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Sept. 19, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 19, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Well, I assume Cookie will have it.
I just saw a guy serving in Vietnam, John Kerry, giving his reaction to President Bush's speech.
And I didn't see much of it, but it was about how Bush didn't go get Osama, and Osama's the one attacked us.
That's another thing I'm sick of.
I'm sick.
I really am, folks.
I'm just, you know, certain days I lose my composure here, and I just, I just, I get frustrated, and I have to the point I have to say it.
I just get so frustrated with obvious mental midgets being portrayed by everybody else as the smartest people among us.
It insults my intelligence to have to hear that people like Al Gore and Hillary Clinton and John Kerry are the true brainiacs of the country, the true intellectual giants, when in fact they may have educations, but they have no practical understanding of reality because they live in a total world oriented toward their political future.
And of course, their warped sense of ideology.
At any rate, welcome back, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, rush at EIBNet.com, I went up to the website ESPN.com, page 2.
Greg Easterbrook just this TMQ column he writes.
In fact, he got canned by ESPN a few weeks after I was for a different reason.
And he went over to the NFL.com website to write his piece.
But I notice quite by accident, I happen to learn that Easterbrook's Tuesday morning quarterback piece is now back on ESPN on page two.
And it's one of the funniest and best football columns and longest that you'll ever read.
It's not a sportswriter column.
It's got some exodo stuff in it.
It's hard to describe.
It's just excellent.
And there are things in it that have nothing to do with football.
Such as this from last week's issue of Tuesday Morning Quarterback, Cosmic Thoughts, Bummer Edition.
Recently, I was creeped out by this supernova, and there's an actual picture of it, as gleaned through a telescope.
Detected February 18th by SWIFT, a satellite launched to look for gamma-ray bursts.
The exploding star already was the 24th supernova discovered at that early point in 2006.
As instruments improve, exploding stars appear more common than cosmologists had expected.
And that's not the best news we might have heard.
This supernova was coded GRB 060218.
This star detonation began as a gamma-ray burst that lasted 33 minutes.
Absolutely stunning because previous gamma-ray bursts from space have lasted a few seconds at the most.
The gamma rays came from 470 million light years away.
That was discomforting because strong gamma ray bursts usually emanate from what astronomers call the deep field, billions of light years distant and thus billions of years back in the past.
A distance of 470 million light years means this supernova happened 470 million years ago.
That is ancient by human reckoning, but many cosmologists have been assuming the kind of extremely massive detonations thought to cause strong gamma ray bursts occurred only in the misty eons immediately after the Big Bang.
The working assumption was that since life appeared on Earth, there had been no stellar mega explosion.
Now we know there has.
For several days, as the giant dying star, GRB 060218, collapsed, this single supernova shined brighter than all 100 billion other suns in its galaxy combined.
The detonation was so inexpressibly luminous, though 470 million light years distant, It could be seen by telescopes on Earth and not just fancy telescopes at Tops and Mountains.
A few days after the SWIFT satellite detected the gamma-ray surge, an amateur astronomer in the Netherlands sighted the forming supernova through a backyard telescope.
He gives the stellar coordinates.
And soon amateur astronomers the world over were marveling at the glistening beacon from the cosmic past.
This explosion, and this is where this gets interesting, if none of this other is interested you.
Listen to this.
This explosion released so much energy that it happened 470 million years ago, yet the light could travel for that protracted period, plus pass through the gas and dust of roughly 100 galaxies along the way, and still illuminate mirrors of backyard telescopes on Earth.
Now, here's what creeped me out.
Had this supernova happened in our galaxy, life on Earth would have ended February 18th.
Gamma rays are a deadly form of radiation.
Routine gamma ray bursts course through the Milky Way, our galaxy, all the time.
The threat from them appears small.
Recently, Christoph Stanick, professor of astronomy at Ohio State and one of the hot names in astronomy, calculates that a regular supernova causing a routine gamma ray burst would need to detonate within about 3,000 light years of Earth to expose our Earth, our world, to enough radiation to cause a calamity.
Only a small portion of the Milky Way, none of the larger universe beyond, is within 3,000 light years of our world.
At any rate, a couple other supernovas he described caused relatively mild gamma bombardments, lasted just seconds.
Excuse me.
I've got a dry throat to me.
Take a sip here.
Baby.
All right.
If a 33-minute, incredibly powerful gamma-ray burst, similar to the one associated with GRB 060218, happened anywhere in the Milky Way or any nearby galaxy, Earth would be sterilized.
