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November 11, 2008 |
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Story #1: Arizona Supreme Court Didn't Ban Any Words
RUSH: Yesterday we had a story from Judicial Watch, which said that the Arizona Supreme Court had acquiesced to a demand by a Latino bar group that the word "illegal" and "aliens" and so forth was not permitted to be uttered in the courtroom. Apparently a firestorm was created over this story, and we heard from the communications director of the Arizona Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, who tells us that the Judicial Watch story is factually incorrect. The office of Chief Justice Ruth McGregor received a letter from a Hispanic group of the bar, it was seven pages long, and among the issues in the letter that this group wanted the court to address was the use of the word "illegal." As is the process when the court receives letters from constituents or groups, these letters are passed along without regard to what point of view or suggestion the letters contain. The communications director, Cari Gerchick said these letters come from both sides. There was never a ban on the word illegal. There was never any action by Judge McGregor taken off of the letter. It was simply distributed within the court. No edict was made, no executive order was written. She couldn't say even whether any action would result from the letter one way or the other, simply put out there for people to see, this is how we do things, but they have not acquiesced to the demands of the Hispanic bar group.
So they're claiming that the Judicial Watch website was factually incorrect. They're also very disturbed about what kind of reporting this can do to the image of the judicial system in the United States, and they cite a AP story here that was running late yesterday afternoon that basically said a Hispanic lawyers group has asked Arizona's chief justice to end state court use of words it's members consider inflammatory, such as "illegal aliens," but Cari Gerchick, spokesman for the Arizona Supreme Court said Monday there's been no ban on any words nor is chief justice Ruth McGregor considering one. Maybe they didn't want to look like the Ninth Circuit, but what court would want to look like the Ninth Circuit except, of course, for the Ninth Circuit, which takes pride in the way it looks. But I wanted to get this out because they got hold of us, it was late in the day yesterday, five or 5:30 or so, and I just wanted to let you know that they're claiming at the Arizona Supreme Court that the Judicial Watch story was factually incorrect. And that's good because it was deeply troubling. As Tom Daschle used to say, "We were concerned about this and we're happy to hear that the story is not true."
 Story #2: Obama Inherits Broad Covert Ops Powers
RUSH: We have an AP-Obama story. You know how Bush got hammered for doing everything in the war on terror in secret? Well guess what now? Covert operations are fine and dandy for Obama, covert operations, doing things in secret, because he needs that flexibility to go out and fight the war on terror. "President Bush leaves President-elect Obama broad latitude for covert action in countries with which the United States is not at war, powers that Obama could scale back along with other Bush presidential orders now under consideration for rescinding. But [Obama]'s not likely to do that. Obama already has telegraphed his willingness to exercise those powers if he deems them necessary. Obama said in an August speech that he would target high-value terrorists in Pakistan without that government's permission. ... Rescinding blanket orders..." Rescinding Bush executive orders on fighting terrorism "would limit Obama's flexibility and proscribe the ability of U.S. intelligence and military forces to capture or kill wanted terrorists..."
So, you see, the Bush executive orders allowing us to go wherever we wanted to go in the world to find the bad guys with Special Ops, that was horrible. That was worth leaking to the front page of the New York Times yesterday. Every covert operation that the Drive-Bys could find on Bush was leaked from the CIA, leaked from the state department, leaked from the Pentagon, plastered all over the newspapers. Bush was said to be spying on Americans. Bush was just horrible! He was violating everybody's civil rights. Bush had to go; Bush had to be impeached. Bush didn't care. He was listening in on your phone calls. Bush was running around the world. America was hated by the world because Bush was running around with these kinds of orders. But now that they are Obama's, why, it's perfectly understandable that he would not rescind them!
Why, because Obama needs the flexibility. If he has to go in and bomb Pakistan without Pakistan's permission he needs the flexibility to do it. Yes, yes. That's right. "Those are our planes now," Ron. These are our executive orders now. These are our covert operations. "Rescinding blanket orders would limit Obama's flexibility and proscribe the ability of U.S. intelligence and military forces to capture or kill wanted terrorists..." So when Bush was doing these things, are why, it was bad! It was bad for America, bad for the world, poisoning. It was poisoning the attitude of the world against us and was going over the heads of Congress. He was slapping Congress in the face. He was ripping the Constitution to shreds. He was using the Constitution as toilet paper. But now? But now it's Obama, and he must have the flexibility to do these things in order to go after terrorists and catch bad guys.
