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March 14, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 14, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain and the amber waves of grain, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
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I was just saw something on television.
I've got a couple news stories reverberating in my head.
The president is not leveling with the American people.
He doesn't level with the American people on Iraq.
He doesn't level with the American people on the economy.
He's not leveling with people he's lying so forth.
You know who is not leveling with the American people?
Is the liberals and the American media?
You've got Joe Biden, you've got Harry Reed, even Bob Schiefer, and they're all saying Bush isn't leveling with the American people.
Well, let me return the favor.
The liberals aren't leveling with the American people about the economy.
Where are the headlines about the success of the Bush economic plan?
I'll tell you where they are.
We got an employment report that stuns the pundits.
It came out Saturday, front page of the business section of the New York Times.
The employment report stunned everybody, stunned the experts, stunned the pundits higher than anybody had called for or expected.
And it was the front page of the business section of the actually not even the front page of the business, it was page three, as I recall it now from Saturday's New York Times.
So who's not leveling with?
In fact, if somebody's lying, who's not leveling with us about the economy?
Who is telling us falsehoods about the economy?
Who's out there trying to make you think that your country is nothing more than a soup line and you're in the middle of it?
The liberals are not leveling with the American people about the war.
Where are the estimates of deaths caused by division?
How many Iraqi women and children have been killed by insurgents who have been emboldened by the American left?
It's like I asked you yesterday, what would you do?
How would you feel if Al Jazeera started showing us video clips of various Al Qaeda leaders and Al Qaeda terrorists complaining about bin Laden?
Bin Laden lies.
Bin Laden promised us we're gonna have a lot more attacks.
Bin Laden said the World Trade Center was just the first of a new wave, and we haven't gotten anything.
We're losing our lives in Iraq.
We're having to blow up our own people, we're having to blow up other Muslims just to raise hell because we can't mount a major.
What do you think our attitude would be?
Would you not think we are kicking butt?
We are winning and well, what do you think their attitude to the American left and the American media is in this country when they see that kind of thing every day?
When they see this president continually under assault as a liar, uncaring, lied to get us there, the war is unjust.
People like John Mertha, bring us home, redeploy, John Kerry, Al Gore, and you've got Clinton all going over to Saudi Arabia and other foreign countries, denouncing their own country, denouncing their own country's effort and their own military.
What do you think this is doing for the morale of these insurgents who are probably in their last gasp over there or close to it?
So who is it that's not leveling with who?
Liberals aren't even leveling with the American people about what they stand for.
Why don't we learn their beliefs?
Because they don't have any.
Well, they do have they have belief.
It's control, control of Congress, control of the White House, control of the courts, control of your life.
That's the one belief they have.
And they're not going to tell you how they get there, and they're not going to tell you what they're going to do after they have that control, because if you knew that, you wouldn't vote for them.
So who in the world's not leveling with who?
I'm getting so fed up here.
Bush is not leveling with the American people.
If anybody's not leveling with the American people, it's A, the American media, B, the Democratic Party, and their willing accomplices in the American anti-American leftist movement.
That's who's not leveling with people.
And in fact, it's not it's it's worse than not leveling with people.
I mean, here are people, Terry McCaula, we just had the soundbite on this program.
Terry McCaulaff admits they're not even going to run an agenda.
Their agenda is beat Bush in 2008.
They're going to run against a failed, flawed presidency.
And they actually think that this is going to take them to a to a sweeping victory.
It is a land of fruits and nuts.
Impeachment fever seized the small town of New Feigned Vermont, a hotbed of resistance.
The tiny town of 1,650 residents passed a resolution this week calling for President Bush's removal from office.
The Vermonters charged him with misleading the country about the war in Iraq, as well as lying about torturing prisoners and engaging in dismet domestic spikes.
Speaking of torture.
I'll tell you what torture is.
It's having to listen to a liberal day in and day out.
From the United Press International.
Los Angeles County faces tens of millions of dollars in damages for bedding thousands of prisoners on mattresses on concrete floors.
The practice violates the Constitution.
It is symptomatic of serious problems in the crowded riot-torn jail system, according to Federal Judge Dean D. Pregerson.
