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Sept. 8, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 8, 2005, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yeah, yeah, because I got a great idea here.
Mike, grab audio soundbite number eight.
We've got this poll uh Pelosi montage here.
She actually violated an age-old tradition.
She went out at a private conversation.
The president repeated it.
That usually doesn't happen.
But uh these people reached the bottom of the barrel here.
But based on what she said, I and what all the other Democrats said, I got a great idea.
Let's if if if the if the if the recovery effort is so inept and so horrible, let's stop it.
If it's that bad, let's suspend the recovery effort right now and immediately start on the investigations to find out what is wrong.
Yeah, that'll really work.
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Yeah, all these congressmen out there running around saying, we need to investigate.
Fuck, do it now.
Everything's going wrong so badly, everything's so inept.
Stop it.
Just stop the recovery right now.
It's so mangled up, and do the investigation.
And let the American people see what you're good for.
While there's all kinds of nothing happening, you will add to the nothing with your investigation.
If it's that bad, if this is that bad, stop it right now.
And let's start the hearings.
And let's just have hearings for the next two years.
That'll make everybody feel better, right?
Here's Nancy Pelosi.
This is what inspired my uh reaction that you just heard.
This is a montage of uh of Miss America from last night and this morning after her meeting with the president.
This is the new tone continuing to work wonders, by the way.
Have Kane victims need money, but they also need some real leadership and some real accountability.
President Bush should appoint uh a competent director at FEMA so that we can and do that immediately, uh, so that we can move on in a better way to meet the needs of the American people.
He chose someone with absolutely no credentials.
And you know what?
When I said to the president that he should fire Michael Brown, he said, Why would I do that?
I said, Because of all that went wrong with all that didn't go right last week.
And he said, What didn't go right?
Oblivious, in denial, dangerous.
Uh I would have loved to have been there when Bush said to her, Well, what didn't go right?
I would have loved to be what what didn't go.
Well, we know what didn't go right.
It's called the mayor of uh New Orleans and the uh governor of Louisiana.
And I'll tell you, as hard as the mainstream press, the Democrats have tried to suppress that.
That is becoming more and more known.
Uh as I cited Major Garrett's report last night on Fox.
If you're just tuning in, Major Garrett had a bombshell.
He called the Red Cross and said, you know, all these people at Superdome and a Convention Center, they're standing outside, no food, no water for three or four days.
Why didn't you take it in there?
We had it.
We had pallets of it ready to go, the Red Cross told him.
But uh Louisiana, Department of Homeland Security, on orders from the governor's office said, Nope, don't take it in there.
We don't want to act uh any have anything in there that would act as a magnet to have more people to come to the Superdome.
We want to get them out.
So it was there, it was ready to go.
FEMA is not a first response agency.
FEMA's got 2,500 employees.
Nancy Pelosi probably voted to put FEMA in homeland security.
This is my point.
These people get around, uh get to run around acting like spectators and bystanders.
They are the ones that create this red tape.
They are the ones that create bureaucracy upon bureaucracy upon bureaucracy.
Welfare state, a top welfare state, a top welfare state.
And to the extent that the bureaucracy is the problem, which is what Bill Richardson says, Nancy Pelosi ought to call a governor of New Mexico.
Bill Richardson said, hey, don't blame President Bush.
This is a red tape problem.
Red tape is code, for we got bureaucratic bungling here.
And bureaucratic bungling is if there's ever, ever, ever, we keep talking about a streamlined government, limited government, efficient government.
That's the exact opposite of what we have here.
You need fewer people in the loop, not more.
You need fewer people in the loop.
You need people to be able to make decisions like uh like that General John Wayne did, Russell and Ore or Honore.
I keep mispronouncing his name.
But the the left crack up uh folks just it just continues right in front of our very eyes.
And you could predict this yesterday because when that I knew it when that USA Today poll came out, said only 13% blame Bush.
You just knew that they were gonna go batty.
Howard Dean, let's go back to audio soundbite number one.
Howard Dean just can't keep his mouth shut, saying that race played a significant role in who lived and died in New Orleans, said this in Miami yesterday.
As the order is restored and the water recedes and we sort through the rubble, we have to come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age, and economics played a significant role in who survived and who did not.
