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Dec. 28, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 28, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #3
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This has been going on again and again and again and again.
Whenever a government official, be it a president or at the local level, a state's governor, whenever a Republican or a conservative proposes to cut taxes, the media and the Democrats immediately panic and say that this is going to destroy the economy.
It's happened again and again and again.
You'll create a deficit.
It's going to result in higher interest rates.
You'll ruin the economy.
Supply siders, and I'm one of them, argue that's not the case.
If you lower tax rates, you will encourage economic activity and the economy will rebound.
Given that I've been a radio talk show host for a long time, I've had to confront this issue again and again and again and again and again.
Tax cuts are proposed, sometimes they're passed, sometimes they're not.
They always work.
Meaning you'd think that the next time that the debate comes up, that it would be easy to win it.
But there's just denial on this.
The left does not want to accept the tax cuts stimulate the economy.
They cannot and they will not, and it doesn't seem to matter how many times it happens.
President Reagan in the early 1980s, confronted with a terrible economy, he was inheriting triple-digit everything from Jimmy Carter.
We had triple-digit interest rates, triple-digit unemployment, and triple-digit inflation.
Furthermore, in an attempt to get the excesses out of the economy, the Federal Reserve, under vo on was it Volker?
No, yeah, I think it was Volker, tightened in the money supply, and we had a recession.
Reagan pursued his package of tax cuts.
All of the fearmongers said that this would kill the economy.
This is just one more Republican trying to give a tax break to the rich.
We know the end result.
The greatest economic recovery in American history started.
We came out of the economic dark ages, and we had a boom.
The stock market started to rise and really hasn't looked back.
I think what President Reagan did was create the scenario that allowed the housing market to take off as it did many years later, because what the president did is he put a higher percentage of the income of Americans back into the private economy.
All right, it worked.
He didn't change the minds of any of the non-believers.
We've had to deal with this again and again and again.
President Bush, this Bush, as opposed to his father who broke the no-new taxes pledge, President Bush, Bush II, passed a major tax cut two years ago.
The end result of that has been a big boom in the American economy.
The media has been trying and trying and trying to pretend that this is not occurred.
They're finally getting around to acknowledging, eight now that we are a good 18 months into this recovery, they're finally getting around to acknowledging that the economy is pretty doggone good.
Despite all of their gloom and dooming, unemployment remains low while interest rates have risen, they're still manageable, and we don't have any real signs of inflation.
I'm holding in my hands an editorial from today's San Francisco Chronicle Liberal Newspaper.
They're acknowledging in the editorial that the economy has improved.
But they point out that none of this is because of President Bush.
They write, if the U.S. economy does nearly as well in 2006 as several forecasts would have us expect, little thanks will be owed to the people in Washington, whose decisions were supposed to help make that happen.
Fiscal planning to keep Americans safe and prosperous while attending to their basic social needs is not the trademark of the Bush administration and its Republican congressional allies.
Then, in acknowledging that we have a strong economy, despite the five the spotty performance of policymakers on the economic front, the nation enters 2006 in fairly good shape according to many measurements.
Even the huge setback of Katrina is being weathered better than we might have expected.
the economy is growing faster.
A multiplicity of gun non-governmental factors is working to the good, like the vastness and resilience of the private sector, the hard work of millions, and the United States' prominence in global trade just don't give the beltway crowd too much credit.
Now, let me ask you this.
If, following President Bush's tax cut, which, by the way, in this editorial is referred to as his tax cut for the wealthy, if the Bush tax cut had been followed by a recession.
If unemployment had risen significantly, would the San Francisco Chronicles editorial say, well, you can't blame any of this on Bush, or would they ascribe every bad economic impact to policy decisions made by the Bush administration?
Well, I think you know the answer to that question.
Now the reason I keep bringing this up is that we have to learn from this.
It is important to learn that tax cuts work.
It is not a coincidence that we lowered tax rates.
It is not a coincidence that we lowered the tax on dividends.
It is not a coincidence that we lowered the tax rate on long-term capital gains.
