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Dec. 30, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 30, 2005, Friday, Hour #2
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Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program and good news actually out of New Orleans today.
For those of you who know New Orleans, Antoine's restaurant has reopened not totally.
Two of its 15 dining rooms are open.
And you can get the Pompano Poncha train and the baked Alaska again at Antoine.
So good news.
I'm still waiting for Brennan's and Galatoirs and Commander's Palace and all the rest of them to open as well, but uh good news on that uh front.
Uh good news as well in Iraq, and and let me start uh by this.
I want to get into the economy, the border, and other issues in this hour.
I've got a lot to do here.
But uh I was heartened by the fact Reuters reported that uh a group of, let's see, it's called the International Mission for Iraqi elections, comprised of two Arab League representatives, a Canadian politician and a European academic, had uh had arrived in Baghdad to defuse the crisis over the results of the Iraqi election.
Now, what was the crisis?
Uh, Reuters, I understand, is a relentlessly anti-American source of news.
So what was the crisis?
Well, the crisis was the Sunnis lost.
Uh in a fair election, we found out that the majority of the country who happened to be Shia and a large minority that happened to be Kurd didn't vote for the old Sunni Bathists.
Surprise.
Guess what?
Uh the Sunnis, who through Saddam Hussein lorded it over everyone else in that country for 35, 40 years, have uh given way to the democratic principle of uh one man one vote, one person one vote.
And in one person one vote, Sunnis lose.
They're unhappy.
They they demonstrated in the streets the other day as being unhappy.
So this group has arrived to soothe their unhappiness.
Uh to uh somehow, in a face-saving way, allow the Sunnis to accept the results of the election, because the Sunnis have been used to power.
They have been the party of power.
They have been the feeling of natural entitlement to the governance of Iraq, and they're unhappy.
They lost an election.
This uh this uh group of experts are showing up, getting them to start talking, the Sunnis to start talking with the Shiites, talk start talking with the Kurds so that uh they can get represented in the uh government to come here that's going to be formed after in the next couple of weeks.
I think this is a uh a grand approach.
Um not only for Iraq, but I think we could use it right here at home.
It's obvious and plain to uh to everyone who watches the scene that many Democrat activists are just beside themselves emotionally.
They just haven't accepted that they haven't had a presidential candidate with a majority vote since 1976.
They haven't had control of the House of Representatives since 1994, and later in the 90s, control of the U.S. Senate.
In other words, they aren't winning elections, and they are the power party of natural power.
They are the party of government.
They are the party entitled to rule.
The party entitled to government is their natural home.
And they've been kicked out of their natural home, and I think we conservatives, constitutionalists, republicans, Americans, have got to have got to have compassion at this moment for the emotional stress it must put activist Democrats through that they no longer have the levers of power and patronage and soaking your paycheck for more money for their hairbrained schemes.
They just don't have that anymore, and it's causing an emotional backlash, where much of the trauma of 2005 and the reporting has come from.
Now, poor George Bush has to be the, you know, the point boy, the poster boy for their hatred.
And I understand their emotional stress, but I I've got to have more compassion and understanding for Democrats, and I want to call upon the Arab League, uh the Canadian politician and the European academic.
Let's see, are they named here?
Oh, yes, former Prime Minister.
Oh, no, no.
Uh wait a minute.
I don't see them named in this Reuters piece.
But uh, if there's any way we can get these folks after their work is done in Iraq to meet with Howard Dean, I think it would just go a long way toward uh making peace here in the United States.
Um I want to talk now about the economy and um and then take your calls at 1800-282-2882 as we continue open line Friday and mindful of your predictions.
We've got a pretty startling prediction, March 20th.
Write this down.
March 20th, a preemptory strike on Iran's nuclear weapons.
Yikes.
Um Christian Science Monitor, looking at the measurement of material well-being in the United States.
And you've heard this before, but it is now in stark and startling terms.
Uh they start out in this article talking about the gap between the richest Americans who still own the most cars per capita, etc., etc., and the poorest Americans, but then delving into the Census findings, they um they say things like this.
This is startling stuff.
The Census Bureau calls material well-being.
