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June 18, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 18, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, this is perfect.
Now, now we're getting somewhere.
Now we've got it set up.
Now we have a huge issue, huge issue with which we can contrast ourselves to the leftists and the Democrats who oppose progress, who oppose liberty, and who oppose prosperity in the United States.
The president went out there today in the Rose Garden, said, we're going to start drilling.
He encouraged Congress to go along with the Liberals are going to do it.
But that's not now.
That's the point.
Obama's opposed to it.
But the fact of the matter is the issue is on the table now and the tipping point, $4 a gallon gasoline.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome, Rush Limbaugh, another summer spectacular headed your way here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Nice to have you here.
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Before I forget, a programming note.
I will not be here Thursday and or Friday.
Rather than take extended vacations in this heated political season, I'm taking a day here and a day there.
They'll take a couple days off tomorrow.
HR, who are the guest hosts?
We have Mark Davis tomorrow from Dallas and Jason Lewis from Minneapolis on Friday, guest hosting the program.
I, of course, ladies and gentlemen, will be back on Monday.
Now, we'll get to the oil thing in detail, complete with audio soundbites and the president and these idiot Democrats replying to it.
But first, fascinating story just cleared the wires at Politico.com.
Two Muslim women at Barack Obama's rally in Detroit Monday night where Al Gore came out with that silly endorsement speech.
Two Muslim women at Obama's rally in Detroit were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women's headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with Obama.
The campaign has apologized to the two women, all Obama's supporters, both of them, who said that they felt betrayed by their treatment at the rally.
Bill Burton, Obama spokesman, said, quote, this, this is, of course, not the policy of the campaign.
Oh, of course not, Bill.
No, it can't possibly be the policy of the campaign.
You just have some renegade volunteers running around telling women wearing burqas, uh-uh, not on this shot.
You're not going to be sitting behind us, babe.
Rather, just a couple of freelancers running around doing this, eh, Bill?
No, of course not.
It's not the policy of the campaign.
Burton then continued by saying it's offensive and counter to Obama's commitment to bring Americans together.
And simply not the kind of campaign we run.
This is like somebody who gets caught committing some sort of crime or a DUI or something, a celebrity.
This is not the so-and-so.
This is not the me that I know.
This is not the me that I know.
I don't think McCain would have done this.
He did.
It's very, very accurate of you, Dawn.
The Obama campaign, all campaigns do this.
The Obama campaign wanted to, during the heat of the primaries, made sure that there were lots and lots and lots and mostly white people sitting behind him in the TV camera shot.
And that's been established.
I just love this.
This is, of course, not the policy of the campaign.
No, we're not running this show.
We just showed up to get the gore endorsement.
And lo and behold, here are these people running around Putting together and decorating our crowd.
No, no, no, it has nothing to do with us.
Building a human backdrop to a political candidate set of faces to appear on TV is always a delicate exercise in demographics and political correctness.
Advance staffers typically pick supporters out of a crowd to reflect the candidate's message.
Now, when Obama won North Carolina, amid questions about his inability to connect with white voters, he stood in front of a group of middle-aged white women waving small American flags.
Across the state, a Hispanic New Hampshire Democrat, Roberto Fuentes, told Politico that he was recently asked and declined to contribute to the diversity of the crowd behind McCain at a New Hampshire event.
But for Obama, the old-fashioned image-making contrasts with his promise to transcend identity politics and to embrace all elements of America.
The incidents in Michigan, which has one of the largest Arab and Muslim populations in the country, also raise an aspect of his campaign that sometimes rubs Muslims the wrong way.
The candidate has vigorously denied a false and vital rumor that he himself is a Muslim.
By the denials and but the denials, they seem to some at times to imply that there was nothing wrong with being a Muslim.
Though Obama occasionally adds that he means no respect to Islam.
Of course not.
Of course not.
Yeah, don't, I'm not a Muslim.
Don't you dare accuse me of being that not that there's anything wrong with being a Muslim.
I mean, I respect Islam.
And of course, this is the kind of stuff that drives by and says, isn't he wonderful the way he handles this?
He really is unique.
He's the Messiah.
One of the women that was denied the opportunity to sit behind Obama wearing the burqa, Heba Aref, 25-year-old lawyer who lives in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield, Hillsistan, said, I was coming to support him.
And I felt like I was discriminated against by the very person who was supposed to be bringing this change, who I could really relate to.