And he gave lawyers for the county and Stephen Yagman, representing the class of floor-sleeping inmates that he estimated up to 300,000, time to make additional arguments before final ruling.
Roger Granbeau, assistant county counsel, pointed out the case is still pending.
Floor sleeping ended last September as additional facilities were opened to provide more bunks, in addition to early release of some inmates convicted of misdemeanors, said Mark Klugman, chief of the correctional services division, said the system's been hard hit by a string of bad budget years.
An injunction against overcrowding of the jails, indicated by sleeping on the floor has been in place for nearly uh three decades.
So we got torture going on in the LA County jail system.
Veritable torture.
UPI has to break the story.
Haven't seen a thing about it in the front page of New York Times.
Haven't seen any pictures of this.
This next story.
It is from the Detroit News.
United Auto Workers tells workers to stop vandalizing non-Ford cars.
A United Auto Workers official is warning workers to stop vandalizing non-Ford cars and trucks parked at the automaker's Kansas City Assembly plant, according to a leaflet posted online.
The reports of vandalism at Kansas City Assembly come as several Ford Motor Company plants around the country are implementing new rules or enforcing ones that require workers who drive non-Ford vehicles to park in separate lots or farther away from the factory.
In the note to 5100 workers in Kansas City who build the uh escape SUVs and the F uh uh F-150 pickups, UAW local 249 President Jim Stoffer said that Ford was cracking down on the vandalism.
Respect other people's property as you would like yours to be respected, said Stoffer, who didn't return uh telephone calls on Monday.
The company will be watching for any destruction of vehicles, and anyone caught damaging another vehicle will be terminated.
I suppose this is happening on break time.
Now, what do we keep hearing about what a rot gut place to work Walmart is?
When's the last story we got about Walmart workers on their break going over to Kmart or JC Penny and trashing the stores?
When has that ever happened?
I guess yeah, we have another reason to go union here, product loyalty of workers and creative use of their break time.
If Walmart employees really and truly love their jobs, they'd be out vandalizing uh target stores and Kmart on their brakes.
And we'd be reading emails from their bosses.
You can't do that.
Anyone caught trashing a Kmart or a Target or a JCPenney is going to be severely dealt with.
So I thought things were hunky-dory in a unions.
Uh United Auto Workers, well, actually, I know they're not.
There's a lot of give backs going on.
It's getting bad.
I um I don't know if you if you're with us this week, earlier last week.
The unions having to give back hard-earned uh uh benefits packages, uh, pension plans, wages, in order for these companies to stay profitable.
And we learned last week that the New York Housing Authority was now asking the poor, 400,000 poor people for 400,000 poor people are being asked to give back.
I guess they just don't have the budget for it anymore.
They're gonna charge them five bucks to run a dishwasher, five twenty-five to run a washing machine.
Um ten bucks extra if there's a if you have a separate freezer.
Yeah, but here's the thing.
Right now, it costs the poor who come under the umbrella of the New York Housing Authority, cost the poor their uh five bucks to park their car.
Now, you conclude from this first that the poor in New York under the New York Housing Authority have cars and parking spaces for them.
I don't know how many of you have ever driven into New York, particularly Manhattan, tried to park your car there.
You can't get away for 70 bucks a day in prime locations.
Well, guess what?
The poor in New York are going to have to now pay $75 a month to park their cars rather than 75 a year.
I'm sorry.
You're right.
It was $5 a year to park, now $75 a year.
$70 increase.
$70 to uh park your car, 75 for a whole year, under the auspices of the New York Housing Authority for the poor.
So even the poor are being forced to give back.
You remember I had April f April 1st, uh back in 1990, I did a commentary, and I intended an April Fool's joke, and the liberals all took it seriously.
The only way they can balance the budget is raise taxes on the poor.
Make them pay their fair share funded.
There's a bunch of takers.
And uh all manner of hell descended on me for this.
Uh but it looks like I was once again out in front of the crowd.
The New York Housing Authority has done just that.
But I offered them a solution, and I want the people in the unions to think of this as well because it's applicable uh to you too.