And it is not a coincidence that we changed the depreciation schedule to encourage American small businesses to go out and buy product and buy capital.
And that after all of that, the economy took off.
It was slowing.
President Bush inherited a mild recession from President Clinton.
The tax cuts have worked and the economy has improved.
To say that the one doesn't have anything to do with the other is not only silly, it's an attempt to stop us from learning the lesson for future decision makers, which is that lowering taxes stimulates the economy.
It always has and it always will.
Because when money is kept in the hands of you and me, and business decision makers, the rich, that money is going to be put to work in the private economy.
Money doesn't money is not stagnant.
It doesn't sit there and it's not buried in the mattresses.
It's put to work.
Now I think that most of you know this, and most of you haven't fallen for these arguments.
The problem is that it doesn't seem to matter how many times we raise taxes and produce a recession, and how many times we lower taxes and see strong economic recovery.
The other side just seems to be immune from learning this lesson.
The last Democrat to understand it was President Kennedy, who lowered taxes in the early 1960s and produced a huge economic recovery.
But it doesn't matter how many times we do it since they are going to continue to deny the reality and say that everything other than the tax cuts is what's responsible for the strong economy that we have right now.
To Queens and Vinny.
Vinny, you're on EIB with Mark Belling.
Hey, Mark, you're doing a great job today for us.
Thank you, Vinny.
Let's just play devil's advocate for a moment and let's all agree with the left and say, yeah, the tax cuts are definitely a stop to the rich.
Well, wow, look at the economy.
Just look at it.
It's bursting at the seams.
We have GDP hovering at the high threes, up uh lower fours.
Okay, but let's play that game and say, yeah, it was for the rich.
Again, look at the economy.
We're gonna file another two and a half million jobs this year.
That's some tax cut to the rich, how it trickles down.
Even though you and I know it wasn't a tax cut just for the rich, so what if it was?
Just look at how everyone's benefiting.
Well, they don't want to make that relationship.
They don't want to claim that there's a cause and effect.
They're now arguing that this has everything to do with things other than the tax cut.
They have to make that argument because then since the recovery has been going on for a year and a half, they pretty much have to acknowledge that it's occurring, but it's not because of the tax cut.
It can't be because Bush helped out his rich friends.
That can't have anything to do with it.
Well, of course, that is the reason for it.
Sure, absolutely.
Thank you, Mark.
Thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
Yeah, there are some lessons that I think are not going to be learned when there is a desire not to learn them.
They're so wedded to their ideology, they're so wedded to class warfare, since any time you reduce taxes, there is going to be a greater reduction for people who pay the most in taxes.
You're always going to be able to tag a tax cut as being one that primarily benefits the wealthy.
When it results in economic growth, when you see GDP increasing as it is, when you see an increase in jobs, when you see the absence of inflation, when you see Americans at work, that's clearly a sign that it has worked.
They don't want to acknowledge it because it takes away their entire Trump card of being able to suggest that Republicans are only in it for the rich.
Well the term seems obnoxious, the fact of the matter is is the tax cuts do trickle down because economic activity in the end benefits everyone, particularly people who are most vulnerable, whose jobs are most at risk because the stronger the economy is, the more you are going to need every single job that it can produce to Lathan New York and Jim, Jim, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hey, I work for a living I don't know what world you live in, but uh maybe it's a world where you have to pay a dividend tax or a capital tax for those of us that work our job, you know, they're cutting our benefits while their profits die high.
Uh yeah these three economies doing great for the corporate chiefs and the richest amongst us but all the rest of us are afraid to take vacation time because we're afraid we won't have a job when we come back so the case of time that we've earned we're not taking because we're concerned about our job.
I don't know what we'll be living mister but it's not it's not the real one that the rest of us live in what is the unemployment rate do you know Jim five and a half percent yeah do you think that that interest rate is the that unemployment rate is a major problem or is it a strength I'm waiting Jim see I mean that argument can be made by anybody who's facing a personal struggle.
There are no doubt major problems in the economy health care is a crisis.
