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May 15, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 15, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Rush back tomorrow, of course, all the information at uh Rush Limbaugh.com and your phone calls at 1-800-282-2882.
You have uh heard now by now in the news, uh, or if you're just joining us, this is the news today that Jerry Falwell has died, a fundamentalist uh Christian pastor, televangelist, uh founder of uh universities and publications, and uh most famously of the moral majority in 1978,
which uh led to the uh incorporation of evangelical Christians and many other Christians into uh the uh conservative camp and and to the election, at least in part of uh Ronald Reagan, and the bringing back into the public square of a lot of discussions about uh uh Christian,
the Christian heritage of the nation, the parts uh the part the Christians can play in the public square and uh and and the role of uh Christianity and our Judeo-Christian heritage, a much larger concept in the forming of America and a forming of our ideals.
He will be uh I I must I must say that my prediction is not uh sanguine on this.
You know the drive-by media will instantly characterize this as the end of an era of uh evil excess on the Christian side, of uh homophobic uh form of uh Christianity that's uh equal to Al-Qaeda, you know, they'll just go crazy.
Uh you can j you can just hear it coming that the passing of Jerry Falwell will be uh the final uh nail in the coffin of the Reagan era from the standpoint of the uh drive-by-s.
And and I, you know, and I and I fully expect that they will drag out every comment and quote that he made that uh made some of us cringe and uh, you know, and made and made many other people think about uh the role of uh God in a modern uh secular society like America's, and have we gone too far to that secular human humanistic side and too far away from uh the uh guiding uh a life particularly when you look at family life.
I mean, I think he had a point about family life that uh will probably be seen as absolutely true.
Um but he said things that were endearing too.
Here's one.
Um he said, uh I drive a GMC suburban, and I have since the early 70s no global warming problem for the Reverend Falwell.
And he was unabashedly a fundamentalist Christian, uh in uh believing in the literal uh truth of the Bible, and uh incorporating that into his daily life, his political life uh in and and and an activism that led him to found what what is it now, 25,000 people at that Liberty University, and uh the other achievements that he has uh he has had in a life that uh I guess as I get older I start thinking this way has been cut short at age seventy-three.
So you'll hear more about uh the Reverend Falwell, but I think uh that uh uh we can pretty much guess the uses to which his passing will be put by the shameless left in this country.
One uh one-eight hundred-282-2882 are uh phone.
Oh, and one more thing about immigration that I want to get to, and that is I've gotten some answers from all of you, and I appreciate it.
The last time I was on the program a while back, I played a tape we had here from a speech given by Mrs. Clinton here at the uh California Democratic Party Convention, which curiously veered off into this immigration issue in a personal anecdote, uh which we uh well, let me just play it first and then I'll tell you what we found out about it.
When I was growing up, the neighborhoods I lived in were surrounded by farm fields.
And every harvest season we had a lot of the migrants who'd come up from Mexico through Texas following the harvest all the way up through Illinois and Michigan.
And the children would go to school with us, and every Saturday morning my church group, we'd go out and babysit the younger children so that the older children could join their families in the fields.
Now, we in San Diego found that to be an appalling statement because when she was growing up, we're talking now about the late 40s, early 50s.
Uh the feedback I've gotten from you in f first of all, we found it appalling because she's talking about babysitting younger kids so older kids can go work in the fields.
Uh what happened to child labor laws?
What happened to Liberal Democrats?
Uh what hap what what is that all about?
Was that when she was a Goldwater Republican?
I'm not sure quite how to take that.
Uh moreover, I didn't know a lot about uh Park Ridge, this Chicago suburb of a rather upscale Chicago suburb where she hailed from, but most of you have confirmed my suspicion that there wasn't a farm within fifty miles of that particular place that was uh growing a crop that needed hand uh hand growing.
That while there were apparently Mexican migrants and others, uh particularly from the South, working up to the north on uh harvesting matters, a lot of it was taken over by machinery over time, and a lot of it was done by uh local teenagers.
A lot of it was done by migrant labeled that w labor that wasn't um uh Mexican or uh and in those days, by the way, the Mexican labor was legal because of the Brusero program.
