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May 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 20, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Rush is at a charity golf event.
He's very generous with his time like that.
And he'll be back tomorrow for full strength, authentic, all-American excellence in broadcasting.
What did he call me yesterday?
Did you hear that?
The guest slave will be here tomorrow.
That's what he said.
The guest slave.
I'm from the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a great program.
I love it.
Guys like me get to come here and in return, Hillary Clinton gets sold as a child bride to Boko Haram.
So it all works out for everyone.
We're live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire and looking forward to hearing from you on 1-800-282-2882.
I love if you've been following all this stuff about banned speakers at American college campuses, because it's the season of graduation where they'll all be they all put on the tassels and the gowns and they go up on stage to receive their official certificate that's got the final lump sum figure of how much debt they owe.
And they've been banning all the speakers, any remotely, because they say colleges have to be what they call now a safe space, a safe space.
Well, look on this as your unsafe space.
We're not like these pansified American campuses where you can't say this and you can't say that.
You give me a call.
1-800-282-2882, especially if you're of a liberal bent and have your say on the I haven't been banned from actually I was rather insulted.
There's this college, I think it's the University of St. Thomas.
I'm now, my credibility's suffering because the contemptuous production team is implying that I'm just not even worth banning.
I actually spoke at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota a few years ago, and they seemed a nice enough, pleasant enough crowd.
And I see now that actually a camel was banned from the University of St. Thomas.
It's like one thing, they ban Ian Hersey Ali from Brandeis, they ban Condoleezza Rice, they ban Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, and they ban this poor camel from Minnesota from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota because he's apparently culturally insensitive to people from the Middle East in the same way that Ian Hersey Ali at Brandeis was.
And Condoleezza Rice was personally torturing people for eight years of the Bush administration.
And Christine Lagarde is head of the IMF and that's like money, man.
And the minute you get mixed up with money, you're just like supporting the man.
And, you know, we have nothing to do.
Like, no college student wants to have the head of the IMF talking to them because they've got a quarter million dollars in debt.
So like just hearing about money is kind of a downer.
But this camel didn't do anything.
This camel, as far as I know, has never taken a position on the IMF or waterboarding or anything else.
And yet, nevertheless, was banned from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota for being culturally insensitive.
But they let me speak, so I'm apparently less controversial than this poor camel.
But I don't know.
Maybe he's like an edgy, transgressive camel.
I can't say.
1-800-282-2882.
If you are one of those sensitive flowers from the class of 2014, and you'd like to talk about how this is all just creating a negative experience for you, and you want to live in a nice little safe space all your life.
And so call me up, and we can talk about that if you'd like to talk about that.
1-800-282-2882, lots of things happening today.
The President of the United States has announced that he didn't know anything about the VA scandal until he heard about it in the papers.
He's like, what was that?
That's the old Will Rogers line.
All I know is what I read in the papers.
That's basically the Barack Obama line.
He didn't know anything about Benghazi until he read it in the papers.
He didn't know about the IRS until he read it in the papers.
He didn't know that all the journalists were being bugged by Eric Holder's Justice Department until he read it in the papers.
He's the president of the United States, but there's this whole other entity out there called the executive branch.
I don't know whether you've ever heard of them.
It's this thing, the executive branch.
It's like some sinister organization.
It's like Spectre or Smursh or one of those kind of guys.
And it's out there pulling all this stuff.
You know, the executive branch is like doing all this stuff at the IRS.
It's doing all this stuff over at the State Department.
It's doing all this stuff at the Justice Department.
It's doing all this stuff now at the Veterans Administration.
And we've got like this really decent, fine, upstanding man as president of the United States.
And he is having to devote all his time.
He's like trying to get on with being president and running the government of the country.
And there's this sinister, shadowy organization somewhere called the executive branch that's pulling all this stuff.
And all he knows about it is when it turns up in the newspapers.
The executive branch, it's a shadowy organization.
I think they live in caves out in Waziristan or something.
And they're monkeying around with the IRS.
They're monkeying around with the Veterans Administration.
They're monkeying around at the Justice Department.
And as soon as he reads about it in the papers, he's madder than anyone.
He's president madder than hell.
But we've got to get a grip on this whole executive branch thing.
And none of us, President Obama had never heard of this executive branch, but it's out there pulling this stuff 24-7.
And he's mad as hell that he has to wake up in the morning and read the papers, and they got all this stuff about the executive branch in there.
