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Nov. 16, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 16, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, filling in for Rush, taking your calls at 1800-282-2882.
Now, some time back, the um spy agency in Britain, MI-5, you know them from the Bond films.
There actually is a woman who's the head of this, um, as in the films, uh Dame Eliza Manningham Bueller.
Quite an imposing name.
Uh Dame Bueller, or is it Dame Manningham Bueller, uh announced in a press conference that uh MI5 had foiled five major plots since the bombings that occurred in London from Al Qaeda, and they are tracking almost 30 more terrorist plots involving a whopping 1,600 suspects in Britain.
She was asked uh what she meant when she said originally there were numerous plots to kill people and damage our economy.
She says, What do I mean by numerous?
Five, ten?
No, nearer 30 that we currently know of.
She added that MI5 and local police had uncovered 200 cells actively engaged in plotting or facilitating terrorist acts here and overseas.
In an earlier report, MI5 estimating 8,000 British Muslims supporting or facilitating Al Qaeda.
Now that's out of a population of about 60 million.
In the United States, with 300 million people, you have not heard anything.
In fact, the FBI says there's no Al Qaeda terrorists in the United States.
Let's see, here's the director, Robert Mueller on CNN, Alga CNN now.
I quote, I don't think Al Qaeda is largely represented in the United States or people that espouse violent extremism.
How's that?
Are we sugarcoating this?
Are we sweeping it under the rug?
Are we refusing, for example, to put on your America's most wanted list, Mr. FBI, the most wanted guy in the world, Adnan Shukra Juma?
Adnan Shukra Juma, raised in the United States by an Imam who was an imam at the Brooklyn Mosque where the uh blind sheik uh plotted to bomb the World Trade Center in 93.
That Adnan Shukra Juma grew up, he's only 30 now, I guess, or early 30s, 5'4, 140 pounds, clean-shaven, doesn't appear out of a sorts of uh speaks perfect American uh English.
He is a trained nuclear technician.
He's an accomplished pilot, and according to Paul Williams in his book, The Al Qaeda Connection, he has been singled out by uh Osama bin Laden to serve as the field commander for the next terrorist attack on the United States, known among Al-Qaeda planners as, quote, the American Hiroshima, unquote.
In other words, a nuclear event.
According to uh Mr. Williams in his book, The Terrorist Was Last Seen in Mexico, where on November 1st, 2004, he allegedly hijacked a piper pawnee crop duster from Ahido Queritaro near Mexicali to transport a nuclear weapon and nuclear equipment into the U.S. This person isn't even on the ten most wanted.
He is a uh uh a bolo, I think is what they call him, a bee be on the lookout for.
Uh I'd be on the lookout for him uh 24-7 if I were you.
Because this is the threat we're actually facing.
It isn't the uh whether or not the uh Goodyear plant's gonna stay in Kansas, it isn't whether or not we're gonna have candy manufactured in the United States, it isn't whether or not we have ethical second-in-command at the uh Democrat new majority in the House of Representatives, all those things that fill up the newspaper and most of the uh uh cable news networks uh pale into absolute insignificance when compared to the threat we actually face when compared to what's actually going to happen.
So since we have been warned by the head of the CIA in public testimony, by the head of the FBI that it's not a question of if but when the next attack occurs, if we know our southern and northern borders are Virtually open.
If we know on our southern border, and I live along the southern border, and we have seen the prayer rugs and Korans and all the things we found in the bushes along with all the other trash left by illegals coming into the United States, since we have seen the reports of the OTM category of the border patrol that's other than Mexicans that have been detained crossing the border illegally.
Since we have seen the statistics that hundreds and sometimes thousands of those folks come from the top seven nations that sponsor terrorism, uh I would suggest that any border policy that doesn't include securing the border first is suicide.
It isn't just bad policy.
It isn't just uh uh a debate about workers, it isn't just a debate about protectionism, it isn't just a debate about the average annual income of the uh average American worker uh versus the illegal.
It is i i it's all of those things, of course, but it is more fundamentally about whether or not we're going to protect ourselves from the coming attack.
