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May 7, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchor Man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow.
Rush returns on uh Monday.
And uh, you know, we were talking uh we were talking uh just before the uh news about uh this uh this business with this cow on the lamb in uh Queens in New York.
And uh Molly the Cow, Molly is this black heifer who escaped from a slaughterhouse uh and I was suggesting had been uh rushing to Washington to volunteer to be Barack Obama's next hamburger, which would be a great honor.
And uh Molly the Heifer uh is a p her life has been spared, she's not gonna be returned to the slaughterhouse, and we were saying uh before the break that we hoped that she wasn't gonna wind up uh being part of the herd that uh Al Gore rented to Graze behind him on the farm in Tennessee when he made his campaign announcement to to run for president.
We hope she's got a better life than that.
I mean, uh what was it uh we were talking about here a couple of weeks ago, the Jimmy Carter rest area in Georgia that they're gonna go, they're gonna close because uh nobody likes using the apparently peep visitors to Georgia don't like using the Jimmy Carter memorial toilet off the interstate, so they all drive on uh they drive the extra hundred and eighty miles with their legs crossed to get to the non-Jimmy Carter uh rest area.
So maybe maybe this Molly the Heifer could just spend the rest of her days grazing peacefully outside the Jimmy Carter um memorial toilet uh and end her days that way.
Uh it'd be very uh be very n be nice uh nice heartening story that.
Uh but people were uh talking a lot about uh the Obama hamburger and this business of him ordering the uh Dijon mustard and ordering the Grey Poupon.
And I have to say, speaking as a foreigner, uh that I uh deeply resent Barack Obama crashing in as the Grey Poupon spokesperson, uh, because that has been the that was has been the lifesaver for uh non-American voiceover artists uh in this country for years getting the gig doing the Grey Poupon voiceover, you know, you you uh do the uh try the new Grey Poupon squeeze.
One of life's simpler pleasures.
And the idea that uh Barack Obama now is gonna be collaring it's in sourcing in effect.
This is normally like the Grey Poupon endorsements is something that's if if if if you can't endorse if you can't outsource Grey Coupon to foreigners, what can you outsource?
Uh and instead now he's apparently the big Grey Poupon spokesperson uh putting it all uh putting it all over his hamburger.
Uh Barack Obama, that was was I was yesterday Barack Obama had a hamburger.
I don't know what he may do today to prove to pass for to pass for human.
Al Gore, um Al Gore had a problem with that.
Do you remember that speech he gave at the Democratic Convention where he said he gave the gabe away, he said, I have spent many years studying people in their living environments or something.
And he made it sound like he'd just landed from the planet Zongo, and basically I have spent many years studying human beings in their uh in their uh in uh he sounded uh yeah, I don't think he uh no, I don't think it was a pervert thing.
I think he was just saying that whatever his home planet is, he he was able to it's the Sarah Paling thing.
I can see Earth from my house.
That's the uh Al Gore, that's the Al Gore version of it.
Uh but uh but Obama is doing a much better job of just being human, being normal.
He goes on dates.
His wife, do you see that?
The first lady wore a dress twice, just like any regular human being.
Uh this is uh this is uh uh uh uh amazing uh amazing stuff.
Now Obama.
Obama is being, unfortunately, not everyone is happy with uh with Obama.
And uh on the gay marriage issue, he has the same uh position on gay marriage as Carrie Prejung, the uh the the the current Miss California, if she hasn't been stripped of her title, because she's been pretty much stripped of everything else in the last 48 hours.
Uh poor old Carrie Prejon, uh who had the same position on Barack Obama as gay marriage, and has been now been destroyed, uh uh uh uh uh the pin-up the poster girl for intolerant homophobic bigotry uh and uh has uh had got no chance not of only of being Miss USA, but even the Miss California thing, she may she may uh not be any miss miss nothing.
They got all These uh pictures of her out there, they're making jokes about uh cosmetic work she's had done, the poor woman has been destroyed for essentially having the same position on gay marriage as Barack Obama.
And the question then arises, why doesn't Obama uh support gay marriage?
I mean, we all know he really does support gay marriage, but the question then arises uh why doesn't he come out and support it?
