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Sept. 21, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 21, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Greetings and welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
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All right, look at this.
Story just cleared the Reuters wire.
Valero Energy Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Bill Grehey.
Said that Hurricane Rita's impact on U.S. crude oil production and refining could be a national disaster.
If it hits the refineries, and we're short refining capacity, you're going to see gas prices well over three bucks a gallon at the pump, he said the Tuesday night interview.
Valero became the largest U.S. refiner earlier this year when it completed the purchase of Premcor, Inc.
Valero operates refineries in Port Arthur, Houston, Texas City, and Corpus Christi, all of them potentially in the path of Hurricane Rita.
It's going to be coming across the Gulf.
There's a lot of platforms and rigs, natural gas platforms, gas rigs.
It could have a significant impact, impact on supply and prices, and then depending on what it does to the refineries.
There's still four refineries shut down, so this really could be a national disaster.
Well, it's time for the Democrats to stand up and applaud.
Don't shake your head in there, Rachel.
I'm being serious, folks.
It's time for the Democrats to say this is what we need.
The Democrats, how long have they been saying?
Some of them.
They're cook fringe.
How long have they been saying?
They're liberal activists.
We have been relying too much on fossil fuels.
We need to reduce it.
The price of gasoline's gone up.
They have been encouraging this by hooker crook, one way or the other for a number of decades.
Shouldn't they now be happy?
Shouldn't they raise their hands and say this is the way we need to fight the problem?
Bill Clinton did, again, I remind you, Saturday night in New York at the Clinton Global Initiative.
This story is in the uh the UK independent.
Clinton revealed greener than thou environmental credentials last week, privately suggesting to heads of government and industry leaders that they should celebrate the recent spike in oil prices as the best opportunity to begin weaning their nations from fossil fuel dependency.
So Clinton let it slip.
He let the truth slip out.
It's time to be public with this, Mr. President.
Don't just tell your little socialist buddies in a hotel ballroom.
It's time to tell the American people this is what you think.
Let's go back.
The first thing Clinton tried to do when he took office was raise taxes, one of them on gasoline.
Do you remember?
Clinton has always wanted higher gasoline prices and higher oil prices, and now they've got them, and they're acting all upset and they want to blame Bush for it.
They're being dishonest.
They need to stand up and say we're for this.
This is the best opportunity we're gonna have to wean ourselves of the evils of fossil fuels.
That would be honest.
That is who they are.
That's why today I join with the moveon.org and the Daily Cause and the Democrat Underground in a quest to get elected Democrats to be honest about who they are.
Stop trying to fake people out with these so-called moves to the center and these moves to the right.
You gotta be honest with the American people.
And it's time the Democrats stood up.
We have a potential national disaster heading down the pike.
This could be the best news the Democrats have received.
This is perhaps going to give them what they have long advocated.
Higher gasoline prices, higher oil prices, less use of fossil fuel, a declining U.S. economy, declining U.S. prosperity.
This is what they're for.
Stand up and say it.
We all know it.
We have heard you say it periodically over the years, and it slips out when you get together with your cronies at a big world forum.
Time to tell the little people, Mr. Clinton.
Time to tell the voters what you really believe.
Mrs. Clinton, yesterday, over the den of beating Tom Tom, surrounded by activists, wearing antlers and dressed as polar and grizzly bears, dismissed high gas prices.
And the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina as a diversion, cautioning that proponents of Arctic drilling were exploiting recent crises to make their case for a long-term anti-environment agenda.
Yeah.
More oil, cheaper prices.
That's an anti-environment agenda, and she's opposed to it.
She is opposed to more oil, more domestic oil.
She's opposed to cheaper prices.
She wants the gas price to stay high.
She wants the oil price to say high.
Say it in words people can understand, Mrs. Clinton, and don't just say it to a meeting of kooks who believe it.
They want you to say it publicly.
They want you to say it in commercials.
They want you to say it from the Senate floor.
It's time you did so.
It's time to say what you really said, Mrs. Clinton, and what you really think.
You think that it's not right to exploit one disaster by creating another.
And the creating another disaster she talks about is drilling for oil on American soil in Alaska.
Get this quote.
She told those opposed to drilling to be absolutely firm in our opposition to drawing petroleum from Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and said this.
