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April 5, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 5, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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All right, uh Brian Lark.
I meant to mention this to you in a break.
I forgot to do it when I was showing Lark where the good shirts are.
I'm getting emails from people say, focus the ditto cam.
It is focused.
It's focused in here.
I want to focus it every day.
Is it focused in there to you?
Of course it's focused.
You think we'd sit here with an out-of-focus ditto?
Get a new computer monitor.
Stop assuming everything's my fault.
If your ditto cam picture is out of focus, it's your problem.
Call a repairman.
Greetings and welcome, Rushlin.
Sometimes I love chastising the audience.
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Seriously, it's it's it's perfectly in focus here.
Uh let me back it off.
I'll zoom a little tight, but there we go.
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If you want to be on the program, fastest three hours in media.
Here we are already in the middle of the week and the last hour of the day.
Uh flying to the big Apple after the big program today.
Uh next couple days will be broadcasting from high atop the EIB building in uh midtown Manhattan.
Actually, I'm kind of glad it's snowing.
I gotta tell you why.
I was when I was up there, was it last week I was up there?
Yeah, for the cigar dinner.
It was 65 degrees, uh, which is all fine and dandy, except, you know, New York buildings, you either have the heat or the air conditioning.
You don't have both.
And they turn the air conditioning on sometime in the middle of May, the chiller.
They turn it on in the middle of May, uh, sometimes later than that.
Uh and so it was burning.
The heat was on with burning up at open windows, security risk.
Plus, they've got these child guard things in the windows and windows open a big three inches.
You know, so that your hamster won't fall out.
Or some such I was burning up in there.
So the fact that it's still winter up there, as it should be this time of year in New York, the fact it's snowing and 30 degrees, it's that's that's that's fine with me.
I have ways keeping warm.
But I'll tell you, when it's hot and the air conditioning isn't on, it's tough to get cool.
So I I can handle it.
Uh we have our port deal update coming up soon in this hour, ladies and gentlemen.
First, in addition, these stories now just keep rolling off the press at us.
In addition to the illegal immigrants found working at these uh three different nuclear weapons facilities.
Get this scores of illegal aliens.
This is uh uh Washington Times story, uh, October 22nd of last year.
Scores of illegal aliens working as cooks, laborers, janitors, even foreign language instructors, have been seized at military bases around the country in the past year, raising concerns in some quarters about security and troop safety.
The aliens did not work directly for the military, but rather for private contractors.
As part of a large-scale effort by the Pentagon to outsource many routine rear echelon jobs, free up the troops to concentrate on waging war.
Some worry this fast growing practice could make U.S. military installations more vulnerable to uh security breaches.
This is incredible.
And it makes the debate that we're having in this uh period running even even more ridiculous.
And I want to go back to this Harry Reid story that Drudge has up on his website, a Harry Reed flashback.
We I'm not gonna read the whole thing to you again.
I did this in the uh in the first hour, but Harry Reid proposed an immigration bill on August 5th of 1993 that bears no resemblance to the position Harry Reed has today.
His bill was based on the fact that way too many illegals are here and they're costing us way too much money in their welfare state services.
And we have to eliminate that.
I mean, Harry Reid sounded like a Californian.
You can't go to California without stirring up uh an immigration debate.
Prop 187.
They got fed up with having to pay uh uh health care and Medicare and education and all this for illegal immigrants.
And so the state voted in a Democrat State 187, Prop 187.
They voted uh not to do it any longer.
And of course, federal judge came along and said it's unconstitutional, a will of the people struck down again by an activist judge.
But uh, nevertheless, uh got an email from a friend who said somebody on the Free Republic website has a great idea.
And I'm not surprised that a freeper would have a good idea.
What ought to happen, the Republicans in the Senate ought to go get a copy of Harry Reid's release announcing his bill on August 5th of 1993.
Go out and get his bill and make it their own.
Because Harry Reid's bill from August 5th, 1993, is exactly the position that you hear me articulating on this issue all the past week or two.
