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Oct. 13, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 13, 2005, Thursday, Hour #3
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Welcome back, my friends, the award-winning thrill-packed Rush Limbaugh program, a program that meets and surpasses all audience expectations daily.
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With half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair.
Yes, Vince Flynn's new book is out, Consent to Kill.
Vince Flynn, one of the best espionage authors going today.
His main character's a uh a CIA agent by the name of Mitch Rapp.
Mitch Rapp ended up a couple books ago, a couple three books ago, marrying uh uh some TV babe.
And uh she immediately started trying to change him and got him to quit the CIA was too dangerous and so forth, and it made him self-conscious and indecisive out there on the road, so to speak.
Almost got killed a couple times, and uh um told that uh uh Vince, he autographed my copy very nice, uh very nice uh autograph, but I'm told he takes care of the wife problem in this book.
So I I just mentioned this uh briefly in passing at the late at the end of the last hour, and I was just checking the email.
Guy said, Yeah, I got my copy yesterday, started reading at 6 p.m., finished at 225 a.m. this morning.
And it's folks, this is a huge book.
This guy's got to be a speed reader, or it's an excellent book, or maybe a combination of the two.
It's probably a page turner, all of uh all of Vince's books are.
But it's 400 and some odd pages.
I mean, this is this is uh it's it's a huge book.
And this guy read it in Flumbling eight hours straight, eight and a half hours.
All right, back to the news here, and we've got lots coming up, plus your phone calls amid fears that the effort to repopulate New Orleans is stalling.
Mayor Ray School bus Nagan hopscotched shelters across the state Wednesday to assure Hurricane Katrina evacuees that the city is beginning to operate again and urged them to come on home.
For the charismatic first-time who where is this from?
This is uh oh yeah, Washington Post figures.
For the charismatic first-time politician, it was a novel kind of political campaign, not for votes, but for voters.
Well, that's all it means it's for votes.
It's a daunting task.
New Orleans, lower ninth ward reopened to residents Wednesday, but few of them came back.
The number of students in neighboring communities have been reduced by half.
Bidness owners desperate for workers.
City leaders increasingly concerned that many residents will never return.
Red Cross officials say about 550,000 remain in hotels and motels, subsidized.
That's not right.
550,000.
Well, for Crang, that's close to the population of the whole town.
That can't be right.
I've got a story in the stack here that says only 22,000 remain in hotels.
Yeah, I've got it here somewhere.
Don't make me find it.
It's amazing I've been able to keep this show organized as much as I have to, but it's here.
Only 22,000 of the yes, that's what it says of the New Orleans evacuees of the whatever total number to word.
It wasn't 550 in this story.
Only 22,000 remain in hotels.
It's a problem.
Oh, take it back.
Okay, okay, okay, okay, that's right.
22,000 remain in shelters.
Twenty-two thousand remain in shelters, five hundred and f Red Cross officials, five hundred and fifty thousand remain in hotels and motels subsidized by FEMA.
Meanwhile, neighborhoods such as the Ninth Ward and lower parts of St. Bernard and Cameron parishes will take months and sometimes longer to create a livable environment.
With much of his city still vacant, school bus Nagan launched his campaign.
My big message is you can come back to the city.
He was speaking to a group of about 40 at a shelter in Alexandria, which is a three-hour drive from New Orleans.
He urged the crowd to get back to the red beans and rice and gumbo and all those things that you love.
It was in many ways an advertising effort.
Crime is lower than it has been in a hundred years, he told the crowd.
Now, don't don't let's Whoa, I wonder why.
There's nobody there.
Looting is also down.
All right, well, we'll leave it alone.
The Crime is lower than it's been in a hundred years.
City schools will begin to reopen in November and January.
He noted that some restaurant franchises offering $6,000 bonuses to new employees.
Is I'm not talking about minimum wage jobs.
Minimum wage is out in New Orleans.
Shortage of workers has driven up wages.
I saw a TV report on a lower ninth ward, and it's it's pathetic.
You know, it's just sad as people are walking back.
It took one guy almost a half day to open his door because the lock was rusted and he had to get some lubricant in there.
And then when he opened it, it wasn't worth seeing.
And many people have just gone back to look to determine that they can't ever go back there.