The message that I thought was delivered to us was they don't want him associated with Muslims or Muslim supporters.
In Detroit Monday, the two different Obama volunteers in separate incidents, of course, the campaign, nothing to do with this, not the policy of the campaign.
There were two instances here, made it clear that headscarves would not be in the picture.
The volunteers gave different explanations for excluding the burqas or hijabs, one bluntly political and the other less clear.
In the case of Hebba Aref, the 25-year-old lawyer from Bloomfield, Hillsistan, there was no ambiguity.
That incident began when the volunteer asked Aref's friend, Ali Khuzan, and two other friends, Aref's brother Sharif and another young lawyer, Brandon Edward Miller, whether they would like to sit behind a stage.
The three young men said they would, but mentioned they were with friends.
The men said the volunteer, a 20-something African-American woman in a green shirt, asked if their friends looked and were dressed like the young men who were all light-skinned and wearing suits.
Miller said, yeah, but he said that one of their friends was wearing a headscarf with her suit.
The volunteer, quote, explained to me that because of the political climate and what's going on in the world and what's going on with Muslim Americans, it's not good for her to be seen on TV or associated with Obama, said Kuzan, quoting the volunteer.
Kuzan's a law student at Wayne State University.
Both Kuzan and Miller said they specifically recall the volunteer citing the political climate in telling them they couldn't sit behind Obama.
Kuzan said it was like, you got to be kidding me.
They serious.
Shima Abdel Fadil's story was different.
She'd waited online outside the Joe Lewis arena for three hours in the sun.
She was walking through the giant hall when a volunteer approached two of her non-Muslim friends a few steps ahead of her and asked if they'd like to sit in special seating behind the stage.
When they said they were with Abdel Fadil, the volunteer told them their friend would have to take the headscarf off or stay out of the special section.
They declined the seats.
Abdel Fadil, after recovering from the shock of the incident, went to look for the volunteer and confronted her minutes later.
We're not letting anyone with anything on their heads like baseballs or scarves sit behind the stage.
She paraphrased the volunteer as saying, it has nothing to do with your religion.
The campaign, of course, this is not the policy of our campaign.
Photographs of the event also show men with hats in the sections behind Obama and Gore, though not directly behind the candidate.
They were letting people wear hats.
They were letting guys sit back there, but no Muslim women with the headscarves.
And of course, this is the man of enlightenment, the Messiah, the man of change, the man of unity.
The man who's going to bring us an America that's enlightened and unlike any that we have ever witnessed nor seen before.
Brief time out here, folks.
We'll come back and get started with all the rest of today's exciting excursion into broadcast excellence right after this.
Rush Limbaugh, often imitated, frequently envied, but never equaled behind the golden EIB microphone.
Now, I want to set something up here before we go.
Well, I want to set the discussion on oil drilling and gas drilling up.
I want to go back to something yesterday that I did not have a chance to get to in the stack of stuff.
There was a piece in the New York Times, and the New York Times piece attempted to establish the fact, the notion, that there's no difference in John McCain and George W. Bush.
Now, on the face of it, this is frankly absurd.
The New York Times has endorsed John McCain.
Do you think the New York Times would ever have endorsed George W. Bush?
No.
Over the years, McCain has achieved and acquired his maverick status quite legitimately.
He has crossed the aisle, sat down across the aisle.
He has been appropriately critical of his own party and his own president on a number of issues.
He has stood with the Democrats in many instances of expanded government, government power, campaign finance reform, immigration, and so forth.
And yet, here comes now the story of the New York Times yesterday.
It's not just the New York Times, it's a bunch of places.
And it's in the Obama campaign.
Hey, you know, there's no difference in McCain and Bush.
Now, what is really going on here?
We are seeing the media narrative joined at the hip with the Obama campaign.
That's exactly what this is, because it's the Obama campaign that got this whole thing started, that there's no difference between Bush and McCain.
The Democrats are desperate to run against George W. Bush.
They think that the country hates George W. Bush.
A lot of Republicans think that too.
And they are making a big mistake if they think that the country hates George W. Bush.
So to keep Bush on the ballot, to make Democrats think that they're voting against Bush, they run these stories about the similarities of McCain and Bush.
But the country, and this is what people have to keep in mind, the country does not hate George Bush.
He is unpopular, but he is not unlikable.
He's not disliked.
He's not hated.
I mean, he's hated on the French left, but I'm talking about the mass population.
George W. Bush is a decent man.