It's identical.
Some of the things that Reed wants, I'm not going to go through it again because I've spent already valuable programming time doing this.
You can check with a website later, or you can go to Drudge right now, read it.
He's uh he still has the link up to flashback, dem Senator Harry Reed, our federal wallet stretched to limit by illegal aliens getting welfare.
Republicans ought to make this their bill.
They say Senator Reed had the right idea.
Let's not forget, by the way, that Senator Reed threatened a filibuster on immigration.
Uh this was back in March, March 23rd, as the Senate prepares to tackle the most sweeping immigration reforms in years.
Dingy Harry vowed to do everything in his power, including filibuster to thwart the proposal of the majority leader Bill Frist.
Reed said he would use every procedural means at his disposal to prevent Frist from bypassing the Judiciary Committee.
Frist has made clear the Senate will take up his proposal next week.
So uh Harry Reed's totally, totally opposite position uh today than he was back in 1993.
And the problem has only gotten worse.
There is nothing that's happened on the improvement side to make Dingy Harry say, yeah, I don't need my bill anymore.
That ninety-three bill, yet it was tough, but we don't need it.
If anything, we need it more than ever.
Legislation granting non-citizens the right to vote is expected to pass in New York City this year.
Immigration rights advocates tell the Amsterdam News.
New York City Councilman Charles Barron said at a recent press briefing, yeah, we're very excited.
We're very optimistic this will pass.
We see this as the historical launching of something that should have happened a long time ago.
Granting non-citizens the right to vote.
Something they think they should have done a long time ago, New York City.
Dubbing it the voting rights restoration act.
That's what they're calling it.
The measure would permit immigrants who have a green card to vote in municipal elections, including for mayor, controller, and city council after having lived in the city for six months.
Well, it's clear now who the Democrats think that they have to reach out to.
Illegal uh aliens, felons, and now non-citizens who have been here for uh six months and have a green card.
They know they have no other possibility of convincing other Americans of vote for them, so they gotta reach out now to essentially non-citizens because they want to continue their welfare state big state government idea, and they think that's the perfect constituent group to aim at.
The New York Coalition to expand voting rights sees the measure being extended one day to state and even federal elections.
There's nothing in either the U.S. or the New York State Constitution that prevents us from expanding the franchise to include non-citizen residents.
There isn't.
There is nothing in either the U.S. or the New York State Constitution that prevents us from expanding the franchise to include non.
Folks uh losing the country.
If this is what these people want to do, extend what they're telling you is that they don't like you, the citizens of this country, that you're standing in their way.
The only way they can get what they want is to extend the vote to non-citizens.
And I mentioned right wing news the other day.
They had this piece up there, thirteen frequently asked questions about immigration, and that's where he learned the story about the INS being uh denutered, uh, if you will, neutered by by trying to enforce uh penalties against employers for hiring illegals their back.
There's another post.
Uh Senate Democrats have refused to allow consideration of an amendment, this was yesterday, that would bar illegal aliens convicted of felonies from obtaining U.S. citizenship.
Democrats said the amendment would gut the immigration bill under consideration in the Senate, and they refuse to allow a vote on it.
It hurts the bill, said Harry Reed of Nevada.
It hurts the very foundation of what I believe is the spirit of the legislation.
Now, this would not apply to rapists or murderers, but here are some of the crimes that Democrats believe people should be able to commit without being disqualified from being considered for American citizenship.
Burglary, assault and battery, possession of an unregistered sought-off shotgun, kidnapping, and alien smuggling.
Efforts to remove that language from the bill were met with threats from Dingy Harry.
Now this would upset the spirit of the bill.
It's clear who the Democrats are reaching out to.
It's clear that we can't trust one thing that they say whenever they say it.
We have to look at who they are as liberals and judge them on that basis.
And and it it's it's to me more obvious than ever the Democrats don't have confidence in being able to win over enough American citizens to win elections.
And that's why they're targeting illegals.
