All Episodes
Previous Next
June 25, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
37:34
June 25, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
The sub stories that are in the news today.
The sub stories, the doom and gloom.
Inexplicable Supreme Well, not inexplicable, just stupid Supreme Court decisions.
We are loaded here today, folks.
It is hot out there, and it's time for another summer spectacular hosted by me, L. Rushbo from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
Great to have you here.
The telephone number 800-282-2882, and the email address is L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
A lot of oil news today.
A lot of people all over the world going for oil.
The Iraqis are going for more oil.
They're opening a new field.
Orooskies are up in the Arctic Circle laying a claim to oil up there.
And in the meantime, the Democrat Party and the American left is doing everything it can to stand in the way of this country.
Increasing its own supply of oil.
Meanwhile, the uh price of oil, the barrel prices down five bucks today on the commodities market.
What did Congress do to bring that about?
We're going to get into some of this in great detail as the program unfolds.
A related sob story, however, ladies and gentlemen, to the rising gasoline price from Salt Lake City.
Speaking of Utah, Chris Cannon's gone.
Chris Cannon, a conservative member, well, it was, it was a conservative member of the House, tossed out in a Republican primary.
60, 40 conservatives at the local level heard loud at what state level, well, and district level heard loud and clear.
Chris Cannon was one of these uh amnesty and open borders guys, and when they got the chance at Sayanara, pal, adios.
See you, Tijuana.
So Chris Cannon is gone.
Immigration, the driving factor between his unpopularity with the district's Republican base.
Now, despite supporting a near-perfect score from the American conservative union, Chris Cannon alienated border security hawks over the past several years with his belief that illegal immigrants should be eligible for certain government benefits.
So he's gone.
Even though he's got this high conservative rating.
See you later.
Also from Salt Lake City, Sadie and Piper Vance have had just about enough of high gas prices.
You mothers, well, and you fathers who like this story.
Sadie and Piper Vance are nine and seven years old, and they're fed up with gas prices.
Now you might be asking yourself, well, why?
They don't drive.
They don't go to the gas station to fill up.
Well, the reason is that the family budget has had to be cut because of rising gasoline prices with the price now over $4 a gallon.
And the dad, the mom and dad, said, okay, cable TV's gone.
We're getting rid of cable TV so we can keep driving around like we need to.
Cable TV, the family's budget cutting casualties, one of them, leaving Sadie and her seven-year-old sister Piper without their favorite cartoons and shows.
So these uh little girls just said the gas prices are too high.
Sadie said, I just decided to come and protest, so they'd go down.
So they marched through downtown Salt Lake City on Monday, chanting and carrying signs made from old campaign signs.
Uh Piper's sign.
The uh seven-year-old said uh, uh, all of my mom's money goes to the gas tank.
She asked the drivers to honk for lower gas prices, adding her mom had to cut cable, spelled C-A-B-E-L.
The girls got some waves and a few thumbs up to show support.
I think it's great, said Hamid Taeb, who was walking past in his lunch break.
It's unfortunate that kids are doing it before we do.
Doing what?
Hey, kids, grab a book.
Rush, that's awfully insensitive.
How can you say this about these children?
Easy.
But no, this does this does signify what what's happening out there with a lot of American families over the rising gasoline price, which I'm gonna take a different tack on this in just a second.
I I've been thinking about this a lot in terms of there, there's one group of people standing in the way of the increasing supply of energy in this country.
I don't care where it's gasoline, Natural gas, whatever it is, they're standing in the way of it.
It's the American left and their allies in the Democrat Party.
And when you look, if you look at the red state, blue state map, and if you look at who's being targeted here and who's really being hurt by this, it is for the most part Republican suburban voters.
And that's exactly who the left wants to attack.
The Democrats want to depress the spirits of Republican conservative voters, sort of spread the idea that capitalism doesn't work, that only the government can fix these inequities and these wild swings.
So it's going to take me a little while to develop this.
And I want to get on to the Supreme Court decision right now.
The court's going to be finished tomorrow.
They did not release the uh the D.C. gun ban decision.
The um uh no, the snurdly.
