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May 26, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 26, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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Yeah, I just learned something I can't believe.
I walked in out of the side of the glass here during the top of the hour break.
I just wanted to say hello, and the only one in there was Dawn.
I know what Brian was doing.
Snertley's uh who knows what.
Snerdley and Dawn sit side by side and they instant message each other.
There's a cultural, there's a there's a cultural shift happening here, folks.
People are sitting side by side.
Instant message.
I know what you're gonna say, it's because you can't talk because then you couldn't hear me.
Right?
Right.
I know you're gonna try to flatter me that way, but there's gotta be more to it than that.
There has to be.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
That's a good point.
The broadcast engineer reminds me, I am leaves a trail.
And I have access to our corporate servers.
Ha ha ha.
Anyway, great to have you folks back with us as Open Line Friday continues on the one and only excellence in broadcasting network.
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All right, Cookie has sent me some selected quotes from the Senate press conference.
But it's only a uh after the legislation, immigration bill was signed yesterday.
There was there's no nobody covered this.
There is no video or audio.
Um.
But it some of the quotes that these guys uh were for Harry Reed to say nobody got what they wanted.
Listen to Harry Reid, is what he said yesterday.
This, this is the way that we should legislate.
On a bipartisan basis.
I didn't get everything I wanted.
Far from that, but I got a lot of what I wanted, and I'm satisfied with what's in this bill.
I'm so proud of the people that are assembled behind me.
There's too many people to point out individually, but I want you all to know how proud I am to be a senator today.
Oh, be still my beating heart.
He didn't get all he wanted.
He's happy because the Senate worked together.
He's happy because the Republicans in the Senate caved and let Ted Kennedy essentially write the bill with John McCain.
That's why he's happy.
He's happy because the Republicans didn't stand up for Republican values at all.
At least the Republicans had voted for this thing.
Then Pat Leakey Leahy said, We started with a good base bill, as the majority leader said from the Judiciary Committee.
There's not everything in here I want.
Oh, this is becoming a theme.
There's not everything in here I want.
Uh uh, there's not everything that any one of us want.
But we've had people who've worked together.
I see the two floor managers, I see Senator McCain and Senator Martinez and Hegel and others, Senators Obama and Durban.
By the way, you know, Obama's being touted as the next great democratic presidential hope.
What has he done?
I'm getting, I don't want to get sidetracked with that yet.
A speech, just like Cuomo, it's exactly right.
He made a speech that qualifies him to be president.
Uh so there's a theme.
No, no, we didn't get what we were so happy to work together.
Bipartisanship.
Let me tell you, I've told you people for 18 years how Democrats define bipartisanship.
Bipartisanship is when Republicans cave and agree with Democrats.
That is always what bipartisanship is meant.
And it was on full display throughout this immigration debate in the Senate.
Senator Kennedy said, I pay tribute to my colleague and friend Senator McCain, who we've worked with for three years in the development of this legislation.
With our colleagues here, members of the Judiciary Committee and a band of brothers, Republican and Democrat alike, who saw the importance of the passage of this legislation, saw that America needed to relight the golden lamp.
And that is what the United States Senate has done today with the passage of this comprehensive legislation with our strong commitment to achievement.
America will be a stronger, fairer, most more just place.
McCain.
I'd like to pay special tribute to a lion in winter, an honorable man who it was a great pleasure and privilege for me to work with Senator Kennedy.
Dick Turban.
In the history of the U.S., there have been many sad and tragic chapters written on the issue of immigration.
Tonight we have written a proud chapter.
A bill that was constructed in good faith, a hard-fought bill on the floor.
The Senate emerges in full support of comprehensive immigration reform across America tomorrow.
Millions will rise with hope in their hearts.
Now there is a chance, finally a chance for them to be part of America.
Senator Hagel, I am very proud to stand with this distinguished group of United States Senators.
What I believe we saw happen in the Senate over the last few weeks was the United States Senate helping govern this country, developing a consensus of purpose to deal with the challenges that face this country.