Now, over in Iraq, where all of the attackers are currently focused, because that's where we're killing them and they're killing us, rather than in Albuquerque or Kansas City or someplace like that.
Senator Hill Hillary Rodham Clinton asked General Abizade yesterday, uh, who was up there giving his report before the Senate Armed Services Committee for the first time since the election, asked uh that uh about this um strategy and said hope is not a strategy.
She said, I have heard over and over again the Iraqi government must do this, the Iraqi army must do that.
Nobody disagrees.
The brutal fact is none of it's happening.
Hope is not a strategy, she said.
Laudatory talk about what the Iraqi government must do is getting old.
Well, uh yeah.
It is.
But the fact is, and these are facts that again, since the election is over, can we just have all of them come out in the in the news?
Because when you look at the average of all of the aid projects, all of the construction projects, all the infrastructure, all the pipelines and water and sewer and all that stuff, except for Soder City and the and the slums they have always been there in Baghdad.
The truth is that eighty, eighty-five, ninety percent of those projects are complete or nearing completion.
The truth is that most Iraqis are living in a better uh than they were under Saddam Hussein in terms of the infrastructure, and certainly better in terms of freedom.
Dozens of newspapers, dozens of radio and television stations have bloomed, many of them with their own agenda, many of them with the hate America stuff and all that stuff too.
But they are there competing for the average Iraqis free choice.
We have already won in Iraq in that sense.
Now, are Americans getting killed?
Of course.
In fact, this really does disturb me.
The crime rate, the murder rate in Baghdad is almost what it is in Washington, D.C., and that's intolerable.
1-800-282-2882, let's go to David in Jonesboro, Georgia.
Hi, David.
Hey, Roger, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Uh, if I can speak to uh you're bringing up the if I uh was hearing you correctly, the idea that the Vatican is going to be revisiting the idea of clerical celibacy.
Yes.
Um I think it's good that they revisit that.
Uh, first of all, because there's no religious basis for it.
So celibacy.
It was it was it was put in place in or about the time period we call the Middle Ages as a cost-cutting measure for the Catholic Church during the time when they were basically trying to be a government too, to avoid the expense of uh paying for the families of priests in addition to the priests themselves.
The number of the original apostles in the New Testament, including Peter, whom they regard as the first Pope, were married.
And as a matter of fact, uh I believe it's in the book of Timothy that uh we're given the instruction that bishops among the other good qualities that there are to have should be the husband of one wife.
Okay, now David, David, I'm I I'm I'm not gonna get into a biblical discussion with you because I'm no expert on this, but uh did Jesus have sex?
Uh if if he was married, he did, but I don't know that he was married.
Okay, in the Bible as you understand.
However, in the Bible David, David, David, hold on, David.
In the Bible as you understand it, did Jesus have sex?
No.
He also wasn't uh a cleric.
He was the son of God.
Hold on, David.
I'm I'm not I'm not I'm not asking you for all of the other weaseling and and whining here.
I'm just asking you the question, because you said there was no biblical basis for celibacy.
Isn't it true that in the Bible as you understand it, Jesus did not have sex and was celibate.
I don't that is true, but I don't see that as a basis for human beings not having sex.
So other than other than the fact other than the fact that Jesus was celibate, there's nothing in the Bible that says anything about celibacy.
Thank you, David, for your call.
Hubert in Austin, Texas is next on the Rush Show.
Hello, Hubert.
Hi, Roger.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Um you spoke a little while ago about uh sitco, and you know, sitco is owned by Venezuela and all their gas comes from Venezuela.
And that you didn't want to buy any more gas from them.
Right.
And I was I I was just gonna say I I certainly, you know, no I don't think anybody really wants to prop up Venezuela, but uh not buying gas from Citco is really not gonna help because if you and every other American said, gee, we're not gonna buy any more gas from Sitco, we're gonna go to Exxon and Texaco and Shell and buy our gas there.
Then suddenly those gas companies would have an increased demand and would have to find more gasoline.
And it's a world market.
Where are they gonna find it?
They could probably have to buy it from Venezuela.