Liberals, when they think they need money, which is all the time, what are they what is what is the primary function they say is responsible for doing this, to raise taxes, right?
And particularly raise taxes on the rich.
Well, if you're the New York Housing Authority, and you have 400,000 poor people under your auspices, and you are attempting to uh get some give backs from them.
We have to understand that not all the poor in this country are monolithic.
The these 400,000 is some there's there's different levels of poverty.
There are very many different levels.
So I'm sure that we have in the 400,000 people under the New York Housing Authority uh program, you got some wealthy poor, some average poor, and some really poor poor.
And so the solution would be to not implement these across the board give backs.
I mean, it the the poor poor will be much harder hit at five bucks per washing machine than the wealthy poor.
The wealthy poor will be more able to afford it.
So these tax increases, which is what these are, charges, you know, just raise taxes on the wealthy poor.
And that's the solution to the problem.
So you now it's liberalism is resulting in a lot of things.
Liberals is liberalism promises endless benefits, endless utopia, and all the people who bought into it and believed it over the last five years, particularly are being asked now to give it back.
Because the liberals just don't have the money to keep it going.
They've taxed everybody beyond their ability to significantly raise anybody's taxes anymore except the poor.
They haven't taxed the poor, and now they're doing it.
They're doing it in New York, asking the poor to give a little back.
In the meanwhile, in Kansas City, union members are trashing non-Ford vehicles at a Ford assembly plant.
It's just and and have to get a memo like from the schoolmaster here.
I don't know if FEMA got why would FEMA go to Kansas City for the damage to the cars?
No, I've what I'm I'm not even sure FEMA's gotten any anywhere where there was a tornado, much less.
No, that's another thing.
I still haven't seen any.
It's obvious, folks.
I I don't know if you've if you've noticed uh I the looters shooting down the helicopters to make sure that they get their $2,000 credit cards from the government, all the disease.
I haven't seen any of this.
I haven't, you know it's happening.
It has to be happening out there.
I haven't seen any reporters out there crying uh with victims of these tornadoes.
Uh uh but you know it's happening.
The reporters aren't there.
Um there's a reason.
There is there's a reason That that there's no coverage of this.
And uh these people's lives are ten people, twelve people dead, thousands of people's lives upended, property loss in the gazillions.
And nobody's there.
Haven't seen the president drop in, haven't seen anybody from FEMA drop in.
The only conclusion can be that Bush just doesn't like white people.
He just doesn't.
Spencer Davis group.
Rush Limboy, your host for life on the EIB network, Chris in Omaha.
Glad you called, sir.
I appreciate your patience in waiting.
Yeah, hey, Russ.
This uh Chris from Omaha.
Yeah.
Uh I want to respond uh to the call of the last hour.
Um liberal elitist who every response kept calling you by your first name and was determined uh to let you know that we're just losing this war no matter what.
Yeah, it's John and Scenectady is who that was, yeah.
Yeah, and you made a great uh football analogy about how he would just quit, you know, first quarter, down a couple touchdowns.
Let me let me extend that analogy and uh and and give it a little different perspective in the way we could be fighting this war.
Uh there was a movie, I I want to say any given Sunday.
Uh, but that's beside the point.
One of the opening scenes was uh this uh I believe a wide receiver, whatever.
Anyway, he's running, he's gonna score a touchdown, but all of a sudden here's this blocker right in front of him.
He pulls a gun out and shoots the guy in the head and kills him.
Runs into the end zone.
Do you remember that?
Uh no, frankly, I think I've seen any given Sunday, uh, but I don't remember that.
I I don't think I've ever seen a football game where a player shot a defender.
That maybe I'm giving the wrong name of the movie, but a lot of your calls are know what I'm talking about.
Anyway, I'm sure they will, yes.
I I don't watch violent football.
I don't watch football where they have guns or that.
I know it was a movie, but I I would remember that.
Okay, well, trust me.
Now let's just put a gun in every player on that team, and why don't we just shoot them all?
You know, score as many touchdowns as we want, take over the scoreboard.
I mean, here's the deal, Rush.
