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July 5, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 5, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Mr. Stirling, we got to come up with something to counter this rolling hunger strike by these wackos.
Uh Mother Sheehan, Sean Penn.
Who else is involved in it?
By the way, have you heard Barbara Streisand, uh, big big uh revival tour?
She retired in 2000, did her last ever concert tour, and people are threatening to sue her now because they bought tickets at highly inflated prices, like at Madison Square Garden, think it'll be the last time she was in public.
Uh now she's she's out there.
She's booked a new concert tour for blue cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, and so forth in October.
And tickets are not selling.
New York Post paid six reports that tickets are slow.
The top price 800 bucks, people aren't eager, aren't willing to pay.
Babbs has also get this.
Barbara Streisand's also said, as a come on, I'm sure, that she is going to um donate a portion of her earnings to various charities.
But she has not said how much.
And the problem with that is that ticket buyers can't then deduct a portion of their ticket price as donations to charity.
And they're all getting wise to this.
Uh she's got a PR person named Ken Sunshine, I think that's his name.
This is crazy.
Ticket sales are going through the roof.
So there's a disparity of opinion out there.
Uh but nevertheless, it's not looking good for uh uh for what was I talking about before?
I seldom lose my place.
What was it?
Oh, they're the rolling hunger.
We got to come up with something to counter this rolling hunger strike with these wackos.
And the reason I got into Barbara Streisand because they thought for a moment she's participating, but she's not.
It's somebody, it's like Susan Sarandon, um Susan Surrand.
But you know what a rolling hunger strike is, ladies and gentlemen, the Reverend Dax invented this concept.
It's where you uh you don't eat for four or five hours, and then you pass the hunger strike on somebody else, and they don't eat for four or five hours, and that person passes it on, and they don't eat for four or five hours.
So at the end of this, you supposedly have a hunger strike, but everybody who is in the hunger strike ends up eating.
It's a typical lib ploy.
So I'm thinking we need to do something like a you and I, Mr. Snerdley, a group of us here, rolling hunger strike.
Maybe we have a rolling eat-in.
You know, we eat what they're not just just to make up for it.
We gotta find something to protest, but as conservatives, we don't protest things.
Um, we don't take to the streets, we don't do stupid things like this.
But I I got my thinking cap uh on on this, and and we'll do our best to come up with a counter to the Sean Penn's part of this thing, too.
The rolling hunger strike.
And the objective is they're they're gonna have this rolling hunger strike until the troops get out of Iraq.
Now, the way it works is let's say that Sean Penn leads off.
All right, he doesn't eat for whatever period of time that they choose.
It could be twelve or twenty-four hours.
I know women that don't eat for a week.
You know, so how tough can this be.
Uh but but uh nevertheless, uh you have let's say Sean Penn does eight hours.
And then Susan Saranin steps up and she goes without food for eight hours.
And then somebody else does.
Sean Penn can eat in the meantime.
Uh after he's done his eight hours.
So there really is no hunger strike here.
Everybody on the hunger strike eats.
This the rolling hunger strike is the one hunger strike guaranteed you will gain weight.
Don't you don't you love these people?
What will we do without them?
All right, here's Corzon.
You gotta hear these sound bites from Corzine.
The casino workers, everybody in the state is really livid about the casinos being shut down, and it's shut down because the state has inspectors in there to watch the money and make sure everything goes.
And Corzan says, My hands are tied, they are not essential employees.
Have no authority, nor is there any law to support the notion that consino inspectors are essential state employees, as sometimes been suggested.
Nor would it be legal or appropriate in a world where we have to protect the public.
Homeland Security context where we need to protect people from violence in our streets to assign state troopers to work as casino regulators.
My hands are tied.
I can't do anything about it.
State troopers as casino regulators.
I get what's happening here.
They've shut down the state, of course, because of budget shortfall.
And only these essential workers still on the job.
Casino workers not considered to be a central casino inspectors.
And so an agency that generates 1.3 million dollars a day in tax revenue a day.
A day for the state of New Jersey is shut down.
The total revenue, that the total commerce.
