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RUSH: To the audio sound bites. I want to take you back to last Wednesday, May 26th, on this program I said this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That was Wednesday. Wednesday I said, ‘Where\u2019s Colin Powell?\u2019 Well, let\u2019s go to the audiotape. He showed up Sunday, four days later. On Wednesday I said, ‘Where General Powell?\u2019 Four days later he shows up. Jake Tapper said, ‘As a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, what do you make of this push and pull between the federal government and the states?\u2019<\/p>\n
POWELL: When I was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor I have watched a number of these kinds of crises come and go. I\u2019ve seen hurricanes, tornadoes, riots in Los Angeles, the tsunami, and in every instance what I have sort of learned from all these is that the national government — the federal government, the president — has to get involved as quickly as possible. And if you don\u2019t then public opinion starts to drag you, the media pushes you, and so when something like this clearly is going to get beyond the capacity of whoever caused it, get beyond the capacity of local authorities, I think the federal government has to move in quickly and move in with — to use my favorite expression — decisive force to demonstrate that it\u2019s doing everything that it can do.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, there is General Powell. I asked on Wednesday, ‘Where is he?\u2019 and he shows up on Sunday. He pops his head out and I guess he saw his shadow and predicted two more months of Obama failure. He said Obama\u2019s not doing enough here. He\u2019s moved too slowly in asserting leadership in the Gulf oil response, and the time has come for a comprehensive total attack on the problem, said General Powell. Jake Tapper then said, ‘You didn\u2019t see that from [the regime] in this case?\u2019<\/p>\n
POWELL: I think the president correctly said the other day that he was monitoring it, following it, and essentially been on top of it from the beginning. But that impression was not conveyed to the American people, and the comprehensive speech he gave the other day I think he would have been better served and the nation would have been better served if he\u2019d given it a few weeks earlier. But I think the federal government now is fully engaged and it\u2019s become more than a problem of just stopping an oil spill. It\u2019s an environmental problem, economic problem —<\/p>\n
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POWELL: — the welfare of the people —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
POWELL: — in the Gulf region —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
POWELL: — and how do we get it all cleaned up —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
POWELL: — and how is it affecting people.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n
POWELL: So it\u2019s more than BP —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
POWELL: — and a hole in the ocean floor.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
POWELL: It is a major problem that can only be dealt with by the federal government and all the resources of the federal government, and that\u2019s what the president is now doing.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, he\u2019s not, because the federal government can\u2019t do it. They don\u2019t know the first thing about it. We have evidence of that on display for the past six weeks! That\u2019s the whole point here. Obama hasn\u2019t the slightest clue. Obama had a little press briefing today — not a presser, he had a little press briefing today. At his news conference or his appearance, he specifically mentioned going after — for possible criminal liability — not just BP, but Transocean and Halliburton. And he sends that doofus Eric Holder down there. He\u2019s talking to local and federal prosecutors down there. That\u2019s what they\u2019re doing. Your government, my government, our government\u2019s primary focus is lawsuits, trying to find out if there was any criminality and going after British Petroleum and going after Halliburton and going after Transocean. As far as federal government taking ownership of the issue, I mean you can go out there and you can be the face of it if you want, and you can try to be inspirational (Obama doesn\u2019t know how to do that) and you can try to make it look like you\u2019re on the case but you can\u2019t do that when you traipse off to Chicago on vacation and you can\u2019t do that when you\u2019re out shooting hoops while you\u2019re on vacation in Chicago.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve seen some of the most amazing pictures, by the way, of that vacation. Folks, I am exercising all of the manners and restraint I can to refrain from commenting on some of the pictures I have seen of the vacation weekend of the First Family in Chicago. I shouldn\u2019t have even brought it up because it\u2019s unfortunate. It\u2019s sort of mean. I\u2019m teasing you and I can\u2019t tell you about it. (interruption) Well, I can\u2019t go there, Snerdley. There\u2019s nothing to gain by going there. Don\u2019t goad me. Don\u2019t even try. Don\u2019t go for it. You\u2019re not going to get me to talk about this. (interruption) What diet? Whose diet? (interruption) The special diet? You mean for Michelle? She\u2019s on a diet? (interruption) Oh. I thought she was just doing that for everybody else. She\u2019s on it, too? Well, I\u2019d like to be on her diet if it\u2019s a healthy diet. I\u2019m not going to tell you, Snerdley. I don\u2019t care how much you goad me. As George H. W. Bush once said, ‘Wouldn\u2019t be prudent.\u2019 Wouldn\u2019t be prudent to go there. Not going to go there.<\/p>\n
All right, here\u2019s a question. How can such a media savvy president blow such a glorious opportunity as this thing in the Gulf? Every day, first year, been on TV, he decides to go into hibernation when this thing hits. That is an interesting question. He was on television every day. This thing hits, and he goes into hibernation. When 9\/11 happened, remember the Democrats running around, ‘It\u2019s just a shame this didn\u2019t happen Bill Clinton was president. If only he had a real crisis to define himself by.\u2019 They were a little jealous it happened with Bush. So I guess was it Malia — Obama\u2019s little girl, the daughter — when the president was in there shaving. Scrape, scrape. He looks like he shaves, what, twice a week? Anyway, he\u2019s in there shaving, and Malia walks in (child impression), ‘Daddy? Daddy? Did you plug the hole yet?\u2019<\/p>\n