Yeah, of course, that that was greeted with uh with big applause.
One of the things that bothers me about this is the timidness or the timidity of Republicans.
And they're out there now trying to charge John Roberts with insensitivity to uh civil rights.
That's code for he's a racist.
He doesn't like black people.
And whether Howard Dean is saying this about hurricane recovery efforts, we know we have the census figures.
We know who lived in New Orleans, we knew who ran New Orleans, we knew who ran Louisiana.
We know that was liberal Democrats running it for 60 years.
If anybody died down there, or if anybody was in poverty down there, you can't blame a federal government with spending more and more money giving it to New Orleans and Louisiana.
It's what they do with that money uh that that is is needs to be examined, which no, it doesn't.
We already know they siphon it off.
They use it for things other than what it's intended, including uh uh avoiding uh repairs to levies.
But still, folks, the the the amazing thing is that you have on display the utter total failure of liberalism.
And yet here's Howard Dean somehow charging racism.
This is all about trying to get back the black vote.
But what there's a way for the Republicans to deal with this, whether it's John Roberts or whether it's Howard Dean.
And it's to say this we don't need lectures from Democrats about civil rights.
We were on the right side of the civil war.
You were on the wrong side of internment.
Your 1952 vice presidential nominee was a segregationist.
Your majority leader in the Senate for 10 years was a Klansman.
Most of your party vo most of our party voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
It was Ronald Reagan who made Martin Luther King's birthday a holiday and extended the voting right act for 25 years, and Bush, who has appointed more blacks to high-level positions in his cabinet than any previous president, including the first black as Secretary of State, first black woman, Connor Rice.
Where's no reason to run in cower when these charges of racism start being bandied about?
Stand up and throw it right back at them.
I mean, our clansmen, Robert Byrd, Senate majority leader for 10 years, segregationist as their vice presidential nominee in 1952.
I mean, folks, it it you you have you have a a circumstance here where everything's 180 degrees out of phase when it when it comes to race.
Look at New Orleans.
Who's been in charge of running New Orleans?
Liberal Democrats.
Some of the mayors down there have been black.
The majority of the residents are black.
You could simply say the black mayor doesn't care about his own citizens.
Which could you say that?
I mean, it's apparent, isn't it?
Am I racist for pointing this?
How can there be racism in New Orleans when 80% of the population, 75% whatever, is black?
This is just it's just crazy.
But if the Republicans aren't gonna stand up and just throw this stuff right back at them, uh then, you know, how much of it's gonna continue to settle in.
This stuff has settled in, become uh just conventional wisdom for 30 or 40 years.
Somehow Republicans are racist, and Democrats uh love everybody.
When yet when you listen to a Democrat talk, what's the first thing they notice about people?
It's their skin color, their religion, their gender.
The Democrats, the exact opposite of what they say they are.
They're the ones that don't tolerate free speech.
They have political correctness.
You can't say something that offends them.
You can't put up something in a public square that offends them.
They're the ones that have all these restrictions on freedom, and yet they get away with claiming that they're the guardians of freedom.
It's just the uh just the exact opposite.
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This is Lisa in Austin, Texas.
Hi, Lisa.
Nice to have you on the program.
Right.
Thank you so much for taking my cause a pleasure to talk to you.
I just want to make this quick point that Where is the gratitude from this mayor and the governor of New Orleans?
They take the microphone, and the only thing they do is blame and say how Americans owe them an apology when Americans have been working 24-7, raising over $500 million in relief aid to these victims who were victims before the hurricane.
They've been sending prayer chains, they've been rounding up clothes, organizing.
Where is the gratitude?
Where's the word of thanks to all of the millions of people who have been struggling, taking time off of work, even to help these people?
Lisa.
Where is that?
I I'm sh I'm shocked.
I'm stunned at you.
Well, why?
Why?
Because I I'm black and I feel this way because I'm a Republican.
Because I think that people should be grateful when someone's gonna be able to do it.
I'm I'm I'm stunned that you would uh expect that from liberal Democrats.
In this current political charged atmosphere to sit around and say thanks when the whole message is where's the help?
Where's the beef?
Why isn't anybody doing enough for us?
