{"id":6359,"date":"2015-05-14T16:13:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T16:13:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-04-14T01:18:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:18:01","slug":"utterly_predictable_democrats_take_advantage_of_train_crash_tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/05\/14\/utterly_predictable_democrats_take_advantage_of_train_crash_tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Utterly Predictable Democrats Take Advantage of Train Crash Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Somebody asked me this morning, it was Mr. Snerdley. Mr. Snerdley came in today, and said, &#8220;Does it ever get boring?&#8221; And I said, &#8220;What are you talking about?&#8221; &#8220;Everything you mention, everything you predict, when it comes to the Democrats, comes true!&#8221; I said, &#8220;What are you talking about?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;This Amtrak stuff, everything you told us yesterday<\/a>, the Democrats are doing, infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure, no matter what else.&#8221; No, it never gets boring.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I used to ask professional golfers that, &#8220;Does it ever get boring hitting it straight every time?&#8221; They said, &#8220;Never.&#8221; &#8220;Does it ever get boring the ball going where you want it to go?&#8221; &#8220;Never.&#8221; I said, &#8220;Really?&#8221; I would never know on the golf course, but I know about this, and, folks, it never gets boring being able to predict. It gets frustrating that it always works.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_105943\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Money-Train.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nBy the way, great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, 800-282-2882.<\/p>\n<p>So we have a tragedy. We have a down-to-earth tragedy. We have a train derailing. We\u2019ve got people dead. We\u2019ve got hundreds of people injured, and the first thing the Democrat Party sees is an opportunity. They want you to see, or want you to think that they are the ones that see tragedy and that have the compassion necessary to deal with it. They don\u2019t see the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>They see the opportunity. It\u2019s the Republicans that see the tragedy and get caught flat-footed dealing with it that way. It\u2019s amazing. Within minutes of this train derailment you just knew the word &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; was gonna be bandied about all over the place, and it was.<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; was halfway around the world before anybody found out that infrastructure had nothing to do with this, that it was a driver, an engineer, who now says he doesn\u2019t remember, who was doing twice the choo-choo train\u2019s speed limit at the turn. So now it\u2019s infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure, and the low-information voters, what do they end up knowing?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3WVt0Jre54w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, to find out you gotta go to Yahoo News, turn on CNN, or whatever it is, Facebook, whatever they get their news, and they\u2019re going to once again hear that a terrible accident happened because the Republicans are chintzy, the Republicans are cheap, the Republicans don\u2019t care about people. So, no, it doesn\u2019t get boring being able to predict it, but it gets frustrating that the Democrats get away with this all the time.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s the same old, same old. It\u2019s the same old story. It\u2019s the same old tactic. It\u2019s the same pattern repeated time and time and time again, and the low-information voter\u2019s conclusion once again is that the Republicans are cheapskates. They\u2019re chintzy. They only care about the rich. They don\u2019t care about the poor, they don\u2019t care about the middle class, and they don\u2019t care if people die.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img id=\"eZObject_105945\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Train-Earnest-d.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a>Now, the Republicans did push back on the floor of the House. They had some serious arguments that took place on that. We have the audio sound bites to back all of this up. Oh, by the way, did you know &#8212; and I\u2019m not saying there\u2019s any big deal about this, mind you. Did you know that the engineer, the <a href=\"http:\/\/themidtowngazette.com\/2012\/10\/campaign-for-marriage-equality-continues-in-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amtrak engineer, was a same-sex marriage advocate?<\/a> (interruption) You didn\u2019t know that? (interruption) Well, I\u2019m not making a big deal of it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not my point, to say that the Amtrak engineer was an advocate for gay marriage. I\u2019m not trying to make a big deal out of that. (interruption) If he was a Tea Party supporter, can you imagine? That would be the reason for everything. If he was a Tea Party supporter, you know what they would say? &#8220;Well, it all makes sense now! He was reading blogs or he was reading the latest Tea Party literature! He was all excited about taking it to Obama and embarrassing the Democrats, and he took his eyes off the tracks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But gay marriage activist? What could he have been doing instead of watching tracks? I mean, if we\u2019re gonna play this the way the media&#8230;? I mean, if the guy were a Tea Party activist, that\u2019s all you would say know about him, right? (interruption) Can we agree on this? If he was a Tea Party activist, if he listened to talk radio, that\u2019s all we would know about the guy, and it would be the reason why he was guilty.