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Sept. 6, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 6, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And America's Anchorman is here.
And it's about time.
Greetings and thrill seekers, conversations, conversationalists and music lovers all across the fruited plain Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network is on the air.
I am seated and ready to go.
And the task before us today, folks, is to take something that has been made to be far more complicated than it is and keep it simple.
So let me uh let me first give you the phone number if you want to be on the uh on the program.
Telephone numbers 800 282-2882.
The uh the email address is rush at eIB net.com.
What I want to do is summarize uh some of the things that I think uh really define this, and uh then spend the rest of the uh program today going into some detail about about these and add some other things to it uh, of course, because the news continues to break and the news continues to happen.
Uh I like you uh spent a lot of time over the weekend watching all this, frustrated and angry and and uh uh and and non-plussed at the same time.
Let's let's just start with the summary here.
Uh these are these are my thoughts, and as I say, we will expand these uh and and detail these as the program unfolds.
What we have seen in uh in New Orleans, and we have not seen it, Mississippi, and we've not seen it in um Alabama.
What we have seen in uh in New Orleans is first and foremost the utter failure of generations of generations, generation after generation after generation of the entitlement mentality.
The lesson to be learned from this is just profound, folks.
It is huge.
We have learned that large bureaucracies that grow ever larger by the year cannot handle circumstances like this.
We have also learned that the failure of such entitlement programs and thinking only leads to more proposals for more entitlements and more entitlement type government.
And we have also learned that uh that the utter failure of large bureaucracies only begets hearings by those democracies, which will serve or bureaucracies, which will serve uh really one purpose, and that is to give themselves excuses and reasons to further enlarge themselves, which will only compound our problem.
We are also looking here at utter incompetence, total incompetence from the mayor of Louis of uh of uh New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana.
We know this now.
We know there was an utter failure to execute an evacuation plan that was long in place.
We know that the uh uh we know that none of these people, the poor people of New Orleans who had no way out of there on their own.
We know that they were not, there no effort was made to move them before the storm happened.
No effort whatsoever was made at the local and state level.
You've all seen the pictures of the buses, the school buses and the municipal buses that are flooded and ruined.
I know they were told to go to the superdome, but even then they had to walk to the superdome, and they had to bring their own food and water to the superdome.
Why?
Because even the local experts thought it was going to be just a period of hours that they will spend shielded and protected from wind and rain, and they'd come out and go home.
We also know that when any level of bureaucracy fails, the first order of business is to point blame at some other bureaucracy.
To try to take the heat off of the people who are directly responsible for the failure to enact already uh uh written documented and even tested evacuation plans.
We had other ample evidence that there's one organization that when given the responsibility can go in there and make things happen, and that is the United States military.
General Honore in one day got 20,000 people evacuated from the convention center with a ground and air evacuation.
20,000 people in one day.
Somehow this is the fault of somebody, rather than this being an absolute tremendous story with a lot of praise and credit flowing to those responsible for it.
I want to take you back also to the early days after 9-11.
It was the Democrats that proposed a new federal Department of Homeland Security.
And I want to go on record, I've got the sound bite, I want to go on record as saying, oops, this is not the way to handle this.
Make this an even larger government, create an even bigger bureaucracy.
And then they folded the FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Administration or agency, into the Department of Homeland Security.
Republicans went along with the Democrat idea because that's the natural tendency of bureaucracies.
When they fail, they go and say, we need to get even bigger.
We need to be even bigger.
And we have the evidence right now.
right in front of our faces that it's the bigness the largeness of these bureaucracies that causes paralysis nobody knows who's in charge nobody can there's not one person that can give the order to go take care of something when it has to be taken care of or when it needs to happen.
And when that one person doesn't come forward because there is no such person guess who then gets the blame depending on his political party and affiliation if it's a Republican president he's going to get the blame.
Why do you think there's no blame of the local incompetence from the mayor and the governor why do you because they're Democrats.
They have run that state that state is you know frist called for investigations.
Bill Frist was the first to call for a congressional look-see into this.
And guess who's not happy about that?
Democrats.
Democrats are not happy about this because any legitimate investigation is going to have to focus on what happened in Louisiana, which has been run by Democrats for all of these years.
And it's been run, particularly New Orleans.
And not only has it been run as an entitlement mentality or with an entitlement mentality, it's corrupt.
Everybody, I mean, I was over the weekend with some friends who grew up in New Orleans.
And one guy was telling me, you know, the funniest bumper sticker I've ever seen.
