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RUSH: I want to talk about the Kansas governor, Ms. Sebelius. This is a great display — classic, as I love to say, a classic illustration — of the politicization of virtually everything<\/emphasize>, including disasters. Not manmade disasters, just natural acts of God. A tornado that wiped out the town of Greensburg, Kansas, becomes a political weapon for the Democrat Party. You heard what she said. ‘Well, we can\u2019t go in and help those people. We can\u2019t do anything. The National Guard is over in Iraq.\u2019 Now, I have highly tuned antennae, ladies and gentlemen. I know these liberals like every square inch of my shrinking-yet-glorious naked body. I don\u2019t believe this woman came up with that on her own. I don\u2019t spend a lot of time studying pronouncements of the governor of Kansas, but I do know the Democrat Party. It wouldn\u2019t surprise me a bit if her statements about this were issued to her from higher powers in the Democrat Party. They coordinate everything, folks. They coordinate everything. This is just too pat. It\u2019s right out of the Democrat playbook, right out of Hurricane Katrina, and covers a bunch of what they care about. A, politicizing a disaster with an agenda. It\u2019s the next Katrina. They hate the war on Iraq and they\u2019re doing everything they can to secure defeat and so tie it to Iraq. It was almost predictable. It was almost too pat. ‘We can\u2019t do anything. We have no ability to go in there and help those people because Bush has sent the National Guard of Kansas over to Iraq.\u2019 <\/p>\n

It turns out none <\/emphasize>of this was true. Sebelius knew it and this is why I think she was being led on a leash by this, because she\u2019s allowed herself to be made to look like a fool. It turns out, and the White House has admitted this, ‘Hey, look…\u2019 because she attacked the White House. The Democrats attacked the White House over this, and Tony Snow said, ‘You gotta ask for it. If you want federal assistance, you have to ask for it. We can\u2019t just run out in the states and flood the states with military people and equipment. You gotta ask for it.\u2019 It turns out she did ask for it and she got pretty much what she wanted. So the whole thing was blown up. I think the whole thing is a staged incident. There\u2019s a website, the Armed Forces Press Service<\/a>: ‘National Guard troops responding to a tornado that devastated Greensburg, Kan., have the manpower and resources they need and can tap into additional support if they need it, defense officials said today. ‘If the National Guard has it, Kansas will receive it,\u2019 said Army Lt. Gen. H Stephen Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau. Some 566 members of the Kansas National Guard — 366 Army Guard, 200 Air Guard — are on duty, conducting search-and-rescue missions, clearing debris, helping generate power, supporting law enforcement officials, and providing other support, National Guard Bureau officials reported. The Kansas National Guard has 88 percent of its forces available and is working quickly and aggressively to save lives and reduce suffering, Guard Bureau officials reported. More than 6,800 additional Kansas Guard troops can be tapped, if needed, as well as more than 80,000 Guardsmen from surrounding states, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters today.\u2019<\/p>\n

