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Oct. 25, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 25, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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And welcome back, my good friends.
Rushlin Boy here at the EIB Southern Command behind the Golden EIB microphone with yet another hour of brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed broadcast excellence.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882.
I want to set a premise here for just a little bit later on the program because I went back to yesterday.
I've got these sound bites of the Democrats on the floor of the uh Senate literally smearing and trashing Judge Leslie Southwick.
They thought Harry Reed and the boys uh thought they had him defeated.
Uh there were um uh but the he was confirmed, uh, but wait till you hear what they had to say about him.
Uh the whole anatomy of a smear thing, and maybe have they have they smeared themselves out.
Uh want to talk about that as we uh get going under the program a little later on.
But right now I want to welcome to the uh program uh Lynn Cheney, the uh wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, a new book out called the uh Blue Skies and No Fences.
Mrs. Cheney, it's always a pleasure to talk to you, and I welcome you to the program.
Well, thank you, Resh.
It's so much fun to be on with you.
Now tell me, um th this is a memoir I know, but I'm intrigued with the title, Blue Skies No Fences.
I know it is a uh uh a review of uh your your youth uh growing up the way life was in the middle of twentieth century in the West.
Uh but when I read Blue Skies No Fences, i is is this about how times are much more innocent and do you get into how times have become less and less innocent uh since you were growing up.
For sure.
Um I think what uh Blue Skies No Fences uh portrays is uh the era before y the left took its long march through our cultural institutions.
Uh you know, we I grew up and I grew up with Dick, of course, in a time when uh all of television was a family hour.
Um in a time when uh you could sing the lyrics of popular songs to your grandma.
Um it was a time when uh you know, you you look to the news, you look to the mainstream media for reports of what had happened rather than editorials about what had happened.
So it it is kind of the time before the fall.
I think it's a useful thing to go back and and look at what uh society was like before so many of our institutions were dominated by the left.
Well, you um uh anybody that that's uh interviewed you today or talked to you, said something along the lines of this to you.
Come on, Mrs. Cheney now that we look back at the past, it's fine, but it's gone.
That's that was then, this is now.
You're just being an old fuddy duddy about this.
You're wishing for things that can't be again.
If anybody said that to you, you know, in f in fact it's true.
I probably uh will never be able to have my grandchildren grow up in the same kind of era of complete confidence.
That was part of it.
That's you know, the we were the future was as bright as the blue skies overhead.
And you know, I don't think my grandkids will grow up like that.
But what good parents do is shelter them from the culture, which is, you know, not very hospitable to children these days.
And I see my daughter doing that.
I see both daughters doing that.
I see uh my friends who have uh grandchildren helping to do that.
You know, keep them away from the worst that's on television, keep them away from the harm that's on the internet.
Keep them away from movies.
I mean it's it's uh there's a lot out there you just have to shelter them from.
Well, the the um uh culture is constantly evolving.
Um and I remember uh when I was in 1962, whenever the Beatles said, I was twelve or thirteen years old, and parents, my parents and others in that generation were just appalled.
Uh they just they thought, oh, we're uh society is gone, these kids, uh look at what they're listening to, and it was all about the length of their hair.
If you actually listen to the lyrics of early Beatles songs, they were just they were just corny love songs, and their melodies were such that orchestras could record them and and it and they were beautiful.
And the Beatles later on, then when they get the Maharishi Mahash Yogi and so forth, they have they eventually turned and got into more controversial areas.
But what about the fact that uh every generation of parents thinks that its current generation of kids is just uh just facing all kinds of challenges they'll never be over able to overcome, and eventually this is all gonna collapse.
And yet it doesn't happen.
We do keep surviving and thriving.
You know, I think part of what happens is that there's resistance to uh these messages that you get from uh the the mainstream press, from uh rock music, uh from uh rap music, from uh movies, from television, there's resistance to it by lots and lots of people who just won't take um uh the message of of doom and gloom that uh is so often portrayed there was a piece in I don't know one of the newspapers,
maybe USA Today this week about how all these downbeat movies um aren't going anywhere.
And there's a piece today in fact the page front page of the Washington Times about um how people are resisting all of these anti-Iraq movies that have big stars in them like Merrill Street for example.
