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Jan. 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 8, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
All right, let's just put this out there.
If they're going to shut down every shut down New York City every time something stinks, nobody's ever going to get any work done there.
Yeah, and you go to library in New Jersey and you don't get any relief there.
They allow the uh the homeless to walk in, putrid and all.
Greetings.
My good friends and welcome.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program.
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A thrill and a delight to have you with us today.
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And the email address is Rush at EIBNet.com.
Mayor Bloomberg today, one of the great lines of all time.
They got this gas smell in New York.
Nobody knows the source.
Con Ed says it's not a leak.
Others say it's got to be.
And they don't know where it's coming from.
It's covering a hundred blocks.
It's even it's even noticeable in New Jersey.
And this is what Mayor Bloomberg had to say at a long-awaited press conference this morning about the gas smell.
Open the windows or turn on any fans until this uh gas passes.
The smell is there.
We don't know the source of it.
It does not appear to be dangerous.
That's all I know.
Which isn't much.
Wait until the gas passes.
This is one of the great executive leadership lines of all time.
Just open the doors, open the windows, and wait till the gas passes.
But they can't figure out what it even is or where it's coming from.
It smells like gas.
It's got to be scary.
It has to be, it has to be if it's a genuine gas leak.
You know, it wouldn't take much to uh to start a little combustion.
Well, I had a great weekend, folks, but I'll tell you what, I went out and did some television Saturday in Los Angeles.
Uh there's a there's a new show that uh probably will air soon.
I'm not sure when.
Uh, but it is a um it's it's called a half hour news hour.
That's the working title of it now.
I guess that subject change, but uh well, actually it's not.
Because if it changes, I gotta go back out there.
But uh nevertheless, it's a parody newscast takeoff on uh on liberal media newscasts.
And uh I play the president of the United States in the opening segments of this uh program, went out and shot three.
Ann Coulter is the vice president.
Uh it's it's hilarious.
The whole thing is is hilarious.
Went out there and shot three episodes, well, three opening segments.
These things run anywhere from a minute to 90 seconds.
Took eight hours to do these uh these three segments on Saturday all day long.
Uh did it at Fox Studios, then uh then had a big after party at the Grand Havana Club.
What what a bash we have.
We had uh I left about midnight to fly home, rolled into the driveway uh yesterday morning about 8 30.
I hate spending a whole day coming back from the left coast uh in an airplane, because you lose three hours just because of the time zone differences.
I got home at 8 30, wanted to watch the football games in total from the comfort of my fashionable estate, uh which uh which I did.
We're watching the Seattle Dallas game on Saturday night at the Grand Havana Club.
This is uh there's one in New York, uh top the 666 building, and and uh one in Beverly Hills in Los Angeles.
They are owned and operated by Stan Schuster, and they are outposts of civility now.
Uh you can actually smoke cigars while having dinner, and they've got televisions all over the place.
Yes, they're legal, Mr. Snerdley.
And we're watching the Dallas uh uh Sea Hag game uh and uh just could not believe the way that game ended.
I you talk about the highs of these these people, these young kids, these athletes, everything they do is on the national stage, it's public, and the highs and lows they go through.
Tony Romo, the savior of the season earlier this year for the uh for the Cowboys.
Now the GOAT.
People uh somebody turned to me and said, Rush, what's the name of that Red Sox player that blew the ground ball through his legs in the World Series against the Mets that was Bill Buckner?
So people were already starting to think that this was uh Bill Buckner too with Tony Romo.
He's young and get over it, but wow.
I mean, have the game still had to kick the field goal, but it was less uh less distance than an extra point.
The New York Times, what is this now?
Day seven.
It's either day six or seven, might be day eight.
I've lost track of the New York Times going on and on and on about the uh the savagery of the Saddam Hussein execution.
It's just it's as much as the Times is uh these days so over the top.
Takes us to the audio soundbites, ladies and gentlemen.
Howard Kurtz cited me, America's anchor man on his uh reliable sources show on CNN Sunday, and he played some ditto cam footage of Nancy Pelosi commentary from me for a reporter for the new republic.
As long as we're criticizing Nancy Pelosi, I want to play for you, Michelle Cottle, some comments uh by Rush Limbaugh about Nancy Pelosi and the media.