David Duke.
was running against Edwin Edwards for uh for governor and the bumper stickers around town would vote for the crook it's important uh meaning meaning Edwin Edwards so that the now I don't know if people are going to be willing to go this far and say yeah we got a corrupt state we've had a corrupt state for a long time we have an entitlement mentality down there.
How you can blame anything that happened there and by the way let me just stress here as I said all last week this is repugnant to me to be talking in these in this in these terms but we get up here and we look at what's happening and feel the need to defend the people and the institutions that I happen to think make this country great when they're under assault I'm gonna come defend them.
And I feel, you know, a compunction and a need to do that today because it's continuing, even though the effort, I think, has largely failed.
The first poll that's been out on this, the ABC Washington Post poll, shows that Bush is not taking the brunt of the blame on the part of the American people because they can see.
We can see.
We can see that the effort has been made.
And one of the reasons why this fails, and I know so many of you over the weekend were scared, oh, my God, they're finally going.
going to get Bush now and uh I I was never of that attitude because I don't think this is any different than Bill Burkett and the forged documents.
And I don't think it's any different than Cindy Sheehan as Wesley Pruden wrote today in the Washington Times Cindy Sheehan could come out standing nude in nothing but her Birkenstocks and say that she was going to sneak into I know it's an unpleasant sight but imagine it if you will she could come out stand nude except for her Birkenstocks and claim that she was going to go into Bush's house to find evidence down there in Texas of whatever.
She couldn't get one camera down there today.
time has come and passed.
So you had just a progression of opportunities for the enemies of George Bush to try to nail him to the wall, and this one is not going to succeed either, and it hasn't succeeded up until now.
And I'll tell you why.
Because it is becoming clear and has been for two or three days here of the utter failure of local government and state government to handle the circumstance.
So everybody's out there saying, we need a Giuliani.
We need a Giuliani.
What was Rudy Giuliani?
he was a mayor anybody seen Ray Nagan anybody see was Ray Nagan at a Superdome?
Was Kathleen Blanco at the Superdome?
Were these people there?
We saw Rudy everywhere.
Yeah, we need a Rudy, fine.
But Rudy was not part of federal government, folks.
Rudy was not part of any FEMA organization.
Rudy was not part of any federal bureaucracy.
He was mayor of New York.
And when you saw pictures of Rudy on TV, he was flanked by the New York police chief.
And he was flanked by the New York Fire Chief.
And he was flanked by New York City officials.
And the governor, of course, Pataki, was there as well.
But you haven't seen that in this circumstance.
We also know that President Bush on Sunday begged the governor to get everybody out there, declare an emergency.
She said, No, I need 24 hours to decide.
We now have the mayor, Ray Nagan, and we have the audio of this happen on CNN today.
The mayor is now trying to pass the buck to the governor, claiming that the governor was the one that was holding up the decision making process.
We also know that the uh governors, governors are in charge of the National Guard.
Uh everybody wants to know why didn't Bush send the guard to all the governors have to do this, and that's why Bush wanted her to declare an emergency so that he could get a foot in the door.
You notice there are no law enforcement problems in Mississippi.
Uh there aren't any law enforcement problems over in Alabama.
Uh you you haven't seen the looting.
You haven't seen the uh the utter chaos, and you but you have seen the destruction.
There's reasons for this.
And we will get into them uh this afternoon.
Uh the New Orleans police disintegrated.
Uh and now the mayor wants hotel vacations for them in Las Vegas.
Uh yeah, he wants he wants Las Vegas to donate hotels.
Mayor Nagar, yeah, Ray Nagan wants Las Vegas hotels donate hotel rooms for his beleaguered police force.
Because they've had so much uh so much stress.
Now, right before the program started today, we had a joint press conference with uh Maine Senator uh Susan Collins.
She's the ranking uh well, no, she's the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in the Senate, and the ranking Democrat was Senator Lieberman.
And uh she's demanding an investigation too.
She wants chair nonpartisan, get to the bottom of this and find out what happened.
Be watching this very interestedly, folks.
We have just witnessed again how a large series of bureaucracies utterly failed, as they always will, by virtue of their unwieldy size alone.
Yet, if we're not careful, the Collins hearings are going to serve as an excuse to expand the federal government even further.
The government's not big enough, is what we're going to hear.
It's not big enough.
This episode proves it's not big enough to hit.
No, it's too big.
It's too unwieldy.
It's so big that nobody knows, can possibly know what anybody else in any other agency is doing.
