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Aug. 27, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 27, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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Welcome to Monday.
Happy to uh ride along with you on this last week of August.
Rush off uh having a wonderful time, I presume.
Well, I don't even know if he's up yet.
It's he's off in Hawaii.
Oh, oh, we uh we got a big environmental protest going on in Hawaii.
I wonder if has anything to do with the fact that uh Rushbow is visiting the great state, the 50th state.
We'll get into all of that.
They're protesting some uh new super ferry over there.
They've got protesters out in the water blocking the superferry.
Because I don't know how he you think you think Rush took the super ferry to Hawaii?
No, this is uh some new super ferry that goes around to the islands and uh from island to island, and it's uh ninety-five million dollar Hawaii superferry, and they had their maiden run over the weekend, and they had a whole bunch of uh people get out there, the protesters get out there and block the ferry.
Yeah, they're out there on their surfboards and all.
I wonder if Rush was out on his surfboard doing this.
But anyway, they were out in this harbor at Lahue.
And uh if you've been to Lahouy, it's a little itty bitty harbor, and so this uh four deck deal with it carries five hundred passengers, a hundred and fifty cars had to turn back to the cheers of several protesters beating their drums and shouting Hawaiian chants.
What's wrong with a boat in Hawaii?
I'm I uh well the the the issue is that the state should have required an environmental report from them.
And so they're gonna go to court and try and get them to knock off this ferry boat stuff.
By the way, um, hey H.R. Did you guys do the thing up in Seattle where they've got the Washington State Ferry system with the the two guys that are the the Arab looking males that are photographed going around and around on all the ferry boats?
Oh, this is quite a story.
They're going around on these ferry boats up the Washington State ferry system.
Being from Seattle, I know it very well.
Seattle is right up against Puget Sound.
Out in Puget Sound, you've got all these islands.
There are I don't know, sixteen million people a year that ride these things back and forth to work.
It's not like the Staten Island ferry.
I mean, this thing is it is the only tr well, there's ways around, but it would take you uh a day to drive around uh the long way.
So I mean these things are really critical to moving people to and from Seattle and out to the islands where the people live and uh back and forth.
Well, these ferries, like the superferry in Hawaii.
What do you do with a ferry boat that carries cars?
You uh you got people that walk on, and you got cars that drive onto the main deck of the ferry boat, but they've got two or three decks above that, with hundreds, if not well, and thousands of people when you put all the ferry boats together at the same time.
Very picturesque.
If you're ever in Seattle, you see these ferry boats plying the Puget Sound waterways going back and forth to the docks around the Seattle area.
Well, they've got these um people get on these boats and they fly and they that's a it's a nice little uh trip around Puget Sound.
But they've got these two guys that have been making everybody nervous up there.
So one of the guys who worked for the Washington State ferry system snapped a photo of them.
Sure enough, they're Arab looking guys.
So what they've been doing is they've been taking numerous ferry boat rides on different routes, going back and forth and back and forth.
In other words, abnormal behavior, and the coup de gras is they've got a camera with them, and they're going into areas where the public's not supposed to go and snapping photos of what's inside this ferry boat and how the ferry boats work.
They've got dozens of these things.
These guys have been doing all this odd behavior.
And and in the past, people have said, is it's like the imams of a Minneapolis.
People have said, hey, I got a problem, there's somebody suspicious here, the police check it out, they find out what the what the people are up to.
No problem.
This one they can't figure out.
The FBI is saying we don't know.
So they went to the Seattle Times and they said uh to the media in Seattle, hey, would you publish these photos?
The guy who one of the the guys who makes these kinds of decisions said, Oh, I don't know.
I don't know if we can publish these photos.
I mean, you don't know.
These could be just re I know we don't know.
We're trying to find these guys and we would like to put a photo in your paper because we don't know what they're up to and their suspicious behavior.
