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April 26, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 26, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Well, I guess I can admit this now.
I gave it my best shot uh yesterday, folks.
But Tony Snow got the gig.
And I and I want to congratulate him on that.
I thought I was, I thought I had it.
I was it was so close.
I mean it was a clot uh close as a Nat's eyelash out there.
And I I left uh yesterday thinking it was mine, but life goes on.
I return to the golden EIB microphone at the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to be back and great to be with you.
The telephone number is 800 282-2882 in the email address, rush at eIB net.com.
Actually, I had a great day yesterday, and at the end of the day, I found myself uh in Philadelphia.
A friend of mine had uh and I spent the day today uh yesterday doing uh some interesting things.
And he said, Have you ever you ever been to South Philly and Nick's roast beefs?
I said, No, I've never even heard of it.
He said, You got to have the best roast beef sandwich ever, anywhere on the planet.
And I said, fine, let's go get a bunch of them and take them the airplane and uh and uh and head on home.
So we we went to Nick's old original roast beef at 20th and Jackson Streets in South Philly, and I walked in there, uh, and it's just it's it's a great little neighborhood uh joint.
Uh and I walked in there with my buddy, and the and the guy behind the bar immediately looked at me and said, Rush, and I put my shh, don't say anything.
This is Philadelphia.
And I looked up on the wall and they got all these pictures, and it had no pictures of Donovan McNabb.
They had pictures of Wilbert Montgomery and Ron Jaworski of the Eagles, and they had smoking Joe Frazia uh on the walls and some stuff.
So anyway, we ordered uh ordered ordered some roast beef sandwich, and I gotta tell you, folks, I the the cell job I was given under uh uh under exposed me to the expectations.
I there's no way this this this there can be a better roast beef sandwich anywhere in this country.
And they were great to us in there.
Uh Tom Rosamondo was the was the guy behind the bar and the manager was in there.
They were just and everybody in the place was nice as they could be.
It was uh we're only in there for weeks.
Actually stopped and ate a sandwich in there before we went to the airplane to come back home.
Uh and I I'm gonna send them an autograph picture for the wall.
And they said, Don't worry, we'll keep Donovan off.
I said, No, no, no, no.
Get get a picture of Donovan up there and put it up there if you want to.
But I wanted to thank them.
It was it's it's uh fabulous.
I it it's the kind of thing I wish to share with everybody that I've uh uh uh could, but I don't know how and they ship they they they told me they ship all over the place, but I I um uh just had to tell you about this place because it was and and their roast beef sandwiches of f- I took them to flight crew last night, and they were just you know, just uh everybody that tastes these is is is blown away by them.
So once again, thanks.
Now, Tony Snow, what are you looking at me this way for?
I was in South Philly.
Yeah, you go down Broad Street, you go to Broad Street and Jackson, you take a left, you go to 20th and Jackson to park the car, you go in, you come back out, you got on Broad Street, go by the uh old spectrum, the Wachovia Center, the uh Eagles and Philly's uh ballparks, and you head on out to the interstate, head back down the airport and come home.
South Philly.
Well, I was in New Jersey most of the day, and my friend Where would you rather be?
New Jersey or South Philly.
I I'd rather be in South Philly.
And at any rate, Tony Snow got the gig, ladies and gentlemen.
Here is the president of the United States announcing this today.
He's not afraid to express his own opinions.
For those of you who read his columns and listened to his radio show, he sometimes has disagreed with me.
I asked him about those comments.
And he said, You should have heard what I said about the other guy.
I like his perspective.
I like the perspective he brings to this job, and I think you're gonna like it too.
And here's what Tony Snow had to say.
A few nice words about the uh about the press corps.
Obviously, honeymoon period will uh will last here for well a while.
This is Tony.
One of the reasons I took the job is not only because I believe in the president, because believe it or not, I want to work with you.
These are times that are gonna be very challenging.
We've got a lot of big issues ahead, and we've got a lot of important things that all of us are gonna be covering together.
And I am very excited, and I can't wait.
And I want to thank you, Mr. President, for the honor and thank all you guys for your forbearance, and I look forward to working with you.
Thanks.
Mr. President, what does this choice say about what you think you need in the second term?
That was David Gregory.
Mr. President, honeymoon's over.
What does this choice say about what you think you need in the second term?
