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Sept. 1, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 1, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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Hiya, folks, welcome back.
I am America's real anchor man, Rush Limboy and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
It's Friday.
You know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
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That means when we go to the phones, folks, the show is all yours.
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Drive-by Media.
Washington Post editorial today entitled End of an Affair.
Just excerpts for you.
It follows that one of the most sensational charges leveled against the Bush White House, that it orchestrated the leak of Valerie Plame's identity to ruin her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson is untrue.
The partisan clamor that followed the raising of that allegation by Mr. Wilson in the summer of 2003 led to the appointment of a special prosecutor, a costly and prolonged investigation, and the indictment of Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, on charges of perjury.
All of that might have been avoided had Mr. Armitage's identity been known three years ago.
Why didn't Armitage go public?
Well, we can't know for sure, but we can speculate.
We can assume that he loved seeing administration officials twist in the wind, as did Secretary Powell.
They were not big fans of this administration, and I'm sure they enjoyed every moment of this.
And of course, that idiot Joe Wilson, thinking that this is never going to become known, the truth is never going to become known, just goes out there and makes an absolute hapless fool of himself, and like a vacuum cleaner, sucking up all the drive-by media with him to the point that he's a hero.
But alas, the Washington Post concludes today, it now appears that the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame's CIA career is her husband, Mr. Wilson.
Mr. Wilson chose to go public with an explosive charge, claiming falsely, as it turned out, that he had debunked reports of Iraqi uranium shopping in Niger and that his report had circulated to senior administration officials.
He ought to have expected that both those officials and journalists such as Mr. Novak would ask why a retired ambassador would have been sent on such a mission and that the answer would point to his wife.
He diverted responsibility from himself and his false charges by claiming that President Bush's closest aides had engaged in an illegal conspiracy.
It's unfortunate.
Concludes the Post.
It's unfortunate that so many people took him seriously.
Yeah, it really is, you know.
So, you know, our bad.
We're moving on.
Never mind.
Our bad.
This is all such hocus pocus.
Where's the outrage in the drive-by media over having been misled?
The answer is there isn't any outrage, and they really weren't misled.
Nobody will convince me that the name Richard Armitage associated with this story as the leaker was not known long ago by a whole bunch of people, both in the government and in the drive-by media.
And I think they thought they could complete the scam, especially when they saw the way the special prosecutor was cooperating with them by essentially adopting the Joe Wilson version of events as the foundation for his investigation.
But now it's all over.
Never mind.
Sorry.
No, they haven't said sorry.
They won't say sorry.
And as I asked first on this program, Where are the reporters camped outside Armitage's house as they were outside Rove's house, yelling questions?
Where are all these journalists that kept throwing all these softball questions during interviews with Joseph Wilson?
Where is Wilson today?
Where is the outrage at Will?
Nah, nah, we gave it our best shot is the attitude.
We tried to bring Rove down.
We tried to bring Cheney down, tried to bring Bush down.
Eh, we'll get them next time.
It turns out this is pretty darn close to a Bill Burkett Bush National Guard type story, except you don't have a single journalist here who is promulgating what he knows is fraudulent fakes and forgeries, but you do have journalists ignoring what they know and pursuing what they hope would end up being the truth.
But as we pointed out, ladies and gentlemen, it worked.
This many years that all these two years they harped on this, ABC News, Washington Post polls, Pew Center polls all indicate that anywhere between 68 and 72 percent of the American people during this time thought Bush and his administration were unethical and that they would use classified information to ruin a political opponent and his wife and her career.
And the simple fact of the matter is that Valerie Plame never needed to quit her job in the first place.
The simple fact of the matter is that Valerie Plain quit the job because she saw a chance via the wheels of this story to go out and earn big bucks and become famous.
And there they are on the cover of Vanity Fair.
Joe Wilson is an unabashed, unapologetic liberal, which is all you need to know about him.
He is a fraud.
He is a liar.
He apparently is good at it.
He took in a special counsel.
The Washington Post, though, I have to tell you this, I can't let this go unremarked upon.
Why was there a special counsel?
Why was there a massive investigation?
Who was it that demanded this in the first place?
Why, ladies and gentlemen, it was a drive-by media.
Primarily the New York Times.
Where did it lead them?
It led their reporters going to jail, Time Magazine reporter threatened with jail.
They're the ones that demanded all of this.
The one leak they find objectionable, and it turns out that was one of their class, Richard Armitage.
He's in the protected clique in Washington.