Uh and what's interesting to me about this is not so much the pros and cons of gay marriage, which we can certainly uh get into, uh, but what it tells us about the democratic uh playbook, and this is the great advantage that the Democrats have.
Uh if you look if you go back to 1999, when Vermont became the first state, the Vermont Supreme Court said you've got to let uh gays form formal unions.
So they introduced civil unions.
And at that point, uh everybody was kind of stunned and taken aback by that.
What is it?
How how did Vermont do this?
Is it something in the maple syrup?
How did this happen?
Where did it come from?
And uh Vermont introduced uh civil unions, and at that point that was the that was the progressive uh radical liberal position to be in favor of uh civil unions.
Now it's a mere ten years on, uh and Maine uh is introducing gay uh formal gay marriage, uh Iowa has uh two, and suddenly civil unions uh which was the radical position in 1999 is now the position only of discredited uh Republican homophobes.
It's their it's their fallback uh it's their fallback position.
The Republican homophobes fall back position is civil unions.
That is that is an amazingly effective uh way of uh uh of uh of moving the political goalposts in the space of ten years.
And the great advantage, if you look back at what happened in Vermont in 1999, the minute the Vermont Supreme Court came out in favor of civil unions, and the minute the Republican Party in Vermont said, Oh, wait a minute, where are we going?
Uh Howard Dean, the Democratic governor, was able to position himself halfway between the uh the Vermont Supreme Court and the Republican Party and say, see, I'm the moderate centrist one who's in favor of civil unions.
Uh the the court has ruled this, uh I will accommodate the court while respecting tradition, uh, and I will make those right-wing Republicans look like homophobes.
And uh that uh that that has basically been the uh democratic position on this for the last ten years.
Whatever the court rules, uh the uh the the Democratic candidate takes one step to the right of it uh and just uh don't won't go the whole way the you know, Barack Obama uh says he's fully respectful of gays, he's committed to equal rights for gays, but just doesn't quite support gay marriage.
And the reason he can do this is because a people know he doesn't mean it, and B, people know uh that the courts uh and uh and other institutions in society are all making the running to his left.
So in effect it enables uh Barack Obama uh to appear as the sort of democratic centrist, uh democratic moderate centrist type on this, positioning herself halfway between the court uh uh and what the courts rule uh and uh uh and and the Neanderthal uh Republicans.
And this is this is uh this is in a a marvelous way.
If you'd said ten years ago, all the polling on gay marriage was entirely negative, entirely negative, overwhelmingly uh disapproved of uh by millions and millions of people.
And simply by letting courts present it as a feta compli and Democrat candidates cynically running one step back from that, it has now become the norm to the point where uh poor old Carrie Prejon has had her life destroyed, not because she's uh homophobe, uh, but because she expressed uh very tentative personal view uh that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
And and to get to the heart of democratic dishonesty on this issue, uh the uh the uh Democrats in the New Hampshire Senate recently voted in favor of gay marriage in New Hampshire.
Now, first time around they hadn't voted in favor of this bill, uh, but they did the second time round.
And what happened to them uh in between uh was that they got uh the the uh party heavies in Washington got on the line to them and said, no, you've got to support this.
Uh the reality is that everyone knows Barack Obama uh Barack Obama's position on gay marriage is dishonest, and that's why he's uh he's allowed to get away with it.
Uh in other words, he's uh uh th this is uh this is a kind of political calculation.
But but why that again raises the larger issue.
If social conservatism is such a loser then, why will national political figures shy away from something like gay marriage?
I mean, if it's such an obvious loser, if if if it's just the preserve of notorious uh hate mongers like Carrie Prejong, then why is it that Barack Obama uh didn't just say, Yeah, sure I'm for gay marriage.
Who isn't?
Everyone I know is in favor of gay marriage.
Why, if social conservatism is such a loser, uh does he uh not actually dare to just say in a very in his usual calm, moderate teleprompter head turn way, yeah, sure I'm in favor of gay marriage.
It's no big deal to me.
Uh it's uh it's no more it's no bigger a deal than going uh to the uh fast food joint and having a hamburger with uh grey poupon.
It's something perfectly normal.
It's not it's a little more in fact that's the equivalent.