Now on the Fox News channel, of course, they had to do a do some analysis of all this.
And their host, John Scott, was talking to Senator George Allen, and uh here's his reaction.
I like Tony a lot.
The best thing that Tony's gonna do is bring the pulse of the American people into the White House in those d deliberations.
People like Laura Ingram and and Tony and Rush Limbaugh, they understand what's going on in the real world, and I think that's gonna be very helpful for the White House as they develop policy to move this country forward.
So I congratulate Tony.
Great choice by the president, and I think it'll be good for the American people too, to have one of their advocates clearly in the White House.
Well, uh this didn't sit well uh with a number of uh liberal activists, among them uh Lanny Davis and uh and Steve McMahon.
So Foxwood, I got Lanny Davis on a phone uh along with uh Steve McMahon and uh uh the anchor John Scott said, Lanny, Tony Snow, what does he bring to the table?
Senator George Allen did Tony Snow a great disservice about five minutes ago by lumping Tony Snow together with two of the venomous hateful voices on the far right wing fringe of talk radio, namely Laura Ingram and Rush Limbaugh.
Tony Snow is as different from those two in terms of avoiding hate and being a decent man as could be.
I hope that the Republicans don't try to label him as a right winger because he's a conservative, but he's a man of fairness, he's a man of integrity, and I think he will have a great deal of credibility on behalf of President Bush.
So the uh the the I'm sorry, Tony, uh your your your first day has to get tarred and feathered here by uh by by the Democratic activists here.
Uh uh uh taking out after Laura Ingram and uh and I, the all-knowing, all-caring, all sensing, all feeling, all compassionate, all concerned, not an ounce of hate in me, uh Maha Rushi.
The template is just predictable.
Hate monger, uh uh uh uh venomous, uh far right wing fringe.
Only the biggest media show in the country here, folks.
The far right wing fringe.
Steve McMahon decided to get in on it too.
Uh John Scott says, Steve, in fact, some of the opposite's been happening here.
Great many Democrats have been circulating quotes from Tony, quotes in which he criticize the administration.
I'm not sure what the point of that is.
I think Lanny's absolutely right, though.
To lump him with Rush Limbaugh or some of those on the right is um pretty unfair to Tony because he is a conservative, but he's a principled pragmatic conservative, as opposed to a rigid ideological one who spews hate and tries to divide the country.
The fact that he has disagreed with the Bush administration on a number of policy issues proves that he is no Rush Limbaugh.
And Steve McMahon, that comment proves what an idiot and dult that you are, if you if you think that uh uh and and I'm sure they do.
They don't listen to this program.
They form their template of what it is uh based on their stereotypical view of uh conservatism, and then they plug anybody into it.
Uh but as you people know, uh, because I've heard from you over the course of the last five years, I have been highly critical of this administration on a number of things.
And you've been mad at me for not standing in unison with the president during those times.
And then at other times you get mad at me for not disagreeing with him.
I mean, I'm you know, I sit here sometimes, my head swims.
I say what I say.
Anybody can listen to what I say.
You don't need a password.
You don't need a super secret receiver frequency to hear this program.
You turn on your radio.
And uh yet that seems so difficult to do.
Note also that that and by the way, Steve McMahon, you might remember we had a soundbite from him.
He was talking about how the American people know that there's no hope for them anywhere.
There's no hope for the future of their country economically and and all these things.
And I was just stunned uh because the essence of being an American is optimism.
The essence of being an American is that tomorrow is always gonna be a better day.
The opportunity for it to be a better day than the day before is always is always there.
And it's what it's what uh uh defines this country and sets us apart.
But note how he defines conservatism.
Tony's a conservative, but he's a principled pragmatic conservative, as opposed to a rigid ideological one who spews hate and tries to define the country.
I uh Steve, I don't like you insulting Tony this way.
Because when you call him a pragmatic, principled conservative, what it means is he's cowers in fear to people like you and will end up trying to make you like him on your terms.
That he'll go out of his way to make you, Steve, but man, a liberal like him just because he doesn't want you to dislike him.
He doesn't want you to think that he's one of these ideological right wingers.
The arrogance and the condescension of these people on the left, uh, especially the last three years.
Do you want to talk about spreading hate?
You want to talk about spreading lies?