So there's a lot of good common sense in uh the populace at large um a lot of good common sense in your your listeners uh that simply don't fall for the line that we get fed and that's sort of the the hope of uh the hope of the culture and the hope of tomorrow.
Now, audience, when I say this, they might cock their heads and be a little curious about it.
I haven't had a chance to read the whole book, but I did read enough of it.
And I read about your teenage years.
And honestly, I was reminded, reading what you wrote of your teenage years of American Graffiti, the movie.
And people are not going to associate you with the things that happened in American Graffiti.
Well, you know, one of the things they might not associate me with is baton twirling.
And I was quite a good baton twirler.
I tried to keep secret for many years after we came to Washington since I thought I needed to be taken seriously but uh I discovered the other day that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had also been a baton twirler so I decided it was safe to talk about it.
Well we're learning all kinds of things here.
But you're right it was like American graffiti and there was uh some I mean you were actually you you drove around in a souped up mobiles that needed a step ladder to get in the trunk and they had drag races and this kind of hanging around at the local burger joint?
You know I kind of did.
I will tell you that uh perhaps the the vice president um was not so convinced that this was um an important undertaking.
We spent a lot of time cruising between one drive in on one end of town and another drive in on the other and uh he didn't see the importance of this so he perhaps wasn't as uh important a figure on the social scene as uh as maybe I would have liked in the beginning but I I soon uh figured out that uh quiet,
calm and confident was my cup of tea well uh the the the challenge here of adapting to the some would say the devolution of the uh of the culture yes uh and and so forth uh what what do you hope people get from reading your book other than the obvious the the times are innocent back then because you really can't go back and relive those days you can't you can't bring them forward.
People may try it could be nice if certain things could happen uh today as they did then but what what are people supposed to do?
Well I think one realize what's happened.
You know that the sixties were devastating in in many ways.
Um the sixties were an age you know where we were taught that uh innocence the the uh adjective you'd give to my book that innocence was repression and that what the country really needed was uh you know a a dug in a drug induced uh frenzy like Woodstock um to rem see the price that the sixties exacted by looking at a book like this.
Uh understand how important it is to help your kids uh know about other eras in our culture when you know they weren't under assault um by messages about uh you know wearing skimpy clothes and uh and doing drugs at all times.
When you left the house to play uh when you were gone for hours did your parents worry where you went?
No.
You know it was a very it was a safe culture in the sense that uh criminals were doing crime and most middle class families like mine thought that we had nothing to do with that.
I certainly didn't grow up in a you know some kind of pleasantville.
Our town had a you know very uh uh scandalous district that stretched out behind the courthouse but that wasn't you know that wasn't part of the culture for kids.
I love the way you put that a scandalous district that stretched out behind the courthouse I know but you know small towns are like that they've got this part and that part and uh um the other thing is I think it's really helpful for kids to see their families uh to see their family stories um to know what it was like when their parents, when their grandparents grew up and even to go back further, there are so many unnamed heroes and heroines in our history.
I put some of the ones from Dixon my family in this book.
But every family has those one of the things that the left tries to do is to tell us That our story, our national story, is a grim and depressing one, and it is not.
It is full of heroes, and we should teach ourselves and our children about them.
I know you were in you were inspired by the pioneers, and I I was reading that part of your book, the uh uh you know from the Sooners to the to the in Oklahoma to uh just the the the covered wagon crowd that went west.
You realize if if uh if people tried to get in covered wagons today, fourteen federal agencies and two state agencies wouldn't let them go an inch because the wheels wouldn't pass inspection.
Those people knew real hardship, Mrs. Cheney.
They over they were rugged individualists and they were self-reliant.
Uh they didn't know nanny state government, they didn't know regulations, they just knew what they wanted to do and had to do, and you are absolutely right that there's there's so much to learn by watching the people who actually forged and built the country and what they went through to do it.
It helps you be grateful for the life that we know, but it also tells you that the life we know, you know, is gonna take some effort on our own part to keep it going.
That's why I I listened to you, Rash, and what I'm so grateful to your show for.
You know, you keep fighting back against the this the idea that somehow this is a bad country.
You keep fighting for the idea that we're a great and good nation.
And uh boy, I see that in our history.
I want to tell that to our kids.
I think we all ought to take a little time every day to uh to try to remember the people that built this nation and to, you know, shoulder our own responsibility to keep it going.
