Mark R. Levin's Blog, page 57

5/2/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

The Republican Party is not a party of small government, of liberty, private property rights, or of Capitalism. Do you know why the Republicans won’t repeal Obamacare and won’t slash government spending? Because they support it. They want Obamacare, even though it’s unsustainable and open borders. We have deceitful, dishonest men and women who get your votes and don’t follow through on any of their promises like Fred Upton and Mitch McConnell. Now that Republicans are in power Upton has decided he can’t even support a partial repeal of Obamacare. Yet when Barack Obama was President, Upton supported repeal knowing full well Obama would veto any such attempt. Also, where is Mitch McConnell? He ran on fighting Obamacare, but has done nothing to get rid of it. Republicans used to fight for these issues and make their case to the American people. That is the difference between the era of Ronald Reagan and President Trump. After the election cycle the Republicans all sound like progressives. 100 years ago the Republican Party was a progressive party and that is what it is today. These progressives focused on fundamental transformation and that’s what happened to America. The only issue is, where are they taking us? After that, Daniel Horowitz of Conservative Review calls in talk about the recently passed budget and Mick Mulvaney’s claims that it was a Republican win. Also, Paul Ryan says Planned Parenthood is not funded. Why isn’t Planned Parenthood jumping up and down today over the fact they lost funding? This is spin. Finally, Sen. Mike Lee calls in to discuss his view on the budget and what’s happening with Jim DeMint at Heritage.

5/1/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Fox News does not respect its audience but instead respects the Hollywood Reporter, Variety and New York Magazine. They just took out Bill Shine, co-president at Fox who had helped build Rupert Murdoch’s billion dollar empire for 20 years. There has been no evidence put forth that Shine is anything but a decent individual. Shine helped put conservatives on that network and defended them against the left. Lachlan and James Murdoch are now in control and you are going to see a watering down of the Fox News content. Meanwhile, the Heritage Foundation is imploding too with the rumor that President Jim DeMint is being ousted. After that, President Trump said “had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later, you wouldn't have had the Civil War.” This is not true as the Civil War was virtually unavoidable. There was a coalescing of issues and events that propelled it, including the Fugitive Slave Act, The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise. The Dred Scott Decision really set the fuse. This is an effort by the Neoconfederates to dress up Jackson to trash Abraham Lincoln. This is why the President needs a real conservative in the White House who could talk about history and economics. Later, when it comes to the Republican budget, Planned Parenthood is still funded, Dodd-Frank remains untouched, 99% of the EPA is funded, and not a penny has gone towards funding the wall. Nothing significant was done to reduce the national debt. This system if it continues will collapse one day. Finally, Paul Kengor calls in to talk about his new book, “A Pope and a President”. He reveals the Soviet Union’s role in ordering and organizing the failed shooting of Pope John Paul II.

4/28/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Kim Jong-un test fired another ballistic missile and there now needs to be a strong and direct U.S. response against North Korea. Kim Jong-un needs to be taken out. He is hell-bent on developing long-range ICBMs to reach the United States. We are not going to take him out for the purpose of conquering North Korea but for the purpose of American national security. We should tell the Chinese we are taking out Kim and we would like your support and we’d give them something in exchange. Also, North Korea’s army of 1.2 million men are a significant threat to its southern neighbor, South Korea. A strike against Seoul would be devastating. After that, are Rupert Murdoch's sons leaking to the media to destroy their father's Fox News network? Lachlan Murdoch is a big time Hollywood liberal and is more liberal than his brother James. Lachlan lives in the Hollywood area, within the Hollywood social circles and these leaks seem targeted at a corporate coup within the family. Later, the National Guard needs to be federalized next time violent leftists show up at Berkeley. Conservatives don't use violence to protest; the Reagan revolution and Tea Party never did. Finally, what is it about Obamacare that Republicans like and don't like? They should stop attacking Obamacare because they embrace large parts of it. You see how quickly Republicans fold and how quickly they go in with the left. The Republican Party is a party with no ideology, but in the end it supports big bloated government.