It's instead of having your hamburger with ketchup, you have it with grape oupon, but it's still a hamburger.
He could easily do that with marriage.
Uh but the fact is he's taken this view uh that uh that i i it's in his interest not uh to come out for gay marriage.
And that and that begs the question why.
Why?
If the social conservatives are just a bunch of discredited losers, why not go for it?
I mean, you got the real window you backs every every week now.
Some legislature, some court, some somebody somewhere rules in favor of gay marriage.
Even when you pass a constitutional uh uh amendment against it, uh the uh the gay activists will go to court to get the constitution uh ruled unconstitutional.
They the wind is blowing in that direction.
On on Brokeback Mountain, the wind only blows in one direction, and it's blowing their way.
Why not why not get with the program?
Uh and I think that's the more interesting point, is what it tells you about the Democrats' uh own calculation uh on where people are on some of these issues.
So we'll talk about some uh social conservatism and some of these matters and the Democrats' uh uh exploitation of these issues and their epit opportunism uh straight ahead.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush, 1800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Uh Molly Molly the Cow, actually, I don't know why why can't Molly the Cow go to um uh the vegetable garden at the White House.
They've got a vegetable garden at the uh at the White House.
Why couldn't uh if they want to be just like regular folks, why couldn't they milk the uh milk Molly the heifer every uh every morning?
It's uh it's gotta be better than going either to the Al Gore uh cow, uh he's got the Radio City kickline of uh of of uh cows in the background or the Jimmy Carter Memorial Toilet.
Uh I would actually one of the things I like about Obama is he's not one of these guys who pretends to be rural.
I mean, he's very urban with his Grey Poupon.
He's not like Al Gore, you remember he um he used to do these speeches where he would say, My dad uh taught me how to clear land with a uh a double bladed uh b bladed axe.
He taught me how to plough a steep hillside with a team of mules.
This whole thing.
This is a guy who was raised at the Fairfax Hotel on Embassy Row in Washington.
You know, what what do you need a double-bladed axe?
The Fairfax Hotel in Washington for.
Uh, you know, that's fine if you like want to clear the pub court one afternoon, saying, I've got to get these pot plants out of here.
Uh but what was this idea, this this fake uh ruralism that uh politicians go in for?
And I quite like the way like uh Barack Obama, he's just like pure Hyde Park Chicago, you know, it's uh uh the uh the what the wildlife is something the parks and recreation department take care of.
He's just Mr. Urban, he's got no interest in it.
Let's go to Charles in Columbia, Maryland.
Uh Charles, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
There's a uh there may be a prize heifer for one lucky caller today, by the way.
We may get may give away a prize.
Okay, Mark, uh, to answer your question, why Obama doesn't come out straight up for uh gay marriage?
That's not a good way of putting it, but never mind.
Anyway, listen, I'm reading rules for radicals, Solinsky right now.
Right.
You have to represent a non-threatening face to the public.
Right.
This this guy is a crypto common communist.
I mean, we all know that.
Mark Levin calls him a Marxist.
That's why I'm putting out my favorite uh coffee mug.
It's called my favorite Marxist Obama.
Right.
But the point is I got a bumper sticker on my car right now.
It says uh Obamanomics equals trickle up poverty.
Right.
So socialists destroy jobs.
Yep.
Let me give my website.
You gotta buy time for you've got to buy time for that, Charles.
Uh uh the the uh but you did make you did make a uh a good point there.
He appears moderate.
If you're gonna do radical things, you've got to appear moderate.
And the trick that the Democrats have done, and this is why the war on language actually is so important, is that if you let one side take all the nice fluffy words uh and you're just uh and you all your words are marginalized, uh then you've literally got no way of talking about these issues.
If you take any issue, uh the Democrats have taken all the nice words uh uh on immigration, for example.
Uh on immigration, there is literally now no l no langu I mean it's not even immigration.
I don't even know why I say that.
It's like uh illegal immigration for a start isn't immigration.
And actually what's going on, the subversion of the borders and subversion of databases and subversion of sovereignty uh in the macro sense is not is not that's not even an immigration issue.
