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April 30, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 30, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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What a teachable moment.
Obama has a press conference today.
The original purpose of the press conference, not a press conference.
He had a ceremony outside the oval orifice in the Rose Garden.
And the purpose of it was to tout a non-existing economic growth rate.
The actual growth rate's about 1.6%.
I'll explain how that happens in mere moments.
But something got in the way of this.
That damn oil slick.
Obama's Katrina.
That damn oil slick just got in the way of this.
So he had to give some lip service to the oil slick.
It's all British Petroleum's fault.
They got to clean it up.
I'm sending some czars down there.
Now let me tell you what I really came out here for.
And look at these people.
And he had seven or eight props up there, disguised as human beings, to tout new jobs in the so-called clean energy sector and so forth.
It is clear this guy does not really want to be president.
He doesn't want to deal with the country's problems.
He does not have any desire to manage.
He can't be bothered with the responsibilities of his office.
He simply is wanting and is imposing his ideology without distraction.
He wants to make sure that he gets this transformation of the country done.
That's what he's doing.
He's getting even with his country for all of its transgressions in the past.
So he had an oil slick.
Added benefit.
Now he can cancel offshore drilling.
It's just an amazing thing to watch.
Soundbites.
I mean, we've got the amount of time he spent on the oil slick today versus the amount of time he spent on those props, described as human beings and their jobs, was fascinating.
So there you have it.
Here's the economic news.
This is first from Reuters.
The economy grew at a slightly slower than expected pace in the first quarter, held back by inventories and exports.
But now that's key, held back by inventories and exports.
But resurgent consumer spending offered evidence of a sustainable recovery.
Gross domestic product expanded at 3.2%, said the Commerce Department.
Analysts polled by Reuters had forecasted GDP growing at a 3.4% rate, so they were shocked and surprised and stunned and disappointed that the growth rate was not what they had forecast.
Despite the slowdown from the prior quarter, details of the report were fairly upbeat, with consumer spending accelerating at a 3.6% rate, more than double the 1.6 pace, 1.6% pace in the fourth quarter.
When businesses slow the rate at which they are liquidating inventories, manufacturers raise production.
This boosts GDP.
So here's the real nut of this.
Excluding inventories, the economy expanded at a 1.6% rate following a 1.7% pace in the fourth quarter.
So there was no economic growth.
And if you take the census workers out of this, if you take the federal spending out, I mean, look at the anemic economic growth that we have bought with a $787 billion stimulus package.
That's what he's trying to claim here.
The stimulus did it.
So there really was, it was just inventory adjustments, not real growth.
1.6% is nothing to write home about.
Still, here's the way CNN writes it up.
While there may be some, and by the way, folks, I'm not trying to be anything but honest here.
I'm not happy reporting to you the truth about economic growth.
You know me, I'm Mr. Optimism, but it's got to be based in fact and truth and reality.
Phony optimism is unkind to people.
It's like John Edwards saying, if you elect, you elect John Kerry, Christopher Reeve will be walking next week.
You know, that's a very cruel thing to say to people who have spinal cord problems.
So to sit here and be phony about, oh yeah, where economy is really, that's what Obama's trying to do, creating an image and a template.
I just have to tell you, it isn't happening.
And the reason it's not happening is because of his policies.
They're just, they continue to deplete resources from the private sector.
And here's how CNN says it.
Still, while there may be signs of greater strength, the report also detailed some of the headwinds facing the economy.
Investment in residential real estate fell nearly 11%, ending a two-quarter rebound in that battered sector and subtracting from overall growth.
And commercial real estate investment dropped at a 14% rate.
Now, my friends, if residential real estate and commercial real estate are dropping at 11% and 14%, pretty much tells you what's happening out there.
There's no growth.
Commercial real estate, there's no expansion taking place.
While federal government spending increased 1.4%, that was outweighed by a 3.8% spending cut by state and local governments dealing with budget crises.
Now, we went back.
We got a 3.2% economic growth rate, right?
Yep, yep, yep, there it is.
And hey, you know what?
It's a recovery.
It's really happening.
It's going to be slow, a tough slug, but it's really happening.
They're doing everything they can to shape and spin.
This is good news.
CNBC, August 28th, 2008.
The GDP, August 2008, was 3.3%.
The media was reporting it felt like a recession.