So the so the whole the whole anecdote, it seemed to me rested on a rather flimsy uh notion.
How in the world did workers get anywhere near Parkridge because most of the farms that I have gotten feedback from you on were many, many miles away.
One guy said, Well, we had them all over Michigan.
Well, okay, but were they anywhere near uh no they weren't.
So uh I don't know what whether there's any going to be any follow-up at all, or is this yet another fictional story, uh one of many, many, many fictional stories that the Clintonistas have put out uh over the years.
I tend to think that it is.
Now, let's get to this story, and I and I'm sorry, I don't think that I think this is another cover-up by the drive-bys on the subject of why uh pets uh have been dying in the United States.
The cover story is that uh some rogue company that they've since put out of business and are prosecuting in China, uh, got some kind of um wheat gluten, which uh was added to other uh elements uh for pet food manufacturing in the United States,
and it turns out the wheat gluten uh contained uh melamine, and that melamine, well, it was ac one of the cover stories was it was accidentally introduced uh into the uh food chain, shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Second cover story when they figured out that it was deliberately put in as an industrial toxic chemical, that it combined with other chemicals to begin to cause organ failure in your pet.
Then they began to say in China, well, no, no, no, melamine is actually a very good health food.
It's uh it's a mildly toxic it it can't possibly cause that kind of damage.
We take it all the time here in China.
That article from the Associated Press, uh, and I have it in my hand, and and and then they started saying, well, okay, it's serious, we're gonna start making arrests.
Uh we're gonna pick up uh, you know, well, look.
There are no private companies in China.
Let me be very clear about this.
They advertise themselves as private, they sell private shares to some people who gullible enough to take them in.
No company can exist in China without the approval of the Chinese Communist Party.
Any company that runs afoul of the Chinese Communist Party will be put out of business.
There is no and many companies have the direct uh ownership or control by the Chinese military, who derive, quote, profits, unquote, to help mask the exact amount of money being spent on the military by China.
They have an official budget like we do, and then they have something that might be two, three, four times as much, uh, which is the profits from companies that have been taken over by the military directly.
Now, in this case, uh the wheat gluten uh here's what I've been able to find out.
The wheat gluten and the melamine was not introduced into the pet food by accident.
It was introduced deliberately because here's what melamine does.
It triggers a higher protein count in the wheat gluten uh than would otherwise be there, enabling pet food people to say, oh, it's got forty percent more protein than the uh rival uh pet food.
So it's a false protein reading.
The Chinese were deliberately introducing something, and they knew what they were doing into the wheat gluten that would allow the wheat gluten to be sold at a higher price because it had higher protein content when that's at least what the test said, when in fact it didn't have the higher protein content.
It had the melamine, which caused organ failure in lots of pets, which caused uh oh, this is getting worse.
Uh it caused fish food to begin farm-raised fish may have eaten food now with melamine.
Uh Pigs and chickens now have been found with melamine issues because the wheat gluten, the soy gluten, the rice gluten, these kinds of byproduct food, byproduct uh products that are coming out of China have been introduced throughout the food chain.
Did China do it on purpose?
It seems that way.
Did they do it to cheat?
Yep.
Did they do it to get more money than they would otherwise get for their product?
Yeah.
Is it going is it going to go away if we get them to accept why don't you have an FDA like we do, and then you'd be protected?
Yeah, right.
Uh that's not, you know, and that's the liberal response to the Chinese.
How about uh prove to us that your wheat gluten doesn't have melamine or soy or rice gluten or any of these products you're selling us, or don't sell it to us.
Turn around in mid-Pacific and send it back to Shanghai, feed it to your pets.
I don't want my dog dying because you guys need to make an extra buck more than you're already making off of us.
So that, and I'm afraid that has not gone I mean, I have not seen that in many places in the drive-by media, that the Chinese knew what they were doing.
No mistake here, when they introduced melamine.
They wanted a protein reading that would allow them to charge more for these products because of the higher protein content that actually wasn't there, that they knew wasn't there.
1800-282-2882, short break back after this.
It's almost irresistible.
I mean, this was like shooting fish in a barrel to predict that the drive-bys would be making fun of Jerry Falwell within minutes of his death.