And you know, one of the saddest things, and I don't remember specifically, glad it's been the last three weeks, but I can't say exactly when, but I remember there was a roiling debate among Democrats over how do we preserve these these great old areas of New Orleans, like the Ninth Ward.
And I got to thinking here they are, you know, debating how to preserve what basically was uh an impoverished slum type area.
You know, the beauty of this is that all these areas are going to be rebuilt.
And here they were, these liberal Democrats were sitting there pining away for the for the lost cultures that just I didn't understand it.
Well, I mean, I understand it, but I didn't at the same time.
So, anyway, they've opened the city trying to get people back in.
And I, you know, I I was one of the first, I think, to speculate shortly in the uh aftermath after the hurricane.
You know, I bet a lot of people don't go back there.
If it was as bad for them as they say, they're unemployed, they were not happy.
They're all why why go back?
Well, you don't think anything's gonna change.
And they're being exposed to other parts of the country now and seeing perhaps new opportunities for themselves, and and a lot of them choosing to stay in their new locales uh all over the country.
We will keep a sharp eye on the story.
Vice president, uh former vice president Al Gore said Wednesday he had no intention of ever running for president again.
But he said the United States would be a different country if he had won the 2000 election, launching into a scathing attack on the Bush administration.
I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again, Gore uh told reporters after giving a speech at an economic forum in Sweden.
You notice that these guys always leave the country to launch.
They leave the country to open up, always go out and find these sympathetic socialist audiences to speak to, Clinton and Gore both.
When asked how the U.S. would have been different if he had become president, he didn't answer.
He said he had hard critic hard harsh criticism for Bush's policies.
He said, Well, we would have not invaded a country that didn't attack us.
We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families.
We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media.
We would not be routinely torturing people.
We would be a different country.
Routinely torturing people.
Here's the alternative reality they've set up.
Abu Ghrab, Club Gitmo, routine torture.
Can I can I give you a better answer to the question?
I'll pretend to be Al Gore.
He sits up there in his speech.
If he were president, then if I were president, well, he wouldn't be president.
But let's say he was.
If Al Gore had won in 2000, he would have lost in a landslide in 2004.
Rush, how do you know that?
It's simple, folks.
We know what happened between 2000 and 2004.
The market crash, remember that?
The bubble burst.
That would have been blamed on Clinton Gore.
The 9-11 attack would be blamed on Clinton Gore.
His tax increases would have stalled, delayed, and maybe prevented the economic recovery that took place after the market crash.
And the dead Al-Qaeda terrorists would be waiting for their court trials.
And we would have probably had a couple more terrorist attacks since Al Gore wouldn't have done anything about it.
By his own admission here.
So had he won, he'd be out of office anyway.
So it's a moot point whether he won.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
Since we're uh uh talking about Al Gore, yippee.
Uh let's check in with the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, shall we?
Uh Howard Dean, who was on the uh Letterman show last night.
And Letterman said, give us your list of three strong contenders for the uh presidential nomination in uh in 2008.
We saw something the other day that Al Gore might be thinking about it.
Um what what if you can step aside, step out of your chair now?
Would Al Gore be a viable candidate?
Something interesting about Al Gore.
We did Al De Gore did a fundraiser for us in Washington.
He gave one of the best speeches I've heard in a long time.
This is a guy who knows an enormous amount, particularly about the environment.
Uh he's a very, very bright guy.
Just see the Letterman office, uh Letterman show audience with that remote clicker.
So uh Letterman says, well, you know, almost every week in a national publication or any publication, you'll see that glaciers are melting, the polar ice caps are melting.
In my lifetime, will we ever see an article?
Hey, good news the glaciers are back, good news the ice caps have frozen up again.
I mean, it seems unlikely.
That seems like at least a hundred year job, at least a hundred year job.
This is David Letterman talking with with Howard Dean, and here is the uh erudite uh reply.
You talked about Al Gore.
I'll tell you something interesting about this.
The global warming could actually end up in a much more in an ice age, because what happens, Al's an expert in this stuff.
What happens is the globe as a whole will heat up.
And what will happen is if the Gulf Stream stops and reverses, which is what's likely to happen for a very complicated series of real uh reasons, you'd actually have an incredibly warm earth around the uh equ equatorial regions and a much greater ice cap in the long run.
