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| March 25, 2008 |
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Story #1: Not Much Movement in Latest Tracking Poll
RUSH: Rasmussen released the latest poll in Pennsylvania at 11 o'clock this morning. Not much movement here. The last poll, it was Clinton over Obama 51 to 38%. Today it's Clinton 49 to 39. Not a whole lot of change there, not real substantive change, which might be trouble for Obama since it looks like the numbers are pretty much holding steady.
Story #2: Obama Plans (Hate Talk Express) Bus Tour
RUSH: We had a caller who didn't have time to stay on the phone, and we don't have time to put him on the air anyway, but he's got a good idea. You know, Obama gets back from the Virgin Islands tonight or tomorrow, and is going to start a six-day bus tour throughout Pennsylvania, and the caller's idea was to get Senator Obama to invite Jeremiah Wright to go with him on this six-day bus tour and call it the Hate Talk Express. A wonderful idea. One of those things that we at Operation Chaos would champion that we know would never happen.
Story #3: Paterson (DEMOCRAT) Admits Cocaine Use
RUSH: David Paterson just needs to shut up! Now he's out there admitting that he used cocaine. "I tried it a couple times," he said in an interview with NY1 News when asked if he'd ever used cocaine, first TV interview since he became governor last week. So he's admitted to all these affairs, there may be some affairs he hasn't admitted to, or there may be some money funnies that have gone on to use campaign funds to pay for the trysts. Who is this? You know, frankly, I don't want anything to happen to him. We need liberals on display as they really are.
 Story #4: Will Algore Be Drafted to Save the Democrats?
RUSH: Just when you thought that Operation Chaos had peaked, the Democrats come to the rescue and prolong the operation. And then there's this. A column by Mark Tomasik on a website called TC Palm, Florida's Treasure Coast and Palm Beaches. I guess it's a newspaper, but it's primarily a website. This columnist, Mark Tomasik writes this: "US Rep. Tim Mahoney, whose district includes much of Martin and St. Lucie counties --" just north of us here. This is the guy, by the way, who replaced Mark Foley in the election in '06, Tim Mahoney; he's a Democrat. "-- is hoping he won't have to attend the Democratic Party national convention in Denver in August. If he does go, that will mean the Democrats still haven't decided a nominee for the presidential election. And if neither Sen. Hillary Clinton nor Sen. Barack Obama has clinched the nomination by August, Mahoney says we may see a brokered convention, meaning the nominee could emerge from a negotiated settlement. 'If it (the nomination process) goes into the convention, don't be surprised if someone different is at the top of the ticket,' Mahoney said. A compromise candidate could be someone such as former vice president Al Gore, Mahoney said last week during a meeting with this news organization's editorial board. If either Clinton or Obama suggested to a deadlocked convention a ticket of Gore-Clinton or Gore-Obama, the Democratic Party would accept it, Mahoney said. Mahoney, who is one of the superdelegates who gets to cast a vote at the convention, hasn't endorsed a candidate. He said he doesn't intend to endorse anyone because 'I don't see it as my job as a district representative' to endorse a nominee for the presidential race."
You're a superdelegate, dude! The Democrat Party's primary voters do not count! You talk about vote fraud, you talk about misleading, you talk about irrelevancy -- Democrat Party primary voters do not count. It's all going to come down to superdelegates. This guy Tim Mahoney has let the cat out of the bag and it might be Gore who could assume the position at the top of the ticket with either Obama or Hillary. Now, I know it may sound ridiculous, it may sound silly, it may sound implausible and impossible, it's Operation Chaos. Who cares how silly or implausible it sounds. I'm not endorsing it; I'm not suggesting it; I'm telling you, this is what Democrats are saying. This is obviously being discussed among the superdelegates. Don't discount their love for vice president Algore, ladies and gentlemen. Just when we thought Operation Chaos had peaked... If Obama doesn't win this, if they take this away from Obama -- and don't count the Clintons out on this score. We are way, way early here, even in Operation Chaos.
