Posted on 09/08/2005 6:29:50 PM PDT by wagglebee
RUSH: Mike, grab audio sound bite #8. We've got this Pelosi montage here. She actually violated an age-old tradition. She went and had a private conversation with a president and repeated it. That usually doesn't happen. But these people have reached the bottom of the barrel here. But based on what she said and all the other Democrats said, I got a great idea. If the recovery effort is so inept and so horrible, let's stop it. If it's that bad, let's suspend the recovery effort right now and immediately start on the investigations to find out what is wrong. Yeah, that will really work. Greetings, and welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies at 800-282-2882 if you'd like to be on the program. You know, all these congressmen out there running around saying, "We need to investigate!" Fine, do it now. If everything is going wrong so badly, everything is so inept, stop it. Just stop the recovery right now if it's so mangled up, and do the investigation, and let the American people see what you're good for. While there's all kinds of nothing happening, you will add to the nothing with your investigation. If it's that bad, if this is that bad, stop it right now. And let's start the hearings, and let's just have hearings for the next two years. That will make everybody feel better, right? Here's Nancy Pelosi. This is what inspired my reaction that you just heard. This is a montage of Miss America from last night and this morning after her meeting with the president. This is the new tone continuing to work wonders, by the way.
MISS AMERICA: Hurricane victims need money, but they also need some real leadership and some real accountability. President Bush should appoint a competent director at FEMA and do that immediately so that we can move on in a better way to meet the needs of the American people. He chose someone with absolutely no credentials. And, you know what? When I said to the president that he should fire Michael Brown, he said, "Why would I do that?" I said, "Because of all that went wrong, with all that didn't go right last week." And he said, "What didn't go right?" Oblivious, in denial, dangerous.
RUSH: Uh, I would have loved to have been there when Bush said to her, "Well, what didn't go right?" (Laughing.) I would have loved to have been there. (Laughing.) "What didn't go right?" (Laughing.) Well, we know what didn't go right. It's called the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana, and I'll tell you, as hard as the mainstream press and the Democrats have tried to suppress that, that is becoming more and more known. As I cited Major Garrett's report last night on Fox, if you're just tuning in, Major Garrett had a bombshell. He called the Red Cross and said, "You know, all these people at the Superdome and at the Convention Center, they're standing outside. No food, no water for three or four days. Why didn't you take it in there?"
"We had it. We had pallets of it ready to go," the Red Cross told him, "but Louisiana Department of Homeland Security on orders from the governor's office said, 'Nope, don't take it in there. We don't want to have anything in there that would act as a magnet to have more people come to the Superdome. We want to get them out.'" So it was there. It was ready to go. FEMA is not a first-response agency. FEMA's got 2,500 employees. Nancy Pelosi probably voted to put FEMA in homeland security. This is my point. These people get to run around acting like spectators and bystanders, they are the ones that create this red tape. They are the ones that create bureaucracy upon bureaucracy upon bureaucracy, welfare state atop welfare state atop welfare state, and to the extent that the bureaucracy is the problem, which is what Bill Richardson says. Nancy Pelosi ought to call the governor of New Mexico. Richardson says, "Hey, don't blame President Bush. This is a red tape problem." Red tape is code for, "We've got bureaucratic bungling here." We keep talking about a streamlined government, limited government, efficient government. That's the exact opposite of what we have here. You need fewer people in the loop, not more. You need fewer people in the loop, you need people able to make decisions like that general John Wayne did, Russell Honore. But the left crackup, folks, it just continues right in front of our very eyes, and you could predict this yesterday, because I knew it when that USA Today poll came out and said only 13% blame Bush, you just knew that they were going to go batty. Let's go back to sound bite number one, Howard Dean just can't keep his mouth shut, saying that race played a significant role in who lived and died in New Orleans, said this in Miami yesterday.
DEAN: As the order is restored and the water recedes and we sort through the rubble, we have to come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age, and economics played a significant role in who survived and who did not.
