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Feb. 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 27, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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I'm asking Dawn about Hodd.
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And great to be back.
Here we are Monday, the start of a brand new week of broadcast excellence here on the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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It's not a full week.
It's not a full week.
I have to go to Washington on Thursday.
I have to make a speech during the day.
It's a trade speech.
I have to go to Washington and make a trade show speech on Thursday afternoon.
I committed to doing this last year, and I honor my commitments of this type.
So who we got?
Hedgecock is he working on.
Yeah, Roger Hedge.
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Well, no, I've got to go to a, there's a, the EIB network's throwing a little, what, it'll be some late afternoon cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, and I committed to showing up for five minutes, maybe 20.
But after that, I may have to fly up to New York for dinner, but I am coming home that night.
We'll be back here in the EIB Southern Command for our program on Friday.
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Well, it's another week filled with optimism from our side, ladies and gentlemen, and gloom and doom on the horizon for the left.
You and I, we arise each day.
We look forward to a brighter future.
They, the left, looks to another week without a civil war in Iraq.
But, you know, they're out there singing, this time we almost made it happen, baby.
We almost made that civil war happen.
But they didn't quite get there, so they're disappointed about that.
It's another week without an economic depression or at least even a housing bubble.
In fact, the news continues to indicate that we're going to have blow through the roof first quarter economic GDP growth, anywhere from 4.5% to 6% are what some people who study this stuff are suggesting could be the figure.
And of course, we've had another week without a terrorist attack.
So, you know, the left, it's tough out there for them.
They get up with all these doom and gloom hopes.
A doom and gloom never happened.
So they go out there and say, it's coming.
The gloom and doom is coming.
John Corzine did the Democrats' radio response to the president's radio address on Saturday.
He was full of demagoguery and mischaracterizing the United Arab Emirates port deal.
That was quite a topic for discussion on the Sunday programs yesterday.
So I thought, ladies and gentlemen, that I would share just some randomly chosen news items with you today that are related to the port deal.
First, a story here from the Boston Globe.
British firm set to buy Keyspan.
National Grid would add to Massachusetts holdings.
Yes, the British energy conglomerate, National Grid plc, which already owns Massachusetts' biggest electric utility, was poised to announce a $7 billion-plus agreement early today to buy the Bay State's biggest gas utility as well.
National Grid was scheduled to disclose the terms of its takeover of Keyspan Corp after 2 a.m. today, according to four utility industry executives.
Though the deal could still fall through at the last minute, the two companies were prepping to announce the takeover before London's Stock Exchange opened for trading this morning.
Don't know if it actually happened, but do we need an investigation of this?
Well, some of you might be saying, no, Rush, we don't need an investigation.
It's the Brits.
The Brits are our allies.
Well, yeah, they are, but the Brits could sell to anybody once they acquire this.
We need to investigate this.
We need to make sure that every foreign company that buys an asset in the United States promises not to sell it in the future to people we don't approve of.
Here is, let's see.
Keyspan stock has climbed more than $7 per share in the last week on the speculation of this news.
And let's not forget, folks, that the 7-7 bombers were Brits.
Remember those two kids?
Well, they're more than that that blew up the, what was it, some kind of a subway or bus, whatever.
Remember that?
On July 7th last summer?
And they were British citizens.
They were British citizens.
And they could infiltrate the grid now because the British might bring their own people over here to work.
I don't know.
This company, I don't know if the company recognizes the IRA or not.
We should look into that.
Here's another interesting note.
Westinghouse.
You remember that name?
Westinghouse used to own everything.
Westinghouse used to own washers and dryers and jet engines.
They used to make refrigerators.
They used to make own radio stations all over the country.
Well, Westinghouse is also a major operator of our country's nuclear power plants.
And as such, the plans, the weaknesses, the security arrangements, the work schedules, etc., of these nuclear power plants are known to Westinghouse management.
Imagine if a terrorist were to get this information.
Ah, but Westinghouse isn't a U.S. company anymore.
It's owned by the British government, ladies and gentlemen.
Do you know that, Mr. Snergley?
Yes, I know.
This is, by the way, this is some blogger, I think, has submitted what I'm reading to you at National Review Online.
There's a difference between the British government and, say, the government of Dubai, but it's important.
The secrets to the U.S. nuclear industry are not held on U.S. soil anymore.
We have no control over who in Britain has access to this information.
