Feb. 8, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast. | |
| Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program. | |
| Welcome to another ed we are gonna have to talk faster and listen faster together, ladies and gentlemen, because the world is exploding in news, and you need to know about it, and you need to know well, what to think about it. | |
| Right here at the Rush Limbaugh program at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, where every day whether the uh the master is here himself or us fill-ins are trying to do the job, we've got to get to the truth-telling and truth seeking. | |
| Look, uh, I'm not gonna do what this teacher, this substitute teacher, was faced with in a local school. | |
| This is a true story here in San Diego, where I got this email from Roy, the substitute teacher, who said I was called to start a unit on the Constitution when the regular history teacher was out for a couple of days. | |
| So I got the lesson plans for the couple of days. | |
| Here are the lesson plans for the unit on the Constitution in a middle school here in San Diego. | |
| He says the students were to make a quote drawing of an island, unquote, that they had just discovered. | |
| Part one, question one. | |
| If there are natives on your island, what will you do to protect their culture, religion, homes, transportation, and health issues? | |
| If not, how will you protect the natural resources of your island? | |
| What would you be willing to do to your shipmates who might misunderstand the needs of the natives or who pollute the water or land? | |
| Unquote. | |
| This isn't a unit teaching the Constitution. | |
| Draw an island. | |
| Part two, lesson plan part two. | |
| After you draw and illustrate your island, write the Bill of Rights for your island. | |
| What do you think would be the most important for protecting your island? | |
| Will you need to print money? | |
| Will you need services for the people? | |
| Consider what you could do and how you would enforce your bill of rights. | |
| Do you think everyone would be happy with your decision? | |
| What would you do about that? | |
| Unquote. | |
| That's it. | |
| That's how they study the Constitution in a public middle school here in San Diego. | |
| No such uh lesson plan left for me. | |
| The uh simple direction of uh Rush Limbaugh and company is pursue the truth, get to it, and get people into the discussion at 1800-282-2882, and that's entirely what I intend to do. | |
| Now, ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk today about uh about spying, about leaking, about the Patriot Act, about Mertha, about Carter, about Lehey, about the New York Times, about Obama uh and uh and McCain, about if we can get to it, the cartoon issue, Iran, and what's behind all that, because the shocking news today on the cartoon issue is gonna completely blow the news out of the water, so we'll get to all of that if we can uh today. | |
| Let me start here. | |
| Let me start with this. | |
| There is a new program funded by the federal government, housing and human development grant to a funding to a private corporation called Acorn, ACORN. | |
| Acorn Housing Corporation is holding seminars around the country to uh urge illegal aliens resident in our country, people illegally in our country, to take advantage of a new program in which those illegals can buy homes below market interest rate by one percent, | |
| with down payment assistance that assures them of no down payment, and with no mortgage insurance, no social security number, simply a tax ID, which anyone can get without proving citizenship. | |
| The Bush administration is now subsidizing homeownership for people illegally in the country. | |
| Now the way I view this is it's a backup program in case the surveillance issue really gets shut down to finding uh and identifying Al Qaeda because who wouldn't want to have a home, you know, while you're getting ready to blow things up? | |
| I mean, obviously this is a backup homeland security program, isn't it? | |
| Oh, maybe it's not. | |
| This is what I want to get to next. | |
| Think about this. | |
| Here as we're subsidizing illegals, th and you're thinking, eh, they're just hardworking folks from uh Mexico and Central America and elsewhere. | |
| Well, yeah, most of them are. | |
| Some of them aren't. | |
| Some of them, as Diane Feinstein of all people pointed out this week, a hundred and fifty-five thousand of them are what the Border Patrol calls OTM, other than Mexican, that is to say, from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and all those stands. | |
| You know what I'm saying? | |
| A hundred and fifty-five thousand people are here that we have no clue where they are, who they are, or what they intend. | |
