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Sept. 22, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 22, 2005, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hey, folks, greetings and welcome, and it is a delight and a joy to have you with us as we kick off another sterling three hours of broadcast excellence, hosted by me, America's Anchor Man, Rush Limbaugh, The Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Looks like my efforts yesterday have already proved beneficial to uh a lot of liberals out there.
Uh I'll have details as the program unfolds, but it uh I'm seeing signs as some elected Democrats are beginning to listen to their base out there.
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And uh we've got well another one of those uh programs today, folks, it's gonna be tough to cram a lot of things.
And I have to start off with this this jet blue landing yesterday.
That that was just you know, there's only you know who it is, Mr. Sterling, bummed out that that plane landed safely.
The lawyers.
Lawyers are bummed out, but everybody else is just thrilled and excited as they could be.
I mean, that those pilots uh won a heck of a job balancing that landing on the two main gear and lowering the pressure or lowering the nose grip gear so the pressure would be as uh as little on it as possible.
The only thing that surprised me was that that that uh nosegear strut didn't uh uh snap off, but man, that was just a it was great to watch and because everybody was uh fearing the worst.
And when the sparks started flying after the uh the tires disintegrated, uh you know, people started worrying about fires, and I was wondering why hadn't a runway foamed.
Uh maybe they don't do that anymore for these uh for these kinds of things, but all's well that ends well.
I think it was just a uh fascinating, fascinating display.
Um we've got hurricane uh news that continues.
Both Katrina and uh and now Hurricane Rita, which uh is is beginning to weaken from its peak.
I mean it's it's it's still a category five right now.
They're expecting it to be a category four when it makes landfall.
And uh it I I have thought, you know, I I I don't like to comment on this because I'm just an amateur, and I'm I'm like everybody else, I'm interested in it, and I have as I have as many websites to watch this hurricane stuff as I can find, and some of them are pretty unique.
And I've been tracking the satellite movement of this thing, and it has been north of their projected track for about all what was it, uh 18 hours.
Uh I think it made its west-northwest turn a little earlier than they were willing to acknowledge.
But look, I'm just the amateur.
I I uh don't want to talk about this.
Don't don't book anything in in stone, but uh it still appears to me a bit a little north or right of the track that uh that they have forecast, which takes it closer to the Texas, Louisiana border uh than Houston.
Doesn't matter, it's gonna it's a 350 mile-wide storm.
Uh the the the hurricane and tropical storm force winds, 350 miles wide.
It's uh it's huge.
People are running out of gas in Houston because uh on the on the interstate, they're just jammed and they're moving at a crawl.
And what's happening is that the uh uh cops and other officials are coming along, and if you run out of gas, they're giving you a gallon, uh, which is what they about what they can spare.
Uh it's just it's it's moving at a snail's pace.
But I'll tell you what, it's it's I saw Kathleen Blanco, the uh governor of Louisiana today, uh, about an hour ago, and she was uh uh telling the people of Louisiana what to do in no uncertain terms as what where was this three weeks ago?
Uh doing it the right way.
Everybody's learned, I think, from the from the first one.
Uh Houston and uh and the Galvison areas and other parts of that area of Texas uh are skedaddling and uh and getting out of there.
We continue to learn about uh things happening uh in New Orleans, or that did happen in New Orleans.
This was uh we're gonna learn a lot of these uh kinds of things.
Uh this from last night, police found uh cases of food and clothing and tools intended for hurricane victims at the home of the chief administrative officer for a New Orleans suburb.
Authority said Wednesday.
The officers searched Cedric Floyd's home because of complaints city workers were helping themselves to donations for hurricane victims.
Cedric Floyd runs the day-to-day operations on this sub in the suburb of Kenner.
He was in charge of distributing the goods.
Police plan to seek a charge of committing an illegal act as a public official against Cedric Floyd.
More charges against other city workers are possible.
The uh donations filled a large pickup truck four times.
It was an awful lot of stuff.
The uh donated materials must be processed as evidence, but eventually they will be distributed to victims.
Uh yeah, we got lots of families begging for these supplies, said the attorney general Charles Fote, whose office assisted in the investigation.
Attempts to reach Floyd were unsuccessful at home numbers listed under his name in Kenner.
His office number went unanswered after uh business hours.
Uh and so that that that's that's probably one example that we've heard about, but it just it just keeps getting better.