It's it's gotten the point where you get up any given day in this country, and if you turn on the news, you're gonna see doom gloom.
Uh you're gonna see apocalyptic news stories, you're you're gonna tax increases uh that make no sense, uh more regulations, just a di world closing in on you.
Uh you, uh, as the wife of the vice president, uh, you and your family have come under some of the most vicious personal attacks uh that people uh in in my lifetime can remember.
You're right up there with what uh Nixon endured and Ronald Reagan and and others, and yet here you are uh writing this uh this cheerful, optimistic book about your about your past, there, and there's certainly no bitterness in this book whatsoever.
You know, when I think about some of my uh grandmothers, great grandmothers, my my grandmother raised her family in the Salt Creek oil fields outside Casper, Wyoming, where I grew up.
When I think about her raising babies in what was essentially a tent out there, you know, where it got 30 below in the winter, where the wind blew like crazy at all times, where there was no plant life to hold down the dust, I think, you know, boy, my life is easy.
Yeah, you got people out there saying things you wish they wouldn't say, but you push back.
That's what you do.
I think of my Mormon grandmother who uh came across the ocean and across the country and lost her husband and lost her baby and kept going, you know, because she wanted to get to Utah and she believed she could.
That optimism and that determinism are uh characteristics that uh, you know, I hold up for myself and hope that I can emulate, and then I want to want to have my children know about.
Well, that's that's great.
I really thank you for uh giving us this time uh to talk about the book.
Again, it folks is called Blue Skies No Fences, uh a memoir of childhood and family by Lynn Cheney, and it's uh I mean it's it's sobering in a sense, Mrs. Cheney, because it uh it's a flat out reminder of how things once were and how they've been lost uh but can still be remembered and used as influences in your own family.
It's a very, very excellent point.
Thanks for your time.
It's always great to talk to you, Red.
You might uh that's Vice President Lynn Chaney uh wife of the vice president, Lynn Cheney, and again the book Blue Skies, no fences.
We'll be right back and continue here on the EIB network.
I want you to hear Secretary of State Conneleza Rice uh announcing new actions against Iran.
This was from the State Department or at the State Department this morning.
The Iranian government continues to spurn our offer of open negotiations, instead, threatening peace and security by pursuing nuclear technologies that can lead to a nuclear weapon, building dangerous ballistic missiles, supporting Shia militants in Iraq and terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories, and denying the existence of a fellow member of the United Nations, threatening to wipe Israel off the map.
Because of the revolutionary guards' support for proliferation, and because of the cutsforce support for terrorism, acting under U.S. Law and consistent with our international obligations.
The United States today is designating both of these groups.
If Iran's rulers choose to continue down a path of confrontation, the United States will act with the international community to resist these threats of the Iranian regime.
And she also mentioned two or three banks in Iran that are directly responsible for funding both terrorism and the illegal nuclear program.
They laid down the law today, and after she was finished, uh the Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson got up there, and he started lashing out some uh some warnings to Iran.
Uh this this has been in the works since August.
And what what's what's going on here is an attempt to freeze, they're gonna freeze their assets.
Uh and and uh they we we think that we have uh encouraged and gotten the support of uh allies now in France and Germany to uh to join us.
Uh the the the attack on the uh uh uh financial structure of Iran, which is what this really is at this point, has worked.
Inflation's going through the roof in that country.
Uh Ms. uh Continus Rice also said in this statement, uh she had a direct appeal to the Iranian people.
We've got nothing but love for you.
We have nothing against you.
And one of the problems with with Iran right now is that um a lot of the Iranian population is very, very much supportive of the United States.
Uh uh it's it uh people live in oppression in that country, and they very much admire us.
And that puts a limit on military action that you can take, because you don't want to destroy that goodwill.
So uh what she announced today was serious, serious, serious financial consequences, and she named names.
Uh and Hank Paulson went up there with her to do so.
The Cuds Force, the uh International Revolutionary Guard, uh these two uh the Cuds is actually a derivative of the of the revolutionary guard, they're one and the same.
They're operating in theater in Iraq and have been.
Uh they are sponsoring terrorism, working with the Syrians and Hezbollah, as everybody knows.
Some might not want to admit it, but they are.
Uh and the President's been warning that this has been coming.
Uh nobody can say this is uh coming out of the blue.
