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Aug. 31, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And good afternoon.
Greetings to you, uh Thrill Seekers, Rush Limboy here, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and we are ready to go.
Three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead from the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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So continuing variety of things to discuss today.
And of course, it's interesting to uh look at the perspective that certain people have when uh discussing the um the story of the perhaps it has to be, if not the worst, one of the worst natural disasters that uh that has occurred in American history, certainly modern American history, and it seems like with uh with each new hour comes uh uh information of findings of even more disaster.
Uh and the news uh gets even more startling, and again you get to a point where you get numb, and you just you can't you can't relate to it.
If you start thinking about the the sort of the domino effect of uh or effects of of uh what has happened here, it it becomes mind-numbing.
You lose your ability to carry it out as far as it's uh as it's going to go.
Then on the other hand, you uh at the same time you have these realizations, you also you see the real heroes of America banding together.
The people that I've always talked about who make the country work, and you see them here, and you don't I mean you don't know who they are and you don't know their names.
You know the names of their leaders and their commanders because they're on television describing the actions being taken, but you see all these people that are banding together uh to try to alleviate the suffering and limit it as best as uh best possible, and then to take steps forward.
Uh and it's uh at the at the same time you see all this devastation and destruction, you uh you can't help but notice things that are positive uh about this.
And so we want to focus on both today, and I I I hate I I really hate this, but folks, we're gonna have to fire back again today.
You know, you know what we do, we get up here and we get to get to work every day.
We look at the news and we see the institutions and traditions and some people that we believe in under assault, being attacked, and so it's necessary to defend them, and of course the left is mounting even more assaults today, trying to, continuing previously mounted assaults from earlier in the week.
Um a lot of people are sending me the uh the op-ed written by uh Robert Kennedy Jr.
And I've I've had this.
Uh he wrote it on Monday or it was published on Monday.
I've I've had this in the stack for two days.
I didn't want to give it the time of day, but it's it's been spread around out there now, and it deserves comment, and we will, but it's absolutely ludicrous.
And it's all about uh it it well global warming is responsible for the disaster, and God steered the hurricane to Mississippi to get even with Haley Barber.
That's that's Robert Kennedy Jr.'s contribution to this.
Uh uh so we'll we'll we'll get into all of this.
We have some audio sound bites.
I'm gonna talk about the energy situation.
This is uh this is a major, major thing.
Now you know me.
Uh I I try to look at the at the positive side of everything, not to the extent that I ignore reality.
Um I'm I'm firmly grounded in reality, but I also try to look at things which are positive.
And I see a whole bunch of positive opportunities here.
Great opportunities uh regarding our whole energy situation that I want to get into uh uh with you as the program unfolds.
In fact, we'll be doing it uh pretty pretty soon here.
I I have to mention this because this is some of this stuff that the left does is just so predictable, you have to laugh at it.
How many times, those of you who have regularly been listeners to this program, how many times have you heard me say that liberalism defines equality by spreading misery equally?
May I share with you a headline from today's New York Times?
The misery is spread equally.
I got I I looked at this today and I said, whoa!
That's unbelievable.
What do you think the story's about?
It's obvious what the story is about.
You don't even need to read it.
The misery is spread equally, and so everything's fine.
The storm was nothing if not equal opportunity in its misery.
Waveland and Bay St. Louis, modest bungalows and working class apartment buildings were thrashed, torn open like cellophane bags, and uh uh ripped to their first four ceilings with muddy gulf of Mexico water by Hurricane Katrina's Halley winds and powerful tidal surge.
Just a few miles away, affluent diamond-haired diamond head fared no better, and maybe worse, as the hurricane obliterated an entire subdivision of $500,000 houses, leaving just the pilings they once stood on, and piles upon piles of rubbish, sodden clothing and battered appliances.
So Katrina Vandenhoov, Hurricane Katrina Van and Hoover was an equal opportunity to structure, a destroyer.
It spared nobody.
It made sure that not only did the poor who normally get hit by hurricanes get hit, but the rich got hit.
And the affluent got hit.
It's what a way to look at this.
What a way to look at it's it's not enough just to say that there's devastation all along the Gulf Coast, but to have to divvy it up into the haves and have nots, and then somehow express some sort of not pleasure, but why else would you note this?
