Mark R. Levin's Blog, page 62

2/28/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Donald Trump will give his speech before Congress on Tuesday night and we already know a lot of what is going to be in his speech. It will include increases in defense spending, slashing aspects of domestic spending, slashing the EPA and the State Department bureaucracy. Here he is trying to do the right thing and he’s coming under attack from Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham for wanting to slash the State Department. We now have Republicans objecting to conservative elements of Trump’s budget. Barack Obama had Harry Reid’s support but when it comes to advancing a rational fiscal policy Trump won't have anybody. Trump is proposing slashing of spending, yet it is hard to do that while simultaneously supporting a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending. After that, Republicans are near a make or break moment on the Obamacare repeal. Conservatives who want to repeal Obamacare are now criticized as jeopardizing so called moderate Republicans’ plans. Conservatives like Ted Cruz are opposing refundable tax credits which are subsidies. Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Lee won't back Obamacare lite. The left media is calling them hardliners - this is fake news. Finally, according to Juaquin Castro only illegals with violent crimes should be deported. Open borders radicals like him will never be satisfied. This phony politician wants a list of laws that would not qualify as deportable. For Castro, forging social security numbers and traffic tickets should not merit deportation. He and Washington want the scam of illegal immigration to go on and on. To add, Castro is considering running against Cruz in Texas. He doesn’t want to serve the people of Texas but the people who want to come into Texas from other countries. If Texas is gone the country is gone.

2/27/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Since the day he took office, President Trump has been baselessly threatened with impeachment by the Democrats in Congress. Leading the pack, Nancy Pelosi clamors on and on about convincing Trump supporters that they made a huge mistake. Maybe it’s time we expel Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats from Congress. If they’re gonna talk about impeachment, then we need to talk about expulsion, it’s time to go on offense. Democrats tried to take out Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and now Trump. Who is the “Party of No” now? We have now reached the point where the Democrat Party is a soviet style party. The Democrat Party is built on violence and ethnic balkanization. It doesn’t care about the Constitution unless it can use it to take out somebody. In addition, the Democrats are trying to drive down Trump’s popularity so they can pick off some Republican seats in the House. When the Democrats are out of office they are viscous and vile. After that, Sen Chuck Schumer is saying that criticizing the media is against the core of democracy. Of course it’s not against American values to criticize them, but is perfectly legitimate. The media is supposed to be a bulwark against government but they were in the tank for Barack Obama and Pelosi. They have thrown in with the progressives. Also, Trump’s plan on infrastructure ought to be resisted. This is not free market economics and will just add to the national debt. It's not the 1930's and the New Deal. The problem is too much government, Andrew Jackson would be absolutely appalled at this. The problem with this country is too little economic freedom and too little commerce. The majority of this money is going to new projects not to fix old bridges, tunnels, etc.

2/24/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

There’s a reason why the Republican Party is telling us to forget about Ronald Reagan, because they aren’t conservative. The failure of the Republican Party to carry out conservative principles is not a failure of conservatism, but a failure of the Republicans. Conservatism is a way of life and not about politics per say. Politics is a manifestation of conservatism. To say that conservatism doesn’t work or that it doesn’t work because it hasn’t been tried is clearly absurd. We have a recent example within the last 40 years in Reagan. Reagan faced a much worse situation than Barack Obama in 1981. However, Reagan with his 4 point economic plan involving cutting taxes, spending reductions, anti-inflation monetary policy and massive deregulation led to enormous economic prosperity for the nation. These Republicans forget about conservative success in the past and instead are chasing Bernie Sanders’ trade positions. After that, there is an issue of globalism but it is not what the Nationalists Populists think. Globalism is not an attack on capitalism, private property rights and individualism but an attack on sovereignty. Finally, Mark Meckler calls in to discuss Article V and the Convention of States movement. Right now the Convention is experiencing opposition in Arizona and Utah. Democrats and Republicans are banding together to keep the power in Washington D.C.