So we'll talk about the latest scandal that he read about in the papers, the VA.
We'll talk about that.
I want to say a word, by the way, about a local story.
I didn't realize this was a local story, but it is a, it turns out it is a New Hampshire story.
There is a lady called Maryam Yaya Ibrahim.
She's 27.
She's a Sudanese Christian.
And she was given three days to renounce Christianity and revert to Islam.
And when she didn't, the judge sentenced her to hang.
And she's going to hang soon because they don't have a decade of appeals out in Sudan the way we do here.
So she is going to be taken out to the scaffold and strung up and hanged by her neck until dead any moment.
Her husband is an American citizen, Daniel Warney, who lives in New Hampshire.
He lives down in Manchester, New Hampshire, which is a couple of hours south of where I am, up in the northern corner of the northwestern corner of the state.
Lives down in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Daniel Wani.
And his wife, the Sudanese basket case state, the genocidal basket case state, the state where the Janjaweed militia like to go and kill all the people in Darfur, the Sudanese basket case is about to hang the wife of an American citizen.
Now, the way to look at it is this, that the grant of citizenship to the spouse of an American is basically non-discretionary.
In other words, this woman will one day be an American if she lives that long.
And in fact, the only reason she's not an American now is because the U.S. immigration is incredibly sclerotic, so can take years and years and years to process the application.
But basically, this woman who the Sudanese are about to hang is an American in waiting.
Now, I see Obama.
It was International Homophobia Day on Saturday.
Did you know that?
I didn't know that, but it's a big day, apparently, all around the world.
International Homophobia Day or International Day Against Homophobia.
It's not the day when all the homophobes come out in March, have a big parade down Main Street.
And President Obama, because he's not bothering with all this stuff that the so-called executive branch, this shadowy, sinister entity, is pulling.
President Obama, who doesn't know anything about Benghazi, doesn't know anything about the IRS, doesn't know anything about the Justice Department, doesn't know anything about the VA scandal, was right on top of International Homophobia Day.
And he sent out a tweet.
So you know he's serious.
In fact, he had a hashtag too.
That's how serious it is.
The president sent out a tweet with a hashtag.
And he said, no one should face violence or discrimination, no matter who they are or whom, whom they love.
Well, this American citizen, Daniel Wani, from Manchester, New Hampshire, is facing violence and discrimination because of who he loves, because of whom he loves, because the Sudanese government is about to hang his wife.
As I said, an American in waiting.
She is technically, if you saw Mrs. Obama standing up with her hashtag, hashtag bring back our girls, the Rush was talking about a week or so back.
This woman is actually far more the Obama's girl than those Nigerian schoolgirls are.
That's to say, she's the wife of a U.S. citizen and a barbarous, bankrupt, genocidal basket case of a state is presuming to hang her.
My senator, Kelly Ayot, and Roy Blunt have issued a statement a couple of days ago calling on John Kerry to provide political asylum to this woman on the grounds that she is the wife of an American citizen, apart from anything else.
I actually think they should go further than that.
I don't see why Obama, instead of waiting to read about it in the papers, why he doesn't actually get on top of this executive branch thing and actually call someone in U.S. citizenship and immigration and just say, let's make this woman, let's fast track her.
Instead of taking eight years to process the application of the spouse of an American citizen to become American, let's do it now.
We're doing amnesty for 30 million people.
We're doing amnesty for tens of millions of low-skilled immigrants.
Let's do amnesty and fast-track to citizenship for this woman right now and then tell the Sudanese government you are not hanging a U.S. citizen.
And if Obama doesn't want to do that, why doesn't Congress do what it did with Winston Churchill when they voted to make him an honorary U.S. citizen?
Why don't they vote to confer citizenship on this woman?
This woman is the wife of an American.
This is not a small thing.
This is the contempt, the contempt in which the world holds the superpower right now.
That this guy in Sudan is going to hang the wife of an American citizen in full view of the world.
By the way, he's not the only guy who treats America with contempt.
The poor U.S. Army veteran, Marine veteran, I think, who accidentally crossed the Mexican border, accidentally drove across and he wasn't intending, he didn't cross a border post or anything.
He just accidentally drove across the line and he's now sitting in a jail in Tijuana again because the Mexican government tells the United States government, no, you have to take tens of millions of Mexicans and make them full citizens and give them rights, but we'll only take one of your guys and we're going to throw him in jail for some technical infraction.