Rove isn't.
Rove's not in a clique.
Bush had in a click.
Cheney had in a click.
But Powell and Armitage are.
And so, eh, good leaks and bad leaks and are good people and bad people are useful things you can do and unuseful things to do, useless things you can do.
And in this case, Armitage and Powell will be protected because they're in the club.
It was a nice try.
And they were saying, oh, get them next time.
Consumer activity heating up this summer.
This is not going well.
Healthy rise in July.
Consumer spending not going well for the Democratic Party.
Consumers increased their spending in July by the largest amount in six months, despite this horrible economy and the gas prices.
How can this be?
The back-to-school shopping season got off to a strong start in August, boosting hopes the economy won't stumble into a recession this year.
Who's saying it's going to?
Who's hoping that it does?
We know the answer to both questions.
Commerce Department reported that July consumer spending rose by a healthy 0.8%, double the 0.4% gain in June, reflecting a rebound in auto sales.
Meanwhile, many of the nation's retailers reported solid gains for back-to-school shopping in August, led by the always present in these stories, better than expected increases.
You know, at some point, you people in the media, this is the Associated Press.
Seems like every month when you write economic stories, your experts are always surprised.
Experts, yeah, this is better than expected.
Do you think it might be time to go out and get new experts?
It seems like the experts that you quote are always wrong.
Of course, they won't go get new experts because they hope their experts are right.
They want the news to be bad.
I'm telling you, folks, I detest these people.
I just detest them.
They get all bit out of shape when you challenge their patriotism.
Oh, what the hell is it when you want misery and doom and gloom and the worst possible outcome, event after event after event, for your own country?
Take it back.
Journalists are not members of nation states.
Journalists are a different breed, ladies and gentlemen.
They are citizens of the world, and they are not permitted to take sides because of the vaunted principles of objectivity.
The news reports provided evidence consumers are continuing to spend, damn it, despite rising interest rates, a cooling housing market, and gasoline prices that hit records this summer above $3 per, they're not at $3 a gallon anymore.
Who wrote this?
Martin Cruxinger.
You can't even include in a story that you wrote yesterday that the gas price is around $2.60 in a lot of parts of the country.
So it makes sense, doesn't it?
People are driving more of the gas price is coming down.
They're just so fed up.
You people aren't playing ball.
You people are supposed to be unemployed, hanging around a soup line.
You're supposed to be throwing things and protesting because the economy is so bad.
They are failing to convince you of this, as they were able to convince you that Joe Wilson was telling the truth.
In fact, Gina Martin, economist at Wachovia Securities, said consumers are not cooperating with forecasts for more moderate spending.
Spending continues.
Incomes are providing the support they needed to keep shopping.
Incomes, which are up by 6.4% in the past year, that's wages for those of you in Rio Linda, are growing at the fastest pace since 2004.
Would somebody explain to me why all these fears of inflation, the harbingers of a recession?
There aren't any.
There are simply hopes and dreams for both those things in the drive-by media.
But now the drive-by media are getting upset with you, ladies and gentlemen, because you are not cooperating with their forecasts that you won't spend as much.
And unemployment went, it's absolutely right.
Unemployment down 4.7%.
118, what is the number?
118, 138,000 new jobs?
Something like that.
You people, you're just not cooperating.
You're supposed to be out unemployed.
You're supposed to be on unemployment benefits.
You're not cooperating.
It's not all bad, though, for the drive-by media.
The UK has a website, New Orleans Gay Community Returns.
It's not all bad news for the drive-bys out there.
New Orleans set to host its annual party, The Southern Decadence, one year after a city wrecked by Hurricane Katrina.
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender party was held to blame by conservative Christian leaders for the disaster that emptied the city's population into surrounding states and has left the city requiring billions of dollars in aid.
So, yeah, you got to take the good news wherever you can find it.
If you're on the left, quick time out here, folks.
Much more straight ahead after this.
It's Open Line Friday.
Guess we should take some telephone calls.
We'll do that after one more soundbite.
Charles Barkley appeared yesterday on Neil Cavuto's show, Your World with Neil Cavuto.
You know, Chuck's out there thinking about running for the governorship of Alabama.
Chuck was a Republican when he was playing.
Chuck was a Republican.
He has gone over to Darkside, bashing Republicans now a big Democrat.
But still, Barkley is bashing the GOP these days, but at the same time, he's on target here discussing Democrats.
They're criticizing a guy who can't run again, who can't get fired.