Why why else would you take the time to point out, hey, you know, rich finally got it just as bad as the poor did this time.
So we have the misery spread equally.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the things that I have always said is how liberals define equality.
As long as everybody's miserable, then everything's okay.
Uh, but if some people are happy while other people are sad, that's not okay.
If some people are prosperous while other people aren't, that's not okay.
And what do liberals usually do to try to level the scales, try to lower those at the top, either at the achievement level, the income level, the educational level, uh, to be more in line with those who have not achieved as well rather than elevate those at the bottom.
I don't we'll go so far as to say they're taking pleasure in the result here, the New York Times, but you have to wonder about uh the fact that they note it in the first place.
That somehow, hey, you know, yeah, the shanties got it, but hey, look, those half million dollar houses, they may have gotten it worse, yeah.
The misery is spread equally.
You have to have some kind of a warped worldview to even look at this and see it in that regard.
Uh when you do look at this, you you see things that are unimaginable uh in terms of the destruction that things of things that we have built.
Uh you realize the monumental task that is ahead, and then you're brought back down to a sober reality because we still have to find people out there who are desperate to affix blame.
And half of what's going on out there is that effort to find anybody who can persuasively affix blame to elements of this country.
Uh it's either our high-tech lifestyle, it is our ignoring the Kyoto Protocol, it is it and they have to be dealt with, folks.
They have to be knocked out of the park.
I hate to have to take time on this program during a disaster like this, but uh I I look and see and read uh these things.
I cannot let them stand.
So we'll get started with some of that when we come back.
Sit tight, Rush Limboa, the EIB network b.
The exploitation of this natural disaster uh for political gain continues.
And so it must be answered, folks, and who better than I to deal with it.
All right, the exploitation of this natural disaster, a natural disaster that has happened many times in our past, continues.
The exploitation of this natural disaster uh for political gain continues.
And so it must be answered, folks, and who better than I to deal with it.
We have uh we have so much BS that's being spread around out there.
For example, well, hell yes, Rush, we know it's global warming.
Look at the temperature of the waters in the Gulf.
They were 90 degrees.
Why, as you yourself have said, big guy, that's like throwing gasoline on the fire.
Seawater alone is not the only thing that determines the strength of a hurricane.
Do you know what knocked this down from a five to a four right before it hit shore?
A puff of dry air from the uh continental shelf that was not expected, and it also nudged it a little bit east.
So if it's global warming that is responsible for this hurricane, why didn't the ocean the gulf temperature of 90 degrees overpower the dry puff of air?
There are countless hundreds of ingredients that go into the strength of a hurricane.
You know, for example, Hurricane Charlie was a much more powerful hurricane than this one.
The difference is that Charlie was moving lickety split compared to this, and it had a much smaller eyewall.
This eyewall was almost a hundred miles wide.
Uh Charlie's was like twenty, maybe twenty-five miles, or maybe even less than that.
Uh, but it was by the way they they measure these things, a more powerful hurricane, had a lower barometric pressure and so forth and so on.
But this is not the first natural disaster like this.
This is not the first big hurricane that's rolled in, but now all of a sudden, uh you and you can go back to the days of Camille, and you can go back to the days of Andrew, just go back to 1992.
Uh go back to Andrew and uh and or whenever Andrew was, I think it was 90.
See if if you can uh uh find any elements of American politics trying to blame a president or a party or a policy on the fact that Andrew existed and happened and was a category five.
It's it's a relatively new phenomenon, and I know why it's happening.
It is happening because the and I'm just gonna repeat this again.
I know we've got thousands and millions of new tune-ins going on because of this uh this whole story, so some of this is going to be redundant to you, but the left has lost its power.
The left had a power grip on this country for arguably 40 or 50 years, and they've lost it, and they can't deal with it.
And so they have uh lost their rationality, hence the arrival of such groups like moveon.org and George Soros and all these other kook groups that have become the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
And it's all about trying to hold on to the Halcyon days that they have lost.
You couple that with what happened in Florida in 2000 and add a little personal hatred to George W. Bush, and you've got a you've got a mixture here that is turning normally rational people into uh bordering on insane.
