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July 22, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 22, 2005, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program here at the EIB Network.
I'm on the left coast out here today at KOGO Radio in San Diego.
And of course, this is on the Rush Limbaugh program, open line Friday.
You betcha 1-800-282-2882.
Have we missed something this week here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies?
If we have, it's your turn.
Bring up the topic, let fly, and uh have at it.
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Yeah, out here in San Diego, we're experiencing something that uh we don't normally get.
Um very rarely.
In fact, in the normal weather patterns, obviously it's not either very cold or very very warm out here.
It's just pleasant and nice and paradise all the time.
Uh it's warm all the time, uh, but not hot.
And we rarely get humidity.
Today it's hot and humid.
I know.
Um I should be whining.
The rest of the country is much worse.
But uh I guess I'm whining for particular reason.
The air today appears to be coming in a non-normal weather pattern up from Mexico.
In other words, this is illegal humidity, basically.
And it's doing a job that American humidity will not do.
I understand that, but it's still here illegally.
And we wish it would go back.
I don't mean to profile this humidity.
I don't mean to be harsh and unfair and a vigilante about it, but please.
You know, without with great risk to uh my personal political reputation, please, uh Mexico, take your humidity back.
Would you just please, just this once?
Anyway, that's kind of my plea for today.
We're going to get into the London uh shooting today.
Uh I'm stunned, basically, by this news.
Have you heard it?
Uh London police have killed a man at a subway station.
They suspected he was wearing a winter coat, which the immediate first indication of suspicion.
Uh and uh and apparently a rucksack, as they call it over there, a backpack of some kind of as uh similar to the bombers.
The uh they called on him to halt, he would not uh started running away from the security officers involved.
The police uh fired five shots, all five of which entered his head.
Immediately dead on the spot.
Now I gotta tell you that's the stunning part, by the way, uh, of this whole thing.
To me, I mean, living out here on the West Coast, the last shooting incident in Los Angeles, for example, of the cops uh stopping a suspect, about 9,000 rounds were fired, and they hit every bystander and left the suspect uh uh completely unscathed.
He was on the telephone calling his agent for a uh uh, you know, a movie made for TV based on the incident right away.
This is the way we handle it out here.
So to hear that cops can actually hit five shots out of five at the suspect's head uh in a country that doesn't have guns.
Uh, didn't didn't they until very recently not even have guns?
Cops didn't have guns.
Where did they learn to shoot like this?
I mean, as an American, I'm feeling like uh offended almost.
So you may have something to say about this today.
I I'm just stunned.
Um the bombers who tried to hit London, of course, yesterday were a complete failure.
Uh some very funny descriptions in the press today, and Good Friday fodder to uh to to peruse the uh the internet on the uh on the British press today because they're getting eyewitness accounts of these poor fellows in their rucksacks trying to detonate the bombs on these uh and and and they're not they're not apparently they're not made very well.
I see they they need to stop with the you know Middle Eastern sources or or the North Korean sources for these things.
They've got to go right to China.
This is where they make you know things that work.
Uh but I but I'm amazed because the eyewitness accounts indicate that, well, here was here was the uh poor guy, the bomber, down on the ground, trying to detonate his bomb, laying on top of the rucksack.
And somebody else in the in the uh in the car uh comes up to him and says, uh anything wrong, mate?
And uh this poor fellow, you know, there's a popping sound while The detonator goes off, but nothing else.
He gets up, the bomber gets up, the would-be bomber gets up, kind of bewildered look on his face.
You mean I'm not in paradise?
There's no 72 Virgins.
What happened here?
And uh wanders off at the next um the next break.
There's some very funny accounts.
And of course not so funny, because this, of course, is another attempt to blow up and kill people in uh this uh version of Islam that many are denouncing in the world of uh the Muslim world, but many more are not.
In fact, good grief, this group with claiming that they do have links to Al Qaeda, claiming success, even though of course they had a failure yesterday, are following the teachings of a m a number of militant sheiks and imams and the like who uh are in London preaching killing of British citizens even while we speak here.
