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Jan. 4, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 4, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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That is one of the strangest things I have heard anybody say.
I would just listen to John Boehner as he's getting ready to pass the gavel to uh Nancy Pelosi, the Queen Bee of Washington, D.C. World.
And he said the purpose of a congressional majority is not to wield great power.
It is to use limited power to gain whatever end you want.
John, come on.
We all know what the Democrat the Democrats is the difference.
I don't know whether he even meant it.
I don't know whether he's sending a message to Pelosi or not.
But I will tell you this.
In her mind and in her heart, and in every Democrat in the House's mind and heart, total limitless power is exactly what they think they have, and they're going to exercise it.
And that's that's the reality of it.
The purpose of winning a majority is to wield great power in service to your ideas, which is one of the problems that the Republicans always seem to have is that they they somehow lack the fortitude and the courage to go ahead and actually try to wield great power, uh wanting to score points by sharing it or uh appearing to be bipartisan now and then or so forth and so on.
Greetings, folks, welcome back.
By the way, Rush Limbaugh here and the EIB network.
800-282-2882, if you want to be in the program, which takes me actually what Boehner said is a is a is a good transition here.
Uh we had a couple calls earlier today, and one of them was serious, the other one sort of tried to be funny.
But the and and uh their point was this.
Rush, we got Democrats being sworn in in power in the House of the Senate today, and it's partly your fault because you spent so much time bashing them.
And all you and what that comment meant was when you be guys his line was you bashed them to power, meaning I I bashed them so hard and so bad that I created sympathy for them, and people voted for Democrats just to spite me.
That's what he thinks.
And I haven't heard too much of that.
I mean sporadic emails from people who who have that theory.
And if if you are one who thinks that, I must caution you to rein it in, because you're falling prey to this whole notion that confrontation is mean and and that genuine criticism is mean, and that we've all just got to get along.
Let me let me tell you what I think.
If anything, if I am a factor in the Republican defeat, and for me to even admit this would be to admit that I have an ego out of control.
Uh and everybody who knows me personally knows I don't have an ego, period.
In fact, they wish I had some.
One.
But but the public image of me is the opposite.
But if I did anything, if I am responsible in any way for the Democrats being in power, let me tell you what it is.
It was not Democrats that elected the majority.
It was moderates and conservatives in the South that made the Democrats win this majority.
If the Democrats haven't hadn't run those 11 or 12 conservatives in the South on phony baloney conservative issues, the outcome would have been entirely different.
What does that mean?
It means that over the course of this program, uh, and look at what's happened on the during the course of this program, uh I started out, and then other talk shows sprung up, and then Fox News and the blogosphere, the conservative blogosphere, and so forth, there's a whole conservative new media out there, and we have established great high standards for conservatives.
And we have uh the that we have validated in the hearts and minds of a bunch of Americans who were conservative but never heard their views expressed nationally in media.
They've been invigorated and they have high standards too.
And if a Republican campaigns is a conservative and then doesn't govern that way, that person's gonna be thrown out by conservatives, not defeated by Democrats, but thrown out by conservatives.
So if if if those of us in media on the right, in your opinion, are Responsible for the Democrats being in power.
It is because there has been so much education about conservatism and what it stands for and what it means and the great potential it offers for the country that people who run as conservatives and fail to govern are going to get thrown out.
Conservatives are not going to vote for pretenders.
They're not going to vote for Republicans if they're not conservative.
Democrats are those, they'll vote for Democrat regardless.
Except Southern Democrats, the little the old uh the uh Reagan Democrats, uh, they will vote their ideology.
And they did this election, and they didn't care what party.
Uh but I mean Chuck Hagel is a great example of this, folks.
Chuck Hagel, was they on C SPAN today or something?
Chuck Hagel was on C-SPAN, and he was asked, why is so many Republicans not like you?
And of course, well, you know, I'm my own man.
I uh I don't follow uh drummer of my own is all I follow.