Story #5: Criminal? Dems Search for GOP Votes in PA
RUSH: Here is an excerpt. This is for all of you Democrats -- all of you liberals, those of you at The Nation -- those of you who are worried that we are somehow committing vast crimes, indictable crimes; that we are tampering with the precious electoral process. Don't make us laugh. Here is an excerpt from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from some weeks ago. "One of our biggest supporters..." This is Mark Nevins, by the way, Mrs. Clinton's communications director for Pennsylvania, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Mark Nevins said, "One of our biggest supporters is Governor Ed Rendell," known on this program and various other places as Fast Eddie, and Mark Nevin said, "We are going to be tapping [Fast Eddie's] expertise in the Pennsylvania campaign to turn out independents, women, and moderate Republicans.' With Mrs. Clinton revitalized by a big victory in Ohio, Mr. Nevins said that Pennsylvania's next. 'If we can get independents and moderate Republicans to cross over to us, that would be great, but our goal is to turn out our supporters, and I think we'll start with an inherent advantage, here.'"
So Hillary's own spokesman in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said we're going to use Fast Eddie to go out there and find some Republicans to vote for us! Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are both doing exactly what we're doing here at Operation Chaos, and where did they get the idea? From right here: Operation Chaos headquarters. So the idea that we and you are engaging in criminal behavior is, frankly, totally absurd. It is pathetic. It's typical liberal whining and moaning because things aren't going their way. They thought they were walking to a coronation with either of these candidates. They thought the country so hated Bush and so hated Republicans that this was a walk. It was going to be a piece of cake -- and now, there is literal cannibalism going on on the Democrat side as the Democrats have turned into their version of the Donner Party, with the help and the aid of Operation Chaos.
Story #6: Evan Bayh: Electoral Votes Count in Primary
RUSH: Now, I just referenced to you the plausible possibility of the Clintons stealing the nomination from Obama. Also in the New York Times today by Kit Seelye, "Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana--" by the way, Senator Bayh has been rumored constantly as Hillary's vice presidential front-runner. "Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, proposed another gauge Sunday by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Mrs. Clinton or Senator Barack Obama."
Now, again, I have to stress, you people that voted in the Democrat Party primaries, your votes don't matter, and they never were going to matter. Unless there was a landslide on behalf of one of the candidates, it's going to come down to the superdelegates. Your votes mean nothing. It's all about the superdelegates, and now here's Evan Bayh "suggested that they consider the electoral votes of the states that each of them has won. 'So who carried the states with the most Electoral College votes is an important factor to consider because ultimately, that’s how we choose the president of the United States,' Mr. Bayh said on CNN's Late Edition. In a primary, of course, electoral votes are not relevant, but the Clinton campaign is trying to use them as an unofficial measure of strength." But, now, wait a minute. I thought after the 2000 election, Hillary Clinton came out for abolishing the Electoral College, didn't she? So she's for the Electoral College after she was against it. "So far, Mrs. Clinton has won states with a total of 219 Electoral College votes, not counting Florida and Michigan, while Mr. Obama has won states with a total of 202 electoral votes."
Do you see what is happening here? The Clinton campaign is already making plans to steal the nomination from Obama with the superdelegates, based on the fact that he's won states that don't matter, and she's won the big electoral states that do matter, New York and California, to name two. She's also going to claim Michigan, and she's gonna claim Florida. And if she can claim Florida and New York and California and Ohio, they're going to go to the superdelegates and say, look, isn't this about winning the White House? It is. And isn't the way you do that by winning big in the Electoral College? It is. Who's shown in the primary that she wins big in Electoral College states? Mrs. Clinton. Operation Chaos, ladies and gentlemen, rolls right on.
Story #7: Mrs. Clinton Dumps on Obama and Rev. Wright
RUSH: Breaking news from the Talking Points Memo at Election Central website: "In an interview today with reporters and editors of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review..." by the way, that's a newspaper owned by the eeeevil Richard Mellon Scaife. The liberals hate Scaife. He owns the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, "...Hillary Clinton made her first extensive remarks about the Jeremiah Wright controversy," this according to Greg Sargent at TPM Election Central. Here's what Clinton is reported to have said: "'Jeremiah Wright would not have been my pastor. You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.' The Clinton campaign has refrained from getting involved in the controversy but Hillary herself responding to a question, denounced what she said was hate speech from Jeremiah Wright." It's exactly what we said here. She said, "You know, I spoke out against Don Imus' who was fired from his radio and TV shows," blah, blah, blah, "'saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that. I just think that you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving.'"
