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Aug. 31, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #2
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I I am serious to you liberals.
If you want, if you want to live an 18th-century lifestyle or 17th-century lifestyle, go off and join the Taliban or join Al-Qaeda or something, but don't do it here.
You are not going to succeed.
Don't give me this.
We had a liberal call last hour, snivelling all the way.
You know something?
The left doesn't fix anything, folks.
They if the history of liberalism is it screws things up, it doesn't fix anything.
Then we can, we can't.
Well, you're caring, you know, I'm through judging you on your intentions.
We all ought to just throw these good intentions out the window because they haven't led to anything.
You know, it it really's a it I guess that Bill Salmon has a story here today, and I think I know what's happened.
The left has finally abandoned Cindy Sheehan, and they've picked up Hurricane Katrina.
I mean, we don't even have an accurate body count yet.
We don't even have a a full estimate or accounting of the full scope of this disaster.
And already, the left is out there doing everything they can to blame this on political opponents.
I I told you the last hour I know why this is, but it's no less repugnant, nevertheless.
Knowing why they're doing it because they're panicked over their uh 40 or 50 year loss of total control of the country and they're they're they see it slipping away, fine and dandy, but it doesn't justify the kind of things we're getting.
And I said last hour, I I don't like having to come here and discuss this in political terms, but I do hear every day what I've done every day that I've been behind this microphone.
I defend the institutions and traditions that I believe make this country great, and when they are under assault, and I don't care when I'm gonna defend them.
And as long as people on the left are going to try to take the occasion of this natural disaster, nothing man-made about this.
Now they're even comparing it to 9-11.
Somebody out there uh on some of these liberal websites, this is even worse than 9-11.
Well, this is far worse than 9.
This ought to show us that 9-11 was nothing.
Worse than 9-11.
Oh, we're gonna compare this to So you want to compare a natural disaster to an act of war.
And say this is worse, and we shouldn't be doing anything about 9-11.
It shows our priorities are out of wick.
I'm sorry, that is sick.
To even come up with what kind of thinking wants to compare the two.
Yeah, you can you can compare the uh uh damage, loss of life, this sort of thing.
Uh, but to try to draw some sort of equivalence between the two is just beyond the pale.
Now, I mentioned that the left seems to have abandoned Cindy Sheehan and said hello to Hurricane Katrina.
I've got audio sound bites that'll back this up.
But first, Bill Salmon today in the Washington Times.
Powerful liberal advocacy groups like moveon.org are taking a less active role in Cindy Sheehan's anti-war activities in the wake of criticism that they may have muddied her message.
I tell you what, you you when moveon.org abandons you, you know you've gone over the edge.
And when you can, when you can outflank move on.org on the left and embarrass them, uh you know that that you have uh you've not even in sight you're so far gone.
Now, yesterday, ABC Washington Post came out with a poll.
Devastating news for the media.
79% of the American people said they were not moved at all by the Sheehan protest.
That that the poll did not appear in the newspaper.
It appeared on their website, was posted at 7 o'clock in the morning.
I said, hmm, let's see if the results of that poll show up in the newspaper.
Well, the story of the newspaper that I have doesn't mention that aspect of the poll.
All it talks about is Bush's approval numbers now at an all-time low.
But the fact of the matter is, Cindy Sheehan has been abandoned.
The groups, which played a major role in her month-long vigil, are scaling back their involvement as she prepares to leave Texas today on a bus tour to Washington.
Critics have said that it appeared that Miss Sheehan had morphed from a mother grieving the loss of her son into a pawn of liberal advocacy groups.
For example, uh uh the protesters will no longer receive strategic and political advice from Fenton Communications, the large left-wing PR firm from San Francisco.
That role now will revert to an outfit called Mintwood, a small operation that helped Miss Sheehan early on.
Also taking a lesser role will be Moveon.org, which spent August running anti-Bush TV and newspaper ads featuring Ms. Sheehan.
Uh the group, which posted images on its website likening the president to Adolf Hitler, once pledged to raise two million dollars to keep Sheehan ads on the air.
Despite the effort to return Cindy Sheehan's cause to a grassroots movement, she's made no attempt to ratchet down her rhetoric.
