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May 8, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 8, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the bountyful fruited plane.
I am uh Rush Limbaugh.
We are coming to you today.
Uh one and only EIB network from Los Angeles.
They're gonna be here today and tomorrow got out here actually Friday and uh have have been uh uh motoring around playing golf, uh going to parties, the usual things that you would expect somebody of my stature to do uh when in Los Angeles.
By the way, where where do we get this ditto camp?
We got a ditto cam up here where so we could uh uh satisfy the uh increasing demand for all of you at rushlimbaugh.com.
But did we win this thing as the prize in a box of cracker jack or what?
I mean, it it it's I never see it's tiny as it can be, but it looks good, and uh we welcome all of you.
It's a different angle, and it's of course we're in a different studio here, so that's why it looks uh a little bit different.
Great to be with you, folks.
Hope you had a uh a great weekend.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program's 800-282-2882, and the email address is uh rush at eIB net.com.
Before we get going, since I'm talking about the website, uh ladies and gentlemen, you might want to get your club getmo gear now because President Bush said yesterday he would like to close it.
I don't know why.
I I this this some of the things this administration's doing today, folks, uh in the past week, I cannot explain why in the world you would when with all of this uh focus and all this attention and all this criticism, and you've got a CIA guy to announce today.
We'll get to that in just a second.
Why you would say uh we're gonna close Club Gitmo because the Democrats want it closed and because some foreign leaders want it closed.
Um but he said, Yeah, I'd like to close it down, but I'm waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on where suspects held there might be tried.
Now, as you know, human rights groups have accused the U.S. of mistreating Gitmo detainees through cruel interrogation methods.
Uh a charge, of course, denied by the U.S. government.
It just keeps recycling.
Uh, and I uh from a from a you know, we talk about this a lot, public relations standpoint, it um it's it's baffling to me why this kind of response to critics when it's not gonna make any difference whatsoever.
It's like this the announcement of the new CIA director, this uh this uh Mr. Hayden, General Hayden.
I mean, the debate that's going on, the media has had a a tizzy today, all day Friday when it was rumored that he would be the new guy, and today when he was made the new guy, everybody's debating whether he should be at the CIA because he's in the military.
That that is as stupid as anything gets.
We've had presidents who served in the military, we've had secretaries of state who served in the military, Colin Powell most recently.
We've had secretaries of defense who served in the military, it's Rumsfeld.
The issue is not whether somebody served in the military.
The issue is whether the guy's gonna shake up the place, not whether he served in the in the military, everybody reports to the president anyway.
That's not the real problem here.
In fact, do you remember the name Stansfield Turner, uh, ladies and gentlemen?
He was Jimmy Carter's uh director of the CIA, not a distinguished one in uh a lot of people's uh minds, but I mean he would his title was Admiral uh Stansfield Turner, military guy.
Uh all of a sudden now, when Bush names a military guy, the uh uh the Democrat, you you can't you can't put a military what I'm focusing all this power in the Pentagon.
It's this garbage.
That there are two things that really need to be pointed out about this.
Number one is we've got this whole new bureaucracy, this that's headed up by John Negroponte, the uh national intelligence uh whatever it is, the and the CIA is now gonna have to report to that.
We just got another layer of bureaucracy, and we all know what happens when bureaucracies expand and grow.
Uh they become less efficient.
Uh the second thing uh about about this guy, Hayden or anybody else being appointed is the confirmation hearings.
And there's you know, there are people on both sides of this, some people afraid of these confirmation hearings, uh, because it will attract Republicans uh who also want to raise questions about the NSA foreign surveillance program, the Democrats call it domestic spying.
But I have I I've I've thought about this.
I actually am looking forward to these hearings.
If you have uh and we've got sound bites from Nancy Pelosi on the Meet the Press yesterday and the Washington Post had a story.
Yes, Democrats have already won.
They're back, they go back and forth.
They won, they haven't won, they're gonna win, they have the, but they're back full.