The f the war we are fighting is you know, the the Democrats are so nuanced about everything, and you talk about this.
Everything is nuanced.
We have to this and that.
This is the most nuanced war we have ever fought.
I mean, we have to do that.
That's an excellent point.
This is one area you're right.
This is one area the Democrats looking at this is strictly black and white.
There's no gray area, there's no nuance here.
We are losing, we deserve to lose.
Bush lied, we have no business being there.
Come home to save our embarrassment any further.
Yeah, but why don't you know they want us to win this war, right?
If we could yeah, but the point is, Rush, we could win this war.
We could go in there like the Roman Empire.
Okay?
We could take that country, we could take a few other countries while we're at it.
Okay?
We have the ability to do that.
And we're being accused of being imperialistic, you know, by the rest of the world, by our by our own media, uh, by half of our country, and the fact is is okay, if we're that way, then why aren't we doing that?
We are very capable of doing that.
I spent sixteen years in the United States Air Force.
I know what we are capable of doing.
The point is we don't do that.
We are trying to fight a very nuanced war.
We have to worry about uh the perceptions of the rest of the world.
We have to worry about killing civilians, we have the state-of-the-art technology to allow us to attack targets and not injure people around.
We the United States does more than any other country to try to do this stuff, and I am so sick and tired of listening to these people and our own media.
I it just you know Look at you you're ex I I know how you feel.
You're you're you're you're getting all wound up here over people who are short-sighted, who don't have the slightest understanding of war and what they're talking about.
They hate it.
You're listening to a lot of people who hate their own country, a lot of self-loathing people who long for our defeat because they think we deserve it.
They have this convoluted vision and version of what we have done in the course of our own history to become a superpower, and uh they they think we're immoral and unjust, and uh and then so anything that we use to project our power, such as a war, is also immoral and unjust.
In the in the in the litany of things that you mentioned that constitute the nuances of the uh of the war, you're absolutely right, but there's another one.
There's an objective here.
And it's uh it's a big objective, and it's a big bite, and it might not succeed, but we're nowhere near quitting and giving up on it.
We're much closer to it coming to fruition than people want to admit.
And it's well worth fighting for, and that is to do something to change the direction of that region of the world.
Because we cannot wipe out every terrorist militarily.
It just isn't going to happen.
It's a grand vision.
Uh and and it's got to be stuck with it.
But these people don't care about that.
Don't see it, don't want to know about it.
When they hear about it, they poo-poo it, think it's not possible.
You know, it's funny.
I I have to laugh.
When I admit that I don't know something, it is unique.
It's rare and it's odd.
Like I didn't know the name of this movie where one football player shoots a defender right before the end zone to score the touchdown.
I never heard of the movie.
Still don't know what it is.
I mean, I know what it is now, because I have received over 300 emails in the last three minutes from people telling me what the movie it is, and I know how you people feel it's such a thrill to tell me something I don't know, because I do that all day.
I'm the teacher, I'm the informer, I'm the educator.
I provide the inter and people just they just they just are thrilled to tell me something I don't know.
The name of the movie is The Last Boy Scout, and it starred Bruce Willis and uh Brian, you've seen it.
Last Boy Scout starring Bruce Willis and uh Damon Wayans.
So, you know, I'm I'm always looking for new football strategies.
I'm gonna go buy this movie.
I'm gonna watch this movie.
I'm gonna check this out.
Uh because I've I've I don't even think I've heard of it.
Now there was a period of time in my life where movies were low rent uh items on the interest totem poll, so I that may have be maybe why I um I missed it.
But I appreciate everybody who uh who relished the opportunity to tell me something I didn't know, because it's not often that can happen.
And uh I love throwing these bones to people.
It makes them so happy to be able to tell me something I don't know.
Another email, greetings, Maha Rushi.
I just received a phone call recruiting me to join the Medicare Part D prescription drug plan.
They'll provide lunch for us and answer all of our questions.
It's interesting seeing as how I'm only 46 and there's no one in my house who is a Medicare recipient.
I have a companion story to this, actually, two companion stories.
This from the what is this from?
The Quad City Times.
