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Sept. 16, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 16, 2005, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, look, folks, back off.
Back off out there.
Just calm down.
I have a plan to deal with all this.
Don't go off the deep end and don't move to Canada.
At least not yet.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program, and this is the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
It's Friday, so let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I'm not kidding you people back off out there.
I didn't come up with this plan last night.
We will talk about it.
I have a plan.
Don't sweat it.
Everything's gonna be fine.
Don't get caught up in the moment like the media does.
There are deeper currents out there that are flowing.
Don't get caught up in the moment and run aground.
Boy, what a C I told you so this was.
The media, CNN and NBC setting up bureaus in New Orleans.
I told you this is going to happen last week.
They're gonna be on site to chronicle whatever misery they can find.
From now until the 2008 elections.
All right, you know the rules on open line Friday.
If you want to discuss something that you um think hasn't been discussed, it look it doesn't have to interest me today, Monday through Thursday.
It has to interest me, or we don't talk about it, but on Friday you can go for broke and talk about something that bores me.
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Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Here's President Bush last night from New Orleans.
I also offer this pledge of the American people.
Throughout the area hit by the hurricane, we will do what it takes.
We will stay as long as it takes to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives.
And all who question the future of the Crescent City need to know.
There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans.
And this great city will rise again.
So let's go now to the Astrodome in Houston, where lying in wait, or is it laying in wait?
Wherever.
They were sitting there, ABC News Ted Coppel, with a special early edition of Nightline with reporter Dean Reynolds, and they had lined up a sort of town hall meeting of guests, evacuees from New Orleans, who were taken outside the air-conditioned comfort of the Astrodome, made to sit outside in the heat and humidity and the insects of Houston, Texas, while watching this speech.
ABC just knew.
They just knew they just knew that these people they interviewed were gonna rip Bush to shreds.
Well, let's go to the tape.
The reporter Dean Reynolds says, I'd like to get the reaction of Connie London.
She spent several horrible hours at the Superdome.
You heard the president say repeatedly that you are not alone, that the country stands beside you.
You believe him.
Yeah, I believe him because uh here in Texas they have truly been good to us.
Do you did you get a sense of hope that you could return to your home one day in New Orleans?
Yes, I did.
I did.
D did you harbor any anger toward the president because of the slow federal response?
No, none whatsoever, because I feel like our city and our state government should have been there before the federal government was called in.
They should have been on their jobs.
And they weren't.
No, no, no, no.
Lord, they wasn't.
I mean, they had RTA buses, Greyhound buses, fool buses that was just sitting there going underwater when they could have been evacuating people.
And this did not change during the whole show.
You hear how the reporter Dean Reynolds was sweating himself, doing his best to extract from these evacuees from New Orleans.
Once again, made to leave the air-conditioned comfort of the Astrodome to go outside the heat, humidity, and insects of Houston, sit there and watch the speech, and they just knew these people were gonna come out and tar and feather Bush.
And when they didn't, Dean Reynolds kept probing and kept asking and kept hinting and kept imploring them to rip into Bush.
Media living in the moment.
And it did not happen.
By the way, I have to check this out, but I got an email from a subscriber at Rush 24-7 today, who said that he found a story back in uh in the 90s uh from one of the I think it was uh the either the Lafayette newspaper in Louisiana or the Baton Rouge newspaper that Mary Landrew had succeeded in getting something like a hundred and fifty buses put together in 14 hours to take voters to the polls in New Orleans.
But back to the audio tape from ABC's early edition of Nightline, outside the air-conditioned comfort of the Astrodome, where New Orleans evacuees were made to sit and watch the speech amidst the heat and the humidity and the insects of Houston.
Dean Reynolds goes to another guest.
Now, Mary, you were rescued from your house, which was basically submerged in your neighborhood.
Did you hear something in the president's words that you could glean some hope from?
You say we're coming back, and I believe we're coming back.
We're gonna be able to see the other believe that.