That's what governing is about.
Bringing a consensus of purpose, focus on a problem, deal with a challenge, find a resolution, and help lead the country.
No, that's not what governing's about.
Governing's about leadership, not consensus.
Consensus is the absence of leadership.
And Vice President Graham.
I'm just pleased as punched to be a member of the Senate this week.
Been the highlight of my time in the Senate.
You know who's out of the shadows?
Every member of Congress.
Before you can get the other people out of the shadows, you gotta get us to take a stand.
Now, this is a high point of my time in the Senate, but if you really want to get people out of the shadows and fix broken borders, you need to fix your Congress.
And this Congress is on the road to self-healing.
My God, folks, do you realize what we're listening to here?
We're listening to a bunch of people think they're in a 12-step program.
And then Cookie was going to put together a montage of uh of all of this, but we don't have the tape because there isn't any tape.
Because there's no audio.
There wasn't any video.
And it would have Reed saying, Bill, thank you very much.
Leahy saying thank you, Arlen.
I want to thank you, of course, and Senator Kennedy.
I also want to thank both our our leaders, Frist and Harry Reed.
Kennedy pay tribute to my colleague and friend Senator McCain.
Uh Senator Hagel, Senator Martinez, who came up with a carefully crafted compromise.
This is McCain speaking.
Uh Dick Durbin, literally there the whole time.
Joe Lieberman and our friend Barack Obama.
Wish there was audio of this, but there isn't.
We have scoured every known source.
Uh, we even call the NSA, folks, and do you guys have any tape of the Senate press conference after the legislation?
They said, sorry, we can't answer that.
But we tried.
But we have this, and we'll put the transcript here of these uh little bites at rushlimbaugh.com, so you will at least be able to read uh what I read to you.
The economy showed even more pep than initially thought in the first quarter, zipping ahead at a 5.3% pace, a less energetic housing market and high energy prices are now taking out some of the oomph.
Uh but the first quarter growth was uh what, 4.9?
They always revise these things, and it's five point three percent growth in the first quarter.
Uh your members of Congress are on uh the case, ladies and gentlemen.
Lawmakers yesterday addressed an issue that rankles company shareholders in the public executive pay packages and perks.
A senior Democrat, Representative Barney, my boy Lollipop Frank of Massachusetts wants Congress to give shareholders a greater say over executive compensation.
I thought they already did this.
When Clinton was in, see, they keep coming back to this stuff.
They have all they put all these legislation legislation in limiting the deductibility to one million dollars on executive pay.
Anything over that company can't deduct.
So they thought they would so all they did was come up with they created the whole notion of stock options and bonuses and ways to get around the legislation.
And uh just like McCain Feingold somehow forgot that they might find a way around their legislation, and they did with 527s.
Uh so now there's a loophole, and uh the Congress wants to fix that.
Uh just just too many uh executives getting too much money out there.
Congress has to step in.
Uh can't allow this to happen.
Uh you people don't like it.
Congress doesn't like it, it isn't fair, and so the federal government uh biting off even more uh to chew on.
Uh take a quick time out, be back and continue In mere moments, stay with us.
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Rush Limbaugh to Phoenix.
This is Gary.
It's great to have you, Gary.
Welcome to the program.
Yes, hi.
It's an honor and a privilege to be on your program.
Thank you, sir.
Let me make a couple comments dealing with Arizona politics.
Well, first of all, Arizona's rated number one on illegal entry.
And uh for the last several years there's been very little done.
Well, really nothing done from uh the leadership at the governor's position.
We have a democratic governor, but we have a state controlled Republican Senate.
Yes.
They've put together uh things uh that have strongly supported uh the proper uh closing down of the border and doing different kinds of things, but every time they pass a bill, the governor vetoes it.
Now that's a consistent pattern that's been happening for several years.
You had a caller a couple calls back that said he was shocked at the popularity of John McCain.