How we pay for health care is an absolute nightmare.
Everybody other than government workers who don't have to pay for their health care costs is facing this.
There are problems all over the place but the fact of the matter is is that the economy is continuing to grow.
Now he mentioned well if you don't if you pay dividends I suppose that tax cut would benefit you.
Does he not think that every corporation and every investor who doesn't have to pay the same tax on dividends has not somehow invested that money you can be in denial about this and you can pretend that it isn't happening but it is happening.
As for the people whose situation is most tenuous if we didn't have that tax cut the job that he's griping about and the job that he's worrying isn't there would not be there because it's the jobs that are most on the margins that are always going to be helped and aided the most when you have a strong economy.
I'm Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush on EIB.
I'm Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush.
When I was here a few weeks ago, I talked about the ostracism and the ugly slurs directed at Michael Steele, who is a black Republican who is a candidate for governor of the state of Maryland, and talked about how much more open and unabashed the criticism of black Republicans has gotten to be.
There is another story out there.
out there and it's truly shocking.
It appears in today's Wall Street Journal it deals with a man named Ted Hayes he is a homeless ad activist but he's not a lefty homeless activist he's a Republican I'm going to quote to you from a piece that he has written that appears on the op-ed page of today's Wall Street Journal.
Quote here's how the situation played out recently I was invited to address a local Republican women's club.
My landlord read an article in the local paper reporting on the event soon I received a notice raising the Dome Village rent dome village is the homeless shelter that this guy operates in downtown Los Angeles 35 men,
women and children live there says that after the newspaper reported on his speech to this Republican club he received a notice from his landlord who had formerly been supportive of Dome Village the rent for Dome Village this homeless shelter was raised from 2500 a month to eighteen thousand three hundred thirty dollars.
Continuing with the column, Hayes writes, shocked.
I inquired as to the seriousness of the change, and the property owner blurted out that the cause of our eviction was, quote, because you are Republican.
He said that as a Democrat, he was tired of helping me and the Dome Village.
Hayes goes on to write, and people think the Democrats are the party of compassion and tolerance.
Private property should be protected, of course, and I have no intention of causing any trouble for this property owner as we part ways.
Whatever he does with his valuable land, it is only a few blocks in the staple center, is no concern of mine, and I will not go to court.
Still, I cannot help but be saddened by the whole business.
When I founded the Dome Village 12 years ago, we had an understanding that he could ask for his property back at any time for any reason.
And I would say absolutely without hesitation, still, his reason was prejudice, prejudice against Republicans.
We see this across the country.
Michael Steele, the lieutenant governor of Maryland and a Republican candidate for the Senate, has been crudely denigrated on racial grounds.
A prominent leftist website, for instance, depicted him as quote, Sambo, among other aspersions.
When Condoleez Rice was nominated as Secretary of State, she faced similar treatment.
Editorial cartoons depicting her as a racial caricature, personalities calling her Aunt Jemima on liberal talk radio, and so forth.
Clarence Thomas, Ward Connolly, Colin Powell, Thomas Sowell, and other black conservatives regularly face similar smears.
These conservatives are attacked not because of the validity or judicious consideration of their views, but because those views are supposedly heterodox for American blacks.
Yet it is my opinion that many black people in the U.S. are politically and philosophically conservative, and many are in fact actually closeted Republicans, fearful of persecution by friends, business associates, society clubs, schoolmates, and even churches.
It is time for American blacks to have a conversation about the phenomenon of Democrats persecuting black Republicans.
Why is this happening?
What is it that the Democrats don't want black folks to understand about Republicans?
What is it that the Democrats don't want black folks to know about Democrats?
And how is it that we have come to this point after having endured so much, where we have ourselves curtailed the freedom of political expression through the threat of retaliatory consequences?
Again, that appears in today's Wall Street Journal written by Ted Hayes, who is a black conservative Republican.
I think stories like this are coming up more and more.
You're now seeing a true willingness on the part of many on the left, particularly blacks on the left, to go beyond ostracism But out and now denigration of black Republicans.
