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Feb. 1, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 1, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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All right, welcome back, folks.
Here we are, plodding along as we uh do our real radio program here today talking about the Democrats and the Liberals and their childish, immature, baby-like behavior.
Yeah, I know Bush is on fire, and that's why we're I I a lot of people, he's in Nashville to Grand O'Lopri, and he is on fire.
People I mean lots of emails about it.
Uh he is on a roll, contrary to everything he had a bad year.
I've finally figured it out.
Well, I've gotten partial.
Why am I so fed up?
Why I mean, I am literally bored, folks.
And I start and I'm not I'm not acting out here.
I mean, I just I watched the speech last night.
It's a great speech.
I watched media coverage, I listen to Democrats, and it's predictable.
I know exactly what they're gonna do and say before they do and say it.
And it's childish and pure, and that's the thing.
You know, I've always been honest with you people.
I have never wanted kids.
I don't know how to talk to them.
Goo goo, goo go.
I have I have more substantive conversations with my cat than uh than I know how to have with uh children.
It's not the kids' fault, it's me.
I just at any rate, I feel like I'm dealing with a bunch of kids, feeling with a bunch of children watching and listening to these people.
Here, you this is just classic.
Joe Biden says he's gonna, he's more likely now, he's gonna run for president because he's he's got a lot of money.
He raised some money, he thinks he did a great job in the hearings on Alito.
So he's on a situation room with Wolf Blitzer last night.
And Wolf said to him, now keep in mind Joe Biden never makes things up, right?
Joe Biden does not plagiarize.
Joe Joe Biden never, never makes things up.
You remember that.
And Wolf says, I know when you were in Jerusalem last week, you had a conversation with Bob Woodruff of ABC News just before he left to go to Iraq.
Share with us a little bit of how that conversation went.
Now, where does this question come from?
This question comes from the uh the pre-interview.
Wolf's producer will get on the phone with Biden.
What do you want to talk about, Senator?
Well, you know, I'd like to talk about Bob Woodruff.
Oh, and so Wolf gets the cue.
I know that you were in Jerusalem last week.
You had a conversation with Bob Woodruff of ABC News.
Share with us, Senator Biden a little bit of how that conversation went.
Bob and I were literally walking out the door, and he grabbed me and he gave me gave me his card.
He said he wanted to talk to me, and he said he's going to Iraq.
I'd been there.
What is it like?
I said, Bob, it's a lot more dangerous than it ever has been.
Than it ever has been.
Do not take any chances.
I mean, I I feel guilty that I didn't say to him what I started to say, which was, and don't go with the Iraqis.
Don't get in any of their convoys.
They are not equipped, they are not capable.
They're much more vulnerable than we are.
And not that if I said that it wouldn't have made any difference, but he looked at me and he said, Well, you know, I gotta go, and I said, Well, I know you have to go, but just be careful, man.
Oh.
And Woodruff's still on the ventilator, so nobody can ask him about this.
Do you believe so how has there ever been a more perfectly tailored answer to a question in hindsight than this?
Look, I said, Bob, don't go, man.
It's more dangerous there than ever.
Fits the template the Democrats have proposed.
And don't, whatever you do, Bob, don't go with the Iraqis.
They can't handle it.
They're no good.
Democrats trying to counter the notion that the Iraqi security forces are becoming better equipped to handle the circumstances as we draw down our troop levels.
I mean, I feel guilty that I didn't say to him what I started to say, which was, and don't go with the Iraqis.
So he actually didn't say that to Bob, but he said, boy, he really wanted to.
Now remember, Joe Biden never makes things up.
He's never ever done that, ladies and gentlemen.
So don't don't don't start thinking that.
Now, along the lines of this, I I knew this was the case.
We were talking about this on Monday, just a couple days ago.
UPI has this story.
Some U.S. troops question Woodruff coverage.
The American media stood up and took notice when an improvised explosive device grievously injured an ABC news crew on Sunday in Iraq and throughout the military.
There is sympathy and concern for anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt, but there's also this Question.
An officer stationed in Bakuba, Iraq, Monday wrote in an email, why why do you think this is such a huge story?
It's a bit stunning to us over here how absolutely dominant the story is on every network and front page.