And John Kerry, if John Kerry can't get on the phone to Khartoum and he can't get on the phone to Mexico City and get these people out of jail, then there is absolutely no point to having a foreign service or a State Department at all.
It's a waste of time.
But if Obama means his International Homophobia Day statement that you shouldn't have to suffer violence because of who you love, this guy is suffering violence.
He's having his wife executed, the mother of his child executed for no other reason than that she married him, a Christian.
And if Obama cannot do something very quickly, like fast track her to U.S. citizenship or confer U.S. citizenship upon her if Congress does it, and actually then tell the Sudanese, you do not execute U.S. citizens, that is what we should be able, if we can't save this woman's life.
The Nigerian schoolgirls are difficult.
They're upcountry and it's hard to get hold of them.
No one knows where they are.
They've been dispersed to Cameroon and Chad.
This is the wife of an American citizen.
She is chained to a wall in Khartoum.
And John Kerry is wasting everybody's time giving speeches on global warming.
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I ought to mention the name of this poor fellow who's actually chained to his cot, shackled to his cot in Tijuana at the moment.
And that is Sergeant Andrew Tamaresi, who is a veteran and has served several tours in Afghanistan and I think also Iraq.
And he was basically on April the 1st, he was driving around down around the southern border at Tijuana, where one of the issues here, obviously, is that the border is porous and he turned left instead of right.
And instead of winding up in America, he accidentally crossed over into Mexico, where he was seized and he has been in detention ever since.
Now, he wasn't intending to go to Mexico.
I accidentally drove into Mexico.
He had a gun in the back of his truck.
And so that's why they've held him.
But he had no intention of being in Mexico.
And I know that.
I live up here by the Quebec border.
And if you go to a town like Derby Line, Vermont, the border wiggles along, I think it's the Tomiphobia River, and the streets cross back and forth from the United States into Canada.
One time, I've accidentally crossed that border illegally, quote unquote, must be a hundred times over the decades.
You cross the border and you pull up at the first restaurant in Canada and there's nowhere to park inside, so you go 100 yards down the street beyond the restaurant and park and you find you've accidentally illegally crossed back into the United States.
Some homeland security guy came on to me about it, and I sent him away with a flea in his ear because you were still able to send them away with a flea in his ear back then.
Now they'd be tossing you in jail too.
But the point is this: U.S. citizenship, being an American, has to mean something.
People do not take Putin's citizens and toss them in jail because they understand there will be consequences for it.
And especially people who are demanding, who essentially have subverted U.S. sovereignty by sending tens of millions of people north of the border and demanding that the American government actually accord them the same rights as U.S. citizens don't then have the right if Washington cannot get one guy in Tijuana sprung from jail.
And that's the same thing too in Sudan.
Sudan is nobody.
It's nothing.
And if the superpower cannot get the wife of an American citizen who's currently shackled to a wall in a Khartoum prison because a pseudo-judge, a judge who does not dispense justice but dispenses barbarism, has decided that because she refuses to convert back to Islam, she has to be hanged for apostasy.
That's fair enough if you want to do that to your guys.
But when you do it to someone who is the wife of a U.S. citizen, there should be consequences.
I quoted this at the time of the stupid Bring Back Our Girls hashtag in connection with Lord Palmerston, who was British prime minister in the 19th century.
Don Pacifico, a Portuguese Jew, had his home and business attacked.
He was living in Athens.
He had his home in the consul, the Portuguese consul in Athens.
And he had his place attacked and destroyed by an anti-Semitic mob, including the sons of a government minister.
And they plundered his home and they took all his stuff.
And Lord Palmerston basically took the view: well, obviously, this shifty, greasy Portuguese Jew is not anybody's idea of an Englishman, but he happens to have been born in Gibraltar, which is a British colony and makes him a British subject.
And therefore, unless the Greek government gives him compensation for looting and pillaging his house, we're going to take action.
And he did take action.
He basically sent a Royal Navy squadron into the Aegean to seize Greek ships and property and blockaded, in effect, blockaded Greece.
And his point was that wherever you are, even if you're just some Portuguese Jew who happens to be born in Gibraltar, if you are a British subject anywhere on the planet, the strong arm of Britannia is always with you.
Well, where is the strong arm of today's superpower when they're hanging the wife of an American citizen in Khartoum and a U.S. veteran, a guy who has been fighting for his country in Afghanistan, is sitting in jail in Tijuana and his country is not fighting for him.
