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March 13, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 13, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Say, folks, have you seen this headline on Drudge?
Human Services, Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Levitt is recommending, it's because of the bird flu, recommending an American start storing canned tuna and powdered milk under their beds.
Well, I don't know where he's been.
I've been doing this since the Y2K scare.
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I told you.
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Congress will closely watch a Dubai-owned company to be sure that it transfers its U.S. port operations to an American company, said Senator Bill Frist yesterday.
But, but, but Frist acknowledged that if an American buyer is not found and the Bush administration determines that there are no security risks, a deal for DP World to manage and operate the porch can still go through.
If everything that the president of the administration has said, and that is that there is absolutely no threatening or jeopardy to our security and safety of the American people, I don't see how the deal would have to be canceled.
What about all the hysteria last week?
And then there's this.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is from Bloomberg News.
A group representing U.S. companies in the United Arab Emirates said that it's going to invite OPRA and other talk shows to the Gulf to alter American public opinion, which helped block the porch deal.
The American business group of Abu Dhabi, which has more than 500 members, including Boeing and ExxonMobil, wants Oprah to host a show from the Persian Gulf Shakedom as it seeks to convince Americans the country is not a threat to national security.
This is from Kevin Massengill, a board member of the group, in a phone interview yesterday from Abu Dhabi.
He said, we want to reach out to the average guy in the U.S. and explain why the United Arab Emirates is important.
So there you have it.
It's not over yet.
And we're going to get to Russ Feingold and his censure movement against the president John Conyers and his impeachment movement.
I predicted, I've been predicting to you since the 2000 election, they're going to impeach the guy.
I predicted if they lost the presidential race in 2004, I predicted to you they're going to try to impeach.
And this is not something to be taken lightly.
Feingold is a weighty and powerful senator.
He's a lightweight, in our judgment, intellectually, ideologically, in terms of his power in the Senate.
Believe me, folks, what you're seeing here is exactly what I've always told you.
The Democrats have this knack that they just cannot contain themselves.
They cannot contain their radicalism and their tendencies to go over the cliff.
And they think the president is the port deal, they think they beat him badly on that.
They're all just a little disappointed it's still going on.
They're disappointed that the port deal is not front page news anymore.
But they still think his poll numbers combined with the defeat of the port deal means that he's as weak as he can be.
And this is the time for them to be who they really am.
They really are.
And that's what they're doing.
It's actually a gift to us, ladies and gentlemen, because the camouflage is dropping away.
The masks are being removed from the faces.
We're finding out just who these people are.
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Quick time out, back with Russ Feingold and his censure movement and the political ramifications.
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I'm going to talk about McCain and that straw poll.
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All right, a Liberal Democrat and a potential White House contender proposing censuring President Bush for authorizing domestic eavesdropping, saying the White House misled Americans about its legality.
The president has broken the law, and in some ways he must be held accountable.
Feingold was on this week with George Stephanopoulos yesterday, and Stephy said tomorrow in the Senate, you're going to introduce a resolution to censure George W. Bush.
Let me show that to our viewers.
It says, resolved that the United States Senate does hereby censure George W. Bush president and does condemn his unlawful authorization of wiretaps of Americans.
A big step.
Why are you taking it now?
It's an unusual step.
It's a big step.
But what the president did by consciously and intentionally violating the Constitution, the laws of this country with this illegal wiretapping has to be answered.
There can be debate about whether the law should be changed.
There can be debate about how best to fight terrorism.
We all believe that there should be wiretapping in appropriate cases.
But the idea that the president can just make up a law in violation of his oath of office has to be answered.
Don't think that has happened.
They continue to miscast this as domestic surveillance, and that's not what this is.
So, Stephanopoulos says, so if you're so convinced, if you're so convinced, if you're so convinced, oh gosh, this is so exciting, if you're so convinced that the president has broken the law, why not just file an article of impeachment?
Well, you know, that's an option that we could look at if somebody thought that was a really good idea.
There are other options out there.
In fact, this conduct is right in the strike zone, even though I'm the founding fathers.
They didn't have strike zones.
They didn't have baseball.
But this is right in the strike zone of the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Okay, so the impeachment signs being taken care of by John Conyers, because articles of impeachment have to start out there anyway.
They start in the House Judiciary Committee and they appoint managers and they debate it and they vote on it.
And I told you, I predicted, ladies and gentlemen, every bit of this, and I've been doing so since the 2000 election was over.
