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May 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 8, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, actually, actually making cuts 11 and 12 before we get to Hillary.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I have a prediction to make for you, and I based a prediction on a news story I'm already holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, and that prediction is this.
Before the day is out, we will have Democrats on television this afternoon tonight, whenever, before the day is out, accusing Bush administration policies for creating this near-terrorist incident at Fort Dix, where the Albanian nationals, many of them Islamists, wanted to go in there and kill as many American soldiers as possible at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
And I'm just going to tell you, you mark my words, the Democrat talking points have gone out.
I don't know if they've come out from moveon.org to elect the Democrats or what have you, or they've come from the DNC.
Bush policies are going to be blamed for this.
Now, this is not a tough prediction.
Actually, I think, and we've discussed on previous occasions many times, that long after Bush is no longer in the White House, whenever there's a terrorist attack, the Democrats are going to keep blaming Bush policies for it.
And here's why I know this is true.
In Kansas, the governor there, Kathleen Sebelius, says the war in Iraq has exposed holes in domestic disaster response, like the one currently underway in tornado-ravaged Kansas.
The governor said about half the state's National Guard trucks are in Iraq, equipment that would be helpful in removing debris.
Sebelius, who asked the Pentagon in December to replenish lost resources, said the state also is missing a number of well-trained personnel.
I don't think there's any question if you're missing trucks, Humvees, helicopters, that the response is going to be slower.
The real victims here will be the residents of Greensburg because the recovery will be at a slower pace.
Tony Snow said the National Guard has equipment positioned around the country to respond to disasters when requested by the states.
Said there's been an enormous amount of help on the scene already, frankly, when it comes to what's been going on with the tornado.
FEMA has certainly been actively engaged.
See, this, everything these damn Democrats do is political.
Every, you've got a town wiped out.
That it's political.
It's Bush's fault.
And now this Fort Dix thing, mark my words, it's going to be Bush's fault.
Everything they do, every news story that happens, they look at and analyze through a political prism, and it's all oriented toward the elections of 2008, which is, that's fine, that's who they are.
You would just hope that more and more people would become aware and offended by this.
These guys at Fort Dix, was there not terrorism before George W. Bush was ever heard of as a political candidate for even governor in Texas?
Yes, there were.
And there will continue to be terrorist attacks all over the world.
Blame Bush policies for this rather than blame the six captured terrorists themselves is classic.
The Drive-By Media is still in shock, ladies and gentlemen, over the results in France.
And what they're really in shock about is how the women of France came out in record numbers opposed to Segaline Royale.
And of course, the Clinton camp, Clinton Inc., put out a story out there saying, well, you know, there's really no similarity here.
Segaleen Royale, not really a woman of substance.
Not a woman of substance.
As though Mrs. Clinton is she's a socialist, she's a liberal, and that's supposedly what France loved and wanted more of.
And Mrs. Clinton, I mean, that's a little defensive to me for the Clinton camp to come out there.
Well, you can't make any comparison with what happened to Segalene Royale.
I know our election's coming up.
It's amazing.
I've also got a story in the stack here.
I've got to get to this.
The new president of Columbia was in Washington last week.
The Democrats totally dissed him, just 100% dissed the guy.
And he's restored democracy and freedom to Colombia, wrested control from the drug traffickers and the drug manufacturers down there.
I mean, they don't even hide it anymore.
They don't even hide the fact of their love and respect for dictators and socialists and so forth.
And a free market guy comes along and they just totally disrespected the guy.
I'll get to that before the program ends.
Here's Mara Lyason on the special report with Britt Hume last night during the roundtable on the Fox show.
He said to her, are you surprised that presidential candidate Segalene Royale did not carry the female vote?
I don't understand that.
Why she didn't carry the female vote, I don't quite understand that.
I would expect if there was male chauvinism in France, it would have been the opposite, that she wouldn't have done well among men.
But she apparently did better than even she had expected.
But yeah, I don't understand why she didn't carry the female vote.
Could it be, Mara, that you don't have the slightest clue what was really going on in France?
Could it possibly be?
You don't really have the slightest idea what was going on?
And what is this male chauvinism?
What does that get thrown in here for?
I would expect if there's male chauvinism in France, it would have been the opposite.
Well, there's male, in the liberal world, male existence is chauvinism.
