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Dec. 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Everybody's just staring at me like you haven't seen me in like days.
Yeah, it's true.
Well, here we are.
We're back at the EIB Southern Command, Rushlin Baugh talent on loan from God on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yes, sir, Bob.
This is the last program of the week, the last program that I will be here hosting for the year, ladies and gentlemen.
Great to be with you, the Rush Lindbaugh program and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Open line Friday.
You know the drill by now.
We go to the phones.
And you can talk about whatever you want.
Monday through Thursday, it's not the case, but Friday it is.
So you got questions, comments, complaints, you want to whine like Huckabee's whining.
You want to moan, whatever feel f I was hoping it wasn't gonna come to this.
I was hoping this wouldn't happen, but it's happened.
800-282-2882 in the email address uh L Rushbow at EIB netcom.
Look at this, folks.
Consumers put aside worries about slumping home sales and soaring gasoline prices and headed to the malls in November, pushing spending up by the largest amount in three and a half years.
But I thought it was gonna be a bad Christmas.
I thought it was gonna be very, very consumer spending despite the home sales uh slump and the soaring gasoline price.
Why?
Consumer spending, this would include that massive weekend after Thanksgiving in the following week leading up into the uh first of December, largest amount three and a half years.
You know what I predict to you?
I predict that the next series of economic stories will be the drive-by's and their economic experts yelling at us about not saving enough.
Uh that's just it's it is just the way they work.
This morning on CNBC's Squawk on the Street, uh Aaron Burnett and Jim Kramer, the out-of-control Jim Kramer, were interviewing Craig Hester, the CEO of Hester Capital Management, and he hit it dead eye.
This is what he said about the economy.
That's one thing about the economy, Jim.
There's a lot of pessimism.
And I think we're gonna uh through the media, if we're gonna have a recession, it's gonna be media generated as opposed to an economy.
Things look very strong from what I can tell.
There you have it, the media trying to create a resistance.
Guy's actually right.
That's Craig Hester, CEO of Hester Capital Management.
All right, Ed Rollins uh is on the war path now for his candidate, Mike Huckabee.
And he sat down for an interview with CBS News on their uh, I guess on their website.
Uh and here's the first question.
Let's start with the attacks on Governor Huckabee from a lot of Republican establishment figures lately.
Republican establishment figures lately.
Rush Limbaugh has called him the Huckster.
Rich Wowry, editor of the National Review, has said it would be suicide to nominate him.
Why do you think Mr. Rollins that Governor Huckabee is provoking all of this criticism?
Ed Rollins.
Well, I think first of all, he's not an established candidate.
I don't think anybody anticipated early on when he started to run that he would do as well as he's doing.
Some of these guys have already picked their candidates, and I think to a certain extent, the alleged wise men have sat around in either their studios or the newsrooms basically writing magazine articles.
They didn't see it coming, and I think they underestimated him.
Ladies and gentlemen, and Mr. Rollins, and for those of you in the Huckabee campaign, I want to turn back the hands of time.
We're going to go back to the archives of this program, specifically November the 8th of this year.
This is what I said to my audience on that day.
What if Mike Huckabee wins Iowa?
What does that do to Mitt Romney and Thompson in New Hampshire And South Carolina, respectively.
Secondly, what if Hillary continues to stumble?
And either Obama or Edwards ends up being the nominee.
Now I know nobody thinks that's possible, which is precisely why I focus on it.
The conventional wisdom is she's got it wrapped up, and the conventional wisdom is that Mrs. Clinton's got Clinton Inc.
and that Clinton Inc.
can get rid of anybody in her way.
But Mrs. Clinton has she got to get out of her own way for 13 months in a row or 12 months in a row in order to stop gaffing.
But just think about it.
If Hillary continues to stumble, and either Obama or Edwards ends up the nominee.
I mean, what kind of general election does this lead to?
Do you realize the shock?
Everybody figures it's Hillary and Giuliani right now.
But what if Huckabee wins Iowa?
And what if Hillary loses Iowa?
That was November the 8th on this program.