Any life that might exist on other planets in our galaxy and nearby galaxies would also end.
Most likely, the gamma radiation from GRB 060218 ended all life in numerous galaxies after the explosion 470 million years ago.
A team of astronomers led by Andrew Fruchter at the Space Telescope Science Institute calculated that the class of extremely massive blue star that caused this mega supernova is probably not found in the Milky Way, which is some consolation.
But February's ultimate supernova tells us nature has a doomsday weapon, and that creeps me out.
Now, here's the, wait a minute, the reason I mentioned this to you folks is because, once again, a famous NASA scientist has, we got 10 more years to stop global warming or it's over.
And all of these earthbound, arrogant, What's the word?
Narcissists who think there's nothing larger in life than themselves are so convinced that it is the United States of America and its oil use and all of its techno-advancements that's causing our climate to deteriorate right in front of our eyes.
This lunatic Al Gore out there with his propaganda movie convincing people of it left and right.
We are mere specks.
We are just specks in the whole universe.
The whole cosmos.
Here is a thing happens 470 million years ago.
If it happened in our universe on February 18th, we wouldn't be here, folks.
We wouldn't have known a thing.
It would have been hit.
We'd have been sterilized.
And I just used this story from Greg Easterbrook in a football column.
See, he does football, but he goes outside.
And I'm sure the football fans who read his column say, stick to the football issues.
I just illustrate this, or use this rather, to illustrate that all this talk about how we, human beings, prosperous, free, capitalistic human beings, are destroying our own climate is patently, intellectually absurd.
Learn it, love it, live it.
Now, the next thing is, when news of this spreads to the general scientific community, gets out of just the realm of cosmologists, we have to prepare.
This was a close call.
We can't be sure that a similar blue star is close enough to us that one day it could wipe us out.
Well, hundreds of millions of years ago wipe us out, but we won't learn about it until it happens.
How do we prepare for this, ladies and gentlemen?
And what would this do to global warming?
We have to get ready.
Does it mean that we all leave for the space station?
What do we do?
What do we do?
The answer has always been, pray.
Back in just a second.
All right, people have been patiently waiting on the phones.
Let's go there.
We'll go to Omaha.
This is Carol.
I'm glad you waited, Carol.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Thank you, Rush.
Midwestern dittos to you.
Thank you.
I greatly appreciate your program and respect your talent in building it the way you have.
The point, I had two points that I wanted to get to.
I was watching the McCain program this Sunday, and I was astonished at how incoherent his argument was with the questioning back and forth.
And then, conversely, how on point Stephen Hadley was later on Fox News.
But back to McCain, he was putting forth the argument about how our troops would be endangered if we changed Article 3 and tried to clarify that.
And I thought how absurd that was because the first thing that came to my mind was CIA Colonel Higgins that represented the United States in a UN troop security group in Lebanon back in the 80s and how he was abducted, tortured, and killed.
The videotape was released.
His family had to endure that.
And that didn't do anything for him.
And then secondly.
Well, but wait a minute now.
The CIA guy's a spy.
You can shoot those people.
Well, I, no, you can't.
I mean, they represent our armed forces regardless of what they do.
I get your point, but you know, there are far more recent examples.
I hate giving you the details of this.
Some people may have forgotten it, but it wasn't that long ago.
It's in Iraq.
Two American soldiers blown up, decapitated, mutilated, left to rot in the streets after having been captured.
The Geneva Convention, Article 3, Common Article 3, didn't protect them.
That's what's so absurd about this.
This is, you know, it is, all of this is an assault on my common sense.
McCain's argument, we must protect the troops, and Lindsey Graham's argument, we must protect the, it's about protecting the country.
It's about protecting the citizens of the United States of America.
The troops know what they're getting into.
They have training for this.
I don't mean to sound insensitive about it, but the idea that we're by adhering to some, these people don't even qualify under the genuine Geneva Conventions until the U.S. Supreme Court, a bunch of libs and Anthony Kennedy said so.
They don't even qualify.
No, because Supreme Court says they do, they do.
And McCain, so we've got to, it's absurd.
None of this makes any common sense whatsoever.
Exactly.
And my other point was what McCain was getting to is, you know, this treaty has been in effect for over 40 years.
Well, what makes this treaty so sacrosanct?
The age?
It's like a new generation of workers that go into corporations and they look at the former generation that was there entrenched in their accounting or whatever, and they say, you know, well, why do you do it like this?
And one of the first answers was because we've always done it like this.