So you really even if everyone didn't buy gas from Citco, it's really not going to accomplish anything.
Oh yeah, I agree with that, uh Hubert.
I think you're probably right economically.
You know what it'll accomplish?
I'll feel better.
You'll feel better.
It makes you feel better as I said.
That's that's what I'm saying.
I will feel better because my dollars will not go directly to Hugo Chavez.
Yeah, I know they'll blame you one bit there.
But I the long-term thing is we need to both increase supply and decrease demand.
And if we do that, the price of oil will go down.
Chavez will get less money even if he sells a bunch of oil, and so will Iran, so will some of other countries that are not so friendly toward us.
So but that's the long-term solution.
That and that is the that is the point that needs to be made over and over and over again.
All these Democrats in Congress who are afraid of drilling for more oil, who definitely just want us to return to the Stone Age or whatever it is they want to do, and then they drive off in their SUVs.
I have a solar plant on top of my house.
I run my electricity with solar, I don't participate in a lot of this stuff.
I am making my choices.
I am making my investments in alternative uh energy.
I'm doing it because I think it's right for to do for me.
And the the thing the thing that needs to be done is that as a policy, this government needs to drill and drill and drill like crazy, while at the same time allowing the free market to offer uh consumers like me the choice.
I mean, right now I'm sort of hunting around for because I live in a little community where I can drive a little electric car if I want.
I'd like to have one, not because it's going to be good for the open road and long trips, but because if I go down to the grocery store, there's no reason you know to flame up the SUV.
We could get a nice little electric car.
My little uh solar plant could uh could uh charge it up during the day and uh run on the battery, and I'm I'm I'm I'm perfect.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I'll agree completely.
Thank you.
All right, thanks for the call.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, and I believe we're in break.
I'll be right back after the I have to admit I do watch the British newspapers.
Sometimes they have more about American politics than uh you get in American press reports.
Um of the early Clinton stuff was British newspapers uh broke at first.
Here's the uh guardian today uh from the U.K. This is really different than anything I've seen in the American press.
Let me just read this to you.
President George Bush has told senior advisors that the U.S. and its allies must make a quote last big push, unquote, to win the war in Iraq, and then instead of beginning a troop withdrawal next year, he may increase U.S. forces by up to twenty thousand soldiers.
That's astonishing enough, but we'll hear this next paragraph.
Mr. Bush's refusal to give ground, coming in the teeth of growing calls in the U.S. and Britain for a radical rethink or a swift exit is having a decisive impact on the policy review being conducted by the Iraq Study Group, chaired by Bush family loyalist James Baker.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
I thought Baker was sent in by Papa to tell Junior what was going to happen to clean up the mess here.
I mean, that was the liberal press take.
Remember all that last week?
That the Iraq study group, including uh uh former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and I don't know what in her background would lead you to believe she'd have an expertise on war making.
Uh I d I don't know.
But she's on the group, and it was billed as uh Bush 41 coming to the rescue of beleaguered Bush 43, his son had just mucked everything up, and it was time to get in there and uh and clean it up.
Wait a minute.
The Guardian is reporting that Bush's refusal to give ground, his call for a last big push to win the war, is having a quote, decisive impact on the Iraq study group chaired by family loyalist James Baker.
In other words, Bush 43 is having the impact on the study group rather than the other way around, which is the way it was bill in the uh American media.
And exactly interestingly enough, what McCain is saying.
McCain in the Abbasid hearing yesterday in the Armed Forces Committee of the Senate, McCain said that it's time to put more troops in and win the war.
And I don't know whether McCain and Bush are coordinating this thing, but it is interesting that both of them are saying the same thing.
The um it puts uh and it's interesting because he is positioning, McCain is positioning himself as Mr. Conservative.
He's looking around saying, well, if Rudy Giuliani is my uh primary opponent in the 2008 race for president, which, as I've told my local audience, started the day after this last election.
If Rudy Giuliani is my chief opponent, then I can afford to go way conservative because he's pro abortion, pro all this uh, you know, New York uh liberal stuff, uh that's uh that's a no-brainer.