Mr. Rollins, who is now the campaign chieftain for Mike Huckabee, is uh saying that uh I am part of the uh New York or Wall Street DC Axis, media elite axis, didn't see any of this coming.
I would I would maintain, ladies and gentlemen, if you were listening to this program in November 8th, and you heard me say, what if Mike Huckabee wins Iowa?
You probably thought I was nuts.
And you probably what is he what's he smoking?
I was the first to bring it to attention.
I saw it coming.
And I now may be seeing it going.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Now I'm what I'm reacting to here, we brought this up yesterday.
There was a there was a post on a blog at the Atlantic magazine's website, an unidentified uh uh uh uh Huckabee supporter in Washington said, honestly, Rush doesn't think for himself.
That's not necessarily slap because he's not paid to be a thinker, he's an entertainer.
I can't remember the last time he's veered from the talking points from the DC Manhattan chattering class.
And I thought, my I told you yesterday, I said how how what in the world here?
Anyone it's uh r running a Republican candidate or it uh uh is on the staff of a Republican presidential candidate, can't possibly believe this.
Maybe it wasn't Huckabee or anybody in his staff leaking this, maybe it was somebody else.
Uh you know, uh uh one of the names that I thought of at first, which I have since rejected was McCain.
Uh, because McCain's surging in New Hampshire and and needs for Huckabee not to do well there if he wins Iowa.
And McCain, you know, has he's gotten mad at me a lot, and he refers to me as entertainer.
Just entertainer that nobody should take seriously, and nobody does take seriously.
And that was uh but I've I've rejected that after having uh read Mr. Rollins' comments, and we've got more audio tape of uh of Ed Rollins.
But let's just review uh, ladies and gentlemen, and by the way, I like I said at the beginning of the program, I hate that it has come to this.
But this this little blurb, it's in the Atlantic, and now of course CBS asking Ed Rollins about it and so forth.
Uh these people are coming after me personally, which I have not done on Huckabee.
They're they're coming after me personally like the libs do.
But let's just go back to some four or five things here, and let's see just how well I fit into this so-called Wall Street D.C. Axis, Harriet Myers.
The Wall Street D.C. Axis was all over.
Hell Harriet Myers and trying to get the president what he wanted.
How about the Dubai Ports deal?
I think I was the lone voice in major media saying, hey, wait a second, it's not a bad deal.
It could be very good.
How about Republican spending abuses have been all over me?
How about how about illegal immigration?
You you talk about the DC New York Axis being all for him, and I was not there.
So I I don't know who it is that said this, but whoever they did doesn't listen to this program uh because they also said I also have to think that he's dying to have Hillary in the White House.
Bill Clinton made Russia's superstar.
Uh I became a megastar, folks, long before the Clintons got into the White House.
I really I really am uncomfortable with this.
I was hoping that it wasn't going to uh uh come to this kind of thing.
Uh I yeah, I've never called Huckabee a huckster.
I've called him the his is his yeah, his fans, his supporters hucksters.
I I've not called him a huckster, but that's just that's just I mean, I uh of all the people that are out there criticizing Huckabee, it has not been me.
I've I've been trying to be very judicious throughout this whole Republican primary.
The thing is, I saw the Huckabee boom coming before Rollins was even hired to see it coming after the fact.
But it doesn't mean there's a path that's clear to the nomination either.
Now I remember Ed Rollins after he uh left Ronald Reagan, he worked for the Axis of D.C. Manhattan in New Jersey, where he was leading the Christie Todd Whitman campaign.
If anybody is an elite and part of the DC New York Axis, Ed Rollins should look in the mirror.
Uh Christy Todd Whitman, by the way, of the D.C. Manhattan Axis.
So Huckabee goes out in the hires, the D.C. Manhattan Axis campaign manager, who then starts ripping people like me for being part of the D.C. Manhattan uh Axis.
I'm part of the Cape Girardo Middle America Axis.
I grew up in Missouri.
I think I think Rollins and his candidate need to stick to the issues.
They need to stick to the record, they need to stop with this Clinton-esque spinning that they're doing out there.
Uh you know, this is McCain's starting to look better to me than this guy.
And that's saying something.