4/27/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

There is an all-out war being waged against conservatives by the left with Stalinist tactics. Now Bill Shine, co-President at Fox News, is under attack. If you’re a conservative they are out to destroy you and in some cases violently harm you. How come we don’t know any backgrounds of any host or executives on MSNBC, and CNN? After that, Salon ran a story that claimed Mark compared Ivanka Trump to Hillary Clinton. This is absolutely false as Mark never has or never would do such a thing. Salon needs to retract that statement. Also, Jim Himes and Adam Schiff are the only 2 Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee to look at the documents reviewed by Devin Nunes. Apparently they are also, CNN’s only two sources with regards to these documents related to Susan Rice. CNN has so destroyed journalism there is no comeback for them. After that, what is liberty? It seems like a simple concept, but it’s not. Doesn’t liberty pre date America? Where did the idea of liberty first arise? Do you need to have order to have liberty? Callers weigh in and give their own definition. Finally, a former Obama official said that bureaucrats manipulated climate stats to influence policy. We were lied too in order to advance an ideology. This is an attack on capitalism and is just the latest effort by left to nationalize economic decision making.

4/26/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

While Trump’s agenda in his first 100 days has suffered largely at the hands of incompetent GOP leadership in Congress, the permanent, leftist government is doing just fine thanks to bureaucrats and left-wing judges. Judge William Orrick, a district judge and former Barack Obama cash bundler in San Francisco, blocked Trump’s executive order defunding sanctuary cities. This judge was a politically-motivated actor who bought his seat. This is what happens when our federal government becomes so unmoored from our Constitution. It’s very dangerous when judges take it upon themselves to tell the nation what is and isn’t right. One clear remedy to this situation and others like it would be a wholesale reform of the judicial system under Article III of the Constitution, but Congress is not going to take power away from the courts. Also, Mark Meadows, head of the Freedom Caucus, stopped a completely disastrous healthcare bill from being rammed down our throats. Now he has negotiated a healthcare deal that will be more acceptable to most Republicans. Later, Trump deserves an enormous amount of credit when it comes to rolling back regulations. He signed an executive order on Wednesday to remove the Antiquities Act and give land and power back to the states. The Antiquities Act has been used to nationalize enormous amounts of land. Recently, George W. Bush was disastrous with this and Obama nationalized so much land, ocean and water. Finally, Josh Meyer of Politico calls in to talk to discuss his story on the hidden Iran deal giveaway.

4/25/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Were there any federal district judges out there who weren’t appointed by Barack Obama? It appears all of these immigration cases wind up in front of left-wing kook judges. Now another Obama judge is blocking President Trump’s cutoff of funds to sanctuary cities. It’s remarkable that we have federal judges who are appointed by the most radical leftist president in American history, who take his political philosophy, reverse what is basically 100 years of jurisprudence, that they have fought for, and then impose their will. You can’t have a centralized administrative state by allowing Congress to do its job. San Francisco is free to be a sanctuary city, even though it defies federal law. However, now the federal government is not free to withhold federal funds from a city defying federal law. After that, the one area where Trump has succeeded, is in unravelling the executive orders of Obama. He is using same power Obama did to undo what Obama did. However, the President is having a tough time with the Republican Congress. There is no excuse for what Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are doing or not doing. It is time to roll Chuck Schumer and the Democrats. The “Art of the Deal” should be the “Art of Victory”. Why aren’t the first 100 days a measuring stick for Congress and the Democrats? Can anyone name one piece of positive bipartisan legislation that Nancy Pelosi and Schumer have put forth? In addition, the Republicans have the Presidency, House and the Senate and it is their fault the government shuts down? This is not true, but it was the same during the Obama years. No matter what they always get blamed. The Republicans need to take their case to the American people. Many of these elected Republicans don’t want to make waves, because they want to hold onto power. Finally, how about we drive down the cost of the lumber industry and make it more competitive rather than passing tariffs on Canadian lumber? Whenever you hear a tariff is enacted, that is a sales or vat tax on the American consumer. Let’s not pretend that protectionism and tariffs don't put the American people out of work. What the Trump administration should do is open our federal lands to logging and have us compete with Canada that way.

4/24/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Obama and his surrogates lied to get support for the Iran Nuclear deal and he surrendered America’s national security to do it. Obama portrayed the 7 Iranian men he freed in January of 2016 as civilians. This is not the truth as some of them were accused of being a threat to American national security. Obama did this because he was in a frenzy to get the Iran deal done and sacrificed national security in the process. The liberal media like CNN doesn’t care about this, but if a Republican president did it, this would be breaking news. We were sold down the river with lies, obstructions and secrets so Obama could have a legacy. Later, there is now an attempt by Debbie Schlussel to destroy Sean Hannity’s character. It is a pretty shabby and thin attempt at that. Debbie has now stepped far away from what she originally said but when you accuse somebody of a something heinous don’t be surprised when they fight back. Also, Kate O’Beirne’s passed away who was one of the great minds of the conservative movement. We wish her family God’s speed. Finally, Jonathan Allen calls in to talk about his book, “Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign” and if Obama really wanted her to win.

