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Sept. 27, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 27, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #3
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By the way, one more thing about this Brown hearing, this FEMA hearing.
The reason there are no Democrats there, Mr. Sturdley, they boycotted it.
They don't want to sanction this hearing because they think it's partisan.
So the Republicans invited Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, and he accepted the invitation.
And that's why he's there.
He's not really a member of this committee per se.
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Okay, time for, let's see, a couple more see I told you sos.
And I referred to these at the beginning of the program.
The first one, remember last week when Dingy Harry went to the floor of the Senate and announced his opposition and intention to vote no on Judge Roberts for the Chief Justice of the United States this week.
It was shortly after that that Pat Leahy, which happened first?
Was it Dingy Harry and then Leahy?
Or was it Leahy first?
Leahy went to the floor and announced he was going to vote for Roberts.
And then did Dingy Harry later on say he was going to vote against him?
I forget the it was close proxy.
I forget the order.
But I said at the time, folks, I'm telling you, there's trouble in the Democratic leadership in the Senate on this.
And what I said at the time was if the leader of the Democrats in the Senate is going to vote no and the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee is going to vote yes, it seems that maybe Dingy Harry can't hold his caucus here.
And people said to me, no, come on, Rush, you don't get it.
This is part of the grand strategy.
Well, I know there's a strategy here.
The strategy is for some Democrats to vote yes so that they can portray themselves as moderates when they oppose the next nominee.
I understand that.
But people also said, Rush, these guys know what they're doing.
These are the Democrats.
And that's where I break bread with you here.
People think it's impossible the Democrats could be in disarray.
People think the Democrats do everything with a grand strategy.
It always works.
And they're always a step ahead of us.
And that's not the case.
And it wasn't the case here because the Hill newspaper today, Leahy felt blindsided by Reed.
Once again, L. Rushball, right on the money on the cutting edge.
Senator Patrick Leakey Leahy, the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, vented frustration with Senate Minority Leader Dingy Harry during a closed-door Democratic meeting last week before stunning colleagues and liberal activists by announcing his support for Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.
A day before his surprise declaration, Leahy expressed his irritation at being blindsided over Reed's position, finding out about it from the news media rather than from a minority leader.
A lawmaker said, I think Leahy clearly wished he had known, meaning Leahy wishes that Dingy Harry had told him what he was going to do.
Reed had made it clear to Democratic senators before Roberts' confirmation hearings that no member should get out in front of the caucus by announcing his support or opposition until the hearings had finished.
Leahy may have been upset that Reed appeared to be violating his own rule without telling him or the caucus.
Liberal activist leaders who led opposition to Roberts admit they were stunned and perplexed by Leahy's decision.
Now, a lot of you people said, nah, Rush, I tell you, they know what's going on here.
He'll be given a pass because they know he's just setting himself up to oppose the next nominee.
You got to get it out of your heads that these people are infallible.
You have to get it out of your heads.
These Democrats don't make mistakes.
I'm telling you, they are reeling.
They are imploding.
And they're not unified.
I don't care what you want to think of their past behavior and how slick an operation they had.
It's a different bunch of them now.
And they're not running this show anymore.
These kook fringe blogs and activists are.
And when Ralph Nees is upset at Leahy, he's upset at Leahy, period.
And it's not an act.
Nan Aaron, the president of the Alliance for Justice, told reporters that she was shocked.
Ralph Neese, people from the American Way, said Leahy's vote was inexplicable, deeply disappointing.
Two days before last week's caucus lunch, Leahy said on Flay the Nation on CBS that he didn't know how he would vote.
He had actually written two speeches, one for and one against Roberts.
Nan Aaron said, I think his statement's actually quite critical of Roberts, but she said she didn't know if a breach of the Senate's arcane protocols may have tipped the balance.
I have no idea.
So now they're beginning to think maybe Leahy voted for the guy because he got sandbagged by Dingy Harry because Dingy Harry said nobody announces their intentions until these things are over with.
And then Dingy Harry apparently went out and broke his own rule and didn't tell Leahy what he was going to do.
And so Leahy says, okay, well, take this.
I'm voting for the guy.
That's what Nan Aaron thinks.
That's what some of the liberal activist groups think.
Tracy Schmaler, spokeswoman for the Senate Judiciary Committee, scoffed at the suggestion that Leahy may have voted as he did because he was piqued by Reed's snub.
The conflicting theories that keep popping up would make Machiavelli proud, she said.
