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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 anchorman, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Looks like my efforts yesterday have already proved beneficial to a lot of liberals out there.
I'll have details as the program unfolds, but I'm seeing signs as some elected Democrats are beginning to listen to their base out there.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
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And we've got, well, another one of those programs today, folks.
It's going to be tough to cram a lot of things.
And I have to start off with this jet blue landing yesterday.
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, those pilots won a heck of a job balancing that landing on the two main gear and lowering the pressure or lowering the nose gear so the pressure would be as little on it as possible.
The only thing that surprised me was that that nose gear strut didn't snap off.
But, man, that was just, it was great to watch because everybody was fearing the worst.
And when the sparks started flying after the tires disintegrated, people started worrying about fires.
And I was wondering why in the runway foamed.
Maybe they don't do that anymore for these kinds of things.
But all's well that ends well.
I think it was just a fascinating, fascinating display.
We've got hurricane news that continues.
Both Katrina and now Hurricane Rita, which is beginning to weaken from its peak.
I mean, it's still a category five right now.
They're expecting it to be a category four when it makes landfall.
And I have thought, you know, I don't like to comment on this because I'm just an amateur and I'm like everybody else.
I'm interested in it.
And 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, oh, what was it?
18 hours.
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 don't want to talk about this.
Don't book anything in stone.
But it still appears to me a bit a little north or right of the track that they have forecast, which takes it closer to the Texas-Louisiana border than Houston.
It doesn't matter.
It's a 350-mile-wide storm.
The hurricane and tropical storm force winds, 350 miles wide.
It's huge.
People are running out of gas in Houston because on the interstate, they're just jammed and they're moving at a crawl.
And what's happening is that the cops and other officials are coming along.
And if you run out of gas, they're giving you a gallon, which is what they can spare.
It's just moving at a snail's pace.
But I'll tell you what, I saw Kathleen Blanco, the governor of Louisiana today, about an hour ago, and she was telling the people of Louisiana what to do in no uncertain terms.
Where was this three weeks ago?
Doing it the right way.
Everybody's learned, I think, from the first one.
Houston and the Galveston areas and other parts of that area of Texas are skedaddling and getting out of there.
We continue to learn about things happening in New Orleans, or that did happen in New Orleans.
This was, and we're going to learn a lot of these kinds of things.
This from last night, police found 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 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 donations filled a large pickup truck four times.
It was an awful lot of stuff.
The donated materials must be processed as evidence, but eventually they will be distributed to victims.
Yeah, we got lots of families begging for these supplies, said the Attorney General Charles Fotey, 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 business hours.
And so that's probably one example that we've heard about, but it just keeps getting better.
And of course, 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 and broadcast.
You heard about that, Mr. Snerdley?
I didn't think so.
A number of people probably hearing this for the first time.
And it's interesting to point it out only in the sense that Bush continues to be blamed for this hurricane.
And I'll tell you what, if I'm right, and if this hurricane does miss Houston, if the I misses Houston, and if it somehow hits, if the I, if the I touches any part of Louisiana, you know that somebody on the left is going to say that Bush or somebody took action to steer this thing to really cream Louisiana or to spare Texas.
The kooks are getting kookier by the minute out there.
All right, Senate Judiciary Committee, the pontificating and 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 voted for John Roberts, Pat Leahy, Russ Feingold, and Herb Cole from Wisconsin.
Diane Feinstein says he's going to vote no.
And I think Feinstein's a great example of listening to me yesterday and hearing what I had to say in this program and listen to the base.
Same thing with Biden and the same with Kennedy already listens to the base.
Have we heard from Turbin yet?
As Turbin voted, has shumer, oh, Schumer's still talking.
Diarrhea of the mouth won't shut up.
We don't know how Schumer is going to, well, we do know how Schumer is.
He's going to vote no.
He's already said so.
Okay, Schumer's going to vote no.
No surprise there.
So Leahy, Feingold, and Cole, 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 to vote no 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 Democratic caucus in the House.
And now there is some buzz out there that Reed may not be able to hold this caucus together on serious events and matters such as this.
You know, Reed's got a Tom Daschell problem, who, by the way, is back in the news.
Tom Daschell 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 in 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 Gore during the past five years has gone out and made speeches to the base, the Democratic base, and their groups and their organizations.
And Hillary, it was announced, has agreed to meet with Mother Sheehan.
Hillary Clinton is going to meet with Cindy Sheehan, which is going to confuse people who think that she's moving to the right on the war and war on terror and Iraq.
Inexplicably, McCain is also going to meet with Cindy Sheehan.
So a lot to do 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 been over at the Pentagon.
He's at the Pentagon now and he's delivering a statement and address on the war on terror and pronouncing some of the successes that took place in the election in Afghanistan and now fielding questions from the assembled kindergarten crew of the press corps.
I just want to make a prediction to you.
Even though the hurricane, Hurricane Rita van den Hoovel, not slated to hit wherever it's going to hit 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 in the midst of the crisis and the panic that's leading up to the strike of Hurricane Rita.