So this is an implicit criticism of Obama for not speaking out or moving churches in response to revelations about Wright's views. I think she waited to make these comments because they were worried. After that picture of Jeremiah Wright and Bill Clinton at the White House at one of those Bill Clinton "I'm sorry I did it; I've never been lower in my life; I need the support of all you ministers of God; the Word; and the Gospel" events, they were waiting to see if there were any other pictures, waiting to see if maybe the Clintons had been caught going to Jeremiah Wright's church. I guess they're confident now, enough time has passed, that no such evidence of any further contact between Bill Clinton and Wright and that church is going to be forthcoming. So Hillary feels confident now to dump on Jeremiah Wright and to dump on Barack Obama.
Story #8: Obama Not Generous with Charity Donations
RUSH: Meanwhile, from Bloomberg News: "Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle gave $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 to 2004 to charities, less than 1%, according to tax returns for those years released today by his campaign. The couple earned more than $2.6 million in 2005 and 2006 after Barack published his book. They donated $137,622 over those two years and made their church one of the biggest beneficiaries of their philanthropy, donating $27,500." So, they're not big charitable givers there, the Obamas.
Story #9: One in Ten Ohioans Now Collect Food Stamps
RUSH: I have a story here from the Columbus Dispatch. "Nearly one in 10 Ohioans now receives food stamps, the highest number in the state's history. Caseloads have almost doubled just since 2001, with 1.1 million residents now collecting benefits, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Low wages, unemployment and the rising cost of groceries, gasoline and other necessities are to blame for financial hardships facing many Ohio families. Caseloads have been rising steadily in the past seven years, said Brian Harter, spokesman for the state agency which oversees the food-stamp program." Now, I don't know if this happens in Ohio, but I know that the food stamp program advertises for applicants and participants. It's happened in California. It happens in a number of states, because the food stamp people need their budget to remain the same. So they've gotta spend at least as much as they did the previous year and hopefully more, so that their baseline budget goes up by the projected 10% every year. As far as the government bureaucrats are concerned (I don't care about party here), the more people on food stamps, the better for the people that run the program and their budgets!
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Story #10: See, I Told You So: Biofuels Cause Starvation
RUSH: By the way, speaking of the rising cost of groceries and gasoline and other necessities, I have a fascinating story here that has very little to do with anything that we have discussed today, so this may be a good time to bring this up. It is an AP story. It's datelined out of Mexico City. The headline here: "From Rice in Peru to Miso in Japan, Food Prices are Skyrocketing." This is a huge See, I Told You So, because it all comes back to oil and biofuels. Oil is the fuel of the engine of freedom and democracy, and there are people attempting to change that, to put biofuels in the mix and so forth and so on. Then, of course, you have people, "No blood for oil! No blood for oil!" We got people dying because of the price of oil. We've got people dying because of the price of biofuels, and primarily we got people dying because they're starving in certain parts of the world because the cost of food is skyrocketing worldwide because we're monkeying around with biofuels and other things which are raising the costs of energy!
"If you're seeing your grocery bill go up, you're not alone. From subsistence farmers eating rice in Ecuador to gourmets feasting on escargot in France, consumers worldwide face rising food prices in what analysts call a perfect storm of conditions. Freak weather is a factor. But so are dramatic changes in the global economy, including higher oil prices, lower food reserves and growing consumer demand in China and India," and biofuels, by the way. It's what we've always said here: the fuel of the engine of freedom, oil -- and its availability, the free flow of oil at market forces -- is crucial to the survivability and the workings of a free market and the people who are impacted and affected by it. And anything that artificially raises the price of energy and oil, whether it's intentioned well or not, is going to cause havoc, and this is beginning to happen. "The world's poorest nations still harbor the greatest hunger risk," which stands to reason. "Clashes over bread in Egypt killed at least two people last week," they had riots over bread in Egypt, "and similar food riots broke out in Burkina Faso, Cameroon earlier this month. But food protests now crop up even in Italy. And while the price of spaghetti has doubled in Haiti, the cost of miso is packing a hit in Japan."