You believe you'll be able to return to your home?
Why?
Because I really believe what he said.
I believe I got paper.
Let's now go to evacuee number three as ABC attempts to slice and dice Bush.
Dean Reynolds says, Now, Brenda Marshall, you spent what?
Several days at the Superdome, correct?
She says, Yes, I did.
And Reynolds said, Well, what did you think of what the president told you tonight?
I think the speech was wonderful.
You know, him specifying that we will return back and that we will have like mobile homes, uh, you know, rent or whatever.
I was listening at that pretty good, but I think it was a well-fined speech.
Was there anything that you found hard to believe that that he said that you you thought, well, that's nice rhetoric, but uh, you know, the the proof is in the pudding.
No, I didn't.
Good.
Well, very little skepticism here.
Very little uh skepticism here, Ted.
We don't know what's going wrong here.
We had these people set up, we picked them out, we figured we'd we we're gonna get some good bush bashing going on here, but it it just didn't happen.
It was a well-fined speech.
Dean Reynolds talking to evacuee number four, and here is the question.
And uh, Cecilia, did you uh feel that the president was sincere tonight?
Yes, he was.
Yes, he was.
Uh finally desperate, ABC News Dean Reynolds goes back to evacue number one here.
He said, Mary, what is the one mistake that could have prevented that would have made your lives better?
Is it simply getting all of you out much sooner?
What was the one mistake?
I'm gonna tell you the truth.
I had an opportunity to get out, but I didn't believe it.
So I saved it until it was too late.
And really, it wasn't Hurricane Katrina that really told up the city.
It was when they opened the floodgates.
It was not the hurricane itself.
It was the floodgates.
When they opened the floodgates, that's where all the water came.
Do you blame anybody for this?
Oh, yes.
Yeah, I mean, they've been allocated federal funds to fix the Nevy system.
And it never got done.
I felt this the mayor of our city, personally.
I really do.
You talk about a major league, big media backfire.
This is it, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh, immediately after the president's speech on ABC last night.
So Dean Reynolds tosses it back to uh Ted Coppel, who who did not Ted looked like he'd just eaten something that disagreed with him.
Uh, I thought, here's how that sounded.
Ted, that is the uh word from uh the Houston Astrodome.
And uh, as I said, when uh the president said that the Crescent City will rise again, there were nods all around uh this parking lot.
Dean Reynolds, thank you very much.
If the national response is reflected by that small group of people in the parking lot of the Astrodome, the president has made some major progress tonight.
Uh I I I uh the thing that that gets me about this, uh well, you know, this is just about small people in the Astrodome.
If the nationwide response, it's like these people really still don't count.
What what they said still doesn't matter because they still bunch of people we dragged out of the air conditioned comfort of the Astrodome, sat them outside in the heat, humidity, and insects of Houston to watch the speech.
But anyway, that forms the Foundation of the way I want to talk about all this today, folks.
So sit tight, we'll take a break and come back right after this.
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I I want to warn you, some of you people out there are loaded for bear.
I've been reading the email today, and uh I just want to warn you, I'm in a fabulous mood today.
I'm in a good mood, so uh but don't expect me to be, you know, fit to be tied and angry and all that sort of stuff.
I understand a lot of you are.
Uh a lot of you just you you think, well, whatever, what's the difference now between conservatives and liberals, Rush?
I mean, big spending, big spending, what the hell?
It's over with.
I mean, I'm I I've I've just got reams of email here.
Uh I don't know how many of you in the listening audience uh have the same view that this speech last night was a disaster when it comes to the future uh and of conservatism or government spending the size of government and so forth.
But I do have a plan to deal with this.
Remember, the president made a proposal last night.
It's it's uh it's gonna go through the legislative process.
But one of the things that that uh I again I want to emphasize don't get caught up in the moment.
There are far deeper currents that are taking place here.
And while I, you know, you talk about the Roberts hearings and the uh the the reshaping of the judiciary, that is taking place.