One figure that I read is that 11 billion dollars, 11 billion dollar industry that is now shut down.
11 billion a year.
When you add it, add it all up.
Now, um Corzine next said, and he's he was speaking to state legislators, and another portion of his remarks here where he defines leadership.
Leadership is not about telling the public what they necessarily want to hear.
Leadership is standing up and telling the public how things really are.
My treasurer will be here all day.
We'll be here tomorrow and the next day and every day, indeed every hour that is necessary to put an end to this crisis.
Aside from the casinos, who's really worried about the state of New Jersey being shut down?
Nobody cares.
I mean, this is actually a day of celebration.
It's like leaving for a cruise.
We've got a couple more.
Here he's talking about taxes.
I warned you people, I'm dry I'm doing my best to keep my lip zipped on it.
I just took over the state four months ago, and the fact is we had a four and a half billion dollar budget deficit if we did nothing.
Uh we cut spending uh dramatically, about two and a half billion dollars, and then we had to fill the hole that remained with sales taxes.
Now, we can do what has gone on in the past and just sort of push that problem down the road, ignore the fact that it exists, or you can match the income coming in with the expenditures going out, which is what our Constitution also asks us to do.
We have seen our taxes go up because we haven't been able to deal with our expenditures and revenues matching.
He was on CNN today, and the question he was answering was about the one cent sales tax increase.
Uh and couldn't he understand that people's dander uh would be up.
Uh two and a half billion dollars in spending cuts, there's no such thing.
There really is I don't care anybody in government says we're cutting spending by two and a half billion, they're not cutting the budget by two and a half billion.
They may be cutting spending and they're reducing the rate of the growth of the budget, but New Jersey's budget deficit didn't get whittled down by 50 percent.
I want to see that.
If that's true, then that would be that would be miraculous.
Somebody needs to show us how that was done.
Uh, and how that leads to a shutdown.
You cut the deficit in half, and you have a shutdown?
No way.
This doesn't compute.
So um it basically telling you in New Jersey is gonna raise taxes if you don't like it, pfft.
Yeah, one more.
He says a government in New Jersey just can't cut anymore.
It is not possible.
Question.
Governor, you can't find a billion dollars in cuts anywhere in the state right now to solve this problem.
Miles, we have already cut two and a half billion dollars.
We cut higher education, we've cut uh spending on education, we've cut all kinds of things already.
And it is just an issue of whether we're gonna go deeper into not being able to provide basic services uh that the public really wants to see, including, by the way, protecting them, homeland security, make sure we have state police.
So I, you know, I don't think it's an issue of whether we're prepared to cut spending, because We have already done that to a very large degree, the highest degree that has occurred any time in uh recent history in Trenton.
All right, so that's it.
They can't do anymore.
Can't cut anymore, got to raise taxes.
That's the bottom line, folks.
If they can't cut anymore, if there's nowhere to cut, well, look who's in look at the casinos are open because the media is in there.
I'm watching CNN, the media's in there.
Who's watching the media?
Who's watching the till?
Where are the inspectors?
There are no inspectors in the media's in there.
Uh the telling you uh in New Jersey that they can't cut anymore.
What they've already cut is a record.
It's never been done before in Trenton.
Uh and that means not laughing.
There's uh only one solution, and that is your taxes are going up again and again and again.
And that's in an election year what they're all trying to figure out how to do without making you think that's what they've done.
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I want to go back to the uh morning update, our morning commentary is that we do here, March 22nd, back to our archive.
March 22nd of this year, this was the update.
This is what I mean, folks.
When I tell you, if you listen regularly to this program, you will be on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Last November, when John Corzine was elected governor of New Jersey, I predicted that New Jersey residents would soon pay the price.
Literally.
Governor Corzine, facing a four billion dollar deficit, wasted no time proving me correctamente.
Uh his maiden budget raises state spending by two billion.
Now, he just said on CNN today that he's cut two and a half billion.
Uh uh this doesn't work.
I don't care.
I don't I look it.
I'm not a scientist, but I understand simple addition.
His maiden budget raised state spending by two billion dollars.
He's out there saying he cut spending by two and a half billion.