Despite the surprising growth in the U.S. economy in the second quarter, many economists and average Americans aren't convinced that the country has avoided a recession.
The reason this feels like a recession is, from the standpoint of the consumer, it basically is, said David Ressler, the chief economist at Nomura Securities.
Consumer spending very weak.
It isn't going to get any stronger anytime soon.
And that's for the benefit of the economic stimulus.
The Commerce Department attributed the unexpected 3.3% jump.
It went up.
They were stunned.
And they still called it a recession in 2008, because, of course, this was right before the election.
This was still a Bush economy.
So the Commerce Department attributed the unexpected 3.3% jump in the GDP to stronger than expected consumer spending and exports.
So today we've got 3.2%.
And boy, they're doing everything they can to tug that number across the finish line.
Look, we're coming back.
Still later on in their stories, have to be honest.
Most of this is inventory manipulation.
Still, a growing number of analysts fear the country will hit another economic pothole to the third and fourth quarters.
So they're claiming the recession began in December 2007, which it hadn't.
Here we have 3.3% growth in August of 08.
It was up.
Everybody was shocked, and yet they still wrote about it in doom and gloom terms.
This is a teachable moment here, folks, to give you evidence of how economic news is treated depending on who's in the White House.
Now, we've got to be fair to the media here.
We have to be fair to the media because it was an election year, and the Democrats needed a bad economy.
And so the media was chipping in, trying to create the image or the notion in people's minds that we were headed for a rotten economy.
Now, here is the Reuters story.
And their story is non-celebratory.
It makes me ask, why haven't somebody officially declared the recession over?
U.S. economy grew at a slightly slower than expected pace in the first quarter, held back by inventories and exports.
But resurgent consumer spending offered evidence of a sustainable recovery.
A government report showed on Friday.
As I mentioned yesterday, U.S. starts criminal probe into Goldman.
Goldman Sachs, now the criminal probe.
Federal prosecutors in New York have begun investigating Goldman Sachs group, raising the possibility of criminal charges against the company or its employees.
Goldman said it was not surprised at the news, given the recent focus on our firm.
We're not surprised by the report of an inquiry, said one of their spokespeople.
We would fully cooperate with any requests and information.
Goldman, which had prided itself on its government connections, now facing one of the biggest crises in its 140-year history, has become a poster boy for criticism of Wall Street's conduct that led to the financial crisis was caused by the government, which is not stated here.
I threw it in there because we at the EIB network focus on truth.
So, and there are nine people on the Reuters staff that wrote this story.
Nine people.
So, is Bam throwing Goldman under the bus here?
I don't know.
We'll have to wait and find out.
But, you know, Blank fine went up there, bent over, grabbed the ankle, said, whatever you want, we'll pay the fine.
We agree with your financial regulatory reform.
Got out of there thinking, dodged the bullet here.
And the next day, criminal investigation is announced into Goldman Sachs.
It's like I said, what's going to happen here at the end of the day is a huge fine.
Some of these execs will leave by design, form their own hedge funds, and earn $25 or $30 billion a year.
Some might end up the administration.
You never know.
All of this to create the image that it is Wall Street and the rich.
Like I said yesterday, Obama dividing this country two ways.
Dividing it on class envy, the haves and have-nots, and dividing it on race.
Hitler only did one way.
The Soviet Communists only did one way.
Obama is combining these two techniques, and you see it right before your very eyes.
Back after this, folks.
What's striking about the economic report on the GDP today versus the one in 2008, back in 2008, they were surprised at how big the economy grew, and they sort of downplayed the fact that it was all related to consumer spending.
Sort of downplayed that.
Now, consumer spending's everything in the economy when the economy's ruined.
Look at consumers.
They're starting to spend again.
So it's, folks, it is no longer arguable that the drive-by media, the state-controlled media, reports economic news entirely differently on purpose, depending on who is in the White House.
By the way, this criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs was not Obama.
Congress is demanding this.
Congress sent the DOJ, i.e. Eric Holder, a letter asking, demanding actually to open a criminal investigation at Goldman Sachs.
John Conyers was leading the way here.
The letter that they wrote Holder called what Goldman did criminal fraud on an historic scale.
So, you know, Blank Fine might have called Obama and said, hey, what the hell's going on here?
We had a deal.
You can't control your guys over in Congress?
Obama's smiling because he knew it was going to happen.