<\/p>\n<p>And it might even overcome the idea that there wasn\u2019t enough spending on infrastructure. But he wasn\u2019t Tea Party; he wasn\u2019t a radio talk show fan. He was and is a supporter of gay marriage. So if we played the game the way they do, what would we speculate the engineer was doing instead of watching the tracks, as an advocate for gay marriage? (interruption) Same-sex mar&#8230;? (interruption) What would you think you might be doing? (interruption) Hmm? (interruption) &#8220;Entertaining himself&#8221; how? (interruption) Specifically, sir, what are you referring to when you say&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, back to the Amtrak derailment here. I have some audio sound bites on this that I want you to hear. But let me go through some things here, because the very first thing that happens&#8230; Look at the New York Times headline: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/14\/us\/one-day-after-wreck-increased-funding-for-amtrak-fails-in-a-house-panel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8220;One Day After Wreck, Increased Funding for Amtrak Fails in a House Panel.&#8221;<\/a> You can\u2019t have any more purposeful bias in a news story and headline than that: &#8220;One Day After Wreck, Increased Funding for Amtrak Fails in a House Panel&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-386428\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/RushFlagEIB585.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/RushFlagEIB585.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/RushFlagEIB585-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/RushFlagEIB585-480x185.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>So idiots that read the New York Times are supposed to conclude that the derailment happened because the Republicans are cheap, and don\u2019t care about people and don\u2019t like trains. &#8220;That\u2019s right, the Republicans don\u2019t like trains. You know why? Because trains are big in Europe, and the Democrats love Europe, and leftists love Europe. That means leftists love trains, and Republicans hate Europe, and Republicans hate leftists, and Republicans hate socialists, and socialists love trains, so Republicans hate trains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, that\u2019s how it goes. That\u2019s the line of thought. That is the message for your average Democrat Party base voter and low-information voter. But let\u2019s review, shall we? Let\u2019s plug some reality into all this. The over $800 billion stimulus bill back in 2009 was an infrastructure bill (so we were told) to repair roads, bridges, schools, and all that. It turns out to be as big a lie as Obamacare. The stimulus bill wasn\u2019t about infrastructure any more than Obamacare is about affordable health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Both the stimulus bill and Obamacare are executive fraud, pure and simple. More money has been misdirected and misspent in Obamacare and the stimulus bill than we can comprehend. But the point is, you can never fully fund fraud. You can never satisfy con men. And fraud is what we have been subjected to all too often from our government. There\u2019s way too much, way too often, and you cannot fully fund it. Fraud is never, ever, totally paid for.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>I want to finish my train of thought on all of this fraud that is occurring to the American people. It didn\u2019t start with Obama, and I don\u2019t want anybody to think that that\u2019s what I believe. Fraud, at the highest levels of US government, has been going on for a while. It would be hard, actually, to peg when it began.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is where every dollar in this country goes, to then be disbursed. There\u2019s a reason so many people want to live in Washington. If you want money, that\u2019s where it is; that\u2019s where it\u2019s allocated; that\u2019s where it\u2019s taxed; that\u2019s where it\u2019s collected; that\u2019s where it\u2019s banked; that\u2019s where it is spent.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s just obvious that people would go there. When there\u2019s a big pile of money around and all you have to do is just maybe reach your fist out and grab some of it, it\u2019s very tempting. But the degree and the level of fraud and deceit in the past six and a half years is so bad and so deep that it\u2019s the reason we have the Tea Party. The degree of fraud, the irresponsible spending and money that we don\u2019t have, has millions of Americans legitimately concerned for the future of the country, particularly in terms of economic opportunity for their kids and grandkids, because people instinctively know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img id=\"eZObject_105950\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaPorkulusCollapsedBridgePIX.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a>So here comes Obama in 2009, his first couple of months in office, loving the fact that the economy\u2019s in bad shape, blame it on Bush, blame it on Iraq, just continue that theme and say, &#8220;You know what? I\u2019m gonna come out here, I\u2019m gonna step on the gas and I\u2019m gonna get this economy kicking again. I\u2019m gonna get it churning. We\u2019re gonna speed back that recovery.