Our show prep knows no bounds, ladies and gentlemen.
We go anywhere there is for news that you will never hear about.
Quad City, well, it's it's it's uh uh quite it's it's on the uh it's on the eastern side of the state, borders uh Illinois, and it's uh Oh uh you would have had to ask me this.
Now, I gotta admit, I it's not that I don't know this, I can't think it.
So I'm gonna get over the 300 emails from people telling me what the four cities.
No, it's not Moline, Illinois.
This is well, one of them might be in the Quad Cities area.
I can't, it's there, there's they play a golf tournament.
They have the quad cities open every year in one of these places.
I just can't remember the four.
I want to say Davenport's one of them, but I can't, I'm not, I'm not gonna go on a limb.
I'll I'll just consider this another opportunity to tell me something I don't know.
And we'll get the answer.
Anyway, the story is in the Quad City Times, it's uh date loin dateline Des Moines.
A record number of Iowans are receiving help from the state's food assistance program, a result of state officials reaching out to families who need help with their grocery bills.
In February, the program formerly known as food stamps, helped 224,237 people eclipsing a record set in March of 1984 during the depths of the farm crisis.
This time, however, the enrollment spikes aren't because of tough economic times.
Instead, more people are getting help because of intensive efforts by the Iowa Department of Human Services to enroll more of the needy.
State officials have boosted food assistance program enrollment by forty-two percent since 2003 when the outreach program began.
There, it's exactly right.
You heard it's an outreach program.
It's not because of economic hard times.
It's just the state government trying to make as many people dependent.
People, you know, there's some people here this.
Wow, what great news.
Why the state of Iowa's reaching out to families who need help with their grocery.
That's not what they're doing.
This is, you know how you define good news.
If this if this story tabulated a number of people who no longer needed the assistance, that would be the good news.
We just we have a bunch of people who cannot stand for there to be good economic news.
And so in the midst of good economic times with no economic crisis, we have to expand the food stamp rolls in order to be able to present the news that things are bad out there.
Yeah, the economy may be doing well for some people, but don't be fooled.
There's plenty of starving going on out there.
And there's plenty of thirstiness going on out there.
Yeah, Davenport.
I knew Davenport.
Betendorf, Iowa is the is the other one.
Moline and Rock Island.
Thank you.
Those are the four cities that make up the quad city.
Yeah, you were right on Moline.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, I'll give you that one.
You're right on Molina.
Uh no, no, no.
Uh it's too late.
Stop the emails.
Let me I'm not going to check now, but okay, fine.
The number I remembered last time.
I've had 200 emails just since I asked this question.
What are the quad cities?
So there you go.
Bettendorf, Davenport, Moline, and Rock Island.
Honestly, folks, this is a scheme to continue to portray bad times in great economic times.
Then I'm reading the guys over to Power Line blog.
And, you know, I printed this out.
I was waiting for it to fit in.
It fits in right here.
No time to comment.
John Hindricker posted this, no time to comment at Link, but I saw this USA Today headline on an airplane this morning.
Quote federal aid programs expand at record rate.
A sweeping expansion of social programs since 2000, and don't we conservatives know it has sparked a record increase in the number of Americans receiving federal government benefits, such as college aid, food stamps, and health care.
A USA-to-day analysis of 25 major government programs found that enrollment increased an average of 17% in the programs from 2000 to 2005.
The nation's population grew 5% during that time.
And you can't tell me that that many more people ended up in poverty or in dire circumstances and need this.
But hellsbells, this is nothing compared to the 42% increase in food stamp enrollment in Iowa just since 2003.
This expansion, this 17% expansion in uh enrollment in programs from 2000, 2005, the largest five, get this, folks.
The largest five-year expansion of the federal safety net since the Great Society created these programs in the 1960s.
since 2000.
2000 is Bill Clinton, and 2001 and after is George W. Bush.
And And if you think, if you think I I'll tell you, there's there's well, I've said this countless times.
There is real anger in the conservative population of this country over all this.
This is not what we stand for.
This is not what we elected.
But the Democrats' position against Bush on the war on terror and the war in Iraq has required support.