But he gets to say, we'll do what I can to stop it.
Just fascinating.
All right, here, I want you to have some sound bites.
Here's Obama.
Because I think this is a very important point here.
I think it's very obvious Obama does not want to manage the country.
He does not want to do the job of being president.
He is here as a full-fledged ideologue to remake.
In fact, there's a great piece today in the American Spectator.
Let me find this.
And I put this nearly.
Yes.
It is by Robert Weisberg.
Listen to this.
This is how this starts.
As the Obama administration enters its second year, I and millions of others have struggled to develop a shorthand term that captures our emotional unease.
Defining this discomfort's tricky.
I reject nearly the entire Obama agenda, but the term being opposed lacks an emotional punch, nor do terms like worried or anxious apply.
I was more worried about America's future during the Johnson or Carter year, so it's not that dictionary either.
Maybe, for that matter, is this about backroom odious dealmaking and pork, which are endemic in American politics.
So after auditioning countless political terms, I finally realized the Obama administration and its congressional collaborators almost resemble a foreign occupying force, a coterie of politically and culturally non-Indigenous leaders whose rule contravenes local values rooted in our national tradition.
It's as if the United States has been occupied by a foreign power.
And this transcends policy objections.
It's not about Obama's birthplace.
It's not about race.
Millions of white Americans have had black mayors and black governors.
This unease about out-of-sync values never surfaced.
The term I settled on then is alien rule based on outsider values, regardless of policy benefits that generate agitation.
This is what bloody anti-colonial strife was all about.
No doubt millions of Indians and Africans probably grasped that expelling the British guaranteed economic ruin and even worse governance, but at least the mess would be their mess.
Just travel to Afghanistan and witness American military commanders' efforts to enlist tribal leaders with promises of roads, clean water, dental clinics, and all that.
Many of these elders probably privately prefer to abject poverty to foreign occupation, since it would be their poverty run by their people according to their sensibilities.
So, this goes on and on and on.
It's a great piece.
Now, this is why I came up with the term regime.
It is why we say Obama sides against the American people.
It is why we use the phrase Obama is governing against the will of the people.
We know that Obama and his mentors were people who don't have a particular affection for this country.
They find a lot of grievances.
They find a lot of things this country's guilty of.
They think that he's been imperialistic, that it's too powerful, that it steals resources around the world, that it's the number one polluter in the world.
So they're coming in here to change it.
It does feel foreign.
It feels like this is an administration that is not of this country.
And of course, we've got all these czars now who are not confirmed and thus not accountable to anybody.
We don't even know what they're being paid.
So I imagine a lot of people have been trying to figure out what is the root of the unease that I'm feeling.
And it is, it's well stated here.
The administration and Congress almost resemble a foreign occupying force.
I have expressed it by saying the American people instinctively understand this is not how things get done in this country.
It just doesn't feel right.
I mean, here you have this massive usurpation, massive takeover of one-sixth of the U.S. economy.
It barely, barely passed.
It had no bipartisan support.
It required bribes, kickbacks, deals.
You know, the way tin horn dictatorships get things done.
Buy off the opposition.
Buy off the opposition in your own party.
But massive reformation of American life, culture, society does not happen in this country this way.
And there's an instinctive understanding of this, but it does make people uncomfortable.
What's going on?
Plus, add to this that people are also instinctively afraid to speak this way for fear that somebody will overhear them and think that they are racist when it has nothing to do with race or think that they are part of a conspiracy cabal that doesn't think Obama was born in Hawaii or what have you.
So people are naturally, because of political correctness and so forth, naturally censoring themselves, but their gut, their guts telling them something's not right here.
And Mr. Weisberg, Robert Weisberg, who, by the way, is professor of political science emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana, not an insignificant institution.
We will link to this.
It's from the American Thinker.
We'll link to this at rushlimbaugh.com.
For example, he says, none of this disqualified Obama.
Now, there's a paragraph here about Reverend Wright, anti-American ranting, his enduring friendship with a terrorist guy in the neighborhood, Bill Ayers, Sololinsky, blah, blah, blah.
Further at a hazy personal background, an Indonesian childhood, shifting official names, a paperless trail climbed through elite educational institutions.
None of this disqualified Obama from the presidency.
Rather, this background just doesn't fit with the conventional political resume.