CNN talking now about the teletubbies incident, uh, don't need to get back into, but uh, they're going to use this um this death to um well to parody uh evangelical faith to from a secular point of view try to put um this whole evangelical movement for conservative candidates uh back out of the mainstream.
So just uh just get ready for it, because um Frelwell was not without making pretty strange comments sometimes, and uh those strange comments are going to uh be his epitaph.
I mean, it it is going well it's already started.
And and that, as I say, was was easy enough to do uh to predict.
Uh look, uh on the Rush Show here, and again, Rush Limbaugh.com with all of the uh details, we get into a lot of material.
One thing I want to get into right now is there's something about George Bush that I had to continue continually remind myself, and that is that he, unlike, very unlike Bill Clinton, he does not live all of his life in public.
Bill Clinton's whole life is in public.
Uh too much so for my taste, but that's just me.
Uh the real life of George Bush includes a private life, includes things that he does not for political effect.
I mean, he doesn't cry on cue like Bill Clinton did at these at these funerals.
Uh this is a guy who does things privately because they're right.
Example.
You know, when he veto and it caused the furor, caused the anger and rage to just over over overflow the banks of its river in the liberal left when he vetoed the timetable, the Iraq funding bill that had the timetable for surrender.
He signed it with a regular black-inked ballpoint pen.
And nobody said much of it.
Close aides knew it was not his usual personalized cross pen that he has.
You have to look at the details.
What what is that pen?
The pen he used was a gift from the father of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq, who when Bush met with him and a number of other Gold Star families uh at the Oval Office.
Uh Robert Durga of Uniontown, Ohio, gave Mr. Bush this pen.
And he said that it was a pen he had used to write letters to his son, Marine Corporal Dustin A. Durga, who gave his life for this country in Iraq.
And he said it was just a common run-of-the-mill pen, but I gave it to him and said, quote, Mr. President, if this Iraq supplemental comes down to a veto, I want you to use my pen to do it.
And he said the president looked at him kind of funny for a moment and then said, Absolutely.
When the time came for the veto, Mr. Bush had the pen.
And he used it for Corporal Durga.
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Let's go to Solomon in the Rio Gran Valley.
Hi, Solomon.
Yes, hello.
Hi, Solomon.
Welcome to the Rush Show.
Go ahead, you're on.
Uh yes, uh uh Roger.
I just want to comment a little bit on on the on the fence uh that uh that they're thinking of putting here because I mean it does affect us uh I live here in the Rio Gran Valley.
I I actually uh agree with it.
Uh I'm a Mexican myself.
I was born in Altamirano in Mexico.
Of course, I'm I'm legally here, all right?
Just to point that out.
Uh yeah, and I actually uh I I believe that very it is actually a great idea.
Uh I have a fence uh that divides me and my neighbor.
That doesn't mean I I I hate my neighbor, or that that doesn't mean that there's any any type of of uh I don't know, some problem between it's just something normal, you know.
So I actually uh agree and and think that that it is a good thing to to have a fence.
Now, I also agree that maybe that money can be used for something better.
What do you think?
Well, what do you think?
What would what would you use it for?
No, I I I pr I think that in it may be a lot more productive for for research or with with cancer, maybe problems with with AIDS uh research.
I think that i it could be also more productive if we'll put it in in in those hands.
I mean, I'm not sure I'm understanding you, Solomon.
Do you think the uh the the you think the fence is a good idea, but you don't want to spend money to build it?
No, yes, I agree with it.
Right.
But I think that the i it could be more productive.
You know, there are things that are better and some things that are good.
I think that maybe using the money for research will be a lot better.
What happens if we don't build the fence down there?
Well, same thing that happens now will continue to happen.
I know.
And I think that's exactly right.
Hey, I appreciate the call, Solomon.
I appreciate the fact that you're legally in this country, too, and God bless you and welcome.
Uh that's something another trap you don't want to fall into is the uh trap.
Well, you're just a racist.
You're just a xenophobe, whatever that means.
You know, I I thought that was a musical instrument for a long time.
Uh, but no, you're you're a racist, and and I g no, man.
I mean, you know, legal is legal, illegal is illegal.
