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March 9, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 9, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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There are two things going on out there.
Actually, just one thing going on out there, and that is this.
John Warner announced on a floor of the Senate today that uh he'd uh he'd gotten a letter or note from the uh the the grand poo-baugh of the United Arab Emirates.
Apparently the uh the Sheikh over there has advised DPW to buy Port World.
Just get out of it.
Just get out of it.
Warner wants to do is set up a way they can sell the U.S. part of the deal that they're buying from the Brits and uh sell that to a separate entity.
Now the word American entity is not actually included, but that's of course what everybody is is hoping of what what entity that is.
But there are um apparently there's some action being taken by Republicans in the Senate to see to it that DPW is not harmed financially by this.
Uh no one to make enemies over all of this.
House Republicans may not be interested in this deal.
Uh they want to kill this and they may not care.
Uh if if you know, okay, it's up to the Brits to find somebody else to buy these ports.
Well, DPW's already bought them, that's the thing.
So, and anyway, that's that's uh that's where the the port deal is uh is essentially over.
Uh it has been killed, it's dead.
House Republicans did it to the chagrin of Democrats in the uh in the Senate.
They thought they were the face of things.
They thought they were the ones that should get the credit for, which is what this was all about in the first place.
Was who could be the first to say, I killed the port deal, I did it, I did it, look at me, notice me, I killed the port deal.
Because there was such an outcry out there.
So the Republicans uh did an end run in the house around the Democrats, and the Democrats are now trying.
What's funny to me about this?
There's a lot about this that's funny.
I I must tell you, I know a lot of you have been tired of Port Deal.
I love the port deal story.
I think there's so much wrapped up in the port deal story.
I've had more fun with the port deal story.
Learning about it.
I I'm gonna it's it's one of my proudest moments as host of this show.
I may be on the wrong side of the deal.
I don't well, we won't know now.
I could have been wrong about it, but I have I this is one of my shining career moments, is this port deal.
You don't know how I feel.
I mean, what uh you've got a mad tsunami of hysteria out there, not based on any thought.
I dared to look into it.
It's not so bad.
We can live with this.
This is pretty good.
I I I enjoy these moments.
And they're they well, you know, they don't happen uh by design.
They happen by quake to uh uh fur uh fate of quake of fur uh fate and circumstance.
And uh I've just I've even the name of it, the port deal.
It's it it's so wrong.
It's not about ports, it's about terminals.
The port deal.
Uh, it's just and it's you know, we've all been let me describe it this way.
This is the best way to describe it.
Peggy Noonan has, and let me find it.
Peggy Noonan has a column today in the Wall Street Journal about the uh about the Oscars.
But she has a paragraph in this piece that I want to read to you about George Clooney.
Because Peggy here is making a point that I have been trying to make recently about the media and how everybody gets caught up in the media, and whatever the media says becomes what people's lives are.
She chose to write about it this way.
The Clooney generation in Hollywood's not writing and directing movies about life as they've experienced it, with all its mysteries and complexity and a variety.
In an odd way, they haven't even experienced life.
They've experienced media.
Their films seem more an elaboration and meditation on media than an elaboration and meditation on life.
This is how he could take such an unnuanced, unsophisticated, unknowing gloss on the 1950s in the McCarthy era.
He just absorbed media about it.
And that media itself came from certain assumptions and understandings and myths.
Well, most Americans aren't leading media, they're leading lives.
It would be uh nice to see a new respect in Hollywood for the lives they live.
It'd be nice to see them start to understand that rediscovering the work of, say, C. S. Lewis and making a Narnia film is not giving in to the audience, but serving it.
It isn't bad to look for and present good material that's known to have a following.
It's smart thing to do.
It's why David O. Selznick bought Gone with the When.
People were reading it.
It was his decision to make it a movie from which he could profit.
That gave Hattie McDaniel her great role.
Taboos are broken by markets, not poses.
Well, the a couple of great lines in here.
Most Americans aren't leading media, they are leading lives.
And it would be nice to see a new respect in Hollywood for the lives that they live rather than taunting.
Forget about forget stuff about Hollywood here.
The fact is, this port deal was a drive-by shooting.
It was a media drive-by shooting.
They came in there and they hailed and lobbed a bunch of mortars, grenades, started firing bullets, and everybody was running for cover.
And and they've uh you know, made a huge mess out of things, and in the process nobody knows what happened.
But it's governed everybody's lives.
Everybody's been involved in this for the period of time we've been in it.
