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Jan. 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 8, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, let's just put this out there.
If they're going to shut down every shut down New York City every time something stinks, nobody's ever going to get any work done there.
Yeah, you go to Library of New Jersey and you don't get any relief there.
They allow the homeless to walk in, putrid and all.
Greetings.
My good friends and welcome.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program.
This, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
A thrill and a delight to have you with us today.
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And the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Mayor Bloomberg today, one of the great lines of all time.
They got this gas smell in New York.
Nobody knows the source.
Con Ed says it's not a leak.
Others say it's got to be.
And they don't know where it's coming from.
It's covering 100 blocks.
It's even noticeable in New Jersey.
And this is what Mayor Bloomberg had to say at a long-awaited press conference this morning about the gas smell.
Open the windows or turn on any fans until this gas passes.
The smell is there.
We don't know the source of it.
It does not appear to be dangerous.
That's all I know.
Which isn't much.
Wait until the gas passes.
This is one of the great executive leadership lines of all time.
Just open the doors, open the windows, and wait till the gas passes.
But they can't figure out what it even is or where it's coming from.
It smells like gas.
It's got to be scary.
It has to be, it has to be, if it's a genuine gas leak, it wouldn't take much to start a little combustion.
I had a great weekend, folks, but I'll tell you what.
I went out and did some television Saturday in Los Angeles.
There's a new show that probably will air soon.
I'm not sure when, but it's called a half-hour news hour.
That's the working title of it now.
I guess that subject changed.
But, well, actually, it's not, because if it changes, I got to go back out there.
But nevertheless, it's a parody newscast takeoff on liberal media newscasts.
And I play the President of the United States in the opening segments of this program.
Went out and shot three.
Ann Coulter is the vice president.
It's hilarious.
The whole thing is hilarious.
Went out there and shot three episodes.
Well, three opening segments.
These things run anywhere from a minute to 90 seconds.
It took eight hours to do these three segments on Saturday all day long.
Did it at Fox Studios, then had a big after-party at the Grand Havana Club.
What a bash we had.
I left about midnight to fly home, rolled into the driveway yesterday morning about 8.30.
I hate spending a whole day coming back from the left coast in an airplane because you lose three hours just because of the time zone differences.
I got home at 8.30, wanted to watch the football games in total from the comfort of my fashionable estate, which I did.
We were watching the Seattle-Dallas game on Saturday night at the Grand Havana Club.
There's one in New York atop the 666 building and one in Beverly Hills in Los Angeles.
They are owned and operated by Stan Schuster.
And they are outposts of civility now.
You can actually smoke cigars while having dinner.
And they've got televisions all over the place.
Yes, they're legal, Mr. Snerdley.
And we're watching the Dallas Seahag game and just could not believe the way that game ended.
You talk about the highs and low.
These people, these young kids, these athletes, everything they do is on the national stage.
It's public.
And the highs and lows they go through.
Tony Romo, the savior of the season earlier this year for the Cowboys.
Now the GOAT.
Somebody turned to me and said, Rush, what's the name of that Red Sox player that blew the ground ball through his legs in the World Series against the Mets?
I said, that was Bill Buckner.
So people were already starting to think that this was Bill Buckner, too, with Tony Romo.
These young will get over it, but wow, I mean, they have the game still had to kick the field goal, but it was less distance than an extra point.
The New York Times, what is this now?
Day seven.
It's either day six or seven, might be day eight.
I've lost track of the New York Times going on and on and on about the savagery of the Saddam Hussein execution.
It's just, it's as much as the Times is these days, so over the top.
Takes us to the audio soundbites, ladies and gentlemen.
Howard Kurtz cited me, America's anchorman, on his Reliable Sources show on CNN Sunday.
And he played some ditto cam footage of Nancy Pelosi commentary from me for a reporter at for the New Republic.
As long as we're criticizing Nancy Pelosi, I want to play for you, Michelle Cottle, some comments by Rush Lindbaugh about Nancy Pelosi and the media.
We've got one of these wacko wild-eyed feminists who is a product of all this.