They can't all be right.
In fact, none of them are.
The simplest explanation also happens to be the real one.
Two weekends ago, he used the technique he used as a prosecutor before a big case, sketched out the arguments for and against on a legal pad.
Then he confirmed his decision by consulting his conscience.
All right, fine and dandy.
I'm telling you, there's trouble in paradise.
Several Democrats followed Leahy in declaring for Roberts.
At least 12 Democrat senators have said they will support him in the floor vote.
They are Bill Nelson, Ben Nelson, Mark Pryor, Tim Johnson, Max Baucus, Sheets Bird, Jeff Bingaman, Kent Conrad, Russ Feingold, and Herb Cole.
Mary Land.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Where's the period?
It's Mary Landrew said she will vote for Roberts.
15 Democrats have announced their opposition.
So at any rate, it's troubled in paradise out there, folks.
Just exactly as I told you.
Now to see, I told you so from yesterday.
Yesterday, we had the audio soundbites of the director of the National Hurricane Center, Max Mayfield.
Max Mayfield was all over television Sunday shouting in his own fashion, no global warming.
It has nothing to do with this.
These are age-old cycles that explain these hurricanes, and we just started a new one.
There is no global warming on this.
It doesn't have any effect on this.
And also, the guy from MacyWeather, Joe Bastard, he's others, says the same thing.
William Gray, the expert forecaster, Colorado State University, same thing.
Scientists all said, no, no, global warming, not part of it.
I said, folks, this doesn't fit the media template.
The media template is that global warming is happening.
Global warming is caused by man, primarily the United States, because we're evil and thieves.
We screw up the Earth by using so much of the Earth's resources with such a small percentage of the overall Earth's population.
It's become a fact.
Global warming is caused by man, and we can stop it.
And we're destroying the Earth.
And since Bush didn't go for the Kyoto Protocol, Bush is primarily responsible.
And global warming caused the hurricanes, which illustrated Bush's racism and blah, It all fits.
That's the template.
That's the news cycle.
So I said, despite the experts saying no global warming, I said, look for the media to keep this alive.
The media will report that global warming is a factor in the hurricanes.
Lo and behold, AP.
Oh, sorry.
Reuters this time.
Six of one, half dozen of another.
Reuters, Maggie Fox, the health and science correspondent.
No one can say if warming caused Katrina Rita.
Wrong, Maggie.
Max Mayfield says it didn't.
William Gray says it didn't.
A number of scientists are saying that global warming did not cause these hurricanes.
What is this headline?
No one can say.
Scientists say it's not easy to tell if global warming caused hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
But Monday, they forecast more unpredictable weather as Earth gets hotter.
We need to change the term.
This is not global warming.
It's solar warming.
There is sun activity here, and that's something.
We had the story from 2004 from the UK Independent last week.
We linked to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
The sun, it's warming up on Mars for crying out loud, folks.
So what are we doing to that?
The Mars rover?
The Mars rover destroying the climate of Mars?
There's no common sense in any of this.
There's just a pre-packaged template that the environmental activists have convinced the media of because they're one and the same.
They have the same worldview.
A leftist activist is a leftist activist, whether they're disguised as a journalist or not.
A journalist is just a respectable appearing activist, if you ask me.
They don't look respected.
They don't look like activists, but they are.
They act like it.
And this story is just further evidence.
Even skeptics agree that global warming is underway and that human activity is at least in part responsible.
No, they don't.
I'm a skeptic and I don't believe it.
And I got thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of scientists and people on my side.
This is an absolute lie.
Even skeptics agree.
So let's go to the quotes now.
Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
Global warming, I think, is playing a role in the hurricanes.
But a lot of what is going on is natural.
What global warming may be doing is making them somewhat more intense, said Trenberth, a member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Cross him off.
He's biased.
He's not credible.
The UN is a worthless organization with a political bent and bias aimed at harming the United States.
So throw him out of the story.
James Elsner, a professor of geography at Florida State, agreed.
Oh, he does?
Listen to this.
Certainly, this is an unusual season.
However, the question of attribution, I don't think, is very simple.
Well, then he doesn't agree.
The first guy says global warming is playing a role.
The second guy says, well, it's an unusual season.
The question of attribution, I don't think, is very simple.
He doesn't agree.
Folks, he doesn't agree.
And this Maggie Fox idiot has just written that he agreed.
Now, let's go to the end of the story.
Even if storms are not yet affected by global warming, experts like Emmanuel and Trenberth predict that they will be.