What the Census Bureau calls material well-being abounds for regular folk today, in ways that Louis XIV of France, for all his palaces, silk stockings, and ruffled finery could barely have imagined.
This is the Christian science monitor now.
Quote, true, most of us don't have an entourage of fawning servants, and while U.S. homes have expanded in square footage, they hardly rival Versailles.
But modern appliances in many ways are robotic servants who sometimes break down, but have yet to stage an organized revolt.
You're not going to lose your head to your PC, is what they're saying here.
As Louis did, unfortunately.
I guess the 16th, yeah, not the 14th.
So, and then it goes on to say.
By almost all measures, the data show rising well-being for all of society.
Now I have to say that again because I know the infantile liberalism line in the Washington Post, New York Times, and relentlessly in liberal publications is the poor are getting poorer and the richer getting richer.
And uh, as with Bob, our email writer, uh, the economy sucks.
That's basically in their vocabulary the way it is stated.
Uh the fact that it isn't true does not deter them.
It just does not deter them the it says in the Christian Science Monitor, the rich poor gap in lifestyles has narrowed substantially since 1992 when measured in tangible items.
Uh let's see, Michael Cosgrove, an economist at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, says, quote, in terms of the items people have, the things people have, it amazes me the number of people who are at or near the defined poverty line that also have color TVs, cable, washer-dryer, microwave.
Then he goes on, because he's an academic and he's a probably liberal, I don't know, he's an academic, he has to say, of course that's not to ignore the hardships of poverty.
But the inconveniences they have, the I'm sorry, the conveniences they have are in fact pretty good.
I'm sorry, um, Michael, Professor Michael.
Uh in a normal common sense society, uh people would be laughing now, because in the world scope of things, where people in Africa are trying to live, for example, most of them, unfortunately, on about a dollar a day.
To call people poor who have color TVs, cable, washer-dryer, microwave, and cars, is beyond belief.
It's beyond parody.
It's beyond irony.
It is foolishness.
Foolishness.
So I, you know, again.
Uh let's see.
Oh, and then they go on the story to identify that still the federal government says 13% of Americans have incomes that place them below the official poverty line.
It says, what does that mean in terms of their daily lives?
95% of the 13% defined poor people in America have a refrigerator.
How many people in Africa do you think have a refrigerator?
Or India or China?
Or the Philippines.
Or France.
I mean, I'm sorry to list them there like that, but seriously, if you've seen an American refrigerator, try to find one in France.
Other than in the four-star chefs, I didn't see that many.
Um census report also compares from 1993 through 1998 people's perceptions of whether basic needs were being met.
In 1998, 92% of Americans below the poverty line said they had enough food.
Now get this, this is going to drive liberals up a wall.
86% of Americans, according to the Census Bureau, in 1998, 86% said they had no unmet needs for a doctor.
But aren't they uninsured?
Aren't they oppressed?
Don't they have no access?
No.
86% said they had no unmet needs for a doctor.
89% had no roof leaks.
80 that's before Katrina.
87% said they had no unpaid rent or mortgage.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Poor people, the 13% living below the poverty line as defined by the federal government, have mortgages.
Just to put it into perspective for those people listening in other continents.
Online retailers who were unknown, virtually unknown ten years ago, have reached online spending reached in November and December, 18.1 billion dollars.
25% increase over 2004.
Web purchases have increased according to Nielsen 30 billion in the same period.
This is online retailers, Walmart and Tarja are talking about 18 billion.
Nielsen's talking about 30 billion, an increase of 30 percent because Nielsen includes eBay and so forth, that accounts for a little higher figure than just the retail sites.
So in any event, about a third of American households, I don't know how many poor households, but about a third of them households did make an online purchase.
I wonder how many poor people have PCs today, handheld computers and cell phones.
Of course, all of them do.
But they're still poor and oppressed by this capitalist system.
It's a horror story, ladies and gentlemen.
It's a horror story.
Wait till 2006.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, uh, waiting uh patiently for 2006.
It'll be here soon enough, and it'll be another great year.
Filling in for Rush, back after this.
