Limbaugh supports increased presidential, military powers?
Tags: rush limbaugh, george bushDiscussing Our Leader's speech, Rush says:
By the way, I thought one of the things that would aggravate the left more than anything in that speech last night that I have not yet found — they may have done it — but I haven't yet found a reaction to and it's a huge "See, I Told You So." The president actually said we've learned now that the US military is the one element of our government and the bureaucracy that's best equipped to handle this. And he went on to say that we need to empower them more in circumstances like that. I thought the left would be throwing up red flags, yellow flags, green flags, pink ribbons and everything. You start empowering the military and those people start having babies out of wedlock. Their cows start having babies. I mean, they just lose it. And I haven't heard any reaction to this at all.
Actually, that's one of the things that should bother the right. What Bush was discussing was not empowering the military for action overseas, he discussed empowering them for action here at home. Any American - and especially conservatives - should be disturbed by the possibility of the military taking a more active role in police functions.
He also tries to put a bright smiley face on Bush's LBJ ways.