He's not partisan.
He doesn't say mean things about anybody.
He's devoted his presidency to protecting the people of this country from another massive terrorist attack, and he has succeeded at this.
I'll tell you why his approval numbers are low.
His numbers are low, in my estimation, because a lot of his own party and the people that voted for him are not supportive because he will not defend himself and has not defended himself against any of these libelous, scandalous, scurrilous, brutal assaults and personal attacks that he has undergone for the past seven years.
And when the leader who is under assault does not defend himself or his policies or his administration, then the people that voted for him, well, my gosh, he's not even defending me.
I voted for him, not defending the country.
And so that's, I think that's a big secret in terms of why his approval numbers are low.
It's not that the country hates the guy.
The country doesn't want to lose in Iraq.
The country doesn't agree with the Democrats about that.
The country doesn't want to pull out of there and defeat, the majority anyway.
So the Democrats think everybody hates Bush.
Therefore, they want to keep Bush on the ballot.
The way to keep Bush on the ballot is to say McCain's just like Bush.
The New York Times runs around and endorses McCain and now says he just likes Bush.
I mean, there's no credibility.
There's no consistency.
There's absolutely no factual basis for any of this.
Now, the second point about this is this.
If either of these two campaigns is a fraud, it is Obama's.
Obama is who?
Obama is the Messiah.
He's promising change.
He's promising hope.
He is assuring voters he will bring enlightenment and solutions unlike any seen before in American politics.
The real story, however, is not how McCain is like Bush.
The real story is how identical the Obama campaign is to every Democrat presidential campaign since McGovern.
He will serve Jimmy Carter's second term.
There's nothing new here.
There is no change.
His support staff, his Council of Economic Advisors, his National Security Advisors, all the, and I'm surprised he needs any because Obama, by the force of his will and personality, can fix all these foreign policy problems.
It can fix the healthcare problem.
Why does he need advisors?
Well, nevertheless, he has advisors, and guess where they're all from?
They're all from the Clinton era or previous Democrat administrations.
If I were the McCain campaign, I would not even reply to this drivel that I equal Bush.
McCain's doing that.
He's going out making speeches.
I am not George Bush.
You got it?
One more time.
I am not George Bush, my friend.
Never, ever.
I distance myself from George Bush.
I attack Bush.
I can't say it.
Wrong thing to do.
Don't even respond to it.
Take aim at the fact that there is nothing new about Obama or his campaign.
Up, up, up, up.
Take it back.
There is something new about Obama, and that is he's the first black American to have a legitimate chance to win the presidency.
But that's it.
There's nothing else new.
There's no new hope.
There's no new change.
The hope that we have is that we don't get this guy and his policies and return to the Carter second term.
He is bringing a lot of hope, but not the kind he means.
He's not going to bring any change other than if you want to say, yeah, he'll change us from a market-based economy to a government-based economy.
We have seen what Obama is offering every Democrat campaign since McGovern, and he's locked into it, and it has become gloriously obvious.
Last night and today, we finally have an issue, an issue that represents a goal for the United States of America: energy independence, drilling for our own oil and our own natural gas.
Finally, the President of the United States is willing to lead the charge on this.
I know you can say, Yeah, where has he been the last seven years?
He actually has proposed drilling and war.
He hasn't gone all the way, but he finally has now.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth and say, Yeah, where's this been?
We finally have, ladies and gentlemen, an issue that can rally a simple issue.
Easy to understand.
This is easy to understand as the House bank scandal was easy to understand.
We don't have to explain the falling dollar and why it's happening and how to get the dollar back up.
We have to explain it.
All we have to do is say $4 gasoline, $4.10 gasoline, $135 per barrel of oil.
Supply and demand, everybody knows that we are not bringing up as much as we have.
And if we brought more of our own up, the very people that are demanding energy independence are standing in the way of it.
Easy to understand.
Case has been made.
This is the time.
Just like it was during the illegal immigration debate.
This is the time for elected officials in Washington to hear from you about what you think.
They already have the Gallup poll.
67% of the American people want to start drilling.
Last night, the brilliant Barack Obama said there is no way offshore drilling will lower prices right now.
The Democrat Party is digging in and they are going to oppose this.
They're going to oppose energy independence.
They're going to oppose advancing technology.
They're going to oppose the economic growth of the country.
They're going to oppose your prosperity.
They're going to oppose all of that by standing in the way of this.