Sterley says, wait a little winter, the Northeast will get hammered with home heating oil, and those are Democrat constituents.
Yeah, yeah, you wait.
You wait, then you're going to see all kinds of legislation for home heating oil assistance.
Excuse me, that will come from the Democrats.
And don't forget, who is it up in Massachusetts?
One of these guys was a is it one of the Kenneth?
Yep.
So it's Steepak, Joe Stevenson, somebody up there, maybe it's it's I don't know who it is, some congressman or some member of the Kennedy family's in bed with Hugo Chavez.
To uh to uh Stupec, Joe Stupak or whatever.
Whoever did they'll find ways to cushion the blow for their own constituents on home heating oil when it gets uh their turn to shoulder the expense come this fall and uh and this winter.
Of course, they'll cross their fingers and hope it won't be winter uh because of global warming.
Uh-da-da-da-da-da.
Anyway, the Supreme Court will finish tomorrow.
The uh they'll hand down all their own remaining decisions, the big one that came down today where two of them, they uh they reduced the penalty award, punitive award on uh Exxon for the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but they also overturned a Texas law saying that uh child rape, uh child rapist could be convicted and executed.
They uh overturned this law, just it came out just this morning.
So uh it appears that the U.S. Supreme Court can find anything it wants in the Eighth Amendment here, cruel, unusual punishment, what have you?
Run around and just tell the states you can't do what you want to do.
You just can't do it.
We're gonna stop you.
So the circumstances here are that the why why don't we just shut down the Congress?
Louisiana, uh, was that what it was?
Yeah, that's right.
Louis, Texas has a law like this.
It was a Louisiana, exactly.
I'm sorry, I misspoke on this.
It was a Louisiana law.
Uh why don't why don't we just have the Supreme Court shut down the Congress, the executive branch, state, local governments, and wrote all the decisions to the Supreme Court.
It has become so political.
You know, I frankly, I get sick and tired of waiting around for the court to proclaim what the final authority on any political issue in this country is going to be, and that's exactly what it has become.
I mean, this morning I'm getting notes from people.
You think the gun decision will come today?
You think the gun decision as though, as though the gun decision will be put to bed once and for all by virtue of the Supreme Court.
This is the D.C. gun ban.
So we've we've turned over the deciding of political issues to the Supreme Court.
We've even taken issues that are not political, like abortion and made them political issues by granting the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court actually taking the authority on its own to hear such cases.
So the rape decision here is sort of like this.
Kennedy, Justice Kennedy, and the other four liberals are saying, look, the idiots in Louisiana don't know what they're doing.
There is no consensus that child rape should result in death for the rapist.
And besides, execution for child rape seems disproportionate to us.
So we find that it's cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.
Now, executing a child rapist, after all, full access to the justice system is not on its face cruel and unusual punishment.
Let me who benefits from this ruling.
The way I look at the who benefits, who benefits from the ruling that child rapists cannot be executed, Overturning a state law, Louisiana law.
I'll tell you who benefits.
It's the same people who celebrate due process rights for terrorists.
So Anthony Kennedy, right now, is a hero of terrorists and their lawyers and child rapists.
And you know, he flies off to Salzburg every summer.
University of Salzburg in Austria.
He teaches over there during the summer.
They have a McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, which is where I first met Justice Kennedy, by the way, out there, and he he was nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan while working in McGeorge.
And they have a they have an extension program in Salzburg, and I'm sure he goes over there, and he's European guys just applaud all this sophistication that's coming out of the U.S. Supreme Court and say, you you uh you're doing good things for America over there.
And Thomas Sowell today, invest his investors' business daily just has a brilliant, brilliant piece.
So wrong so often for so long, yet it's Europe.
We want to copy.
Let me let me give you just some highlights of this.
If anybody suggested Tiger Woods should try to be more like other golfers, people would question the sanity of whoever made that suggestion.
Why should Tiger Woods try to be more like Phil Mickelson or anybody else?
If Tiger turned around and tried to golf left-handed like Mickelson, he probably wouldn't be as good as Mickelson, much less as good as he is golfing the way he does right-handed.