As we all know, England does have a slight issue with homegrown terrorists.
But the British government's decided that they don't like Westinghouse.
They're going to sell it.
And you know to whom they're selling it?
They're selling it to Toshiba.
Now, Toshiba wants to become the world's leader in nuclear technology because there's this country that is right to the west of Japan that is flush with cash and hungry for electricity.
It's called China.
Toshiba is betting that China's nuclear power market will balloon.
Toshiba has not built a nuclear power plant yet in China, but it runs operations in 63 locations there, including sales outlets, distribution centers, and production plants.
They employ 20,000 people.
So now, because we sold Westinghouse to the Brits, who are now selling it to the Japanese, U.S. nuclear technology on the building of nuclear power plants is going to end up in China.
And also did a little bit more research on just how extensive Dubai's holdings, the United Arab Emirates' holdings, are in this country.
Dubai Port World, $6.8 billion purchase of Britain's PO is drawing heightened scrutiny because, excuse me, it includes the takeover of significant operations in six U.S. ports, but the deal represents just a small part of this desert city-state's headlong rush into global investing, a rush almost without precedent.
The stated goal of the tribal sheikhs who run Dubai is to mold it into a global hub of trade and luxury tourism.
Until now, though, less attention has been paid to these billions being spent by their state-owned investing arms, as well as where that money comes from and how the investments are performing.
The purchases from Dubai include everything from apartment complexes in the United States Sunbelt to trophy hotels and office towers in New York City.
The United Arab Emirates even own the Tussaud Group's wax museum franchise worldwide.
You know, Madame Tussauds, they just had that wax figurine of Hillary.
The United Arab Emirates did it.
The UAE was behind the new wax statue of Hillary, folks.
The UAE did it.
And I did it wrong.
We did it right on my website.
If you're going to have a sculpture of Hillary, it's not wax.
It needs to be ice that does not melt.
They also have a $1 billion investment in Daimler-Chrysler.
The United Arab Emirates has a billion bucks in Daimler-Chrysler.
So after they have used what?
What's that?
That's really dangerous.
We drive those cars.
Some of those cars are made here.
Some of those cars are made in Germany.
And they're imported in probably through the ports that these UN Emirates people are going to own.
So they've got GPS in those cars.
I mean, Americans are being tracked to this day.
I mean, right now, we didn't even know it.
The United Arab Emirates can sit there in Dubai and find out, Dawn, where you are anytime you are in a Daimler-Chrysler product.
I have one of those cars.
The United Arab Emirates can no doubt track me.
And I know that they do because when I got the car, and it was brand new, they've got this service in there, and I had to register it and test it.
And when I call them, you put a little button in there, sort of like OnStar in General Motors.
You push a little button in there, and they answer the phone.
And I don't know where they are, but they knew where I was.
They were able to tell me the exact intersection, just confirming that I was actually calling from that car, so forth.
And that probably Dubai.
I'm guessing.
I'm guessing that I was talking to outsourced customer service people in Dubai, able to tell exactly where I was.
They have these apartment buildings and hotels.
Okay, after they infiltrate the country with future terrorists, they got a place to put them.
These people don't even have to go out and rent on their own.
They can sign up under false names.
I mean, they're all over the place, folks.
I mean, it's just, oh, it's something we've got to be concerned about.
The rancor about, here's the flip side of this, though.
The rancor about Dubai's investments in the United States is not reciprocated here.
This story is written from Dubai.
The United States cuts a large profile in Dubai.
The U.S. Navy has a permanent presence in Dubai's ports, which we've discussed, allowing the ports to handle incoming warships making port visits.
The U.S. Customs has a container inspection team based at the Dubai ports.
Even the UAE Dirham, the currency there, is pegged to the U.S. dollar.
And U.S. companies have been cashing in on Dubai's boom.
Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and IBM buildings dot an office park in Dubai.
Harvard Medical School is building a satellite campus there, while U.S. construction giants Parson, Turner, and Bechto are managing construction across the Emirate, overseeing buildings designed by American architectural powerhouses like Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill.
So, folks, the tentacles here are even deeper than any of us knew.
They know our architectural infrastructure techniques.
They are learning about our computers.
They're learning about how our software is put together, operating systems, and so forth.
I feel relatively secure because Apple doesn't have a relationship with them.
And of course, I use, and we all use the Mac here at the EIB network.
So we have a level of protection that most of you don't.