Maybe Bob, who uh emailed that the economy sucks uh a minute ago, could um practice his golf game.
Um Tiger Woods, who makes about six and a half million playing golf, uh at least would this is going to this year, uh, has just paid uh well, he makes a lot more than that, of course.
Uh he raked in almost 90 million dollars last year, including all of his endorsements.
Tiger Woods, God bless him, a former uh Orange County, California resident, uh middle class upbringing and so forth, has just paid 40 million dollars, uh, according to uh Newsmax, uh, 40 million dollars for a 10-acre oceanfront estate in the exclusive Jupiter Island, Florida area.
Forbes magazine calls that America's most expensive zip code.
10 million dollars, uh 40 million dollars, rather, for a 10-acre ocean front estate, currently has on it uh it's uh 16,000 square foot main house, two guest houses, a beach house, and two boat docks.
The uh locals are saying he'll probably tear down that old uh main house.
That thing isn't gonna work and build his own.
Uh and the boat docks are important because he does have a hundred and fifty-five-foot yacht called privacy.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I only bring this up because here is a guy of non-white ancestry, who uh started out as a young boy being tutored in golf, when people didn't, you know, in those days make that much money in golf, and has transformed the sport and the economy.
And by the way, when he first got his first Nike 40 million dollar Nike contract, it was big news out here, because he said, whoop, whoop, whoop, hold it.
I'm gonna sign that contract, but let's not make it effective until and then he wrote in a new date, a forward date, because he had to move from Orange County to Florida pronto to give himself a 9.3 percent uh raise, because that's the income tax in California, 9.3%.
So he made 9.3% on the 40 million just by moving to Florida where they do not have income tax.
Now, liberals did not understand what happened.
They love Tiger Woods, because here's a non white guy being successful in the United States uh and beating all these white golfers.
They love that.
They love that.
And I love it too.
The guy's a great golfer, and when he plays here locally, I gotta watch him.
I don't even play golf.
To watch this guy is phenomenal.
But to again hold up a success story, an American success story.
Is there another place on the planet where that is possible, where opportunity is that available to people who are not in the privileged classes, as the Liberals like to say.
To the phones now, Jim, I promise we'd get to you, Jim in uh Harrisburg, Kentucky.
Go ahead, Jim.
Excuse me, Roger.
Thank you for taking my call.
Sounds like you were falling asleep there while you were waiting.
Go ahead.
Well, I haven't used my vocal cords sitting here waiting on your opportunity for me to speak.
So you gotta warm up so you're ready.
Yeah, go ahead.
All right, you're fired up now.
Go ahead, Jim.
Good deal.
I'm uh my call is in reference to some things I felt were underreported, and I I blame the Bush administration possibly for that for not sticking on the story when when accosted about the mission accomplished statement on that aircraft carrier when when I what I believe was the actual uh battle was won and Saddam and his overglorified what was it, Republican guard was defeated.
Yeah.
I I I believe that was that aircraft car who who had that aircraft carrier was uh uh stayed on station, I'm not sure what was it, two months longer than it was supposed to have been uh on station uh because of the aircraft used in that in those attacks.
So I I believe one hundred percent that aircraft carrier's mission was accomplished.
They removed Saddam Hussein, they kicked the butt of the Republican guard, and so you know, I don't think Bush nor the sailors and airmen meant that the war on terror was accomplished.
Oh, there's no question complete.
No, but the l the the the you're right.
The Bush administration allowed the impression to go forward.
I know it's when he said mission accomplished, he meant the whole war.
It was actually, of course, the Abe Lincoln, uh the USS Abe Lincoln, uh Abraham Lincoln, and he landed on the on to congratulate them.
And when ships come, you know, we're a home big big home port here in San Diego, so we see this all the time.
Ships come home.
They speak of their mission, not the whole war, of course, but their mission that particular time.
Uh did they accomplish it?
And that's the way that's the whole vocabulary of what's talked about.
Well, see, I guess that, and I'm a landlubber from Kentucky.
See, uh in other words, it was apparent to anybody with common sense.
Well, thank you.
Jim, I appreciate the call, my friend.
Thank you for calling the Rush Program.