In fact, they're calling her speaker Pelosi, and they're already announcing their agenda at what they're gonna do, how they're gonna investigate Bush, what policies that are going to implement.
Like the first thing they're gonna do is raise the minimum wage.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
So anyway, they're back in this mode.
And I think you bring up this decorated general and you start trashing him on because he's a big believer, he ran the National Security Agency, was a huge believer in that uh whole program, the foreign surveillance program, which the Democrats again call domestic spying.
And if if they bring this guy up, and if the Democrats want to go on display, once again attacking an Air Force man, a military man, who's making it plain that he views his job, number one, the defense and the security of this country in their already one everything mode.
They could shoot themselves in the foot.
I think they're gonna do that uh anyway.
Folks, you never you never think you've won something before you've won it.
You never think you have something before you have it.
It affects your attitude, and this is arrogance on display, along with a little condescension.
And I know that the Republicans are not doing a whole lot to recommend themselves lately, but the Democrats certainly aren't either, and there's dissension in their ranks among their base.
Uh yesterday, the Washington Post actually it is stunning to watch the drive-by media operate.
The Washington Post actually on their Outlook section, the op-ed page on Sunday, had a column by this uh this guy, this this fringe kook that runs the Daily Cause.
I don't know how you pronounce it, doesn't matter how it's pronounced.
It's the it's the Bible of the fringe kook left blogosphere.
The guy's got a book out.
What's he sold?
5,000 copies of his book, and he's writing an op-ed in the Washington Post, attempting to explain what the Democratic Party base thinks, and what it's all about how Hillary is not the answer for them.
And unless she changes and comes around, why they're not you're not gonna support her.
And he does point out that, you know, not one Democrat, including uh De Schlieckmeister, has gotten over 50% of the vote since uh 1976.
And they've not even come close.
You know, 40 43 is what Clinton got in his first year, and I think 47 in his second uh second go around.
So anyway, uh, you know, we've got what else we have coming up on the uh program with all of that.
Oh, and Houston, Houston, Texas, upset.
Their crime rate is skyrocketing out there because of the uh the Katrina evacuees.
They think their their crime rate and their murder rate would have actually gone down, but it's up.
And I, ladies and gentlemen, is America's anchor man will explain uh all of this to you.
We got a lot to do today, plus uh your phone call, so sit tight.
We'll come back in just a second, take a uh run through with the audio sound bites.
A lot of good ones.
As I say, Nancy Pelosi on Meet the Press yesterday was you just waiting here if you didn't hear it.
The EIB network and El Rushbo, and we'll be right back after this.
America's anchor man, America's truth detector, the doctor of democracy, Rush Limbaugh, behind the golden EIB microphone from secretly located, very secure bunkers and studios uh in Los Angeles.
800 282-2882 is the number if you would uh like to be on the uh program people.
What are you doing out there?
Do I have to have a reason, folks?
I went to the email.
So what are you doing what does it matter?
Do I have to have a reason why I am anywhere?
Now the audience demanding explanation, why are you in LA?
If you must know, as you know, I have a cochlear implant, and it was implanted by a superb surgeon at the House Ear Institute, and they're having their 60th anniversary uh celebration, dinner party blast, whatever, uh, tomorrow night at a private home in a very exclusive section of an unnamed part of this town, okay?
And I was invited to go.
And so I decided to come out here on Friday, play some golf with some friends.
I did that Saturday.
I did that Sunday.
I'm doing that this afternoon.
Uh I'm going to dinner with uh the 24 guys tonight, had dinner with them last night.
I had about three hours' sleep.
What else can I tell you?
I hope, as I'm looking at, I gotta go to Dallas on uh Thursday.
We get back into Los from Los Angeles uh Wednesday morning at seven.
So I hope I can sleep on the plane going back because I'm leaving the House Ear Institute party, going to the airport, getting out of plane, flying back.
I gotta go to Dallas on Thursday for a rush to excellence performance.
Uh I'm I'm play uh I'm looking forward to Sunday to get some sleep.