Yet uh if you try to talk about it, because language, all the fluffy words have been co-opted by the so-called moderate liberals, uh you you're painted as a uh if you're lucky as a nativist, and if you're unlucky, uh as a racist.
Literally uh the language has been annexed to ensure that uh these issues can only be framed in democrat terms.
And that's that's true of gay uh gay marriage too.
This thing homophobia.
Uh I hate this uh because I was getting accused of Islamophobia, which is uh n nothing, a word that didn't exist twenty years ago.
But the the Muslim lobby groups figured they looked at the gay guys who are making such progress with this thing called homophobia.
I prefer it actually when you were just called a racist or a bigot or a sexist.
They were nice words because they like made it sound like you were kind of active.
Whereas homophobia is just a way of saying, well, you've got a mental illness.
If you say, well, I'm not really in favor of gay marriage, they don't think that's a political policy decision uh that they can discuss with you.
They say, well, no, you're a homophobe, which is just a way of saying, well, you've got a mental illness, but just lie down in the gurney, we'll strap you down, give you a couple of shots, you'll feel fine in the morning.
Uh it's uh it's a way of making discussion unnecessary.
The minute you use words like homophobia and Islamophobia.
Uh I love the word, they don't even have to they they're contradictory.
There was a guy in um uh London, Sir Iqbal Sakrani, who's one of these moderate Muslims who's been knighted by the Queen.
And he goes on the BBC and he says that he thinks that homosexuality is disgusting and homosexu Islam is opposed to homosexuality because it's just immoral and spreads disease.
So this uh gay group complains to Scotland Yard, which promptly investigates uh Sir Iqbal Sakrani for his uh Islam uh for his homophobia.
Simultaneously, a gay newspaper in London says that mu uh says that Muslims believe uh that uh uh gays are uh immoral uh and uh uh should not be around and shouldn't be allowed to practice uh what they do.
And the uh and the Muslim lobby group complains to Scotland Yard, which investigates the gay group for Islamophobia.
So if you say so if you say that Islam if you say uh if you're a Muslim who says that Islam doesn't approve of homosexuality, you'll be a r you'll be investigated for homophobia.
But if you're a gay who says that uh Muslims don't approve of homosexuality, uh you'll be investigated for Islamophobia.
And the whole point about this is just to say, let's not discuss any of this.
We can't discuss it, uh, because your opposition is is not an intellectual position.
It's a form of it's essentially a form of mental illness.
Uh and that has been the genius of uh the left's annexation of the non political in institutions and the non political levers in society these last thirty years.
That literally we've been stripped of a language uh with which you can even talk about uh uh uh uh uh about these uh these issues.
And at some point the the the right uh that's why when people people talk about Ronald Reagan, uh Reagan's great gift, great gift uh was to be able uh to take back uh uh uh uh a lot of the good language uh from the left uh and he was able he was able to use language in ways that that mocked uh mocked the left's uh left's positions and this idea that uh somehow all that is uh is irrelevant
is simply untrue.
It's gotten more difficult uh but we have to find a way through it to at least enable us to discuss some of these issues uh without getting destroyed uh in the way poor Miss California was uh this is Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the EIB network.
Rush will be back uh on Monday and Mark Davis is gonna be here tomorrow Friday.
More straight ahead Mark Stein in for Rush.
Uh a couple a couple of listeners have queried when I was suggesting that uh Michelle Obama might like to try milking Molly the heifer uh have queried whether you actually can get milk from a heifer.
Uh not initially but I think if we invest uh two point seven trillion dollars in uh in the uh in the heifer then we would have a safe renewable source uh of environmentally uh friendly milk in the years ahead so you so keep milking away there uh Michelle and it's it should all uh work out.
Let's go to Lee in Huntsville, Alabama.
Lee, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hello.
Nice to speak with you.
Hey great to talk with you too.
Um you mentioned about Obama getting a pass basically with the Liberals on the on his stance on the gay marriage issue which is kind of a wishy washy stance anyway.
Right.
Um it's well that mainly it's because I think I mean if you look at the biggest group of people that voted for him when he was elected was the black population by what ninety percent or something like that?
That's right.
I think it's I think it's over ninety percent actually of the black population he uh he of the black vote he got and the white population as a whole does not support gay marriage.