So the ice cap's getting smaller now.
If the Gulf Stream reverses because of the uh the increase in fresh water, then we're gonna see an ice age, which will be is gonna be even more of a problem.
And you have to listen to Al to explain it to you, but it's really worth doing.
Man, man, give me more of this, Dave.
This is what your show is missing.
Expert commentary on wacko environmental opinion.
Well, let's keep going.
We're not through here.
Letterman says, I saw you on hardball with Chris Matthews.
You were talking about Harriet Myers in the Supreme Court.
You talked about hiding the salami with Harriet Myers.
Now, honest to God, what's going on there, Howard?
Unfortunately, I was thinking of three card Monty, but then I thought, but nobody inside outside New York is gonna know what three card Monty is.
So I was thinking of a shell game, and I said, Hide the and I got stuck, and I knew I had about three seconds to avoid looking like Jeanette Pierre.
So I said, uh, so I said uh the hide the hide the first thing that came into my mind was Kilbasa, but I didn't want to say that.
Here's uh exactly what he did uh say.
But uh in this case, I think with a lifetime appointment of the Supreme Court, you can't play uh, you know, hide the the uh salami or whatever it's called.
Well, we've all we've told uh all of you who didn't know what that what that means.
Uh you know, think of sausage in a pita pocket.
Um it has a very specific meaning.
Uh this is the one thing I would not have to translate for the people in Rio Linda.
This is their language.
Uh and anyway, that's the these are the people who think they got it all wapped up in in 06.
These this is the guy who thinks it's all over in 06, it's all over 08.
They're winning, it's over.
The conservative crack up.
Uh that's on the Letterman show.
And let's not let's not leave the subject here.
We deal with the news about John Edwards, the Breck girl.
Uh, the 2004 Democratic candidate for vice president, the Breck girl, has joined Fortress Investment Group, where he will serve as a part-time global deal maker.
Wall Street has long provided a soft landing for out-of-work politicians, but increasingly, uh, this is some business week magazine.
Increasingly, the revolving door leads to private investment firms.
The street's latest recruit, the Breck Girl, the ex-North Carolina Senator and vice presidential standard bearer for the Democratic Party in the 2004 elections.
Business Week has learned that the Breck girl is signed up to work for the New York-based private investment concern, Fortress Investment Group, as a part-time senior advisor.
Now, this is the guy.
Don't forget who told us about the two Americas.
And I've defined, excuse me, I have defined the two Americas for you.
It's basically people that don't believe in capitalism.
Uh, capitalism think is unfair because indiscriminately, through the venue of luck, you have winners, and then the unlucky or the losers.
Capitalism assigns winners and assigns losers, and it's not fair.
So capitalism is an unfair architecture for this country.
We got to do away with it.
And the Breck girl's been out there basically saying the same thing.
This is what he said uh back, well, let's see, this is uh I think it was September the second on some website.
During the campaign of 2004, I spoke often of the two Americas, the America of the privileged and the wealthy and the America of those who lived from paycheck to paycheck.
I spoke of the difference in the scrubs, the difference in the loan rates, the difference in opportunity, all of that pales today.
Today, and for many days and weeks and months to follow, we see a harsher example of two Americas.
We see the poor and working class of New Orleans who don't own a car, couldn't evacuate the hotels or families far from the target of Katrina.
And why is this, Breck Girls?
Because this town was run by a bunch of Democrats.
The secret is out.
You cannot hide this anymore.
Liberalism fails everybody.
Liberalism, except for the select few elites that get to lord over.
The vast majority of losers.
I mean, anyway so here's the guy, two Americans.
And what's he do?
He joins an investment firm in the other America.
John Edwards is not spending time in the other America.
He went to the other America.
So if somebody would go up to him and say, hey, John, what are you doing right now?
Well, I'm a part-time poverty solver and I'm a part-time global deal maker.
No, John, it sounds like you're a full-time manure salesman to me.
Here is uh art in North Haven, Connecticut.
Art, welcome to the program.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rosh.
How you doing?
Couldn't be better, sir.
Thank you.
Great.
I'm calling about the Broder piece you were talking about earlier.
