on this program we had Vice President Pence<\/a>. Vice President Pence, as much as anybody in government today, is a straight shooter conservative, small government conservative, limited government conservative, pro-individual liberty conservative. You can\u2019t find anybody in government today that will be more tailor made for the textbook definition of conservatism. And yet look at what his message was today.<\/p>\nHis message was how big the federal government\u2019s gonna be. The federal government\u2019s gonna be there when you need it. We\u2019re gonna have all kinds of opportunities here, benefits here, we got this website where you can go. I\u2019m not criticizing the vice president. I\u2019m pointing something out. It\u2019s where our culture is. This is what people expect. After a disaster like this people expect this is what the federal government does. The Democrats have mastered this. They\u2019ve mastered the language of it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And they\u2019ve created over years and years the expectation in people\u2019s minds that this is really what government\u2019s for, is to save people, in normal times and in disastrous times. What would have happened if Pence would have said, “You know what? Those of you that can take care of yours, we wish you would, and help others along the way and reserve our benefits for those who really –” how do you think that would have flown?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Not very well.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Not very well at all. Your Millennial that you saw was on Varney today?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. And I\u2019d say she\u2019s 25, 26 —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — but she just couldn\u2019t wait to complain. I mean, a reporter, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But forget that she\u2019s a reporter. She\u2019s 25.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s the telltale, how these people have been raised, what their expectations of the federal government is. Look, the fact of the matter is that people cannot themselves — before I saw there was a story that something like over 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There is no way that most people in Houston are gonna be able to rebuild on their own. They\u2019re not gonna be able to do it without assistance, even if we\u2019re talking insurance, and how many of them do or don\u2019t have the kind of insurance they\u2019re going to need.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I mean, who buys hurricane insurance in Houston? Some people might. Even if you do have flood insurance, flood insurance is so specific that if the flood comes into your house from underneath it may not count. If it comes down the walls, it might count. It\u2019s all convoluted. Point is, people can\u2019t, in disaster time like this, they can\u2019t make themselves whole, and they do think this is what government\u2019s for. And evacuating or not, that\u2019s a direct descendant from Hurricane Katrina, when people didn\u2019t evacuate and the state government took it on the chin for not telling people and letting the evacuation buses get flooded.<\/p>\n
So, you know, everything\u2019s cumulative here. But this is one of the things we\u2019re up against. Your 25-year-old reporter thinks it\u2019s the government\u2019s job to tell people what to do. If government doesn\u2019t tell \u2019em to leave, and they should have left, it\u2019s the government\u2019s fault. It\u2019s exactly what you heard. It\u2019s a generational thing out there.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. This was CBS This Morning talk about Hurricane Harvey. Fill-in host Maurice DuBois from CBS Eyeball News local in New York said, “Governor, I imagine you\u2019ve spoken to the president a number of times. Are you satisfied with the president\u2019s engagement in his response thus far?” Now, we\u2019ve heard, by the way… We\u2019ve had a caller and we\u2019ve had other people say, “We\u2019ve got to keep the politics out of this.” Folks, it isn\u2019t possible. It isn\u2019t possible.<\/p>\n
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Every event is going to be used by the left to smear President Trump or to attempt to, because the objective is to get rid of Trump. Now, I\u2019m having to keep catching myself because it\u2019s not just the left trying to get rid of Trump. It\u2019s the entire Washington establishment, which is made up of Republicans and Democrats. I mean, there are people inside the establishment who are openly now advocating for a coup. There are former employees of President Bush who are openly advocating for a shadow government to actually operate in opposition to Trump.<\/p>\n
These are Republican Never Trumpers. So this event… I\u2019m sorry, the Democrats — the American left politicizes everything. It\u2019s one of the things wrong with our country. And when they do, it has to be replied to. I\u2019m sorry, it has to be answered, even if that further politicizes it. I\u2019m not gonna sit here and let them own the politics of an event like this, which they would if there\u2019s no pushback on it. And they\u2019re trying to set up the fact…<\/p>\n
Once they have an example, once they have an experience they think is successful such as destroying President Bush over the Iraq war — and secondarily, really harming President Bush over Hurricane Katrina — or getting rid of Richard Nixon… Once they\u2019ve done it, they tell themselves they can do it, and they want to do it again. So Trump embodies a lot of, “We\u2019ve done it before.” They\u2019re trying to Nixon Trump. They\u2019re trying to get him thrown out or to resign.<\/p>\n
Now they\u2019re trying to destroy Trump on the basis he doesn\u2019t care about people \u2019cause he didn\u2019t act fast enough on the hurricane in Corpus Christi and Houston and so forth. They just keep recycling the things that they view have worked in damaging Republicans in the past. And that\u2019s what this is. Here you have Republican governor Greg Abbott, and they ask, “Governor, I imagine you\u2019ve spoken to the president a number of times. Are you satisfied with his engagement and his response?” Does he know what\u2019s going on? Is the president basically leaving you alone, hanging out to dry?<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t ask that, but that\u2019s implied in the question.<\/p>\n
ABBOTT: The engagement and response by the president, the White House, by his cabinet and by FEMA have been actually remarkable. We began working with them a week or two in advance of this. And I\u2019ve been in constant contact with either the White House or FEMA on a daily basis and they\u2019ve provided Texas everything that we need. Whenever Texas asks for anything, the answer was “yes.” And so we\u2019ve been very pleased with their collaborative response.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n