Yet there are those who think the United States should follow policies more like those in Europe, often with no stronger reason than the fact that Europeans follow such policies.
For some Americans, it's considered chic to be like Europeans.
If Europeans have higher minimum wage laws and more welfare state benefits, then we should have higher minimum wage laws and more welfare state benefits.
If Europeans resist pharmaceutical companies' patents and profits, then we should do the same.
Some justices of the U.S. Supreme Court even think that they should incorporate ideas from European laws and interpreting American laws.
Stephen Breyer has made the case, and so has Justice Kennedy on a couple of occasions.
But before we start imitating someone, we should first find out whether the results they get are better than the results we get.
Across a very wide spectrum, the U.S. has been doing better than Europe for a very long time.
By comparison with most of the rest of the world, Europe's doing fine, but it's like Phil Mickelson, not Tiger Woods, writes, Thomas Sowell.
Minimum wage laws have the same effects in Europe as they have had in other places around the world.
They price many low-skilled and inexperienced workers out of a job.
He goes on to give some employment data that we all know is true, and he cites that via these policies, these enlightened sophisticated policies, they get a 35-hour work week.
They've got 20% unemployment, nobody can be fired, and they cannot afford to defend themselves as a result.
They're spending everything they've got on these enlightened social programs that are depressing their own economy.
Why do you think so many European countries all of a sudden are going conservative?
From France to Germany to Italy.
Why do you think we even got a new conservative mayor in uh in London?
Because people have realized these enlightened, sophisticated policies born of the elite, do not work.
Sowell also, and I'll read this to you in great detail as the uh I gotta go to a break here pretty soon.
Is why in the world do we want to imitate Europe?
World War I, World War II, the slaughter of six million Jews.
What is it about Europe that recommends itself to us?
Mussolini, Stalin.
All these what is it about Europe that recommends itself to us?
And he makes some great points.
Lot to do on the program today, folks.
I want you to sit tight, we'll be back, and we'll continue right after this.
Don't go away.
Tell me read some more excerpts, just a few here from Dr. Sol's piece in the investors' business daily today, in which he uh poses the uh the question, why the hell should we copy Europe?
They're so wrong.
They're wrong often.
They've been wrong for so long, yet we're supposed to copy them.
We need to understand America first before we start imitating Europe.
The American economy produces the largest output in the world.
More than Japan, Germany, and Great Britain combined, measured by purchasing power, output per capita in the U.S. is the highest of any large nation.
There are some small places like Luxembourg or the Cayman Islands with higher purchasing power per capita, but as a hard Harvard professor, Benjamin Friedman put it, places like Luxembourg are technically countries that are more like large suburbs.
Luxembourg's total population is about that of Long Beach, California.
Walmart has more employees than the total population of Luxembourg.
And then you go to the Cayman Islands, their tax havens that attract the wealth of people who are not really Cayman Islanders.
Among countries at all comparable to the U.S. in size of population, none has achieved as high an output per capita.
New Jersey produces more than Egypt.
California produces more than Canada or Mexico.
Desperate efforts to depict all the prosperity and progress in the U.S. as being monopolized by the rich have led to all kinds of statistical mumbo jumbos, such as comparing the changing ratios between statistical categories over time, and ignoring the fact that most of the people in those categories move from one category to another over the years, meaning income quintiles, however you want to say it, the rich move out of the rich, the poor move out of the poor.
Everybody's fluctuating at all times.
And it's he's exactly right, and he's got a pretty, you know, pretty succinct definition here of American exceptionalism.
And it's under assault, and it's under assault from where?
It's under assault from the Europeans, socialist Western democracies, it's under assault for the United Nations, it's under assault from the Democrat Party in this country and the American left.
What Sowell has just re written here, the overwhelming superiority in production and size and per capita spending power and income dwarfs any nation, the rest of the world.
Wonder why we're target of the anti-capitalist coalitions that exist in many places in this country.
One more thing about Europe.
In the course of the, and by the I'm I'm and not I'm nothing, no brief against Europe here.
Remember what this is all about.
We have Supreme Court justices who think we need to look to foreign law in order to adjudicate U.S. cases.
