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Jan. 23, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 23, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Telling you I the concern and the um the best wishes that you express for me just continue to dazzle me.
I'm getting, you wouldn't believe this.
I'm getting so many emails starting actually started with a trickle a couple days ago.
Now it's a sort of a deluge there, both in the El Rush Ball at EIBNet.com account plus the Rush 247 account.
People are really worried that the upfront, out front stance that I am taking in the Republican primary is going to lead to harm coming to me.
Uh not physically.
They the if Hillary wins, they're worried about the fairness doctrine.
Uh they they're they're they're thanking me for not backing down and so they're really worried that something is going to happen to me because these are really powerful people that I am talking about here and standing up to.
And their their image of these really powerful people is that these really powerful people with the agencies of government behind them can exact revenge.
And I just want I I I appreciate your concern for this.
Don't think I don't think about this, folks.
I ponder this somewhat, but it doesn't make me cower in the corner.
And I want to tell you this I don't care what they do.
I will always be on the air somewhere, even if it is announcing departures, trailway departures at the bus station.
I will be behind a microphone somewhere.
You all are just uh just you're too kind, and I I really appreciate it.
And then there's some people out there saying that I'm going too far and I should back down because I'm damaging things too.
But most of it is.
We really appreciate what you're doing, but gee, you know, you think you might want to back down here because it's uh they're worried about me personally and uh and professionally.
And I I want to assure you that that's not necessary.
Uh all right, the economy.
Let's talk about the economy.
Neil Cavuto had a fabulous line yesterday.
We're starting this stimulus package.
And by the way, I've got some things to add to my stimulus package.
Yes, folks, we're gonna get we're gonna get to all the political news here, but a lot of stuff going on out there, and it has been for the past week or so, and the stack of all that stuff is just building and building and building.
By the way, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Uh 800 282-2882 is the phone number if you want to be on the program.
And of course, I just gave you the email address, L Rushbowl at EIB net.com.
By the way, my voice is back all the way.
And I uh I I want to thank all of you for all of the advice and all the suggestions like Benz a weight of uh of something, go to the pharmacist, get this little blue tube, drop it in the uh boiling water, sniff it for a couple of minutes, making sure not to burn your face, uh the usual tea and honey.
I didn't do any of that, folks.
Because I know myself.
All I did was Zycam.
In case this was a cold, and it might well have been, because I did have a cough with it.
In case this was a cold, I kept it isolated where it was, it didn't move down to the chest, did not move up to the head, and it's gone now.
And it only surfaced last Friday, and here it is Wednesday.
That's all I did.
It's all I ever do when I think I might be getting a cold.
That's what you're supposed to do.
That's how you're supposed to use it.
But the the economy.
Cavuto's great point yesterday.
Here we have a stimulus package that has been rushed uh by the Federal Reserve, a massive three-quarters of a point cut, seventy-five basis points for those of you in Rio Linda.
No, seventy-five basis points for all the rest of you, three-quarters of a cut for those of you in uh Rio Linda.
Uh and the economy is actually pretty healthy, all things considered, especially when you look at unemployment.
We're at five percent unemployment and Cavuto's line yesterday.
Can you imagine what we would be doing if the unemployment rate were eight percent?
Can you imagine that why are you not why are you shaking your head in there?
I don't care that they hate, they might hate what I'm saying about the political stuff too.
That's the point of the opening the show.
As somebody hates it, I'm not gonna not say it if I really believe it.
In relative terms, We're healthy.
We're doing, in fact, get this story.
This is from Reuters, and it's out of Kansas City.
Despite the market woes whipsawing Wall Street on Tuesday.
The mood of many on Main Street was unfazed.
As people across the United States said the downturn was overdue and likely to be short-lived.
I'm not scared, said retiree T.J. Smith, who moved to Kansas City suburb a year ago from Florida.
I know we got the most vibrant economy in the world.
It'll bounce back.
This sense of optimism was shared by young and old alike and across income levels.
Some saw a steep slide in the stock market or commodity prices as a buying opportunity.
Others were grateful for the Federal Reserve's rate cut, which is going to translate into cheaper cars and home loans.
Seems like a good time to buy, said Peter Harper, 27-year-old student, as he walked into the office of a discount brokerage in Midtown Manhattan.
I'm trying to open up a brokerage account right now.
This is fabulous.
When is the last time you saw the drive by us publish a story like this?
Most of the time, when you have economic circumstances like this, you got CNBC doing everything they can to drive the country into a recession.