That is why they're targeting undocumented why they're targeting felons for as voters and now non citizens.
A quick timeout back with more our ports deal update right around the corner.
All right, this is cool.
We got a guy on the phone here from Olatha, Kansas, which is one of the sites that some illegals are rounded up at a nuclear plant.
This is Joe.
Nice to have you with us.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush.
First time caller.
I was working as a helper for a contractor.
We were laying some cement at the Marley Cooling Tower Company, which is basically a big radiator for a nuclear plant.
And we was working along, and next thing you know, about 50 guys in black jumpsuits and goggles and all kinds of stuff come out of the woodwork.
And I would say probably 99% of who they arrested were illegal cemented.
Mexico and there was two Nigerians apparently that were uh on some type of watch list he was wondering you know what the makeup was of cool threats yeah yeah yeah so 99% of them were Mexicans huh I would say so I mean I didn't have a account you know but uh sorry I'm driving a truck while I'm talking on the phone.
Well tell me t tell me something Joe when you since you were there you saw the arrests happen.
Were people shocked?
Oh, I was shocked.
I mean, these guys come out with guns and, yeah, I mean, everybody.
I mean, I was rounded up with the illegal.
Wait, who came out with guns?
The ICE people?
The ICE agents?
It was everybody.
It was the police, highway patrol, sheriffs.
But it wasn't the immigrants.
It wasn't the illegals who had the guns.
It was law enforcement.
No, no, it was all federales.
I mean, it was scary.
I mean, they detained us for probably three hours.
We were all given arm bans once we were, you know, found to be citizens.
And there was a lot of immigrants there that were legal, by the way, that were working there and were let go.
But there were quite a few that were illegal.
They detained you?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Are you from Mexico?
Yeah.
They thought I was Spanish, I guess.
I had my wallet.
I left my wallet in the truck, and so I couldn't produce an ID.
And it was ugly.
I wasn't sure if I was going home that night.
Wow.
Wow.
Well, I'll tell you, I'm glad you were listening.
Because the, well, seriously, none of the stories that I read about this identified the national origin of these illegal immigrants that were apprehended at the various nuclear plants.
What you have to know, some of these, these are not nuclear power plants.
There aren't that many.
We have some.
But most of these are nuclear weapons plants, nuclear facility or plants that make parts of, for eventual assembly in nuclear equipment.
Joe, thanks much.
If from in Atlanta, you're next on the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
I'm no broadcast professional, so you've got to excuse me, you know.
That's all right.
I don't expect you to be.
See, you don't come to this program as a caller with expectations of being a highly trained specialist.
That's me.
So you don't need to worry about that.
Just relax.
I'm glad one of us is anyway.
Yeah.
Hey, listen, a couple of days ago I was listening to you, and I heard about how these radical socialist communist people are trying to take over this immigration debate.
and now I'm a naturalized citizen uh immigrated here about thirty years ago my family did went through the whole process uh years thousands of dollars in making it happen um and so on so uh I'm a conservative I am a uh uh Reaganomics uh you know supply cider uh uh free marketer kind of a person.
And uh uh some years back, two, three years ago, uh I met a wonderful woman uh who wasn't from this country, so I went through the process of of getting my wife from El Salvador, uh, getting her permanent residency and so on.
Um and uh well when all this stuff started, my wife's getting me all riled up.
She's telling me, hey, listen, why don't you uh not go to work today?
Don't spend any money, don't do all these other things, and I'm like, hey, wait a minute, I this ain't right.
I gotta work.
Somebody's gotta do this stuff.
You mean your your wife tried to get you to join one of these uh boycott things?
Well, you know, when we started talking about it, uh her heart's in the right place.
She agrees with me that you know there needs to be uh a a managed process for immigration.
Um but uh uh she had a lot of people.
What does she think?
From what what what does she think when she finds out that this group answer and the and the and the free Palestine front or whatever it is, is about five or six of these groups, they're either far left, some of them have direct ties to you know uh past communist party officials and so forth.
