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Aug. 6, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 6, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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Uh, we have we have more health news here.
Uh moderate exercise like walking may be as good or better than intense workouts when it comes to certain heart health measures, according to new research from um, I don't even know where it's from.
It's in the second page of this, and I threw it.
It doesn't matter.
In a study of 240 overweight middle-aged adults, researchers found that moderate exercise, but not vigorous activity improved participants' levels of blood fats called triglycerides.
Meanwhile, improvements in good HDL cholesterol seemed to depend on how much study participants exercised, not how intensely.
What's more, researchers found both benefits were sustained when exercisers took a vacation from working out.
I've known this even though I haven't known it.
I have known this all my life, even though I haven't known it.
So I'm gonna start changing the way I play golf.
I'm no longer gonna walk the course.
Walking from the cart to my ball will be plenty of exercise based on this latest bit of uh health news.
Let's listen to some of the uh sound bites from the Republican presidential debate yesterday, scheduled by ABC was moderated by George Steffi Stephanopoulos, took place uh someplace in Iowa.
Uh uh David Yepsen of the uh Des Moines Register was also on the panel.
Nobody saw it.
Uh nobody watches Stephanopoulos show anyway.
It's 1030 on a Sunday morning.
I mean, if you're going to schedule a debate at 1030 on a Sunday morning, don't you think it would be best to schedule a Democrats then?
I mean, look no from the standpoint of your ABC and you want an audience.
Don't you know that the audience for this debate is going to be in church?
The liberal audience wouldn't be.
Separation church and state when you got the Democrat candidates debating, can't go to church, separation church and state.
But they also put this thing up there on uh on Sunday morning, precisely is the conflict here because they want an audience, but they weren't going to get one, and they know it.
They can bury the debate.
Nobody saw it.
Not in any really great numbers.
First question from Stephanopoulos was on uh abortion.
Is the first question of Democrat debates ever about abortion?
Not lately.
Um after going back and forth on Sam Brownbeck's ad attacking Mitt Romney for his uh abortion position.
Uh Romney gets a little bit angry about this.
I was pro-choice and I am pro-life.
And I'm tired of a truthful.
Governor Ron YouTube, and look for the governor what he says himself.
Governor Romney, you can call that.
You can go back to YouTube and look at what I said in 1994.
I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice.
I've said that time and time again.
I changed my position when I was governor, and when I faced an issue of life or death, when the first time a bill came to my desk that related to the life of an unborn child, I came down to the side of life.
And I put that in the Boston Globe and explained why.
And I get tired of people who are holier than thou because they've been pro-life longer than I have.
All right, now we're debating here.
We actually had a debate.
That was Brownback and Romney that were arguing about uh supposedly uh the the flip-flop position on abortion of uh of Mitt Romney.
Now, the drive-bys did like one aspect of this debate, and it was Ron Paul.
Uh Stephanopoulos said uh uh Congressman Ron Paul, what would what would be your strategy in Iraq should you be elected president?
Just come home.
We just marched in just found home.
We went in there illegally.
We did not declare war.
It's lasting way too long.
We didn't declare war in Korea or Vietnam, the wars were never really ended.
We lose those wars.
We're losing this win.
We shouldn't be there.
We ought to just come home.
I knew that was going to get the load of attention this morning from the drive-bys, and it did.
That's this is primarily what they thought.
They were having deep analysis and round table uh discussions about Ron Paul, who um has no chance to win the Republican nomination.
And they know that at the drive-bys, they were just influence, because there's a lot of applause in that room.
Well, this influence the other Republican candidates and so forth.
Here's a great line.
Probably Romney probably the line of the of the debate.
Uh when it when it comes to uh they asked people about Obama and his uh his nuke strategy, Pakistan, which uh you talk about flip-flopping.
Obama's all over the place on this.
Here's Mitt Romney.
I agree.
The Brookings' institution report over the weekend was uh was a very encouraging indication that we're making progress.
That's great news.
At the same time, you look at that democratic debate.
I had to laugh at what I saw Barack Obama do.
I mean, in one week, he went from saying he's gonna sit down for tea with our enemies, but then he's gonna bomb our allies.