So on one hand, the New York Times is willing to leak anything and everything about how we try to catch the bad guys, and the Seattle Times won't, well, they finally did, but they they they rang their hands on the thing about whether or not they should publish these photos.
And granted, these may be two guys that are taking architectural classes down at the local maritime academy.
I don't know.
But the behavior is odd, and think about what could happen.
I'm not giving away anything.
They've already done assessments on ferries around the country and said you drive something underneath the on the bottom deck, you get out, everybody goes upstairs, the ferry boat takes 45 minutes to get to where it's going.
Everybody's sitting upstairs, you have something underneath that deck, kaboom.
You've got a couple things going.
First of all, you got the explosion.
Secondly, you're out in the middle of very cold water.
You can't last long in Puget Sound.
It just is not, it's very, very cold water.
So there's reason to be concerned about this, but they can't stop it.
And it may come to the point, who knows, where we're people taking the ferry, and they run a very efficient system.
It's get on, boat pulls out, get off, boat reloads, pulls back.
I mean, they're very quick.
They have to.
But they may get to the point where it's like going to the airport where nobody can drive a car onto a ferry boat without having to go through a big big inspection process.
So anyway, it's uh uh the the typical group is yelling, uh you're profiling.
And I love this one response.
I think it was an FBI guy said, he says, um, he says, uh yeah, yes, that's right.
We are.
We're profiling behavior.
He says, you're if we're racially profiling, no.
But are we profiling behavior?
You bet we are.
So I was going to say hundreds of photos in the paper that are racially from.
No, it it's it makes all the sense in the world that this is a security threat in the times we live in today, and I cannot believe that the Seattle Times has hesitated in in complying with law enforcement's request to put these photos out.
I I haven't heard, maybe somebody in Seattle knows the follow-up to this, but I haven't heard uh if anybody has dialed in and said, uh, yeah, we know who these guys are, and there's it goes back to uh what's her name, Annie Jacobson in the odd behavior on that Northwest flight from Detroit to Los Angeles.
And uh on and on and on of odd behavior and the the National Intelligence Estimate which came out uh what was that, a month or so ago that was talking about the fact that they they truly know that the that Al-Qaeda terrorism groups, whatever name you want to associate with them, are making penetration trials to see what they can do.
And so this, I mean, I don't know.
I I just you look at something like this, and you how did I get off on the ferry boat?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
Speaking of.
We talked briefly about um over in Iraq, Al Qa uh not al Qaeda, but Al Maliki, the prime minister of Iraq, and the fact that he's calling them by name now, both Hillary and uh Carl Levin, saying that uh they need to come to their senses about the fact that they are uh uh calling for his uh for his resignation.
San Francisco Chronicle, you cannot find a community in this country that is more to the left than than the San Francisco Bay Area.
So the San Francisco Chronicle runs a little thing on their website, little uh question.
Should Iraqi leader Al Maliki step down?
Three uh the first question, yes, Senator Clinton and Senator Feinstein think he should.
Three percent agreed with that.
That's all, three percent.
Seventy-seven percent of the people that responded to the Chronicle San Francisco Chronicle poll said no, it's not up to the U.S. politicians to say whether he stays.
So see, there's faith, folks.
Even the left, the right, there's faith here.
We Americans get it.
We know it.
And another example of where Feinstein, Levin, Hillary are out of touch with the rest of us.
Just totally out of touch.
And Hillary.
I mean, I don't know where to start with this New York Sun reporting today.
Mrs. Clinton last week backpedaled on her tepid endorsement of the military surge in Baghdad after being challenged by John Edwards campaign.
She pointed out that any military successes had failed to spur the government of Al Maliki to reach a political compact with leaders of other factions.
Hillary, this morning, Al Maliki did, in fact, reach an agreement in principle with the Sunni vice president and the Kurdish block.
Details are sketchy, but they're releasing the fact that he has breached.
Now it still has to be passed by their parliament, so uh it's it's a mess over there too.
