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June 30, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 30, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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America's real anchor man, America's truth detector.
A doctor of democracy.
Rush Limboa, serving humanity behind a golden EIB microphone meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Phone number if you want to be on the program at 800-282-2882, the email address El Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I looked it up during the break.
Do you know how much Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack are spending on landscaping every year?
One billion dollars.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack spent more than a billion dollars on landscaping upkeep last year on the repossessed properties they have.
This figure is from Financial News USA, June 20th of this year.
Cost of seizing Fanny and Freddie surges for taxpayers.
It's that's the story.
And the cost of seizing them and bailing them out, all the costs are figured, and it's just mentioned in passing that uh landscaping costs a billion bucks.
A billion dollars.
So Ruggles from North Carolina from the beach out there.
You're still tuned in, and I know you are.
The banks are the place to go.
They own the properties, sadly, and they do have to uh keep them up.
Demand for home buying near 13-year low.
This is some Reuters.
Refinancing drove total U.S. mortgage applications to an eight-month peak, as loan rates fell to a uh two or near record lows.
But demand to buy homes sank toward 13-year lows last week, according to the mortgage bankers association.
The U.S. housing market continued to deflate after a spring sales spree fueled by now expired federal tax credits of up to $8,000.
Um let me tell you something.
See, everybody thinks, see, the government can spurt things.
No, no, no.
This was an artificial uptick in the sales of homes.
It was artificial, nothing to do with genuine market circumstances.
The same thing with cash for clunkers.
All this did was accelerate the purchase of homes into an earlier quarter, and now they're gonna just die and now a 13-year low.
We're doing more damage by having these artificial prop-ups, and the whole purpose of the artificial prop-ups is to make the regime look good.
And this is from the Daily Caller that's Chatsworth Osborne Jr.'s website.
The largest skimming ship in the world, known as an A-Whale, is expected to arrive in the Gulf of Mexico today, but will be prevented from contracting with BP to help clean up the oil spill until the federal government decides the vessel is effective.
The Coast Guard will not clear the Taiwan-owned ship, which is reportedly the length of three football fields.
It is ten stories high, will not clear it to join the cleanup until it undergoes a test.
The Coast Guard Research and Development Center has a team of personnel that are ready to observe the tests to test the efficacy of the vessel systems as well as its ability to safely operate in that area down there, said a Coast Guard spokesman.
The spokesman said that the Coast Guard does not have concerns about the environmental impact of the ship's operations.
Thank you.
What does that matter now?
The environmental impact of the ship's operation.
What the hell are we talking to?
What about the impact environmentally of the oil?
Some reports have said the environmental protection agency is worried.
Get this, that some of the 500,000 barrels of oily water sucked up every day by the vessel may contain some traces of oil when placed back in the Gulf.
Keep in mind, these are the people who will be in charge of your health care.
I would not want these people...
I w I would not have I would not want to have to wait for them to deem some treatment effective while I was dying.
We've got a proven skimmer, a huge one.
We gotta test it to make sure that its efficacy is right.
And then, you know, it might be, it might not be getting all the oil.
It might be a trace of oil that they're putting.
If it's a trace, the ocean's gonna eat it up.
Coast Guard spokesman said that the holdup for the super skimmer was required only because the government is required to give it the green light, even though BP would be the one paying for it and on the hook if it wasn't effective.
So BP wants to use it.
They got to get approval from the government, just like Bobby Gendal had to get approval.
Look how many months that took to build the sand berms.
According to the uh according to the Coast Guard's joint information center for the response, six vessels involved in oil containment have applied for Jones Act waivers, and they are still pending.
And we're constantly told by Admiral Allen of the Coast Guard they haven't been asked for any waivers.
And if somebody does ask, that they'll be granted right away.
But the Coast Guard's joint information center, according to them, six vessels who want to help have applied for Jones Act waivers still pending.
Uh well, you know what's happening?
Foreigners, for foreign countries and foreign operations are now selling their skimmers to Americans to get around the Jones Act.
So no matter what, you've got private sector people who are smart, and you've got an obstacle called the called the Obama regime and the federal bureaucracy, and they're going to people find ways around it.
It is private sector people who are pulling out all the stops to try to stop this oil leak.
And the people who are the roadblocks and the obstacles happen to be the United States federal government, which is now in charge, or is now Barack Obama's now in charge of it.
Don't doubt me when I tell you they like the disaster.