2/23/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

What’s interesting is that many young people at CPAC are rock solid conservatives. They want President Donald Trump to succeed, to the extent that Trump remains conservative. They are not buying Trump’s Nationalist Populist rhetoric. They believe in liberty, the Constitution, building up the military, liberty, faith, private property rights, and national sovereignty. Also, Mark interviewed Sen Ted Cruz at CPAC who suggested there may be a Supreme Court vacancy this summer and said the best way to drain the swamp is term limits. After that, Sean Hannity calls in to discuss the passing of Alan Colmes. So many liberals are nasty, but Colmes was a decent person who loved his audience. In addition, it looks like Keith Ellison is in the lead for DNC chair and he’s saying we need to protect the Constitution by impeaching Trump which is laughable because the left doesn’t care about the Constitution. Trump has committed no impeachable offenses. The Democrats are trying to drive Trump's negatives up and suggest he’s acting criminally where no criminality exists. Democrats will not allow an election to get in their way of promoting their own agenda. Later, Gov Dan Malloy has told Connecticut police not to follow the DHS directive on illegal residents. Malloy said that officials should not detain any one based on their immigration status.

2/22/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

We have these insiders trying to position themselves as outsiders. They are acting like conservative values and certain positions that President Donald Trump is taking are new and that they have never been heard of before. Building up the U.S. military, securing the border, enforcing immigration laws, slashing individual and cooperate taxes, slashing federal regulations, and appointing originalists to the courts are all part of a conservative agenda. These are not new values and it is conservative Americans and the Tea Party that have been promoting these values, not the pom-pom boys and girls. Conservatives have been fighting to promote conservatism for years and it is they who have given us people like Sens. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee. After that, Trump’s recent executive orders have been traditionally conservative, and so far he has pursued a conservative agenda. When push comes to shove this administration will join with conservative principles and when it doesn’t, they will join with leftists, code pink Republicanism and Bernie Sanders like trade positions. Later, the 4th Circuit Court is now infringing on 2nd Amendment rights. On Tuesday, the Court ruled that Maryland could ban 45 commonly held weapons and magazines that held more than 10 rounds. This is why people have lost faith in the courts and can’t stand judges anymore. Finally, Barack Obama and some Republicans have done a good job in dismantling the U.S. military. The South China Sea has been taken over and Russia has confirmed existence of its information warfare wing.

2/21/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

There is a concerted effort to suggest that President Donald Trump has tolerated anti-Semitism in regards to threats against Jewish Community Centers. Leftists like Jerry Nadler or Peter Alexander dare to suggest that Trump is anti-Semitic. Suddenly we are being told that Trump is encouraging anti-semitism through his supporters. This is what Trump refers to as fake news. Also, the evidence was overwhelming that Obama was anti-Semitic. Trump wasn’t hanging out with domestic terrorists or embracing a professor with ties to Hamas like Obama was. There has been no president more hostile to the Jewish community than Obama. Can anyone show us at any time that Trump has demonstrated anti-Semitism? Trump’s son in law and his daughter, who converted to Judaism, are both Orthodox Jews. After that, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats are supporting Keith Ellison for DNC chair. Ellison has demonstrated anti-Semitic behavior. The Democrat Party is now the party that breeds anti-Semitism and hate. They are nothing more than a front for the power hungry in politics. The left hates Israel and is filled with bigotry. In addition, crazy infrastructure projects are not the responsibility of the government. Has the widening of the roads ever helped with traffic anywhere? They should leave it to the states and localities. Finally, the DHS is hiring more ICE and Border Patrol agents and starting construction of the wall. According to Secretary John Kelly, the DHS is going back to traditional routes of immigration enforcement. However, Trump and Kelly are not doing anything about the Dreamers.

