BUSH: Well, I think we're in an education arms race with the rest of the world because knowledge will drive job creation, high wage jobs are only going to be created by people that can acquire knowledge, and our education system is not up to the standards that it needs...]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 There's another side of you.

I've got this thing. It's blanking, F word, golden, and I'm not going to give it up for blanking nothing, and that's just the beginning of the other side of you. So why should anyone believe that the "I did this for the people of my state and I love them, and I wish -- they've impeached me for good things"? Why should they believe that side or the real side that was on tape?

BLAGOJEVICH: Whether you're talking about me comparing myself to Gandhi, Mandela or Dr. King, or whether you're talking about that snippet of a conversation, you've got to have the whole context. Now when I compared myself to Gandhi, I never compared myself to Gandhi. I was...]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 TARA NISLEY, ASKED PRESIDENT OBAMA ABOUT SEAN: Thank you for having me.

HANNITY: All right, first of all, beyond the beer, I'm going to send you -- I'll send you a case to your house, too. But.

NISLEY: Thank you.

HANNITY: The more important question was now, you knew that this was a very favorable Obama crowd.

NISLEY: Yes.

HANNITY: And the first part of your question was, you know, you used to promise no lobbyists, he's put lobbyists in his administration left and right. He promised an ethical administration, and we have tax cheats and conflicts of interest.

So this was an obvious area of concern to you....]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 HANNITY: Saxby, let's start with you. Looks like Snowe, Collins and Specter. Do we know the final price tag, number one? Do we have any -- has there been any discussion with those three as to why they went along with this? What -- it can be described as the single biggest transfer of assets and power for the federal government from the private sector?

CHAMBLISS: Well, Senator Specter and Senator Collins both spoke on the floor tonight, and obviously, they made a very impassioned plea for their reasons why they're doing this, but nothing other than that that we know, Sean.

The final price tag is not known yet. What we do know is that in addition to the $780 billion that they...]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 HANNITY: You know, by the way, and late night tonight, the Senate agreed to add a provision that will push this bill now in the Senate to 920 billion and the amendment by Senator Johnny Isaacson would give Americans a $15,000 tax credit or 10 percent of the value of a home.

Look, first of all, I -- the question right out of the box, why is this getting more expensive, Congressman, not less expensive?

PENCE: Well, look, in my -- yes, in my years in Congress, I've never seen a bill get better in the Senate, Sean, so that's for starters.

(LAUGHTER)

HANNITY: OK.

PENCE: And it started out as a bad bill in the House. I mean,...]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 HANNITY: Well, it's a good day because we have been friends a long time.

STEELE: Yep.

HANNITY: Let me ask you this. I can tell you that conservatives I know this week in particular, Michael, feel very energized.

STEELE: Yeah.

HANNITY: Because the Republicans in the House stood up to this massive transfer of the economy to the federal government. Is this a first step towards reenergizing the party?

STEELE: I think it is, Sean. I just spoke a little bit ago with Congressman Eric Cantor, the whip of for the Republican Caucus. And I had to congratulate him. This is the best whip job I have seen in a very, very long time by the Republican Caucus. He led, working...]]> Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 HANNITY: What? What? What?

WELCH: He won.

HANNITY: Wait a minute. What?

WELCH: Reality says he won, and this isn't his bill. This is a bill by the crowd over on that side of the street.

HANNITY: Yes.

WELCH: Who's (INAUDIBLE). I'm not ready to give up on it. It's a crazy bill right now.

HANNITY: Yes.

WELCH: But I think it -- I think he's hired some smart guys in Summers and Geithner, and I think hopefully with him and Geithner and Summers, we'll get a modification. This is round one, and I'm not going to jump up at this. But let's -- the reason why the public supports it right now, they...]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 Senator, thanks for being with us.

NORM COLEMAN (R), FMR. MINNESOTA SENATOR: Sean, it's always a pleasure to be with such a great American. Thank you.

(LAUGHTER)

HANNITY: I appreciate that. All right. Let's start. You were in the courtroom from day one. Al Franken was not there. The issue has come down to these 3,000 to 5,000 absentee ballots. Tell us what the status of this is now.