The New York Times today give you a classic illustration of this.
Let me just read to you from their editorial.
Well, all that all you need to know is one one little sentence here from their uh from their editorial, uh, and it it is this.
New York, uh, the Times, by the way, headline New Orleans in peril.
But this seems like the wrong moment to dwell on fault finding, or even to point out that it took what may become the worst natural disaster in American history to pry President Bush out of his vacation.
So, on the one hand, they say that's not the time to bash Bush.
It's not the time to be critical of anybody, and then they go ahead and criticize Bush for being on vacation.
As did Jack Cafferty yesterday afternoon on Wolf Blitzer's show on CNN.
Blitzer's talking to Cafferty, said Jack, it's a horrible situation.
You ever think in our lifetime a major American city like New Orleans, population half a million could be in a disaster situation like this?
You have to wonder watching these pictures and listening to these accounts if we'll ever see uh the city of New Orleans as we all uh remember the big easy.
Where's President Bush?
Is he still on vacation?
He's cut short his vacation, he's coming back to Washington tomorrow.
Oh, that'd be a good idea.
He was out in San Diego, I think, at a naval air station giving a speech on Japan and the war in Iraq today.
Uh, based on his approval rating in the latest polls, uh, my guess is uh uh getting back to work might not be a terrible idea.
And so uh once again, all this happened because Bush was on vacation, and whatever is not happening to Jack Cafferty's approval in the recovery effort is because Bush isn't there.
Because Bush is and Bush was this whole concept of presidents being on vacation.
Presidents are never on vacation.
If you go to Washington, you can't find anybody But a tourist there and the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee who are licking their chops at their shot at John Roberts next week.
And in fact, that's another thing.
Here we have this major natural disaster that is just overwhelming.
And when you listen to Democrats in Washington speak, they are salivating over new documents they have found that they think can finally railroad John Roberts to be on the Supreme Court.
Now, if there's anybody indicating they're out of touch here, it is the media, not so much the people on the ground covering this because the reporters on the ground covering it are facing it.
They know full-fledged what they're facing, and they see it, and some of them are having trouble reporting it.
I think I probably would be too, to be quite honest with you.
And I think most of them on the ground are doing a fabulous job, but this, you know, these these little ankle biters out there just can't resist an opportunity like the Times and Jack Cafferty at CNN to somehow say that Bush is uh I know what's coming.
Bush doesn't care.
Why isn't he there?
Clinton would have been there.
Why doesn't Bush go there?
Doesn't he realize how big this is?
He better get himself down there real fast, and not just for PR movement, he better get down there and do something real fast.
Well, what do we have?
We have the U.S. military that's been mobilized.
The president has been talking to the governors, and and you know, the senators of these states can't really do a whole lot, but the governors can.
He had uh he's had numerous conversations with the governors.
He's he's assured them that they're gonna get what they're what they need.
You have neighboring governors from Texas, Rick Perry, they're gonna take some of these uh people from the superdome into the Astrodome.
They're even going to give them school books and try to conduct schools, um or school and sessions for the uh for the youngsters that are going over there to try to have some sense of uh of normalcy.
Uh all kinds of people are banning to get it out.
Folks, uh, this is this is no disparagement to President Bush or anybody else, but I'm sorry, it's not going to be the president that puts this back together.
It isn't going to be a member of Congress and isn't going to be a series of governors that put this back together.
It never is.
The people who make that, they'll be a part of it, and they'll be playing a crucial role.
They're not irrelevant.
But without the people who make this country work, none of what you see on TV would be taking place.
The Army Corps of Engineers.
You've got people down there risking drowning, trying to get these pumps going, trying to fix these uh breaches and the uh in the seawalls and the levees uh on doing the the rescue operations, the uh the search operations, they're gonna have to deal with uh with the dead.
Nobody's even talked about the wildlife yet that they're gonna find that has expired, and that's gonna have to be dealt with.
Uh this is gonna take us into the the whole energy uh problem, and there is where I think a tremendous opportunity lies.
Let me uh play for you a soundbite.
This also from uh where did I say this was on CNN, uh Lou Dobbs tonight last night, had a guy named uh Mike Tidwell.