One of the things I'm happy about is that it hasn't uh the drive-by missed me.
I didn't get caught up in it.
The last thing I did, Dubai, port deal.
Screw that.
Hell no, Arabs, terrorists, turbans, not me, no way.
Uh, and and but everybody else was doing that.
Everybody else, there's some reasoned opposite, but the Democrats are the ones, they were the ones that were the just Oh, we've blown an opportunity to expose these people again as the frauds and the phonies that they are.
But that opportunity will present itself numerous times between now and the next election because it's the way it's the way they live.
So, yes, my friends, I'm gonna miss the port deal as a as a I am.
I'm I'm trying hard not to let it go now, but I have to.
Uh it's it's been a great story.
It was a great opportunity for learning and education.
We got to do a little bit of that here in the two weeks we in earnest spent on the port deal.
You people in this audience are more informed than I'd say 80% of the members in Congress that voted on this or will vote on this about what this deal actually was and what it wasn't.
And it was all because you too avoided the tsunami.
You avoided the media drive-by, and you are living your life, not living media.
A quick time out as we uh move on.
I have other things.
Oh, what other story here?
I better do this while I'm while I'm on the subject here.
This is from the New York Sun today.
The State Department.
State Department yesterday stressed the importance of plans to station at least ten new diplomats in Dubai to monitor the Tehran regime.
That's uh Iran, for those of you in real linda, and support Iran's pro-democracy movement.
The move was intended to assure arrested Congress of the Bush administration's commitment to containing the Iranian nuclear threat.
The sighting of the monitors in Dubai re-emphasize that the President and the State Department believe that the United Arab Emirates is a strong American ally in the war on terror at a time in a Dubai government facing hostilities over the port deal.
The uh Dubai monitors and the setting up of American radio and TV stations beaming into Iran would address a serious divergence between our capabilities and the profound challenges before us concerning Iran, said Nicholas Burns, the um under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
Bottom line is this, ladies and gentlemen.
We are going to send ten new diplomats to Dubai.
We're gonna set up apparently what sounds like versions of radio free Europe and TV free Europe, and we're gonna beam these signals into Iran to try to let the uh freedom fighters and freedom lovers there know that we support them.
Dubai, a willing partner, has just allowed the news to be made that these broadcast facilities will be in their country.
This is not gonna please old Mahmood, that wacko lunatic president of Iran, not going to make him happy at all.
So here's the UAE going out uh, you know, in the branching out with us in this war uh with that we're having this this dispute with uh with the Iranians, and the story also mentions that 345 lawmakers are in favor of using Dubai in this manner.
I just thought that I would 345 lawmakers have already indicated an excitement to support this legislation.
Uh and and this and this program.
Uh and uh so just thought that you you should know that.
Back uh in just a second.
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All right, here's what John Warner said.
Um he was on the floor of the Senate this afternoon, and he announced the DPW, the Dubai Ports World uh move because he was uh contacted by the chief operating officer of DP World, a man by the name of Edward Mohammed Bilke.
I'm just kidding, there's no Muhammad in it.
Here's here's Warner.
I've just been contacted by Edward Bilke, Chief Operating Officer of DP World, and in an effort to get this message to all interested parties as quickly as possible.
I indicated a willingness to read a press release that is now being issued by DP World and Edward Milkey.
It reads as follows Because of the strong relationship between the United Arab Emirates and the United States, and to preserve that relationship, DP World has decided to transfer fully the U.S. operation of PO ports North America to a United States entity.
This decision is based on an understanding that DP World will have time to effect the transfer in an orderly fashion, and the DP World will not suffer economic loss.
We look forward to working with the Department of Treasury to implement this decision in statement.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of UAE, has advised the company that in the interest of the UAE, the nation, and the United States, that this action is the appropriate course to take in the future.
Okay, so that that was uh he actually read the statement that uh the CEO sent him, and they called over at uh DP World, a call over at Dubai place.
You got anything to add?
Nope.
Senator Redar's statement.
That's all we have to say right now.
We have nothing else to add.
So um we'll see where this see where this goes.
It's just it's just this whole thing, folks.
There's there's there's a there's a way to describe this.
There is a word to describe this.
It's just been disgrace.
This whole thing has been an it is it has been an embarrassing thing as an American for me to uh watch the way all this is transpired.
Anyway, Holly in Los Angeles, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Russ.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yeah.
Um, it's it's just occurring to me um two things.
The ramific I'm wondering what your thoughts are on what the ramifications are going to be beyond Dubai and the other near Arab countries.