It's a political opportunity for them.
Demand for homebuying near 13-year low.
260,000 jobs per state created in June.
People worried about a double dip recession.
Biggest skimmer in the world can't get approval.
Yes, Mr. Snerdley, a program observer with a question.
What's the question?
Well, that's how I said in the first hour, you were probably busy screening calls.
How can we have a double dip recession when the first one hasn't ended?
Uh I said that in real in in regards to some take by the LA Times making a push for new stimulus.
Stimulus created thousands of jobs, but now that it's running out, we may be headed for a second recession.
Second recession, we're still in the first one.
There is no recovery.
Day nine of the summer of recovery.
Time for a giant C I told you so.
You may not have heard about this.
Marcos Mulitsis Zanago, who owns a daily CoS, Daily Cause, day, whatever the pronounces that far left fringe website, is going to sue a polling company called Research 2000, because he claims they have defrauded him.
They gave him bogus results.
I nailed this back in February.
I talked about a Daily Cause poll, uh a poll of Republican voters.
You will remember this when I play the soundbite, the questions that they asked Republicans.
This is the firm that asked the questions, research 2000 at uh that the Daily Cause is suing, but here to refresh your memory is what I said.
The Daily Cause recently released an odd poll of Republican voters, and now the politico and other liberal organizations are trying to use the results to churn waters remember now.
The results of the poll online were then picked up by politico and others.
Here's an example.
Do you believe Barack Obama wants the terrorists to win?
Do you believe Acorn stole the 2008 election?
Do you believe Barack Obama is a racist who hates white people?
The politico went out and interviewed John McCain and Susan Collins and asked them what they thought of the poll, which of course gives the poll credibility.
No Republican should have had a thing to Say about this.
It's about what we have said for years, this teachable moment.
The drive-by media is desperate to push the Republicans into being moderate.
Because they lose when they go that route.
Just ask McCain.
The liberals know, sometimes I think better than we do that conservatism, well articulated, wins elections.
It wins every damn time it's tried.
They know it better than our own party does.
The Daily Cause, the politico, the Democrats in general are scared to death, and that's what's behind this ridiculous poll of Republican voters.
Just hogwash.
They went out and they surveyed Republicans.
Do you believe Obama wants the terrorists to win?
Of course they reported the answers.
And that and McCain and Susan Call.
I distanced themselves from the poll.
This is me on the pale.
Here now is February 1st, 2010 on MSNBC, the Daily Cause founder.
He said was asked a question.
You have it.
You have a website poll coming up in full release tomorrow.
The early dribs and drabs out of this are just remarkable.
About what?
Two out of three Republicans believe Obama's a socialist?
Numbers about Palin's qualifications.
Give me what you can about this and what you think it means at first blush.
What we found with this poll is that about a third of Republicans are what could be characterized as sane.
About a third think Obama was born in the United States.
About a third don't think Obama should be impeached.
We're talking impeachment here without a hint of scandal.
About a third believe that uh sex education should be taught in schools.
And so on.
I mean, this is fairly comprehensive poll.
And the other two thirds either are completely insane or just aren't sure.
I mean, a third think that maybe we ought to debate whether Obama was born in the United States.
A third think that maybe Acorn stole the 2008 election.
I mean, that's pretty crazy stuff.
And I think a lot of this is driven by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, and it's an incredible reality-bending alternate media machine at the right half.
So the he's commissioned the poll that got those results, and yesterday he announced he's been defrauded by the polling company, that the results were bogus, they might have just made them up, and he's suing the polling company, Research 2000.
Now, the last I heard, research 2000 was thinking of counter-suing.
Well, I knew that this was bogus.
The whole concept of the poll was bogus from the get-go, which is why I spent time sharing with you the questions, going over the results and so forth.
And I chessed the politico and other for picking it up as some kind of a legit poll.
So now justice has been done.
The Daily Coast founder has to sue the outfit he hired because they gave him b how could you not get bogus information from these questions?
Anyway, brief time out.
Elena Kagan.
Uh I somehow I have made it into the media analysis of her confirmation hearings.
We'll let you hear that, some of the things that she said yesterday, and more of your phone calls as well coming right up.
Hey, Mike, grab sound by number eight.
And we go a little bit out of order here.
As we get to the Elena Kagan hearings, the Obama rubber stamp hearings.
I mean, even Time magazine has a story out there.
Are these things, are these hearings even relevant anymore?