David Broder, yes.
Yeah, I mean, we had a candidate like that.
He was religious, had moral underpinning, pro-family.
He was called the conscience of the Senate.
He was committed to national defense.
His name was Joe Lieberman.
Yeah.
But you know, he couldn't get past the primaries.
Only 10% of the Democrats vote.
Generally, the more liberal members vote.
I mean, I I think he's really the only reason that Gore got as far as he did in the presidential campaign.
Because he really did add a moral compass.
And frankly, he was a Democrat that as a conservative, as a conservative Democrat myself, he was a Democrat that I could really find to vote for.
You are so right about much of what you say.
You're illustrating the point.
And if you weren't here, let me briefly uh recap for you.
David Broder is joined the chorus, the Howard Feynman Amen chorus today, and uh Democrats are really gonna leg up now, man.
They can win, they can really do this, but he's a little bit more honest about it than Broder was.
He talks about the differences that exist in the party.
You got the left-wing cook fringe.
That's become the primary financial backing base, and they are intolerant of anybody who is religious or moral or tough on national security.
Uh but Broder says perhaps with the the moderate influence of moderate Democrats, this base can be uh uh neutralized a bit.
Wishful thinking.
And then he goes on to describe the ideal Democrat candidate.
They need a hawk on the war.
They need somebody who is religious, only been married one time, and can talk in understanding sympathetic ways to people who are pro-life and uh uh whatever.
Anti-gay marriage, whatever.
And if you read the description of what David Broder says the Democrats need, you quickly conclude that they need a Republican.
He has described a Republican as the Democrat's best chance for winning the White House.
Now, what Art here is saying, well, there is a Democrat like that out there, and that's Joe Lieberman, and that's true, and and Art's also right.
Joe Lieberman was the first guy thrown out of the 2000 presidential primaries.
It happened either in New Hampshire or some smaller state, and he barely got 10% of the vote.
And he was the only Democrat who was talking positively.
Maybe it wasn't 2000, was it 2004?
2004, right, 2004.
He was the only Democrat Talking positively about the war in Iraq, the war on terror, and how important it was.
And he paid the price for that.
He was the first out of the primaries.
And I don't know what the Democrats think has changed since then.
But it hasn't.
So this dream candidate of a hawk, tough on national security, uh religious and moral.
I mean, I was flabbergasted uh when I read that.
And the and the the story of Joe Lieberman and the evidence of what happened to him when he tried to stand up for just those kinds of things.
Look at it, he was dirt.
I mean, and they were mean to him in the Democrat.
Hey, the I'm talking about the primary voters and the people on the website, they were mean to him.
Get him out of there.
They didn't want any part of him.
Didn't he want to hear what he had to say?
Quick time.
Nothing's changed on that.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with So I forgot to mention this to you, folks.
When uh when Al Gore was over there in Sweden after his speech when he's talking to the reporters, uh one of the reporters said, uh, former vice president Gore, what are your thoughts on the three Brazilians killed in Iraq?
And Gore said, How many is a Brazilian.
Have you heard about what's going on at Walmart?
People are lining up for sex oil at Walmart.
Suddenly at the forefront of taking sex aids mainstream, conservative marketer Johnson and Johnson almost overnight has doubled sales of uh KY jelly.
Uh for the second time in four years, thanks to the blockbuster summer rollout of a new line of massage oils.
And nowhere has that success been greater than at Walmart, where KY touch massage oils have hit the list of top ten new health and beauty products of 2005.
This is according to J and J VP Personal Care Marketing Jim Peterson.
J and J has found uh uh.
Well, I don't know that I should continue with Well, there's this this firm has sound that has found that warming lubricants sell well not only for Valentine's Day, but also around Memorial Day in the Fourth July.
We dubb these sex holidays, Peterson said.
We and we try to line up all our promotional efforts uh around them.
And uh true to form, KY touch massage oils uh have uh skyrocket a sales of skyrocket at Walmart.
So I I mean it's in the news.
I uh I just wanted to pass it on.
Frank and Reno, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, I just wanted to first thank you for for echoing my beliefs for the last 15 plus years.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate that.
Hey, I I wanted to touch on the broder piece.
Uh where Berder was describing the dream uh candidate for for president.