Where is the strong arm of today's superpower saying that if you are a U.S. citizen or if you are the wife of a U.S. citizen, no country, no third-rate regime can do this kind of stuff to you.
Mark Steinen for Rush, lots more.
Straight ahead.
Yes, Rush will be back tomorrow.
What's that, Mike?
That's heat wave, isn't it?
Heat wave.
Yeah, I haven't heard that in ages.
Where is a heat wave here?
It's like a balmy 58 degrees here in Ice Station EIB.
So we're all in our Bermuda shorts.
I'll add one thing, by the way, to that story of Miriam Ibrahim, the lady about to be hanged.
The merciful judge, one Abbas Mohammed Al Khalifa, has ruled that she will be allowed to give birth before she's executed because she's like eight and a half months pregnant.
So she will allow, so the baby will not die with her.
The baby is a U.S. citizen.
This woman who's shackled, by the way, she's eight and a half months pregnant.
You think about that.
Anybody, eight and a half months, and you're shackled to a wall.
Eight and a half months.
She's shackled to a wall in Khartoum.
Judge Abbas Mohammed Al Khalifa has said she'll be allowed to give birth before she's executed.
This kid in her belly is an American citizen.
Not simply the spouse of an American citizen.
This kid in her belly is the son of an American citizen.
He is an American.
And the judge presumably gave this some thought that if he were to execute the woman with the baby inside her, or sorry, I shouldn't say baby.
What do they call it?
The Democrats call it fetus.
It's a yeah, I mean, to yeah, a viable tissue mass.
It's like a late term, it would just be like a particularly dramatic late-term abortion.
It's a judge's right to choose.
But the judge in this case chose not to kill the baby with the mother eight and a half months pregnant, presumably because the judge, somewhere in the back of his mind, understood that this would actually be killing an American child.
But we have here, we have here the expectant mother of a U.S. citizen with the U.S. citizen inside her belly, eight and a half months pregnant, and she's chained to a wall in Khartoum.
Let us go to David, who is calling us from the great state of Wisconsin.
David, you are live on the Rushlinbo show.
Great.
And an honor it is, too, sir.
Just came hearing this case of Miriam Ibrahim to there was a case several years ago of another Muslim country where the Afghanistan, where they were going to sentence him to death for being a Christian.
The Secretary of State Condoleezza Wright threatened to cut off U.S. funding to Afghanistan if this guy was not let go.
Whereas our current Secretary of State seems to be rather indifferent, almost impotent.
It seems we got a, you know, there's more testicular function on the part of a woman than there is from our current Secretary of State.
Yeah, well, there's no need to mock Secretary Windsurfer.
The Secretary of Windsurfing gave a magnificent address to Boston College yesterday where he said that the real threat is global warming.
And it's great.
That's a great advantage of him because there's no one to call.
This involves him, as you say.
He has to do what Condoleezza Rice does.
He has to do, even just to take another fellow who was not the most robust steel-spined conservative, Richard Armitage.
Do you remember the guy who was deputy to Colin Powell?
He had this great gravelly butch voice.
Used to talk like that.
And you used to think he, yeah, he's the one that leaked Valerie Plame and then let the other guy take the rap for it.
But he was the Deputy Secretary of State to Colin Powell.
And the day after September the 12th, he called General Musharraf in Pakistan.
And General Musharraf on September the 12th was in no hurry to take calls from Americans.
So he said to his secretary, tell the State Department I'm washing my hair and can't come to the phone right now.
And Armitage said to him, You better come to the phone right now.
He needs to come right now.
And Armitage told him, We want this, we want that.
We want the right to enter Afghanistan through Pakistan.
We want the right to put troops in there.
We want the right to put planes in there.
Everything we ask for, you are going to give us, or Pakistan is over.
And Musharraf, who is a tough cookie, I mean, he's been blown up, I think, three or four times.
His autobiography has the best opening chapter of any political autobiography I've ever read because it talks about all the times his motorcade's been blown up and all the death assassination attempts he's survived.
He understood that for once the superpower, the toothless superpower, the moth-eaten, toothless superpower, actually meant it.
Everyone had thought for a year, well, this America spends 44% of the world's military budget, but it's not actually serious about anything.
This guy told him, this squish from the State Department told him, you do what we want or you are over.