COLEMAN: A very simple case we have, and that is the proposition, one that all votes that are validly cast should be counted, and particularly whether it comes to absentee ballots, not just those in Democrat areas, and that's what has happened so far....]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 HANNITY: Let's start with, you know, closing down Gitmo. Is this -- I guess the simplest question is, does this make America safer?

GIULIANI: In my personal opinion, no. I was -- as a candidate, as you remember, I was against closing Guantanamo, several times took that position in Republican debates. I think that you shouldn't close it down until you have a real plan of what you're going to do with these people, and until then you got to keep them there.

What are you going to do, send them to the United States or -- nobody wants them. You try to -- you try to send them to other countries, other countries don't want them. People that we have released from Guantanamo have...]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 That's the way the Democrats do. You -- put people into groups then you victimize them and give the victims power over the majority because they, they have grievances that are not existence that have been made up, and the majority gets cowed into fear because they don't want to be complained at. They don't want to be blamed, so OK, OK, whatever you want. You -- want health care fine, go, go get it.

What made this country great is the recognition by our founders that individuals are all created equal endowed with certain inalienable rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. If you look at the Democrat Party, are they for life?

Folks, they're the party of...]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 LIMBAUGH: Well, I -- this is -- this is really tough, you know, because I've never met him. I don't know him except how and what I've seen on television. And I'm suspicious. When I see the media and the entire establishment on the left lay down and become cult-like and not examine who he is, what he's done, and not really examine what he says, but just praise him because of how he says it, my antenna go up.

I'll tell you, you know, a lot of people right now just -- they're absorbed in the historical nature of this, first black president and so forth. Well, that is wonderful. That's great. But I got over that months ago after he won the election.

I mean, Sean,...]]> Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA SENATOR: Yes.

HANNITY: You're going at a frenetic pace, 9,000 miles an hour. Interview to interview, speech to, you know, rally to speech to rally to -- you know, whatever else, sleeping three or four hours a night, eating a lot of junk food.

MCCAIN: Yes.

HANNITY: What is it like when you're going at that pace, and then stops?

MCCAIN: I think it's hard, and I think one of the keys to it I would advise to others who have the misfortune of losing is don't just -- try not to have it come to a complete halt. Try to get engaged and kind of let it come down gradually rather than just complete halt, and so actually, what I did was, I said...]]> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 THOMPSON: No -- I understand you're going to have some good ones later on.

HANNITY: Well, we -- we got the "Great American Panel." Your wife is going to be on the "Great American Panel." So we're looking forward to it.

THOMPSON: I hope you're able to coax an opinion out of her.

(LAUGHTER)

HANNITY: Very well said.

THOMPSON: Hey, listen, you're not going to be one of those narrow minded guys who thinks that the head of the IRS ought to pay his taxes, are you?

HANNITY: I -- you know, I was thinking if I don't pay my taxes, it's only going to be a mere hiccup, right, Senator?

(LAUGHTER)

...]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 And I told those folks that told me that, I said, "The commander in chief can never put a troop in harm's way and make a decision about their security based upon his own popularity." If the military ever thought that, you know, having put somebody in harm's way and then withdraw before the mission was completed, because of somebody's standing or a political party's standing, the commander in chief would have no credibility with that soldier or Marine or sailor or airman or Coast Guardsman or woman or their families and their relatives.

One of the amazing things, Sean, during this entire experience has been, of all those who understood the stakes and were willing to...]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 But I also recognize that, you know, when your time is up, it's up. And I'm really looking forward to getting home.

HANNITY: And this is your walk every day.

BUSH: It is. I've been doing this for nearly eight years. And I walk out here early in the morning.

HANNITY: You've got a spectacular view of the monument right there.

BUSH: Yes, every morning. You know, you walk down here and here you are treated with one of the great monuments to American history. And the South Lawn is so beautiful, any time of year. It's grand -- got a grand vista to it. And the old trees here that, you know, planted by different presidents.

...]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 COLMES: By the way, who was that?

HANNITY: Oh, that is so painful.

COLMES: You were -- we were young once.

HANNITY: First of all, I want to -- I've got to get this out before we really go any further.

COLMES: Here we go.

HANNITY: No, no, this -- because if we don't get this -- you know, this is our last show together.