You heard it here.
When I saw the graphic on television, Bush to address war on terror soon.
Oh, here we go.
They're going to 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 day is out.
Let me grab, we've got a call here from Magnolia, Texas, which I think is a northwestern part of the city of Houston.
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 6 o'clock p.m., 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 gas in town.
This is the mayor's fault?
Yes, this is the mayor's fault.
What was the mayor supposed to do?
Was the mayor supposed to build some more interstates the past couple days, add some lanes?
What was he supposed to do?
Put more gas stations out there along the escape route.
Well, one person called in.
I'm going to tell you this.
They said that with their DPS, 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 going to be the mayor's fault.
You know, folks, still suffering the ravages of a minor flu virus here, so excuse me.
Danic, I fear that you're right.
It's unfair.
Some had GPS and could navigate these less than public roads while others were stuck only having access to maps and the interstate.
In fact, it's interesting that you mentioned this because Kathleen Blanco, the governor 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 going to 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.
And she said, if you don't get a map.
But, you know, folks, let me tell you something.
I don't know that people stop to think about what all is involved here.
Houston is a city of over 5 million people.
Now, the interstate highway system built there to get people in and around the city, but it's not built to handle 5 million people or whatever number is there trying to get out at the same time.
And I think people don't think about things like this 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.
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.
Nobody is as sophisticated and as advanced to have rolling emergency rooms, rolling port-a-potties, rolling this to accompany people on these kinds of ways out.
You can't put up new gas stations to handle all this kind of traffic.
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 5 million people on an interstate highway system.
It's not designed for that going all in one direction and still have the normal ebb and flow of daily life take place.
And then as a result, everything goes smooth as glass.
You have to expect 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 like this.
Oh, a United States Air Force firefighter drive-by caller said they don't foam runways anymore because it makes it too slick.
There's no traction for landing.
Okay, I didn't know that.
But I'm happy for that bit of information.
Joseph in New York City.
Hello, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network.
It's great to have you with us.
People make a choice to live in a hurricane alley.
Why should I care?
People live in Los Angeles in earthquake faults.
They live in a desert without water in Nevada.
They live in a tornado alley.
What's my problem?
If they live there, that's their problem.
Right.
People live in a city that terrorists want to destroy.
Why should we care?
Hey, that's not right.
Don't pick on New York.
What is your point, Joseph?
He hung up.
He hung up.
He's a 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 Senate Judiciary Committee predicted 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.
So is now Turban pontificating?
That's a Republic.
Turbin's next.
Have any Republicans voted no?
I mean, I don't trust these guys either.
Wouldn't be surprised.
I just wanted to know, Mr. Snow.
Look, folks, I've got a little hacking cough again today as I continue 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, fever attached to it.
But nevertheless, I'm here, but I beg you to indulge me if I'm unable to hit the cough button as necessary.
All right, let's get to some evidence that my program yesterday has been a bit successful in its attempt.
Yesterday, if you were not here, something struck me.
There was a tipping point.
I read a piece by the Hollywood screenwriter and playwright David Mamet in the Los Angeles Times, in which he says, basically fed up 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 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 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.
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 going to 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 advocacy groups and policy organizations, the party apparatus, they don't seem nearly as torn.
In many ways, the nomination has 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.
Senator Turbin is going biblical, ladies and gentlemen, during his speechifying prior to his vote on the John Roberts nomination.
He's reading from the Bible on the wisdom of King Solomon.
He's framing his vote on the question if Judge Roberts has wisdom or has a heart.
Well, I'd say Turbin, these guys, they're doing what I say they should do.
They're being who they are.
This is good.
Don't get mad at this, folks.
This is something to celebrate.
You need to celebrate Turbin.
You need to celebrate Dianne Feinstein.
You 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.
A whole party needs to do this because their base is defining them.
And actually, 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 here with a big heart call the 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 Leahy.
He's let the base down.
Ralph Nees, all upset.
Nees practically threatened Leahy yesterday.
Herb Cole, a lot of people just learned 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 Feingold.
Feingold's a surprise because Feingold's questioning of Roberts was pretty vicious and seemed to be very unhappy and dissatisfied with the responses he got from Judge Roberts.
And yet Feingold has gone here.
So Leahy and Feingold and Senator Cole letting down the base.
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?
He hasn't voted.
I don't think Kennedy has.
Mr. Snerdley has Mr. Snerdley'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 any so he basically repleted his spiel from SDS?
So Kennedy, count on him to be a good liberal, but we need more of these people to step up.
And of course, the bigger challenge here, the biggest challenge is for Mrs. Clinton to do this.
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 Beter Ginsburg said that not any woman will do to replace O'Connor and further that 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.
I think it's totally inappropriate.
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 they need on the court and what she wants and what she thinks ought to happen.
This is, 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 justices or justice buzzy.
Just keep talking and have this amplified.
So let me amplify here what 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 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 Specter's.
Arlen 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 until next year.
Arlen, it's not your job.
It's not your call.
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, a practice strongly opposed by some U.S. legislators.