I mean, you'd think we'd lost the entire First Marine Division or something.
I mean, there's there's a lot of grumbling from guys at all ranks about it.
There's that's a really impolite and impolitic thing to say, I know, but it's what you would hear over here if you were here and asked us.
About 2,242 troops have died in Iraq since the war's start.
1753 of them killed in action.
Another 16,000 have been injured, half of them seriously enough to require evacuation from the battlefield.
According to the Pentagon, sixty percent of the deaths are the result of these IEDs.
IEDs have injured more than ninety-two hundred troops, nine times more than uh than gunshots.
Uh senior military officer told UPI on Tuesday the point that is currently being made uh is that the press folks are more important than mere military folks.
The unavoidable consequence of war is this.
People are savagely wounded and killed.
Soldiers in Iraq watching the coverage on satellite television and reading the news on the internet are getting the impression that the press has only just discovered this.
Amen.
Well, David Weston said this.
This this makes this real for us, he said on Monday.
This makes this real.
Any s any soldier is gonna hear that and go, what?
This makes it real.
It's not quite as simple as that, of course.
Military personnel often express frustration at the media harps on military casualty reports at the expense of what they consider their successes in Iraq.
However, as it promoted its story on Woodruffin Vote Monday evening, the local ABC News affiliate in Washington showed a montage of exploding vehicles in Iraq.
Footage culled largely from insurgents who videotape the attacks and post them on websites to advertise or magnify their successes.
And it's that video ABC showed, not their own.
The families of the 76 troops killed and 533 wounded in action in Iraq from the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland might say the war had already come home.
It's just a bit frustrating to see something so dramatized it happens every day to some 20-year-old American or worse to ten, thirty-year-old Iraqi soldiers or cops alongside us.
Some of the stories don't even mention the Iraqi casualties in this attack, as if they're meaningless, wrote the officer in Backuba.
Catherine Montgomery, professor at American University's Screwel of Communication, has been thinking the same thing.
When you see the kind of coverage this story is getting, it draws attention to the lack of coverage that hundreds of cases don't get.
So I d does this surprise you?
It doesn't surprise me in the slightest, folks.
Uh so, and now Senator Biden trying to capitalize on this is I I I just I told him not to go.
The Iraqis are horrible.
I wanted to tell him don't go with the Iraqis.
Oh, it's more dangerous than it's every This is the most self-serving, pathetic answer to a question I've heard in a long time.
A quick timeout, we will be back.
By the way, here's the phone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, and uh Vice President Cheney will be our guest for a few minutes at uh bottom of the hour, 233 Eastern time this afternoon.
Don't go away, folks.
Hi, welcome back, folks.
Terrific to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair.
This is Lane in Jackson, Michigan.
Hello, Lane.
Hi, Rush.
Um, Megadiddoston Jackson.
Thank you.
Um, I just uh as I was watching the speech last night, I just kept my mind kept going back to the back in the 90s, I think it was when the Democrats were hollering about gridlock in Washington.
And that's and that's exactly what's going on with these guys are not responding to anything that uh the president's saying.
This is an excellent observation.
When the Democrats run the show and Republicans block what they want to do, legislative, it's called gridlock, and we get worried about the future of our democracy and our representative government.
And uh media starts wringing its hands, is gridlock good or bad, gridlock is bad.
Now it's called partisanship.
It's called the partisan divide.
And it's all, of course, the fault of George W. Bush.
Uh that's excellent observation.
I'm glad you called with that, Lane.
Let's uh yeah, Ed in Levitt Town, Pennsylvania.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
I'm a fan of your shows.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you very much.
I was kind of wondering uh the president didn't mention uh exploring for oil.
Uh We don't have the technology right now for these so-called uh future fuels.
And uh what do you think on that?
You know, I when I when I when I saw that last night, I that's why the laundry list kind of kind of kind of bothers me.
I think I think the president should have hammered the Democrats on this energy business.
And I there's a great there's a great uh editorial in Investors' Business Daily Today, which really points out we ha wa that that that uh American oil companies can't drill for oil anymore in America, have to go around the world to do it, which raises costs.
That we've got uh quite a lot of oil to go get in the offshore uh areas and uh in an war and so forth.