In fact, this is Friday, uh Wednesday, Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed predicted another terrorist attack would hit London.
Why is this thug, this murderous thug to use the English vernacular still in Britain?
Why is he A still alive?
Why is he B still in Britain if alive?
Why is he C uh not uh back in his madrasas in uh Pakistan where he belongs or wherever, if you're going to keep him alive.
Because you see, ladies and gentlemen, allowing these people to be alive, allowing them to speak up, allowing them to use our freedoms against us, allowing them to preach the hatred that, for instance, we have long ago banned in our own polite society.
You cannot preach uh hatred against black people because they're black, for example, as maybe you could in this country, what, 50, 60, 70 years ago.
Can't do it today.
We have uh decided that that kind of thing just is too disruptive, too uh anti-American, too whatever.
It doesn't work.
We won't put up with it.
When are we going to decide the same thing about these Muslim thugs and their hate speech and their psychological warfare and their deliberate terrorism, their deliberate attempt to make it a risky act to get on a subway to go to work.
So in uh New York, of course, they're uh they're now uh searching the commuters.
But but but don't don't be f don't be concerned, don't be concerned.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly there in New York, assuring that there'll be no racial profiling.
Why the hell not?
I don't know.
I didn't see a lot of diversity in the bombers in London.
I was looking for that.
I was looking for that.
I didn't think it was fair to leave out uh Filipino women or you know, grandmothers uh from Finland or or wherever, because these these terrorists obviously are not the kind of diversity-loving people we are.
They seem to be focused solely on twenty to thirty-year-old Muslim young men who've recently been to Pakistan to attend graduate school.
Good grief.
No profiling.
Anyway, in uh in New York, uh there are T shirts being handed out by uh local uh activists, including local immigration rights activist Tony Lou.
He's designed t-shirts uh which say, I do not consent to be searched.
Oh, my my Tony, really.
So anyway, uh if uh if you do not consent to research, then don't get on the subway.
You can walk in the heat and the humidity.
But you don't you don't get on the you know, you don't get on the subway, because all the rest of us like to get on the subway and feel like there's a modicum of safety, somebody's watching out for these crazies.
Because if you think New York is immune from this, doesn't sound likely.
Well, we'll get into politics too in a while.
The Robertson, I I'm just I I gotta tell you, Russia's so right about this.
I mean, uh the the Dems are in their last gasp.
The radical left is in its last gasp on this stuff.
The stuff on Roberts today is absolutely laughable.
Wait till you hear the toad story.
We'll get into this uh a little bit later.
Uh Rove, of course, got aft got uh got brought up again.
They can't leave that alone.
Oh my gosh, uh don't don't tell me we've lost on the roof thing, too.
No, they're after uh the White House again on that.
We'll get into uh uh recent examples of liberal art and China as well is occupying the news and we'll get into uh that as well today.
So open line Friday, I got a lot of topics I want to bring up.
Let's find out what you want to bring up at 1800-282-2882.
I'm Roger Hitchcock in for Rush.
Let's talk to Mario in New York.
Mario, welcome to the Rush program.
Yes, it's nice to talk to you.
Thanks.
The reason why uh I'm calling is I I got a theory on why we haven't been hit here in the United States.
What is that theory?
And that theory is that there are the the left is already convincing the turning the American people around against the war.
And they I the way I feel is that it if if we get hit again, we're only gonna get the spirit of America up again, like after 7-Eleven, and it's only going to defeat their purpose.
So let them continue the way they look at it, is let the the liberal um the right 7-Eleven.
Did you say 7-Eleven?
No, 9-11.
9-11.
I wasn't following you there.
I was in I was in getting a Slurpee for a minute there.
I don't know what you were doing, Mario.
No, well, all I'm saying is that that's the reason why we have a bit because they're afraid they'll turn the American country, the peep the American people around against them again.
It is an interesting, it is an interesting point, Mario, that when they hit Spain, there was a complete change of government.
Uh, by the way, Spanish news today has have has Spain gotten better.