Bush screwed up.
How can they turn around and say thanks for all you're doing?
I don't expect it from them, but I do expect it from the people who are receiving the aid, who are sitting on the highway not.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
No, no, they're liberal that they they think they're owed this.
This is the entitlement mentality.
I look, I agree with you in a just in a strict sense of manners.
I'm trying to be a little flippant here when I when I say I'm shocked at you, but look at where's the where's the where's the gratitude for all that we do for people on the normal day in this country?
Where is the gratitude?
There isn't any.
There's just more expectation.
And that it runs the gamut.
You have Medicare recipients who think every year they need to get more benefits.
Do they ever say thanks to the people providing them, their fellow citizens?
Nope.
Then that's exactly who it is.
It's not coming from the government.
You may as well go down the street, knock on the door, say, I'm not getting enough for my health care.
I need you to help me.
Will you give me some money?
Or don't ask, demand it.
So, but you've got the entitlement mentality on display here.
Gratitude is is, you know, you you'll hear some people express some.
It'll happen at some point.
But right now, the theme of the day is nobody's doing enough.
Nobody did enough.
This has all been botched.
This is the Democrat theme.
This is the Democrat game plan right out of the playbook.
There isn't anything to be grateful for.
There's only something here to be punished.
Whatever's going on here is nothing that gratitude even enters into.
This is incompetent, heads dee to roll.
People need to be fired.
Somebody needs to need Bush needs to be impeached, whatever.
That gratitude.
I'm surprised anybody would think that that'd be forthcoming.
Now, if you're raised in a certain way, I can understand it, but uh I wouldn't, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Not for the foreseeable future.
Not while the mantra is this whole thing's a mistake, this whole thing's botched, it's all based on the fact that nobody cares.
So how do you turn around in the middle of that and say, hey, by the way, thank you?
By the way, speaking of mayor uh Negan, uh, he has finally responded to these school bus pictures.
People finally asking, well, wait a minute.
The evacuation plan says you're in charge.
You have all these buses, the buses are to be used to get people who have no cars or the disabled whatever out of the city before the hurricane hits, and yet they're all flooded and they're ruined.
Why didn't you use them?
Uh turns out, according to our buddies at Newsmax.com that Mayor Nagan turned his nose up at the yellow buses, demanding more comfortable Greyhound coaches.
He was on with our affiliate in New Orleans last Thursday, WW.
He blasted President Bush and the governor for not coming to rescue his city in time.
On WWL, Mayor Nagan said, I need 500 buses, man.
One of the briefings we had, they were talking about getting, you know, public school bus drivers to come down here and bust people out of here.
I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
This is a natural disaster.
Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans.
Well uh while Negan was waiting for his gravehound fleet, Katrina's floodwaters swamped his school buses, rendering them unusable.
So the school buses weren't good enough.
School buses were just they just for some reason they weren't good enough.
Had to get those Greyhounds down there from all over the country.
Get those, get your get their asses moving.
Those Greyhound bus lines get their asses moving to New Orleans.
My question is this.
The Democrats find a way to get all these people to the polls on election day.
Why didn't they use whatever they use to get those people to the polls to get them out of town?
Here's Gary in Palm Beach, Florida.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Well, my pleasure, and for years, I have uh listened and continually taken a different position than you, sir.
But today, my pain management blood boils.
Uh between that and my diabetes, I don't know which is worse.
To absolutely think that we had a cat one sitting off of the coast where I live, which could have turned this way, and at that particular time, the cat won should Mr. Bush and Mr. Brown and everybody else started uh getting the troops ready to march in because we're an integrated county,
and South Florida has some white English speaking people.
When I heard Mr. Dean a little while ago, it made me say I am joining another political party.
That crossed all lines as far as I'm concerned, sir.
How so?
You mean his his claim that uh the the he's talking about the relief effort shows that uh there's way too much poverty, too many black people that nobody cares about, and he's blaming the government, blaming Bush.
I mean, he actually said we've got to come to terms of the ugly truth, skin color, age, and economics played a significant role in who survived and who did not.
Um and and I guess he's talking about since they're black and poor, uh nobody cared to get them out of there.
But again, you gotta go back to who who's in charge of getting them out of there.