Ask yourself this question after witnessing this uh for the past five or six days.
Would you want your health care administered by this bureaucracy, as Mrs. Clinton sought to do in the early 90s?
See, to me, we already know what went wrong.
And to me, it's strikingly simple.
The governments of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans failed to execute even a minor portion of their own evacuation plans.
It's that simple.
And what complicates this is a desire to spare these local Democrats of any blame, and at the same time use this as an excuse to expand an all-powerful federal government because that's what interests on the left really believe in.
We also found out what works the best.
And that is the United States military.
Were it not for the U.S. military and that general, that John Wayne general they're calling him, this would still be today as bad as it was last week.
And something they're already pumping water out of New Orleans.
We heard about how horrible it was going to be, and it is.
But the gasoline supply nationwide is coming back to normal.
The refineries are going online a lot sooner than anybody thought they would.
Uh uh gasoline prices are coming down.
The oil price per barrel is coming down to pre-Catrina levels now.
Uh, and it's been just a week.
Last week all was lost.
It was over, it was Panic City, we're doomed.
Thankfully, the people who have rolled up their sleeves and and gotten down there and done the hard work didn't listen to the doom and gloom.
Uh, and have therefore made the doom and gloom once again uh totally wrong and erroneous.
A quick timeout, lots more to go, as you can imagine.
We will be back in just a moment.
Stay with us.
And we are back once again.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
Let's go to uh Gloria and Cory Coral Gables, Florida.
I'm glad you called Gloria, and uh I'm taking your call early because uh earlier than I would normally because you're asking a question here that is gonna launch me into one of the areas I intended to discuss anyway.
Welcome to the program.
Yes, thank you, Rush.
I mean, you know, I'm afraid about the response because what would happen if we had an attack in the nor in the northeast area of the United States.
I mean, if the response was one city, I mean, what if we had a big attack?
And now we're vulnerable because our enemies wait, wait, wait, wait, Glory, Gloria, hold it.
Hold it, hold it now.
You're assuming that something went wrong in New Orleans.
Well, something did go wrong with the local government.
You have said.
Well, I I no, I want you to tell me though, uh yeah, expand on that.
What went wrong?
Tell me what you know about what went wrong in New Orleans.
There's no right or wrong here.
I'm just conducting a little bit of.
No, that that's not what went wrong.
Well, hold it.
No, no.
I mean the the levies broke, yes, but everybody knew that was gonna happen.
Exactly.
So you can't say that went wrong.
Everything that we were told would happen and such a storm happened.
What went wrong?
It doesn't matter that we knew.
It went wrong.
It doesn't matter that we already knew.
It was.
It that is the point, Gloria.
It does.
In this case, I understand the desire that people have to compare this to a terrorist attack, and I and I understand the thinking that goes into that, but there's a huge, huge difference.
We can plan for all kinds of terrorist attacks, but we can still only guess what they might be, where they might take place.
This storm was well advertised as a monster killer storm for three days.
I was watching it, and it became a cat five, and it became a cat, and for a while it was headed right at New Orleans even.
It only veered to the east uh late in its uh in its path.
We were told that the levees would fail at a Cat 4 Cat 5, we were told the levies had only been built up to level or category three.
I'll discuss later why they weren't built to handle anything more than a Cat 3.
I don't want to go there right now.
The point is we were no, we also had an evacue plan.
You can go anywhere on the internet and you can read the evacuation plan.
You can go to one of them, page 13, paragraph five.
Everybody, this is what the New Orleans plan says.
You are on your own getting out of here.
You must the vast majority of our residents will rely on personal vehicles for those who do not have personal vehicles.
Municipal and city transportation will be provided to remove you or them to higher ground and shelters throughout the state.
We cut next to the picture of the school buses and municipal buses by the hundreds that are flooded and ruined that were not used.
The evacu the thing that didn't work was the implementation of the plan.
We had a plan.
Or they had a plan, and it was a plan that had plenty of time to be implemented.
But it wasn't implemented.
The plan was not implemented at all.
Having people walk to the Superdome, walk there and told to carry their own food and their own water.
No provisions in the Superdome.
I want somebody to tell me how this is a failure of the federal government.
And I want somebody to tell me how this is a failure of FEMA.
And I'm not defending these these uh institutions by saying this.
But when you, you know, you you think okay, New Orleans was a failure, and oh my gosh, how are we gonna handle something else that happens next time?
Uh that's on this scale.
I'm I'm not, I don't I don't accept that kind of thinking.