The president didn't talk about that at all because he wanted to talk about the alternative energy angle, and that's that's just that's a political thing to throw in there in the laundry list that everybody will forget, but it serves its purpose the moment it's heard.
Uh but they at the Invis Investors' Business Daily, they say that this hope of the environmentalists are serving uh almost the role of terrorists by denying the United States its own efforts to become energy independent by putting all these restrictions on our ability to go get our own oil.
Now, if the president's gonna say we're addicted to oil uh and we've got to reduce our dependence on these unstable governments that it comes from, hello, Hugo Chavez, then it would only make sense because we are an oil-driven economy, and I don't care what he said last night, we're not going to be a switchgrass-driven economy anytime soon.
And we're not going to become a hydrogen-driven economy.
We're not going to become a windmill farm-driven economy, and we're not going to become whatever other stupid silly panacea these leftists have in mind to come up with alternatives to energy.
We are an oil-based economy and there's plenty of it.
But we're not allowed to go get it because these environmentalists have ruled the day, and it is it is a security problem.
And I wish the president had uh had hammered the uh the Democrats on this.
Speaking of this nuclear business, you know, I mentioned about an hour ago that uh after watching the dismal performance by what's his name, the governor of Virginia?
Kane?
Tim Tim Kane.
Yeah.
After watching this dismal performance, it is it is suddenly um made itself known to me that there's no one Democrat that can do this.
It just there's not a single Democrat's gonna go out there and succeed in delivering the response.
And I suggested a round table uh that perhaps Saddam uh do a minute, and then Michael Moore do a minute, and then Al Jazeera gets a minute to re- I mean, all these people use Democrat talking points and new faces, new passion.
Uh the president of Iran is full of Democrat talking points.
In fact, he did a response to the president's State of the Union speech in a um in a in a speech that was broadcast on Iranian state television.
And he said that his country will not submit to bullying over its nuclear program.
And so this Iranian president is echoing the American liberals and the American leftists because they think we're bullies.
They call us bullies all the time.
Hours earlier, President Bush had said that the world should not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
Speaking to crowds in Iran, the uh at a place where his country's first nuclear reactor was built.
The uh this wacko president said, I am telling those fake superpowers that the Iranian nation became independent twenty-seven years ago on the nuclear case it will resist until fully achieving its rights.
Our nation cannot step back because of the bullying policies of some countries in the world.
But he wasn't through using Democrat talking points.
He said, those whose arms are stained up to the elbow with the blood of other nations are now accusing us of violating human rights and freedoms.
The Iranian nation is the standard bearer of freedom and human rights.
Bush in his State of the Union address described Iran as a nation held hostage by a small clerical elite that is isolating and repressing its people.
So here you have this uh this this loony tune president of Iran saying that uh he's talking about us, our arms stained up to the elbow with the blood of other nations, now accusing us of violating human rights and freedoms.
Doesn't Jimmy Carter say the same thing?
Doesn't Madeline Albright say the same thing?
She doesn't she doesn't like us being the only superpower we're too big a bully.
The American left is replete with examples of how we have no moral superiority to anybody.
Look what we did to the Indians.
Look what we did to the blacks, look what we did to the what we did to the women.
Look what we've done to the animals in our own country.
We deny people civil rights, human.
Our own president's a terrorist, folks, according to the American left.
He's spying on Americans, innocent Americans.
He's worse than Hitler.
Now, this is why I say the Democrats should have co-opted this guy instead of letting his speech be heard only by Iranians, make him part of the official response team.
The next time there is an opportunity for the uh Democrats to do an official response to uh to some presidential speech.
Now, Ronald Brownstein in the Los Angeles Times has written of the State of the Union speech last night.
The headline of his piece is called is written this way, to still midterm waters.
Bush's agenda is cautious.
His speech shifts from high concept plans to those easier to deliver on ahead of 2006 elections.
And here's how he opens the story chastened, deferential, modest.
You know, if I heard one of these lib analysts say moder uh uh modest uh describe Bush as modest, I must have heard it ten times today on the cable networks.
Modesty was certainly modest.
Uh these are totally inaccurate descriptions, as is the description of the speech as cautious.
These people uh I'm I'm I'm telling they don't even realize when they have been spanked.
They don't realize when they've had their head handed to them on a silver platter like happened last night.