COLMES: What?

HANNITY: And we've been...

COLMES: I've got news for you: I'm staying.

HANNITY: Well, you're welcome.

COLMES: That's my parting gift.

HANNITY: But first of all, I want to say -- look at that. I had no business being...]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 SESSIONS: I think so, Alan. I mean the -- governor has the power to appoint, he remains the sitting governor. I see nothing in the constitution of Illinois that gives power to the secretary of state or in anyway infringe on that power.

And then the Congress, according to the Supreme Court in the Powell case, must seat him if he meets the constitutional requirements of age and residence.

COLMES: Is it true that.

SESSIONS: So I -- I think he should be.

COLMES: I believe that Harry Reid said that never before has someone been seated without certification. Is that true?

SESSIONS: Well, I'm not sure whether you get certification on a gubernatorial appointment...]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 I guess, look, there was a case that involved the late Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Supreme Court case, and the Supreme Court held that Congress must seat any candidate who meets the constitutional requirements for office.

And with Blagojevich having not been indicted, this is only a criminal complaint, it seems to me that there is no justifiable reason not to seat him.

Your thoughts.

ENSIGN: Well, it's obviously a complicated case and really who blew it were the Democrats, especially in Illinois. The Democrats, you know, did not want to be associated with Blagojevich, and what they should have done is taken the power away from the -- from...]]> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 THOMAS SOWELL, AUTHOR, "APPLIED ECONOMICS": Thank you.

HANNITY: All right. Well, here's what he's promising: 600,000 new government jobs. We already spent 750 on a bailout package for insurance companies, financial institutions, and banks. And up to $1 trillion, which is in part a welfare program.

Is -- is that how we get out of the economic downturn we've had?

SOWELL: It will be the first time if it works. The big -- one of the big problems with these kinds of things is you have no way of knowing how long it's going to be before the money actually gets into the market. You've got to go through environmental laws. You've got to go through all...]]> Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Happy New Year, Karl. Good to see you. Thanks for being here.

KARL ROVE, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Thanks, Alan. Ain't it fun?

COLMES: What do you think looking at all this?

ROVE: Well, first of all, Roland Burris is an interesting choice. On the one hand, he's the first African-American ever elected to statewide office in Illinois. But he was last elected to office 18 years ago in 1990.

He has run nine times for statewide office and won four times. He even took on Mayor Daley in 1995 in a disastrous race. I mean, he' s pretty close to a perennial candidate. The second thing that's interesting about this is, I love how Harry Reid says that...]]> Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 COLMES: We have 6,500 reservists called up. We have 180 security forces dead, 51 civilians, 330 in three days, including seven children under 15. Is Israel overreacting?

BOLTON: No, I don't think so. I think Israel has a perfectly legitimate right of self-defense. Hamas has been firing rockets from the Gaza Strip for years, even during a so called cease-fire that lasted six months until Hamas itself said they weren't going to carry it on. And when you have a right of self-defense, it's not simply a tit-for-tat right of self-defense, it's a right to eliminate the threat. If that's what Israel is in fact choosing to do, I think they're perfectly legitimate in so doing....]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 GERALDINE FERRARO, FORMER VP NOMINEE: I have said that I would support Michael Bloomberg for re-election. I think he's done a superb job.

COLMES: Let her (INAUDIBLE), she would have.

FERRARO: I don't think a party, you know, necessarily defines.

COLMES: Well, he might run as a Democrat next time, for all we know.

FERRARO: I don't care what party he runs.

COLMES: Yes.

FERRARO: He's been a good mayor and I -- I'm supporting him. I think he's done a good job.

COLMES: Right. But she would not say that. Is -- has she been -- first of all, should she be the next senator from New York?

...]]> Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600

He clearly should be impeached and convicted by the Illinois legislature, and they ought to get him out of office as early as possible, hopefully next week. But, but, if you're in his shoes, what are you going to say? I mean he's trying to negotiate with the U.S. attorney, and I think he's trying to indicate he's not going to go quietly or easily.

COLMES: Doesn't he have a right, though, to actually have a defense, if he's impeached, to stand trial in the House -- of the legislature in Illinois or the upper legislature? Doesn't he have an opportunity to defend himself without being -- without it being said he should be convicted?