Now I don't mean to sound irritated about this, folks, but what are you doing in LA?
Why are you in LA?
Everything okay if everything couldn't be better, folks.
Just uh it could I in fact I shouldn't tell you this.
Well, I went to dinner on Saturday night, and uh after after dinner, the person I had dinner with said, I want to take you for a ride in my car.
It's one of these little two-seat roadster things.
And I said, I don't know, it's awfully small.
I I I'm I'm used to riding, you know, in cars that weigh at least six thousand pounds and get eight miles to the gallon.
Person, no, no, come on and do it.
And got in the car, says, let's go down Wilshire Boulevard.
I want to pretend we're in a video game.
Start zooming in and out of traffic as though we were in a video game.
Top down.
It was cold that was about in the 50s or something, had the heat seat uh heat heat seater on.
The seat heater was on.
So no, it's it's been a tremendous amount of fun out here.
We got out and set up the studio here.
Uh uh Brian is here, Dawn's here, uh, Snerdley uh is not here because we don't need him.
Uh, but the whole gang is here.
We're just having uh we're just having a blast.
Try this, folks, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Just got this story from Boulder City, Nevada, one of the biggest, or Nevada, one of the biggest jackpots in Nevada may not be a casino.
Residents of Boulder City could vote on a plan to make every man, woman, and child there a millionaire.
An initiative that could be on the November ballot calls for the city to sell 167 square miles of undeveloped open land in one of the hottest real estate markets in the country to properties about 25 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
The ballot measure would require the city to distribute the billions to the 15,000 people that live in Boulder City.
Now it's too late to move there.
The only people who lived in Boulder City as of March 31st would qualify.
However, residents shouldn't start counting their millions just yet because city officials said they intend to fight the forced land sale initiative in court.
What is this sort of like reverse eminent domain?
Imagine that.
Uh but who would want to be a real estate agent in this town?
I mean, there wouldn't be much reason to buy a house since the March 31st deadline's passed.
And only a fool would be only fool would sell their house now to move out before this issue is settled, uh, before they might become um uh a millionaire.
I don't know, I don't know if there's gonna be much action or real estate at all if this thing actually happens.
All right, let's go to the audio sound bites.
We'll start on this uh uh Hayden business.
Mike Hayden, General Mike Hayden, uh CIA director Bush takes it right to his Republican critics in his uh opening remarks today about this.
Mike knows our intelligence community from the ground up.
He has been both a provider and a consumer of intelligence.
He's overseen the development of both human and technological intelligence.
Uh-huh.
He has demonstrated an ability to adapt our intelligence services to the new challenges of the war on terror.
Uh-huh.
He's the right man to lead the CIA at this critical moment in our nation's history.
Well, there are a lot of Republicans out there not happy about this, but it's not, it's not because it's military business, not because they got to have a general over at CIA.
There's nothing wrong with that, especially when the Democrats do it.
But uh bew.
What people are upset about, I think on the Republican side is that he's a techno guy, and he doesn't know anything about human intelligence or uh has not overseen any of that.
Bush said that's not true.
He has.
This is this statement that Bush made was actually made to Republicans uh who have spoken out against this nomination.
Here is uh General Mike Hayden himself, part of his accepting the nomination today.
In the confirmation process, I look forward to meeting with leaders of the Congress, better understanding their concerns and working with them to move the American intelligence community forward.
This is simply too important not to get absolutely right.
To the men and women Of the Central Intelligence Agency.
If I'm confirmed, I would be honored to join you and work with so many people.
Stop the tape here a second.
What I wish he would have said, and I know he won't say it, but I wish he would have said, and to the men and women of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Whichever one of you, however many of you, any of you, all of you who are leaking and trying to destroy the policies of this administration, I'm going to find you, and I'm going to leak you out of here.
I hope that's actually what he's going to do.
Resume the tape there, Aldermont.
Your achievements are frequently underappreciated and hidden from the public eye.