Now, largely what's happening is when they can't find a reason for their own personal policy preferences in the law in cases here, they'll go across the pond and they'll consult the elitist Europeans and their legal charters and opinions.
They will do everything they can to find somewhere more enlightened than the U.S. and our Constitution to find grounds for ruling the way they want to.
I don't know if Kennedy did this in the in the uh in the rapist uh execution case out of Louisiana.
But if he can find some place what you wouldn't hear, you wouldn't have to look very hard in Europe to find out uh any place that is as a country opposed to capital punishment.
I haven't read his opinion, so I don't know what's there, but we know that Breyer has talked about it, and we know that that um um Kennedy has an occasion.
We know that we know that John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry who served in Vietnam, wanted to turn over our national defense to a global test of Europeans.
Uh we know that Clinton spends a lot of time over there sucking up to them.
Uh there's there are a lot of Democrats who really envy these European people, these sophisticates, the elites, the members of the clubs, ports and cigars in the war room after dinner at the club, this sort of thing.
Smarter than everybody else.
They know they're smarter than well, they think they are.
Uh, and they look at the grand rabble out there, and they and they just defend it, they hold their nose.
And the and the Democrats and the elitists in this country do the same thing.
They look at people in Salt Lake City, look at people in Missouri, uh, they look at people down south and go, ew, ew, isn't that sophisticated?
They want to hang around with these people in Europe.
Uh, and it's affecting a lot of our culture in terms of the Supreme Court and domestic politics, international politics as designed by left-leaning liberals.
In the course of the 20th century, supposedly sophisticated Europeans managed to create some of the most monstrous forms of government on earth.
It was in Europe that communism was created, fascism was created, Nazism was created in Europe, in peacetime.
And to start the two world wars, the bloodiest in all human history, in each of these wars, both the winners and the losers ended up far worse off than they were before these wars were started.
After both world wars, the U.S. had to step in to save millions of people in Europe from starving amid the wreckage and rubble that their wars had created.
These do not seem like people whose sophistication we should defer to.
Between the two world wars, European intellectuals, more so than ordinary people, completely misread the threat from Nazi Germany and were urging disarmament in France and England, while Hitler was rapidly building up the most powerful military force on the continent, obviously aimed at neighboring countries.
During the Cold War, many European intellectuals once again misread the threat of a totalitarian dictatorship, in this case the Soviet Union.
When they finally recognized the threat, many saw the question is whether it was better to be read than dead.
I remember the question being asked when I was growing up.
There were no more prepared to stand up to the Soviet Union than they had been ready to stand up to Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Worse yet, much of the European intelligentsia objected to America standing up to the Soviet Union.
Many of them were appalled when Reagan met the threat of new Soviet missiles aimed at Western Europe by putting more American missiles in Western Europe aimed at the Soviet Union.
Reagan, in effect, called the Soviet Union and raised them, while many of the European sophisticates said that his policies would lead to war.
Instead, it led to the end of the Cold War.
Are we not a blindly imitate those who have been so wrong so often over the past 100 years?
Great peace from Dr. Sol, ramifications throughout our culture.
Quick timeouts.
Much more straight ahead.
Barely scratched the surface here.
Easy to do, ladies and gentlemen.
We make the complex understandable here at the EIB network.
But before we move on to oil, one more thing about the Supreme Court decision on overturning the Louisiana law that says rapists of children can be executed.
Supreme Court overturned that you can't execute them.
I'm going to leave the legal analysis of this to the legal eagles, and when I see some that I marvel at and impressed by, I'll share it with you.
But they're trying to find no other use of the Eighth Amendment here, and they're going to cruel and unusual punishment.
Let me ask you about cruel and unusual.
You have someone who engages in the rape of a child.
By definition, we're talking the epitome of violence.
The epitome of rape of a child.
We also know full well the emotional scars that will be left on that child after having been raped by a violent brutish adult.
Now, let's talk about cruel and unusual.
And a court also used the word disproportionate.
Justice Kennedy wrote that execution is disproportionate.
A punishment for the case of rape even against a child.