Whatever they are, they're the hate America crowd.
They're the hate America crowd crew, and they have uh they're trying to co-opt the next big series of uh boycotts and protests on May Day, May 1st, which is a big communist holiday of the past, and they're trying to coordinate this massive national strike, if you will, against shopping, against work, uh uh against uh anything, uh, and then coupling that with the protest.
Now, I mean, what is this illegal immigration movement about?
They're being co-opted if they need to be co-opted by a bunch of uh uh hate America crowd.
I think this is only gonna cause an even bigger backlash among the American people, another jump the shark moment.
Is your wife is she had her mind changed about this since she heard that?
Uh I've been on the road this last week, so I haven't had a chance to talk to her face to face, but she came from a country in El Salvador where they had these leftist people attacking the government.
Uh she has no love for for the uh the uh the people that uh go in there and and and and try to break down this country.
She she loves this country for the great job that it has done in in her country and helping her and and and uh and and her uh compatriots there.
Yeah.
So I'm I'm pretty sure that uh once she becomes educated and and and understands that these people are the same uh you know leftist wackos and communists that uh will are out there, uh sh she would, you know, see that.
I know I am.
I'm frustrated.
One of the first things that I told my wife that I feared was, you know, uh when all of this was started, uh you know, there's gonna be these uh Jesse Jackson wannabes out there that are gonna be trying to do this and it's gonna diminish the real debate.
They're already out there.
It's called Ted Kennedy.
He's already proclaiming this to be the uh the the next civil rights movement.
Meanwhile, Jesse Jackson's missing the boat.
He's out there trying to defend Barry Bonds and trying to get voters back to New Orleans.
He's missing the boat on the next big protest movement.
It's kind of funny to see some of these people lose touch.
Anyway, uh if from uh I'm glad you call one way of getting your wife to agree with you would be to take the opposite position of what you feel.
Uh uh tell her you agree with her.
She can't possibly agree with you.
You're the husband, and so you'll bring her around that way.
It's a little trick I've learned a lot.
Thanks much.
Uh I'm only kidding, folks, as you know, I love stereotypical humor, precisely because it's stereotypical.
Christopher Dodd in two thousand eight, Connecticut Senator said in an interview, when asked about a possible presidential bid, yeah, it's an itch.
It could grow.
It could disappear, but it's an itch.
It's not a bad word to use.
Okay.
Just what we need.
Another scratch and sniff White House.
Why is it always a Democrats that provide us with uh these pictures?
So he says he's got an itch out there to grow.
Wants to be president.
Have you heard about this thing in s Massachusetts, they're demanding.
Everybody who can afford it is a sliding scale, depending on your income.
Everybody who can afford medical insurance, health insurance, has to have it.
You'll be fined if you don't get just like everybody has to have automobile insurance except illegal aliens.
They don't have to have it.
Um And they they won't have to have this in Massachusetts, but everybody else will.
Massachusetts sets health plan for nearly all.
If you don't buy insurance, and you can afford it, there's a penalty.
If you can't afford it, your neighbors will buy it for you in the form of the state buying it.
The people they're targeting here, uh young adult males, young adult males who feel invincible, are not buying health insurance because they're going to need it for 20 or 30 years.
That doesn't matter what they want.
The state of Massachusetts is going to demand they buy it now, folks.
Back in a moment.
All right.
It's time, ladies and gentlemen, for the moment that I have been waiting the whole program for.
I've been practicing patience and restraint.
I know that there are other more pressing issues, and I have uh devoted myself to the discussion and exploration of those issues.
But now, time to indulge myself.
That's the trumpet fanfare means and updates upcoming.
It's our new theme.
It's the sitting on the ports of Dubai.
That's our old buddy Paul Shanklin.
It's uh take off on uh Otis Reading sitting on the dock of the bay.
What a great, great song that is.
And uh uh port news is just uh we got two different port uh port port deal stories today.
First in the American Spectator.