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Democrats on Saturday accused President Bush of being casual with national security as they warned of risks from an Arab state-owned company gaining control of terminals at six key U.S. ports.
They sent New Jersey Governor John Corzine out there to do the Democratic weekly radio address.
He urged Bush to pose tough questions during a delay of Dubai Ports World's $6.8 billion acquisition of P ⁇ O, even as the top White House official, A-type top White House official, said that there is no need to reopen the government's review.
We can't afford, we can't afford to let this administration be stubborn in their mistakes and casual about our security.
Every homeland security expert identifies protecting the ports as one of our greatest unmet security challenges.
He also had this to say.
Dangerous men, tainted blood money, and nuclear technology have moved across UAE borders.
The Bush administration said they'd looked at the transaction and that the public shouldn't worry.
Okay, so UAE money is blood money.
Now, I think he's talking about money that's been laundered through there by hijackers and other terrorists and so forth when he says dangerous men, tainted blood money, and nuclear technology have moved across UAE borders.
He's trying to imply an association between the sheikhs that run the UAE and these dangerous men and tainted blood money.
Yesterday on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Senator Joe Biden, Delaware, was the guest.
Wallace said, is that the Democrat position that no matter what the Emirates have done since 9-11 as an ally in a war on terror, that this is a country of dangerous men and tainted blood money?
Well, the answer is the Democratic Party is concerned about this, but I could have closed my eyes and thought that was Peter King, the Republican leader of the subcommittee on that point.
He's saying the same thing.
You have a whole lot of people saying the same thing.
No, they're not.
Now, King is being critical of the deal, but he's not being critical of President Bush.
And he came to Bush's defense yesterday on Meet the Press, really tearing into Tim Russert when Russert continued to portray this as the UAE and this company buying the ports and running security, which they're not doing.
American interests, government interests mostly, will continue to own the ports.
Later on the roundtable on Fox News Sunday, Charles Krauthammer said this to Juan Williams.
He said, if you heard the address by Corzine yesterday, it was not about generalities.
It was about Arabs in charge of port security.
And he painted the UAE as a country which was an enemy country, which it's not.
And that's where the demagoguery comes in.
And that's where they're jeopardizing America's position among all of these very small countries.
We don't have a lot of allies in the Arab world.
And Williams responds.
Who are the first fearmongers in terms of American politics around here?
I would say the Republicans and the Bush administration.
It's just that the fearmongering has now changed because the people in the Congress are worried about their midterm elections.
Bush warns us about Al-Qaeda, which is a real threat.
The Democrats warn us about UAE, which is not.
And that's why it's demagoguery.
And he's right about this.
The Democrats are their opposition to this is not principled, as we discussed last week.
Their opposition is purely political, and it's the latest effort that they, latest opportunity that they think they have to take Bush out, which seems to be their primary interest.
And I would, there's somewhere, I didn't even bother saving it.
I was reading somewhere today where basically it was a story that Bush is unpopular in this state and that state.
And I'm finished reading this, and I said, yep, I guess I got to renounce my support for Bush in the 2008 election.
He's not on the ballot.
Now, I know that this business of trying to go after Bush is aimed at the 2006 elections, but it still is just nothing new from the Democrats.
Their opposition to this is based purely on demagoguing the whole thing.
Out there saying that they're going to be in charge of port security and blood money and tainted men, dangerous men, tainted blood money and this sort of thing.
And it is interesting politically.
We'll just have to wait to see how this develops.
But I think I sort of have an idea, and it is this: that the Democrats have gone as far as they can.
Well, actually, they haven't.
I've got a story in the stack today about their efforts to get a special prosecutor like Pat Fitzgerald appointed to handle the NSA spying story.
So they're not letting go of that.
So while they refuse to see an enemy anywhere in the war on terror or in Iraq, all of a sudden, the UAE has become the enemy.
Now, politically, that's one foot over the cliff again, which seems to be the constant position the Democrats put themselves in.
I'm going to take some phone calls on this before we move on to other exciting issues that are out there in the stack of stuff today.
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All right, the Bush administration said yesterday it will grant a request by the Dubai Port Outfit for an additional 45-day review of its contested takeover of terminal operations at six major U.S. ports.
DP World said that it was seeking further review in order to allay U.S. lawmakers' national security concerns about handing management of these terminals to a company owned by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Upon receipt of the new notification, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. will promptly initiate the review process and fulfill DPW's request for a full investigation.