Now, let's take this statement made by Obama.
No way offshore drilling will lower prices right now.
Wow, praise this guy.
What brilliance.
The Messiah has spoken, delivered with the authority of a great leader.
There's no way offshore drilling will lower prices right now.
A tingle goes up the leg of the drive-by media.
But wait a second.
Wait a second.
You know what, folks?
There's no way alternative energy will lower prices right now.
There's no way cafe standards on automobile mileage will lower prices right now.
There's no way an excess profit tax on oil companies will lower prices right now.
Does he even know what he's talking about?
Who's putting the words in this puppet's mouth?
Happily so, ladies and gentlemen, making the complex understandable because to me, nothing is complex other than the climate and the wonders of creation.
And women, yeah, that's I guess there is a lot that's complex to me.
Michelle Maybell Obama was on the view today, and Whoopi Goldberg wet herself.
I am not making this up.
Whoopi got so excited she wet herself.
Rush, what can you possibly mean?
Very simple, ladies and gentlemen.
She got so excited, she just spilled her drink cup, you know, all over herself.
Watching replay highlights, I don't, let me let me check the audio soundbite roster.
I'm not sure we have any.
I'm not sure I want any.
Let's see what we're gonna have here.
Good, doesn't look like it.
I'll bet you cookies in the process of breaking some down if she said anything interesting.
In the meantime, let's go to the audio soundbites.
Here's the president from the Rose Garden this morning announcing his change of heart on offshore drilling.
Short run, the American economy will continue to rely largely on oil.
And that means we need to increase supply, especially here at home.
So my administration has repeatedly called on Congress to expand domestic oil production.
Unfortunately, Democrats on Capitol Hill have rejected virtually every proposal.
And now Americans are paying the price at the pump for this obstruction.
Congress must face a hard reality.
Unless members are willing to accept gas prices at today's painful levels or even higher, our nation must produce more oil.
And we must start now.
He nails exactly what the Democrats are going to do.
Congress is willing to accept gas prices at today's painful levels.
They are more than happy to accept gas prices at today's painful levels.
And it's two reasons.
One, pure politics, and I'm not prioritizing these in any order.
Pure politics.
I mean, the angrier the voting population is over the price of gasoline and the related economic fallout, the greater the odds the Democrats think that they can get elected president.
So it goes back to what we've always said: what's bad for America is great for the Democrats.
What's great for America is bad for the Democrats.
So they're going to dig in.
They've already started to dig in to oppose this.
They want you in pain because they want your anger directed at the administration.
Therefore, you'll want change, which is the Democrats.
Here's another soundbite from the president.
First, we should expand American oil production by increasing access to the Outer Continental Shelf, or OCS.
Second, we should expand oil production by tapping into the extraordinary potential of oil shale.
Third, we should expand oil production by permitting exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWAR.
And finally, we need to expand and enhance our refining capacity.
Refineries are the critical link between crude oil and the gasoline and diesel fuel that drivers put in their tanks.
See how easy this is?
There are people like me and you, ladies and gentlemen, who have been desperately wanting this to become not only our movement's policy, but our country's policy for years.
Every time we have heard Democrats whine and moan about energy dependence, every time prices of gasoline have spiked and they do hearings on windfall profits of big oil, there's a solution to this.
Then we hear Obama say, no, drilling for oil, why that's just sticking to the failed policies of the past.
The failed policies of the past.
What?
The discovery and the drilling and the extraction, the refining and the distribution of petroleum products?
They failed policy of the past.
What, pray tell, is his new policy of the future?
Nothing is going to pay off anytime soon.
He sits there and says, well, boy, drilling reduced prices anytime soon, not right now.
Nothing that these people are proposing will either.
You can put all those stupid, compact, fluorescent light bulbs you can find in your house.
It's not going to produce any more energy and it's not going to reduce the price of gasoline.
And you can unplug your cell phone charger and your toaster and computer and whatever else.
You could put solar panels on your lawnmower.
You can put solar panels on your house.
You can put solar panels on the roof of your hybrid.
It isn't going to make gasoline any cheaper.
You can put windmills wherever you don't want them.
It ain't going to make gasoline any cheaper.
There is no substitute for oil.
And it isn't going to be anytime soon.
So this whole notion that we're not going to be able to lower the price anytime soon by drilling, not going to be able to lower prices right now, nothing else that the people are proposing will do so either.
One more from the president, and then Senator McCain will chime in.