Story #3: Hymn to Messiah: Iraq Bombings Show Progress
RUSH: From the Chicago Tribune blog: "'Iraq Bombings Show Progress.' -- Today's bombings in Iraq which left dozens dead is a stark and horrible reminder that, while violence has dropped significantly there as a result of the U.S. military's surge, that country is still very dangerous. It's a measure of progress that today's blasts, which killed at least 31 people in Baghdad and more elsewhere, according to the Associated Press, represented the worst day of violence since June." So we have the worst day of violence in Baghdad since June portrayed as progress now that Obama... As I keep saying, you just have to laugh. This is a new hymn: covert operations necessary now for Barry to stay flexible. Bomb blasts in Iraq show progress. This is the new hymn written by the Drive-Bys for the church of Obama. And there's even more, ladies and gentlemen, of this kind of thing.
Story #4: Camelot Redux: Cuban President to Visit Russia
RUSH: Speaking of Camelot, "Cuban President Raul Castro will visit Russia next year, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, in a new sign that Moscow is reviving a Cold War-era trade and military alliance. Moscow also repeated calls for Washington to lift the economic embargo imposed on the Caribbean island in 1962 when Castro's brother, Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro, was in power. 'Next year we await ... Raul Castro in our country and this will be yet another contribution to the development of ties,' Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque in Moscow." So yeah, we're going to get Camelot back and we're going to get a new alliance between the Soviet Union and Cuba. History repeating itself. And why do I get the sense that just as was the case in 1962, here in 2008-2009 could well be that the KGB, Vladimir Putin might wipe the floor with Barack Obama. So Camelot's back in more ways than one.
Story #5: Obama's State Senate Chair Destined for Museum
RUSH: By the way, the Sioux City Iowa Journal newspaper has a story. The chair from the Illinois Senate that Obama used is now... Well, somebody thinks it should be an artifact. It should be spirited away and kept in a museum. It is an historical treasure, destined for future display in a museum: Obama's Illinois State Senate chair. Why put it in a museum? Why not just call the pope and say, "Hey! We got an Obama chair coming. We want it in the Vatican museum." Isn't that where a messiahs' things go anyway, is in the Vatican? Put it over there.
Story #6: UK: Single Welfare Mom Moved to £1M House
RUSH: Folks, get ready. Here is where we are headed. This is what some of Obama's voters think they are going to get. It is a story from the UK Mail. "A mother-of-five claiming benefits is living in a detached home worth £1million -- with taxpayers helping fund her £25,000 annual rent. The luxury five-bedroom home with two sitting rooms, a conservatory and a double garage is being paid for with housing benefits handed out by her local council. Situated in a smart north London street, the £1million home is out of the price range of most families in the UK. The average house price in Britain is £224,064." Now, the mother of five is pictured here. Her name is Omowunmi Odia and she's very "pleased." She has a big shopping bag, there.
"She's very pleased with her new detached house worth £1million at the height of the property boom. She's Nigerian. She's a single mother. Omowunmi Odia moved her family into the home two weeks ago and last night said she was pleased to be living there - although she criticised the large house for having a small bedrooms. The family had been living in a cramped flat before the move. 'I was living in a two-bedroom apartment with my five children and only moved in here two weeks ago,' said Mrs Odia, who is in her thirties. 'They didn't have any council houses big enough for me so I found this one. I like it; the children like it,' she added. Mrs Odia has been living in the UK for 10 years and is entitled to the home under government rules. ...
"It has recently been revealed that taxpayers have paid out £14.8billion for housing benefits in Britain in 2006-7." Get ready, ladies and gentlemen, this is where we are headed. In fact we'd already be there in effect with this mortgage business and the way they're bailout's going to happen deal with the way people can't pay their mortgage. Obama walks in there yesterday and tries to strong-arm Bush into making quick moves that would allow people that can't pay their mortgages to stay in their houses, which is really no different than this mother of five, single woman from Nigeria being supported on a £1million house by British taxpayers.