News out of Spain today, an Argentine lesbian wed her lover in Madrid in the first of the homosexual marriages that have been approved by the new socialist government of Spain.
Oh, yeah, that country's on a positive trend.
They're on an arc of success and and and uh and uh and uh and victory.
Uh yeah, yeah.
Anyway, I think that's the right point.
The last time they hit the United States figuring it would destroy the economy and drive the government uh out of office and uh disintegrate our society because we are weak and degenerate, it turned out the exact opposite happened.
And Mario may have a point.
But don't count on it.
American Spectator, Spectator.org, uh, for example, uh see no evil.
Uh and again, in the UK, there are significant portions of public opinion blaming Britain Britain and its involvement in the war against terror for the attacks in the London subway.
If we only hadn't done that, we wouldn't have had this.
Huh?
You know, I follow that logic uh only so far.
Okay, we did invade Iraq, and things have happened since then.
Because we're in a war.
The other side fights back.
I'm trying to go through the basics here.
Uh we're in a war, we fight uh because that was started by them.
Uh we attack them, then they try to attack us back.
This would be the normal thing in a war.
Now, however, unraveling that back to the point where they attacked us the first time.
What in the world did we do?
Let's see.
Let me let me go back and think for a minute.
What was the normal reaction of, for instance, what were they reacting against when they bombed the USS coal in Yemen?
Let's see now.
I think it was when we intervened to save the Kosovars in the Clinton administration in the former Yugoslavia.
The Kosovars who were the Kosovars who were Muslims, by the way.
Muslims.
We were saving Muslims from being slaughtered by Serbs, and the reaction was they bombed the USS coal.
Huh.
Maybe it was a reaction to the tax cuts.
I'm not quite sure.
I'm getting confused as I try to roll this back to the logic.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush, taking a break.
Back with your call after this.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh today as Rush takes some uh time off here in the middle of this heat wave throughout the country, and uh CNN bringing us the news today in case you didn't didn't yet realize the connections in these London bombings.
CNN bringing us the uh news that the father of Mohammed Atha, one of the hijackers who com uh did the first plane into the World Trade Center in 9-11.
The father lives in Cairo and uh in an apartment in the upper middle class Cairo's Cairo suburb of Giza out by the pyramids there.
And uh he praised the terror attacks in London and said that many more would follow and that he would like to see them, And that many more people should die.
It brings to mind the question that, of course, it isn't just these independently acting young men who are involved here.
It is in this tribal world of the Middle East, their families as well.
I think that's the point we want to be made by Ralph here in Yonkers, New York.
Ralph, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Yeah, I like it.
Hey Ralph.
Hi, you're on.
Good.
Um I have a suggestion.
Why don't the government, if we catch a terrorist, naturally we kill him, and his whole family, cousins, relatives, anybody related, we deport them.
And maybe that will be a deterrent for these Muslims to say, whoa, wait a minute, I don't want to go back to that country.
Well, I I think Ralph, it has to be done.
And I'll tell you, I'll tell you what uh w uh there's an old story, and it's uh dates back to the eighties when in Lebanon, and you remember in the eighties in Lebanon, the uh PLO was ruining that country, and Syria had moved in and Hamas and all the rest of that stuff, and uh Lebanon was being torn apart.
Uh our diplomats, including our CIA uh chief, uh station chief there was uh was kidnapped, tortured, and killed.
The Russians lost a diplomat to a kidnapping in Lebanon.
The Russian secret police came down into Lebanon and they didn't try to find their guy.
What they did was they found out who the kidnappers were and then went to their families.
And they sent back, I think it was the finger or something, uh some body part of a family member of one of the of the kidnappers, and uh said uh all of your family members will be hacked up and sent to you in bags if you don't release our guy, or something to that effect.
I I may mistranslate the Russian there slightly.
And uh uh well, not surprisingly, the Russian diplomat was released unharmed with an apology, and the kidnappers disappeared.
So, you know, at the time on the liberal left in the West, oh my, the Russians, they're so barbaric, oh my, trying to descend to the level of this barbarity, matching the kidnappers and ferociousness and barbarity.
