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Sept. 7, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 7, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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I'm just trying to create a little anticipation here by delaying the start of the program.
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Well, we get to start off today with some news that not going to make the uh the left happy.
USA Today CNN Gallup poll, 609 adults taken September 5th and 6th.
13% said that George W. Bush is most responsible for the problems in New Orleans after the hurricane.
18% said federal agencies are most responsible.
25% said that state and local officials more responsible.
38% said nobody's to blame.
6% had no opinion, and uh 29% said the top officials in the federal agencies responsible for handling emergencies should be fired.
63% said they should not.
If you look at the whole poll, it's pretty balanced, it's pretty reasonable.
Uh the left, you know, it's just if I didn't know better, I I would I would say that after this, they it with this bad news for them.
13% blame Bush after what you people have seen on television for the last week, and only 13%.
I tried to tell you yesterday.
Can I tell you why this poll is what it is?
It's real simple.
Most of the American people do not live and breathe politics like the mainstream media does.
They don't look at everything through a political prism.
They just don't.
Mainstream media is that out of touch.
I mean, every bit of news that comes out of the mainstream press today is looked at through a political prism, and most people don't look.
It's a hurricane.
The hurricane, can I make it real simple for you?
A hurricane hit New Orleans.
George Bush doesn't live there.
George Bush is in Washington.
How can he possibly be to blame for this?
And they don't buy this notion that Bush didn't do enough for global warming and then Bush somehow steered the hurricane.
That's all you know, it's rot, but the but but the there the people on the left believe it.
This 13%.
They believe it.
They believe that Bush is they did they're just poisoned, folks.
These people have literally become poisoned with their own hatred.
Something I have been telling you pleasantly that uh has been happening low these many years.
American people see the destruction, the devastation in New Orleans.
They don't think politics.
They don't look at this as a political event.
Hurricane, it's not a political event, but there's the mainstream press because the mainstream press is on the same side of the aisle as Democrat liberal kook activists.
And there is, as you know, an ongoing effort to destroy George W. Bush.
Oh, this is this is Bush's whatever.
This is this is the one we're gonna get.
Okay, the Burkett stuff didn't work, and Cindy Sheehan didn't work, and no, no, no.
Nothing's gonna work.
The American people don't look at all this the way the mainstream press of the Democrats do.
Now let's look at this 13% number here.
13% said that George W. Bush most responsible for the problems in New Orleans after the hurricane.
Uh we will admit, we'll have to admit that there's a uh there's a percentage of this country that literally hates and despises Bush.
Uh I would like to um posit for you, uh ladies and gentlemen, this number 13% probably is a grand total of the Democrat blogs, the Democrat Underground, the moveon.org, and the George Soros crowd, and some of the elected Democrats around the country.
And I would best also that that number hasn't changed.
I'll bet you it's the same number uh of that that uh held hatred for Bush starting in 2000 in the Florida election aftermath.
Uh well, we know the number isn't growing.
I mean, with every every news cycle seems to feature a new avenue that the left thinks they have found to destroy the Bush presidency.
And yet 13%.
And this is a USA Today CNN Gallup poll.
Uh that 13% number is not growing.
And the reason it isn't growing is simple.
It's understandable.
Hatred is not inspirational.
Hatred does not inspire people.
Hatred is not like honey.
It doesn't attract people.
It repels them.
Nobody wants to hang around somebody that's constantly angry and filled with rage and hatred, constantly unhappy.
Nobody wants to hang around people like that.
Those people don't lead grave movements.
These people are not the backbone of America.
And they're going even crazier as each of these efforts that they mount, each of these events that they look at through a political prism, as they fail, they get angrier and angrier and angry.
And rather than realize this is failing, they say, well, we're not hating enough.
And we're not being outrageous enough.
And so they continue to pile more hatred on top of more hatred, and they actually end up marking, you know, treading water, marking ground, or losing it.
Wouldn't surprise me, uh ladies and gentlemen, if this poll causes uh panic that will result in the Democrats.
You see where Jane Fonda had to cancel her bus tour?
Her anti-war, yeah, Jane Fonda cancel her bus tour.
