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July 5, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 5, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, El Rushbo, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all concerned, all everything.
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Mr. Sterdley, we got to come up with something to counter this rolling hunger strike by these wackos.
Mother Sheehan, Sean Penn.
Who else is involved in it?
By the way, if you heard Barbara Streisand, big, big 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.
Now she's out there.
She's booked a new concert tour for blue cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, so forth in October.
And tickets are not selling.
New York Post page six reports that tickets are slow.
The top price, 800 bucks, people aren't eager, aren't willing to pay.
Babs has also, get this, Barbara Streisand's also said as a come-on, I'm sure, that she is going to donate a portion of her earnings to various charities.
But she has not said how much.
And the problem with that is, 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.
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.
But nevertheless, it's not looking good 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've got into Barbara Streisand is I thought for a moment she's participating, but she's not.
It's somebody, it's like Susan Sarandon.
Susan Sarandon.
But you know what a rolling hunger strike is, ladies and gentlemen?
The Reverend Zach invented this concept.
It's where you don't eat for four or five hours, and then you pass the hunger strike on to 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 that.
You and I, Mr. Snurdle, a group of us here, rolling hunger strike.
Maybe we have a rolling eat-in.
You know, we eat what they're not, just to make up for it.
We've got to find something to protest.
But as conservatives, we don't protest things.
You know, we don't take to the streets.
We don't do stupid things like this.
But I got my thinking cap on on this, 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 going to 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.
He doesn't eat for whatever period of time that they choose.
It could be 12 or 24 hours.
I know women that don't eat for a week.
So how tough can this be?
But nevertheless, you have, let's say Sean Penn does eight hours.
And then Susan Sarandon steps up and she goes without food for eight hours.
And then somebody else does.
Sean Penn can eat in the meantime after he's done his eight hours.
So there really is no hunger strike here.
Everybody on the hunger strike eats.
The rolling hunger strike is the one hunger strike guaranteed you will gain weight.
Don't you love these people?
What will we do without them?
All right.
Here's Corzine.
You got to hear these soundbites from Corzine.
The casino workers, everybody in the state is really livid about the casinos being shut down.
And they're shut down because the state has inspectors in there to watch the money and make sure everything goes.
And Corazine says, my hands are tied.
They are not essential employees.
I have no authority, nor is there any law to support the notion that casino 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, a 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 are still on the job.
Casino workers not considered to be essential casino inspectors.
And so an agency that generates $1.3 million a day in tax revenue a day for the state of New Jersey is shut down.
The total revenue, the total commerce, one figure that I read is that $11 billion, $11 billion industry that is now shut down, $11 billion a year, in all, when you add it all up.
Now, Corzine next said, and 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.
I will be here all day.
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.
I've got a couple more.
Here he's talking about taxes.
I warned you, people, I'm doing my best to keep my lips zipped on.
I just took over the state four months ago, and the fact is we had a $4.5 billion budget deficit if we did nothing.
We cut spending dramatically, about $2.5 billion, 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've 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.
And couldn't he understand that people's dander would be up?
$2.5 billion in spending cuts.
There's no such thing.
There really is.
I don't care.
Anybody in government says we're cutting spending by $2.5 billion.
They're not cutting the budget by $2.5 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%.
I want to see that.
If that's true, then that would be miraculous.
Somebody needs to show us how that was done 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 basically telling you in New Jersey is going to raise taxes if you don't like it.
And 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 $2.5 billion.
We cut higher education.
We've cut spending on education.
We've cut all kinds of things already.
And it is just an issue of whether we're going to go deeper into not being able to provide basic services that the public really wants to see, including, by the way, protecting them, Homeland Security, make sure we have state police.
So 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 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's 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 and the media's in there.
Telling you 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.
And that means not laughing.
There's 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.
Hi, welcome back.
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I want to go back to the morning update, our morning commentaries 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 $4 billion deficit, wasted no time proving me correctamente.
His maiden budget raises state spending by $2 billion.
Now, he just said on CNN today that he's cut $2.5 billion.
This doesn't work.
I don't care, I don't, look, I'm not a scientist, but I understand simple addition.
His maiden budget raised state spending by $2 billion.
He's out there saying he cut spending by $2.5 billion.
At any rate, the sales tax, this is from March now.
I'm going to read it to you as we delivered it March 22nd this year.
Sales taxes going up.
$0.06 out of every dollar is not enough.
Corzine wants $0.07.
New Jersey smokers already pay $2.40 tax on cigarettes.
That's a pack?
It's not enough.
Corzine wants that tax raised 35 cents to $2.75 per pack.
You New Jersey smokers put your wallet in your shoes so you can bend over and grab the ankles as you pay $2.75 in taxes per pack, the highest in the nation.
You want 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 Corazine back in March didn't say which ones.
There are some spending cuts.
