Mark R. Levin's Blog, page 82

5/24/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Obama is overseas, in Communist Vietnam, apologizing for America again. How dare this man go into Vietnam, with its political prisoners and trash America, he is sick! Obama hates America; is it too much for Republicans to stand up and call him out on it? This is what Donald Trump and Republicans should confront, not religigate President Clinton’s past. You can bring up his past all you want but it’s not going to be effective. In addition, it’s not up to conservatives to get in line behind a candidate just because he is the nominee. It’s the responsibility of the candidate to persuade us to follow him. Finally, Congressman Jim Jordan from Ohio calls in to discuss his case for impeaching the IRS Commissioner, John Koskinen, for ignoring subpoenas and lying to Congress under oath about the IRS involvement in the targeting of conservative groups.

5/23/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

An innocent man, Officer Edward Nero, was declared innocent in a phony case in the death of Freedie Gray in Baltimore. Why isn’t there wall to wall coverage for his acquittal like there was a year ago when Freddie Gray died in police custody. Where does Nero go now to get his reputation back? After that, Hillary Clinton has made a lot of money giving speeches. She touts redistributing wealth and other Marxist policies in public yet does differently in private. In addition, Donald Trump is going to have a hard time calling Hillary out for her money making on speeches if he doesn’t release his tax returns. He ought to release his tax returns and Hillary ought to release her speech transcripts. Later, the reason we can’t put an end to poor race relations is because of people like Dr. Lawrence Brown. Brown claims that the system of policing is based on slave patrols. Those like Brown who claim that the justice system is at fault when it comes to mass incarceration and being racist need to present evidence, but they won’t and can’t.

5/20/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Dan Bongino, Contributing Editor at Conservative Review, fills in for Mark. Conservatives are tired of being sold out by the GOP. When it comes to the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing regulation, there was a clear cut effort by Senate conservatives to stop it. However, some Republicans decided to sell out and join with the Democrats in tabling an amendment that would have stopped the AFFH and voted in favor of Susan Collin’s amendment. The Collins amendment is ineffective and does nothing more but protect those who are responsible for supporting and promoting AFFH. In addition, the AFFH is nothing more than a power play by Democrats to dilute Republican influence in the higher income areas, the suburbs, and the country.

5/19/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

The Republicans in the Senate under Sen Mitch McConnell have once again betrayed conservatives in their vote on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) amendments and their war on the suburbs. Instead of voting for the Sen Mike Lee amendment, many Republicans crossed over to vote with the Democrats in favor of the phony Sen Susan Collins Amendment which enabled the Democrats. The Collins Amendment is ineffective at stopping President Obama and his agenda. Mike Lee would have stopped the AFFH from taking effect. Senator Lee was trying to stop HUD from abusing a federal statute but his colleagues voted him down. This is absolutely shocking that Republicans would join in Obama’s war on the suburbs. This shows that having a Republican Congress, full of liberals, is worse than having a smaller conference full of conservatives. We are now expected to comply with HUD’s lawlessness while our leaders don’t have to comply with anything. Later, Bernie Sanders is a true Marxist; Hugo Chavez with a suit and a tie. Now, if elected President, Sanders is committed to pardoning Oscar Lopez a domestic terrorist in Puerto Rico. Finally, Dr. Kelli Ward, candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona calls in to discuss her run against Sen John McCain, who voted against Mike Lee’s AFFH amendment.

5/18/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Donald Trump released a list of names of judges he is supposedly considering for the Supreme Court. This is a very good list, but how do we know that Trump won’t flip flop on this if elected? And will he fight for his nominees or is he just attempting to placate conservatives? Carrie Severino, Chief Council & Policy Director for Judicial Crisis Network, calls in to discuss each nominee’s qualifications. After that, a security guard was charged with assault after having a confrontation with a transgender person trying to use the women’s rest room. The confrontation escalated to pushing and shoving and he was arrested. Now the media is playing along with this idiocy. A month ago he would have been lauded, but today he is considered by liberals to be a segregationist. In addition, Trump surrogates are upset with conservatives who want to meet with Mark Zuckerberg, yet run to Trump’s defense for wanting to meet with Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korea. They seem to forget that some people you don’t just meet with, but have to defeat. Also, we are not going to pressure China into stopping North Korea with a phone call, like Trump says. We need to muscle up our military and show them that we mean business.