And then he said, You ought to see my email.
Meaning, you ought to see how much angry mail I'm getting from Republicans.
Well, of course.
Because in many instances, he doesn't seem like he's a Republican.
Now he's got six years between his elections, and so plenty of time for him to make changes running up to his election two years out that can affect incomes, uh outcomes in his races, but house elections are every two years, there's not a lot of time for people to forget the failings of their individual congressmen or so forth.
But, you know, there's there's uh I if if if if any factor at all ensues, any power factor ensues, uh I'll I'll guarantee you it is the fact that conservatives were dissatisfied with their own officials, their own elected officials in many cases, threw them out.
Be it corruption, uh be it uh Mike DeWine's a great example, go join a gang of fourteen, joining McCain and so forth, uh any number of examples I can give you, and these people lose, not because people are voting for their opponents because they're just sympathetic to all the bashing they're getting, because the bashing that happens here, I don't even consider it bashing.
I get up every day and I don't look people to bash.
I get up, I go through the uh the news, the show prep that I do, and if I see the things that I believe in, the institutions I believe in, the people I believe in being attacked, I'm going to respond and defend.
And I'm going to point out the truth about the people doing the attacking.
And of course, since liberals have always considered themselves immune from such attacks, why this is vicious.
This is vicious.
This is this is mean-spirited, extruded.
This has never happened before.
And they and they do everything they can to shut it down because it's something they don't want to have to deal with.
Yet they're the ones that don't debate issues.
They are the ones who attack the character and the reputations and credibility of their opponents and try to destroy those things because they can't beat us in the arena of ideas.
Now, Snerdley reminded me a moment ago, his screening calls today, he said, you know, back when Clinton won in 96.
I could not get away from all these Democrats calling to gloat about how Clinton won and wanting to do the nyan nyan-nunya and so forth.
He's he can't find these Democrats.
We haven't had well, one guy maybe gloat.
One guy, and he was not even really a Democrat.
He was gloating.
This is the guy who thought that I was responsible for the Pelosi swearing-in ceremony, which just took place.
Uh they're not there today.
There are no Democrats calling here to gloat.
There probably will be now since we say it's not, but there have.
Uh, well, no, they're I don't think it's they're so excited about the first hundred hours that they don't have time to call here.
My theory is that there aren't that many Democrats that are really thrilled beans about this.
Most Democrats are the most mainstream Democrats today are fed up.
Read the letters to the editor in your paper, folks.
Most Democrats are fed up that Bush isn't going to be impeached.
They're fed up that the Democrats don't have the guts to pull funding from the war, and that's what they think is responsible for Democrats winning.
They think they elect Cindy Sheehan thinks that she's the one and her little band of uh wackos is why the Democrats won.
It's not.
And so they're too busy being angry.
They already think their party is selling them out on a rock and impeachment and getting rid of Bush and all this sort of stuff.
There's not a whole lot of Democrats.
My my point in all of This is.
You can sit out there, you can be upset that Pelosi's the speaker and that uh Dingy Harry is running the Senate, and you can be upset that they won and all that.
They didn't win anything.
They have the power, and I can't not deny the reality.
Uh, but their victory here is not the result of an affirmation.
It is just the opposite.
Their victory is the result of uh people being thrown out, being thrown out by disgusted voters who are simply not going to vote for people that they didn't believe uh were going to represent their interests.
Uh and that's as simple as I can make it.
One other point.
The Snerdley told me that uh some woman called, a caller called earlier, and I didn't really have a chance because of time constraints to answer him with due respect.
But his point was, you know, you've got too many great shows in your archive.
Uh when you go on vacations, we would all love to hear, because you have been so brilliant about things, and you've been so impressed.
It'd be great to hear some shows of yours from 93, 95, 96, instead of these guest hosts.
That prompted a woman, uh, snurdly said.
Oh, oh, you got her back.