Yesterday, for example, she railed against the reckless commander-in-chief for waging a cowardly and ignoble war, and uh she's not she she has not moved American thinking on this at all, and so the left is abandoning.
They're out of there because Hurricane Katrina has come along.
And so what do we have?
We got the National Guard story, then we have Bill Burkett, and we have 9-11, and we have the 9-11 Commission, we had Richard Clark, and we had the Jersey girls, and then we had uh Cindy Sheehan and Bill Burkett, and they just move from one issue to the next to carry on the agenda, which is still beyond me.
They're not running against Bush anymore.
I told you I've had conversations with people on the left who, you know, for the most part reasonable and is intelligent and so forth, they're educated.
And the last time I happened, I said, let me can I ask you something.
What do you care about winning elections?
I just want Bush out of there.
I I hate Bush.
I we've just got to get rid of Bush.
Well, what about you know he's not on the ballot anymore?
I was trying to seriously engage him.
What about do you have a plan to win elections?
Do you have a plan to go out there telling me I don't care?
The first priority is get rid of Bush.
And they're stuck on that.
And so uh that's why Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, has replaced Cindy Sheehan.
I mean, you might see Sheehan pop up when she shows up in Washington now and then, but that won't be till September 24th.
She's only going to be on this bus trip for two days, and she's going to surface trying to protest a Blue Angels Air Show in Maine sometime in September, September the 9th, I think.
In the meantime, Robert Kennedy Jr., and I I've had this piece that he wrote sitting in my stack since Monday, and it's so absurd, it's it's embarrassing, actually.
Uh I I haven't I haven't bothered to bore you with it because what's going on in down in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, frankly, uh makes what Robert Kennedy Jr. thinks pale by comparison, but now it's all over the place, and people are emailing me dozens of copies of it.
So here's the summation of his piece.
Hurricane Katrina is the fault of Mississippi Governor Haley Barber.
In his piece, he said that Barber is reaping what he has sown.
Mississippi deserves the devastation wrought by this hurricane because of the actions of its governor.
As Hurricane Katrina dismantles uh Mississippi's Gulf Coast, it's worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barber played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kaboshing President Bush's ironclad campaign promise to regulate CO2.
In March of 2001, just two days after EPA administrator Christy Todd Whitman's strong statement affirming Bush's CO2 promise, former RNC Chief Haley Barber responded with an urgent memo to the White House.
Barber, who had served as RNC chair and Bush campaign strategist, was now representing the president's major donors from the fossil fuel industry, who had enlisted him to map a Bush energy policy to be friendly to their interests.
His credentials ensured the new administration's attention.
The document titled Bush Cheney Energy Policy in CO2 was addressed to Vice President Cheney, whose energy task force was then gearing up, and to several high-ranking officials with strong connections to energy and automotive concerns, keenly interested in the carbon dioxide issue, including Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, Interior Gail Nor.
See what this is.
This is sheer idiocy, lunacy, insanity.
This is exactly what I meant in the last hour.
The liberals Don't fix things, they actually would end up destroying our economy and millions of jobs based on all this pseudoscience.
Robert Kennedy wants to drive up the cost of energy, drive down the supply, make it more difficult to heat homes and cool homes.
I mean, it's just to be to see some sort of sinister conspiracy here.
Energy is the, and oil particularly the fuel of our of our economy, of our of our freedom, of our democracy.
And so when a res when an administration responsibly deals with maintaining a supply and a growing supply, it's as though anything good for the oil companies is bad for us.
What kind of insanity is that?
It's the same kind of insanity.
Anything good for Walmart is bad for us.
It's sh it it is it's sheer idiocy, but that doesn't even approach the paranoia that Kennedy gets to in his piece.
He says the memo had impact, Haley Barber's memo.
It was terse and highly effective, written for people without much time by a person who controls the purse strings of the Republican Party.
On March 13th, Bush reversed his previous position, announcing he would not back a CO2 restriction using the language and rationale provided by Barber.
Well, the science is clear.
No, it's not.
It's as clear as the Mississippi River, Mr. Kennedy.
This month a study published in the Journal of Nature by a renowned MIT climatologist linked the increasing prevalence of destructive hurricanes to human-induced global warming.