I don't care because now the Democrats worried about they're they're on the board.
Chuck Schumer cares about national security, so I feel safe now.
Whatever the UAE does to retaliate, I am not concerned.
Well, it's just gonna cause more American hatred.
And also, how does Bush um salvage relationships with them with Dubai?
I mean with the UAE.
Bush won't have any problem salvaging relationship.
Bush is the one guy that tried this.
Bush and Clinton, Clinton's got the big problem.
Clinton's a guy that greased this and wasn't able to make it happen.
Um he did.
He did.
I I don't think Bush is gonna be in problem with it, but that's not Bush.
What's Bush gonna do to heal this whiff with a Republican?
You know, I'm telling you something.
Bush is going to be needed for these elections coming up this year.
Bush is still the biggest fundraiser these clowns in Congress have, and they're gonna be you watch, they're gonna be knocking on a door, they're gonna be asking to fly on Air Force One with him when he goes back to their state, and they're gonna be asking him to do fundraisers for him.
Uh and they're they're gonna have to put this rift back together politically because Bush still has two years of his presidency after this two and a half years, and I guarantee you he still has an agenda.
And he wants a Republican Congress, although it isn't been doing him much good lately.
Uh he wants a republic he certainly doesn't want the House led by Nancy Pelosi.
Uh after after next November.
Jennifer in Mesa, Arizona.
Hi, welcome to the program.
Hi, Russ.
It's great to talk to you.
Um what I wanted to say is that I think that the next time anybody uh attributes to you the ability to exert monolithic control over the will of the United States, and uh, you know, to get people to follow along with you as mind numbed robots, they should look at this example because you've been gung ho a hundred percent for this in the very beginning, and you had no power to stop this.
Nope, that's true.
You've often said that the people of this country get exactly what they want.
They do.
And regardless of you, obviously.
When they make themselves heard, the people of this country get what they want.
Nine out of ten times, seven out of ten times.
And that's that's that's why our system works.
Uh you don't always win elections.
Sometimes you don't get what you want, but but uh when you make yourselves heard, as as happened in this case, uh with with members of uh of Congress.
But uh, you know, uh the the mind numbed robot uh uh allegation about you, the audience, the Pied Piper allegation about me, that has been made from the get-go, and it will continue to be made.
Remember, there's a just like when I become a news story, there's an action line for me being in the news, and it's it's always it's it's never gonna change accuracy and me in terms of how I'm reported on is never ever going to happen.
I stopped caring about that uh long time ago.
Uh you know, but I I didn't weigh in at the very beginning of this.
You know, what I was uh I didn't I didn't have a fair playing field out there.
When I started weighing in on this, eighty percent of people had their minds made up.
And my task, my task, if I if if you were to look at it in the context of your call, Jennifer, my task was to go out there and change the minds of eighty percent of the American people.
Uh the the real challenge uh that's not that's not f feasible and possible uh on an emotional issue like this.
I wasn't emotional.
They were.
Everybody was emotional.
I don't argue a motion.
I don't I really don't.
Uh not on a not on a deal like this.
And so I think obviously um it was it it got it got dicey for the Republicans in Congress because Peter King was out there ripping me, blaming me for some of the lack of enthusiasm to oppose the deal.
Apparently there was enough persuasion going on from behind this, the golden EIB microphone that it'll that it alarmed Peter King, and he had to go all over television to uh counter the effects of me and this program.
I didn't go all over television.
I went home and lived my life when this program was over.
Here's Bob in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
Bob, welcome to the program.
Well, hey, thanks for having me.
I'll tell you what.
I came through my door wall this morning after a brief shopping spree, and I was watching C-SPAN, and you made reference to somebody that had made.
And Congressman David Obe was on there and he made the comment.
Most of us in the House have not heard or hadn't heard that the Chinese committee or uh the Chinese communists had taken a port over in California.
It's like I hit myself with the palm of my hand in the middle of my forehead, and I said, Where were you years ago?
What is going on?
I heard it.
It was on all the cable networks, it was on the networks.
Where are you people?
Well, that's what Obi said.
We haven't we haven't actually done a poll to find out how many members of Congress don't know that the SHICOMs have extensive holdings on our left coast ports.
But if Obi is out there saying We didn't know it.
Obi's mental mapping may be off.
He may need to is is his uh human geography may be failing him here.
He this may just be the result of bias.
Uh, but if he is still he said it, I I will just on uh the it's an anecdotal story, but I will tell you this.
I wouldn't be surprised.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are a significant number of members of Congress who do not know.
