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July 17, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 17, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Say, I got a question about this all nighter in the Senate tonight that the Democrats are calling in fealty to their um their their their lunatic fringe base out there.
Will the hookers be putting an overtime to, or will they charge their normal day rate tonight?
And I still wonder if they've uh if they've made any plans for porta potties.
I mean, these guys the average agent there's 72 years old.
You know, the prostate when you get that old isn't this.
I hope they've I hope they've made appropriate plans for both the hookers and the porta potties.
Greetings, welcome back.
L. Rushbaugh here of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Broadcast Excellence is all yours.
Straight ahead, the next two hours.
Telephone number if you want to be on the uh program 800 282-2882 in the email address rush at EIB net.com.
Well, the chick news is back to cable TV, folks.
Uh we're sitting here, you take your average 30-minute sweep, and you get two or three stories on evil husbands murdering their wives.
Uh, and you get a the obligatory car chase uh out there.
Uh and uh all these uh, you know, the the the what what you can do about about your husband not paying attention to you, and the latest expert advice, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The chick news is back.
Despite all the NIE news and the report that we've got tonight, the drive by is a little excited about this Senate all night or tonight.
They're the love bush bashing.
And they uh they love being able to uh to report it.
From the Waterbury Republican American newspaper, November 19, 2005, 24 Iraqis were killed in the city of Aditha.
The uh the day after a roadside bomb there had killed a U.S. Marine.
Faster than you can say war crimes, neighbors anonymously were telling reporters that Marines had massacred innocent, unarmed civilians and journalists and anti-war agitators were comparing the incident to the Me Lai Massacre in Vietnam in 1968.
The Marine Corps later charged three enlisted men with murder and four officers with failing to investigate the killings properly, thoroughly pleasing the John Cut and Run Mertha crowd.
Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them.
They killed innocent civilians in cold blood.
In other words, the blood of the victims is on President Bush's hands.
Well, now that the facts have been discovered, investigating officers have recommended two of the seven Hadith defendants be spared court martial because of weak evidence.
And the cases against the remaining five are unraveling.
This whole massacre claim at Hadith is now unraveling.
And I am waiting for the drive-bys to ask Jack Mertha back to the uh meet the press or slay the nation or wherever else.
And ask him if he'll apologize for condemning these Marines simply because it fit a political agenda to do so.
Here is something I didn't know.
One investigator, Lieutenant uh Colonel Paul Ware, said some of the dead Iraqis were insurgents, just as the Marines had said, and accounts by Iraqi witnesses are inconsistent with the forensic evidence.
He said to believe the Iraqis who made the charge is to disregard clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.
But this is what I didn't know.
Iraqis have a powerful motive to lie because we, the United States, pays $2,500 to the families of innocent Iraqi civilians killed by U.S. forces.
Did you know that?
Well, I didn't.
This is the first I'd heard of it.
Uh no wonder.
Oh, and remember last week we reported to you these OSHA restrictions are going to try to basically ban ammunition from gunshops.
You wouldn't be able to sell it.
And I accidentally swerved into it when I was perusing websites.
Well, OSHA announced it will significantly revise a recent proposal for new explosive safety regulations that caused serious concern among gun owners.
OSHA had originally set out to update workplace safety regulations, but the proposed rules included restrictions that very few gun shops, including sporting goods stores and shippers or ammo dealers could couldn't comply with.
Now, let me give you a little uh uh history on this.
The way this the way this works.
Uh liberals, As opposed to conservatives, seek to own the government.
They seek to populate it, and they seek to use it to advance their world agenda.
And the government is the foundation of it.
Big government, oppressive government, controlling every aspect of life as much as they can secure.
Conservatives, on the other hand, their interest in governments getting it out of the way.
They don't, conservatives do not want to control people's lives.
Don't want to tell them how to live.
If you want to do something that's not good for you, go do it.
Pay the consequences.
We conservatives don't sit around and preach.
We're not nannies, we're not going to condemn this sort of thing unless your immorality is such that it pervades society and causes collapse.
But other than that, uh drive the car you want to drive.