And the reason they're asking that's because it's boring as hell.
Nobody's challenging challenging her on anything.
He said Jeff Sessions.
She's getting away with saying she doesn't know what progressivism is.
It's like saying she doesn't know what liberalism is.
I'll tell you what, we have so successfully tarnished the terms.
Liberal, progressive, whatever they want to call themselves, they can't afford to identify with it.
But she's out there claiming to have no clue what progressive legalism is.
That's like saying that Marx has no idea what communism is.
And I'm I'm not exaggerating.
Now, yesterday, Tom Coburn asked her a question.
During the QA, he said, what about the Commerce Clause and the federal government telling people what they can and cannot eat?
If I wanted to sponsor a bill, and it said, Americans, you have to eat three vegetables and three fruits every day.
And I got it through Congress, and it's now the law of the land.
Does that violate The Commerce Clause?
Sounds like a dumb law.
I got one that's real similar to it.
I think is equally dumb.
But I think that the question of whether it's a dumb law is different from whether the question of whether it's constitutional.
And I think that courts would be wrong to strike down laws that they think are senseless just because they're senseless.
Do we have the power to tell people what they have to eat every day?
Senator Coburn.
What is the extent of the Commerce Clause?
We have this wide embrace of the Commerce Clause, which these guys who wrote this never ever fathomed that we would be so stupid to take our liberties away by expanding the Commerce Clause this way.
She would not deny that the federal government has the power through the Commerce Clause to tell us what we can and can't eat.
She would not deny it.
Because she wants to reserve that power for herself and for her friends on the left.
If the Commerce Clause is so powerful, why wasn't it used to do away with slavery?
But here's the real irony in this.
Liberals tell us in the Constitution there is a right to privacy regarding a woman's reproductive rights.
But there is no right to privacy when it comes to all of our digestive rights.
That's essentially what Kagan is saying here.
The government telling us what to eat.
And by the way, it's not a theoretical question.
They already do.
Go to New York and try to get some trans fat.
If the mayor up there gets his way, salt is going to be regulated.
There won't be any.
Is that their right to tell you what you can and can't eat?
She wouldn't answer the question.
If there is a right to privacy regarding abortion, I would certainly think that people arguing that point would say, there's a right to privacy when it comes to the food we consume and digest.
If our reproductive rights, or at least a woman's, are totally off the record and private, how can our digestive rights not have equal rights to our reproductive rights?
Where is it written that our digestive rights must be subordinated to our reproductive rights?
I can't believe we're even talking...
Yes, I can believe we're talking about it, because this is where we are in 2010, run by a bunch of nanny state Marxists.
If Elena Kagan believes that there are privacy rights allowing a woman and her doctor to kill a human baby just before it's born without government interference, then I would think using the same logic must assume she believes the government can't stop me from eating an unborn chicken, which is an egg.
For those of you in Rio Linda.
After all, they have all that cholesterol.
And if this clip, I mean, I I listened to this.
It sounds to me like Elena Kagan may have a bigger problem with me eating an egg than with a woman killing her child.
It's scary.
We can all agree the government has no place in the bedroom, but all of a sudden now they have a place in the dining room.
They have a place in the kitchen.
And she will not poo-poo it.
Whatever happened to hands off our bodies.
And we have this answer here.
Well, I think the courts would be wrong to strike down laws that think are senseless just because they're senseless.
Meaning a senseless law could be constitutional.
Some people might think the government dictating what we can and can't eat is senseless.
But that doesn't mean it's unconstitutional.
Oh, let's see.
Where's the what's the soundbite number six?
Yeah, here is this is um no, no.
Soundbite number five, we have time for this.
John King's USA on CNN introduced a segment about Elena Kagan, thus.
Rush Limbaugh says he knows what's behind this nomination.
Well, the reason there's nobody criticizing Kagan on the left is because she's exactly what they want, an Obama rubber stamp.
She is a full-fledged far-left ideologue who believes the Constitution's unjust and immoral needs to be rewritten, and she's going to be happy to do it.
But she can't get confirmed if she admits that.
He's right she can't get confirmed if she admits that.
Uh Nobody could.
Well, but the problem is that's what she does believe.
They went and asked Ed Rollins about that.
Um what do you think, Ed?
She thinks the Constitution's unjust and immoral.
No, she's not.
But I think the bottom line is everybody knows she's appointed by the president.