I know that Democratic leaders have opposed some of these policies in the past.
Some?
Now that their opposition has helped drive gas prices to record levels, I ask them to reconsider their positions.
Congressional leaders leave for the 4th of July recess without taking action.
They will need to explain why $4 a gallon gasoline is not enough incentive for them to act.
And Americans will rightly ask how high gas prices have to rise before the Democratic-controlled Congress will do something about it.
Whatever the price is on January 20th next year, when Obama is elected president is when they'll start caring about it, or inaugurated, if he is.
The Democrats have already dug in.
They do have a reply to this.
They've got their talking points and they're lying through their teeth about it.
And you may have heard it.
Well, Bill Nelson of Florida, one of my senators, is out there saying that, hey, the federal government's already leased a whole bunch of land to the big oil companies.
They're not even using it.
It's such a smokescreen.
The number of years left on these leases is very few.
And the whole thing's a lie anyway.
And I have the figures to prove it.
We'll get to this as it all unfolds here before your very eyes and ears.
Yesterday in Houston, McCain went down to talk to big oil execs.
He gave a speech on energy and conservation.
Here is the first of two portions.
We have proven oil reserves of at least 21 billion barrels in the United States.
But a broad federal moratorium stands in the way of energy exploration and production.
And I believe it is time for the federal government to lift these restrictions and to put our own reserves to use.
Drill here, drill now, pay less.
Drill here, drill now, pay less.
Folks, this is the issue.
This is, it's not the equivalent of going to the moon, but it is close.
This is a goal, a national goal to become energy independent.
We have the crude.
We have the supply.
We have it.
We just have to go get it.
And you don't get it by sitting around waiting.
You've got to take the first step.
In building anything, it takes time.
So this is something to rally the people behind.
We've got the tipping point here, $4 a gallon gasoline.
And it's going to be great because the Democrats are going to oppose this.
They're going to stand in the way of it.
They're going to be easy to caricature.
They will be easy to explain to people.
This is not a complicated issue at all.
Here's the second McCain bite.
He wants a windfall profits tax on oil.
To go along with the new taxes, he also plans for coal and natural gas.
My friends, if the plan sounds familiar, it's because that was President Jimmy Carter's big idea, too.
And a lot of good it did us.
Yeah, he's right about that.
Jesus is ripping off my Jimmy Carter line.
I don't care.
It's accurate.
It's correct.
And he's telling the truth about Obama.
He wants to raise taxes on all these things.
The more you tax an activity, the less of that activity you get.
It's just that simple.
Proven by years and years and years of human existence.
Here is Obama.
He's aboard his campaign plane.
He's trying to paint McCain here as a flip-flopper while he has on his staff the original flip-flopper, John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
Here's Obama, first of two.
This is yet another reversal by John McCain in terms of his earlier positions.
And I think we could set up an interesting debate between John McCain 2000 and John McCain 2008.
Let me help out here, Senator Obama.
If you say no to offshore drilling or drilling and war when oil is at $20 or $30 a barrel, and then you change your mind and say yes to offshore drilling when oil is $140 a barrel, sir, that's not a flip-flop.
That's just common sense.
It's like John Maynard Keynes.
It was asked the famous economist, sir, how come you've changed your mind?
He said, sir, when the facts change, I change my mind.
The facts have changed here.
Oil is no longer $30 a barrel.
It's $140.
It's now profitable to get the shale oil the president was talking about.
This is not a flip-flop.
What we have here, the no-drill Democrats, and that's a good name for these, the no-drill Democrats, unless a waitress is involved, are on a crash course not to meet our energy needs.
Excuse me.
They are in a full court press to cover their rear ends.
This is almost, not quite, but similar to what's happening in Iraq.
Last year at this time, and the year before that, the Democrats were openly embracing defeat, saying our troops couldn't win.
They had no chance.
We were fighting an unjust war.
We need to pull out.
We need to lose.
And Harry Reid was saying we already have lost.
Now we've done a 180, and all of a sudden, the news out of Iraq is good.
Democrats don't dare admit it.
Same thing's happening here with the price of oil, energy independence.
They continually are on the wrong side of every major issue facing this country and its growth and its future.
So the no-drill Democrats are doing everything they can to cover their rears here, not meet our energy needs.
As the law of supply and demand jacks up prices, as more voters realize they are paying the price for liberal special interests, as the polls swing in favor of more drilling, which they are doing, the last refuge of liberals is always Barbara Streisand, B.S.