And I can show you a paper from yesterday that shows all scientific papers are wrong.
Because they have bias, they have reporter bias, funding bias.
They have researcher bias.
They can't trust them.
So he closes this way.
In 1998, Republican icon Pat Robertson warned that hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God.
Perhaps it was Barber's memo that caused Hurricane Katrina at the last moment to spare New Orleans and save its worst failings and flailings for the Mississippi coast.
So he puts it out there that this hurricane steered to Mississippi to get even with Haley Barber.
Yes, Mr. Peer to die.
Right.
Same same people complaining.
Well, I'm sure he's trying to be funny here in his last uh in his last paragraph in reference to uh to Pat Robertson.
But uh to even to even make a joke about it when this many people have died.
To make a joke about it when there's this destruction in Mississippi and to suggest that this happened because Haley Barber sent Bush a memo about the Kyoto Protocol and CO2 gives you an idea of the venom and the rage and the anger and the the absence of any sensitivity in humanity these people claim to solely possess.
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Couple things about these uh the levees and the uh uh uh not just the levy, the seawalls, the seawalls and levees.
And people are saying, uh, well, you know, experts have been warning uh for years, decades that this could happen.
Okay.
Now I'm sure you've heard that.
The experts have been warning this could happen for years.
Fine, why do they do something about it in all these decades?
I mean, it's one thing to complain, it's one thing to caterwall and whine and moan.
And I heard the answer from the Corps of Engineers, we did what we were ordered to do.
We were ordered to build withstand a category three.
So a category four goes through, and looky here, not only can we not stop a hurricane by changing the way we live, we built some levees and we built some seawalls, man-made, and they couldn't even stop the hurricane.
What do we think we're doing?
Could we have built category five levees and seawalls?
Well, according to specs, we could have, but you never know if it's going to work until it's tried.
For some reason, nobody thought to do a category four or category five level of protection on these things, but now that of course is the current government's problem.
According to people who are trying to politicize this.
At some point, folks, you have to accept that things happen and they happen, and you can worry about a fixing blame or you can deal with what happened.
Kathy in Durango, Colorado, I'm glad you called.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush, Megamegados.
I can't believe I'm talking to you.
Well, thank you so much.
Oh gosh.
Um, well, I have to get my um liberal dose of wackiness every day for watching Good Morning America.
And this morning, the Space Shuttle Commander has the I guess um the answer for everybody, and she basically said that the Earth has had very fragile place.
She noticed that when she was up there, and she said that the sooner we can leave this planet and live on other planets, the better off we're all gonna be.
Now, I I have the sound bite here, uh, and because I I've had it in the roster, and I was gonna use it if we didn't get a phone call on it, but since you've called I'm gonna play the soundbite.
Hang on here, Kathy, just a second while we play this.
Charlie Gibson did in fact have on the uh commander of the discovery, uh, Eileen Collins, and he asked her this question.
He said, You talked about the next generation of space vehicles, but we have a lot of shuttle flights to go, and and you talked about knowing the risks of those flights.
If we take another loss on a shuttle vehicle, would that be destructive to the space program?
It's hard to predict what you know what actually you know would happen.
I I do know that it's very important for our country to explore.
It's important to us as human beings to go out and explore.
And this planet, as you go out in space and you look back at the planet and you see how fragile it really is, and you look out the other way and you see it's dark and there's really nothing we can see.
We need to explore space.
We need to get people off this planet.
If we want our species to survive in the long run, we need to go out and explore.
All right, so uh let me uh Kathy, that's that's the bite you're talking about, right?
Yes, sir.
All right.
Um here's here's the thing.
Uh nobody's against space exploration.
We're all for space exploration.
And nobody's against, you know, trying to find an outpost on the moon for men to live so they can eventually go to Mars.
I mean, we've been we've been toying with this idea since Jules Verne.
Uh probably even before that.
But the how many billions of years do some of these people say the planet is?
How many hundreds of millions do they say it?
I mean, depending on which scientist you read, it's either 10,000 years old or it's billions of years old or what have you.
But we're not gonna survive unless we get off this planet.
And she knows because she'd been up there, she's looking at it, and she can see how small, here's what she's talking, how small the atmosphere is compared to the size of the planet, and then once the atmosphere ends, it's nothing but dark out there.