You know, red, white, blue, or otherwise.
Uh if you're legal, God bless you, welcome.
If you're not, uh get the hell out.
I don't know how much more simple can I make this.
Here's George in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
George, welcome to the Rush Show.
Exactly.
Roger, you just made my point.
Uh uh when I spoke to your call screener, I said the same thing.
It's either legal or it's illegal.
And that should apply to all citizens equally throughout this nation.
And uh we're citizens and also people that are uh here in whatever manner.
But uh uh and this also applies and and should, and this is what irritates probably uh me and most of the people that I associate with more than anything, it is not applied equally when it when politicians uh enter the fray.
I mean, we're we're dealing with uh, you know, I hate to go back to Mr. Bill Clinton, but you know, uh in my means of thinking, the man should not be out collecting speakers' fees fees at this point in time.
The man should be sitting behind jar b uh uh bars somewhere, uh regardless of uh you know whether he was a politician or what or president.
Uh there should have been there should be no precedent set by uh having a man of that caliber uh out collecting speaker fees and uh you know being a voice for this nation that I don't think represents us.
George, thanks for the call.
Uh by the way, this is the day, just to follow up on that point, uh, that uh the presidential candidates have to disclose their financial uh situation.
This is the day when John Edwards is going to have to disclose, for example, his role in hedge fund advising.
Is he really Gordon Gecko in the movie Wall Street extolling greed in private as a hedge fund consultant and in public a populist uh uh might as well be from uh Louisiana Huey Long type guy uh trying to rally the masses for his nomination?
Just who is the real John Edwards?
Because today we may learn something about that.
Just who is the real breadwinner in the Bill Clinton family?
Is Mrs. Clinton or is it Mr. Clinton?
If it's Mr. Clinton, and he's made, as is reputed, uh eleven million dollars in speaking fees over the last year.
Can I just tell you something, and I don't mean to uh be disclosing uh anything I shouldn't hear?
But I just uh in in market terms, if eleven million dollars a year is Bill Clinton's value, he is way, way, way under the value that uh the market allocates to Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
This is the Rush Limbaugh program at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We'll be back with some more out of uh Kansas and the National Guard after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush.
Rush will be back uh tomorrow.
All the information at Rush Limbaugh.com.
And uh uh update now on the uh issue Rush brought up uh when it happened, and uh you had more information here than anywhere else for a long time.
Uh you know, a little background here, you know, uh recapping that uh Louisiana Governor uh Blanc uh uh uh Blanco, Kathleen Blanco blamed the feds after uh after uh Katrina and so forth.
You I mean I don't have to go back into all that.
And you know that uh Democrat uh governor of Kansas, Kathleen, is it Sibelius uh uh uh uh did the same.
At least tried, by saying right after Greensburg was wiped off the map by that tornado uh that uh well, we didn't have a National Guard troops or the equipment and everything because it's all over in Iraq and it's all Bush's fault, and here we can't do and of course it uh turned out that you don't get that help unless you ask for it and she hadn't done that.
Why she hadn't done it, how long it took for her to do it is still a mystery.
Uh but let me just say that because of that well-known playbook from the left of blaming Bush after every national uh natural disaster because of the lack of resources because of the Iraq War, because Bush lost, you know, the whole mantra.
I went back and looked at the recent catastrophes to find out whether it was true or not.
Did we lack National Guard resources for natural catastrophes in our communities because they were all allocated to to the Iraq war?
Well, I haven't found that yet.
Here's what I have found.
Uh I don't have to tell anybody in Florida about uh firefighting, about the problems there with wildfires.
And uh I found that in the wildfire situation, the National Guard, the Army National Guard, responded uh, and uh the uh National Guard assets were flown.
In fact, they were flying um sixty-seven hours, four hundred and forty five sorties up to the time I checked on this to uh combat the wildfires with everything they had, and it was what they would have had.
Uh they've got three helicopters up in Bradford County in the Dairy Road Fire.
I got all this list of fires in Florida, where the National Guard is working.
No indication that there would have been more National Guard or more assets had there been no war in Iraq.