4/21/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

The left’s target this week is Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The controversy? During an interview on this show Tuesday, Sessions said that Hawaii is an island in the pacific. Oh, the horror. Sessions was speaking of the Trump administration’s second Middle East travel moratorium being blocked by a Ninth Circuit judge in Hawaii last month. The fake outrage over Sessions comments is ridiculous. The point Jeff Sessions was making is that a rogue federal judge is undermining President Trump’s ability to protect the United States. But the Left doesn’t want people to focus on the president’s constitutional authority being unconstitutionally overruled. The Left wants to destroy conservatives like Sessions. In addition, the federal judge serving in Hawaii who ruled against President Trump’s executive order on immigration, violated separation of powers. This judge substituted his own personal policy preference and political opinion for the President of the US. This judge out of hundreds made this decision. Hawaii doesn’t deal with the same immigration problems that mainland U.S. does. This is about trying to take out the opposition to a lawless judge who defied rule of law and Constitution. Later, the leftists are hypocrites. On one hand they seek to encourage freedom of speech yet on the other hand this freedom does not apply to conservatives. Conservatives speaking at a university have to do so under an armed guard and you risk your life just to watch. Berkeley reversed the decision and said that Ann Coulter could speak on May 2 but she refused and will show up and speak at the original date. Will the University that gave birth to the Free Speech movement in 1964 yield to the heckler's veto? The President needs to federalize the National Guard to stop the violent anarchist Marxists and cowards who cover faces in black.

4/20/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Landmark Legal Foundation has filed a request with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA). The request asks the secret court to order an investigation into the leaking of surveillance activity conducted on members of Donald Trump’s team, in accordance with the rulings of FISA. The filing cites a flurry of recent published reports that show an enormous amount of leaked classified information has been used for political purposes in opposition to President Trump. Landmark respectfully suggests that the Court direct the government to complete its investigation and report its findings to the Court within 90 days. Also, Berkeley has reversed its decision and says Ann Coulter can speak after all on its campus. Obviously this is a big deal not just for Coulter but for conservatives everywhere whom the left determines do not have the right to free speech. The left wing leaders who run that university probably heard that the ultimate solution to this is to put down the violent rioters with the CA National Guard. Our solution is the right solution. It is time to meet the force of the left with law enforcement. Later, John Kennedy had an affair with an East German spy, and many other affairs. Ted Kennedy tried to work with the Soviets to defeat Ronald Reagan. These are monumental scandals, yet the media ignore them. The people who protected John Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, and Bill Clinton are now offended by Bill O’Reilly. The reason why O'Reilly was removed from Fox was because the advertisers left. Finally, the President today hammered Canada for putting restrictions on US milk coming into the country. However we put restrictions on butter from Ireland. When it comes to protectionism, which industries are going to be protected and which ones won’t? Everybody claims they are doing what they are doing for the worker. Capitalism is what supports workers.

4/19/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Bill O'Reilly is out at Fox News after 20 years at the news network. He became a target of the leftist media including the New York Times, CNN, and Media Matters. The same news media for the longest time was dismissive and protective of Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct. This is we have to rely on alternative conservative outlets for informative like talk radio, websites and CRTV. Also, neither win in the Georgia and Kansas special elections boasted numbers that should make anyone in the GOP feel comfortable. Congressional leadership deserves the blame for squandering the bicameral majority the party garnered in November 2016. Instead of keeping their campaign promises, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell were lacking in vigor and resolve and have been dragging their feet, kowtowing to the party’s liberal wing, and falling short of their campaign promises to the American people. If they continue on this path, without heeding the warning signs of a dramatically-closed margin of victory in Kansas and Jon Ossoff taking almost half the vote in Georgia, it’s worth asking if the Republican party is capable of surviving. The only way you can correct course is to accept reality, to be sober about what’s going on. Also, UC Berkeley has cancelled Ann Coulter's appearance and speech. President Trump should federalize the California National Guard and get AG Jeff Sessions to walk Coulter on stage. It’s time to put down the violence. Enough is enough.