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June 14, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 14, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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I know, but I gotta watch this putt.
It's the 18th at Oakmont.
Pins in the same place it was when I played there.
Whoa, what a great putt.
Little Spanish guy from uh Spain, Pablo Martin.
Not a bad putt.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Uh looking forward to talking to you.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIB net.com.
I told you the last hour, Dingy Harry called up a bunch of liberal bloggers.
Uh, and so we're gonna renew our efforts here.
Uh uh get our troops out of there and end this war.
We're gonna renew our efforts here to secure defeat.
He also told them that uh Peter Pace is incompetent.
He also said that General David Petraeus is incompetent.
Now, I don't there may be arguments about General Pace.
I I frankly have not heard anybody say that.
We had a caller say that he's uh called perfect Peter because he cares about his career more than anything else.
And uh they're gonna be opinions about people like this in public life.
I've I've not heard the criticism, I've heard just the exact opposite, and I've met General Pace once and was profoundly impressed.
But nobody, nobody that I know of is saying Petrayus is anything other than brilliant.
So Dingy Harry gets on the phone to these bloggers and he gives them what they want to hear.
Now I have a New York Times version of what of these events.
Right here, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
President Bush had barely left the Capitol after immigration talks there on Tuesday when Senator Dingy Harry Reid of Nevada walked onto the Senate floor to call for a moment of silence.
I told you this is going to happen 20 minutes before it did.
It was time Dingy Harry said to pay tribute to American soldiers in Iraq as the death toll reached 3500.
A short time before the moment of silence.
Dingy Harry convened a conference call with liberal bloggers offering assurances that Democrats would revive debate over the war.
And he pledged to revive it soon, ending this silence that followed the White House's outmaneuvering of Democrats last month to win more money for the war without a timeline to end it.
That's the extent of their reporting about what Dingy Harry said to the liberal bloggers.
They're giving him cover on this, because they know that it's not something that's going to help the Democrats.
So after huddling with the liberal bloggers, Dingy Harry is going to try and run the same play on the war.
They got four principles here.
Uh four proposals will not be new.
The Democrats intend to reprise at least four ideas when the Senate considers the Defense Department policy bill.
The four things are these a measure to reverse the authorization for the Iraq war, uh, set a deadline for troop withdrawal, block money for major combat operations after March 31st of next year, and increase readiness requirements for troops to be sent back to Iraq.
On the on Iraq, Dingy Harry said we're going to hold the president's feet to the fire.
Every one of these things has failed previously.
And they're going to bring it back up.
And they know they're going to bring it back up, and they know they're going to fail.
And they're doing this simply to uh massage this this literal insane train of kooks in the liberal blogosphere.
Nancy Pelosi said it had been difficult to convince some Democrats that despite their majority, they are limited in how they can change the president's policy.
Some Democrats don't understand we don't have the signature.
We can only do so much.
Others are just very unhappy.
I include myself among them being very unhappy that we've not been able to bring the war to an end.
Ah, the pandering.
If you folks, if you knew to whom they are pandering, it's a bunch of Alfred E. Newmans.
Find the biggest kook nerd in your life's memory and amplify that by, you know, a couple hundred thousand, and that's who they're talking to on these blog phone calls.
And that's who they're um they're they're catering to here.
It's so hard.
These these wonderful bloggers, our kooks just don't understand how hard it is.
We don't have the signature.
There's only so much we can do.
I'm unhappy.
They haven't been able to do diddly squat.
They haven't accomplished anything in there other than harass the president.
Well, they got their minimum wage.
They had to attach that to something else that was going to go through.
So, and that was gonna happen anyway, because Republicans uh, you know, cowering in a corner in fear on that issue.
We're gonna.
Yeah, they were in the defense bill.
Uh That's where it was.
So anyway, let's move on to illegal immigration.
Rasmussen, a fascinating uh poll that's out.
Should Senate try and pass the same immigration bill again.
Twenty percent, yes.