And then Margaret Warner, she was filling in for Gwen Eiffel on PBS The News Hour with Jim Lara.
No, I'm sorry, Gwen Eiffel was talking with Margaret Warner.
Gwen Eiffel was filling in for Jim Lara.
And Eiffel says to Margaret Warner, well, he also won women voters, actually, considering the fact he was running against a very high-profile woman.
Yes, he did.
He won women.
In the end, she played the women card a little more.
And the French were actually very excited that here was this groundbreaking event, that a woman had a serious shot at the presidency.
But in all the polling, what seemed to have happened is a majority of voters thought, one, she just wasn't really ready.
And two, they really voted for his brand of change.
It's not sitting well with them out there, regardless how they analyze it.
But we know the real problem.
Segaline Royale did not do enough to relate to all the different populations, dialects, and so forth in France that Mrs. Clinton has perfected here.
All right, we're back.
We move on.
Fastest three hours in media rush limbaugh behind this.
A golden EIB microphone to Sugarland, Texas.
This is Kathy.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Russ.
Texas Ditto.
Thank you very much.
Well, I'm glad to be talking with you, but I am a little concerned that you've been drinking the healthcare Kool-Aid that's served by the auto industry.
In the last hour.
What?
In the last hour, you seem to just swallow hook line and sinker the story that the health care cost is the really major problem facing the auto industry.
But what that overlooked is that Honda and Toyota, among others, build lots of cars in the U.S.
And when their employees get the sniffles, they don't ship them off to Japan to see a doctor.
They get treated in the American health care system.
No, no, no, no.
You misunderstood.
It is the legacy health care costs.
It is the retirement benefits, full retirement, and legacy health care costs for former and retired employees that no longer work there that's biting them.
Now, but they negotiated.
I understand this, and I said that too.
But everybody's, you've got to realize that the golden goose is going to come to an end at some point.
And they did make those deals, but they've gotten to the point now where it's impacting their ability to be competitive, and they want to do something about it.
The real point of the story is that American business in total is trying to offload health care to government now.
Well, and there's a lot of things that we could do in the private sector that could affect health care costs.
I mean, I've spent a lot of years in the insurance industry, and I see what happens when people go to the legislature in their states and they lobby because they want acupuncture covered and they want infertility covered and they want this, that, and the other covered.
And one of the laws that was proposed in the Congress was that we be allowed to cross state lines to buy insurance policies.
That would create real competition.
Yeah.
Well, competition would always be good.
But the problem is the politicians in Washington want to control your health care.
They want a single-payer health.
Well, the Democrats do.
And these big business, you know, business number one objective is to control labor and costs, labor costs and other things.
And if they can offload health care, they will do it in a second.
Have a taxpayers pick it up is what a single-payer system is, the taxpayers paying for each other's health care while they don't really understand what's going on.
But you make a good point.
Well, Rush, I think PJ O'Rourke had the very best comment on this when he said that if you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free.
Well, no.
Well, look at Canada.
Look at the UK.
Exactly.
What's happened in both those places, particularly the UK, is that private health care places have been set up for the wealthy that can handle it without having to go through the system.
It just, government-run anything doesn't work like this.
Absolutely.
You're right.
So, but it's a, you know, there's another part of the equation, and you mentioned it, and that is the consumer.
The consumer wants all this for nothing, he thinks or she thinks.
They want acupuncture.
They want all these things.
And it's perceived that they think they have a right to it all.
It's, you know, look at there are 5% of the people in this country pulling the wagon, 95% are in it.
Maybe 20% pull it, and 80% are riding in it.
And those 80%, they have a far greater percentage of the vote when they show up than the 20% pulling the wagon.
Absolutely.
Well, I'm part of those pulling the wagon with you, Rush, so I'm getting tired.
Well, thank you.
Well, I ain't no ways tired.
Quote Hillary Clinton on this.
We're engaged here in the battle, and it's all about trying to inform people.
Democrats are on the march, though.
Make no bones about it.
I mentioned this, Star.
Let me do this before I get it out of the system.
It's a Washington Post editorial.
It's from Sunday.
Colombian President Olivaro Uribe may be the most popular Democrat leader, Democratic leader in the world.
Last week, he visited Washington, a poll showing his approval rating at 80.4%.
Extraordinary for a politician who's been in office nearly five years.
Colombians can easily explain this.