He's uh a noted environmentalist, and also the author of Buy You Farewell, the rich life and tragic death of Louisiana's Cajun coast.
This is what he says about global warming.
Scientists are predicting, even our own government is predict three feet of sea level rise in this century because of global warming.
That's another problem.
On top of that, he had 90 degrees of temperature sea surface temperatures in the Gulf record temperatures that I think contributed to this.
And in my book, Buy You Farewell, I mentioned that one of the ways we save New Orleans is the same way we save all of us, is we've got to get off of the fossil fuels to create the greenhouse gases and make everything worse.
Do you realize how absurd this is?
What is the major problem facing America today?
We've had uh what is it, 85 or 90 percent of the oil production in the Gulf shut down?
We've got refineries down there that are flooded.
They're not gonna be able to work.
We are worried in this.
There was a problem with distribution, pipeline distribution of jet fuel and gasoline from that region to Atlanta.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has this story today.
The president is considering making a speech on conserving energy, conserving fuel use.
The president has made the decision to tap the strategic petroleum reserve, which I think oh, I disagree with it.
I I don't think it's time to do that.
I don't think it's necessary.
Uh we don't have a shortage here.
We have a distribution problem we have to deal with.
We've got refineries now, we've got production down in the Gulf, and who knows how long it's gonna be down.
Hopefully, it'll be up much sooner than a lot of people think.
Uh but but for the solution to come from an expert author saying the only way to fix this is to get off of fossil fuels, folks.
This, do you realize the golden opportunity that is presented by this?
You know what the president could do?
The president, instead of releasing the strategic petroleum reserve, he could he could, by executive order, Eliminate all gasoline taxes for a short period of time, a temporary period of time.
He could, by executive order, eliminate, temporarily eliminate all of these different regulations on the formulation of gasoline that cause all kinds of distribution problems, even in normal times.
And he could illustrate that one of the real problems we have here is brought on by militant environmentalists, militant environmentalists who will not let even today.
There are people who suggesting the last thing we need to do now is start drilling in and war.
We're facing some energy problem, but it's not a shortage.
There is not a shortage of oil anywhere.
It's just not the price is being bid up by these these maniacs on the futures market, and it's creating this notion that nobody's going to be able to afford gasoline or oil and that there's a short supply.
And there isn't.
There is increased demand.
There's all kinds of oil.
But the idea that the solution to this is to stop using fossil fuels is the most unrealistic thing.
There's no air conditioning in New Orleans or all along the Gulf Coast.
There's no way to refrigerate food.
There is no way to keep water cold or ice.
What are we supposed to do?
Go back and live primitive lifestyles just to avoid global warming?
None of this makes any sense, and this is the time to expose these people for who they are more in a moment.
Oh yes.
Still half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
All right, here's the opportunity that I see here.
The left, particularly the militant environmentalist wackos, have been saying that we need to sacrifice.
Where is our sacrifice compared to the rest of the world?
You know, we steal and use two-thirds of the world's resources.
We are only 25% of the world's population.
So bamboo, here we get we've got higher oil prices, largely thanks to the left.
Uh and and uh no more uh uh uh ability to depend on ourselves for production uh to deal with uh whatever market forces exist in the rest of the world.
That's because of the left as well.
So I guess now we have our suffering.
So in the midst of the suffering, what is a prominent Lib author suggest?
Get rid of fossil fuels now, because they're causing hurricanes, which has destroyed New Orleans, and we've got to get rid of these fossil fuels.
Here's the opportunity.
Now, we we have a big problem, too, by the way, and the I think stating the problem uh before the opportunity would put it into um into some better focus and context here.
Because I think what's going to happen here, folks, is as time goes on in this disaster, we will be focused more than ever before on our need for energy, not just for growth, but for stability and rebuilding.
Let the left, let the militants whine and moan about global warming.
Let them complain of every time uh we need more energy than we can get because of this circumstance.
Let the left oppose it.
Let them oppose every effort to find more fossil fuel energy in the midst of this disaster and trying to bring people back from it and trying to bring back normal human lifestyle situations as they are known to exist in the United States, and the left will be seen as the obstacles they are.