It is never real easy to be a conservative because you're always going to be told that you're compassionate, that you're cold-hearted, you're a bigot, you're this, that, and the other thing.
Russia's had to put up with it.
Anyone who espouses conservative views has to put up with it.
But it's a lot easier to do so when you're white.
It's easier to handle it when you're white, especially a white male like me.
Most white males are conservative.
It's not particularly shocking that a white male would be a conservative.
But for a black American to espouse conservative viewpoints, that isn't easy.
It's very, very hard.
In doing my program, I, for example, get grief and abuse.
But it's easy to handle because a lot of friends who are conservative.
My conservative viewpoints are often ratified by the social circ circle that I'm in.
Can you imagine what it has to be like to be ostracized by friends and family?
To have the most vulgar Racial terms thrown at you.
I think it's true courage for blacks to come out and be open about their Republicanism or their conservatism because the gloves have been taken off.
And I think they're being taken off because of the example that is being set by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and many other prominent black American conservatives that it is okay to hold a different point of view than the majority of other American blacks.
Because that example is being set, the monopoly that the Democratic Party and liberalism has had on blacks is now over.
And they're threatened by that.
And they see a great need to silence those folks.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for rush.
For liberals and for Democrats, maintaining this stranglehold on the black vote is critical.
When you see 90 to 92 to 93%, what was the margin that John Kerry drew among blacks in the last election of blacks voting for Democrats?
If they lose that, what do they have left?
They've lost white America, they've lost the South.
The blacks are the most reliable voting base that they have.
And when you see prominent examples of blacks who do not only aren't Democrats, but do not think like liberals, that's sending out a very, very scary message for them.
Add to that the fact that the Republican Party is the party of opportunity for American blacks, politically at least, as opposed to the Democrats.
You want to drive a liberal crazy.
Start talking about Condoleza Rice.
They despise her.
They can't come out and admit it because there's nothing for which she should be despised.
They can't stand the fact that this incredibly brilliant, intuitive, smart, canny, crafty person who is doing a tremendous job as a as Secretary of State is a Republican.
They wish Colin, they'd pray they would they would love for Condoleez Rice to be a Democrat.
Instead, they're stuck with Cynthia McKinney.
Take a look at the American blacks who have been given position of prominence in this country, be it Colin Powell, Hondy Rice, Clarence Thomas, they are all advanced by Republicans.
The Democrats instead give us the likes of Cynthia McKinney.
It's Democratic politicians who presume that they will always have the black vote and black support, but take it for granted, don't ever allow American blacks to rise to position of prominence within their own party, are never impressed with major office.
This is why they are so threatened by the growing emergence of brilliant American blacks who think a different way, who don't follow the orthodoxy, and become conservative Republicans, and you see it coming out more blatantly than in the past.
The example of Ted Hayes, in which he literally loses his homeless shelter because the landlord was so furious that how could he, Ted Hayes, possibly be a Republican?
To the telephones we go into Ash, North Carolina.
Ray, you're on EIB with Mark Belling.
Hello, Mark Ray here.
I'm talking to you as an elected Republican and two points to other.
I think the best thing the Republican Party can do is to keep moving forward.
There are going to be some late bloomers who will join the effort, but we don't have to uh demoralize those Democrats.
They're losing.
All we have to do is keep marketing, keep pushing forward with what the Republican Party offers.
And definitely I think we win on positions and in the arena of ideals.
And the second thing is I look at as an elected Republican, I do get a lot of flag from uh black Democrats as well as white Democrats.
Uh footnote, I was president of the NAACP as a Republican here, and uh there were those in the Democratic Party that said they were going to look to the vice presidents because you couldn't have a Republican as president of the NWA.
Yeah, I mean they literally delegitimize you.
They presume that because you were in a position of leadership of a black organization, that you have to be a Democrat.
It's presumed that by birth, you are deemed that you have to be a certain, you have to think a certain way, and you have to have a certain political philosophy.