I'm now Mr. Conservative.
Because we need uh, you know, well, we need uh stricter fiscal uh conservatism and we need uh uh border control and we need uh, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
So now he's saying what we need also is uh not only restrained spending and smaller government and lower taxes, family values, but we need more troops in Iraq to win the war.
You know what?
I don't care how these guys arrive at the right conclusion.
Uh I just care that they arrive at the right conclusion.
When the job is uh whatever it is, and Abbezade had I got the impression that he's saying, look, the job is um three-fifths done here.
It's maybe three quarters done.
But it's it's more done than not done.
Hang in there, uh, expect the best, work for the best, work with this elected government, and we will win.
Now, is he right?
I don't know.
But does it sound better than let's just get the hell out of there and see what happens next?
Because I can predict to you without knowing a whole lot and having never been there, that that doesn't sound like a recipe for other than chaos.
Let's see what you think.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh, taking your calls.
Here's Ken in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
Hi, Ken.
Hey, Roger, uh glad to hear from you.
Say uh a little take on the old John Kerry quote about uh being uh going to college and studying well.
Uh he actually should have said uh if you go to college and you study hard, but you don't do well, you might get stuck in a union job.
If you drop out of high school or you finish high school and you don't do very well and you're not very competitive, uh you could just get stuck in a dead end union job.
Roger that.
You know, I I don't think we're gonna hear that from Kerry, although it's closer to the mark, uh although it's a w widely uh wide wide of the mark as well, but it's closer to the mark than his uh stupid comment about uh people getting stuck in Iraq.
I mean, I every day since then on my local show I've been reading People who have gone through combat training, who've gone through various uh boot camps, who've gone through various service, you know, entering the service, who are recent graduates of high school here in uh in the San Diego area.
So, yeah, I I agree with you, Ken.
Uh, you know, when you look around, who are the people who are really creating the 21st century America?
Are they are they people in union jobs?
Are the union job people creating the 21st century America?
Well, some of them must be, because I'm one of them.
I I belong to a union, American Federation of Television and Radio Announcers.
But are they in the mainstream of people who are creating America's tomorrow or trying to keep our past?
Welcome back to the Russian Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush and um this from the uh New York Times.
Texas lawmakers put new focus on illegal immigration uh here's the initial Wow, this is kind of eye-opening.
In a sign of rising passions over immigration issues, Texas lawmakers prepared for the 2000 session, 2007 session this week by filing a flurry of bills that would deny public assistance and other benefits to children of illegal immigrants, tax money transfers to Mexico and the rest of Latin America and sue the federal government for the cost of state border control.
What they're responding to in Texas has already happened many years ago here in California, and if you are not up to speed, you should know a couple of the statistics.
Uh this from the federal government.
Sixty-six percent of the births in California are from illegal alien mothers paid for by Medicaid by the government.
Forty percent, I think I said sixty earlier in the program.
Okay, now I have it in front of me.
It's forty.
Forty percent of all workers, all workers in LA County, LA 10, 11 million people, something like that in LA County.
40%, says the LA Times, are working for cash and not paying taxes.
95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
75% of the people on the most wanted list in LA are illegal aliens.
Uh twenty-five percent of the inmates in our detention centers in California are Mexican nationals here illegally.
Uh three hundred thousand estimated LA County residents are illegals living in garages.
FBI reports half of all gang members in LA are most likely, as it says, illegal aliens from south of the border.
Nearly 60 percent of all occupants in uh HUD properties, these are uh rent assistance properties are illegally in the country.
LA County, uh again with a 10 or 11 million people, about six million speak English, about four million speak Spanish.
Less than two percent of all the illegals in the country are picking crops, twenty-nine percent are on welfare.
So when you are talking in your neighborhood saying this isn't a problem, I don't have a problem with this.
These people are just hardworking.
They're just uh when you're buying all of that nonsense, just keep in mind that you too someday will be California, and maybe it'll be next week.
A real problem for us out here.
Uh we have just about lost the state.