And we got a soppy lapdog drive-by media here who's promoting and promulgating the myth that we're a better country today and that we've reached some sort of a milestone and we're all going to be better people.
And the end of all partisanship and confrontation is around the corner simply because a woman is running the show.
All right, now the reporter at was, let's see, Michelle Cottle, C-O-T-T-L-E of the New Republic.
Kurtz, after that bite, and by the way, what I was referring to there was Charlie Gibson's intro of the nightly news on ABC, in which he said, look at that.
Look at her.
There's Nancy Pelosi, the new speaker of the house.
She's got grandchildren on her knee or in her lap, whatever.
She can take care of children and take care of the country at the same time.
And he said it with a fawning admiration that was putridly sick or sickening.
I mean, it was just over the top.
We were laughing about it here.
So when the bite they played, we've got one of those wacko, wild-eyed feminists, the product of all this.
I'd mentioned Charlie Gibson, and I'd also talked about Kim Curtis, who is this nutso professor at Duke, who had flunked one of the hockey players simply because he was on the hockey, or the lacrosse players, because he was on the lacrosse team.
She bought everything the accuser said.
She's a genuine wild-eyed feminist nutcase, a product of modern feminism and theory, and she's now teaching.
And this is what Duke students, parents, are paying $40,000.
I was talking about some wild-eyed, wacko feminists who's saying, we've got somebody like that in the office now, and Nancy Pelosi.
Then you heard the rest of the bite.
And Kurtz said to Michelle Cottle of the New Republic, as a representative of the lapdog media, what's your response?
Rush is being his usual objective self.
I mean, this notion that the media is the lapdog of the Democrats is absurd.
And, you know, I've done pieces over the years about how, if anything, you actually wind up with the Democrats getting hit harder a lot of the time because the expectations are higher and also because Democrats tend to be chattier with the media.
And so you wind up with like leaks and backstories and a lot of meta-stories that do not serve them well.
What in the world is she talking about?
Can anybody help me?
Obviously, you cannot help me because this is delusional.
Especially since I was bouncing off Charlie Gibson in a pure lapdog manner when he talked about how Pelosi, if Cookie, go get that.
I know you got that.
It was just from last week.
Not in a hurry.
I don't need it immediately, but run it in there to Mike so I can remind people what I had been talking about specifically regarding lapdog media when it came to Pelosi and Charlie Gibson and his comment that she was able to, you know, take care of kids and the country at the same time as though this has never been done before.
And of course, the whole thing that was being discussed was she was talking about the children.
Everything is going to be done for the, as though that's unique.
Nobody before today or last week has ever cared about children.
You understand that, folks?
Do you realize how revolutionary the Democrat control of the House of Representatives is?
Finally, finally, somebody is going to care about the children because nobody, not you parents, not you grandparents, not you teachers, nobody, Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, nobody has ever cared about the children.
But now we have a woman.
And by the way, I thought modern feminist theory was that women are not supposed to be concerned with all of that.
I mean, if you look at what happened in the House floor last week with Pelosi and all the children, you'd have to say that if a feminist were being honest with herself, that was a setback.
I mean, what Pelosi should have been doing, spanking a bunch of guys and telling them how it's going to be in there rather than trying to present this image of mother, grandmother, aunt, stepmother, godmother, what have you, nanny.
Of course, we know why they did it.
They did it for the photo ops.
But this Michelle Cottle bite, Rush is being hit.
You got the Gibson.
Okay, here.
Here's the, let's get that out of the way.
That's fast action.
Way to go, Cookie.
Here is the Charlie Gibson bite from last week.
We don't have it.
I was told we had it, but we don't have it.
I was told one second.
One second.
Should be ready.
Let's try it again.
Good evening from Capitol Hill.
Well, it is a hallmark of this American democracy that power transfers peacefully.
For the first time in the 218-year history of the Congress, a woman was voted by her colleagues to be Speaker of the House.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from California, took the gavel.
But in a picture, perhaps even more symbolic, the new speaker was on the floor for a time her six-year-old grandson all the while giving directions on how events were to proceed.
It seemed the ultimate in multitasking, taking care of the children and the country.
Man, gag me.