But I I'll tell you, terrorism, folks, it is uh I'm in the camp that believes it is uh they're gonna try it again.
It's it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when I I'm not uh we we need to live our lives, but I'm telling you, when you get people that are suspicious that are sitting on a ferry boat like that acting very odd, I think it's uh it's great that people are raising the flag and saying, hey, let's watch out.
Uh speaking of Congress.
When we come back, we have got uh John Boehner wrote a piece today about the uh unfulfilled promise.
The Democrats promised that the earmarks would go away, and I mean they did promise it.
Ram Emanuel wrote an article over the week, uh no, it was in Friday's New York Times about the fact we never promised that.
Oh no, we didn't promise that we were getting rid of earmarks.
Oh yes, you did, and John Boehner has got you nailed on that one.
And we've got a real uh moment coming up, the blue dog Democrats.
The, you know, the so the self-described fiscal conservatives from the Democratic Party are coming up, we're coming up on the new budget for the fiscal year, and uh well, we'll see, because so far they haven't been very fiscally conservative, so we'll go to that.
And speaking of uh fiscal, uh again we'll get into John Edwards and the poor because they're going to be uh talking about the poor, the Census Bureau coming out with their annual report on poverty.
We'll talk about just exactly what is poverty in America when we come back.
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My name is Tom Sullivan.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Radio program.
Welcome back.
Tom Sullivan setting in for Rush Today.
He'll be back next Monday.
But uh in the meantime, the um the program goes on.
Well, I was just reading about the super ferry over in Hawaii, and it was uh it's a giant catamaran.
It runs twice daily.
And the reason for the lawsuit, the reason for the lawsuit was because of the fact that environmentalists said that this ferry boat will run over whales, spread invasive species.
What's that mean?
Spread invasive species, and pollute island waters.
It's a giant catamaran, and the uh they've always they've tried this in the past because the islands of Hawaii, uh, they've tried to get boats going back and forth, but they've got choppy water, they've got strong winds, and so uh it hasn't worked in the past with smaller ships, so they got this big old catamaran to do it.
And the people that jumped on this thing for the maiden voyage uh were browsing the gift shop, it's reported USA Today has it browsing the gift shop, playing cards, ordering breakfast, watching the uh NFL Sunday football games live yesterday on high deaf TV as they sailed around uh the Aloha Tower in Honolulu.
So one of the pastors said it's spectacular, it's so nice to be able to walk around instead of suddenly having to be buckled up.
One guy said he was afraid of flying, so this is fabulous.
The guy who um runs this, the chief executive, John Garibaldi said one reason for the service was to avoid a repeat of the effect of the nation's grounded airlines system after September eleventh.
He said uh Hawaiians were stranded for several days.
The only way before yesterday, the only way to travel among the Hawaiian Islands was to get on the local airlines and take a flight.
But the protesters uh were out there on their surfboards and blocked the the ship from going into uh Lahouy, apparently, and they had to they finally got him in there, but they had to get the Coast Guard out there to clear all the protesters and so forth.
So this is still big court battle over this whole thing.
Ties in, I've got an environmental stack coming up as well where Shell Oil has had to go through enormous amount of money.
Enormous amount of money in order to try to come up with a um uh uh a way to try to drill up by Alaska and they're and they're getting shut down every every time they turn around.
All right, let's go on.
We've got other things uh to get in here about.
We've got the uh the the sp the spending in Congress, and we've got these blue dog Democrats.
Wall Street Journal says uh this big showdown on whether they're really fiscal conservatives the blue dogs.
There's forty-eight of them that are Democrats that say they're fiscal conservatives.
The showdown will be the twenty-two billion dollars.
Now listen to this.
Twenty-two billion dollars in spending that is above what the president requested in his own budget.
So the president says we need X many dollars for spending.
They said, Yeah, and let's throw in an extra twenty-two billion dollars.
You know what a lot of that extra twenty-two billion dollars is, the extra twenty-two billion is um and John Boehner wrote a nice piece about it today.
