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March 9, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 9, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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Hey, welcome back.
Great to have you, folks.
Rush Limboy here having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Doing what I was born to do, not retiring, not quitting until every American agrees with me, even on the port deal.
You can take that for what it means.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800 282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
All right, the first thing I have, I've got a soundbite this afternoon, the Senate hearing on appropriations on the supplemental budget request for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
See, let me I have a soundbite here with Kit Bond, who is uh talking to the uh the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine General Peter Pace.
Before we get to that, just to set this up for you people, what is what has happened here is, I want you to be on a sharp lookout for this.
What has happened is that the uh the House Appropriations Committee has voted 62 to 2 to nail a deal to kill it, and they put it, they did it by adding it as an amendment to a supplemental spending bill to fund additional operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the biggie, more relief for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the rebuilding and all that.
That makes it impossible for the president to veto it.
The Republicans have already sent a message up to the White House.
You can't win because we've done a count and we got more votes than even we need in the House for a full veto to override your veto if you veto it.
So now I want to warn you about this.
The media is playing this up as a war within the GOP.
The GOP, the House of Representatives and the Senate to abandon the president.
President is drifting alone out there on his way to the port of Dubai on a raft.
He's got nowhere to go on this.
His party is demanding independence from him, his party is securing independence, party running away from him.
That's what they're going to play up.
And that is one of these unforeseen circumstances, except maybe some of these guys in the House actually want that because they're so frightened of Bush's Bush's low approval numbers that maybe that's what they want.
In addition to the other politics of this, which was simply getting the finish line first on the Democrats, so they can say, I did it, we did it, we Republicans, we saved America because we stopped terrorism at the ports.
We stopped it.
We stopped the United Arab Emirates from owning a port, and that means we're heroes.
The Democrats are reduced.
Hey, it was our idea first.
I'm the face of this opposition, says Chuck Schumer.
I have an idea.
I because where we need to think and remain focused on this is the Democrats on this, folks.
The Democrats are as phony on this as they are on anything.
They don't care about security.
I'm not sure how many of the Republicans on this specific issue have that as their main concern.
I think it's just responding to a wave of hysteria out there in the country, a wave of uninformed hysteria.
But it's so unified, the opposition to the deal that the Republicans uh obviously will say, hey, it's what my what my constituents want.
But I think the focus needs to remain on the Democrats because the Democrats they don't care about national security, and and this whole issue to them was was was a gift that allowed them to appear as though they are tough as nails on national security.
I even saw some media people say, yeah, Democrats move to the right of Bush on national security.
It's a joke.
Chuck Schumer is a joke.
All these other Democrats in the Senate are lame brain jokes when it comes to this.
They don't care about national security, and I have the way for the Republicans to expose them.
And it's taking a trick out of old Peter Peter King's book in the House of Representatives.
Senator Frist and his gang of leaders in the Senate on the Republican side should put the port deal amendment on a bill that authorizes the president to continue the National Security Administration foreign intelligence intercepts.
That would expose Schumer and these other phonies on the issue of security.
That would bring a big if if they are so convinced that we face such dire consequences and threats with the United Arab Emirates owning the ports, then they will have to say, okay.
But but they'll have to go ahead and authorize the uh the continued operation Of the NSA intercept program.
Now the Republicans over in the House had the guts to do this.
Well, the Republicans in the Senate have this is this is a brilliant idea if I say so myself.
It is a brilliant idea.
Just attach the port deal, killing the port deal, to an amendment, or as an amendment to a bill authorizing the president to continue the NSA spy program.
And I guarantee you, you know what will fall by the wayside is Democrat support for killing me.
Port deal.
The reason for this, folks, is to expose them as phonies on the whole issue of national security.
I have been waiting for some Republican to ask Chuck Schumer.
Uh, okay, you finally found an enemy out there, you say it's the UAE.
Got to protect the ports out there.
If it's if we're in if it's consequences are so dire, uh uh, Senator Schumer, will you authorize the NSA spy program to identify potential infiltrators and terrorist acts?