Now, um, in that same regard, President Vincente Fox's spokesman last week after the election, said that gains by Democrats in the U.S. uh uh Congress will help promote more liberal immigration policies.
And that uh the Democratic Congress would uh scrap the border fence.
Well, sure enough, Benny Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, told reporters this week he expects to revisit this border fence, 700 mile border fence issue, which was authorized by Congress in recent months, when he, Benny Thompson, becomes chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
The House Homeland Security Committee.
He says that a high technology secure border initiative is enough.
It's a viable alternative.
A virtual fence, he says, rather than a real one.
Well, Benny, I'll believe, may I call you Benny, I'll believe in a virtual Security of my country when you have a virtual security of your house office building.
As of right now, you don't.
You have guys with guns, you have metal detectors, you have physical searches, you have law enforcement officers apprehending visitors to your office building one by one to make sure they're not a threat to you.
I think we ought to put up some sensors there in the marble floors, some cameras, and some guys who may or may not be looking at the uh monitors to see whether or not people look suspicious or not.
If you if that's the kind of virtual security you think works at the border, then why don't you first do it in your own house office building in Washington DC?
Then I'll believe you.
Until then, you're just an open border lying sack of manure.
Frederick, in West Palm Beach, Florida, I feel so much better having said that.
Frederick, go ahead.
You're on the rush show.
Roger, I was having a terrible day and everything has turned around in a matter of a half an hour, and you're one of those things.
I actually got through the first for the first time, and with uh I I'd actually rather talk to you than to rush.
And I'm pleased to talk to you.
But I I wanted to call you to say I've been doing a business here, antique restoration and in uh what in Boca Atone and Palm Beach area uh for about twelve years.
And I wanted to ask you, how do I stay competitive by hiring illegal aliens or lowering my prices?
Because my rent just went up.
So you've got to cut prices somewhere.
Well, I I why should I cut prices if uh what I offer I offer?
You have to cut costs, I meant.
Yes, sir.
Yes.
If I don't know, stay competitive.
Yeah.
Well, are your competitors do your competitors have lower rent?
Um I'm not sure.
I can't speak to that, but I I do know that I've seen a a very dramatic change in in the Boca Ratone area, especially.
Because maybe you need to go to a lower rent area.
Yeah, but why why should I be a refugee in my my own city?
Well, no, moving to a lower rent area is not being a refugee, it's being competitive.
In other words, you have to make your own decisions as a business person as to what you want to charge for your service, what you want to uh uh uh include in your costs, how you want to lower those costs.
I mean, I'm assuming that as a good capitalist, you're trying to lower your costs all the time and you're trying to increase your quality and you're trying to increase your marketing and you're trying to increase your prices so you can make some more money.
Right.
Yeah, that's true.
And I I believe in and I I love capitalism, I love being competitive, but uh when I drive through a very lucrative area or very uh opulent uh uh little enclave, one of these gated communities, and I look around and I see that the contractors I used to see, their trucks have been replaced with uh trucks that I'm not sure if they they should be on the roads.
Uh some of them are pretty shoddy looking, and and uh I'm just wondering if if those workers have been replaced here how I uh how to stay competitive.
I'm asking you, I think you're a brilliant man, and I think loot moving out of uh up to a lower rent area, is that what you're suggesting?
Well, at least for the work you're doing.
I don't know.
I uh because you started out by saying your rent had been raised, and that's why I was responsible.
Yes, it had it had been raised, and also the taxes have gone up because I wouldn't go to the hospital here, uh really.
I I wouldn't recommend it.
Um I'm right across from Palm Beach uh, and I'm I'm just curious because I know I know I don't believe, and if you won't mind me saying I don't believe that that uh people are coming here to take jobs that Americans are unwilling to do.
Uh I'm I'm certainly willing to do that, and I think there are a lot of people who are willing to do electrical contracting, plumbing, painting, um, furniture refinishing.
So let me just let me just ask you then uh is it uh Frederick, is is your congressman in favor of the border fence and border security?
Um I haven't heard him say much about uh that actually that's maybe you ought to write him a letter because you ought to tell them what your situation is.