Since his first election in 2002, Mr. Uribe has rescued their country from near-failed state status.
He's doubled the size of the Army.
He's extended the government's control to large areas that for decades are ruled by guerrillas and drug traffickers.
The murder rate has dropped by nearly half, kidnappings by 75%.
For the first time, thugs guilty of massacres and other human rights crimes are being brought to justice, and the political system is being purged of their allies.
With more secure conditions for investment, the free market economy is booming.
Now, in a region where populist demagogues are on the offensive, Mr. Uribe stands out as a defender of liberal democracy, not to mention a staunch ally of the United States.
So it was remarkable to see the treatment that he received in Washington after a meeting with Democrat congressional leadership.
Mr. Uribe was publicly scolded by Nancy Pelosi, whose statement made no mention of the friendship she recently offered Syrian dictator Bashur Assad.
Human Rights Watch, which has joined the Democrat campaign against Mr. Uribe, Uribe claimed that today Colombia presents the worst human rights and humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere.
Never mind Venezuela or Cuba or Haiti.
Former Vice President Al Gore, who has advocated direct U.S. negotiations with the regimes of Kim Jong-il and Mahmoud Ahmadinezad, recently canceled a meeting with Mr. Uribe because Gore said he found the Colombians' record deeply troubling.
Now, what could explain this backlash on the Democrats?
Well, I could, but before telling you what the Washington Post thinks, I can tell you they are dangerous radicals of the Democrat Party, and they let it be known who their friends are.
This guy has brought free market reforms, reductions in the death penalty or in the murder rate.
The kidnappings in Central and South America are a huge problem.
He's cut them by 75%.
The drug traffickers ran Colombia.
He's cleaned it up.
They hate him.
Now, the Washington Post says Democrats claim to be concerned, far more so than Colombians, apparently, with revelations that the influence of right-wing paramilitary groups extended deep into the military in Congress.
In fact, this has been well known for years.
What's new is that investigations by Colombia Supreme Court and Attorney General have resulted in the jailing and prosecution of politicians and security officials.
Many of those implicated come from Mr. Uribe's own party and his former intelligence chiefs under investigation, but the president himself has not been charged with any wrongdoing.
On the contrary, his initiative to demobilize 30,000 right-wing paramilitary fighters last year paved the way for the current investigations, which he and his government have supported and funded.
Maybe Mr. Uribe is being punished by Democrats too because he's remained an ally of George W. Bush, even as Hugo Chavez portrays the U.S. president as the devil.
Whatever the reasons, the Democrat campaign is badly misguided.
If Democrats succeed in wounding Mr. Uribe or thwarting his attempt to consolidate a democracy that builds its economy through free trade, the United States may have to live without any Latin American allies.
All because the guy is a conservative.
All because he's a conservative.
There is, folks, there is literal hatred for conservatives among the left.
It is literal.
It is real.
It is genuine.
They feel threatened.
They are leftist radicals, the mainstream of the Democrats.
How else do you explain that Rasmussen poll the other day?
35% of Democrats in this country think that George W. Bush knew about 9-11 before it happened.
Well, you know what that means.
They also have to believe he let it happen.
And it may be he was even behind it.
35% of Democrats.
What is that, one in 17 Americans?
It's a significant number of people.
In the meantime, Nancy Pelosi used her clout to get lawmakers to back a San Francisco redevelopment project near her multi-million dollar rental properties.
According to disclosure documents, she got House members to authorize $25 million to improve the Embarcadero port area, which cleared the way for cruise ship dock development and other improvements to aid the neighborhood's comeback.
One of the things that's noteworthy about this is that her husband, Paul, owns four commercial real estate properties near the Embarcadero, which is home to many restaurants and hotels.
Nancy Pelosi, this is in the New York Post.
And I wonder if the drive-by's willhub consider this as the appearance of impropriety.
All right, now try this.
This story appeared on Newsmax.com yesterday.
A tenured college professor is set to be fired for simply sending out an email to colleagues containing George Washington's Thanksgiving Day proclamation of 1798.
Already, Professor Walter Kahowski at Glendale Community College in Arizona has been placed on forced administrative leave, and the school's chief has recommended his termination.
I mean, it simply boggles the mind a professor could find himself facing termination for emailing the Thanksgiving address of our first president, said Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education.
The acronym is FIRE.