She's pretty liberal, and I think she'll fit right in the seat that she's uh this was the Douglas and then the Stephen seat has been in the liberal seat for a long time.
No, she's not, she's not thinking constitution is immoral and just, but she's a liberal and what's the difference?
Liberals look at the Constitution and they have great resentment for it.
It's a charter of negative liberties, after all.
Tells them what they can't do to us.
Tells them they can't dictate what we can and can't eat, but that's going to change.
If they get a majority control, the court will be right back.
Don't go away.
Welcome back.
Uh Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have to Fort Worth in Texas.
This is Rhett.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hey Rush.
I've been listening since before you coined the term uh megadiddos.
Uh I can't tell you, I can't thank you for all the can't take you enough for all that you do.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Uh, you know, people are talking about, well, you know, the economy's bad, you know, this didn't work and that didn't work.
And I I think one thing we have to remember is this is all intentional.
And I mean, these people have to walk Tyro because, you know, if it gets too bad, then it's really gonna make them.
I mean, they look bad already, but terrible.
So they're, you know, it's uh you know, they they they need that they they have to control this uh, you know, this process.
Well, it's it's it's not really all that delicate.
All they have to do is continue to do policies that will continue to weaken the private sector while talking as though they're doing everything they can to help.
And that's where they're kind of blowing it.
You know, when Biden goes out there and says, Well, we're never gonna get those eight million jobs back, and what's your face and the Palatana goes out?
The border's too big, we're never gonna be able to close it.
And when Obama and Geitner go out there, the days of our leading the world economically are over.
Um that doesn't help.
They've uh but when Obama, like Obama's in racing in Wisconsin today, the unemployment rate's 14.2%.
He's gonna go out there and hype the recovery.
So while we continue to cycle and spiral downward, he's out there talking about give it time.
Stimulus is now beginning to kick in.
We have saved every bit of jobs and all this all this little rot gut.
Uh but the the dirty little secret is I I don't care how often I say it, I know it's going to be a tough thing for a lot of people to accept and believe.
Because once you accept and believe this, it's almost a call to action that this is being done purposely.
People would much rather believe that everybody in Washington is trying to do the best they can, but for whatever reason it just isn't working.
I don't believe that for a minute because there's no evidence.
I mean, a year and a half is enough time to see that what you're doing isn't working.
And not only that, what we've done here the past year and a half has been tried throughout the world throughout human history.
It's never worked.
And even they admit it.
They say, well, yeah, but we were not the ones implementing it in the past.
We're the ones who've been waiting for it.
We're the right people doing it now.
But they they're looking at their own panacea, their own utopian ideas fail right in in front of their face.
Now, in in Obama's case, if you don't if if you don't change course in the middle of all this, there's really only one conclusion.
And that is you're not that really worried about it.
You run around talking about winding up even more debt and more spending when the rest of the world is castigating you and says, sorry, we're not gonna go your direction.
It's pretty clear what the agenda is.
So they're not walking a tight rope.
Here's where they are.
They are figuring they're going to lose significant seats in November in the House, and who knows how many in the Senate.
They figure that.
I'm sure some of them are holding out hope that this ain't gonna be as bad as everybody thinks now.
I'm sure they're thinking that they might be able to hold control of the House, not lose it.
But even if they do lose control of the House, I don't think a lot of people understand the diabolical commitment these people have to their beliefs.
They don't care.
If they lose in November, I mean they're going to do whatever they can between now and November to cram all of these agenda items down our throats legislatively, however they manage that.
And then if they lose the election in the lame duck Congress, they'll continue to have votes.
Their theory is that everything they do will last.
And if you look, they may have a point.
When's the last time we roll back an entitlement?
We really don't roll them back.
When's the last time we repealed something?
Health care.
I mean, nobody wants it.
Still a lot of fervor and desire to repeal it.
But the Democrats are saying to themselves they'll never do it.
They'll never be able to do it.
They may, this is Democrats speaking.
The Republicans might try to defund it year to year, but they'll never be able to repeal it.
That's why they're going to try to cram as much as they can into these next uh six months, the remaining months of the year.
Because their theory is get it done.
We get it, and even if it costs us our jobs, we'll get it done.
Obama will find a place for us in the last two years of his administration, and he'll be re-elected.
We'll find a way to make that happen.
And everything's gonna be fine.
Even if Republicans do win, we know they're still st they're too stupid to hold the House for very long.
We'll get it back.
These are like the old Soviet Union guys.
