We Listen (So You Don't Have To) -- Comeback Kid
Hey there! It's been a while. But I listened in to this week's installment of Red Meat Radio, featuring Reps. Greg Hughes and Carl Wimmer, who didn't let special guest, former-Rep. Morgan Philpot, get a word in edgewise (probably because he's not conservative enough. Stupid RINOs).
Hughes picks up where Sen. Howard Stephenson left off last week, taking on the stubborn educrats who are balking at spending $20 million (that they don't have) that Hughes wants to go to merit pay.
There are "nice to haves" and "need to haves," says Hughes, and "Merit pay is not a 'nice to have.'" (Legislators, by the way, are asking for 15 percent cuts from state agencies, which they say will inevitably mean reductions in Utah's last-in-the-nation classroom funding.)
Hughes says Stephenson was demonized by The Tribune's "brazen attack" on his intervention in education contracts. He takes particular umbrage at the use of the word "bullied." (Hughes is sensitive to that word.)
Wimmer defends Blackwater guards who killed 17 Iraqi civilians and are now facing felony charges. Evil Tribune columnist Rebecca Walsh was eager to rush to judgment before their day in court. "She would stand up for sex offenders," Wimmer says. The difference here? "Guns areinvolved." (Oh. And numerous innocent civilian deaths.
Walsh's nightmare conundrum: Sex offenders with guns.)
Hughes says that "civil liberties only apply to to certain members of our society" and for the media elite, that doesn't include soldiers. (Or almost-not-really
soldiers/mercenaries. And only perhaps Iraqis.) "Call me a redneck, but I like to feel as if I'm uberpatriotic," says Wimmer. (Relax, Carl. You can be both.) Wimmer says the Blackwater guards wouldn't get a fair trial with a left-wing Washington D.C. jury. (True, the jury would be different. That was kinda Rebecca's point. Imagine how different it would be if they were tried in, say, Iraq?)
The Red Meat All-Stars take on RINOs, in Utah and elsewhere, starting with pinko Gen. Colin Powell, who criticized Republicans this week. Wimmer says those who suggest the GOP move to the center are wrong.
"How could we have shifted any more to the left with John McCain being our guy?" he says. "He's absolutely wrong that we need to move to the center. The country rejected it." (Note: Republicans lost 52 House seats and 13 Senate seats in the last two elections, plus the White House in the last election. Someone ain't buyin' what they're selling. I'll let them decide if the answer is moving further to the
right.) A populist party "is not what we are," says Wimmer. (Nor a popular one.) Later, Wimmer says he was a big supporter of California Rep. Duncan Hunter's presidential bid and is a fan of Rep. Tom Tancredo, two solid conservatives (who finished behind Margin O'Error in the GOP nomination fight. Clearly, they weren't conservative enough).
Wimmer smacks around RINO Sen. Bob Bennett, telling the story about Bennett's comments at a recent legislative event (Wimmer wasn't there) where he passed out checks to lawmakers and told them "Ronald Reagan is dead, get over it." All the indignant Representatives returned their checks. (Ronald Reagan: born Feb. 6, 1911; died June 5, 2004. But, in fairness, that's Wikipedia, so it might not be true.)
Hughes blasts the attitude of entitlement among American workers, pointing to the case of Republic Windows and Doors, where he says union workers who thought they were entitled to their jobs refused to leave when the Chicago factory closed its windows and doors. (In fact, they weren't demanding their jobs. They were demanding the severance and vacation pay they believed they had earned but weren't going to
get after Bank of America -- which received $25 million in taxpayer bailout funding -- refused to lend more money to Republic. The workers eventually prevailed. Speaking of entitlements, let's see if legislators slash the taxpayer-funded health insurance for retired legislators so lawmakers can afford "need-to-haves" like laptops for
preschoolers.)
Wimmer says he recently unloaded his big red truck because he didn't want to keep paying $750 a month for it. "Nobody gave me a bailout," he said. ($750 a month?!? Seriously?! If he's paying $750 a month for his truck, it's not a bailout he needs).