On November 22, 2006, a day before Thanksgiving, Kahowski, a professor in mathematics at Maricopa County Community College District, sent the email containing Washington's message to all Maricopa County Community College District employees using a district-wide service designated for announcements within weeks.
Five Maricopa County Community College District employees filed harassment charges against the professor, claiming his message was hostile and derogatory.
The complaining employees also cited a fact the email contained a link to Pab Buchanan's website, where Kahowski had found Washington's proclamation.
Buchanan had also posted to his website criticisms of immigration policies.
On January 3rd, 2007, Maricopa County Community College District found that Kahowski was guilty of violating policies limiting email usage to messages that support education, research, scholarly communication, administration, and other Maricopa County Community College District business.
These policies also prohibit me.
You know what's in that address?
The word God is in Washington's Thanksgiving proclamation repeatedly.
Thanks God over and over for the inspiration of the United States of America.
The story says he's facing termination.
Tenured professor, face it for sending this thing out.
Five people protested.
This, folks, this is exactly.
I made this point on stage Thursday night.
Now, why in the world would this professor have any fear about sending this out?
He's an educator.
This is part of history.
He said that five malcontents, five liberals feeling threatened by it, don't want to hear that.
Challenges their cocoonish little worldview.
Want to get him fired.
They don't just want to not have to hear that.
They want to get him.
And that is intended to make sure nobody else tries to pull a stunt like this.
I'm pointing out what the first president of the country ever said in his first Thanksgiving proclamation.
And this is why there are people all over this country.
I myself am not one of them.
There are people all over this country who want to say things and they pause.
Will this get me in trouble?
It's just like stories we heard about the way it was in the Soviet Union, people in their own homes afraid to say anything for fear that the state was listening.
Were they bugging their apartments and homes?
And so people shut up.
And they gave up freedom, freedom of speech, what have you, in order not to get in trouble.
And I'm telling you, that is happening throughout our society today.
It's not that the state is listening, but people are nevertheless experiencing the same fears because these leftists, these Stalinists, are out there doing everything they can to punish and squelch anything they don't want to hear.
If this is true, this is just mind-boggling.
Totally so.
Dave in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Glad you waited.
Thank you, Rush.
Jack Bower did us to you.
I've been listening to you since the early 1990s, and I rarely miss a day.
You're a good man.
Thank you, sir, very much.
And if I, before I get, I just was going to ask you about 24, but before I get into that, if I could just maybe make a request, not for today, but in the future, if you could do more frequently your voice of the little kid coming home from school, it just kills me.
It's fantastic.
The little kid voice that I do?
The little kid.
Mommy, do you know what they taught us today about the ozone is disappearing?
That kills Rush.
It just kills.
Mommy, mommy, mommy.
I was listening to Rush at school today.
What is Pooh and Goe?
That's fantastic.
That's the one.
That's the one.
Well, you're very kind.
I appreciate any and all compliments to my little attempts here to impersonate people.
Oh, that by far.
That has me rolling every time.
Hey, what do you think of 24?
I told, I believe it was Mr. Snerdley or Screener, that I was on the edge of trying to decide whether I think 24 is jumping the shark or not.
Well, that's up to you.
You're the viewer.
I mean, if you think it is.
Well, I want to know what you think.
It seems other seasons, and I've been a longtime viewer of it.
Other seasons, I've literally been on the edge of my chair watching as it winds down the last 10, 15 minutes of each show.
And this season, I'm more just kicked back, relaxed, kind of thinking.
Wait just a second.
Did you watch last night's episode?
I did.
You did or didn't?
I did.
No, I did.
Well, you're telling me you relaxed in the last 10 or 15 minutes of that show?
Not last night.
Well, I don't think they've jumped the shark.
Here's what they have said.
You know, I know these guys.
I know.
They're good friends.
And they there's, you know, things happen.
Here, you've got Joel Serno and Bob Cochran that created the program.
You've got the showrunner Howard Gordon, lead writer and one of the executive producers, and you've got a big writing staff.
And as they've produced the show and they've created the show and have produced it over the years, it's grown in popularity.
And, of course, their services for other shows are being tapped.
I mean, they're working on other shows for other networks.
I can't divulge any of this.
They're pilots and so forth.
But I mean, it's a natural progression TV business.
And they want to avail themselves of the opportunities.