Some state employees are going to be eliminated, but not those lucky enough to be in unions.
They're safe.
And state colleges are going to lose about $170 million.
Aside from that, folks, it's spend away in Trenton.
A blue state, a Democrat, and a budget.
What do you expect you're going to get?
A blue state, a Democrat, and a budget.
Tax it, spend it, bend it, and grab them.
I mean, that's the Corazine motto.
And it's come to pass.
I predicted everything but the government shutdown.
In fact, I wish a lot of other states would learn the lessons of this.
Shut it down.
Just shut it down.
I mean, the only people who be 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 to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
A pleasure to 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 money going into the government, which just exacerbates the situation.
Do you 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.
Even if it's in a temporary basis, the reason that the state sends inspectors in there, well, the theoretical reason is to keep the casino operators on the up and up and to provide comfort among the gamblers that they're not being ripped off.
So even if the casinos agreed to pay the state whatever the state pays these inspectors, it couldn't legally happen.
That would be like the chickens paying Colonel Sanders to live in the coop.
Interesting.
Yeah.
It might just save a lot of jobs.
I was just thinking.
Well, these are not public employee jobs, so it doesn't really matter that much.
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 who are without health care right now.
Look at the people that are without everything.
All because the government shutdown.
Good lesson here.
Thank you, Kevin.
Appreciate it.
Pete in Alpharetta, Georgia.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Russ.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, I had a thought on this, 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 going to do that with the rolling hunger strike either.
Somebody will do it.
They'll find somebody in a time zone where it's not midnight to six.
That's good.
Well, I was thinking about that.
And 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 when somebody isn't.
Anyway, the audience getting involved creatively here in what can be done to call attention to the rolling hunger strike of the leftist activists who are attempting to shut down the war in Iraq by starving themselves for a few hours each until the troops come home.
Mike and San Bernardino, you're next.
It's great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, you've got to love the way Israel negotiates, and I think we should do the same thing with North Korea.
They send in some high-speed explosive ambassadors right to the offices of Hamas and, you know, have some fun there and let them know.
And Israel says, if negotiations fail, you know.
I have to tell you, I was late last week when all this 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.
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.
And then they said 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, 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 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 the government of the United States had said, all right, you little dog-eating, pot-bellied dictator, you launch that missile at us and your country ceases to exist or you cease to exist or something, I guarantee you, the reaction from the American left, and of course the drive-by media, would have been precious.
But this, you know, the real answer goes to Shelby Steele's book, Why Don't We Do This?
Because of white guilt over our imperialism, our slavery past, the fact that we're the big guy on the block, and it's just not fair to talk tough, talk tough, and be mean to these little people who Bill Richardson called just kids.
They're 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, 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 Karl Rove had Ken Lay killed so that George W. Bush would not have to pardon him.
I'm not making it up.
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, or that other conspiracies will emerge over the mysterious heart attack that felled Enron chairman and founder Ken Lay.
Before we get back to your phone calls here, folks, 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 AmericanThinker.com, one of our favorite blogs.
And he says, look, Doug Hansen, who obviously has posted earlier, 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 strategery stands a fairly good chance of working.
I don't know about that.
I'm not Herb Meyer, but at some point we'll say what's more important, protecting Seattle or Seoul, and just bang out of South Korea.
This depends, I think, on who the president is.
Snurdley 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 he said, you know, if they actually launch a missile and hits us somewhere, they're history.
They're never going to do this.
They know that we're going to 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, well, you've got the Democratic Party acting like 9-11 didn't happen, that there is no real war going on.
If somebody launches a tactical nuke at us from somewhere, if it's North Korea, we can prove it.
Let me just put it this way.
I will guarantee you that there will be voices rising from the American level.
We must practice restraint.
We must keep our calm, cool, collected heads about this.
We must not start a global thermonuclear war.
I'm not convinced.
I know Bush would probably do it, but there'd be people in this country that wouldn't want it, and they'd make all kinds of hell about it.
And so I'm not convinced about that.
If, I know, let him go to North Korea's human shields.
If Democrat president, oh, boy, man, I don't know.
Shudder to think.
Ralph in Brooklyn.
Ralph, 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.
Thank you so much.
You were talking before about Ken Lay, how the media was, you know, going after and 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?
It's because he messed over hundreds of thousands of people for millions of dollars, hardworking people.
They lost their pensions.
They lost their retirement funds.
He was a crook.
He was a thief.
I just thought maybe you would go after him just a bit more.
Well, I'm not generally one who beats the corpse.
I mean, what's the point, really, Ralph?
Everybody knows this already.
He's convicted.
He was tried.
I mean, Ken Lay died of a heart attack.
And by the way, the rest of the media, they were doing that.
They're doing their job.
Why do we need to 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 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 I feel for them.
They were hardworking people, and this guy, he was a bad man, you know?