Fifty-one percent no.
Sixteen percent wait till next year.
Well, not try and pass the same bill twenty percent, yes, take smaller steps toward reform, fifty-one percent, uh, and wait until next year sixty-one uh sixteen percent.
So sixty-seven percent say don't do it the way it was tried.
Twenty percent say go ahead and try for it.
This is a survey of American voters.
Just twenty percent of American voters want Congress to try and pass the immigration reform bill that failed in the Senate uh last week.
Now they're back at it, and they're doing things in secret here again, and they're they're gonna they're gonna revive this.
Uh uh I told you yesterday you've got to be careful here, folks.
We've got to be very vigilant, because they're out there uh and and the the the this the you know they've gotten the news that that uh uh what what those of us who oppose this bill are primarily concerned in uh border security.
We want that to be the first thing that's done, and we want at this this never-ending flow stopped.
So immigrationist LA Times, immigration bill supporters aim to increase funds for border security to try to appease critics.
I told you this is gonna happen yesterday, everybody knew it.
Uh try to appease critics of the Senate immigration bill.
Supporters worked Wednesday to find ways to guarantee money for stepped up border security and work site enforcement, and they think they can buy you off with that, and then they'll come up with their amnesty bill, which will not be changed very much.
The idea raised Tuesday, uh when President Bush visited a Capitol is aimed at conservative lawmakers and an American public that does not trust the federal government to protect the border or prosecute for well, not only don't trust them, we don't believe them.
We don't even believe that this is their intent.
We don't trust them.
They can't get it done.
The passport fiasco is a great illustration.
Yet we're told that 12 million or 20 million illegals, illegal Americans, are gonna have background checks done in 24 hours.
Yeah, that means it's gonna be stamped.
But wait a minute.
Hold on.
Hold on tight.
Why immigration bill supporters aim to increase funds for border security?
Uh can we go back to last August?
August 3rd of 2006.
The Senate did an abrupt about face yesterday, voting overwhelmingly to begin paying for 370 miles of fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers on the U.S. Mexico border just three weeks after voting against the um same spending.
The money's already there.
I don't even think they built an inch of it.
And by the way, if they ever do get the fence built, I want a ribbon tying ceremony, not a ribbon cutting second.
Can you imagine building a fence say cut the ribbon out there and create a hole in the uh in the in the fence?
So, folks, it's uh it's a game here that uh they've heard you.
They think that they can buy you off here, fool you by saying, All right, all right, fine, we'll do the emergency supplemental on a fence and on the border security, and then what everybody they think is out celebrating, go, yeah, all right, here will come the amnesty bill.
They're working on it right now, behind closed doors, same same stuff, despite only 20% of the American people uh want this.
I like to read you a little quote here, Teddy Roosevelt 1907.
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everybody else, for it's an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birthplace or origin.
But this is predicated upon the persons becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American.
There can be no divided allegiances here.
Any man, of course, today, any man and woman, uh, who says he or she is an American, uh, but something else also isn't an American at all.
We have room for but one flag, the American flag.
We have room but for one language here.
And that is the English language.
We have room but for one sole loyalty, and that is a loyalty to the American people.
Teddy Roosevelt, 1907.
Yeah, it's uh I mean this guy's a Yahoo as a nativist.
Uh he's a bigot, he's a racist, he's a restrictionist.
Um and hates hated Mexicans.
And I did hated Hispanics, hated Latinos, obviously.
Uh that's what would be said of Teddy Rosell today if he said these words in this current climate.
What people know is that there is no assimilation going on.
There's actually, I saw something today, somebody's description of what's happening in certain areas of California and Arizona, New Mexico and uh Texas is like apartheid.
Uh the new arrivals are setting up their own communities, and they're they're uh not assimilating whatsoever.
It's uh you know, some people use the term balkanization.
It's the first time I'd seen the term apartheid today, but separation.
Uh the antithesis of assimilation.
Quick timeout, we'll come back and get some of your phone calls right after this on the EIB network.