That's just not the way we do things.
We would have had an investigation and a grand jury inquiry, and then we would have had, you know, of course the ACLU providing attorneys for everyone, and then we would have had uh extended hearings on the subject.
The Russians got their diplomat back.
Our CIA station chief was killed and tortured before he was killed.
No word on what Amnesty International had to say about that torture.
Funny pictures, by the way, for uh the Rush Rush has the uh club get most up and encouraging people to send pictures to his website.
Go to the website today at Rush Limbaugh.com and check out the pictures.
They're terrific.
George in Florida next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, George.
Hi, how are you doing today?
Good, good.
It's uh pleasure to talk to you.
Thanks for calling.
I have a little bit of a uh problem with what you said earlier about the American law enforcement officers.
Yeah.
Uh not being able to do what the British did.
I said LA.
Well, even in LA.
Uh you're really not Yeah, you're not comparing apples to oranges here.
The people that are involved in Britain are all special operators.
They're all highly trained, just like SWAT members are.
And uh they're the ones that are out there with the submachine guns.
They're the ones that are fully trained in in special tactics like that.
And if every American law enforcement officer was equipped the same way, being out on the street with those kind of weapons, you would probably get better results.
Unfortunately, I doubt it, George, and I'll I'll tell you why.
I doubt it, George, and I'll tell you why.
Because in LA when the SWAT team was on the site of this particular incident in which a uh man had refused to stop a car uh uh kidnapping, whatever it was, I forget the exact details.
This is just a couple of weeks ago.
And uh nine something like I said nine thousand, but actually something like nine hundred rounds were fired by police officers including SWAT, including these trained officers, and they were fired in a way that was just all over the neighborhood.
I mean, it was an absolute scandal.
Now, George, I know the ref the reflex in your pro are you in law enforcement?
Yes, I am.
Okay.
The reflex of people in law enforcement in this country is never to accept criticism, To always demand more money, to always demand more training.
If only we got you taxpayers to give us more dollars, we too could be as good as that.
And I'm fed up with it.
I'm fed up to hear with it.
The fact of the matter is, those cops were ordinary cops in that tube.
They had their handguns and hit this guy at a number of um feet away in the head five times out of five.
I don't think there's a police officer in this country that could do it.
George, that's my point.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush Limbaugh, and I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
At 1800-282-2882, I'm gonna challenge you to tell me I'm wrong when we come back, because I think I'm absolutely right about this, and everybody knows about it.
Everybody in every community in this country knows this to be true.
Back after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock in for uh Rush Limbaugh today on Open Line Friday, and whatever you want to talk about, uh don't let me dominate.
I want to hear what uh we've left out uh at the Lind Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies uh this week.
And uh what do you think ought to be emphasized?
I hear from people, you know, privately I hear from people saying Rush uh didn't cover this.
He only has three hours a day, good grief.
So if it's something that hasn't been covered, let us know.
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I've got to tell you about this because the uh I I've just been laughing.
I've been laughing out loud, reading this stuff about the the nomination of Judge John Roberts Jr. to the Supreme Court by President Bush.
Uh okay, uh here's exhibit A. Here's one I laughed out loud about.
Uh West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, Sheets Byrd, after Bush nominated Federal Judge Roberts this week, issued a statement.
And the statement, I mean, included this.
Um I met with uh Judge Roberts.
I said to him, quote, I'm shouting your name from the steeptops for reaching out, reaching across the aisle.
Uh I thank President Bush for reaching out to Senators.
He's endorsing Roberts.
He's endorsing him in the strongest possible terms.
In fact, he's put out a book.
It's a memoir, Child of the Appalachian Coal Fields is the title.
And in the book, he repeatedly blames, quote, liberal judges, unquote, and quote, activist judges, unquote, for many of the nation's problems.
In fact, being Sheets Bird, he makes an uh he makes uh a well uh he makes a reference to Africa.
He says, quote, one's life is probably this is in the book now, quote, one's life is probably in no greater danger in the jungles of deepest Africa than in the jungles of America's large cities, unquote.