So that's the, and I don't say Howard not playing that bite, but that's what preceded my comment about lapdog media.
So here's Michelle Cottle of the New Republic saying with a straight face, the media is tougher on Democrats because they expect more from them.
They expect less.
Democrats are not held any kind of standard or accountability.
Their best buddy.
This should just show you liberals do not consider themselves liberals.
They are just what is.
Liberals are the natural order of things.
Anything other than liberalism is a disease.
It's some kind of a problem.
And of course, the little snide comment, Rush's being his usual objective self.
Michelle, I'm not objective.
I make no pretense of objectivity in terms of the way you do.
I clearly announce what my concerns are, what my interests are.
I'm conservative, and so I make no bones about it.
But that doesn't mean I don't strive for the truth.
Anyway, a little long here, quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Andrea Koppel, also on Kurtz's show.
She weighs in next.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back.
I am America's Anchorman, America's real anchorman.
only that, America's truth detector, America's Doctor of Democracy.
Now look at this story.
Associated Press out of Ligadier, Pennsylvania, Vice President Dick Cheney scheduled to be in western Pennsylvania today for a hunting trip.
Cheney was to fly into Arnold Palmer Regional Airport after his morning briefing in Washington, his spokeswoman told the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.
And of course, the last line.
Last year, Cheney wounded attorney Harry Whittington with shotgun pellets during a quail hunting trip in Texas.
Whittington recovered.
Okay, so we got a story here.
Cheney's going hunting.
Hunters, beware.
Do we get these kinds of stories, Michelle Cottle?
May I ask you?
Every time Bill Clinton is going to be around young women, do we get warning stories from AP which say warning?
Bill Clinton today will be in a school with a lunch of high school and college women.
Bill Clinton had an illicit affair with a cigar in Monica Lewinsky while he was in.
Do we see this?
Of course we don't see this.
But of course they drive by media.
Why?
They're not lapdogs.
They're really hard-hitting.
They have such high expectations of the Democrats.
They hold them to a much higher standard.
That's absurd.
Here's Andrea Koppel.
By the way, nobody is commenting, at least in the bites we have, and I didn't see the show.
But nobody is commenting on my reaction to Nancy Pelosi and they're all reacting to my comment that there's a lapdog media.
That's what really bugs them.
It's like all liberals, you accuse them of what they are, charge them with being who they are.
You can't say that.
Don't you understand we're in the business of hiding who we are?
You're not going to let you get away with that, Limboy.
Here's Andrea Koppel.
Kurt says, look, the Democrats said they were going to give the Republicans more rights as a minority than they had been granted when the Republicans ruled the House.
Then they completely flip-flopped and they said, well, we're not going to apply that for the first 100 hours.
We're just going to roll over and do whatever we want.
Why isn't the press hammering them for the hypocrisy?
I think we are.
I mean, we've certainly been reporting the fact.
I think it's a very legitimate complaint to say that Nancy Pelosi, for the first two weeks of Democratic reign, is blocking the Republicans from having pretty much any input in the legislating of this 6-06 agenda.
Why are they upset about it when I'm not?
I haven't been upset about this at all.
I mean, I fully expect hypocrisy from the Democrats.
I expect that that's not the only promise they've broken.
They've broken four or five promises.
They're not working today.
They were going to have a big five-day work week.
Not working today.
Got the big football game tonight.
The BCS championship out in Glendale, Arizona, between who, Brian?
Who's in it?
I know you don't care about college football.
That's right.
Ohio State and the Florida Gators, exactly.
Now, in the real world, how in the world would a Buckeye, a tree, ever beat a Gator?
You know, if you did the environmental wacko pick here, which we might try later.
But nevertheless, there are two or three other promises they've broken.
But the Republicans did the same thing.
Republicans didn't let the Democrats in on their first whatever-it was agenda.
I mean, they've got their power from the Democrats after 40 years of Democrats holding it.
I mean, this is what embarrassed me was the Republicans whining about this.
We know who Democrats are.
We should know what to expect.
We should know in their first 100 hours that they're not going to let the Republic.
