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Jan. 24, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Save the stock market again yesterday, folks.
Did you happen to notice that?
Spoke about what a great buying opportunity yesterday's plunge was.
What was it, a 600-point swing yesterday was down 300, ended up close to 300?
And right now it's up.
What did I say?
28?
No, that's NASDAQ.
Well, whatever.
It's up out there.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rushlinboy here.
Well rested and ready to go behind this, the Golden EIB microphone.
Here's the telephone number if you'd like to join us today, 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Well, my stimulus package has been rejected.
My stimulus package has been dissed.
We have a bipartisan stimulus package.
Pelosi and the Democrat side, John Boehner and the Republican side got together thinking, kumbaya.
They're all happy about this.
Here are the details of the stimulus package in terms of tax rebates.
Checks of at least 300 bucks for all people.
By the way, there's a piece in a Wall Street Journal today by Bill Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It is incredible.
Get this.
The American dream is founded on the belief that people who work hard and play by the rules will be able to earn a good living, raise a family in comfort, and retire with dignity.
But that dream is harder to achieve for millions of Americans because they spend too much of their hard-earned money on fees to cash their paychecks.
Here is one initiative that can unite progressives and conservatives as well as business leaders and community activists, helping the unbanked enter the financial mainstream by opening checking and savings accounts and working collaboratively with financial institutions and community groups to develop.
They've written a piece about drug dealers and pimps and a lot of people in the cash society.
I mean, this is a new low to have a joint piece by Schwarzenegger and Clinton here.
I mean, the little guy.
I know it's for the illegals.
I was going to get to that, Mr. Snerdley.
This is for the illegals.
We need to get the illegals' bank accounts, the unbanked, the people who go to those.
Folks, I'm going to take a flyer here, and I'm going to assume that most of you in this audience have bank accounts and checking accounts.
And I'm going to assume that many of you, when you get paid, do so by direct deposit.
Others of you get your checks and you go to the bank and you deposit them.
I can't imagine how many people in this audience, and I probably know, I refuse to believe that I will be surprised.
How many people in this audience get their paycheck and head to one of these?
What do you mean, culture?
It's not culturally insensitive.
Let me just ask you, Snerdly, would you take any check that you've got and go down to the bail bonds area and find a check cashing store, hand it over, and say, cash this for me?
Hell no.
I don't think I've ever known anybody that's done that.
Is that the wrong thing to say?
I'm not saying there aren't people to do it.
Obviously, Clinton and Schwarzenegger are writing a column in the Wall Street Journal about the unbanked.
Oh, you've got experience with this, Brian?
Oh, that's why they go there.
They go there because they get their money earlier.
You go and get the cash right away rather than putting it in a bank and wait for the float.
Is that what you're talking about?
Give me a break.
Give you an advance on your paycheck if you just take your pay stub.
I know the interest rates are like loan junks.
Well, all right.
I still say that this whole piece focusing on the unbanked, that's the term here.
The unbanked.
Yeah, the entire American dream threatened because the unbanked are not banked.
And we need Clinton and Schwarzenegger with a proposal to get the unbanked banked.
Of course, we know who we're talking about here.
The illegal immigrants.
Oh, well, Moore, let's get back to this bipartisan stimulus package.
Here you go, on the tax rebate side.
Checks of at least $300 for all people earning a paycheck.
What about those who don't earn their paychecks?
A lot of people get paid, but don't earn it.
A lot of slackers out there, Mr. Snerdley.
You know what I'm talking about.
Strange wording.
Checks of at least $300 for all people earning a paycheck, including low-income earners who make too little to pay income taxes.
Families with children would receive an additional $300 per child, while those paying income taxes could receive higher rebates.
Rebates may be capped at $1,200 for couples with children.
Business tax write-offs.
Wait a minute.
Does this mean that I am going to get a check for $300?
There's a cap in this, isn't there?
Like $150,000 for couples and $75,000 for them.
So nobody on the EIB staff is going to benefit from this.
Nobody.
Let's see.
Right.
Business tax write-offs, spurring business investment with so-called bonus depreciation, more generous expensing rules, and a change to allow businesses suffering losses now to reclaim taxes previously paid.