You want to talk about the fringe?
I mean, the Democratic Party's base is their fringe kook population.
It's just the exact opposite of what they say.
But nevertheless, all this aside, uh, congratulations to uh just Tony Snow and uh we'll be watching eagerly.
He does he does say that uh one of the conditions for taking the job was that he's not just going to be an explainer.
He's going to actually participate in uh policy discussions and and have a role in in uh in formulating uh some of that policy in the remaining number of uh years, uh a thousand days, whatever it is in this administration.
So sit tight, we'll be back and continue with all the rest right after this.
Don put the needle point down in there.
I'm gonna grab a phone call a little sooner than I usually do.
We uh go Mark in Erie, Pennsylvania on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Megadiddles, Rush.
Thank you.
Mark here.
Hey, listen, I was curious about this movie that's coming out this week about Flight 93 this weekend.
Yeah.
Starts tomorrow.
Yeah, tomorrow.
Okay.
Oh, I thought it started Friday.
But whatever it does.
Is it true that they're going to donate a portion of uh the uh take of the movie uh to the uh fund for a memorial for Yeah, they get it by I think I think uh ten percent.
Ten percent.
Ten percent.
Is it just this weekend they're doing it?
Or would be No, no, no, I think ten percent of the uh of the total take.
For as long as it runs.
As long as it runs.
And I don't know if that includes DVDs.
I just all I know is it's ten percent of the uh of of the box office.
Had you seen the movie yet.
Oh, yes, I saw a super secret screening.
Did you know?
Uh last week I saw it.
I it's it's in fact they they had a premiere of this movie last night at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York that had 1,100 people in there.
And the reaction, at least as reported by the people coming out of that place, is exactly what I thought it would be.
People thought they were leaving a funeral.
It is an in it is an intense, dramatic portrayal of what happened.
You know what's gonna happen as you watch it if you know your history.
Um it it's it's mind-numbing, and it's it's uh it's great.
It it I you know, all these debates about is it too soon?
No, it's too late.
Uh this my wife and I have not gone to the movies for twenty years.
But we're getting out of thing to go see this thing because we think it's the right thing to do.
Well, you should.
You you uh I I'll tell you the it's it's uh the terrorists are not portrayed sympathetically as uh as Hollywood has been wont to do in many productions since 91.
Uh you end up uh you end up despising these people.
You inspired by the people on the plane that uh that take it down and try to wrest control from the terrorists.
I don't want to give too much of it away.
Not a whole lot of gore, there's some, but not a whole lot.
There's nothing gratuitous in it in that sense.
Uh but it's it's powerful.
It is uh it's it's well done.
And there were people walking out of the New York theater last night sobbing.
There were people in tears.
Uh other people weren't saying anything.
They had a lot of uh families from uh United 93 sitting in the back of the uh of the theater watching it last night.
Uh people who have uh seen it in advance uh as as I did uh think that it's uh uh better than their expectations were.
Now also, uh I interviewed the uh the writer of the movie and the director, Paul Greengrass, for the upcoming issue of the Limbaughter.
And you know, I'm thinking that tomorrow, because the movie opens tomorrow.
Um we don't do this very much, but I think in at in in this uh in this case, I wouldn't mind playing just a few short excerpts uh from this interview.
I'll give you an example of one that I would like.
Mike, you're sure you still got the uh the the raw footage, if you will, hanging around there.
Um I uh Mr. Greengrass was uh uh and he's uh you should know this, by the way, and he was unabashed in admitting this to me.
He's very liberal.
He's uh he's from uh uh Great Britain.
Uh uh maybe Ireland, I'm not sure, but uh uh he's made uh Sutty Blundy bloody Sunday movie in two thousand two about the IRA.
Very uh very much interested in terrorism, and he was uh fascinated, as all liberals are when we began discussing the movie that uh he actually got along with me.
It it's the most it's it's one of the it's one of the most fun things I do is talk to a bunch of liberals who are prepared for whatever uh and they end up enjoying themselves, and he made remarks about that.
Uh but he also made no bones about the fact that he's uh he's very liberal, but you won't see any of that in the movie.
Uh, you might well, depending uh uh uh uh you cannot watch this movie, Mark, without uh uh attaching your own current political perspective to it.