Georgia National Guard, providing 42 troops in response to those fires as of May 11, Georgia National Guard, including two CH47 Chinooks, two UH 60 Blackhawks flown 302 hours, five million gallons of water, no indication that this is less than they were what or more than they what they would have had.
Uh they've got uh oh what my goodness, look at this.
Two Humvees and three two and a half ton trucks right there in Georgia working the w wildfires, not in Baghdad.
I never saw that on the drive-by.
In Minnesota, the National Guard has two uh of the uh Blackhawks dropping uh water on their uh fires, uh two fuel trucks with drivers and fuel handlers.
I got this list.
California National Guard and the famous Catalina fire here over the last weekend, got uh troops there and uh personnel from uh Pendleton.
Gosh, are there any left in Pendleton?
I thought they were all deployed.
Uh came up on a hovercraft with uh firefighting equipment and uh personnel according to a pre-planned uh situation where, you know, mutual help.
And uh they had in um the uh the Chinooks there as well, and uh uh a hundred and three civilian firefighters were trant transported to the island by the Marines.
So, in other words, uh no, uh, Governor and uh mainstream media, no.
It isn't true that we don't have protection in our communities with the National Guard at the time of national disaster, but you knew that.
See the thing that gripes me about this subject and every time we get into it here, you knew that was true.
All you had to do was make a phone call to the National Guard.
Do you have enough assets to handle this firefight in Georgia s uh this fire in Georgia in Florida, wherever?
And if the answer is no, hell no, all my Humbies are in Baghdad, then that's the story.
But if the answer is no, I got my Humvees and my Chinooks and my blackhawks fighting the fire here in Georgia, then isn't that the story?
And why don't you print it?
Of course we know why you don't print it.
That study has been gone, that ground has been gone over and over by um by Rush Limbaugh to the uh to the benefit of every American who will nowhere else get that information.
Now one more on Governor Sibelius she has uh appeared apparently at a fundraiser for uh tonight she's going to appear I'm sorry tonight uh at a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of Kansas, uh Kansas and mid-Missouri.
This group and some of the other Planned Parenthoods, I've got another story out of Ohio on this as well, is under investigation for illegally concealing child rape and committing illegal late late term abortions.
A former state attorney general there who left office before those investigations could be completed is the uh is the quote.
So I I uh we looked further into it and this is the story being investigated in Mason, Ohio.
Here's this is an awful story.
At age thirteen she was coerced into sex by her father, forced to share his bed for the next five years.
Uh in November two thousand four the repeated rapes resulted in a pregnancy her father forced her to abort.
By then she was sixteen.
Taken to a nearby Planned parenthood, she told the clinic worker about the incestuous relationship, but Planned Parenthood did not respor r report the abuse, condemning her to an additional year and a half of abuse where she was essentially her father's sex slave.
These cases are now cropping up around the country where Planned Parenthood and you can get back into all the other debates about Planned Parenthood, let's focus on this one because I think it's new as at least it's new to me.
Maybe it's not new to you.
New to me is this idea that when you come in as a young woman to make your choice for abortion, and you say, the father's my dad, whose bed I've shared for the last, oh, since I was 11.
They don't report it, which of course in most states, I would hope in all states, not authority on this, but I would hope is in all states, reporting to your medical provider that you've been raped, that you've been the subject as a young underage person to incestuous rape,
by your father should be something that gets to the authorities' ears fairly quickly like a time it takes you to dial nine one I would think apparently in at least a couple of cases including the case of the Planned Parenthood of Kansas in Mid Missouri at whose fundraiser this evening, Governor Kathleen Sibelius will I'm sure be as truthful as she was about the lack of resources from the National Guard.
1-800-282-2882 Tony in Green Bay is next on the Rush Show.
Hi Tony.
Hello Roger happy to speak with you.
Thank you for calling you mentioned earlier that that uh you knew that there were nine and a half million social security numbers which did not match the names.
No no I I knew that let me just make it clear what I'm saying.
I knew that because that's the reported number from the Social Security Administration.
Okay.
Well I've that raises two questions for me.
Go ahead.
The first is where is the money going?
If some employer is taking money out uh uh from the paycheck of an illegal and dep and depositing it or sending it to the government to a stolen number, where does that money go?