It's just the outsider quality that alarms the suspicion that Obama is an outsider, a figure who really doesn't get America, grew clearer from his initial appointments.
What native would appoint Kevin Jennings, a militant gay activist, to oversee school safety or permit a Marxist rabble-rouser to be a green job czar or an attorney general who began by accusing Americans of cowardice when it comes to discussing race.
And then there's the, we're all sorry, we'll never be eroded again rhetoric, seemingly designed for a future president of the world election campaign.
It's a fascinating piece, nails it, occupying force, a foreign occupying force, a regime back after this.
You know, wouldn't now, well, too late now, sadly, too late now, but wouldn't this week have been a good time for Obama to lower the seas?
Or at least the Gulf of Mexico?
I mean, that could go a long way toward minimizing any damage.
Follow me here now, folks.
If Obama would just, you know, put down a basketball and stop holding meaningless ceremonies in the oval, well, in the Rose Garden.
Oh, my friends, I'm so distracted today.
I said American spectator.
This story I read to the American Thinker.
I'm distracted because my iPad's sitting at home, and I'd really rather be there playing with the damn thing.
I've been waiting for this thing for a month.
Well, I'm halfway kidding, but I am a little distracted here.
No, no, I'm not going to know.
I'm not going to have it brought over here because I can't do anything with it here.
The sink computer is at home.
Well, you'll see it on Monday.
I'll bring it in on Monday for it, but I'm not going to bring it in here now.
This would be like putting the presents under the Christmas tree and not being able to get out of bed for three hours.
So I'm just not going to, I'm not going to go there.
I'm not going to put it in my presence.
If I brought it over here, I'd be playing with it during a commercial break and I'd probably miss coming back to the program.
So I'm trying to stay focused here.
It was in the American spectator, not the American Thinker, what a brilliant piece was.
Now, back to Obama lowering the Gulf of Mexico.
It would help, it's too late now, of course, it would help preserve the coastline as it exists today.
First, Obama would just lower the sea level.
Next, after all the oil soaks into the newly exposed area of the shore, we simply scoop out the mess, and then Obama raises the sea level back to where the tide normally meets the shore.
And presto Chinjo, we have a completely clean Gulf of Mexico with no oil slick coming ashore.
But Obama couldn't be bothered to get to this this week.
He is so busy race baiting, preaching redistribution of wealth, grabbing power, he can't actually do the job that he was elected to do, coal mines included.
I mean, look at him today, poised to take credit for moderate economic growth that he not only had nothing to do with, but which he has stymied.
White House advisor tells ABC News, no new offshore drilling unit until complete review of big surprise there, no more offshore drilling.
And by the way, I don't want to get conspiratorial here, but it looks like the blame for this explosion on the rig out there is being placed on the safety shutdown valve not working because of the way the cement was poured at the base of the well.
Now, guess who the company is that would have done this?
Halliburton.
Halliburton is an oil services company.
They're not in the oil business, but they help build derricks, rigs, wells, this kind of thing.
Halliburton poured the cement for the rig and the well cap, and they provided a lot of other services for British petroleum on that well.
And Halliburton stock is taking a little bit of a beating today.
It wouldn't surprise me if eventually Halliburton is hauled up before Congress for show trials, which of course is something that Democrats have always wanted.
Remember all the beating up of Halliburton during the Iraq War.
So we got SWAT teams out there.
I still look, we got SWAT teams in Homeland Security out there, which I don't know.
I mean, he sent Homeland Security out there for terrorist acts.
I mean, so I'm sure.
And they're investigating SWAT teams investigating all of these rigs.
And what do SWAT teams know?
Why aren't they sending real live oil engineers out there?
When Obama gets up and says, oh, VP will fix this up, VP's going to clean it up.
It's their responsibility.
I want you to see all the people I got jobs for.
It's essentially how his press conference went today.
And now they've shut down all the drilling.
When we have car accidents, do we close down highways for months?
We might close it down for hours to clean it up and let the forensics guys go in there and gather evidence.
We have industrial accidents of any kind.
Do we shut down for months?
The problem here is that Obama didn't jump on this ASAP.
He waited eight days, folks.
There is no excuse for this, none.
Obama does not like the hard job of actually running the bureaucracy.
He just likes to grab as much power as he can in every direction he can grab it.