At any rate, the sales tax, this is from March now.
I'm gonna read it to you as we delivered it March 22nd this year.
Sales taxes going up six cents out of every dollar is not enough.
Corzine wants seven cents.
New Jersey smokers already pay two dollars and forty cents tax on cigarettes.
That's a pack.
It's not enough.
Corzine wants that tax raised 35 cents to $2.75 per pack.
Uh you New Jersey smokers put your wallet in your shoes so you can bend over and grab the ankles as you pay two dollars and seventy-five cents in taxes per pack, the highest in the nation.
You want a an adult beverage?
Good.
Because liquor taxes are going up too.
You like to take baths, showers, water to lawn once in a while, good water taxes are going up.
So are taxes on luxury cars as well as some real estate transfers.
New taxes also being levied on government services, but Corzine back in March didn't say which ones.
Uh there are some spending cuts.
Some state employees are gonna be eliminated, but not those lucky enough to be in unions, they're safe.
And state colleges are gonna lose about 170 million dollars.
Aside from that, folks, it's uh spend away in Trenton.
A blue state, a Democrat, and a budget.
What do you expect?
You're gonna get a blue state, a Democrat and a budget.
Tax it, spend it, bend it, and grab them.
I mean, that's the Corzine motto.
And uh it's come to pass.
I predicted everything but the government shutdown.
I've in fact I wish a lot of other states would would uh would learn the lessons of this.
Shut it down, just shut it down.
I mean, the only people we affected are the people in the public payroll.
What do you got against people in the public?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Don't misunderstand me.
You figure it out.
Kevin, Tampa, Florida, you're next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, a pleasure speak to you and listen to you every day.
Thank you, sir.
You know, I'm thinking there might be a simple answer to this issue in Atlantic City is that let the casinos pay to have the monitors monitor them.
Can't do it.
Can't do it.
It may be a win-win deal.
Keeping everybody employed, keeping the uh uh the money going into the to the government, which just exacerbates the situation.
Do you understand?
Uh I understand look, I appreciate your attempt here to solve the Problem for the good gamblers of New Jersey and New York and Pennsylvania.
I mean, three states are affected by this.
But what you have suggested here is graft.
If the casino pays the inspectors, then the casino is their boss.
And the casino even if it's in a temporary basis, the reason that the state sends inspectors in there, well, the theoretical reason uh is to keep the casino operators on the up and up and uh and to provide uh uh uh uh comfort among the gamblers that they're not being ripped off.
Um so even if uh even if the casinos agreed to pay the state whatever the state pays these inspectors, it couldn't legally happen.
Uh that's that would be like uh the chickens paying Colonel Sanders to live in the coop.
Interesting.
Yeah.
That might just save a lot of jobs.
I I'm just thinking.
Well, these are not public employee jobs, so it doesn't really matter uh that that much.
Uh uh I I save a lot of jobs.
That is a good point.
That's all we ever hear from these people.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, health care.
Look at the people are without health care right now.
Look at the people that are without everything.
All because of government shutdown.
Good lesson here.
Thank you, uh, Kevin, appreciate it.
Uh Pete in Alfredta, Georgia, you're next on the EIB network.
Hey, hey, Russ, great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Um yeah, I had a thought on this, this uh the liberals out in Hollywood with their rolling hunger strike.
I thought we could do a rolling cigar chain smoke.
A rolling cigar chain smoke.
Yeah, I'm sure we could do it.
I'll light one up.
You know, when I get to the end of it, I can call my next conservative buddy, he can light one up.
He gets the end of it, so forth and so on.
I don't know who gets the midnight to six shift, but I'm not sure who's gonna do that with the rolling hunger strike either.
Uh somebody'll do it.
They'll find somebody in a tie zone time zone where it's not midnight to six.
That's good.
Well, I was thinking about the biggest thing.
We can we could do the same thing, but we don't when it comes to cigars, we don't need to have a rolling cigar smoke off.
We can all smoke them all the time, whenever we want to, and we'll be guaranteed to be covering uh when somebody isn't.
