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RUSH: Wes in Greenville, South Carolina<\/a>, you\u2019re up next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, pleasure to speak with you, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I credit you with my political awakening ten years ago.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I know we can only hope out here, but surely President Limbaugh, okay, the day if you were the president, how would you have brought this up? I\u2019m really mad at the president for failing to understand the ammunition that he has handed over to the Democrats here. I agree with you it\u2019s not about ideas, but, you know, he\u2019s brought it to us in just a terrible way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Don\u2019t you agree?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m not sure yet. I\u2019m not sure this is not going to blow up on the Democrats. One of the things that I have always cautioned people is to be patient here and don\u2019t assume the worst. We conservatives have such a history of being outfoxed or shooting ourselves in the foot, which is what you think has happened here on the part of the president, that we\u2019re conditioned because of life experiences to think — it\u2019s almost like we\u2019re afraid of success. ‘No, this isn\u2019t really real, this isn\u2019t going to last.\u2019 When I hear Republicans talk about, ‘Yeah, we might lose some seats in the House.\u2019 Don\u2019t talk that way. What the hell talk that way for? If you\u2019re talking that way, you\u2019re thinking that way. If you\u2019re thinking that way it may happen. It\u2019s asinine. I don\u2019t understand it.<\/p>\n

I had a series of brilliant questions. I think it is a very persuasive argument to continue to portray them on the wrong side of national security. This ports deal is a phony position they\u2019re taking; and, in time, we\u2019ll be able to make this case, and if we can get some people to ask them these questions, we\u2019ll be able to find out exactly where they really are on this, and we\u2019ll find out it isn\u2019t where they\u2019re claiming to be. They\u2019re not concerned about security here. If they were concerned about security they wouldn\u2019t be trying to demagogue the NSA spy thing, foreign intelligence gathering, they wouldn\u2019t be trying to sabotage the Patriot Act, they wouldn\u2019t be trying to characterize our prisons as torture chambers, and none of that is going to change. My question is real simple. Okay, because we have the questionable ownership now of the United Arab Emirates company of nine terminals in these six ports. Okay, assume they can\u2019t stop the deal, deal goes through. All right, now we got a threat, it\u2019s the United Arab Emirates. They are Arabs and they are friends with terrorists. And they might have an undercover operation to sneak terrorists in on these ships and they\u2019re going to be coming into their terminals on these six ports. Are we maybe going to have to use provisions of the Patriot Act to find out about this? Are we maybe going to have to start monitoring foreign phone calls into and out of this country in order to find out if a plot using one of the UAE\u2019s terminals is in fact being hatched? If the Democrats are honest about what they\u2019re saying, they\u2019ve got to say yes. We\u2019ve got to use the port provisions of the Patriot Act. We\u2019ve got to use the foreign intelligence gathering apparatus that we have, and all these other provision that they\u2019re trying to fight. Now, we\u2019re going to be able to corner them on this. <\/p>\n

Now, the other two aspects of your question, what would President Limbaugh do? First, there wouldn\u2019t be a president Limbaugh because I refuse to take the job on the basis of too big a pay cut. But I will play along with this hypothetically. Here\u2019s what I know about this, and it\u2019s limited, but since 1988 there have been over 1,500 such examinations of deals where a foreign country or company would end up owning an asset such as terminals at a US port. I think one of them has been rejected, maybe two, I\u2019m not sure, it might be as many as eight. I\u2019m getting confused on all these numbers, but it\u2019s not a very high percentage of them. And as far as I know, none of them ever reach the presidents. People have this notion that the president is hands on with virtually everything happening in the country. Simply not possible. Hell, most presidents can\u2019t even get their arms around the state department. Most presidents have nothing to do with the CIA, though they try. Most presidents don\u2019t appoint or fill all the jobs in all these agencies with their own appointments. Some of these people are career, liberal Democrat, been there for years. There are just certain things that happen that never reach the attention of the president because they are delegated by others to do. <\/p>\n

Now, that having been said, Bush said he didn\u2019t even know that this was being considered. That tells me that it\u2019s not that big a deal. that none of these things — that they\u2019re handled, that they\u2019re dealt with. And when they are learned about, as this one was, if there\u2019s a problem it gets looked at. There have been plenty of purchases of assets in ports and terminals by countries that we would consider enemies, even though we have a friendly relationship with them they still pose a threat. The ChiComs, now Hong Kong, I mean, since they\u2019re controlled by the ChiComs, and they run the Panama Canal and they do a number of things. These things have been called to our attention before. So if what I\u2019ve heard is right, I don\u2019t know that president Limbaugh would know about it any sooner than President Bush did. I don\u2019t know that I as president Limbaugh would say, ‘By the way, if any Arab company wants to buy some of our ports, you let me know.\u2019 I don\u2019t know that I would say that. So I don\u2019t know that I would know any more than President Bush did. Now, maybe after 9\/11, what you wish President Bush would have done would have reorganized all of this as part of the enhanced security. To say any time this goes on, we want to know, but my take on this is that Bush does not consider the Emirates a threat at all. I think he considers them exactly what he said them to be, an ally.<\/p>\n

Now the politics of this, very quickly. I understand what you say about the politics of it, because you\u2019re looking at numbers and polls that say 70% of the American people oppose it, and yet here\u2019s President Bush supporting it, putting Republicans in a bind. That does present people with a lot of fear. It\u2019s an election year. This is one of the reasons there was this out-of-control conventional wisdom tsunami early last week, everybody reacting to this before they really knew the details. There\u2019s going to be a vote at some point. The Democrats will insist on it because they want to go on the record as being for national security, and they think this is the issue. I have offered the prescription to trip them up, screw them up, and nuke them on this. I don\u2019t know if our bright lights in the Republican Party in Washington will utilize it, but I have made it available by expounding upon it here on today\u2019s award-winning program, as all programs I do are. <\/line>But when it comes to that vote, the Republicans going to be hard-pressed to go against the president, but if they do, it\u2019ll be because of an election year. And it does look like a suicide deal politically, there\u2019s no question. I know it does to you. Looks like that today. I can\u2019t remember things off the top of my head but I can count for you probably on both hands the number of instances in the last five years where you\u2019ve felt the same. “Oh, my gosh. Bush did what?” Or you thought the Democrats were going to smoke us, the Democrats were going to get back into power, Democrats were going to embarrass Bush; it was all over. And it always seems, always, to end up biting the Democrats in the butt or else they open the door of the issue right into their nose. And I\u2019m just telling you, it is early yet to determine political winners and losers on this thing. This 45-day inspection period is going to allow for a lot of things. One of them is the opportunity for more and more people to be educated on it, and the Democrats will continue to demagogue it. The thing that frustrates me politically is that there seem to be some Republicans that want to jump the fence and help the Democrats demagogue it for their own political reasons. I hope that answers the questions. It did for me.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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