On Thursday, President Obama set in motion a larger federal mobilization, pledging to deploy every single available resource to the area and ordering his disaster and environmental leaders to get down there in person.
Only a few days after the Coast Guard assured the country there was ample time to protect the coast if oil came ashore.
Warnings from the government were newly alarming.
And the people in Louisiana and Mississippi once again think the government has failed to come in and protect them, just like the people of Arizona think the same thing.
Speaking of Arizona, try this.
After making national headlines for a new law on illegal immigrants, the Arizona legislature sent the governor Jan Brewer a bill yesterday that would ban ethnic studies programs in Arizona that critics say currently advocate separatism and racial preferences.
This is big.
After making national headlines for a law on illegal immigrants, the Arizona legislature passed a bill yesterday that would ban ethnic studies programs in the state.
It passed 32 to 26 in the state house.
It had been approved by the Senate a day earlier, now goes to the governor for her signature.
The new bill would make it illegal for a school district to teach any courses that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, that promote resentment of a particular race or class of people, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group, or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.
You know, before this is all over, Arizona may have to build a wall around itself to keep people who hate this state out of it.
This is huge.
So it does appear here, folks, that we do have, it is possible that a state in this country can have a legislature with common sense.
Now, this is not going to, you know, if Obama didn't like the immigration law, wait till he hears about this.
Can't teach ethnic studies.
Can't teach the overthrow of the U.S. government.
You can't teach anything that separates people by race.
Why, that's half of Obama's agenda that Arizona just outlawed.
It's not going to sit well with him up there in the Oval Office.
The bill puts the emphasis on the individual.
This makes way too much sense, folks.
Well, I can't wait for Obama's comments because he certainly is going to hear about this.
Let me go through the timeline very quickly, just so you know.
Here's the timeline on this whole oil spill thing.
April 20th, this has been his focus since the oil rig explosion.
The rig exploded on April 21st.
There was a massive explosion of an oil rig in the Gulf.
The White House was strangely silent about the environmental disaster just till a few days ago.
Obama's focus has largely been on politics not containing the environmental disaster in the Gulf.
Here is some of what the president has been doing since the explosion, most of which involves bashing Wall Street and Arizona.
Thursday, April 22nd, Obama went to Wall Street to push his takeover of the country's financial sector, offering no reform of Fannie Mayor Freddie Mac, which caused a financial meltdown two years ago.
Oh, he gave an Earth Day speech, by the way, folks.
Instead of doing something that might actually help the environment, the president took time out to speak about 40 years of Earth Day, a bright moment in our nation's history and a milestone in the ongoing fight to protect our environment.
Meanwhile, the oil continued to leak into the Gulf.
On Friday, April 23rd, Obama blasted the Arizona governor, state legislators, policemen, and residents for making an attempt to deal with the violence of chaos caused by illegal aliens.
And still, the oil flowed into the Gulf.
On Saturday, April 24th, the president gave his weekly radio address.
The topic was not the oil spill in the Gulf.
It wasn't about capping the red ink spill in Washington.
It was to bash Wall Street again and to rally his original supporters, African Americans, Latinos, Hispanics, and women.
And still, the oil flowed into the Gulf.
On Monday, April 26th, the president appeared in a video, which was a rather stunning racist appeal to blacks and Latinos for their votes as No Member.
On Tuesday, April 27th, while the oil continued to flow, Obama continued his bashing of Arizona, calling their immigration law, which mirrors federal law, saying it was poorly conceived.
On Wednesday, April 28th, as the oil continued to flow, and we were told that it was twice as bad as we thought it was, Obama bashed judges that followed the Constitution.
President Barack Obama, preparing to make his second nominee to the Supreme Court, warned Wednesday of a conservative brand of judicial activism in which the courts are often not showing appropriate deference to the decision of lawmakers.
And still the oil flowed.
On Thursday, April 29th, Obama attended a DNC fundraising dinner closed to the press after he had told everybody he's going to send SWAT teams and Janet Napolitano to the Gulf to see what's going on out there.
Is the oil causing the sea level to rise?
No.
As I said earlier, Obama should have gone in and lowered the sea level right after the spill.
And then that oil it spilled comes ashore much lower on the shoreline than it would have otherwise because he's lowered the sea level.
After the oils come in lower than ever, you go scoop the goo out, take it wherever, and then you raise the sea level back up to where it normally was, and bamboo, you've got no oil slick.