Roger Hedgecock In for Rush Today.
Here's Joe and Frederick Meryland.
Joe, welcome to the EIB.
Hey, Roger, good afternoon.
How are you?
Good, sir, and you?
I'm doing all right.
I'm calling you from the land of two of the most worthless senators in the United States, Sarbanes and McCulski, my goodness.
Well, thank you.
We have two of the same.
Yes, you do indeed, except I think yours are more worthless than mine.
But anyway, um, you may be right about that.
Yes.
Um I'm a native California and I'm glad I'm from there right now, I'll tell you.
Uh the reason I'm calling us to talk to you about something I think has been underreported by the media, and it's about your screener said it's called the Barrett Report.
And this is something that I guess the IRS is uh been working on, and it has some information in it that might be very damaging to Mrs. Clinton.
No, this is the Cisneros inspired special uh prosecutor who has been sitting on a report that is going to document, according to inside sources that have now started to leak, uh, in is going to document the misuse by Clinton of information from the IRS and security sources to damage political opponents, and it is going to reach into, say, some of the sources I've seen into Hillary Clinton's actions as well.
And that's why they're sitting on this uh report, and it's been what, four or five years or something since uh since they had it.
Okay.
Do you know if there's an active part on behest of the liberals to make sure this never sees the light of day?
Well, there isn't any question about that, and the question is, are we going to get aggressive uh actions by uh fair-minded people in Congress to spring this report because they have oversight on this special prosecutor and they ought to bring him in and say, where's the report?
Because Cisneros is is long since the the the guy who actually was the catalyst for starting the investigation is long since gone.
He settled his issues, gone back into the private sector and done well.
He's he's just uh ancient history at this point, and yet what they uncovered cannot see the light of day without a complete reassessment of uh of Bill Clinton's presidency.
Quick question to you then.
Um what as an individual um can I do and others do uh who do we get after your get after your congressmen, get after your senators, make them a little bit less than worthless.
Uh that's all I can say, Joe.
Back with more after this.
So one of my predictions for 2006 is the Democrats will wise up to the damage to their credibility being done by Howard Dean and slip somebody else in as the head of the uh committee.
They can't have this guy saying the kinds of things he's saying because it is just not setting up uh setting up the Democrats for the victory they crave in two thousand six in the congressional elections.
Here's uh Rick in Fort Myers, Florida.
Rick, welcome to the Rush Show.
Hey, Roger, how are you doing?
Good and you.
Good, good.
Well, anyway, um I I'm thinking, you know, there's gonna be a split in the Democratic Party, and the reasons being is that you know uh normal Democrats that have conservative thoughts are thinking, you know, how to wait raise their children and so forth, you know, the the Hollywood elites, and they're looking at all that stuff.
You know, they're they're just fed up.
And so what's gonna happen is I believe that that they're gonna be a more moderate towards conservative side, and they're gonna have a split between the two.
And the reasons uh uh I think is that Hillary wants to run, so she's gonna run as a moderate conservative.
And I think that's gonna be deceptive.
And the other side is is gonna, you know, basically run as a liberal and so forth, but uh the outcome is who are the Democrats crap's gonna vote for?
They're gonna re vote for Hillary anyway.
Well, it's an uh yeah, that's an important point, I think that's right, Rick, and why Hillary Clinton is going to be the nominee in my view in 2008.
Hey, real quick comment on the poor thing you were talking about.
Yeah, sure, Rick, I had my comment, but I'll hold it.
You go ahead.
Okay.
Uh I was born and raised in a very uh in a poor family.
Yeah, I mean, uh we used to put two sticks together with a nail to make an airplane.
You know, and that's how we play.
We played in the ditch and so forth.
I never knew I was poor, but now I have my own company, and you know what?
When I was poor, I never committed a crime like stealing and and all that stuff.
You know, and they say poverty, you know, relates to crime.
And that's a farce.
And uh it it it you know, uh the problem with with poverty is is them turning the TV off and getting out of bed.
You know.
I like that too.
All right, thanks, uh, Rick, I'll appreciate it.
And uh and yeah, I th I think uh Hillary Clinton will be moving to the center.