Uh unlike if you had been able to see this movie two days after the event, uh you might you might not have the same political perspective that you now have five years uh later.
Uh and so there will there is a there's a couple scenes in there that I think the left be able to the kook fringe left to be able to point to and say, see, see, see it's all Bush's fault.
But most people watching this are going to just have a an overwhelming uh deep involvement in this thing, and and they're gonna end up despising the people uh who should be despised, and that and the movie makes no bones about who is responsible here.
One of the things that uh that I'd like to pull from the from the interview that I recall is that Greengrass was telling me that uh what I want to do is start a conversation about what we do about this.
We must we must come to a consensus about this.
And I said, Well, Mr. Greengrass, your movie answers what we should do about it.
Your movie planet Day answers what we should do about it.
We don't need consensus.
We need leadership.
I say half the country doesn't think we're at war.
Half the country doesn't want to think we're at war.
Half the country doesn't believe we got a problem.
Half the country thinks the enemy's in the White House.
I said, consensus isn't gonna happen on this.
We need leadership.
Your movie gives the answer.
And uh you kill the terrorists.
You kill them before they have a chance to do what it is they intend to do.
Speaking of which, have you seen um uh the video of Zarkawi?
Zarkawi finally showing his face for the first time, and everybody's going gaga.
It's not that that interests me about Zarkawi.
There's a newspaper interviewer or story in the New York Times, and uh they review his video, and the New York Times says Zarkawi mocked President Bush and accused him of lying to the American people.
Indeed, the news Arkawi video accuses President Bush of arrogance and said the president had become a liar to your own people.
You claim that everything's under control, and it appears afterward that you are lying.
Now who does that sound like?
It sound like Democrats.
How about Howard Dean, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Harry Reed, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, who uh served in Vietnam, by the way, uh Carl Levin, Nancy Pelosi, and on and on and on.
Sounds like Saddam at his trial in Baghdad.
Bush lied.
I had no weapons of mass destruction.
Uh bring bring me Senator Kennedy as uh as a character witness over here.
I've made this point countless times on uh on my program with great effectiveness, my friends, because that's what I do.
That's why I'm effective.
Uh this new video by Zarkawi um is an excellent opportunity to remind all of you that sounds just like the DNC is writing his scripts now.
It's absolutely uh amazing.
Bob in uh in Hayward, Wisconsin.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
What a privilege.
I've waited fifteen years to say dittoes, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I'm wondering.
I am so sick and tired of hearing people say that it's too soon.
It's too soon.
It was not too soon for Fahrenheit 9-11, which was total spin, but it's too soon now to show the reality, which can only anger people more about what happened.
I would imagine it's probably gonna give the president a little more support.
Uh where where is all this it's too soon coming from?
Where's the order?
That started when they uh the they they put together a two-minute or 90-second uh preview, a trailer, and uh the trailer ran during other movies uh originally in theaters on the upper west side of uh Manhattan, Liberalville.
Uh Most of Manhattan is, but the Upper West side, I mean, that's that's that and and they came at people in the movie came out screaming, it can it and everybody started asking, is it too soon?
Well, the reason it's too soon is because the left is not through trashing Bush and his culpability and his responsibility for 9 11.
And the reason it's too soon is because the movie doesn't blame Bush.
The movie doesn't blame the United States government.
The movie blames the terrorists.
You cannot watch this movie without concluding that the terrorists committed terrorism.
Which is what terrorists do.
It would so it's too soon.
They tried no our psyche, our emotions can't handle it.
It's too so you imagine this being said after Pearl Harbor five years go by, we can't watch film of the attack it's too soon.
Hell we had already made plans to wipe the Japanese out by then back after this.
Stay with us.
Back in a saddle here the EIB Southern command Rush Limbaugh America's anchorman utilizing talent on loan from God.
By the way, uh uh somebody drive by caller uh somebody who can't stay on the air to make the comment said that uh the ten percent uh uh uh of the proceeds that go to the uh flight ninety three memorial are only uh from the weekend take the first weekend not the entire run so uh whichever it is the the the first weekend take will no doubt be the largest uh take uh of the of the whole run this I think of the way these things work out but
Regardless, it is 10% of the weekend take, according to a drive-by caller.
David Moore, Oklahoma.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Nice that you're with us.
Rush, fabulous to talk with you this morning.