Hell, folks, it wasn't that long before 1994 when the Republicans won the House, when our old buddy Bob Michael was running the show for the Republicans.
He was from Peoria.
I mean, half the time, Democrats wouldn't let Republicans in committee hearings.
Not just the first 100 hours.
Do you think people think I'm making it?
I am not making it.
Snurdley thinks that you think I'm making this up.
I'm not making this up.
When the Republicans had 135 members in the House, the Democrats, look at, we're going to have a committee here.
You're not even allowed in here.
It didn't happen.
It wasn't a standard operating procedure, but it happened.
And of course, Bob Michael didn't care as long as either Tom Foley or Jim Wright invited him over to play golf.
Republicans knew their place.
Hugh Scott from Pennsylvania, they all knew their place in there.
They weren't supposed to ruffle feathers and they didn't.
But now it's much closer than it was when the Republicans only had 135 seats.
But for everybody expected, and I, frankly, has anybody heard the Democrats hammering, or the media hammering the Democrats over this?
They might be reporting that Pelosi has shut the Republicans out.
It doesn't matter.
Let me find the story.
I haven't put it in the order I was going to put it in, but since it's here.
Oh, yeah, right, right.
Here it is, ladies and gentlemen.
I mean, what does it matter that the Democrats are shutting the Republicans out?
Try this headline.
Washington Times today, GOP willing to back Democrats' key bills.
Amnesty and changes in Social Security that bar you owning your own money, and the Republicans are going to go right along with it.
Leaders of both parties say that Democrats in Congress are likely to win bipartisan support for bipartisan.
What does it matter if the Republicans are let in?
Even when they're shut out, they're going to vote with the Democrats.
And I told you, both of these issues, I warned you back in December, were already done.
Amnesty for illegals and the Social Security tax increase.
You know how they're going to do this.
They're going to save Social Security the old-fashioned way.
There's no reform.
There's no private accounts, none of that.
It's just the old-fashioned way.
They're going to raise the ceiling on taxable income.
It might go as high.
Right now it's in the 90s, I think.
It might go as high as $150,000 that people will have to pay Social Security taxes on.
Well, that's a sizable, sizable chunk of change.
What do you mean?
Wait a minute.
I already told you about this.
Don't act surprised today.
You're supposed to be listening.
You are the program observer.
You can't, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what about the senior, the seniors will not have a riot, social, They didn't have a riot when Clinton raised their taxes in 1993.
Clinton raised the amount of Social Security benefits that the seasoned citizens get.
He raised the tax rate on that.
They didn't complain.
As long as they think that there's a tax increase on the rich coming, all they care about is that Social Security is solvent for the rest of their lives.
They couldn't care less about the future.
So if the rich get a tax increase, ostensibly to pay for Social Security, everybody else is, they're not going to care.
Show me one time where seasoned citizens have raised a stink about tax increases on Social Security.
Show me that one time, and I'll show you the gas passing.
All right, there it is.
Right, there it is from the Dallas Morning News, Dallas-based food chain to accept Mexican pesos.
Details coming up.
Here are the sorted details here on the GOP willing to back Democrats' bills.
Leaders of both parties say Democrats in Congress are likely to win bipartisan support for many of their signature issues, including passage of an immigration reform package that critics have derided as amnesty.
Republican lawmakers also offered cooperation for a raise in the federal minimum wage and changes to Social Security that do not include privatization.
So why in the world does it even matter if the Democrats include Republicans in the first 100 hours?
The Republicans are going to go along with it anyway.
They think the people have spoken.
Mitch McConnell on Fox News Sunday, what I've said to the new majority leader, which should be Dari Dingy Harry, you won the election.
Fair and square.
You're in the majority.
It's not my first goal every morning to get up and make you look bad.
That's Mitch McConnell quoting himself speaking to Dingy Harry.
Now, that's a clear distinction in the way the two parties operate because the whole purpose of the Democrats the past six years has been to thwart every aspect of the Republican agenda they can.
That has been their express purpose for breathing.
But this is sort of the way Republicans deal with Democrat president judicial nominees.
Well, you won the election.
You want Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, card-carrying member of the ACO?
Fine.