They didn't have four year administrations.
They didn't have four year plans.
They had lifetime plans.
You know, Khrushchev makes a plan, and if it happens during Juri Andropov, fine.
If it happens during Gorbachev, fine.
If you had to take a couple steps backward to take one step forward now, and then you do it.
And that's them.
They've been at this for 50 years.
And in fact, longer than that, uh, around the world.
Now the evidence is clear does it work?
Is it stopping them?
Is it slowing them down?
No.
Is it changing their rhetoric about things?
Nope.
Because you have to understand to them it is working.
They're getting more powerful.
There are more and more people working for the government.
More and more people are being unionized in the public sector.
The government is becoming more and more oppressive.
They have to look at the oil spill and say, man, what a giant stroke of luck for us.
We've been trying to rip the shreds out of the fossil fuel industry, and they've come along and done it for us.
We've got oil poured into the Gulf.
Nobody's been able to stop it.
It's not our fault.
Shows the dangers of using oil.
Shows the dangers of the people who are in charge of getting oil out of the ground, who we want to tar and feather.
But at some point, as I said in the first hour, all of this is going to have a tipping point, the American people, who at some point are just not going to sit around and effectively be slapped across the face every day and told this is the way it is.
We, as Americans just don't sit there and accept this is the way it is.
As you can see, little story we had about the skimmers.
The Jones Act won't be waived.
Foreign countries can't get in here with their assistance.
So the people in foreign countries who own those skimmers are now selling them to Americans.
And when Americans own them, the Jones Act doesn't apply.
So entrepreneurs, creative people will always find a way to work around the kind of policies people like Obama implement.
Not to say the policies don't create damage because of course they do.
Here's something Obama said.
Well, he might even want the GOP to win in November.
He used the lame duck Congress to force the rest of his agenda through.
They'll have nothing to lose.
They've already lost.
So they'll be eager and willing to get even with the voters, which is what Democrats do.
You throw them out of office, and boy, you are going to pay for that.
And then Obama will blame the Republicans on all of his tax increases in Social Security and Medicare costs and the rich, because they'll be in charge.
He'll be in Congress.
That's his plan.
It isn't going to work.
It isn't going to, but Obama's not going to be able to blame the Republic.
I know a lot of you are deathly afraid of this because this is what always happens.
They'll be able to blame the Republicans.
Uh-uh.
Republicans couldn't have stopped any of this.
Republicans have not supported any of this.
It ain't gonna happen.
But in the traditional way of thinking, I'm sure Obama believes if the Republicans win the House, then he gets a transfer blame to them.
Because next year is when the excrement hits the fan.
That's when the tax increases go up.
That's when you lose even more liberty.
That's when your disposable income shrinks.
And guess who's running the cost?
Republicans.
So Obama, Democrats, think they're gonna be able to blame Republicans for what happens next year.
But they forget.
There's an alternative media.
It got Den Rather.
It's gonna get Obama.
They're not gonna be able to get away with the stuff they used to be able to get away with.
Now in Racine, Wisconsin today, this is from Obama's speech.
This debate that we're having in Washington isn't about big government or small government.
It's about responsible government.
It's about accountable government.
It's about a government that stands on the side of the American people.
A government that breaks down barriers to opportunity and prosperity.
That's the kind of government we need.
I'm sorry he has created precisely the kind of government he says we don't have.
It is an argument about big government versus small government.
There's no question about it.
It's about accountable government too, but there is none of that.
His government does not stand on the side of the American people.
He is governing against the will, as is his party, of the American people.
You see, we've already tried Obama's ideas to one degree or another.
We already know where their theories lead us.
So now we have a choice as a nation.
This is this is Obama.
That's what he said.
It's like a campaign speech.
We already know where their theories lead us, and we now have a choice as a nation.
We can return to the failed economic policies of the past, or we can keep building a stronger future.
We can go backward or we can keep moving forward.
It's Obama in Racine today, where there's 14% unemployment, blaming Bush.
Speaking as though it is 2007 or 2008.
So you can see what's being set up here.
Blame the Republicans for the um problems that are going to pop up, have been popping up and will even pop up even larger and more visible next year when the tax increases go into effect.
So we've already tried the other side's ideas.
Which ideas are those, Mr. President?
Uh Reagan's ideas?
Hmm.
Those worked.
Uh Bush tax cuts, those those worked.
Which which ideas you're talking about?
JFK, who whose theories are you talking about, Mr. President?