Thank you, sir.
I'm an optimistic conservative, and I truly believe that the Tony Snow appointment is a win for conservatives and for conservatism.
I think it's a sign that the president isn't trying to appease the media, isn't trying to cave, isn't trying to play along to get along.
I I like the fact that uh Tony Snow is going to have an input in policy and I think he's gonna really get a chance to speak his mind not only to the president but also to the press corps.
What do you think about uh what do you think about some of these Democrat activists saying hey Tony's okay he's not an ideologue he's a principled pragmatic conservative what uh what what's your reaction when you hear Landy Davis and Steve McMahon say that they can see the writing on the wall and they're trying to get in and and actually the reverse is happening.
They're trying to get along with Tony so they can get a little closer to him if that might be possible and and uh perhaps influence him in a different way than the than the normal I don't think they're going to intimidate him into to trying to get along with him.
I think now they're they're kind of playing the opposite side of that game.
We'll see it it'll be uh it'll be interesting to watch I I I think uh I hate to I I hate to hazard a guess on this but I I think it isn't gonna be long before they start savaging the poor guy.
It's just in the cards, folks they're gonna this they're gonna start savaging him just I don't know they'll I don't know well I don't know that he goes to cocktail parties with them and try to butter him up but they'll they'll uh uh the press corps who they are and the target is George W. Bush and they're not gonna go soft in there turn nice just because uh Tony Snow who may be nice to them uh happens uh happens to be the press secretary.
Now one thing that Tony I I in uh reading uh what Tony said he wanted to do he wants to increase the uh media's access to the president uh knowing that they're a huge beast that has to be fed uh this is what he said we'll just have I don't know we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
But look, folks a tiger is a tiger a snake is a snake and the Washington Press corpse is the Washington press corpse and it doesn't matter who the press secretary is they were you know they they did the same thing to Ari Fleischer.
They tried it with McClellan and uh we'll we'll just we'll just see.
All right President Bush yesterday ordered a temporary suspension of environmental rules for gasoline which are creating bottlenecks in the U.S. gasoline markets and announced a federal investigation into potential manipulation of gas prices that have topped three dollars per gallon.
The president was responding to high fuel costs that are expected all summer, said that oil companies have a responsibility to American motorists and called on Congress to strip away tax breaks that the corporations are enjoying amid record profits.
The president said, listen, at record prices, these energy companies have got large cash flows.
They need to reinvest those cash flows into expanding refining capacity or researching alternative energy sources.
Okay, um I know what most of you are saying and how you're reacting to this.
Well, let me let me try it this way.
What is the price today for a gallon of snake oil?
Forget gasoline, forget ethanol, forget MTBE.
How many miles can you get on a gallon of snake oil?
Ladies and gentlemen.
I keep I ask myself, was the Salem witch hunt this bad?
Did it rely on more ignorance and more fear and more pandering than this oil and gasoline price issue is relying on?
I mean, Salem, the Salem witch hunt, that was in 1692.
Here we are, we're in the 21st century, my friend.
Or are we really?
Here are the rants that we have.
Brink up the oil company.
I mean, so Bush gave them everything that they wanted.
Bush and then just not enough for Chuck Schumer.
Now Chuck Schumer wants to break up the oil companies.
Break up the oil companies, hit them with an excess profit, which the tax president says he's not going to do that.
Uh now the left's out there saying we want investigations into how this gouging is taking place, and we want lynches, lynching, stir them up.
And I said that there's just a bunch of snake oil being sold to people out there, and I'm wondering what the mileage is.
And the liberals are the ones lighting the torches.
They're out of power and they want power.
I guys are sadly following the mob.
They're in power and they want to keep it.
So the mob is setting their.
It's like it's like this uh United 93 movie.
People think there was a massive outcry of people who said it's too soon.
It's too soon.
For all we know, one wacko leftist came out of the theater and said it's too soon, and it got amplified into a whole country thinking this by the time the drive-by media got through with it.
So our guys sadly are following the mob because they're in power and they want to keep power, and the president, I mean, the more you love him, the sadder you are that he has to go along to get along.
He, of all people, knows the reality here, and his proposals do not address the reality.
His proposals are not the problem.
This is pure pandering selling snake oil.
And if there's any excess here, it's not excess profits, it's excess pandering.