Oh, I thought you told me she didn't want to go on the air.
She wants to go.
Oh, well, we'll talk to her next, because she's got a different theory about this.
In the meantime, a brief timeout, El Rush Ball and the EIB network back after this.
That's I just had a chance to listen to a little bit of Nancy Pelosi.
And she's now gotten into the whole Iraq business, and it it these these people are just going nuts, and the Democrats are going nuts in the House of Representatives.
Pretty maddening and uh and frustrating to listen to it like it's it's their responsibility now to build a military that faces genuine national security challenges in the 21st century.
Uh we'll have excerpts and sound bites of all this tomorrow after she finishes the uh the entire speech.
Did you hear about John Edwards, the the Breck girl?
Uh he has resigned as director of the Poverty Center that he founded at uh University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Uh, he did this so that he can focus on his second run for president.
Edwards was the first director of the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, founded in February of 2005.
It studies ideas for moving more Americans out of poverty and into the middle class.
Now get this.
In his resignation letter to the law school dean, the Brett Girl said that the center in two years had already had some success by holding conferences and panel discussions.
In April, the center is expected to publish a book of scholarly essays called Ending Poverty in America, and the center's work will continue without him.
Well, folks, this is groundbreaking stuff.
Two years, and they've already had some success by holding conferences and panel discussions on poverty.
Do you know that's never been done?
Do you know never in this country's history has there been a panel discussion or a single conference where the participants discussed poverty?
This is groundbreaking.
And in two years they got this done.
You know, I've uh this this this the what I always thought the fastest way out of poverty was work.
I mean, that's generally about that's just I've you learn things every day, and you have to be open to new ideas.
You can't be closed-minded about these things.
But I apparently, ladies and gentlemen, have been wrong.
Panel discussions and and conferences why profound.
It's so simple.
How did I how did it escape me?
And they've had so much success, the Breck girl can quit his own poverty center and run for president because he's fixed it.
And they're gonna, by the way, publish scholarly essays in April.
Wow.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a man who cares and gets things done.
A man of action.
The Breck girl, John Edwards.
We owe him a debt of gratitude.
Because there have been so many misconceptions about poverty all of these years.
And here in two short years, we have been shown the light.
We have been given countenance.
Brilliance has been visited upon us.
The solution panel discussions and holding conferences and scholarly publications of whatever happened at those rare meetings.
You realize how infrequent this kind of thing happens when we're talking about poverty.
All right, here's Eric in Logan, Utah.
Eric, welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you for waiting.
Hi.
Hi.
Um, I was listening to that guy who said you should just get rid of the guest hosts and replay past shows.
Yes.
I had a terrible freshman roommate in college who loved you, and therefore I thought you were terrible.
Wait, wait, wait.
I'm having trouble hearing you.
You had a terrible freshman roommate in college who loved me.
Exactly.
Well, why did you think I was terrible?
Because she was awful.
Because she was awful.
Since she was awful, she liked me, so I had to be awful.
Exactly.
Oh, yeah, that makes sense to me.
You know, and uh you are on right before another show that I list like to listen to.
And so I'd listen to Dr. Laura in the afternoons and I have it on my car.
And in the morning I'd get in, and you'd be on and I'd get really upset and I'd turn you off.
You didn't even give me a chance.
You turned me off the minute because you're roommate.
Uh-huh, basically.
Yeah.
But then you have your guest hosts on.
And they made sense to me.
And I started listening to them.
And after a while I thought, you.
I I I I I have to make sure I understand.
You would listen to the program when I wasn't here.
You would listen to it when the guest hosts were on, so you think I should keep having the guest hosts, obviously.
Oh, absolutely.
Well, uh And now I like you.
I've been listening to you pretty much steadily every day for the last two or three years.
Well this makes me think we should put the guest hosts on three or four days a week.
And really build the audience, and I can go play golf.
No, no, no.
See, because now I don't listen to your guest hosts.