You want to listen to radio you want to listen to, you want to do it, do it.
Not the way the Democrats operate, not the way liberals operate.
So the Democrat Party has not been able to get anywhere on a gun control agenda because there are simply too many people in this country who, for whatever reason, want a gun.
They hunt or they want one for self-defense, protection, and so forth.
The party, uh I'll never forget Gore in the 2000 presidential debate, actually making the case that he was anti-gun control.
He wanted everybody to have a gun that wanted one.
And then Kerry in the 2004 race goes into Ohio or Indiana somewhere, dressed up like Elmer Fudd, and says, Can I get me a hunting license here?
Trying to make everybody think that these guys have seen the light on gun control and that the they're out there seeking the votes of gun owners.
So you say, well, then how did this happen?
Well, OSHA is a government agency.
The occupational safety and health administration, and it's one of these little organizations that tells everybody how they have to run their office and how they have to run their business.
How big the toilet can be, how wide the handicapped toilet would be, do you have to have an incline for wheelchairs, all of these things?
Is your ceiling too short?
Is there asbestos up there?
All of the constantly.
It's the Gestapo in disguise of uh of a of an angel.
So you've got these little liberals that have come out of the Ivy League or wherever they've been educated, and they work in these agencies.
They populate them.
And some liberals obviously came up with an idea.
All right, if we can't get gun control legislatively, if the if the will of the American people is such that we can't win this, then we gotta take a we gotta take an end route.
We gotta make an end run, and that's what this was.
They were simply going to make it impossible for sporting goods stores and gun owners to have ammunition in stock because it's an explosive, and it violated the new safety regulations.
Well, what good's a gun without the bullet?
What good's a shotgun without the shell?
And this is how they do it, folks.
This is how they've tried they they they insulate themselves from election results by getting themselves in these agencies.
They raise these little liberals raise their kids this way, and they program them, and they send them off to the Kennedy school at Harvard or other places, and they get them indoctrinated in this way.
And they try to indoctrinate uh as many as possible again, and then they end up in the State Department, and they end up at uh at the Pentagon, and they end up at uh at the CIA, and they're in there doing whatever they can, regardless what the will of the American people is, and they use the power of government to do it.
Now you might say, well, how can something like this happen?
I thought there had to be a law, and I thought only Congress passed laws.
No, Congress passed a law, actually, Nixon gave us OSHA, trying to buy favor with the Libs back then.
So he gave us OSHA, gave us EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency.
Worst thing that ever happened for people to have a pond in their backyard.
They just lose the use of their property.
It's a it's a way to give it.
He gave us affirmative action.
Oh, the little Nixon trying to buy favor with these people.
It doesn't work, it never works.
We had new tone, letting them write the education bill, it never works.
But we never learned from this.
So they did authorize the creation of OSHA.
And OSHA has wide latitude.
They can issue restrictions and new update uh update new workplace uh requirements uh went whenever they want.
Now, after this little thing was posted, uh, and people started learning about it, uh the publicity here, dozens of members of Congress who had No idea that this was even happening, expressed concern about its impact.
And uh OSHA has uh wisely decided to uh to go back to the drawing board now.
Uh working with the NRA, Congressman Denny Rayburg, a Republican from Montana, planned to offer a floor amendment to the labor HHS appropriations bill this Wednesday when the House considers the legislation.
His amendment would have prohibited federal funds from being used to enforce this OSHA regulation.
Such an amendment is no longer necessary because Christine Iverson, labor department's assistant secretary for congressional and intergovernmental affairs, sent Representative Rayburg a letter dated July 16th, stating it was never the intention of OSHA to block the sale, transportation, or storage of small arms ammo, and OSHA is taking prompt action to revise this proposed rule to clarify the purpose of the regulation.
Uh-huh.
I don't buy it, I don't believe it for a minute.
It may be that somebody in OSHA didn't even know that this was happening.
Maybe just two or three people wormed this thing in there.
And it could be that this woman doesn't really do that.
Well, somebody did.
It was in there.