Uh and actually, this is not nothing that that I wasn't aware of.
I didn't realize how deeply uh involved these people were.
We but during the uh initial thrust, if you will, of the port deal story.
We gave you every bit of information we could find about it, uh including what you're going to hear now.
What do former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, former EPA director Carol Browner, and former Clinton administration lawyers in the White House and the uh Justice Department have in common besides their administration time together.
The answer is this.
They all earned millions working for the United Arab Emirates weeks before their roles became public in the sale of American-based port operations to Dubai Port World, or Dubai World Ports.
Now, this shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody.
In fact, just about anyone who works with the UAE earns millions, but no one's earned more than former President Clinton.
To his credit, he has hit up the UAE for more charitable money than just about anybody.
By some estimates, the UAE has donated through various means as much as 250 million dollars to Southeast Asia tsunami relief, hurricane Katrina.
They did.
Well, what they gave a hundred million dollars to Hurricane Katrina relief.
And look what it got them.
It got them nothing.
It got them thrown out of the United States of America from the port deal.
They've also donated lots of money to other humanitarian aid programs.
Former President Bush had a hand in that too, says a former Clinton associate, but it's former President Clinton, who now has the very close ties to the UI uh UAE.
He's the go-to guy now.
And Clinton has done very well by this connection.
According to knowledgeable sources, Clinton and his massage parlor and library have pocketed much as $30 million from the UAE, including his consulting deal on the UAE Dubai World Ports deal.
Now, this is interesting because here it's back in the news that Clinton did consult.
After he consulted Hillary, his wife comes out, takes the exact opposite position on the ports deal, and then Clinton has to be told in public by Hillary to shut up that he's got to coordinate anything he says in the future with her so that they don't appear at odds.
The surprising thing to me about this was that he's ever been allowed to go out and speak on his own uh without running it by her.
But I mean, but here it is back then.
He would he did consult.
He denied it.
He w I I never I never work for those people.
I mean, I I knew they wanted a ports deal.
I I told them a 45-day thing.
They go for that.
But I uh I didn't I didn't consult these people.
And if I say I'm on how to get this done, I uh I was misreported in the news.
Well, it's obviously not misreported.
It was factual.
According to sources familiar with the ports deal.
Just love those two words, folks.
I I know you don't understand it, and I can't explain it to you, but I just The ports deal.
It conjures up images of J.R. Ewing and just it's all kinds of nostalgia.
Plus the issue itself.
At any rate, according to sources familiar with the ports deal, Clinton put the UAE firm in touch with Madeline Albright and Carol Browner, who is a principal in Albright's business, her firm.
Browner is said to have brought in several other outside consultants, perhaps some with ties to Republicans.
She also brought in former Democratic Congressman Tom Downey from New York, with whom she is said to have close ties.
The two attempted to tag team Democrats on the ports deal once it became public.
They were still advocating for the ports deal to be going through because they were paid consultants on it.
It turns out the ports deal was a whole it was a total Democrat deal.
It was a Bill Clinton and his former associates deal.
And I was on their side.
I didn't know it at the time.
This deal was almost entirely a Democratic operation from the beginning, says another former Clinton staffer who worked in the White House.
Folks like Dole weren't brought in until after all a bleep hit the fan.
However, former Republican uh Congressman Vin Weber, whose firm represents the UAE, may have been involved earlier in the process.
Despite the best and brightest, the DPW deal went south once it became public.
Democrats on Capitol Hill in particular latched on a foreign ownership issue, and the power of the Clinton Albright Browner Troika could not save the deal.
And I don't know what the UAE thinks of these people now.
But they were paid and they were hired to get this deal done, and they couldn't get it done with Democrats up on Capitol Hill.
To date, former President Clinton and others involved prior to the ports deal becoming public, as I said, have not registered as agents of a foreign power with the Department of Justice.
No accurate timeline of their involvement in the ports deal has been released.
Something else I did know and made public.