Will you authorize provisions of the Patriot Act to be employed and used here in securing port security?
And I guarantee you it would expose them.
And it it needs to happen.
Because the Democrats are getting away here in some places with this notion all of a sudden they're huge defenders and supporters of national security and on the right side of it and actually capable of leading on it, which we know is not true.
Now, here's the soundbite of uh Kit Bond asking Peter Pace questions about the uh United Arab Emirates.
Has the United Arab Emirates, has the government been a valuable ally?
Are they committed in the war on terror?
Are they taking steps to improve security for uh our forces and our troops?
Are they a reliable ally?
And is it essential that we maintain good relationships with the UAE?
We could not ask for better partners in that region, as you've already heard.
The ports that are available to us.
More U.S. Navy ships visiting uh and operating out of and being repaired in those ports than any other port in the world other than those here in the United States of America.
But of course, uh, General Pace is just a stooge for Bush, folks.
So we can't really trust what he says.
Because he's just partly administered.
Well, that's gonna be the reaction that some people have out there.
Now, I mentioned in a titillating and teasing manner, right before the previous hour ended, that I have learned of a major security breach at a major American port.
And my source for this is the New York Times.
The uh port authority of New York and New Jersey is failing to properly screen truck drivers allowed onto port terminals.
This, according to a new federal report that found that nearly half of the drivers whose backgrounds were checked had possible criminal histories.
Most of the histories involved minor crimes, but there were also many felony convictions on narcotics, arson, and weapons charges.
The report prepared by the Department of Homeland Security's immigration and customs enforcement division suggested that the failure to screen truck drivers left ports vulnerable to criminal acts and even terrorism.
Concerned about the pattern, the Department subpoenaed the Port Authority for access to records from its C link program, which is intended to help move truck traffic quickly past security gates by clearing drivers before they arrive.
The Port Authority requires these drivers to submit photographs as well as their social security and driver's license numbers, but it does not check the information against criminal databases before issuing a C link card.
So after going back and checking 9,352 active C link cardholders with New Jersey licenses, the federal agency found that nearly half of them had possible criminal histories.
The most serious criminal cases involve cardholders who'd been charged with the possession of five million dollars in the stolen pharmaceuticals or with trying to smuggle cocaine and Iranian carpets into the United States.
Federal government's already working on a program that would address many of the problems identified by the report, first disclosed this week by ABC News.
But widespread use of the card has been repeatedly delayed in part because industry opposition to the background checks that would be required before a transportation worker could get one.
Can I translate this for you?
Don't sweat it.
Those are our ex cons driving the trucks.
Relax.
It's Dubai that's the problem.
It's the United Arab Emirates that's the problem.
Okay, so we got some criminals.
We got some people who weren't participating in the program driving trucks.
The port security in New York and New Jersey is threatened, maybe even open to acts of terrorism because the program is not working, it's not being implemented properly.
But we trust all this because those are American X. Well, maybe I don't know that they're American XCOR.
I really I don't know.
But I do I thought you should know about this breach, this major breach in security at a major American port.
Yes, Mr. Sturgley, you have a question.
Yes.
Yeah, that Iranian carpets are from Iran.
Uh yeah, the smuggling uh Iranian carpet.
Iranian carpets are not illegal, uh, but there there is an entry process for any of these goods.
Yes so apparently here some of these truck drivers have ties to Iran, and they do not, ladies and gentlemen, have uh the good security here, and so I think we're we're lucky that uh we haven't had a major incident yet.
Uh want to thank ABC News for digging this information out.
New York Times for bringing it to everybody's attention.
Good news reporting, guys.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
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Here's Donald in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Thanks for your patience, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
Hey, now that the Royal Family of the United Arab Emirates has resorted to threatening us with harm if we don't do what they want us to do.
Do you really think we can afford to publicly look that week?
Isn't that how we got into this problem in the first place?
Um look that look that week by what?
Well, Sama Bin Laden's felt that if if you give the Americans a bloody nose, they run away, so he could attack us and we cave in.