| Now, who do you think we're actually keeping track of when we talk about Bush's spying program? | |
| Who do you think they're actually spying on? | |
| If you listen to the Democrats, you think it's all of us when we caught uh, you know, call Aunt Mabel, NSA is on the line. | |
| Not quite. | |
| In the real world, what happens when we capture an international terrorist when we break up a network, when we get to somebody in Afghanistan or Iraq, we get to this to their computer. | |
| We get to their little black book. | |
| We get to their records of various kinds that have various phone numbers. | |
| We find there in those records phone numbers in the United States. | |
| We put those phone numbers on alert at NSA, and we try to minimize the disclosure that we have those phone numbers in the hopes that we can find the cells, the Muhammad Attas of the future hiding in the United States. | |
| That's what we're actually doing. | |
| Now, it's frightening that we have to reveal this stuff. | |
| I would rather it have kept secret so the enemy doesn't know that's what we're doing. | |
| Because now the enemy, knowing what we're doing, having that leaked by the New York Times, knowing how we are tracing the phone calls, is doing something different. | |
| Two weeks ago in the desert here in California, in a small town, a small convenience store was broken into, and these uh phones you can buy that have a certain number of minutes on them, a couple of hours on them, a total, you know, a limited number of minutes you can find and then they're throwaway. | |
| A hundred and eighty of those were stolen. | |
| Now, who do you think stole a hundred and eighty phones with a limited number of minutes on them? | |
| That that number can then just be thrown away if it isn't somebody trying to evade the NSA. | |
| You gotta call you gotta connect the dots here. | |
| We're not talking about your call to Aunt Mabel. | |
| Now, yesterday, in the further display, uh as if the Roberts hearing for confirmation to the Supreme Court or the Alito hearing for confirmation to the Supreme Court was not enough to convince you that the Democrats are a mean-spirited, partisan, caterwalling, bloviating group of negative naysayers of people who have no plan, no clue, and no hope except hate Bush. | |
| That's all they've got. | |
| Umvinced yet, you would have been convinced in the Gonzalez hearings. | |
| Attorney General Gonzalez, up in front of senators like Senator Leahy, Leahy, Leakey, whatever his name is, who uh uh depends, I think is what Rush calls him, who uh is actually asking the Attorney General to reveal who they have tapped. | |
| What answer did he expect? | |
| Did he expect the Attorney General to say, well, Abu Crazy Head in uh Cantonville, Ohio, uh called Osama bin Laden last Tuesday, and we just wanted to figure out what they said between the two of them as they were planning to blow up an elementary school. | |
| What did he expect the Attorney General to say? | |
| How much more do we want out in the public that our enemies know ahead of time? | |
| It is time for Senator Lehey, leaky, Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, disgraced himself in those two hearings for Supreme Court, who has now gone over the line. | |
| It is time for him to go from that committee. | |
| And it is not the first time he's been kicked off a committee. | |
| Those of us with long memories remember, thank you, uh the uh Investors Business Daily for reminding me that in the 1980s, um Senator Leahy was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, an oxymoron, I know. | |
| He had to give up his seat on the Senate Intelligence Committee because he was leaking intelligence reports on both Iran and Libya in 1985. | |
| Senator Patrick Leahy threatened in a letter to the CIA in 1985 to disclose details of a top secret plan to undermine the government of Libya's Mohammar Gaddafi. | |
| A few weeks later, details of that plan found their way into the Washington Post. | |
| Connect the dots. | |
| Then Senator Leahy leaked a draft report on Iran Contra to the to an NBC reporter. | |
| At that time, he was a vice chairman of the intelligence panel. | |
| By 1987, it was so clear even to the uh other senators that he was completely incapable of keeping a secret if leaking it gave him partisan advantage that he was forced to resign from the Senate Intelligence Committee. | |
| He is now doing the same thing on the Senate Judiciary Committee by bringing in the Attorney General and demanding these kinds of disclosures. | |
| And it's worse than okay, it's worse than that. | |
| It's worse than that, and I want to get to it after we take our break and take your calls piling up now at 1 800-282-2882. | |
| Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh and back with more after this. | |