We've got one of these wacko wild-eyed feminists who is a product of all this.
And we got a we got a soppy lapdog drive-by media here who's promoting and promulgating the myth that we're a better country today, and that we've reached some sort of a milestone, and we're all going to be better people, and the end of all partisanship and confrontation is around the corner simply because a woman is uh running the show.
All right, now the uh the the reporter was uh, let's see, Michelle Cottle, uh C-O-T-T-L E of the New Republic.
Kurtz, after that bite, and by the way, what I was referring to there was Charlie Gibson's intro of the nightly news on ABC, in which he said, Look at that.
Look at her.
There's Nancy Pelosi, the new speaker of the house.
She's got grandchildren on her knee or in her lap, whatever.
She can take care of children and take care of the country at the same time.
And he said it with a fawning admiration that was putridly sick or sickening.
I mean, it was just it was just over the top.
We were laughing about it here.
So when the the bite they played, we've got one of those wacko wild-eyed feminists, a product of all this.
I'd mentioned Charlie Gibson, and I'd also talked about Kim Curtis, who is this nutso professor at Duke, who had flunked one of the hockey players simply because he was on a hockey or the lacrosse players, because he he was on the lacrosse team.
She bought everything the accuser said.
She's a she's a genuine wild-eyed feminist nutcase, a product of modern feminism in theory, and she's now teaching, and this is what Duke students, parents are paying 40,000.
So that I was talking about some wild-eyed wacko feminist and saying, we've got somebody like that in the office now in Nancy Pelosi.
Then you heard the rest of the bite, and uh uh Kurtz said to Michelle Cottle of the New Republic, as a representative of the lapdog media, what's your response?
Russia's being as his usual objective self.
I mean, this notion that the media is the lap dog of the Democrats is absurd.
And you know, I've I've done pieces over the years about how, if anything, you actually wind up with the Democrats getting hit a harder a lot of the time because the expectations are higher, and also because Democrats tend to be chattier with the media, and so you wind up with like leaks and backstories and a lot of meta stories that do not serve them well.
What in the world is she talking about?
Can anybody help me?
Obviously, you cannot help me because this is delusional.
Especially since I was bouncing off Charlie Gibson in a pure lapdog manner, uh when he talked about how Pelosi.
If cookie, go get that.
I know you got that was just from last week.
Not in a hurry, don't need it immediately, but but uh run it in there to Mike so I can remind people what uh what I had been talking about specifically regarding lapdog media when it came to uh uh Pelosi and Charlie Gibson and her his comment that she was able to, you know, take care of kids in the country at the same time, as though this has never been done before.
And of course, the whole thing that was being discussed was she was talking about the children.
Everything is gonna be done for the as though that's unique.
Nobody before today or last week has ever cared about children.
You understand that, folks?
Do you realize how revolutionary the Democrat control of the House of Representatives is?
Finally, finally, somebody is going to care about the children because nobody, not you parents, not you grandparents, not you teachers, nobody.
Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay, nobody has ever cared about the children.
But Now we have a woman.
And by the way, I thought modern feminist theory was that women are not supposed to be concerned with all of that.
I mean, if you look at what happened in the House floor last week with Pelosi and all the children, you'd have to say that if a feminist were being honest with herself, that was a setback.
I mean, what Pelosi should have been doing, spanking a bunch of guys and telling them how it's going to be in there, rather than trying to present this image of mother, grandmother, aunt, stepmother, godmother, what have you, nanny.
But of course, we know why they did it.
They did it for the photo ops.
But this Michelle Cottle bite.
Uh, Russia's being hit.
You got the Gibbs.
Okay, here.
Here's the gifts.
Let's get that out of the way.
That's fast action.
Way to go, cookie.
Here is the Charlie Gibson bite from last week.
Oh, we don't have it.
I was told we had it, but we don't have it.
I was told one second, one second.
Should be ready.
Let's try it again.
Good evening from Capitol Hill.
Well, it is a hallmark of this American democracy that power transfers peacefully.
For the first time in the 218-year history of the Congress, Nancy Pelosi.
A woman was voted by her colleagues to be Speaker of the House.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from California, took the gavel.
But in a picture perhaps even more symbolic, the new speaker was on the floor for a time.