I mean, it's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove.
We're gonna get to that Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.
All right, now David Yepsen.
David Yepsen of the uh of the Detroit, sorry, the Des Moines Register says, Mayor Giuliani, the Republican dogma against taxes now precluding the ability of you and your party to come up with the revenues that the country needs to fix its bridges.
Now, this is this goes back to this piece from Robin Blumner from the Columbus dispatch that I shared with you in the last hour.
All of this, this bridge collapse, the libs can't wait.
Got to raise taxes, gotta raise taxes.
Never mind the fact more money's pouring in the treasury never before.
Here's another drive-byer ignorant of real world life, and now just simply takes the template that ought that exists in the narrow minds of these drive-bys and asks Giuliani um about the Republican dogma, the dogma against taxes.
Uh is that precluding the ability of you and your party to come up with the revenues the country needs to fix its the premise here is so flawed that it angers me.
We've got more money than we know what to do with.
Hell, folks, fifty-five or fifty-seven percent of the federal budget is spent on entitlements.
The highway bill is loaded with all kinds of money.
This is state operation anyway in this bridge.
Anyway, here's Rudy's answer.
David, there's an assumption in your question that is not necessarily correct.
It's sort of the democratic liberal assumption.
I need money, I raise taxes.
Then what are you gonna cut, sir?
What do you cut?
Wait, wait, wait.
Let me explain it.
The way to do it sometimes is to reduce taxes and raise more money.
I ran a city with 759 bridges.
Probably the most used bridges in the nation, some of the most used in the world.
I was able to acquire more money to fund capital programs.
I reduced the number of poor bridges from 5% to 1.7%.
I was able to raise more money to fix those bridges by lowering taxes.
I lowered income taxes by 25%.
I was collecting 40% more from the lower income tax than from the higher income tax.
There is a liberal democratic assumption that if you raise taxes, you raise money.
We should put more money into infrastructure.
We should have a good program for doing it.
But the knee-jerk liberal democratic reaction, raise taxes to get money, very often is a very big mistake.
All right, right on, right on, right on, right on.
Haven't heard this much from the Republicans in this debate.
Uh, but it's it this is this is crucial.
This this idea that it's been disproved so many times, it's it's it's it's it's um it's maddening here to sit here and listen to this mantra, this this this little cliche continue from the left.
I think the thing about uh Governor uh Rudy, uh Mayor Giuliani talking to David Yepsen.
I'm not sure sure that these guys like Yepsen uh actually think they're going to raise more money.
I think they're into punishment.
They're into the punishment of people who unfairly have so much more than the rest of the little people.
And when they just got to be gotten even with.
And of course, when you're talking about the government, and they these guys in the drive-bys, I mean, they they they look at government with as much love and adoration as any Democrat candidate does.
And of course, government can never, never do it less.
So if you are going to cut taxes, according to Yepsen and the Libs, why uh what are you what spending are you going to cut?
Because obviously cut taxes, you're going to reduce revenue.
No, it doesn't work that way, and we're living it right now.
We lived it in the 80s.
We are living it right now.
And here are reporters who are charged with a responsibility to educate themselves, to be informed more than of it's their job.
And they live in a bubble.
And whatever doesn't compute with their worldview never finds its way inside their cranium to start circulating amongst the little gray cells and they can't stand the conflict.
Next question from Stephanopoulos.
What what's your biggest mistake?
Here's another question that Democrat candidates are never asked.
Um what is your biggest mistake, Mayor Giuliani?
To have uh a description of my mistakes in 30 seconds.
Defining mistake, just one defining mistake, George.
Your father is a priest.
Let's go explain it to your father, not to you, okay?
All right, right on right on right on.
We'll be back after this.
We ask you a question, ladies and gentlemen, is the man who can read the stitches on the fastball.
Do you ever notice that all of these drive-by reporters never say to the Democrats, well, you know, Senator Clinton, you're always proposing raising taxes to fix that or to do this.
Yet the problem is never solved.
Why is that?
We have had 11 trillion dollars of wealth transferred, redistributed in this country since the inception of the Great Society, the war on poverty.