Mrs. Clinton, you know, getting a little heat from her blogosphere kook fringe, uh, because she signed and you know, voted for an authorization to allow the president to take some action uh against Iran, which the kook fringe is just it's just a rock all over again.
What oh no, it's horrible the anti-war movement.
But the thing is the anti-war movement can't get anything done.
Move on.org and their Petraeus smear backfired big time.
Dingy Harry's smear of me, back time uh uh uh uh backfired big time.
They thought they had Judge Southwick dead to rights yesterday.
Listen to these soundbites.
Start with number 13, Chuck Schumer on the Senate floor about the upcoming vote of Judge Leslie Southwick's nomination to uh the appellate bench.
Poison in this country.
The thing that could do us in is race and racism.
So when it comes to the area of race and racism, we have to bend over backwards.
Try forwards.
In Mississippi in the country is strongly against the Southwick nomination.
When you condone using the N-word, you are doing just that.
Here's more of Schumer.
Like it or not, when he's nominated to the Fifth Circuit, he is carrying two hundred and some odd years of bigotry that has existed in this country and particularly in this circuit on his back.
I do believe when it comes to the issue of race, one on the Fifth Circuit must be exemplary.
And this case shows that he is not.
He has failed that standard.
And I would urge my colleagues, every one of them on both sides of the aisle to look into their hearts when they cast this important vote.
I'm not going to waste time talking about this this case, this one case, the uh the uh the N-word.
Uh it was it it's a little bit complicated to get into, but it's not what Schumer's portraying it to be.
The point is he just incited an entire part of the country.
It just indicted it at a judicial circuit as having 200 years of bigotry.
Uh Harry Reid got into the act.
We have time.
Yeah, here's here's uh little bit of dingy harry, a montage.
Judge King wrote regarding the N-word, and I quote him there are some words which by their nature and definition are so inherently offensive, that their use establishes the intent to offend.
It was clear in this decision that Judge Southwood should have joined the majority.
And the majority would have been with Judge King.
He decided to not go with majority and create his own majority.
To in effect, agree that using this N-word was nothing more than just an offhand remark that meant nothing.
A failure to give full weight to the vile meaning and history of the N-word is deeply disturbing.
I cannot overlook it.
Well, uh, you should overlook it because you've got Sheets Byrd in the Senate, sir, who just recently on television was using the N-word uh on Fox News.
We've got the bite if you want to hear it.
They're going overboard on these smears, folks.
They thought they had him defeated yesterday morning, and he was confirmed.
Another loss for dingy Harry.
And we're back.
And we go to the phones.
Thank you for patiently waiting.
This is Sandra in Flemington, New Jersey.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
How are you today?
Hi, good.
And very very good, thank you.
Well, I have to tell you I had to call because I was listening to your um program yesterday, like I do every day, and I was having a really good time um with the interview you were doing with the uh truck driver who watched the view at the truck stop.
And one thing that really cracked me up was when you said something along the lines of if you see a Volvo in a truck stop parking lot, go to the next truck stop.
And I said, Whoa, wait a minute.
I drive a Volvo and I listen to Russ Limbaugh every day.
Yeah, but do you go to truck stops?
No, I don't.
Well, that's a the left that out of the equation.
Ah, but I just wanted you to know that there are conservatives out here that drive Volvos too.
Well, uh, does your husband happen to work in a dealership that sells them?
No, he doesn't.
Okay, just checking to make sure that you had total objectivity on the issue.
Now this is my car.
But why did you say that?
I someone said, I don't know.
It was just, you know, I just like stereotypical humor and uh Volvos.
Uh uh, you know, you uh disassociate them with uh uh do gooders and uh then the the the you know the libs.
Oh no, no, no.
I as I said to your screener, I said, I thought he was gonna say beamer, and the screener kind of went kind of thing.
So I just that was a lot of fun.
But I'm a registered nurse.
I worked at the VA for many years, so all the good things you have to say about the veterans and the servicemen really um they touch my heart, and I'd like to thank you for for getting through the muck that the uh the left news media gets out there every day, so we can hear the truth because it's really important because it's so sad Americans aren't really listening.
Some are, but there's a bulk of them that aren't.
Well, I know there's a lot of them, but we are making headway.
Look at this is this is uh I appreciate that, and I apologize for insulting you or and your car.