No you make a good you make a good point that uh on uh on the streets of California in these Proposition eight things a few weeks ago they had the they were having these gay black rumbles.
It was like some wacky West Coast touring production a West Side Story there were the uh they there were the uh the the gays and the blacks were having this uh these showdowns uh on the streets of West Hollywood uh and uh uh and uh the this one gay group uh I remember the great quote from the LA Times uh told the black guys you come around here again we're gonna give you uh one hell of a wilding.
I mean this is a this this is something I felt like uh uh James Baker did about the Balkans.
You know, whoa I don't have a dog in this fight.
Let's just sit back and what is going on here.
But but you think that's the real reason that that it's his black base, the African American base that actually uh that actually fiercely objects to this I do and I think that's the reason why he has to kind of straddle this fence.
And uh oh and by the way since I don't like Obama's policies am I an Obamaphobic?
Yes you are actually and I I you are an Obamaphobe.
That is, you're an Alabamophile but an Obamaphobe.
Exactly.
You're simultaneously Obamaphiliac and Obamaphobic, so you should probably get some treatment for that.
But it would probably involve leaving the country and getting treated for it in Costa Rica because you certainly can't afford to get it treated under whatever Obama health care plan comes up.
Thanks for your call, Lee.
That's an interesting thought, that the strongest, fiercest...
That's actually why Proposition 8 passed in California.
the black turnout uh that came out in November to vote for Obama also stayed in the voting booth long enough uh to support Proposition eight uh de-gaying marriage uh and uh you might be right that uh Obama is r uh running some particular math among the fractious parts of his base on that.
Let's take a call from uh Alc in uh Knoxville Tennessee.
Alec you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein your your voice is even better than you look thank you.
Thank you but please I don't take proposals for gay marriage on the air you should you should wait wait till wait till the show's over over for that.
but thank you.
Thank you kindly.
That's very nice.
I would have liked it more from Lee in Huntsville, but I'll take it from I'll take it from you, Alec as well.
Thanks for that's very nice of you.
You guys can hook up later.
Hey, um this um this gay marriage thing, um basically the way I think that it is what they're doing is saying that they can do marriage better than the heterosexuals can.
So this irrational uh argument is what they're using to promote their new wave of attack on uh the uh marriage of man and woman as it's been throughout the centuries.
Um why don't they just drop corporations and just have a cor corporation as a partnership?
Well well, we I did explain in the previous hour that America has the second highest rate of corporate tax in the developed world.
So if uh so if two uh i if a gay couple were to form itself as a corporation, the tax liabilities of that would be would be horrendous.
But you're right.
I think you're right to to to this degree that it isn't really about and what's what what I find interesting is not the opposition to uh gay marriage among the black community so much, but the opposition actually among large numbers of gays uh who think that uh that gay marriage is like playing too straight.
The point of being gay is that you're not sort of boring and straight and bourgeois and suburban uh and that th there's a lot of conflict in the gay community about whether this is the right uh strategy.
Uh but I think at at heart what it does is it is it puts fund uh uh fundamental societal institutions up for big broad redefinition.
I mentioned here a couple of weeks ago that in in Canada there's a polygamy suit before the Supreme Court now, uh working its way to the Supreme Court, which the uh there's no real there's no real argument against polygamy once you've uh uh approved gay marriage.
Basically, uh th every argument you make in favor of gay marriage also uh applies to polygamy.
That there's no end.
Once you start redefining societal institutions that predate every nation state on the planet, uh then there's there's uh there's no end to it.
Uh but uh but you're you're uh you're right, uh Alec.
Maybe that is a solution.
I certainly would appreciate it if uh if instead of getting married you could organize as a corporation.
That uh that's and then and then uh you wouldn't need to be polygamous because you could just take over other corporations, couldn't you?
So you would obviously H HR is uh is obsessed with the tax rate on that.
Yes, you'd get clobbered.
You'd know but that uh again would be if they brought down if they said that uh instead of getting married, couples, all kinds of couples now, can register as corporations, and they then uh transfer the married couple's exemption uh to corporations, that might be the only way to make General Motors profitable if it could re-register as Detroit's first gay couple.
Uh I'm just uh I'm just like uh I'm just like uh free associating here, folks.