<a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> I want $800 billion to stimulate this economy<\/a>.&#8221; And the low-information crowd, &#8220;Yay,&#8221; new president can do anything he wants.<\/p>\n<p>They love him. Whatever they want him to be is who he is. So they\u2019re gonna jump-start the economy and he adds to it by telling and promising people he\u2019s gonna rebuild all these roads and bridges and schools, and it\u2019s gonna be utopia, man, it\u2019s gonna be so cool. Finally somebody knows what to do. Nobody stops to think that there is no way to pump $800 billion of found money that\u2019s not already being used into the economy, because we\u2019re already, at that point, $12 trillion in debt.<\/p>\n<p>Where do you get the $800 billion that you\u2019re gonna pump into the economy, for example? It\u2019s not as though there\u2019s $800 billion laying around that isn\u2019t being used. It\u2019s not as though there\u2019s $800 billion or a trillion or $500 million or a quarter, there\u2019s not that money laying around idle that you can just take it and put it in a syringe and inject it into the economy and massively grow it. That\u2019s not how it happens. Where does the government get the money?<\/p>\n<p>They have to take it in the form of taxes or borrowing. They take the money from the economy that they\u2019re gonna stimulate. It simply was mathematically economically impossible to stimulate the federal economy the way they did it. The way they did it was to take $800 million out of it and then put it back in. But it was worse than that. Because the money didn\u2019t go to infrastructure. It didn\u2019t go to roads and bridges and schools and all that. It went to union employees so that they would not lose be their jobs, so that their dues would continue to be paid and circuitously end up back in campaign coffers of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>It was total fraud, just like Obamacare. The stimulus bill was not about infrastructure any more than Obamacare is about affordable health insurance. As I said before the break, you cannot fully fund fraud. You can never satisfy con men. Look, when Elizabeth Warren said this, the Democrats stood up and cheered and Obama even picked up on it. The Democrats tell us we didn\u2019t build our businesses, that they did.<\/p>\n<p>They tell us that we did not raise our families. They did. A village did. You didn\u2019t achieve anything on your own. You got nothing to brag about. You got nothing to feel good about. Your success wouldn\u2019t have happened without us, the Democrats. Your kids turn out the way they are because of us, because of all of our education and our preschool and kindergarten, all that stuff, Head Start. We are raising your kids, the village, you don\u2019t know how to do it. Hillary wrote the book about it. They tells us that we don\u2019t care about our kids. That\u2019s why they have to take over. Yet look at the crud Michelle Obama decides to feed your kids at what is called lunch in the public schools. Her husband has tried to take away school choice from those who need it most.<\/p>\n<p>So you didn\u2019t build your business; they did. You didn\u2019t raise your families. No, no. The village did, the Democrat Party, the American left, they know how, they care more. You\u2019re not even any good at feeding your kids. Michelle Obama had to take that over. And look at it. They tell us we don\u2019t care enough about infrastructure, but we handed them $800 billion, when they assured us they were gonna rebuild all these things.<\/p>\n<p>Even after it was learned that the train was going twice the speed limit, didn\u2019t matter. Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure, Republicans are cheap, accident because of Republicans not caring about average people. Republicans only care about the rich. Average people died, Republicans don\u2019t care. We Democrats do. Well, where were all of the speed reduction systems? There\u2019s supposed to be some. But do you know the national transportation safety board has given Amtrak until the end of the year to install them all. They weren\u2019t installed yet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-247932\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FB-092017-Democrat-Broken-Promises.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FB-092017-Democrat-Broken-Promises.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FB-092017-Democrat-Broken-Promises-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>At some point there will be speed arrest devices on these tracks, but they\u2019re not there yet. Not in time. Who\u2019s running the show here? Who\u2019s in charge of all this infrastructure spending? Who\u2019s in charge of fixing roads, bridges, schools? Who has been in charge of everything for the past seven years? And yet magically and mysteriously, it\u2019s always the Republicans\u2019 fault.<\/p>\n<p>When normal people yesterday, average, ordinary, the people that make this country work, when they were mourning the dead, when they were seriously worried about the accident and the damage and the injuries, the Democrats were out celebrating a crisis while the bodies were still scattered across an accident site.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats saw the dead bodies, they saw the injured, they saw the mangled wreckage, and what did they see? They saw an opportunity to advance their agenda. They saw an opportunity to expand government. They saw an opportunity to once again defame conservatives and Republicans. They misstated facts, such as dilapidated infrastructure was the cause of the derailment. They did that to get more guilt money to launder for their political party.