Some might say, well, Senator, we have gas prices going up.
We don't need to drill in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge.
Or don't we need to?
Don't we need to drill the Arctic refuge?
Well, of course, she said the answer is that we do not need to drill there.
That answer is a diversion.
The answer is we need to break our addiction to foreign oil.
That's a quote.
What in the world is drilling in and war if not breaking our addiction to foreign oil?
This is this is idiotic.
This is pure stupid from the smartest woman in the world to tell these kooks.
The answer is that's a diversion.
We need to break our addiction to foreign oil.
Does she think Alaska is not part of the United States?
She, if the truth be known, wants our addiction on foreign oil continued.
She wants a reduction in supply, and she wants higher prices so that we will be made equal with the rest of the world because she is a liberal and a socialist and she hates the fact that we are so prosperous.
It isn't fair while so many other people are suffering.
It's time to be honest about these things, Democrats.
If you're not going to be, I am.
And today I reiterate my call, join forces with the left, and their activists who are demanding the same honesty and the same accountability from you that I am.
If they don't get it, you are not going to win elections.
They are going to elect people who will say what they believe.
They're not going to put up with this phony baloney plastic banana good time rock and roller behavior from elected Democrats much longer, and I join them in that.
Now, along the lines of the environment, the climate on Mars is showing a warming trend regularly.
Recent images have shown the first evidence of seismic activity on the on the planet.
Michael Malin, the principal investigator for the Mars orbiter Camera, told reporters, this is the first evidence that scientists had seen as some kind of seismic activity or possible Mars quake.
He said that images of Mars southern southern polar cap showed that uh uh scarps have formed that there are retreating at a prodigious rate of about ten feet per Mars year.
This is the ice cap.
The solar or that the polar ice caps in Mars are melting to the tune of ten feet per Mars year.
Now, Malin said scientists had no explanation yet as to why Mars might be warming up.
Oh, really?
They've got answers to why the earth is warming up, and it's you and me.
It's oil, it's American prosperity, it's fossil fuels, it's air conditioning, it's all of the things that lead to our prosperity.
We're destroying our planet.
What the hell's happening on Mars?
They have no explanation.
Maybe they need to turn to their expert on these matters, Al Gore.
Maybe Al Gore can tell us why Mars is warming up.
Why are the ice caps on Mars melting?
Al Gore will certainly have the answer.
I can tell you what it is.
I know what the answer is in both cases.
It's the sun.
We are in a in a in a in a period of increased activity, solar activity from the sun, which explains the warming.
That and the fact that there are natural warming and cooling cycles on the uh on the planet.
In further bad news for the left, this is why they have got to come out and be honest.
They cannot let their activists continue to carry the weight on this.
Elected Democrats need to come out and be honest because of this poll.
A vast majority of voters favor stronger policies to protect the environment, but the issue still ranks low on their list of priorities.
The survey found that 79% favor stronger national standards to protect our land, our air, and water, but only 22% said that uh environmental issues played a major role in their recent voting.
So they think all these wonderful things out there, but it's not a powerful enough issue for them to vote on.
That's because not enough elected even Al Gore, who wrote the book Earth in the Lurch, downplayed his militant environmentalism during his own presidential campaign.
Where would he be today had he been honest about what he wants to do to this country and other industrialized countries to fix this problem of pollution and global warming?
The activists know the activists know what they want to hear from these people.
And they're not hearing it from the elected Democrats.
And as such, something has to give.
In a related story, ladies and gentlemen, two major newspaper publishers announced significant job cuts as the industry continues to struggle with weak advertising and circulation.
The New York Times company said yesterday, it will cut about 500 jobs across the company.
This represents 4% of its workforce.
Two Philadelphia newspapers said they would cut a combined 100 jobs.
Now, this uh this 500 jobs at the New York Times follows job cuts of 200 in May.
The New York Times also warned investors that its earnings for the third quarter would come in far below Wall Street forecasts because of sluggish advertising as well as higher than expected costs from a previous round of job cuts in May.
That round of cuts resulted in 200 lost jobs.
At the Times, uh that little pinch said, Well, we've been through tough times.
We've been tested before, we're being tested now.
The cuts will come mainly from the business side of the company, but newsroom staff cuts will also be affected.
It makes sense they would be cutting business jobs.