And I think that that's the mentality that we have with McCain and those, and it really worries me.
Well, I think it's that's a good point, but I think there's something more to it than that.
In the first place, the Geneva Conventions were the result of the world coming together to agree as one on humane treatment of prisoners of war.
And nobody wants to tamper with that, just like nobody wants to tamper with our Cuban policy, even though they can't explain it.
Number two, I think in McCain's case, this is all about him.
This is not about protecting the troops.
This is about McCain.
This is about this is I went through this earlier today, and I'll go through it in more detail again if you would like.
But this is a smokescreen.
All of this that is supposedly about the troops and so forth, that sounds good and so forth.
But everything is funneled through what's best for his career, and I think through his experiences of POW.
McCain decided long ago that he's going to run the Senate, and he could do it with a relative handful of moderate liberal Republicans siding with left-wing Democrats, gang of 14, now this.
And he's done this for the last six years, and he's gotten away with it, which is why he's pretty confident and arrogant that he can continue to.
He can stop Congress from dealing on anything that he doesn't like.
He can stop dealing with border security by coming up with a cockamami immigration bill that he joins with Senator Kennedy on.
Some people think he's basically hijacked Congress for his own career moves and future and so forth.
And that's what you have to know, that this is personal.
This is about how it benefits him.
And now that he's made a miscalculation, believe me, Carol, he is hearing, as is Senator Graham, Senator Warner, that I'm sure their phones and emails are just melting.
And of course, that's why there are these two sympathy stories for McCain in the L.A. Times and the Washington Post today.
Well, I believe he is making a miscalculation because I know all the people that I talk to in this state, and there are grassroots groups going up everywhere at how disappointed they are in McCain and how it is really time to get him out of office.
And he's a Hagel and the whole bunch of them.
Hagels, by the way, joined the group too, along with Susan Collins and Olympia Snow.
What do you think the miscalculation is?
I think the miscalculation is that they've blindsided themselves.
They've become entrenched in this beltway logic that they have, and they don't listen to their constituency anymore, and they're building the power base, and they really are not able to formulate good arguments on what they're doing.
They have what they think is a long-term strategy to gain more power and secure more power.
And I think what they're doing is rather like the levees in New Orleans.
It's going to undermine them eventually.
The storm is coming up over the dike now at McCain because this is really the wrong position for him to take.
I know, I know.
If we get hit again, where are the fingers of blame going to be pointed right at this if he prevails on this?
But I think there's, you know, when I asked you what is it that's causing the miscalculation, I don't know that it's a miscalculation.
And that says to say that he's making a mistake, and I'm not sure that he is given his perspective.
McCain plays to the mainstream media, the drive-by media, and he knows that torture and accusing the United States and George Bush of it is a winner in the drive-by media.
But I think that's exactly his miscalculation.
Well, it's a miscalculation in the sense that the majority of the American people do not consider what we're doing torture.
They consider it national security.
Now, I think you're wrong.
I think the majority do consider it torture.
No, they don't.
I don't know.
I think they do, unfortunately.
Or maybe it's that 50-50.
Yeah, I think you're just subject to the media bubble.
I think you don't think that this is so obvious.
This is not this.
This is torture as a routine practice of George W. Bush's United States military?
You think the majority of Americans think that's what goes on?
Honestly, here in even our community, and then if we're that if that's true, then McCain's not making a miscalculation.
Well, if he's running for president, he needs to vote to everybody.
But I think there's some silent people out here that are getting riled by this.
And I think it's going to make all the difference.
But if they're in the minority, it won't matter.
He's figuring he can find a way around the Republican nominee process because it's the base that if anybody's up in arms about this, it's the Republican base.
Well, exactly.
But if you're right, if a majority of Americans think that we are engaging in torture, that makes me even angrier.
Because then I would have to agree with people that say too many Americans are stupid.
But then you'd have to say, well, maybe they're just falling prey to the media bubble.
Well, maybe I ought to say the majority of the Americans that are portrayed in the mainstream media, maybe that's what I ought to say.
Because there are people like us that are out here that aren't, our voices aren't heard in the future.
That's what I'm there.
I'm telling you, that's what I think.
You know, drive-by media can go out and do man on the street interviews with anybody and then portray it like, you know, they think McCain is on the majority side of the immigration bill?
Oh, heavens, no.
Well, I think this is the same thing.
I think this is the same thing.
I think it's why the president's numbers are coming back.
I think all this is bogus.
I think the numbers of presidents are actually higher than 44.
