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RUSH: Craig in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (garbled audio) Hey, thanks Rush. Quick question for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Do you think this is going to affect disaster relief now with this happening to the Republicans trying to get tax exemption? Will it happen, too, to us who are in tornado states where these things happen quite frequently? Is it going to affect us getting any relief or us getting money now that this is all tied into whether you\u2019re —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — (garbled) or not?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: No. The president, has he not, already ordered disaster relief for Oklahoma? I don\u2019t think so. There was a time where people jokingly said that stuff. In fact, I\u2019ll be honest with you. When the tornadoes hit Oklahoma… Obama sued Arizona, for example, so when the tornado hit Oklahoma, there\u2019s a part of me that laughingly said, “You know what?<\/p>\n

“He\u2019ll deny \u2019em aid because it\u2019s a Romney state.” But, no. He authorized the aid there. I understand your concern. The fact that you have the concern, the fact that you have a legitimate question about that is an indication in and of itself. The Texas fires? There was no help. You know when Texas had those wildfires, there was no federal help offered.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think the same thing in Tennessee. So your question has a basis, a foundation.<\/p>\n

CALLER: With him always denying and having nothing to do with any policy or any type of relief, I mean, I figured that he would just say he\u2019s not in charge of whether we get the funds or not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I understand the question because he has denied aid in previous instances. But I think when the Oklahoma tornado hit, he was right there with the promise that disaster relief would be forthcoming. The real story about that was Tom Coburn, the Republican senator. He said (paraphrased), “Look, you know, I\u2019m an Oklahoman, and it\u2019s my state. But we\u2019ve got a law here that says all this stuff has gotta to be revenue neutral. “So if we\u2019re gonna spend money that we hadn\u2019t planned on spending for disaster relief here in Oklahoma, we\u2019re gonna have to find it somewhere in the budget.<\/p>\n

“It can\u2019t be new money.”<\/p>\n

He did stand up and say that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back to the caller we had who asked me if I thought Obama might not come through with aid for Oklahoma or where he lived in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, because of politics. I checked the e-mail during the break, and a person said, “You know, that guy made more sense than I think you were acknowledging.” You go to the New York, New Jersey area, and you will find that Staten Island has gotten the least aid to recover from Hurricane Sandy. It\u2019s a Republican borough. And the point was made that Obama\u2019s modus operandi is punishment. Obama punishes enemies. He punishes people who don\u2019t support him. <\/p>\n

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There are the examples of the Texas wildfires and the floods in Tennessee where there wasn\u2019t any disaster relief. Requests were made for — what\u2019s the term? Call it a disaster area. I forget. Disaster zone or something. He didn\u2019t do that. That was denied, and so forth. And it reminded me, you know, when Sheldon Whitehouse, the Senator from Rhode Island who apologized for this later, but his first instinctive comment after the tornado in Oklahoma was to bash the people there and blame them as polluters and deniers for causing all of the destruction, weather-wise, in his area of the country. Remember that? <\/p>\n

I mean, folks, it was sick what Sheldon Whitehouse said<\/a>. He was essentially blaming Republicans in Oklahoma for the weather, destructive weather. (imitating Whitehouse) “You polluters, and you deniers, you come hear and you want money from us? Well, you\u2019re causing us to spend money with your own disasters that you\u2019re causing because you don\u2019t believe in global warming, and you\u2019re therefore preventing us from doing anything about climate change, and therefore the storms that are hitting us are destructive.” It was so over the top that even he had to apologize, but it was the first thing he said, it was instinctive, and, in fact, it\u2019s probably what he really believes. People find it hard to believe when I say this. Reaction, particularly among low-information voters, “That just can\u2019t be.” <\/p>\n

Sheldon Whitehouse was blaming Republicans for the weather. Now, I am here to tell you that he meant it, even though he apologized later. He meant it. They, the liberals — folks, when they say these things, you hear them as really over the top and wacko, extreme, they believe this stuff. They believe global warming is real, and it\u2019s caused by excessive capitalism, excessive profit, oil, all these horrible things, and anybody who supports capitalism, oil, is guilty of preventing them, the do-gooders, from stopping global warming, which is the root cause of all this. So he goes out there and blames the Republicans in Oklahoma for the destructive weather in Rhode Island and Connecticut and New York and New Jersey, he means it. As a liberal, that is what he really thinks. <\/line><\/p>\n

To you and me, this is radical, lunacy. It is their mainstream guiding light. I\u2019m not exaggerating at all. It\u2019s another reason why I often say, we have nothing in common with them, politically. There is no overlapping commonality where we can find areas to be bipartisan with these people. There just isn\u2019t. And so the question, would Obama, because his modus operandi, he punishes, this guy, he is obsessed with his own messianic status and people that don\u2019t buy into it and don\u2019t support him, they\u2019re gonna pay for that one way or the other. Look at his enemies. Look who he\u2019s going after. AP, Fox, whatever, the people that he\u2019s targeting, mentioning me all the time. I\u2019m not exactly known as an Obamaite. <\/p>\n

So he says that there will be aid forthcoming for Oklahoma, but let\u2019s actually wait and see. Will it be little and late as it is in Staten Island? Of all the places where Hurricane Sandy hit, Staten Island\u2019s gotten the least amount of assistance. And it\u2019s a Republican borough. And the Republican GM owned dealerships.<\/a> They were the ones shut down. He does punish his opponents. Carries grudges and all of that. So it\u2019s entirely possible. His modus operandi is to eliminate opposition.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s a list. “Obama Denies Texas Federal Disaster Aid.” “FEMA Denies Disaster Relief for Claremont County.” “FEMA Denies Texas Disaster Relief for Wildfires.” “Obama Denies Florida Disaster Relief.” “Obama Denying Disaster Relief to Red States?” “FEMA Denies Federal Disaster Aid to Oklahoma Again.” That\u2019s August 26th, last year. “FEMA, Obama Deny Funds to GOP-Leaning Virginia.” These are Google searches. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, just the first seven: Obama Denies Federal Disaster Aid to X.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s a legitimate question: Will Oklahoma actually get their money?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna say it again. I loved it. The media down there couldn\u00c2\u2019t believe it.<\/a> Anderson Cooper could not believe it. Shep Smith could not believe that in 24 hours they\u2019d already started to rebuild. They couldn\u2019t believe that the Oklahomans weren\u2019t just sitting around waiting for the government to show up. They weren\u2019t sitting around feeling sorry for themselves! They couldn\u2019t believe that they weren\u2019t just sitting around waiting for somebody to do something. Literally, they were stunned that Oklahoma had already started to rebuild and that they were giving thanks to God for surviving it and so forth.<\/p>\n

Backbone of the country, folks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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