Well, here in Arizona, the Republican Party has very mixed feelings about John McCain.
He ran uncontested in the last primary, and his strongest part was is running in election prior to that.
But he has turned face and turned literally, I would call call him a liberal republican.
So anyway, what I was calling about mainly is is I think that ninety percent of the people in this country are classified as moderate Republicans and moderate c uh Democrats.
And uh those people uh dealing with this immigration issue, they've really come together.
So I mean they question like myself, being a lifelong Republican, I question my party, the Republican Party, and I think there's a lot of Democrats out there that are questioning their party.
So both sides of the moderate level is they're extremely upset with this bill that just passed the Senate yesterday.
Very, very upset.
So I think that to place a blame uh where blame should be uh set would be is uh the people that have been uh the supporters of a John McCain Kennedy format, whenever John McCain and Kennedy came together, you it should have set off the lights.
What's going on here?
So anyway, I think.
Well, just like McCain Feingold, should have but that's see, that's McCain's gambit.
McCain stakes out that territory so he can hold on to his maverick status.
McCain knows he cannot be I don't care what he's trying to do now, he knows he cannot be elected president without Democrat votes.
Well, forget the moderate, forget that he can't be elected without Democrat votes.
Another key thing I think that just a real uh tactic that should not be used would be is this what do we do with twelve million people?
Well, I guarantee you here in Arizona, it's like this is we're uh in denial of a condition that exists right in front of our face.
And what it could be is is if you start with a little bit, it's it's like this is uh it's easier for a person to admit that they have a little problem and then seek treatment rather than if you tell them they have a major problem, they go into extreme denial.
So I think that if you started and admitting that you have a little problem and you started and showed that we turn back the illegal migration that's happening from the south, then those people what does it do?
It will slow down first of all their initiative to come into the state of Arizona.
You know, you start with a little bit, admitting it, but those people coming in will say, uh oh, Arizona's doing something about it.
No, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a second.
I've got to go to two things.
You you can't do this just in Arizona.
If you if you choke it off there, they'll find somewhere else to get in.
Right, but every city is it'll deter the save the country.
I would like to err have every senator protect his own state because he was repl he was vo he was voted in by the people of it in his state.
Look at so if you say that each state takes care of fifty thousand, then we're not starting anything.
This is this is my point.
These guys in Washington are not they they don't want to do that.
You know, they don't want to stop the flow.
How much you like, you have a little problem.
Yeah, if you admit you have a little problem with this and you start doing something about it, then it will Stem the flow.
And then you can move ahead with sealing up the borders.
Whatever way you need to seal up the borders.
But you need to stem the flow.
And myself, I've had a lot of experience and a lot of we could go on for hours because I have been in the construction development business here in Arizona since the m early 80s.
Gary, they don't want to stem the flow.
I believe that they don't want to stem the fl flow, but I'll tell you, to gain a voter's edge being uh these people are entitled titled to march on the streets today and vote tomorrow.
That is absolutely ridiculous.
Hello.
Welcome to real life.
That's exactly what I'm trying to tell you this is all about.
There's a whole new pool of voters streaming across, and it's gonna get bigger.
There's a whole new pool of poverty-stricken people, uneducated streaming across, who are going to become dependent on the federal and state governments for you know social benefits.
Uh that is going to create more power for the federal government.
The federal government's going to grow.
This is the exact reason the moderates are trying to destroy, well, the Democrats trying to destroy the Republican Party, and the Republican Party is helping out.
And the moderates in the Republican Party are trying to destroy the conservatives and their dominance of the Republican Party.
There's so much that's tied up into this.
This is not I mean i in your mind, in my mind, yeah, it is securing the border.
I'm telling you that the Senate bill may as well open the border.
Open border people wrote this legislation.
Immigration lawyers who litigate cases on behalf of illegals wrote this legislation.
It's under the name of Kennedy and McCain, but they're the ones who wrote this.
This is you could look at this Senate bill.
If you had a map, you can and you could erase the border.