So now the United Arab Emirates, they want to make this deal that we don't want to make.
So they say, you make this deal, or we will do this, this, and this.
And these things will harm you.
And so the Americans look at that and say, Oh, okay, we can't afford that.
You know, we'll we'll do whatever you want to do because we're wimps and we're weak.
No, no, no, that's only us.
That's not that's not gonna happen.
I mean the rest of the world won't think that.
They threaten us, we cave.
What does that mean to you?
Uh well, what what it means to me is that they're just angry.
I don't I I I think it's I think they're just angry.
They don't understand this.
They consider themselves to be one of our allies.
They're watching all this stuff said about them.
There's a war on terror, there's an al-Qaeda, and you've got half the politicians in this country thinking that the United Arab Emirates flew into the uh in the in the World Trade Center on 91.
I I don't uh I I well hang look, I've got to take a break here, and I want to further uh elucidate from you uh where you're going with this, so hang on here during the bottom of the break if you can.
Uh but we're not gonna cave.
These guys in Congress are feeling their oats.
If when they hear about this so-called threat from the United Arab Emirates, they'll just, oh yeah, well, take this.
They're not gonna buckle down to the UAE, not after this.
And then they've got the votes over right a veto.
I think it's over.
It's dead.
A man, a legend, a way of life.
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All right, now back to Donald in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Now we got some time here.
Okay.
Let me run through the story.
Then I mentioned this in the uh in the first hour of the program.
Dubai hits back.
This is from the Hill newspaper uh in Washington, Dubai threatening retaliation against American strategic and commercial interests if Washington blocks its takeover bid of the ports.
Uh source close to the deal said members of Dubai's royal family are furious at the hostility, both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill have shown toward the deal.
Uh they're saying uh the source talking about the uh the Emirates people say they're saying, Oh, we've done for you guys all of our purchases, we'll stop it.
We'll just yank it.
We'll yank our airline out of there, we'll we'll not buy Boeing.
We got a contract for a bunch of Boeing jets coming up, we'll cancel those.
We won't buy anything.
We'll buy everything from your competitors.
So that's that's what Donald here's calling to respond to.
Your your fear is that if we react to this threat and say, okay, okay, okay, we'll do the port deal, that we look bad.
Very bad.
See, Americans don't respond well to threats.
I was looking for persuasion.
They can afford to buy commercial time on radio and television.
I'm sure you would sell them commercial time.
They could put things in the print media.
I expected a full court press to try and and reach the American people and change our perceptions and make us feel good about this deal.
Instead, they stood up and said, Oh, yeah?
Well, we'll hurt you if you don't do what we want.
Americans don't respond well to threats.
I think they just killed any hope they ever had.
Uh depending on how widely reported the story gets, but I think it's too late.
It's it's too little too late anyway.
This story's deadline was obviously uh sometime late yesterday afternoon, and the House action was was uh was was going on at uh roughly the same time.
Uh as to your your your point about this massive PR effort, it's a good point that you make.
But I th I'm not I'm looking at I don't know these people, I'm not making excuses for them, but I think they're being told what to do by Bill Clinton.
And Bill Clinton to them is the guy in the inside, a former ex-president.
You want to get something done?
Go to somebody like him, go to Bob Dole.
And and Clinton said you do this 45-day extension, go out there and do this, show these people who you are.
I know you're good people, you've paid me 600 grand, maybe a million.
I love you.
I can know the American people love you, but you gotta get this deal done with people in Washington.
So I don't think they focused on a massive PR effort in the country.
I think they were doing what they were being advised to do uh by people who supposedly know how our political system works.
What they failed to get, what they failed understand was the level of opposition in the country among the people to the whole thing.
Well, I I would have given them better advice for half the price.
I wish I had the right phone number.
Isn't that the truth?
Uh uh any more, Donald, or you want to is there something.
That's right.
Uh I appreciate the call.
Um what a minute.
Well, wait, wait a minute.
Snurdley, if you want to talk on a program, go make go give me a call.