Not only that it's the Chicoms who own extensive port operations, terminal operations on the left coast, that they own both the Pacific and Atlantic entrances to the Panama Canal.
I don't know how many people know that.
I don't know.
Well, one thing I'm not going to do is rehash all this because it's a done deal.
Dubai ports is pulling pulling up stakes, pulling up anchor.
Uh, going to sail the seven C is heading out somewhere else, and we got to find a new entity here to make the ports better and secure because they're the best in the world at it.
I don't know what we're gonna do.
I really hope that the entity that buys what the Dubai Ports World uh outfit is selling is a sortie firm.
I really do.
I hope the Saudis buy it, and I want to see Chuck Schumer defending them.
I want to say Chuck.
I do.
Uh I I just this is not over.
Mark my words.
This is not over.
The deal is, but the ramifications have an art.
All right, look.
There's other stuff out there, folks, and I I want to get some of these things in before we have to go.
This is an amazing story here in the uh in the New York Times.
Uh, you know how unions are asking for give backs?
Or uh companies, General Motors Fact, General Motors is is uh is is is is working with Delphi to with their UA UAW contract, and they're asking for 60% salary reductions.
These guys at Delphi get 65 bucks an hour.
65 bucks an hour.
And so Delphi is we can't stay a business.
We have pension funds is way too much, so we want give backs.
We're doing this and that.
Uh and they even want to get rid of some of the employees there to lay off the employees and fire them.
They're gonna offer them lump sums, payments 25 or $50,000.
And this is happening throughout much of the unionized industries in this country.
It has been for a while, right?
All right.
Now, my friends, it's even happening in the welfare state.
I kid you not, the New York City Housing Authority, landlord to more than 400,000 poor New Yorkers, is facing a budget shortfall of 168 million dollars.
They have proposed narrowing that gap by charging poor residents new fees and increasing old ones for everything from owning a dishwasher to getting a toilet unclogged.
The authority says its operating deficit stems from enormous increases in energy and pension costs, while its federal financing for public housing has been cut.
Since 2001, the agency says it has spent 357 million dollars from its reserves to close repeated budget gaps.
This year, for the first time, it no longer has enough reserves to cover the shortfall of 168 million dollars.
So here's what they've done.
They propose charging tenants five dollars seventy-five cents a month to run a washing machine, five dollars a month to operate a dishwasher, ten dollars a month for a separate freezer, parking fees.
Parking fees.
Parking fees will rise uh to $75 from $5 a year, so it's $70 increase on April 1st.
The Housing Authority Board has asked its senior staff to come up with a plan to balance the budget while preserving basic services, minimizing the impact on the most vulnerable residents, and finding what the board called creative ways to streamline service delivery.
I have an idea.
Not everybody uh of these 400,000 is equal in uh economic circumstance.
They're all poor, but at the time you're gonna have some wealthy poor against some really poor poor.
Tax the wealthy poor.
Tax the wealthy poor.
That'll help close the in that how it always works.
Raise taxes.
That's how you close budget deficits.
These are Democrats, these are liberals, the New York City Housing Authority.
What is this?
$575 a month to run a washing machine.
The poor have washing machines, five months, uh dollars a month to operate a dish, the poor have dishwashers, ten dollars a month for a separate freezer, the poor have a dishwasher and a freezer, and they got a car, they got a garage, and they have a washing machine.
Parking spaces.
They got parking spaces in New York, yes.
They've got five dollars a year right now, they're gonna cause $75 a year.
You can't get a you can't $75 a day in Manhattan, a decent location.
So anyway, what's happening here is that even the New York City housing authority is asking for give backs.
New York asks help from poor in housing crisis is the headline of this story.
New York City asks help from poor.
Oh, folks, if the port story wasn't all over the news today, there would a fur would be flying over this.
All right.
These next two stories, juxtaposed against each other, are classic.
In Phoenix.
Governor out there, Janet Napolitano, yesterday ordered more National Guardsmen posted at the Mexican border to help stop illegal immigrants and curb related crimes.
Financial Times had a story yesterday.
500,000 illegals come in the country a year.
Maybe it was less than a year.
National Guard troops have worked at the border since 1988, but Napolitano signed an order authorizing commanders to station an unspecified number of additional soldiers there to help federal agents.
Once the funding is approved, a trip, the troops will monitor crossing points, assist with cargo inspection, operate surveillance cameras.
They're not there to militarize the border, the governor said.
We're not at war with Mexico.
Yes, we are.