Sir, he's not my leader, okay.
He does not speak to the party that as soon as I can, I'm changing uh registration.
This is absurd to think that a hurricane that started as a cat won that slowly or quickly, if you want, picked up momentum.
The government can only move so fast.
But to think it and and remember at the last moment, it flinched.
It went another direction.
Did Mr. Bush uh make it move at the last hour to go on shore where it did?
Because it wasn't dead aimed at New Orleans.
It would have had some of the feeder bands, but that hurricane moved.
And who are we gonna blame that on?
Pat Robertson?
Who should we blame?
I I just don't know, sir.
But I know one thing.
Uh for so long I've said, Rush, I take a different side.
I take a different side.
But finally, finally, you open my eyes today, and uh I can't wait to uh change party affiliations.
To have people like this speak for me, no, sir.
I've got a lot of and I hate to say this because then it sounds racist, co-workers and friends that are of a different skin color.
And you know what?
I would give a pint of blood tomorrow, as I know they would for me.
How Mr. Dean could have, if anything, divided future relations in certain cases is beyond, you know, comprehensive.
Well, one thing one thing about this is true, and I I appreciate your uh your your observations, your comments on this.
This is not what you call party building.
This is not how you do it at a Democrats uh you you have to figure what's well I know what's this what happens just we become obsessed with hatred and and rage, but but nothing they're doing is building anything.
I mean, Dean doesn't inspire anybody with his comments.
Hatred is not an inspiration.
It's not how you build that's why that 13% that blame Bush is only gonna always be 13%.
It's not gonna grow because it doesn't attract people.
Thank you, Gary.
Quick timeout, be right back, folks.
A man, a legend, a way of life, eight hundred-two eight two-2882, Patrick in Wixam, Michigan.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh, an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
I'm calling to point out that the Democrats stance against Bush on Hurricane Katrina isn't internally consistent with their own logic against him.
What's the political gain here?
If Bush if Bush made this uh a political issue, he loses in every way.
If if he if he abandoned, you know, the black wait, wait.
You're talking about the racial uh aspects of this.
Because I'm not I don't mean Bush ought to respond.
I I'm not I know Bush is not going to, but but I'm talking about the liberals.
I mean, their argument against him isn't consistent with their stance against him.
If they're saying that he's making this decision as a racist, how is that consistent with uh other criticisms of him?
I mean, you you're losing you're alienating the black block.
I mean, it's not a political gain to ignore blacks.
I mean, he's he acts a certain way on immigration to um to pander to the Hispanics, supposedly, so why why wouldn't he make uh calculated decision to pander to blacks?
And economics it doesn't help him.
I mean, this you mentioned that it's now costing two hundred grand per evacue, so if now it gets saves money by by having that certain response to it.
I mean, it would have been economically better to respond beforehand.
I mean, on oil.
I mean, all the stereotypes about Bush by the left fail in this circumstance.
You know, it to respond in that way is not there's nothing to do.
I mean, wait, wait a minute.
Hold on a minute.
I'm confused here.
I'm uh I'm uh it says on the subject line here that that you're saying there's no upside for Bush to make it racial.
But I don't hear you talking about that.
I'm I'm I'm trying to figure out what you're saying.
Can you synthesize this for me?
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Uh I'm just saying that there's no in fact tell me what you're reacting to.
That that'll help me.
I'm also having trouble understanding you because your phone line, it's not you.
But what what are you reacting to?
What are you calling about?
I'm reacting to Howard Dean saying that race played an issue.
Oh, you're reacting to Dean, not me.
Okay.
Okay.
Not you, yeah.
Howard Dean.
Okay.
Howard Dean is saying that race played an issue, but if race played an issue, it people would have responded differently.
I mean, by responding as as he did, according to race, doesn't hurt.
It doesn't hurt.
I mean, it doesn't help.
It doesn't help America economically to leave people there to then have to spend all this money to evacuate them.
It doesn't help him in terms of gaining any voters if he was going to deliberately alienate such a huge population, a particular population that Republicans need to gain.
This this helps me.
I think I think you you have uh how do I say you you're you're misunderstanding Dean's purpose.