Story #7: Bush Team Prepared the Transition for Last Year
RUSH: I was watching MSNBC at the top of the hour, I saw something -- see, I don't read the New York Times -- I don't get the newspaper. Sometimes I'll check the website now and then, but they had a Chyron banner at the bottom of the screen, "New York Times transition edition." I said, "You have got to be kidding me." They have a transition edition of the paper out? And then underneath that, it said, "Bush administration has been working on transition for the past year." And I said, "Well, now, that explains a whole lot." I'm surprised in their Oval Office meeting yesterday Bush just didn't throw the keys at Obama and say, "Here it is, pal. It's all yours, have at it, go get Bin Laden. If you need me I'm available by phone down at Crawford." The Drive-Bys are acting like the transition has already happened, Obama is running the show. That is the news; that is the tenor; that's the narrative; that's the template that they are putting out there. And remember, it was not a record turnout, 52% of the vote, 48% voted against him, 57, 58 million people, but they're creating this illusion out there that this the most amazing thing that's ever happened, Camelot is back, it's Camelot, Camelot. And the Kennedys are back. People haven't been this excited since the Kennedys were there, ladies and gentlemen.
Story #8: Get Your Kids Out of Thug Day Care Indoctrination
RUSH: Rockford, Illinois: "The nation's economic troubles play out one family at a time at the New Horizons Learning Center in this struggling city two hours northwest of Chicago. Some parents have been laid off and must pull their children out of the day care center until they can find a job. Others' employment hours have been cut, so they reduce their kids' attendance to a few days a week." See, I think this is a good thing, especially if it's government run day care. Get the kids the hell out of there. This is one of these silver linings in the cloud, they say. I realize a lot of you people aren't going to see it that way, but the children are suffering in day care, we just don't know it 'til they get out of there. The children are being polluted; they're being perverted; they're being corrupted; they're being indoctrinated in day care. Get them the hell out of there, those thug teachers.
"Parents nationwide are telling day care providers they must scale back or abandon their services. Instead, they keep kids at home with grandparents or upend their work-life balance because gas and food prices have become prohibitive." Gas and food prices prohibitive still? What's the date of this? The oil price is 59 bucks a barrel, gas in some places is two bucks a gallon. But look at the narrative in this story. Oh, yeah, gas and food prices, so astronomically high, it's prohibitive, and "average child care costs outpace rent and mortgage payments even for those drawing salaries." It's horrible out there, gotta pull the kids out of day care.
Story #9: American Elections Used to be Like Oklahoma's
RUSH: You know, we need to look at Oklahoma. Did you see the election returns out of Oklahoma? "McCain got 65.6 percent of the vote in Oklahoma, the highest state percentage for him in the country, even though Democrats hold an edge in voter registration by about 300,000 votes. The GOP candidate swept all 77 counties, repeating George Bush's feat four years ago against John Kerry. No Democrat has won a presidential race here since Lyndon Johnson's landslide in 1964." When I saw this, I said, "Now, what's different about Oklahoma other than the people that live there, what's different?" I asked myself today, "Do they have early voting? Do they allow registration and voting on the same day? Do you need an ID?" And isn't it interesting, the GOP for the most part -- they have a Democrat governor, David Boren -- the GOP for the most part runs the state, and this story says the Oklahoma state economy is in good shape, Oklahoma is not in trouble at all, 65-and-a-half percent voted Republican.
So I looked it up, folks, and here is what I found out. You could not register and vote on the same day in Oklahoma. Voter registration ends 25 days before Election Day. You can visit your county election board or mail in the form. Deadline is Friday, October 10th to mail in your vote. An ID was required to vote. When you register to vote in Oklahoma, you'll receive a voter ID card from the election official. You need to bring that card with you, your voter ID card when you go to vote. If you lose or misplace your ID card you get a new one by contacting the county elections official. Cards are not issued during the 24 days before the election. They did have early voting in Oklahoma on the Friday before the election; not 30 days before; not 25 days before. They had early voting on the Friday before, Friday, Saturday, and Monday early voting from eight a.m. to six p.m. Now, it sounds like Oklahoma has elections the way the whole country used to have elections. No early voting, you had to have an ID, no registering and voting on the same day.
Story #10: Democrats Stealing Norm Coleman's Senate Seat
RUSH: The Democrats are in the process of stealing the Franken-Coleman election in Minnesota. They're doing it. They're finding all these votes. This is exactly what they did in the state of Washington with the governor up there, Christine Gregoire. They found more votes for her than people actually lived in the state. After 100% of the votes were counted, they have found something like 500 new votes for Al Franken and none for Coleman. (laughing) They're stealing that Senate race right under everybody's nose. Everybody's watching this happen. The margin I think started 700 some odd, now it's down to 200. And the recount hasn't even started. So you got that, you got all this early voting, all this funny registration and stuff. I think our elections have been corrupted. In fact, there's no doubt in my mind the elections have been corrupted.
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