Uh at that the time Clinton's out there lobbying, and now we know Albright and Carol Browner were lobbying too, and they have not registered as agents representing a foreign government.
That is against regulations.
It's against the law.
But you know, the Democrats get involved in so many scandals, Republicans never pursue them.
They just don't.
They did pursue uh uh uh any well, there's this I've I've got a list of them here.
I'll get to it in a second.
They didn't pursue half of you see.
McCain got booed by a union crowd out there talking about some things.
I'll tell you, there's yeah, yeah.
Shut up.
Shut up!
I'm leaving!
If you're gonna shut up.
Uh.
And he said he offered he he uh in talking about immigration.
And he said, All right, how many?
Who in here wants you to pick lettuce for $50 a head?
And he got some takers.
He didn't expect to get any takers because he believes that picking lettuce is a job Americans won't do.
For $50 an hour, there are a lot of Americans that go out there and pick lettuce.
And he was uh he was surprised.
Did you ask me if I would?
Is that what you said?
No, I wouldn't, but I mean there's some Americans that would.
Another ports deal story.
Dubai Islamic bank and Dubai World today announced the launch of the first of its kind five billion dollar family of private equity funds to participate in strategic transactions on a global basis.
Dubai World is the holding company of Dubai Ports World.
The family of funds that will be launched over the next year and a half, comprises seven specific private equity funds covering strategic sectors, energy, financial institutions, infrastructure, real estate, health and education, general industrials and technology, and media and telecommunications.
Dubai Islamic Bank and Dubai Ports World will cede investors in each fund.
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayim, executive chairman of Dubai World said this project will raise one of the largest and highest profile family of funds in the world as a manifestation of Dubai's position as a leading financial center.
The five billion dollar family of private equity funds will be leveraged To complete transactions in excess of ten billion dollars.
So we iced them out of the ports deal.
We froze them out of the ports deal, but did they go skulking away, crying in their beer?
Well, they don't drink beer.
Crying in their whatever.
Goat's milk?
No, they did not.
They're making plans to take over the world in other ways now.
We've just angered them, folks.
Back with more after this.
I tell you what, the news never stops here.
The news never show prep never stops.
Sure, we're here prepping the show while the show's being performed in Chicago today.
This will uh this is one of the reasons why Pelosi and Reed have had to drop their culture of corruption, and they moved on to strong and tough or tough and resolved, whatever it is, their latest talk point propagate.
Strong and smart.
Yeah, yeah, whatever.
Get this.
The husband of an Illinois Congresswoman was sentenced today to five months in federal prison for a check kiting scheme and failing to pay withholding taxes.
Robert Kramer, 58, faces eleven months of house arrest.
Once he uh finishes his sentence, he is the husband of U.S. Representative Jan Shakowski, Democrat in Illinois.
Uh she's not been accused of any wrongdoing.
First and foremost, I want to apologize to my actions, uh, Kramer told U.S. District Judge James B. Morant.
Well.
And in Seattle, interpreters are helping customs agents question twenty-one people caught leaving a cargo container early Wednesday on the Seattle waterfront.
See, it's another ports deal story.
And at Dubai's not at this one, folks.
The Dubai Ports were there, not at this port.
We had Customs and Border Protection Spokesman Mike Milney said that apparently these uh illegals, 21 Chinese, arrived in a cargo caner, a container, 40-foot container aboard the ship Rotterdam that docked at Terminal 18 on Harbor Island.
Security guards spotted him trying to leave the fenced area.
Seventeen men and four women in their twenties appear to be in good condition, says they had food, they had water, they had blankets, they had a toilet in the container for what he called a risk risky trip across the Pacific.
What's risky about it?
They're in a cargo ship.
In a cargo container with a toilet.
What was food what was risky about this?
What was risky about the trip?
It's risky you get here, you get caught.
Cargo container was placed on the ship in Shanghai, made a stop in South Korea before arriving in Seattle.
Man, I tell you, folks, we're just not safe.
