Today, Rush talked about the House vote that took place Thursday on an amendment that would have banned U.S. funding for a United Nations observence of our presidential elections. This was the amendment that Chris John voted against, much to the surprise of Louisianans. So far, Congressman John has not made a full statement on why he voted the way he did. The congressman is not mentioned by Rush, but the company he has kept by voting with them is discussed by the talk show host.
RUSH: All right, so you people know, last week I told you all about this. We had this sound bite from Corinne Brown. Eddie Bernice Johnson, this is a move led by the Congressional Black Caucus to petition Kofi Annan of the United Nations, the nations organization that sits around and watches a genocide in Uganda and does nothing, currently watching a genocide in the Sudan, does nothing, can't do anything, screws up the oil-for-food program -- doesn't screw it up, corrupts it on purpose, perhaps one of the most corrupt organizations in the world because two-thirds of the membership is tyrannical dictators and thugs, and the Congressional Black Caucus wants the UN to monitor the U.S. election in November so it will be "fair." So Steve Buyer, great congressman from Indiana, put together an amendment. I want to read it to you -- and they voted on the amendment, and the vote is what's stunning but I want to read to you Buyer's amendment. It's an amendment to insert at the end of the bill, an appropriations bill, making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30th, 2005, and for other purposes.
"A new section..." This is the amendment. "A new section stating that none of the funds made available in the act may be used by any official of the U.S. government to request the United Nations to assess the validity of elections in the United States." So they have a specific amendment to this bill saying no money can be used and no U.S. official can use money or ask the UN to come in and monitor elections. They voted on this! The vote was close, folks. I mean, in a House sense it was close: 243 to 161! Two hundred and forty-three! The amendment was defeated; 161 Democrats voted to have the UN come in -- well, they didn't vote to do this, but they objected to the amendment that would prevent them from asking the UN to come in and assess elections. The ratio here and the most powerful way to express this is, Democrats, by five to one voted for the UN to be involved in the U.S. presidential election. Now, what is behind this? We discussed this a little last week. This is purely irrational. There's no way rational thinking people are going to want to turn over the election of a sovereign nation, the leader of the world, the United States, turn over this election to a body like the UN with its track record monitoring elections and screwing them up worldwide.
In fact, when the UN monitors elections, they call on Americans to go do it. Now, we can debate the Americans they call, people like Jimmy Carter and so forth, but nevertheless, the UN calls on Americans to go monitor elections. They don't do it. I mean, they've got some staff down there but I mean the authorities are always Americans, but that's beside the point. Why in the world would Democrats by a ratio of five-to-one -- well, aside from the fact that that's who they think their base is and they want to be on record as -- this is just to cement this notion that the election of 2000, particularly in Florida, was fraudulent, and they know that their base has become this kook fringe, kook fringe actually has become the mainstream, actually believes that this whole election was stolen, that millions were denied the right to vote, that millions others' votes weren't counted. The only explanation for believing such absolute folly is an irrational fear. There is a fear and a powerlessness that these people have been overcome with that is -- it's the only explanation for this kind of thinking.
This is unprecedented, and it's an indication of just how scared these people are. For all that, you may watch the mainstream media, and you may see countless reports about how confident Kerry and Edwards are, and how confident the Democrats are, and can't wait for the election, why, it's in the bag and so forth. They're not. It's the exact opposite. They are in near panic. They are in panic because they know they've lost all these state governorships. They've lost the House and they haven't got it back. They've lost the Senate. They are not gonna get either of those two back; the White House is their only hope. They know they've got a candidate on the top of the ticket that cannot excite anybody. They've got a candidate who when he's there, nobody notices him. Greatness does not have to be explained, and yet this party is still trying to explain John Kerry, and they're trying to explain John Kerry by putting pictures of John Edwards out there.
Don't believe these people are not in panic. I want to go through something else. Five-to-one, Democrats by a five-to-one ration voted essentially for the UN to be involved in monitoring the US presidential election, it was last Thursday. The debate, by the way, was the night of Corrine Brown's kook temper tantrum her remarks we played them for you on Friday. They were stricken from the Congressional Record. she called the Florida election a coup d'état, or "Coup d'état!" as she shouted it out from the House floor. Just unbelievable. But it's a classic illustration of the panic these people are feeling...
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Yeah, let's hear the Corrine Brown bit. We've got the Corrine Brown, if you missed it from last week. This is what was stricken from the record. This whole vote was last Thursday, and the debate took place the night of Corrine Brown's kook temper tantrum and this is what she said that was stricken from the record.
BROWN: Over 1,700 people that's technologists, lawyers, political scientists says that the technology that we're using in the upcoming election is flawed. I come from Florida, where you and others participated in what I call the United States coup d'état. We need to make sure that it doesn't happen again. Over and over again, after the election when you stole the election, you came back here and said, "Get over it." No, we're not going to get over it, and we want verification from the world.
RUSH: "The gentlelady from Florida." That will be stricken from the record. The gentlelady from Florida, Corrine Brown. That's what she said. They had to strike her comments because it was over the top.
The full transcript can be found here.