Sheets doesn't fall too far from the uh burning cross.
But in this case, uh he is now moving to support Judge Roberts.
Why?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, let me whisper to you the EIB network research facility answer.
Recent polling shows uh Senator Byr below 50 percent and in a dead heat against a candidate.
Uh Congress uh Congresswoman Sh uh let's see.
Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican who has not yet announced that she's running against the Senator, but in a hypothetical matchup, he loses.
Oops.
It's finally dawned on Sheetsbird that the president won last year in West Virginia by 13 points.
It's finally dawned on him that the Republicans won the election, and his very seat is actually endangered.
I better move pretty quickly.
I better get over on his side.
Here's Jay in Delaware.
Jay, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi there, Mr. Hedgecock.
I'm listening to Philadelphia on WPHT.
Uh uh Ralph was it, your last uh next to last caller reported bottom of the hour.
You and he are uh you're daft.
Man, what are you what are you taking?
Uh Daft about what da daft, sir, about what?
About deporting family members of uh, and I would presume you'd bother to convict uh terrorists.
Convict uh who commit crimes here.
But support their family members.
We'd get them an attorney in a hearing and of course we'd have a proper trial.
We do all of that because that's the right thing to do while they're killing us.
I've got a little feature in the Bill of Rights called a Bill of Attainter.
Uh uh a detested thing that the British used to do where they would punish the family.
No, yes.
We we have a no provision for a bill of attainer.
You can take it before the U.S. Supreme Court as it stands now without Judge Roberts, and you'd probably get a unanimous decision that it's unconstitutional.
Certainly.
Come on, if we're gonna think things, let's think them through that are intelligent.
That certainly isn't.
Jay, are you a fan of FDR?
Hell no.
He was a disaster for this country.
Okay, well, I'm I'm kind of a fan of the way he reacted to the war because one of the things he did, as with President Lincoln, and are you a fan of Lincoln?
Uh so so.
Okay.
Okay.
Which president of the United States is your is your uh is your model?
My model?
The present one is just grand.
Okay.
And Harry Truman.
I like Terry Truman.
All right.
Wonderful.
Let me just remind you, sir, that during wartime.
I'm trying to distinguish between peacetime and wartime.
In peacetime, the bill of attainder, all that stuff, the bill of rights, all of that is very good, very proper, very right.
We stand uh it's it's our bulwark against government.
It is uh the it is what we depend upon for our freedom and liberty.
Uh we are at war.
The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact.
Uh Lincoln suspended the entire thing in order to save the Union, win the war.
And restore is that not important, Jay?
Yes, it is.
Okay, let me Jay, let me just tell you before you foam at the mouth on the subject of deportation of killers and their families.
I just as soon be safe.
I just as soon tell people you can emigrate to the United States if you want to become an American.
If you're coming here to be a little jihadist and wait in Lodi or uh what was the other place up in New York State, upper New York State, uh in all these little uh sleeper cells and all your family connections and all your tribes and all your uh fellows uh sitting there supporting you, and that happened here in San Diego.
Two of the nineteen people were here taking a flight training.
Uh and you want to have all I think all those people who supported them, I think all those people who gave the money, I think all those people who sent them to the to the uh graduate school, madras in uh Pakistan, all of that are support systems that need to be rooted out and sent home.
It is exactly the same as Carl Rove.
Let's get a guilty conviction before you go deporting families who may not have had any part in this uh who may not have had any part of it.
Uh uh uh people who foment terrorism in this country.
Uh no objection with it whatsoever.
But what you're talking about is punishing innocents, and there are that's that's the equivalent of saying all Muslims are bad.
No.
No, Jay, no, no, no, man, you're going so far off the beam here.
Look, I just quoted from Mohammed Atta's father living in Cairo today who praised the bomb.
There is no such thing as these as these uh young men going in with these rucksacks.
They didn't make those bombs.
They didn't have the support to go in there.
They didn't uh have the money to go back to Pakistan to go to these uh these schools to learn how to be terrorists.
There's a support system.