And David is absolutely right.
Condoleezza Rice did that when the Afghans were going to hang some guy for converting to Christianity.
John K. What is John Kerry doing?
Now, I've come up with a couple of concrete proposals.
Basically, this is a non-discretionary thing for U.S. immigration.
As Barack Obama says, you have the right to love who you love.
So if an American falls in love with a Fijian, if an American falls in love with a Slovene, if an American falls in love with an Uzbek, the Uzbek, the Fijian, the Slovene can all become American citizens.
This guy is married to this guy in southern New Hampshire, in Manchester, New Hampshire, is married to this woman.
She is the wife of an American citizen, and it would be the work of moments to confer U.S. citizenship upon her.
And then to tell, actually to act and tell these guys, you are not killing an American, and to spell out, as Richard Armitage did to General Musharraf, what the consequences would be that day.
Let's go to Henry in Albuquerque.
Henry, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thank you, sir.
Mr. Sein, I think you may be operating with erroneous information in two areas.
One, the case of the veteran who is in jail in Tijuana.
He is not in jail because he's an American or a veteran.
He is in jail because he had guns in his automobile.
This is the third or fourth time that a similar incident has happened in the last five years, particularly along that stretch of the border.
It hasn't happened that I'm aware of at the major border crossings to the east.
The other premise that I think may be erroneous is an unborn child with one American parent is not automatically an American citizen unless the child is born in the United States.
No, no, I understand.
Henry, I understand that.
But you know, serious powers do not get that's why I made the Lord Palmerston point.
He didn't have to recognize a Portuguese Jew born in Gibraltar and decide he had the same rights as an English Marquess or an English duke.
But he chose to because he understood there is not a time for legalisms.
Now, you're right about the southern border, but it happens at the northern border, too.
There was a guy crossing over from Quebec to Maine in his truck, and exactly like this guy.
He had guns in his truck, and it was a Sunday morning, and he was going to church.
And whatever particular branch of Christianity he follows, in that little border community, the church is on the southern American side.
And he didn't realize the rules had all changed since 9-11.
So he pulls up in his truck to go over for church and Homeland Security comes along and he's got guns in his truck and they decide that he's broken the law.
A guy who's been going to church, going to gas up, going there every week for decades.
They didn't stick him in prison and shackle him to his bed.
And that's the point.
That is the point here.
Mr. Sein, I think that the point that you're making has more to do with projection of power than it does with this particular situation.
Yes, but Lord Palmerston.
This was a different epic.
You'll also remember that a few years after Palmerston's action, the United States engaged in a similar action in Mexico and Veracruz shortly before the First World War.
This sort of projection of power works in some circumstances, but it doesn't work well today.
We don't have the capacity to project the power and handle the repercussions of that power projection.
We can't arbitrarily go into Sudan and do away with a screwed up legal system no matter how much we want to.
No, no, no, nobody.
This woman broke a local law.
And no matter how repugnant the law is, United States, as a matter of policy, has to be very careful in this sort of intervention.
This is a barbarous, inhumane act.
But declaring war on Sudan or don't put words in my mouth, Henry.
I'm not calling for war because, as I have had cause to say here many times before, the United States can no longer fight wars competently.
It hasn't won a war in two-thirds of a century.
It should actually raise the Pentagon to the ground and dissolve the military.
Not because there's anything wrong with individual fighting men, but because this country lacks the strategic will to wage war.
So, no, I'm not interested in going in and occupying Sudan or occupying Mexico.
But I'm actually talking about the Condoleezza Rice thing, that you pick up the phone and you explain the realities of life.
The Mexican, now, the Mexican, as you say, the Mexican side of the border, they don't like guns.
On the U.S. side, they're relaxed about guns.
That's another reason, by the way, why that border should be sealed.
The traffic across that border is all one way.
Tens of millions of people have crossed that border illegally into America.
And we're told, oh, we can't do anything about them.
We've got to bring them out of the shadows.
We've got to give them free medical treatment in the emergency rooms of California hospitals.
We've got to give them free education when we go to school.
We've got to give them the in-state tuition rate when they want to go and do navel-gazing studies at some worthless college until they're 28.
We've said all that for the 10, doesn't matter.
Okay, at the moment, there's only 12 million, 30 million, whatever it is.
If there were 200 million, they'd say, oh, yes, that's fine.
We'll do that for them too.