About 170 National Guardsmen are already posted at the nation's busiest illegal entry point.
All right, so that a Democrat female governor.
Arizona putting more guardsmen on the border.
Meanwhile, in Washington, Senator Hillary Rodham Rodham, a potential White House candidate in 2008, said Wednesday that some Republicans are trying to create a police state to round up illegal immigrants.
Clinton, a Democrat from New York, spoke out on the U.S. immigration policy after largely staying away from an issue that has roiled Congress in recent months and spurred a number of conflicting proposals.
Don't turn your backs on what Don't turn your back for what made this country great, she said, calling the measure a rebuke to what America stands for.
Senator also sent a four-page public letter to constituents outlining her views on immigration, and in that letter, she shied away from specifics, said she does support allowing at least some of the estimated 11 million undocumented workers to earn citizenship.
Such changes should include a path to earned citizenship for those who are here working hard paying taxes, respecting the law, and voting democrats.
No, and willing to meet a high bar for becoming a citizen.
So while a governor on the line down in Arizona understands what's going on, Hillary is accusing, I guess, her own party governor out in uh Arizona of creating a police state.
No, she's uh she's playing the fear card.
Oh, once again, by the way, there's a poll.
What is this?
AP.
I'll have to find it, but Hillary reminds me, there's a there's a poll out of New Yorkers.
And they all say that they'll vote for her re-election to the Senate, but they don't think she can win the presidency, and that they won't vote for her.
I'm thinking, how can you now imagine that?
Here you have these New York voters, and folks, if you have any doubt, they are the most sophisticated among us.
And they can't wait to re-elect Mrs. Clinton to the Senate, but they won't vote for her for the presidency.
So they say in this in this poll, and it's a huge number, like 60%, say she can't win and they won't vote for her.
Quick timeout, we'll be back much more straight ahead after this.
This is unbelievable.
No, it's not because I predicted it.
Right now, as we speak, this instant, Dingy Harry flanked by the lout, Frank Lautenberg and uh I guess that's uh Schumer.
Eva Eminendez, Robert Menendez in New Jersey.
Dingy Harry at this moment is demanding an up or down vote in the Senate on the port deal.
Even though DPW has pulled out, said anchors away, my friends, they're sailing off to the sunset.
They're gonna sell their U.S. part of the interest of this deal to somebody else.
Dingy Harry is demanding an up or down vote.
And the the the AP just the AP has just gone over the edge.
Listen to this slug as they report the story.
Senate has voted to ignore its Republican leaders and clear the way for a vote on blocking a Dubai owned company's U.S. ports deal.
Dingy Harry, it's too late.
The deal was killed by the Republicans in the House yesterday, and nothing you can do will convince the American people that you and your chumps in the Senate Democrats did it.
You can go out and try to make Schumer the face of opposition, but you're a day late.
The Republicans in the House killed this deal yesterday before you even got your amendment offered.
So exactly what I said to you at the top of the program.
That this was really all about who can get to the finish line first.
I stopped the port deal.
I did, I did it, I did it, I did it, I want the credit.
I'm the great American, I care about national security, and I don't like those people, and I saved you.
Well, uh the Republicans got the finish line first, and Dingy Harry is still he's out there.
He's just is he's he's just he's just he's trying to make people think that it's still relevant.
Meanwhile, both networks CNN and Fox were covering Dingy Harry's press conference.
They just bumped out of it to go to the White House where Bush is signing the extension of the Patriot Act.
So Dingy Harry trying to get his his his his day in the sun for Chuck Sh.
In fact, it was right when they cut the Schumer.
It was right when Dingy Harry introduced Schumer, the networks bumped out of that and have gone to Bush now as he's signing the Patriot Act in Washington.
Oh I'll tell you what, there's a there's a there's a I knew there'd be some ancillary upsides to this port deal going south, and today is a big one.
The Democrats have once again opened the door, flat smack dab into their nose.
All right.
Well, let's see.
By the way, uh predicted this.
This is from Tennessee.
State Senator Tim Birchett Burchett has introduced legislation to ensure that Walmart provides health insurance to its employees.
His bill requires folks that held over 10,000 employees to provide some health care for their employees.
The 10,000 benchmark makes the bill apply apply primarily to Walmart.
Told you this is starting.
All right, the Today Show today uh decided to explore what we were on uh yesterday, the case.
That was uh girls going wild, girls going down spring break, girls being warned by the AMA, hey, you go down there, your mate drink too much, uh, may have too much sex, uh party too many.