You're in a situation where you're feeling I'm I'm I'm hearing you say I'm fearful that illegals are going to run me out of business.
I I believe so, Roger, and these aren't people just from Mexico, they're from they're from Haiti, from Jamaica, from Dominica.
They're from everywhere.
Yeah, but they can do they can do furniture like you can.
Oh, Roger, you're you're kind.
Um actually I I you know I I'm not sure.
I think they they're very good and they learn quickly, and when they move, you know, when they work for contractors here, they learn a skill from them and then they open up their own businesses.
So I'd say they can do a job if they're shown how to do it.
Yep.
Well, I offer excellent I offer excellent service.
Um, you and and I'll tell you what, Frederick, uh, I just I just built a house and I went through all this uh and uh and I always opted for the person that could give me the best service and uh and that was legally in the country and and maybe that cost me more money, but it's something that you're going to have to um you know,
you're gonna have to meet that competition because your government, your president, your your elected officials have allowed millions and millions of people to come to this country illegally and to participate in America without going through the front door that came in the back door.
They didn't do it legally like all of our ancestors did.
I'm in favor of immigration.
I'm not in favor of illegal immigration because I've seen the cascade, the waterfall of illegality that falls from it.
So I don't know, Frederick, all I can tell you is good luck because we've had to we've had furniture manufacturers moving out of LA for the last twenty five years.
They're all in Tijuana.
They're all in Tijuana because uh that's where they can get good workers at lower wages to be competitive, uh, because otherwise they just would have been driven out of business.
Well, maybe you can hook me up with Rush.
He lives over in Palm Beach, and I'm sure he needs a good guy like me on it.
Maybe he needs somebody to get his at his antiques and and fix them up, Frederick.
All right, buddy, I appreciate the call.
Go ahead.
Yeah, go ahead.
I was gonna say, can I say hello to my brother Justin in Atlanta?
You just didn't I appreciate your call.
Uh we're in a break.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, filling in for Rush, back after this.
This is bad news indeed, but uh news that will recommit you uh to uh what is right about our economy.
Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman has apparently died at the age of ninety-four, uh the Wall Street Journal reporting on their website, citing an official at the Cato Institute in Washington, uh Milton Friedman, a professor at the University of Chicago from nineteen forty-six until nineteen seventy-six, awarded the Nobel Peace uh Nobel, not peace, but uh economics uh prize, Nobel Prize in Economics in nineteen seventy-six.
And uh probably uh with his wife and uh a number of other f thinkers in the economics field, uh responsible for Ronald Reagan and the belief that free markets and free people are the uh are are always to be trusted, always to be trusted.
Ronald Reagan was not a protectionist, was not an isolationist.
Ronald Reagan was a free trader.
You believe in free trade and you are a real conservative.
If you're gonna be a protectionist, then you're something else.
But you're not the conservative Ronald Reagan was.
Oh, and by the way, just in case you think that the new Democrats are different from the old Democrats.
Let me just not only remind you the Sons of the Sixties are in charge in the House of Representatives, but they all came out of one campaign, nineteen seventy-two presidential campaign for George McGovern, and they all still believe what McGovern's radio ad said in nineteen seventy-two, which I just I don't even know where where we where'd we get this?
I haven't forgotten.
Uh we got this out of uh some archive, listening to these old ads.
This is the McGovern campaign radio ad from 1972.
Food for peace versus death squads.
Military cuts versus deficits.
Home mortgages versus tax breaks for fat cats.
Social security versus insecurity.
College loans versus B1s.
Compassion versus indifference.
A nuclear freeze versus space boys, negotiation versus name calling, coexistence versus no existence.
Who says George can't win?
Are you kidding?
They still believe every one of those things.
No matter what the experience of the last thirty-five years has told them is wrong about every one of those things.
Here's Mark in Omaha, Nebraska.
Mark, welcome to the uh Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi.
I just wanted to comment on Frederick down in Florida.
You know, if he advertised the fact that he doesn't use illegal aliens for labor, there's a lot of us out there that are looking for people just to avoid that to do our work.
You think people ought to just advertise.