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s the MO, folks, that\u2019s the MO of the Democrat Party. This is how Democrats work. Clinton Crime Family Foundation is the stimulus bill, is Obamacare, it\u2019s a lie packaged as compassion.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is Ron in Houston. Great to have you. Welcome to the program, Ron.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Redstone dittos to you, Rush.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You know, I think more of our federal budget ought to be allocated toward physical resources. Like not necessarily Amtrak \u2019cause it\u2019s not making money, but in 1960 15% of our federal budget went to physical resources and only 35% went to transfer payments. In 2004, that\u2019s turned around. Now only about 5% goes to physical resources, and two-thirds of the federal budget goes to transfer payments.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: The physical resources, that\u2019s investment; that\u2019s stimulation of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Transfer payments don\u2019t stimulate the economy.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, yes, they do!<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes, they do! You have forgotten Nancy Pelosi. Every $1 of unemployment benefits creates $1.50 in economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, that\u2019s what Nancy says.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-256912\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FB-FB-120517-Pelosi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FB-FB-120517-Pelosi-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FB-FB-120517-Pelosi-1-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>RUSH: Well, she does. Look, you can give me those numbers all day long. The numbers prove nothing\u2019s gonna change. Two-thirds of the budget is transfer payments. That means two-thirds of the budget is spent buying votes for the Democrat Party. It isn\u2019t going to change. Whatever figure you gave for resources, if infrastructure is included&#8230; Some of this infrastructure stuff is state level, by the way. Not all of it is federal. Now, Amtrak would be federal, but not every road and bridge and school is federal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s up to states to do some of this stuff, too. Or a combined federal-state effort. But the way the Democrat Party is structured today&#8230; Use your number and let\u2019s say it\u2019s accurate, that 5% of the federal budget is for infrastructure. Fine and dandy. That just means the Democrats are gonna have some crumbling infrastructure they can blame on the Republicans. You have to understand what the purpose is here. Do not make the mistake of thinking the Democrat Party is about responsible government, good governance. It isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Democrat Party &#8212; and I don\u2019t know how long ago you have to go back to be able to say that the Democrat Party had people in it that were focused on good governance, responsible government and all that. All I know is you\u2019ve gotta go back a long way. Today, the whole purpose of virtually everything is the advancement of the Democrat Party agenda, and the Democrat Party agenda can be summed up in basically two things: The never-ending growth of government and the demise of any opposition.<\/p>\n<p>That is the Democrat Party agenda.<\/p>\n<p>They are not interested in debate.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not interested in being shown that they\u2019re wrong and how to improve.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not interested in any of that. They\u2019re not interested in fiscal responsibility. They\u2019re not interested in proper budgeting or any of that. The Democrat Party is completely leftist, radical, and extreme now, and it is not interested in the things&#8230; The numbers that you gave me: Two-thirds is transfer payments and 5% is infrastructure, and you said if they would just switch that a little bit, we could have some economic growth? They don\u2019t care about that.<\/p>\n<p>They believe that the private sector economy &#8212; however you want to call it, the economy, the private sector, whatever. They think it\u2019s a golden goose that will always lay eggs. They think it\u2019s always going to have enough money that they will always be able to take whatever they want from it. They don\u2019t think they will ever kill it. They don\u2019t even&#8230; They wouldn\u2019t mind if they made it smaller and smaller and smaller. They don\u2019t believe any of the horror stories that the economy with shrink and go into negative growth over protracted lengths of time, even if we had depressions.<\/p>\n<p>They think they can spend their way out of that. So there isn\u2019t anything spending money won\u2019t fix. And the more things that need spending money, the better for them. I\u2019m not kidding! If you really want to understand today\u2019s Democrats, you\u2019ve got to erase any notion that they are about good government, proper spending, good governance. That\u2019s not what it\u2019s about in any way, shape, manner or form.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re in the midst of what the Democrat Party thinks could be the last necessary power grab. They believe if they play their cards right in the next two years, there will not be a viable Republican Party to even worry about. That\u2019s what they want. They want to eliminate opposition. They don\u2019t care about a fair playing field or any of that folderol.