They think Bush was timid, cautious, deferential, reserved, because of course Bush is having a bad, bad, bad, bad year.
Well, the American people are in the thrills of a depression, unlike we've ever seen.
Gas prices are at an all-time high.
Housing prices are at an all-time high.
There are soup lines everywhere.
Nobody's happy, and it's Bush's fa.
And I swear I cannot find those circumstances anywhere I go.
I mean, everybody's Yeah, I saw a poll the other day.
America, 76% of the American people want health care to be cheaper and more readily available.
Well, hell yeah, everybody wants the phone bill to be cheaper.
Everybody wants everything to be cheaper.
There's no news in that.
Everybody thinks gas prices go up too much and are too high.
But they don't have the opinion of their country shaped by such things.
I don't think their country is in a rotten shape or rotten condition because of the Democrats have just created all of these myths that they now believe, they believe they're fake poll results.
What is it?
I just printed this out.
Bush is really scoring big, or did score big in his speech at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
Here's the AP first write-up of it.
Headline, Bush tries to ride post-speech momentum.
Encumbered by some of the lowest approval ratings of his presidency.
Bush hoped to take charge of the agenda at the start of a year that will see races for most of Congress and 36 governorships.
After kicking off the fall campaign season, President Bush took to the road Wednesday to capitalize on the attention surrounding his State of the Union speech last night.
He's trying to ride post-speech momentum, encumbered by some of the lowest approval ratings of his presidency.
So Bush is out there floundering and flip-flopping away, folks, and he has no clue what he's doing, and he's just lost.
He's out there meandering all over the place, can't find his footing.
American people hate his guts.
Gas price too high.
Nobody has health care.
They're sick and tired of all the good news that's going on.
There really isn't good news.
They're tired of how Bush has made this partisan country.
They're mad at Bush because he's made the Democrats appear The way they appear.
It's just horrible out there.
And he can't get that's their template.
That's that's that's their action line.
And it's childish, silly, irresponsible, unprofessional, immature, and boring.
Big time boring with a Capitol B. We'll be back with the Vice President after this timeout.
And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
And as always.
We are thrilled and excited to have with us the Vice President of the United States with us for a precious few minutes, Vice President Dick Cheney.
Welcome, sir.
As always, we're happy to have you here.
Well, good afternoon, Rush.
So a couple questions here to uh to get started.
Uh you you've seen so many of these State of the Union uh addresses.
Uh you've seen them from the chair you sat in last night for a number of years.
You've seen them as a member of Congress, you've seen them as a cabinet member.
How have they changed over the years uh in in uh in your experience?
Well, uh I was just thinking about that last night.
The first one I ever saw was uh first time I was ever on the floor of the House.
I was a young staff ride just arrived here and uh for Lyndon Johnson's last State of the Union speech.
He went up before Congress in January of 69 before Nixon was sworn in and addressed to Congress one last time.
Uh it's changed a lot.
Obviously, it's always affected by what's going on in the in the world at the time.
In those days, uh it was in the aftermath of Taps in 1968, of course, which had been uh kind of a horrific year in American politics with assassinations and and uh riots, and uh he uh he was a bit of a tragic figure at that point, but uh clearly those issues dominated uh dominated the country.
And I think probably more than anything else, it's that sense that you know the times we live in are are oftentimes reflected in what goes on on the floor of the House.
Now, the one of the themes today that I have seen uh repeated, and I think I think some elements are trying to cement this theme, is that uh and everybody that watched saw this, the Democrats refused to applaud the ideas of victory, uh freedom, security, those kinds of things.
Uh this is being positioned today as the result of the president's polarizing partisanship.
In other words, the Democrats refusing to stand, refusing to applaud is the President's fault.
Yeah, no, I uh I watched uh sitting up there, it's a it's quite a spot to be there behind the president.
So you sit there with a speaker and look out at the crowd, and you've probably got a better view than anybody else of what's going on on the floor among the members.
And um my recollection is this this uh sort of a partisan response, if you will, to the president's speeches uh is something that's um it's developed maybe over the last twenty years, maybe since the Reagan years.
Of course, I wasn't there during the Clinton years, and uh so I can't compare it precisely to that.
I'm sure you're sad about that.