More I see of what Huckster's Huckabee's record was in uh uh Arkansas, I mean there's a lot of liberalism in there.
There certainly isn't a lot of Reaganism in there.
And I think that the Huckabee campaign's trying to dumb down conservatism to comport with his record.
And now they focus on me.
Uh challenging me on a personal level here, like the Libs do.
It's almost, you know, I told you the other day what I had a caller and want to know what I thought of the Huckabee campaign.
I said, look, I see a lot of perot here in terms of the support that Huckabee has.
And I remember back in 1992 did everything I could.
By the way, Ed Rollins worked for Perot, too.
Uh but let's go back.
I mean, I I said something I learned during the Perot campaign.
I tried to warn people every day, this is this, this this guy's not who you think.
He's not really serious about this.
There's a vendetta or something that's that's driving this, but he's not who you think he is.
There's something about this not right, but I couldn't talk him out of it because he was an outsider.
And he was somebody who was saying all these pithy little things, and he really got on um uh on on a wavelength with people.
And it got so bad my program partners tried to get me to stop talking about it because they thought I was driving the audience away.
They said, you you need to think about supporting Perot because that's your audience.
I said, I cannot do that.
Well, they were really worried the ratings are gonna plunge, the ratings ended up skyrocketing during this time.
I mean, this happened on an airplane coming back from a sales call, sales meeting in Atlanta.
Oh, they were yelling I know they were yelling at me every day for not getting it, and why aren't you on board?
Why aren't you leading this movement?
You know, and it would have been easy.
It would have been easy for me to cave, you know, put my finger in the wind, moistened and all, and see which way the winds are blowing, but I have never done it, and it was wasn't going to start then.
And what I learned was you can't talk cultists out of their cult.
You just can't.
When their belief in something has nothing to do with substance or very little to do with understanding when it's based on other things, he can't talk them out of it.
And so that's that's you know, I see some similarities here in the Huckabee campaign and Perot.
Uh you know, Perot, Whitman, uh Ed Rollins.
Uh I guess if you listen to Huckabee people, uh Bill Buckley has been read out of the movement by Huckabee as well, since he's lived in Connecticut and he's worked in New York.
Uh who is this campaign to be defining who is or who is not a conservative?
I I never I never heard of Huckabee in an important ideological way before this campaign got going.
And believe me, I know who the conservatives are out there.
For this elitism they keep talking about.
When they're talking about the New York DC axis, there was the code word there is uh it's for elites.
It's the elites who want open borders, not middle America.
It's the elites who want higher taxes, and this is Huckabee's campaign.
Uh It's elites who want to talk to the Iranian regime, not Middle America.
It's the elites soft on crime, want to release criminals from prison, not Middle America.
Look at what Schwarzenegger's doing a 20,000 because of a budget shortfall.
If we can choose a candidate, this is my only point, folks.
If we can choose a candidate who is pro-life and anti-same-sex marriage and good on national security, illegal immigration, taxes and spending, why shouldn't we choose that candidate?
Why do we have to choose somebody who is trying to get a redefinition of conservatism to comport to his views?
By the way, this is not just about Huckabee.
This has been my lament from the moment this campaign began, if you recall.
No, I am way long here.
I gotta take a brief time out.
The next segment after this is going to be appreciably shorter.
Uh just so you know, be right back after this.
Sorry, folks, I was listening to some music on the uh IFB.
We're back.
Rush Limbaugh on open line Friday.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
We'll start with last night's hardball with Chris Matthews on PMS NBC was talking to uh Romney, uh senior advisor Ron Kaufman, uh, and the new Huckabee National Campaign Chairman Ed Rollins.
And uh Matthew said, Ed, does faith bring you guys together or separate you?
You and I are Catholics and our candidates are different.
And uh Ron, are you still an atheist or have you basically converted?
Now that you're rich.
We've had a Mark Penn moment on this show already, Ed.
We don't need another one.
He's my very dear friend.
Ron is my own.
Okay, but I know, but you just incuse him being an atheist.
That's the Huckabee National Campaign Chairman Ed Rollins asking if one of Mitt's guys, Ron Kaufman, is an atheist.