That's space.
Uh, in astronaut lingo.
Uh uh, well, computer flies at Brian, if you truth be known, but she was the commander.
But uh, but never nevertheless.
Uh this see, this is the whole what you have you have an individual who goes up there and looks at, you know, physical, just appearance, a small percentage of that atmosphere compared to the nothingness of space and ergo it equals fragile.
Uh, my contention is that the earth is not fragile.
The earth is as sturdy, the it the earth is a miracle.
The whole the whole ecosystem.
See, to understand this as I do, folks, you have to believe in creation.
Or what is it they're now saying, intelligent design.
You have to believe in that.
Nobody, nobody can convince me this is a random coincidence of a series of accidents.
And the idea that this is fragile is absurd.
Look at what this ecosystem has withstood.
Uh i i over all of these years, all of the so-called assaults on it.
And note now, note now its fragility is due to man's existence.
Men and women and the way they live, they're the ones that imperil this fragile little thing.
Uh it's not fragile, it is sturdy and it is strong, and it will outlast us.
The earth has been around longer than any other living thing.
The earth and the atmosphere have been around in one form or another longer than any other living thing.
They've uh Earth is out outdone and survived everything that's been around it.
There not one thing has been able to do this Earth in.
There's not one thing that's been able to do this ecosystem in.
Not Robert Kennedy, not Ted Kennedy, by the way, how much how sensitive is it for a Kennedy to start making fun of people dying in water like Robert Kennedy did with this little joke he made about the hurricane turning north to Mississippi to get even with Haley Barber for a memo he wrote to George W. Bush once about Kyoto.
But it's not fragile.
See, that's the whole point, but you have to have you have to have a certain view to even contemplate this.
Because if you don't think there's any source of power greater than man, then you're sunk in so many ways, and I feel sorry for you.
So, in case you're just joining us, Space Shuttle Discovery Commander Eileen Collins was on Good Morning America today, saying that her most recent trip to space has convinced her that there's a lot of darkness up there and a very narrow, uh very, very, very uh fragile atmosphere here, and that uh if our species is to survive, we're gonna have to get people off this planet.
Hell, folks, we can't even evacuate New Orleans.
We're having trouble evacuating New Orleans.
They've been trying to get people out of there for two days and they can't do it.
We're supposed to somehow get people off the planet.
You know, one day, there is going to be a massive earthquake in Missouri.
It's called the New Madrid Fault.
It's been predicted.
New Madrid fault may be a bigger fault than the San Andreas fault.
It's huge.
And there are going to be an earthquake there someday.
That's the prediction.
What should we do today about it?
What should we do?
I want you liberals out there who tell me that we are to blame for these things.
What should we do?
Should we stop using jackhammers in that area?
Should we stop jogging and running and stop trying to jostle the earth so as to delay the earth?
Well, what should we do?
Should we stop all construction?
Should we stop anything that has a force of impact on the earth in the area of the New Madrid fault?
There's a massive fault line uh running through Los Angeles, San Jose, and San Francisco, the San Andreas Fault, and as we all know, a James Bond villain once tried to flood Silicon Valley and it failed because his uh his henchmen turned tail on him.
But the fact is, what should we do about this?
I've been hearing about the San Andreas Fault.
I've been hearing about these.
There's been movies been made about it.
All my life I've been here.
What should we do about it?
You liberals tell me.
I want to know.
What do we do about it?
There are going to be bigger hurricanes.
There may be another category five this year.
They're unusual.
But this is an unusual year because of global warming and Bush not silent Kyoto.
So if we had one, we could have another, right?
What do we do?
What do we do?
What do we do right now?
You tell me.
Tell me what do we do?
I want to predict I want the solution right now to the upcoming earthquakes and the additional hurricanes.
Should we build massive walls all along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast?
And where should we build them?
How high should we build them?
Uh, and how should we do this?
And what should the material be?
I know it'll have to be environmentally safe material.
But we build these, what do we do?
In order to stop the earthquake, do we try to cause a mini version of it and plug in the crack and the fault so it doesn't happen?
And what do we do?