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LA Times says that Paris Hilton will now end up serving more time behind bars than the vast majority of inmates sent to the LA County jail for similar offenses.
Whether Hilton received special treatment from the sheriff's department's become the subject of a bunch of debate out there, and this led to a meeting between the Reverend Al Sharpton, one of the two Justice Brothers with the sheriff.
The judge sent her back to jail last Friday.
Hilton's attorney announced that she would serve the full 23 days.
That means that Paris Hilton will end up serving more time than 80% of other people in similar situations.
Advertising, and this is what Sharpton wanted, the Justice Brothers got action because advertising on this program, they deserve a bonus airing of their commercial, our latest commercial.
I'm not saying it.
Go look in the mirror.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, some of my all-time favorite news stories are those that that contain the word Dubai.
Uh and if uh the news story also contains the words port deal, uh, I I'm I'm I'm close to Nirvana.
Well, this story doesn't contain port deal, but guess what?
Big big big clothing outfit store in uh in Manhattan.
Barney's uh big with the New York effete leites so forth uh Dubai's gonna buy it.
Barney's the Wall Street Journal says that uh the Dubai government is near a deal to buy Barney's in New York.
This means fairy's fixed this.
Barney's Fifth Avenue.
There's two Barnes.
There's one down in the village, I think, down there somewhere, and then one on Fifth Avenue, right.
This is where the uh, you know, the Upper West Side crowd goes to have lunch and buy clothes.
And the government of Dubai near's deal to buy Barney's in New York.
This means that if we continue to go by suits, Barney's the terrorists win.
I don't know, folks.
Everything is hitting me funny today.
Uh Kathy in Moranga, California.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
I think the Broward County people want to make the hurricane reports into global warming propaganda, and they want to freak everybody out, saying this is a sign of global global warming, that is a sign of global warming, and the Rush Limbaugh show is a counterbalance to that, and they don't want a counterbalance.
Well, that's that I don't believe that, because if if if they wanted to use the press conferences to announce a political agenda or further one with global warming, it is precisely my audience they'd want to reach.
They've already got the libs on this.
I don't think this there this is a this is a serious thing.
We've been laughing about it.
All this is this the radio station made a deal with the county commissioners that when a hurricane's approaching, if they want to call a press conference to To announce preparedness measures.
And after the hurricane hits, if they want to address Broward County residents over recovery efforts, what to do in case of the degree of disaster, then they get blanket time, whatever the length of their press conference or their announcement is, they get it on the uh on the greatest signal in South Florida.
This is the perfect station for this to be on.
Uh and and they were saying, well, you know what?
Uh not enough people will hear it because Limbaugh's on that station.
So they think nobody listens.
Uh and so they were actually going to deny residents of South Florida preparedness and emergency information on the basis that uh hurricane news is apparently right wing and partisan, even though they're the ones that are going to be doing it.
Anyway, the effort was beaten back.
Uh they got complaints.
They got, I mean, they were they were just uh they were assaulted in droves uh with left phone calls and uh and emails yesterday, and they're gonna take the vote next week.
They did this deal a year ago and they didn't complain about it a year ago.
There's there's there's um something that's happened in the past year, and it's happening throughout the Democrat Party, and that is silence the opposition.
Get rid of it.
We don't want to have to deal with it because we can't deal with it.
We have tried to defeat it in the free market, and we can't, and so we've got to find a way to somehow silence it, discredit it, or whatever.
And I'm sure what they were hoping for here, what they were hoping for was a massive public reaction in the in in just the opposite fashion.
They were hoping that a bunch of South Floridians, particularly Broward Countyans, would rise up in anger over the fact that my presence on a radio station was going to prevent them from finding out needed information during a hurricane emergency.
And they were hoping that the the South Florida population would rise up and say, get limbo off that station.
I need that information, but I'm not gonna listen to that station again because limbo's on it.
That's how they think.