So then um uh Matthew says, relevant to this campaign, is there any religious difference between Romney and Huckabee relevant to this campaign?
Is there a religious difference?
Ed Rollins, you know exactly what I'm asking.
I know exactly what you're asking, and I think the bottom line is that the voters themselves will make that decision.
Whoa!
Whoa!
Ron Kaufman, he just dodged on the question whether there's a religious difference between the two candidates and what they're offering in terms of policy.
Yeah, I just did.
Um so there's there's uh the latest of the campaigns.
You know, I the the Huckabee campaign is apparently uh very thin-skinned, and there are a lot of stories out there, but the one of the AP headlines, Huckabee, Woe is me, uh another couple of others that I have here in the stack.
I just want all of you to know.
I have nothing against Mike Huckabee personally, other than he is for exercise, and I'm not.
I don't know him.
But the purpose of a primary is to try to take the measure of a candidate, to try and discern what kind of president he would be, to try to cut through all the clutter, determine what kind of record the candidate has and so forth.
This is how elections have worked since there have been elections.
It's an important process.
Uh, president very powerful, these are very critical times in our history.
If a candidate wants your vote, he has to earn it and convince you why he's worthy of it, as you know.
As a general and practical rule, I do not endorse primary candidates, but I do.
Take a careful look at the candidates and comment on what I think their strengths and weaknesses are.
And it appears that in doing so, the Huckabee campaign has taken offense.
Uh maybe Huckabee himself, I don't know, since the source or sources of comments from his campaign are always unidentified.
But as you, and at a 20 million of you people out there, probably more today.
As you know, I'm a conservative, and I make no excuses for it.
I do not try to hide it.
There is not one thing about conservatism that embarrasses me.
I do not apologize for it.
In fact, I celebrate it.
I try to promote it.
And I believe in individual liberty, national security, homeland security, which would include secure borders, faith, uh, respect for the sanctity of life, the rule of law.
I think these are fundamental conservative principles, belief in the individual, to triumph over the odds in life.
I didn't invent these principles.
They have been learned over time.
They're based on human experience.
Declaration of Independence, our founding document.
And it makes clear that we as human beings have certain unalienable Rights that have been given to us not by man, not by any government, but by God.
And within this context, the Constitution sets forth both the powers and the limits of the federal government, the purpose of which is to secure and advance our God given rights, not to diminish them.
This is where I'm coming from, and where most of you are coming from in this audience.
And we want a candidate for president and ultimately a president who shares these fundamental understandings.
So when I raise questions about public reports regarding a candidate's record or position, I'm comparing the record and position with our founding and conservative principles and my own beliefs.
It is not personal.
When I talk about Huckabee's illegal alien position, tax increases, the release of hundreds of criminals, the rhetoric about our war effort.
It isn't personal.
Gotta take a brief time out.
Be right back after this.
Yes, it's open line Friday as we head into Christmas weekend here on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Again, when I when I raise questions about public reports regarding any candidate's record or position, what I am doing is comparing the record and position with our founding conservative principles.
I am a conservative.
I am not a Republican first.
It matters.
When I raise questions about, say, Governor Huckabee's positions on illegal aliens, tax increases, the release of hundreds of criminals via pardon, and his rhetoric about our war effort.
Sorry.
I'm trying to develop an understanding of the guy so I can determine for myself whether he is, in fact, the kind of conservative you and me want as our president.
I've not attacked him.
I have not I have studiously avoided it.
But I've raised questions, and of course, in this climate, questions will be considered an attack.
But I'm going to keep asking the questions if I believe it's warranted to do so.
Yet the mere fact that I have commented on his record appears to have caused great anguish in his campaign.
They accuse me and apparently others too, who are going through this process of being part of the D.C. Manhattan Axis.
Last time I checked, I was born and raised in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
That may not be Arkansas, but it is Middle America.
If the suggestion is that my conservative views reflect the culture and mindset of most of the liberal cities in our country, then I think Huckabee is having serious difficulty distinguishing between conservatism and liberalism.
If he wants to tag me or some of his supporters, whoever said this, want to tag me in a New York DC axis.