It was just a it was perhaps a weak attempt at stereotypical humor.
Uh it really is unfair to judge people by the cars they drive.
That's absolutely true, and I I'll try not to do that anymore in the uh in the future.
What do you mean you have a Volvo?
You that the thing you're driving is a Volvo.
It is uh-huh.
Uh no, I know your real car, the white thing that you tool, that's a Volvo?
I would have never known it's a Volvo, so that doesn't count.
Uh we're talking to Dawn here.
But we drive it a new Cadillac this week.
Um this is a a four-door sedan, a great, you know, four-door family sedan.
Uh it's a CTS, right?
And it's uh Man, it's a gorgeous car.
I've it was uh I haven't I haven't tooled around in it yet myself, but it's uh it's gonna be my turn soon.
Thanks for the call, Sandra.
Appreciate it.
Jeff in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
You are next.
I'm glad you were patient.
Hey Rush, thank you very much for letting me on.
Cover me, another soldier who appreciates uh just about everything you're you're saying.
I uh I've never been insulted by anything you've ever said, but uh I want to make sure people understand that the smear campaign against you.
What a joke.
Um, with regard to uh uh you're outing funny soldiers, and there are funny soldiers and have been who pretended to be people of credentials at the time.
Well hell, the latest one is this guy, Scott Thomas Bochamper Beach.
I don't know how he pronounces his name, but he just wrote a whole bunch of lies this past summer in the New Republic, a liberal journal of opinion.
And uh the uh the the new republic supposedly conducted an investigation and that the turns out the whole most of what he wrote was just absolute BS events that he said took place in Iraq, took place in Kuwait.
Some of the events didn't take place at all.
Uh it just they're all these guys are all over the place, and note they are the ones the left embrace.
Yeah, I challenge them absolutely up front every time, and almost never do I encounter anything besides a phony.
I don't know anybody.
I've been I've been in the army for 26 years.
I don't know anybody who's who's particularly who's been there who denigrates the effort, he said it's illegitimate, who who thinks, you know, or who would characterize as Kerry did during Vietnam our effort to somehow.
Well, some of them illegal or something.
No, no, some of them have come back together.
But but but they're not the ones that get criticized for their views.
Right.
Well, I I never have personally, and I walk up to particularly folks walking with the cane or whatever at Fort Hood and say, hey, you know, how'd you get hurt?
Black armor sports injury, but absolutely everyone that I've encountered that has a combat injury, um, either A can't wait to go back and complete the mission and rejoin his unit, or B, um, can't say enough about the good work that's being done that makes it worth it that we're injured.
Um so uh, you know, I I just I think it's important to point to those folks who are pretending.
Um if you have legitimate criticism, there are legitimate criticisms of the war effort.
I mean, I I'm all about listening to that.
I mean, how can we prove without criticism?
Well, I guess these disingenuous and false attacks.
Uh like the one on you, where you take a guy's words and and match him around and try to pretend like he said something he just didn't say.
And I don't think it's right or fair.
I know I call to talk about environmentalism and how conservatives are better environmentalists than we get credit for, but um thanks for the opportunity to take on about the war and and uh and how the many of the critics have it are indeed false and funny.
All right.
Well, look, I I appreciate your uh appreciate your sentiments uh and and your support on the uh on the dingy Harry uh smear.
Uh you know, Chuck Schumer, we just played a soundbites of Chuck Schumer trashing uh Judge Leslie Southwick.
Chuck Schumer is one of the signers of the Harry Reed Smear Letter.
Uh Harry Reed trashed Judge Southwick.
Uh he, of course, the author of the Harry Reed smear letter.
Let me expand on this just a little bit.
Uh some of you might think of this uh react to this as wishful thinking.
We try to spot trends here at the EIB network, and there are a lot of uh events that have taken place just in the last three to four weeks.
You can go back even farther than that if you wish, that might indicate a trend.
And one of the one of the things is that the Democrats are accomplishing nothing.
The SCHIP bill down in flames.
They're trying to bring it back in a different iteration, but it went down in flames.
Uh Harry Reed's smear of me backfired.
Southwick ends up being confirmed on the um uh the the there was uh another piece of legislation.
Uh Dingy Harry and and Durban uh uh thought that they were going to be able to spend half of the day yesterday and all day-to-day uh debating.