Uh anyway, uh the audience getting involved creatively here in uh in what can be done to uh to call attention to the rolling hunger strike of the uh leftist activists who are attempting to shut down the war in Iraq by starving themselves for a few hours each uh until the uh until the troops come home.
Mike in San Bernardino, your next.
It's great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, you gotta uh love the way uh Israel negotiates, and I think we should do the same thing with uh North Korea.
Uh they send in some high speed explosive uh ambassadors and uh right to the offices of Hamas and uh, you know, have some uh have a little fun there and let no and Israel says if you if negotiations fail, you know.
I I have to tell you I was uh late uh late last week, uh when all this was was starting to percolate over this kidnapped soldier, and I was watching the Israelis and the way they're dealing with this.
And the first thing they did was take out the office of the prime minister of the Palestinian, whatever it is now.
Uh he wasn't there, but they just lobbed, as you say, an armed ambassador in there that came out of a long barrel that was attached to a tank.
Uh and then they said uh that the leader of Hamas is not safe and that we'll target him.
And I'm asking myself, why don't we deal with people this way?
Why don't we do it?
And I of course know the answer, uh that because the left would have a cow.
All it took for the left to have a cow last time was when Reagan made a joke about uh the bombing starts in five seconds when he was taping his Saturday morning radio address and he was doing a voice check, you know, level check one, two, three, four, bombing starts in five seconds, called them the evil empire, left had a cow.
They literally had a cow.
If um if if the government of the United States had said, All right, you little dog eating potbellied dictator, you launch that missile at us, and your country ceases to exist, or you cease to exist, or something.
I guarantee you, you the reaction from the American left, and of course the drive-by media, uh would have been precious.
Uh but this, you know, the real answer goes to Shelby Steele's book.
Uh why don't we do this?
Because of white guilt.
Uh over our uh imperialism, our slavery past, the fact that we're the big guy on the block, and it's just not fair uh to tuck tough, talk tough and and be mean to these little people who Bill Richardson called just kids, just children, they're just spoiled, he just wants some attention.
So we really cannot act in our full best interests, or we don't, uh, because of the guilt we have over our size and what people will say and think about us after we do it.
You will not believe.
You will not believe this, folks.
Went over to Democrat Underground, and I'm not kidding.
They are speculating there that Carl Rove had Ken Lay killed so that George W. Bush would not have to pardon him.
I'm not making it up.
I'm telling I started this program by telling you that there are people who don't believe that he's either dead or that it wasn't a heart attack.
Uh or or that other conspiracies will uh will emerge over the mysterious heart attack that felled Enron chairman and founder Ken Lay.
Um before we get back to your phone calls here, folks, uh uh Herb Meyer, who served during the Reagan administration as special assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence, he was also vice chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council has posted his thoughts on Kim Jong-il at AmericanTinker.com, uh, one of our favorite blogs.
And he says Look, Doug Hanson, who obviously has posted earlier, uh is right in concluding that North Korea's missile launches are intended to test U.S. resolve.
The question is resolve about what.
Let's cut through all the super sophisticated analysis that's flooding this morning's newspapers and talk shows and get to the heart of it.
Kim Jong il has only one objective, the unification of Korea under his control.
That's it.
It's what he wants.
North Korea's huge army may or may not be strong enough to defeat South Korea, but the South Koreans know that even if they defend their country successfully from a North Korean invasion, Seoul would be utterly destroyed.
Seoul South Korea would be utterly destroyed in the fighting.
So in the event of a North Korean invasion, or perhaps even the credible threat of invasion, it's likely the South Koreans would capitulate.
The only thing standing between Kim Jong-il and his objective is us, the United States.
More precisely, Kim cannot risk an invasion of South Korea so long as this would bring us U.S. armed forces into the war.
So to accomplish his objective, Kim must first take the U.S. out of the equation.
And he can do that by turning U.S. public opinion against the idea of risking nuclear war to defend South Korea.
When members of Congress and of course the New York Times start asking aloud why risk Seattle to save Seoul, it's over.
And by developing nuclear weapons and test firing missiles, Kim Jong il moves closer to neutralizing the United States.