You know, the response to inquiries about Huckabee's record is to accuse whoever asks the questions of being New York City or Washington, D.C. liberal.
What is it?
Name for me a conservative in the New York DC Axis.
The New York DC Axis is the drive-by.
Now, occasionally you can find some conservative magazine writers on certain issues that might team up now and then, but it's not where their heads are in an institutional way.
So what it suggests to me as a, you know, I'm just an amateur advert observer out here, folks.
I'm just watching it go by as you do.
I'm very fortunate have a microphone to share with you my analyses and observations.
But the fact that any question raised about issues in Governor Huckabee's governance causes a reaction to say, well, you're part of DC Manhattan Axis, you can't listen to them.
Must mean that these questions represent a sore point for his campaign.
I mean, individuals who have fought illegal immigration for years are not happy with his open borders positions as governor.
It's not.
Anti-tax groups are unhappy with his tax increases when he was governor.
Conservatives who helped defeat the Soviet Union under Ronaldus Magnus are troubled by his statements about our war effort and his desire to negotiate with Iran, for instance.
Look at that, the Hutch on Fox.
And it raised eyebrows among longtime school choice advocates when the New Hampshire NEA endorsed Huckabee.
They endorsed Hillary on the Democrat side, Huckabee on the right.
The NEA is not interested in conservatives getting any kind of power anywhere.
So it seems to me that it is Huckabee's record that is well suited for the axis of liberalism that he decries.
Huckabee's record is a better fit for the Wall Street DC axis that he is criticizing.
But I mean, in a minimum, it deserves scrutiny, doesn't.
And let me be blunt about this, since Huckabee has raised it or his campaign has.
How is questioning such a record an attack on Christians?
And evangelicals in particular.
I mean, I find that offensive.
As if raising questions about such a record said to be raising questions about somebody's faith or the faith of an entire community.
That's a deplorable tactic.
You people know I oppose abortion.
I oppose same-sex marriage.
I oppose the left's war on faith.
I oppose the Supreme Court's effort to ban religion from public square, and I I oppose the left's war on all those things, and I do not take a back seat or anybody else to Huckabee or anybody else on these issues.
And to suggest otherwise is to attack the character of anybody who dares to question your political and poverty positions, and that's what the libs do.
Because the Libs can't debate the issues.
The Libs don't want to debate the issues because they can't win.
I'm getting a sense that Mike Huckabee doesn't want to debate the issues.
And he's relying on other things as a firewall to keep the issues from coming up.
You know, uh what what what folks we have to force a debate on the issues, our issues that has to happen.
You know, this is, you know, conservatism is what unites a lot of us together, you and me in this audience.
Any candidate doesn't want that debate and is trying to dumb down conservatism and attack those who raise questions about that debate.
Uh that's a red flag to me.
And so I again I I wish I wish that this had not come up.
I wish this had not happened.
I didn't attack Huckabee.
I don't know him.
I don't dislike him.
I have I have nothing personal whatsoever against him.
I have not made one comment about his record as governor other than to ask questions about some of these policies he engaged in as they relate to what kind of president he would be.
And if you're not entitled to ask those questions without somebody in the campaign launching out with some personal BS, uh, you know, then that campaign seems to be a little thin-skinned.
So it is what it is.
Ladies and gentlemen, here it is, the Friday before Christmas, planning on just a hunky-dory of happy go-lucky, maybe some Christmas parody stuff from the past, and look.
Look at what has happened.
And it just means that all is right with the world.
Joseph in Houston was starting the phones, open line Friday.
Great to have you, Joseph, and thank you for uh waiting.
No problem, Rush.
Hey, uh, just want to make a brief comment.
Uh I was just thinking that we ought to uh make a distinction between uh Rollins and Huckabee.
I mean, we don't I mean Rollins could be getting out there trying to say whatever he knows best to say, and uh give it a couple of days and Huckabee's liable to be saying, Oh, we didn't mean anything against uh against Rush, and that was just uh that was just Rollins and so forth.
Well, I you you can speculate on the future uh uh I can't.
Uh I I will I'm content to let things uh unfold.
