[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 9, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E218-E219]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




IN RECOGNITION OF THE LATE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHARING JIM PATTERSON'S COLUMN 
                                 ON AIR

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                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, March 9, 2021

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Madam Speaker, I rise to bring attention to 
Jim Patterson's column being read by the late Rush Limbaugh.
  When friends called to tell Alabamian Jim Patterson that Rush 
Limbaugh was reading

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his column for The Hill to his radio audience, Patterson thought it was 
a joke.
  Later, Patterson found the transcript and audio of the broadcast on 
Mr. Limbaugh's website. Patterson listened to the biggest name in Talk 
Radio read his work, ``Congress Must Lead on Security as Obama is 
Irrelevant.'' Jim Patterson remains greatly flattered that El Rushbo 
read his Alabama Dittohead's work to his 50 million listeners. I 
include in the Record the original column below:

         Congress Must Lead on Security as Obama Is Irrelevant

                   (By Jim Patterson, Jan. 14, 2015)


 THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF 
                                THE HILL

       The utter failure of the Obama administration can be 
     measures in so many ways, from the number of beheaded 
     American journalists, to embarrassing heads of state by 
     spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkle's personal mobile 
     phone, to callously calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin 
     Netanyahu, a war hero, ``chicken shit'' and a ``coward.''
       Secretary of State John F. Kerry, a longtime member of the 
     Senate Foreign Relations Committee, suggests Israel is an 
     apartheid state. By supporting Hamas and its ally the 
     Palestinian Authority, Obama and Kerry have threatened the 
     lives of Jews around the world in the name of human rights 
     for terrorists.
       He doesn't realize Gaza is occupied by terrorist Hamas 
     intent on killing Israeli children until they destroy the 
     Jewish state. Kerry thinks Tweeting will stop the Russian war 
     on the Ukraine. America is without a foreign policy at a 
     dangerous time.
       Obama and Kerry sit on their hands as international 
     cyberattacks proliferate raising security costs for U.S. 
     corporations and small businesses, and prices for consumers. 
     They allow cyberterrorists to steal national security data 
     and threaten the White House, NATO, the National Security 
     Agency, the Defense Department and other government agencies.
       Due to Obama's total inaction, the U.S. is great risk of a 
     crippling cyber doomsday, a day when there is no Internet. 
     The president gets tough on nuclear enabled North Korea for 
     hacking a worthless Hollywood film, while he does nothing to 
     prevent such attacks on the national security of our nation 
     and military, diplomatic and industrial assets abroad.
       Our country is leaderless on security. Voters realized this 
     in November and voted for change in Congress. Voters want 
     Congress to reverse the leaderless Obama administration with 
     strategies to prevent the continued decline of the United 
     States that Obama is helpless to address.
       Both Obama and Kerry refused to participate in the Paris 
     rally for liberty in the wake of radical Islamic terror 
     attacks on press freedom. What are their priorities? They 
     won't participate with the civilized world by declaring war 
     on radical Islam. What are their values? They are inviting 
     more vicious killings of journalists and freedom loving 
     people around the world by doing nothing.
       Americans, including this writer, symbolically voted for an 
     African American president in hopes he could lead our country 
     nationally and internationally and that he could put to rest 
     lingering racial issues.
       Racial tensions are greater today than in the 1960's. The 
     world is on the brink of disaster.
       The Obama administration is asleep. The president doesn't 
     want to wake up until his term is over so he can proclaim his 
     great single accomplishment: Being the nation's first African 
     American president.
       His record is void of any substantive accomplishments.
       Congress has considerable work to do bring our nation back 
     from the brink of Obama's multiple leadership disasters. I am 
     confident Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), 
     House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), and the growing rank of 
     Democrats disgusted by what Obama has done to our country and 
     the globe can reverse course.
       Congress must realize Obama is no longer relevant. He has 
     wasted his opportunity to lead. He has lost the confidence of 
     the American people and world leaders. It is Congress that 
     must lead.
       In 1980 presidential candidate Ronald Reagan debating 
     President Jimmy Carter while the economy was in shambles with 
     record unemployment, record interest rates, and with our 
     nation seen as an international laughingstock, told America 
     he was a leader who had a plan to bring the country back. 
     Recovery, candidate Reagan told the American people, is when 
     Jimmy Carter loses his job.
       President Reagan delivered on his promises. Obama has 
     failed.
       Congress must act immediately to secure our country from 
     further cyberattacks and threats to Americans and assets at 
     home and abroad.
       But real security will not be restored until Obama loses 
     his security badge to enter the White House. That day cannot 
     come too soon.
       Patterson, a former Washington diplomat, is a San 
     Francisco-based writer and speaker.

  Madam Speaker, please join me in recognizing Jim Patterson and his 
column being read on air by the late Rush Limbaugh.

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