You're not there, and I turn off the radio.
Now I'm confused.
I wasn't before, now I am.
Because I don't understand the bridge.
How did listening to the guest hosts change your attitude about me?
How did it guest hosts because they don't spend that much time talking about me other than what I demand that they say.
Just kidding.
Uh what did what what happened to make you finally listen to me once the guest hosts were not there?
I don't know where the transition came.
But one day I turned it on expecting to listen to um Roger or Dr. Williams, and you were there, and whatever you were saying that day, I don't even remember.
But uh it it must have been and now I I love listening to you.
If I don't get my brush fix, I'm I don't know what's gonna happen in the world.
What do you have what what's your opinion of your roommate?
I still think she was awful.
I have no idea what she's doing now, and too much.
Great.
Well, uh, Eric, this is this is uh uh.
I am I I never cease to be amazed at that what I'm gonna hear from you when they tell me how they found this show.
I I thought you've hit me with the f I've never heard this.
That I have been discovered via my guest hosts.
Well, hey, whatever works, right?
Exactly.
Uh precisely.
Uh and I look at I'm I'm glad you called.
I appreciate your sharing this.
How old are you?
You're how long have you been out of college?
Uh I graduated in ninety-nine.
Ninety-nine.
All right.
And did you go to school in Utah?
No, I went to school in upstate New York.
The school in upstate.
Well, that might be partial.
But have you always have you always been a conservative?
Well, when I was grew up, I was more on the liberal side.
I mean, Utah's very conservative, so I wasn't extremely liberal, but I was liberal for here.
And then I got to New York and I was extremely conservative for there.
Does that make sense?
Even though I hadn't changed Well, as much as anything else in this call has made sense, yes.
And then uh and now I've just become more and more conservative as I've started having children, and my husband's starting his own business next month.
That will do it.
Those two things will do it.
Yeah.
Well, and the things you said make sense.
And my dad won't he gets mad when I quote you.
I don't tell him I'm quoting you, but but the thing is is you can back up with facts.
Now it's your dad who thinks I'm awful.
We're working on him.
We're working on him.
Hey, I've got a I know it's not open lane Friday, but you talk about how you bring the prices down of you know fun, expensive things so other people can afford them.
Yes.
Would you also be a space tourist so eventually I can afford to go up in space?
Space tourists.
You know, my service to humanity knows no bounds.
Um and if if that's something you would like to do, and you're young enough, uh, the opportunity affordable may present itself to you because Nancy Pelosi's the speaker, and you have kids, and everything being done in Washington these days will be for your kids.
And that includes bringing prices down on a number of things on space travel for your kids.
Hang in there, P Tough.
Broadcast Excellence.
And another excursion into SAM.
Performed by me, L. Rushbow at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Here's a story from the UK telegraph.
Scientists warn about celebrity mumbo jumbo.
Musicians, actors, and models should check their facts before using their status to promote alternative health theories and fad diets, scientists say.
As opposed to everything else that celebrities are authorities on, like LR, global warming, Ted Danson in 1988 saying we had 10 years to clean up the oceans and we're all dead.
Many people start the new year with good intentions of exercise and healthy eating, sometimes based on endorsements from public figures with poor understanding of the science behind their recommendations.
The charity sense about science warns celebrities in a leaflet that they have a responsibility to make sure that they are not doing more harm than good by promoting quackery and mumbo jumbo.
It names and shames people, including L. McPherson, Jamie Oliver, Christa Berg, Heather Mills McCartney, Madonna, and Melinda Messney, these are British celebrities, as having made misleading declarations.
Three years ago, the actress Juliette Stevenson told of her fears that the measles mumps and rubella uh triple vaccine could trigger autism based on a 1998 study of twelve kids that is now widely discredited.
Immunization rates crashed after the controversy and cases of measles, mumps, and rubella rose.
The Sense About Science leaflet says if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Well, this will fall on deaf ears, but at least somebody's speaking up about this from the scientific community.