The whole thing was made up, and the whole thing has the stench of an organized campaign from the top to me. Whole thing was made up. Besides that, this is where I have to question people\u2019s common sense. My question is tempered by the fact that I understand the basic human nature predisposition of doom and gloom. Everybody seems to be wired to believe the worst of everything. We hear that 10,000 people died from Obama, and people in his crowd nod their heads! That is such a gaffe. Imagine if Bush had said it or any other Republican presidential candidate had said it. It would still be news. They\u2019d be laughing about it. Barack is allowed to get off and say (paraphrased), ‘Well, I was tired. I was flying around, hopscotching on my jet there. I was tired.\u2019 No, he was politicizing it. But the idea that we in the United States of America do not have resources in this country because of the war in Iraq, is patently absurd. Yet people, when the governor first makes this announcement, I\u2019ll guaran-damn-tee you a whole lot of people bought it hook, line and sinker. ‘Bush sent the troops over there to Iraq. There\u2019s nobody to help these people in Greensburg, Kansas.\u2019 As this report discusses, we have National Guard equipment and troops in surrounding states. We\u2019ve got military people stationed all over the world. ‘This is a byproduct of Bush has depleted the military. People are serving two and three tours. Guards are over there! They shouldn\u2019t be over there because we\u2019re short in enlistment.\u2019 They\u2019ve been running a never-ending, bash-Bush, bash-the-military campaign for five years. This is the latest installment and used the governor of Kansas to advance this. It\u2019s total, total politics. John in Topeka, Kansas — speak of the devil — it\u2019s great to have you. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi Rush, how are you doing? <\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Fine, thank you. <\/line> <\/line>CALLER: I\u2019m in the National Guard in Kansas. <\/line> <\/line>RUSH: What part of Iraq are you calling from? <\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Oh, I guess my cell phone doesn\u2019t work in Iraq. I\u2019m calling from Topeka, Kansas. <\/line> <\/line>RUSH: You\u2019re in the National Guard and you\u2019re in Kansas? <\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Amazing it, isn\u2019t it? We\u2019re not in Iraq. <\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, I wonder if the governor knows you\u2019re there. <\/line> <\/line>CALLER: I guess I\u2019ll have to call her after I get off the phone with you. I just find it offensive she\u2019s using us for political gain. <\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Yeah. You may be offended, but you shouldn\u2019t be surprised. She\u2019s a Democrat. <\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Right, not surprised. <\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Have you been called to serve? Have you been asked to go out and help in Greensburg? <\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Yes. A lot of us have been volunteering to go. <\/line> <\/line>RUSH: But have you been officially called, because we\u2019re told that there aren\u2019t any of you there — and that we\u2019re left to believe that virtually every scrap of National Guard personnel and equipment is being sent there now because there\u2019s such a shortage, and yet you\u2019re calling from Topeka. I guess you haven\u2019t received orders to head out to Greensburg. <\/line> <\/line>CALLER: No, absolutely not. Right now it\u2019s a volunteer thing. <\/line> <\/line>RUSH: That doesn\u2019t make sense because the Drive-Bys are saying the opposite. I don\u2019t know what to do here. You should call the governor\u2019s office and tell them I told you to call and you\u2019re available and you\u2019ve been trying to volunteer to get out there and nobody is answering. <\/line> <\/line>CALLER: No. <\/line> <\/line>RUSH: (laughs) I know you can\u2019t do that. That\u2019s jumping the chain of command. But I just say this rhetorically to make a point. I appreciate the call, John. Thanks much.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, the October 2005 issue of the nation\u2019s most widely read political newsletter. This is The Limbaugh Letter<\/a>. I\u2019m showing it for the people watching on Dittocam today at RushLimbaugh.com. What you\u2019re looking at there is a map graphically illustrating how many National Guard troops are deployed and available in every state all across the fruited plain, including Alaska and Hawaii. Back in 2005 when we went through this and we created a graphic, there were 4,000 National Guard troops in Kansas. But we did this around a story entitled: ‘Where Was the National Guard?\u2019 I was reminded of this. It was a year and a half ago that we did this. We had a bit today, a discussion, of Kathleen Sebelius, the Governor of Kansas, who came right out and said, ‘We don\u2019t have any National Guard here because we\u2019re in Iraq.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I said, ‘I don\u2019t believe she came up with that on her own. I think that\u2019s part of Democrat Party strategy. I think it\u2019s in the handbook.\u2019 When there\u2019s a disaster, particularly in a state with a Democrat governor, you blame Bush and you blame Iraq. You do everything you can to deflect attention away from whatever incompetence on the local level, such as Kathleen Blanco and Ray ‘School Bus\u2019 Nagin in New Orleans and in Kansas now, the mayor, Sebelius. We did this in the post-Katrina era, because they did it during Katrina. <\/p>\n

‘There\u2019s no National Guard! Bush has sent them over there fighting a war we can\u2019t win; an immoral war; an unjust war. Bush lied; people died! Now people died because Bush not only steered the hurricane to New Orleans — Bush created Katrina! He aimed it there because he wanted to kill Democrats — he made sure there\u2019s no National Guard,\u2019 and that\u2019s what they\u2019re out there saying. That is why, and I will reiterate this, I do not believe that Governor Sebelius came up with this on her own. I think there\u2019s either a handbook, they either discussed this, or she got a call from someplace — at Democrat headquarters, wherever. There are a bunch of different Democrat headquarters. ‘Here\u2019s what you\u2019re going to say about this.\u2019 We have a little mock-up here of the Democrat Disaster Handbook, Hurricane Response Plan, but it also would work in the case of a tornado. The first thing you say is — and this forms all other thinking — ‘I hate Bush. Bush sucks. Bush is Hitler or Bull Conner. Bush is really dumb. He knew in advance but didn\u2019t respond. <\/a> He sent the National Guard to Iraq when it was needed at home. It\u2019s FEMA\u2019s fault. Bush took money from local reconstruction levees or what have you and used it for the war and that\u2019s why a whole town got blown away in Greensburg, Kansas. Bush failed to preserve the wetlands! Bush has refused to fix global warming,\u2019 all these things.<\/line> <\/line>I know this handbook. We make a mockery of it here, but I know it exists. Dean is running the website today. Koko is out. But pages 10 and 11, October 2005, Limbaugh Letter, reproduce it. Made a PDF out of this and post it at Rushlimbaugh.com in support of my instinctive understanding and monologue today on the reaction of the governor of Kansas, and my theory that it was a preprogrammed response, perhaps even ordered and dictated to response by higher powers in the Democrat hierarchy.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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