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RUSH: You want to hear something hilariously funny? This is from the Associated Press, State-Run out of Montana. Let me give you the headline: ”Tea Party Vision for Montana Raising Concerns\u2019 — With each bill, newly elected tea party lawmakers are offering Montanans a vision of the future. Their state would be a place where officials can ignore U.S. laws, force FBI agents to get a sheriff\u2019s OK before arresting anyone, ban abortions, limit sex education in schools and create armed citizen militias. It\u2019s the tea party world. But not everyone is buying their vision.\u2019 Now, this is not an editorial. It\u2019s supposed to be a news article. And when the AP writes that not everyone is buying their vision, or something, that means they disapprove of it and they manage to find a couple of people to quote who share their disapproval. It means the disapproval starts with AP, their premise and their narrative starts with them, and then they go out and try to find a couple people. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that people in Montana are raising hell and AP hears about it and says, ‘Whoa, we got a story.\u2019 This is AP creating a story. And what we have here is the Associated Press raging at a bunch of people who are passing laws which would, for example, ignore US laws. What the hell is going on? We have the president of the United States himself saying, (paraphrasing) ‘That law doesn\u2019t count anymore, I\u2019m not gonna defend that law, the Defense of Marriage Act.\u2019 We have a president of the United States who himself is lawless. We went through this in great detail yesterday. Make no mistake. And it\u2019s not arguable. This is a lawless regime. And so here, the AP in Montana is about to have a conniption fit, they are having a conniption fit because of the Tea Party vision for Montana. <\/p>\n

‘Some residents, Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer and even some Republican lawmakers say the bills are making Montana into a laughingstock. And, they say, the push to nullify federal laws could be dangerous.\u2019 Well, really? Well, where are you, AP, on the defense of marriage and this regime simply choosing to ignore laws it doesn\u2019t like? How about when a president ignores various federal court rulings? A federal judge has ruled Obamacare unconstitutional. No big deal, we\u2019re gonna keep implementing it. And you\u2019re worried about lawlessness in Montana? We\u2019ve had an administration that\u2019s come out and said, ‘You know what, this Defense of Marriage Act, it\u2019s been around since the Clinton years, we don\u2019t like it. We\u2019re not gonna defend it anymore.\u2019 Lawlessness! The president does not have such authority, and yet the AP wants to tell us how off the tracks and wacko they\u2019re getting in Montana. <\/p>\n

”We are the United States of America,\u2019 said Schweitzer. ‘This talk of nullifying is pretty toxic talk. That led to the Civil War.” It would probably be pointless to point out to Governor Schweitzer that the so-called nullification crisis of the 1830s was actually resolved before the Civil War began. It probably wouldn\u2019t do us any good to point out that his analogy is flawed. ‘Whatever their merits, the ideas are increasingly popping up in legislatures across the nation as a wave of tea party-backed conservatives push their anti-spending, anti-federal government agenda,\u2019 as though somehow that\u2019s criminal, anti-spending, anti-federal government. ‘Arizona, Missouri and Tennessee are discussing the creation of a joint compact, like a treaty, opposing the 2010 health care law.\u2019 It\u2019s already been declared unconstitutional, AP. ‘Idaho is considering a plan to nullify it, as is Montana.\u2019 Why, how radical. All of this is happening within the bounds of the law. They\u2019re passing legislation to do this. They are not unilaterally implementing things, such as our president is doing. This is almost as radical as ramming health care reform through Congress via budget reconciliation. That was not intended to be used for actual legislation, either, budget reconciliation wasn\u2019t, but they tried it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Jim in Billings, Montana, hello, sir. It\u2019s great to have you on Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush, good to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You wuz talking earlier about Brian Schweitzer and some of the things there he\u2019s doing. We here in Montana pretty much support what he\u2019s doing. We\u2019re tired of having Obama\u2019s agenda rammed down our throats.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Damn right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I don\u2019t know if you were aware: Brian Schweitzer, of course, is a Democrat governor. But our lieutenant governor is a Republican. Were you aware of that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was not aware of that \u2019til just now when you told me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, he caught a lot of flak for it back during the campaign but, nevertheless, he won anyway. And historically, over the last couple of decades here, our local state legislature, the Democrats have been more conservative than our Republican delegates up there. You know, everything goes down to local, of course, in the state level. But, you know, we\u2019re relatively pleased with Schweitzer.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are relatively pleased with Governor Schweitzer?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well! How about that civility? Civility on display from Montana, and you just had an AP story written about you guys as though you\u2019re a bunch of Neanderthals.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know that, and that\u2019s kind of okay, too. We\u2019d love for everybody to kind of stay away and leave us alone.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah. I\u2019ve been to Montana a couple times.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, welcome back any time you want to and I\u2019ll be happy to be a guide for you through Yellowstone if you like.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. Thank you very much. I\u2019ve been to Ketcham. No wait a minute, wait a minute, I\u2019m thinking Idaho. Where have I been in Montana? (muttering) Oh, darn it. A couple summers ago I played golf at a great, great course. I\u2019m having a mental block. But it was blue skies flying all over the place when I saw it. I do need to go there more. You\u2019re absolutely right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a wonderful place to live.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sure it is. It really is. To be able to shoot people you don\u2019t agree with, that\u2019s just… I\u2019m just kidding. We have a parody saying that. You know, Walter Brennan talking about Little Luke and so forth going off on the wrong path. Anyway, Jim, thanks. I appreciate the invitation, I really do. It\u2019s the end of the day, folks, and the end of the week. We get a little giddy here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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