Is that how you pronounce it, "me-so"? "'It's not likely that prices will go back to as low as we're used to,' said Abdolreza Abbassian, economist and secretary of the Intergovernmental Group for Grains for the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 'Currently if you're in Haiti, unless the government is subsidizing consumers, consumers have no choice but to cut consumption. It's a very brutal scenario, but that's what it is.' No one knows that better than Eugene Thermilon, 30, a Haitian day laborer who can no longer afford pasta to feed his wife and four children since the price nearly doubled to the local equivalent of US$0.57 a bag. Their only meal on a recent day was two cans of corn grits. ... Their hunger has had a ripple effect. Haitian food vendor Fabiola Duran Estime, 31, has lost so many customers ... that she had to pull her daughter, Fyva, out of kindergarten because she can't afford the US$20 monthly tuition. ... In the long term, prices are expected to stabilize. Farmers will grow more grain for both fuel and food and eventually bring prices down. Already this is happening with wheat, with more crops to be planted in the US, Canada and Europe in the coming year.
"However, consumers still face at least 10 years," it says here, "of more expensive food... Among the driving forces are petroleum prices, which increase the cost of everything from fertilizers to transport to food processing. Rising demand for meat and dairy in rapidly developing countries such as China and India is sending up the cost of grain, used for cattle feed, as is the demand for raw materials to make biofuels." They just casually throw that in as though it is incidental, when I would maintain to you that it is a primary factor here. "What's rare is that the spikes are hitting all major foods in most countries at once. Food prices rose 4 percent in the US last year, the highest rise since 1990, and are expected to climb as much again this year, according to the US Department of Agriculture. As of December, 37 countries faced food crises, and 20 had imposed some sort of food-price controls." It goes on to describe the food riots in Egypt here in the next part of the story; the problems in China that are being encountered here by that developing nation, demanding higher quality food.
So one of the reasons for this, folks, is the global warming hoax, the manmade global warming hoax. Nobody is denying we might be getting warmer, although I'm not even willing to concede that, but the idea that it's manmade, that means we gotta have bigger government and higher taxes? We all must sacrifice. We all must reduce our lifestyles. We all must give up a little bit to assuage ourselves of our guilt and our sins for engaging in too prosperous a lifestyle that has led to the destruction of our climate. You know the drill, blah, blah, blah. So, hello, sacrifice! Hello, suffering! Hello, higher food prices! Hello, riots for bread in Egypt and all kinds of other places like China that are experiencing shortages which will lead to food riots. People in poorer countries, their food prices are skyrocketing because the basics -- wheat, grain, and corn -- are skyrocketing because of their use in fuels. All of this is to somehow eliminate some "carbon footprint" that people are making in order to save the planet. In the meantime, this is going to lead to even more messes and more pollution because people are going to have less resources to clean up the messes that they make.
So we have hunger, we have pain, we have misery. We even have some people starving because of the recognizing price of food, and all of you people out there who think oil is the big culprit that's destroying the planet, all of this paranoia and all of this gloom and doom over the fact that fossil fuels are destroying the planet. We now have the impact of all of this panic creating rising prices for oil, biofuels, which is adding to the cost of food as well as fuel. All of this is now leading to not a crisis in the planet, but a crisis in the world's population -- which is fine with the environmentalist wackos because many of them think the fewer people, the better. I'm not exaggerating. I've told you the stories about these people. "We must reduce the human population. We're putting too much stress on native plants and trees and animals and so forth," and this is what you get when liberals run amuck with their ideas, the unintended consequences of their supposedly good and well-intentioned ideas. If you wonder why prices are going up on food at the grocery store, one of the answers that you can honestly give yourself is the panic associated with dealing with the hoax of manmade global warming.
Story #11: Early Bird: 93-Year-Old Florida John Prosecuted
RUSH: Manatee County, Florida -- I think Tampa, St. Pete, Sarasota: "Prosecutors are moving ahead with a case against one of two 93-year-old men picked up during undercover prostitution stings. In the case of Frank Milio, prosecutors have issued subpoenas and plan to take him to trial in April. Milio, according to police records, tried to pay $20 in November to an undercover officer on 14th Street West. Milio recently told the Herald-Tribune he was only flirting with the woman. 'I haven't had that in years,' he said. 'Ninety-three is kind of old.' Carlos Underhill, 93, will not be charged, although he does not deny stopping to chat with the 'good-looking girl' who made eyes at him and turned out to be an undercover officer. Police say Underhill was willing to pay $30 for sex and that he promised to come back a few hours later to consummate the deal." I'll tell you what, 93 years old, God love him. They must get a senior discount, 20, 30 bucks, I mean, that's gotta be the early bird special. Ha! Sorry. You're not supposed to laugh at yourself. It's getting harder and harder to do.
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