We'll give them the free emergency care and we'll give them the in-state tuition rate and we'll give them driver's licenses even though they're not legal residents of the state.
There's some guy convicted just yesterday in Massachusetts of dragging some guy to his death, a fellow who shouldn't have been in the country.
He killed an American and all the commentary is bending over backwards to talk about cultural differences and all the rest of it.
This is one man, one man against 12, 15, 20 million who accidentally crosses a border crossing where the signage is actually incredibly confusing.
And no one in the most powerful government in the planet can apparently pick up the phone and get that guy out of jail.
No one in the most powerful government in the planet can pick up the phone to Khartoum and get the wife of an American.
And it's not a time, Henry, for legal niceties.
Legalisms are what's killing this country.
It doesn't matter whether, oh, you know, this eight and a half months, the tissue matter in the belly of this woman may or may not be American.
We don't know until she runs for president in 35 years' time and we can look at her birth certificate, long-form birth certificate, where you can't make any judgment about that.
It's not a time for legal niceties.
Nobody's talking about waging war, but a great power is not a great power unless it can impress its will on minor powers.
And right now, everybody from Mexico City to Khartoum has contempt for the United States of America.
Mark Stein for Rush.
More in a moment.
Mark Stein in for Rush on America's number one radio show.
Rush will be back tomorrow.
He's taking part at a charity golf event today.
He's extremely generous with his time in that respect.
But he will return tomorrow for full strength, excellence in broadcasting through the end of the week.
I just want to clarify a point that came up in the last segment that Henry was disputing whether this woman's baby is a U.S. citizen.
As I understand it, from Title VIII of the U.S. Code, Section 1401 E.
A person, no, not E, a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions is a citizen of the United States, is born a citizen of the United States if one of their parents has been physically present in the United States for one year, which is, I understand, the situation that this person is in.
So that actually this kid is an American.
And that's why, that's one other reason why executing the mother of a newborn U.S. citizen.
So this newborn U.S. citizen will be growing up an orphan from birth if the Sudanese get away with it.
By the way, the nationality thing is of limited value.
With Abdul Rahman, the case that Condi Rice intervened in, he was an Afghan Christian.
He wasn't an American or whatever.
But she intervened in that case.
And in fact, I believe that guy now actually lives in Italy.
But she understood, she understood that Afghanistan was, in a sense, an American protectorate then.
Americans had expended blood and treasure to kick the Taliban out of Afghanistan.
And they didn't do it to set up a squalid Sharia state where you get executed if you convert from Islam to Christianity.
Apart from the fact that most of the people actually in there keeping Mohammed Karzai, that disgusting kleptocrat, alive, whether they're American, Canadian, Australian, British, or whatever, are actually nominally, to one degree or another, Christians.
So there was something absolutely revolting in saying that an Afghan cannot convert to the faith of the nation's protectors of the U.S. military and others without being executed.
And she understood that was disgusting, and she acted.
Likewise, because Afghanistan was, in a sense, an American protectorate.
Likewise, John Kerry has to act because, in a sense, this woman is under American protection.
And it is no time to get legalistic and find something in the small print of section 1473, paragraph 28b, why you can just let this woman be strung up at the gibbet, and that's it.
That is not what a great power does.
And if a great power cannot get innocent citizens who've accidentally wandered across a confusing border crossing with no intention of going to Mexico out of jail, or the wife and mother of a U.S. citizen who has done nothing wrong except marry an American citizen and prevent her from being hanged, then it is not a great power anymore.
Mark Stein in for Rush, lots more still to come.
Mark Stein in for rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the president.
The president says he knew nothing about the VA scandal until he read it in the papers.
It's just like every other scandal.
It's only when he reads it in the New York Times that he even believes it's happening.
It makes you wonder, actually, why we need as big a government as we have if he doesn't actually know anything that's going on.
Why does he need a communications staff?
Why does he need a press secretary?
Why does he need to have morning press briefings?
If he doesn't actually know anything until the same time as anybody else, as anybody else knows it.
But this is, he was a, he was a side swipe by that as any, just came out of nowhere, this VA scandal.
Just like the IRS scandal.
Just like the Benghazi scandal.
It's like everything.
This executive branch thing, there's absolutely no contact between the president and this thing called the executive.
But he bears no responsibility for it.
If only the executive branch fell within his realm of responsibility, then he might be able to do something about it.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
We have lots more still ahead.
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