So they actually believe liberals will subject themselves to disasters, and uh they will shield themselves from emergency and preparedness information on the basis of partisan politics.
That's and they got the exact opposite reaction.
The reaction they got was you people are being silly.
Don't you understand this is a First Amendment issue?
Don't you understand that hurricane information is nonpartisan?
There's no such thing as a right-wing hurricane report.
In fact, if there's been any irresponsibility in hurricane reporting, it is the drive-by media in in the case of Hurricane Katrina.
If there's anybody that places people at risk by not telling the truth and by creating panic and fear and doing all kinds and lying about various aspects of what went on in a superdome in the convention center, it's the drive-by media.
Liberals are the ones who politicize everything.
And now they're trying to politicize or say that their information press conferences uh would just not work on a station that's so partisan.
It's as though, see, this is their mindset, folks.
They aren't partisan.
In their minds, they're just what is.
They're as natural as the air.
They're not partisan.
They have free reign to say, do, and be whatever.
And by the way, here's something very key.
In their minds, we are a feared and large enemy.
And as such, and they feel personally professionally threatened by the existence of us as their enemy.
And so there's no ground rules in trying to take out an enemy in that situation.
No political correctness there.
Uh and that gives them their moral cover.
But they don't, they they don't consider themselves partisans at all.
They don't even think they're mad.
They don't even think they're enraged.
They think they're as natural as anything is uh in the in the world today.
It's only us that are partisan, hate-filled, mean-spirited, nativist bigot restrictionists.
We'll be back.
More phone calls right after this.
Well, at that judge, uh Reggie Walton has uh made his ruling.
Scooter Libby goes to jail while his case is appealed.
It's sad it's unfortunate also complicates the whole process of a pardon if there was even one being considered.
Uh well, maybe not they can they actually serve some time.
It could be this is but it's overall this is perhaps uh detrimental to it.
By the way, you know, liberals are out there committing suicide, folks.
They first they're aborting their own, and they've been doing their aborting their own since in in big numbers since uh 1973.
Now they don't want their own in South Florida to get storm warnings.
And they want to lead us.
They lead us right over the cliff.
Tony Snow in a White House press briefing today talking about the comments of Dingy Harry on General's pace and potrayus.
We are a little bit concerned about some reports on the internet.
The Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in a conversation with liberal bloggers had referred to General Pete Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, as incompetent, and apparently again, according to the reports, uh had said disparaging things also about General David Petraeus.
We certainly hope it's not true, because in a time of war for a leader of a party that says it supports the military.
It seems outrageous to be issuing slanders toward the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and also the man who's responsible for uh the bulk of military operations in Iraq.
Indeed, Senator Reid has some point declared the war lost and also has declared the surge of failure, even though it has not yet been fully enacted.
I don't know if it's true or not.
If it is true, I certainly hope he does apologize.
All right.
Well, that sent the uh the drive-bys in the White House press room over the edge.
Here's uh a little background here.
You'll hear the press cackling in the background and some overlapping hubbub here in this bite.
Why the preemptive strike?
Well, I just think it's appropriate to comment on it.
Anyway, whether it's true.
Things are outrageous, but you don't know whether they're not.
Well, I don't know.
I mean do you trust the politico?
I don't know.
I'll give uh we'll give a call.
But I'm just like to comment on things that we hear hypothetical.
Well, you got me.
You not you guys in the drive-by media never comment on hypotheticals?
You never comment on anyways, they're all over him for uh uh accepting a the report on the politico about has Dingy Harry denied it?
I haven't seen Dingy Harry deny that he said it.
And the source for the politico is uh a couple of these bloggers, I think, the people who were over on the phone call.
It was a conference.
It's very, very serious charge that uh Tony Snow is making it up, right?
Or believing people in uh it's serious.
Well, yeah, yeah, okay, serious charge.
Reed said it's a very serious charge, but of course, uh uh doesn't count when liberals do things.
The nature of the evidence is all it counts with.
By the way, I got an email from a friend that Barney's clothing stores are all over, apparently.