The Pope's death uh, I think screwed up her book tour, and now the hurricane has canceled her bus tour, anti-war bus tour with uh with George Galloway.
Uh if if I didn't know better, and it I well, this may yet happen.
Democrats may put out a discress call to Cindy Sheehan and ask Cindy Sheehan to set up her anti-war rallies somewhere on the outskirts of flooded New Orleans.
That's how kind that I mean that I I wouldn't be surprised at all if that happened.
I mean, the the kook left, the the fringe out there that just gonna be beside themselves uh uh with with anger over this and frustration.
Well, go back to the old playbook.
They never move forward, they always go back.
They may even, I mean, it may even say go try to find Bill Burke.
Say, Bill, would you join Cindy Sheehan on the outskirts of New Orleans in an anti-Bush protest?
Uh it's while it's funny, you know, it is.
I mean, the first thing you do is laugh at it, but I I don't know how many of you heard the call yesterday from uh Vince, a black man in North Carolina who is convinced that there's a racial component in New Orleans and that Bush wants black people to die and might have even uh might might have even been responsible for as many black deaths done as it's possible.
I had a conversation with him uh yesterday, took about 10 or 10 or 15 minutes, and I said to him, I said, you know, Vince, your attitude here, because I know you probably speak for a lot more people than you realize, is more depressing to me than what's happened in New Orleans.
Because that attitude's gonna survive, that attitude's gonna grow, that attitude's gonna prevail.
Uh well, New Orleans will get fixed and rebuilt and cleaned up in time.
Uh, but the poison that uh is flowing through the minds and veins of uh of some Americans is still there, and you hate to see it.
These people are ruining their lives.
It's it's tough.
It's it's really hard to believe that they're Americans.
It's hard to believe that we have people like this in this country.
It's very sobering when you when you stop and think about it.
And if you if you uh if you let it, it can uh it can become depressing.
Uh so who wants to be depressed?
So what we choose to do is just laugh at these yokels.
And uh, hey, they're making their bed, they can lay in it.
You know, they they they they're taking their shower, they can drown in it.
Whatever, whatever metaphor you want to use.
Now, Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Clinton's out there on the war path.
She flies down to um flies to Houston, and she turns around, comes back to D.C. and then introduces a bill to restore FEMA to independent cabinet level status.
It all sounds well and good until you do some research, and you find out that Mrs. Clinton voted to make FEMA part of Homeland Security.
We got the documentation, we've got the uh evidence of it.
We have some audio sound bites of Mrs. Clinton on uh CNN this morning.
We'll get to that right after this.
Don't go away, folks.
Ladies and gentlemen, we'll get to Mrs. Clinton here in just a second.
Uh a couple more things on this poll.
So here we have, I just I just shared with you the the uh uh the the striking thing about the poll.
13 percent of the uh of the country say Bush is most responsible.
Only 13 percent.
That's where if you look at the coverage in the press, you can you can there's no question about this.
The media has sought to destroy George W. Bush along with their allies on the left.
So here comes the poll.
And there's a lot of stuff in this poll.
But the thing you look at and compare it against is the is the figure here that consider Bush to be most responsible.
It's a lowly 13%.
It indicates total failure on the part of the press uh and the leftists to uh convince Americans that Bush is single-handedly to blame for this.
So it's a USA-to-day CNN gallup poll.
I couldn't find this poll for a while today.
I I knew the 13% was out there.
I couldn't find on the CNN site or USA today site the poll.
Finally, about 1130 today, a little less than an hour ago, I found the poll on CNN.
You know what the headline there is?
Most Americans believe New Orleans will never recover.
Subhead still, 63% of respondents say city should rebuild.
A majority of Americans believe the city of New Orleans will never completely recover from the effects of Hurricane Katrina and the resulting flooding, according to results of a CNN USA Today Gallup poll.
To get to the 13% figure, let's see, what do you have to go?
You have to go to the third, fourth to last paragraph.
And it's hardly mentioned at all.
It's just it's mentioned in passing.
Respondents also disagreed widely on who is to blame for the problems.