GINGRICH: I think he should have...]]> Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 RUDY GIULIANI, FMR. NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: Good to see you.

HANNITY: Merry Christmas. Happy new year.

GIULIANI: Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.

COLMES: Merry Christmas.

GIULIANI: Happy new year.

HANNITY: I want to ask as a -- as a former prosecutor, you understand the way the rules are played here. One of the biggest questions that has emerged is why didn't they wait. Now we understand the ""Tribune had the story, sat on it, they revealed that he was going to -- that these conversations were being taped, but did they make a mistake?

Is there a chance that Blagojevich can get off?

GIULIANI: Well, I...]]> Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Governor, welcome back to the show.

GOV. MARK SANFORD, SOUTH CAROLINA: My pleasure.

COLMES: Tell me, what happens if there is no bailout? Many states, yours being one of the exceptions, saying, "Don't help us, federal government." And if they don't come in with help, what happens?

SANFORD: Well, we've been around for a couple hundred years as a republic, and I think we've done amazingly well to date, without a whole host of the never-ending bailouts.

I think the republic survives, and I think we do the old-fashioned thing, which is when times get tough, you actually tighten the belt.

There was an interesting National...]]> Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Welcome, both of you, to HANNITY & COLMES.

Mr. Flanagan, let me start with you. So you ran against him. Can you explain the behavior? It's kind of odd that he's acting like nothing's wrong the day before this broke? He was saying let the sun shine on me and feel free to tape my conversations.

What's going on here?

MICHAEL FLANAGAN (R), FMR. ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN, LOST HOUSE SEAT TO BLAGOJEVICH IN `96: Well, I think Rod is a -- from the Chicago culture where we do what we do, the rules don't apply to us, and I truly believe that he doesn't think he's done anything wrong.

It's not that he hasn't done anything wrong in the sense that...]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 REP. GARY ACKERMAN (D), NEW YORK: Well, let's -- well, first let me say we're going to miss you, Alan. We're looking forward to watching you in your new -- in your new venture.

COLMES: Thanks very much.

ACKERMAN: Yes, we don't know what's going to happen in the Senate. They're threatening to be a little bit obstreperous on this, and they may have the votes on -- on a filibuster. So we may have to come back sometime next week, but we're hoping they'll be reasonable and take the bill.

COLMES: All right. Congressman Pence, how do you bail out the banks? How do you give them $700 billion and then deny $14 billion to an industry that's accountable...]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 HANNITY: These conversations were taped. We have the quotes. I mean, the evidence seems rather incontrovertible and fairly overwhelming. I don't -- I don't think it's...

PAWLENTY: I agree. I agree. It looks like he's got his hands in the cookie jar, no question.

HANNITY: All right. Now bring our audience -- you know how I feel about Al Franken. I think he's dishonest. I think he would be a bad senator. He's failed at everything he's done. At no point has he overtaken Norm Coleman in the lead.

Tell us the status in terms of the final point in the recount, because I think Al Franken is going to try and drive this race into the United States...]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Joining us former vice-presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro.

All right, look, the position of attorney general is an important position.

GERALDINE FERRARO, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Right.

HANNITY: Maybe we can find some area of agreement. I'm going to try.

FERRARO: Right.

HANNITY: All right. As it relates to Marc Rich.

FERRARO: Go ahead.

HANNITY: The guy renounced his citizenship, selling arms to Iran while they were holding our hostages. Millions of dollars in scandal. The FALN pardon, terrorists, we have tape of them building bombs. Weather Underground members, we have -- we know, of...]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 CHAMBLISS: You know, Brian, I cannot see it diminishing. I -- I mean I can't overstate the impact she had down here. All of these folks did a great job coming in. They all allowed us to add momentum to where we were in the campaign, but when she walks in a room, folks just explode, and they really did pack the house.

Everywhere we went she's a -- she's a dynamic lady, a great administrator, and I think she's got a great future in the Republican Party.

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COLMES: Hey, where's the thanks to Hannity?

SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Why do I get this?

COLMES: I mean, where are you in that thing? Anyway, that's right....]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 SEN. SAXBY CHAMBLISS (R), GEORGIA: It went great, Sean. She -- she truly is a rock star. I mean, she came into town to help us electrify our base, make sure that these folks get fired up and turn out tomorrow, and she did exactly that.