I they've expanded, I didn't know.
So they're apparently outside of uh New York.
Big Supreme Court ruling today, folks.
Unanimous, by the way, not good for big labor.
Unanimous ruling today, the U.S. Supreme Court said labor unions may not spend union dues for political purposes without first getting consent from the people who paid those dues.
Now, this uh ruling stems from a case in uh Washington State where even teachers who were not active members of the Washington Education Association were required to pay dues to cover the costs of collective bargaining.
Some of that money was spent on political causes that some teachers did not support.
The uh WEA said the case involved only a small number of union workers who decided not to be active members, but a conservative legal group hailed Thursday's court ruling as a great moment for America's workers.
This was uh stated by Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Timothy Sandiffer.
Sad enough that American workers are often forced to hand over their earnings to unions against their will, but the Washington Education Association went even further and used the money to support political causes that the workers didn't believe it.
Unanimous.
Even Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg voted for this.
Unbelievable.
And try this.
This is a Reuters story.
Mexico City's leftist lawmakers.
I saw that and I did a double take.
Leftist lawmakers?
Actually identify Well, I guess they're proud of them.
But that's not the story.
Mexico City's leftist lawmakers plan to legalize prostitution, The latest step toward making the sprawling capital the most liberal in Latin America, following laws allowing abortion and same-sex unions.
Ah!
I don't think this is why Mexicans are trying to get in here.
They've been coming before this happened, but well, yeah, this this is a uh it's an excellent point you make, uh, Mr. Snerdley.
We're told by the the Amnesty Bill supporters that hey, these are great, these are entrepreneurs, they're big conservatives uh coming into our country.
Uh just waiting to sign up with a GOP.
Can't wait to go out there and start reading about Ronald Reagan.
Uh finding out about Rush Limbaugh, so forth.
Uh and yet the legalize prostitution.
All right, Matt in uh Rock Island, Illinois.
Glad you called, sir.
You're next.
Hey, Rush, it's great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
And I'm I'm very nervous, so um right to my point.
I don't think that the Democrats are going to pay any price for their antics at this time.
Um before they got elected in November, they were saying the same thing.
They were they were um destroying the the uh leaders uh over in Iraq.
They were trying to destroy Bush the whole time, and the American people knew who they were voting for.
And they voted that I don't I I don't believe that.
Well, either that or the American people are stupid, Rush.
No, I think No, no, no, no, no.
I I think the American people knew what they were voting against, and they were they were just fed up.
The Republican Party uh was abandoned by enough of its voters last November.
The Dems didn't run on any agenda.
They ran on hatred for Bush.
And they they they they they might have made a couple of references to we need to get out of Iraq, but they didn't say they were going to do it.
They were scared to death to do it.
They just ripped the whole concept.
Then after the election, they claimed the mandate that they never ever stated.
Look at the the polls have never backed up what the Democrats say.
If the American people, see if if you're right, if the American people elected Democrats knowing full well what they were going to do, they would have had no trouble passing any of their resolutions to get the troops out of there and to cut funding, they haven't been able to do it, because that is not the will of the people.
The will of the people is not defeat.
The will of the people is not wave the white flag of surrender.
The Democrats retreated from retreat.
They surrendered from surrender.
They had to put $25 billion of pork in the bill to get enough votes to get the 218 to pass their first resolution, which was symbolic anyway, because it wasn't going to go anywhere in the Senate.
Don't fall for this.
A lot of conservatives think Democrats get away with all of this because the drive-by's never hold them accountable.
It's just like the soundbite we just played with with Tony Snow.
Okay, so Tony Snow read to Politico today, finds out that some bloggers said that Dingy Harry said that Peter Pace and uh General Petraeus are incompetent.
And he says, I'm not sure.
I read on a blog if it's true, I hope he apologized.
Dingy Harry hasn't hasn't uh uh uh denied it.
So the drive-by media in the press room fit to be tried.
Well, why you believe it?