We'll get to that in just a second.
But this whole business about uh spending, this will increase the de the Democrat spending plan will increase non defense spending by six and a half percent next year.
Inflation, folks, is running about three percent.
So this is more than double the inflation rate Democrats want to increase spending.
And the Blue Dogs say that their mission is to refocus Congress on balancing the budget, ridding taxpayers of the burden of debt.
Uh so what the journal is suggesting is, well, if you want that, then why don't you do the following?
And we've talked about this many, many times.
Why don't you go out and fund all the programs at last year's levels plus one or two percent?
A continuing resolution, that's what they do.
They just say, how about spending what you spent last year?
How's that?
If you guys and gals disagree on what you're gonna spend of our money, why don't you just go have a continuing resolution?
And that with the current tax revenue line coming in and that spending being held at last year plus one or two percent would cut the deficit in half next year to well under one hundred billion dollars.
But we can't do that without obviously the Democrats, the Blue Dogs especially coming in and participating.
Well, here's the problem.
The blue dogs uh journal goes out and they do a little tracking and they say, How have you guys been doing?
There's 48 of you, and uh, you know all the various spending bills that have come before your various committees?
Let's see how you voted on all of this.
And the answer is is that they haven't voted very well.
Thirty of the vo of the forty-eight so-called blue dog fiscal conservatives have voted for each and every single spending bill that their committee has sent to them.
And a lot of this is Nancy Pelosi trying to run with an iron fist her side of the of the House, and she's enforcing it.
And as a result, you got 30 voting for every spending bill of the 48.
Twenty-eight of the forty-eight said no to Republican proposals to cut the cost of those bills.
So even though they voted for them, Republicans came along and said, Hey, why don't we cut back on these things?
Nope.
But on twenty eight of the forty-eight.
So they they they call themselves, for those of you that that um these uh thirteen freshmen that are part of the Blue Dogs, uh Heath Schuler from North Carolina, Baron Hill from India, Indiana.
Zach Space from Ohio.
Nick Lambson from Texas are picked out by the journal today as a particularly um well disappointment.
They say they're independent, but they're not independent, and they are all for, by the way, letting those taxes, tax laws expire, which is another way of saying that your taxes are going to go up, but they will say, Oh, I didn't raise taxes, the law just expired.
That's coming from the again, a heavy bunch of the so-called blue dog fiscal conservatives.
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Rush will be back next week.
He's on vacation this week in Hawaii, where the uh evil ferry boat is I I again.
I last time I checked, Hawaii, uh, you have boats, you have catamarans going around the islands.
You gotta you in fact you got uh you've got cruise ships.
This catamaran doesn't uh I wonder why why I think why that's what we should I'm I've decided I'm with them.
I think we should ban all boats in Hawaii.
Well, while we're at it, why don't we ban all boats everywhere?
And that way.
Well, that's how stupid it sounds.
Gerard in uh Port Angeles, Washington, which is right there.
Hi, Gerard, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, uh I never thought I'd be on the Rush Limbaugh program.
But anyway, even though I'm a liberal hippie, I support what you said about the ferries.
Well, it's definitely we need the ferry.
I've been to Lahouy, you know, they need ferries over there.
And the suspicious guys up here, definitely, you know, no matter what they look like, if they're behaving suspicious, you know, you you you you you uh investigate that.
So what's the latest?
Have they found them?
I don't know.
I haven't heard I haven't heard anybody saying that they these guys have showed up because in the past they've you know they've had people say, Yeah, I don't I'm not sure about that guy's behavior.
They checked him out and it's been okay, but these guys they can't get a read on and uh yeah, for people in other parts of the country, I don't think they realize there's ferry boat service here and there and little ones.
Those are big ships up there, and they're really important to the economy of the Northwest.
They are.
And there's some question about whether the ferry is going to be allowed to keep going from Port Angeles to Victoria.
I don't know if you've heard about that.
