Posted on 08/28/2017 4:52:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Were gonna go back to the phones to Rapids City, Michigan. This is Jean. Great to have you on the program. How you doing?
CALLER: Fine. Thank you, Rush.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: To your point about people needing government direction, on Varney & Co. this morning, a young Millennial Fox reporter who lives in Houston and safely vacated to Austin during driving rain couldnt wait to complain about government officials didnt order the evacuation of Houston. I mean, here she has all the electronic information at her fingertips and shes complaining because the government didnt tell her what to do. It goes right to what you were saying.
RUSH: Well, thats how theyve been raised.
CALLER: I know. Its terrible.
RUSH: Let me give you another observation here. Look, I dont like throwing cold water on things. But one hour ago on this program we had Vice President Pence. Vice President Pence, as much as anybody in government today, is a straight shooter conservative, small government conservative, limited government conservative, pro-individual liberty conservative. You cant find anybody in government today that will be more tailor made for the textbook definition of conservatism. And yet look at what his message was today.
His message was how big the federal governments gonna be. The federal governments gonna be there when you need it. Were gonna have all kinds of opportunities here, benefits here, we got this website where you can go. Im not criticizing the vice president. Im pointing something out. Its where our culture is. This is what people expect. After a disaster like this people expect this is what the federal government does. The Democrats have mastered this. Theyve mastered the language of it.
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: And theyve created over years and years the expectation in peoples minds that this is really what governments for, is to save people, in normal times and in disastrous times. What would have happened if Pence would have said, You know what? Those of you that can take care of yours, we wish you would, and help others along the way and reserve our benefits for those who really how do you think that would have flown?
CALLER: Not very well.
RUSH: Not very well at all. Your Millennial that you saw was on Varney today?
CALLER: Yes. And Id say shes 25, 26
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: but she just couldnt wait to complain. I mean, a reporter, for crying out loud.
RUSH: But forget that shes a reporter. Shes 25.
CALLER: Yeah, thats true.
RUSH: Thats the telltale, how these people have been raised, what their expectations of the federal government is. Look, the fact of the matter is that people cannot themselves before I saw there was a story that something like over 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: There is no way that most people in Houston are gonna be able to rebuild on their own. Theyre not gonna be able to do it without assistance, even if were talking insurance, and how many of them do or dont have the kind of insurance theyre going to need.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: I mean, who buys hurricane insurance in Houston? Some people might. Even if you do have flood insurance, flood insurance is so specific that if the flood comes into your house from underneath it may not count. If it comes down the walls, it might count. Its all convoluted. Point is, people cant, in disaster time like this, they cant make themselves whole, and they do think this is what governments for. And evacuating or not, thats a direct descendant from Hurricane Katrina, when people didnt evacuate and the state government took it on the chin for not telling people and letting the evacuation buses get flooded.
So, you know, everythings cumulative here. But this is one of the things were up against. Your 25-year-old reporter thinks its the governments job to tell people what to do. If government doesnt tell em to leave, and they should have left, its the governments fault. Its exactly what you heard. Its a generational thing out there.
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RUSH: Lets go to the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. This was CBS This Morning talk about Hurricane Harvey. Fill-in host Maurice DuBois from CBS Eyeball News local in New York said, Governor, I imagine youve spoken to the president a number of times. Are you satisfied with the presidents engagement in his response thus far? Now, weve heard, by the way Weve had a caller and weve had other people say, Weve got to keep the politics out of this. Folks, it isnt possible. It isnt possible.
Every event is going to be used by the left to smear President Trump or to attempt to, because the objective is to get rid of Trump. Now, Im having to keep catching myself because its not just the left trying to get rid of Trump. Its the entire Washington establishment, which is made up of Republicans and Democrats. I mean, there are people inside the establishment who are openly now advocating for a coup. There are former employees of President Bush who are openly advocating for a shadow government to actually operate in opposition to Trump.
These are Republican Never Trumpers. So this event Im sorry, the Democrats the American left politicizes everything. Its one of the things wrong with our country. And when they do, it has to be replied to. Im sorry, it has to be answered, even if that further politicizes it. Im not gonna sit here and let them own the politics of an event like this, which they would if theres no pushback on it. And theyre trying to set up the fact
Once they have an example, once they have an experience they think is successful such as destroying President Bush over the Iraq war and secondarily, really harming President Bush over Hurricane Katrina or getting rid of Richard Nixon Once theyve done it, they tell themselves they can do it, and they want to do it again. So Trump embodies a lot of, Weve done it before. Theyre trying to Nixon Trump. Theyre trying to get him thrown out or to resign.