| Welcome back to the Rush Libaugrogram. | |
| Roger Hitchcock filling in for Rush. | |
| Uh look, uh Patrick Lehy, it's time for Patrick Leahy to get outed for the uh stuff that he does. | |
| Uh I just mentioned what happened back in 1985 briefly as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. | |
| He uh threatens to uh disclose details of a of top secret plans regarding Libya, regarding Iran-Contra, uh leaks uh go on uh the Washington Post, NBC gets those details. | |
| Uh he's taken off the committee because everybody calls him leaky leahy, uhy leaky, whatever. | |
| Uh and it's happening again. | |
| But but let me drop in another little bit of history. | |
| In 2000, prior to 9-11, the National Commission on Terrorism, which Democrats, including uh Leahy charged Bush ignored after 9-11, they charged Bush ignored the warnings in 2000. | |
| Well, it turns out that a careful reading of the actual record, one of the proposals, let me take an example from the National Commission on Terrorism in 2000, was to make it easier for FBI agents to get authority from the Justice Department to conduct electronic surveillance on terrorist suspects in the Muslim community in the United States. | |
| Not every Muslim, but those who were calling uh Pakistan to the Madrasas, those who were, you know, phoning up Zawahiri, not for medical help, but uh, you know, other items. | |
| Uh, those people, the FBI said, you know, we ought to keep track of these folks. | |
| Two of them were here in San Diego, taking flight lessons where they weren't interested in the landing part. | |
| So we ought to keep track of those people, says the National Commission on Terrorism. | |
| Leahy leads the charge to stop the bill that would have allowed FBI to get that electronic surveillance authority. | |
| Leahy leads the charge to stop the FBI from eavesdropping on militants in the American Muslim community. | |
| And then after 9-11, says the President, failed to follow the National Commission on Terrorism recommendations. | |
| You have to be a real pro in politics to be that duplicitous, That two-faced, that much of a sack. | |
| I'm telling you, you have to be a pro. | |
| This guy's a pro. | |
| So what's he doing yesterday to Alberto Gonzalez Monday was the actual hearing? | |
| He is, well, grilling Gonzalez about the legality of the president after the war resolution of Congress, using that authority to once again look at international calls, | |
| specific people, Al-Qaeda suspect involved, lots of criteria focused just on the war, not caring whether you call your Aunt Mabel, not into that, into whether these particular people are in part, you know, a part of an Al-Qaeda preparation for attack on Americans. | |
| Okay, so if nothing else, I know Leahy is consistent, but it's time to understand what his consistency is. | |
| He says he's only protecting the Constitution. | |
| How much does Senator Leahy really care about protecting the United States of America from Islamic terror? | |
| The record is not good. | |
| And I want to connect the dots again for you. | |
| The New York Times is under investigation for reporting the surveillance uh situation, surveillance of these terrorists. | |
| Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez in that same Monday hearing, revealing under questioning by Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa that the Department has initiated initiated investigation into the possible crimes there. | |
| Now, I wasn't watching and couldn't see uh, you know, you just couldn't see from the TV whether he was looking at Leahy when he said that. | |
| But I'll bet he was. | |
| Because based on the 1980s record of the Senator, where do you think the New York Times got the information? | |
| So that is uh what's happening on the domestic spying uh side of this thing. | |
| Let's take some calls before I get to the uh Coretta Scott King funeral, quote unquote from yesterday. | |
| Sonny on a cell phone. | |
| Uh Sonny, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program. | |
| Roger, you demand. | |
| Go ahead, man. | |
| You're on. | |
| Roger, I work for a national lender that that offers that program. | |
| It's called the uh ITIN, identification tax uh program. | |
| And there is private mortgage insurance, and one of the big mortgage private mortgage insurance companies put together this program and and it requires the PMI. | |
| What it really was entitled to do or intended to do was to have people pay a mortgage payment instead of repatriate their dollars back home. | |
| Anyone can get a net. | |
| Now, Sonny, let me just go through it with you. | |
| Uh this is a program aimed at people illegally in the country. | |
| That are uh that are working receiving W2 wage. | |
| Okay, so in other words, they are illegally in the country. | |
| Yes. | |