Intriguing headline here.
Many U.S. cities have had murder rates higher than Iraq's 2006 violent death rate.
Now we did this story way back during the campaign.
Nobody cared.
Government officials on Monday reported that 16,273 Iraqi civilian soldiers and police died violent deaths in 2006, a figure larger than an independent associated press count uh for the year by more than twenty five hundred.
Um but we have ten listings for U.S. cities and years.
Uh and go through the well, it's too many numbers here to go through.
Uh but the the bottom line is that uh many United States cities have had murder rates higher than Iraq's violent death rate of 2006.
And of course, in Iraq it means it's a quagmire.
It's hopeless, it's gone.
We can't do anything about it.
In the United States, such interpretations are never made.
We're not losing New York.
We're not losing New Orleans.
Well, we might be losing New Orleans, but for another reason.
Other scientists, and I saw this story over the break, have said, you know what?
It's senseless.
Well, they didn't say this.
This was my conclusion.
They said that New Orleans and Southern Louisiana are slipping, not sinking, slipping into the Gulf of Mexico.
Because of all sediment that is deposited in the Delta by the uh Mississippi River, that the city and certain parts of uh of of Southern Louisiana are just breaking away, if you will, from the mainland, slipping away, and at some point will uh sink.
And it was I I don't have it in front of me, and I can't give you the exact terminology, but I do remember they made that point.
So not thinking now, it's slipping.
To the to the tune of two credit cards, if you put them side by side that much a year, which in terms of geological movement, that is significant.
Most uh, you know, tectonic plates, mountains of this fractions of inches they move a year, other than when an earthquake happens.
Uh movement of uh length of two credit cards, what, four or five inches or six?
That's significant.
That's that's a lot of movement.
Uh because it's not too many years you're talking about feet.
And then uh and then yards.
Anyway, back to the phones.
Matt, Redlands, California, you're next.
Appreciate your patience, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Yes.
You know the far left of the Democrat Party must be in an absolute rage today because you know the two main issues that drive their bitter lives, you know, impeaching Bush and cutting the funding for our troops in Iraq.
Those have been taken off the table by their their own party.
And and I think that it's just great that the so-called peace movement has now directed all of their hatred against Bush towards Rahm Emmanuel and the Democrat Party itself.
What do you think about that, right?
Well, we played the audio sound bite of this uh that where they shut down Roms uh press conference yesterday.
And Mike, that's audio sound bite number one, right?
If grab that thing, let's let's uh let's listen to that again.
Thanks for the call out there, Matt.
We'll have some comment of what you said here, but I want to play the bite.
This is Rahm Emanuel trying to announce their lobbying reform agenda uh yesterday, and Cindy Sheehan and this bunch of you know fringe kooks showed up uh to express their dissatisfaction with the exact uh average.
We escalate, investigate Truths come now We escalate, investigate Truths come now We escalate We're gonna keep going here.
We're gonna have a investigation.
Thank you.
We're gonna come back right after our uh meeting, okay?
All right.
Now the interesting thing is, have they really turned their anger away from Bush?
Um I don't think that will ever happen, but they are sharing their anger with uh with Democrats.
Um it's pretty energetic.
These people have a lot of energy, and they are fit to be tied.
I this is why I said earlier in the program, we're not getting any calls here like we got in 1996 when Clinton won his second term, and the Democrats were calling here just gloating.
I mean, they were they just they wanted us eating sawdust.
They just were having the best time.
Uh of course 93, too, but I mean but in 96 uh when when uh well, 92, but but uh when Clinton won then, but 96, uh they were just all over the place.
And they're not calling here today.
Even after I've mentioned this, they're not calling.
They're uh because I I don't think they are happy.
I I don't I don't think that there is a a burgeoning, blossoming, blissful Democrat Party out there because most people don't understand.