And the support system has to be rooted out and sent home, rooted out and put in jail, or we will simply have an inexhaustible supply of duped young men, uh fanatics coming into our subway systems all over the world until we're all dead.
And then we will say, well, we but we played by the rules.
You're using Muhammad Adva's father to justify this whole thing.
For every Mohammed Atta's father who or person who thinks that way, there's got to be a thousand to ten thousand.
I can't I can't penetrate your ignorance, so I'm just gonna try one more time.
In the Muslim world, the family, the tribe is everything.
They is everything.
Next to their religion, the family and the tribe is everything.
There is no such thing as delinquency, these these uh we we think, see, they they exploit our expectations.
They exploit our expectation that a young man could just go wrong, and that has nothing to do with the family.
That's just that young man going wrong.
Uh we think that because that happens all the time uh in our own families.
In those families, it does not.
Those young men do not marry anybody the father doesn't tell them to marry.
The women are the same way.
They do what they are told to do.
There is no such thing as acting independently on their religious convictions to blow up people in the tube.
They are a part of a tightly woven, knitted family and tribe that makes this happen.
And Jay, if you haven't realized that yet, you need to do some research before you come on a national radio program and display your ignorance.
Now, please work at this because there is truth to be found.
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I'm Roger Hedgecock on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Let's try a break.
We'll come back much more.
Oh, this is fun.
Open line Friday.
Can we take a break right now?
Or should we take a call?
We'll take a call.
Matt on a cell phone in Shreveport.
You're on.
Hi, Matt.
Um I'm in three port.
Oh, hi.
Hi, Roger.
I'm Madam in Streep, Louisiana.
Uh I'm gonna throw a couple ideas out here.
Show them, shoot them down, tear them apart, whatever.
First and foremost, with the police officers.
They don't practice enough.
It's simple as that.
It's true in Freeport, it's true everywhere else.
As far as the shooting incident you're talking about, I believe it was suburban.
They don't teach cops ambush, so they don't always know you don't shoot from both sides of a target, especially a closing sides.
Secondly, the last caller, Truman was a coward.
That's why we have Truman Truman was a coward.
What was the what is that all about?
Well, think about it.
MacArthur basically had North Korea backed up to the Chinese border, and he was ready to go into China.
We wouldn't have communism today if it wasn't for him.
Uh mostly decommissioned by that point in time.
Uh uh Okay.
I mean we can we can debate that, Matt, but go ahead.
Okay, back to the substance of it.
Well, the Patriot Act is going to be reauthorized very shortly for it.
God bless us.
How about something with substance, like say uh national concealed carry weapons permit?
Something where we can actually protect ourselves.
Yeah, I came up against this uh you know, this is a very good point.
I think there should be a national concealed weapons uh permit.
It's done now state by state.
Uh, it could should be continued.
But even if the feds, I'll tell you, we ran into this at our local county fair in San Diego, where the uh the feds had passed a law saying that off-duty police officers could carry their weapons as part of like a backup for uh response to terrorist or any other uh criminal activity.
And uh the the county fair on public land decided that they would uh ban off-duty law enforcement officers from carrying their weapons on the fair because we'd be safer if law if off-duty law enforcement officers didn't have weapons.
That was their that was their stated theory.
We were in danger if law enforcement officers took their guns off.
Well, maybe if they were in LA, we would be in danger.
Let me rethink this.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
We'll take a break on the Rush Limbaugh program and be back right after this.
Well, Judge Roberts news continues.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh today, and uh Rush, of course, off on a great uh break, a well-deserved break, but we continue because, of course, we are commanded to continue this relentless pursuit of the truth.
You got to know your enemy, and I hope this last caller helped everybody.
You gotta know your enemy.
They are not a delinquent U.S. uh.
youths, just off on a lark of, you know, they didn't they're not they're not having been converted to the Moonies and they're out doing something crazy.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
This is a whole different thing.
This Roberts uh nomination to the Supreme Court continues to just draw some very, very funny stuff.
I mean, I I think that the left is just in tatters on this one.
Uh here is um this is a serious writing now.