And when you shock them by not fitting their stereotype of how an intelligent black leader would think, they don't know how to deal with you On that.
And I'm sure the abuse that you get for your positions is far greater than you'd be receiving if you if you were white.
And the other thing is I think a lot of whites need to stop being apologists for blacks or in their predicaments because one of the things that I really hate is for when whites presume that I'm a Democrat and go on to speak as if everyone in the room are Democrat, and and that's just sad politics.
And then when I say, Well, I'm not a registered Democrat, oops, I'm sorry.
No, don't be sorry.
It's just the fact that not all black folk are are Democrats.
One of the points that you raised that I do believe by nature many blacks are more conservative than you'll ever think.
The fact of the matter is they get caught up in this being a Democrat, being feeding in and not have to go against the grain.
So perhaps they don't want to register as a Republican.
Well, in that that going against the grain is the point that Hayes raised in the column that I shared with the audience from the Wall Street Journal.
If you are a black who has conservative values, and you speak aloud of those values, you're just going to find abuse that you wouldn't otherwise get.
And when they start using the terms, the ugly terms that suggest that you aren't as black as someone else because after all, you're a Republican or you're you're a conservative.
There are it's got to be very, very hard to confront that.
For most people, I can pres understand why they simply don't want to face it and don't want to have to talk about it, and they hold their political philosophy to themselves.
It must require incredible internal strength and self-confidence to be willing to take on positions that are not held by almost everyone else of your race.
Well, I've heard several leaders here in the county say that you can't vote for Ray because he's a Republican, yet on anything they need assistance with, they've always come to me for my assistance and advice, but couldn't vote for me because I'm a Republican.
And as I shared with them after the election last year, we won despite your best efforts against us, so we're going to keep pushing forward.
And the the best thing we can do as Republicans is make examples, and I don't totally mind whatever quote the party line is.
I'm pretty much an independent, but I'm a conservative before I'm a Republican.
And that's something that gets in the way of a lot of issues, and I don't mind telling even on the school board.
I share with them, look, we must cut costs.
We must save the taxpayers' money.
And that's what I stress.
And so the conservative philosophy takes precedent over my being in the Republican Party.
Well, and I I appreciate the fact that you've been strong enough in your beliefs that they haven't been able to silence you.
Thank you, Ray, to Ipsalani, Michigan, and Levon.
LeBon, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Most certainly enjoying your program today.
Thank you.
I quite often say, Oh, I wish they would feature we black Republicans more often.
I'm chair of the Michigan Black Republican Council here in uh Southeast Michigan.
And one of the things that has been quite effective for me is that we've created a list of twenty-five historical facts relative to the Republican Party and blacks, because in America, it is uh just astonishing how many African Americans are ignorant of the history relative to what the Republican Party has done for blacks and what the Democratic Party has done for blacks.
Well, it was the Democratic Party that clung to the uh racist policies of segregation in the American South in the 40s, 50s, and in the 60s.
It's the Democratic Party that has a former member of the Ku Klux Klan serving in the United States Senate.
All of those things are true.
In the meantime, the only black justice on the United States Supreme Court was put there by a Republican.
Absolutely.
Both secretaries of state of President Bush were black, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, and s no one is going to argue that either of them were put there as tokens.
They were chosen because President Bush thought in both cases those were the best people to be Secretary of State.
Given how few American blacks are Republican, it is truly astonishing how many of them have been able to achieve positions of power and authority within the Republican Party, whereas the Democrats want to presume that they will always have the support of black voters, but they never ever want to give them positions of responsibility.
Exactly.
Like J. C. Watts was the minority leader for the Republican Party.
And I've had the pleasure of meeting uh Associate Justice Thomas.
And one of the things that's so effective is when you tell African Americans their history.
Most African Americans think it's the Democratic Party that fought to free the slaves.
They think that it was the Democratic Party that made the Civil Rights Act of 64 and 65 become a reality.
They've never heard of Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, who LaRon Bennett in this uh great historical piece by an African historian said these two men did more than anybody to free the blacks and they're Republicans.