And of course, uh uh these these things, I don't know how widely reported that is.
It's an AP story, but I don't know how widely it was picked up uh and broadcast.
You heard about that, Mr. Snerdley, but I didn't think so.
A number of people uh probably hearing this for the first time.
Uh and I just it's interesting to point it out uh only in the sense that you know Bush continues to be blamed for this hurricane.
And I'll I'll tell you what, if I'm right, and if this hurricane does miss Houston, if the eye misses Houston, if it somehow hits if the eye, if the eye touches any part of Louisiana, you know that somebody on the left is gonna say that Bush or somebody took action to steer this thing to really cream Louisiana or to spare Texas.
The uh the kooks are getting kookier by the minute uh out there.
All right, Senate Judiciary Committee, the pontificating in the speechifying has been going on all morning.
They could do this vote in a matter of five minutes.
The vote has yet to happen because the speechifying continues.
So far, we have three Democrats who have uh voted for John Roberts.
Pat Lahey, Russ Feingold, and uh and her uh uh Herb Cole from uh Wisconsin.
Uh Diane Feinstein says he's gonna vote no.
And I think Feinstein's a great example of uh listening to me yesterday and hearing what I had to say in this program and listen to the base.
Uh same thing with Biden and the same way.
Kennedy already listens to the base.
Have we have we heard from Turban yet?
As Turban voted, has shumer, oh Schumer's still talking, diarrhea of the mouth, won't won't shut up.
We don't know how Schumer is uh gonna well, we do know how Schumer.
He's gonna vote no.
So he said so.
He's getting okay, Schumer, Schumer's gonna vote no, no surprise there.
So uh Leahy Feingold and Cole, uh, the three Democrats on the Judiciary Committee.
Some people are saying that one of the reasons Dingy Harry went out there before all of this a couple days ago and announced his intention uh to vote no on uh on Roberts was to give leadership and cover to the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to follow his lead.
And then people started buzzing when Leahy announced that he was going to vote for Roberts and not follow the lead of his leader in the uh in the Democratic caucus in the House.
And now there is some buzz out there that uh that Reed maybe not be able to hold this caucus together on uh on serious events and matters such as this.
You know, Reed's got a Tom Dashell problem, who by the way is back in the news.
Tom Dashell could be president, he could be vice president, or he could continue to be nothing, but he wants to be something other than what he is.
Apparently, he's exploring the waters out there.
And also this, ladies and gentlemen.
Al Gore, Deborah Oren has a piece of the New York Post today.
Al Gore, contemplating getting in the race for 2008 again.
This is said to be one of the reasons Mrs. Clinton is deciding to move quickly to the left.
Al Gore is the darling of the base.
Al Gore is loved and adored by the base.
Al Gord, during the past five years has gone out and made speeches to the base.
The Democratic base and their groups and their uh and their organizations.
Uh so this and and uh Hillary, it was announced, has agreed to meet with uh with Mother Sheehan.
Uh Hillary Clinton is going to meet with Cindy Sheehan, which is gonna, you know, confuse people who think that she's moving to the right on the war and war on terror and uh and Iraq.
Inexplicably, McCain is also gonna meet with uh with Cindy Sheehan.
So a lot to do uh on the table today.
We'll have a brief time out here.
We'll come back and continue in mere moments.
Don't go away.
For about the last 20 minutes, President Bush has uh been over to the Pentagon.
He's at the Pentagon now, and he's uh delivering a uh statement and address on the war on terror and uh pronouncing some of the successes that took place in the election in Afghanistan and now fielding questions from the uh from the uh from the assembled kindergarten crew of the press corps.
I just want to make a prediction to you.
Even though the hurricane, Hurricane Rita Vanden Hoovel not slated to hit uh wherever it's gonna hit uh until early Saturday morning, I will guarantee you it won't be long before the end of the day that there will be criticisms of the president for daring to go out and talk about the war on terror uh in the midst of the crisis and the panic that's leading up uh to the uh the strike of Hurricane Rita.
You heard it here so I when I when I saw that when I saw the graphic on television, Bush to address war on terror soon as uh here we go.
They're gonna accuse him of having a tin-ear, tone deaf, insincere, lack of compassion, doesn't understand how to prioritize.
It's as though presidents can't do two things or more at once.
It's as though our massive government can only be focused on one thing because only then do we all know that our government cares.