RUSH: Yeah, and of course that was greeted with big applause. One of the things that bothers me about this is the timidness or the timidity of Republicans. They're out there now trying to charge John Roberts with insensitivity to civil rights, that's code for he's a racist, he doesn't like black people. And whether Howard Dean is saying this about hurricane recovery efforts, and we know, we have the Census figures, we know who lived in New Orleans, we know who ran New Orleans, we know who ran Louisiana, we know it was liberal Democrats who ran it for 60 years. If anybody died down there or if anybody was in poverty down there you can't blame a federal government spending more and more money giving it to New Orleans and Louisiana, it's what they do with that money that needs to be examined. No, it doesn't, we already know, they siphon it off, they use it for things other than what it's intended, including avoiding repairs to levees. But still, folks, the amazing thing is that you have on display the utter, total failure of liberalism, and yet here is Howard Dean somehow charging racism. This is all about trying to get back the black vote. There's a way for the Republicans to deal with this. Whether it's John Roberts or whether it's Howard Dean, and it's to say this: We don't need lectures from Democrats about civil rights. We were on the right side of the Civil War. You were on the wrong side of internment. Your 1952 vice presidential nominee was a segregationist. Your majority leader in the Senate for ten years was a Klansman. Most of our party voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It was Ronald Reagan who made Martin Luther King's birthday a holiday and extended the Voting Rights Act for 25 years, and Bush, who has appointed more blacks to high-level positions in his cabinet than any previous president, including the first black woman as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice.
There's no reason to run and cower when these charges of racism start being bandied about. Stand up and throw it right back at them. I mean, Klansman, Robert Byrd, was Senate majority leader for ten years. They had a segregationist as their vice presidential nominee in 1952. I mean, folks, you have a circumstance here where everything is 180 degrees out of phase when it comes to race. Look at New Orleans. Who's been in charge of running New Orleans? Liberal Democrats. Some of the mayors down there have been black. The majority of the residents are black. You could simply say the black mayor doesn't care about his own citizens. Could you say that? I mean, it's apparent, isn't it? Am I racist for pointing this out? How can there be racism in New Orleans when 80% of the population, 75%, whatever, is black? This is just crazy. But if the Republicans aren't going to stand up and just throw this stuff right back at them, then, you know, how much of it is going to continue to settle in? This stuff has settled in, become just conventional wisdom for 30 or 40 years. Somehow, Republicans are racist and Democrats love everybody. Yet when you listen to a Democrat talk, what's the first thing they notice about people? It's their skin color, their religion, their gender. The Democrats are the exact opposite of what they say they are. They're the ones that don't tolerate free speech. They have political correctness. You can't say something that offends them. You can't put up something in a public square that offends them. They're the ones that have all these restrictions on freedom, and yet they get away with claiming that they're the guardians of freedom? It's just the exact opposite.
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RUSH: I have here a Boston Globe story -- I got it off the web last night -- written by Rick Klein. Here's the headline: "Democrats Shift Strategy on Roberts, Plan to Use Katrina to Highlight Racial and Economic Divide." MoveOn.org and the Democratic Party on occasion happen to work together. MoveOn.org says they're pulling back now, or the USA Today story was not true. I'll bet it was true and the pressure was too great and they backed off. But here's this story: "Senate Democrats said yesterday that they will invoke the vast disparities in income and living conditions laid bare by Hurricane Katrina to sharpen their questioning of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts at his confirmation hearings next week." Well, there's an assumption that underlies these questions and the assumption is Roberts is a racist because he's a Republican. He grew up in a neighborhood with no blacks and no Jews. (whisper: Jews.) Now Richard Cohen is out there with the most inane piece I've seen in a long time in the Washington Post. "Roberts Has an Appalling Record of Success." He has an appalling lack of failure. He can't relate to people because he's never failed! So all this stems from a cliché, from a template that liberals have of Republicans: Racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. You know the list, and so now the Democrats, not only are they trying to politicize the aftermath here for whatever purposes, now they're going to try to nail John Roberts with this that you're seeing on television from Hurricane Katrina, and the underlying assumption is, "Well, the Republicans just a bunch of races and this is going to help to show people." Well, that's what they think, and the reason they think it is because the liberals are on such thin ice in substance.
