Rush: Folks, welcome back. Before I take any calls I want to address something that I think is getting lost in all this talk about Katrina. I want to talk about one of the major differences separating Liberals and Conservatives in this society today: Personal Responsibility. I said back in January when President Kerry took the oath of office that the wrong guy had been chosen and I told you to imagine him in the white house during a major crisis. Well, keep imagining because he wasn't there when it happened. He was on vacation.  

He'll be talking about the "Crossfire" incident and the media in general.

From CBS' Website:

"Cable news, says Stewart, has become a street fight instead of civil discourse. "What has become rewarded in political discourse is the extremity of viewpoint," he tells Kroft. "People like the conflict. Conflict, baby! It sells. 'Crossfire!' 'Hardball!' 'Shut up!' 'You shut up!'"

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml

"A powerful 'old guard' faction in the Central Intelligence Agency has launched an unprecedented campaign to undermine the Bush administration with a battery of damaging leaks and briefings about Iraq."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/10/wbush10.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10 /10/ixnewstop.html

via Democratic Underground--

"The Hallibuttle" is a hilarious Color "comic" with political cartoons in PDF format.

Cheney is on the cover saying 'This book is your for only $17,000, and at Haliburton prices, that's a bargin!"

But thanks to Kerry and Edwards (Who obviously aren't waiting for tonight's debate to start fighting) you can get it online absolutely free here:

http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/hallibuttal.pdf

I don't like to help the other guys, but here are just a few obvious things:

10. Do NOT choke Edwards with your dark-side powers while telling him you find his lack of faith "disturbing".

Via Wonkette: http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040915-110745-9207r.htm

They are saying the dems orchestrated this whole thing because Kerry has "Fallen behind in the polls".

"There is no question about the timing (of the attacks) and there is no question that this is an orchestrated effort by the Kerry campaign and Democrats to bring down the president."

This is my first entry, so lets keep this simple:

The Republican National Convention was basically the apex of Bush's power. I knew that as tough as that week was to stomach, that this administration has been running out of steam. He can't really get up over 50% in any really reliable nationwide poll, which-- even by republican admission-- is a really bad thing for an incumbent. He's being hit again and again and again from one story to the next. The republican blogsphere is screaming about memoes-- in short they are in full shock and awe mode, trying to pretend that all is well.

Excellent.

Now lets look at Kerry. Kerry's getting advice from every corner, and if he did even one tenth of the things people have advised him to do (including me) he'd have no time to sleep or eat, much less strategize and bring this whole thing home.

I trust Kerry is working his ass off in every way to win this. I guarantee his is more hungry than the president, and he can definitely win this. The endorsements he is recieving are mulitplying. The money to back him is rolling in....

But forget all that for a moment. Let's say I'm wrong. Lets say Bush is reelected.

Does that mean that he's right? Does that mean that he's won?

In the long term, as a citizen, it is my job to hold this and every administrations ass to the fire when I think they are screwing up. They work for me and you, and right now we know that the guy in power and the creeps around him are dead wrong.

They are people. They are Americans, but when it comes to the issues they are the black hats. They are the ones breaking everything we should be building up, and spiting in the face of everyone we should be working with.

My job, as a citizen is to do everything legally within my power to create change. I will be doing this not just for a few month. Not just a few years, but for the rest of my life.

In the sort term, my job is to hold the Bush administration responsible for it's terrible and ongoing mistakes. If that job is a few more months, or a few more years, then that is what I will do.

I know I'm on the right side. Now if you'll excuse me... I have work to do.