And if Bush is out there speaking on the war on terror while Houston is about to be leveled and destroyed along with Galveston, he obviously doesn't care.
Mark my words, that theme will echo and reverberate around the country in certain quarters and sectors before the uh before the day is uh is out.
Let me grab we've got a call here from uh Magnolia, Texas, which I think is a northwestern uh part of the city of Houston.
Uh is that right, Danica?
Welcome to the program.
Yes, sir, maha.
We're about 40 miles northwest of town, and I've been listening to the radio all morning, preparing my house and all that kind of fun stuff, and people are already criticizing the mayor because for the past day, yesterday at six o'clock PM, all of the roads on I-45 just north of Galveston were made one way.
Northbound and southbound were all northbound.
Well, they changed that at 10 o'clock this morning to do further up I-45, just north of downtown.
And people have been complaining because it's taking them.
People have been on the road since yesterday, and they're running out of gas, and there's no uh this this is the mayor's fault.
Yes, this is the mayor's.
What was the mayor supposed to do?
Is the mayor supposed to build some more interstates the past couple days?
Right some lanes.
What was he supposed to do?
Put more gas stations out there along the uh escape route.
Well, one person called in.
I'm going to tell you this.
They said that with their GPS, they made it to Dallas in five hours, taking back roads.
So there's going to be some class envy.
Those with GPSs.
Could make it out of town through the back roads.
Not like a map wouldn't help or anything, but it's still gonna be the mayor's fault.
You know, folks still suffering the ravages of uh of a minor flu virus here, so excuse me.
Uh Danick, I f I fear that you're right.
Uh it'll it's unfair.
Some had GPS and could navigate these uh less than public roads while others were stuck uh only having access to maps and the uh and the interstate.
In fact, it's it's interesting that you uh that you that you mentioned this uh because Kathleen Blanco, the governor of uh of Louisiana ordering another evacuation today, was telling residents, she said, if you know the less public roads to go north, take them.
If you know what they are, go on them.
The interstates are gonna be crowded.
Don't go west, don't go to Texas.
Go north.
Go as far north as you can.
We've got shelters in the northern part of the state.
If you know the local, less traveled routes out of the city, then take them.
She's if you don't get a map.
But you know, folks, let me tell you something.
You know, I I I don't know that people stop to think about what all is involved here.
Houston is a city of over five million people.
Now the interstate highway system built there to get people in and around the city, but it's not billed to handle five million people or whatever number is is there trying to get out at the same time.
And I I I I think people don't think about things like this uh uh until they're reminded.
During the course of a day, a city of Houston, city of New Orleans, all kinds of things happen to human beings.
They get sick.
They need to go to the emergency room.
Uh any Any number of well, well, they have to go to the bathroom.
Any number of things happen.
But you put them all in automobiles and tell them to go someplace, and they all follow orders, and they all get on the road at the same time.
It's not as though nobody's going to get sick out there.
It's not as though nobody's going to have to not go to the bathroom.
It's not as though somebody isn't going to have to go to the emergency room.
I mean, these things are still going to happen.
And I don't care who you are and in what country you live in.
I don't care on what planet in this solar system there may be other civilizations or what other galaxies.
We nobody is as sophisticated and as advanced to have rolling emergency rooms, rolling porta potties, rolling this to accompany people on these kinds of uh ways out.
You can't put up new gas stations to handle all this kind of traffic.
It's it's this is a fact of life.
And to say that somebody's to blame for this is senseless.
There's nobody to blame.
This is just, you know, we're not set up to handle five million people on an interstate highway system that's not designed for that, going all in one direction.
Uh, and still have the normal ebb and flow of daily life take place.
Uh and then as a result, everything goes smooth as glass.
That you you have to expect that uh uh that there are going to be problems.
And there's not a governor, there's not a mayor, there's not a president anywhere who could ensure that life will proceed as normal in an abnormal circumstance or situation uh like this.
Uh oh, a United States Air Force firefighter, drive-by caller said uh they don't foam runways anymore because it makes it too slick, there's no traction for landing.
Okay, I didn't know that.
I I um but I'm happy for that uh for that bit of uh information.
Joseph in New York City, hello, sir, and welcome to the EIB network.
It's great to have you with us.
Yeah, people make a choice to live in a hurricane alley.
Why should I care?