I am not willing to believe or accept that every community that has been working on such plans is inept and as incompetent as the state and city governments in Louisiana and New Orleans were.
We know that New York isn't.
We have evidence.
New York does a much better job at some, and they didn't know that was coming.
They had no clue that was happening.
Uh Folk, I mean, if we if we want to be honest about this, then we can be honest about it as we're being.
If we don't want to be honest, if we want to sugarcoat this and try to avoid people's uh uh, you know, hurting people's feelings, we we can do that too.
I just I uh don't think it's productive to do that.
So when you think you know what went wrong in New Orleans, yeah, the levies broke, yeah, there were this everything that happened had been predicted as possible, and a plan to deal with it was in place that was not implemented, not even close, not even close to being employed it makes you wonder if the current government officials even read the plan and knew it existed.
Serving humanity, we are my friends here at the Excellence and Broadcasting Network at the Limboa Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Yes, now that the um now that some of the hysterical media clutter is uh is settling down, we're beginning to get the uh the real story about who's responsible for what down there.
And we know Susan Collins and Joe Lieberman announced that their committee uh is gonna have this big investigation.
President Bush says he's gonna lead an investigation.
Bill Frist is he's gonna have an investigation.
Uh that's all well and good, but I'll bet you these congressional investigations leave somebody out that they don't investigate themselves.
You ever you ever notice how members of Congress end up being portrayed as innocent bystanders and all this?
Somehow the president and the federal bureaucracy always take the blame.
The state government, the city government, they're gonna get a pass on this, it looks like, maybe not.
But somehow the White House, the president's gonna get it easy to focus on one man here, I suppose.
Uh Homeland Security uh agency, by the way, that whole idea was Joe Lieberman's.
Uh and I want to remind you, I opposed this when it happened.
Just just, and I'm not saying it because I'm rig ragging on the agency, I'm just telling you to be so that you know I'm being consistent about what I think about large, unwieldy uh bureaucracies that get so big and and nobody has nobody answers to anything.
I mean, there's there's how do you point finger blame at a bureaucracy?
It's it's like it's like uh trying to blame the Pentagon for, let's blame a building for this.
That's the way to get ourselves like for 9-11 and able danger.
Let's blame a building on this.
That's how we'll, that's how we'll save ourselves, blame the building people in it.
We're gonna blame FEMA.
Now we're gonna blame uh homeland security, and we're gonna blame blah, blah, blah.
Well, uh if you if you wanna if you want to be honest about the blame, if that's the game we want to play here, and since people do, I'm gonna join in.
Uh then I'm I'm just gonna be honest about this.
Congress is gonna do all this investigating, but they're not gonna look at themselves.
No spending could occur unless they vote on it, no priorities can be determined without Congress making them.
All anybody else can do is suggest.
That's about it.
President can suggest, yeah, he has some power, legislative liaisons to get what he wants, but Congress is the ultimate authority and they will not be looked at.
And I notice all these libs now love the military.
They love General Honore.
Comes down there, John Wayne kicking ass and taking names and getting it all straightened out here in one day, 20,000 people out of convention center.
Is this the same military that was torturing people at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay?
Is this the same military that's not fit to be deployed around the world because it's just a bunch of murdering thugs?
Isn't it interesting here to watch the shifting allegiances as episodes like this uh unfold.
Now, our last caller had this question about about well, we can't even protect ourselves in a circumstance like a hurricane.
What are we gonna do uh with a uh with a terrorist attack?
Hey, folks, you know, it's time for some reality here.
If we have a big terrorist attack on one of our cities, there will be many casualties.
There are going to be lots of casualties.
I hate to say this, but it's true, and this is why we're trying to kill as many terrorists as possible overseas before they attack us here.
Some people don't want to acknowledge that, some people don't want to get that, but that's why we're at war.
So I find it very interesting with the same time we're supposed to be getting out of Iraq, that Iraq is a wasteful exercise, it took too many National Guard, what an absolutely asinine thing to think that it took too many National Guard troops away from the disaster area.
We ought to get out of Iraq.
Now the same people who want us out of Iraq are worried about a terrorist attack.
Well, what are we in Iraq for?
What are we around the world for?
I'm going to tell you, if if if you leave the running of the country up to these armchair quarterbacks who come out with these emotional reactions in the midst of a crisis, we're going to pay an even bigger price than we're already paying.
And I'm not saying that what happened down there is inspiring confidence.