Why don't you find out?
It's hypothetical.
What they're really upset about is being scooped by a bunch of bloggers.
And they're also hoping and hoping that Dingy Harry didn't say it.
Because it's not going to help the Democrats.
That's why Dingy Harry said it to a bunch of little kooks on the internet in a phone call.
He didn't say it to the assembled boobs of the drive-by media in the White House press corps.
Here's uh here's Mark in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
You've been up there a long time, and I appreciate it.
Oh, my pleasure.
Uh Colonial and 400th James Town Anniversary dinner to you.
I appreciate that, sir.
Um, my uh my point uh was something you said earlier, and it was uh early on in the show when you said that we uh we can't uh damage our environment.
And it was right after say that.
Well, all right, uh exact words, don't know, but um well uh words mean things.
And I said we can't destroy it.
All right.
I I and I will agree with that, but would you acknowledge that we can do some serious localized damage to it?
Well, of course we can dump gasoline in the town water system and screw things up for a while.
Of course we can, but we're not, we can't change the climate, we can't destroy the story was that our cars and uh things that we do, fertilize the crops and so puts nitrogen in the air, and nitrogen goes in and and helps uh uh neutralize some of the CO2.
So even when we think we're doing bad things like driving the cars, we're actually helping the planet.
We're not and what the point is the planet, the ecosystem, the climate, is so much more complex and powerful than we will ever understand.
It can fix it.
I remember having a story back in the early uh 90s, late 80s.
Everybody at the time was worried about the Amazon rainforest, the jungle being cut down for clear cutting, or it via clear cutting, because the natives down there want to build houses and so forth, and the wack goes, you can't do that, or you're gonna destroy the whole climate pattern.
And uh they discovered that coinciding with the uh with and there was some cutting in the rainforest, forestation in Europe, foliage in Europe was springing up all over the place.
See, that's a global system here.
The earth takes care of nature is gonna take care of itself, and nature is going to survive.
And we are not going to be able to destroy nature.
If you think that we can destroy the environment, you're telling me we can destroy nature, and I want to know how you're gonna do it.
Well, I don't I don't believe we're gonna destroy nature.
We can alter it.
Uh there we go.
We can all how can we alter nature?
Well, uh, there are ways we can we can take like tilapia fish and we can pr we can genetically alter them so that there are more females laying more eggs because we want to eat the fish.
Well, we can alter we can alter that.
We can play around with the genome, we can play around with DNA strings and that and that sort of thing.
We're starting to, and that's gonna be a big medical ethic ethics issue.
But uh in terms of the overall organism, this complex organism that's the climate.
Uh we we live in folly if we think that we can damage it.
Do you believe do you believe in the ozone hole?
Uh well, uh probably, I guess there is one, but uh I don't think it affects anything.
Well, uh that you're right.
Well, except some people might get cancer.
Uh who uh live where the hole is.
The hole, by the way, is over Antarctica.
Imagine that.
Now uh and there at the time the hole was growing, panic, fear mongering was set at a fever pitch.
We're all gonna get you're gonna get UV raising, not gonna be stepped, we're gonna get skin cancer, oh, we've got to be very, very careful.
You gotta stay inside, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Uh, and the the point was we were destroying the ozone.
And it was getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
And how are we doing it?
Aerosol spray cans and all these things.
Uh I looked into this and I found out, you know what makes ozone atmospheric ozone?
You know what makes it?
No, I don't.
The sun.
So imagine in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan says to his defense secretary Cap Weinberger, Cap, come in here.
I want every Democrat to get cancer.
And there's only one way to do this, and that's destroy the ozone hole.
And Cap would say, well, Mr. President, we can't do it.
We'd have to be a big fire truck to put the sun out.
Uh the point is we would have to stop somehow the sun.
And if we did that, of course, which we can't do, but if we did that, we'd all die in 24 hours.
Well, um I'm sure I've thoroughly confused you here with facts.
No, no, no, no, no.