Bush National Security Advisor Steve Hadley said on CNN's late edition, it was clear that members of Congress needed more time to understand and review the deal.
Well, just so you understand, members of Congress, particularly on the Democrat side, are not just content with a 45-day extension in order to investigate this.
As you will hear soon from New York Senator Chuck Schumer, they want to take over the whole process of authorizing such things.
They are moving the goalpost.
Schumer legislation not only calls for the 45-day review, but gives Congress the final say.
Congress doesn't have that power.
The executive does.
He was on Good Morning America today, and Charlie Gibson said the Arab company at the center of this story is asking for a fuller investigation, a more complete investigation to clear up any security questions.
But that may not be the last word on all this.
And so joining us is New York Senator Charles Schumer, who's been a strong critic of this.
Do we have a 45-day truce, Senator?
Well, I'm not sure we have a truce.
Our legislation, which is bipartisan, five Democrats, five Republicans will introduce it today on the floor of the Senate, says do the 45-day review.
That's necessary.
But it also says give Congress, not just the President, the findings and let Congress have an opportunity 30 days to disapprove the deal.
That's what's needed because the president has already decided.
Now, in the next so the president's already decided, and Schumer wants Congress to have power to nix what the president's decision is.
So, you have a separation of powers battle going on here.
It's an attempt to weaken the president.
This happens all the time, but it's happened since the founding of the country.
These battles for power that the Congress has always made against the executive are nothing new.
This one is time to coordinate with massive public opinion on this that indicates most people are with Schumer and those who don't want to allow the deal to be approved.
Next question from Gibson: Well, is there an element of racism in all of this?
Because foreign interests already control more than 30% of the port facilities in this country anyway.
So, is your opposition to this just because this is a Middle Eastern group?
Absolutely not.
The opposition stems from the fact that the UAE, the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is part, has had a relationship, a nexus with terrorism.
Money is laundered by bin Laden and other groups through their banks, or has been.
The nuclear weapons that the Pakistani doctor Aid Q Khan sent through was through Dubai.
It was one of three countries to recognize the Taliban.
Charles, if this were Chechnya, if this were East Timor, non-Arab countries with a connection with terrorism, the same kind of nexus, we'd have the same ferocity in America to have a full review and put homeland security first.
Okay, so Schumer, of course, I don't expect him to admit that it's racism and xenophobia, but he expressly denies that racism, i.e., the fact that this is an Arab company and an Arab company, has anything at all to do with his opposition.
But in the very next answer here, he says he's worried about infiltration by al-Qaeda.
Charlie Gibson says, look, most national security experts I've seen quoted say, look, we don't have a better friend in the Middle East cooperating with us in the war on terror than the UAE.
Well, since 9-11, the UAE has been a lot better, but the real issue here is infiltration.
In other words, even if the top of the Dubai Ports World, who is actually the leader of the United Arab Emirates, because the nation controls the company, even if he were 100%, what about infiltration?
Well, infiltration by who?
He's denying racism, but let me explain to you one of my not to cover old ground, but I know some of you are upset with me for the sarcasm and the parodical approach taken in the opening monologue of today's program.
And I'm accustomed to members of the audience being upset with me.
This has been the case with several issues in the past, the Perot candidacy, NAFTA, just to name a couple.
I think that there is really principled opposition to this.
Forget the Democrats.
I'm not even talking about them now.
I'm talking about the opponents of this deal that would be considered associates or friends of mine or like-minded people.
I think there are really two parts to that.
I think there's some principled opposition to this by people on genuine national security concerns, and I'm not trying to pick a fight with them.
But I also think that there are some people out there who are just reactionary protectionists who just on general principle here are opposed to it.
It is those people that I have a quarrel with and have ever since NAFTA and, well, even prior to that.
Now, look at this.
During these Schumer soundbites, I happen to check my email.
I check email all the time during the story.
I'm multitask better than any other host out there.
And our buddies at Newsmax just posted the following story.
Peter King blames Rush Limbaugh for port support.
That's the headline.
Here's the story.
New York Congressman Peter King, who sounded the alarm two weeks ago over the Bush administration's decision to permit the sale of several dozen U.S. port terminals to a Dubai company, blamed conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Monday for softening the firestorm of opposition to the deal.
Asked why some hardline opponents of the Dubai deal seem to have changed their minds.