Yeah.
But you know what you do to protect the Republic.
And you know what you're not doing, too.
There's a lot, what not said here.
You know what you're not doing to protect the Republic.
This guy is going to go in there, folks.
He's going to have horns painted on his head.
He's not going to be popular over there.
He's it's apparently he's got the potential to be even tougher than uh Porter Goss was in trying to clean the uh place out.
Let's move on to audio soundbite number four.
This is uh Joe Biden with uh Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday yesterday.
Wyden uh is asked this question or Biden's asked this question.
Senator, I'd like to get your reaction to the resignation of Porter Goss, the apparent nomination of General Mike Hayden.
I was surprised by Porter's resignation.
Uh it's not surprising that there is a lot of turmoil at CIA.
He was not the most popular figure there.
I'll not comment on whether or not uh it was justified or not, but I was surprised.
And uh I think uh the chairman of the House Committee uh made a pretty uh strong statement about the concerns of the agency and whether or not they're about to be uh quite frankly uh just gobbled up by the defense department, and whether Hayden would in fact be that agent or not remains to be seen.
But the fact is that's with the concern.
Yeah, that the CIA is gonna be gobbled up by the Defense Department.
Uh go back to Cut Three.
This is David Ensore, a little montage of his comments uh on CNN about the nomination of Mike Hayden.
I have to tell you that of all the generals in Washington, this is probably Donald Rumsfeld's least favorite general.
This is not uh Donald Rumsfeld's favorite general.
Well, so uh if uh if the Pentagon is gonna be taking over intelligence here, uh it's it's hard to see how this is gonna happen because it'll be a turf banner.
It's it's it's absurd anyway.
Democrats just trying to stoke all these fears of the military running everything.
And uh it's you know whether somebody's good at doing their job is all that should matter here.
And note that it has nothing to do with that.
The Democrats criticizing this guy have nothing to say about whether he'll be any good or not.
It's is this a takeover of intelligence by the military?
Apparently, if the takeover of intelligence by John Negro Ponty, if uh you want to know the truth.
Now let's go to Miss America.
We cannot.
Ladies and gentlemen, go through this without listening to uh the woman who would be the Speaker of the House, and they're already already calling her that, if the Democrats do win the uh midterms in 08.
She's not with Tim Russet or 06.
Tim Russert says, Do you think Porter Goss left voluntarily?
No.
He's been on his way out for uh at least one month because of uh the struggle between him and Mr. Negro Ponti.
Uh, but I think that this dismissal was triggered uh by what's been happening on the scandal front uh for the Republicans with the third in command who was hired by Mr. Goss uh to uh uh to be involved in these card games and whatever else it was.
But you have no evidence of that.
I have no thought that Mr. Goss is caught up in any of this.
No.
Well, then why did you say he is quit because of it?
Woman is a is uh she's an embarrassment.
They have to know this.
But they don't.
If they do, they're not doing actually, folks.
I do have in today's stack of stuff, I do have somewhere one of these stacks that there is stories about the it's an American spectator blurb today, and where the Democrats are really some of them get it, uh the problem that they have with Pelosi.
Now, what she's talking about here, she just has to push this scandal business because she can't get off of the fact that they wanted to make a deal out of the so-called culture of corruption.
See, I think this dismissal was triggered by what's been happening on the scandal front for the Republicans with the third in command who was hired by Mr. Goss to be involved in these card games and whatever else it was.
This stuff hit over the weekend.
Uh the number three guy was actually playing.
It's all related to Duke Cunningham.
There were poker games and expensive cigars being smoked in a Watergate uh apartment or something.
And apparently there are prostitutes involved in this.
Uh they were sent over there, and uh it's all part of this defense contractor that's tied up with Cunningham.
So Pelosi is alluding to that.
And Goss was said in one of these stories to have been playing poker and smoking expensive cigars like mine.
As though it's some kind of crime.
And she ties him into this.
And if you have no evidence of that, Russia.
Well, no, no.