So they spent the last two years criticizing him instead of saying, you know what, some things aren't right.
This is our game plan.
And now we're two years away from the election, and we don't even have a frontrunner.
Really?
Chuck, you ever heard of Hillary Clinton?
In fact, Hillary got some headlines.
She spoke to some group, said standby, started talking about how the country's ready for a female president and so forth.
See, see, everybody just, anytime she inches closer to actually committing it, he's going to do it.
Oh, right.
Oh, yes.
And they start, you know, shuddering and shaking uncontrollably.
But at any rate, Chuck's right about one thing.
They've spent two years criticizing and not advancing a plan.
They don't have a plan.
They don't have a plan for anything, ladies and gentlemen, other than liberalism, which they can't be honest about.
All right, Greg in Virginia Beach, welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Rush, mega dittos.
I cannot believe I'm talking to you after many, many, many years of listening to you.
Thank you.
I'm glad you got through, sir.
Hey, I just wanted to let you know, by the way, I'm from the all-volunteer military.
Just got back from Iraq, United States Navy.
And just wanted to let you know.
What's it like?
Hey, can I, I have to ask you, when did you get back?
I just literally got back like two weeks ago.
What was it like?
Tell me how it happened.
You flew from where to where when you got off the airplane at the airport event second.
What was it like to get back here?
It was, well, a couple of points.
It was incredible.
One, I thoroughly enjoyed my experience over there.
Unfortunately, we were able to, we actually have access to satellite TV in the chow halls and things like that over there.
So we see what's being reported back here, and it just disgusts us that a lot of the true things that are going on over there aren't reported.
And that's partly the reason for my call.
We get a lot of drive-by politicians that come out to Iraq for a couple of days, come back here and report what they think they see in two days as opposed to all the troops that are over there for six months, 12 months.
How long were you there?
I was there, boots on the ground, just over 10 months.
Okay, now, hold on here just a second, Greg, because I'm not trying to embarrass you.
Sure.
But I want to point something out to the audience.
A full 99% of the people of this country will never do what you just did.
And that's not a criticism.
I'm just establishing here a fact.
Those 99%, when they think about it, they think, what if I had to go?
What if I had to go to a war?
And what do they think of it?
IEDs going off every day.
Massive death.
U.S. soldiers killing and getting killed.
So when they picture it, I'm sure that if they thought that they had to go, that they would be petrified, just petrified.
And I would also wager that many of them, while they could not wait to get out of there and to get back and touching down on U.S. soil would be one of the sweetest and most memorable homecomings ever.
And to hear you describe it, sound like you just got back from Kiakuk.
It was no big deal, but you don't even want to talk about it.
You went, you did your 10 months, you volunteered, as you said, as all of you have, and you got back, and it was just like you went to the grocery store, went a shopping spree for 10 months.
What is no big deal to you?
But I'm telling you, most Americans, you know, they have pictures of the World War II movies, and here come the returning veterans, and everybody's in town to greet them, and their wives and their girlfriends.
They're hugging them and they're tears and so forth.
You just, hey, it's just the way life is for you.
You just got back, and I'm just amazed by that.
That's why I think you people are a different breed.
Absolutely.
And it's not like we hear that's being reported, oh, these are all uneducated people that are being brainwashed to go over there.
That is totally not the truth.
You know, the majority over there, I would say, at least have associates or even college degrees.
There's many of us over there that chose to go.
And, you know, and quickly, I know you got a break in that coming up, but I just wanted to thank you and let your 20-plus million listeners out there.
I was enrolled in the Adopt a Soldier program, and a gentleman, if you don't mind me saying his name, Randy Raymanap, and his wife adopted me.
Well, they asked me, they said, hey, what can we do for you over there?
We'd like to do something for you and your unit.
And I said, hey, we're fine over here, but if you can, send over, you know, maybe some spare clothes that you have, maybe a couple boxes, and I'll distribute them out to the Iraqis.
Because I actually lived with the Iraqis, Rush, and helped train them.
And so they said, hey, no problem.
We'll send some over.
I was expecting two or three boxes.
Well, they got together with a couple of high schools out of Michigan where they're from.
And next thing you know, I'm receiving in the mail over there up to 60 to 80 boxes.
Sorry, it's emotional for me.
But they ended up sending over literally close to 1,000 pieces of clothing that I ended up getting with the Iraqis with the Iraqis.
Greg, by no means are we through discussing this, and I do have the aforementioned commercial break.
Can you hang on for a couple minutes?