Uh uh if you're saying it there's no upside for Dean to make this racial, yes, you and I know this.
The Democrats don't.
It's like Harry Reid today.
Harry Reid comes out and says, we need health care, and we need education, and we need medic they say that every day of the week anyway.
We never have enough health care in America.
We never have enough education.
We never have enough of anything.
This situation calls for that.
That tells me, and Howard Dean comes out everything is racism.
Anything that happens to the the the to the disadvantage of this country, it's racism because the Republicans run the government and so forth.
It doesn't play to anybody.
They're not building anybody, they're only dividing people.
They're they're only sitting around and and uh executing age-old pages out of their playbook.
It's it's sort of comical to watch, particularly when Harry Reid gets up there and says the kind of things that he uh uh that he said.
I just I watched this and I was just chuckling uh almost uh mirthfully out of control here this morning watching this, uh, because they're learning nothing.
Uh you're looking at this with logic and reason.
Okay, there's a racial component to this and blah, blah, blah, blah.
You're you're asking all the right questions.
What is the economic advantage to having to go out and spend 200 grand per evacue?
What's the economic advantage having to spend all this money?
What um that leads to another whole other answer to the question, and this is another frustrating thing, too.
And okay, so Bush is beleaguered.
Bush is out there he he's saying uh or being told, and people are saying about him, he's not doing enough to help anybody.
He doesn't care, and then they'll come all the tin hat crowd, uh tinfoil uh hat crowd uh kooks that uh say that Bush planned this.
Bush wants black people to die, Bush blew up the uh levees and so forth.
Uh you you have a circumstance here where uh people are turning an issue into into a political issue, not an economic one.
So what's Bush gonna do?
What's his response?
It's what every president in the history of this country's response is.
You start writing a check.
Okay, you want to say I want these people to die?
You say that I don't care about these people.
Watch this.
We're up to sixty billion dollars in counting.
$200,000 per evacue.
No end in sight.
Uh and Congress, of course, sees this.
Well, we got to get in on it too.
We want credit for this.
So nobody opposes it.
You know, there ought to be some controls on where this money is going.
Do you know how to really throw this money down a rat hole?
Send it right back to the places in Louisiana that didn't use it right the first time.
You better not let the people in New Orleans and the people, uh the government of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana get hold of this money, or it's going to be thrown right down a rat hole, folks.
Somebody's got to administer the spending, and if we're going to go ahead and spend this, it better be spent as efficiently as possible.
But you send it down there to the same people who've been getting it.
It's worthless.
It's going to end up not getting to the people, just like it never got to the people, leading to all this poverty that we're seeing.
Anybody wants to tell me we're not spending enough on poverty in this country needs to go check out how much money we spent, and you will choke on the first page.
The idea we don't spend enough on poverty that we don't care is absolutely patently absurd.
The idea is, if you look at the last administrative cost I saw on every dollar of welfare was 78 cents.
That's how much it costs to get it through the red tape and the bureaucracy in order to get that dollar, which of what was reigning at 22 cents.
22 cents of every welfare dollar is what gets to where it's intended.
Somebody siphon off 78 cents of every dollar along the trail.
This is a five-year-old figure.
I don't even know what it is anymore.
Certainly it's not any better, but it hopefully it's not too much worse.
But anyway, here comes all this spending, and this is how any president who is beleaguered is going to respond to all these charges he doesn't care.
When he's got this kind of power, man, this is the power of the presidency.
You fire the money back out there, and then you let people say you don't care.
Then the Democrats see this, and Dingy Harry sees this.
Oh, I got to get on this.
I mean, if they're going to start spending money left and right, I gotta make sure I'm advocating the same thing so I get credit for it.
So Dingy Harry goes out there today, we need more health care.
We need more education, we need Medicare entitlement report, blah, blah, blah.
And the cash register just keeps ringing.
And there's no end in sight to this, folks.
Now, the Democrats, when you get to the political aspects of this, Democrats are simply doing what they always do, and there's nothing new, and it's not building their party, it's tearing it down.
When I said that Bush, when I said the Republicans don't need to sit here and be lectured to by a bunch of Democrats on racism.
All I'm saying is that there are some elected Republicans who can start acting like they've got spines and throw this stuff back at people like Howard Dean or throw it back.