| Correct. | |
| And do they get any subsidies whatsoever? | |
| Uh no more so than any other citizen. | |
| Okay, well now I'm led to believe that they get a point below on the interest rate. | |
| Because Acorn Acorn out here, well, the Citibank program I'm talking about in San Diego, which is where I got my report, uh, is uh is a point below the the market rate for uh uh interest paid on the mortgage and a first-time buyer help uh on the down payment, which is no down payment. | |
| Yeah, that's available to anyone, though, through a down payment assistance program. | |
| So the government is subsidizing a no-down payment interest below market loan to people illegally in the country. | |
| Yes, the premise is. | |
| Thank you very much, Sonny. | |
| I appreciate your call. | |
| Um I d I just, you know, I if that doesn't frost you right off the top, I don't care what the premise is. | |
| The fact is somebody's here illegally getting my taxpayer dollar supported subsidized interest rate that I can't get. | |
| That's what I'm that's what I'm hearing. | |
| Now, you know, the idea that it might keep dollars here, hello, we're going to subsidize a mortgage to keep dollars here. | |
| Paul on a cell phone in Fort Myers, Florida. | |
| Welcome to the Rush Show. | |
| Hey, Roger. | |
| Uh enjoying your your time on the show. | |
| Uh one one thing that puzzles me. | |
| I'm a I'm a conservative, but I always thought conservatives liked checks on federal power. | |
| And what what I don't understand is why um we keep framing this issue uh of wiretaps about whether or not we should listen in on uh Al Qaeda or any other kind of terrorist calls. | |
| I don't hear anybody of any credibility saying we shouldn't. | |
| Seems to me the issue is whether or not the president should have to get a warrant to do it. | |
| And I haven't heard a credible reason uh given that the FIFA laws are so weighted uh in favor of of a Paul I've got I Paul I've got Paula Paul I've got ten seconds let me give you the answer. | |
| The answer in ten seconds a micro blast the answer is by the time you get a warrant by the time you go through three layers of lawyers by the time you do all of that the guy is gone from the phone call. | |
| We missed it. | |
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| All right welcome back 1800 28282. | |
| Want to get to the uh quote funeral unquote from yesterday but let's first get some callers in here. | |
| Carrie on a cell phone go ahead carry welcome to the show. | |
| Hey Roger thanks for taking my call. | |
| Yes ma'am go ahead my uh major question for you is regarding the statistics you gave out earlier um when you started the program about a hundred and fifty five thousand OTMs in the country right now and other than Mexicans. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So I mean what about Guatemalans and people from Haiti here in South Florida, I mean it's not just Mexicans, I'd say it's more Guatemalan than anything else that I see. | |
| I mean does that include them? | |
| I mean are we thinking that there's like Al Qaeda cells down in Guatemala. | |
| No we're thinking that uh when we've pick up uh and and we just in the last two months and you and you're right other than Mexican means Central Americans as well, but when we've picked up hundreds and hundreds of people from the top seven terrorist nations that I don't have to mention again uh all the way across the border, Texas all the way to California to San Diego here, uh you get the picture that people are coming in, we just had a couple the the Mexicans actually helping here on our part of the border. | |
| We had four Iraqis here from uh just last week. | |
| So uh you know we get a picture that people from terrorist nations are swimming in the great sea of illegals coming into the country in numbers sufficient since it only took nineteen the last time the attack was mounted to kill three thousand people. | |
| Uh any number is in i is is a threat as far as I'm concerned and that's what I'm worried about. | |
| Well how do you know that it's a hundred and fifty five thousand I mean if you've got a head count you must have an idea of how to fix it. | |
| I mean is there a guy with a counter clicking off if he comes across but I mean it's a lot of the number came from the number came from Senator Feinstein who was in on a briefing on this from Chairtoff and I interviewed Chairtoff the Secretary of Homeland Security and and he was you know uh quick to admit that the program they have where when they catch other than Mexican and they and they particularly focus obviously because the FBI is con is concerned about this as well, uh they focus on people from these terrorist nations. | |
| In the past what they've done is they've been so backed up on their courts that they've given them what they call catch and release. | |