The and that's can't tell you how crucial that is.
Well, as you well know.
Um and the the Democrats, folks, are just they're wandering aimlessly in the desert.
They don't have a Moses.
They're there they are in deep trouble.
What the president did last now, I I th I think a lot of you have a view that this was just the okay, the president's finally said the hell with conservatism and it's over with.
He didn't do that.
If you just look at the total amount of money being spent and you listen to the ways you hear it being spent, you might think, oh God, we're we're just we're we're chucking it, but we're not.
Uh I I think I think a subtitle of what the president's speech last night was could be this.
Okay, Libs, we've tried it your way for 60 years.
And now we're gonna try it our way.
He was talking about enterprise zones, school vouchers, uh turning renters into owners of uh the rebuilding this place without rebuilding slums.
They're not gonna rebuild it the way it was with the same architecture and the same structure politically and everything else.
It is a pretty decent opportunity here.
Uh but and I I I think also this has now been ranked as the worst in terms of economics, the worst disaster in the history of this country.
And I think all the Americans look at this as not something that the residents of this place did to themselves.
Uh this is something that was brought about by a confluence of events that were ignited by a natural disaster.
And so you you have here essentially innocence.
You have victims from all walks of life who are essentially innocent in terms of the loss.
Now you can get into arguments, well, yeah, but they could have gotten out, they could have done this, they could have fixed the levies.
Well, that's that they didn't.
So you don't deal with what ifs, you deal with what is.
And uh what what what's gonna happen now to fix it?
I told you, I remember I was laughed at, and I was impugned, and I was criticized on the first or second day after this hurricane went through, and even before and after the levees broke.
I said, you watch what's gonna happen here.
The the the can-do spirit that has defined this country is gonna take over, and you're gonna have a massive rebuilding effort, and it's gonna be built back better than it was before.
And I I was not trying to be artificially optimistic.
This is I know my country.
I know what's gonna happen here.
Now, in a in a situation like this, I don't know uh in the long haul uh who who can do this if not us.
That's what the federal government is.
Uh this is this is massive.
It involves two states and parts of a third.
And it's uh covers a huge wide area.
And there's a there's a tremendous opportunity here for a whole bunch of things which are positive.
but yet I know, and by the way, you know something I have yet, I I thought one of the things that would aggravate the left more than anything in that speech last night that I have not yet found, they may have done it, but I haven't yet found a reaction to, and it's a huge see, I told you so.
The president actually said we've learned now that the U.S. military is the one element of our government and the bureaucracy that's best equipped to handle this.
And he went on to say that we need to empower them more in circumstances like that.
I thought the left would we were throwing up red flags, yellow flags, green flags, pink ribbons, and everything.
You start empowering the military, and those people start having babies out of wedlock.
It just their cows starts having babies.
I mean, they just they lose it.
And I haven't heard any reaction to this at all.
In fact, get this.
This is a the the the uh the Pelosi Reed response, the Democrats in the House and the Senate.
The Gulf Coast region does not deserve to be treated as a laboratory for political opportunism or ideological experimentation.
Now's the time for unity.
What?
What has it been for the last sixty years?
It has been nothing but political opportunism and corruption and a demonstrated failure of ideology, and that failure is liberalism.
This is why, and they know what the president said last night.
They listened between the lines.
That's why they put out this panic-based statement.
The president said, We tried it your way for 60 years, we're gonna do it my way now.
He didn't put it in those words, but there's plenty of conservative fallacy in his speech last night in terms of how to go about spending this money and rebuilding it.
And you're gonna see these, you're gonna see these these uh these policies, these philosophies put into place.
They've worked in other places.
The old enterprise zone, for example, that's gonna be uh targeted here in this region.
But for crying out loud, the left is stuck, folks.
All they can do is go back to their age-old playbook.
I don't care if it's John Roberts, I don't care if it's this disaster.
John Kerry's out there.