I'm not saying that this made me feel nobody is, but at the same time, I think it's getting put back together and the problem is being dealt with a lot quicker than anybody thought it would, given the tone of the coverage and the uh and the appearance of the pictures uh coming out of uh out of New Orleans last week.
I think it's also important to point out that this hurricane hit a lot more than New Orleans.
This hurricane devastated Biloxi, Mississippi, and Gulfport, Mississippi, and some places in Alabama got hit pretty badly too.
Why are we not talking about the same kinds of things happening in those locations that we're talking about in New Orleans, and it's not about levee breaks.
It's not simply about levy breaks.
Uh let me go back here to the top of the program, and I want to expand on something I said, because my my first observation here when I went through the little laundry list of things, is I'm trying to keep it simple, because this is not as complicated as people trying to make it.
One of the things that's on rampant display and ought to be noticed by everybody is the utter failure of entitlement thinking.
The utter failure of the entitlement state, the utter failure of a way of life that tells citizens, don't worry about anything, vote for me, your government will take care of you.
That's the essential message of entitlement thinking.
And entitlement thinking ends up keeping people poor because it it takes away from people their incentive.
It says, okay, uh my government will take care of me.
It's that my government's gonna take care of my needs and my emergencies and so forth, and uh, and I'm because I'm voting for the people that are going to do that.
And as we know from world history or this country's history, there is no successful example.
Call it the welfare state, call it socialism, whatever you want.
There's no example of it ever working.
Now you take these poor people down to New Orleans.
That state has been run by the Democrat Party for as long as I've been alive.
That's a given.
It's it's not arguable.
We also know that that state and that city have been run by people who have held the beliefs of the Democratic Party close to their hearts for all of these years.
So for generation after generation after generation, people who are what I call victims of the entitlement state, uh have been given a false promise.
They have been told all of these years that their government's gonna make life fair for them, their government's gonna prevent them from suffering any kind of uh discrimination or inequality, that their government is gonna see to it that they're protected, that they've got unemployment insurance, that they've got health care, whatever it is.
They have been taught, they have been conditioned, they have been practically raised to rely on a centralized government for their needs.
Now, just as a matter of human nature, when you when you rely on somebody else for your needs, we all have needs, we also have wants, when you rely on somebody else for your needs, you are placing yourself in a risky circumstance.
But if that's all you know, if that's what your parents did, if that's what your grandparents did, if that's what you've been raised to do, then that's all you know.
So what have we learned here?
Whether you want to blame it on the federal government, I don't care, blame It on the federal government, blame it on FEMA, blame it on any government, state, local, federal, blame it on any bureaucracy you want for the purposes of this argument.
What we have learned is that your government can't.
Your government, wherever it is, cannot protect you, save you from these kinds of things.
It just can't.
Not as well as you can yourself.
Now I hear the cat calls.
Rush, what I can't believe you're talking about.
You're talking about people with no means of transportation.
You're talking about people that are so poor, they had no way out.
Uh I understand that.
I'm asking, why are they poor?
I'm asking why are they hopelessly poor?
Why are they simply accepted?
I mean, I've got a story somewhere in the stack today, it's a Boston Globe story.
Some guy actually happy that this will now focus America's attention on our genuine problem of the poor.
We all ought to be ashamed and embarrassed that such poverty exists in a country of such prosperity.
But we also know that even with a country of such prosperity, we cannot, via welfare transfers or wealth transfers, make everybody middle class.
Simply not possible.
We don't have the money.
And speaking of money, I know that people are donating to charities, and that's a wonderful and great thing.
But you know where we could find about 25 or 30 billion dollars today?
If we go back to the highway bill and members of Congress would act as big-hearted as they're asking everybody else to act, say, I'm going to cancel a pork project for my district, and I'm going to send that money down to New Orleans for the relief effort.
If every Congressman would simply forego the pork that is in that highway bill and send it for relief efforts, then that's something that would be decent and productive, the federal government could do.
That would be the wise, proper allocation of resources given the existing circumstances.
But it to me, you know, I I I it's just a crying shame to me to see human beings as they were pictured and as they were existing all of last week.
And it was it was clear that many of them had no idea what to do.
They had no idea what to do because they've been told somebody else can take care of it.
They've been told that somebody else will fix it.
Somebody else will make it right.
You can't really blame them if they've never known anything else, if that's how they have been, if that's how they've been raised, if that's how they have been programmed, if that's if that's what they've been told is fair and just and right.
Uh you can you can you can sit there and you can blame all day long the people who had the means to get out of there.