Uh and you go on and on with the first.
Have you had to confront any of this in your personal life though?
The the the terms that are used and the slurs that are hurled out.
I I'm I'm rather aggressive.
Uh I have a talk show here.
I won't mention what station halls, but I have a talk show.
And my my thing is So you're not shy about it, but I I mean you can perceive how somebody who may not be as bold as you, who doesn't want to make a public spectacle of him or herself, just shuts up about it rather than face rather than face this kind of abuse.
And like I say, it's getting uglier.
When you see openly uh open attacks on Michael Steele's race, yes when he's running for governor of a major state, they're not even ashamed of it anymore.
And I think that there is a tremendous need on the part of the left to try to discredit any black conservative because they are threatened by the notion that you can be black and have a different point of view.
What's happening now, though, a number of blacks are starting to break away from, as I say to my brother and sisters from the plantation.
Uh you saw it in the last election, uh, they've downplayed it, but in two thousand one, President Bush got eight hundred thousand votes.
In two thousand four, he got one million three hundred thousand.
That's why we see some of the panic on the left side relative to exact exaggerating things like Katrina and trying to make race issues out of everything because there is a definite move among blacks to come back to their even spiritual base, the great opposition to abortion.
Well, they're starting to realize they can't vote for a party that stands for something that they uh so strongly against.
If Condoleezza Rice were to run for president, I think you would see panic on the part of black liberal leaders, including many of those who run the civil rights organizations, and leaders of the Democratic Party, because what a powerful symbol that would be if not only a woman, but a black woman were to seek the presidency on the Republican side.
I mean, I think that they would try to do to her what they tried to do to Clarence Thomas, which is to try to destroy her.
And with the last Supreme Court, one of the Supreme Court nominees, uh Janice, uh what was the lady's name?
Brown, one of his Janice Rogers Brown, yeah.
Rogers Brown.
Uh they they turned this woman into a racist who came up through the horrors of racism.
Well, you see the abuse that she got.
She was one of the uh appeals court justices that was held up by Democrats uh with with the threat of filibuster.
She's the daughter of a sharecropper, a brilliant woman, yet the terms that were used against her, the comments that were made on the websites, the comments that you saw in the chat room that she's a sellout, that she's a this, that she's a that, that she's play that she plays these games with the white establishment in order to get ahead.
You never see these kinds of comments being made about black liberals.
Thank you for the call.
To uh Odenton, Maryland, Ed, Edits Your Turn on Russia's show.
Hello, thank you.
Um, you know, you have the what the last caller said, a lot of that is correct, and I don't deny that at all.
And I'm independent by the way, but you know what you have is you have the the GOP chair um saying that, hey, you know, part of this um lies at the feet of Republicans who are seem to have left black voters when you know people don't like you know, people fail to realize that blacks used to be overwhelmingly Republican, and there was a switch there, you know, throughout the years, and now it's overwhelmingly Democrat.
Well, you're right about that.
I'm referring to those who, despite the fact that Republican meat leaders may have ignored them, have chosen to be Republicans.
They are, once they are in that power structure, they don't find their progress blocked or thwarted.
Instead, you can be the Secretary of State of the United States.
You can be a federal appeals judge, you can be a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
The abuse you face in the process, however, from liberals and from other blacks, is often very, very powerful.
I'm Mark Elling sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh, so HRH are those uh meatloaf calls coming.
Is the demand overwhelming that I embrace the meatloaf topic?
Don't think so.
I fought it off for uh what are we at?
About ninety percent of the program under heavy pressure to do the meatloaf topic.
I don't think it's gonna make it.
To Bridgeport, Connecticut, Joseph.
Joseph, it's your turn on Russia's program with Mark Belling.
Good afternoon.
Yeah, I'll just call in to um congratulate my other African American brothers who are Republicans, and to say it is hard.
You get called all kind of names.
I mean, when I first started eleven years ago in the city of Bridgeport, which were outnumbered like eight to one, I was called, you know, names unbelievable.
And you have to be an independent person to stand on your own.