I mean, even today, you know, we started down on the Wall Street to Down Jones Industrial Average.
What is it now?
Where is it?
Well, it's not up on their page right now.
But it's been flirting at minus 150 to minus here it is down 206, down 206.4 right now.
There's a huge buying opportunities.
I made the point yesterday, 1987, in a two-week period.
The Dow went from 26 to 15 or 30, or whatever it was.
And in a two-week period in October of 1987, so it's we you can look at the latest boom starting in 1987 at 1,600, let's just say, and went all the way up to 14,000.
Would you not have liked to have been in on the market when it was in the 1600s?
The same thing's going to happen here at some point, however, low this goes, uh, as the market corrects itself here.
Uh these are buying opportunities for people who want to play and dabble in the stock market.
And pretty soon, whatever this ends up at 10,000, 11,000, I have no idea, but whatever it ends up, it's going to be at 14 or 15,000 again someday, and it's going to be up to 20 or something relatively like it in the out years that you don't even consider right now down the line.
It's just been the nature of the market for for its lifetime.
Uh and I'm just, I'm glad to see all this positive lack of panic news other, and I am stunned, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, that the drive-by's are reporting this.
You know, this is an election year, and it's an election year in which the drive-bys want Mrs. Clinton elected, so you've noticed that Iraq is off the front page.
In fact, there's some people that want a rock back on the front page.
There's a story that came out.
I saw it last night.
Some independent, two independent groups of journalists or organizations, have examined the statements made by Bush and Rumsfeld leading up to the Iraq War, and they have found what was the percentage, snurdly?
75 or 80% of them were lies or some.
Uh that now, the the Iraq war is going fine.
In fact, there was a story yesterday in the stack we'd have a chance to get to about how they've now discovered that 90% of the insurgents were not even from Iraq.
Now we knew this long ago.
But we told you this long ago, but the drive-by's are just now getting around to it.
Some civil war, huh?
I mean, the whole notion, the whole premise, uh, one of the many premises of a Democrat Party's opposition to the war, blown full of holes.
So now they come out with this thing last night that makes the news today.
Bush lied.
This is right out of Clinton Inc.
This is, I mean, it's it's it's these are Clinton front groups doing this disguised as independent advocacy groups or independent non-advocacy, whatever whatever they are, nonprofits, but uh Bush lied.
So they really say they're doing what they always do, recycling things, trying to get the Iraq, these people want the Iraq war back on the front page because the news is good coming out of Iraq.
Uh but it's not.
It's not going to be an issue other than, you know, did Iraq lie about his vote and Mrs. Clinton?
By the way, I got a big series of thoughts coming on what's happening in the Democrat Party and this primary.
and you know, the Democrat Party is at war.
And it's at war over race.
And it's a dirty little secret that the Democrats have been trying to sweep under the rug for decades, and it is surfacing.
Yeah, we in the Republican Party, we're at war too, but ours is over philosophy.
Theirs is over race.
There's not there's no difference between what Obama wants to do and the Breck Girl wants to do and what Hillary wants to do if they get to the White House.
But there is a there's a big difference of what we want to do based on our series and roster of candidates here.
By the way, big news from California, according to some poll data, all these details coming up as the program unfolds.
In California, with Fred Thompson getting out of the race, it seems that most of his supporters in California are going to Mitt Romney.
And people are where's it gonna nobody really knows where where Thompson's voters are going to go?
But at the same time, uh, you could say probably in Florida, most of them will go to uh go to Romney when you get to the Southern states on Super Duper Tuesday on February 5th.
The theory is uh that a lot of uh Thompson voters will go to Huckabee.
But Huckabee.
Governor Huckabee, a fine man uh and a true gentleman.
I think uh Swan song was written in South Carolina with a uh with a fourth place finish there.
I I do.
I uh I just don't think anybody knows it yet.
Um and I just wanted to make this statement so David Brooks could get that through his head and move on to some other candidate now.
Well, he already has.
Uh moving on to McCain.
Uh anyway, a lot to do here today, folks.
You got first time out of the day, EIB obscene profit break.
We are not affected here on our program by seasonal adjustments in advertiser spending.
We are sold out all the time at confiscatory rates.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here, the cutting edge of societal evolution as we have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Okay, yesterday I announced my stimulus package, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, and it included many things.
It included among those things, uh wiping out all mortgage debt that is overdue that might lead to a foreclosure.
Rather than giving people eight hundred bucks, uh the Clintons don't need eight hundred bucks, for example.