I better go get this broader piece.
This is apparently this thing has struck a nerve out there.
Keep on uh Rush, I almost jumped out of my skin when he started describing these things.
There were a lot of things that were right on, and yes, a lot of things that would also be things that that Republican voters are looking for.
But when he described uh uh the need for having somebody with a church going habit.
Voters aren't looking for somebody with the ability to stand in front of cameras as they enter or exit the church building.
They're looking for somebody with a conviction of their faith, who's so that when when it comes time to lead in tough times in this country, they can dig down deep to to to determine what the right thing to do is, not to politically expedient.
All right, but you gotta hold on here.
Don't take this personally.
Remember who we're talking about.
David Broder is is defining the ideal Democrat candidate.
And for those of you who didn't hear it, let me give you the paragraph.
This opens the way for Democrats to recoup ground if they find a candidate who conveys strength of conviction on national security.
Um, and it would help if the candidate also had a solid marriage, a church-going habit, and an ability to express sympathetic understanding of those who disagree with his or her personal support of abortion and gay rights.
Now, this the phrase church going habit has obviously upset you.
But yes, upset me, but but it was also upsetting.
I mean, uh on the surface, it's easy to say, well, what they're describing is is a Republican.
No, they're not.
Republicans don't want photo op type presidents.
They want presidents who lead uh the with conviction, who are looking for the right thing to do.
No, no, no.
Not showing up at gravesites to to pick up flags in front of cameras.
I understand all this, but uh you're you're w when I I think okay, forget for a moment that I said he's describing a Republican.
Uh because it it in all candor here he is, but but a church-going habit.
Remember, Democrats are big into photo-ops.
Exactly.
Okay, a church-going habit would be Bill Clinton.
Right?
Made sure he was in church every Sunday, carried the Bible in and out of there.
Big photo up every Sunday.
Uh those are those that that's what he means.
Church-going habit.
I I think I think in in Bro didn Broeder, to be fairness in fairness to Broder, uh a church-going habit, he doesn't mean this as a slight.
He doesn't understand.
He doesn't understand how it's a slight.
You're right.
I'm not disagreeing with you.
I'm just saying that he a church-going habit, it it he's looking for democrats with an appearance.
He's not.
Exactly.
And that's that's where they don't get it.
Voters they think that they can just continue to fool people with with facades.
And in today's age where people are much more informed, the they're smarter than that.
Not all of them.
But most people are smarter than that.
They're looking for for somebody who's honest and willing to lead.
I know that that's that's been the whole thrust of today's program, how this alternative reality that the left creates is uh is seen as you say as the facade that it is.
Uh notice notice that David Broder, let me add to it.
Notice that he didn't say the following.
The Democrats need somebody to come out and be honest about what they believe.
We need somebody who is going to get us out of the war on terror and out of Iraq.
Somebody who is going to put the defense of this country in the hands of the UN.
Somebody who's going to expand our relationship with our so-called great allies, and and and uh have a global test.
Uh, as John Kerry said, we need somebody who is fervently pro-abortion.
That's what the Democrats are.
What bro it but but not even Broeder can write a piece that suggests the Democrats go be who they are.
He has to sip them.
Maybe if they can get the moderates to quiet down the left wing base for a while, and then get a candidate who is all these Republican things.
See, when he says church-going habit, what he means is a churchgoer.
That's that's what he means.
He didn't mean to insult you as the habit that's been somebody goes to church, so we can have the photo op.
Somebody knows that the but you know there's uh you go through this re list of requirements of this resume, you're not describing Democrats.
And I still, folks, I still maintain that the key here, and and I've been on this for the last, well, I don't know, months, years, whatever, however you want to claim the start frame for this, but the Democrats cannot be who they are, and even their advocates in the media and even their advisors in the media are continuing to advise them how to camouflage who they are.
That's the bot.
And this is great news.
When uh you gotta continue masking yourself, and even they know it in order to win.
And this remember comes on a day within a context where they think they've won 06.
It's over because of the Myers nomination and the so-called fracture and crack up in the conservative movement.
So, you know, they they continue to live in in illusions, and I say, let them, let them.
You know, it's really odd before the election campaigns even begun when you think you've won it.