But you know, what what what what made me bring Rollins into this is that this DC New York Axis business, he's represented D.C. New York Axis clients.
No, no doubt.
And uh and this this, you know, this business that uh he says here, well, you know, um uh the alleged wise men they sat in their studios, they didn't see it coming.
I think they underestimated.
When I was the first guy, before Rollins was even on board to point out that Huckabee was making a move in Iowa, and asked people to consider what it was.
Sure.
So, you know, why separate them?
I mean, they are the he's the national campaign chair and Huckabee's a candidate.
Well, yeah, and I'm with you.
Uh one other thing I just wanted to say, and that is uh in terms of all the candidates, um, I per I'm not personally uh a Huckabee supporter, uh, but I can't I can't see that Huckabee is just looking at his record, he is less conservative than say Mitt Romney or say uh Rudy Giuliani or McCain.
So in a way, uh Huckabee.
you know, when you when you're talking about Rudy and Romney, you can basically cite two things in uh in uh in what Rudy's case, same sex marriage and uh um abortion.
Yeah.
Um you you can cite four or five things about Huckabee.
Right, right.
Um and uh and Romney, you can you can think same thing.
You can cite a couple flip flops on Romney, uh, but you there's there's more than two uh deviances or deviations, I should say, in the uh Huckabee governing record.
Just asking questions.
I am just asking questions.
And I ask questions to make myself think, and hopefully you too.
Quick time out.
Back after this.
And welcome back.
It's open line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Austin, Texas is our next stop.
This is Paul.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
A very Merry Christmas, Happy and Prosperous New Year, and Mega Ditto.
Thank you, sir, very much, and the same to you.
Thank you.
Um, Rush, what I was calling about was I've got a little different take on this uh Huckabee um criticism of what I see to be your non-endorsement.
He uh Huckabee is seeing you as if he can't have you, I don't think he wants anyone else to have you.
So his criticism by Rollins is serving the purpose to uh discredit the value, the future value of your endorsement.
Okay, now wait.
Wait, did I give the impression that I thought Ed Rollins was the source for this Atlantic magazine blog that totally mischaracterized me?
Because I don't know who it is.
I mean, I originally thought it was McCain.
If you go back, I was charitable yesterday.
I said I can't believe anybody in a s in a Republican campaign would have what it was saying like this because it's so it's not true.
Anybody I've been around here twenty years.
That that's a liberal complaint.
I'm an entertainer, don't take me seriously, Clinton's made me who I am.
The only Republicans ever gotten off on that tangent is McCain.
And I thought McCain, I don't know.
So I I thought maybe as a Democrat plant, uh somebody acting as a quasi or phony supporter of uh of Romney, but I never said it was Rollins.
My my complaint about Rollins was that uh is a CBS interview talking about all these experts in their studios who didn't see Huckabee coming, and I did.
The first to see it movement back in November 7th or November the 8th.
Well, I want to clarify that.
Okay, well, thanks for clearing that part up.
I did not hear yesterday's show nor the earlier portion of this show.
Well, that's that's that's all right.
That's uh I have a good memory, and I can tell you what happened yesterday, so I just did it.
Well, we all appreciate your memory.
Thank you, sir.
Um nonetheless, though, it would uh it would not surprise me if uh any of these candidates um would try to to uh poison the well with regard to trying to wrestle the the mantle of conservatism from you.
They keep trying to redefine conservatism themselves, but they've once they come to realize they can't do it without you, um, you know, I I think they're gonna try and devalue it.
Well, you know that you m I hadn't ever thought of that because I don't I don't personalize things like that, and I frankly don't think of myself every day as the leader of the conservative movement.
I really I don't I may be, but I'm not I'm but I don't walk around with that attitude.
That's not that's not why I'm living my life.
Um well.
Maybe they look at it that way, and of course they think uh since they're all trying to redefine conservatism so it comports with their view, uh their their policy views, republicanism, that uh they think they gotta take me out.
But I mean, uh this the Huckabee campaign is the only campaign that's tried.
And it was really feeble.
Well, um uh uh I guess who they're up against is going to look feeble, Maha.
I love you, man.