We had four stops around the state: Augusta, Savannah, down in Houston County, and back in Gwinnett County and Metro Atlanta. We had huge crowds, and they were enthusiastic and very electrified.

HANNITY: Well, it's important.

Now why do you think -- this is, I think, a pretty interesting question. It would be highly beneficial, assuming that -- there's a chance, although I don't really believe, except Al...]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Can you please explain?

DEEPAK CHOPRA, "JESUS, A STORY OF ENLIGHTENMENT" AUTHOR: Well, first of all, I don't think Dorothy Rabinowitz has any sense of history. If she did she would know that in the 1980s the CIA financed the militarization of Afghan rebels to resist Soviet expansion in the region. At the same time the U.S. subsidized Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, to train and provide tactical support to these Mujahideen who later became Taliban.

So, you know, there's a history there that clearly suggests that the U.S. activity in the Indian continent for the last few decades has in some way participated in the creation of this mess that we have....]]> Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 COLMES: You know the conservatives are beating him up, blaming him for the Marc Rich pardon, blaming him for FALN, blaming him for the, what their guess, calling the hijacking of Elian Gonzalez.

How do you respond to those charges?

SHARPTON: Well, I mean, again, I think that in the Marc Rich case, Mr. Holder has publicly stated where there was there. I think what they are going to find challenging is that Mr. Holder was not the attorney general, Janet Reno was. And in some of these situations, these were ultimately decisions made by then sitting President Clinton.

I think that while Eric Holder is going to be hard for them to paint as some...]]> Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 HANNITY: All right. So he was talking during the campaign about $175 billion, you know, stimulus package. You know, now we've got $700 billion in bailouts, we got $700 billion package, he's asked today how we're going to pay for all of this.

Are the Republicans going to support? Is the answer government works programs? Is the answer green jobs as he was talking about today?

CANTOR: No, that's certainly not the answer, Sean, and you know, the -- campaign was full of promises of reaching out across the political aisle, trying to bring this country together so that we can actually deal with a severe economic crisis that we've got upon us.

You know...]]> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 COLMES: All right so how do you solve that problem? What does he have to do?

FORBES: What he has to say he is going to have it suspended and have the S.E.C. suspend the rule. And by golly, you would start to see a real rally in the market not just a one day wonder.

COLMES: And will other economic team members come into play? Are there other people he should be adding? Other people you think should be players here? Who would be good choices?

FORBES: I was hoping he would pick Paul Volcker for a key role. He would be replacing head of the Federal Reserve. But Richardson in commerce. Richardson is a free trader.

COLMES: Free trader? So that's good.

FORBES:...]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 ROBERT NARDELLI, CEO, CHRYSLER: Without immediate bridge financing support, Chrysler's liquidity could fall below the level necessary to sustain operations.

ALAN MULLALY, CEO, FORD: We were profitable in the first quarter of this year, 2008, and well on our way to sustainable profitability before the current economic and credit crisis stopped us cold.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: Chrysler, General Motors, and Ford are all looking for loans to avoid bankruptcy, but not everyone is convinced this is the answer, including a very famous native son.

Joining us now is the man who's calling bankruptcy the only option for Detroit, the son of...]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 HANNITY: We have a lot of breaking news tonight. This just in to the FOX newsroom, and that is that Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska has lost to Senator Begich. This just breaking now as we come on the air here.

And in a lot of other breaking news, word comes that former deputy attorney general for the Clinton administration and senior legal advisor to Barack Obama, Eric Holder, is reportedly Obama's top choice now for attorney general.

Meanwhile earlier, on the Hill today, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson defended the bailout bill and reaffirmed that despite many criticisms. Well, is it all working? Let's take a look.

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...]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: What did you call him?

HUCKABEE: He was going to call me Spike Lee, I think he's going to call me that.

COLMES: No, I'm kidding. You realize there was a movie by that -- already with the title of your book.

HUCKABEE: He borrowed it from this book anticipating that it was going to be published some day.

COLMES: I see. I got it.

HUCKABEE: Yes.