I know you think that they are reacting as though they feel a victory here.
And I think it's the exact opposite.
I think they feel defeated.
I think they thought the port deal would go on and on and on.
And they're back to impeachment now because the port deal is over.
They're trying to revive the NSA scandal.
They didn't care about that once the port deal had come up.
And so they're toadies in the drive-by meteor following along wherever they go here.
But either way, this is going to end up being a rallying call for our side.
Because if they take the House, if Democrats win the House, they will do this.
They will start impeachment hearings if for no other reason than to get even for the terrible injustices done to William Jefferson Bloth Clinton.
Now we got this fine gold bite.
Stephanopoulos says, well, I'm not sure the president would not see it as a harsh approach.
I'm not sure he's going to come out and apologize, but in fact, I'm pretty sure he won't do that.
What I'm mentioning is my colleagues acknowledging that we as a Congress have to stand up to a president who acts as if the Bill of Rights and the Constitution were repealed on September 11th.
We didn't enact martial law on September 11th.
We still have a constitutional form of government.
And if the Congress of the United States does not stand up for that authority at this point, it will be an historic failure of ours.
You are the only.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
You know, can I take you back last week and the last three weeks?
The last three weeks, the Democrats were excited because they'd gotten to the right of George W. Bush on what?
National security.
They finally found the issue where they could convince the American people that they too see an enemy.
And that enemy was the United Arab Emirates.
And so the port deal went down to a stinging, humiliating end.
The Democrats, in less than two days, are now back to the NSA scandal as though we don't have a national security problem.
They've taken care of it by icing the sheikhs from Dubai.
So now we no longer have an enemy.
We got rid of the enemy.
I told you this was going to be the case.
I said, just if these guys are this serious about national security, then let's make them answer.
And Feingold has.
This is such a gift.
This is such a gift.
Feingold's answered without even being asked.
I said, let's ask them.
Okay, will you allow provisions of the Patriot Act to help ensure that no infiltration occurs at the porch, no matter who owns these things?
Because it's so risky there.
Will you allow continued support or permit continued support for the president's national security agency foreign intelligence surveillance?
Will you do it?
Well, Feingold's just said, no, no, we're not going to do that.
He's just said, we don't care about national security.
We don't give one diddly squat about it.
Port deal.
I'm telling you again, it was not about national security.
But the Democrats wanted you to think that they thought it was, but they have now, in less than two days.
I'll make it three.
No, because it happened yesterday, two days, less than two days.
They have done exactly what I knew they would do.
They've gotten cocky.
They've gotten confident.
At the same time, feeling a little bit disappointed the port deal ended so quickly.
So they got to go back to this impeachment thing.
But in the process, they are demonstrating how national security is just something they can pretend to care about when necessary and disregard it when it's no longer needed.
But here's the kicker.
This is the kicker from Feingold yesterday on this week with Stephanopoulos.
Stephanopoulos said, Are you really positive that this is going to make any difference in our national security?
The administration pointed out again and again and again, the security at the ports is going to be done by customs, going to be done to the Coast Guard.
Wasn't this just the Democrats and some Republicans playing politics?
You know, I'm not certain it's going to make a difference, but we have to err on the side of safety when it comes to this kind of an issue.
We have to make sure that we do everything we can, and that means not just sort of opening up every kind of port deal to the free market.
It'd be nice if we could do that, but it's too dangerous.
So we do have to consider our national security in these situations.
And I think it's a good point of caution that the president, I think, would even admit was not the finest hour of his administration.
All right, so here's the kicker.
We hear from Feingold we have to err on the side of safety, the side of caution when it comes to the ports, but not when it comes to eavesdropping on al-Qaeda and terrorist suspects.
Now, we don't want to make any errors there.
We're going to err on the side of it.
He just admitted.
He just admitted, I'm not certain it's going to make any difference in security, whether DPW runs the ports or somebody else does.
Now, as I said earlier in this half hour, the liberalism in the modern Democratic Party cannot sustain, or I'm sorry, contain its radicalism and its tendencies to go over to Cliff, folks.
Now, you got Feingold in his censure movement.
You got John Conyers trying to push legislation to call on Congress to determine whether there are grounds for impeachment of the president and this business, and also Feingold censure, because all it's about, they're mad at Bush because he wants to intercept calls made to or received from al-Qaeda.