Sure.
All right.
We'll be back.
This is amazing.
Never hear about this stuff.
Never, ever do you hear about this.
That's right.
America's real anchorman.
Talent on loan from God.
And we happily rejoin Greg in Virginia Beach, Virginia, just back from Iraq two weeks ago.
The story you tell us is just, it's amazing.
You were adopted by a couple listeners in this program of the Adopt a Soldier program, so you got website access and all that sort of stuff.
You're able to stay in touch even outside the Chow Hall because you could use the Internet, right?
Absolutely.
Yeah, we had Internet access to where I was at and was able to.
Where were you?
I was in several different areas, Baghdad, Fallujah, Ramadi.
Okay, so you were in hotbeds.
Absolutely.
The hotbeds of Alambar province.
All right.
So say the names of the two people who quote-unquote adopted you again slowly so I can understand it.
Sure.
It was Randy and Judy Remanap.
I believe I'm pronounced, like I said, we've only communicated via email.
Right.
R-E-M-E-N-A-P.
Yeah, Remanap's fine.
That's how I, as a trained broadcaster, would pronounce it.
Maybe Ramonap, but nevertheless, where they live?
Not the street address, but what state are they?
They live up in Michigan.
They live up in Michigan.
And you were communicating with them, and they asked you if there's anything you needed, and you said, yeah, the Iraqis could use some clothes and hand-me-downs.
And they organized with high schools donation drives and generated, did I hear this right?
60 to 80 boxes of clothes for Iraqis they sent to you?
Absolutely.
It was just unbelievable.
In fact, everybody in my unit, when I was getting these boxes, they were thinking that they didn't know what was going on because they just thought they were personal things that my wife or somebody was sending out to me.
And then I told them, you know, the story about you and the Adopt a Soldier program, and they were really moved by it.
And, you know, it was just incredible.
Apparently, Randy's got he's got some children that are older that teach at a high school.
And so they arranged everything.
And kudos needs to go out to these high school kids that weren't thinking of themselves, you know, the Rush babies of the generation, and were thinking of the Iraqi kids and people over there.
It is just, I can't tell you how I'm swelling up with pride.
I got chills going up and down my spine listening to this.
Kudos to you, Rush, for allowing us to be able to do this, you know.
And, you know, I want to let you know because this is one time that, you know, I'm trying to make you look good and let the people know that if it wasn't for this program, we wouldn't have been able to have access to this and to have to be able to touch the Iraqi people.
Well, look, thank you.
You're very kind, but as is often the case, people call and thank me and give me credit for things.
I didn't do this.
These two people up in Michigan did this.
But they are the kind of people in this audience.
And they have the kind of kids, children, teachers in high school that would organize and do something like this.
And nobody knows about it until you call and talk about it.
They're not seeking it.
They didn't do it for any fame or credit or whatever.
And you just wonder how much of this kind of thing is going on.
This is just a picture of the country that you just don't hear about.
It's going on a lot over there, Rush.
And unfortunately, like I said, you get a lot of these taking a word from you, a drive-by politician, that they come over for a couple of days, literally, because what I did, I can't really say over in the Navy, but I was able to say sea schedules, things like that.
And you have these politicians that come over for a couple of days, and then they're gone back to the States.
And then they think that they're getting a full picture of what's going on over there, as opposed to us who are out on the streets day in and day out living amongst the Iraqi people.
And I'll send you, as I told your screener, I'll send some photos and let you see the pictures of these kids and their faces and how happy they are to get and receive these clothes.
What kind of clothes are they?
Like blue jeans and things like that?
Yeah, everything from just blue jeans and t-shirts to actually, and these were for adult men and women as well.
They sent over nice dresses, nice golf shirts.
And a lot of the clothes, some were just hand-me-downs, but some were brand new clothes that people have gone out and bought.
You know, this is the kind of stuff supposed to be happening with the oil for food program.
Absolutely.
But it didn't.
Well, that's just, man, I am so happy you got through here to tell the story.
This is amazing.
Yeah, one quick point too, Rush.
Like I said, I lived with the Iraqis, and they are very appreciative of what we're doing.
And they said to me, because I lived with them, they said, you know, they said to me, they said, hey, I hope that you and the Americans are not going to get up and leave, because they were truly disappointed, you know, actually when we left in 91.
And I know that we had a different mission then, but they truly want to be trained by us.
They're coming along.
And they actually really didn't start their training until about a year ago because it took us a couple of years to secure the country.