I mean, anybody can get into these ports.
Now I mentioned uh I mentioned a moment ago that Republicans just don't pursue Democrat scandals.
Our buddies at Newsmax today have put together a little list, and they pick up on a theme that I had yesterday, Tom Delay is a victim of GOP timidity.
The real surprise of the delayed debacle is his fellow Republicans allowed him to be ripped apart by Democrat-friendly media piranha without even firing a shot in return.
Democrats would have surely backed off on their culture of corruption mantra had the Republicans made even a minimal effort to fight fire with fire.
Instead, Hill Republicans look the other way on one Democrat scandal after another will likely end up paying the price.
Here's a short list of investigations the GOP should have launched, not for reasons of partisan revenge, but because they warranted the full oversight of the party in control of Congress.
Burger Gate, the theft and destruction of top secret national security documents by Sandy Burglar in a blatant attempt to obstruct the 9-11 commission investigation.
Rathergate.
You'd never know it from the lethargic Republican reaction, but when a mysterious Texas source supplied forgeries of President Bush's military records to CBS News just weeks before the 2004 elections, it was a felony, punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Compounding the political intrigue, CBS tipped a top staffer in a carry campaign on the coming Bush document assault.
But after Texas authorities declined to pursue a request for a criminal investigation from several Republican House members, the matter was promptly dropped.
Republican congressional interest in getting to the bottom of this scheme to skill the two four thousand election.
Uh Zippo.
Schumer Gate, the illegal purloining of Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele's credit report by staffers on Senator Chuck Schumer's Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Certainly seemed like a ripe topic for some congressional oversight.
But like Burglar Gate, it appears that the Bush Justice Department will let the guilty parties off with a slap on the wrist without fingering any higher ups.
In fact, Schumer's committee is now insisting it acted in an exemplary manner by not using the illegal info against steel.
That oh, we're good people.
We didn't use what we illegally got.
And then there's Nuke Gate.
We've already had several hearings into President Bush's so-called illegal NSA terrorist surveillance program, first revealed in James Ryzen's new book State of War, but there's been little interest in another bombshell development revealed by Ryzen, President Clinton's decision to give Iran doctored blueprints for key nuclear components that allowed the Iranians, in Ryzen's words, to leapfrog one of the last remaining engineering hurdles blocking its path to a nuclear weapon.
With Senator McCain now predicting Armageddon as a result of the Iranian nuclear threat, one might think that a report like this might be ripe for congressional investigation, but one would be wrong.
Republican interest today did a Clinton nuke gate probe zilch.
And this is just a short list.
And our buddies at Newsmax.
Exactly right.
I'm gonna have to save this one for tomorrow, but there is the funniest story in the Washington Post today.
Smart talk and girly talk on the campaign trail.
And it is all about uh researchers at the University of Texas at Austin collected transcripts of 271 TV interviews and news conferences, town hall meetings, candidate debates from 2004.
And they assigned values to the linguistic skills of Kerry, Edwards, Cheney, and Bush.
And uh the smart biggest girl is John Edwards, the next biggest girl is Carrie, the real man of the four is Cheney, and the smart guy was Bush.
I'll have details for it.
We'll link to this uh Washington Post story uh on Rush Limbaugh.com.
Uh remind me take this with you today when I leave for New York, because I'll uh we'll get into this detail tomorrow.
We had a lot of uh other pressing stuff today, folks.
Sometimes you just can't do it all three hours.
Uh we had Portsdeal, we had immigration news at our interview with uh uh with Tom DeLay, and we had more Ports Deal news.
So sit tight, we'll be back and continue here in just a second.
Sadly, we're out of time, but there's always tomorrow, and we will be back and uh to do it all over again from the uh EIB building, hi atop it up there in New York.
I was just thinking of before we go, the Dubai Islamic Bank.
Can you imagine if there was a bank called the New York Christian Bank?
What?
Uh you can dream.
All right, folks, have a great Wednesday.
See you tomorrow.
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