They pop on television, they smile, they say drilling will not lower prices now.
Nothing will right now.
There's not one thing we can do to lower prices right now.
And war alone won't make us energy independent for more than six months.
Nobody ever said that it would.
But I'll tell you what, just this announcement, just the announcement of this initiative, I'm going to be curious to see what goes on in the speculation market in the futures market.
I'm going to be interested to see how it affects the overall market.
And I'll guarantee you that if the Democrats ever got wise and went along with this, and we lift the executive order that prohibits offshore drilling, you watch what happens to the price of oil.
Once the world knows that the United States of America is going to go get it.
Because the rest of the world knows we're the ones who did it.
We're the ones who know how.
That with the right leadership, the United States of America is the country on this planet that can do anything it wants for the good of the rest of the people who live on this planet.
They know it, they resent it, and they fear it, as do the Democrats.
Democrats don't like us being this big.
They don't like us being a superpower.
They think it creates victims of the rest of the world.
We need to be cut down to size.
This issue fits perfectly.
So actually, I'd like to amend we could probably have a fairly immediate effect on price just by announcing our intention to start drilling.
Democrats are saying that there are drilling leases out there.
Is it, what, millions of acres?
Well, the leases are too short-term to allow for EPA rules and test drilling.
So then they blame it on big oil or big speculators or big Bush or Big Cheney.
They blame it on everything but themselves.
And they're no drill, no refined, no nuclear plant policies.
And that's exactly who they are.
The no-drill, no refined, no-nuclear plant Democrats.
I got to take a quick time out.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Ha!
Welcome back.
I am Rushlin Bohug, doing what I was born to do.
And so are you.
I was born to host.
You were born to listen.
Barack Obama and the Democrat Party out there suggesting that drilling for oil off the coastline of the United States and NWAR is nothing more than the failed policies of the past.
Can I be honest with you and tell you what the failed policies of the past are?
In 1988, New York Governor Mario Kumo shut down a nuclear plant.
That is a failed policy of the past.
In 1996, the delightful, the wonderful, the roguish Bill Clinton vetoed exploration and drilling in NWAR.
That is a failed policy of the past.
Both of those are failed policies of the past.
Changing from these failed policies of the past would be to unfail the failures, to disfail the failures, building nuclear plants, opening NWAR, and then we could sue Kumo and Clinton for malpractice, political malpractice, for gumming up the works.
Tell you something else.
How many times have you heard, ladies and gentlemen, immigrants made us great?
We've heard that a lot in the last two years, right?
Well, we hear it all our lives, and nobody disputes that when talking about legal immigration.
But let me tell you what made us greater.
You know what really made us greater?
Petroleum.
Oil.
Don't grimace in there, Dawn.
I'm not talking about greater as individuals of character.
Talking about what propelled this country.
It was a number of forces coming together, the establishment of a worldwide navy, which was not possible without petroleum.
Petroleum made us greater.
You don't have to be a Nostrademis.
And I know it's Nostradamus.
I'm saying a Nostrademis to see that reality will get us off the dime and produce the energy we need.
The only question is, sooner or later, will the left help us solve this now or wait until the prices in the polls cause enough voters to throw them out of office?
Which is entirely possible.
But I, ladies and gentlemen, I just don't come here and flap the gums.
I don't just come here and utter meaningless syllables.
I. L. Rushboe, America's real anchorman and truth detector, offer solutions.
And I have a solution to this, to get the Democrats on board.
Have you heard of the Countrywide Six, led by Chris Dodd of the Banking Committee and Kent Conrad, Richard Holbrook, a bunch of Democrats who got sweetheart loans from Countrywide, the mortgage lender?
Sometimes low closing costs, lower interest rates.
And of course, they also, who had no idea.
They're now offering legislation, Dodd is to bail out these lenders.
They got a few points in their mortgage loans, either for or not for their support.
Here's what we do.
If we want the Democrat Party on board to new drilling, we offer them like 50 cents for every barrel of oil from Anwar and a dime from every oil that we drill offshore.
Sort of like a domestic UN oil for food program.
We have our oil for our future payola.
If we just give enough Democrats what they're used to, graft and bribes of a small amount per barrel, I'll bet we can get them on board, ladies and gentlemen.
And all of you on hold, stay there.
It's not costing you anything.
We pay for it.
We'll get to you as quickly as we can.
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