Panetta Ranks India as a Threat Like China
RUSH: Herman Cain, in remarks yesterday, ranked US ally India with China as a rising threat to the United States in Asia. No, wait, wait. That was Leon Panetta that said that. I'm sorry. Leon Panetta I guess is unqualified to be secretary of defense. "Leon Panetta, in remarks Thursday, ranked US ally India with China as a rising threat to the US in Asia. The Pentagon quickly sought to roll back the remarks." What Panetta actually said was, "We face the threats from rising powers -- China, India, others -- that we have to always have sufficient force protection out there in the Pacific to make sure they know we’re never going anywhere." Now, if Herman Cain had said that, of course, he would be pronounced by many as unqualified. Leon Panetta said it, I wonder if they'll say the same thing about Leon Panetta being unqualified.
Wait, So Weather DOES Equal Climate?
RUSH: "Global Warming Probably Behind Wild Weather in NJ and Elsewhere." This is by Stephen Stirling at the Newark Star-Ledger. "In a marked shift in climate science, a group of top researchers said in a report released today that global warming may be responsible for an uptick in extreme weather events worldwide, a trend they say is likely to worsen in the coming century." Whatever happened to that silly notion that weather isn't climate talking point, remember that? When it was getting very, very cold in the summertime a year or two ago people said, "No, no, no, no, weather isn't climate. There are major, major differences, Mr. Limbaugh. Weather does not equal climate and one cannot get an idea of global warming from whatever happens with the weather." But now the weather is climate. There are two stories on this, by the way, on global warming. Not just this report from the Newark Star-Ledger, but elsewhere.
Obama Rejects Shale and Oil Pipeline Jobs
RUSH: "President Obama's United States Department of Agriculture has delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio for up to six months by cancelling a mineral lease auction for Wayne National Forest (WNF). The move was taken in deference to environmentalists, on the pretext of studying the effects of hydraulic fracturing." Two hundred thousand jobs on the line here. This is a grand total of up to a maximum of 600,000 jobs that Obama has written off in the last two weeks by putting off the construction of the Keystone pipeline from Canada to ship oil from Canada to the United States. That would have been an initial 20,000 jobs that could have expanded up to as many as 400,000 to build and maintenance, service the pipeline, operate it, not to mention the humongous supply of oil that it would have brought the United States.
And now another delay, this the shale drilling in Ohio, delay it for six months. Here's a guy, Barack Obama, who's traveling the world and this country and telling everybody he's focused like a laser on job creation. He's doing his level best to prevent the creation of jobs, particularly in the oil industry because if he does he loses his base or he runs the risk of losing his base. So it goes back to what I've always said, what's good for America is bad for the Democrats and vice versa. If it's good for the Democrat Party, it's bad for the country.
So here's Obama, and he's balanced precariously now when it comes to his reelection possibilities. He's gotta hold onto his base. His base is made up of the fringe kooks that you see at Occupy Wall Street and Occupy everywhere else. There's more evidence, by the way, that there are direct ties of this group to Van Jones, which is a direct tie to Obama. This is outrageous, folks. It's simply outrageous. We are witnessing the purposeful management of decline of a great nation. Two hundred thousand jobs possible here in Ohio, 400,000 jobs throughout with the Keystone pipeline. And just erase 'em, just wipe 'em out, no, we need to study it further, the environmental impact, all to hold onto his base.
Penn State Upstate: Syracuse Coach Sex Abuse Charges
RUSH: Well, looky there, folks, an assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University put on leave amid allegations of child sex abuse. There is a giant elephant in the room here. Another one of those things, another giant elephant in the room. Obviously at Syracuse, they're gonna take a cue from this principal up in Ontario, Canada. The balls are the problem. Got this sex abuse allegation now at Syracuse with the assistant coach, got that principal up there, gotta get these hard balls away from the kids. It's obviously true at Syracuse.
RUSH: Oh, by the way, that Benetton ad campaign, I think they're yanking the whole thing, not just the pope picture. The Vatican has threatened to sue, and I think they're pulling back the whole thing. I'll have to double-check that. It was a journalist report that I read; therefore it was confusing. I have to get to the bottom of it.
House Falls 23 Votes Short on Balanced Budget Amendment
RUSH: The House of Representatives just failed to pass the Balanced Budget Amendment 261-165, twenty-three short of the two-thirds majority needed -- and they had stripped out the "cut" and the "cap." It was Cut, Cap, Balance. This was just the Balanced Budget Amendment and four Republicans voted with the Democrats on this. It still has a long way to go.