Listening to her six-year-old grandson, all the while giving directions on how events were to proceed.
It seemed the ultimate in multitasking.
Taking care of the children and the country.
So that's that's the uh I don't understand Howard not playing that bite, but that's that's what preceded uh my comment about lapdog media.
So here's Michelle Cottle of the New Republic saying with a straight face, the media is tougher on Democrats because they expect more from them.
They expect less.
Democrats are not held to any kind of standard or accountability.
Their best bud it's this this should just show you liberals do not consider themselves liberals.
They are just what is.
Liberals are the natural order of things.
Anything other than liberalism is a disease.
It's uh some kind of a uh a problem.
And of course, the little Schned comment rushes being his usual objective self.
Michelle, I'm not object.
I make no pretense of objectivity in terms of the way you do.
I clearly announce what my concerns are, what my interests are, what I'm conservative, and so I make no bones about it.
Uh but that doesn't mean I don't strive for the truth.
Anyway, a little long here, quick timeout, we'll be back.
Andrea Koppel, also on Kurtz's show.
She weighs in uh next.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back.
I am America's Anchorman, America's real anchor man.
Not only that, America's truth detector, America's Doctor of Democracy.
Now look at this story.
Associated Press out of Ligatier, Pennsylvania, Vice President Dick Cheney scheduled to be in Western Pennsylvania today for a hunting trip.
Cheney was to fly into Arnold Palmer regional airport after his morning briefing in Washington, his spokeswoman uh told the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.
And of course, the last line.
Last year, Cheney wounded attorney Harry Whittington with shotgun pellets during a quail hunting trip in Texas.
Whittingden recovered.
Okay, so we got a story here.
Cheney's going hunting, hunters beware.
Do we get these kinds of stories, Michelle Cottle, may I ask you?
Every time Bill Clinton is going to be around young women, do we get warning stories from AP which say warning?
Bill Clinton today will be in a school with a lunch of high school and college women.
Uh Bill Clinton had an illicit affair with a cigar and Monica Lewinsky while he was in.
Do we see this?
Of course we don't see this.
And but but of course it they drive by media.
Why they're not lap dogs?
They're really hard-hitting.
They have such high expectations of the Democrats.
They hold them to a much higher state.
That's absurd.
Here's Andrea Coppel.
By the way, nobody is commenting, at least in the bites we have, and I didn't see the show.
But uh nobody is commenting on my reaction to Nancy Pelosi and what they're all reacting to my comment that there's a lapdog media.
That's what really bugs them.
It's like all liberals, you accuse them of what they are, charge them with being who they are.
You can't say that.
Don't you understand we're in the business of hiding who we are?
You're not gonna let you get away with that, Limboy.
Here's Andrea Koppel.
Kurtz says, look, the Democrats said they were gonna give the Republicans more rights as a minority than they had been granted when the Republicans ruled the House.
Then they completely flip-flopped and they said, well, we're not going to apply that for the first 100 hours.
We're just going to roll over and do whatever we want.
Why isn't the press hammering them for the hypocrisy?
I think we are.
I mean I I we've certainly been reporting the fact I think it's a very legitimate complaint to say that Nancy Pelosi for the first two weeks of Democratic reign is blocking the Republicans from having pretty much any input in the legislating of this 6-0 six agenda.
Why are they upset about it when I'm not?
I haven't been upset about this at all.
I mean I fully expect hypocrisy from the Democrats.
I expect that that's not the only promise they've broken.
They've broken four or five promises.
They're not working today.
They were going to have big five day work week not working today got the big football game tonight.
The BCS championship out in Glendale, Arizona between who, Brian?
Who's in it?
I know you don't care about college football That's right, Ohio State and the Florida gators exactly.
Now in the real world, how in the world would a buckeye a tree ever beat a gator?
You know if you did the environmental wacko pick here, which we might try later.
But nevertheless there are two or three other promises they've broken.
But the Republicans did the same thing.
Republicans didn't let the Democrats in on their first whatever it was agenda.
I mean they they've got their power from the Democrats after 40 years of Democrat uh Democrats holding it.
I mean this is the what embarrassed me was the Republicans whining about this.
We know who Democrats are.
We should know what to expect.
We should know in their first 100 hours that they're not going to let the Republicans.