And so, you know, they've only been training for about a year now, but they are coming along so well.
It's just unbelievable.
And, you know, I have great faith in the Iraqi people over there.
Did you say you were Army?
Navy.
Navy.
You're in the Navy.
All right.
Well, that's the heartwarming story of the day.
Well, thank you to be able to let us have access to that site and to make this all happen.
Well, you're more than welcome, but I'm telling you that those people in Michigan actually did that.
We made the program available, but they actually did it.
God bless them.
And you, too.
That's just, I'm still struck by how casual a thing it was for you to get home.
Is this your first 10 months, your first tour over there?
My first time.
First time.
I'm ready to go back over there again.
Of course, my wife would probably say different, but she's been very, very supportive and my kids as well.
How old are you?
I am 40.
40.
40 years old.
Went over there 10 months ago.
Yep.
And I appreciate it proud to be an American, and that's why I did it.
And every single other military person over there loves this country.
You know, when I did a troop visit to Afghanistan, I found the same thing.
I didn't find any resentment.
I found just the exact opposite, pride, commitment, and all that.
But you know something?
I can understand your feeling appreciative, and it's very warranted.
You tell me, do the people over there, the guys, the troops, the men and women in the uniform, do they understand the depth of appreciation felt for them by most Americans?
We do.
We absolutely do.
We know, and a lot of us all the time would sit over there and say, we don't believe the polls over there, too, that sit and say that only 30% believe in President Bush and what he's doing because we just don't believe those polls.
The vast, vast majority of the military is very aware of how much support that we are getting back here in America.
And we're proud to do it.
And that's why you see people signing back up even after their tours are done to go back over again.
How did you do during a tropical storm going through there last night?
I'm just watching on the news here all the flooding.
I'm actually from Arizona out in KFYI land is where I'm from.
Oh, but you're in Virginia Beach now.
I'm in Virginia Beach, just kind of going through my process of my demobilizing out.
I'm actually a reservist.
Okay.
KFYI.
We own.
KFYI owns Phoenix.
Absolutely.
As a reason why.
All right.
Well, look, Greg, thanks so much for the phone call.
That's true, Rush.
I appreciate it.
More than you know, we appreciate it.
God bless you, sir, and your adoptive parents up there in Michigan.
Thank you.
Have a great day.
You do the same.
Victor in Silver Spring, Maryland.
You're next.
Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
Do you remember me?
I'm the guy that called C-SPAN on February the 18th and told Ann Coulter how compassionate liberals are and how tolerant they are and how my wife walked out on me in 1993 and divorced me in 1994 because I wouldn't stop listening to you.
Oh, how could I forget you?
And then wait a second.
Your wife, people are going to believe this.
It didn't hear you the last time.
Your wife actually left you because you listened to this program.
Yes.
She gave me an ultimatum, either the marriage or you.
And I chose you.
How long have you been married?
This is fabulous.
22 years.
22 years.
Was she shocked?
I've forgotten.
I don't even talk to her anymore.
She didn't try to stop you?
No.
She said, you made your choice.
I'm out of here.
No, wait a minute.
If I remember, you're blind, right?
Yes.
You gave me some stuff, a couple of shirts and a vest.
And I met someone through a band called DCMotors.com, and the lead guy, Mike, and the blind guy, Tom, said I had to have a girlfriend, so they introduced me to Amy.
And we met, and she liked the EIB baseball cap, and she especially liked me wearing the American flag shirt that you gave me.
And she also told me your brother, Bud, is a ditto head.
Her brother Bud is a ditto head.
Yeah.
That's fabulous.
This is what it couldn't get two calls in a row like this if you tried to script it.
So now, what did you do?
I've forgotten the C-SPAN angle.
You told Ann Coulter that liberals are compassionate?
That they're so tolerant that they actually let other people's viewpoints come through.
But my wife was so taller, she decided she couldn't stand you to the point where.
That's right, that's right, that's right.
That's what you did, and that's where we found out about you.
Right.
And I was making you laugh with my blind jokes.
Like, I have gone out on dates with Amy a couple of times, and I told her, I said, because I can't see you that well, consider it a blind date.
You can see a little, but not.
I mean, you see images, you see light that have some.
I have to get real close to see things.
Yeah.
That's pretty gutsy.
So she loves, she's got a sense of humor.
I got her laughing yesterday when I told her about the update you had yesterday about the Chicago board.
The foie gras, yes.
Yeah, she thought that was funny.
Well, good.