Okay, so the first part of the story, there's no question global warming is causing this.
It's happening.
I have two experts and they agree.
Well, one of them is not an expert.
One's a UN activist.
The other one doesn't agree with a UN activist.
The end of the story, you would forget that the first part of the story says that there's global warming, even if storms are not yet affected.
I thought the whole point of the story was that they were caused by global warming.
Now at the conclusion, even if storms are not yet affected by global warming, experts predict they will be.
Well, fine.
Where's the filter on this story?
How did this get past their responsible editor?
This is a shoddy piece of journalism here.
It's activism disguised as news.
But I told you this was going to happen is the point.
See, I told you they're not going to let go of the notion that global warming is responsible for the intensity of the hurricanes.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
Ah, one of my all-time favorite tunes, Al Wilson, show and tell.
This is from the early 70s, mid-70s.
Back to the phones, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Hi, Ray.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
How you doing today?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
You know, you were talking about the press and covering all the horrible things that the poor blacks supposedly did in New Orleans, and turning out it's all, most of it's faked.
Do you think perhaps this may show the inherent racism of the left-wing press, that they see all the poor blacks and assume that because this disaster happened, that they would naturally act that way?
Yeah, I have always maintained that the real racism in this country is on the left.
If you look at the, if you examine this, is a great example of it, as you point out.
It's the left that first notices the color, the gender, the sexual orientation of people, and then demands some sort of redress for it because they just assume.
They assume if somebody's black, that life is a BI itch.
It's not fair.
And because America is unfair, and so since blacks were inordinately harmed down here because they happen to live there, then their natural racist feelings and opinions that Republicans are the racist led to the delayed response because nobody cares about them because they're black and because they're poor.
That's their worldview.
So yeah, they'll fit whatever news event happens to fit into it.
But the real race, if you take a look at who the rescuers were, they were white, and who were they rescuing?
They were the blacks and they were the poor.
None of it holds up to a serious examination.
Did you see any of the so-called leftist groups that have all this compassion and understanding and have given us all this political correctness?
Did you see the ACLU down there helping out?
Have you seen People for the American Way?
Have you seen the Alliance for Justice?
Have you seen any of these groups down there actually helping?
No, because they don't.
All they do is whine and moan, complain, and point fingers of blame.
They do not roll up their sleeves and get busy.
They don't do any dirty work.
They just sit there and throw out accusations.
I've often thought, look at, if you want to talk about real racism, there are plantation owners in America today.
They are white liberals.
The white liberals who are the architects of the great society and the war on poverty have successfully blown up the black family.
It's not me saying this.
It's blacks have called this program and have told me this.
Because all of this assistance, quote unquote, destroyed the black family.
It told the black father he's not necessary.
The black husband, he's not necessary.
He doesn't have to hang around.
Because all these programs will take his place.
So I don't think there's any question about it.
And that's why I said last week, we always get tagged with this stuff.
Charles Wrangell's out there, and wait till you hear this story after the break coming up.
Charles Wrangell's out there saying George Bush is the modern-day Bull Conner.
Well, Bull Conner was a Democrat.
George Wallace was a Democrat.
Lester Maddox was a Democrat.
J. William Fulbright, Bill Clinton's mentor, segregationist, senator from Arkansas, a Democrat.
Many of the segregationist senators that opposed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s, Democrats.
And somehow Republicans have gotten tagged with this.
Republicans have gotten pasted with it.
And you know, one of the primary reasons why is because the Democrats have a different definition of compassion.
Compassion to a Democrat is giving somebody just enough to keep them poor and then say, without me, they'd be really in bad shape.
Republicans say, wait a minute, I'm against all these programs.
We got to get these people out of these circumstances.
We got to teach them.
We got to educate them.
Oh, easy for you to say.
That was the lib response when you talk about the homeless.
Well, they need to get a job.
Oh, easy for you to say.
Well, what if we all said, out of hell with work?
Yeah, easy for you to say.
So they have this definition of compassion, which says they care, but we're not supposed to examine their results, only their intentions.
So they get away with claiming their intentions are honorable.
Ours aren't.
Therefore, we're racist.
It's the other way around.
And I've long been frustrated with this business that conservatives and Republicans are racist.
It's the exact opposite, folks, if the truth be known.
Glad you called, Ray.
Stand by for this story on Chuck Wrangell and the Bull Connor comment he made about Bush.
Stay with us.