And oh, and we're gonna suppose to do all of this while we are developing an entirely new energy industry and then settling on some other planet.
So look at what the left has proposed today.
We got to get everybody off the planet somewhere out into the darkness of space if we're gonna survive.
We're gonna have to do something about earthquakes.
We're gonna have to come up with a whole brand new energy source and energy supply, because what we're doing now is destroying us.
Meanwhile, we can't even evacuate New Orleans.
So I uh yeah, you you could well, okay, Mr. Snerdley says you could take the recent Supreme Court decision imminent domain and have the government just move people uh and live where they wouldn't be hurt.
Okay, so you got to move people out of the area of the New Madrid fault, and you've got to move them away from the San Andreas faults, you got to shut down California.
Uh, where are you gonna put these people?
Uh uh government's gonna own the property.
See how absurd.
If you take the left, if you take them seriously and follow them out uh in a logical fashion, it doesn't take long for it all to fall apart and you start laughing at it.
Frightening thing is so many people, because of the orientation that human beings have to believe in doom and gloom, glom onto this and and uh and walk around in a perpetual state of some degree of fear.
Here's uh here's Glenn in Long Island.
Uh welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush, Megadiddles, and may God bless you.
Thank you, sir.
I am surrounded ten to one by liberals, but nonetheless, I thought I'd give you a call anyway.
Just a quick comment before I get to my main point.
You were talking about Ted Kennedy.
I don't know of anybody around here that takes him seriously, that is, unless he's offering swimming lessons.
But that aside, uh, you raised an issue with regard to oil supply.
It seems to me, from what I understand from researchers that there's a reasonable amount of crude oil.
The problem is we have a lack of refinery capacity.
And that's another thing.
And that's not only is that true, we do have a plentiful supply of oil here and around the world.
It's not only do we have a shortage of refinery capacity, we've got liberals and environmental policies that are retarding the construction of these refineries, the expansion of existing refineries, and the drilling for oil.
It is the liberals who are actually causing the greatest damage economically and energy-wise, the militant environmentalists, and that's why this is such a golden opportunity for the president to point this out.
Because the people in this region, they're not going to care about refineries being shut down.
They're not going to care about the liberals saying we need to build no more refineries and we can't drill for more oil.
They're going to need it.
Energy is the fuel of our engine and economy.
It's the fuel of these people's recovery.
Well, that's that's the whole point, Rush.
Just one quick thing.
Any business that runs at 98% capacity and looking ahead and knowing that there's going to be an increased demand for their product that doesn't provide for that is reckless and irresponsible, especially to their shareholders of nothing else.
And yet we haven't built a new refinery in this country in what?
Decades.
It's insane.
I know, I know.
And it it's but why is that?
Why haven't we?
Oh, it's politics.
Well, I'll tell you why it is because there is a cabal in this country of unelected people in the bureaucracy and the courts to determine energy policy.
Oh, I I agree.
One one last thing, and that's just this.
You know, if you if you look today and someone was to wave some kind of a magic wand and provide some kind of an alternate alternative energy source, it would be a long, long time before that really came online in a meaningful way.
We are dependent on fossil fuels right now, and we need to recognize that and stop the games and get refineries built and get the product to market.
It's crazy.
Here's another thing about fossil fuels.
I am I am I am impatient and fed up with the notion that fossil fuels are a poison.
Fossil fuels are as much a part of nature as you and I are.
Fossil fuels are as much a part of nature as mosquitoes are.
They are here for a reason.
If we didn't do with oil what we do with it, what would we do with it?
It's there.
What would we do with it?
Nail salons, what would we do with it?
It's there, folks.
It's there for a reason.
It has a purpose.
Its use has been responsible.
There is a massive propaganda campaign that's been that's been underway for decades to try to persuade people that fossil fuels are the root of our destruction.
The root of our destruction are people on the left, militant environmentalists, who are doing everything they can to retard our progress.
And I'm I'm telling I said this in the first hour, and I want to say this again.
This, you know, I look for opportunities and things.
I I am not, you know, I'm an optimist and I'm I'm not an optimist at the expense of reality.
I see the reality, and I'm moved by it, and I'm like everybody else, I'm just numbed when you look at these pictures.