This erases it.
This takes away the border.
There's no border strengthening here.
The 370 mile fence, yeah.
Goody goody.
Uh-uh-uh-u uh.
Chris Dodd succeeded in putting a little amendment in there.
We have to consult Mexico on this.
Uh national and local state officials in Mexico, and we have to consult with them to find out what impact said fence will have on them.
Uh uh, folks.
Uh I'm gonna keep saying this until I'm blue in the face.
You can talk about choking off Arizona and then then and if you ever were able to do it there at the state level, they'll just find some other place to get in.
Uh well, the other states will do it too.
That's not gonna happen.
The federal government's gonna make sure this doesn't happen.
The Senate, if they get their way, is gonna make sure that doesn't happen.
You have to understand we have put up a giant welcome sign that is 200 or 2,000 miles long.
Essentially, what we've done, we need to go out and get the sign made.
It's gonna stretch from the Pacific Ocean all the way to Gulf of Mexico.
And it's gonna say, welcome.
Come on in.
Uh and it's gonna say that on the Pacific.
This isn't it's not is it's it's it's not it's not just Mexicans either.
We're talking about immigration from all over the world.
We're legal immigration is gonna be expanded.
Uh Mr. Snerdley is telling me, Gary, that I need to cut you some slack.
I d I'm st is it sound like I'm yelling at you.
I don't mean to be yelling at you.
No, it's just that I know that uh we've tried hard to uh as citizens in Arizona to try and get our highest level of government, our governor, to see the light through the trees to stop to stop or start to stop the flow of illegals crossing our border into Arizona.
We have not gotten a first base.
Yeah, I know, and there's a reason for that.
They don't want you to get the first base.
That's right.
So even though we had Proposition 200 pass, I can see where you talk to Californians about Prop 187.
Same thing there.
That was stopped dead in its tracks.
The Proposition 200 still had lots of provisions that were passed, and the governor came out and said that she would enforce it.
But we do not see that enforcement being taken and put into place.
Really?
I'm not surprised.
You don't see any enforcement of the Simpson Mazzoli immigration reform act of 1986 either.
There's all kinds of really hard p penalties against employers for hiring illegals.
Not enforced.
Hasn't been enforced, won't be enforced.
Uh there's there's no enforcement mechanism in this.
And and there's not intended to be.
I mean, it is an immigration bill.
I'm not entirely correct calling it uh when I say it's not an immigration.
It is, but it's not what you think.
The immigration reform it's taken place here is uh put a bunch of green lights up on the border that never turn red.
Uh and they're one way.
And it's it's we're not interested in assimilating people.
We're not interested in them becoming, you know, immigrants and Americans in the sense of the old days of immigration.
This this there's a whole different purpose going on here.
It's called big government gets even bigger, and your taxes go up.
I'm telling you.
Okay, dooba dooba.
Hubbahubba.
I understand I'm getting I'm getting an email from people.
Well, well, stop whining and stop complaining.
What are we gonna what are we gonna do about it?
You're bumming me out.
No, folks, don't look at it that way.
I am informing you, and obviously some people find this so hard to believe that they don't, they don't, it's not I'm not getting through to them yet.
I gotta keep after this till as many people as we've got till June 6th, when the House and Senate come back and they start their conference on this.
Just sit tight.
We're not we're not gonna we're gonna keep the powder dry until it's time to fire.
Relax.
In the meantime, education, entertainment and information will continue to flow from the golden EIB microphone as it always does.
Now, uh one of the well, let me run through this again.
Uh for the for the express purpose of uh making this clear as I went through this in the first hour.
One thing you have to understand about Senator McCain, folks, I've told you this countless times, and I don't mean this in a tisk-tist-tisk way.
I'm just repeating myself.
Whenever there is a piece of legislation with Senator McCain involved, it is never what it seems.
Campaign finance reform, we're gonna get the money out of politics.
It's it's being corrupted.
Okay, we've got more money in politics in more corrupting ways than ever before.