And now they admit it's in there because they're going to take it out.
They're going to revise it.
Also, working with the NRA, Congressman Doug Lamborn, who is a Republican from Colorado, gathered 25 signatures from House colleagues for a later the letter dated July 11th, expressing concern about this rule.
The uh the letter calling the proposal an undue burden on a single industry where facts do not support the need outlined by this proposed rule and not feasible, making it realistically impossible for companies to comply with its tenants.
That was the point.
That was the exact purpose.
By making it impossible to comply, you have to go out of business.
You think I'm exaggerating about this.
Somebody tried to get this done.
Somebody at OSHA, a group, an individual, somebody tried to get this done.
And they're going to keep trying things like this.
Because liberals don't want you to have a gun.
And they haven't changed on this.
I don't care what their presidential candidates say, they do not want you to have a gun.
But once again, the American people stopped it.
And this is cause for celebration.
The American people found out about this, raised holy hell to their elected representatives, and OSHA had it back down.
Uh because OSHA, that whoever did this is not going to stand up and raise his hand and said, hey, this is my idea, and they're not going to say, this is why it's a good idea, and this is why it should happen.
It was a sneak attack.
And this is how they do it.
They had instituted this kind of behavior in the judiciary.
You know, lifetime appointments there, uh insulated from election results and so forth.
Very hideous, folks.
And that's what the Democrats in the Senate uh are trying to uh accomplish here with their all-nighter tonight, although this is, you know, out in the open and everybody can see it.
But uh they they're the the will of the people be damned.
You don't know what's good for you.
They are liberals and you are an infant and they are going to control your life.
For the sole purpose of securing their power, by the way.
Be right back.
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All right, last hour.
I um I did a little riff on how great the economy is doing, and I led with information about the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossing 14,000 of it.
It's not there now.
Uh it's close, but it did cross the 14,000 mark first time ever.
Uh earlier this morning.
I pointed out that in September of or October of 2002, not quite five years ago, the market bottomed out after the Clinton-inspired dot com bust at under 7200.
The market has almost doubled in what?
Six years, five years.
And the uh drive-by media totally ignore it.
It's it's uh you know, it's such a secret that this news would have to be leaked to them if they were to ever learn of it and report it in the uh in what is called the mainstream media.
And I then discovered that it had been reported in the drive-by media, and I had to issue an apology.
And I did.
And I played the report.
We have a montage of what was said about all of this on the Today Show today.
CNBC's correspondent Aaron Burnett did a report.
And we put a put it together in a montage form.
And after playing the report, which I'm going to play for you in just a second, I apologize to the CNBC and the drive-by media, and I gave great credit to correspondent Eric Burnett for dutifully reporting the truth, especially what you'll hear her say about taxes and so forth and their relevance in all this.
And then I said I am almost sorry I gave her credit because any journalist who gets credited for good work by me automatically encounters problems with their colleagues and bosses in the drive-by media.
Well, during the last commercial break, ladies and gentlemen, our office got a phone call from CNBC wanting a transcript of what I had said about their correspondent Aaron Burnett.
They'll probably call back and want this transcript again, HR.
They'll probably want both of them.
Here's the report that uh we played last hour.
You know, it's an amazing thing here.
We're looking at the Dow Jones industrial average up 30% over the past six months, 30 days this year alone, we have had record closes for that index.
So it's really another day, another record on Wall Street.
It's also worth noting that while politicians talk about two Americas, virtually all Americans are seeing wages rise, and unemployment is at an historic low.
The issue of taxes is important here.
The top one percent of Americans pay 30% of taxes in this country.
The bottom 20% of American wage earners pay only 5%.
This was on the Today Show today.
This is why I had to apologize.
Because CNBC's reporter actually said this, and more.
This is just a montage of it.
Uh so uh the news did get out there.
I people that watch the Today Show, I'm probably heard this much of this for the first time, scratching their heads.
It makes so little sense to them.
Eric in uh in Latham, New York, I'm glad you called, sir.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Rush, Terra Ditto's from the Democratic Stranglehold of New York State.