I think games are being bogged.
I think we're all being misled grotesquely about the status of the frame of mind of the American people.
Back in a second.
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Look, this Gore story here is not even worth comment.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore yesterday suggested taxing carbon dioxide emissions instead of employees' pay in a bid to stem global warming.
Penalizing pollution instead of penalizing employment will work to reduce that pollution, said Al Gore in a speech at the New York University Scruel of Law.
And it, of course, reduce the pollution, Al Gore, by making sure more people are unemployed.
What a.
I've run out of terms, and I don't want to sound juvenile, calling these people bumpkins and idiots and stupid, but It's more than misguided.
They're just dumb.
They're just really dumb.
The pollution tax would replace all payroll taxes, including those for Social Security and unemployment compensation, Al Gore said.
So the overall level of taxation would remain the same.
Instead of discouraging business from hiring more employees, it would discourage business from producing more pollution.
Well, the premise here is totally flawed, but you know, people are going to buy this because they're going to think, ooh, well, no taxes.
My company pays the taxes.
Right.
Your company pays the taxes, and you don't have a job.
They do not have endless profits, Mr. Snurdly.
Companies do not have endless profits.
I know that's what Al Gore's trading.
Can you imagine the little mom and pop that before being put out of business by Walmart has five or six employees.
And what do they do?
I mean, pick a business.
And Al Gore is going to calculate their contribution to pollution and tax them on it.
And it's going to be the same amount, ostensibly, that the employees are.
But you know, other Doomkoffs out there, wow, a tax cut.
I don't pay any taxes and my employer pays.
Al Gore, shouldn't the citizens at least match the pollution tax like employers match the Social Security tax?
Shouldn't there be some kind of equal participation here, Al Gore?
What about your egalitarian instincts?
Besides, aren't people polluting too?
Are you going to tax people for driving their SUVs, tax people for driving their what?
People pollute.
We're polluting.
It's not just businesses.
It's not just governments.
It's the people who pollute.
I mean, there are more people than there are bureaucrats.
No, that'll be next.
See, once you get the concept started, then you start applying the new policy to virtually everybody, and pretty soon we're all poor, but equally miserable.
Just dumb.
It is just dumb.
And it's all based on a false premise, and that is that we're destroying the planet.
This is Jim Koonin in the Associated Press.
I'm not quite sure how to interpret this.
The headline is: Democrats' spending gives edge to GOP.
The National Democratic Party has spent millions on raising money, on consultants, building state parties, entering the weeks before the election day with only about one-fifth as much cash as the Republicans for races that could decide control of Congress.
The RNC prepared to spend, and I told you this yesterday, five-to-one advantage, RNC prepared to spend $60 million over the next seven weeks on advertising and get out the vote efforts to protect the GOP's narrow majorities in the House and Senate.
The DNC plans to use about $12 million, all devoted to getting voters to the polls.
Even in that effort, though, it has set aside only an average of $60,000 in each of the 40 most competitive congressional races in the country.
Under Howard Dean, the DNC has delivered more resources than any other toward building the party at the state level.
In doing so, the DNC, as of July 31st, had transferred nearly $17 million to state and local party committees across the country, with significantly more going to states with competitive races.
Oh, this is a bad move.
We know what happens when you transfer big piles of money to state Democrats.
Just look at Louisiana.
Just look at New Orleans.
They're not going to have any money left for to get out the vote effort.
But a little comment about this.
I had a friend the other day send me a note saying, I got to go make a speech.
I don't want to do it, but I promised a long time ago.
I got to go make a speech to the League of Women Voters.
And I don't care about politics anymore.
Is there something you can give me some advice with?
And I said, yeah.
I said, I don't mind if you give them this advice because I know they won't listen even if it comes from you.
You just tell them that the whole concept of voter registration misses the point.
The reason they're going to keep losing is because they're registering dingbats that don't care.
And then what happens is they've got to get out the vote effort.
So they got two problems.
A, they have to go out and register people like you know Manuel, like Bush's Bad Man Wow.
And they've already been doing this with Rock the Vote and P. Diddy's Voter Die and all these other voter registration drives.
And every four years we hear about these new registrations, they're just going to swamp the Republicans.
Somehow these people never show up or they never got registered or half of them are illegally registered or what have you.
I said, biggest problem the League of Women Voters and all these other lib groups have is they got to get their people impassioned about issues and let that be what gets them to the polls.
Now this tells me the Democrats think they've already accomplished that.