I love look at Paul.
Well, I love you too.
Thank you.
Thanks, thanks for the call.
I uh I appreciate it.
We've got uh Jimmy in Chicago next.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hey Greg, how are you doing, Rush?
Merry Christmas.
Same to you, sir.
Hey, buddy, I've been I was turned on to you in ninety-two.
I came from a real long line of Democrats here in Chicago, and they always bad rap the Republican Party all the time, but one of my buddies turned me on to you as in ninety two, and I've been listening ever since.
Thank you for the education you have given me.
Well, I appreciate that.
You're more than welcome.
Hey, can I I'm gonna ask you a question about the energy bill.
I was thinking about this when you were talking about it.
All right, they want the cars to get what, 35 miles per gallon.
All right, what about the poor people in this country when they're you know they all drive jalapies, you know, and they can't uh afford a new car where the government give them a new car so they can bring on their big screen DD.
The the new cars that are manufactured starting in 2012 have to have the new miles per gallon rating.
They can't get all the old cars.
The number of old cars on the road versus new cars sold every year is large.
I mean, there's many more old cars on the road than there are new ones every year.
So you you um you can drive an old clunker for as long as you want till it won't go anymore, then you sell it and get a new one, then you got a problem.
Now, you got as you get a your new car is going to comport now or comply.
Now, here's an interesting thing.
General Motors yesterday, their their guy uh who one of their senior vice presidents for design and so forth.
Uh they're introducing the latest iteration of the Corvette.
And I forget the model number, but this thing is it's a it's a it's a monster.
620 horsepower in a V8.
They claim 15 street, 24 highway.
It will no longer, it's it's a muscle car.
By 2012, GM says we may not be able to sell it.
It may not qualify.
We may people want muscle cars like this, and this just may be the first of the muscle cars to go with a waste of the only way GM could do it, and they don't make that many Corvettes.
This baby is going to cost a hundred grand.
The only way General Motors could do it would be to manufacture a bunch of cars that get more mileage than what the government says, so that it was offset the mileage that the Corvettes that are sold is getting.
Which means if they this is going to be a strategic decision for them, if they want to continue to manufacture the Corvette as a muscle car, they're going to have to manufacture a whole bunch of teensy winsy little worthless jobies that nobody wants, hopes they can convince them to buy them so that the offset, this whole this offset is just you know, this this this energy bill, you bring it up, and one of the things about it, the global warming argument, I think, can be won in the hearts and minds of the American people.
But it's going to be very difficult to defeat it legislatively, as this energy bill uh makes clear.
But look at this is 2007.
The new cafe standards go into effect on 2012.
So we've got five years here.
And just like, you know, they might in a budget bill, they'll project the budget three years, four years out, but it's not cast in stone.
They do the budget every year.
Uh and they can come back and change this or adapt it uh before the 2012 cafe standards go into play.
There'd be a lot of lobbying pressure to avoid that.
However, um it's the shape of the automobile industry is going to change drastically.
Uh you know, these these big muscle cars that people like and you see out there may be mandated out of existence by your federal government.
Back in just a second.
I don't believe I'm seeing what I'm seeing.
Saudi Arabia is opening rehab centers for accused terrorists.
Rehab centers for accused terrorists.
Uh I've this is on Fox right now.
It's being discussed.
That's just the um little Chiron graphic.
Uh uh accused terrorists?
You need rehab if you're accused of something.
I think if you rehab, you are a terrorist and you need a rehab, but I don't know if it's possible.
Uh at any rate, we've got lots to do on the program today.
Uh we've got a Clinton stack, can't avoid that.
You know, the two leading campaigns.
The Huckabee's a front-running campaign now.
The Clintons are the front-running campaign.
Well, it's kind of mishmash over there, but Obama nationally, she's the front runner.
I think both campaigns are reacting to me.
I will have evidence.
This Clinton running around saying that Mrs. Clinton is a world class genius.
I'm sorry.
You know, I just I have to question this.
Was Carl Marx a world class genius?
The left thinks he was.
Everything he believes and stands for bombs out, fails miserably.
They keep trying it.
That's insanity.
Not genius.
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