And the way you throw it back is you do this.
We don't need lectures from Democrats about civil rights.
It was we who were on the right side of the civil war.
It was you on the wrong side of internment of the Japanese.
Your 1952 VEEP nominee was a segregationist.
Your majority leader in the Senate for 10 years was a Ku Klux Klansman.
Most of our party voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
It was Reagan who made Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday.
It was Reagan that extended the voting rights act for 25 years.
It was Bush who appointed the first black female as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
All this can just be thrown right back at them.
You can do it with a laugh.
I mean, you can you can do it any number of ways.
But but here, let me let me give the next story.
We had this this um a little out of order here, but you've steered me into it.
We had the story that moveon.org, says in USA Today, was gonna run an ad starting Monday with video, an ad against John Roberts with video of the aftermath of New Orleans.
Black people suffering and starving and so forth in the aftermath of the flood.
Well, they've apparently backed off now, claiming USA Today was wrong.
But is that true?
I have here a Boston Globe story.
I got it off the web last night.
Written by Rick Klein.
Here's the headline.
Democrats shift strategy on Roberts.
Plan to use Katrina to highlight racial and economic divide.
Move on.org and the Democratic Party on occasion happen to work together.
Move on.org says they're pulling back now.
The USA Today story was not true.
I'll bet it was true, and the pressure was too great, and they backed off.
But here's this story.
Senate Democrats said yesterday that they will invoke the vast disparities in income and living conditions laid bare by Hurricane Katrina to sharpen their questioning of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts at his confirmation hearings next week.
Well, there's an assumption that underlies these questions, and the assumption is Roberts is a racist because he's a Republican.
He grew up in a neighborhood with no blacks and no Jews.
Jews.
Now Richard Cohen's out there with a most inane piece I've seen in a long time, the Washington Post, Roberts has an appalling record of success.
He has an appalling lack of failure.
He can't relate to people because he's never failed.
So all this stems from a cliche from a template that liberals have of Republicans, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
You know the list.
And so now the Democrats, not only are they trying to politicize the aftermath here for whatever purposes, now they're going to try to nail John Roberts with this that you're seeing on television from Hurricane Katrina.
And the underlying assumption is, well, the Republicans just a bunch of racists, and this is going to help us show people.
Well, that's what they think.
And the reason they think it is because the liberals are on such thin ice in substance.
They cannot debate us on any issue of the day, and they know it.
They can't debate us and win.
They can't last 30 seconds.
And so what happens is, to avoid the debate, they come up with these cliches.
I don't have to spend time hanging around with racists and sexists and bigots and homophobes.
I don't even, I'm not going to give you the time of day.
I'm not even going to give you the respect that you're a human being.
Well, you're nothing but a racist and a sexist and a bigot and a homophobe.
And the whole point of that is to try to discredit rather than argue, rather than debate because they will lose.
They say we are all these things and discredit us, and that gives them their out, which is truly cowardice.
That gives them their out from even debating us.
So the assumption is, okay, Roberts, Republican, everybody knows Republicans are racist.
Katrina Roberts?
Ah, we've stumped.
It just shows they've got nothing on the guy.
Richard Cohen, appalling lack of failure in his life.
Ooh, yeah, that's something.
And now this.
So they're gonna they're gonna try to combine this story into the Roberts hearings.
They're gonna become the laughing stocks, and that 13%'s gonna stay at 13%.
The people in the country hate Bush.
None of what they're doing is expanding the party.
There's no growth potential, there's no inspiration, hatred doesn't get you those things.
But at the same time, you know, uh to sit around and and uh and listen to all this gobbledygook, racist sex.
I don't need, and we don't need to be lectured by a former clansman on race.
We are not going to be lectured by a party that had a segregationist as its vice presidential nominee in 1952.
We are not going to be segregated, we're not going to be lectured to by a bunch of people who ran New Orleans in Louisiana for 60 years and gave us what we just saw on TV the last week.
We are not going to be lectured to.
If what you say is true, if you guys are truly colorblind, if you care and you love and you create utopias, then New Orleans ought to never have happened.
Everybody there should never have been in poverty.