We'll only amount token opposition if four or five votes.
You can have her.
McConnell said that the Democrats will likely pass a minimum wage bill, but he also supports offsetting tax cuts.
McConnell said he also expects cooperation on other issues, including Social Security.
He's talking about Republican cooperation.
He said, in fact, I've been challenging the new Democrat majority not just to do the easy things in the beginnings of this session or some relatively easy issues that we were close to passing last year.
Let's do some important things.
Let's fix the immigration system.
Let's save Social Security.
We can do that before this Congress is out.
Now, so here are three things.
Immigration reform that looks like amnesty.
Raise on the federal minimum wage.
I've been telling you, that's a done deal.
That's over with.
It's going to happen.
Most of the states have a higher minimum wage already than what the new federal minimum wage is going to go to.
We've lost the argument on that.
And changes to Social Security don't include privatization.
They're just going to go out and save it the old-fashioned way.
They're going to raise taxes.
And they'll do it in the fashion of raising the ceiling on which Social Security taxes, you know, FICA on your paste up there, where the employer matches your country.
Yeah, that one.
That's going to go up.
Big time.
One more audio soundbite.
This from ABC's George Stephanopoulos show over the weekend, Cokie Roberts.
It was on with George Will and Harold Ford.
Stephanopoulos said, hey, this Pelosi House event had all the kids in there.
I mean, this could have easily been over the top, don't you think?
On the floor of the House on that opening day, every two years, there's some baby in the arms of a total stranger, a father who's been running for office the whole time that baby's been alive and looks up and bursts into tears when it sees the face of this person.
And that was not the case.
That baby knew that grandmother, even though it's only a few weeks old.
All those other children were completely comfortable with her.
And it was just fun.
It wasn't in any way stilted and awful.
No, of course not.
In fact, I read, even though I don't remember this, I read that this happens every opening day of the House, every two years when the new Congress opens, and everybody brings their kids.
Now, if that's true, we haven't seen as much media exposure of the event as we got with Nancy Pelosi.
Of course, the new national mother, the national grandmother, the national nanny, national multitasker.
We certainly haven't gotten, you know, if we got any stories when the newt gang took over in January of 95, will the children survive the day?
Orphanages want to put them in orphanages?
Are they going to cut taxes?
All of these, all these horror stories.
Anyway, Kevin in Freehold, New Jersey, you're up first.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Pellucy.
How are you?
Up.
Here.
Sorry, only a liberal could point out her lack of a bias by showing her bias.
She said she expects more from Democrats.
Therefore, she couldn't possibly be unfair to the Republicans.
What?
It's liberal speak.
You've nailed it.
See, he's talking about Michelle Cottle.
We had some cell phone interruptions on you before.
We didn't hear who you were talking about.
I, as a host, know you're referring to Michelle Coddle.
Only a liberal.
All right, that's it.
Default.
I'm not putting up with these things just to be nice.
Only a liberal, he said, could point out her lack of a bias by showing her bias.
She said she expects more from Democrats, therefore she couldn't possibly be unfair to the Republican.
That's, you know, it's difficult to analyze this stuff with common sense because this is lib speak, and it's all rooted in the notion that they are not libs in their own mind.
They are not, especially in the media.
They are not.
They're not, folks.
Despite how they answer the surveys every year on how they voted, they're not libs.
It's just everybody else is odd and different, but they are what's normal.
Don't even try to figure it out.
Just learn it for what it is.
Bill in Durango, Colorado.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Yes.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
Been listening to you since 1990.
Did you?
Appreciate that, sir.
Thank you.
I just wanted to talk about New York's big stink for a quick second.
Yeah.
Natural gas itself does not stink at all.
They add a substance called mercaptans to it, and your nose can smell them down to one part in a billion or so.
And I have been downstream, I worked in the natural gas business, of a mercapton injector leak five, six miles downstream.
It smelled like I was in a house full of gas.
Quite frankly, it would be an easy way to really stink up the town.
Just take a cylinder of that stuff and let the top crack for a little while up.
You telling me, how big a cylinder?
Oh, about the size of a scuba tank.