I have no thought that Mr. Goss is caught up in any of it.
Well, you just said that he was, and that's why he resigned.
Woman is a she's a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.
She's just a d she's just insofar over her head, and I don't think she even knows.
We have one more Pelosi bite, and then a Republican and Arlen Speck.
Two Republicans, Peter Hookstra and Arlan Spectre.
We'll get to all that after this brief timeout EIB obscene profit break.
Half my brain tied behind my back, folks, just to make it fair.
800-282-2882 is the phone number.
We'll be getting your phone calls here in just a second.
Back to the audio soundbites, Nancy Pelosi.
And this is not the good Pelosi stuff.
I'm going by topic here today, not person.
So we'll get to Pelosi, the Democrats' plan to take over and what they're all going to do in just a second here.
But first, Russert uh says uh Miss Pelosi, you you've expressed concerns about the eavesdropping program, but you wouldn't end the program, would you?
I believe that again, our our Congress and our president must have the best possible intelligence.
And it's possible to do that under the law.
But you would end the existing program.
No, I wouldn't end the existing program.
Well, then be quiet.
What what if you wouldn't end the existing program and no Democrat is called for the existing program to end, and yet you watch when the hearings for Mike Hayden start, that's what they're gonna focus on.
And I I you know it could go either way, depends on what the Republicans do, but I think there is a political upside to this.
If the nation and a Democrat, they're gonna cameras will be on this, they can't wait, folks.
They're gonna they're gonna try to uncover as much of what they think this president's done in secret as they can in these hearings, and Mike Hayden's descent looks to me, sounds to me like a guy that is up to it, can handle it.
And if the Democrats want to go on display, and I think they're entirely capable of it, they're arrogance, such they think they've already won the elections in November, and by definition the White House in 08.
Uh, if they want to put their their uh uh passion uh for exposing this nation to further terrorist attack by weakening programs that would help us learn when and if future attacks are slated.
They want to do that.
If they want to just put this military man who will be there in his uniform, who's gonna be talking about protecting the country and national security, and if they want to try to make this guy look like the enemy, then I think let him go.
I can't imagine that they'll be stupid enough.
Yes, they will.
I can I can totally imagine it.
This NSA program is a classic example.
Pelosi wouldn't end it, no Democrat would, but they want to impeach Bush over it.
Now the two Republicans, this from uh Fox News Sunday, uh Congressman Peter Hookstra, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and a question.
The big question today, of course, is who's gonna be the new CIA chief?
Uh you think you'll get the job, of course he did.
Two is uh is Mike Hayden the right guy.
I've got a lot of respect for Mike Hayden.
I think he's done a very good job in the positions that he's had.
He's got a distinguished career.
Bottom line, I do believe he's the wrong person at the wrong place at the wrong time.
We should not have a military person leading a civilian agency at this time.
Why not?
What am I not getting here?
It's okay when the Democrats nominate Stansfield Turner.
He was an admiral.
It's okay when Democrats nominate military people to serve in these what what's what I don't understand the Republicans on this.
And a lot of things.
Uh now it's Spectre's turn.
Uh, Chris Wallace says, what's your reaction to the apparent nomination of General Hayden?
I believe that his nomination will give us an opportunity to try to find out about what the program is.
Uh, Chris, uh uh Congress has relatively limited Leverage uh on the White House on exercising our constitutional authority for oversight.
Now, with uh General Hayden up for confirmation, uh, this will give us an opportunity to try to find out.
If the Senate has a mind to assert its constitutional prerogatives here, uh, then uh we could use this for leverage to find out.
Goody goody.
I uh I sit here with a lot of hope and and I sit here with a lot of uh experience, and I I uh I just have a feeling that the president is not afraid of these hearings on this NSA thing.
In fact, I think he might be looking forward to it.
And I think that maybe one of the reasons that Mike Hayden has been nominated because he ran the NSA, that the agency's spying on Americans, quote unquote.