People live in Los Angeles on earthquake faults, they live in a desert without water in Nevada, they live in a tornado alley.
What's it my problem?
If they live there, that's their problem.
Right.
People live uh in a city that terrorists want to destroy.
Why should we care?
Hey, that's not right.
Don't pick on New York.
That's that.
What is your point, Joseph?
He hung up.
He hung up.
He's uh malcontent, and he had it handed right back to him.
Why should he care?
Hey, don't pick on New York.
All right.
There's another vote, no vote on the uh Senate Judiciary Committee predicted uh Senator Schumer.
He said there's a reasonable danger that Judge Roberts will be like Clarence Thomas.
That's just not good enough.
The risk is too great to bear.
Because of that risk, I cannot vote yes.
Uh so is now Turban pontificating.
That's a republic.
Turbans next.
Uh have any Republicans voted no?
I mean, I don't trust these guys either.
Wouldn't be surprised.
I just wanted to know, Mr. Snurry.
Uh look, folks, um, I've I've got a little uh hacking cough again uh today uh as I continue uh to show up despite suffering the ravages of it's not the common cold virus because there's flu attached to it and some other thing, uh fever uh attached to it, but uh nevertheless I'm here, but I beg you to indulge me if I'm unable to hit the cough button as uh necessary.
All right, let's get to some evidence that uh the my program yesterday has uh uh uh been a bit successful in its attempt.
Yesterday, if you were not here, uh something struck me.
There was a tipping point.
I read uh a piece by the Hollywood screenwriter and playwright David Mammoth in the uh Los Angeles Times, in which he says you basically fed up uh with the Democrat leadership as a bunch of cowards.
They don't have the guts to stand up for themselves, they don't have the guts to be who they are.
He's he's right.
And the liberal activists of moveon.org and the Democrat Underground the Daily Chaos, they are all right.
They're Democrat activists, and they and they are demanding that their elected leaders stand up and be who they are and announce what they're for, and I think it's about time for that too.
Uh and so I took their side yesterday, and I encouraged liberal Democrat elected officials to just be honest, to just tell us what you're gonna do if you get power, what you believe in.
Don't try to camouflage it any longer And don't mask it any longer.
You're only hurting yourself, and you're not fooling anybody because there are people like me out there to tell everybody else what you're really for.
And there's your activists.
Your activists are perfectly free, perfectly comfortable and happy to announce what they're for and what they want.
And that's who they aim their suggestions at is these elected officials.
So along comes this story by Robin Toner in the New York Times today.
Among Democrat activists, little indecision on Roberts.
While many Democratic senators are still wrestling with their vote on Judge Roberts Jr.'s nomination.
Democratic activists in advis advocacy groups and policy organizations, the party apparatus, they don't seem nearly as torn.
In many ways, the nomination is renewed the debate among Democrats over how to be an opposition party.
A debate that dates back to the votes on tax cuts and the war in Iraq and the persistent complaint from party activists that congressional Democrats are cowards and too willing to compromise.
That show of mine yesterday, folks, hit the nail on the head, and they are listening out there in the mainstream press and the activist groups.
You're listening to Rush Limbaugh on the excellence in podcasting network.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you.
All right, uh Senator Turbin is uh is going biblical, uh, ladies and gentlemen, during his uh speechifying prior to his vote on the uh John Roberts nomination.
He's reading from the Bible on the wisdom of King Solomon.
Uh he's framing his vote on the question if Judge Roberts has wisdom or has a heart.
Well, I'd say Turban Turban, these guys, they're they're they're doing what I say they should do.
They're being who they are.
This is good.
You don't get mad at this, folks.
This is something to celebrate.
You need to celebrate Turbin.
You need to celebrate Diane Feinstein, need to celebrate Kennedy.
You need to celebrate Biden.
You need to celebrate Chuck Schumer when they are honest about what they think and who they are.
This is what I was suggesting needs to happen yesterday throughout all of elected Democrat Party.
Well, a whole party needs to do this because their base is defining them.
And and and actually, the the one of the things I'd like to clear up from yesterday, some people might have gotten the impression that there are two Democrat parties, that there's the activist base that we lovingly and affectionately hear with a big heart, uh, call a kook fringe, and then there's the elected Democrats who happen to be a little bit more moderate and are being nudged and pushed.
No, no, they're all the same.
A liberal is a liberal.