And this is a classic illustration of what I have been warning you people about regarding these liberal Democrats for the longest time.
Every time the president goes down in the polls, they see a wide open door, huge opening, and they end up telling us who they really are.
What they reveal is the kind of thing that will strike mainstream America as nutty and reckless.
Mainstream press will not categorize it that way, but the mainstream American population will see it that way.
This is, and you might have heard some Democrats saying that to media people yesterday on television saying, this is a great effort to keep heat on the White House.
Wrong.
What it does is elevate an issue that works in our favor, the NSA debate.
I mean, that polls dramatically favorably for the president among the American people.
Once again, the Democrats portray themselves here as some oddball lunatic fringe movement that has more in common with Ramsey Clark and Saddam Hussein and George McGovern than it does with the average American in a post-9-11 world.
Quick time out.
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So the liberals and Democrats think that this censure movement is going to keep heat on the White House.
And we have a couple sound bites.
Let's go to this week with George Stephanopoulos.
This is during the roundtable discussion.
George Will, Donna Brazil, Claire Shipman, and Jay Carney of Time Magazine.
They're discussing Feingold's censure movement here.
George Will says, if I were Frist, I'd bring it to a vote.
I let the Democrats stand up to this.
And Jay Carney says.
I don't think there's a great harm here for Democrats, not because they get to talk about national security, but because it won't go anywhere particularly.
But it is something that reminds the base, which is a little mystified about where the party's headed, that they don't like what George W. Bush did on a specific issue.
Now, how worthwhile is that?
You know, these people are not even focused on winning.
They just want people to know they're mad.
So here's Jay Carney.
Oh, no, it'll keep heat.
This is, you know, it's not going to do any great harm for Democrats.
Jay, who, by the way, is the husband of Claire Shipman, who was always also on the roundtable.
You didn't know that?
Yeah.
Claire Shipman and Jay Carney are a slave owner and husband.
And, well, husband and wife, if you prefer that.
And slave master.
I take it back.
Slave master.
I didn't mean slave owner.
Slave master and wife.
A husband.
You got me off track here.
I was in the middle of a brilliant point, capable only of being made by me on this program, particularly on a Monday.
But he thinks it's going to be good for the Democrats because they get to talk about, not because they get to talk about national security, but because it won't go anywhere politically.
No great harm.
There is big harm in this because it's unmasking them again.
They just, you know, when you, when you, have you noticed, and I've argued over the years, Democrats and liberals only win when they pretend to be conservatives.
But that's not where their hearts and that's not where their passions are.
It's why they're liberals.
At the end of the day, they unmask themselves.
The angrier they get, the more enraged they get, the more the truth comes out of their mouths.
And when it does, that's when they suffer at the ballot box.
I give you an example, just many, but the best one is the Wellstone Memorial.
It's why conservatism is the dominant movement in America, despite, you know, we're not always unified and on track, but at least it's our principles that guide us, not our lies and not our deceptions.
So here they're out there.
Now what they want to do is demonstrate to the base.
And the base can be made.
Oh, yeah.
Remember how the base was happy when Harry Reid pulled that stunt in the Senate to shut it down basically?
It's about time they said we had a Democrat with a spine in there.
Feingold's running for president.
He's running for the nomination.
He's appealing to the base.
He knows this isn't going to go anywhere.
And his damn buddies out there know it's not going to go anywhere.
The only way it's going to go anywhere is if the House is won by the Democrats in November.
The impeachment I'm talking about, impeachment, this censure business.
George Will's right.
Okay, propose it.
And let's see the Democrats stand up for it.
Donna Brazil pretty much agrees.
She says that the move here by Feingold will help the Democrats find their voice.
They said that about six years about Bill Clinton.
He just hadn't found his voice yet.
Needs to find his voice.
The folly of that is, I guess the Democrats still think they need to prove that they hate Bush so that their base doesn't abandon them.
Well, look, I believe that it's important that the establishment inside the Beltway Democrats find their voice and know what they're standing up for and begin to address some of the concerns that the activists are raising about what's taking place in Washington, D.C.
I want to tell you folks, what these people are giving us is a gift.
And the reason is, is because it exactly, precisely reveals what their true mindset is.
I remind you again, the aftermath of the port deal, well, throughout the whole port deal, the Democrats were portraying themselves as strong on national security.
And they were doing that falsely.
That wasn't about national security at all.
Now, now that that issue is over with, no reason for national security.