Uh I have always thought, I've always thought that the president was look would look forward to any hearings into this NSA program because I think that they in the White House think it's a slam dunk win.
And if you look at the polling data, and everybody in Washington, especially in a year like this does, the polling data clearly has the American people understanding the need for the program and supporting it.
Uh it's one of the curious things about why the Democrats have taken their position, uh, since they are so attuned to uh to polling as well.
More on uh on this uh Porter Goss business.
Dusty Fogo is the uh executive director of the CIA, the number three in command at Nancy Pelosi referred to.
Uh and he is uh the executive director to link to a bribery investigation.
It's expected that he will resign soon, according to CIA officials and his associates.
Uh the uh outgoing director, Porter Goss had refused to remove Dusty Fogo from his powerful post after Fogo.
Sounds like sounds like he's a he's a hobbit.
Dusty Fogo.
Anyway, came under investigation by the FBI, the CIA inspector general, so he's uh he's soon to be history.
Here's uh uh night in New Orleans.
I'm glad you called.
You're up first today on the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Oh, thanks, Rush.
This is great.
Uh get an opportunity to talk to you about the crime rate in New Orleans going down.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Did you mean to say that the crime rate in New Orleans is going down?
Yes, the crime rate in New Orleans is going down.
The crime rate in Houston has gone up.
That's right.
That's right.
Okay, I'm sorry.
I thought you misunderstood my first story.
You were talking about Houston.
No, I apologize.
Go ahead and make your point.
Okay, well, in fact, uh the people in New Orleans are so happy that our uh crime rate is going down that we have bumper stickers on our cars that say thanks, Houston.
Well, let me not happy night.
Houston Houston's not happy, but we've learned something about once again.
We've learned something.
Is there something else you wanted to add before I get on to this uh story about Houston?
Okay, go ahead.
Yeah, if I could.
Uh the cops in New Orleans and in Houston know that it's uh just a handful of uh hardened career criminals that are doing most of the uh murders and robberies and the violent crime.
In fact, one of them uh from New Orleans goes by the street name of B Stupid.
And the crime rate in Houston shot up over one weekend, and the crime rate in New Orleans dropped.
And he was seen in Houston and linked to about a dozen murders.
Well, then suddenly he was seen in New Orleans again, and our crime rate went up, but he was uh caught by the police here in New Orleans.
But be stupid uh didn't do too well.
But bottom line is we thank Houston for taking our criminal element, and uh we uh we feel sorry for him.
But uh but New Orleans is better off.
I can s I hear the sympathy uh in your voice.
You say you feel sorry for him, but I I I really I can I I hear a smile on your face.
Let's look at this from Houston's perspective.
This is uh a story today from actually it was a couple days ago from the Houston Chronicle violence among Hurricane Katrina evacuees, much of it coming in Southwest Houston neighborhoods, targeted in a new anti-crime campaign accounted for nearly a quarter of homicides.
That'd be twenty-five percent for those of you in Rio Linda, uh so far in the city this year.
Since January first, police have investigated a hundred and twenty-four homicides, twenty-nine of which involved evacuees as victims or attackers.
There were a hundred three homicides over the same period last year without the evacuee-related deaths this year.
Uh the city says that uh they would have experienced a seven point eight percent decrease.
Not just in crime, we're talking homicides here.
In the last four months of 2005, evacuees were victims or suspects in 18 homicides, accounting for 13% of such crimes during that period.
Uh there were a total of uh 336 killings investigated last year, representing 22% increase over 2004.
The uh uh police captain Dale uh Brown, who is of the Houston Police Department said, yeah, as it relates to murders, there's a definite Katrina effect, and it's most noticeable since December.
All right, now let me let me put this in perspective for you.
You had Texans, Houstonians extend the hand of uh friendship and charity to literally thousands of Katrina refugees, and now they're getting hammered uh by the people that fled New Orleans.
The city is now lamenting the murder rate would have actually declined had it not been for the refugees running it up.
Now, here's what we're seeing, folks.