| They give them a notice to come and appear at a hearing that's eight or nine or ten months away. | |
| These people blend into the population, disappear, never show up for the hearing and and these are the people they catch. | |
| Now they figure they catch one out of three. | |
| So the 15500 had to do with those who were caught not the ones who weren't caught. | |
| So the ones we knew about the the one out of three or four that we actually caught uh and then of those you're right not all of them are from these seven terrorist nations but too many of them are and they're still catch and release. | |
| Do you know between the time that Chertoff made his famous statement now in November that we're gonna stop catch and release we are going to deal with these people we are going to ship them back where they came from we're not going to put up with this eighteen thousand of those people have come across and gotten catch and release notices. | |
| I mean it's a it's a travesty carry. | |
| I agree I mean I know that there is a problem I just think that they Democrats especially are using this as an excuse when they say there's a hundred and fifty five thousand OTMs. | |
| That makes people it's kind of like they're insinuating that these are the bad guys that are here. | |
| They're all from Libya and Syria when in fact at least depending on the region you are it couldn't be farther from the truth. | |
| I don't know that I've run into any Muslims you know in South Florida. | |
| Oh, we run into a lot of them here. | |
| You don't think that you don't think that this I don't see how it helps the Democrats to tell the truth about the border. | |
| It's well, it's not that they're telling the truth. | |
| I think that it's they're slanting it to, you know, say, well, let's close the borders, let's close the borders. | |
| Bush isn't doing enough. | |
| When in fact, I mean he might be, and we just got a you know, a bunch of Guatemals that want to pick citrus for a while. | |
| And though they're lumped into that 155,000, and people are like, well, there's 155,000 illegals here and they're OTMs, they're not Mexicans. | |
| They must be from the Middle East. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And not always. | |
| Not all of them are, not all of them are. | |
| And I'm telling you, if it took nineteen to do it, I mean, let me put it this way. | |
| All the Bush administration folks uh have uh uh from Cherodoff on down have already told us in sworn testimony to Congress that there are Al Qaeda cells in the United States, that they are b that they are in control you know, in communication with Al Qaeda from around the world, that they are coordinating attack. | |
| We have been on top of it, there's been no attack since 9-11. | |
| It's not to say there's not another one coming, it is inevitable, and we get we got all that kind of phraseology. | |
| Well, in my opinion, it would sure help a lot if we had a fence on the border and we knew who was coming across. | |
| Don't you agree? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Well, Kerry, then Bush ought to do it and it ought to be done yesterday. | |
| And what I have, Carrie, what I have in this particular sand I mean, we're fifteen miles from the border where I'm sitting and talking to you. | |
| Uh at that border, there's a giant gap in the fence across something called smugglers canyon, just to make it clear what happens there. | |
| And at Smugglers Canyon, we've been trying for three years to get the Bush administration to build the fence. | |
| The Chertoff sits in my studio right here where I'm talking from and says, We're gonna build that fence. | |
| No bulldozers yet. | |
| No fence yet, no control yet. | |
| That's what I'm concerned about. | |
| All right, John in Grand Rapids, Michigan. | |
| John, welcome to the Rush Show. | |
| Pleasure to talk to you, Roger. | |
| Thanks, John. | |
| Uh couple of points, and I don't know everything, but this is from my understanding of the whole, you know, domestic spying claims and all that fun stuff on this. | |
| One, we're talking about data mining, which is an entirely different thing from eavesdropping and doesn't fall under the restrictions of the same law. | |
| Right. | |
| Two, we're dealing with at least one of the parties is known to be sus a suspect terrorist from abroad. | |
| Right. | |
| At which point the uh president's Article II powers kick in even without the uh war on Al-Qaeda declared by Congress, and he would have the right to order the surveillance as it is, and could extend that surveillance to the people domestically that the foreign terrorists were talking to. | |
| I think you've got it, John. | |
| So I mean, this isn't a matter of my phone call to you as being monitored, although so what if it is? | |