Does it go into such a count?
Tony, great question go to the head of the class, get your gold star, sit there with high self-esteem, which has been earned in this case.
Because here's the deal the government's making money off illegals billions of dollars a year is contributed contributed by employers and the employee because it's deducted from the paycheck in those circumstances where they're not working under the table, that money goes into the Social Security fund knowing it's never going to have to be paid out because this guy had a, you know, a fake name or number, what what have you, fake documents.
Tony, it's a great point.
The government isn't necessarily and I'm not accusing them of anything, but it is an absolute truism that they monetarily benefit in the Social Security Fund by having these workers illegally here.
Does that mean that if an illegal attempts to draw Social Security benefits from a stolen number that he can't get it?
I remember McCain saying very clearly on on the tube that he wanted the illegals to get that money because he said they earned it.
Well, that's the next step.
That's the next step.
You will find people, once there's amnesty, being asked to come back in, verify their employment over those years so that they can qualify for Social Security.
Do you know that as of now, and this again comes from the Social Security Administration, more than twenty-six thousand checks a month are sent just to Mexico, and there are many other nations that get them, to individuals who worked a qualifying amount of time in the United States and and and uh qualifying for that check?
We wonder why this system is in trouble.
Well, two people can't draw out of one Social Security account at the same time.
No.
So if someone has stolen my social security number and they're using it, what happens if they draw before I do?
Does that mean I can't get my social security benefits?
Can you imagine the the problems we face?
Tony, these are the greatest questions that no American yet has has uh asked, and nobody in the mainstream media and nobody running for the Republican nomination wants to face.
Exactly right.
What happens to my number when I worked, say the the ten or twelve or fifteen years, whatever to qualify, but some other guys work ten years.
How does the government going to allocate the money that's in my fund under my my number?
Can you imagine the nightmare?
Yes.
I know I well, when I went down to start to draw my Social Security, I asked the question is it possible if my wife retires while I'm still alive, for her to draw on my account and for me to draw?
And they said, No, you can't have two people drawing on the same account at the same time.
You want your your wife to get it, you have to die.
Correct.
That's a hell of a price, by the way.
Yes.
Seems sort of terminal.
But if but if somebody is already drawing that money uh and they're an illegal, does that mean that when I go to draw mine?
Or when I'm already drawing mine, but if somebody else goes to draw theirs, they're going to be told I'm sorry this is already going to somebody?
Correct.
That's a that's a problem.
Tony, I appreciate your bringing it up.
I've been screaming about this for years, and we haven't gotten anybody's attention yet.
I'm hoping tonight at the debate of Republican candidates, someone will start asking some of these questions.
Well, in the meantime, in the and I hope that listen, they've got to be.
Uh Tony, and I appreciate the call and the questions, as I say, head of the class.
Let's take a break and uh we'll be right back on the Rush Limbaugh program after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush, Rush Back tomorrow, of course, and all the information in the meantime at Rush Limbaugh.com.
We're taking your calls at 1 800 282 2882, little Stevie Wonder there.
All right, now.
Uh recapping today's uh lesson plan class.
Uh first of all, you need to know, and no one else in the drive-by media, of course, is going to tell you this.
They're gonna hammer, as they have been hammering for uh every day for the last couple of years, that uh George Bush's approval rating is way low.
That it is uh, you know, some what was it last week?
Twenty-eight percent, or it's thirty-five percent or somewhere in between.
Well, now comes uh a new gallop poll.
Out today, George Bush at uh 33 percent.
And I guarantee you this will be, again, if it does make them uh uh the drive-by's, it'll be uh George Bush at 33, a record low in the gallop.
Well it isn't, but it's close.
What they will not tell you is that Gallup also asked the same people they asked about the president, they asked about the Congress.
The congressional approval rating is twenty-nine percent.
Bush's is thirty-three, Congress is twenty-nine, down from thirty-seven in January.
Interesting enough that all these institutions of our government are at record lows, by the way, of confidence of the American people.
Not something that either Democrats or Republicans can be proud of here.
Nobody seems to be breaking out uh in terms of leading the American public in a way that's uh gonna get to popular support in the area where uh presidents are used to being, at least in the forties and sometimes in the fifties, and sometimes much higher, as George Bush was right after September eleventh.