No, honey. I\u2019m still working hard on that, but I am gonna sue that hole. You can be sure of that!<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Connie in Claremont, California, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s great to talk to ‘the most dangerous man in America.\u2019<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: My husband and I were just listening to you describe all this bad press that Obama is getting over this oil spill.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes?<\/p>\n
CALLER: And given the fact that they don\u2019t know much about anything else but they are pretty politically smart, do you think that he is allowing this bad press to continue and he\u2019s allowing this disaster to get to the crisis point where there\u2019s a public outcry and —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now —<\/p>\n
CALLER: — he takes over the oil companies?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, doesn\u2019t need an excuse to take \u2019em over. If he wants to take \u2019em over he\u2019ll do it sometime. This is not making him look competent. The last person that anybody wants in charge of the oil companies right now is Obama. The way he\u2019s playing this… I mean, his buddies in the media are saying he looks incompetent. They\u2019re saying he looks like a stooge, like a tool! He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. Obama couldn\u2019t plug the hole if he wanted to, and there\u2019s no way he could keep the oil gushing if he wanted to. There\u2019s nobody who doesn\u2019t want to plug the whole. There\u2019s not a single person out there. There may be some wackos who enjoy this. There may be some environmentalist wackos who enjoy this \u2019cause they think it\u2019s going to help them in their PR case against oil in the first place.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s nobody involved here with any sense that doesn\u2019t want to stop this leak. Obama? There\u2019s nothing for Obama to gain by this thing happening, going on and on and on, especially now when he\u2019s taken charge of it and it keeps happening. Now, you know, he made a big gamble the other day with the press conference. If the top-kill method had worked then he\u2019d be able to lay claim to something. But that was never in the cards because the top-kill method had been brought to a screeching halt the night before. We were all deceived. The top-kill method was not even going on when Obama did his press conference and was talking about how the likelihood of success here was between 60 and 70%. You know, I don\u2019t think this is his idea.<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t start the leak. He\u2019s not keeping it going. He really is impotent here, regarding this. There\u2019s nothing he can do. He can stand there and order people around. He can send the attorney general down there to threaten suits for criminal activity and all that. But he\u2019s not doing one thing oriented toward stopping the leak \u2019cause there\u2019s nothing he can do, which is the only fair assessment. The only reason people are harping on him about it is because he said (impression), ‘This is the day where the sea levels will stooooop their rise! This is the day where the earth begins to heeeeal!\u2019 He set himself up as a messiah. He set himself up as Mr. Competent. He was gonna change all these horrible things that Bush had done. He was gonna change the direction of the country. So when you set yourself up as The Messiah, you better be able to turn water into wine, and he can\u2019t do it. Here\u2019s Pete in Ocala, Florida, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: The Democrat Party is like your cat Punkin and Barack Obama\u2019s like the puppy Abbey.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. For those that just tuning in I have a cat, 13 years old, an Abyssinian named Punkin, got a little puppy now one-year-old, an English sheepdog named Abbey. What\u2019s the correlation?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. Punkin was in the right place at the right time. I mean, she had an idyllic lifestyle. Her future was nothing but blue sky and sunshine. She lived on your estate. Then along comes Abbey — this just yapping, barking little puppy — and the dog acts up the household routine. And the Democrats, they had motivated their constituents, they assembled the coalition. The media handed them the 2008 elections, so they had it made, but Obama came along. He is attractive and cuddly but he\u2019s also inexperienced and can\u2019t focus. So he\u2019s kind of like Abbey. He\u2019s kind of been barking, barking, barking, just upsetting everything and we\u2019re going to see the effects in 2010.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, when you put it that way, I can see some credence here. You have my cat who owned the house for 13 years. Whatever happened, the cat ran it. One day this miniature lion shows up and starts running around barking, trying to play, and upsets the cat\u2019s whole world. They are peacefully coexisting now, folks. But I gotta tell you, Abbey has become so possessive… I don\u2019t have time to tell you. Remind me to tell the story tomorrow. This is hilarious. I\u2019ve even got some video to show you, but I don\u2019t dare. I can\u2019t show you so I shouldn\u2019t tease you with it, but it\u2019s a funny story.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: If I give Kathryn a hug while sitting on the couch in a room, the dog attacks me. I mean, not viciously, but she wants to get in on the action. She starts barking. I have iPhone video of this. Then I\u2019ll leave and the dog will follow me, keep barking at me. ‘You leave my mother alone! You leave her alone!\u2019 It\u2019s the funniest thing you\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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