So I think their time has been a little bit split.
But more than that, they have said that this was the toughest season to write that they've had.
Normally, as I've explained before, these guys, they'll start filming season seven in late July or early August.
And they'll probably start writing it in June, mid-June.
Although in this instance, I think they're already conceptualizing something entirely different because the problem they're having this season is they've exposed every advent possibility of terrorism in the previous five seasons and now this one.
So they've got to go a different direction.
And they're trying to figure out what that is.
I happen to know some of the things they're considering, but I don't know what they're going to end up deciding.
So I will not divulge any of it.
But some of it, I think it's just, it's got to be a creative challenge.
You're right about this program.
Every episode is like a two-hour movie.
And they don't storyboard this from beginning to end.
They have their original concept and they write it as they go.
And their creative juices have flowed, and it's just something that's happened this year.
Their primary theme ran out in episode 20.
The terrorist threat was dealt with in episode 20.
Now they introduced something else in it for the last four episodes.
First of the last four was last night.
But no, they haven't jumped the shark.
When you jump the shark, that means the show's over.
It's Finnee.
And they're going to be back next year with an entirely different concept about this in a whole lot of different ways.
Okay.
Now, and I know other seasons they've ended with a single slot of a two-hour show.
Now, there's two hours left in this 24-hour day, is there not?
You know, I don't know.
I thought there were three.
But if there are two, then the last, I haven't looked at the schedule.
I don't know if they're going to finish with a two-hour finale, if they're going to finish it with one hour each week until they get to the 24th.
I don't really haven't looked that far in the TV listings.
All right.
Okay.
No, just this season, just some of the workings within the show itself.
You know, Mr. Big, the person you think is Mr. Big, you know, three episodes later, he's not Mr. Big.
He has some mysterious.
Yeah, and see, this is one of the problems.
Now, I'm not trying to make excuses, but one of the guys you're talking about is the guy that played Kiefer's dad.
Right.
Well, let me tell you a little story about that.
I went out in September of last year to shoot a pilot for the half-hour news hour.
And we did it on a Saturday morning.
And when I got to the wardrobe department, the guy there who's a big fan is all excited because the actor James, I can't remember his last name, whoever played Kiefer's, it was coming in that, James Cromwell was coming in for his fittings that afternoon.
And they had to shoot Cromwell's three episodes because he had another acting gig somewhere in Europe or something he had to go do.
And so they're working around the availability of actors and all sorts of like, I don't want to give anything away, but he came back last night.
Right.
As you notice.
Right.
Greg Gitson and Gene Smart, they were in a couple of episodes this year, and people, oh my God, they wasted them.
Why didn't I give them more of a roll?
Well, they might be working on other things.
They might be busy.
There's any number of reasons for this.
And when you have a program like theirs that's almost created spontaneously, it's really tough to do what they do.
There are all kinds of limitations.
They can't go out and make excuses for this and all.
They just have to work around it.
And plus, don't forget, don't rule out the ongoing, ever-increasing popularity, placing all kinds of demands on everybody in the production crew, the writing staff, and all of this.
But they haven't jumped the shark.
I mean, I'm going on a little bit too long here with the answer.
They haven't jumped the shark because they're going to be back next season.
They're going to be back with a whole new concept.
And they will admit to you that this season has been tough and hasn't been what they wanted it to be.
But don't give up on it.
This is probably come back with season next year to blow everybody out of the water.
And, of course, you do a show like this for as long as they've done it.
You create massive expectations.
Massive.
I mean, I face this each day here on the EIB.
Imagine me.
I'm in almost 19 years.
And I'm the type of performance pressure.
I'm not going to complain about it.
But people who haven't done it can't relate to it.
Back in just a sec.
By the way, I looked it up.
24 to three episodes left.
There'll be one episode next week and a two-hour finale two weeks from last night about this 24 jump the shark business.
I don't even think it's possible for 24 to jump the shark.
Jack Bauer just jumped in and killed the shark.
So don't worry about it out there, folks.
Sandra in Fort Worth, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Russ.
Thanks for taking my call.
Mega Dittos.
Thank you very much.
This is my third time to call.
The first time I called you was early 90s when a seminar participant said to me, you're a ditto head.
So when I found out what that was, I became one.
Thanks.
You keep me with songs.
Barack the Magic.
I'll go on.
