Mark R. Levin's Blog, page 46

9/22/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Senate Republicans will never get a clean repeal because of John McCain and others. McCain having campaigned against Obamacare and now flipping, is now being praised for it by the liberal media. Rand Paul’s position is understandable but he doesn’t have the votes for his position. Paul voted for the prior proposal before Graham Cassidy which was worse. The fact is that 18 of the Democrats support the socialist national healthcare. If the Democrats take the Senate a majority of them will support it and use the budget process to get it. Their polices cannot work, because when you reject human nature and reality, you destroy, burn down, and eviscerate in favor of phony paradise. After that, Ron Johnson calls in to talk about the Graham-Cassidy bill and trying to get it passed. It is about making federal spending more equitable across the states. There are many Democrats that should be supportive of this as it will be helpful to their states. This takes us off the path of a single payer system and puts us back on the path of federalism. It is imperative for America to take the first step to the Graham Cassidy bill. In addition, Jimmy Kimmel has been working with Chuck Schumer to oppose this bill. Finally the real conservative Roy Moore, running for one of Alabama’s Senate seats calls in to talk about his race. Moore is not a perfect man, but he is perfect enough and will vote the right way. Luther Strange is worse than Reince Priebus and has ethical problems. Moore wants to go back to free enterprise and does not buy into the Washington mindset. He wants to be a voice be for the people of Alabama and the Constitution.

9/21/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Samantha Power, a former U.S. ambassador to the UN, was unmasking at the rate of one person per day in 2016. The Obama administration’s abuse of power with respect to domestic surveillance is being exposed. We have Susan Rice unmasking despite her argument and Power unmasking like a crazy person. However it is much broader than Rice or Power. You would have to be blind to not see how the Obama administration violated our trust and the law to target people that they disagreed with. This is not a joke but issue number one at the domestic level. The media says that we have freedom of the press, but they and the Obama administration are in full cover up mode. This is big and we have barely gotten to the surface. The buck stops with Obama. After that, your healthcare is up for debate again. The average American has no say in how the nation's healthcare system is going to be structured. The truth is it is none of the government's business. However, Bernie Sanders is supporting single payer healthcare and under his plan, private insurance will be eliminated and we would be stuck with relying on the government. Later, Rick Santorum calls into talk about the Graham-Cassidy healthcare reform bill. This is a similar approach to welfare reform done in the 1990’s. You give states the flexibility to fix the problem and you will drive down costs and get innovation. For example, states can come up with different ways to deal with preexisting conditions. In addition, America needs to deal with North Korea and the best way to do that is through China has a massive debt as a percentage of their economy. The U.S. ought to treat China like Ronald Reagan treated the Soviet Union. We need to put economic pressure on China and put nuclear warheads in South Korea. What President Trump is doing with North Korea is more effective than past presidents. Also, when it comes to Iran, we can go it alone with sanctions. Iran is on its way to a nuclear weapon under the current Iran deal. We need to delegitimize Iran and shut off our agreement with them.

9/20/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Dan Bongino, Contributing Editor, at Conservative Review fills in for Mark. The Democrats are losing their minds over President Trump. It is hysterical to watch them defend the Trump/Russia fairytale. Most importantly, when is the Obama-Trump scandal going to become the real story? The Obama administration used law enforcement to spy on his political enemies. Spying on people because you don’t like their politics is wrong. The unmasking of individuals on the Trump team may have been legal, but it was unconstitutional and immoral. Liberals just want us to forget the Constitution in the process. Once you sanction the government and give them unlimited power to target people, tyranny results. This tyranny is a hallmark of oppressive regimes like the Soviet Union. Also, people have leaked every detail of Russia, but it’s amazing how nobody leaked the reason Obama spied. This does not bother liberals even a little bit. After that, The NFL ratings have been going down badly. A recent poll shows that conservatives don’t want to watch the NFL because they don’t want to see the flag disrespected. Liberals are freaking out about this poll and are coming out with all kind of alternative explanations.