I am broken up about it, Rush.
But um the fact is it's gotten uh I I think it's unfortunate the way it's gotten now.
It's partly a reflection of the problem the president talked about a little bit last night in terms of just the tone in Washington.
It's gotten bitterly partisan.
We saw, for example, what the Democrats in the Senate tried to do to San Alito, you know, a fine man, uh impeccable credentials, uh nominated the Supreme Court, and they did everything they could to trash him uh during the uh the confirmation process, and it's uh it's too bad.
We uh nobody likes operating that way, at least uh certainly we don't, but uh that's oftentimes a fact of life these days.
Well, is is that kind of thing I mean I know the speech text gets out in advance.
Do you think that that kind of response is uh planned and orchestrated, they go through the speech, we will not applaud here, we won't applaud there, because it seems that it all occurs in uh in such unison.
I I just I ask you this because I don't know.
I'm just a viewer watching it like everybody else watches it last night.
Yeah, I I can't say how much planning uh goes in on the other side.
The speech is usually fairly closely held until the president gets the although copies are distributed to the members in advance of uh of the actual speech.
But I think you look at the president's speech last night and the themes and the ideas that were in it, these are you know, these are are concepts that all Americans ought to be able to support.
Uh, yeah, would you call that speech?
What would you call that speech cautious?
It's been said that it was c I the last word I would associate with this I thought it was bold.
I I thought the statement of American values, the statement of American future was just I loved it.
I don't I don't see where Pete.
People in the media today calling this cautious and deferential and modest.
No, I would agree with you, Rush.
The uh thing that amazes me about the way this president goes about these speeches, it it's he puts an enormous amount of time and effort into them.
And I've you know I've watched several different administrations and and everybody has their their own approach.
But uh when uh the president's got a major speech like this, the second inaugural or one of his State of the Union addresses, uh this is George Bush.
Uh he spends hours on him, goes through I think this one went through over thirty drafts.
Um it is he had strong concepts that he wanted to talk about.
He wanted to talk in in broad philosophical propositions to some extent.
He wanted to talk about big themes.
He did not want to get into just a shopping list, you know, of forty or fifty different items, as oftentimes State of the Union speeches do.
I thought it was one of the best State of the Union speeches I'd ever heard because it was uh broadly thematic and did hit on uh uh what I thought were some major, major items.
Couple of policy questions here before uh before you go.
Uh in his focus on uh energy independence last night, for the first time in a long time the president did not refer to drilling uh at Anwar.
Is that is that off the table for you all?
No, it's not off the table by any means.
We'll keep pushing it uh because we think it makes eminent good sense.
And uh we came very close in the last session to getting it, and uh we'll keep working on it.
But um uh he what he wanted to emphasize last night, of course, he took a long-term view here, reaching out uh as much as twenty years in terms of uh of uh the effort to reduce uh uh our imports.
But uh the emphasis on technology, the ability to pursue what we think are some imminent breakthroughs in the in the RD area that are going to allow us to produce more of the energy we need uh even for our transportation system here at home.
So energy's been a constant theme since we got here.
Uh it's still uh going to be a big one going forward, but I thought this was a was a bold proposition last night.
There's nothing uh that is in any way limited or timid when you talk about uh those kinds of basic fundamental changes uh to our economy.
The uh next question on policy of social security.
The uh one time I recall the Democrats really standing insuring in a partisan nature was when the uh the president uh acknowledged that his attempt to reform Social Security last year had failed.
Uh what's the status of social security reform?
Because the President followed that by saying it's still broken and still needs to be fixed.
Is that still on the agenda?
It is on the agenda.
Of course, uh the proposal that that's on the table now that we'll go ahead and proceed with to put together a commission that includes Democratic as well as Republican members of Congress, sitting members of Congress, and and uh sit down with them and and begin to have them address this issue and look at the problem of the uh the retirement of the baby boomers, both with respect to Social Security and Medicare.
And the Medicare is an even bigger problem than Social Security is.
And I think the sense he had last night was the president has been pushing hard on it.
He campaigned on this twice.
Uh he obviously was a centerpiece of our program last year.
Uh we ran into a brick wall to some extent in the Congress, and uh the Democrats cheered at the fact that we hadn't been able to make any progress, and uh but then he came right back and reminded him of the buttons still there, folks.