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Okay, a little programming note here, ladies and gentlemen.
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All right, Art in Colorado Springs.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello, Rush.
Hello.
Hello.
Yeah, I'm here, Art.
That's what told me.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just wanted to talk about the contracts, federal contracts.
I've been both a prime contractor and subcontractor.
And what people don't understand is for a Hall Burton or any prime contractor to get a contract with the federal government, you first have to qualify for that contract and submit a very detailed proposal with costs.
And that can cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And that doesn't guarantee that you get selected.
You know what we did, Art?
We went and looked it up.
And this is just cursory.
We haven't had time to research it.
But we just went on websites and looked at the bid process.
Was it FEMA that you were looking at, Mr. Sterdley?
Okay, so if you go to FEMA to bid on a project, you get redirected to another website where you have to fill out a form there.
And then you have to fill out a form at another place.
It would take a day for somebody that knows what they're doing just to get all the paperwork collected.
Now, there are probably businesses out there that know how this is done and that they have employees that are paid to go through all this to make a bid on a FEMA or federal project.
But if you have no clue what you're doing, it's worse than filling out your tax forms if you have no clue what you're doing there.
So the bottom line here, they suspend the bid process.
Why do they suspend the bid process?
Because they know it can take 90 days.
I did find that out.
It can take, in fact, FEMA, in this instance, reduced the 90-day normal bid process down to 10 days for this disaster.
So they know they've got a bureaucratic snafu that they've created in this bid process.
So what Art's calling about here is the story the New York Times had yesterday, and everybody's complaining about that Halliburton and the Shaw group got a couple contracts without bidding.
Folks, if they were made to bid, there wouldn't be any contracts let yet and we wouldn't be started working on rebuilding this place or anything else that had been wrecked by a disaster.
I don't want to repeat this whole thing.
The Shaw group, remember, the Democrats are trying to say that these are Bush's cronies getting these contracts because Joe Albaugh, his former FEMA director and campaign advisor, lobbyists for it.
Well, the Shaw group is headed up by the current chairman of the Democratic Committee of State of Louisiana, a guy named Jim Bernard.
Jim Bernard is the Shaw group.
He was a liaison to Kathleen Blanco.
He's very active with her campaign, her election, and he's the head of the Democratic Party of Louisiana.
This story about cronyism is crazy.
The New York Times could have told you that.
We found out who Jim Bernard is by going to the state of Louisiana Democratic Party website.
His resume is a proud recitation of the Shaw Group, basically.
And they're proud that the Shaw Group CEO is their party chairman in the state of Louisiana.
Yeah, real Bush cronyism here, huh?
New York Times could have told you that.
CNN could have told us.
Fox could have told us.
MSNBC could have told us, but they didn't.
Wonder why.
They told us that Vice President Cheney used to work at Halliburton.
Oh, yeah.
Evil Halliburton.
All right, here's this story about Charles Wrangel.
Charles Wrangell last week, George Bush is a Bull Connor.
Bull Connor, as you know, sprayed the fire hoses on kids.
Dr. King, Democrat.
All these Democrat segregationists were the ones that caused all those problems down in the South that led to the Civil Rights Act.
Responding to statements, this from the New York Sun today, responding to statements made last week by Representative Charles Wrangell, the Republican National Committee urged Democratic leaders yesterday to denounce the New York Congressman's comparison of President Bush to the late Bull Conner, the Birmingham, Alabama police commissioner who came to symbolize Southern racism in the 60s.
The Republican request for repudiation, however, met with expressions of support for Mr. Wrangell's statement, particularly from black Democratic leaders in New York.
The Reverend Al Sharpton came out in support of Wrangell's analysis.
Another member of the city's congressional delegation, Major Owens, a Democrat of Brooklyn, denounced Mr. Bush as even more diabolical than Bull Connor.
At a town hall meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus held in Washington last Thursday, Wrangell, Democrat from Harlem, faulted Bush for his response to Hurricane Katrina, lambasting the president for being insensitive to blacks affected by the storm, Wrangell said to an appreciative audience, George Bush is our Bull Connor.
Well, just to remind you, Bull Conner in 1963 turned attack dogs and fire hoses on blacks, including Martin Luther King Jr., when they were demonstrating for equal rights.
Yesterday, Wrangell reached my phone, elaborated on his comments, saying he made the comparison because Bush, like Bull Conner, had become a rallying point for America's blacks.
Well, you know, let's go back to the Times Picky Unit of yesterday, the L.A. Times today.