I uh well, I want to comment uh Power Hillary and Obama raising so much money with this awful economy.
It's it's just and with so much poverty out there.
Yeah.
Hey, uh uh yeah, one of the things that usually the Dow is what makes the news, and uh, I know, and I'm so glad you touched on that at the beginning of the show last hour.
Um, but really all of the indices, you know, the much broader indexes are near their all-time highs, except for the NASDAQ.
Um all of them are near their all-time highs, and the only reason the NASDAQ is not is because all of those dot-coms are gone.
Uh from the Clinton era.
And uh, you know, we're not gonna see five thousand on the Nasdaq anytime soon, but the fact that it's halfway is is remarkable in itself.
Well, that's that's the the the the amazing thing to me is if you go back to the bottom out of uh in October of 2002, you're under 7200 at the Dow, and now we're we crossed 14,000, that's doubled.
Yeah, I mean, we basically we survived the devastating attack uh on the financial markets is basically a lot of what 9-11 was about, too.
And uh the fact that we're back is just really a remarkable achievement.
It is, and of course, that's why, you know, I said the the Bush economic plan.
You never hear the Bush economic plan referred to, but there is one, and it is working.
But meanwhile, the Democrats are trying to uh to uh browbeat uh the American people into believing that their lives are horrible, that they have no future, that their kids are not going to have any opportunity out there because Bush has destroyed the economy, and we to fix this need to raise taxes on the rich again.
That's what we need to do.
Yeah, I know Bush is not that kind of guy, but I you know, I always wish for my own uh personal thing is that he he would get out there and and really push this.
I mean, Americans just got their second quarter statements, and it's all good.
And uh he's you know, if he was just out there saying, hey, it's my policies that are doing it, I think that would help his numbers.
I agree with you totally on this.
Uh there's uh uh you know, a PR effort, sales effort, whatever that uh, or even just beating their chest.
Hey, look what we did.
Yeah.
Uh that doesn't take place.
I I I think Bush thinks that that kind of behavior demeans the office.
He is content to let history, even after his uh life is over, be the judge of uh how he did.
Making the complex understandable while having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
All right, Dingy Harry's office has issued a statement in response to the release of the national intelligence estimate today.
The unclassified summary of the national intelligence estimate released today leads me to two conclusions, begins the statement of Dingy Harry.
One, the Bush administration's national security strategy has failed in its most basic responsibility to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and Amon Zawahiri, the men who orchestrated the 9-11 attacks and eliminate Al Qaeda as a threat to the homeland.
And two, there is even greater urgency to the need to change course in Iraq.
This is this is exactly what they do.
It doesn't matter what the NIE says.
They're gonna take one little thing out of it and say that Al Qaeda's still out there and they're still trying to attack us.
And Dingy Harry and all the Democrats are gonna say, see, Bush hasn't made us any safer.
And in fact, Bush has made it worse.
And Bush hasn't done the main thing that Americans want him to do, and that's capture bin Laden and Zawahiri.
I think the main thing Americans want is to not have to undergo another 9-11.
A lot of people, it'd be great to capture bin Laden.
I frankly think bin Laden's pushing up Daisy somewhere.
I I've I think Bin Laden's been room temperature for a long time.
Zawahiri.
At some point, these guys are gonna go.
At some point they're gonna be found.
Uh James Taranto yesterday, best of the web.com.
This is funny.
Mayor Gavin Newsom is running for re-election virtually unopposed, more popular than ever, after admitting to having an affair with a top aide's wife and entering an alcohol treatment program.
His approval ratings are running at 80%.
You know, that that's why I said that this uh uh you know affairs, that's a that's a resume enhancement uh for Democrats.
Now, he's up for re-election.
He expects a credible candidate to emerge eventually so far the challengers that he faces are a street performing clown, a homeless man, an advocate for nudism, and a candidate who pledges to wear a camera so voters can monitor his performance in office.
This is the same city that uh elects Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House.