So that a cylinder the size of a scuba tank can stink up 100 blocks of Manhattan and across the river into New Jersey.
You bet.
Is it dangerous?
No.
In fact, that's the same stuff they add to the gas that comes into your home so you can smell a leak.
Natural gas, methane itself, has no smell.
Wait a minute.
Methane has no smell?
No.
So this can't be cows?
Not at all.
You kidding me?
Methane has no smell.
Cow expalations have no smell.
Cow expalations also have their own varieties of mercaptons.
In other words, sulfur compounds that are bound to.
Right.
So visitors like hunters, like Cheney, will know that they're around when they expel gas.
That's right.
Yeah.
So they put something in the gas to make it stink just so you'll know you've got a gas leak.
You got it.
And so you think a canister of that is what some mischievous prankster has released.
I wouldn't, that or, you know, somebody had a small problem with one and just went the other way and figured they'll let it dissipate and deal with it later.
Let me ask you this.
Let's say, just hypothetically here, because I've been trying to get my arms around this all morning.
If this were a legitimate gas leak, not the odor-producing element you just discussed, but if there were a legitimate gas leak, what would, I mean, that would be human, for this much to be noticeable, that would present a huge risk, would it not?
Yes, it would.
And quite frankly, every fireman in America and every utility company in America have gas detectors and the like.
I still own an AIM myself, which is an instrument that can sense gas at very, very, very small amounts.
And quite frankly, literally every gas department and every fire department has one of these.
But that particular instrument cannot smell those mercaptons.
No, That's not my question.
Forget the Mercakins.
Okay.
Or capta, whatever they are.
Forget, let's say this is real natural gas leak, a big one.
You would be able to detect it quite easily.
Well, no, but I know that, but wouldn't something have already caught fire blown up by now?
Look at all the without an ignition source near the flame?
No, that's not the way it works.
It's even like when big natural gas wells blow off and you've got to light the flare on them to get them to burn.
They don't burn on their own, generally.
So you need something to serve as a pilot light.
You got it.
Just the gas itself will not combust even with like the automobile exhaust or lights.
You need an open ignition source, like an open spark or something of that sort.
Well, but there are people lighting cigarettes all over the place outside buildings, wouldn't that?
It still takes for an explosion or even fire to occur.
The mixture has to be correct.
Well, okay.
And without the mixture being correct, but even with an incorrect mixture, they could tell us it's natural gas.
Okay, so in the words of Mayor Bloomberg, how long will it take the gas to pass here if your first theory is correct?
This is just the odor-producing element that some prankster has released.
Seven or eight hours at the most.
Seven or eight hours.
Amazing.
I appreciate that.
That's why we have flyover country.
This is why we have Texas and Louisiana and Colorado, because there are people there who know this stuff.
We didn't get these answers from the Brookings Institute.
We didn't get these answers from the Harvard School of Government.
We got these answers from America.
Back after this.
Hi, we are back.
I am Rush Limbaugh, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
All the while, half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, Fayetteville, North Carolina, this is Jay.
You're next.
Welcome, sir.
Hi, Rush.
In light of the recent revelation that stem cells can be safely harvested from freely donated amniotic fluid rather than taking the life of an unborn with embryonic cells, do you think liberals will apologize to you and acknowledge that you were right?
Shhh.
Don't tell the liberals that we don't have to kill babies now for stem cells.
Don't tell you will ruin their day.
It's all over with now.
Oh, this could be devastating to hear they just got power back in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and there's news out today that you don't have to kill babies now to get stem cells.
And there you go, blowing it all over national radio.
There could be new liberals being born, though, now that they don't kill so many.
That's why.
That's why they're boarding themselves out of existence.
Here are the details.
This is from the Associated Press, their biotech writer.
Scientists reported yesterday that they had found a plentiful source of stem cells in the fluid that cushions babies in the womb and produced a variety of tissue types from these cells, sidestepping the controversy over destroying embryos for research.
This happened at Wake Forest University.
Also at Harvard, researchers from both institutions of higher learning reported the stem cells that they drew from amnionic fluid donated by pregnant women hold as about much the same promise as embryonics.