We have to address this issue.
It's uh gonna be a huge uh huge mountain force to climb the longer we wait.
Every year that goes by and we don't address it, the problem becomes more severe.
Well, you nailed it.
They shared the lack of progress.
Uh great way to put it.
One one final uh uh thing.
Iraq.
Uh how is it going?
Rocky security forces uh and their training and and their ability to um take over some of the security roles as we uh draw down our troops whenever that begins.
The uh the the incident involving the ABC crew is given birth now to the uh new idea that that the uh uh Iraqi security forces just aren't prepared, and that'll that whole story is a myth.
Yeah, that's uh I think the Iraqi security forces are doing very well, Rush.
I was there just a few weeks ago and went and spent uh part of the day with Iraqi security forces and our folks who are training them up at Taji, frankly, right near where uh where the ABC crew were uh were wounded.
Um it's an impressive operation.
Our guys are doing a superb job, and the Iraqis are signing up and and taking the training and getting equipped and taking on more and more responsibility.
I think we've got some forty Iraqi battalions now that are taking the lead in their uh relative areas of responsibility.
So the the combination of what we're doing on the security front as well as what's happening in the political arena as they put together this new government.
Uh that those two things together obviously are going to be the key to our success over there.
And we are making progress.
We are having significant success.
It's been less than three years since we arrived, and we've come a long way, and the Iraqis have come a long way.
It's hard, it's tough.
It's uh the difficult challenge without question, but it's absolutely one of those conflicts that uh that we can win.
The only way we're gonna lose this is if we quit, and uh there's no quit in this administration.
Uh, Senator Biden said uh on CNN last night that he had warned Bob Woodruff not to go to Iraq because the uh security forces there are just no good.
It was dangerous, more dangerous than it's ever been.
Did Senator Biden warn you not to go before you last went?
No, he didn't, but I didn't really discuss my trip with him.
He didn't have the opportunity.
Good.
All right, Vice President Cheney, thanks so much for your time.
It's always a thrill to have you with us, and we enjoy talking to you immensely.
Well, it's privileged to be on your show, Rush, and too much.
Good luck to you.
Vice President Cheney, who uh did not get a warning from Senator Biden not to go to Iraq, as he warned Bob Woodruff of ABC.
Quick timeout, we'll be back.
That's what Biden said he did in just a moment.
Well, here's the latest on Mother Sheehan.
She's now claiming police brutality, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
She's so mad that she wasn't allowed to disrupt last night's state of the union speech that she intends to file a lawsuit claiming she was brutalized by Capitol Hill cops who suppressed her First Amendment freedoms.
She said I have the bruises and muscle spasms to prove it.
Said this in a message posted to several Looney Tunes left wing websites in Cooksville after she was arrested and then released on her own recognizance.
She also contends she suffered emotional trauma, complaining, I'm so upset and sore, it's hard to think straight.
I mean, I th that's what I was gonna say.
How how when did she ever?
What's what's her what's her base of comparison?
The Bush bashing gold star mom says she wants to take legal action, announcing I have some lawyers looking into filing a First Amendment lawsuit against the government for what happened tonight.
I'll file it.
It is time to take our freedoms and our country back.
Capitol Hill officer ran over to me, hold me out of my seat, and roughly with my hands behind my back, shoved me up the stairs.
She said, I'm I'm going to you have to be so rough.
She said after the officer was informed that she was a big celebrity, the abusive treatment stopped.
You didn't care about being careful when you were dragging me up the stairs, she recalled telling the Capitol Guard.
Cindy, it's tough out there in the peace movement.
Did they what?
No, no, the taser her?
I know there's nothing in the story about her being tasered.
Umce again, if they had, how would anybody know?
Those spasms are they happen all the time.
It's when she opens her mouth.
Now, this this this governor, this this so-called moderate governor from Virginia who did that lame response to the president last night.
Washington Times has a story.
Immigration, not a top issue for Virginia residents, he says.
There may be more than forty immigration related bills in the works this year in Richmond, but all that attention in the General Assembly on illegal aliens is misdirected, Governor Timothy Kane said yesterday.
I don't believe immigration is one of the top issues in Virginia.