But Obama was too busy bashing Wall Street to lower the seas.
He was too busy bashing judges to lower the seas.
He was too busy bashing Arizona, its governor, its people, its laws, and its lawmakers to lower the seas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Today, grab audio soundbite number three.
We had the most lengthy statement on this since it happened on April 21st.
I have dispatched the Secretaries of Interior and Homeland Security, as well as the Administrator of the EPA, my assistant for energy and climate change policy, and the NOAA administrator to the Gulf Coast to ensure that we continue to do everything necessary to respond to this event.
I've ordered Secretary Salazar to conduct a thorough review of this incident and report back to me in 30 days on what, if any, additional precautions and technologies should be required to prevent accidents like this from happening again.
Okay.
So he basically blows it off.
He's dispatched underlings, including global warming people, to get down there and report back to him in 30 days.
Meanwhile, in 30 days, how many pelicans are going to die and other migratory birds?
When he finished saying that, and I don't have time to play them now, I have one, let's see, 44 seconds, 35 seconds, 49 seconds.
We've got basically three minutes of Obama doing a ceremonial show with a bunch of props on how great the economy is.
After his 31-second explanation of what they're doing to deal with the oil slick, he never once, not once, made an effort to go down there and lower the sea level in the Gulf, which could have handled this.
If he'd have done that, we wouldn't even be here today talking about it.
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I am Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, the doctor of democracy and the defender of truth here at 800-282-288.
No, Obama didn't fly over it.
Somebody asking me if Obama flew over the oil slick, the damage.
Well, I might fly over it just to go get a personal look at it.
I can fly out over the weekend.
You know, take up there and do a little buzz, go down and get my bird's eye view myself.
At least Bush flew over Katrina.
Obama probably be playing golf this weekend.
Starting on the phones in Houston, this is Gabrielle.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello.
How are you?
Very well, thank you.
Good.
Don't believe that Obama isn't jumping for joy over this.
You're right.
My husband's a petroleum engineer.
We talked about it last night.
He may be acting indifferent, but they're jumping up and down.
That's the reason why they haven't done anything to help.
They want the damage to be so extensive that it's going to...
I won't be surprised after all this that they actually shut down the Gulf for drilling completely.
It's the only...
It's the only area which can be drilled in the U.S., and they're going to put an end to it.
Is that what your husband thinks, too?
Yep.
So this just came along at an opportune time.
Obama doesn't like oil to begin with.
He doesn't like our dependence on it.
By the way, if you're right, listen, what faster way is there to get the price of gasoline up to four bucks?
Well, he's been chipping away at the oil and gas industry for, I would say, long before he even became the president.
Right.
And don't forget the coal industry.
He promised to put them out of business.
When you had brought up the fact that the layoffs really started right after Obama's election, that is the truth.
My husband's company laid off 5,000 people.
Not all of them, but mostly before and during and right after his inauguration.
Your husband works for big oil?
He works for a service company that they do completion drilling.
Now, they don't do offshore drilling, but you know, this rig that was out there, it was a massive state-of-the-art rig.
It's unprecedented.
I mean, they still don't know what happened.
And it's not, and I don't believe that it's any kind of sabotage.
But, I mean, if you can imagine this rig, you know, it was actually, you know, using GPS positioning right over the hole.
It's not anchored.
It's 5,000 feet from just the rig just to the sea floor.
And they were cementing 18,000 feet down.
Yeah, well, it looks like I said earlier that the blame is being placed on that safety shutdown valve not working because of the way the cement was poured.
And Halliburton poured the cement.
Huh?
Halliburton poured the cement.
You wait.
Halliburton's going to be brought up to Washington for show trials.
Democrats have wanted that since the Iraq War.
If they can blame this on Halliburton and say that Cheney somehow approved the project, even as an ex-CEO, oh, they may not even need Khalid Sheikh Mohammed here.
Okay, so the regime has shut down drilling in the Gulf.
But you know who hasn't shut down drilling?
The Russians are drilling in a deal with the Cubans.
In the Gulf, the Vietnamese and Angola are drilling for oil in the Gulf in deals with the Cubans.
And of course, the Mexicans have this giant new find that they're getting ready to go get.
There's no mention of the Louisiana oil spill on FEMA's website, which tells me, you know, I think Obama must really have it in for wildlife down there because these are the first victims.
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