Yes, it really is this simple.
What's so worrisome is that Kim's strategy stands a fairly good chance of working.
I don't know about that.
I'm not Herb Meyer, but uh at some point we'll say what's more important, uh protecting Seattle or Seoul and just bang out of South Korea.
This depends, I think, on who the president is.
Snerdley came into my office today.
He was talking about the global crisis that the drive-by media was having a conniption fit about this morning.
And uh he said, you know, if if they actually launch a missile that hits us somewhere, they're fair history, they're never gonna do this.
They know that we're gonna wipe them out, and I said, would we?
He said, Oh, there's no question.
George W. Bush.
I wonder, given the climate.
I mean, you've got half of the co well, you've got the Democratic Party acting like 9-11 didn't happen.
That there is no real war going on.
If they if if somebody launches, you know, tactical nuke at us from somewhere, if it's North Korea, we can prove it.
I I uh let me just put it this way.
I will guarantee you that there will there will be voices rising from the American left we must practice restraint.
We must, we must keep our calm, cool, collected heads about this.
We must not start a global thermonuclear war.
So I'm not convin You know, I know Bush would would probably do, but I there'd be people in this country that wouldn't wouldn't want it, and they'd make uh all kinds of hell about it.
Uh and so I'm I'm not convinced about that.
Uh if if uh I know let them go to North Korea's human shields.
If if if uh Democrat president well, boy, I man, I uh I don't know, shudder to think.
Ralph in Brooklyn.
Ralph, I r I appreciate your patience.
You've been holding on here longer than an hour and a half, and I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Rush, wow, I'm so nervous, so please bear with me when I ask you this question.
Um thank you so much.
You were talking before about Ken Lay of how the media was um you know, going after him, things like that, but I just wanted to say something.
I'm a conservative just like you.
I agree with you with over 95% of what you say.
But I'm just curious why didn't you go after Ken Lay for being a crook and a thief?
Why am I saying this is because he he he he messed over hundreds of thousands of people for millions of dollars, hard working people.
They lost their pensions, they lost their retirement funds.
He was a crook, he was a thief.
You know, I just thought maybe you would go after him just uh a bit more.
Well, I'm not generally one who beats the corpse.
I mean, what what what's the point really, Ralph?
Everybody knows this already.
He was been he's convicted, he was tried.
I mean I know they the the uh Ken Lay died of a heart attack.
And by the way, the rest of the media, they were doing that.
You know, they're they're doing their job.
Why don't we need to repeat repeat what they're doing?
They were you could tell when you watched this, Ralph, what really struck me was that they were disappointed.
Normally when a conservative dies, they're happy.
No, no.
I'm with you there, but I just thought by you making light of the um media, it kind of took away from the people that worked so hard for that company and lost their money.
You know, I mean, I feel again, I don't know them personally, but uh I I feel for them.
They were hardworking people, and this guy he was he was a bad man, you know.
Well, why don't we just say it then?
He deserved to die.
Well uh he Let's just say it, Ralph.
Just say deserve to die because he's a crook.
He's a worthless piece of human debris, stolen looted people's pensions and everything, and finally they got their justice.
He's dead, they're still broke.
True, but I just felt uh, you know, it just took away.
But I appreciate you taking my call.
Um thank you so much.
And I just want to say that I hope God restores back your hearing so you don't have to hear with a hearing aid anymore.
Thank you very much.
You're doing a great job.
Uh God bless you.
Continue the great work and I I really mean that from the bottom of my heart.
Um please pray to God and God willing he'll send you a quick recovery.
Thank you, sir.
I I uh appreciate that.
Uh that's Ralph in uh in Brooklyn.
Uh obviously a man of tremendous and uh uh depth of feeling, uh with uh load loads of uh loads of compassion.
Uh not so much for Ken Lay, but uh obviously he's concerned with people.
And I l uh, you know, we need more people concerned with people, and and Ralph is is uh setting a fine example here for uh for all of us.
But I again I mean I I don't see the need to kick the corpse.
In fact, I uh I went and uh read the coverage of Ken Lay's passing uh at KHO U TV's website in uh in Houston.
