http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/08/17/trump_sparks_war_within_conservatismTrump Sparks War Within Conservatism
August 17, 2015
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RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites, because this is the next phase of this, and that is this internecine war going on within conservatism.
First up, CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday morning, Brian Stelter the host, and he brought in Jackie Calmes from the New York Times who wrote this big, long piece last week about how talk radio is steering the Republican Party down the wrong path and everybody's afraid of talk radio. The Republican Party, it's just a shame. Washington was so much better before there was talk radio, Washington was so much better before there was Fox News, and now this has messed everything up.
So she's studying the impact of conservative media on national politics, and to start the discussion, Brian Stelter said...
STELTER: Your main take-away from your research was that -- and your title of your paper, even, They Don't Give a Damn About Governing -- is that these conservative media, uh, powers, the Rush Limbaughs of the world, that th-they're not necessarily interested in what the Republican Party establishment is interested in. Where does Trump fall in that? He's clearly anti-establishment.
RUSH: You see, the title of this? "They Don't Give a Damn About Governing." Where does this come from? What does "governing" now mean, being led by liberals? Is that what governing means? What does governing mean? Controlling? Government is not controlling. That's what the modern practitioners of it, however, think it is. We want to be liberated from a controling government. What does that mean, can't govern? What does that mean?
"Well, we can't work together with Democrats to get legislation." Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe we got too many laws. Maybe there's too much legislation. We got too much Obamacare. We got too many EPA regulations. We got too many onerous regulations in the way of people. We got too many tax laws. What do you mean, we can't govern? Seems to me the people that have been governing have making mistakes and botching everything.
From the stimulus to Obamacare to this Iran deal, to everything else Obama's done on the economy, somebody tell me where it's working. He sure as hell is governing, though. What does this mean, "don't give a damn about governing"? I'll tell you what it means. Conservatives don't care about governing means they're not willing to sit on their hands and let liberals have their way. So Jackie Calmes, it's her turn to answer. This is what she said.
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