Uh she'll be picking up as much conservative stuff as she can.
It'll be a sham, of course, because she is a radical liberal.
I mean, I don't think it can be forgotten that her answer to rising health care costs was to nationalize health care.
Her answer to rising gasoline costs, nationalized oil companies.
Yeah, let's run it like uh Venezuela does, for example.
Sure.
No, uh this th there's no there's no getting around the actual record, but for the appearances of 2008, sure.
There isn't any question that common sense politicians are going to try to move to the center and uh and capture uh some of those voters who are disaffected by the Howard Dean antics, by the uh leftist lunacy, by the infantile liberalism.
It's just uh it's gotten bad and uh bad to worse.
It's getting, and you know what, it's getting worse among those uh areas where uh infantile liberalism has taken hold.
For example, academia, uh too many of the judges, uh of course, uh a significant rump portion of Congress and of course all the elite media.
But check out this judge.
Marilyn Hall Patel of California's Northern District, a U.S. district court judge here in California, issued a an injunction, an order against the Department of Homeland Security ordering the Department of Homeland Security to issue green cards, that is legal immigrant cards, to illegals uh who have who have not yet cleared security.
In other words, they have been granted legal residence status by the Department of Justice, that is the Border Patrol folks, uh, but they have not been cleared by the Department of Homeland Security.
This judge said that withholding proof of legal status to investigate potential security threats was, quote, arbitrary and capricious, unquote.
Arbitrary and capricious.
We're going to skip the security vetting, the security clearance for illegals in this country in order to get them the green card they need.
J just skip that part.
So inconvenient to check out whether they're from a terrorist nation and are here to harm us.
Yikes.
This border stuff, by the way, has gotten, you know, because I sit here in this studio, mere miles from the busiest border crossing in the world.
It is constantly on our mind out here.
And I must say I shake my head when I read things about this, for instance, from Georgia, where Georgia State Representative Alicia Thomas Morgan is protesting the passage of a law requiring the voters in Georgia to show a photo ID at the polls.
I got to tell you in Georgia what's coming, and it has nothing to do with black voters white voters, as these poll taxes and poll IDs and all that stuff used to do in Georgia and other states.
The new issue here, and and uh at Georgia, black legislators and voters listen up to this, because th this is the issue.
The new issue here, and we find it in California all the time, is that illegals, once they're here illegally, they have no more respect for any other laws either.
Too many of them, not everybody, but too many of them, show up to vote.
They figure, well, I'm here, I can vote.
They've already given me in state tuition at all the colleges.
They've already given me uh Section 8 housing support.
Uh uh Senator uh Gil Sedio in our state Senate here in California wants to give me a driver's license.
Uh hell, why don't I just show up and vote?
I want to elect these guys.
Gil Cedillo, I'd have more of these Gil Cedillos, a good guy.
So, Georgia, please understand what's at stake here.
You will not have free and fair elections if you don't, because we don't in California.
If you don't have voter ID at the poll, if the people who are voting aren't actually registered and eligible to vote.
It seems like a simple concept.
Now, it should have nothing to do with deterring somebody uh from voting because they're either poor or black or both.
That should be irrelevant to this issue.
I don't know, do black poor people in Georgia have don't have ID.
I don't know.
Is there a problem with ID for for black poor people in Georgia?
Please call me and tell me if there is.
Because it would be new to me.
Because poor people out here have every form of ID.
You can you can become a citizen of Switzerland for 75 bucks in our local park here.
And there's not a question of having ID.
See, that's the other problem.
Once you do recover once you do require ID, that ID can be produced uh pretty easily, pretty cheaply.
Um surreptitiously, let's put it that way.
But I would like to know what's going on there in uh Georgia because it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Uh by the way, George Bush has been and this uh is not a good thing, has been trying to pay Mexico to help with border security.
This uh astounding um news article comes out of um AZ Central.com, apparently reproduced uh Republic of Mexico City Bureau, oh, for Arizona Central.com.
I got it.
Uh Dateline Mexico City.
So this is an Arizona publication.
He says uh the reality is U.S. taxpayers have bankrolled much of Mexico's increased border vigilance from X-ray scanners and helicopters to intelligence training.
