just treat them different. It’s like Obama the way he wants to go talk to some of the worst murdering thugs in the world, with just the power of his presence and the power of his ability to say nothing, can turn these people into a bunch of lambs and say to Mr. Obama, “You know what, Mr. President, you are right. We’re going to give up our evil ways. We’re going to give up our dictatorships. We’re going to give up our tyranny and we’re going to grant our people freedom just because you came and talked to us or because you allowed us to come talk to you in the Oval Office.”
Story #5:Yes We Can! Save Big on a Select Comfort Bed
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