13% said Bush, 18% said federal agencies, 25% blame state or local officials, 38% said no one is to blame, and 63% said they don't believe anybody at federal agencies responsible should be fired, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Clearly, they're not highlighting the uh the most important result from this poll because it's not what they want.
So you take that, and you go to the Washington Post today, and uh this is this is I think going to illustrate uh the point I made at the top of the program.
Most Americans outside of an election year, and particularly in the midst of a disaster like this, don't look at news and don't look at events through a political prism.
Most people just don't.
So here's Dan Balls in the Washington Post today.
For Bush, a deepening divide.
Katina crisis brings no repeat of 9-11 bipartisanship.
When terrorists struck on September 11th, Americans came together in grief and resolve, rallying behind President Bush, but when Hurricane Katrina hit last week, the opposite occurred.
Americans dividing along sharply partisan lines in their judgment of the president's and the federal government's response.
No, they didn't.
That's the point.
The m the majority of the American people didn't look at this that way.
Most people are sensible.
Most people don't take a natural disaster like this and start looking at it in a political way.
The Washington Post is convinced that Bush is taking it on the chin.
Now, granted, Mr. Ball's story went to bed last night before the USA Today CNN Gallup poll results were known.
Here's another paragraph from Ball's story.
To his critics, Bush is now reaping what he's sown.
Their case against him goes as follows.
Facing a divided nation, the president has eskewed unity in both his governing strategy and his political blueprint.
These opponents argue that he has favored confrontation over conciliation with the Democrats while favoring a set of policies aimed at deepening support among his conservative base at the expense of ideas that might produce bipolar.
See, this this is all Baldur Dash.
This is written from the perspective that liberalism is supreme, that liberalism is dominant, that liberalism is just what is, and that Bush is somehow a cowboy in an arrogant renegade because he won't compromise with liberals.
He dares to play to his base, when in fact he has compromised with liberals far more than we wish he had.
He let Ted Kennedy write the education bill.
The highway bill, the transportation bill is a pork boondoggle.
I mean, we there have been countless times that Bush has sided with the Democrats or let them.
He called them up on this choice of Roberts.
He he reached out to them like no president ever has in the selection of this uh uh latest Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts.
This is all just Boulder Dash.
But you see, from the from the standpoint of the mainstream press, liberalism is what is.
These are arrogant, condescending elites.
They don't yet know they're in the minority.
And so Bush, in order to be a good governor, needs to, and I mean governor with a small g, needs to, needs to, needs to uh reach out.
And uh and function a bipartisan way.
Notice it is never stated when Democrats run the show that they must do the same, that they must reach out and govern in a bipartisan way.
In fact, there's no such thing as Democrats being partisan when they are liberals because that's just what is.
So here's this big brainy piece, and our buddies at ABC The Note cite this piece today as the must-read story in the Washington media.
Our buddies at ABC The Note point, if you're gonna read anything today, read this because it's the best thing going today, the Dan Balls piece.
Now, in this same paragraph, where Balls starts out with to his critics, Bush is now reaping what he has sown in their case against him, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
These opponents argue that he has favored confrontation.
But his allies and advisers, while acknowledging that polarization is worsened during the past five years, say the opposition party bears the brunt of responsibility.
Democrats, by his reckoning, have rebuffed Bush's efforts at bipartisanship, have put up a wall to ideas that once enjoyed some support on their side, and even in the current crisis along the Gulf Coast are seeking to score political points rather than joining hands with the president, speed the recovery and relief to the victims.
Okay, so that's that paragraph spells out where the two supposed partisan sides are in this.
Next graph is this.
Wherever reality lies between these mutual recriminations, the path from post-9-11 unity to the ranker and finger-pointing in the aftermath of Katrina's fury charts a clear deterioration in political consensus in the U.S. and a growing willingness to interpret events through a partisan prism, A wonder why that is.
The fact of the matter is, though, Mr. Balls, the majority of the American people are not looking at it that way.
Inside the beltway, inside the media culture, which I contend is out of touch with real America.
Uh everything is looked at through a prism of politics, and not only that, it's looked at through the prism of the destruction of George W. Bush politically.
How can we destroy Bush politically?
That's where all this stuff gets started.