Uh, they keep telling us that are rich, don't need the eight hundred bucks.
A lot of people don't need the to take all the money from the people that don't need it, uh, and and give it to all these people that are on the verge of losing their homes, pay off their bad debt, get them back to square one, and then they're still gonna make their mortgage payments from that point forward.
Number two, wipe out all credit card debt.
This is something that uh to choke off the economy in future years and really cause people problems.
I've read these heartbreaking stories from California of people making a hundred thousand dollars a year.
And because of the tough economic times and the subprime crisis, they have had to take public transportation to their jobs, scooping ice cream downtown at the uh at the Scoopy Dip uh uh shop.
Well, that's 40,000 a credit card to wipe it out for everybody that is uh overdue and is just it is well, I don't care what the balance is.
It could be 25 bucks that you're overdue if anybody paying a minimum payment because it's all they can afford, anybody not paying a minimum payment because they can't even afford wipe it out.
Just get rid of all of that.
You think I could get elected.
This is so easy.
I think, and that's just two elements of my stimulus plan, but wiping out that kind of debt.
I mean, this goes much farther than Mrs. Clinton freezing interest rates for 90 days.
Uh this goes much farther than Mrs. Clinton freezing uh foreclosures for 90 days.
My plan prevents all that.
I would also, as I have been suggesting that the Mrs. Clinton does, I would establish a floor right now on stock prices.
I would say the Dow Jones Industrial Average cannot go below 11,000.
I just write it in a law, just make it happen.
But then I was I was coming across, uh, you know, doing show prep, and I ran across a story today.
I think I I should add something else to all of this in my stimulus package.
Work-related stress can kill you, according to a study.
Work really can kill you, according to a study on Wednesday, providing the strongest evidence yet of how on the job stress raises the risk of heart disease by disrupting the body's internal systems.
The findings from a long running study involving more than 10,000 British civil servants, these are government workers.
Not you know, I don't want to insult anybody here, but if government work is stressful and can lead to a heart attack, what is real work doing to people?
These civil servants, these 10,000 British civil servants suggest that stress-induced myological changes may play a more direct role than previously thought.
I can handle this in my stimulus package.
Since my stimulus package gets rid of all debt, I am going to stop working.
I'm going to just make nobody will have to work.
Whatever your current income is, you will get it, and you'll get an inflation-factored raise every year.
We will continue to provide your health care and your social security and all these.
All that stays.
And in fact, you get your salary.
Now you don't get any new raises because you're not going to be doing anything, but you will get cost of living raises.
No work in my stimulus package.
But rush, nothing will get done.
Doesn't matter, I want votes.
We'll deal with that after I get elected, when I have to repeal all of this.
But in order to get elected or to get loved and be loved by a lot of people, that's my plan.
Now, we just heard that work-related stress can kill the more fit you are, the longer you're likely to live, according to a large study of veterans that applies to black men as well as white men.
Whoa ho!
So getting in shape does not re uh end up with uh women and minorities being hardest hit.
The veterans' affairs researchers found that the highly fit men in the study had half the risk of death as those who were the least fit.
The study showed that his fitness levels went up the risk of death drop for both blacks and whites.
When researchers looked at blacks and whites with heart disease, results were similar.
Now, you know, the the who can keep up with all of this?
All this contradictory information was just a couple weeks ago, maybe a month ago, we're told exit doesn't matter, and maybe more overweight you are, the better shape you are.
You might even live a little longer than the skinny little reeds out there.
Now we're back to this old wives' tale that if you better you want to live long, you better exercise.
There was a story earlier this week, exercise doesn't mean diddly squat.
It was by Gina Collana in the New York Times.
All this conflicting information.
So my stimulus package will also include not only wiping out all debt, credit card, mortgage interest, and paying you your salary plus a cost of living increase adjusted to inflation every year, your social security or health care, and eliminating your work.
I will mandate four hours of exercise a day so that you live longer.
I will mandate it.
There's nothing required if you don't do it.
I will still mandate it.
Try this headline.
Your baked potato may not be quite as nutritious by the end of the century, according to a new study.
As carbon dioxide levels continue to accumulate in the atmosphere due to the use of fossil fuels.
The increase could cause a decrease in the nutritional value of many key foods, says Max Taub of Southwestern University in Texas, who analyzed more than 200 spearmins experiments for the rest of you not in real lunda, conducted by uh researchers.
The experiments looked at the effects of higher levels of the greenhouse gas.
What um I somebody I may need some biological help here.