Uh what's what's that problem there?
I don't know.
They're redoing the harbor or something in Victoria and said something about they may not be able to accommodate the coho, and of course they're challenging it, but I think there may be more to it than just uh I don't know, uh space or something like that.
Yeah, and I'd like to remind the audience, Gerard, that it was your hometown, Port Angeles, where the guy who was on his way to blow up Los Angeles International was caught by one of the customs officials right there in Port Angeles.
Next time I'm down by the ferry, I'm gonna be looking for a couple of guys with turbines with cameras.
Yeah, well, they don't have turbines, but they've got cameras and they're going around taking photos.
I mean, when you take the ferry, it's a it's a point A to point B thing.
You don't keep going back and forth.
So especially if they've done it many times to many ferries.
I don't think it's just a gag, you know.
I I'd like to think it's a wise guy gag, but as you say, you know, get on that right away, and definitely they need ferries uh over in Hawaii.
So uh like I said, I'm very surprised.
I I I agree with you guys.
Uh well I guess open mind these days.
You know, what was that old saying from Winston Churchill that uh if you're what is it, under 20 or under 30 and you're not a liberal, you don't have a heart, but when you're over forty uh and you're not a conservative, then you don't have any brain.
So I'm glad you you came by to visit us today, Gerard.
And uh don't cut your hair either.
I'm glad you're a hiffy from Port Angeles.
Nice guy.
He agreed.
Secure see that's the thing.
Security is not a Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal issue.
It's it's It's an American issue, yes, unless you're running for office, and then it becomes, of course, they've got to do it uh only the well they run they r first of all, if you're running for office and you're a member of Congress, you run not only Congress, but also the executive branch, and you run the government of Iraq.
Oh in that order.
Bruce in uh Sioux Fall, South Dakota.
Hi, Bruce, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hey, Megadiddle, Tom, and happy vacation to Rush.
At the top of the hour, I heard Senator Schumer talking about Attorney General Gonzalez and his resignation.
Yes, sir.
His basic thing he said was that it wasn't much getting done in the attorney general's office, and it was time to go or something to that effect.
Yeah, he's not running the he's not running the department uh right.
Well, possibly if we didn't have so many unwarranted investigations and just incessantly on and on, there'd be a better relationship between everybody and maybe Congress would get something done.
I called Senator Schumer's office and I asked him if they could name me one or two things that have gotten done.
Anything major.
Yeah.
And they said that the CHIPS program had been reauthorized.
And that's good that we take care of the children in America that need to be a good idea.
Yeah, yep, yep, yeah.
But we have some other important issues that maybe should get attended to by Congress, don't you think?
Yeah, I don't I don't mean to ask you, I won't ask you your income on the on the air, but um, you know, if you make eighty-two thousand dollars, you can get your children's health care paid for by the government on the ships program.
Uh well in South Dakota, where we're from here, that that's not a terrible income, and most of us still pay for our own children's.
That's what I thought.
Yeah, but but your help uh you know I. So that's the program they're proud of is the I mean, see it I mean, how can anybody be against children's health care?
Nobody.
Well, no, but when you are twenty-five years old, your parents make eighty-two thousand dollars, and you get the you get me, you're the taxpayer, to pay for your child's health care, there's something wrong with the system.
It's it's again, it's this it's this uh cradle-to-grave government is going to manage your life for you program.
Uh everybody's for children's health.
You know, and and again, I'm getting off track here again, but but um the whole issue about health care.
One of the things you've got to pay attention to when this comes up, whether it's Hillary or anybody else bringing the subject up.
We if you are poor, you are really poor, you are destitute, or you are the working poor because you make a really lousy wage, or you are moderate income.
It doesn't matter where you are on that chain, you can go in to any hospital and you can get health care, and it will be the finest health care that you can get in the world.
And that's the truth.
There the question isn't about health care, it's about health care insurance.