It bubbles up from these kook websites and finds its way into the mainstream press like these ridiculous and silly allegations that there's racism going on down there when you have 75% of the population of New Orleans is black, and you've got the government black, and the state leadership is Democrat, and the guy and the and the and the and the mayor is a black Democrat, and yet somehow Bush is a racist because all the it's silly.
It's absolutely stupid, yet these people believe it.
But most Americans don't look at it that way.
Most Americans don't want to go through life looking at everything through a partisan political prison.
They save election years for that.
Then they go live their lives and they see a disaster, they see a hurricane.
Whoa, natural disaster.
Terrible thing that happened there.
But they don't stop Bush did this.
And when some lame brains come along and say Bush did this, Bush is responsible, Bush wants blacks dead, Bush wants poor people.
They don't hear it.
Because it's so senseless.
It just bounces off.
They they it's clear here that, you know, this deepening divide does not exist.
As Dan Balls writes about it.
It just doesn't exist.
This USA Today CNN Gallup poll is sensible.
It shows pretty much a sensible reaction by the American people.
If you look at the majorities and the answers to these questions, it's pretty sensible reaction.
But the desire that everything be seen through a political prism is the if it forms the template of the reporting on these things.
And since media people tend to think the world revolves around them, how many of you are sick and tired?
Now I'll raise my hand first here.
How many of you are sick and tired watching television every day and watching these reporters congratulate each other for a job well done?
It's their job for crying out loud.
Is it only now that they're really doing it well?
Because I've well, no, they compliment each other every day on the great work they're doing, but the whole world seems to revolve around these people.
And not just television, but I mean the whole the whole media gets it.
They start an analyzing how they're doing and what effect they're having.
And of course it goes back to what they're taught in journalism school.
Why are you here?
Go walking down the hall of any major journalism school in America.
Ask a budding young journalism student.
Why are you here?
I'm here because I want to change the world.
Well, then you're not in the right place.
You need to go get elected office, get yourself in a policy position somewhere.
You're just supposed to report things that people didn't see.
Tell them what happened.
No, I am here to write the social wrongs, create snowfield yet, and make sure that there is equality everywhere.
No, that's not what journalism is about.
Journalism simply recording events people didn't see and telling them about it.
It's not activism, but that's what it's become.
And as such, journalists have lost touch with America.
Well, I think they're doing a great job.
And we are back, America's anchorman, America's truth detector.
Rush Limbaugh helping to move America in the right direction.
We're still gonna get to Mrs. Clinton, but a couple things have come in here that I want to spend some time on first.
Uh Mrs. Clinton not being relegated to the stack of less importance.
I just uh want to stay on a theme here.
The federal government, some of you may have heard this by now.
Federal government plans to dole out debit cards worth $2,000 each to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The unprecedented cash card program initially will benefit stranded people who have been moved to rescue centers such as the Houston Astrodome.
The program is outlined by Homeland Security Department officials in a conference call with state leaders this morning.
This according to a governor and another state official who spoke on condition of anonymity, because the program has not been publicly announced.
Well, it has now.
The uh cards would be used to buy food, transportation, gas, and other things the displaced people need, uh, according to Homeland Security officials.
Uh and uh again, this all these details were provided uh uh on the condition of anonymity because the program officially, I guess, has not been uh not been announced.
So uh debit cards worth $2,000.
I'll tell you what this is.
I uh it's just for those of you who, you know, some people can say, well, well, this is really great.
Well, they'll just pile a welfare state on top of a welfare state, Rush.
Well, let's just And for those who oh, well, there's out of control spending, what the hell are we gonna do?
This is there's uh even though it's unprecedented in terms of the delivery system, it's not unprecedented that we have given money away to people in disasters.
Now, everybody just wake up on this.
The debit card is probably the more efficient way of doing it.
Uh but this is this is what governments do when especially if they find themselves or think themselves to be beleaguered and embattled.
The power of the federal purse to calm an angry citizenry is something that's always been in the hip pocket of people that run the federal government.
There's nothing new here.
There's no, in fact, I'll I'll tell you, you may have forgotten this.
When was the when was the the the bad Mississippi River flood?
It was back in the 90s sometime.
Was it 96?