Tiger is a tiger.
They are all the same thing.
It's the elected officials don't have the guts to be public about it as sufficiently and thoroughly as are the activists in the base.
So you've got you've got Leahy, he's let the base down.
Ralph Knees, all upset.
A lot of people uh just learn during these hearings that Herb Cole's still alive, so there isn't a whole lot of attention being paid to him.
Then you have uh uh Fine Gold.
Feingold's a surprise because Feingold's questioning of Roberts was pretty vicious and seemed to be very unhappy and dissatisfied uh with the uh responses he got from Judge Roberts, and yet Feingold has has gone here.
So Leahy and Feingold and uh and Senator Cole letting down the base.
Uh Schumer being exactly who we know he is.
Good for him.
Same thing with Senator Dick Turbin.
Senator Kennedy, he hasn't spoken yet, has he?
Hasn't voted.
I don't think Kennedy has uh Mr. Snerdley has has Mr. Snurley's listening on C-SPAN 3.
We don't have it on TV, so he's listening to all this on the web.
Has Senator Kennedy voted yet?
He has.
Well, has he spoken?
Has he said he's okay.
Okay, so he basically replied his spiel from yesterday.
So Kennedy count on him to be a good liberal, uh, but we need more of these people to uh to step up.
Uh and and of course, the bigger challenge here, the biggest challenge is for Mrs. Clinton to do this.
Uh and we have more on her coming up.
First, Chris in San Mateo, California.
Nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
I was watching Bush's speech this morning, and there was a ticker on Fox that said Ruth Peter Ginsberg said that not any woman will do to replace O'Connor, and further that she she doesn't feel comfortable being the only woman on the Supreme Court.
And I wanted to know what you thought about her even saying something like that.
Um I I think it's totally inappropriate.
Uh I think it but but but but at the same time, you see, we have to change the way we react to these things.
Yes, it's outrageous.
And it's totally inappropriate for a sitting Supreme Court justice to start talking about what way what they need on the court and what she wants and what she thinks ought to happen.
This is uh I don't know that it's unprecedented, but it hasn't happened too many times in the past.
Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg, who got a 97-3 vote, by the way.
She is an activist, former ACLU activist.
She's another one of these card-carrying libs that the activist base loves.
So you have to change the way you look at these things.
You say, good, good uh uh justices uh or Justice Buzzy to keep talking uh and and have this amplified.
So let me amplify here what uh Chris is talking about.
Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg told an audience yesterday that she doesn't like the idea of being the only female justice on the court, but in choosing to fill one of the two open positions, any woman will not do.
Quote unquote, she said.
There are some women who might be appointed who would not advance human rights or women's rights, Ginsburg told those gathered at the New York City Bar Association.
It's not your job, and it's not the role of the court, Justice Ginsburg, to advance anybody's rights or to take anybody's rights away from them.
It's not about that.
It's about the Constitution.
It's about adjudicating cases according to the letter of the law.
The retirement of Ginsburg's colleague, Sandra Day O'Connor, has fueled speculation about whether President Bush will nominate a woman uh to her position.
Ginsburg stressed the president should appoint a fine jurist, adding there are many women who fit that description.
Once again, it's not her job.
Nor is it Arlen Spectors.
Arlene Specter yesterday told the president, you know, I've talked to Justice O'Connor, and she's agreed to serve till June.
I think we ought to delay the appointment and the naming of the next justice to replace her uh until next year.
Arlen, it's not your job.
It's not your call.
I'm sorry, Senator Specter.
It's not your call.
The presumptuousness of this, yes, it's offensive.
And these outrageous comments, totally inappropriate, are welcomed.
We want honesty from these people, ladies and gentlemen.
We want them to tell us who they are.
We don't want them hiding behind their robes.
We don't want them hiding behind a mask or a camouflage.
During the session, which was attended by hundreds of people, Ginsburg defended some of the justices' references to laws in other countries when making decisions.
Uh a practice strongly opposed by some U.S. legislators, the justices uh well, Justice Ginsburg said that using foreign sources does not mean giving them superior status in uh deciding cases.
She said, I will take enlightenment wherever I can get it.
I I don't want to stop at a national boundary.
Uh so we've got the anti Roberts speeches from Diane Feinstein, who's concerned by his lack of political correctness.