It's inefficient, it's expensive to have people go to emergency rooms to go get their health care, but it is it is something that is nobody is going without health care that wants to get health care in this country.
It is if you are a doctor or you are a hospital and you turn somebody away from getting care, they can under Cobra hit you personally, doctor, with a fifty thousand dollar fine.
That's how tough it is, and that's why the doctors and hospitals have to bring have to treat anybody and everybody that comes to them.
So it's not an issue of whether you there's good health care, it's a question, is there health care insurance?
Don't forget that third word when it comes to that particular number.
Now, speaking of Congress and the Blue Dogs, again, not voting against any uh well, 30 of the 48, not voting against a single spending bill.
In addition, National Taxpayers Union went out and uh checked on these guys as well.
And they found out that last year this group of forty-eight collectively sponsored one hundred forty-five dollars of new spending for every dollar of budget reductions.
Yeah.
So they were more than willing to vote for more spending, and they uh voted a little bit for itty-bitty reductions in what the government is spending I would love to see this continuing resolution that the Wall Street Journal talks about today.
You keep the budget at one to two percent above last year.
You keep the taxes coming in about the same as last year, which I'm not sure with the slowing economy whether that's you can count on that, which uh is a problem.
But if that's true, if they get the same tax revenues and they keep the budget where it was last year the same tax revenue line, so it's been increasing.
That's why this number works, it would cut the deficit in half.
So well the other thing about the Blue Dogs, by the way, is uh when you are listening to one of them talk in your local congressional district, they as a group opposed the tax cuts that the president put in to effect through the Congress in the early part of this decade on uh at least two occasions.
They oppose that.
So they want that they will expire most of it will expire in two thousand ten.
When it expires, what happens?
I mean this is one of those things again where they think we're stupid.
If the tax cuts expire what do taxes do next go up or go down that's right very good they go up so isn't that a tax increase I mean I'm talking about I'm talking like I'm talking to a group of kindergarteners.
That's what they think we are that we don't get the fact that if they are opposed to those tax cuts and they're going to let them expire in two thousand ten, folks that is two years and a couple months away.
And I'm going to tell you something the folks on Wall Street are keeping one eye on that to see what Congress will do if they're really going to let them expire.
And if you think we've had troubles on Wall Street of late, just hold on until you see what happens if Congress lets these tax laws expire and the tax rates go back up because every economist worth his or her salt points to those tax cuts as driving this economy that has been so blessed upon this nation over the last five years.
Phone number is 800-282-2882.
I'm Tom Sullivan.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Radio Program.
Welcome back.
Tom Sullivan in for Rush.
He'll be back.
He's off this week having fun in Hawaii, swinging the sticks.
He'll be back next week.
So in the meantime, we are guarding the fort here at Fort EIB.
And speaking of guarding, Matt in Chehalis, Washington, more about these ferries in Puget Sound that are being, what, cased by some unknown guys?
Matt, is that right?
Yeah.
Hello, Matt.
so they're you reading me yes okay uh yeah just uh John State of the Area and I I travel that way on occasion and just uh the Seattle to Bremerton run which is one of the the main ones comes within sitting distance of the Bremerton naval shipyard.
Oh yeah I've I've taken that ferry and comes right in right next to it.
Exactly.
Right next to it.
Yeah, hey, you know what else is in Puget Sound, which is just up the road a little bit, is one of the nuke sub-bases, that major security area.
Yeah, Banger, Washington is the name of the town.
And major, you can't even, I'm a pilot, you can't fly over the top of that thing.
It's one of those areas that they say because of national security.
And yet you've got these guys floating around out there in ferry boats, and you've got the Bremerton Naval Shipyard, which is huge, you've got the the banger uh nuke submarine base right there it's all tied together.
Yeah going through this weekend we're able to see well two different aircraft carriers two destroyers and a couple of other support boats for Parker right there.
So uh you were on the you were on you were on the ferry boat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did you look around to see your fellow passengers?
Yeah actually it even on the weekends there are tremendous number of people on there.