There's not that much business going on at the New York Times.
And some of you who are wide awake and alert might say to me, but Rush, the New York Times is being blatantly honest about what they believe, and can't it be said that this is hurting them?
Yes, I'm not saying that the Democrats are going to ride to victory being honest.
I'm saying they're never going to understand their mistakes and fix what's institutionally wrong with them until they start being honest.
Nobody can.
You have things that are that are terribly wrong with you or your situation, family life, whatever.
Until you're honest with yourself about it, you don't have a chance of fixing it.
You can't blame everybody else all the time.
You can't be a whiner, a moaner, a complainer.
You gotta come out and stand up for what you believe in at times.
You've got to have the faith and confidence to do that.
The New York Times does.
They are losing circulation, they are losing advertisers, ditto Los Angeles Times, digo ditto Chicago Tribune, ditto every major newspaper in the country.
But you have to start somewhere.
You have to stop the bleeding.
And if they're going to continue to live under false premise and false illusions, they're only going to see their power, their wealth, and their influence further erode, even worse than it would be, would they simply be honest?
They just don't have the guts.
They I know they're in a jam, folks.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not I'm not fooling myself here.
I know they're in a jam.
I know they can't be honest.
They know they can't be honest.
But they also can't keep lying either.
What would you do if you were them?
I say it's time for the Democrats to listen to their activists because that's where the money is in this party now.
Thanks to campaign finance reform, McCain did more to screw the Democratic Party than he ever planned to.
All these 527 groups took the money away from the Democratic Party and gave it to groups headed up by Soros, move on.org.
That's where the power in the party is, and they're the ones that are going to be making these demands of honesty.
I join them.
Because if the elected officials don't listen to them, they are going to lose at the ballot box.
We'll be back and continue in a mere moment.
Stay with us.
Some people asking me in the email, Rush, uh, was there was there a tipping point that uh caused you to uh change course on this today and join forces with the uh with the activists On the left.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I must admit that there was.
It was last night, while I was feverishly in more ways than one, preparing for today's exciting excursion into broadcast excellence.
I ran across a column in the Los Angeles Times from September the 16th.
About five days ago from David, I don't know how not says his last name.
It's Mammoth or Mammaze, the screenwriter.
Uh it's Mammoth.
He uh his his, I guess, claim to fame is Glenn Gary Glenn Ross.
That movie.
And he's fed up with the Democrats.
He thinks they're just a bunch of cowards.
Bush is on the ropes, and the Democrats don't have the guts to go for the jugular.
In politics as in poker, the only way to win is to seize the initiative.
And Democrats need to make bolder wagers or risk being rolled over again.
One needs to know three words to play poker.
Call, raise, or fold.
Fold means keep the money, I'm out of the hand.
Call means to match your opponent's bet that leaves raise, which is the only way to win at poker.
The razor puts his opponent on the defensive, seizing the initiative.
Initiative is only important if one wants to win.
The military axiom is he who imposes the terms of the battle imposes the terms of the peace.
The gambling equivalent is don't call unless you could raise.
That is to merely match one's opponent's bet is effective only if it makes the opponent question the caller's motives.
And that can only occur if the caller has acted aggressively enough in the past to cause his opponent to wonder if the mere call is a bluff.
If you are branded as passive, the table will roll right over you.
Your opponents will steal aunties without fear.
Why?
Because the addicted caller has never exhibited what in the wider world is known as courage.
The Democrats, similarly, in their quest for a strategy that would uh alienate no voters, have given away the store, and they have given away the country.
Committed Democrats watched while Al Gore fritted away the sure thing election of 2000.
They watched passively while the Bush administration concocted a phony war.
They and the May and voted for the war, knowing it was purposeless out of fear of being thought weak.
They then ran a candidate who refused to stand up to accusations of lack of patriotism.
The Republicans became increasingly bold as the Democrats signaled their absolute reluctance to seize the initiative.
John Kerry lost the 2004 election combating an indictment of his Vietnam War record.
A decorated war hero muddled himself in merely calling the attacks of a man curiously a vanishing record of military attendance.
Even if the Democrats and Kerry had prevailed, that is, succeeded in nullifying the Republicans' arguably absurd accusations, they would have been back only where they started before the accusations began.
Control of the initiative is control of the battle in the alley at the poker table or in politics.