Talked about this last week.
Uh remember some people called here that we shouldn't bail out people who lived in the floodplain.
They know they should live there.
They they used to have their own insurance.
Why should we bail them out?
Remember those calls?
Well, during the debates in Washington on uh relief efforts for those lives damaged and destroyed by the uh or livelihoods, I should say, damaged and destroyed by the uh the those floods.
Maxine Waters wrote in.
Uh she's the uh Congressperson from South Central Los Angeles, and Maxine Waters said, I'm not gonna vote for this until uh every one of my citizens, every one of my constituents in my district gets 300 bucks cash.
And of course, everybody said, What?
You gotta be kidding.
So she stomped her foot said, no, I'm not.
And she ended up getting it.
A flood relief package for Mississippi River flood victims and uh uh related uh related damage, Maxine Waters constituents in South Central.
I think this, isn't this uh this it's the same thing, they got 300 bucks.
Check that for me.
Look that make make sure.
It was uh a hundred bucks, it was not three hundred bucks.
Why do I think 300 was a hundred dollars?
Oh uh No, you gotta be kidding about that.
Snerdley's telling me that it was a hundred dollars grooming money for her constituents, a hundred.
I think it was just three hundred bucks.
It was just it was just three.
Oh, look it up.
Whatever.
Maxine came in, demanded that her constituents were not part.
I mean, they live in LA.
The Mississippi River doesn't go there.
Um they weren't flooded out, but they got they got I know it was to recover from the riots, uh, the Rodney King riots, uh uh that she claimed they got shortchanged on.
Um Cyber Newsservice.com.
Louisiana officials could lose the Katrina Blame game.
Uh this is uh story just just clear right before the program started.
It dovetails with much of what I was discussing yesterday on the program.
The Bush administration is being widely criticized for the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina, but it's falling on deaf ears.
And also for their allegedly inadequate protection for the big one that residents had long feared would hit New Orleans.
But research uh into more than ten years of reporting on hurricane and flood damage mitigation efforts in and around New Orleans indicates that local and state officials did not use federal money that was available for levy improvements or coastal reinforcement, and often did not secure local matching funds that would have generated even more federal funding.
Now, this goes back to what we were suggesting yesterday, and I'm not the only one suggesting it.
I may be one of the few with guts to suggest it, but you're dealing with a corrupt city government, a corrupt state guy.
This is the state of Huey Long for crying out loud.
Let me remind you of the story I told yesterday.
I was in Los Angeles over the weekend.
And I was uh with some people who uh have relatives in and grew up in Louisiana.
They told me the funniest bumper sticker they'd ever seen during the uh pres the gubernatorial campaign when David Duke opposed Edwin Edwards, the bumper sticker that was all over the place Louisiana said, vote for the crook.
It's important.
I mean, it's almost become a romantic notion that the the corruption in in Louisiana is just it's accepted.
It's it's almost something that people laugh about and enjoy.
The levy system, you know, every levy has its own board.
Every levy has its own little fiefdom of people that are responsible for it and it alone.
Every levy.
That is mandated by the Louisiana Constitution.
What this story that I have here from the Cyber News Service basically says is that all the federal money that that was allocated to New Orleans and Louisiana for rebuilding of levees and floodplains was not spent on that.
They found other things to spend it on and other places to put it.
In December of 1995, for example, the Orleans Levy Board, the local government entity that oversees the levees and floodgates, designed to protect New Orleans and the surrounding areas from rising waters, bragged in a supplement to the New Orleans Times pick a U newspaper about federal money received to protect the region from hurricanes.
In the past four years, the Orleans Levy Board has built up its arsenal.
This is uh this is from the uh uh the the pamphlet here that they put out.
Uh the additional defenses are so critical that levy commissioners marched into Congress and brought back almost sixty million to help pay for protection.
The most ambitious flood flight fighting plan in generations was drafted, and unprecedented 140 million dollars uh building campaign launched 41 projects.
That's their pamphlet, bragging about their prowess in getting the money.
The levy board promised the Times Picky Union readers that the few manageable gaps in the walls, the levees protecting the city from the water, will be sealed within four years.