But we have a big problem in political terms because many decisions about energy and the environment are now made by the bureaucracy, the EPA, which nobody elects, and the courts, which nobody elects.
It only takes a small minority of senators to block any legislative change.
So you've got a large part of unelected Washington that runs much of our energy policy now.
So, fine and dandy.
This is the opportunity.
Let the left, let the unelected in in Washington tell the people in the Gulf Coast area that they'll have to adapt to a more primitive lifestyle, and that we all should.
Let them say that this is an opportunity here for us to finally wean ourselves from the perils and burdens of fossil fuel.
Let them say that to these people down there.
Let them say it to the people in the country.
They will eventually be run out of town for this.
You know, the the the role that the left and the uh and the unelected bureaucracy in Washington has uh uh taken, the role that they've played in in running up the cost of energy.
Everybody thinks it's the Saudis and the oil companies that have really run up the cost of energy, and it's not.
It's the bureaucracy, and it is the environmentalist wackos and their idiotic regulations.
Uh it is the fact that we can't go find and produce any more oil in our own continental shelf, which we know exists.
Uh it is it, and by the way, I still maintain that there's this maniacal futures market trading and oil going on that's participating and contributing to the uh unrealistic uh uh jump uh in the price of oil uh per barrel.
You know, that a lot of that is uh is a factor here too.
But to me, and I said this at the top of the show, you know, I I I am an optimistic person by nature.
I think what we have here is an opportunity to expose the real culprits in our energy problems, because they will show themselves in the midst of this problem.
Oil companies want to drill.
The nuclear industry wants to build plants, the refineries want to expand.
The energy bill that we got does next to nothing to help this, because the people on the left have hijacked the environment and they use it to block progress.
Now we're gonna need to come up with faces and names uh of people on the left who are actually standing in the way of this stuff because that's the way to make make the point and to drive it home.
But I know that what's going to happen here is as we strive to get energy back to normal and bring prices down, according to the you know, market forces determine them.
We're gonna have people stand up and oppose it.
And we're gonna have people on the left stand up and say, this is a great opportunity here for us to finally wean our way off of uh fossil fuels and to be coming at the same time saying, well, see, it is our use of fossil fuels that caused global warming that led to the hurricane.
So we've got two lessons we can learn here at once.
In the meantime, when you have people in the depths of deprivation, such as they are, they're not going to care about anything the left has to say.
They're going to care about air conditioning, automobiles, gasoline, hospitals, the things that energy produces that make life livable and normal in this country.
And until those things get back to normal, and it's going to be a while, and energy is going to be key.
It's going to be the foundational building block to getting things back to normal until that happens.
I don't see them having much sympathy for these arguments the left traditionally puts out.
At this point, they're not worried about what caused the hurricane.
All they know is it happened, and all they know is their lives are destroyed, totally upside down, and they want to do something as quick as they can to get back to normal.
They want to find out how their relatives are that they haven't heard from.
They want to be able to, you know, get their property back, do whatever they can with it.
They're not going to be sensitive to all the people who will end up placing themselves as obstacles in the way of this.
There is a golden opportunity here, folks, to finally illustrate or have illustrated for us just exactly who the environmental militant left are and what they want and what they believe.
And when you hear a never-ending refrain that this hurricane was caused by global warming, I urge you to go back into history and check all the big hurricanes we've had long before anybody talked about global warming.
I'm talking about man-made global warming.
You can go back and find giant hurricanes that were destructive as destructive in a proportionate sense given the uh uh well, whatever you know, whatever was available to destroy back then.
The point is this is nothing new.
They're rare hurricanes this big are rare, but they are nothing new.
Uh but the very idea, just the the idea, forget everything else I've said, just the idea that this disaster is looked upon as an opportunity for political gain by the left, and that particular political gain actually results in a decline of Western lifestyles.
That's something that ought to sober everybody.
The focus here, and I I wouldn't be talking about this, I assure you, were it not for the fact that others on the left are out there making these asinine ridiculous statements and they have to be responded to and reacted to.
Let's grab a phone call before we have to go to the break.
This is um uh Paul in Burlington, Connecticut.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey Rush, how can you say you're grounded in reality when you keep denying the issue of global warming?