Have we solved it?
No.
Even after what is it, 64, 33, 43 years?
43.
Is that right?
I don't do math well in my head.
It's 2007, 1964.
Whatever it is, it's a hell of a long time.
And we still have a Democrat presidential candidate running for office on wiping out poverty.
Because we're not doing it.
You think any reporter will ever say, Brick girl, your party has stood for the increase in taxes and you have raised taxes every time you've been in the White House.
Has it fixed the problem?
They will never ask that question, will they?
Okay, back to the audio sound bites from the debate.
Now, we have one of these situations where you're you're listening to Soundbite Turn, you think Giuliani's doing really well, and a lot of people who watch thought that Mitt Romney came outstanding really well, too.
And Frank Lunds had his focus group in there, and the guy that shined in the focus group was Mike Huckabee.
The uh the uh governor of Arkansas.
Here's a question uh from Stephanopoulos.
Governor Huckabee, what would you bring to the Oval Office?
I would put the very same frame on my wall in the White House.
I did as governor for 10 and a half years.
It's a frame that has a photo, and underneath the photo it says our boss.
My picture was never in that frame in ten and a half years.
Every week or so we put the picture of some ordinary Arkansas citizen.
And I told our staff, let's never forget who the real boss is.
I hope every day I'd never forget.
I work for those people, they don't work for me.
I'd like to be the kind of president that's more concerned about the people on Main Street, not just the folks on Wall Street, and we need that kind of Republican running, that kind of Republican winning.
I'd never forget who the boss really really is.
Okay, well, you can understand how the viewers watching that.
I mean, guy running for president tells them they're gonna be the boss.
Uh I'm gonna work so hard for you.
Uh I'm gonna cut your taxes.
I'm a I'm uh you know, you uh I feel your pain.
No, no attack ever fed a hungry child.
So it uh it doesn't surprise me that uh that would have an impact on uh on viewers.
Uh one more from uh Huckabee.
Uh we got a little interaction going on here.
Uh Governor Huckabee, we got the polls of this debate.
Congressman Paul says, come home.
Congressman Hunter says we gotta stay.
Is there a middle ground in this debate on Iraq?
Certainly there's a middle ground, George, and the middle ground is that we win this war and we do it with honor.
We don't just stay indefinitely, we put some pressure, just like we have been the last week with Secretary Rice and Secretary Gates on the Saudis.
The second thing we do for our own national security is end our dependence on foreign oil, and let's not play around and say 30 years.
Let's get it done.
Let's get it done now.
And let's make sure that we don't have to depend upon their oil for our future energy needs.
If we can feed ourselves, if we can fuel ourselves, if we can manufacture the weapons to fight for ourselves, we're a free people.
If we can't do those three things, we're not free people.
All right.
So that's uh that's Mike Huckabee, the governor of uh of Arkansas.
By the way, speaking of the war, uh USA Today's Susan Page is reporting President Bush is making headway in arguing that the increase in U.S. troops in Iraq, the surge is uh is showing military progress in the latest USA Today Gallup poll taken Friday through yesterday.
The proportion of those who said the additional troops are making the situation better went to thirty-one percent up from twenty-two percent a month ago.
Uh those who said it was not making much difference dropped to 41 percent from 51 percent, about the same number said it was making things worth uh twenty-four percent now, twenty-five percent a month ago.
So progress out there uh in public opinion polls on the uh whether or not the surge is working.
Uh let's one more one more soundbite.
It's actually from last Friday, WHO 1040 News Talk Des Moines, our affiliate, our EIB blowtorch there.
Host Jan Michelson uh is interviewing uh uh Barack Obama.
Uh no, uh uh is interviewing Romney.
Uh and and they had this exchange about Romney being a Mormon.
I mean, I don't like coming on the air and having you go after my church and me and my church.
I know you that's right.
But I'm not running as a Mormon.
And I don't and I get a little tired of coming on a show like yours and having it all about Mormon.
See, I don't mind being about that.
Yeah, I do.
I do I agree with the ethics of your church for Pete's sake.
So do I. Uh we're getting the tail end of this.