But now it's has gotten better.
You know, I've gained the respect of a lot of the Democrats, leaders and in the community.
Now it's gotten better because I'm presuming you've gotten to a position of authority there, correct?
Correct.
Correct.
And I stood I stood the issues and I stood out and fought for um issues that that people didn't think Republicans would stand up for.
Now let's imagine, though, that we you didn't have your personality and you didn't aspire to be elected to anything, that you're just a person who has political views.
Can you imagine the difficulty that that person would face having the same terms being thrown at him or her?
Oh, no.
And and and even today, you know, when I first started, it was unbelievable how many African Americans that were uh in business and leadership positions outside of politics that um that were really Republicans.
And I was calling them closet Republicans because if they came if they were out in the open, you know, they would lose uh business and lose everything else.
And and that was a shame.
Well, and the fact of the matter is is that the one way that there are going to be more open black conservatives, that they are not in the closet that you describe, is the more that are out there, the more who will come out.
It will be a snowballing kind of effect.
That's why I think Condoleezza Rice's presence as Secretary of State and such a brilliant one is very, very powerful.
Should she run for president, as a lot of Republicans want, it has the potential to completely upset this racial dynamic that we have in the United States.
And I think it would drive many American blacks who are so loyal to the Democratic Party, crazy, particularly those whose entire reason for being is based on being a liberal and pursuing a liberal agenda like many in the civil rights leadership.
Well, I think it's gonna happen even sooner than that.
Um as you can see the way that the Democrats are blowing their self up.
Even with the here in Connecticut with our uh U.S. Senator Lieberman, you know, it comes to the point now where if you speak out against them, you get you know, jumped on.
Um you see, oh, it's personal and it's vicious.
You're you're right.
You see what they did with Carl Lisa Rice.
You know, I wrote editorials that never got printed, you know, and they jump on her, now jumping on Lieberman about something that is right, is gonna show people that hey, you're okay as long as you go along with the flow.
It doesn't matter whether you're Republican or not, you could be a Democrat.
If you don't go along with the flow, you are out.
You're gonna be ostracized and everything else.
And before we even get to the presidential election, I think this is gonna it's gonna show itself in the next year or so.
Well, I think that a lot of blacks have to start asking the question, since we are providing Democrats with ninety percent of our vote.
How come the Democratic Party never nominates a black for a governorship as they are do as they are likely to do in the state of Maryland?
Why are the black positions on the cabinet, Secretary of Education and the kinds of jobs that Democratic presidents like Clinton had, where are the positions of authority and why why is there this ceiling that seems to be in place for black democrats in the meantime?
There aren't that many black Republicans, but those who are there are impressed with positions of major responsibility.
Thank you for the call.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I would like to hear from Mary in Richmond, Virginia.
Mary, you're on.
Uh, I just wanted to congratulate you on your explanation of President Bush's actions.
I thought your explanation yesterday was perfect.
I didn't think you'd be outdone, but I think you outdid yourself today.
Thank you very much, Mary.
I appreciate that.
Uh thank you.
I appreciate those kind words.
Roger Hedgecock is going to be in tomorrow.
Now, for those of you who are wondering, I have been pushed very hard by the chief of staff of the program, HR, to talk about this meatloaf topic that he found.
He's trying to prove his relevance to the program.
You can't be a guest host on the show without getting by without him, and he found this meatloaf story and he wanted me to talk about it.
All right, I'll talk about the meatloaf story in the time that we have remaining.
I think Paradise by the Dashboard Light was a very oh, the other Meatloaf story.
He found a story that says that more and more fine dining restaurants are now putting comfort food like meatloaf on the menu and thinks that this is a sign that we are simply losing our culture, that Americans would pay $16 to eat meatloaf.
Well, I like meatloaf.
If they put meatloaf on the menu, I am likely to take it.
They've been jamming foie gras on our throats for way too long.
I am s in supportive of any restaurant that wants to put meatloaf on the menu.
That being said, I am done.
I appreciate your joining me.
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