{"id":22875,"date":"2005-09-07T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:45:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:45:23","slug":"hillary_voted_to_put_fema_under_homeland_security2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2005\/09\/07\/hillary_voted_to_put_fema_under_homeland_security2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Voted to Put FEMA Under Homeland Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/> RUSH: Mrs. Clinton released a statement. She flew to Houston yesterday. She flew down to Houston; she turned right back, goes back to Washington then introduces this: &#8220;Clinton unveils legislation to restore FEMA to independent cabinet level status and launch Katrina commission to investigate hurricane recovery efforts. On the heels of her visit with victims of Hurricane Katrina in Houston yesterday, Senator Hillary Rodham is introducing legislation to restore FEMA to cabinet-level independent federal agency status to ensure that it has the authority it needs to effectively manage recovery efforts.&#8221; So what are they saying, they\u2019re saying two things here. Mrs. Clinton is saying FEMA is no good because it\u2019s part of homeland security. Homeland security is no good because FEMA is part of homeland security. We\u2019ve got to get FEMA back out of homeland security. Well, who the hell\u2019s idea was homeland security? Joe Lieberman\u2019s. Joe Lieberman and the Democrats advanced the notion that we need a homeland security department. Bush originally opposed it. He didn\u2019t want to grow the bureaucracy, but he &#8220;reached out,&#8221; Dan Balz. He &#8220;reached out.&#8221; He attempted to be &#8220;bipartisan.&#8221; So we created this massive new bureaucracy &#8212; which I opposed, and I want to go on record again as reminding you. Homeland security, we put FEMA in it. Now, turns out that Mrs. Clinton voted for all of this. Mrs. Clinton voted for all of this. So maybe we need to ask Mrs. Clinton, &#8220;Are you now admitting a mistake?&#8221; See, what these people in Congress want to get away with, folks &#8212; and I\u2019ll tell you something that really bothers me about this. You got a disaster here, right, and so we\u2019re pointing fingers at the mayor and we\u2019re pointing fingers at a governor down there and a lot of people are pointing fingers at President Bush. But guess who gets to participate here as innocent bystanders? The United States Congress, the House and the Senate. <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/hillary_voted_to_put_fema_under_.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>Why, they had nothing to do with this! No, they only allocate the money. They only write the laws in this country. That\u2019s all they do, and yet they then get to sit around as innocent bystanders as though they had no role whatsoever, and they get to conduct hearings where they get to examine everybody else\u2019s actions and then seek out the people they want to destroy, all the while with immunity, with practical immunity, as though they had nothing to do with any of this. They\u2019re the ones that set this up! If FEMA, being part of homeland security, is a boondoggle and failure, let\u2019s go to the people whose idea it was, and let\u2019s maybe conduct hearings and ask them some questions. It\u2019s just mind-boggling to me. But this is really a bold move, isn\u2019t it? We\u2019re going to move FEMA and we\u2019re going to change the director. Wow! Wow, that\u2019s really going to make a huge difference. We\u2019re not going to get rid of FEMA. We\u2019re just going to pull it out of where it is &#8212; a really bold move, Mrs. Clinton. I\u2019ve got a good idea. Why don\u2019t we do this: the Louisiana state legislature ought to remove the governor and maybe take over the city! That might actually be a good start. This is a local problem down there. Of course it\u2019s not mentioned at all, you can\u2019t do that, and the reason you can\u2019t do that is because you\u2019re going to blame it on FEMA. FEMA sucks. FEMA sucks and FEMA rules at the same time. So we\u2019re going to focus here totally on FEMA. This is what the liberal Democrats do: they go to what appears the weakest point in the chain, exploit it and blame it on whoever all the while exempting their own role in setting it up this very way. Why shouldn\u2019t heads in Congress roll, too? <\/line><BR\/>If heads are going to roll here, we\u2019ve had some pretty dumb moves by Congress\u2019 own admission, but FEMA in homeland security, creating homeland security is a dumb move. Who did it? Who writes the legislation? They set up this system. No one seems to understand their role in this. Somehow it all gets blamed on executives: the governors or mayors or presidents, or heads of these departments. But somehow these members of Congress get total exemption from this. You know, 9\/11 happens. They create the homeland security department. Katrina hits and they want to deconstruct it. Stop and think of what\u2019s happening. Put it in a timeline. We have 9\/11. &#8220;We need a Department of Homeland Security,&#8221; say the liberal Democrats. Bush goes along with it. &#8220;Yep, we need a homeland security department and we\u2019re going to put FEMA in it.&#8221; The Democrats were all in favor of this, leading the charge. Now Katrina happened. &#8220;We need to take FEMA out of homeland security. It\u2019s just not working!&#8221; Well, whose idea was it? I\u2019m sorry to sound so energized here, folks, but why is it these people get a pass? The Coast Guard\u2019s done a great job down there. They\u2019re part of the department. We focus on one guy, Mike Brown, that nobody thinks is doing a good job and so he\u2019s the weakest link in the chain, bammo! We head in there and in the process we ignore all the things that are working because we want to make the point that nothing is working because Bush is in charge of it all, and that\u2019s not playing in Peoria or anywhere else. Thanks for the bold move, Mrs. Clinton, pretending you had no role in setting up these bureaucracies, and you had no role in setting up and making these spending priorities, act like the homeland security department just popped out from thin air, when they\u2019re the ones that set it up. They act like moving around the pieces of bureaucracy is some kind of a bold move. I don\u2019t want to hear from them right now. Their posturing is sickening to me.<\/line><BR\/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Get this. We have audio coming up from Mrs. Clinton. She says, (paraphrasing) &#8220;I called for an independent commission, Miles, I don\u2019t think the government should be investigating itself.&#8221; Uh&#8230; made up of who? Former government people? Independent commission, my backside. At any rate, ladies and gentlemen, Rush on Broadway. I\u2019m sorry, some days it\u2019s tougher than others to stomach this.<\/line><BR\/>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windowsmedia\/en\/download\/default.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/hillary_voted_to_put_fema_under_.Par.0005.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"18\" class=\"alignleft\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Mrs. Clinton released a statement. She flew to Houston yesterday. She flew down to Houston; she turned right back, goes back to Washington then introduces this: &#8220;Clinton unveils legislation to restore FEMA to independent cabinet level status and launch Katrina commission to investigate hurricane recovery efforts. 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