The justices, well, Justice Ginsburg said that using foreign sources does not mean giving them superior status in deciding cases.
He said, I will take enlightenment wherever I can get it.
I don't want to stop at a national boundary.
So we've got the anti-Roberts speeches from Dianne 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, which you heard Dingy Harry say we played the soundbite two days ago.
So here's an activist on the court saying we need another one.
We need just like her.
We need a liberal activist that's going to put women's rights and all this sort of stuff first.
Dianne Feinstein, in fact, just pulled something out of the printer here.
Sit tight here, folks.
Well, I love these pages that print nine blank pages with one paragraph on the front page.
Dianne Feinstein, you know, she likes to remind us, this is Ruth Ginsburg does, that she's the only Democrat, the only female on the Judiciary Committee.
And so 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 he is.
And 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 NAROL bags, gags, gals, whatever, and the nags.
And she didn't even respond to what he said.
It's just recitation of the questions.
It was starkly obvious to me.
She had no clue what he was even talking about.
And she wasn't able to follow up because she didn't understand his answers.
So you've got Ruth Bader Ginsburg out there saying, 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.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, I just thought of something here.
A lot of people probably wondering why I let it pass that a Democrat senator, Senator Turbin, was actually reading from the Bible 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 reading from the Old Testament about King Solomon long before there were Christians.
So Durbin 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.
Landrew is, we know what she's going to do yet.
Landrew, she's leaning yes.
Tim Johnson, he's leaning yes.
Max Baucus of Montana, they are going to vote for Roberts, as will Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
Now, you know, Tim Johnson, he's from South Dakota, and he knows well the Dashel lesson.
The Dashel 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'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 re-election for five years, so he's probably cool on this.
But there is a problem for some of these 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.
And they do so at the expense of the people who elected them.
So this is another reason why they get in so many jams is because rather than just be who they are, rather than just be honest, tell everybody who they are, what they're going to 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 fall under the pressure of the left-wing activists and so forth.
And so they become prisoners.
And it is much easier if they would just open up, be themselves, announce what they're for, because we're going to do it for them regardless.
So they may as well just be honest about it.
Chris in Knoxville, Tennessee, great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hey, thanks, Brush.
Pro, both books of the Bible, Volunteer Ditto's here.
Got a question.
You were talking about Feinstein and how she is 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 it seems to me, I remember whenever Clinton was going through the whole impeachment, they were trying to stuff down our throat that, hey, you've got to separate personal and business.
And now all of a sudden they're not compartmentalized on to say it's the 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.
In fact, somebody needs to ask a question.
Is this what feminism is?
Feminism has now become a senator, a female senator upset because a male nominee has not fully admitted how good or bad or whatever his characteristics are as a husband and father.
I mean, what a betrayal of feminism.
Feminism is to 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 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 revisiting history.
And in this last example, I think to give you an example, folks, of just how some of these walls of the great liberal institutions of the past are crumbling.
Feminism has become a joke now, and Diane Feinstein has just made it a joke.
And so's Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg.
She just made it a joke with this comment.
Well, I need another woman in the court.
I don't want to be the only woman in a court.
We're going to have an activist woman like me on the court.
Not just any woman to do.
Well, it used to be any woman would do.
Any woman, anywhere, anytime, better than a man.
Need to equate things and so forth.
Yesterday, same token, we had these soundbites from Barney Frank.
Barney Frank, speaking about the estate tax, he said he's in favor of exempting the first $5 million of an estate from taxation.
Folks, do you understand what that represents in terms of another crumbling wall of liberalism?
Just four years ago, Barney, two years ago, Barney Frank wouldn't have agreed to capping 5 cents of income and sheltering it from the death tax.
Now he's willing to go along with $5 million?
It's still stupid, but it shows that they can't hold on to the old positions that they've had.
And 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.
And 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 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 timeout.
Be right back.
Hey, back to the phones.
We go to Petuski, Michigan.
And Mark, it's nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
I hope you're feeling better.
Thank you.
Hey, listen, I just wanted to just make one quick point here.
I've noticed in the last day or so that the only person, the very only person I've seen on the news making efforts to evacuate Galveston has been the mayor of Galveston, a local official.
Meaning you have seen no feds or no governor?
What is your point?
My point is I think that the city of New Orleans and Louisiana could learn a lot from what's happening in Galveston.
I think they have.
I saw, I don't know about Mayor Nagins.
I got somebody on hold here who says he heard Nagan's going to allow the strip bars to remain open during the evacuation.
I haven't heard that anywhere.
See if you can find that, Mr. Snerdley.
The strip bars are open?
The strip bars are open.
The strip bars are going to stay open during the evacuation.
School bus Nagans.
Well, okay.
Well, but Kathleen Blanco, I did, and I mentioned this earlier.
She gave a speech about 11 o'clock Eastern Time this morning.
And if she'd have done this three weeks ago, it was exactly what was called for.
Everybody's learned from this.
You know, I don't like playing if.
If is for children, but maybe we'll explore this 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.
Mark, a quick timeout.
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