We found out that all this reporting, what was going on down there was absolutely bogus.
None of it happened.
No anarchy, no rapes, no murders, none of this stuff.
It didn't happen at the Superdome or the convention center.
And Mike Brown testifying at FEMA today essentially said, hey, I believe the media reports what's going on in there.
We had buses ready to evacuate Superdome, but I'm not law enforcement.
FEMA doesn't carry guns.
We're not armed.
We are volunteers.
We're bus drivers.
We're not going to go into that circumstance.
If anybody's responsible for this delayed response, folks, let's point the finger where it deserves to be pointed, and that is at cable television news networks.
All of them.
Every one of them.
Spreading rumors, amplifying rumors, compounding them.
No filter.
No double sourcing, no triple sourcing.
Just like Dan Rather, they wanted the story to be true.
They thought it had to be true.
Bush is president.
And Bush is hateful.
And Bush is insensitive.
And Bush is a Republican.
Therefore, Bush is a racist.
It had to be true.
There was not even any doubt.
There wasn't any speculation.
You know where the real racism comes in?
Can I tell you where the real racism comes in?
The real racism is when you have a bunch of white reporters down in New Orleans who are hearing all this that black people are doing and they believe it.
That's the racism, folks.
When a bunch of so-called better than everybody else white people, white liberals who think that they're a cut above, they're the elites, when they hear about all this mayhem and anarchy going on in primarily a black neighborhood, they believe it.
They're the ones who think this is possible.
They're the ones who think blacks are doing this, but they will not blame the blacks.
They will blame Republicans for making this circumstance possible.
That's why this happened.
Because the people on the ground reporting this, wow, you hear about this?
Rapes in the Superdome?
You hear about all these.
Oh, you know how those people are.
This is Bush's fault.
That's where the real racism is, folks.
With a bunch of white liberal plantation owner elitists believing stories, rumors like this are true.
Let me ask you a question.
You're down there, you're reporting this, or maybe you're not reporting.
You're watching it on television.
And you hear all this.
You don't see it.
You haven't seen one rape.
You haven't seen video of a victim of a rape.
You haven't seen video of a victim of a murder.
You haven't seen a murder take place.
You don't even have cameras inside the Superdome telling us what all we're seeing.
We heard horror stories of what was going on in there, but we didn't see any pictures of that.
We just heard the stories and we saw these people streaming out of there after a while.
Somebody tells you all this is going on.
How many white liberals do you think said, I don't believe those people are capable of that?
How much doubt do you think there was on the part of white liberals?
No, there was excitement, folks.
I am telling you there was glee.
There was happiness this was happening because this allows them to continue to point the finger of racism at Bush and Republicans.
Yeah, they don't care.
Republicans have set this circumstance up.
Republicans have kept these people poor.
It's understandable they would be acting this way in the superdome.
Bush has made them this way.
The Republicans, conservatives have made them this way all these years.
That's the underlying thought that allows this story to happen.
That is the mindset that allows it to happen.
Yeah, yeah, these people are capable of it, but it's not their fault.
They're frustrated after 60 years of being ignored, 60 years of being forgotten, 60 years of being discriminated against, and it's all the Republicans' fault.
Who can blame them for acting this way?
That's the mindset.
That is the template that white elitist liberals have when they hear that this is going on, even though they haven't seen it.
They got no proof, have no pictures, but they believed it.
You have to ask why.
You have to ask why.
And I just did.
And I'll tell you, now you've got Wrangell out there furthering all this, and yet it didn't happen, Chuck.
There were no Bull Conner tactics being used in New Orleans.
And, of course, the white liberals will look around and they'll believe all these stories because, yeah, the Republicans have led these people to this life of frustration and dismal doom and gloom.
Well, Democrats have been running this state 60 years.
The Democrats have been running that city for just as long.
So I don't know where the curiosity is.
Yes, I do.
There isn't any.
There isn't any curiosity at all.
So a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, Amaya Smith, said, I think the bigger issue here for the Republican National Committee is not addressing, that they're not addressing is that the president and his administration, their policies made life harder for African Americans.
And not just African Americans, but working Americans around the country as well.
When asked whether the Democratic National Committee repudiated Wrangell's comments or stood by them, Ms. Amaya Smith declined to comment, referring the sum to her previous statement.
Well, this previous statement kind of proves what I just said.
The bigger issue here is the RNC is not addressing that the president and his administration and their policies have made life harder for African Americans.