Hello, 527s, all this stuff.
We took the money away from the parties, we gave it to wackos on the Democratic side mostly who have just well, they're defeating themselves with it, but it's it didn't get the money out of all it did was restrict free speech.
This is called immigration reform.
It is nothing to do with emigration.
When Senator McCain wrote a piece in the LA Times the other day, I think it was on uh on Alacart Cable TV.
Now, folks, he was she was chairman of commerce committee.
I can't cite for you the number of bills that came out of that committee that were really gonna tighten down on cable companies.
I mean, they were raping people.
They were they were charging way too much.
It was sure we're gonna bring those rates down.
Your cable rates gone down, uh, folks.
Have they really gone down?
You think Alakart's gonna bring your cable rates down?
It won't.
Now you probably fall for it.
You know, I don't want that pervert trash coming into my house.
If I don't have to have it coming in, I don't want it coming.
Don't that's not the way to look at this.
We'll give you the economics lesson of this later, but uh this is a classic example of when when Senator McCain gets some legislation, it's the exact opposite of what he says, it is going to be.
House Republicans, you have to understand that this is a struggle between the conservative Reaganites and the moderate Republicans of the Bob Michael era.
There are a number of people.
Look at this as as Reagan versus Ford.
That's exactly where we are now.
In terms of up on Capitol Hill.
Uh Goldwater versus Rockefeller.
We've got the country club blue bloods who have never been happy, really, even when Reagan redefined this party and made it a dominant 49-state landslide winning party in 1984 and a huge winner in 1980, and set Bush 41 up for his term in 1988.
Don't remember Bush 41's first words?
This is going to be a kinder, gentler America.
Uh I'm telling you, I've encountered these people.
And and they're not they're not thrilled to be a member of a party where it is deemed that the power base of the party is a bunch of conservative Christians and pro-laughers.
And so you don't know how embarrassed they are of you.
On the moderate side of this, I'm talking about.
And so here's an opportunity for the moderates to move in and uh and the and and the Democrats love this.
The Liberals would love to destroy conservatism too.
They haven't been in power in meaningful ways since Reagan became president.
He was able to get legislation past him, even though they ran the House and Senate for many of his uh of his years.
If I'm just telling you Republicans that they're up for re-election in November.
If you lose in November, it'll be because of the moderates and uh missteps by this administration, not because you stood up for conservative principles.
And don't think that this can be said enough because you've got people like Lindsey Graham and McCain and all kinds of people, the moderate Republicans up there spinning it exactly that way, saying that if you don't sign on to moderate, unpopular things like this that you're gonna lose.
If you don't sign on to our immigration bill, you're gonna lose.
It's just the exact opposite.
This bill, this bill was written by the open borders lobby, the the La Raza type groups.
You cannot read this and come to any other conclusion.
It includes all kinds of traps against enforcement.
It confers all kinds of rights on illegal aliens that you and I never have.
It was written by lawyers who do this work day in and day out.
They litigate on behalf of illegals and they seek to change even the most arcane rules to their advantage.
I'm just gonna cut to the chase here, folks.
These senators don't want to control immigration.
This is not about it's not about securing the border.
There's none of that in this.
They talk about it.
The president may be talking about it, but up on Capitol Hill, there's no desire to do this.
They want to expand immigration, whether it be legal or illegal immigration.
They have voted to change our society.
They have voted to massively empower the federal government.
The feds are going to have far more control over wages than ever before.
Entitlement.
In this bill, it says that illegals must get prevailing wages.
American citizens do not get prevailing wages.
Illegals must get prevailing wages.
Entitlement programs are going to vastly expand because family members that show up or that are born, guess what?
They have to go to school.
They have to we're talking about illegals now.
They own a school, they get in-state tuition.
Uh when they go to when they go to college, all this is going to require tax increase.
Wealth will have to be redistributed from the middle class to a new class of poor.
Uh uh it is it's just a massive transfer of wealth here, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh pure and simple.