Well, why don't we just say it then?
deserved to die well he let's just say it Ralph Just say deserved 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, you know, it just took away.
But I appreciate you taking my call.
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 the hearing aid anymore.
Thank you, Ralph.
You're doing a great job.
God bless you.
Continue the great work.
Thank you so much.
I really mean that from the bottom of my heart.
Please pray to God, and God willing, he'll send you a quick recovery.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
That's Ralph in Brooklyn.
Obviously, a man of tremendous depth of feeling with loads of compassion.
Not so much for Ken Lay, but obviously he's concerned with people.
And we need more people concerned with people, and Ralph is setting a fine example here for all of us.
But again, I mean, I don't see the need to kick the corpse.
In fact, I went and read the coverage of Ken Lay's passing at KHOU-TV's website 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 without fanfare, did it privately, and his wife Linda.
Ralph, you should also know, and I've mentioned this on the program before, that I spent a week, well, three or four days once, with Ken Lay on a yacht over the Thanksgiving holiday in the Bahamas.
And I got to know he and his wife, and his wife came to the TV show.
His wife, Linda's father, was a huge fan.
They came to the TV show, and I just enjoyed those four days.
I thought he was one of the nicest guys that I had ever met.
And I was stunned when the Zenron stuff came up.
I didn't know him well enough to make judgments on his character front and back, side to side, but I was literally stunned.
And it was hard for me to believe at first, but I have no desire to continue to trash and report what he's already been convicted of.
That's if people want to, and they have a drive-by media who's recounting all of the charges and maybe speculating that the pressure of all this led to his heart just giving out.
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.
Some people are speculating at Democrat Underground.
I'm not making this up.
Karl 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 fled the country and so forth.
Nobody's seen the body yet, so forth.
I mean, it's just unreal what is happening to the demented minds of these people that occupy the so-called base left of the Democratic Party.
Bob and Olympia, Washington, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Rush, I just wanted to touch base with you on this funding for the New Jersey State Gambling Commission.
It's 100% from the licensees.
The state does not contribute any money whatsoever.
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 that's what we do today.
Well, if that's the case, then what's Corazine talking about how these inspectors, these casino inspectors who are on site 24-7 are not essential state employees?
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 does that make any sense at all?
All right, 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.
But in fact, they do.
In fact, they don't.
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.
Their paycheck does not come from the casino.
That's absolutely correct.
Absolutely correct.
But at the same time, 100% of their budget comes from the licensees.
I work in gaming in Washington, and I was talking this over with my gaming agent, 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 are tough kids.
Tough kids.
I wasn't talking about the state of Washington.
No, I understand that.
But it's the state of the New Jersey.
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, on Rush, 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.
Explain that.
Most of the gaming industry is just making.
You mean of all the money they generate, most of it goes to payroll?
That's what you're saying?
75%.
75%?
75% just as payroll.
Wow.
That's pretty high labor costs.
I don't know too many people go into business with labor costs that high.
Well, there's got to be some return on this.
This is 100% labor industry.
That's all it is.
In fact, I'm going up to one of the casinos right now to write paychecks.
And it's going to be 75% of our gross.
Hey, look, I understand.
I understand.
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 was making stereotypical humor, not direct.
I was.
Remember, good humor always has an element of truth.
Ladies and gentlemen.
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?
DMV is closed.
Okay, well, good.
Good answer.
Mexican elections.
The Mexican, this is from 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 3 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 everybody that shows up in Mexico to vote has to have a photo ID.
Everybody in Mexico has to have.
You know, 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 profoundly here.
In another story, just not long ago, leftist Manuel Andres Lopez Obrador, the Mexican Al Gore, 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 advisors.
The request he added will be presented to the federal election or electoral institute.
Eiff.
You know, 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'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'd lose 20% of my radio audience down the road, the last thing I'm going to do is blame Arbitron.
And I'm going to say, well, what?
Maybe I slipped.
Am I not giving the audience what they expect?
I'm going to start examining myself.
But these guys are blaming their own voters, just like the Democrats here.
Well, they don't understand butterfly ballots, Chads, and everything.
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, you understand what's happening here.
The leftist is trying to do to the whole country what the Democrats did to Florida in 2000, just roil it.
And they're trying to intimidate.
I guarantee you, there's going to be all kinds of intimidation.
The Obrador crowd is promising massive street protests if they lose this election, if they don't get what they want.
Of course, that's not unusual in countries south of our border.
The public protest is something that happens frequently and quite a lot.
This is why so many of them are able to amass in large numbers here to protest their 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 Central and Latin American countries.
Pretty good story on this, by the way, by Mario Grady in the 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 oil price now is $75.
Not yet a record, but nearing a record.
Prediction time: the next crisis from the Democrats in the Drive-By Media will be the affordability crisis in all of life in America.
It's an election year.
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