5/17/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Obama has done a great job fundamentally transforming the country. Big government and its regulations are constantly pummeling free enterprise. The leftists have effectively seized control of the government and under Obama have taken control of our schools, suburbs, economy, and bathrooms. Conservatives have to be firmer than ever before in fighting the left and others like the populists and Republican Whigs under Sen. Mitch McConnell. The only way to stop the runaway government and its proponents is to embrace the Constitution and Article V. Later, Sen. Mike Lee calls in to talk about HUD moving people in lower income communities into more wealthy communities. Under the Affirmative Further Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, they are forcing communities to provide affordable housing or threaten to withhold federal funding. Finally, it’s amazing that Bernie Sanders, a Marxist, has won about 20 states. Doesn’t that give you pause? If he had his way, America will become Venezuela, and then we will have equal misery.

5/16/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Obama and his administration are withholding details regarding the holding of U.S. sailors by Iran early this year. The details regarding the sailors’ abduction are likely to cause uproar among Americans and will shock the nation. Instead of trying to appease Iran, America needs to be willing to use force to defend its interests. After that, the effort to trash Ronald Reagan and project Trump on top of him is hard to understand and just plain wrong. No matter how many facts you lay out, Trump’s professional surrogates in the media can’t help themselves. The fact is Trump supporters in the media cannot point to one successful president who used massive tariffs and protectionism. In addition, Justice Clarence Thomas gave an invigorating speech at Hillsdale College. It is a refreshing speech to hear over the many liberal commencement speakers. Like Thomas, conservatives need to be unapologetic patriots, constitutionalists and unapologetic about their beliefs and religion. Finally, President Obama pretends to know it all when in fact he knows nothing. His commencement speech at Rutgers was political through and through. Americans don’t need lectures from this man; he doesn’t hold the moral high ground.

5/13/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Barack Obama and his tyrant administration seek to nationalize our healthcare, suburbs, and now our bathrooms. Now they are threatening to withdraw public schools’ funding if they resist the administrations transgender directive to allow kids who self-identify as the opposite gender to use opposite gender bathrooms. The administration is using Title 9 to justify its actions. However, Title 9 has nothing to do with what a person self-identifies as, but what the person’s gender actually is. In addition, the left is basing a person's gender on what the person thinks they are rather than what they actually are. After that, Sen. Mitch McConnell has used an energy and water appropriations bill to massively increase spending above what Obama requested. He is trying to show us that they can make government work, but all government is doing now is spending more and borrowing more. Later, The Wall Street Journal hates Sen. Ted Cruz and the Tea Party. These propagandists are now defending John Boehner and demanding that conservatives apologize. They are mouthpieces for Republican elites, corporatists and crony capitalists.

5/12/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Capitalism is the only economic model that is compatible with liberty and the only model that can create a middle class and sustain it. Now, nobody would love it more to kill capitalism than environmental organizations and degrowthers who pretend to be for the environment. As conservatives, we cannot support high taxes, big government regulations and massive tariffs. Big government and progressive degrowth policies are not going to create wealth. Capitalism is how America became the economic powerhouse that it is and it’s the only way to combat these degrowth policies promoted by the liberal Democrats in power and their mouthpieces. Later, national security adviser Susan Rice is now balkanizing by attacking white males. She is saying there are too many whites in high positions at national security agencies. Liberals like her are responsible for turning this nation on its head when it comes to racial unity. Later, Sens. John McCain, Kelly Ayotte and a majority of the Senate now supports drafting women. Battle lines that have been held against progressive policies like this that held for years are now being plowed over.

5/11/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Newt Gingrich is the leading candidate to be Donald Trump’s running mate. Gingrich was an early defender of Trump and confidant and advisor behind the scenes for him. After that, minimum wages are exactly the wrong way to go if you want to create jobs for American citizens. The minimum wage reduces employment of unskilled workers and will blow out tens of thousands of jobs for teenagers, vital to their development as productive members of society. In addition, the only people hurt by raising the minimum wage is the people who make minimum wage. It’s nothing more than class warfare and propaganda. Wages are determined by supply and demand not the government. Conservatives need to push a liberty agenda to challenge Donald Trump on this issue so that he is not pushed to the left.