| They have my permission to monitor all of my communications at any time for any reason if they suspect some terrorist is trying to talk to me. | |
| Well, there you go, John, thanks for the call. | |
| So you could we have John's uh authority now. | |
| He's given a waiver for uh all of his phone calls. | |
| But and you know, I'm not that look, I am not comfortable the government doing anything in my life of any of my communications. | |
| But I am totally comfortable with the idea as a conservative, as a person interested in the Constitution as originally written. | |
| Uh I'm I'm interested in those Article II war powers because the president, if he has no other function in life, it's not to show up uh and uh at uh so-called uh funerals, it's to show up and defend the country. | |
| And if we are facing an enemy which is determined to use the Constitution against us, which is what's happening, then the president has to use the Constitution against them. | |
| Article two gives him that power. | |
| Now let me move on to this uh quote funeral. | |
| Uh yesterday, uh President Bush rearranged his schedule to attend the funeral of Coretta Scott King, a genuine American hero, in my opinion. | |
| Okay. | |
| And at that uh in in a Wellstonian uh way, and you remember the Paul Wellstone funeral, the Democrats, I'm sorry, they just can't help themselves. | |
| They just can't help themselves, as they say in some parts of the country. | |
| They just can't rein from politicizing a funeral. | |
| A funeral. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know how you feel about funerals, but they are for me important memorials to the person who has died. | |
| They are important points in time to grieve with friends and family of that person, to, and maybe you're one of the friends and family, uh, to celebrate the life and to mourn the passing. | |
| That's what this is about. | |
| It's not about blaming Bush for Katrina. | |
| It really isn't. | |
| And worse than that, Jimmy Carter can't get out of his own way. | |
| He cannot get out of his own way. | |
| I'm sorry, we'll have to go back to his actual words. | |
| Here is the former president, Jimmy Carter, at the funeral. | |
| It was difficult for them personally, with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the targets of secret government wiretapping, other surveillance. | |
| Now, let me translate that for you. | |
| It may have not been sufficiently clear. | |
| He is talking about Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King being the subject of government secret government wiretapping. | |
| Seated not what, 20 feet away, if that much, from him, was Senator Ted Kennedy, readying his own bloviating remarks. | |
| The secret government wiretapping, Mr. Carter referred to with regard to Martin Luther King, was ordered by J. Edgar Hoover at the insistence of Robert Kennedy, who was attorney general under John Fitzgerald Kennedy. | |
| Ted Kennedy's two older brothers. | |
| I don't know. | |
| What is Carter thinking? | |
| He's basically accusing the federal government under the Kennedys of secretly wiretapping the Kings. | |
| And he's right, that's what they did. | |
| Trying to make a point against Bush, he trips over himself. | |
| By the way, Carter, Jimmy Carter. | |
| Jimmy, I hope you remember that along with Senator Patrick Leakey, that you leaked to the world when you uh I I mean this is a statement that stunned the world when you casually mentioned that the United States had jets that could uh could not be seen on radar. | |
| You gave away the secret of stealth. | |
| You leaked a secret taxpayers had paid billions and billions of dollars to achieve, and you casually gave it to the world. | |
| Just another in the long list of reasons why one of the worst presidents of the 20th century was James Earl Carter. | |
| But yesterday he reconfirmed my judgment as far as I'm concerned. | |
| Now, the political posturing was smoothly deflected by George Bush, and I appreciate his patience and his father's humor in this situation. | |
| But I think as I looked out on that crowd yesterday, too many of them, too many of those folks looked like the old civil rights movement. | |
| The new civil rights movement is alive and well in the Republican Party, and I want to talk about it when we come back. | |
| Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh, taking a short break back with your calls too at 1-800-282-2882 after this. | |
| Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program. | |
| Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush. | |
| Uh and let me let me get to this because I think it's just crucial to understand because you're not going to get it in much of the other uh media. | |
| The new civil rights movement is not about entitlement. | |