We have a real world situation that's as basic as the law of supply and demand.
And dingy hairy and the Democrats cannot filibuster the law of supply and demand.
They'll try, but they can't do it.
It's very simple.
Demand is up, and we need more supply, and the left has done everything they can to prevent more supply.
It's really not complicated here, folks.
Nigeria is shut down their oil production at 3% of the world's output.
They got terrorist problems over there.
We've got Katrina after effects.
Uh we still have refiners.
The refineries are not at full capacity.
We have the oil fields out in the Gulf that are still not up to full production.
We also go into this mess here of getting rid of MTBE by the 5th of May and switching over to ethanol.
Now the reason that there are shortages of gasoline with ethanol in or have been is because uh uh MTBE is an additive uh uh you can mix it with water and oil because they don't mix, but ethanol uh will mix with water, and so you it has to be it has to be added after the distribution process where there's no chance that water is gonna get into the mix, and so it's changed the way we distribute gasoline going to ethanol.
Uh if if ethanol is mixed too soon or too improperly or improperly at all, you you you uh instead of water gets into the mix, it will mix with ethanol.
That'll change the octane and give you the uh remember when you used to see gasoline commercials, your engine knocking.
Well, don't guide, don't buy that shell garbage, go out and buy our Texaco stuff from the man who wears the star because our octane doesn't cause knocks in your engine.
Well, until May 5th rolls around, and until we finally make the switch over from MTBE to ethanol and and uh uh finalize the the mixing and the distribution process, there are going to be these temporary outages of supply at certain gas stations.
It has nothing to do with the overall supply of oil, has nothing to do with anything other than the switchover, but yet it's being it's being amplified and thrown into this missive max of hysteria to talk about our massive mix of hysteria to make people think at all hell's breaking loose here.
When in fact it is the left that's done everything they can to prevent this country from from meeting its own growing supply needs.
And they've gotten away with it for years.
Uh until demand caught up with supply and now outstrips it.
Demand is outstripping supply in a lot of places.
Now, I I I heard the other day, and I haven't been able to source this, but I heard the other day that China and India combined are now using as much oil and gasoline as we did 10 years ago.
Now you you can't have that kind of new introduction on the demand side without their having uh uh some impact on supply.
And of course, the more demand, the more precious the commodity the price goes up.
So what does the left do when another one of its core beliefs falls apart?
They shift the blame.
The war on poverty failed, and so they end up blaming greedy Republicans and tax cuts for the rich.
Urban education is an absolute disaster.
It's failing.
What do they do?
They blame greedy religious schools and private schools.
Energy prices are soaring, and instead of blaming themselves, which they never do, they blame greedy big oil.
It's not what a Chucky Schumer says.
He either knows it's a uh a bunch of BS or else he's a fool.
But let's go through the list.
We have trouble in the supply side in the in the uh Nigeria, the Sudan and Venezuela.
We've got the Katrina disasters, refiners are still behind.
Um all this boutique refining and EPA rulings, which is one of the president has done away with them or will in the new f near future, and the no solution solution of ethanol and ethanol conversion problems, ethanol shortage, high tariffs on importing ethanol to relieve the shortage, uh blah, blah, blah, blah.
For now, you know, the the the politics of this is what interests me and the hypocrisy, the bouncing off the walls as politicians blame themselves or shame themselves, I should say, in an election year, and try to blame Bush and try to blame big oil and so forth.
Uh, you know, it it's it's just maddening.
And yet, uh I know have no doubt that they have concluded in the White House that his approval numbers are tied directly to the gasoline price.
There's no question in my mind, it's what it is not Iraq.
It's not the war on terror, it's the gasoline prices, and that's also why people don't uh don't hear and don't accept the news of a strong and roaring economy.
You know, one of the most interesting things to me about this is that despite the price rise in gasoline and energy products, the core inflation rate is holding steady.
It's stunning everybody, the experts included.
But it's clear the president feels the need to uh get in on the on the pandering and the and the snake oil uh because there are larger concerns, and that is the midterm elections, the completion of his agenda, getting tax cuts made permanent, uh funding the war in Iraq and making sure that the anti uh the war on terror continues.
So they've rolled the dice and they say, okay, we'll we'll we'll join the fray here on the gas price business, and I'll go out there and I'll make it look like I'm I'm gonna be tough on the oil companies.