That's that's a recipe for for big big problems, heap big problem, little Indian lingo there, uh down the road.
Genevieve in Lexington, Kentucky.
Hello, and welcome to the program.
Hello, Russ, my hero.
How are you?
I'm fine, thank you.
I just think you're out of touch with your feminine side, Russ.
I think you've missed David Broeder's David Broder's really pointed pointed comments that are pointing to Hillary Clinton.
Well, no, I mean it just didn't go that far reading the piece to you on the air.
His last paragraph is others, including Hillary Clinton, who has migrated from Illinois to Arkansas to Washington to New York, might try to fit this mold.
The real question is whether the activists in the Democratic Party will uh follow her.
So she is really trying to fit that mold, wouldn't you agree?
Uh yeah, but she's trying to have too many things a whole bunch of different ways.
You know, the the the the activists want to hear Hillary utter the rhetoric that they speak themselves and she's not doing that.
They want to hear anti war rhetoric.
They want to hear Bush is a creep rhetoric.
They want to hear they want to hear war.
Even though you're right she's not speaking up about it.
And she's trying to sound like she's sympathetic about the abortion issue to the pro-lifers.
Yeah but it's it's once again it's nothing but a it's nothing but a mask here's Hillary moving to the right trying to get a few Republicans who are maybe is Hillary moving there going to the center.
Once Mrs. Clinton's not being who she is either we all Mrs. Clinton look at her voting record look at her term as co-president she's a she's a knee-jerk liberal but she's she doesn't for some reason have the courage to be that right now and and I would think if Bush is really as destroyed and weak as he is and it's and the Republican Party's cracking up and it's all because of who Bush is all you got to do to win the vast majority of hearts and minds the American people is be the exact opposite of Bush
and yet no Democrat's willing to come out and do that.
I wonder why I wonder why it's not hard to figure it out their whole their whole premise is flawed.
They're lying to themselves about these things and Mrs. Clinton's actions indicated I mean if if Bush is as weak as he is and the Republicans are finished why just go out and spout the opposite of what Republicans have been saying all these years and you should have this thing locked up it should be over but there's not one Democrat willing to do that.
And, of course, with all this cracking up on the Republican side and the conservative base, there's this magical unity on the Democrat side, isn't there?
Such as this.
Ted Kennedy said yesterday he would back John Kerry for the Democratic presidential nomination in 08, even if Hillary Rodham pursues a White House bid.
If he runs, I would support him.
Kennedy Tully, AP.
she's crushed over this not to have Ted Kennedy in her back pocket.
Hey I'm telling you when the lion of the Democratic part the liberal lion doesn't vote doesn't doesn't openly support the presumed nominee right now Hillary Clinton I know there's lots of happy hours between now and then and uh probably what's going to happen is that somebody'll get old of Carrie and say look you don't have a chance you already lost we're not going to back you so back out now go skiing or something.
Go sail planing boarding whatever you do out there ride your bike but I mean if he runs Kennedy's going to support him I love the unity and get this what is it what is it with female teachers folks and we have to ask this question from Sylvester Georgia a third grade teacher accused of slashing her wrists in front of her class and molesting students is pleaded not guilty.
George Ann Harold, 24 indicted last month on 24 charges of child molestation and reckless conduct her attorney entered the plea on her behalf and waived her right to an arraignment uh on Tuesday she cut her wrist with broken glass in front of her class at Holly elementary school according to the indictment authorities also say she performed oral sex on a nine year old boy in the classroom and played peekaboob down her blouse with the students and
talked to some of the children about sexual matters so she would yeah she'd open her blouse and it's peekaboob with the boys in the class where were these teachers when I was in school you know is I never that very rarely do I wish that I were younger and could go back but I'll tell you some days you get stories that would have been a hell of a fun day in school instead of throwing spitballs at the teacher.
Uh Bill in St. Louis welcome to the EIB network hi.
Well Rush uh thank you first for standing for conservative values regardless of whether it's a Republican Party or or whatever.
Thank you sir.
Thanks for standing up for that you know, as conservatives, I think generally most of us have uh supported uh George Bush and and most of his policies, but there's been a few things that I think we've all been upset about.
