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RUSH: Mexico has had to provide electricity to Texas. It\u2019s amazing. I have friends, I have coworkers, I have colleagues on the ground in Dallas. But they actually can\u2019t touch the ground because there is still a sheet of ice one-inch thick over — and they\u2019re pouring sand on it, not salt. It\u2019s a shame, too. Dallas is getting ripped through all kinds of media for being unprepared and uncaring. I even saw (I forget who it was last night) somebody said, ‘Yeah, well, it\u2019s just because the Cowboys aren\u2019t playing in the game. That\u2019s why Dallas doesn\u2019t care.\u2019 That\u2019s silly. There are establishments from Fort Worth all the way to Grapevine who have invested a lot of money getting ready for this week and they\u2019ve had to shut down. I\u2019m talking about retail shops, bars and saloons with adult beverages and so forth. The crowds aren\u2019t there. <\/p>\n

You tune in, you watch ESPN (I kinda smile at this) and these guys are freezing themselves. They\u2019re outside in Fort Worth, and at the Super Bowl you can see their breath. As they speak, their mouths are getting frozen, which is a benefit for the viewer in many cases at ESPN. But Mexico has now had to provide electricity. ‘Mexico will provide electricity to Texas to help the state weather an ice storm that has forced rolling blackouts.\u2019 So now we have to thank Mexico. Dallas has… Pshew! Not effectively shut down, but it\u2019s been bad. They have rolling blackouts in some areas. Some areas are without power for eight hours or more. Schools are closed for the third straight day. As I said, a lot of businesses can\u2019t open because of the power problems. This never happened, this never happened when J. R. Ewing ran the show down there. Never one time. They were driving big cars all over the place down there, everybody was. It\u2019s just a shame we can\u2019t maintain traditions. Mexico helping Texas out with electricity!<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, I mentioned earlier Senator… Oh, let me grab a phone call here. We have people from Dallas who want to weigh in here. They\u2019re not happy down there when the news has gotten out that Mexico has to provide them electricity. (sigh) You know, I know Texans. I have a lot of friends who are Texans. I love going to Texas. I\u2019ve been to South Fork, and this story out there that Mexico is having to provide electricity for Texas — particularly in Dallas during Super Bowl week — is not sitting well. Here\u2019s Andrew in Dallas. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, sir, and hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, brother Rush! It is an honor, a pleasure, and a privilege to speak with you, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is absolutely crazy here in Dallas with all the ice — and, yeah, the whole global warming thing? That\u2019s a freaking joke, let me tell you. I think a lot of the reason that we\u2019ve had so much trouble with the power is what they\u2019ve said on the local news stations is because a lot of the pipes going into the power plants as far as like the natural gas lines and the water-cooling pipes and all that stuff, it\u2019s not prepared for this kind of weather \u2019cause, you know, it\u2019s extremely out of the ordinary here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is. Wind chills in the double digits below zero.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Temperatures in the single digits. It is highly unusual. So the cold weather is the culprit here in the power plant\u2019s ability to function and produce electricity?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. The scariest thing about it is driving \u2019cause Texas people don\u2019t know how to drive on the ice, and it\u2019s the nature of my business that I drive a thousand miles a week.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So trying to watch out for all these people, it\u2019s scary, man.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. Who does know how to drive on ice?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, definitely not Texans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, driving… (interruption) All right, Snerdley. Snerdley, is saying, ‘Northerners know how to drive on ice.\u2019 (interruption) I\u2019m not talking slush, and I\u2019m not talking snow. I\u2019m talking ice. You can\u2019t stop. There is an inch of ice on everything. The temperature has gotten nowhere near freezing. It isn\u2019t melting. They\u2019re putting sand on top of the ice, not salt. It isn\u2019t melting. Santa Claus would be having trouble down there — and the fact that people down there aren\u2019t used to driving on, of course, is a factor. Andrew, I appreciate the call. This is Michael in Plano, Texas. You\u2019re on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good morning, Rush. It\u2019s a great honor to speak to you. Terabyte dittos from cold Plano, Texas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just wanted to call and tell you, I lost it yesterday morning. My wife thought I was having an aneurysm. The business I work in is dealing with a lot of the power outages and branch outages that occurred to us because of these rolling blackouts that were instituted by a group called ERCOT [Electric Reliability Council of Texas]. They manage the unregulated utility companies in Texas. And they were the ones that requested these rolling blackouts — and they were all over the state. They weren\u2019t just in the Dallas\/Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I know. It\u2019s all over the state. <\/p>\n

CALLER: They had this parade of people on the local news media about crying about being without the power, and I understand all that. But the media was just beating up on the utility companies, and I turned around at the TV, and I\u2019m like, ‘That\u2019s not the story. The story is why don\u2019t we have the capacity to deal with this?\u2019 We haven\u2019t built a power plant in this state in God knows how many years because of all the environmental regulations and everybody screams about all that. We can\u2019t build a power plant! We shouldn\u2019t have this problem and we certainly shouldn\u2019t have to be borrowing electricity from Mexico.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I wouldn\u2019t borrow it, steal it! What are they gonna do? How are you gonna give it back?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. I told my wife, ‘This is the United States of America in the year 2011, and in the great state of Texas we\u2019re having to have rolling blackouts like a East German Soviet bloc country in the \u201960s.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m telling you… Look, I appreciate your call, Michael. He\u2019s in Plano. This is affecting them down there. Texas? In Texas, this is not what they\u2019re made of. Rolling blackouts? I mean, this is Texas. They think they could secede and have a stronger economy than the rest of the country. So it\u2019s grating on them down there, and he\u2019s exactly right. And we\u2019re not even talking nuclear power plants. It\u2019s just trying to ramp up and build even larger ones or brand-new ones. You\u2019ve gotta jump through hoops. And it\u2019s not just in Texas, that\u2019s everywhere. And, folks, let me tell you something: If Obama gets his way, rolling blackouts will be the new norm. What do you think ‘green energy\u2019 is? <\/p>\n

‘Mr. Limbaugh! Mr. Limbaugh! Do you have to politicize everything?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Look, Mr. New Castrati, I don\u2019t initiate anything here. I react. You know, I\u2019m sitting here minding my own business, trying to enjoy life and have a great time on my 23rd year of this program. I could phone it in, but the problem (well, my professionalism wouldn\u2019t permit me) is I get here every day and I have to look at how attacks on my country are materializing. So we\u2019ve gotta an administration that wants to somehow roll back prosperity in this country for whatever perverted reason. So, yeah, here\u2019s some rolling blackouts in Texas. What they\u2019re trying to do is come up with this new ‘green energy.\u2019 They\u2019re throwing all kinds of money into it, bribing GE one way or the other. Maybe it\u2019s a mutual bribe, I don\u2019t know. It doesn\u2019t matter. <\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is that in weather like they\u2019re having in Texas and throughout the country, the windmills shut down — and you need wind, anyway. If there\u2019s no wind, you can\u2019t fake that. You can\u2019t manufacture that. The rolling blackouts would be the new norm. Because, don\u2019t forget, as far as Obama and his crowd are concerned, we are wasting electricity. We\u2019re using way, way, way much more than our share — and we have to learn to do with less. We need to learn what the rest of the world has had to put up with because of us. It\u2019s time we learned. It\u2019s time we experienced the rigors of life that we have inflicted on others. There are people in this country who view America in that way, and some of them now have positions of power and leadership in our administration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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