Our oil company buddies understand how this works.
It happens to them every time this uh situation arises.
Uh, but the one place the president doesn't appear to be uh flexible at all is when it comes to immigration.
So uh they hear you on a port deal, uh they uh they don't hear you on immigration or hear you on gasoline price.
Two out of three ain't bad.
Back in a moment.
Here we have more bad news uh for the Democrats.
Sales of new homes soared in March by the largest amount in 13 years.
New home sales uh rebounded strongly in March.
Home sales up in all areas of the country, led by a 35.7% surge in the West.
Sales rose uh 10.9% in the Midwest, 6.9% in the South, and 4.7% in the uh in the Northeast.
So the Libs have to wait a little longer for the economic collapse that they have been attempting to engineer, ladies and gentlemen.
They think they've got it with the uh with the gasoline price.
Now I want to go back to the snake oil business, this this uh analogy, if you will.
Because let's look at the anti-war template of the left.
How fond are they of saying Bush was wrong on the war, he was wrong on everything.
Right?
So as usual, we sit here, we get into defensive mode.
No, he wasn't, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Need to turn the tables.
How wrong has the left been on and war?
How long wrong has the left been on nuclear power?
How wrong has the left been on offshore drilling and how wrong have they been on building refineries?
And I'm not talking about talking point wrong.
I mean really, really substantively wrong on things.
They and their allies are as much to blame, and when I say allies, I don't just mean the environmentalist wackos, I'm talking about tax authorities, because the federal governments, state governments combined, make more money on oil than and gasoline sales than the oil companies make.
Selling gasoline.
And they do it with taxes.
Uh details of that coming up in a moment.
Everybody from Al Gore on down, this is the environment template.
Everybody from Al Gore on down, Al Gore on up, I mean I guess he's at the bottom, has told you that we Americans care more about the pristine frozen tundras in and war than energy prices.
Well, if that's the case, what's the fuss about here?
Why is the left fussing about prices?
They're getting what they want.
They're getting uh high prices, which they hope will translate to uh less use.
We're not drilling in and war, we're not drilling anywhere, we're not exploring anywhere domestically.
So why all the fuss about gas price?
Well, because they're a bunch of damned himocrites, hypocrites, and all they're doing is trying to focus your rage and anger on the Bush administration away from them.
Uh and then you've got people like Kerry or somebody say we need shocking tax increases to curtail energy use.
They have that template.
Uh the bottom line is this it's all going a little bit too far.
Of all the federal and state taxes, guess which state is the greediest?
Of all federal and state taxes, which state is the greediest?
And it's the one with the biggest panderer.
New York, right you are, Mr. Sturdley, the state that gave us Chucky Schumer, the state that gave us Hillary Clinton as Senator.
Chucky Schumer, the man who pretends to be fighting greed.
New York State, ladies and gentlemen, does not tax gasoline per gallon like other states.
New York taxes gasoline per dollar.
And that makes New York the highest taxer of energy prices in the country.
According to Fox News, New York State tax 62.9 cents per gallon because you have to calculate the tax per dollar.
So the New York tax uh goes up.
The level stays the same, but the more you have to pay to fill up your tank, the more taxes you're paying.
62.9 cents per gallon in New York for gasoline on top of 18.4 cents federal.
That's over 80 cents a gallon in taxes for New York and the feds uh on a gallon of gasoline.
So, like any witch hunt here, folks, from Salem to snake oil, the real problem is not just the panderers, it's those who join in the pandering.
And of course, I understand why this is uh taking place.
The Republicans uh in power, they want to stay in power.
Democrats out of power, they want to get their power.
Uh, but I'm beginning to wonder if our two-party system of Democrats and Republicans needs to be recast.
I'm wondering if we already have a three-party system.
Democrats and Republicans versus conservatives.
Back in a moment.
Get this, folks.
We'll have uh details uh coming up soon.
The Senate just now voted to divert some of the money that President Bush requested for the war in Iraq to instead increase patrols against illegal immigrants on the nation's borders and to increase security at the ports.
An amendment cutting Bush's Iraq request by $1.3 billion to pay for new border patrol agents, aircraft, and some fencing at border crossings was adopted on a 59 to 39 vote in the United States Senate.
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