What is it you want to say?
What it just snurdy snerdley is saying um how are they supposed to react?
How would you feel?
How how how are you feel if you're the UAE and you would agree to a 45-day deal and then you got screwed on day six of it, and you hadn't even had a chance to make your case, how would you feel?
It I mean, it's it's understandable that they're mad about this.
They don't think they're terrorists.
They don't they they're there's they're and they're not, they are such a cut above from what you associate the Middle East to be.
I've been there.
They um I I'm telling you, if anybody let me you want to know the reason to fear the UAE.
If you want to fear these people, they could very well take over the they could end up buying everything in the next fifty years or hundred years.
That's the fear to have 'em.
These guys are on expansion program like you haven't seen.
And they've got oil money, they've got more money than you can shake a stick at.
Um if you want to have any fear about it, i i w th that that would be something that I would be a little bit more rational in accepting than this this terrorism threat that they supposedly pose.
I think that's absolutely bogus.
So how would they feel?
So they're they're branching out and reacting now.
Oh, yeah, you kill this deal and we're pulling our airline out of there, we're not gonna buy your jets, and there's a whole lot of other things.
We can sell our banks, we can sell our host.
Do we get the hell out of there?
Who knows if they'll follow through on it?
We're too big a market to do it.
But but uh Donald was right.
American people do not respond to uh threats like this.
But it's this is all academic, I think.
The House has just voted in the appropriations committee and they've they've done it in such a way that the the even if the president vetoes this, they've they're gonna overwrite it.
They've got the votes to overwrite it, they say they do.
And the Senate is gonna be the same thing.
They just uh they haven't moved as fast, but they're they're trying to, the Democrats, because they want to be the face of opposition on this.
Chuck in Portland, Oregon.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Ditto from the uh Pacific Northwest.
Thank you, sir.
Um the comment I wanted to make was that people need to look at this um at from a business model perspective.
I teach at the University of Portland in the uh graduate school of business, and I was trained at the University of Chicago, and what everybody is forgetting is the fact that the reason why the port of the Dubai people want to buy this port is for economic reasons.
They want to buy it because they're gonna improve it and make profit, and in and incidentally, it's gonna improve uh and make uh uh um capital flows more efficient worldwide, and everybody's gonna win.
Well, no, it's it's a d it's dead deal.
Well it appears I I uh if if you you're speaking hypothetically now, but I I agree with you.
Uh the the business side of it is is and it's it's not hard to learn it.
I mean it there have been plenty of people that's Well, and and you're looking what you're seeing now is the r uh the reciprocal effect of the economic arrangement when Dubai says, okay, I'm not gonna buy any more jets from you.
I mean, you see the the i it th they're they're buying it surely purely because of an economic perspective, and then you know, and that that's what people won't understand, won't get their arms around.
No, well, look, did you say you teach economics?
Yes.
Yeah, well, you know how woefully inept it is out there.
It it especially at high school.
Well, plus I'm in I'm in the Pacific Northwest.
They my daughter's going to the University of Oregon, and they um uh sh I was exc she was excited to tell me they were taking an economics class, and then I got the book through the University of Portland, and then the second chapter talked about three great economists, and one of them was Karl Marx.
I know.
And I went and I said she got a C on her midterm, and I I told her, I said, honey, I'd get a C on this midterm.
I don't even know what they're talking about.
Well, you know, I I haven't I haven't been in college since 1969, and when I was in college, I was only there for about two semesters.
Um but so I I'm always trying to educate myself.
I've learned a lot about uh uh like human geology and and um mental mapping uh ever since this skinhead professor out in Aurora, Colorado got in a tiss with this uh with the student.
And um I guess a lot of people are like I got an email from uh from a subscriber to my website and say, hey Rush, you know, I've I've been using my mental mapping abilities for years when it comes to the girls at spring break.
I think it's wrong the AMA is trying to stop me from exploring female human geography.
Keep keep up the uh keep up the great work.