That look, I'm I'm I'm not a legal scholar, but that kind of sends up a red flag.
Disproportionate.
And then the cruel and unusual.
Let's focus on that for just a second, shall we?
How do we execute most people in this country?
Lethal injection, right?
They don't even know.
We give them something that sedates them, and then and then they're finally out, they're executed after they're asleep.
And when it works.
They got rid of old Sparking in Florida.
They're trying to work.
But seriously, what is more cruel?
The violent, permanent scarring of a young girl in rape, or death by lethal injection.
What is more cruel?
If you want to get this is what they tried to get into with all this today.
Here's what one of the things that I want to point out to you is.
Liberals are liberals first.
What have we heard from liberals over the course of our lives?
We have heard everything must be done for the children.
They have used the children in virtually every domestic social argument they have made, from phony school lunch cuts to education increased spending, everything is about the children.
Now all of a sudden, and by the way, they have also, because of their attachment to the feminists, which are really just a bunch of libs themselves.
We've also heard that rape is horrible.
Rape is absolutely horrible.
It's intolerable.
And we have accused the U.S. military of being rapists.
And we have tried to convict members of the U.S. military on charges of rape in Iraq and a number of other things.
And our soldiers who monitor this the prisons say at Abu Ghab, we have we have the the left in this country has come down hard.
All of a sudden now, we have a Louisiana law.
Remember, this is four, I mean, solid to the wall liberals plus Anthony Kennedy, who went with them on this.
You got Souter, you got Breyer, you got Ginsburg, you got John Paul Stevens and Kennedy here.
So you've got four solid wall solid to the wall liberals and Kennedy joining them.
And what have they basically just said?
Screw the children, heck with the children here.
Uh I I I think it indicates here that at the in the liberal heart, what really matters first and foremost is liberalism.
And it always seems, when liberals get involved in crime, it always seems, seems to me anyway, that the sympathy is always for the criminal.
Be he a terrorist, held in Guantanamo, who has now been told he has constitutional rights, according to the U.S. Constitution, and he can access as a prisoner of war, an unlawful enemy combatant, he can have access to the U.S. courts, big victory for criminals.
And now the rapists of children, I mean, who's celebrating this decision today?
Who's celebrate?
Same people who celebrate the decision on terrorists having access to the Supreme Court, the U.S. court system and the civil libertarians and so forth.
So many, so many contradictions of this.
And then besides all that, besides here we just have the court deciding we're going to decide these political issues.
We're going to decide these things.
We don't even need a Congress anymore.
We don't even need a president.
We just take all of our controversial issues and we submit them to the lawyers, go up to Supreme Court, Supreme Court decides, and that's it.
Because that's what it has become.
Moving on to oil, ladies and gentlemen, uh, despite uh persistently high oil prices, global energy demand will grow by 50% over the next 20 years, with continued heavy reliance on environmentally troublesome fossil fuels, especially coal and oil.
This, according to the energy department statistical agency, uh that said without mandatory actions to address global warming, the amount of heat trapping carbon dioxide flowing into the atmosphere, blah, blah, blah.
The bottom line is this.
Despite high prices, global energy demand will grow by 50% over the next two decades.
With continued heavy reliance on environmentally troublesome, this is this AP, by the way, uh H. Joseph Abert uh writing it's environmentally troublesome fossil fuels, environmentally troubles.
What else is I get I get so frustrated here reading this stuff because here you have a truth.
Energy demand and growth is going to skyrocket.
There's no other way around it.
That makes total sense.
There are more people.
There are societies and populations that are becoming modernized.
It makes total sense that this would happen.
We can't conserve our way out of this.
And the rest of the world is going to do whatever it has to do to find the energy that it needs to sustain its growth.
Because they all want growth because growth equals prosperity.
And prosperity equals power.
And they all want more power than they've got.
In the meantime, we're in the middle of being slaughtered by many of many members of our own nation here, party Democrat Party, the leftists, who doing everything they can to help everybody else cut us down to size.
While the rest of the world is guiltlessly walking down the path, trying to figure out how to get more energy so they can use it.
What are we doing?
We're being told to back up.