One has to raise.
The American public chose Bush over Kerry in 2004.
How the undecided electorate rightly wondered could one believe that Kerry would stand up for America when he couldn't stand up to Bush.
A possible response to the Swiftboat veterans would have been, I served.
He didn't.
I didn't bring up the subject, but if all George Bush has to show for his time in the guard is a scrap of paper with some doodling on it, I say the man was a deserter.
Mr. Mammoth, where were you?
During the Bill Burkett forged documents to what you th see, his point is the Democrats let all of their allies do their talking.
The press did a great job.
The activists are doing a great job.
But the Democrats are a bunch of cowards.
They won't say what Dan Rather says.
They won't say what Brokoff said.
They won't say what Chris Matthews says.
They won't say what moveon.org says.
They won't say what the Daily Cause demands.
They won't say what is on the Democrat underground.
Mammoth is right.
The Democrats are a bunch of cowards.
They haven't the guts to speak for themselves.
They let surrogates do it.
They don't have the courage to come out and tell the American people what they're really for.
The press, quiescent during five years of aggressive behavior by the White House, has perhaps begun to recover its pride, he says.
In speaking of Carl Rove, Scott McClellan, and the White House's Valerie Plane disgrace, the press have begun to use words such as other than true, fabricated.
The word they circle still is lie.
The word in the Democrat constituency, heartsick over the behavior of its party leaders, has been forced to consider applying to them is coward.
The Democrat activists and Mammoth agree that the elected Democrats are cowards.
And it's time for them to stop being cowards.
It's time for them to stop being chicken.
It's time for them to stop being linguine-spined and yellowbellied.
It's time for the Democrats to stand up and announce Who they for, what they want to do.
They are for increasing taxes.
They are for higher gas prices.
They are for abortion, partial birth abortion.
They want all kinds of things.
They want, they want all kinds of prosperity in this country wiped out and shut down.
They're for socialist health care.
They are for higher taxes.
They want out of Iraq.
They don't want to compete in the war on terror.
They want due process concern rights conferred on Al-Qaeda terrorists.
They want activist judges institutionalizing liberalism on the courts.
They are for reverse discrimination.
They want driver's licenses, in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants.
They're against more oil drilling.
They're against more refineries being built.
They believe in America deserves to be attacked because of its foreign policy.
They are for same-sex marriage.
They're against the Pledge of Allegiance, whether it says under God or not.
And in the words of David Mammoth and move on, and Democrat Underground, the Democrats have become cowards, and it's time to speak up and stand their ground and be who they are.
You're listening to Rush Limbaugh on the Excellence in Podcasting Network.
Thank you.
And it's true.
It's also amazing to watch the Democrats.
They've got rising gas prices.
They've got the threat of even higher prices because of these two hurricanes.
They ought to be happy.
They ought to be telling the American people what a great opportunity this presents us as a people to finally rid our dependence on these evil fossil fuels.
But no, what do they do?
They accuse the oil companies of gouging.
This is why they are in the straits that they are in.
They get what they want, and then they act like they are opposed to it when they have been for it all along.
They want higher prices.
They want less use in consumption.
And then they get it, and they start accusing because they are reflexive and they keep going back to an old tired, worn-out failed playbook.
Blame the oil companies for gouging when the federal government practically runs the oil business as it is.
Let me show you a man with courage.
This is from the Washington Post, June 1st of 2004, about 13, 14 months ago, maybe 15 months ago now.
David Ignatius, a courageous, courageous liberal journalist who had the guts to do back then what I am doing now, and trying to tell elected Democrats to get some gonads.
Let's imagine for the moment that the U.S. was a prudent nation, and that its politicians, rather than pandering to the public appetite for cheap gasoline, decided to reduce the nation's dependence on energy from the volatile Middle East.
It would be nice if politicians would tell these road happy Americans a truth, which is that the energy situation will only get worse over the long run.
And it would be nicer still if politicians proposed policies that would improve the energy efficiency of SUV nation.
But in America, there's a name for such politicians, losers.
The reason the oil squeeze will only get worse can be stated in two words, China and India.
And today that's four words, Katrina and Rita.
As those countries become more prosperous, their consumption of energy will inevitably rise, putting further pressure on the market.