John Kerry, who failed, and every opportunity to provide leadership, said, well, you know, a speech.
Speech two weeks after the fact, it's just a speech, that's not leadership.
What would he know about it?
And tell me to the people down in Houston who are evacuated from New Orleans, give a rat's rear end what John Kerry thinks about anything today.
Or do they care what Reed and Pelosi are saying?
Are they even hearing what they say?
If they did hear what they say, would it register it?
No, it doesn't.
Because they're a bunch of naysayers and negativists and doom and gloomers who are not moving forward at all.
They are scared to death that's what's going to happen down there is the is the once and for all exposing of the utter failure of the liberal utopia.
That it should have been.
You had liberals running that state and that city for sixty years.
It should have been a utopia.
There should have been no unemployment, there should have been no racial discrimination, there should have been no unhappiness.
And instead, what do we learn we had?
We had misery, we had poverty, we had hopelessness, we had corruption, we had incompetence at the highest levels of government.
It's on display, and they know it, and they're afraid that what Bush's plan is going to do is expose that while at the same time illustrating the superiority of conservative ways of dealing with this.
So they come out with this idiotic statement that the Gulf Coast region doesn't deserve to be treated as a laboratory for political opportunism or ideological experimentation.
The idea, the gall of these people, they sit there in their superiorist, condescending way, and essentially say, we need to put it back just the way it was.
Well, nobody wants it back the way it was.
I knew going in, folks, and I told you this two weeks ago.
I knew going in the president was going to write the checks.
All presidents do in these situations.
Cha-ching.
in...
But as I say, Bush essentially was saying, okay, Libs, tried it your way down there for 60 years.
Now we're going to try it our way.
Enterprise zones, attempts to get poor people into ownership of homes and businesses, et cetera.
And I th I think that this has paralyzed the left even more.
I think it screwed them.
What can they do?
What can they do?
It's Exactly what they would have done, minus the conservative aspects.
All they can do is complain and moan as Carrie Reed and Pelosi are already doing.
And guess who's moving forward?
George W. Bush and those who join him.
And folks, I'm going to tell you something.
At this stage, I am for anything.
Almost anything that wipes out the American left.
Because I have had it with the American left.
If the American left hadn't dominated down there, even with this storm, the losses would not have been to the extent that they are.
So I, you know, anything that wipes these people out is fine and dandy with me.
Anything that renders them politically impotent is fine with me.
At this stage, you know, you balance all these things that we face in the future, and I'm telling you something.
Liberalism slash socialism, I don't care what you think about it.
It represents a bigger enemy than whatever government's spending and the way it's going to be spent in putting back together an American city in the Gulf Coast region.
We'll be back in just a second and continue.
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Folks, the bottom line is.
And we've been we've been we've been pouring money into this uh in this state in this region and putting it in the hands of Democrats for I don't know how many generations now, and you see where it has gotten us.
You see where it's led.
You it's created a permanent underclass with no hope, no opportunity, no nothing.
You can find all over the newspapers today, surveys of evacuees all over the country, and a you know half of them in one poll, 60% in another poll.
I'm not going back.
Don't want to go back.
It's their home, it's all they've known.
They don't want to go back.
Some do, but some don't.
The place was not a panacea.
The place was not a utopia.
All right.
So it gets destroyed essentially by a hurricane and a levee's breaking.
The federal government is required by statute to respond to a disaster of this magnitude.
The federal government is required by statute to bear most of the costs of reconstruction.
The question, the question now becomes how this response manifests itself.
Are we going to throw money into the same corrupt hands that we have done it before, or are we going to get it straight to the people who can rebuild their lives?
If it's the former, it's going to be a failed effort.
If we try the same old redistribution tactics, it isn't going to work.
If we try it another way, though, is required by statute, then the opportunity for success here is uh is tremendous.
So if you you I don't know uh the bottom line of how this is all going to work out.
Uh but I do know this, that the taxpayers are going to expect this with this amount of money.
They're going to expect results.