People are used, they're taking what they're learning in these courses and they're you and employing them at places like uh Daytona Beach and other um spring break locales.
But it's back to the port deal and the and the economics of it.
I think it's um the as the guy said, it's the one area that has not been looked at, not been discussed.
And I don't even know.
Uh uh, to be honest with you, I Don't know how many of our esteemed members of Congress know the difference between a terminal and a port.
And I'm not sure that they even have the slightest idea what this is.
Uh Aaron in Columbus, Ohio.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Always an honor, Rush.
You do more for the greatness of this country than you will ever know.
Well, maybe.
Although I might know it.
I'm just kidding.
Thank you very much.
It's nice of you to say.
In regards to the ports deal, uh, if the GOP thinks they are going to benefit uh politically in November by chasing polls and trying to be like Democrats, they are sorely mistaken because what has gotten them elected is the 20% who strongly support George W. Bush, which I belong to, and it's the same 20% who support this uh ports deal.
And what is missing uh for us is a logical assessment of DP World and the real implications the deal would have on national security.
And we are hey, I gotta I gotta step in here because uh uh it th the the DPW, the Dubai Ports World has uh reacted to congressional action today, and they have just announced they're going to divest themselves of all American interests.
Dubai Port World, Dubai Port has just given us the middle finger.
They've just said, screw you guys.
And that really upsets us because now we're left wondering uh why should we uh contribute, write letters to our editors, put stickers on our cards, um, convince our friends to vote GOP or even vote for them ourselves.
We're we're disillusioned out here, Rush.
Uh one well one thing that I I I may have to disagree with you on here.
I understand the disillusionment I don't I don't think that the public opposition to this deal is as uh you've described it.
Uh the polls are anywhere from 65 to 78 percent.
I even saw one poll, I think 80 percent of the American people opposed to this.
I forget how the questions were raised, so I'm again I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but there's significant American opposition, and I think a lot of it is the Republican base.
And I think the evidence that a lot of it's the Republican base is because these guys in Washington are hearing from them, and that's what they're reacting to.
Uh or have reacted to.
They haven't bothered to learn the details.
They haven't bothered.
And by the way, as I said, the president didn't help here.
You know, the the there's been stupidity on both sides.
When the first red flags went up, the president didn't say, Oh, I understand your concerns.
Uh just found out about this myself.
Let's look into it.
I want to make sure that everybody understands how safe and secure this is going to be.
Instead, he said, You what?
Well, you do that and I'll veto it.
Well, in an election year and a you throw the gauntlet down in a separation of powers battle, which is what the president did.
The House Republicans and the Democrats are reacting just as every other legislative branch population has done.
Oh, yeah, we'll show you.
So they muster up enough votes to override any veto.
And uh and that's where we are.
The president also uh uh could he also said after this 45 days, we're still I'm still gonna veto.
I don't care what you do after 45 days.
So he he made it sound like the 45 days didn't matter to him at all.
Uh you know, he got very protective of his power of as the president to uh do things like this and got his back up when he was being challenged by these guys.
And so he provoked them from the outset, and I think that's part of what you know sent Peter uh King off uh the deep end.
Uh throw the gauntlet now to these guys rather than making them feel like they have a role.
You know, every member of the Senate thinks they should be president, every member of the House wants to matter.
We're all human beings.
We all want to matter.
And the president was in effect saying, you guys are a bunch of chumps here.
It doesn't matter what you do.
I'm doing this after 45 days or not.
And so they said, oh yeah, watch us.
And that's what's happening.
The meantime, we don't know what's in the i we don't even know what the port deal was.
45 days is not gonna happen.
DPW Dubai ports world is Sayonara.
They're going to sell the U.S. piece of a deal to inv to another nest uh investor.
And by the way, wait a minute.
Dubai port says it will sell U.S. piece of deal to another what U.S. piece of the deal.
This is news.
What U.S. piece of the I didn't think there was a U.S. piece of the deal.
Unless they're buying more ports around the world, and this is just a teeny part of a big deal, but the fact that the um the U.S. piece of the oh, I saw misunderstanding.