The U.S. has been quietly pouring millions of dollars into Mexico in the hopes of bolstering U.S. national security.
U.S. spending on military and police aid to Mexico has more than tripled in the past five years to fifty-seven point eight million dollars, with the hope it will protect America's southern flank.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, just a flash from the front here on the border, the uh hope is uh uh uh uh a hundred percent misguided.
This money is exclusively used to line the pockets of people in the military and the political elite structure of the corrupt government of the Republic of Mexico.
It is used more sinister in a more sinister fashion as well to fund military units which have operated not only on the Mexican side of the border, but Mexican military units that have operated inside America.
Inside Texas, for example, where they've been caught, these elite Mexican uh units have been caught protecting drug runners across the Mexican American border.
They have been seen by border patrol agents.
They have fired on border patrol agents, fifty some such incidents documented by Congressman Duncan Hunter of San Diego in the last couple of years.
And all of that I now find out I should have known in the first place, I should have known, I now find out all of that funded by you out of your paycheck by George Bush.
Yikes.
All right, I'm Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush Limbaugh, taking your calls on this last broadcast day of 2005 on this on the reporting in 2005.
Your predictions for 2006 will be back right after this.
Talking about Tiger Woods a moment ago and I should I neglected to congratulate him today is his thirtieth birthday.
Spot a 40 million dollar house on his 30th birthday just please name a country.
Please name any country at any time in the history of humankind where it was possible for a nonmajority guy to do that within thirty years of his life.
In fact this was my great conversation over in Italy one time.
We were traveling in a Belgian businessman was we got into a conversation and he just kind of looked quizzically at me and says what's the story about Bill Gates?
I said what do you mean?
He said what is it?
I mean here's a guy who dropped out of college doesn't have a family connections doesn't have a big political economic connections and he's got the uh the the the biggest country uh company in the world and he's a billionaire I just how did that happen?
I said because he was born in America.
And the guy looked at me and he had to you know he's one of those European snoots you know he looked at me and he said he had to say that's right.
They do understand that about America.
There's nobody born in Europe who's going to create the wealthiest company in the world.
I can just bet the farm on that one.
All right to Lee in Dubuque, Iowa high Lee.
Thanks very much for doing a great job appreciate your good work.
Most underreported story of this year for me would be the uh second battle of Fallujah where the Marines with army help uh keeping the bad guys in the place while they squashed them did the best house to house, door-to-door clean out in the all the history of military conflict.
We don't like to advertise the uh body count so to speak for a variety of reasons.
But what I heard in the media was that it was over two thousand bad guys in exchange for fifty eight brave young Marines.
And that is uh I'm not real good at math, but that's over a 40 to one uh ratio uh because there were a lot we underreport the bad guys body count and then uh without getting too graphic there's a lot of uh times when you blast a building apart you can't tell m how many people were there or not there.
No it's a great point, Lee those uh Marines were from out here at uh Pendleton and uh we we welcomed them home.
We celebrated their victory a number of the wounded warriors who came back from Fallujah to the Balboa hospital naval hospital here in San Diego we greeted them with uh Charger girls and uh TVs and DVDs and all the rest of it.
I bless you for doing that.
No Lee, I tell you what, we uh we celebrated with them, we commiserated with them, we got a bunch of airline tickets to bring their family in to the the wounded ones and I I tell you you're absolutely right a completely underreported story of a major serious victory because militarily speaking the the the strength of the so-called insurgency the terrorists is that they can blend in with the native population that they aren't distinguishable that they can get away very easily
because they've intimidated the local population.
In that second battle of Fallujah the local population had had it they started turning these guys over they started indicating which houses they were hiding in the Marines went in there with the lightest casualties you can imagine given what they were under which was often a incredible very short quarter uh close quarters uh crossfire and so forth.
And they and they won that battle and mopped up that place.
And today Fallujah is relatively speaking, because the the uh Iraqis followed up with their own units in there, is uh relatively speaking, uh uh very well off.
In fact, the voting turnout in Fallujah among the s the Sunnis there was very high.