You don't have to these aren't these aren't part of the official party platform yet.
We're still in the exploratory stage, but we're just uh kicking around uh uh a few I uh a few ideas here.
Let's go to Jennifer in uh Los Angeles, proposition eight central, uh where where they have the uh where they have the gay black rumbles in West Hollywood.
Uh hi Mark.
Yeah, you weren't you weren't in you weren't you didn't attend any of those uh no I no I didn't, but I live right in the heart of West Hollywood, so um I uh I saw a lot what was going on.
Um but what I wanted to mention today was you know the whole talk of um you know the right being too extreme and so on and so forth, they need to be more moderate.
Well, there is really no such thing as like a moderate position.
There is yin and there's yang.
With the two parties, you could say the Democrats are yin or yang.
People who say, well, I like moderation, they're choosing what they like from both sides because they want balance.
So the whole idea to try to move the Republican Party to ideas that are more like the Democrats, you destroy the whole balance of yin and yin and yang.
And so, I mean, like looking at it from an eastern uh philosophical view.
And you take for example what's going on in Britain, you know, the conservatives are ready to come into power, but there are so many people who are unhappy with conservatives because the conservatives have moved o too far to the left.
So now you have the uh real party of the right, the BNP, British National Party, actually, you know, winning elections, surprising people, and could possibly, you know, become a huge party because they're they're gonna be a very good thing.
Well, you never want to make uh no political party wants to make space on its own side that so disaffects its own base that you start running, as Pat Buchanan did uh against uh the first George Bush in 1992.
But Jennifer, uh that's uh you're you're at ground zero there in in California, because you don't have to look to Britain for this.
I uh if you take your own governor, essentially he did one of these uh socially liberal fiscally conservative things.
He said he he's in favor of uh gay marriage and all the rest of it.
He's in favor of everything, but he said he was fiscally conservative.
He said the state's spending too much.
And California has learned that uh that uh that when when you get a conflict between the social liberalism and the fiscal conservatism, uh suddenly the fiscal conservative isn't so fiscally conservative anymore.
And uh the social liberalism, most of it comes with quite a big government price tag.
That's the problem.
Uh that's the problem with it.
Are you going are you still uh did you sour on Arnold uh very early, or are you still uh sticking with him?
Oh no, I think he's terrible.
I think he's a stealth.
I call him a stealth Republican.
He's not really a Republican.
Well, see, somebody like him, he comes in, he says he's a Republican, he's fiscal conservative, and then he acts like a Democrat, and he ruins it for all Republicans because now the Democrats are gonna say, Oh, I'm not gonna vote for a Republican.
Look what Arnold Schwarzenegger did.
You know, Democrat or moderates who might have, or whatever you know what I mean?
It's like uh so I think he ruins it essentially for any Republican that's gonna run next time.
Well, that's uh that's a good way that's a good way of putting it, Jennifer.
Thank thanks for your call.
Uh and you're right.
Uh at some point when a guy says, look, I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
You ha you have the right to know how he's gonna square that circle.
What's gonna give?
And uh Arnold, uh, who had a terrific story.
I it would be great if only he'd lived up to it.
He came here.
Uh he came here as an a penniless immigrant to a land of plenty.
Uh and now California is a penniless land governed by an immigrant of plenty.
Why can't other Californians get a slice of the same opportunities uh that uh that Arnold Schwarzenegger had?
It's an overregulated state.
Uh it's got uh it's it's libraries in Berkeley, California.
Uh the library computer checkout program uh isn't currently being uh it's isn't being serviced because the company that was supposed to service it uh refused refuses to say uh that it's a nuclear-free company.
Berkeley apparently is a nuclear-free zone, and so even to get the contract to service the uh book checkouts in the Berkeley Library, you've got to say you're a nuclear-free zone.
This is gonna make checking out a library book in Berkeley hideously expensive because they got to get in a whole new company now.
That's the trouble.
The social liberalism, fiscal conservatism model doesn't work because the social liberalism uh and the activism and all the rest of it usually comes with price quite a price tag.
More straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the EIB network.
Uh a story from the BBC, eco-sailers rescued by oil tanker.