But here are the new Democrats, the new leaders of our country, the ones that were going to lead us out of the war, the ones who are going to lead us out of uh the the economic morass we were in, the rich getting richer and all the rest of that.
What happened to all that?
What happened to the reform?
Hell, new boss, same as the old boss.
According to the WHO, looks like it's about the same here.
This is uh 29% approval rating for Congress, down from 37% in January.
So uh that's uh number one.
Now, number two, I know, because I just broke the $53 to fill up my gallon situation.
I know what you're feeling about uh about uh the pump prices.
You also know, this has been covered extensively, I don't have to get back into it, that is the lack of refinery capacity in this country, not the lack of oil with plenty of oil, a wash and oil in this globe.
Uh it's a lack of refinery capacity that makes uh the gasoline so high, and particularly here in California.
I couldn't believe we come well, let me not get too far into this, but the the highest prices in the country here in San Diego for reasons that are caused me to gnash my teeth.
But this is uh this is my answer to it.
My answer to it is you can't go on a one-day boycott, which was the call for today.
You know, don't buy gas today.
I mean, you're gonna buy gas yesterday or tomorrow or the day after.
You're gonna buy the same gas.
The issue is buying less gas, which I've committed to personally, uh, getting around in some other ways wherever I can.
But the other thing that's important is to go after those people in the oil industry that do us the most harm.
Wouldn't it be, for instance, logical to single out Sitco, wholly owned by corporations that are controlled by Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, to single outsitko as a station, if you haven't already done this, that you're just not going to do business with.
How many times do you have to listen to Hugo Chavez to understand that your dollars at that pump enable him to do the kind of things he's doing?
And I don't need to go through the laundry list.
So that's another lesson uh of the day.
And tonight.
As the Republican hopefuls gather in South Carolina for the second debate, second round, they're going to get uh through Britt Hume hopefully some uh more intelligent uh questions that will expose a little more of the profile of these folks so we can make our comparisons, uh, which is hopefully what debates will do, and then you can make the choice.
I hope that an extensive amount of time is spent on the immigration issue, not on the phony issues of racism and deportation and what are you gonna do round people, not on any of that stuff, on the real stuff.
Are you really going to enforce the border and know who comes across that border?
Are you really going to have employer verification so that Americans and people legally in this country get those jobs and not people who jump the line and jump the fence?
And I'm thinking that beyond that, the question of who's here illegally and what to do with them becomes less of a problem because if there is no magnet of jobs, if there is no way to get across the border, then what's the problem?
People will go back to where they can find some opportunity.
That certainly has been the historical fact in California.
When we've had recessions, uh illegals seem to just drift back to where they came from.
I know it's kind of hard to drift back to Cape Verde from New Bedford where you were making backpacks for the military, wherever Cape Verde is.
But you know, if you got here, you can get back.
Anyway, your thoughts on the Rush show.
Let me take a short break.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, back after this.
Your prayers, please, for those uh three GIs missing in uh Iraq out of Fort Drum, is it Tenth Mountain?
Uh I think it is.
Uh and we uh they are uh in our prayers uh for their safe uh return.
Uh it is, of course, too much to ask that Amnesty International would rush out there to make sure that the Geneva conventions are upheld.
We also uh have other uh items from the uh Middle East.
This one uh caught my fancy uh uh Iranian deputies in their con their parliament there, were gathering signatures among themselves to form an Iranian U.S. friendship committee.
Seems they want to reach out and uh and and have contact with the U.S. Congress.
Now this makes a lot of sense to me.
I could imagine because I looked up what is the uh national sport, I think it's freestyle wrestling in Iran.
So I could see Pelosi versus Akaminajad or whatever his name is, you know?
No holds barred.
I mean, I could y you know, she he's gonna be he's gonna have an advantage because he doesn't bathe.
She's gonna have one because she can't blink, so she can see all the time.
So it's gonna be kind of interesting to watch this.
More coming out of Iran, more to follow up on here at the Limbaugh Institute.
Rush, thanks for the privilege of sitting in, rush back tomorrow.
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