King told John Gambling on WABC Radio, I'm very disappointed in that.
It almost seemed that once the administration started to counterattack, you had people like Rush Limbaugh and others who've just been, I think they've gone into the tank, quite frankly.
So he says, I'm in the tank for Bush.
We'll have to go back and check the timeline.
I think my initial reaction to this deal a week ago today, and even prior to that, was before the administration came out.
And at any rate, Limbaugh had adopted a wait-and-see posture on the ports controversy early last week, saying more information was needed.
But by Friday, he told his audience he was suspicious of the monolithic opposition.
And they quote me saying, you remember the movie The Perfect Storm?
What do you suppose happens when 2006 politics and a liberal lust for power and a longshoreman union power and Bush hatred and uninformed reporting and the GOP's fear of losing power all get tossed into a stewpot?
And then you add in a dash of xenophobia and a touch of racism.
What do you get?
Exactly what we had earlier this week, the perfect panic.
Quoted me accurately.
Still, despite their disagreement, Limbaugh never attacked King personally, a line crossed by the New York Republican with his Monday in the tank reference.
King complained that defenders of the ports transaction were trivializing the debate.
For them to ridicule or to trivialize the objections that we have, I mean, stand back for a second.
Look at this.
What we're talking about, you know, turning over the operation of our ports to a company owned by the government, which was cooperating with our enemy just a few years ago.
And they're trying to ridicule and trivialize when you raise questions about that, King said.
I think you're seeing something of a split here in the Republican Party between what I call the Reagan Democrats, you know, the ethnics from the cities and the suburbs, the middle-income working people, and the big business wing of the party.
Oh, I'm part of the big business wing.
Yes, I guess this explains my anger at this administration's lack of doing anything to protect the borders when it comes to illegal immigration.
I guess I'm in the tank with big business on that, too.
I guess I'm in the tank when I'm critical of the president's budgeting and his spending.
And I guess I'm in the tank when I've been critical of the president on Harriet Myers.
And I guess I'm in the tank when I have been critical of the president on Ted Kennedy writing the education bill.
Steel tariffs.
Oh, I ripped the hell out of the steel tariffs idea, which was eventually withdrawn after not too long a period of time.
I went to great pains not to take a personal swipe at Peter King.
I praised him.
I did.
I went out of my way to praise him.
I pointed out that he admitted that he's being swayed a lot by constituent email and phone calls, which he has to be.
He is an elected representative.
He's charged with representing.
He's in New York.
He's out on Long Island.
It's ground zero for him.
I understand where he's coming from on that.
I did not criticized him or any of these other people.
I have just told people why I'm for it.
Oh, it's, you know, the more accurate thing to say is I have just explained why I'm not afraid of it.
Let's put it that way.
All right, quick timeout.
We'll come back and we'll get to your phone calls right after this.
Single-handedly responsible for softening the opposition to the ports deal, according to New York Congressman Peter King, I am Rush Slimbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
To Washington, we go.
Hi, Mike.
Welcome to the program.
You were up first today.
Rush, long time dittos.
Even back when I lived in New York before the carpetbaggers moved in and I had to leave.
I used to love when you gave us an extra hour in the morning.
But anyway, it just keeps getting better.
Really appreciate it.
Thank you, sir.
Thanks very much.
Hey, just to reiterate your point on how insincere Hillary and Chucky Face is.
If they were serious about our national security, I think they would sound the alarm about Toshiba.
I mean, they have a track record of selling our submarine, nuclear submarine silent propeller program to the Russians back in the day.
That is true.
That is true.
Toshiba has been cited for illegally selling our silent submarine technology to the Chikoms.
But you have to understand, if you put your thinking cap on, you will understand why they may not even know about this, for one thing.
I mean, the Dubai story was out there three or four days before anybody started talking about it because they were too preoccupied with taking Cheney out.
Right.
And then when the Cheney story died, look what they found.
So they ginned this all up.
They may not even know yet about Westinghouse being owned by the Brits and the Brits now selling it to Toshiba.
They may not even...
Rush, my thought was that since it has something to do with the military, they're just going to let that go because as far as they're concerned, they'd sell us down the river.
No, I don't think that's it.
I think, well, I don't think that's it.
I have to stop and think.
Sell the military down the river is not that far outside the realm of possibility.
You may have a point.
But I think what's going on here actually is tunnel vision.