They're going to expect that this work is done as honestly as possible, the money spent as wisely as possible, and therefore the president said last night he's going to have a whole bunch of people down there, uh, inspector generals, whatever, uh reviewing all of the uh all of the expenditures.
So what are the options?
Well, as I said, I think the opportunity here exists for the president to end up kicking the rear ends of the left at their own game with conservative twists.
The speech was great last night, within, you know, the limitations that we know exists.
The table is set for a complete route of the American left.
They can be blown away.
We can make this a category five hurricane destruction of the left if this is done right.
If the GOP can pull this off, they will increase majorities in both houses, and they do it with a leadership plan that would cold cock the left and the media.
And I'm gonna give you some elements of it.
I I don't pretend to tell you I think this is going to happen.
I'm rather pessimistic that it's going to happen, but there's no sense in being over overcome by the pessimism.
We may as well try for it.
The GOP leadership in the Congress needs to propose to cancel and redraw the highway bill, the energy bill, and the farm bill.
There's $26 billion of pork in the highway bill.
Pork, by definition, giveaways and throwaways to areas that, yeah, would like to have it.
But here's a place that actually needs it.
And we're also worried about spending more money than we have and having to raise taxes and having to cut services here and there.
Well, we don't ever cut services, we always raise taxes.
And the uh interestingly, I also I haven't heard the left say, we haven't heard the president say anything about uh uh increasing taxes out there.
I don't know where they are on this, but given time, they haven't mentioned that they will.
But you there's plenty of pork to cut out of the highway bill.
And you can relook at that bill and all the spending in that bill in light of new priorities now.
Energy bill.
Take the royalties from Anwar over the life of the site, uh, maybe even sell energy bonds backed by Anwar and did that money down to this rebuilding effort.
Uh the farm bill is a hundred and ninety billion dollars, and we know that there's all kinds of pork in the farm bill.
So it is there.
These are just three examples.
There are countless other examples where already on the books federal spending exists or soon to be planned federal spending is on the drawing board, that it could be reallocated here.
At the same time that this is happening, the way the money is distributed and the purposes for which it is distributed, should have some serious thought put behind it to maximize the actual rebuilding of the lives of individuals.
There's a there's just a tremendous opportunity.
To me, uh when I look at this, every hand is a winner.
And every hand can be a loser, too.
You've got to know when to hold them, when to fold them, and yes, when to when to bet the ranch.
But this seems to me like a hanging curveball of an opportunity here.
A hanging curveball of opportunity for conservatives to define finally in a little in a little area down here in the Gulf region how it works, to illustrate how it works.
And don't just get caught up in we're spending way too much money.
We got to pare down this.
We're gonna spend the money.
It's required by statute that you rebuild these things after disasters.
The key is how it is spent.
It has always been the key.
And here this is to me is a is a is a great opportunity.
Now, let me read some of the emails from people who are doubting Thomas's about all this because I know you're out there, don't want to ignore you, and I don't want you to think that I'm not paying attention to what you're saying.
Hey, Rush, let's give them scrub land in Texas.
Then they'll need water.
Then they'll sue to divert water from the cities because the land they were given is worthless without water.
Then those living in the city will be without water.
Their properties will be worthless.
They'll be offered a land to appease their unhappiness.
Then they'll sue for water against those that have the water.
Where does this stuff end?
That's just one.
Uh Rush, Bush's approval numbers were at 47%.
That's the base.
The conservative base that stayed with him.
Now he's lost that.
I wouldn't be surprised if his approval number is at 1% as the base leaves en masse.
Hey, Rush, my land, 40 acres, just became worthless, worth less than it was worth because of the Zimbabwe type land giveaway.
Didn't Zapatista in Mexico do this also?
Give the peasants land.
And even this isn't enough for the Democrats.
I give up.
Don't even listen to the Democrats right now, folks.
The Democrats, I I they're just it's laughable.
It is literally laughable to listen to the Democrats complain and whine and moan about this.