So is Dingy Harry concerned about his lack of political correctness with his reference in a private memo 20 years ago to the quote unquote illegal amigos.
Uh which uh you heard uh Dingy Harry say we played the soundbite uh two days ago.
Uh so here's an activist on the court saying we need another one.
We need it just like her.
We need a liberal activist that's gonna put uh women's rights and all this sort of stuff uh uh first.
Uh Diane Feinstein, in fact, just pulled something out of the uh printer here.
Uh sit tight here, folks.
Well, I love these pages that print nine black pages with one paragraph on the front page.
Uh Diane Feinstein uh uh, you know, she likes to remind us, this is Ruth Ruth uh Ruth Ginsburg does that she's the only Democrat, the only female on the Judiciary Committee.
Uh and so she's uh she said that Roberts didn't talk enough about what kind of father and husband that he is.
That's what she said bothered her.
He didn't talk enough about what kind of father or husband uh he is.
Um I think that one of the reasons that she came up with that is because it was obvious when she was doing the questioning, she doesn't know anything about the law.
She was reading questions that were written for her by these groups people for the American Way, the NARO bag uh gag bags, gags, gay, gay gals, whatever, and uh and the nags, and she she didn't even respond to what he said, it's just recitation of the questions.
Uh it it was starkly obvious to me, she had no clue what he was even talking about.
Uh and and uh she wasn't able to follow up because she didn't understand his answers.
So you've got Ruth Bader Ginsburg out there saying, uh, we need an activist woman on the court.
I don't like being the only woman on the court.
We got Diane Feinstein saying, hey, I'm the only woman on the judiciary committee, and I'm not happy with the answers he gave about what kind of father and husband he is.
Or what he said about it, he didn't talk about it.
So look at folks.
Again, we need to change the way we react to this.
Go ahead and get mad at it.
Go ahead and be outraged, but be thankful.
This is what needs to happen.
These people need to be honest about who they are.
They need to show us how either uninformed, ill-informed, or just plain stupid, they are not to mention wrong.
Quick time out, we'll be back.
Stay with us.
Uh, by the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, just I just uh thought of something here.
A lot of people probably uh wondering why I let it pass that a Democrat senator, Senator Turbin, was actually reading from the Bible uh in a Senate committee hearing room.
My friends, you're right, I did gloss over this, but it isn't that big a deal.
This is the old Testament.
This is from uh reading from the Old Testament about King Solomon long before there were Christians.
So Durban will not be held accountable for reading from the Old Testament.
But if he had read from the New Testament, then there would have been hell to pay from the activist groups out there.
Speaking of which, we have a story here from the Associated Press, and it illustrates exactly what I was telling you yesterday.
Senator Turbin and Senator Schumer were confronted by television producer Norman Lear and other major party supporters during a trip to the left coast over the weekend, according to party officials familiar with the conversation.
Uh Landrew uh is uh we know what she's gonna do yet.
Landrew, she's she's she's leaning yes, Tim Johnson, he's leaning yes.
Max Baucus of Montana, uh, they are going to vote for uh Roberts, as will Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
Uh now, you know, Tim Johnson, he's from South Dakota, and he knows well the Dashel lesson.
The Dashell lesson is you don't get elected from a conservative state and head to Washington and forget where you're from and forget the views of the people who elected you.
This is one of the big problems for it.
It's it's a big problem for Dingy Harry.
Nevada is primarily a conservative state.
But Dingy Harry is a leader of the Senate.
Now he's not up for a you know re-election for five years, so he's he's probably cool on this, but there is a problem for some of these uh senators like Tim Johnson and others who get elected in red states as Democrats, and they have to start listening to these left-wing kooks and the special interest groups.
Uh, and they do so at the expense of the uh people who elected them.
So, yeah, that this is another reason why they get in so many jams is because uh rather than just be who they are, uh rather than just be honest, tell everybody who they are, what they're gonna do, they have to make up things and camouflage themselves and maybe even prevaricate a bit in order to get elected in these red states.
Then they go to Washington and they get fall into the pressure of the left-wing activists and so forth, and so they become prisoners.
Uh and it's it is much easier if they would just open up, be themselves, announce what they're for, because we're gonna do it for them regardless.
Uh so they may as well just be honest about it.
Chris in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hey, thanks for us.
Uh, pro both books of the Bible Von Cardito is here.
Um got a question.