The Democrats for four years have been trying to make the case we don't have an enemy.
They have opposed the war on terror.
They have opposed the war in Iraq.
Even after they voted for it, they tried to pretend like they were snookered, tricked, and lied to.
Bush lied.
Bush lied us into war.
None of this is necessary.
Haven't captured bin Laden.
We don't need these torture chambers.
Ted Kennedy says that Abu Ghraib is no different than when Saddam Rana is just under new management.
The NSA spying scandal, we've got to stop that.
We can't.
Sum it up.
They have been waging an effort to make it practically impossible to wage war against this enemy, the terrorist enemy.
And that's where the tunnel vision comes in.
In the process, they have not accomplished what they wanted to accomplish.
They wanted to accomplish turning the people of this country into an anti-war population with the Democrats on top of that large hoped-for constituency.
They were trying to redo what they did in the latter days of Vietnam.
They have McGovernized themselves.
Well, they never have un-McGovernized themselves.
They tried to rebirth the McGovern era, and it didn't work.
What happened was that they came under even more scrutiny by the American people, and polls indicated that more and more Americans simply would not trust the Democrats with this nation's national security.
They live in a post-9-11 world.
The Democrats are trying to create a pre-9-11 world.
Then all of a sudden, Cheney goes hunting, shoots Harry Whittington, and the Democrats, oh, whoa, they get all riled up.
Folks, it's like they're having orgasms out there.
And then that didn't work because Whittington didn't die.
If Whittington had died, we'd still be talking about that, and we wouldn't even be onto the ports deal yet.
But Whittington survived.
Whittington lived, and he's going to be happily ever after.
So here comes the port deal.
And the Democrats immediately saw an opportunity to get themselves on the other side of the national security debate, where they had failed to turn the country into a population of anti-war citizens.
They now, okay, we've got to get back on the other side of this debate.
And all their advisors from the Carville's to the Begalism is you've got to find a way to slay this.
Hillary's been out there.
You've got to sign a way to get us on the other.
They're killing us on this national security debate.
So here comes this deal.
And it's just an opportunity that they can't even wait to analyze and think because it gives them an opportunity to be against Arabs.
And of course, Arabs are terrorists.
And it puts the ports deal in question.
And the ports, that's the one area the Democrats with the Kerry campaign were going on and on and on about the 2004 presidential campaign.
Kerry kept saying we only inspect 5% of the incoming cargo.
It's an outrage in a post-9-11 world.
So they just reacted with glee and with pure emotion without thinking about it.
And so since there is no political ground to be gained by getting involved in the Westinghouse sale to Toshiba, which will result in nuclear power plants being built in China with U.S. technology, there's no terrorism involved there.
There's no Middle East involved there, so it's of no interest to them.
This Emirates deal is just what they think they've been asking for.
But see, the problem here again, as I keep saying, the problem is, okay, the Democrats, they want Americans to understand that they're tough, that they recognize we have an enemy.
The enemy is the United Arab Emirates, and the United Arab Emirates is not on the enemies list of this country, but they're trying to make Americans think that it should be.
And so they're demagoguing the whole issue.
Now, if China ever develops a connection with Al-Qaeda, if China ever develops a connection with any terrorist group like this, then this kind of a deal is going to come under more security.
I'll tell you what I think about that.
I think there needs to be, obviously, a better way to ensure that our technology isn't flowing to hostile countries and others.
I mean, you don't have to kill all these deals, but a coherent and consistent policy for reviewing these deals that may transfer technology like this has to be put in place.
We have an export control regime, but it may not be enough in the post-9-11 era.
They need to look at it.
It needs to be evaluated, not for protectionist reasons, but legitimate national security reasons.
I don't know what if, you know, obviously Westinghouse was sold to the British before 9-11.
After 9-11, would that kind of a sale be permitted?
And do we have the power to stop a privately held company from selling to whoever they want to sell to?
Well, the Democrats think we do.
Obviously, this case can be made on an individual case-by-case basis.
But I don't know what you do now about this other than beg the British not to sell it to Toshiba.
What do you do?
They're an ally.
Threaten to nuke them if they allow.
What do we do?
Back in a moment.
Calypso Louie had the State of the Black Union speech Saturday in Houston in celebration of Black History Month.
We have some incredible audio soundbites from that address, as well as lots of other stuff here in the stacks of stuff.
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