Uh and by the way, Cindy Sheehan, who has announced her intention um to uh uh challenge uh Nancy Pelosi says that she's been declared uh non grata, person non grata on uh on some of these fringe kook websites, says she can't post at those sites anymore because of her potential run for Congress is not on the Democrat ticket.
I've been deeply grateful for all your support over the years.
Your love and kindness helped me through lots of sleepless nights at Camp Casey 05.
If Speaker Pelosi does her constitutionally mandated duty and I don't run, then I can come back and post.
I know a lot of you are hostile towards my candidacy.
Please understand I'm doing it for your children and grandchildren and my surviving ones.
The question is if Pelosi or if she had actually moves to San Francisco, does it make it more bizarre or less?
see.
You know, this Gavin Newsom story, he got more popular than ever, had an affair with a top aide's wife, entered an alcohol treatment program.
I mean, that sounds like an ideal resume for Hillary Clinton's vice presidential running mate.
Uh anyway, quick back to the phones.
Washington, Missouri.
Cliff, welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Hey, Rush, you know I've been a long time listener of yours and kind of a student.
And I remember back in the 90s when Clinton was president and the economy was doing good.
You said the president does not have anything to do with the economy.
You said it's hardworking people getting out of bed and entrepreneurs that make this country great.
But now that a Republican's president, you want to credit everything to the economy to the president.
Now why the 180 turn?
Uh well, as usual, you got some of the uh opening statement a little incorrect.
Yes.
That's what exactly.
I I listened to you, Russ.
That was your exact words.
You said the only the only way the president the president can create any jobs is he expands government.
That's it.
You said otherwise it's the people that make this country great, not the president.
That's right.
That's right.
But the context the context was this.
Bill Clinton had just imposed massive tax increases on everybody, and on some people, they were retroactive.
Those tax increases had the had the uh possibility of stalling an economy.
And were it not for the Republican Congress winning in ninety uh ninety uh four and starting work in nineteen ninety-five and balancing the budget and coming up with welfare reform, the whole lot of things that the Republican Congress forced on Clinton because he had to work with them.
It was the American it's always the American people that make the economy govern.
It's all grow.
I mean, they they're the ones out there engaging in commerce.
What I've always said is that government can do one of two things.
It can get out of the way or it can get in the way.
And Clinton got in the way.
And the American people overcame Clinton by getting up every day and refusing to sit back and let the tax increases that they had to pay, and some of these other things uh uh slowed down their economic advancement.
Pure and simple.
So, as usual, you got what I said right, but you leave out the context.
You work for media matters.
No, we were running five percent quality growth with surpluses.
Now we're averaging if we can get two percent, and you want to give credit to the president for that.
Uh well, the the surplus g if you want to talk about a surplus, let's talk about Ronald Reagan ending the uh Cold War and creating the what was it called the uh the peace did that that surplus was always on paper anyway.
To have the Clinton people put out this story that they got a ten billion dollar surplus or 100 million, whatever it never materialized because budgets change from year to year.
Well, Rush, you you're confusing me, you know, you're not gonna be able to do that.
Well, I mean, well, you say one thing about when there's a Democrat president, it's uh then there's a Republican president and everything's uh a 180, and you want to give credit, and I I I don't understand it, being a student of your own.
Well, I'm trying to tell you again then.
What I'm trying to do is tell you that there were specific programs implemented by George W. Bush to get rid of the oppressive Clinton tax increases that have led to uh to unbridled economic growth.
It is it has led people into activity that has been profitable for them.
The capital gains tax rate was cut to 15%.
So it's not onerous to uh to earn profits on stocks.
It's not you you don't have to worry about hiding the profit and sheltering it somehow because if the tax rate's only fifteen percent, I'll pay that.
I'll pay that if I get it uh eighty five percent of my gain.
I'll pay it.
The Clinton tax rate was much higher.
So people were using other investment uh opportunities rather than equities.
There's a reason the stock market here has doubled.
It's an attractive place to be.
And the the uh the economy's doing well, and so the uh companies that are traded publicly are growing in value.
And it's it all it all makes total sense, and it's all related to tax cuts.