You know, this is this is this is outrageous.
These two stories together.
Well, these three.
Now this guy's 46 years old and the government's reaching out for Medicare Part D, and nobody in his house that's anywhere near qualifying for the program yet.
It's the prescription drug bill.
And we've had these horror stories over the years in LA and other states, California and other states, where they're advertising food stamp availability.
Advertising for people to come in and enroll in the food stamp program.
And one of the many reasons for this is that these agencies don't want to get their budgets slashed in the next year, so they have to spend what they got in the current year to make it look like there's an ongoing need.
Then you throw in baseline Budgeting with automatic 10 to 12% increase or whatever it is, and these programs are just going out of sight, they're out of control, and uh there's a small group of Republicans in the House that's that's fighting the leadership, and they're trying to get some cutbacks in these programs here to pay for Katrina and the war in Iraq.
And the president said, I need some more money for Katrina relief, and I need some more money for a war in Iraq.
And there's there's Mike Pence and the boys, and they're and they're continually bucking the odds and leading the leading the charge and trying to, okay, we're gonna find some places to cut, and don't tell me that there are no places to cut.
This is just as it as I say it's maddening because a budget comes out of 2.13 trillion.
It's an increase over last year.
The budget always goes up.
I've never seen a budget one year less than the year previous, and yet we get the same chorus of opposition to Democrats.
These are draconian cuts.
These are things that will destroy people's lives.
We have commitments to the American people, blah, blah, blah, blah.
We spend in so much money on things.
We've got redundancy in all these social programs.
It's outrageous.
It's simply outrageous.
Yeah, you couple that with the immigration issue, and uh Republicans have their own problems out there when it when it comes to um getting elected.
Now, here's here's an update from today's Evans Novak political report.
The serious efforts to cut spending proposed by Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, represent only a minority Republican view.
The Republican consensus is still committed to bringing home the bacon for constituents, as are most elected officials.
Particularly in an election year.
Be back right after this.
All right, just checked the email here in the break, and I'm getting uh a couple people say, Rush, you know, there's uh this this uh spending that Bush has engaged in the last five years.
Well, it's actually very good.
Because he's taken a Democrat's main weapon away from them.
Yes, I've heard this before, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh but you know what?
It's there was one time I thought they may have some validity to this, but the one thing we've learned is that I don't care who they are, they'll spend regardless.
They'll raise taxes, they'll borrow, they'll do whatever they think they have to do to generate more money, other than cut taxes, which is what actually does it.
But it's it's you know, you're not taking any ammo away from the Democrats.
Is they getting the they'll do they'll spend just as much for the same reasons Republicans have done it, regardless.
This uh there's been a habit that uh elected officials have had practically for as long as we've been a country.
Here's Dennis in Ocala, Florida.
Nennis, you're next.
Hi.
Hey, Josh, how are you doing?
Good, thank you.
Your last comment, or just before the break about the 70% increase.
Uh, given that we've grown five percent, that makes it maybe twelve, an actual increase.
How many of that is excuse me, is illegal aliens and uh uh just mismanagement on their part as far as the.
Oh, hell, you'd have to assume a lot of it is.
And it's not don't hey, wait, it's not just them.
We have our own entitlement class that we have created in this country that think being an American means they're owed things when they see somebody that has a dollar more than they do or a nicer car than they do.
They think the way to equalize is for government to do it, and they've been grown up that way, they've been raised that way, they've been pandered to that way by liberals for their whole lives, and they have they actually believe that there is an entitlement.
They have this mentality being Americans.
They all make themselves victims, or they they uh they're told they're victims, and they believe it one way, uh one way or the other.
And so it's not just illegal immigrants that are.
No, but that's that's gotta be a good portion of what's going on.
Uh well, I'm not I totally agree, but that these are two separate problems.
The the the the you I understand what everybody thinks about illegal immigration.
I'm with you on it.
Uh in fact, I think to a certain extent, this is one of the reasons some of them are attracted here the safety net, the entitlement mentality.
Others do come here trying to actually make a life for themselves and work and so forth.