But there's an opportunity here because you look at these pictures, and what do you see?
In addition to the devastation and the displacement, the death and so forth, the destruction, you see as a natural part of the cycle, rebuilding.
You see recycling, you see a return to normalcy for these people.
How is this going to happen?
We're not going to do this with hybrids.
We're not going to do this with an alternative Fuel source.
We're not going to do this.
We're not going to get anywhere toward where these people need to be and where we all want them to be relying on the left.
That's why I see a golden opportunity.
It is my contention that bureaucracies and courts and so forth have been the architects of energy policy.
Forty different formulations of gasoline, which causes not a supply problem, but a distribution problem.
No refineries in the last 15 or 20 years.
We can't drill anywhere else in this country.
We're dependent on foreign sources.
We've got plenty of supply of oil underneath the uh the the water bodies that uh surround the country.
We can get it, but there are people that refuse to let us can't do it.
It's anti-progress, it's pollution, it leads to global warming.
We need alternative fuel sources.
Well, we're in an emergency.
We are in a dire emergency.
And the people who have been profoundly affected by it in ways that they never dreamed.
There are people who are saying they look at these pictures and they see a third world country.
Well, let me tell you something.
America is not a third world country, and the American citizen does not want to live in a third world country, and the American citizen is not going to put up with it.
And when these people get past the shock of all this, they are going to want to rebuild, and they're going to want to return home, and they're going to want to return to normalcy.
And these cities are going to want to rebuild.
And everything that was there is going to want to go back in one form or another.
And who's going to stand in the way of the progress?
The militant left.
The environmentalists are going to oppose anything we need to speed this up.
They're going to oppose the drilling for more oil.
They're going to oppose the building of more refineries.
And in the process, they will illustrate for us that it is they who are the obstacles.
It is they who are the obstacles, not just to progress.
They are the obstacles to replacement.
They are the obstacles to simply getting back to where we were.
It's not just progress they're against.
They are against a return to normalcy.
And you know damn well that they will preside provide obstacles that they will oppose.
The president could do a number of things.
The president, I wish he I wish he hadn't released a strategic reserve.
I wish instead what the president would do would, by executive order, temporarily suspend all these environmental regulations that retard development and retard drilling and retard distribution, such as these 40 different formulations of gasoline and all these other things, and let the oil companies that want to drill drill, and let the refinery owners that want to build and expand, build and expand.
And let the pipeline builders who want to build more pipelines build the pipelines.
And let's get this going.
And let's also temporarily rescind all the taxes on fuel and gasoline.
If we're worried here about people not having enough, there are ways we can do this.
The strategic oil preserve is a PR move, but that oil's going to have to be replaced.
That oil that's in the strategic reserve now was bought at $35 a barrel or $30 a barrel.
It's now going to have to be replaced at a price twice that.
It's not necessary.
We don't have a supply problem.
We do not have a supply problem.
The problem with the release of the reserve is that we've got plenty of oil.
We've got plenty of gasoline.
We don't have a way to get it anywhere, especially since the port of New Orleans is now not functioning, and the whole Gulf Coast, which is not a resort area, it is a working coast.
Do you know that one-third or two-thirds of the grain produced in this country goes down the Mississippi River on barges to the port of New Orleans for its distribution elsewhere, not only in this country but around the world.
The costs of distributing that grain are going to have to be found, or the methods are going to be found in uh in other ways, and the costs are going to skyrocket.
There's going to be a domino effect of this.
And it's not going to just affect the Gulf Coast.
It's going to affect all of us at some point, some way, somehow.
And when that begins to happen, people are going to say it's not necessary.
There are things that we can do to alleviate the situation.
Production, distribution, and there will be people who will oppose this.
And in the process of opposing it, they will show themselves as who they are, the obstacles of progress.
They will demonstrate they are the real problems, not fossil fuels, and not the oil companies, and not the refineries, and not the shipping and the tanker owners who ship this stuff around the world.
Nope, they will, and it's not the Saudi's.
And it's not OPEC.
The biggest problem we have to plentiful energy supplies and distribution can be found right here in the American militant economic left.
And there's no greater opportunity for this to be displayed to all the people of this country than right now.
Quick, and it wouldn't take much for the president to do it.