That would be 1999, completing our circle of protection, but less than one year later.
That same levy board was denied the authority to refinance its debts.
Legislative auditor Dan Kyle repeatedly faulted the levy board for the way it awards contracts, spends money, and ignores public bid laws.
A newspaper, the Times PeakyUn quoted Kyle as saying the board was near bankruptcy and should not be allowed to refinance any bonds or issue new ones until it submitted an acceptable plan to achieve solvency.
By 1998, Louisiana state government had a two billion dollar construction budget, but less than one-tenth of one percent of that, 1.98 million, was dedicated to levy improvements in the New Orleans area.
You hear that?
By 1998, Louisiana, and you hear about all this money that the feds didn't appropriate and the feds didn't send New Orleans, the Feds didn't care.
And this is this is the Bush of the Clinton years that we're talking about here.
And Bush didn't care.
Bush cut funding.
Bush didn't blah blah blah the same old usual uh liberal hysteria.
But in 1998, Louisiana state government had a two billion dollar construction budget, and less than one-tenth of one percent of that was dedicated to levy improvements in the New Orleans area.
State appropriators were able to find 22 million that year to renovate a new home for the Louisiana Supreme Court, 35 million for one phase of an expansion to the New Orleans Convention Center.
The following year, the state legislature did appropriate 49.5 million for levy improvements, but the proposed spending had to be allocated by the state bond commission before the projects could receive financing.
The commission placed the levy improvements in the priority five category among the projects least likely to receive full or immediate funding.
I mean, the story goes on, and we'll link to it on the uh on the website.
Um the upshot of it is that no new state money had been allocated to the area's hurricane protection projects as of October 2002, leaving the available 65% federal matching funds for such construction untouched.
So they got federal money, they just didn't spend it on what it was for.
They didn't spend it on the levies.
They spent it on their things.
I mean, they I think in one they they um that they restored a Mardi Gras fountain in one instance, spent money on the restoration of a Mardi Gras fountain with some of this uh money that was intended to rebuild the levies.
The point of all this is is just to continue the discussion from yesterday that if we're gonna start, if we want to play the blame game, and remember what I've said about this.
This whole thing is is, and I mean this in the bottom of my heart is repugnant to me, but I'm like you.
I cannot watch this drivel and bilge on television day in and day out, hour after hour, where I see this administration once again savaged and attacked, this administration blamed with all kinds of outrageous.
I just can't sit here and let it go by and laugh it off.
If we're gonna start talking blame, if the elite media is gonna start pointing fingers, well then by God, folks, we're gonna point them in the right direction.
And pointing them in the right direction points right to the state of New Orleans and the s uh state of uh Louisiana and the city of New Orleans, no matter how you slice this.
Uh and if that's uncomfortable for you to hear, so be it.
Life's not easy.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
All right, let's move on now to uh to Mrs. Clinton.
Uh Mrs. Clinton released uh statement she flew to Houston yesterday.
She flew down to Houston, she turned right back, goes back to Washington, and introduces this.
Clinton unveils legislation to restore FEMA to independent cabinet level status and launched Katrina Commission to investigate hurricane recovery efforts.
On the heels of her visit with victims of Hurricane Katrina in Houston yesterday, Senator Hillary Rodham is introducing legislation today to restore FEMA to cabinet-level independent federal agency status to ensure that it has the authority it needs to effectively manage recovery efforts.
So what are they saying?
They're saying two things here.
Mrs. Clinton is saying FEMA is is no good because it's part of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security is no good because FEMA's part of Homeland Security.
We got to get FEMA back out of Homeland Security.
Well, who the hell's idea was Homeland Security?
Joe Lieberman.
Joe Lieberman and the Democrats advanced the notion we need a Homeland Security Department.
Bush originally opposed it in order to grow the bureaucracy, but he reached out, Dan Balls.
He reached out.
He attempt to be bipartisan.
And so we created this massive new bureaucracy, which I opposed, and I want to go on record again as reminding you.
Homeland Security, we put FEMA in it.
Now it turns out that Mrs. Clinton voted for all of this.
Mrs. Clinton voted for all of this.
All of us, so maybe we need to ask Mrs. Clinton, what did you you are you now admitting a mistake?