2/20/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

How many news articles in the media were written about Barack Obama’s violations of the Constitution? Obama had a working document through the FEC where the government wanted to start dictating to news rooms, but thankfully it was defeated. Where was the media and news stories on dictatorships and tyranny or when Obama attacked Fox news and talk radio? The old media in this country including television and newspapers has a mixed history. Let’s not pretend they are objective and nonpartisan because they are not. It’s hard to find conservative reporters as it is natural for the media to be more liberal. After that, there are occasions where the media can be very evil. All one has to do is look at the New York Times coverage of the Holocaust during and leading up to World War II. No leading story of the Jewish plight would ever made it to the front page of the Times during the World War II period. The Times failure to cover the Holocaust by placement of stories on the back pages of its newspaper and by omission was the enemy of all people who read it. The media is distrusted for a reason. Many of them are dishonest about how they cover and censor news. Later, John McCain has done more to destroy free speech than President Donald Trump ever could. He is not the only war hero. There are other war heroes who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. They deserve our respect and the respect of fellow Americans. After that, Republicans have done nothing on Obamacare, slashing taxes or building the wall. The time to act is early, right after the election. Glenn Greenwald understands that the Republicans are one statehouse away from convening a Convention of States. If Greenwald, a leftist, can recognize it, how come some conservatives and Republicans cannot see the importance of or support Article V? There are RINO’s and pseudo conservatives that love to talk about the Constitution yet when it comes time to do something about it, they won’t.

2/17/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Dan Bongino, Contributing Editor at Conservative Review fills in for Mark. The media is totally melting down over President Trump’s Thursday press conference. Partisans from both sides are looking at this in the wrong way. Trump didn’t trample on his message. His message is that the system is broken and he’ll dismantle it including the media which is part of it. In addition, the media sees it as an attack on them because they see themselves as outside voices that everyone looks to for truth. However, the American people see the media as a propaganda machine for the system. The media think they have exposed Trump as a lunatic, but the people in America like to see him as a fighter. Every time Trump slaps the media his approval ratings go up. People think in stories and Trump finished the book for them and until liberals understand that they will continue to be beaten. After that, the latest fake news story is that 100,000 National guardsmen were going to storm the country as a deportation force. Has anybody considered the fact that this draft memo about the National Guard was a way to smoke out a few leakers?

2/16/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

One of the biggest problems we face in this country is in our colleges and universities. We have parents who go into debt sending their kids to college and they come out as radical Marxists, or democratic socialists — completely different from when they went in! It’s not their fault, but because of the propaganda they learn there. Too often universities turn out people who hate their own country and despise their own faith. Many times universities promote a statist orthodoxy and ideology that is hostile to America's origins. We are witnessing a death march in education today and we are going bankrupt for it. In addition, Caleb O’Neill was suspended from Orange Coast College for posting a video of his professor’s anti-Trump tirade. Why shouldn’t students be able to video tape their classrooms? This has nothing to do with intimidating and silencing professors but exposing those trashing President Trump. After that, media in this country doesn't understand that they are hated by everybody. The radical leftists know the media is liberal and don't think they are aggressive enough and the rest of America knows the media is liberal and we can’t stand them. Later, if intelligence agencies just happened upon Michael Flynn speaking to the Russian ambassador they would have needed a warrant for that. We are supposed to have some protection as private citizens. You don’t hear an outcry from the ACLU or any of the other civil liberties folks who are just as fake as the media. This is not a scandal because of Flynn but because of Barack Obama and Loretta Lynch.

2/15/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

The real question about the recent intelligence leaks that led to Michael Flynn's departure is what did Barack Obama know and when did he know it? These calls were being recorded during the Obama administration. Where did the orders come from to intercept these phone calls? And, most importantly who knew about it? It’s not that simple to get authorization from the FISA court particularly when it comes to private citizens. The real this scandal is about police state tactics by the Obama administration of Trump and his transition officials after the election. Andy McCarthy, a National Review Contributor, calls in to ask the administration to make the Flynn tapes public. Also, the intelligence community is claiming that Flynn did these terrible things but have not provided any evidence. Even the New York Times said there was no evidence.
In addition, Rep Devin Nunes, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, wants to get to the bottom of this. What the heads of these intelligence committees need to do is find out how much of this went on under Obama including what was intercepted and when. How many wire taps were there of Trump transition and campaign officials? VP Mike Pence could have put this all to rest and stood behind Flynn. But he still hasn’t come out to defend him. Finally, Trump spoke up for Flynn today but he is the one who let Flynn go. Trump caved into the fake media. And while leaks are unfair, the most unfair thing is that Trump kicked Flynn out of the Whitehouse.