And it seems to me that it uh the answers don't fit your politics.
If you're afraid of what the left has to say about this and their solutions, why aren't the conservatives on board?
I think it's a real issue.
There's enough evidence, there's enough people saying it is that we can't all be uh, you know, blame America first, uh freedom hating sort of people, and I've listened to you long enough to know you changed your position on it.
You used to deny it even existed.
Now you've come to some sort of terms with it, well, it may be happening, maybe sunspots.
And where are the conservative answers?
It's obvious it's happening, whether the hurricane was caused by it or not, maybe it was, maybe it wasn't.
No, no, no.
It's not obvious that it's happening in the sense that you guys mean it.
The only stipulation I've made is there may be global warming because I'm not an idiot.
There have been warming cycles of the earth and freezing cycles, ice cycles, uh, for as long as the earth has been around.
We may be in a naturally warming cycle where I part ways from you is that man is causing it.
There is no evidence of that.
Zilch zero nada.
There's nothing more than a 25-year shrill campaign to create subconsciously the idea in everybody's mind that when it gets hot in July and hot in August, it must be global warming.
When it gets cold and a snowstorm happens in January and it happens a little bit be more intense than it was last year, must be global warming.
Nobody can prove it.
Nobody can prove that man's causing this.
To me, the proof that man is not causing is that there's nothing we can do to stop it.
This hurricane was said to be caused by global warming.
Well, this hurricane weakened right before it hit, and it had nothing to do with the ocean temperature, had to do with some dry air that it encountered and pushed it, pushed it further east.
But the problem that I have with you guys on global warming is it's become a can it's become a political issue by which you seek to advance the liberal agenda.
It's nothing more than a platform for you.
Whenever I see anything designed to advance the liberal agenda, I'm going to oppose it because I hate the liberal agenda.
I disagree with it, it's destructive, it's damaging, and it doesn't do anybody any good other than if you define it by spreading misery equally, as the New York Times accurately headlined today in their coverage of the hurricane.
If you want to believe it, go ahead, but I'm not going to accept your premise that there is man-made global warming.
Now, and and therefore, what's the conservative solution?
Everything does not have a solution.
Everything's not a problem.
Everything that happens on Earth is not a man-made problem nor an American-made problem.
If it's hot one day and not hot the next day, someplace where it's cool, it's not man-made.
It's not our fault.
And I'm not going to sit here and accept the premise that somehow we are to blame for this.
And that's what that's what worries me the most about you liberals.
Why can't you just accept that there are powers greater than us, greater than we have, that may have influence over this, over which we have no control.
There's not one climactic event that we can stop that we can alter that we can detour.
We cannot stop it raining harder.
We cannot move thunderstorms, we cannot weaken hurricanes, we cannot steer them out of the way, we can't stop snowstorms, we can't stop drought, we can't do diddly squat about all this.
So in my mind, there's no way we can cause it.
You can't have one without the other.
If we're causing it, then we can stop it.
We can't stop it.
And this fossil fuel business, burning fossil fuels, it's absolutely nothing more than a theory, and there are countless scientists who disagree with it.
There are countless scientists who oppose it.
And why do you think we haven't signed Kyoto?
Because we still have some sanity left in this country in the scientific movement.
The Kyoto Accord, if you want to know the details, Kyoto Accord uh claims that the uh Celsius temperature rise over the next hundred years will be three degrees without Kyoto.
With Kyoto, it'll be two point eight six degrees.
So we're talking about four-tenths of a degree centigrade if we sign Kyoto.
You know what that's gonna matter to a hill of beans?
Zero didddly squat, and it wouldn't have had a thing to do with stopping this hurricane or making it less intense.
There are forces greater than man, Paul.
There are forces far greater than man that created all of this.
We do not have dominion over it all.
The idea that we do is an it is is uh is a descent into vanity that I can't relate to.
On the one hand, you people on the left claim we're no different than rats, we're no different than any other animal that's on.
In fact, some of you say that this would be a far better place without us.
On the other hand, when we're no different than rats and no different than other animals who certainly don't do anything to cause global warming, we all of a sudden still are more powerful than they are because we can stop this because we're causing it.