If you ask Virginians, I mean it does matter to a number of people, but compared to jobs, education, and health care, transportation, it's pretty far down.
Some moderate.
Some mod and how about this?
Have you have you seen this story?
Credit and bank card numbers of as many as two hundred and forty thousand subscribers of the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram and Gazette were inadvertently distributed with bundles of T and G newspapers on Sunday.
The confidential information was on the back of paper used in wrapping newspaper bundles for distribution to carriers and retailers.
As many as 9,000 bundles of the T G, that again is the uh telegram and gazette, wrapped in paper containing subscribers' names and their confidential information were distributed someday to 2,000 retailers and 390 carriers in the Worcester area.
In addition, routing information for personal checks of 1,100 telegram and Gazette subscribers also may have been inadvertently really.
These people are harping all over Bush, spying on everybody.
These people are harping all over the n the NSA, and here they're giving away the credit and personal data information of uh all of their subscribers, or a good number of their subscribers.
Here's uh here's Ken and Alexandria, Virginia.
Hi, Ken.
Welcome to the program.
Good morning, uh good afternoon, Rush.
Megadinos from uh Virginia.
Uh a couple of things on this Timothy Kane.
I watched the the entire State of the Union speech, and I I I watched about ten minutes of Tim McCain before I fell asleep.
He that's all there was.
He didn't that's all you didn't miss anything.
I didn't miss anything.
Good.
He campaigned uh basically uh uh uh on the traffic congestion in North Virginia, as uh everyone around here knows it's just terrible and getting worse by the day.
The problem was that he never made clear what he was going to do about it.
And we didn't have any conservative reporters asking him pointed questions like what was he gonna do?
And so when he came into office, I don't think he was in office two days before he stated that he was going to seek to have a law passed that allowed local governments to restrict or to stop development.
That doesn't sound to me like it's going to reduce any traffic congestion.
Uh uh no, it's it's uh it's only gonna make the state poorer and drive other people out of it.
What?
Uh it could have uh it could have, however, a beneficial effect, and that is if there's no development, the migrant uh workers or illegal aliens that are doing day labor will have to move elsewhere.
Uh well, but that's not a big problem of Virginia.
We just found that he doesn't think that's a big that's not a big problem.
But traffic, traffic, now that's a problem.
And we've got, I mean, we've we can't deal with this traffic.
Traffic in Virginia is worse than it is anywhere else.
We've got to do so, so we're gonna stop building.
Well, that's the new that's right.
The new national spokesman, this guy that the Democrats are holding up as their as their as their guiding light for the future.
Uh big issue is traffic and the way he's gonna deal with it.
Stop development.
I I hope the Democrats keep these people out front in front of the cameras.
Nothing could be better for the rest of us.
Oh, they will.
They will.
Democrats think these people are stars.
By the way, uh, Mr. Snurdley uh thinks that uh Mother Sheehan may have a case uh in in her uh uh harassment suit uh against uh the Capitol Hill police.
Because she said she was humiliated, she was forced to walk while restrained.
Uh some other descriptions of her treatment, and it sounds suspiciously just I mean, identical to the kind of things that Senators Durbin and Kennedy were upset about as terms of what was going on in Abu Grab, so she might be able to claim torture.
And and uh uh if if if it'd be interesting if she claims torture, she was treated no differently than the uh the great freedom fighters from Al Qaeda when we capture them and uh put them in our rotten stinking resorts.
Uh quick timeout.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back.
Connellisa Rice says she's gonna go to the Super Bowl.
She's picked the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Said she got burned picking against them all during the playoffs.
She's now a convert.
Kofi Annan offered a grim assessment of Kosovo's progress towards stability, saying in a report that uh Kosovo had fallen behind in efforts to create a multi-ethnic and democratic society.
Not good news for Bill Clinton, and uh you have to say the uh UN's doing a bang-up job in Haiti, too.
Uh right.
Consumer confidence is its highest in three and a half years, but I keep hearing on the news the American people are down in a dumps, doom and gloom, high energy prices, and nobody's happy.
I keep hearing that on the news, but consumer conference from the conference board, highest it's been in three and a half years.
All right, folks, we're out of here.
We're finished.
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We'll be back tomorrow.
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