9/19/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Six months ago Mark exposed that the Obama administration ordered surveillance on the Trump campaign. Now we know as a matter of fact that this happened and top levels of the Obama White House knew, maybe even Barack Obama. Obama had to know about the FISA warrant applications. Republicans need to get a hold of the daily presidential briefing that covered that time frame and find out what went on. In addition, the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill is not perfect but it is a step in the right direction. We’re not going to be able to get a clean repeal bill and this is a good first step. If we don’t do this bill we will get something much worse. After that, Roy Moore is not perfect but he will vote the way we need a senator from Alabama to vote. Luther Strange will not and is in pocket of Mitch McConnell. Later, Trump gave an incredible speech at the UN on Tuesday. In terms of American national sovereignty we should never ever give away parts of our sovereignty to any entity.. The purpose of national sovereignty is to secure individual sovereignty. Other countries put their citizens first and we need to put ours first.

9/18/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Bill Cunningham fills in for Mark. If Hillary Clinton was elected President she would have maintained DACA, there would have been no border wall, unlimited debt ceilings and a continuation of Obamacare. President Trump has had over 8 months in office and his policies are basically the same as Hillary’s right now. Every time Trump mentions DACA of late he sounds like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Is that what we voted for and why we marched to the polls? No! We gave Republicans the House, Senate, and the Presidency and they have given us zero. Also, ANTIFA and black lives matter are left wing racist groups whose rhetoric has encouraged murder of law enforcement. If white supremacists had done exactly what BLM and ANTIFA are doing in St. Louis all hell would break loose. However, when ANTIFA and BLM act in a certain way, the media says you have to understand where they are coming from or let’s give them space. Later, for 2020 Trump should say to the Republican Party, I will not accept or pursue the nomination. An independent candidate couldn’t win the Presidency but an independent president running for reelection can. It is the only route Trump has to win the next election. Finally, in 7-8 months Robert Mueller is most likely going to announce indictments against Trump associates and officials. This is all because of Trump appointing Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General who recused himself, which guaranteed that there would be a Special Counsel.

9/15/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

On Friday’s Mark Levin show, two of the most dangerous, genocidal regimes on the face of the earth, North Korea and Iran, have and will get nuclear weapons. North Korea has them and Iran is on its way to geting nukes thanks to the Obama administration’s Iran deal. Now former Obama officials are coming out to prevent the dismantling of the Iran deal. Iranian sanctions put in place by the Bush administration were working. What we needed to do was put in place tougher sanctions. Also, Susan Rice lied in March 2017 when she said she didn’t know anything about the unmasking of Trump officials, which means Devin Nunes was correct. Now she told House investigators that she had unmasked those Trump officials in an effort to understand why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York late last year. You don’t get to unmask names because you are curious of a meeting. It’s high time for congressional Republicans to get to the bottom of this. Finally, European countries are paying the price for their loose immigration policies and we’re not too far behind. Trump is trying to prevent this from happening but he’s being attacked by liberals every step of the way. The entire rule of law is under attack and being destroyed, from leftist judges upholding unconstitutional immigration acts to street mobs that won’t accept the outcome of a court ruling.

9/14/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Where exactly does President Trump stand on DACA and the wall today? You simply cannot grant amnesty to illegal immigrants before addressing border security. There are consequences that the president, his staff, and the Republicans are not considering but Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are well aware of. This is how they will take down red states and how they will win future elections. Also, Republican presidents in the past have buckled to Democrat immigrations plans repeatedly for the last 30 years. Trump had two choices either go with the Ronald Reagan model or the Richard Nixon model. Trump is now going with the Nixon model and some are trying to pull him back. Others project and put blame onto people such as other Republicans. What happened to Harry Truman's, “the buck stops here”? After that, in 1987 Bernie Sanders said that single payer under Medicaid program would bankrupt the nation. Canadian healthcare is lousy which is why tens of thousands of people come to the US from Canada for it. Later, North Korea fired an intermediate range ballistic missile over Japan which landed in the Pacific Ocean. Nuclear weapons in South Korea should be redeployed and deployed in Japan to encircle China and North Korea. Also, we need to put the squeeze on the Chinese economy. We have known since 1991 that diplomacy does not work with North Korea. In addition, Trump needs to increase defense spending immediately and should make his case to the American people so we can protect ourselves.