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff in Anderson, Indiana. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. It\u2019s great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Dittos, Rush. Hey, our tax dollars are spent running the Amtrak trains, and we have to pay for the so-called union expert train engineers. Now they\u2019re getting ready to ask us to spend more of our tax dollars so they can computerize the trains so they can slow down, because it\u2019s obviously too hard for a union guy to slow down on a corner. Not to mention the scam of how they get their retirements jacked up to high.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Just wanted your input on it. Thank you, Maha Rushie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-230049\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RushPhonesWeGo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RushPhonesWeGo.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RushPhonesWeGo-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>RUSH: What specifically are you seeking input on? Your theory, or is there a specific question?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I guess more of a comment. You know, &#8220;Do it the union way. We\u2019ve got the best workers in the world,&#8221; and then they\u2019re not about to go up and say, &#8220;Boy, this union worker just was too lazy to pull back on the throttle.&#8221; They want to blame it on &#8220;infrastructure.&#8221; They want to &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, no. No, no. Yeah, yeah. Okay. When this is all over, the driver is not gonna have any culpability or responsibility whatsoever. If it is that the &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: He would if he was a Tea Party guy.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Pardon?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: He would if he was a Tea Party guy. (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, of course. But this guy is a gay marriage activist, and he claims that he fell asleep right as the train&#8230; Well, he says he doesn\u2019t remember. He doesn\u2019t remember what happened. He remembers going into the turn, and then after that it\u2019s all blank. He doesn\u2019t remember. So therefore he can\u2019t be blamed. He wouldn\u2019t be blamed anyway. It doesn\u2019t matter. The real reason this happened is going to be obscured in favor of the Republicans don\u2019t care enough to properly fund it.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, why did Baltimore happen? Why is Freddie Gray dead? Because the Republicans don\u2019t believe in properly funding the inner city. Republicans don\u2019t like minorities. Republicans have stood in the way every time the Democrats have asked for more funding for these poverty-stricken inner city areas. So, therefore, Baltimore is all the fault of Republicans, even though a Republican can\u2019t even get noticed there. There aren\u2019t enough of \u2019em. The Republicans haven\u2019t had anything to say about what happens in Baltimore since the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats have run that town and the suburbs &#8212; most of them &#8212; for decades. Doesn\u2019t matter. So here we have a train derailment, and the union\u2019s not gonna get blamed and the driver isn\u2019t gonna get blamed, especially if it\u2019s his fault. That\u2019s gonna get covered up as best the Democrats could do it, because they\u2019ve got this readymade, how-many-votes-they-can-already-count excuse. That train derailed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Folks, this is defamation. The message they\u2019re putting out is: &#8220;The train derailed because Republicans don\u2019t care about people. We know that because the Republicans chose not to spend enough money on infrastructure.&#8221; It\u2019s automatic. Every time one of these things happens, the Democrats trot out their preferred explanation. Sometimes they stick; sometimes they don\u2019t. They always try to blame the Tea Party when a mass shooting takes place. Those have blown up in their faces.<\/p>\n<p>They haven\u2019t yet been able to convert one of those into a national movement for gun control. But that\u2019s what they try to do. In a case like this, Republicans don\u2019t care. Freddie Gray, inner city turmoil, Gentle Giant? Republicans, Republicans, Republicans don\u2019t care. And if they can make it stick, then that\u2019s what they\u2019re going to stay with. As far as, you know, you\u2019re looking at this realistically, &#8220;Okay, we\u2019ve got a unionized driver. Union workers, we are told, are the best workers in America, and yet here\u2019s a guy that doesn\u2019t remember what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is made to order for the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>How can we blame him? We don\u2019t know what happened. He doesn\u2019t remember. We don\u2019t know why the train was doing twice the speed limit. But I guarantee you, they\u2019ll try to blame that on lack of infrastructure. They\u2019ll say that there were speed-arresting devices that were supposed to have been installed, but for some reason they weren\u2019t. If they haven\u2019t been installed, it\u2019s because of this Regime has other priorities, but they\u2019ll blame that on the Republicans for not funding it.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I have some sound bites backing all this stuff up, I\u2019m sure, here in the roster.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here we go. This afternoon on the House floor during one-minute speeches this is Democrat Corrine Brown from Florida.