COLMES: So -- he has endorsed it. Is that right? That's good.

HUCKABEE: As I'm sure you will.

HANNITY: (INAUDIBLE) conservative.

(CROSSTALK)

COLMES: Anyway, listen.

HUCKABEE: But he...]]> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 MICHAEL STEELE, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Hey, how are you doing?

COLMES: How are you, sir?

STEELE: I want the gig. I'm ready, I'm ready to lead this party. I think we've been kind of wandering and doubting ourselves for far too long. And I think this past election was the culmination of that self-doubt which has to end.

We have a message, I think, of empowerment and ownership and opportunity that resonates United States with Americans. We just need to get back to.

COLMES: You know.

STEELE: The fundamentals of our party has not changed. So I'm ready to lead it.

COLMES: I read what you wrote when you said...]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 NEWT GINGRICH, "DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, PAY LESS" AUTHOR: Good to be with you.

HANNITY: You've been hiding out a little bit. You haven't been around, you haven't commented on the election, and I know you well enough, there's always a rationale behind what you do, so I want to know why.

GINGRICH: Well, I wanted to, frankly, think for a while. I thought this was a very historic event both in the positive sense of Senator Obama's remarkable achievement over the last year and in the sense that Republicans have to come to grips with the fact that we had failed in both the Congress and the executive branch, and we've been rewarded by the American voters first in...]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 PASTOR RICK WARREN, SADDLEBACK CHURCH: Good to see you, Sean and Alan.

HANNITY: All right. Now I want to ask you this because we -- all the talk that we've had about the economy. Now, before this economic, quote, "slowdown," collapse. I don't believe it's a collapse. I believe there is an ebb and flow to the economy. But that's when John McCain lost his momentum.

Barack Obama says spread the wealth around. Barack Obama, you know, 40 percent of people who don't pay income taxes are going to get a check. That -- that, to me, is welfare.

So, with your message of Christianity, and you always want to help people, should it be coerced like that by...]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Three-way race, 48.8 percent. Who says .2 percent, Saxby, doesn't matter?

SAXBY CHAMBLISS (R), GEORGIA SENATOR: It was close, 8500 votes, and it would be over and in any other state of the country, it'd be over with. But you know, we've got rules, and we hit the ground running the day after the election.

HANNITY: Well, look, I see -- I think this is about as safe a seat there can be, but you know, obviously, you're not going to take any vote for granted.

I look at your opponent's record, and I lived in Atlanta for four years. I think I know the town pretty well and it's pretty conservative, Georgia is. I mean this guy voted to increase...]]> Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 "Newsweek" magazine, the "New York Times", and FOX's own Carl Cameron have all reported on incidents that allegedly happened behind the scenes on the campaign trail.

According to these reports, Governor Palin supposedly didn't know that Africa was a continent and not a country, that she once answered the door of her hotel room dressed only in a towel, that she blasted members of the campaign staff, leaving them in tears, and that she spent even more money on clothing than originally reported a few weeks ago.

Joining us tonight to shed light on these claims, McCain campaign chairman, Rick Davis.

Rick, welcome to HANNITY & COLMES. Nice to have you with us.

RICK...]]> Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 But now they don't nee d him anymore. Democrats won't get their 60 votes in the Senate, but they will have enough that they can, well, once again take out their anger on the man who would have been their V.P.

Lieberman met on the Hill with Majority Leader Senator Reid today and had this to say afterwards.

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LIBERMAN: I want t o spend some time in the next few days thinking about what Senator Reid and I discussed and what my options are at this point, and he promised me that he would do the same, and we will continue these conversations.

But more broadly, let me just say a few words. As you all know, the people of...]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 TOMMY FRANKS, FORMER COMMANDER, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND: Thank you, sir. Great to be with you.

COLMES: Thank you. The Iraqi foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, says his government is confident that the president-elect will not jeopardize the security of Iraq with too hasty a withdrawal. Do you agree?

FRANKS: I do agree.

COLMES: You agree that he will do the right thing, and that there is a time line, actually, that the United States and Iraq is working on, which would have us out -- in fact, President Bush has been working on this -- we'd be out by 2011. So that's pretty much in keeping with what Barack Obama has said he would do.

And yet...]]>