So you see, what they did, whatever it was they did that we know now they didn't do, but whatever it was they did, the Superdome and the Convention said, it's Bush's fault.
Their policies have driven him to this, folks.
It's the underlying theory.
And so the DNC refuses to repudiate Wrangell.
You tell me these people are not cracking up?
You think they're not imploding?
Support for Wrangell's comparison was explicit among Democratic leaders in New York City as the party's nominee for mayor, Fernando Ferrer, weighed in.
George W. Bush and the conservative Republican policies he champions have consistently hurt working people throughout our country and our city.
Al Sharpton supported Wrangell's Bush as Connor comparison.
I think the statement clearly says if there's a person that's a symbol that many blacks organize around and organize against this generation, it would be Bush, as it was one generation and Connor.
In that sense, I agree with him.
Clearly, Bush has become that, especially after Katrina.
We've gone from fire hoses to levies.
How's your radio show doing Al?
You got any listeners?
Got any stations?
With garbage like this, we've gone from fire hoses to levies.
Well, what do we know about the levees?
We know that the corrupt Louisiana government down there took all this federal money.
Bush gave more than Clinton gave, and it never got to the levies.
We'll be back, folks.
Stay with us.
Let's go to one more story here.
I want to get to the phone calls.
I was mentioning this to Mr. Snerdley here in the break.
This is a Reuters story.
Bush urges Congress to help U.S. refiners expand.
President Bush on Monday urged Congress to clear away regulatory obstacles that prevent building new U.S. oil refineries, a move certain to trigger a new fight with environmentalist wackos and Democrats.
Now, does it say it all?
And by the way, Dick Pombo, Richard Pombo, California Democrat, has proposed legislation that would allow oil drilling anywhere off the coast of the United States as long as it's 25 miles out where nobody can see it.
And they still oppose that.
They still could be disastrous.
That's why I said last week, well, then let these Democrats come out and support these high gasoline prices.
Let them come out and support shortages.
So the environmentalist wackos and Democrats are going to oppose the building of new refineries.
You know why?
Can I tell you why?
Can I tell you why the Democrats oppose the high prices on gasoline recently?
There is a reason for it.
You might think it's contradictory, and it at bottom is, because they've been advocating all these high prices for all these years as a means of reducing a waste of this place as fast as fuel and pollution and all that.
The reason they're upset is because the oil companies are getting the money.
See, if the government was getting the money, they would be on board.
If these prices were going up because of tax increases, they'd be happy as pigs in slop.
And I almost didn't say slop.
But since the oil companies are getting the money, oh, can't have that.
Well, can't build refineries.
Who's going to get the money?
The oil companies.
President said the storms have shown how fragile the balance is between supply and demand in America.
We need more refining capacity.
No new U.S. refinery has been built since 1976.
In that time, gasoline demand has grown to over 9 million barrels a day.
Do you know how long it takes to build a refinery under existing rules?
Stand by.
Building a new refinery under existing rules, meaning environmental regulations and all that, would take up to 10 years and would cost $3 billion.
This, according to the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, 10 years to build one new refinery.
$3 billion.
Since the government won't get very much of the money, Democrats will oppose it, as will the environmentalist wackos.
Helen, quickly, I've got about 45 seconds here, but I want to get your call.
She's in Bethesda, Maryland.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
This will be quick.
Doesn't this reporting from New Orleans remind you of 10 years ago during the war in Bosnia when they just lambasted the Serbs?
The Serbs were horrible.
The reporters never left the hotel bar in Sarajevo.
Yet they reported so-called atrocities, staged photographs to go with them, and there were never any retractions later.
Yeah.
When most of this was found to be bunk.
If there was a retraction, it was on page 20.
Yeah, but not all of it was bunk.
I mean, there was the whole ethnic cleansing argument, but still the point is well taken.
It's the same thing as going on in Iraq.
It's the same.
You connect the dots.
Sadly, it's all the same.
I got to go, folks.
But we will be back and wrap it up shortly.
Stay with us.
Well, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence is officially in the can, folks.
A programming reminder, Tom Sullivan from KFBK Sacramento will be here tomorrow.
I have a scheduled day off.
I got to split right after the program today to get where I'm going.
But we'll be back on Thursday and resume our normalcy and be here for Open Line Friday as well.
Thanks much for being with us today.
I'm sorry about the Ditto Cam being in and out.
Our flawless backup system that we were assured we had is worthless.
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