| It is not about correcting uh old uh racist hangover problems, which have largely been corrected. | |
| Not totally, but largely. | |
| It's not about uh uh group rights and government action. | |
| It's about business ownership, homeownership. | |
| It's about starting charter schools and vouchers. | |
| It's about success and individual success and opportunity. | |
| And it's it's finding expression in people like Ken Blackwell, who's running for governor in Ohio. | |
| And thank God is the front runner. | |
| May he be the next governor. | |
| And I got out of uh City Journal, Steve Malanga's column that talks about uh typical meeting. | |
| Ken Blackwell is talking to a group of Ohio retailers and is talking about turning around Ohio's struggling economy. | |
| And boy, is it struggling with high taxes brought on, by the way, by the Republicans? | |
| I, you know, uh I can't uh say enough about how disappointed I am about Taft and the rest of those folks in Ohio. | |
| But look, Ken Blackwell says fiscal restraint, tax cuts, it works. | |
| We've got to stop Republicans and Democrats from their tax and spend uh stuff. | |
| And he gets generally good reviews from these folks who are small business folks. | |
| And he asks he's stopped by a woman who says, I like your ideas on taxes, she says, but I don't like your other ideas, meaning Blackwell's strong pro-life positions and support of a constitutional amendment, defining marriage as between a man and a woman. | |
| And Blackwell unapologetically replies nicely to her to this woman questioning him. | |
| He says, quote, I am not just an economic being. | |
| I have a wider set of beliefs that I follow. | |
| And he looks at her a little closer. | |
| He says, quote, with me, you'll always know what you're getting. | |
| You'll always know where I stand. | |
| Now, this is a great American. | |
| But beyond that, he is a great African American. | |
| This is the new civil rights. | |
| This is the new way that I think we're going to be looking at opportunity for blacks and other people in this country, for everybody in this country, through the prism of is there economic opportunity, is there a freedom there? | |
| Can you get ahead? | |
| Can you get the education you need? | |
| Can you get the opportunity you need? | |
| And uh Blackwell is saying, Yep, look at me, follow me. | |
| What about Maryland? | |
| What about Maryland? | |
| Five-term uh Senator Paul Sarbanes is uh retiring. | |
| And he won his seat the last time around, 26 and a half points. | |
| Uh Barbara McCulski, the other senator from Maryland, a Democrat as well, won by 31 points. | |
| John Kerry beat George Bush by 13 points. | |
| Then why do you suppose the Republican nominee for uh Senate is uh leading in his race against both of uh the Democrat uh opposition, | |
| Congressman Ben Cardin, and former uh NAACP president uh Quisi Imfumi because Mr. Steele, who is black, is offering the same opportunity as uh Ken Blackwell is, | |
| offering the same program, offering the same control over your lives, offering the same schools that work, schools that work, communities that work, people who have work, people who own businesses. | |
| This is what he's saying to people. | |
| This is the new civil rights. | |
| Get a piece of the pie. | |
| Earn it, keep it, grow it, get your kids going into college. | |
| This is what he's talking about. | |
| It's the new civil rights. | |
| And you can, you know, you can listen to all the hackney Jesse Jackson phony baloney uh the 30-year-old rhetoric. | |
| But it doesn't point the way to the future. | |
| It points the way to the past. | |
| And God bless Lynn Swan. | |
| Bill Scranton's dropped out of Pennsylvania race there for governor, and Lynn Swan will face uh Ed Rendell running for a second term. | |
| Ed Rendell's a decent uh governor, Lynn Swan would probably be better, and look at him. | |
| Again. | |
| He's saying, Hey, look at me. | |
| V a success, be a businessman, because Lynn Swan, after after he got through playing football, got introduced at the uh Super Bowl. | |
| That was terrific. | |
| After he got through playing football. | |
| What did he do? | |
| He became a successful businessman. | |
| He worked his uh, you know, his uh he worked his uh connections. | |
| He he made it in life. | |
| He made it as an American. | |
| That's the important civil rights statement that these folks are making. | |
| None of them are Democrats. | |
| How do Democrats treat their officeholders who happen to be African American? | |
| Well, more on that when we return. | |
| Way too long in that last segment. | |
| Apologize, lots to do today. | |
| We're gonna get to that cartoon flap around the world, Iran, the Bush budget, the economy. |
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