See, what these people in Congress want to get away with, folks, and I tell you something that really bothers me about this.
You got a disaster here, right?
And so we're pointing fingers at a mayor, and we're pointing fingers at a governor down there, and a lot of people are pointing fingers at President Bush, but guess who gets to participate here as innocent bystanders?
The United States Congress, the House, and the Senate.
Why, they had nothing to do with this.
No, they only allocate the money.
They only write the laws in this country.
That's all they do.
And yet they then get to sit around as innocent bystanders, as though they had no role whatsoever.
And they get to conduct hearings where they get to examine everybody else's actions and then seek out the people they want to destroy all the while with immunity.
With practical immunity.
As though they had nothing to do with any of this.
They're the ones that set this up.
If FEMA being part of Homeland Security is a boondoggling failure, let's go to the people whose idea it was.
And let's maybe conduct hearings and ask them some questions.
I mean, it's it's abs it's it's it's it's it's I don't know.
It's just mind-boggling to me.
But this is really a bold move, isn't it?
We're going to move FEMA and we're going to change the director.
Well, wow, that's really gonna make a huge difference.
We're not gonna get rid of FEMA, we're just gonna pull it out of where it is.
Really bold move, Mrs. Clinton.
I've got a good idea.
Why don't we do this?
The Louisiana state legislature ought to remove the governor and maybe take over the city.
That might actually be a good start.
This is a local problem down there.
Of course it's not mentioned at all.
You can't do that.
And the reason you can't do that is because you're gonna blame it on FEMA.
FEMA sucks.
FEMA sucks and FEMA rules at the same time.
So we're gonna focus here totally on FEMA.
This is what the Liberal Democrats do.
They go to where appears the weakest point in the chain, exploit it, and blame it on whoever, all the while exempting their own role in setting it up this very way.
Why shouldn't heads in Congress roll too?
If heads are gonna roll here.
We've had some pretty dumb moves in com by Congress's own admission.
Putting FEMA in Homeland Security, creating Homeland Security is a dumb moves.
Who did it?
Who writes the legislation?
They set up this system.
No one seems to understand their role in this.
Somehow it all gets blamed on executives, be it governors or mayors or presidents, or heads of these departments.
But somehow these members of Congress get total exemption from this.
You know, 9-11 happens.
They create the Homeland Security Department, Katrina hits, and they want to deconstruct it.
Stop and think of what's happening.
Put it in the timeline.
We have 9-11.
We need a Department of Homeland Security, say the Liberal Democrats.
Bush goes along with it.
Yep, we need a Homeland Security, and we're gonna put FEMA in March.
Democrats are all in favor of this, leading the charge.
Now Katrina, we need to take FEMA out of Homeland Security.
It's just not working.
Well, whose idea was it?
I'm sorry to sound so uh energized here, folks, but why is it these people get a pass?
Coast Guard's done a great job down there, they're part of the department.
We focus on uh was one guy Mike Brown that nobody thinks is doing a good job, and so he's the weakest link in the chain, and bamboo, we head in there.
And in the process, we we ignore all the things that are working because we want to make the point that nothing's working because Bush isn't charge of the ball.
And uh that's not playing in Peoria or anywhere else.
Thanks for the bold move, Mrs. Clinton.
Pretending you had no role in setting up these bureaucracies, and you had no role in setting up and making these spending priorities.
Act like the Homeland Security Department just popped out from thin air when they're the ones that set it up.
They act like moving around the pieces of the bureaucracy as some kind of a bold move.
I want to hear from them right now.
Their posturing is sickening to me.
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She says, I I I I asked call for an independent condition uh commission, Miles.
I don't think the government should be investigating itself.
Uh made up of who?
Former government people.
Independent commission, my at any rate, ladies and gentlemen, uh Rush on Broadway's well, I'm sorry, if I just some days it's tougher than others to uh to stomach this.
You just can't.
Anyway, Rush on Broadway sold out in 20 minutes, 20 minutes after I mentioned it yesterday, the uh tickets for Rush on Broadway October 18th at the New Amsterdam Theater, the Lion King Theater, uh sold out.
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