They're reading their kook websites and they think that the Democrat base out there and the whole country is being restrained by electronic fences.
They want to go vote today.
They hate Bush so much and they hate the Republicans so much.
They want Bush out of there now.
They don't want to wait till November.
So they think all I got to do is send a little bunch of little yellow buses into the neighborhoods to pick up the average Democrat voter, get him to polls, take him to the bar, wherever he goes after that, or then take him home.
So they're spending all their money on a get out the vote effort because they think they've got the votes already.
But no, they don't because there was a story yesterday, voting machines, voting irregularities, big problems, not just in Ohio and Florida.
It could happen nationwide.
They're already setting the stage to explain their defeat.
Plus, the gas prices is going down.
The economy is going up.
And as it has been, Bush's approval numbers are going up.
It's a sad scenario for the Howard Dean-led Democrats.
But until they get their people fired up, and they're making a mistake thinking that they are, they're up against, you know, Republicans have a get out the vote effort, too.
And the grassroots did a tremendous job in 2004, as well as 2002.
And they're going to be at it again.
And we've got a better one than they do because it's easier to get our people out to vote because our people are informed, they are passionate, and they care, and thus they are inspired and motivated to get there.
But I mean, you take a look at the average Democrat voter registration drive, you can take for every 100,000 voters they register, the cumulative IKE, IQ, would probably be less than a pencil eraser.
And so when it comes time for election day, half of them can be fooled in saying, no, it's not election day.
It's tomorrow, Wednesday.
And they show up on Wednesday to vote when the polls are closed, and the Democrats claim a trick has been played on them.
That's how stupid some of their voters are.
You think I'm lying that happened?
Republicans did a little dirty trick and sent a flyer out a week early and said, due to an unfortunate circumstance in certain precincts, Election Day will be held on Wednesday, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Democrats heard about it.
This is such a dirty trick.
They were worried because they knew it would work because half their voters are stupid idiots.
They have to be when you look at the way they vote.
My point here is that they can register all the people they want with all of their voter registration drives they want.
But then their task becomes finding these people again.
You know, how many of them are still in the country after they register them?
Register them in March, register them April all the way up through October.
How many of them leave the country?
How many of them have gone underground?
They can't find half of them.
And then those they can find, they got to get out to the polls.
Might dad be able to find them one or two o'clock in the afternoon.
Don't know what condition they're going to be in by that time of day.
Big problem.
Who's next on this, bro?
Stuart in Brooklyn.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
It's great to have you with us.
Thank you, Megan, New York City, Jewish Republican dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Honored to have you with us.
Because of you, we're no longer an endangered species.
And I just want to remind your audience, especially in the mainland, that there is a 40% sizable Jewish population, I'm sorry, Republican population, a la Peter King, in New York State.
So they shouldn't think we're completely blue out here.
Also, you know, you're saying that the voters are stupid and idiots.
I mean, that's definitely true for a lot of them.
However, no, no, It's certain Democrat voters.
The Democrats have to go out and register people that don't care in the first place.
You're dealing.
Let me substitute the word stupid and add word.
Add a word.
Stupid and ignorant.
Two different things there.
Well, I have to say that, you know, a lot of that, and you had a caller earlier who was sort of a Nambi-Pamby member of the new castrati, moderately intelligent.
Yeah, he was just a valley guy.
Yeah, but you know something?
Bush could reach out to these people.
And the reason why he has not reached out to these people is because, and I'm surprised that he's even from Texas.
It's because he hasn't taken both gloves off.
He's only taken one glove off.
Basically, we see the improvement that he's made recently with just one glove off.
Can you imagine where he would be right now if he really took the fight to the Democrats?
I mean, take this McCain issue right now.
I mean, McCain is obviously an unmitigated disaster.
And, you know, applying the Geneva Conventions to terrorists will not make the terrorists use smoother knives when they behead people.
It will have absolutely no effect on the way the enemy treats us.
And it'll only weaken our position against the enemy.
And, of course, people are realizing that now.
And I hope McCain gets hoisted by his own petard because of it.
However, by the same token, when somebody makes a spectacle, you have to make a spectacle back, or else people won't realize what the debate is.
Why are we arguing the language of the Geneva Convention in trying to amend the Geneva Convention?
Why are we even dealing with the Geneva Convention?
President Bush, after the Supreme Court, which is mostly a bunch of political hacks, said that the Geneva Convention applies to terrorists who are not part of any government or any recognized state that applies to them, he should have said, you know what?
Congress, the Supreme Court has handcuffed me.