One of the things, and I know this is gonna irritate some of you in New Orleans, and I'm sorry, but it's the truth.
When when after Hurricane Katrina, and there was such misery, and there was such suffering.
We were all stunned because New Orleans uh has been run by Democrats, Louisiana's been run by Democrats for decades.
Liberal Democrats to moot new uh to boot New Orleans should have been a a utopia.
There should not have been any racism because liberals don't believe in it, should not have been any unemployment because liberals don't like that.
Uh everybody should have been earning lots of money because liberals support paying people more than the minimum wage.
There shouldn't have been any discrimination because liberals are not racists.
There shouldn't have been any poverty because liberals won't tolerate it and they have a war on power.
And yet, what did we find?
We found it was the exact opposite.
We had a microcosm, a model of exactly what unchecked liberalism does.
It creates destitution, it creates hopelessness, it creates a mess.
Such a mess they couldn't even save some of the people who were there and get them out of town, even though they had the mechanism and the advance warning to do it.
So this is what happens.
When you take a government-dependent, crime-ridden neighborhood and relocate it to another city.
Shazam, you get the same thing.
You can take people out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the people in the way they've been raised, the way that they have been coddled by government and so forth.
So now Houston has a problem here.
Um and if if something like this happens in the future, will any other city be as eager to offer assistance uh if the if the likelihood is that a similar group of people are gonna be your new inhabitants.
Lisa in New Orleans, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush.
Well, you couldn't be more right.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you.
But what I wanted to also add um that really I haven't heard much reporting on.
We've lost so many of our best and best Houston.
We've lost the heads of our companies, medium, small.
We've just there's been a brain drain that has gone over there as well.
So um Orleans is still very broken, and we need a lot of workers, but they they're a lot of our very best are there.
Yeah, I know it's coming back slowly.
It's coming in fact coming slower than I thought it would.
I thought the rebuilding process uh this is not be critical of anybody.
I just I thought the rebuilding process would be going along a little faster than uh than it is.
And it's I want to invite you to come visit us.
We still have great food, and uh I think if you would come here, that would give us a huge um not only uh monetary boost, but an emotional boost.
And um, so I'd love to invite you to come visit any time.
Any time what are we gonna do?
Uh I'll take you to the best restaurants in New Orleans.
You'll have so much fun.
I mean, it's wonderful.
My husband and I would love to host you.
Would you?
Well, that's awfully sweet of you.
And I'm I'm that I'm flattered that you think uh uh trips into into into New Orleans by uh uh people like me could could provide a boost or actually uh help in in uh in whatever way.
That's nice if you say that I don't even think it.
I know it.
I know you would just be you would you can feel you could feel it in the air if you would come.
Well, yeah, I can understand that.
I mean, I have that kind of aura, that kind of charisma and electricity.
I understand that, but in terms of act having it spur on the recovery, that's what I I I'm having trouble visualizing.
But I it's worth putting it to the test.
You never know.
Well, you come and we'll test it out, and I guarantee you will get good results.
Well, I I'll tell you what you're the second or third person that's mentioned this to me, and I will I will uh I will seriously consider this.
Thank you very much.
I want to warn you though, Lisa, I have tried this in two other depressed areas, both out in Sacramento, I've uh West Sacramento was having trouble in Rio Linda, of course, and I offered when I lived out there to move to both places if they would name the town Limbaugh, California.
And and they because I said property values are skyrocketing, you have all kinds of people want to move in.
We'll get the cars off the concrete blocks in the front yard, we'll get the garbage picked up, and all I was just name it Limbaugh, California.
They wouldn't do it.
So I didn't go.
And West Sachs doing okay, but Rio Linda is still Rio Linda, and it's always going to be real Linda, despite the efforts to help.
So it's not it's not automatic.
Jonathan away in New Jersey, welcome to the EIB network.
You're next.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Megaditto's from New Jersey and from a former F-15 pilot.
Ah, thank you, sir very much.
Great to have you with us.