But but the the illegal immigration problem is a subset of the whole problem of the entitlement mentality is a problem that exists in Washington because those are the people who have expanded the programs, created them for the express purpose of making people dependent so as to enrich themselves with power by continuing these people in lives where they're uncapable, incapable of providing for themselves, and they have to keep voting for the people who are responsible for their being able to get their food stamps or what have you.
Now it's branched out to the point, as in Iowa that people don't even need them, are being recruited.
And there's a political reason for that.
That is so we can paint a picture of dire economic circumstances always, even in great economic times.
Folks, you people, you have to understand, we are in a war in this country, and we are in a war with liberalism, and these people, they're defeat, they're not going to go.
They're languishing around making fools of themselves right now, but they're still there.
And uh and and they're still acting on it.
It's bad enough that that they exist.
Now I have these Republicans are trying to get in on the action when they finally uh get their chance to run the Congress.
It's it's just maddening and it's frustrating.
Mike in Atlanta, hello, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Rush, uh, Chris from Omaha seems real concerned about uh what Tokyo Rose, the new liberal media, has to say about conservatives.
Uh he needs to heed your advice and to simply cease listening to them.
Um previously on one of your golf vacations.
Um I thought to myself, now you've told us before to just don't listen to these shows, don't watch it.
Uh you take off a week.
I thought I'd take off a week, and that's turned into several months now.
And how are you feeling?
Uh it's just great.
Uh, I don't even listen to uh to Fox News during the dinner hour anymore.
I spend time with the wife.
Uh my news source is uh the Wall Street Journal and your program.
Well, I appreciate it.
The best thing you said, though, is you spend time with your wife, because I'll tell you there's no greater institution than marriage when it works, and for you and your wife to get to know yours uh each other like this as opposed to split that's great.
That's fabulous.
I'm happy to hear that.
I wish more people would follow your.
I'm just trying to make up.
For all the wife jokes I've been making.
No, he's uh folks, you you ought to try this.
You really ought to try it.
Just don't watch any television news for a week.
Listen to this program.
I wouldn't even mess with the newspaper.
What okay, watch watch watch something where you know you're going to get updated on facts of it, but don't watch I guarantee you your outlook on your future, your life, and your country will improve exponentially every day.
Try it, try it as a spearmint.
Uh Curtis in uh Milan, Michigan, welcome to the program.
Hello, Rush.
Well, it's great to have you on the program, sir.
But I said spearmint uh for the people in Rio Linda.
I should have specified that.
Yes, Curtis.
Rosh, I want to talk to you about Ferndale, Michigan.
It's uh kind of an upscale uh uh pet preppy young, what uh the governor here in the Michigan would call a cool city, a suburb of Detroit.
Last week in the paper, they uh had a proposal to eliminate all municipal parking fees for people who drove hybrids and other alternative fuel cars.
And how did the how did the uh how'd the population react to this this uh this gracious uh new regulation?
Well, in the paper yesterday, there are several groups now who are opposed to it because it's an unfair benefit to rich people.
Because only rich liberals can uh afford to drive hybrids, and that's unfair to the poor liberals who can't afford to drive hybrids and who still have to pay the to parking.
That's right.
Yeah, that's uh you know, I understand.
I think that that's probably true.
People are people are trying to uh uh force people to buy these hybrids and and so forth, and so offer free parking and so forth that doesn't help people who can't afford a hybrid no matter what.
And so the I can understand the resentment.
Uh it's just it's just uh it doesn't surprise what a typically short-sighted, stupid move designed to make them look like they're on the cutting edge.
They're advanced beyond the rest of us, trying to get everybody into hybrids, and if you do that, we'll we'll we'll not charge you any parking at preferred spots around town.
It's just it's a typical thinking that doesn't accomplish anything, but all it does is make the people who think they came up with it think that they're really nice and good people and concerned about pollution and saving our planet.
And who cares if the idea doesn't work?
Examine our intentions and notice that we have good hearts.
Bunch of dolts.
Well, that's it, folks.
Another thrilling excursion into broadcast excellence is FINE.
But remember, the program never really ends.
We just take a 21 hour break and uh we'll be back.
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