You write a law that says these terrorists are not subject to the Geneva Conventions.
That's it, period.
And that's the fight that should have been brought to McCain.
Had he done that, or maybe he can still do it, I don't know.
He probably can't anymore.
But had he done that, he would make McCain completely irrelevant.
He would make him look so small, make him look like an advocate of the people.
I don't think he wants McCain to look small.
And I don't know that he would ever ask Congress to write a piece of legislation saying that the terror.
He could.
I mean, the Supreme Court's who said it.
The rest of the world was going along with it long before the court did.
But he's not going to do that because they are prisoners.
It's not the way he operates.
He's okay.
You tell me I've got to do it this way.
I'll find his way around you.
But having Congress pass a law saying that terrorists are not subject to the Geneva Conventions, that would have caused even bigger furor with McCain and Lindsey Graham and the Democrats and everything else.
It would have been taking it to them.
There's no question.
But his focus is not politics.
This is what people on this.
It's what people don't understand.
It's what angers some of Republicans.
He's actually focused on protecting the country.
And if it takes getting a deal with these lunatics in the Senate, that's primary to him, not the political impact on himself or anything else.
That's what nobody gets.
Everybody, including the drive-bys, look at everything Bush does through the political prison.
Is this a political move?
If so, will it help him or hopefully will it hurt him?
Back in just a second.
Thanks for the call, Stuart.
We got a couple of John Kerry soundbites reacting to President's speech coming up after this.
All right, hold your nose.
We got a couple Kerry soundbites, and I got a call from Macedonia, Ohio.
I want to get to.
Kerry was on PMS NBC.
Nora O'Donnell asked him a couple questions.
Here's the first.
Forget the question.
It doesn't matter.
Here's his answer.
The question that has to be asked is: are the president's policies, in fact, encouraging that and contributing to it?
Are they acting to further the security of the United States or are they making matters worse?
I think the answer is that the president's policy is, in fact, creating terrorists.
I don't want to spend too much time on this.
But this is why I say these people are stupid.
This is what, or else they think.
No, they're stupid.
Forget it.
I'm not going to give them a benefit of the doubt.
They know that terrorists have been out there for 25 years and that George Bush was nothing but a frat boy when terrorism started.
And they're all blaming him for creating more.
It is their weakness.
It is their appeasement.
It is their policies.
Mogadishu.
Failing to go get bin Laden when they had the chance.
They are the ones that make us look weak, and that's what create terrorists.
You idiot.
Alienating countries that could be helping us and hurting our ability to try to actually help the democracy to emerge.
Democracy will not emerge at the mouth of a gun barrel.
And our own general.
Stop the tape.
How the hell did it emerge here?
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry.
I really am sorry.
I know it's beneath me to call these people idiots.
I've just run out of patience here to go into windy, long analyses explaining their positions.
Here's the next one.
We see congressional matchup about even between Republicans and Democrats.
Why are the doubts about the American Party that the Democratic Party is unable to support, be supported by the American people?
I believe the American people see through this.
What this administration does is sell fear, and it tries to scare people and raise the specter of security and pretend that that's the only issue.
And then wait a second.
Who is it that's constantly running around claiming that the ports are wide open to terrorist activity?
It's you.
Who is it constantly giving terrorists the game plan?
Who is it constantly telling them where they should hit us?
Who is it constantly selling fear?
I'm not going to play the rest of this because I can't handle it.
I just wanted to give you a flavor.
Dick in Macedonia, Ohio.
I have one minute, but I wanted to get to you.
Hi.
Rush, Buckeye, Megadittum.
I'll get right to my point.
I want to comment on that story that you referenced about gas consumers.
If we save the money or we don't spend the money on gasoline, we take what we save on that and spend it, it'll be inflationary.
And that betrays whoever this expert is doesn't know the most basic thing about the American economic system.
The private sector cannot in any way, shape, or form contribute to inflation, with the exception of the banking community, unless you're printing your own money.
We do not have the capacity to create money.
We are only taking money that we save, redirecting it somewhere else.
It is in no way inflationary.
Well, even so, I always thought that when prices went up, it was a sign of inflation.
Not down.
Not necessarily.
Well, I know there are exceptions.
Look, I wish I had Dick.
HR, get his number.
I want to query him some more about this.
People are going to be surprised to learn that the private sector can't create inflation.
I got to run, though, because of time back here in just a second.
And tomorrow on the program, the latest idea from liberals floating ocean windmills to generate more power.
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