And this is the great little secret of Democrats don't want anybody to know that the tax cuts are the engine of all this, and so they're out there trying to make everybody believe the economy's not that good.
My only point was we have a robust economy, and it's not being reported, and I come up with the phrase Bush economic plan, because it is his plan to roll back taxes.
But nothing I have ever said today or any other day uh should be construed to mean that I think George Bush is hidden somewhere behind a curtain pulling economic levers that are making it all happen.
Bush got out of the way.
When it comes I'm telling you, taxes are such a key to this.
They work every time they're tried.
It's like abstinence uh and either teen pregnancy or disease.
It works every time it tried.
That's irrefutable.
And yet we've got people who say, uh, that's a horrible, horrible education policy.
Absolutely, not realistic.
What do you mean it's not realistic?
Well, they're not we know these kids are gonna be like like mink.
We're gonna be able to stop them.
Well, it doesn't stop you from trying to get them to quit smoking, does it?
I mean, uh, you uh for some reason you liberals, you want them out there just making love all over the place.
Why don't you get them hotel rooms and put pack cigarettes for afterwards on the nightstand?
When it comes to cigarettes or some of these other things, we can't do that.
Gotta have them driving certain kind of cars.
And when it comes to behavior that's actually beneficial.
Now you can't you can't legislate that way.
Kids are going to do it anyway.
Well, abstinence works every time it's tried.
Tax cuts work every time they are in the states are rolling in money.
The federal deficit is 200 billion dollars.
Everybody thought by now it was going to be up to 800.
I guarantee you, if the deficit were 800 billion dollars, you'd see whining and mowing moaning the deficit monsters back, and Bush should be targeted and blamed for for incompetent stewardship.
Uh another thing, by the way, about the 90s was that the Democrats, the drive-bys, were going out of their way to give Bill Clinton credit for every infinitesimal thing happened, which is another reason why I said presidents don't have that kind of uh hands on control over the economy.
If they did, there would never be a recession because it's always harmful to a president.
He always does get the credit.
He always does get the blame, rather.
Uh seldom do they uh do they get credit unless they're unless they're Democrats.
Uh Roland in Fort Lauderdale, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh, hello, Rush.
Good to talk with you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh Rush, my concern is about the uh silence from the U.S. government in response to what's going on in Iran.
Um basically, if we go back almost six years now to 9-11, uh, shortly thereafter Iran was identified as being in the axis of evil.
Since then we've been chasing down their prolific proliferation of these uh nuclear weapons they're trying to develop.
We had the uh UK lose some of their Navy personnel.
Then now we have these USA or American Iranian academics being held against their will.
And just the other day they had these rocket launchers and rockets that are actually developed and provided by Iran, being used against American military in Iraq.
Right.
When is the U.S. government gonna respond?
Well, we have responded.
We have issued condemnations.
We have said we don't like what you're doing, and we're gonna sit down and talk to them.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't know what's going on behind.
I I I saw a little blurb the other day that that the Vice President Cheney is trying to, you know, force some action on this from his office.
I don't know what.
Um I can tell you is that that with a situation like uh like Iran, uh, I would discount what what you see said publicly.
I have to think that there are all kinds of contingency plans being brought up uh and drawn up to uh to deal with this.
And this is just this is a gut feeling that I have.
Uh but I I just I can't see George W. Bush leaving office with a nuclear-armed Iran if they're that close.
Now, what that means, I don't know.
Don't uh take it any farther.
But the idea that they're just sitting around not doing anything is something I don't think is happening.
We just don't know what it is.
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back.
Hey, great to have you with us here on the EIB network.
A couple, a couple more things here on this um on the seminar caller we had about, you know, accusing me of blaming Clinton and saying he had nothing to do with the economy and now crediting Bush for it.
You gotta remember, uh, and I do, the economy was relatively flat until the GOP takeover in 94.
Remember their campaign theme, uh Clinton was the worst economy in the last 50 years.
Uh even though it was, we're just coming out of a mild little recession, a worst economy in the last fifty years.
And we had people calling here, Russia, it can't get any worse.