Uh they're just but the reason it is, the reason it's funny is because you can leak read between the lines, they are just they are just scared to death of the uh what's going to happen here.
What they are really afraid of, and they've been afraid of for a long time.
They know conservatism works, they know liberalism doesn't work, but they don't care.
But the one thing, the one thing that they cannot risk is An on-site display and illustration of conservatism working.
As long as they can they can keep conservatism as something that's just argued about and uh just something that's spoken about, talked about.
Well, they don't fear it that much, but boy, when there's an opportunity, like tax cuts.
They work every time they're tried.
They raise revenue, and yet the libs continue to lie and tell people that tax cuts reduce revenue, and tax cuts only help the rich.
And it's a total lie, and you know it.
And they go into revisionist history mode each time there is a tax cut plan.
But the truth is in the numbers and the numbers are there.
Uh, I also got a couple emails from people who said, Rush, I don't like what I heard when the president said about racism that there are age old reasons for this and they must be dealt with.
I I got the impression I was listening to the president talking about race the way the Democrats talking about.
Talk about it.
Let me address that here as as just give you my thoughts on it.
I think we had we had the story uh from James Taranto, who's doing an examination of race in America on his blog, The Best of the Web Today, Wall Street Journal, uh the Wall Street Journal's blog, it's opinionjournal.com.
And as he correctly points out, the the black population in this country are really outliers right now.
They are they they see the country and the world in a hundred and eighty degree different way than any other group of people in this country.
And it's illustrated by polls that have been taken in the aftermath of the hurricane.
Uh nine out of ten Americans who are not black, nine out of ten say there's no way race was a factor here.
The race had nothing to do with the federal response, the time it took, the hurricane hitting that era, race had nothing to do with it.
Eight out of ten blacks think that race had everything to do with it.
That's a divide.
I mean, that that that's a that's that's that's two groups of people going in a whole different directions.
Now the blacks represent the black population, 12.5%.
That's they're truly outliers here.
Now, we can debate why that is, and we know why it is, is because they've been listening to the wrong people, the race industry leaders who only profit when uh when black people think this way.
But you go, you talk about playing the race card.
Uh okay, if you play the race card, it doesn't do you any good unless you get some white people to go along with you.
Playing the race card on this episode doesn't work because nine out of ten Americans who aren't black don't think race has anything to do with it.
You play the race card, you're automatically gonna get uh the majority of black people to agree with you.
But if you're gonna play the race card, you gotta go out and get some sympathetic white Americans.
Yeah, I think there's a little racism here, and I don't like it.
They don't see it at all.
They don't see racism in this at all.
And there's a clear reason.
I mean there are many clear reasons.
So I think because of all this, I I think they know in the White House they can't win an intellectual battle on the reasons for blacks being poor in a liberal Democrat state in a city, and certainly last night's not the time to say so.
These people are sitting over in the Astrodome or wherever, and it's it's that's not the time to say, you know why you're here?
Because for sixty years your leaders have let you down.
That's not that's not the time to do this.
What what I think what the White House wanted to do last night was get their attention with the speech and focus them on the efforts that are now being made to bring them back home and to make them whole.
Uh as I say earlier, Bush Bush is saying, let's do this our way now.
And I think that he knows that an illustration, a demonstration of how we look at these things, a demonstration of our intentions coming to fruition is far better evidence to anybody than just telling them and getting into an intellectual back and forth.
We will see.
A quick timeout, we'll be back uh with more in just a moment.
The reaction of some of these people at the Astrodome last night on ABC's post-speech town hall is indicative that the uh the president's speech uh got through to at least some of them.
Back after this, stay with us.
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Folks, I have other great news for you here, unrelated.
Well, some might say it is related in an offbeat way to the uh hurricane Katrina aftermath and rebuilding.
It's from Tech Central Station.
As you know, the Clinton Global initiative got underway this morning at 11 o'clock in New York, where Clinton said he was going to go a long way towards solving poverty uh in the next three days around the world.