Um, including the uh the budget and uh not getting spending under control and uh uh the Medicare uh prescription bill.
Uh and something happened over the weekend and then again today that just it just blew my mind.
What?
Well, you know, over the weekend I'm watching a political program and they're going down a list of things that uh President Bush is faced with right now, you know, the doom and gloom.
And one of the things that they mentioned was that uh one of the things on the list was that the Medicare drug uh drug bill, prescription bill, um that it's getting very little support, that uh very few people are signing up for it.
Um it's just not going over very well.
First of all, it makes you wonder you know, how how bad it was needed in the first place, but uh regardless.
Anyway, I I I when I saw the statistics on it, I was a little bit uh uh heartened by that, thinking that well, you know, maybe it's not gonna cost you.
Yeah, but then you heard somebody say that they're gonna start advertising the availability and arrival of the program, and here's how to sign up for it, and that dispirited you.
Well, I actually heard the advertisement at the top of the hour on the radio station I'm listening to you on.
I heard a Medicare uh drug bill advertisement running.
It reminded me of the days of of Bill Clinton uh when he was in office and they're advertising food stamps.
They still are.
They still are.
Uh they're still advertising food stamps on many of these EIB stations.
They're still advertising for food stamps.
Uh I know.
And it's it's un you know, we we know why.
We know why the Medicare prescription drug benefit was added to Medicare.
It was to go out and get the votes of seasoned citizens.
Problem is if you when you went out and polled a seasoned citizens, they really they didn't care about this.
There never was a demand for this.
Uh but I'll tell you this, if it I talked to uh Mike Pence yesterday, Indiana Republican, who's leading the charge in the House uh to pay for some of this disaster spending by delaying new spending or cutting it.
And I asked him about this Medicare because I said I I I heard that there's somebody had an idea just to delay its start for a year, just set it back a year, and we would still we'd get something like what, 30 or 40 or 50 billion dollars right there.
And then I said, Congressman, somebody said, Nope, we're not gonna do that.
Maybe it was the White House or something.
So I guess that's killed.
He said, Oh no, it's not.
That is not dead, and we are going to keep working on that, and we're gonna try to delay the start of this by a year, blah blah.
So I want you to know that there are conservative Republicans in the House that are s they come back to work next week and they are working on this.
And and they're they're they're I'll tell you what, these are the these are the pioneers.
The pioneers take the arrows.
They're running against tide, but they're increasing their level of support, and I'll tell you why.
It's because so many of you want these same things to happen where there's all this spend spending and and no and no budget cuts and so forth, and you are talking to your local congressman when they come home and they're coming back and they're talking to Pencey.
You know, I went home, my constituents saying X and Y, and I maybe I should pay more attention to what your program is.
He says he's recruiting um uh new supporters all the time, and he he it really wanted me to tell all of you that your your genuine letters and phone calls, not not part of a campaign.
Like I'm not gonna give out any phone numbers anywhere.
You called you're on your own, but he said those calls work.
And he he said, just like you know when you're getting spammed by a bunch of callers that are calling because somebody's told them to members of Congress know when they're getting spammed or when they're not.
They know when a call's genuine, they know when a call isn't.
Uh because I asked them, does that stuff really work?
I mean, these guys have their minds made up and their phones start ringing.
Does it really work?
Is it make them mad when no no no?
If a constituent calls from that congressman's district, they listen to it.
That's what he told me.
And it's working.
So be of good cheer here, folks, and understand there are people working on it.
And uh if you if you support them, they they learn about it and it bucks them up.
We'll be back and continue in a moment.
I don't know if this is a parody or a satire.
It claims to be from the PR web.
Juanita Broderick and Kathleen Willie will visit the Bill Clinton Presidential Library and Massage Parlor later this month on October twenty sixth to draw attention to the former president's Treatment of women, they will be accompanied on a tour by attorney and author Candace E. Jackson.
Broderick and Willie have both accused Clinton of assaulting them.
Broderick claims that then Governor Clinton raped her in Little Rock, and Willie says that Clinton sexually assaulted her when she worked in the White House 93, and they're going to both go tour the library and massage parlor on October 26th.
I hope this is true.
It would be uh Well it'll be fun.
See you tomorrow, folks, on Open Line Friday.
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