It's not good, it's not healthy.
We discussed all that yesterday.
We didn't need a psychiatrist, we didn't need a psychologist, we didn't need a doctor.
We discussed it among ourselves.
But the Today Show can't do that, so they had to go out and find a uh uh psychologist, uh, Sari Locker, author of the book.
Sarry says the real dirt on everything from sex to school.
So Katie Currick says, you know, to hear these statistics, I have to tell you I have a teenage daughter.
She's not at the spring break age, but it's terrifying to me.
What do you think the core reason for the drinking, the unprotected sex, the sort of crazy behavior is?
I mean, it's r it's really not that new, is it?
Girls who want to go to spring break really want to be part of this decades-old tradition of this partying hard during this week of vacation.
And I think that the images from the O.C. from MTV Spring Break and from the Girls Gone Wild commercials encourage them because the girls grow up in this culture where they think mistakenly that raunchiness is cool.
And that's something that we need to start to take responsibility in the media to try to change it and tell them these are not cool images.
Yes, yes, yes, as we found a valley girl guest here, and that's something we need to start to take responsibility in the media to try to change and tell them that these are not cool images.
So Katie says, Well, how can we stop this?
How can we stop this?
They don't have to be going to these wild spring break parties.
Parents are allowed to forbid their college students from going to spring break parties.
I guess that never occurred to Katie.
I guess it never occurred that parents.
Of course, note the language.
Parents are allowed.
Uh to who gives parents the permission?
The kids.
Parents are allowed to forbid their college students from going to spring break parties.
So um anyway, it was unprotected sex that was the concern, Katie, not not uh underage sex.
Uh the the warning was not intended for your little girl yet.
And besides, if you're waiting for a warning, uh Vincent Cleveland, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the uh program.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Uh the reason that I'm calling is uh you've been so far out in front on this ports deal.
And uh, I think what you said about Harry Reid just a minute ago points it up.
I mean, he's still dealing with yesterday's news.
Uh the president has moved on.
This ports deal, uh it's dead.
And whether it was good or bad, and I think it was neutral kind of but uh it's it's a tempest in a teapot, and it's yesterday's news.
And uh the deal with India that President Bush negotiated is so much bigger.
It's infinitely it's huge.
Uh it's one of the biggest agreements in my lifetime.
It took Russia out of the uh equation with Iran as far as selling nuclear material.
Uh, they're gonna deal with India, and they're gonna do it the right way above board.
And I think Bush is in great political shape, but the Republicans in the House and Senate really aren't.
Uh they've compromised some of their principles by not backing President Bush on things like uh the delay in getting uh the seats on the Supreme Court for Alito and Roberts.
Uh you know, the things that uh we control the Senate, the House, and the presidency.
And imagine uh if President Bush uh what difference would it make if uh if there was a shift, uh he'd still have to deal with an antagonistic Senate and Congress.
And I think you were way out ahead.
Nobody else was out there with you.
It's lonely at the top, brother.
Well, I appreciate it.
You're very nice.
You've made you made my day along with a whole lot of other people.
You're right, you're dead on right about the deal, the nuclear deal with India.
Couldn't believe Kofi Annan complaining about it because it showed a double standard.
We don't deal with our enemies like you do, Kofi.
We don't cozy up to them, make and and and and and you know, give them things that could turn around and kill us with.
We do that with our friends because we know they're not going to use them to kill us.
We're developing allies.
I think Bush on that trip last had a great trip.
Unfortunately, the drive-by media didn't care.
Drive by media, there were there was no there was no reason to, you know, lob a hail of bullets into those things that happened last week.
The port deal is one of these visceral emotional things that had people all wired up.
And uh and so the the Republicans in the Congress are feeling their oats right now.
Um the Indian nuclear deal, the deal with India regarding nukes, that's something that the historians who will go back and look at this administration, analyze it, economic numbers, tax rates, all these win when the historical data is in, when this administration served its time, uh, that's when all these accomplishments will actually be put into perspective.
Uh that won't happen now.
But that's another reason why we're on the cutting edge, because if you listen to this program, you don't have to wait for the historians.
We are writing the history today.
We'll be back in a second.
He's in great say just had the Patriot Act signing ceremony to White House.
There's Peter King sidling up maneuvering.
Congressman Long Island killed a ports deal, doing his best to stand right behind Bush with his hands on his shoulders while he's signing the Patriot Act extension.
When it was over, Bush shook everybody's hand but Peter Cates.
We'll see you tomorrow, folks.
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