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_105988\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/CB.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nBROWN: It is sad that the Republicans, on the day that seven or eight people died and 200 was injured, voted to cut funding for Amtrak. It is a shame that in the people\u2019s house, the people\u2019s house, that the people that represent the people are stuck on stupid. We need a comprehensive transportation system and we need to stop starving Amtrak. It is amazing that this House voted the day of the accident to cut Amtrak. It is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You see how this works? None of what she said happened. The budget and the transportation department, this debate has been ongoing for weeks. So here comes the Amtrak accident, which it\u2019s gonna be human error unless, you know, something to do with global warming caused that train to speed up on its own. Never know. Something might have happened out there to cause that train to speed up on its own and fail to make that turn \u2019cause it was exceeding the speed limit by a factor of two.<\/p>\n<p>But this is all because (imitating Brown), &#8220;We got stuck on stupid. Two hundred people by the people of the people for the people, we\u2019re screwing the people by undercutting the Amtrak budget. Damn.&#8221; That\u2019s her voters, every damn one of them, this is what they\u2019re all gonna think. Here\u2019s Steve Israel, who\u2019s the former head, may still be, Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee during House Appropriations Committee hearing on transportation funding for the fiscal year 2016.<\/p>\n<p>ISRAEL: They expect us to watch over their safety when they get on trains, when they?\u2019re on planes, when they?\u2019re in cars on highways, and last night we failed them. We failed to invest in their safety. We failed to make their safety a priority. What we should have been doing is subsidizing the safety of those passengers on that Amtrak train yesterday. So this is just a matter of simple priorities. Thoughts are wonderful, prayers are critically important, but priorities are important as well.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So you see it derails, and it\u2019s a Republican caused event, and why? Because there isn\u2019t enough money, and why? Because the Republicans don\u2019t care about people\u2019s safety. The Republicans are not willing to subsidize nor are they willing to invest in the safety of the passengers on that Amtrak train yesterday. Now, all the other Amtrak trains I guess were properly funded, and I guess all the other Amtrak trains yesterday, the day before, today, next day, tomorrow, whatever, I guess the Republicans care about the people on those trains. And I guess the Republicans properly funded those trains.<\/p>\n<p>But this one train that derailed, somehow the Republicans targeted it, and they didn\u2019t properly fund it, and they didn\u2019t have enough compassion, and they didn\u2019t have enough care, therefore there wasn\u2019t enough safety. This one train that derailed, traced right back to the Republicans and the lack of hearts that we know they don\u2019t have. It\u2019s so predictable that you would think by now the Republicans would have an answer to this. Now, we did get one. This is Mike Simpson yesterday during the House Appropriations Committee, same meeting that Israel was just speaking out, and Simpson responded to it.<\/p>\n<p>SIMPSON: You have no idea, no idea what caused this accident. And to use that as a means of supporting the last amendment, support it if you want to, but don\u2019t use this tragedy in that way. It was beneath you.<\/p>\n<p>ISRAEL: But continuing to divest from safety and training and training of personnel is a lack of priorities, but that is the point that I was making.<\/p>\n<p>SIMPSON: Would the gentlemen yield?<\/p>\n<p>ISRAEL: I will.<\/p>\n<p>SIMPSON: That\u2019s not what you said. You tied it directly to an accident, a tragedy that happened last night and suggested because we hadn\u2019t funded it, that\u2019s what caused that accident, and you have no idea what caused it, and that\u2019s a shame.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-180234\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushLiberalismVSAmericanism585.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"585\" \/>RUSH: He doesn\u2019t care. You can\u2019t shame these people. And he added something to it. We divested from safety and training, and the training of personnel, lack of priorities. So this one train, in this one trip, the Republicans decided not to properly train the driver, the engineer. Man, look at how we\u2019re undercutting Amtrak. Look at how much the Republicans don\u2019t care. This one incident gets folded into all the others. We need Obamacare because the Republicans don\u2019t care if you get sick and die, see. We need to get out of Iraq because Republicans don\u2019t care that American soldiers get killed. We have to get out because Republicans don\u2019t care that our soldiers are raping and murdering Iraqi women and children. We gotta get out because the Republicans are doing all this horrible, rotten stuff.<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, who all of a sudden has presidential aspirations and some people are even taking it seriously. He\u2019s on Capitol Hill yesterday, bipartisan group from around the country, press conference, to talk about lobbying Congress on the transportation bill.<\/p>\n<p>DE BLASIO: This is a wake-up call. 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