You're talking about uh Feinstein and how she's all of a sudden somewhat not happy with Roberts because he didn't talk about his personal life, his marriage and being a father.
But I it seems to me I remember whenever uh Clinton was going through the whole impeachment, they're trying to stuff down our throat that hey, you gotta separate personal and business, and now all of a sudden they're not the uh compartmentalized who's wanting to say it's an issue.
It's even better than that.
Can you imagine if back during the confirmation hearings of Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg, they had demanded to know what kind of mother and wife she was.
Exactly right.
Can you imagine the feminist outcry over that?
Right.
It would have been conservative.
In fact, somebody needs to ask a question.
Is this what feminism is?
Feminism is now become a senator, a female senator upset because a a male nominee has not fully admitted how good or bad or whatever his characteristics are as a husband and father.
I mean, what what a betrayal of feminism.
Feminism is the hell with both of those.
To hell with fatherhood and to hell with husbands.
Who needs them?
All you need is a sperm bank, and the last thing you want is to have a relationship with a man be the primary reason for your happiness.
That's been that's early feminist teaching.
That goes back, at least in the modern era to the late 60s.
And now all of a sudden, look at how they've regressed.
Now all of a sudden we're going to determine the fitness of somebody by how good a father he is and how good a husband he is.
Why, I thought feminists didn't want to be governed by the lives and roles of men in their lives.
Now all of a sudden it's paramount.
Somebody pointed out to me yesterday, too, since we're um uh revisiting history, and uh in this last example, I think give you an example, folks, of just how some of these walls of the great liberal institutions of the past are crumbling.
Feminism's become a joke now, and Diane Feinstein's just made it a joke.
And so's Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg.
She just made it a joke with this comment.
Well, I you know another woman on the court.
I don't want to be the only woman on a court.
We're gonna have an activist woman like me on the court.
I'm not just any woman'll do.
Well, it used to be any woman would do.
Any woman, anywhere, any time, better than a man.
Need to equate things and so forth.
Yesterday, same token.
We had these sound bites from Barney Frank.
Barney Frank speaking about the estate tax.
He said he's in favor of exempting the first five million dollars of an estate from taxation.
Folks, do you do do you understand what that represents in terms of another crumbling wall of uh liberalism?
Just four years ago, Barney for two years ago, Barney Frank wouldn't have agreed to capping five cents of income and sheltering it from the death tax.
Now he's willing to go along with five million.
It's still stupid, but it's it's a it it shows that they can't hold on to the old positions that they've had.
Um and and I I there's so many signs out that they are crumbling and that the walls and institutions that they built up are getting weaker and weaker and weaker.
Uh and and uh to this we owe a debt of gratitude to the liberal activists out there who are demanding that their elected officials be accountable to them.
So I support them.
I I think they're doing a great job, and that's why I have joined them in their quest and crusade for elected Democrats to finally throw off the cloak of disguise and be honest about who they are and in what they believe.
Quick time out, be right back.
Hey, back to the phones to go to uh Petusky, Michigan, and Mark, it's nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Um hey, listen, I just wanted to uh uh just make one quick point here.
Um I've noticed in the last day or so that uh the only person, the very only person I've seen uh on the news um making efforts to evacuate Galveston has been the mayor of Galveston, a local official.
Uh meaning you have seen no feds or no governor.
What what is what is your point?
My point is I think that the the city of New Orleans and Louisiana could learn a lot from what's happening in Gelveston.
I think they have.
I th I saw, I don't know about Mayor Negan's.
I got somebody on hold here who says he heard Negan's gonna allow the strip bars to remain open during the evacuation.
I I haven't heard that anywhere.
Uh see if you can find that, Mr. Snerdley.
The strip the strip bars are open, the strip bars are strip bars are gonna stay open during evacuation.
The school bus n school bus school must Negans.
Well, okay.
Well, but Kathleen Blanco, I did, and I mentioned this earlier.
She gave a speech about uh 11 o'clock Eastern time this morning.
Uh and if she'd have done this three weeks ago, it it was exactly what was called for.
Everybody's learned uh from from this.
You know, I don't like playing if.
If is for children, but maybe we'll explore this uh later today.
Can you imagine if Hurricane Rita had hit before Hurricane Katrina?
It's an interesting little exercise to play.
I think we'll do that when we come back.
Thanks for the call out there.
Uh Mark, a quick timeout.
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