You know what they did?
Finally, they regaled everybody with all of his great charitable works.
This guy gave away countless sums of money uh without fanfare, did it privately in his wife Linda.
You Ralph, you should also know, uh and I've mentioned this on the program before, that I spent a week uh well, three or four days once with Ken Lay on a yacht uh over the Thanksgiving holiday in the Bahamas.
And I got to know he and his wife and his wife came to the TV show.
Well, his wife Linda's father was a huge fan of they they came to TV show, and I just I enjoyed those four days.
I I thought he was one of the uh nicest guys that I had ever met, and I was stunned when this Enron stuff came up.
Uh I didn't know him well enough to uh uh make judgments on his character front and back, uh side to side, but I was I was literally stunned, and it was uh hard for me to believe at first, but I I have no desire to continue to uh trash and report what he's already been convicted of.
Uh that's uh uh people want to, and they have a drive-by media who was recounting all of the charges and and maybe uh speculating that uh the pressure of all this uh led to his heart just giving out.
Uh for the longest time the drive by media was saying dies reportedly of a heart attack.
Now, the doctor had said, yep, heart just gave out.
Family said had a heart attack.
They are still saying reportedly.
That means they're suspicious.
Um, you know, I uh uh some people are speculating at Democrat Underground.
I'm not making this up.
Carl Rove had him killed so that Bush wouldn't have to pardon him in two years.
Others are speculating that he's not dead, that they've pulled a Jack Bauer, and that he's uh he's fled the country and so forth.
They have nobody's seen the body yet, so forth.
I mean, it's it's just it's unreal.
What is happening to the demented minds of these uh people that occupy the so-called base left of the Democratic Party, Bob and Olympia, Washington?
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh Rush, I just wanted to touch base with you on this funding for the uh uh New Jersey State Gambling Commission.
It's 100% from the licensees.
Uh the state does not contribute any money whatsoever.
Uh now the reason I know this is I work in gaming in Washington State, and it's exactly the same way here, and I know.
Well, if that's the case, then what's Corzine talking about?
How these these inspectors, these casino inspectors who are on site 24-7 are not essential state employees.
Uh the the they still work for the state.
The money from the licensees goes to the state, but the entire budget of the gambling commission is paid by the licensees.
Well, okay, but but does that make any sense at all?
All right, you you're you're trying to say that I was technically wrong when I said that these inspectors would be in a conflict if the casinos paid them directly.
Yes.
Well, but in fact they do.
In fact.
Well, but they don't.
Uh they don't pay them directly.
They pay a fee to the state.
The state then pays, sort of like a management deal.
But they're not paying them directly.
They're not their paycheck does not come from the casino.
That's absolutely correct.
Absolutely correct.
But at the same time, a hundred percent of their budget comes from the licensees.
I work in gaming in Washington.
And I was talking this over with my gaming agent, and in fact, on Friday, and we were talking about this.
And when you mentioned graft, I worked with these gaming agents for seven years, and I can't even imagine that, Rush.
I'm telling you, these these are tough kids.
Tough kids.
Uh I wasn't talking about the state of Washington.
No, I understand that.
But it's the same thing in New Jersey.
Yeah.
Uh all right, I'll take it back.
I don't want to insult the gaming industry.
I really don't want to insult the gaming industry.
Well, unless most of the gaming industry is just making payroll.
That's all it is.
Just making most of the It really is.
Really?
That's all they're in business to do.
Well that explain that.
Most of the gaming industry is just making pay.
You mean of all the money they generate, most of it goes to payroll.
That's what you're saying.
Uh seventy-five percent.
Seventy five.
Seventy-five percent just as payroll.
Well, that's pretty high labor costs.
I don't know if too many people go into business with labor costs that high.
Well, and some return on this that's a hundred percent labor industry.
That's all it is.
Uh uh, in fact, I'm going up to one of the casinos right now to write paychecks.
Uh it's gonna be and it's gonna be seventy-five percent of the uh of of our gross markets.
I understand.
I understand.
You you're in the gaming industry, and you felt that I issued a blanket insult to everybody in it, and I understand you're wanting to defend the industry.