Uh but Romney had spent some minutes before giving a pretty nuanced and detailed explanation of uh of things, and I think he was frustrated he thought the host didn't understand him.
Uh didn't understand the uh the point that he was making.
Here's Rocky in Palm Beach, Florida.
Rocky, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rosh, how are you doing, buddy?
Yeah, pretty good.
Hi, how are you doing?
I'm Rocky Bubble, the music industry.
I'm the fighter for the poor.
The real life is a very good thing.
Well, you're calling the wrong guy because I'm not poor.
Well, I know you're rich, but I need a good rehab center for my wife.
Can you help me get into one?
I'm dead serious.
Havel Hazel didn't jump up to f 30,000 Betty Ford.
Uh the jumped up to I'm getting trouble.
Rocky, I'm having trouble to thirty thousand to do 30,000 to do what?
For rehab.
What about it?
That's how much it costs today.
Oh, it's more than that if you go to different places.
I know, but can you help me get my wife into rehab?
Uh no.
Okay.
Well, I need to tell you there's national health care problem in America.
Yeah.
The five presidents in a row, all five of them have never ever, from Hillary to Brock, what do you say?
I can't pronounce his first name.
He's going to be the president, by the way, I tell you, but um, none of them are addressing national health care.
It's a ch it's a chain.
People that are adults like me, who is it that needs a drug rehab?
Maybe you, not your wife.
You're saying Democrats are not pushing national health care?
No.
No, not at all.
They're they're they're tickling your ear, they are.
They're they're they're uh lip synky.
What what nationality?
National health care, you want your neighbors to pay for your health care.
Yes, sir.
And you want your neighbors to pay for your drug rehab or your wife's drug rehab.
Well, I don't want to get no low-class drug rehab where they get put you in for two months and they don't do this to get the issue done.
Uh well, let me tell you, President Bush is a recovering alcoholic, right?
You can own no, not a recovering alcoholic at all.
He's a recovering alcoholic.
No.
Uh no.
Well, you said President President Bush might be Ted Kennedy, I don't believe so.
Uh that would be news to lots of people out there, Rocky.
Okay, well, I work in Palm Beach.
And uh basically I just like to let you know that uh Jeb Bush's daughter, she had a problem.
I want to know who the best.
I want to know who the best counselors are in Palm Beach.
Rocky, you do need help.
I know.
Do you do you live in Palm Beach or you work in Palm Beach?
I did work in Palm Beach.
I work for Top Plastic Society.
I don't know about a comment.
How did the cops let this guy across the bridge?
You know, here in Palm Beach, uh very, very tightly controlled.
Who can get over those bridges here?
Uh see, Rocky, I'd I'd I'd love to be able to help, but you know, if you're gonna offer help, you have to be confident that it's going to have results.
And uh nothing I heard uh in the conversation made me confident that there would be results here.
Uh anyway, we've got to take a brief time out, ladies and gentlemen.
Sit tight.
We'll be right back with much more here on the EIB network.
A man running the country, you know it.
And I know it.
Bad news for bird cages uh today, folks.
The New York Times, you hear about this, they have cut back the width of their paper to twelve inches.
Uh they they've lopped an inch and a half off of this uh off the newspaper, so there will be less room for lib news uh uh unless they add pages on a on a given day because of the importance of uh news stories.
Chris in San Jose, California.
I'm glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hey, Megan Diddles Rush.
Thank you.
On the designer baby issue, there was a sci-fi movie released not too long ago called Gattaca, and what the parents would do is the doctor would tell them these undesirable gene traits, and they could just remove them from the embryo before it was before conception.
And what that created was a class division where you had these flawless people, and then the rest of the population was like you and me, and they called him degenerate.
So it may not increase abortion, but it it may uh you know if if art in if life imitates art, then uh it might be a movie worth looking at.
It's called Gattaca.
Well, I think I've seen Gattaca.
I think I've uh it rings a bell.
I may not have been able to get all the way through it, but uh who starred in this movie?
Do you remember?
Uh Ethan Hawke, Ulma Thurman, Ernest Bartnine, and that that tall English fellow uh, then I saw it.