Okay, three things.
You said chickification, and that's what sort of got me started.
I know what you mean.
Chickification of the news.
Yeah.
Okay, first of all, I think it's deeper, and you really from talking earlier, and I want to say to Yvonne, who was on earlier, you know, go for it, girls.
Stay with your girls.
But chickification is really much deep.
It's more like sexification, and it's really what you were talking about.
It's a new age encroachment that says the natural order doesn't work, which, you know, you're real familiar with.
But I really, chickification is real limited, Rush.
It's not women's, quote, fault, and it's not, it's just like you once said, I'll quote you, you said feminism is not really feminine.
You're right.
If it were feminine, then it would be in the natural order of things.
Right, it wouldn't have to be.
You wouldn't have to change it.
It wouldn't call it feminism.
What's your problem with chickification?
We're in a communication.
Well, because it sounds like that women have created the problem.
And actually, chickification is really very male if you think about it, because it's more like boobification.
I heard Cal Thomas.
It's not like boobification.
And you're drawing all these inferences here that I don't imply with chickification.
Well, the woman, what got me kind of on that was Yvonne saying, you know, she has trouble telling her daughters things to wear because of what they see.
And I was in a high school.
I do mentoring in high schools here.
And I was in a high school mentoring the other day, and the teachers were upset because they were having a dress code violation.
This girl came in with just something that wasn't appropriate for school.
Well, tell us, what was it?
Well, the girl says, well, why not?
And then you look at lawn.
No, What was she dressed like?
Oh, she had on a, oh, what do you call it?
T thing, you know, with a tank top that uncovered about half of her bouzum.
And, you know, covered half of the bazoom, you said?
Well, yeah.
And see, here's the deal.
In high schools today, it really is sexification.
And it's not just the news.
It's, you know, TV as well.
But you've got these kids going down high school halls, and that's just where my passion is with high school kids.
And you've got these guys wearing their pants below their rear end, okay?
Okay, to pull them up.
Maybe they just want to be plumbers, and they've got a class at Votec later today.
Yeah, but when they pull them up, what I've noticed, now I'm going to try to really make this clean.
When they pull them up, where do they pull?
So you've got high school girls walking around half-dressed because that's what they see on TV.
That's what they see the law and order people going to work in.
That must be the appropriate dress.
Then you have guys pulling up their pants.
Get my message?
So you get all this stuff going that has nothing to do with education.
Now, we can get off on education.
I understand their problems.
We already got off on it.
We called here to talk about the chickification of the news, and you're talking about high school dress codes.
Well, because they see the news.
Kids look at what we're putting in front of them on that tube as their model.
They don't know anything else.
They're kids.
And it's very hard to.
Come on, this is a, this, my parents thought the Beatles were the second coming of Satan because of their long hair, you know.
Mine did too.
This doesn't change.
This is part of it.
I realize some people think that the culture has been debased even more than...
I wouldn't argue with it in some instances.
It's, you know, once you keep changing the line and drawing the line further and further and further, eventually you're going to get to the point where it's just puerile.
But the way they're dressing up, my gosh, nothing's going to change that.
I don't know what about the only thing that that represents to me is a failure feminism.
And in that sense, I kind of like it.
I got to move on because of not much time left.
I want to grab this guy from Illinois.
This is Red.
You're next, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Pretty good, sir.
Good.
The only question I got is you're saying liberals have never solved poverty, and I want to know what conservative has solved poverty around the world.
Just name one.
Well, I just got through telling you about Mr. Uribe down at Columbia, but have you ever heard of welfare reform?
Yeah, yeah, sure.
Well, you know.
Well, as a matter of fact, one of your favorite people who you say would be a conservative today, Mr. Kennedy, was actually in favor of that, if I remember, right?
No.
Bill Clinton vetoed a bill three times.
Ted Kennedy wasn't for welfare reform.
But even if he was, did he propose it?
Was it his idea?
And does it work?
It does.
And what did the American left do when it was proposed when Clinton signed it?
They threatened a revolution because it has worked.
It has taught people they have the ability to take care of themselves, reach their dreams, provide for themselves, go all full of pride with their achievement and accomplishment, which the left does not instill in people in any way, shape, manner, or form.
All right, your bulwark and your courageous defender of American conservative Rush Limbaugh signing off the EIB network for another busy broadcast day.
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