Uh um, don't don't get me wrong.
Uh I'm uh charter member of the uh Pave the Planet Foundation.
I'm trying to put as much asphalt and concrete on this world as possible.
Well, then what are you complaining about here?
Uh uh, my kind of guy.
No, I'm I'm uh I'm just trying to point out that uh you know, living near the Chesapeake Bay, and uh back in the 70s, there was a uh chemical plant that uh you know.
No question.
No question.
We've polluted rivers, but we've clean them up.
We we clean up our messes in this country better than any society ever has.
By the way, I've never heard of the Pave the Planet Foundation, but I might donate.
Well, your Democrat Party once again shows its true colors.
Democrats, if they had the uh opportunity, uh would take every issue away from the public vote and make it up to the courts with their judges or what have you.
In Massachusetts, Massachusetts lawmakers voted today to block a proposed constitutional amendment that would have let voters decide whether to ban gay marriage in the only state that currently allows it.
The narrow vote was a victory for gay marriage advocates and a devastating blow to efforts to reverse the historic 2003 state court ruling that legalized same sex marriage.
It's not a devastating blow to anything other than democracy.
The headline here should be Massachusetts lawmakers keep gay marriage vote from people.
I could do their jobs better than they can with half my brain tied behind my back, and I don't even do that.
Well, I do do their jobs.
These people are just more and more pathetic with every living day.
Gary in Wheaton, Illinois.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Gary, you there.
Oh, hello, Russ.
Hi.
How are you?
Cigar smoking dittoes from uh Wheaton and from my twin brother in uh Plymouth, Minnesota.
Thank you, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Oh, it's nice to talk to you.
See, I just had one small complaint I wanted to voice.
You use a cough button on your microphone, don't you?
Yeah, if I do it, yes.
Well, uh your sniffling has been annoying to me.
Oh no.
And uh I don't know if it's from your smoking or whatever.
It is.
I mean, the smoke gets up there in the nostrils, and it's uh yeah, that's what that's that's the cigar spin, it's exactly what it is.
But it is annoying.
And uh if uh I'm sorry, I'm the only real complaint I have, Rush.
Pardon?
It's the only real complaint I have, Rush.
Well, if that's it, then I'll deal with that.
I mean, that's that's uh if that's the only complaint you've got.
Um, I'll live with it.
Well, I how how irritating is it?
I mean, I guess it's irritating enough to actually call here and mention it to me.
Well, the problem was way back uh 40 some years ago in high school, I had a guy across the uh study hall table that had that same habit and it drove me bananas back then.
Well, now I resent that.
This is not a habit.
I don't sniff when I don't have to.
Well, good.
I uh just hope you keep up the good work.
I'm behind you on everything except uh the sniffing uh inheritance tax.
But uh other than that, I agree with just about everything you have to say.
Wait, wait, wait.
You said you've thrown a new monkey wrench into the call.
You said you backed me on everything, and now all of a sudden at the tail end of the call, you say you're with me on everything but the inheritance tax.
Well, I I seem to think that the inheritance tax is okay.
It's just that it was always too high of a rate.
I don't think anybody would have complained if it was a fifteen percent rate and they didn't have any of these loopholes.
Uh maybe, but what the all that money's already been taxed.
So what?
When the person is dead, what have you got to do?
But their families aren't.
Well their families are that's why people work hard to establish a financial security legacy for their families.
Yeah, well, why should uh Ted Kennedy get all the benefits from his father in the billions, and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger than the other.
Don't give me that crossing.
That's not the question.
The question is, why should anybody's hard-earned wealth be targeted for redistribution when they're no longer alive?
Why not?
Because it's socialist.
It's socialist, sir.
It's it's God darn it.
It's just socialist.
Well, there's a civil war going on over there in uh at Gaza.
The Palestinians, the uh the Fatah Party, and the Palestinian Authority.
It's over now.
And uh Abbas has dissolved the government and they're killing these guys one by one in the street.
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