You can blame all day long the people that had the wherewithal and the ability to get, but who are they?
Well, the one thing we know they aren't is members of the entitlement state.
They were not part of the entitlement mentality, they were not waiting around for Ray Nagan to take care of them.
They weren't waiting around for Kathleen Blanco, they weren't waiting around for George Bush or anybody to take care of them.
They got the notice to get out of there and they got out.
Do you know that the New Orleans evacuation plan even has a uh a procedure to reach people that don't even have enough money to have televisions and radios?
It even has a chapter in it on how to get out to people who don't know that there are bad things coming because they don't have television sets and they don't have radios.
It even allows for that, and that was not implemented either.
So, you know, the the the entitlement, the entitlement mentality and what it does to people in the theme of mine on this program for the 17 plus years that that we've been doing this, and here it is on just crystal clear, 100% utter display.
That's if you want to start examining failures here, there are we can we can just count up our side on them too.
And you can ask, you know, well, Rosh, I mean, how does that solve the problem now?
Well, how do it doesn't solve this problem?
It isn't, it ought to be an eye-opener to people.
That When it comes time to plan for something like this in the future, that uh uh why condemn the people who could get out?
Why condemn them?
Why get mad at them because they had the means to get out?
Because they didn't take anybody with them.
Well, that's all you can say, and then fine.
I'll grant you that.
Maybe it maybe it makes them not as good a citizen as we wish they were, but still they were able to get out, and some weren't.
And the people in charge of getting those out who couldn't get out didn't help them.
They just didn't, even though there was a plan to do so.
Anyway, I'm a little long here, I've got to take a quick time out.
Back with more in just a second.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, it's Rush Schlimbaugh and the excellence in broadcasting network.
You know, in addition to uh all these false promises about government's capacity to perfect life.
Uh guess what?
It's the institutions that big government liberals attack that are the institutions saving the suffering.
The left attacks the military, the left doesn't like law enforcement, the left don't trust uh private charities.
But guess who it is?
In a time of disaster or time of crisis, guess who it is that makes things work?
The last institution that really, really works as a large government bureaucracy, and I'm not don't want to be misunderstood about this.
This is not an anti-government rant.
Government has specific purposes.
There are things that it is in our system constitutionally designated to do.
There are other things that it's woefully incapable of doing, and yet we have people who think, well, no, it's perfectly fine if we just have the right people running FEMA.
If we just had the right president, if we just had the right this or that.
If they were just run by more competent people, liberals have to believe that, or their entire reason for being ceases to exist.
So they can't give up the notion that it is uh government's ultimate responsibility and government failure.
If only they had been in charge, why this wouldn't have happened.
You know, when a when a populated uh area is hit with a massive natural disaster like a category four hurricane and a subsequent flood, there's gonna be widespread losses.
The issue is not whether there will be, the issue is how much.
And for people to start running, how can this happen in America?
How can this happen?
How could Mount St. Helens happen in America?
How could the hurricane or the uh the earthquake in San Francisco happen in America?
How could the four hurricanes in Florida last year happen in America?
And four hurricanes hit Florida last year.
Do you do you recall any such stories out of Florida as we got last week?
Jeb Bush was all over the place in Florida.
Where was Kathleen Blanco these past four days?
Or seven days.
And I know this goes against every report and thought that's probably out there, but it's now Tuesday.
It's just over a week after this major natural disaster, and I frankly am in amazement how much progress has been made.
Given where we started and how bleak it looked.
Evacuating, feeding, relocating, medicating people.
When you when you consider the monumental nature of this effort, it's truly remarkable.
And I I know this isn't being reported, but perhaps one day when time has passed, uh more people will see it this way.
It might be reported.
But I have to also say this, folks, in closing out this segment.
It's not just the libs, and it's not just the reporters.
Uh, you know, I've I've I've got I've got serious disagreements with the president on issues like immigration and spending and so forth.
But I noticed when I was gone over the weekend that many people on the right joined the chorus of criticism of President Bush.
Many because they worried about their own image, they worried about their own uh uh images as uh as conservatives.
Uh they have to join the chorus because they're insecure about themselves.
So it wasn't just the left, the right was pretty hard on the president too.
We'll be back after this.
I'm getting emails uh from people who said they didn't know that New Orleans had the evacuation plan that I quoted from or let me I'll find it here in the stack and I'll uh read you some of the uh some of the essentials from it.
Uh I'll go on a couple things for you.
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