But yeah people seem to be a little more alert what you're doing.
I hope they stay alert for uh for a while.
I hope they stay alert for a while but yeah hey Matt thanks I uh yeah if you just sound for those who don't know it is uh is uh big Navy area in some very secure areas up there as well.
Sean in uh Woodbury, Connecticut.
Hi, Sean, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Tom, it's a pleasure to talk to you.
Likewise, sir.
Um, I'm sitting here enjoying the liberal hypocrite again.
Uh back when we started this war in Iraq, they went on and on and on about how Iraq was a sovereign nation and we had no right being there.
Right.
Yet here are those same liberals today going on and on and on saying, well, we need to tell them who can and can't run their own country.
Yes.
And the Justice Department.
And anything else.
And and you, they need to tell you how to run your life.
I mean, it you're right.
It's it is a hypocrisy because they they said, Who are we?
How dare we go in there?
Why we should have left good old Saddam in there, what were we doing?
But now they want to they want to control it over there.
I thought, look at I I have from day one said the democracy of Iraq is not going to look like Toledo, Ohio.
It just is not going to look like that.
It's going to be something different.
I don't know what it's going to look like, but it's going to be something different, and they selected him.
Remember the purple finger.
Remember all the hubbub about that.
It was a good thing.
And by the way, there is a movement underway in Iraq to uh to try and get another election fairly soon.
And uh what was uh what was the guy oh yeah, Ayad Alawi.
Remember Alawi?
Alawi was the guy who was appointed by the UN to head up the provisional government until they could get things together enough to have an election.
Well, Alawi, uh Washington Post has a big headline on it today about uh and CNN talking about it going, well, he uh Alawi has hired a U.S. lobbyist firm to go in and to help him get a new election and therefore get elected.
Because he wasn't elected, he was a he was a UN appointed guy, and he is a Shiite, but he's uh gets along, he says, and others uh the reporting about him that he gets along with the Sunnis and he's got relationships with the Kurds, and so he has spent three hundred thousand dollars in order to lobby in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq for a uh a new government to have a a new um a new election.
The only thing that they can point out out of all of this isn't the fact that the process of them selecting the leader and having the chance to have more elections and go through the process where the people of the country get to speak about who is going to be their leader instead of reporting about how wonderful that is, isn't it great?
After 30, 40 years of dictatorship, the people are actually the ones to get to make the call on who's going to run the country.
Maybe they'll stick with Al Maliki, maybe they won't, maybe they'll go with this new guy alawe, maybe somebody else.
It's not for us to say.
The president said day one that we are not going to do nation building.
This is for them to do.
We want to get them to the point where they have free elections, and they have.
The only thing The Washington Post and CNN are jumping on is the fact that they hired a lobbyist firm that is Barber, Griffith, and Rogers, Yeah, Haley Barber's old firm, and uh they paid $300,000 to this firm, so there must be something funny about all of that.
Does seem kind of odd to have a U.S. firm, but I mean who knows better how to run an election than the country where we've had elections for a couple hundred years.
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Okay, so if the blue dog Democrats aren't all that uh blue and not all that uh fiscal conservative self-described uh baloney that they call it keep saying if they're spending like any other good democrat.
Then you go over to uh National Review today, and John Boehner has a great piece about the fact that uh Rahm Emanuel wrote this, so he was all whining and crying in the New York Times on Friday about the fact that, hey, hey, what do you mean the uh earmarks are are are less transparent under us?
He said, We never promised to get rid of earmarks.
Well, Boehner Points out that uh Nancy Pelosi told the Wall Street Journal in a major interview just before the 2006 election, if she were to become speaker, she said, personally, myself, I would get rid of all of them.
None of them is worth the skepticism, the cynicism the public has, and the fiscal irresponsibility of it all.
Those I'm quoting Nancy Pelosi just before the elections, and now they're saying, Well, that's not true.
You see, we really didn't mean that.
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