Now we've got to go after the spy program.
We've got to go after all these other things.
We've got to impeach Bush.
We've got to censure Bush.
Think of the message this is sending to the enemies.
Imagine if this were going the other way around.
Imagine if on Al Jazeera, a bunch of al-Qaeda leaders are standing up and talking about what a Laos bin Laden was, what a failure bin Laden was, what a goofball he was, how he's taking us down the wrong path, and somebody needs to find bin Laden and behead him.
What do you think the American people's reaction would be?
We're winning.
Oh, we would be excited if we saw dissension in the ranks at Al-Qaeda.
Well, what do you think this is doing to these people?
It's making them feel happy as they can be.
They've got to be sitting over there in the caves wherever they are and laughing themselves silly and applauding the Democrats who unwittingly always end up choosing the sides of tyrants, dictators, thugs.
Just it's predictable.
Now to the phones, who wants to weigh in?
Ah, here we go, Canton, Ohio.
John, you're up first today.
It's great to have you on the program.
Good to talk to you, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah, I find it rather ironic that the senator who restricted our First Amendment rights with his campaign finance reform legislation wants to censure the president who failed to veto that garbage piece of legislation about this issue.
Excellent point.
That is a fabulous point.
This is a guy working with Senator McCain that just chopped up the First Amendment, and he's out there talking about the president has just torn into the Bill of Rights with the spy program.
Excellent point out there, John.
Thank you.
And I'll tell you, see, this is what I mean.
People are going to figure this out.
The Democrats still think they're dealing with a population that's informed only by the drive-by media.
They just can't.
I'll give you an example.
Our old buddy Evan Thomas, who's one of the most arrogant, condescending elitists in Washington.
He's at Newsweek.
He's in management.
Well, he actually writes at Newsweek, too.
I think the combined labor and management over there.
He's the guy who said during the 2004 presidential campaign, the mainstream media, the drive-by media was worth 15 points to John Kerry.
Remember that?
Well, he was on a local Washington, D.C. political chat show.
I think they have to bring a couple of those commentators out of the cemetery and open the coffin.
I mean, it's that old a show, and it's that the guests are.
And Evan Thomas was asked about the port deal.
And I don't have the story right in front of me, but I can paraphrase it.
And it'll give you an indication of what I have always known.
He said something to the effect, oh, this port deal, it was perfect for talk radio because the idiots out there could understand it.
It was bumper sticker simple.
It was easy to demagogue.
The idiots, meaning the American people, could understand it.
He said, I'm for the port deal, but it was so easy to demagogue.
So condescension, arrogance, part of liberalism.
He's looking out at you and the audience of talk radio as a bunch of boobs, as a bunch of idiots.
You just don't have the sophistication, the education, the abilities, the knowledge to understand these intricate, important issues and so forth.
This is a guy who helped write the piece that Bush is in the bubble in the White House and has no clue what's going on in America.
Well, this last call from John and Canton proves just who it is that's out of touch.
Evan Thomas has no clue that anybody could figure this out.
He doesn't even think of it.
It wouldn't even strike him.
So you are still viewed, folks.
I want you to understand the people in the mainstream press, the drive-by media.
I think Evan Thomas is just an example of all of them.
Look at you as rubes.
You're just idiots.
You are talk radio, mind-numbed robots.
You're hicks.
And it was demagogues on, even though I, of course, was one of the few talk hosts not demagoguing the issue.
I was for it.
I doubt that he even knows that.
I doubt that many in the mainstream press inside the Beltway even know that.
So make no mistake.
And Heaven Thomas, just like any other liberal Democrat, whether they're at elected office or in the media, you're an idiot.
You have no hope.
You have no prayer.
And we'd just as soon not have to deal with you.
Here's Charles in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Hi, Charles.
Welcome to the program.
Megadittos, Rush.
Thank you.
I would like Senator Feingold to give me or the American people a specific example of a phone call that Bush initiated that was against an American that had absolutely nothing to do with terrorism, and I'll impeach him.
Other than that, tell him to shut up.
Well, he can't do that.
And there's a legal reason.
They don't have to give me any details.
Just some sight of an example.
A phone call occurred in West Texas and Midland Texas.
And no specifics, no names, but just that they can prove to the Republican senators that, yes, this is an obvious, clear breach.
You sound just like Charles Grassley.
You could be Senator Charles Grassley calling me, asking me to get this done for you.