People wanting to participate in the new Iraqi government.
So a very good point, uh Lee, and absolutely correct.
Well, oh, if uh my real quick real quickly, one of my young Marine sergeants here in the Dubuque area, and he was so young that uh when he was working with us in the election, I thought he was one of the high school kids.
And uh he told me, he said, Come on over to Fort McCoy sometime when you have time.
He said, You will not believe how professionally capable we are clear down to the lower ranks, and he was meaning the Lance Corporals and the PFCs.
And that's what Philly Fallujah proved.
You bet, absolutely.
Well, and we've got uh uh Lee, thanks uh for the call, and absolutely true.
In fact, we're getting ready here in Camp Pendleton in uh northern San Diego County for the uh Marine Expeditionary Force to be leaving again for Iraq.
Uh drawdown or no drawdown, these are the troops you need to clean up the terrorists and to allow the Iraqis the self-government they deserve.
All right, here is uh D.A. King in Georgia.
Yes, sir.
Hello.
Roger, hello.
Hi.
It's very nice to uh hear your voice again.
I've been listening to your show, and I heard what you said about the photo voter ID here in Georgia where I live.
Yeah, what do you think?
Um pretty much everything you said is accurate.
We all know that illegals vote.
I think your listeners should know that in Mexico, you cannot vote without a federally issued voter ID card, on which is a photo of the potential voter, and on the reverse side of that card is a barcode and a fingerprint.
And again, you may not vote without that.
And and by the way, we know that, and also they the uh Mexican government requires you to renew that every couple of years, and when you do physically vote, they take your fingerprint and match it to that card.
That is exactly correct.
That's how that's how strict Mexico is about who votes.
Well, here in Georgia, when I made that known to a Senate committee, a very angry state senator did not like it at all when I pointed that fact out, also that to rent a video at blockbuster video, you have to provide a military or a state issue making it more difficult to get a a video here than it is to cast a vote.
See, that's crazy.
I don't know.
What what is the what do you think that these uh uh Alicia Thomas Morgan and some of these others are the quoted in this ABC piece?
What do you think their concern really is?
Senator Vincent Ford of Atlanta says a whole lot of folks have expended a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to protect voting rights.
This is a fundamental issue.
What is voting rights have to do with it?
I mean, do poor black people not have ID in in Georgia?
Certainly they do.
In this day and age, we all have IDs, for example, to cash a check or again to rent a video card.
It is an effort to get out the the criminal vote, the the dead people vote, and again, as you said earlier, the illegal alien vote.
Well, I think that's all it is, my friend.
That's the Democrats' uh national strategy.
I I agree, Roger.
I'm glad you brought it up, but uh uh most states really and truly it's easier to vote than it is to rent a blockbuster video, and that's that is shameful.
Roger Hitchcock in for Rush Limbaugh back with more after this.
In the next hour, border security champion Congressman Tom Tancredo will join the show in person.
You won't want to miss that.
Uh things m must be getting stressful in Israel.
Uh Sharon Tendler, a 41-year-old Jewish millionaire from London in Israel, married her beloved Cindy, a 35-year-old dolphin.
Now, this has to be a put on.
I mean, I can accept that with a grain of salt.
An Indiana Federal judge reaffirmed his decision, Judge David Hamilton of Indiana, reaffirmed his decision to forbid prayers to be offered in the state House of Representatives in Indiana that used the name Jesus.
This in a country that has a First Amendment that bars government from interfering in any religious expression.
This in a country of free speech.
You can have free Speech.
You can have prayers in your House of Representatives in the state of Indiana, but you may not say the name Jesus.
Maybe we'll just have to say it a few more times, Judge, right here in the few remaining areas of freedom in this country.
Amazing.
Well, we're going to tell you too in the next hour about this pro-freedom film festival that hits uh is hitting Hollywood.
Some films on the list to be shown will uh shock you.
So we will come back with that.
Tom Ten Crato, border issues coming up, war issues too.
I want to get back to that because of the underreporting and strange reporting.
And I don't know whether you've been shopping at Walmart, but Walmart is under siege.
My predictions in 2006 for Walmart.
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