Now theyre trying to destroy Trump on the basis he doesnt care about people cause he didnt act fast enough on the hurricane in Corpus Christi and Houston and so forth. They just keep recycling the things that they view have worked in damaging Republicans in the past. And thats what this is. Here you have Republican governor Greg Abbott, and they ask, Governor, I imagine youve spoken to the president a number of times. Are you satisfied with his engagement and his response? Does he know whats going on? Is the president basically leaving you alone, hanging out to dry?
He doesnt ask that, but thats implied in the question.
ABBOTT: The engagement and response by the president, the White House, by his cabinet and by FEMA have been actually remarkable. We began working with them a week or two in advance of this. And Ive been in constant contact with either the White House or FEMA on a daily basis and theyve provided Texas everything that we need. Whenever Texas asks for anything, the answer was yes. And so weve been very pleased with their collaborative response.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gives update on Harvey response
RUSH: Okay. Now, this cuts both ways. While Abbotts saying, Oh, yeah, the presidents been there from the get-go, and he was. Trump convened all these people before this hurricane hit. These people are not idiots. They saw what happened to Bush in Katrina. So they got moving. But what are they moving? Theyre moving government. Theyre moving Big Government. Theyre now actively bragging about how theyre moving Big Government. So you see, all of this on the one hand is really great and way to go and our guy is not gonna let these guys beat him.
On the other hand, hows he doing it? Mobilizing this behemoth. Thats why one of our early callers today had a brilliant idea. Take this and use it as the foundation for the entire infrastructure agenda item that the president has, and dare the swamp to oppose him. Hes got an infrastructure agenda to rebuild Americas airports, roads, bridges. Supposedly Obama was gonna do it and didnt do it, twice. Trump has promised to do it. Its gonna have be done in Houston. Its gonna have to be done in the suburbs of Houston and in other parts of southeast.
Its gonna have to be done. So why not use it as the starting point for a nationwide revitalization of infrastructure? And dare them to say no. So Abbott says (summarized), Fine! He was right there, man. Hes been there before this thing even hit. Everybodys mobilizing. Gayle King, who is the friend of Oprah, said, Governor, the Houston police chief said the scenes down there break your heart. But its Texas, and they will get through it.
ABBOTT: Exactly. And one thing he was talking about that you all were talking about earlier, and that is, not only the way the first responders were able to help out, but youve seen countless stories about the way fellow Texans have come together, bringing up their own boats helping to rescue their fellow Texans. This is typical Texans helping each other. We rally behind each other in times like this, and I could not be more proud of my fellow Texans about the way they have helped their neighbors respond to this challenge.
RUSH: By the way, let me echo that. As you people know, as a powerful and influential member of the media Im a well-traveled person, and I have spent a lot of time in Tex-iss. Its not Texas. Tex-iss. Theres an i-s-s on the end of it: Tex-iss. And Ive been there. And there is something to this notion of a Texan culture. Now, Im sure people in California think theyve got theirs and Oregon or what have you, but there is something to what hes saying here. Ive seen it. Texas is a red state. But Austin, of course, is a very blue state capital. Its got its blue areas, got its universities.
But there is a unification of culture in Texas that is unique, and Im sure the same thing could be said of other states as well. I remember when the earthquake in What would it have been, 1989, 88 out in San Francisco during the World Series? They actually lost the section of the Bay Bridge, I think, on the upper level. I remember I had lived in Northern California. In fact, Id moved to New York from Northern California. I just had the sneaking suspicion that people there would get this taken care of, that they would fix it, that it would come in ahead of schedule and it did.
All kinds of construction companies out there got in gear. The same thing is gonna happen here in Texas Tex-iss. Once theyre able to get moving, youre gonna be dazzled by the speed with which they move down there. Proud people. Theyre all Americans. They dont feel distinct and separate; dont misunderstand. But there is a pride in being a Texan. I mean, it even extends to the fact that Texas women are different from women elsewhere in the eyes of guys in Texas and if they believe it, then its true.
If its in your heart, if you believe these things, its true. So what theyre saying here about the unification efforts in Texas and the distinct culture thats gonna tackle this, Ive seen it. I have no doubt that it exists. Right on the money. Lets now go to the FEMA director. This is Brock Long. He he was at FEMA headquarters today, had a little press conference to talk about the response to Hurricane Harvey. We have a couple sound bites. Lets check the first one.
FEMA officials hold news conference following Hurricane Harvey
LONG: Helping Texas overcome this disaster is gonna be far greater than FEMA coordinating the mission of the entire federal government. We need citizens to be involved. This is a landmark event. We have not seen an event like this. We need the whole community not only the federal government forces, but this is a whole community effort from all levels of government and its gonna require the citizens getting involved.
RUSH: Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Let me tell you something. People respond to expectations. We have created in our country this idea that people are a bunch of babies and have to be led and have to be told what to do, and basically dont want to do things. You throw something like this out, We need you. We cant do it all, I maintain that human beings as naturally created, constructed, what have you, respond to expectations.