Hell, folks, it wasn't that long before 1994 when the Republicans won the House, when our old buddy Bob Michael was running the show for the Republicans.
He was from Peoria.
I mean, half the time, Democrats wouldn't let Republicans in committee hearings.
Not just the first 100 hours.
Do you think people think I'm making it?
I am not making it.
Snurdly thinks that you think I'm making this up.
I'm not making this up.
When the Republicans had 135 men.
members in the House the the the the Democrats look at we're going to have a committee here.
You're not even allowed in here.
It didn't happen for it wasn't a standard operating procedure but it happened.
And of course Bob Michael didn't care as long as either Tom Foley or Jim Wright invited him over to play golf.
Republicans knew their place Hugh Scott from Pennsylvania they all knew their place in there.
They weren't supposed to ruffle feathers and they didn't but now it's much closer than it was when the Republicans only had a hundred thirty five seats but for the for everybody expected and I frankly has anybody heard the Democrats hammering or the media hammering the Democrats over this Pelosi is shut the Republicans out.
It doesn't matter let me find the um the story it's put in the order I was going to put it in but since it's here oh yeah right right here it is ladies and gentlemen I mean what what does it matter that the Democrats are shutting the Republicans out?
Try this headline Washington Times today GOP willing to back Democrats key bills amnesty and changes in Social Security that bar you owning your own money and a Republican's going to go along right along with it.
Leaders of both parties say that Democrats in Congress are likely to win bipartisan support for bipartisan.
What does it matter for if the Republicans are let in even when they're shut out they're going to vote with the Democrats that and I told you both of these issues I warned you back in December were already done amnesty for illegals and the Social Security tax increase.
You know how they're going to do this there's not they're going to save Social Security the old fashioned way.
There's no reform there's no private accounts none of that it's just the old fashioned way they're going to raise the the ceiling on taxable income.
It might go as high right now it's in the 90s I think it might go as high as 1500 that people will have to pay Social Security taxes on.
Well, that's a sizable, sizable chunk of change.
What?
What do you mean, wait a minute?
I already told you about this.
Don't act surprised today.
You're supposed to be listening.
You are the program observer.
You can't.
Well what what about the senior?
The seniors will not have a riot.
So they didn't have a riot when Clinton raised their taxes in 1993.
Clinton raised the amount of Social Security benefits that the seasoned citizens get.
He raised the tax rate on that.
They didn't complain.
As long as they think that there's a tax increase on the rich coming, all they care about is Social Security is solvent for the rest of their lives.
They couldn't care less about the future.
So if the rich get a tax increase, ostensibly to pay for social security, everybody else is, they're not going to care.
Show me one time where seasoned citizens have raised a stink about tax increases on Social Security.
Show me that one time, and I'll show you the gas passing.
Right there it is.
Right there it is from the Dallas Morning News, Dallas-based food chain to accept Mexican pesos.
Details coming up.
Here's the uh here are the the sordid details here on the GOP willing to back Democrats' bills.
Leaders of both parties say Democrats in Congress are likely to win bipartisan support for many of their signature issues, including passage of an immigration reform package that critics have derided as amnesty.
Republican lawmakers also offered cooperation for a raise in the federal minimum wage and changes to Social Security that do not include privatization.
So why in the world does it even matter if the Democrats include Republicans in the first hundred hours, the Republicans are going to go along with it anyway.
They think the people have spoken.
Mitch McConnell on Fox News Sunday.
What I've said to the new majority leader, which would be very dingy Harry, you won the election.
Fair and square.
You're in the majority.
It's not my first goal every morning to get up and make you look bad.
That's Mitch McConnell quoting himself, speaking to Dingy Harry.
And that's a clear distinction in the way the two parties operate, because the whole purpose of the Democrats the past six years has been to thwart every aspect of the Republican agenda they can.
That has been their that has been their express purpose for breathing.
But this is sort of the way Republicans deal with Democrat president judicial nominees.
Well, you won the election.
You want Ruth Bader Ginsburg, card-carrying member of the ACO.
Fine.
We'll only amount token opposition if four or five votes.
You can have her.
McConnell said that the Democrats will likely pass a minimum wage bill, but he also supports offsetting tax cuts.
McConnell said he also expects cooperation on other issues, including Social Security.