-- Robert Gehrke
Hughes picks up where Sen. Howard Stephenson left off last week, taking on the stubborn educrats who are balking at spending $20 million (that they don't have) that Hughes wants to go to merit pay.
There are "nice to haves" and "need to haves," says Hughes, and "Merit pay is not a 'nice to have.'" (Legislators, by the way, are asking for 15 percent cuts from state agencies, which they say will inevitably mean reductions in Utah's last-in-the-nation classroom funding.)
Hughes says Stephenson was demonized by The Tribune's "brazen attack" on his intervention in education contracts. He takes particular umbrage at the use of the word "bullied." (Hughes is sensitive to that word.)
Wimmer defends Blackwater guards who killed 17 Iraqi civilians and are now facing felony charges. Evil Tribune columnist Rebecca Walsh was eager to rush to judgment before their day in court. "She would stand up for sex offenders," Wimmer says. The difference here? "Guns areinvolved." (Oh. And numerous innocent civilian deaths.
Walsh's nightmare conundrum: Sex offenders with guns.)
Hughes says that "civil liberties only apply to to certain members of our society" and for the media elite, that doesn't include soldiers. (Or almost-not-really
soldiers/mercenaries. And only perhaps Iraqis.) "Call me a redneck, but I like to feel as if I'm uberpatriotic," says Wimmer. (Relax, Carl. You can be both.) Wimmer says the Blackwater guards wouldn't get a fair trial with a left-wing Washington D.C. jury. (True, the jury would be different. That was kinda Rebecca's point. Imagine how different it would be if they were tried in, say, Iraq?)
The Red Meat All-Stars take on RINOs, in Utah and elsewhere, starting with pinko Gen. Colin Powell, who criticized Republicans this week. Wimmer says those who suggest the GOP move to the center are wrong.
"How could we have shifted any more to the left with John McCain being our guy?" he says. "He's absolutely wrong that we need to move to the center. The country rejected it." (Note: Republicans lost 52 House seats and 13 Senate seats in the last two elections, plus the White House in the last election. Someone ain't buyin' what they're selling. I'll let them decide if the answer is moving further to the
right.) A populist party "is not what we are," says Wimmer. (Nor a popular one.) Later, Wimmer says he was a big supporter of California Rep. Duncan Hunter's presidential bid and is a fan of Rep. Tom Tancredo, two solid conservatives (who finished behind Margin O'Error in the GOP nomination fight. Clearly, they weren't conservative enough).
Wimmer smacks around RINO Sen. Bob Bennett, telling the story about Bennett's comments at a recent legislative event (Wimmer wasn't there) where he passed out checks to lawmakers and told them "Ronald Reagan is dead, get over it." All the indignant Representatives returned their checks. (Ronald Reagan: born Feb. 6, 1911; died June 5, 2004. But, in fairness, that's Wikipedia, so it might not be true.)
Hughes blasts the attitude of entitlement among American workers, pointing to the case of Republic Windows and Doors, where he says union workers who thought they were entitled to their jobs refused to leave when the Chicago factory closed its windows and doors. (In fact, they weren't demanding their jobs. They were demanding the severance and vacation pay they believed they had earned but weren't going to
get after Bank of America -- which received $25 million in taxpayer bailout funding -- refused to lend more money to Republic. The workers eventually prevailed. Speaking of entitlements, let's see if legislators slash the taxpayer-funded health insurance for retired legislators so lawmakers can afford "need-to-haves" like laptops for
preschoolers.)
Wimmer says he recently unloaded his big red truck because he didn't want to keep paying $750 a month for it. "Nobody gave me a bailout," he said. ($750 a month?!? Seriously?! If he's paying $750 a month for his truck, it's not a bailout he needs).
-- Robert Gehrke
Labels: blackwater, Carl Wimmer, Greg Hughes, RINO