We're being told to reduce our lifestyles.
so much common sense is being abandoned in this.
If we, if we are going, if the world is going to have its energy demand grow by 50% over the next two decades, I'm sorry, folks, you can conserve all you want.
You can go get the plastic bags and use them, and you can go change your light bulbs, and you can unplug your chargers, and you can do all it ain't gonna matter a hill of beans.
You can put a windmill in your backyard, you put solar panels on your house, you can go buy some of these electric cars, you plug them in, I hope they work, you can do all that, and it isn't going to matter.
Because conservation does not equal growth.
Conservation may make good sense and not against it, but as a policy for economic growth.
Not a chance.
Also from H. Joseph Abert at the Associated Press.
Majority Democrats in the House of Representatives failed yesterday to resurrect a bill to punish price gouging at the gas pump while maneuvering to block Republican attempts to expand offshore drilling.
So once again, they they wanted to bring up a there have been investigations after investigations, after investigations.
Nobody has ever found instance one of price gouging.
They wanted to bring it back up.
Why they need a villain?
That's Democrat Party politics.
That is liberalism.
They need a villain.
The villain happens to be speculators right now.
More on that in just a second, but they need a villain.
Big oil, not a villain right now.
They'll come back and do course.
But they want to bring back this price gouging and make you think they are gonna punish who's responsible for this.
In the process, you're not gonna find more gasoline at the pump at a cheaper price.
It isn't gonna happen.
And in the in the process as well, they tried to stop offshore drilling again, brought up by the Republicans.
Your Democrat Party.
Meanwhile, Bush administration indicated yesterday it had no plans to interfere with negotiations between Iraq and several Western oil giants to boost prude production in Iraq.
Despite concerns by some Democrats, the deal could inflame anti-U.S.
sentiments.
What?
The deal could inflame anti-U.S.
sentiment where?
And who cares?
This was part of the original Iraq plan.
Let them become self-sufficient.
They get to do with their oil whatever they want.
It ain't going to Halliburton.
They don't even they're an oil services company.
They don't drill.
It didn't go into Cheney.
It didn't go into Bush.
And so now Bush is Iraq, you want to make deals with uh with some Western oil companies, go right ahead.
Some Democrats?
The deal could inflame anti-U.S.
sentiments.
White House said Iraq's a sovereign country.
It can make decisions based on how it feels that it wants to move forward in its development of its uh of its resources.
The administration's position put it at odds with Democrat Senators Chuck Schumer, John Kerry of Massachusetts, and Claire McCaskill, who wrote this.
Anne Flaherty of the Associated Press.
Once again, right in the mix, right in the middle of the disinformation and the attempt to make everything good look sour, we find the associated press.
I don't care what it's H. Joseph Abair, I don't care whether it's Anne Flaherty, I don't care whether it's Nedra Pickler.
Their existence is to pollute the minds of this country in such a way that nobody feels good about their own country.
Who cares what John Kerry, what name me a drop of oil the son of a gun's ever produced?
Chuck Schumer, ditto, Claire McCaskill, ditto.
These are oil experts.
These are energy experts.
The administration's position put it to put it to odds with the Democrat senators Schumer, Kerry, and McCaskill, who warned that the deals could fan the perception that U.S. involvement in Iraq was motivated by oil.
I you know, I remember the first Gulf War.
No blood for oil.
These leftists are gonna say that anyway.
They're gonna criticize as they always have anyway.
By the Way.
Part of going into Iraq was about getting control of those oil fields for the Iraqis.
It's all part of making them self-sufficient.
It's all part of the democracy project.
You can agree with that or not, the Freedom Project.
You know, it is clear, folks, the Democrat Party, the American left, hate oil.
They despise oil.
Is that rational?
No.
Why hate oil?
John Kerry couldn't fly around on his wife's jet without it.
He couldn't drive one of her 14 SUVs without it.
He probably, without his wife, couldn't afford a gallon of gas.
I'll be back in just a second.
You know, it's it's it's gonna be one of those days, folks.
I just watching DNC TV, and there's uh doing a little interview with some klutz, who's supposedly some strategist.