Moderate Republicans see an opportunity here to try to destroy the conservative dominance of the Republican Party.
So there's a there's a whole lot wrapped into this.
And and just I'm I'm just informing you now.
I'm not sitting here whining and complaining.
Keep the powder dry till it's time to start firing.
Sit tight.
Here's Jim in Boston, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, hi, Rush.
Uh, I want to suggest a slight modification to your theory.
I totally agree that for the Democrats, it's to expand the base of dependent voters.
But in the case of McCain, it's purely to demoralize the conservative base as uh to stick it to the conservative base to get even as the only way he can possibly get the nomination.
That's the same tactics of using the gang of fourteen, it's the same tactics on the torture issue.
Everything he's doing is to enable him to get the nomination.
And the way he'll do it is by demoralizing and trying to stick it to the conservative base.
Uh how does that work, though?
That that presumes the conservative base gets so demoralized in the primaries they don't show up and vote.
There, yeah, they it's gonna splinter off the uh Republican Party.
Well, the only way that works is if the conservative base stays at home, and we have a little say about that.
The other aspect, a part of it is emotional, is just John McCain, who I think is the most dangerous politician in the United States, is just want to stick it to the conservative Republicans to get even.
Because of what happened in 2000.
Oh, everything.
Uh he's a very strong.
Are you saying that he is.
Well, that's it.
And and don't don't uh uh underestimate the uh importance of somebody's emotional uh uh uh stance on it.
He wants to get even, and boy, he's getting even.
Uh I don't doubt that.
I I have no question he's uh he feels impugned and maligned and cheated and all that in 2000.
He's been harboring desire to rectify that in his mind.
But I just don't know that the theory holds, because for it to hold, the conservative base has to not show up in primaries.
And if there is a Republican candidate in the primaries that reflects the values of the conservative base, they'll show up.
He's gonna paint them as uh nativists.
He's gonna paint he's gonna paint them as nativists and president.
Well, of course he will.
It'll be it'll be knocked down dry guy.
Hey, welcome to politics.
But I tell you, McCain it's not all he's been doing is trying to undermine the GOP for the last you know, he's really the most dangerous politician in America.
I I don't I I I agree with you.
Totally is trying to undermine I th I think a lot of moderates in the Republican Party are trying to undermine the conservatives.
And that's why we're not gonna let the conservatives just stay home and be defeated this way.
Uh uh it it and that that won't happen uh anyway, because there's more of us than them.
That's what it boils down to.
I don't care what they that's they can't escape that.
There's more of us than there are them.
There are 30 moderates in the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives, the rest are us.
And they uh, well, some some you got some fence sitters that are depending on issue to issue will make up their mind which way to go.
But uh ideologically, the moderates are not the dominant wing of the party.
Uh and they never have been.
The bottom line is they never have been.
We want to go back to the days where Bob Michael was Speaker of the House.
We had 130 Republicans out of 435 members, and uh and the Republicans were happy with this.
That that's n uh uh uh isn't isn't going to happen.
Uh did you hear th thanks for the call out there.
Appreciate it.
You hear that this wacko um George Galloway.
This member of Parliament from uh from the UK said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blair.
In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber if there were no other casualties be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq.
God, this is the left-wing media plotting assassinations now?
Galloway said, yes, it would be morally justified.
I'm not calling for it, of course, but if it happened, it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7-7.
It would be entirely logical and explicable and morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq as Blair did.
All right, I need to read you an email.
I can I I'm not sure I understand this.
From a subscriber, uh, my website, Rush Limbaugh.com from Martin Field.
It makes me sick as a lifelong Christian conservative Goldwater Reagan Republican to hear you put these good men who are dead and can't answer for themselves on the other side.
Can't you see that your calls for controls, whether on the border or anything else, can only increase the power of government?
Fear has always been a weapon of those who need to control to assuage their own insecurity.
Years ago, you inspired me to see that distrust of the individual was the least common denominator of the liberals that we need to dislike.