He's talking about Republican cooperation.
He said, in fact, I've been I've been challenging the new Democrat majority not just to do the easy things in the beginnings of this session or some relatively easy issues that we were close to passing last year.
Let's do some important things.
Let's fix the immigration system.
Let's save Social Security.
We can do that before this Congress is out.
Now the so here are three things.
Immigration reform that uh looks like amnesty.
Uh raise and the federal minimum wage.
I've been telling you that's a done deal.
That's over with, it's gonna happen.
But most of the states have a higher minimum wage already to what the new federal minimum wage is going to go to.
So it's we've lost the argument on that.
And changes to Social Security don't include privatization.
They're just gonna go out and save it the old-fashioned way.
They're gonna raise taxes.
Uh and they'll do it in the uh fashion of raising the ceiling on which uh Social Security taxes, you know, FICA on your on your pay stuff there, where the employer matches your contribution.
Yeah, that one.
Uh that's that's that's gonna go up.
Uh big time.
One more audio soundbite.
This from ABC's George Stephanopoulos show over the weekend, Cokey Roberts.
Uh with George Will and Harold Ford.
Stephanopoulos said, hey, this uh Pelosi house event, uh, got all the kids in there.
I mean, this could easily have been over the top, don't you think?
On the floor of the House on that opening day, every two years, there's some baby in the arms of a total stranger, a father who's been running for office the whole time.
That baby's been alive, and that looks up and bursts into tears when it sees the face of this person.
And that was not the case.
That baby knew that grandmother, even though it's only a few weeks old.
All those other children were completely comfortable with her.
Uh and it was it was just fun.
It wasn't in any way uh stilted and awful.
No.
of course not.
Um in fact, I read, even though I don't remember this.
I read that this happens every opening day of the house, every two years when the new Congress opens, and everybody brings their kids.
Now, if that's true, we haven't seen as much media exposure of the event as we got with Nancy Pelosi.
Of course, the new national mother, uh, the national grandmother, the national nanny, uh, nationally m national multitasker.
We haven't we certainly haven't gotten um you know, if if we got any stories when the when the Newt gang took over in January of ninety five is will the children survive the day.
Orphanage want to put them in orphanages, are they going to cut taxes?
All of these all these horror stories.
Anyway, Kevin in Freehold New Jersey, you're up first.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
How are you?
Uh, here.
Uh-huh.
Sorry, only a liberal could point out her lack of a bias by showing her bias.
She said she expects more from Democrats.
Therefore, she couldn't possibly be unfair to the Republican.
What?
Liberal speak.
You've nailed it.
See, he's talking about Michelle Cottle.
We had some cell phone interruptions on you before.
We didn't hear who you were talking about, I, as a host, no.
Uh, you're referring to Michelle Cottle.
And only only a font.
I'm not putting up with these things just to be nice.
Only a liberal, he said, could point out her lack of a bias by showing her bias.
Uh she said she expects more from Democrats, therefore she couldn't possibly be unfair to the Republican.
That's you know, the i i i this it's it's difficult to analyze this stuff uh with with common sense because this is lib speak, and it it's all rooted in the notion that that they are not libs in their own mind.
They are not, especially in the media.
They are not.
They're not, folks.
Despite how they answer the surveys every year on how they voted, they're not libs.
It's just everybody else is odd and different, but they are what's normal.
It's don't even try to figure it out.
Just learn it for what it is.
Bill in Durango, Colorado.
Welcome, sir to the EIB network.
Yes, hello, Rush.
Hi.
Been listening to you since 1990.
Appreciate that, sir.
Thank you.
I just wanted to talk about New York's big stink for a quick second.
Yeah.
Natural gas itself does not stink at all.
They add a substance called Mercatans to it, and your nose can smell them down to one part in a billion or so.
And I have been downstream, I worked in the natural gas business of a Mercatan injector leak.
Five, six miles downstream.
It's it smelled like I was in a house full of gas.
Uh quite frankly, it would be an easy way to really stink up the town.
Just take a cylinder of that stuff and let the top cracked for a little while upwards.
You telling me how big is cylinder.
Oh, about the size of a scuba tank.
So that a cylinder the size of a scuba tank could stink up a hundred blocks of Manhattan and across the river into New Jersey.