That has already begun to happen with China, whose growing demand sucked up the 500,000 extra barrels a day of crude that the Saudis added to the market last year to compensate for lost Iraqi production.
Lost Iraqi production.
I thought the war in Iraq was for oil.
Who's got that production?
Halliburton?
Bush?
Cheney.
What do you mean we lost 500,000 barrels of oil production from Iraq?
There has to be thievery somewhere here.
Optimists hope that an easy way out for the energy crunch may be found in abundant cheap supplies of natural gas, but industry economists tell me, David Ignatius, that that's wishful thinking.
The people who make America's gas guzzlers know exactly what would force the country to deal with the energy crunch, and that's higher gasoline taxes.
A recent article by Danny Hacum in the New York Times had some astonishing quotes from auto executives.
Ford chief executive William Clay Ford Jr. said every place we operate, fuel prices are very high relative to here.
Customers get used to it, but they get used to it by having a smaller car, a more efficient vehicle.
The European market illustrates how higher taxes push greater efficiency.
Last week, premium gas prices In Europe were averaging more than double the U.S. level of 224 a gallon, with prices at the pump averaging 507 a gallon in France, 536 in Germany, 559 in Britain, and the left has always said we need to be more like Europe in this regard.
We need to be paying five bucks a gallon.
David Ignatius had the courage as a member of the media last summer to warn the Democrats, come out for this policy and be honest with the American people.
Did they listen?
No.
They continue to pander and act shocked and outraged when the oil price goes up and they go back to their temp.
It's got to be Bush's fault.
Bush is responsible for this somehow, when in fact it's what they've always wanted.
As Bill Clinton admitted in his global forum on Saturday in New York.
So the truth has been out there, folks.
And the activists have been hearing it.
And they've bought it, and they believe it.
But their elected officials continue to play games of cowardice and retreat.
Clinton tried to raise gas taxes.
Oh, yes, and energy taxes across the board, Clinton did.
Clinton did.
But you'll never hear him talk about it in terms of his legacy.
You'll never hear Bill Clinton praise himself for raising gas taxes.
You will not hear it, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, as you know, the New York Times.
Well, you may not know this.
The New York Times has uh begun requiring a $49 per year subscription to read their op-ed page, columnists.
Uh this is actually one of the greatest things that's ever happened to the country, because now fewer and fewer people are going to be reading these nitwits.
And it's also stupid because you can still get them.
There are people out there that will go pay the 49 bucks and then subscribe and then post it on a blog where everybody can download it for nothing.
The New York Times will continue to lose money operating with this kind of idiotic marketing strategy.
I have not paid the 4995 to subscribe to the New York Times op-ed page.
Why would anybody with half a brain when gas prices are slated to go up, pay 49 bucks a year to read the New York Times op-ed page on the internet.
But still I have access because I am a powerful, influential figure in the media, and as such, as all of you know, I pay for nothing.
Only kidding.
Today's column in the New York Times by John Tierney, one of two token conservatives, is sure to cause absolute panic on the part of the Democrat activists today.
And make them ask, what the hell is happening to the New York Times?
First Leahy says he's gonna vote for John Roberts now the New York Times runs this, and they're gonna be enraged.
The headline says it all.
Let Walmart take over emergency management.
The story is Slidell, Louisiana dateled.
Mr. Turney says, I don't think Washington needs any more czars.
But if President Bush feels compelled to put somebody in charge of rebuilding the Gulf Coast, let me suggest a name, Lee Scott.
Scott is the chief executive of Walmart, one of the few institutions to improve its image in Louisiana after Katrina said a 15-foot wave across the north shore of Lake Poncha Train.
If you mention the Red Cross or FEMA to people in Slidell, you hear rants about help that didn't arrive, phone lines that are always busy.
If you mention state or national politicians, you hear obscenities.
But if you visit the Walmart, the Sam's Club stores here, you hear shoppers who have been without power for weeks marveling there are still generators in stock and priced at $304.
You hear about the trucks that rolled in right after the hurricane, the stuff the stores gave away, chainsaws, boots for rescue workers, sheets and clothes for shelters, water and ice for the public.
This was the only place we could find water those first days, said Roshan Smith, shopping with her three children at Walmart on Saturday.
I still haven't managed to get through to FEMA.