What what choice do we have?
What choice?
We don't have any choice.
You are the president.
You're not giving anybody a choice.
What choice do we have?
This is absurd.
It's also insane.
It is diabolically egregious.
To sit there a year and a half into his term in racing, Wisconsin, 14.2% unemployment, and to tell those people we've already tried the other side's idea.
We are a year and a half into your ideas, bud.
We are sinking into quicksand after a year and a half of your ideas and your theories.
And we know where your theories lead us.
And your party and all your supporters.
Why is there such misery?
Because everything they've believed in that would bring about utopia panacea in the past year and a half is destroying the country.
There's no happiness, there's no unity.
Hell, nobody's even singing a cotton eyed Joe.
Much less a Kumbaya.
Nobody's even singing Elvira.
They're all singing 16 tons.
Little long here, quick time out.
Back with much more after this.
Back to the phones.
This is Dana in Rockford, Illinois.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
It's great talking to you.
I've been listening for years.
Um, this week, I don't know if you were aware, but we started exporting our global warming policy and costing American jobs in the process.
There's a coal fire plant uh company in Wisconsin that was declined a uh contract in India to build a cold fired uh power plant uh because the uh import export bank cited Obama environmental policy and rejected their six hundred million dollar contract.
Um it just happened like in the last couple days.
The haunted so this is just this is an example of what's to come.
This is what's going to happen with cap and trade and other aspects of the Obama energy policy.
It's going to cost American jobs.
And everybody analyzing the legislation knows that.
We are emulating Spain.
They were the leaders in going green.
Look where they are.
There is no green energy business.
There's certainly not enough of a green energy business to replace the fossil fuel energy business.
And certainly there isn't enough green energy, however it's defined, to even sustain the United States economic activity as it is today.
Now I want to go back to this Obama speech.
I just read to you this speech.
This is it is it is uh deceptive, it's delusional, it was egregious.
This this speech Obama gave today in Racine, Wisconsin, about how we can't go back to the old ideas, the old ideas that failed.
It's almost word for word with speeches that he gave during the campaign and the speech he has given on the economy since he's been president.
He probably knows it so well he doesn't even need the teleprompter.
I I I think the guy is in a bubble.
He doesn't seem to realize the entire world has voted on his choices.
And they're now saying he was wrong.
The G Wiz weekend.
The G Wiz meetings.
The rest of the world said no, Obama.
We're not going to keep spending.
We've undone it for 30 years.
We're going to cut back.
The rest of the world is voting no on Obama, and yet there he is, almost pretending that he's not president.
With that speech that he gave in Racine, Wisconsin today.
I mean, even folks, he was really slapped by the G20.
And he's undaunted.
It didn't wake him up or he doesn't care.
Because he's got a mission.
Arlen Spector today.
In Washington, the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings on Ilena Kagan.
Specter, not happy with Kagan's non-answers.
Says he hopes he can find a place short of voting no.
You uh have followed the pattern which has been in vogue since Bork.
And uh you quoted me in your law review article that someday the Senate would stand up in its highlights.
It would be my hope that we could find some place between uh voting no and uh having some sort of of substantive answers.
But uh I don't know that it would be useful to pursue these uh questions any further.
I think we are searching for a way how senators can succeed in getting substantive answers as you advocated in the Chicago law review, short of voting no.
Senator Spector, no Democrat from Pennsylvania, saying I uh uh we're not we're not we're not getting any answers from you.
Well, we got no reason to vote yes here.
Maybe Senator Spector, if you guys maybe you should try waterboarding.
We know that waterboarding works.
It makes people talk.
Try this.
Representative Steve Scalis, Republican from Louisiana, wanted to fly ten lawmakers down to the Gulf of Mexico to see the damage caused by the oil spill firsthand.
House Democrats said no.
Skelisa's trip was rejected for a variety of bureaucratic and logistical reasons, but it has also opened a new vein of partisans squabbling over who should be allowed to arrange a trip to view the impact of the oil spill.
Republicans want to be able to take trips using their orifice spending allowance.
But the Democrats have heard from the Department of Homeland Security, which was asked that uh has asked Congress organized trips through committees of jurisdiction to avoid having to cater to a ton of individual lawmakers in a disaster zone, according to Democrat AIDS.
So we can have field trips of school kids in St. Louis.
But the Republicans can't how how is this even?
Democrats won't let them go to Louisiana.
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