As I say, just temporarily, by executive order, rescind some of these onerous regulations and restrictions to free up the natural movement of supply that we already have in the natural distribution.
Because you wait and see.
You know, there are there's a story in the Atlanta paper today that there's a shortage, uh potential shortage of jet fuel and gasoline in the Atlanta area because a pipeline that comes from the Gulf Coast has been affected by this.
So they're gonna have to find alternate ways in.
I don't know that you can bring enough jet fuel in by tanker truck every day to keep all the airplanes coming in and out of Hartsfield on schedule.
That's all that they would have to allow on the highways is tanker trucks, a jet A coming in and out of there just to keep airplanes.
Now you wait till this starts affecting people that don't live in that area, and you'll see the domino effect of this.
And you'll find that it's not they're gonna call it a shortage of fuel, by the way, but it won't be.
It's a distribution problem that we're gonna have.
The internet, by the way, yesterday I have a little site that takes me on the internet that shows the roots uh all over the country and the route from Atlanta to Houston yesterday was uh shut down because it runs right through where you know where, right through this area that got hit.
So the internet, if you were sluggish yesterday, it was because a whole leg of it nationwide was inoperable.
It's gonna take take a while to get that back up.
You just wait and see, folks.
This is it's it's not a supply problem here.
It's it's uh and it need not be.
It's it's one of distribution, and there's any number of ways of dealing with this uh that will have an added benefit for the future.
Back after this, stay with us.
And just to carry out a theme, folks, that I have established recently, people who make this country work.
When you turn on your television and you look at the people rebuilding New Orleans and Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, those are not going to be environmentalists.
You won't see the Robert F. Kennedy Juniors or any of these others from these well-heeled nonprofit groups rebuilding New Orleans and Gulfport and Biloxi.
You know who it's gonna be?
It's gonna be the military.
It'll be construction companies and their employees.
It'll be hotels and restaurants and grocery stores and the like.
It'll be the very capitalists that make this country work.
It'll be the very people that make this country work.
It will not be the environmentalists who detest these people.
It'll be the Walmarts of the world.
It'll be the Anheuser Bushes.
It will be the Ford Motor Company, all of these institutions the left despises.
That's who you see rebuilding these cities.
You won't see one person from the Sierra Club there.
You will not see one person from the Environmental Resources Defense Fund there.
You won't see any environmentalists there.
You'll see them on TV, whining and moaning about things and complaining like they always do.
Roy in Huntsville, Alabama.
I'm glad you called, says here you're a meteorologist.
Hey, Rush, climate science dittoes from Huntsville.
Thank you, sir.
I think one point is being missed in all this, and that's that for the last 20 years or more, uh hurricane experts, including the National Hurricane Center, have been emphasizing that we have been in a hurricane lull for decades.
Uh the last big area, uh big period of hurricane activity was in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, extended somewhat into the 60s, and since the 1970s, uh meteorologists have been warning that the time is coming when we're gonna be getting more hurricanes again.
And that time has come.
And it and it's a 40-year cycle, I hear they're saying that we can have that's right.
It appears something like 30 or 40 years.
Now, at the same time, during this lull over the last 30 years, we've greatly increased their building along the coastlines, making us much more vulnerable.
True.
So it was only a matter of time before this happened.
So people shouldn't act, shouldn't act surprised.
No, I don't think I I think people are surprised at the devastation.
I think I think they're surprised at the at the degree of destruction that they see.
Even though the forecasters said, hey, category five, this is bad, get out of there.
I think it's, you know, we're seeing a lot more than we even saw with film on the nightly news from Hurricane Camille's era.
Uh this is this is 24-7.
Uh, but you know, I'm glad you called here, Roy, because here's a meteorologist from Huntsville, folks, with the with the word on this, and yet look at how eager the environmentalist left cannot wait to blame all this on global warming to advance their political agenda, and at the same time, take a shot at President Bush.
What timing?
Thanks, Roy, very much.
We'll be back and continue in a moment.
All right, fastest three hours in media being uh being proven again.
Two to our two hours down to one to go.
We will have the ditto cam coming up in the final hour.
We'll turn it on right before the uh next hour begins.
Sit tight and be patient, folks.
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