They think the the the these fringe kooks are fringe, and one thing I understand, they are becoming a larger and larger part of the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
That's why this election still stuns me.
Um I mean the results still do they there's not one thing that Democrats did to give people reason to vote for them, and the people that did vote for them are now being screwed.
Because the people who voted for them did so on the basis they're gonna get us out of a rock and go to a peach bush.
They did get affirmative votes from that bunch of people, it's a pretty large bunch of people, but folks test this.
I don't care where you live.
Pick up your local paper and read the letters to the editor.
And every letter writer that is a Democrat slash liberal is a kook.
It is uncanny.
I don't care if it's in the Midwest.
I don't care if it's here in South Florida, I don't care if it's in Seattle, New York, they are kooks.
They the moderate so-called mainstream Democrat uh has been marginalized.
Uh And it's it's stunning to me because these these the views that these people have are just off the charts.
They are irrational and make no sense.
And they're all of these people that hold these views propelled every movement needs propulsion, except Superman.
And their propulsion is hatred.
Enraged hatred.
And I don't care where you go in the country.
Just read the letters to the editor.
It's no different than reading one of their wacko coop blogs.
I gotta run.
Quick timeout.
Over now.
Be right back.
The cutting edge of societal evolution, El Rushbo, and the EIB network.
Well, we've uh we've learned some interesting things about immigration today.
First off, uh, as reported earlier, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose that all California children, the children, uh, including those in the state illegally, uh, be guaranteed medical insurance as part of the health care overhaul he intends to unveil next week, according to officials familiar with plan.
Uh all sectors of the health care industry, including hospitals, insurers, doctors, patients, businesses, and government would pay some of the costs under Schwarzenegger's plan.
Uh people familiar with the proposal say that it includes new requirements for businesses to cover employees, though the details were unclear.
The uh more costs shouldered by employers and workers, the less the state would have to spend.
Oh, oh, oh, that's who's gonna really pay for it.
Then all this about uh uh hospitals and insurers and doctors and patients and business and government that's who the plan says are gonna pay for it.
When you read this, the more costs shouldered by employers and workers, the less the state will have is there any question then who's gonna be paying for health care insurance for every child in California, including those here illegally.
It's you who live in California.
And we had the story about how all of a sudden people have just learned, even though we talked about this in October last year, September, October, that uh Mexican illegal illegal Hispanic immigrants in this country, illegal immigrants working and paying Social Security will have their social security benefits sent back home to Mexico.
Uh hasn't been signed yet, secret deal done in 2004.
Bush is waiting to sign it.
Well, come on, Rush.
I mean, they pay their social security thing.
They're they're illegal.
They don't have social security numbers of their own.
They have stolen them or created them or whatever.
Uh, folks.
Real.
But they're death trying to improve themselves right and and and if they earn the money, if they're right.
Uh Anfro Phoenix, undocumented immigrants attending Arizona's public colleges and universities are scrambling to find scholarships that don't require social security numbers or proof of citizenship.
A new voter law mandates that they pay out-of-state tuition rates, which are about triple in-state rates.
Immigrant advocates estimate at least 1,000 students are affected.
Who knows and Duke University says that uh two of the accused athletes can return since the rape charges have been dropped.
What would you do if you were these two students and Duke University said, you know what?
We are going to invite you back.
And we want you back on our campus, and we want you back on our lacrosse team.
I don't know what I would do.
No thanks.
Uh you threw us under the bus because of a bunch of social liberal preconceptions you have about us.
You threw us, your students, your customers, overboard, and you believed a lying accuser and fell for the trap that law enforcement never ever does anything wrong.
Back to the phones, Robert, Santa Rosa, California.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hey, Megaditto's uh rush from the liberal armpit in Northern California.
Uh, it's not quite that bad.
I mean, you could you don't you're forgetting Uba City.
Uh well, well, by liberal armpit, I'm referring to the uh San Francisco Bay Area.
Of which I am.
I didn't I didn't hear liberal.