Photosynthesis isn't what happens is we exhale carbon, what is this we exhale carbon dioxide, right?
And in the plants and the trees and the grass using photosynthesis convert that back to oxygen.
In other words, they feed off of what we exhale, we feed off of what they convert.
So how can more carbon dioxide kill the plants and ruin their nutritional value?
Potatoes be like saying too much oxygen can wipe us out.
Well, actually, it well depends on how it happens to you, but that theoretically is true.
Um, see, even this is not a problem, ladies and gentlemen, because we're running out of dirt.
The subject of the we're not gonna have potatoes to grow in a hundred years.
We're losing the topsoil because greedy farmers are not tilling the land.
They're just planting and raping what comes out of there.
And in a hundred years we're not going to have any topsoil.
We're losing the damn dirt, ladies and gentlemen.
So it's all a moot point.
You know, actually, since I was little, I've been hearing about how we're destroying the topsoil, and we're not going to have any.
This is an age-old complaint and wives tale being revived.
More coming up after this.
Look at me.
Look at me, folks.
We're gonna get to the politics in due course, and it's gonna be barn burner.
But I got this other stuff out there that I'm interested in, too.
It's all related when you when you when you get right down to it.
I know you people have a lot to deal with.
Drive-by media doing its damnedest to create an economic depression.
Your fat, obese kids cannot learn diddly squat in school.
They might be learning diddly, but not squat.
Everything you like to eat is bad for you.
There are two Americas, one of them full of illegal aliens who can get driver's licenses and benefits easier than you can.
Gas prices blowing your budget, your house value is going to hell, ATMVs are too high, the boys are picking on Hillary, Bill is out attacking the black guy, global warming is destroying the planet while you're freezing to death with home heating bills up the wazoo.
And now let me add one more to this crisis.
And this has the potential to cause a painful, miserable premature death.
Story yesterday planet is getting skinned.
It was in the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Mother Earth used to be covered with three feet of topsoil, but farmers, greedy farmers on the tape via subsidies, who selfishly refuse to stop tilling the land, are tearing up the top layer of earth so fast, they have put the entire planet at risk.
It's yet another environmental nightmare.
We're losing about one percent of our dirt every year.
So the theory is in a hundred years it'll all be gone.
We're running out of dirt.
And if there's no more dirt, there's no more farms.
If no more farms, no more food, no more food, no more mankind, no more food, no more animals.
They will eat us after they run out of vegetation.
We are doomed either way.
Running out of damn dirt.
Now, this uh story uh was uh it's been all over the drive-by media, and the official climatologist, the EIB network, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama Huntsville, sends me a note.
So, Rush, I heard you refer to a news story about the loss of topsoil.
This issue has been around, and by the way, this some of this is scientific.
I'm about to break this down for some of you, uh, including some of you, not just in Rio Linda, but but beyond.
Dr. Spencer does happen to treat these subjects very scientific fashion.
So stand by.
Uh he said that this has been around for decades, and some alarmists have said that we're gonna run out of topsoil long before we run out of fossil fuels.
And I can tell you, I I was I've since I've been growing up, I remember being taught in school that this was a big threat, that this was a giant crisis.
Yeah, I remember getting, you know, getting educated on how farmers should uh plow the fields on mountainsides to avoid the topsoil being washed away.
You plow around the mountain in its circumference rather than vertically up and down so as not to create rows.
Uh you create columns, so to speak.
Uh they were worried about it.
I'm 57.
This was when I was well 50 years ago.
45, 50 years ago.
Uh we have to ask ourselves, though, what would the brilliant scientist Julian Simon say?
Who's Julian Simon?
You remember Julian Simon?
Paul Ehrlich, population bomb back in the 70s, predicted the doom and gloom and the loss of humanity due to overpopulation in the year 2000, that all the people would eat up and destroy all the resources.
Julian Simon made him a bet.
They picked out some minerals and uh commodities, and Simon bet that there would be more of them and cheaper by a certain date, and he won every one of them.
Early is talking about.
So you always consult what would Julian Simon say?
He probably would say this is or get scientific.
He'd probably say that if we ever reach the point where dirt is not in abundance, all we need to do is start putting all of that organic matter that we ate back into the fields.
Now I realize some of you, organic matter that we ate.
What is what is Rush talking about?
Now stick with me on this.
The organic matter that we ate back in the field uh the organic matter that we ate, he suggests putting back in the fields, is known as biosolids.
Uh biosolids uh is a polite term for sewage sludge.