Yes, I saw it.
Um I uh I think I have it in my Cscape system.
Uh-huh.
Uh but I I did see it.
It's a dangerous thing.
Um science fiction movie, and of course, there's an element here of reality that they base it on.
It's true of all science fiction.
But it would be dangerous to uh extrapolate real life circumstances in movies.
A lot of people do it.
Uh but I disagree.
I I think it I think it would uh enhance abortions at this stage.
Now, if we you know go down the line here a number of uh years, I don't know how many, where you go in there and actually tinker with the embryo without aborting it.
Uh good I I'm just telling you, I think I think the whole thing is scary.
We're getting into areas that we don't belong.
Uh there are questions, ladies and gentlemen, that human beings will always be able to ask.
But we will never ever get the answers, not in this life, to some of those questions.
I don't care what we do, I don't care how smart we think we get.
There are certain things that we are just not going to know.
And I understand the quest for knowledge and wanting to know these things.
Uh but the uh the day, the day that human beings are able to take a little Petri dish and scorch something in it and from nothing have life ain't ever gonna happen.
You can dream it all you want, but it ain't gonna happen.
Liz in Columbus, Ohio, you're next in the EIB network.
Hello.
Mr. Rush Limbaugh.
Hey, hubbahubba.
I am so excited I'm talking to you.
I've listened to you ever since I was breathing on the face of the earth.
Well, I mean, that's then you you have been successfully indoctrinated here.
Oh my well, you know.
Yeah, you you have Educated, educated.
I was I was very being funny.
Okay, here's the deal.
I am absolutely overwhelmed and sensed.
Couldn't even I couldn't even sleep Friday night.
I was so upset over what happened on the house floor Thursday night.
Oh, you mean where they uh they pulled the vote they lost?
Right.
Right.
Well, I don't know why you have got to like go on the mountaintop and scream at what happened.
Liz, Liz, don't sweat it there.
The House is going to investigate itself, and they they will get to the bottom of this.
Well, I just talked I just called Pat T.Berry's office.
And I talked to one of his you know, one of his main guys, and he said that um the Democrat when you when you take a vote to the House, it has to go through two committees.
They're not even doing that now.
Oh, I no, well, y it it's not that you have to, but there is a normal procedure.
And if they want to ram something through, the Senate did this with the original immigration bill.
Back room, dark of night, nobody knowing what was going on, abandon all the usual committee hearings with experts on both sides testifying about the impact, the uh consequences, so forth.
The House is doing this.
They got caught, and it's by the way, it is on video.
You can plainly see on video they stole the vote.
I don't know why uh they needed to bother to take the time to investigate themselves.
Didn't I see also that Pelosi handed down a ruling that uh uh they're gonna go to paper ballots from now?
And they're gonna scrub this electronics and they're gonna go to paper ballots.
I don't know if that stood uh if the or she just uh just suggested it.
But in fact, uh there's a there's a funny story out today.
The former Speaker of the House, Thomas Holey, warned the Democrats before the November elections.
If you guys win, do not, even if you think you need to do payback, do not start doing this strong arm stuff.
It's gonna come back to bite you.
And he was speaking from actual experience because uh one of the reasons Tom Foley lost, and I'll never forget, he was the Speaker of the House, the state of Washington.
He lost his re-election bid to a virtual unknown.
And remember, the drive-by media that night when the election returns are coming in the next day, were destroyed.
They couldn't understand why how could the people of uh state of Washington so savagely throw out the most powerful man in the House, their representative.
And I'll tell you what it was.
It was the assault weapons ban, if you've forgotten, the assault weapons ban, and he kept the vote open beyond the agreed to time limit.
And of course, when you're talking about the assault weapons ban, you're talking about the second amendment, you're talking about the NRA, you're talking about a lot of Americans who were paying attention, even in the state of Washington.
He was gone.
That's that's there were a lot of other things, too, but that was the primary thing.
And he warned them.
He said, Don't don't do it.
He was coming and speaking here from actual experience.
And uh they're they're doing it.
Uh their approval rating is at three percent.