I really do.
I I was I was making stereotypical humor, not direct.
I was.
Remember, good humor always has an element of truth.
Wait a minute.
Here's a little question for you, it'll pop quiz.
How do we really know that the state of New Jersey is shut down?
How do you really know the state of New Jersey shut down, folks?
You may think it shut down because the casino's doors are closed, but aside from that, how do you really know The state of New Jersey has shut down.
Can anybody actually prove to me that the state of New Jersey has shut down?
DMV is closed.
DMP's closed.
Okay.
Well, good.
Good answer.
Mexican elections.
The Mexican, this is the New York Times.
The Mexican electoral crisis deepened yesterday as the leftist candidate demanded a vote-by-vote recount, and election officials acknowledged that up to three million votes had not been tallied in the preliminary results.
The ballots counted so far showed that the conservative Felipe Calderon with the narrowest of leads, fewer than 400,000 votes over his leftist opponent, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Mr. Lopez Obrador's challenge made it clear that this country was about to live through its own version of the drawn-out legal battle that Americans experienced in the 2000 presidential race.
Mexico's dispute, however, instead of being focused on one state, could be focused nationwide.
Foreign election observers, however, said that this election was transparent and largely free of problems, adding that the Mexican system could even be a model for many other countries.
They had monitors down there.
Election observers, and they everybody that shows up in Mexico to vote has to have a photo ID.
Everybody in Mexico has to have.
You know, I I've I think we can learn a lot from Mexico.
We ought to import their immigration laws and make theirs ours.
And their election laws seem to make a lot of sense too.
Photo IDs for everybody.
Of course, the Democrats oppose that uh profoundly here.
In another story for just not long ago, uh leftist Manuel Andres Lopez Obrador, the Mexican Algore, was set to formally request a Florida-style recount of Mexico's presidential election as his rival's slender victory narrowed further.
We are requesting that all votes be recounted, said Congressman Manuel Camacho Solas, one of Lopez Obrador's top advisor.
The request he added will be presented to the federal election or electoral institute.
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Um why is it that leftists everywhere assume that their voters are too stupid to vote or don't know how to vote when they show up to vote.
This is it it's amazing.
I don't care what country you go to, a leftist is a leftist is a left, and when they lose an election, the last thing they think about is maybe what did I do wrong.
For example, I guarantee you folks, if, and this day will never happen, but if Arbitron reported I had lose 20% of my radio audience down the road, the last thing I'm gonna do is blame Arbitron.
And I'm gonna say, well, what uh maybe I slipped, am I not giving the audience what they expect?
Start examining myself.
But these guys are blaming their own voters just like the Democrats here.
Well, they don't understand butterfly ballots, uh, Chads and everything.
In the in Ohio, it was debold voting machines.
Leftists just can't lose.
It's just not in the cards.
They don't lose, and when they do, there's got to be some conspiratorial explanation for it, or the voters are just flat out dumb and stupid.
But with every voter required to have a photo ID, and with the election monitors saying that this was wide open, it was transparent and a model for other systems.
Uh, you understand what's happening here.
The leftist is trying to do to whole country what the Democrats did to Florida in 2000.
Just royal it.
And they're trying to intimidate.
I guarantee you there's going to be all kinds of intimidation.
The uh the uh obrador crowd is promising massive street protests.
If uh if they lose this election, if they don't get what they want.
Of course, that's not unusual in in in countries south of our border.
The public protest is something that happens frequently and and quite a lot.
This is why so many of them are able to amass in large numbers here to protest uh uh they're being held accountable to our laws, immigration laws.
Remember all those protests, 500,000 a million.
It's a way of life for some people in Mexico and other uh central and Latin American countries.
Pretty good story on this, by the way, by Mary O'Grady in the uh opinionjournal.com section of Wall Street Journal.
We have that, and don't forget, we have a juicy lifestyle section, all straight ahead, so stay with us.
The uh oil price now 75 dollars, not yet a record, but nearing a record.
Prediction time, the next crisis from the Democrats in a drive-by media will be the affordability crisis in all of life in America.
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