Need I go further.
Well, what is sewage sludge lady?
In other words, uh Dr. Simon would suggest that if we find a period of time where dirt is not in abundance, just spread a bunch of crap out there and the problem will be solved.
And Lord knows, folks, that's a commodity we are never ever going to run out of.
Part of my stimulus package.
Where I'm going to retire debt.
I'm going to require something.
I'm going to retire debt.
I'm going to get all your credit card debt, your home mortgage, and pay, I'm going to give no work.
You're going to hit your salary with no work, uh, health care and all that, but I'm going to require that you do something.
Poop it up.
Because we can't, we can't go forward as a country if we do not have adequate dirt out there for the farmers to plant foods in.
So that'll be your only requirement.
That'll be the uh it's gonna be a poop quota.
Uh that will not be tied to how much food uh every pooper eats, but which there's gonna be a quota to make sure, and we're gonna need this to be a growth area.
Uh and and so uh people look at you, you laugh about this.
People have been doing this for years in their gardens.
And the soil expires and gardens to go out there, and you know, but some people call this they call this fertilizer.
Some people have Sterley, I've got a story on it here at an educational website.
I can print the link on the website.
Well, you think I'm making this up?
I'm telling people no, no, no, no.
People it is that they use biosolids in their gardens.
I did not take it any further than that.
What in the world are you conjuring up image-wise?
I can't.
They have people have been using, not doing.
Don't misunderstand here.
They have been using biosolids in their gardens.
You know this.
You're a big flower guy.
You're a big landscape.
Uh well, that what does d any manure works as long as it's organic, and it all is.
Think about that next time you go buy your carton of organic milk, which is a point I've missed.
So that will be my only request and requirement of the citizens of the country to poop it up to replace the topsoil.
Uh let's see.
Oh, and one final thing here before we get to the uh nope, two more.
Two more things.
From the Associated Press, 45,000 people are dying a month in Congo.
Some 40,000, 45,000 people die every month in Congo, as the world's deadliest humanitarian crisis has failed to improve despite five years of relative peace.
An estimated 5.4 million Congolese died between 98 and 2007 because of conflict, most from the rampant disease and food shortages stemming from fighting.
The study found that life is still alarmingly precarious for Congolese despite the end of the war in 2002.
When war ended in Congo, there was the same level of dysfunction without the violence.
Now who's running the Congo?
Who who's there to make sure this doesn't happen?
United Nations, folks little blue hats, the peacekeepers and so forth, UN.
They are not doing their job.
Maybe they are doing their job.
Who knows what their intentions are, you know, the United Nations could be one of the most racist and anti Semitic organizations on the planet as well.
But who whatever they're doing or not doing it is taking years to get Congo in shape after the fighting stopped.
Now isn't it amazing you don't read about this stuff in Iraq.
And who's taking care of things in Iraq?
The United States of America, particularly the United States military.
Forty-five thousand people a month are dying in Congo and the UN is there to ensure that it doesn't happen.
Finally before we go to the break, how many of you going back to the summer of Hurricane Katrina what was that 2005?
Was Katrina 205?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, 2005.
And remember uh all global warming hoaxers were out there saying it's just only a forerunner of what it's going to be.
It's going to be so bad.
It's going to be really worse.
I mean it's global warming and global warming is causing increased sea surface temperatures and the increased sea surface temperatures, why they're providing all the fuel for these hurricanes it's going to be horrible.
Okay.
From the South Florida Sun Sentinel, right down the road here in Fort Lauderdale.
Following in the footsteps of an earlier study, government scientists yesterday said warmer oceans should translate to fewer hurricanes striking the United States.
The reason as sea surface temperatures warm globally sustained vertical wind shear increases wind shear makes it difficult for storms to grow and grow or to form and grow because the shear just rips the tops off of them.
Using data extending back to the uh middle nineteenth century, we found a gentle decrease in the trend of U.S. landfalling hurricanes when global ocean temperatures are up was supposed to be just the opposite now what are the global warming hoaxers going to do with this?
Because this is rooted in global warming.
The ocean temperatures are rising and they say that's due to global warming resulting in fewer hurricanes.
And by the way, uh who's right on this one you have to take a you know who really knows take a wild guess but last summer sea surface temperatures were scorching and all these hurricanes that formed out there didn't last and it was the wind shear it was the shear just and they blame it on El Nino or La Niña and what are those warming or cooling of the Pacific sea surface temperatures.
Quick timeout be right back state all right let's go back to the phones and let's get to the phones.