It's uh it's not a it's not a pretty picture, and it's it's not, you know, the drive-by's are going to be surprised by this if if uh if this stuff has a negative impact on the Democrats in the next elections, because the uh the drive-by's ignore all this.
The drive-by's don't report any of this, so they're the original incident, but they don't follow it up, and they because they don't think anything's gonna happen because they think their puff pieces and their support's gonna get the Democrats re-elected.
And uh uh then went like couldn't believe it fully lost.
Uh and they couldn't believe Kerry lost.
Uh they were just they were beside themselves.
They live in a in a in a different world, too, where reality oftentimes doesn't permeate.
Uh Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday criticized President Bush for not spending enough on law enforcement and said the cops were invisible to him.
Uh she was at a meeting of the National Association of Police Organizations, and she promised more spending on police programs, including an anti-drug initiative and bulletproof vest program.
She said, uh, honestly, it's like the police officers of our country, along with your families who stand with you every single day in the dangerous and difficult work you do, you are invisible to the president.
Now she chastised what she was doing here was chastising President Bush for a 2008 budget that she said would further cut the community-oriented police services program.
Now, does anybody remember a hundred thousand new cops?
This is her husband's program, which was a sham from the get-go.
The way that the hundred thousand new cops or whatever the number was, the way this program worked was the federal government would pay for these communities to hire new police officers, and then after each year, the federal government's share of what their what they paid, the salaries of these new hires would decline, would decrease.
Finally, after a few years, and we've reached the years, the states or the local communities have to pick up the salaries of the 100,000 cops that were hired, and it never ended up being 100,000 cops in the first place.
So now the program is supposed to be expired.
It has run its course.
The program was created at President Clinton to put more officers on the street.
The original program expired seven years ago, but Congress has kept funding it.
And this is a this is a great example.
We don't have enough money for infrastructure, says David Yepsen.
What are you going to do, Rudy?
Where are you going to cut taxes if the cook spinning if you're not going to raise taxes and so forth to fix the bridges?
We've got more money than we know what to do with.
The cops program expired seven years ago, and we have continued to fund it, ladies and gentlemen.
The House of Representatives last May voted to give more money to the program.
Democrats have complained it was cut.
It was not cut.
It was supposed to be expired.
It had an end date, just like the ships with a P uh children's health insurance program.
This was uh not to be uh extended.
So here's Hillary complaining that President Bush doesn't spend enough money on police and law enforcement, says the police are invisible to Bush.
And of course, as with the with all socialists, I mean, what what is what is her solution?
Spend more money.
So let's see if this makes any sense.
Hillary gets upset because the 2008 budget cuts funding to the community-oriented police service program.
Of course, the program created by her husband.
The program expired seven years ago.
Congress has continued to fund it.
Isn't it funny how that works?
Incremental, hardly noticeed control of the feds over the state government.
The program expired seven years ago and they've kept paying it.
Redundancy after redundancy after redundancy.
So Hillary's upset because the president has cut funding for a program that her husband said would cease to exist seven years ago.
It just I mean, it literally it uh makes no sense.
Quick time out here, we'll be back.
Well, I mean, it makes sense.
Uh from the liberal perspective, not in a common sense way, however.
Now documented to be almost always right, 98.7% of the time, according to the latest opinion auditing firm, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity and having more fun than anybody should be allowed to have here on the EIB network.
This is an amazing story.
This is from uh buddy Ron Fournier of the Associated Press, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for president on her husband's White House record.
And it is a strategy that cuts both ways.
Now, I have to tell you something.
If uh there were a Republican equivalent here, and a female wife of a former president, Republican were running with such a paper thin record of competence that she had to run on her husband's record, she'd never hear the end of it.
And the feminists would be out there belly aching and so forth.
But here, with Mrs. Clinton running on her husband's White House record, it's a strategy.
It's a strategy that cuts both ways.
The New York Senator and her husband, the former President Bill Clinton, it says here, constantly remind voters of the nation's economic prosperity of the 90s, compared to like what today.
And also of his record on the environment, college aid, and family medical leave.
Press releases from the campaign often include sentences that start under the Clinton administration.