Uh and that uh what was it I'm having a metal block.
What was the um let me go back to the bottom of the stack here because it was big.
And they just totally miscalculated, thought that they had all of the votes to uh get this done.
Uh oh, yeah, it was the the the wet dream bill, the wet dream act, they that the the stealth amnesty bill.
Yesterday, Dingy Harry thought that he had the 60 votes for cloture, and we're gonna spend half of the day yesterday, all day today debating it and then voting on it, and he lost.
He had eight Democrats defect.
Uh they only got fifty-two votes for cloture.
You need sixty.
Now, if you if you just look at these events alone, ladies and gentlemen, uh what what you see is that every and go back to all their awar Iraq war resolutions and their attempted smear of General Betrayus uh or Petraeus, which got which backfired on them.
Uh you just I'm wondering if with so much attention that's being focused on the Democrats now since they won in November of 06.
And then actually you can go back years and years and years for information and data incidents to ask the question.
But have they perhaps smeared themselves out at some point, and I don't know what we've reached it, but at some point you have to say that a majority of people paying attention are gonna are gonna say These people just can't be that bad.
Everybody the president nominates, or everybody, every person the Democrats seek to destroy and criticize, they just can't be this bad.
And after a while of all these false allegations and false charges and it, these smears that backfire, and they don't care who they mount them against.
At some point, you have to, you have to believe, I do, because I'm an I'm an optimist.
You have to believe that this is all going to start backfiring on them.
The same thing with Randall Wrangle's massive tax increase.
One trillion dollars, largest tax increase in American history.
Um he proposes it a year out.
And by the way, make no mistake, this is Hillary Clinton's tax increase.
Uh it you know, Wrangle runs away as a means committee.
But the right way to look at this is that Wrangle is always the forward operator for Mrs. Clinton.
He first raised the idea of her running for the Senate in New York.
Uh he just went after Rudy's personal life, obviously at her behest.
So in this case, what Charles Wrangle is doing with this massive tax increase is merely giving us a peek at Hillary's tax vision for America.
Everything that Wrangell does in this regard, in without any question in my mind, is is an extension of Hillary Clinton and is probably specifically her idea.
Uh, but they're being so brazen about all of these things and they're being so upfront and public about it because they're arrogant and cocky, they're hubris is is amazing to watch.
They think they've already won the White House, it's already over.
And when you start counting the uh the the eggs, uh the chickens, 40 eggs hatch, uh it you you often are blindsided and shocked, stunned and surprised, because that kind of arrogance leads you to ignoring reality.
And I just I'm just wondering, maybe wishful thinking, but I'm just wondering if all of these recent events are uh are starting to backfire on these people.
I know they don't look like the as as big a joke as we pre uh portray them here because the drive-by's do not portray them uh that way, but Harry Reid has had a dismal three weeks.
Nancy Pelosi has had a dismal two weeks.
Two of the most ineffective leaders of the House and Senator the Democrats have ever had.
Now the drive-by's are not portraying it this way, obviously.
Uh, but the rank and file Democrats have to be noticing this.
So the the point is that while everybody still seems to think the Democrats are on offense and that they're running this show and that they are uh smart and quick, faster than anybody else in the opposition, they plan better.
Everything they're trying to do is backfiring, and there's a reason for it, folks.
And one of the reasons it's backfiring, well, twofold.
They smears and the allegations they launch at people are lies.
Number two, they are not reflecting the majority of thinking in this country with their actions.
The S-Chip bill, the wet dream act, this does not, their policies, their legislation does not represent the majority opinion of the people of this country.
And that's one of the reasons why it's being rejected.
Well, you there's no other way to explain eight defections on a wet dream act.
You've got some Democrats that Harry Reid and and uh Dick Durbin, uh, they did their head count, and they've oh, we got it.
They were so happy yesterday morning, they were they're on the cusp here of of great success that would overshadow all their embarrassing failures, and they ended up with another embarrassing failure.
They had some defections.
Now, that those senators probably come from states where immigration is a huge deal.
I don't think these people in Washington still get it.
I know the drive-by's don't get it, but I don't think they still understand what an explosive issue illegal immigration is for them.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Hi, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network, Dallas and Janet, you're next.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Russ.
Megadito from Dallas.
My mother-in-law turned me on to you about 15 years ago, and I'm the proud mother of two rush babies.