It's hard to say, but you get more justice at Walmart.
Why is it hard to say?
Because the left hates Walmart.
The left actually hates Walmart.
They hate Walmart for all host of reasons.
They're not unionized, they don't people and have health care, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
They're only the biggest U.S. corporation in the world.
And if the Democrats ever get hold of the White House again, I will guarantee you there'd be a class action suit against them, just like the Justice Department under Clinton went after Bill Gates and Microsoft.
Because that's what liberals do.
Attack the successful And punish them for it, especially if they don't make the proper payoffs in the form of political contributions, as Bill Gates learned.
If they cared so much.
In fact, let me.
Let me go back a couple paragraphs here.
This is even more interesting than I thought.
I realize that Lee Scott would not be a popular choice with Democrats.
They concede that Walmart and other private companies were far better prepared for Katrina than FEMA was, but they say FEMA would work fine if it were under control of a virtuous, compassionate public servant, someone, as Bill Clinton suggested, like himself.
Clinton looks back on the 90s as FEMA's age of Pericles.
I think we did a good job of disaster management back then, he said on this week's.
I said that on Stephanopoulos show.
While criticizing the Bush administration for leaving poor people stranded in New Orleans, Clinton said that he and his FEMA director had been especially sensitive to the needs of poor people because of their own backgrounds.
But if they cared so much, why didn't New Orleans ever work out a feasible way to evacuate poor people?
FEMA had a golden opportunity to plan it during the nineties.
The threat of a nuclear war had receded.
Terrorism wasn't yet a priority with these people, so the agency's biggest concerns should have been an earthquake in California to flood in New Orleans, but it was too busy.
FEMA was too busy dealing with the record number of other disasters, quote unquote, that Clinton declared.
Clinton declared an average of one disaster a week in his presidency, according to Mr. Tierney, which meant that FEMA was mailing out checks for every flash flood within range of a major media market.
Upstate New Yorkers suddenly became incapable of coping with the cost of snow removal, and FEMA came to the rescue.
David Vitter, the Republican senator from Louisiana, was so impressed with the rapid response of Walmart and other companies that he promised to introduce a bill to abolish FEMA and contract its job out to the private sector.
I'm afraid the Walmart Emergency Management Agency will be a tough sell on Capitol Hill now.
But I'd vote for it.
WEMA, Walmart Emergency Management Agency.
How often do you suppose somebody at Walmart headquarters dispenses $500,000, doesn't bother keeping track of it?
It's legendary for tracking every transaction and pinching every penny.
Not FEMA.
This in the New York Times today.
Once again, pointing out the absolute charade that is the American left today.
Quick timeout.
We'll get to some of your phone calls after the break.
Stay with us.
Okay, now the audio sound bites before we get to the phone calls, because it's time, ladies and gentlemen, to reward good, responsible, courageous Democrat public behavior.
Today, Barney Frank is singled out on this program as courageous for daring to be public about what he and other Democrats actually believe.
Last night, your world with Neil Cavuto on the Fox News Channel.
Cavuto says, Why get rid of the tax cuts?
This is all about the Democrats' Katrina, Hurricane Katrina agenda.
The president made certain plans for tax cuts.
Since he made those plans, after all, we've had the war in Afghanistan, which I very much supported and is, I think, a very important part of our defense.
The war in Iraq, which I thought was unwise and isn't going well, but it's costing a lot of money.
Then this hurricane.
I think it's not wise when you make plans to then say we're going to ignore new events.
So I do think a combination of undoing some of the tax cards, at least not going further with some of the ones, particularly for wealthy people, uh, for instance, the estate tax.
I I favor saying that under five million dollars should pay no estate tax, but I don't see why Bill Gates' kids who are going to inherit Bill Gates' money, not having done anything to earn it, shouldn't have to pay some tax on that.
Yes, that's Barney Frank getting close.
He's coming out for tax increases.
Anytime you hear talk of suspension of tax cuts, non-making them permanent, you're talking about tax increases.
Now he doesn't get a full gold star because he didn't use the word tax increase.
Barney, be honest.
Tell everybody what you actually mean, what you actually support, and what the activists that run your party want to hear.
You want to raise taxes.
You want to get out of Iraq, and you want to penalize people like Bill Gates, except for at Little Pinch Schultzberger.