An exhibition team, an expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a five thousand mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by a U.S. oil tanker.
The team which left Mountbatten marina on April the nineteenth, aimed to rely on sail, solar, and manpower on a five hundred and eighty-mile journey to and from the highest point of the Greenland ice cap.
The expedition was followed by up to forty schools across the United Kingdom to promote climate change awareness.
But atrocious weather dogged their journey.
And the wind generator and solar paddles were ripped from the yacht.
That is a metaphor, folks, uh for where uh the uh environmental fetishism uh will will lead.
Uh essentially uh to uh to have progress you require innovation.
You don't consciously step backward to say that the innovation and the science and the technology uh is destroying us and we have to take uh refuge in a kind of pristine natural state uh where only uh only wind power and solar power uh allowed to drive our economy.
That story, uh the uh eco-friendly bo boat, the wind generator and solar panels got ripped from the yacht, and they had to be rescued by a U.S. oil tanker.
That is a metaphor uh for where the world is headed.
You know, I often get into the uh uh often get into the final hour of uh of the show here, and people say, well, you know, but wait a minute, wait, wait a minute.
It's also uh is it over?
Is the game over?
Is it is it time, is the great American experiment over?
No.
But if you go back and you read uh Tocqueville uh two hundred years ago, you will understand that the strength of this country uh is in trusting its people uh and in trusting its uh the natural competition of a federalist system.
Now I've got no I've got no objection uh if Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to destroy California.
If he wants to take the golden state uh and turn it into one giant rust bucket, that's between him and the Californian people.
Uh and likewise if somebody in uh South Dakota or somebody in Idaho or somebody in Alabama or somebody in uh Maine wants to try a completely different way uh of governing, uh that is between them and their electorates.
Where it all gets very dangerous uh is when you have a uh president and a Democratic Congress who are essentially committed to federal annexation.
Uh federal annexation, uh uh ensuring that there's a kind of one-size fits-all model uh across the country is gonna put a big question mark over uh uh over America.
A friend of mine in uh in New Hampshire, he's uh on the local board of a town.
Uh he had a bridge that the state ruled was washed out.
They could have repaired it for thirty thousand dollars, but the state said, no, no, let's go in.
Why don't you go in on the eighty twenty format where the town pays twenty percent of the cost of the bridge and the state pays eighty percent?
So they said, sure, fine.
Years go by, the bridge still hasn't been repaired.
Now they come to them and say the stimulus package, under the stimulus package, the federal government will pay sixty percent of the cost of the new bridge, and the state will only have to pay forty percent.
So the town would only have to pay twenty percent of uh uh under the eighty twenty state town format, which in turn would only be forty percent of the sixty-forty federal uh state format.
Uh and so the bridge still won't be repaired for another five years.
And by that point they'll be saying, well, under the UN formula, you can go on with the UN formula 7030, where the international community will pay 70 percent of the bridge and the Federal Government will only pay 30 percent.
This is ridiculous.
This is ridiculous.
The great glory of America was Americans doing it themselves, getting the job done.
Uh build the bridge for thirty thousand dollars in your own town and tell the state and tell the feds uh and tell uh whoever the guys are at the United Nations who want to get mixed up with it, tell them all to take a hike.
Uh America was founded on the idea that free-born citizens can do it for themselves.
If you need a remote government, centralized government thousands of miles away uh to tell you how to do it, then you're basically back to where you were under uh in fact you're in a worse situation than you were under King George the Third, uh, and you might as well uh July the fourth uh this year declare a a declaration of dependence on good King Barack.
Uh Mark Stein sitting in for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Hey, it uh f flew by for me today.
We covered everything from uh Colin Powell the moderate uh to uh to Molly the Heifer.
It was uh an eclict an eclectic mix.
Uh it's been uh been great fun, uh Mark Stein sitting in, but as always, the border patrol is waiting in the lobby, and I uh gotta run.
And uh Mark Davis is gonna be here tomorrow and rush back on Monday with more on the EIB network from uh for me, heifer nice day, as uh as Molly's friends at the Slaughterhouse would say.
Ron uh Mark Davis uh checks in with you tomorrow on the excellence in broadcasting network.
Thanks for listening.
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