The focus, the focus in this disaster, ought to be on the destruction and the lives and the people and the rebuilding and everything that we see on TV.
But the focus with the left is on a fixing blame.
A fixing blame that cannot be proven cannot be established.
Global warming, if you listen to Max Mayfield, the National Hurricane Center, he's an expert, William Gray.
They're getting tired of the question.
There's no relationship to hurricanes and global warming.
It's a natural cycle that these storms go through, and the cycles are 40 years long and they're irrelevant to global warming.
The question that I have for people like you, Paul, is why are you so gullible?
Why are you such a sponge?
Why are you so willing to soak up news and information that blames your country?
That blames your lifestyle, that blames your species.
What is it about you that wants to sit here and accept all the blame?
And then after you've accepted it, transfer it to Republicans who disagree with you.
That's what I want to know.
What kind of life must you live to have to want to sit here and accept all the blame for these things?
There are countless disasters the world over to blame America to blame fossil fossil fuels when these disasters have happened throughout time.
When you understand that a volcanic eruption will spew more destructive pollution into the atmosphere than all automobile pollution since the history of the invention of the car combined, you have to understand that we are pretty inconsequential when it comes to the climate system and the ecology system of this planet.
We are residents.
Yes, there are things that we can do, and I'm not opposed to keeping things as clean as we can.
And we do a better job of that than any country in the world.
We clean up our messes better than anybody in the world.
We have the and we spread that that assistance and the technology that we have developed and the things that we have learned, and we have shared this with the rest of the world that has the ability to incorporate it.
And the idea that it all comes back to us, and it all comes back to be our fault, and it's all Bush's fault.
You realize how absurd this all sounds, particularly when you say it next to the pictures we all see on TV.
We'll be back in time.
I am sorry, my friends, I cannot let this go.
What are you conservatives going to do to offer a solution?
You keep tainting your mind.
You know it's happening out there.
Let me let me give you the conservative answer for those of you on the left out there and those of you who are still straddling the fence on this environmental wacko stuff, uh, and you may think there's some uh relevance to it.
The answer to the question, what are you conservatives going to do to solve things?
Let me throw this right back at you, and it goes right along with what I've always said about don't accept the premise.
You liberals need to show me what you've fixed before I'm gonna rely on you to fix anything else.
You complain about things as all the liberals do.
You would have us destroy our economy and millions of jobs based on pseudoscience.
You are driving up the cost of energy.
You are driving down the supply of energy, and you are gonna make it more difficult to heat homes during winter and cool homes during the summer if you succeed.
You are going to drive up the cost of food and all products which are processed and transported with fuel.
You are going to cause us to rely more and more on foreign countries and foreign regimes that seek to harm us, but happen to control countries that are rich in oil.
You are driving up costs, you are driving down supply, and then you blame others for the consequences of your policies, like George W. Bush.
You don't fix anything out there, all you do is complain and whine and moan, and your solutions to the problems would bring about total destruction and havoc if you were given free reign.
The environmentalists make it much more difficult to survive Mother Nature, not to tame her.
She Mother Nature can't be tamed.
The folly of thinking that.
Any anytime any local or state government attempts to build limited defenses against floods and the like, who runs into court?
Who runs into the EPA and the Interior Department?
Who throws up one obstacle after another?
It's the environmentalist folks who treat Mother Nature like God left to be untouched.
On the one hand, they use the power of government to obstruct progress, and on the other hand, they demand the government act when tragedy hits.
It's the same thing with the military and law enforcement.
They work year after year to undermine them, and then when there's a disaster, they're the first to demand the military and law enforcement come to the rescue.
Have you noticed all the Navy ships down there that have come to the rescue?
If we'd listen to the left, and if the left had their way, there wouldn't be any Navy ships to run to the rescue.
And there wouldn't be a National Guard because they don't think it's anything but a bunch of draft dodgers.
They don't offer solutions, they don't fix things, they only make things worse, and that's why I oppose a liberal agenda.
Let me just say this one thing to you people on the left.
If you want to live an 18th-century lifestyle, go join Al-Qaeda or the Taliban.
But we are moving forward.
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