You bet.
Is it dangerous?
No.
In fact, that's the same stuff they add to the gas that comes into your home, so you can smell a leak.
If natural gas, methane itself has no smell.
Wait a minute.
Methane has no smell?
No.
So this can't be cows.
Not at all.
You kidding me?
Methane has no sm c cow expilations have no smell.
Cow expilations also have their own varieties of mercaptines.
In other words, sulfur compounds are bound.
Right.
So visitors like hunters like Cheney will will know that they're around when they expel gas.
That's right.
Yeah.
So they put something in the gas to make it stink just so you'll know you got a gas leak.
You got it.
And so you think a canister if that is what some mischievous prankster has released.
I wouldn't that or you know, somebody had a small problem with one and just went the other way and figured they'll let it dissipate and deal with it later.
Let me ask you this.
Let's say, just hypothetically here, because I've been trying to get my arms around this all morning.
If this were a legitimate gas leak, not not the uh the odor-producing element you just discussed, but if you're a legitimate gas leak, what would I mean that that would be hum to for for this much to be noticeable.
That would be preventing present a huge risk, would it not?
Yes, it would, and quite frankly, every fireman in America and every utility company America have gas detectors and the like.
I still own an aim myself, which is a an instrument that can sense gas at very, very, very small amounts.
And quite frankly, I literally every gas department and every fire department has one of these.
And but that that particular instrument cannot smell those Mercatans.
No, no, no, no.
That's not my that's not my question.
Forget the Mercaicans.
Okay.
Mercape, whatever they are.
Forget let's say this is real natural gas leak, a big one.
You would be able to detect it quite easily.
Well, no, but I know that, but wouldn't something have already caught fire blown up by now?
Look at all the without without an ignition source near the flame?
No, that's not the way it works.
It's even like when big natural gas wells blow off and and you've got to light the flare on them.
Uh to get them to burn.
They don't burn on their own generally.
So you need something to serve as a pilot light.
You got it.
Just the gare the gas itself will not combust even with the like the uh automobile exhaust or or uh or lights.
You need an open ignition source like an open spark or something of that sort of stuff.
Well, but there are people lighting cigarettes all over the place outside buildings, wouldn't that?
It it still takes for a uh an explosion or even fire to occur.
They the mixture has to be correct.
Well, okay.
And without the mixture being correct, but even with an incorrect mixture, they could tell if it's natural gas.
Okay.
So in the words of Mayor Bloomberg, how long will it take the gas to pass here if your first theory is correct?
This is just the uh the odor-producing element that some prankster has released.
Seven or eight hours at the most.
Seven or eight hours.
Amazing.
I appreciate that.
That's why we have flyover country.
This is why we have Texas and Louisiana and Colorado, because there are people there who know this stuff.
We didn't get these answers from the Brookings Institute.
We didn't get these answers from the Harvard School of Government.
We got these answers from America.
Back after this.
Hi, we are back.
I am Rush Limbaugh, executing assigned host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
All the while, half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, uh, Fayetteville, North Carolina, this is Jay.
Your next.
Welcome, sir.
Hi, Russ.
In light of the recent revelation that stem cells can be safely harvested from freely donated amniotic fluid rather than taking the life of an unborn with embryotic cells.
Shh, do you think liberals will apologize to you and acknowledge that you were right?
Shh.
Don't tell the liberals that we don't have to kill babies now for stem cells.
Don't tell you will ruin their day.
It's all over with now.
Oh, this could be devastating too.
Here they just got power back in the House of Representatives in the Senate, and there's news out today that you don't have to kill babies now to get stem cells, and there you go, blowing it.
All over national radio.
There could be new liberals being born, though, now that they don't kill so many.
So they should be That's why.
That's why we're there they're aborting themselves out of uh out of existence.
Here are the details.
This is uh from the Associated Press, their biotech writer.
Scientists reported yesterday that they had found a plentiful source of stem cells in the fluid that cushions babies in the womb and produced a variety of tissue types from these cells, sidestepping the controversy over destroying embryos for research.
This happened at Wake Forest University.
Also at Harvard, researchers from both institutions of higher learning reported the stem cells that they drew from amniotic fluid donated by pregnant women hold as uh about much the same promise as embryonic stem.