I'm pulling my hair out over the f the futility of uh of trying to talk to people who had been brainwashed by, you know, the typical media barrage.
And when they came into office, and the first thing that happened was they started attacking the pharmaceutical business, and they're trying to sponsor this health care business.
And I'm telling that scared the hell out of business.
Business was facing Stalinist type controls over how it was gonna be able to manage health care and provide it to employees.
The whole thing was a and everybody was uh uh I won't say panicked, but I mean this this was this had a lot of people paralyzed.
They weren't willing to invest uh in the growth of their business until they found out how this thing was gonna turn out because it was gonna have a dramatic impact.
So when when the Hillary care went south when it when it when it bombed, there was a huge sigh of relief.
From American business.
And then one of the first things that the Republican Congress engineered was a capital gains tax cut in 1995.
And that that's what led to the stock market's resurgence then and a general resurgence of the uh of the economy.
Clinton reluctantly signed it.
Uh had to go along with it.
He had lost.
Remember, he was he was running around trying to tell people he was still relevant after that was a sweeping defeat.
Republicans won 56 seats for the first time in 40 years of running the place.
Clinton was, you know, he was they were all bamboozled and dumbfounded.
So the Republican Congress had quite a role to play in that.
But the American people do make the economy.
And there's no question about it.
But a president, the point I was trying to make, can do one of two things.
He can stifle the economy, can stifle the American people with all these taxes and regulations.
In this case, President Bush had these new Clinton tax increases that were in play all through the 90s.
Uh income taxes and other, you know, silly little regulations that uh just cause roadblocks and obstacles that people have to work harder to overcome.
So the president came in, he fought the Democrats, and a bunch of Republicans too.
He had to, but these moderate Republicans up in the Northeast.
They're not for tax cuts either.
Uh but he got them.
And that created a pro-capitalist environment.
Uh Americans are like no other people.
Through hard work and ingenuity, they will create jobs and create wealth when the government gets out of the way.
Hello, Ronald Reagan in the 80s.
That's why there's so much revisionist history about the 80s and Reagan's tax cuts, because of the great boost it gave the economy.
Democrats can't stand.
They've got to revise history.
They gotta make people think that it was not good, that it led to all kinds of problems, like the worst economy in the last 50 years.
But if you are a big government liberal, uh, you're not gonna appreciate the hard work and ingenuity and the creativity of the American people.
It's gonna threaten you.
Because you think only government can make things good for people.
They can't do it for themselves.
And if they do, they're cheating.
And they're denying somebody else the right to do good too.
They it's just not fair, Nathor Limbaugh, when people are free to be who they are.
Also a question here for Dingy Harry.
He's got a he's getting the statement he gave on the National Intelligence Desk boilerplate.
Whatever the news regarding national security is, that's the boilerplate.
Bush failed.
Osama Zawahiri are still alive.
They failed.
that's the number one concern and it just goes to show that our rock strategy is killed i'm doing to see the bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble According to the NIE that we just had released this morning, Osama, if he's still breathing, and Al-Zawahiri are in Pakistan.
Shall we go there?
Should we go there?
Come on, what's your idea to get him yourself?
Should we send special ops in there?
Should we go into Pakistan?
Should we just bomb Pakistan back to the stone age in order to get Zawahiri and Bin Laden?
What would you do, Dingy Harry?
They're in Pakistan, and that place is an ally with us in the war on terror, as much as it can be.
They may be going back and forth across the border, uh, you know, hiding out in Afghanistan now and then, but they're in Pakistan.
What should we do?
Wait.
I can help.
What is this Senate known for?
Surrender?
Censorship, subpoenas.
Subpoena them, Dingy Harry.
Have Leahy subpoena Osama bin Laden and Eamon Al-Zawahiri and have them come in and testify what a rotten President Bush is for not being able to catch them.
And we are back closing out the second hour of uh big time broadcast excellence here on the one and only EIB network with El Rushbo.
We've got uh one big hour to go, including uh uh the Edwards News is pouring in here, folks.
The Clinton operation research is I dare I they're shopping a story out there.
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