Oh, oh yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah sorry.
Listen, uh calling to weigh in on this um minimum wage increase.
Earlier in the program, you mentioned uh how many uh wage earners uh actually drew that salary.
Uh you said a lot of them uh uh attribute a lot of them to college kids, high school kids.
And they're and people under 25, and they're living in households uh that they have total income way above the poverty line.
Yeah, Russ, but uh a lot of them are living in castles, and I'll tell you why, because a lot of people drawing minimum wage are bartenders, cocktail waitresses, you know, waiters, uh haircuts.
Pardon me?
Strippers.
Well, yes, strippers too.
I forgot about those.
But uh people all people that are make, you know, three, four, five, ten times more per hour in tips than they do in that salary.
And the only reason they're drawing a salary is because a restaurant can't hire somebody just for tips.
Right.
Yeah, you know, that's that is another factor.
And we mentioned this, the large there's a there's a uh I I mean I remember the almost exactly the figures.
There's a uh the a story going around that uh uh or a figure that that goes around that uh one percent sixteen percent of the American population.
No, one percent control sixteen percent of all income.
Uh-huh.
And of course, what's left out of that is the income that you can't tabulate, which is the cash income, which is the you know the cash economy, the tips and so forth and so on.
That is estimated to be thirty-five to thirty-seven more billion dollars or uh in the whole pie, which really makes a number one percent of the population control ten percent of the income, which means that ninety-nine percent control ninety percent.
Uh-huh.
Which sounds a lot different than one percent controlling ten percent.
And so that you're right, because that the people that that that changed that one to sixteen to one to ten uh are in the cash economy, and of course, this is this look at that that's just another bit of evidence to show how the minimum wage is it's nothing but a political football.
And it's just it's frustrating to admit, but the argument's been lost, and we can sit here and make the argument and we might even succeed in now and finally persuading some people, but I doubt it because it's it's it's an emotional issue, and people think they're not paying it.
I mean, it's easy for Mr. and Miss Joe six-pack schlub out there, yeah, raise the minimum wage.
It's not right.
Those people deserve a living wage.
Not blaming it.
Everybody hates business.
Everybody thinks some small business owner is rich.
You know, there's so many stereotypes out there, and one of the stereotypes is that people who own their businesses very, very rich.
And they got piles of unused money, and they're hoarding it and they're greedy.
They want it for themselves.
Make them pay the minimum wage.
Absolutely right.
People don't have to pay it themselves.
Economic education is a woefully inept in this country.
People have no clue.
Simple supply and demand explains why it's a bad move to have a minimum wage, period.
But it has linkage to the new deal, ladies and gentlemen.
And because it has linkage to the new deal, it is part of the DNA of the Democrat Party.
And it's it's never gonna be otherwise.
Quick timeout.
We'll come back and close it out right after this.
Okay, a couple more items here before we go.
Not enough time, sadly to be fair with um another caller.
If I wanted to be unfair, there's plenty of time, but otherwise not.
Uh National Intelligence uh director, John Negroponte, who has been closely involved with U.S. policy in Iraq, will trade in his job as a top spy to become number two to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Now, this is the guy instrumental in forcing out Porter Goss, CIA.
Negroponte now, after becoming the nation's chief spy, flees to the State Department, must be taking cover as Democrats prepare their investigations.
I wouldn't be surprised.
And uh the Taliban chief, Mullah Omar has added to the mystery over Osama bin Laden.
Mullah Omar says he hasn't seen bin Laden since uh 2001 in Afghanistan.
In an email to Reuters, Reuters knows how to reach the guy.
In an email to Reuters, Mullah Omar says he hasn't seen bin Laden, praise for his health, has no clue where he is.
Emailing back and forth with Reuters.
Al Jazeera gonna be jealous.
Mobile Omar is saying he doesn't know where Osama is alike.
Colonel Sanders saying he's not seen the chickens.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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