They cannot debate us on any issue of the day and they know it. They can't debate us and win. They can't last 30 seconds, and so what happens is to avoid the debate they come up with these clichés. "I don't have to spend time hanging around with races and sexists and bigots and homophobes. I'm not going to give you the time of day. I'm not even going to give you the respect that you're a human being. Why, you're nothing but a racist and a sexist and a bigot and a homophobe." And the whole point of that is to try to discredit rather than argue, rather than debate, because they will lose. They say we are all these things and discredit us, and that gives them their out, which is truly cowardice, that gives them their out from even debating us. So the assumption is, "Okay, Roberts, Republican, everybody knows Republicans are racist, Katrina, Roberts, ah." It just shows they've got nothing on the guy. Richard Cohen: "Appalling Lack of Failure in His Life." Ooh, yeah, that's something, and now this? So they're going to try to combine this story into the Roberts hearings, they're going to become the laughingstocks, and that 13% is going to stay at 13%. The people of the country that hate Bush. None of what they're doing is expanding the party. There's no growth potential, there's no inspiration, hatred doesn't get you those things. But at the same time, you know, just sit around and listen to all this gobbledygook, racist, sexist. I don't need and we don't need to be lectured by a former klansman on race. We are not going to be lectured by a party that had a segregationist as it's vice presidential nominee in 1952. We are not going to be segregated. We are not going to be lectured to by a bunch of people who ran New Orleans and Louisiana for 60 years and gave us what we just saw on TV the last week. We are not going to be lectured to.
If what you say is true, if you guys are truly colorblind and you care and you love and you create Utopias, then New Orleans ought never have happened, everybody there should have never been in poverty, there should be not one poor person there, not one miserable person, not one unhappy person, everybody should have a job, everybody should have health care, everybody should have an education, everybody should be making in six figures, everybody should have two cars. But, no, that's not the case, and why? You've been running the place for all these years. How in the world can they turn around and say that all this is racism and blame it on the Republicans, and the Republican haven't had a thing to do with what's gone on in New Orleans? Well, I don't need to be lectured to by these people. It's all I'm saying. Now, I know the president can't stand up and refute all this stuff, but there are some Republican senators who can, particularly on the Senate judiciary committee. We had this story in the Boston Globe. We don't need to be lectured to by these people. We don't need to listen to this. We don't need to let that be established as the template for the hearings. It's all I'm saying. I know the president can't do it and I know the president won't do it, more importantly.
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No investigation, no facts but Ms Nancy P KNOWS what went wrong????? Does NO ONE in the Dinasour Media have the courage to point out her obvious intellecutal bankruptcy. What "Went wrong" Nancy. Not is spin speak. What SPECIFICALLY went wrong that is FEMAs fault?????
Rush is right. The GOP needs to grow some already!!!
I know this is just a figure of speech, but let me suggest that the left's barrel has no bottom.
The GOP has needed to GROW a pair for quite some time.....
Now that part of his show I caught today. It was VERY good.
"MoveOn.org and the Democratic Party on occasion happen to work together."
And the MSM fills in for them on their days off. *Rolleyes*
Heard it. Rush was on his game again, today. ;)
Racist..? Its the opposite. These people have $2000 debit cards being GIVEN to them. Is this response to Jesse Jackson et al describing how depraved all these black Americans are.
Jessie Jackson is a racist.
I would love for Pres Bush to respond with "The only thing that I know for a fact didn't go right was your face lift."
Those poor welfare dependent folk cant help themself.
Can you imagine if we had a city or 2 down in America and EVERY SINGLE PERSON there wanted a govt handout for FREE.
Sorry about all the "hers" in the first sentence. My email is to my errant niece.
The GOP is a joke, and Bush isn't the type of person to be blunt due to his religious beliefs.
I am assuming that this was written a day or so ago. You need to also inform her about the facts of the Red Cross and Salvation Army not being allowed in with food, water and medical supplies.
I just watched Sean question him and he let him get away with a mis-statement. According to this article the Red Cross was turned away by the LA Homeland Security by the authority of the LA GOV...Sean let JJ say the Dept of Homeland Security as if it was the Federal Gov...
OY!!!!
As long as Frist is in charge of the senate, Rush can talk but nothing will happen.
The problem is which GOP senator would be better?
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