She's got a great sense of humor.
Yeah, she does.
And maybe Survivor could do a series with the blind.
Pardon?
Survivor, you're a CBS TV show.
They're doing race groups this year.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, they could do a show with the blind.
I don't know what they could do.
Well, that would be up for the blind versus the deaf.
Or have it on the beach and watch the wheelchair people try to roll in the sand.
See, folks, you have to understand, it's a whole different group.
Everybody tells jokes to lighten up, and liberals will not let you do this.
I'm sure they're telling jokes about people on the beach, and we don't care, Mike.
But he can do it because he's blind.
Anyway, well, look, Victor, it's great that you called and reminded us of this.
I hope you have a great weekend, a great Labor Day weekend.
I've got to run.
We're short on time.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Stay with us.
Hey, a couple quick items here before we grab a couple more phone calls from Centennial, Colorado.
A man convicted of sexually assaulting an Indonesian housekeeper and keeping her virtually as a sex slave.
Well, not just a sex slave, just a full-fledged slave, was sentenced yesterday to 28 years to life in prison.
Homeden al-Turki, 37, denied the charges and blamed anti-Muslim prejudice for the case against him.
Said prosecutors persuaded the housekeeper to accuse him after they failed to build a case that he was a terrorist.
Al-Turki is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, lived in a Denver suburb of Aurora, was convicted June 30th of unlawful sexual contact by use of force, theft, and extortion.
All these are felonies.
Also, misdemeanor counts of false imprisonment and conspiracy to commit false imprisonment.
Al-Turkey said he treated the woman the same way any observant Muslim family would treat a daughter.
Which, yeah, what's the big deal here?
No, seriously, I mean, that what?
Am I being politically incorrect in there?
We're not exactly embracing diversity here, are we?
Your Honor, I'm not here to apologize, for I cannot apologize for things I did not do and for crimes I didn't commit, he told the judge.
State has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors.
Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors was the focal point of the prosecution.
See, he's even making my case.
Basic right to treat women this way.
This is who we are.
You can't criminalize this.
Okay, we just.
Well, religious discrimination could be grounds for an appeal.
We'll keep a sharp eye.
And from my favorite newspaper, the Palm Beach Post today, it's incredible.
South Florida counties, not just South Florida, Florida counties, South Florida primarily, South Florida counties that combined to spend millions of dollars preparing for a big bunch of damage from Tropical Storm Ernesto, damage that never happened, are now banding together to ask state officials to flex their muscles to get the federal government to pay for their troubles.
Tony Carper, emergency management director for Broward County, sent emails yesterday to emergency directors in Collier, Miami-Dade, Martin, and other counties that prepared for Tropical Storm Ernesto, asking them to send letters to Governor Bush and their legislative delegation to pressure the feds to reimburse them for money they spent preparing for a storm that never happened.
Kid you not.
No, it's right here.
Well, if you can believe the Palm Beach Post, but it's right here.
Carper estimated that Broward County's preparations cost $2.5 million.
All of South Florida's preparations cost $10 million to $15 million.
If you don't ask, you can't get it, Carper said.
There's plenty of precedent for it.
Plus, many counties still recovering from last year's storms.
They've spent so much on storm preparation.
The pigs are at the trough all the time.
I mean, there's this, this, this, no ending it.
I thought this was a good thing.
Now, they're mad that they had to spend the preparation money because it didn't happen.
Chandler in Greenville, South Carolina, one minute we have, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Oh, Megadidos Rush.
A big fan.
I'm a father of a U.S. Marine young man.
I wanted to ask you, I'm a big fan of you, and I'm also a big fan of C-SPAN, particularly Brian Lamb.
Yes, the founder.
He's very, very cagey about his political point of view.
And I just thought, would you speculate on what you think his political persuasion is?
I couldn't possibly speculate.
I do not know.
I don't know him.
I've been on Brian Lamb's Show once when he was hosting it.
I have not been on it.
It's been, must have been, it was the, when did the Democrats, 92, 92 convention in New York?
But you know something, Chandler?
I wouldn't tell you if I did know.
He does such a masterful job at making that a non-factor that I wouldn't pass it along even if I did know, which I don't.
But I'm sure he would be honored with the question, though, because it's a rare thing to be able to come off this way in American politics, especially in something like C-SPAN today.
Back here in just a second.
Got a best of show on Monday, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll replay the program where we handicap the Race Survivor Series starting soon on CBS.
Have a great time over the weekend.
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