What is a conservative?
Uh I put Goldwater and Reagan on the other side.
I've sat here all day, Martin, trying to tell everybody that what's up is an attempt to destroy the Goldwater Reagan coalition in the Republican Party by moderates in the Republicans and the Liberal Democrats in the Senate.
What is so hard about this to understand?
The House of Representatives voted yesterday 225 to 201 to open and war to drilling, proponents arguing that new domestic production will ease, the nation's energy crunch.
And a little known story buried way, way deep in the uh South Florida Sun Sentinel today.
Floridians support lifting a ban on oil drilling 100 miles or more from the state's Gulf Coast beaches by a 51 to 42% majority.
And many say that rising gas prices have influenced their approval.
This is a Quinnipiac University polling institute poll came out yesterday.
Such support stunned environmentalist wackos who have counted on opposition from Florida and other coastal states to deflect growing sediment for offshore drilling among inland and oil state politicians.
This is buried in the Florida news briefs section of the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
51 to 42 lift the ban on oil drilling a hundred miles or more from the state's Gulf Coast beaches.
All right.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, the Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer.
Some of us can remember a uh uh certain solemnness, a quiet reverence, uh hushed neighborhoods across the nation.
Uh while people honored our fallen soldiers.
Memorial day ceremonies, they'll have them this year.
Flags will fly in some neighborhoods.
But you know, as we move further and further into history from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the world wars, it becomes more difficult to grasp the gravity of those wars and why they affected our national consciousness.
Now, in those wars, casualties mounted in numbers that would astound us today.
Over 4,000 dead in one day of the D-Day invasion.
Uh and the outcome of those wars was always in doubt.
And those wars, it wasn't a matter of losing just a war, it was a matter of losing the country.
In Korea and Vietnam and Gulf War One, there wasn't any widespread perception that our way of life hung in the balance, but the sacrifices on behalf of those in the armed services are just as awe-inspiring.
Uh right now we're we're in the midst of another global conflict.
We were unjustly attacked.
Uh, and as in every conflict at every pivotal moment in our history, a special breed of men and women have stepped up to protect each one of us against those who seek to destroy us.
And many of them have paid the ultimate price.
And as in the case of every war, their families continue to pay that price long after the ceremonies honoring them are over.
So you got three days coming up here in this weekend, sometime uh during this holiday weekend as we celebrate summer and the fact that high gas prices aren't affecting our lifestyle.
Let's take a moment to also remember and honor and thank and uh pray for and be grateful for those who stepped up when called and laid down their lives.
It is the Memorial Day weekend, and a lot of people's historical perspective is lost on this.
In fact, Cap Weinberger died not long ago.
He wrote a book, Home of the Brave, honoring the unsung heroes in the war on terror.
Uh it's uh the Forge Press published the book.
Home of the Brave, honoring the unsung heroes in the war on terror.
Cap Weinberger's book recounts the untold stories of nineteen of the most highly decorated soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines fighting in the war on terror.
I got a copy of this book when I went to the screening of United 93.
Uh Cap Weinberger said that the generation right in front of us is the next greatest generation.
There's been a lot of slander and criticism thrust at the heroes of our armed forces by the liberal left.
Uh we support the troops, we don't support the mission, we support the troops they've attempted to undermine and sabotage our effort to achieve victory over this particular enemy.
And yet, people volunteer and continue to step up.
Uh I would recommend Cap Weinberger's book, Home of the Brave, Honoring the Unsung Heroes in the War on Terror.
Nineteen Amazing Stories.
You won't believe them.
But do take some time this weekend, and uh remember uh those of us who have paid the ultimate price that enables us to continue to engage all the freedom we have and all of the activities that we choose to in this, the greatest country in the world.
Have a fun weekend, folks.
A reminder we have a best of show that will air on Monday.
We'll see you back live next Tuesday here on the EIB network.
It's been a thrill and a sheer delight to have you with us today.
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