Well, that's not good because there is no promise so far from embryonic stem cells.
Anyway, they reported at least you don't need to kill babies to do the spearmints.
They reported they were able to extract the stem cells without harm to mother or fetus and turn their discovery into several different types of cell types, including brain, liver, and bone.
This really is a breakthrough.
And I, ladies and gentlemen, am owed an apology.
I'm owed an apology from every one of you people out there who criticized me for not understanding this or for getting this all wrong.
But, of course, I'm owed an apology for lots of things, and they will never be forthcoming.
Jay, I appreciate the phone call.
Thanks very much.
Let me give me this guy in Victoria Terreck, Texas, because this is next in the stack anyway, so it'll work.
Yes, it's Gary in Victoria.
Nice to have you with us, sir, on the EIB network.
Good morning, sir.
How are you this morning?
Morning, sir.
Couldn't be better.
Good.
Listen, I am totally ticked off at what Governor Schwarzenegger is doing.
Yes.
You know, this crap about.
Did you say crap?
Yeah.
I just wanted to make sure I heard you right.
Yeah, this crap about him opening up so that they're going to take and give illegal aliens and all the kids free health care.
Yeah.
You know, California complains like hell that they're being, you know, I don't know.
Everybody's against them on this thing.
And yet, they've got a governor in that, you know, he's a closet liberal.
This guy shouldn't.
You know, he ran as a Republican.
And, man, he didn't break his leg.
I think he broke his brain.
Well, we.
No, it's not that.
It's something else.
I'll save it for another time.
But look, this is not.
I mean, we talked about this last week, that this is his proposal that every child in California have health insurance, even the sons and daughters of our great illegal immigrant workforce.
But that's, Gary, that's his tip of the iceberg.
The good thing is, though, is what I wanted to say is this, if it's going to do that, it ought to be on the ballot because every taxpayer is going to come out of their pockets.
Well, they've already had it on a ballot, and the judge ruled the results unconstitutional.
This has already been, this practically same initiative was of Arnold's was a ballot initiative called Prop 187, in which the people of California said we're not going to pay health care, welfare, child care, and all this for the illegal immigrants and their children.
And it won overwhelmingly, and the federal judge said it was unconstitutional.
You know, that's the land of fruit and nuts, I'll tell you.
Well, you're in Texas.
It's no big deal.
Well, it is.
If you look at what, you know, if this passes through California being, you know, the largest population in the United States, I mean, this is.
Gary, I just want to warn you and everybody else, we're going to get amnesty in the Congress, and the president is going to sign it.
It's a presidential election season coming up, and those are voters.
Those are potential voters, especially after they've been given amnesty.
And for the Democrats, they're voters now, illegal.
This is going to happen.
It's only going to increase.
Now, by the way, we can't build the fence.
We can't build a fence.
This is San Francisco Chronicle, I think, maybe the L.A. Times, one of those two left coast papers, can't build a fence because guess what?
The cost projections are going to be five to eight times higher than what they were originally thought to be.
I'm sorry, five to twenty-five times.
The cost of the fence will be five to twenty-five times more than they thought.
Now, that was never enough to scrub the war on poverty.
That was never enough to scrub the great society, but it is plenty to scrub the fence.
So we're not going to scrub the fence.
But get this.
Governor Schwarzenegger wants to cut almost $500 million from welfare programs next year and impose new rules aimed at pushing recipients off public assistance and into the workforce, kind of a state version of welfare reform, while at the same time giving every child health care insurance in California.
He wants to end the practice of providing welfare grants to children whose parents are chronically unemployed and failing to participate in return to work programs.
Now, would you like to hear how the San Francisco Chronicle characterizes this?
Let me find the exact quote.
Let's see.
Actually, it's not the Chronicle.
It is Assemblyman John Laird, Democrat Santa Cruz, chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee.
He said, the governor is trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor.
I think we will want to negotiate more of a post-partisan solution that reflects more of our values.
So this idea that Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed is being portrayed now as a blow to bipartisanship by Democrats in California.
And that's not all that Schwarzenegger has proposed, ladies and gentlemen.
Sit tight.
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