Now, look, theres expectations to everything, I know. Some people, no matter what you do, are just gonna be slothful. But for the most part, on balance, people will thats whats wrong with liberalism. They have such contempt for average, ordinary people thinking they cant do anything on their own. Theyre not smart enough to decide what to do with their own money. Theyre not smart enough to go through life, navigate life, make the right choices. Liberals, government needs to do it for them.
Its the exact opposite. Its like raising children or motivating people in a classroom or at a company. You let them know whats expected of them and theyll go out and prove to you that your expectations can be met. Thats what the soft bigotry of low expectations is. When you have low expectations of people, as leftists do, thats its own form of bigotry, when you dont think people can do something. But when you think they can and know they can and you tell them that youre expecting them to because you know they can, and theyre needed, you watch em respond.
This is a tremendous way to react to this. And we didnt hear this in New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. We got sob story after sob story from TV reporters on the ground all the way down to the state and local officials, blaming themselves for not demanding evacuation or blaming somebody else in government, FEMA this, FEMA that, didnt get people in place.
But at no time were people there told they were needed to help get everything back and up and running.
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RUSH: The second sound bite from Brock Long, the FEMA director, simply pointed out that disasters begin and end at the local level and that the federal government brings up the rear and so forth. And thats good too. Thats the right attitude to have about it. But it seems like everythings in place, and Trump is going to the area tomorrow.
Remember, presidents going into areas like this can be positive or negative because of the security needs and all of the police, law enforcement presence necessary to secure the president and his entourage while on the ground. Thats one of the reasons that George W. Bush didnt go to New Orleans immediately and flew over it. But there was a picture, somebody took a picture on Air Force One of Bush looking out the window.
You know, he had flown back from vacation. He was on vacation strumming a guitar with Charlie Daniels or some such thing, I dont know who it was. And he left, he was on his way back to Washington, did not stop in New Orleans. Theres a photo, Air Force One dipped and they circled New Orleans and somebody took a photo of Bush looking out the window at the city of New Orleans, and thats all it took. Bush remains above the fray, didnt care enough to land. And of course circumstances would have made it impossible at that time for the president to go in there. It would have messed up everything logistically.
And theres some saying that Trumps going into Houston too soon or southeastern Texas too soon. But thats just from the naysayers that are gonna try to find problems with anything. These are now expected presidential acts. Disaster, president goes, comforts the people and lets them know theyre not alone. Its just something thats evolved as part of American culture.
...Trump Kicks Big Government into Action, But the People of Texas Take Care of Themselves...
As they have always done since the battles of the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto since 1836. God bless Texas.
Rapid City. Right down the road from me.
“Trump Kicks Big Government into Action, But the People of Texas Take Care of Themselves”
Oh stop it, Rush. Texas is indeed handling this like a pro compared to certain other states, but lets stop acting like these guys are going to refuse the federal assist because they “got this”. They most certainly dont, and Texas as a whole hasn’t remotely got the resources to deal with the scope of this.
Maybe Trump should just say “well deal with it, cowboy”?
Texas is a country all by itself....to bad all the libs are moving there...they will ruin it...my kid lived in Galveston and went to medical school there
A neighbor asked if I was moving there from Colorado..I said no..and he said well if you move here you have to become a Texan....
Went to a rodeo in a small town and We had the National anthem and then the Texas Anthem and then they passed the hat for people that need help...
There were no coins in that hat...
Yesterday or today I heard someone on FOX ask if Trump going to TX this week was a smart idea amidst all the trouble and devastation and how disruptive it would be for him to be there.
Doesn’t anyone on that station remember the beating GWB took for NOT going to the scene in New Orleans - but staying above it and flying over the destruction???? It surprised me that it was FOX but I think we can stop being surprised any longer at their reporting. I for sure won’t be!! Except for a couple of programs, not worth watching!
National Flood Insurance Program expires 30 September. It will be a interesting battle going forward.
That’s Rush being his old anti-Trump self!
Faux Snooze is ant-Trump/anti-conservative/anti-Republican since the Murdoch boys took over!
You know when they tell some people they’re going to put them up in a motel there will be all kinds of people applying.
I wonder if Trump would even go to Houston tomorrow, I think he would probably go to the other places hard hit by Harvey. Houston would be better to go to later, so as not to cause disruption and be able to actually get around.
Uh yeah. You must be a daily listener.
And if you listened to President Trump you would have heard him saying that he would not want to be in the way and the reason of the visit is not about him but for the support of the the people
QUICK GO TO THE BATHROOM. YOU'RE FULL OF IT.
And most likely a so-called seminar caller.
THAT MEANS YOU
Will all the Katrina rats go back to NOLA now?
You’re easy!
Mississippi folks took care of themselves and each other after Katrina too - didn’t see any of the apathy and looting that “Nawleens” had...
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