Tell me something.
How have we been trying to solve poverty for all of your life and mine?
And have we solved it?
We have spent six point six trillion dollars.
You think that what we're going to spend here in this hurricane recovery is something?
Six point six trillion dollars in income and wealth transfers since the war on poverty began in 1964.
And as we see from New Orleans, we have a wiped out poverty.
We have the same percentage.
Now poverty is relative.
Poverty in this country is not poverty in, say, third world countries.
But look at that.
How we've been trying to wipe out poverty in third world countries, the liberal way.
We funnel money to corrupt leaders through a corrupt organization called the United Nations, and it hasn't worked.
And so lo and behold, here's the Clinton Global Initiative, which is really nothing more than a platform for two things.
Clinton finally finding a legacy.
He doesn't know that he already has one.
Her name is Monica Lewinsky.
The second thing is to provide a foundation for Hillary Clinton's presidential perspirations.
And that's the purpose of this thing.
So what happens today?
Ha ha.
Tony Blair pulled a rug out from underneath Bill Clinton and all the attendees.
On stage with former president at a midtown Manhattan Hotel Ballroom, Tony Blair said he was going to speak with brutal honesty about the Kyoto Protocol and global warming, and he did.
Blair, who has been a longtime supporter of the Kyoto Treaty, further prefaced his remarks by noting, my thinking has changed in the past three or four years.
So what's he think now?
No country, he declared is going to cut its growth.
That is, no country is going to allow the Kyoto Treaty or any other such global warming treaty to crimp, some say cripple its economy.
Tony Blair has just rescinded his support of the Kyoto Protocol on stage with Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative.
So we all thought that they were best of buddies.
So what'll happen instead?
You know, looking ahead to future climate change negotiations, Blair said if such fast growing countries as India and China, they're not going to start negotiating another treaty like Kyoto.
So what'll happen instead?
Well, Blair said, what countries will do is work together to develop the science and technology.
There's no way that we're going to tackle this problem unless we develop the science and technology to do it.
That's what the eco-realists have been saying all along, of course, that the only feasible way to deal with the issue of these greenhouse glasses or grass uh gases rather and global warming is through technological breakthroughs, not draconian cutbacks like Kyoto.
There's no word on what Bill Clinton thought at the moment this happened, nor there is any word on what Bill Clinton said.
But I wanted to pass this on to you.
And there's a story in one of the, I guess it's the Times Online from the UK.
It's too late anyway.
Global warming, there's nothing we can do about it.
So it's all gone.
It's it's hopeless, it's fit's finished, we're finished, we're dead, we're doomed, it's it.
And of course, the only logical reaction to that is, well, if if if that if if we can't fix it, then how could we have caused it?
If we can't fix it, how in the world could we have caused it?
By the way, folks, back to my plan.
I left out a key ingredient of my plan here.
Not just re-examine a highway bill for pork and reallocate that pork to this mission, and not just the energy bill and not just the farm bills.
How about immigration reform?
How about all of the money we are spending on social services for illegal immigrants?
Reforming illegal immigration, getting serious about the borders, and limiting the number of illegals that get into this country would end up saving some money.
That money could be spent on American citizens.
We've been throwing money away around the world left and right on the disadvantage in the poor.
Don't you think it's about time to take care of some of our own who got wiped out in a natural disaster through no fault or cause of their own?
And if you do all of these things, and particularly if the Republicans do and add immigration reform to it, then uh they own the future.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
All right, folks, you've heard my plan for spending the money in rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Let's call it the Limbaugh Plan.
You've heard the outlines.
Coco at the website.
I want you to set up a section on the website called the Limbaugh Plan.
Outline as I just did what that is, and then folks, you let us know what your ideas are to add to this.
Uh if you are subscribers at rushlimbaugh.com, we'll find a way to get some of those posted just as we continue to post Club Gitmo pictures.
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