There, and there is a story.
Finally, I I have I have had my my my suspicions confirmed.
Over the recent past, I have told you.
Have you seen how many Republican strategists, Democrat strategists there are as guests on all these cable shows?
Say who the hell are these people?
Well, it finds out they're not Republican strategists or Democrat stratists, they're just people that are calling themselves that, and there's hardly any backup or or investigation into who these people are.
They're just people that want FaceTime.
They're face hogs.
They're divas and stuff.
Anyway, I've got all that in the stack.
But I was watching DNC TV, and there's this little graphic.
Little Chiron crawls as McCain touts his experience crossing the aisle working with Democrats.
Oh no, no.
You know, I can just see the electorate out there.
Of all the issues that matter to people when they think about voting in November, right there at the top of the list is works well with the enemy.
Crosses the aisle without tripping up, sits down and works well with the other side.
These these buffoons in in Washington, wherever they are, these campaign consultants have got it drilled into their head that the American people hate partisanship and want us all to get along.
Speaking of which, speaking of which, Republican John McCain uh said yesterday the federal government should practice the energy efficiency he preaches, pledging as president to switch official vehicles to green technologies and do the same for office buildings.
Who is it that's gonna be Jimmy Carter's second term?
Is it gonna be Obama or McCain?
I thought it was gonna be Obama.
Expanding upon his ideas to address the nation's energy crisis.
The Arizona Senator also called for a redesign of the national power grid.
So power is better distributed where it's needed.
Where's it not needed?
Appalachia, West Virginia, where's it not needed?
See better distributed where it's needed, and the country has the capacity to run electric vehicles that he wants automakers to supply.
So he's he's really scoring points here.
He thinks he's scoring points with the drive-by's.
Yes, right.
Yes, I I told him.
We're gonna go green, we're gonna go electric, we're gonna turn up the thermostats in the summer, we're gonna turn them down in the winter.
We're gonna we're gonna put, we're gonna put it in practice.
Limboy, what I what I've been what I've been doing myself personally, yeah, yes, I'm gonna skunk them this way.
Oh, really?
Well, right after all of that.
The drive-by's uh who AP, yes, it's Associated Press to the rescue.
Who's this?
Glenn Johnson.
McCain drives a 2003 Cadillac CTS.
The sedan, the Environmental Protection Agency says gets 16 to 24 miles a gallon, emits about nine and a half tons of greenhouse gases annually.
Big whoop.
When campaigning, McCain's ferried with a secret service using a fleet of Chevy suburbans, a full-size SUV, the EPA estimates gets 12 to 20 miles per gallon, amidst nine to thirteen tons of greenhouse gas.
So, a drive-by SmackDown.
Here is McCain lauding his intent to have a green government.
And then they point out he's a hypocrite.
I wish somebody would do a study on my cars.
I mean, this is nothing.
I got in my I got in my car the other day and I drove.
It goes no uncovering her.
I'm not going to tell you which one.
That doesn't matter.
I got in a car.
I had to drive down to my drive down to Miami for the weekend.
I wanted to go to Kobe Club down there in Miami.
I had been to the one in New York, so went down there, checked in a hotel state overnight.
And uh got all these doodads on the uh on the dashboard that tell me, you know, your your car does too, the range you've got based on a gas in a tank and what your miles per gallon or ghetto you're getting and so forth.
Twelve on the highway.
Twelve?
I think we're 12.8 on the highway.
I said yes.
All right, all right.
So, so why, ladies, okay, I many of you might think I'm obnoxious.
Those of you just tuning in don't know me uh as the audience knows and loves me.
You might think I'm why am I going yes, yes?
When I see that my hog car is gonna only getting 12 miles a gallon on the highway.
Because I just love sticking it to the environmentalists.
I am not a conformist.
I just love sticking it to these people who want to interrupt my choices and my freedom if I'm willing to pay for whatever happens, and I'm not violating any law, it's none of their business to tell me what I can and can't drive, what I should and shouldn't drive, and I'm not gonna allow these kind of left wing wacko kooks to make me feel guilty about enjoying life.
▲
Export Selection