We haven't been there yet and we'll uh we'll get started political stuff.
We'll do the Democrats in the first hour we'll get to the Republicans in the uh in the in the well we'll do the Republican we'll do the Democrats next hour we'll do the uh Republicans in the last hour.
That's how we'll do it.
I got some phone calls here Lucy in Columbus, Ohio.
Hi Lucy.
Hi Rush I can't believe I'm speaking to Maharashi.
Thank you so much.
Yes it's true.
Um I just wanted to call your call screener was pretty tough but he's he was right to get to the point.
I want to complain about all these um this government bailout of these people with these mortgage problems.
Yeah.
Um my husband and I have a five year arm on our home it goes up in November of of oh nine I mean uh yeah two thousand nine and uh we moved from a large house to a small house so that I could stay home with my two children and uh I hear I have some people that I know that are in this problem having this problem.
And I am so tired of people whining that they don't get off their behinds and do something about their lives.
Well, join the claw.
I know that.
And the reason why I'm I was clean I was cleaning the house and I was listening to you and I was starting to get so angry.
And I couldn't believe it.
I thought, well, I'm gonna try to call Rush because you know he he is uh agreeing about this, and I know a lot of your listeners agree.
So I stood up and I got my phone, I started dialing in about maybe the twelfth time I couldn't believe I got through.
And I want those people to know that you make me sick.
Do something.
I have a job, I work out of my home, I got a job because it was a little tight.
Yeah, well, you know, I I hate to burst your bubble, but that's why they don't like you.
I don't care if they don't like me.
Well, that's why they think that they ought to get even with you.
That's why they think you owe them.
Because you have a job and you're happy and you're probably making more they think you make more money than uh than the than they do.
Um and when they when they got into these ARM loans and the rates went up to the point they couldn't afford it, we've got to blame somebody, and we're gonna blame themselves.
I'll tell you who's really escaping blame on this.
If if you want to assign blame, and you know, that's good for a little while.
Congress is behind this.
Congress is the one who demanded all these banks start lending money to people that really were not qualified.
That that's really the root of this.
Now they get to stand around and act like bystanders and spectators, just like they did with Hurricane Katrina.
I mean, these are the people in charge of making sure the money is there and seeing through that the levies get fixed and get fixed properly, and they act like they had nothing to do with it.
Well, what happened here?
We better get to the bottom of it.
And never conduct investigations about themselves.
Now, the New York Times today has this uh little story on all this urgently Washington responds, and the Democrats, the the alarm here for me anyway, in this story, the Democrats are all excited at the bipartisanship with the Republicans and the White House.
Uh now the Republicans want different things in the stimulus package than the Democrats do.
Uh the Democrats uh and they're arguing among themselves on whether to use this as an opportunity to blame Bush and blame the Republicans in an election year.
Uh but but they are impressed.
The Democrats in their air of superiority say in this story they're impressed that conservative skepticism has been swept aside and they want to work, the conservatives want to work with the Liberal Democrats in order to get this done.
Now, what the liberals want the stimulus package that consists of is largely public works.
Conservatives are insisting on incentives for business and investment.
And Judd Gregg, Senator Judd Gregg, uh New Hampshire is disappointed that the discussions, this is a Washington Post story started in the middle because now there's nowhere for them to go.
Meaning they started with with compromise at the outset.
So that this look, this is an election year, and this is what politicians do, and part of the reason for my stimulus package bit was to illustrate this.
Being absurd, using absurdity or illustrating absurdity by being absurd.
I I'll tell I'll give you another theory.
I think whatever you think of the economy the stock market going down, what is it down to about three hundred points?
was last time I saw, you know, and this is just politics, and you can make book on it every election year.
If the Democrats are the out-of-power party, they're going to talk it down, and the drive-by media is going to think that's politics as usual.
They're not gonna care that it might be false.
They're gonna chalk this up.
This is what politicians do, this is what parties do.
Out of power parties try to ratchet up fear and angst and anger, and they try to get everybody and that's what's happening now.
And so the econom I I I think the political process, I think the ongoing efforts of politicians, both parties to get elected actually contributes to negative economic activity, not just uh perceptions.
Uh once they start talking stimulus package, Lucy, once the government starts talking about giving things away, and it comes from the White House and the Congress, just bend over and grab the ankles, understands it's election year, and in December you might be able to stand back up.
Get this, folks.
An op-ed contributor in the New York Times says that the way you make tax cuts work is by getting rid of them.
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