Last month in Iowa while campaigning with uh his wife, uh Hillary's husband said, yeah, I mean yesterday's news are pretty good.
But yesterday's, meaning his eight years in the White House, a San Francisco blogger uh uh made it very clear that yesterday's news isn't always easy to explain today.
Uh San Francisco blogger made it clear to Senator Clinton during the yearly whatever, the Cook Fringe Convention, that he asked, or when he Asked whether she would support or repeal four major pieces of legislation enacted during the Clinton administration: the Defense of Marriage Act, the Telecommunications Act, NAFTA, and welfare reform.
All four laws are unpopular with liberal voters who historically dominate Democrat primaries and caucuses.
Everything's unhappy with these people.
Uh or unpopular.
Everything's unpopular.
In fact, I just I read on one of these Kook blogs that some cos kid, one of these kook fringe of the convention, he would rather die in a terrorist attack than for Valerie Plame's name to have been outed.
People are sick.
They really are just genuinely sick and deranged.
Anyway, the uh uh the San Francisco man, according to Ron Fournier, had put Clinton on the spot.
So she hedged and she dodged in a complicated set of answers to explain herself.
The Defensive Marriage Act, which denied federal recognition of same-sex marriages and gave states the right to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages, served a very important purpose, Hillary said.
The law staved off Republican efforts to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage, she said.
An argument seems to consign her husband's support of the law to the necessary evil category.
At any rate, I mean, you know, i i it's it's by the way, she also has asked a question where it's where Ron Fournier said, you know, it it rare to hear Hillary Clinton uh admit ignorance on a policy issue, but doing so came in handy as she fobbed off the questions on Gore about he's in that so now it was a brilliant strategy to act stupid.
It was a brilliant strategy to be uninformed.
It was a brilliant strategy uh to be ignorant on a policy question.
Folks, if you ever had any doubts that the drive-by media work in concert to maintain and build these people's images and get them elected.
This story alone, uh and I've got another one in here that's going to accomplish to say there's actually a story in this stack.
I have a story in this stack.
The some idiot.
I think it's Reuters.
Yes, it is.
It's Reuters.
Talk uh in a in a in a marveling and admiring way of all the accomplishments of the Democrat Congress.
There aren't any accomplishments.
The minimum wage is that there, but this this is a piece designed to uh muddle the minds of people who read Reuters.
It's prop 'em up time.
Anyway, so the bottom line is that Hillary has a paper-thin resume.
And what it means is that Bill's record is really all she's got.
That's the Clinton name is all I've been making this point.
If her name weren't Clinton, would she even be considered for this on the basis of anything substantive that she has accomplished or achieved?
The answer is no.
Now she needs to be call on it, but uh uh and you this blogger, you know, uh maybe called on it, called on her some hard questions and so forth.
But the drive-by's praise her ignorance as a strategy.
And say that the strategy of having no resume of her own and then running on her husband's record, well, it's a strategy that cuts both ways.
It might work, we hope it works.
Uh, but it might not.
If it doesn't work, we'll be there to help her make it work.
Hey, here's uh here's a story for you, Mr. Mr. Snerdley.
This is from uh Fox television station, Arizona.
Scottsdale woman, severely malnourished, her three children was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
According to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, this is from last Thursday, Camus Parker convicted on three counts of child abuse, ten years for each count.
Thirty years in prison, entirely appropriate for a person who almost starved to death three defenseless children.
We will strongly oppose any attempt to reduce the sentence, said the state attorney there.
Her three three-year-old weighed 12 pounds, her nine-year-old weighed twenty-nine pounds, her eleven-year-old weighed 36 pounds.
She had them on a strict vegan diet.
This is one of the more heartbreaking cases of child abuse this office has seen in recent times, said the attorney Andrew Thomas.
We're relieved the children survived are now doing well.
They just got back from McDonald's, but we take I just threw that in, but we take great issue with comments made by the judge in this case that he may ask the state border clemency to reduce the defendant's prison sentence.
Because after all, they won't have their mother.
Of course, if they have their mother, they might die.
So it's like the Menendez case.
What do we do?
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