Associated press, Tallahassee, Florida.
Lead paragraph.
During the tumultuous presidential recount in 2000, John Roberts flew to Florida and volunteered advice to Governor Jeb Bush, whose brother was trying to clinch the elections.
Democrats now saying that trip should disqualify Roberts from the Supreme Court.
Congressman Robert Wexler, Democrat of Florida, saying, quote, the Senate should reject him on the basis of this alone.
Now he's being rewarded for that partisan service, unquote.
Um The laughable laughability con uh the the measure of laughability this is just uh in comes in every direction.
Partisan service.
Every judge in the country is nominated and appointed on the basis of their partisan service, and everybody knows it.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was not a partisan Democrat prior to her appointment, huh?
Um plus which, wait a minute.
Well, let me see if I understand this.
John Roberts flew to Florida and volunteered advice to Governor Jeb Bush.
I don't think Jeff Bush was getting elected president, was he?
What is that all about?
And then this, this gets better.
Everybody knows, this is in the Washington.
They're even making fun of the opponents of Roberts in the Washington Post.
Federalist affili federalist affiliation misstated.
Washington Post this morning.
Everyone knows that like all good Republican lawyers, John G. Roberts Jr. is a member of the Federalist Society, a conservative law and public policy organization where right of center types meet to denounce liberalism and angle for jobs in the Bush administration.
So right away you know the writer is a liberal.
You know, the disdain, the irony, the sarcasm, et cetera.
Fine.
Second paragraph.
And practically everyone, CNN, the Los Angeles Times, Legal Times, the Washington Post itself has reported Robert's membership in the Federalist Society as a fact.
The Alliance for Justice, opposed to Roberts' nomination, has noted it on its website.
Just one problem, they're wrong.
Roberts is not a member of the Federalist Society.
Did anyone bother just asking him?
Or do they just assume?
Yikes.
Um then, of course, Democrats, Schumer, et cetera.
Uh, after the writ opinions, memorandums written by Roberts while he was a government lawyer.
We want every one of them to go over them and blame him for everything.
I'll tell you what, I think this guy Roberts has got a sense of humor.
I was reading, and this is in the Wall Street Journal, a little bit of his dissent in a um in the case uh Rancho Viejo, in which the majority allowed Fish and Wildlife Service, a federal agency, to order a land developer to move a fence on his own property here in California in order to accommodate an endangered toad.
The basis of the uh the basis of the toad uh being a f being federalized here, the subject of federal uh action uh was interstate commerce.
Interstate commerce.
Judge Roberts, in his dissent, wrote, quote, the hapless toad, for reasons of its own, lives its entire life in California and is not affected by interstate commerce.
This guy has a sense of humor.
Because, you know, again, making fun of the pretensions.
Let's expand the commerce clause to cover toads in California.
This guy we need desperately on the Supreme Court.
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Thank you to our Australian ally, John Howard, the Prime Minister of Australia, what a staunch guy.
Um talking about um our friend down under talking about uh the um latest bomb attacks and urging uh America and Britain to hold firm.
Uh very, very interesting guy, uh, and I appreciate him being in the country.
He was in London as well today.
The Congress reacting to the need for the government to stand up uh to terrorism and to how open our borders are by passing the uh renewal of the uh Patriot Act 257 to 171 in the House goes to the Senate now.
I don't know what the people like Hillary Clinton are going to do in the Senate, because she's trying to be obviously uh she's a moderate and uh she's a uh she's a conservative even on some cases, and uh and she's uh well very concerned and uh et cetera.
But then of course she has a base who are crazy wacko Howard Dean type people.
And so when she gets to the Senate, what is she going to do on the on the Patriot Act?
Because, you know, President Hillary Clinton should be voting yes.
Uh candidate Hillary Clinton's got to be voting no, or the crazies will be all over.
So I suggest a new category of vote in the United States Senate.
I think that for senators so conflicted like this, there ought to be the ability to vote yes and no.
Because you gotta be on all sides of these, because that's that's why well, that's the way I have to be.
Yes and no.
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