Congratulations.
And the colleagues.
I love hearing this kind of stuff.
They're college educated.
They come from a wealthy family, and they're both joining the military.
Imagine that.
Now wait, did you say they come from a wealthy family?
Yes.
You are wealthy.
Well, we are now that we're 54.
We weren't wealthy until we hit about 45.
Yeah, they don't let you make any money in this country until you're 40.
That's no, no, they don't.
But now wait a minute.
I want to I want hold it just a second here, Janet.
You are you you you deserve special recognition here.
Thank you.
You just had the guts to admit that you're wealthy.
And you had and you don't sound you're not making excuses for it.
You're not apologizing for it.
That kudos to you.
Most most wealthy people do not they wouldn't do what you just did.
They start making excuses or they wouldn't even mention it at all.
Well, we've worked very hard for what we have, and I'm proud of it.
You ought to be.
Congratulations.
We have a small business.
And I don't think people understand how this tax hike will trickle down to all areas of the economy.
We have three people in our office.
We hired the third person when Bush gave us our tax cuts, and I got to come home.
I had been working for free.
If this takes place, we're going to have to let one of the people go.
Why?
Because we can't afford to pay $18 an hour that we're paying.
Now we could hire people to do their jobs for $10 an hour.
Does that make sense?
But because we got a tax break years ago, we were able to hire more people.
And why did you want to hire more people?
Why didn't you just put the money in your back pocket?
This way I got to come home.
I had been there working for free.
Right, but it was also a way to expand the business, right?
I mean, if you've got more people doing work, you have more work that needs to be done.
No, we don't need any more employees.
We have more than enough.
Now, but I mean back then, I'm talking when we're going back to 2001 and 2003 when the first tax cuts kicked in.
Right.
They just put more money in our pocket, which allowed us to hire another person to do my job.
So you finally got to go home.
Yeah.
What do you do?
What'd you do when you got home?
Because the kids were were they gone yet?
No, no, no.
The kids were still there.
Oh, yeah.
I'm an ex-school teacher, and I strongly believed in stay-at-home mom.
So I really didn't want to be where I was.
So I came home and got be with the kids.
Now they're gone and they're in college.
Now what are you doing at home?
Uh I still work at the office, but you went back to the office.
Yes, I'm still there part-time, but um I'm at home more.
Okay, here's my other point.
Yeah.
We've been discussing what we're gonna do if this tax cut happens because I knew it was gonna take place.
We've been discussing it for weeks.
You mean a tax increase?
Yes, yes.
We're gonna have to put our house on the market.
We don't really need it anymore, not this large because the kids are gone.
And what I'm afraid's gonna happen is if everybody does this, there's gonna be a glut on the market and the real estate prices are really gonna go down.
Now in Dallas, the market is still really good, so we're thinking we better go ahead and sell it now while the market's good because if this happens, um it's gonna crash.
You know, I want that this this is a this is this is an excellent point.
This is folks, what you're hearing here is a woman who is making plans based on the worst case scenario that her government might take, action that that it might take, and you can't you can't just afford to sit around and hope that this doesn't happen.
Um so you're gonna have to take actions that you'd really rather not take.
You don't want to take the you're being forced to alter your life because of a coming massive tax increase that you don't really know is going to come, but you can't you can't afford to sit by and wait and get caught up short uh if it does.
I want to make this prediction to you too, folks.
Let's say this tax increase happens, and let's say by hook or by crook they get it passed in two thousand ten.
That's when the tax cuts that we are currently living with, 2001, 2003 expire.
So you couple the expiration of the uh tax cuts, uh that's a new tax increase.
Then you tack on Hillary Clinton's new tax increase, which is it's not Wrangles, it's Hillary Clinton's.
You're looking at skyrocketing marginal rates.
But you watch what happens at the end of 2010.
All of the left-wing corporate big shot donors who get their massive year-end bonuses are gonna take as much of that bonus or sell as much of their stock options or whatever in the final months of 2010, uh, before the increases go into effect in 2011.
Remember Eisner did that.
Uh uh dumped something like two hundred ninety-two million dollars uh in income Uh, one month before the Clinton retroactive tax increase went into effect, then after all your taxes go up, uh they're still be coming at you to pay for everybody else's health care.
Folks, don't forget that.
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