I don't use illegals.
Right.
Just put it on his fighters that he sends out or whatever.
There's no no illegal labor involved in my work or our work.
You know, around here, we're so politically correct out here, I do occasionally hear people say, uh all of our folks speak English or something like that that's kind of code words for uh no illegals.
But you know I mean that's I think that's right.
If he's if he's feeling like his competition is coming from people illegally in the country, then he ought to go straight after it.
Yeah.
And and people like us out here that want people like him to do our work without without being you know benefiting the illegal aliens in this country we'd go for it.
I gr I agree.
That's a good one.
All right thanks.
Uh appreciate that Mark.
Here's Lisa in Orange County, California.
Hi Lisa.
Hi, Roger.
I'm so glad to talk to you.
I love when you fill in for Rush.
Thank you.
You put a smile on my face this morning while I was folding my laundry about that comment about Nancy Pelosi uh the Abu Graib comment about what considered a date in San Francisco.
I thought that was hilarious.
Anyway, my comment is regarding um the pressure the Democrats have always have been putting on Bush and the administration to have an exit strategy for the war on terror.
Yes.
But I, you know, as I think about that I uh am reminded of the war that uh the left waged several decades ago on the war on poverty.
And I, you know, the what where's the exit strategy for that?
Or the war on obesity or the war on racism.
Um I'd I'd like to put the pressure on them to uh meet in their back rooms and come up with an exit strategy for those wars.
Well and you know I would do that, Lisa, except then the Democrats would turn around and say, okay, uh what's your plan Because I you know my exit strategy on the war on poverty was to get a better job.
I had my personal exit strategy for that well exactly and but you know when you think when you consider what you're all the comments you've made so far about the economy and the strength of the economy and so forth and you know it's it just it's it's just very frustrating and they they seem to own these these causes and yet nothing's done.
And well the war on drugs for example there's one I'd like to have an exit strategy out of two it doesn't make a lot of sense to me and it has never made a lot of sense to me the way we're doing it.
It just grows the size of government and of course government never does the job quite correctly and we have a an eternal war we're spending billions on.
But you're right.
I mean and Nixon going back to Nixon the war on cancer good grief.
Remember that one I mean there was a there was a uh you know most people listening don't but uh but the you know the truth is that they've had all these wars war on poverty war on this war on that I'm kind of tired of the war rhetoric to start with uh we have a problem we ought to solve it in the old days uh it was solved and then we moved on to some other uh issue we didn't have an eternal reason to grow the size cost and intrusiveness of government which is what all this is about I I thoroughly enjoy you Roger I think you're just an awesome uh fill-in for Rush.
Oh, I appreciate that.
Lisa, thanks for listening to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Let's see, let's take a break, and we'll come back with a wrap-up here in this hour.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush.
Taking your calls at 1-800-282-2882 after this.
On a personal note, let me congratulate my friend Ward Connerly.
In Michigan, in this last election, yes, there's still election returns to discuss, in Michigan, 58%, 58% voted yes on the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative.
closely tracking California's Prop 209 proposition 209 from nineteen ninety six also led by Mr. Connorly amends the Michigan Constitution to ban public institutions from using affirmative action programs that give preferential treatment to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national or origin for public employment, education or contracting purposes.
In other words, we're going to actually have civil rights race neutral color of skin doesn't count okay another words the um the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jried out by Ward Connery and I know the affirmative action uh institutionalized folks just hate this.
They hate the fact that real civil rights is really color neutral.
Fifty eight percent of Michigan voters said yes it's a wonderful thing.
In London they're saying no to uh the early festive Christmas season lights because good grief do you know that if the lights were kept on for 59 shopping days in London alone.
Eighty tons of carbon would be released into the atmosphere.
Ladies and gentlemen, Thanksgiving is coming up and the holidays.
Rush will be back tomorrow.
This is my last chance to say how grateful and thankful I am as an American to be living in this country, to have these opportunities, to be able to say these things freely and debate these issues freely.
It is not something that most of humankind has ever had the uh ultimate responsibility and opportunity to do.
I am grateful.
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