There should be not one poor person there, not one miserable person, not one unhappy person, everybody should have a job, everybody should have health care, everybody should have an education, everybody should be making in six figures, everybody should have two cars, but no, that's not the case.
And why?
You've been running a place for all these years.
How in the world can they turn around and say that all this is racism and blame it on the Republicans when the Republicans haven't had a thing to do with what's going on in New Orleans?
Well, I don't need to be lectured to by these people.
It's all I'm saying.
Now I know the president can't stand up and refute all this stuff, but there are some Republican senators who can, particularly on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
We'll read this story in the in the uh Boston Globe.
We don't we don't need to be lectured to by these people.
We don't need to listen to all this.
We don't need to let that become established as the template for the hearings.
That's all I'm saying.
I know the president can't do it, and I know the president won't do it.
More importantly, quick timeout, got to go a little long in this segment.
Be right back.
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I mentioned a moment ago that Vice President Cheney was in Gulport, Mississippi talking to the press, and the straggler walked by and a couple of times said, Go bleep yourself, Mr. Cheney.
He was talking to Shepard Smith.
We have the audio.
We have uh edited the audio, bleeped it in the appropriate places.
But I wanted you to hear it.
There are problems like that uh that need to be sorted out.
You've got, as I was talking to the mayor in those areas.
One of things you got yourself, Mr. Kane.
Gotta figure out what to do with uh all of the uh, Mr. Vice.
And uh it's the first time I've heard it.
Well, I would like to have heard the vice president say to Shepard Smith when Shepard said, Are you getting a lot of that, Mr. Vice President?
I would have loved for Cheney to say, No, Shep, are you getting a lot of that?
Uh but anyway, that's uh that's what happened.
It aired uh it aired live on all the networks.
There was a joint there's a pool coverage, but uh they were all live at the point that that happened.
Now I want to read you a story here from Reuters.
Now, media bias is no big deal anymore.
Uh but still it's striking.
But there's even more to say after I read it.
This is from last night.
Republicans headline, Republicans say hurricanes won't stop budget cuts.
Republicans in Congress on Wednesday rejected calls by Democrats to suspend work on tax cuts that would mainly benefit the rich.
And spending reductions on social programs because of the huge costs of hurricane relief.
Democrats said now's not the time to cut services for our most vulnerable, cut taxes for our most fortunate, and add $35 billion to the debt.
Add 35, add 60 billion to the deficit.
How in the world can the Democrats run around and say we're cutting anything?
Bush has never cut a dime.
There have been no cuts.
You people realize I finally forget what I was not able to understand with that previous caller.
He was uh Mr. Snerdley translated it for me.
He was saying there's nothing in this for Bush for Howard Dean to be right because Bush doesn't want to run and spend all $200,000 per event.
Yes, he does.
That's the point.
Bush loves writing these checks.
So does Congress.
They love writing the checks.
This is how they bail themselves out of jams.
From time immemorial.
This is how government gets itself out of problems.
Disaster, relief.
What oh, here's the checkbook.
Chick-jik-ching.
There hasn't been a budget cut in this country.
You go look at the budget.
You tell me that we're spending less last year than this or this year than last.
You can't find it, folks.
We're spending money here like it's we're going out of style, and it's spend and we're increasing it every year.
There are never any cuts.
You know, it's time to go back and do a little primer on budget uh baseline budgeting.
It's been a long time since we've done that.
There are no cuts in Washington ever.
There are only reductions in the rate of growth, but there are never any cuts.
How in the world a Democrats can sit there and say that the Republicans are gonna sit here and cut the budget, and we're gonna hurt the people who are suffering when we've just spent the equivalent so far of 200,000 per evacuee.
We're spending more on them in this circumstance than they would have gotten as welfare recipients or what have you had the disaster not happened.
We are increasing spending.
You know, I...
I've listened to the Democrats on this, and I just...
I know I say this all the time, but I am flat out amazed at just how how how low their skills for what they used to be have become.
They have no talent left on that bench anywhere, folks.
Uh Mary Landrew has finally uh lost her composure, uh, folks, Senate floor.
This afternoon we'll have the audio and a response that will bury her uh as the next hour gets underway.
Uh I got the shovel.
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