I'm sorry, it is Charles.
No, it's not.
Okay.
No, but let me, you raise another great question.
Feingold's not about to do that because it's not about specifics.
It is, didn't he sound like Grassley to you?
It sounds like what Feingold is trying to do here is just indict on principle.
There's no specifics here.
They can't come up with anybody who's, it's classified information.
We can't reveal this.
It's bad enough that it's happened.
But no, getting specific with this will come down to what Feingold thinks Bush has done is invent new law.
The Supreme Court does it all the time.
You know, what's the big deal?
Back in a sec, folks.
Here's what Evan Thomas said.
I got the actual story from Newsbusters, which is a conservative media watchdog group.
Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas condescendingly charged on this weekend's initiative inside Washington that opposition to the UAE ports deal resonated with the public because it's something that simple idiots can understand.
And it's easily demagogable by talk radio hosts.
The subject matter of the ports deal was a classic for talk radio because you can get it on a bumper sticker.
So just so you know, not only do they have no respect for people like me, and it's actually because they're insanely jealous and envious, and also their own arrogance, they have no use for you either.
You are the rubes.
In fact, they probably run around and tell each other that their happy talk radio came along so that you stupid idiots out there don't pollute their subscription lists at time and newsweek.
They're happy to be done with.
They're happy that their magazine's not going into some shack with guns and heads of damn animals on the wall and a septic tank in the backyard.
They only want these in these think tanks, in these upscale homes and offices and so forth.
Back to the ports deal.
A leading Republican opponent of the collapsed Dubai ports deal said Sunday he would press ahead with legislation requiring U.S. ownership of infrastructure deemed critical to homeland security.
This is Duncan Hunter, who I like, a House Armed Services Committee Chairman.
He's from California.
Said that under his bill, under his bill, it would be up to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to identify facilities critical to national defense and then tell those people to own them.
Got to sell them.
If something defined by the Secretary of Defense as being critical American infrastructure, we would give a five-year period for divestment by the parent company so you don't have a fire sale.
Five-year divestment period.
This could include bridges, tunnels, and water plants that are owned by the Europeans and the Australians.
It could involve the CHICOMs and their ownership of the ports out on the left coast.
Five years.
Five years.
Now, look, as I said, I understand, and I like Duncan Hunter, but if this is such a, if this poses such a problem, five years, that's enough time.
You tell a terrorist, okay, you've got five years to plan an attack using these non-American infrastructure owners and facilities to get the job done.
If we're this exposed, I mean, five years seems like an awful long time to wait.
And on the Democratic side, the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, the mayor of Kooksville, Howard Dean, sought to capitalize Saturday on the recent divide between President Bush and Congressional Republicans over the ports deal, arguing that the Republican Party has a pre-9-11 mindset on ensuring safety at the U.S. ports of entry.
Now, this is classic.
The left-hand doesn't know what the right-hand's doing at the Democrat National Committee because here you have, what's his face, Feingold out there, and his censure movement effect-punting security now.
Port deal is over with, so we don't need to worry about security anymore.
There was only one threat, that was United Arab Emirates owning that bunch of terminals.
Other than now that security is over, we can go back.
We can kill the NSA domestic spy program or the foreign intelligence gathering program.
We can go back and do everything we can.
We can impeach Bush.
We can censure Bush.
He's lied to the American people.
He lied to us about war, took us to a war.
We didn't need to fight, blah, Botching the war on terror.
And yet here's Dean, the day before in the Democrats' response to the president's radio address saying, we're to the right of President Bush on this.
We are the party of national security.
The president and Republicans have a pre-9-11 mindset.
So while Dean is trying to hold on to this national security business, other Democrats have basically just punted it without even being asked a trick question.
Andrew, White Plains, New York, thanks for calling.
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Welcome back, my good friends.
If you've been to the Drudge Report page, you see this story about this half-mile-wide tornado.
And there's this guy standing there smoking a cigarette in the rubble.
And a friend of mine sent a note, well, no wonder the tornado hit the guy who was smoking.
And what I've noticed about this, George W. Bush, this hitting the Midwest.
Huge swath of tornadoes.
George W. Bush has to hate white people.
He just has to really, really have it in for us.
You've seen the destruction.
Have you seen FEMA?
There's anybody there?
Anybody doing anything about this from the federal level?
Is anybody doing one thing?
Nobody's even talking about doing one thing.
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