9/13/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Trump is apparently a RINO. What would you call a Republican that signs onto a 3 month resolution that raised fiscal operating debt, that taxes the rich or approves of a $1 trillion increase in infrastructure? Nixionian politics is not a new force changing the system. In the end, government gets much bigger with massive growing debt and more of a liberal agenda advances when you take this path. The Republican Party will be much weaker and less conservative as a result. Also, 20% of Americans could pay higher taxes under Trump's tax plan. Households earning between $150,000 and $300,000 will be hit the hardest. Trump has said that his tax cuts will be the greatest in American history,which is is false. What is with all this socialist propaganda and why can’t taxes be slashed across the board? After that, the Democrats are starting their big push for single payer healthcare. This is the nationalization of healthcare and it is to nationalize what is taking place at the Veterans Administration. The VA is 100% controlled by the government. Can anybody who is a veteran get care when they need it immediately? Not necessarily. The people in Britain and Canada waiting on long lines have a right to quality care too, but they can’t get it. In addition, Bernie Sanders never tells you how we are going to pay for single payer. Sanders who is the leading Democrat on this issue, is into class warfare. When someone speaks like this we know the American people are in trouble. Later, California wants to be a Sanctuary state. The Democrats are back to their old tricks of nullification. They don’t believe in the Union unless they get what they want all the time. You have Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Francisco controlling the state. Every radical left wing kook idea is codified in California statues and law. There is not a thing Republicans and conservatives can do a thing because it is a one party state.

9/12/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

There is a progressive ideology backed by progressive Republicans who have access to left wing media who trash conservatives. There isn’t a full endorsement of constitutional conservatism anymore. You are not going to hear it from President Trump or Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and the rest of them. The progressive movement is riding high in our society, but if we don’t defend conservatism, no one else will. The cult of personality taking place now, sees conservatism as an obstacle. Conservatism has accomplished a lot when we elect a conservative president which we have done twice in last hundred years, with Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan. Conservatives are the majority, not purists based on our values and traditions. We are the ones that created the Tea Party movement and the Reagan Revolution. We are the only people who speak of individual freedom and liberty. After that, we are all supposed to cheer because the Supreme Court didn’t do any damage to Trump’s travel ban. The fact that this issue is in the courts is damaging enough. The president of the United States is granted plenary power to control immigration policy, and judges shouldn’t have a say in the matter. Later, Hillary Clinton has heard about the Convention of States and she is worried about it, but is just using scare tactics. Rather than Congress making laws to control Congress, the states make laws to control Congress. The Convention of states does not seek limit the first amendment, or change the 2nd Amendment, or impose an insidious agenda. The purpose of the Convention of States is to restore this Republic and the Constitution.

9/11/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

History is crucial to understanding the future, which contains the good, the bad, and the ugly. There are many young people who don’t remember 9/11 or don’t know anything about it. They need to know what took place because the next 9/11, and there will be another one, could well involve nuclear weapons. The proliferation of nuclear technology, combined with bad actors on the international stage — namely North Korea and Iran — make for an extremely serious situation. Our enemies never sleep and they have only acquired more advanced weaponry. Those who want to deal with this situation effectively are called interventionist or accused of wanting war. We believe in prudence not in radical interventionism. You have to have policies, plans and ideas ready for all kinds of contingencies. The Code Pink Republicans who accuse conservatives of this, pretend to support military yet they don’t. The Iranians and North Koreans lied their way to nuclear technology and must be stopped. We should pour significant sums into R&D because we have enormous threats from these rogue countries. After that, President Trump could teach the Republicans a lesson by leading and by forcing Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan to follow him. Making deals with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi is not the answer nor is it a turning point in a positive direction. Rather than remaking the party in his own image, like Ronald Reagan did, Trump cuts deals with progressives. We are not funding the wall, repealing Obamacare, or reforming tax laws, and Schumer and Pelosi are two of the reasons why we are not. Later, half the state of Florida does not have electricity. Hurricane Irma was a horrendous hurricane and the climate change issue is an enormous fraud. Irma was not the worst hurricane to hit Florida. The problem is that desperate people are looking for an answer. Man can’t do a thing about the climate, the hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. If we destroyed ever car and truck on the face of earth or eliminated humanity, there would still be horrific storms.