You know, why is it that nobody says when the New York Times lays off 700 people this year?
Why does nobody question the salary of Little Pinch?
Arthur Schultzberger Jr. at the New York Times.
Why, any time any other corporation lays off workers, we immediately learn what the CEO makes at that place.
But we never seem to hear about the salary of Pinch Schultzberger or any of the other executives at the New York Times.
Nor do we ever hear about contributions they are personally making by giving up scheduled raises or bonuses to help the bottom line of their country.
Now, Barney Frank and another bite says that there's no reason Bill Gates' kids should inherit millions because they didn't earn it themselves.
So in his mind, the government should take it.
This is Barney getting close again.
All money belongs to government.
The only outfit that doesn't have to earn money in order to get it is the government.
Say that, Barney.
Here's his bite.
No, they aren't.
But we're talking about people who have more than five million dollars.
Okay.
In other words, uh, and Bill Gates' kids would be the that's a big chunk of it.
The number of people who would pay estate tax under uh uh if you limit it to over five million dollars is really quite minuscule, less than one percent of the people.
And uh when people are inheriting, not having themselves earned it, uh, millions and tens of millions and billions of dollars.
I think it is reasonable to get some uh uh some revenue there, and especially when we're in this situation where the president said, Look, I want to go to war on Iraq and hundreds of billions of dollars.
Uh, we got to continue Afghanistan.
We have Katrina.
And the children of the rich who are nothing but a bunch of squatters and spoiled brats in the eyes of Barney, like the Kennedys.
What's Ted Kennedy done to earn any of the money he's got, Barney?
Why don't you suggest the Kennedy family get in the line in front of the Gates family?
They've been around a lot longer than the Gates family has, and there's a bunch of Kennedy kids that has inherited a whole slew of money.
Why don't you go after them?
Why is it always come down to Bill Gates?
Because he's the richest man in America, he or Warren Buffett going back and forth.
Well, you see, all money is governments.
And especially if you don't earn it, you don't have any claim to it.
If you do earn it, we're gonna take it anyway, in the form of higher taxes.
But if you don't earn it, we're gonna take it all.
Because we want to punish every vestige of success that we can find.
We are America's Democrats.
Say it, Barney, say it.
Don't weasel around the bush here.
Don't make me have to translate it for you.
Say it.
At least he had the guts to come out and say something, which is more than a lot of other elected Democrats are doing.
Dave in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you, sir.
Okay.
I believe, and as I said on a previous call to you, that I believe these people, these Democrat whackers we've been discussing for the last hour, they see themselves as we did back in 64 with Goldwater.
No matter.
You've got to admire their plot.
I think they're all wrong, but they see us as we did, and they are planning to move their party to the left.
Because they are the true believers.
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying, and their party is not following them.
And just as the Republican Party tried to resist the Republicans and Well, here's the difference.
The party is following them, but won't be courageous about the party is stealth.
The Democratic Party is doing what the activists want, if given the chance, but they won't say it.
They won't be honest about it.
And the left wants the words.
The left wants the blood, the left wing activists, they want the blood coming from George Bush's chest after words have ruined him.
They want this.
They want to hear exactly what they believe articulated by their leaders and their leaders are not doing it.
And this is leading to great frustration.
And it's proving to be the case that the leftist activists are the energy in the party, and the energy in the party will eventually take it over and succeed.
And those that do not reflect that energy and articulate those beliefs are going to be sadly left behind.
This is a lesson Mrs. Clinton needs to learn very quickly, folks.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue in just a moment.
Got a bumper sticker idea.
Still voting Democrat.
You're stuck on stupid.
The second of our three hours of broadcast excellence in the can, uh, ladies and gentlemen, and we still have much more ahead coming up in the uh in the next hour.
Uh I've got a guy who wants to, hey, Rush, you you charge for your 24-7 website.
Why shouldn't the char the New York Times charge for their op-ed page?
I love those kinds of questions.
I absolutely love those kinds of questions, and I will be happy to answer that question when we get back in the uh break here at the top of the hour.
Plus, we will continue to delve deep into our ongoing theme today, as well as get into some other things here in the stack stuff.
As I say, there's six hours worth of stuff here today, and it'll just be uh impossible to get it all in.
We'll squeeze as much in as possible.
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