I'm reading this as though that there was a U.S. investor in the deal with the DPW.
And apparently okay, that's not what they're doing.
So they're they're gonna they're they're buying oh okay, they're buying a whole bunch of ports around the world and they're gonna pull out of this one.
Uh and they're not, and they're gonna divest themselves of as much as they can of their investments here in this country.
Be back a little long in this segment, so the next one's gonna be appreciably shorter.
Apologizing in advance, we have not added commercials.
Okay, we're back.
Boy, the news is flying out there.
Faster do we can keep up with it.
Supposedly the Dubai Ports World has divested itself or is announcing it will divest itself of all of its U.S. holdings.
I don't know what those are.
This is not the UAE announcing it.
This is just the company.
Dubai Ports World.
See, what they're they're buying a whole bunch of holdings from this this outfit in uh Great Britain.
They're buying a lot of ports, it's just the six that are part of this deal uh in this country, but there's a whole lot more.
They're pulling out of there.
Screw you to hell with it.
Now we got an opportunity here, folks.
You know me.
I always try to look at events, see what is the opportunity.
The opportunity is all right, everybody wants an American company to run these ports.
Take advantage of this.
Make a move, get Halliburton in there today.
Make a move and ram this right down Chuck Schumer's throat because he was asked about this on Fox.
Would you have any problem if the company were Halliburton?
I would much prefer Halliburton.
I've only had problem with Halliburton Iraq.
Contracts, sublets, blah, blah, blah, manifest manifolds, but I think Caliburton will fine.
Go get Halliburton.
Give Cheney a commission for engineering this whole deal.
The real question to me is what this guy's got on the phone here.
This is uh I'm sorry, uh, nice woman.
Pamela from Toledo, welcome to the uh program.
Nice to have you with us.
Super adoring ditto's rush.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Um I have a question about Bill Clinton.
Now let's say that this uh deal doesn't go down, at least here in the United States.
The UAE or whoever paid Bill Clinton big bucks for advice on how to get it through.
Do you think that this impacts his credibility as a consultant at all?
Hey, God, I it's a great, great question.
They've paid him.
Now, I don't know.
See, what what Clinton was trying to do in a day now, the 600 grand that he's been paid by the UAE was for speeches that he's made over there at uh at a university, 300 grand a pop for two speeches.
But he was also lobbying for the Dubai Ports World outfit to get this deal done.
Clinton came up with the idea for this 45 day waiting period.
It's blown up in their faces.
I don't know if he was paid anything.
He wasn't registered as an agent or a lobbyist, which he has to do, but he was paid for those speeches.
He was also attempting, according to the American spectator, we had this last week, he was also attempting to maneuver some friends, Madeline Albright and I think William Cohen into the deal after it was done.
And Vernon Jordan was said to have a role in it too.
Vernon Jordan, Madeline Albright, well, it's kaput now, and I don't know if those people are all eyeing a giant payday, a lucrative consultancy contract or whatever, but it's all gone up in smoke now.
It's poof, and Dubai understands it.
So they're they're waving goodbye, and they're saying, okay, we're these ports that we're gonna put hell with it.
We'll turn it over, we'll sell these to some other American company.
If there is one, that company is Halliburton.
Walmart could do it too.
They've shown a uh ability to manage and move large amounts of goods uh with security.
Uh and a good health care program for the employees.
They got it all.
Quick time out, folks, back with more in a moment.
You know, Newton said it, the old famous Newton's law for every action there is an opposite reaction.
Every action there's an opposite reaction.
Well, what's the opposite reaction?
What's the reaction to this gonna be?
The ports deal going down the tubes as far as the Dubai port world bunch is concerned.
Will it be safer ports?
I'm just throwing the questions out.
I don't think we know we got port security problem up in New York.
Truck drivers haven't passed the security programs, some of them are ex-cons.
Could have a terrorist act up there any time, apparently.
Yeah, you read all about it in the New York Times.
But that's okay because it's not Dubai.
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