Well, that's not good because there is no promise so far from embryonic stem cells.
Anyway, they reported at least you don't need to kill babies to do the spearmins.
Uh they reported they were able to extract the uh the stem cells without harm to mother or fetus and turn their discovery into several different types of cell types, uh, including brain, liver, and bone.
This this really is a breakthrough.
And I, ladies and gentlemen, am owed an apology.
I'm owed an apology from every one of you people out there criticize me for not understanding this or for getting this all wrong.
But of course, I'm owed an apology for lots of things, and they will never be forthcoming.
Jay, I appreciate the um the phone call.
Thanks very much.
Let me give me this guy in Victoria Terrack, Texas.
Uh, because this is necked in the stack anyway, so it'll work.
Guess is Gary in Victoria.
Nice to have you with us, sir on the EIB network.
Good morning, sir.
How are you this?
Couldn't be better.
Good.
Listen, I am totally ticked off at what Governor uh Schwarzenegger is doing.
Yes.
You know, this this cramp about um Did you say crap?
Yeah.
I just wanted to make sure I heard you right.
Yeah.
This crap about him uh opening up so that they're gonna take and give illegal aliens and all the kids.
Free health care.
Yeah.
You know, California complains like hell that they're being, you know.
I don't know, everybody's against him on this thing, and yet we've got it, they've got a governor in that you know, he's a closet liberal.
This guy shouldn't uh you know, he ran as a Republican.
And man, he not only break his leg, I think he broke his brain.
Well, we um it's not it's it's not that, it's something else.
I'll save it for another time.
But look at this is um this is not I mean, we talked about this last week, uh, that this is his proposal that every child in California have health insurance, even the the sons and daughters of our great illegal immigrant workforce.
But it's that's that's Gary, that's just tip of the iceberg.
He's the thing is the thing is, though, is what I wanted to say is this if it's gonna do that, it ought to be on the ballot because every taxpayer is gonna come out of their pockets.
Well, they've already had it on a ballot, and the judge ruled the results unconstitutional.
This has already been this this practically same initiative was uh of Arnold's was a ballot initiative called Prop 187, in which the people of California said we're not gonna pay health care, welfare, child care, and all this for the uh illegal immigrants and their children.
And it won overwhelmingly, and the federal judge said it was unconstitutional.
You know, that's that's the land of fruit and nuts, I'll tell you, you know.
Well, you're in Texas, it's no big deal.
Well, it is.
If you look at what, you know, if this passes through California, being, you know, the largest population in the United States.
I mean, this is Gary.
I want to I I just want to warn you and everybody else.
We're gonna get amnesty in the Congress, and the president is going to sign it.
It's a presidential election season coming up, and those are voters, those are potential voters, especially after they've been given amnesty.
And for the Democrats, they're voters now, illegal.
Uh this is going to happen, it's only going to increase.
This this is now, by the way, we can't build the fence.
We can't build a fence.
This is a San Francisco Chronicle, I think, uh maybe the LA Times, one of the one of the uh those two left coast papers can't build a fence because guess what?
The cost projections are going to be five to eight times higher than what they were originally thought to be.
I'm sorry, five to twenty-five times.
The cost of the fence to be five to twenty-five times more than they thought.
Now, that was never enough to scrub the war on poverty.
That was never enough to scrub the great society, but it is plenty to scrub the fence.
So we're not going to scrub the fence, but get this.
Governor Schwarzenegger wants to cut almost 500 million dollars from welfare programs next year and impose new rules aimed at pushing recipients off public assistance and into the workforce, kind of a state version of uh of welfare reform, while at the same time giving every child health care insurance in California.
Uh he wants to end the practice of providing welfare grants to children whose parents are chronically unemployed and failing to participate in return to work programs.
Now, how would you like to hear how the San Francisco Chronicle characterizes this?
Let me find the exact quote.
Uh let's see.
Actually, it's not the chronicle, It is Assemblyman John Laird, Democrat Santa Cruz, Chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee.
He said the governor's trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor.
I think we will want to negotiate more of a post-partisan solution that reflects more of our values.
So this idea that Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed is being portrayed now as a blow to bipartisanship by Democrats in California.
And that's not all that Schwarzenegger has proposed, ladies and gentlemen.
Sit tight.
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