I love history of all kinds, particularly military history, and what's just galling me is that the head of the OSS, the predecessor of the CIA, was found was started with an Army reserve colonel, Bill Donovan, but he was a Democratic activist, and there was no accusation that the military was trying to take over the CIA.
When Truman canceled the OSS and restarted the CIA, it was with a Navy Admiral at the head, Admiral Hillencrofter.
Oh, yes, Admiral Hillencrofter.
When he failed to predict the communist invasion, he was replaced by an Army general, General Beatles Smith, who was Eisenhower's chief of staff.
Right.
So military people at the head of the CIA, and as you also mentioned, the Admiral appointed by uh President Carter, there's no trouble.
It's only when a Republican appoints a military man that all of a sudden the military's trying to take over the CIA.
Or the military is trying to take over everything.
Remember that it fits a pattern that they've established.
The one thing that's been great about these last five or six years in one sense is that Democrats have told everybody who they are.
They have in in the past, they used to try to disguise their disgust for the military.
They tried to disguise their disgust uh for uh a number of institutions and traditions in America, but they've made no bones about it now.
They've let it be known.
They don't trust and they don't even like the military.
Consider it a problem.
Got to get rid of Rumsfeld, got to get it rid of rice, gotta get rid of anybody uh that they think has anything to do with any of the war on terror or the war in Iraq.
Everybody lied, phoning intelligence and so forth.
And so when a military man like Mike Hayden is named the potential CIA director, they've already they've already established a pattern.
They have no choice but to go in and keep sounding the clarion warning bells about how dangerous it is to have the military in charge of anything.
I'm sorry, Rush, they're afraid of him because he's actually done something with the foreign intercept program.
They loved the the appointee at Stansfield Turner, because after the church commission, when they emasculated the CIA, he did nothing.
Yeah, it went along with it, in fact.
So it's if it's a Democrat appointee, they love it.
If it's a Republican appointee, especially with someone with a track record of getting something done to protect our country, they hate him.
The military's taking it over.
Uh that is true.
That in fact, I think that point needs to be made over and over again.
The reason that they're uh all up in arms about Hayden, and the reason they're all up in arms about Rumsfeld, these people are good.
They're effective.
They achieve what they set out to achieve, which is not the things that the Democrats uh want to achieve themselves.
I mean, they're the Democrats believe in this notion that it's dangerous for us to be a superpower.
Uh and and they're folks, it's a precarious time.
They're willing to wreck any institution or tradition in this country in order to get their power back.
Uh and and this NSA program, the foreign intelligence um and foreign surveillance program, uh, is is crucial.
The fact that they want to tear this well, they that's it they don't want to stop it.
They don't want to tear it down, but they're trying to Make everybody think that Bush is the guy spying on everybody in America just because he gets his jollies doing it.
They've never advanced one theory as to what in the world Bush should be spying on people about.
Uh it's just it it's silly, but it's an excellent point.
It's because Hayden will probably be effective.
But I have to tell you, I've done a lot of reading on this this morning, and there's some people on our side of the aisle who don't think he's going to be effective, who don't think he's the right man at the right time for the right job because of the military business.
And I one of the things that that uh if you look at Ohio.
If I if I may make a point here, we we look at the Republican Party in Washington and we see it floundering, we see it not able to make up its mind on the right thing to do on immigration or any number of issues.
We see Republicans doing everything they can to distance themselves from the president except when it's time to fundraise.
And I last week, I mean, if Democrat, if the Republicans actually want to help themselves, there's two things they can do.
They can start talking about and then governing when they win, conservatism again.
Now, the president does not lead a conservative movement.
He is conservative in some things, but he's he's more a politician.
Reagan led a conservative movement.
Every speech Ronald Reagan made, there was a a uh an effort to define the conservative movement and to expand it and to inspire people to join it.
And that's uh oh.
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And I have to fix that error right now.
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And so um uh we just played that one ten minutes late.
So we gotta do the next one now.
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Relax.
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