Housing rescue, allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy loans larger than $417,000.
Here's what's out.
This did not make the stimulus package.
Permanent tax cuts.
Unemployment insurance.
The Democrats.
I had to sneeze there, folks.
This story's tough.
Unemployment insurance.
Democrats wanted to extend the benefits past 26 weeks, but that didn't make the cut.
Food stamps did not make the cut.
A boost.
Medicaid did not make the cut, but Democrats gave up on including Medicaid payments to the states.
And low-income heating subsidies.
Let's sneeze again.
What's going on here?
Low-income heating subsidies, Democrats surrendering the fight to include them.
And also not in the stimulus package, infrastructure spending on transportation or repair projects already underway is off the table.
Well, you know, the Democrats, they wanted all these public works projects as they didn't get as much as they wanted.
It doesn't appear to be the case.
But I want to go the government's handing out money, but according to what I've seen, there's a ceiling that if you earn 75 big ones, that's the ceiling.
If you're single, if you earn more than that, then none of this applies to you on the tax rebate.
And if you're married and your joint income is $150,000, then you're.
So we can't, well, a theory has been advanced here.
Can't stimulate the economy unless you give the big spenders the loot.
Let me just get to the point.
This is all such rigamarole, folks.
It's an election year.
One of the easy things.
Talk about bipartisanship.
Everybody's just going crazy about bipartisanship.
Oh, the left and the right and the media, they're dancing in the streets to the siren song of bipartisanship.
Isn't that nice, Mr. Limbaugh?
Aren't we caring?
See, we can't all get along for common purpose, Mithrid Limbaugh, to save America.
Right.
Let me give you a quick pop quiz, ladies and gentlemen.
When was the last time the left and the administration and some on the right got together and were cheered by the media?
When was the last time that happened?
It was not campaign finance reform.
It was not Homeland Security.
It's not the education.
This is disappointing to me.
My own staff, the answer, the answer is three feet in front of your face.
It's that close.
The last time the administration and the left and a lot of Republicans got together and were cheered by the media for doing so was the celebration of bipartisanship that brought us the amnesty bill.
Which is my point.
Kennedy and McCain, the New York Times and the Washington Post, Congress and the White House, bipartisan with themselves.
And our leaders have not learned from that.
And they're now on the sequel, The Son of Amnesty.
$150 billion for what?
Another scheme, another short-term fix that doesn't think through the consequences of its actions.
Democrats love to spread street money around to buy votes.
The administration's terrified of being tarred with another Katrina, getting blamed for political gain.
The drive-by's like bipartisan storylines.
So they can get along, and we're all better for it, right?
They can get along when they need to protect themselves.
At any rate, that's the last time we got bipartisanship.
And I always cringe when we're talking about bipartisanship.
And you know why?
Because the primary thing that happens when we get bipartisanship is that conservatives in power tend to cave on the premise of whatever is on tap to be discussed.
And that's not good.
We'll be back and continue right after this, my friends.
Sit tight.
Later raving show prep.
All right, here's a perfect stimulus package.
And this perfect stimulus package, yes, we're going to get to the Clintons in the race.
A whole bunch of see, I told you so, folks.
The Clinton Southern strategy, they're even admitting to it now.
They're even voicing it.
I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked buddy.
They're going to get to all that in due course.
It's a three-hour program.
Sit tight, be cool, and be patient.
A question, these rebate checks.
A quick question.
Brian, you're the expert here on these payday places, these check cashing places.
Can you take your government rebate check, not before you get it?
Can you take your government rebate check in there and cash that?
I mean, I would think anything with the U.S. Treasury on it, they would cash right at the payday places.
I just want to try to serve the unbanked here.
All right, so we have a $14 trillion economy.
What the hell is $150 billion more going to do?
$150 billion down the, it's not going to do diddly squat.
It might help people's perceptions and attitudes that the government cares.
And this will stimulate the economy.
Blah, blah, blah.
Perceptions, sadly in politics, are sometimes reality.
If you want to lower oil costs, you drill for more oil.
See, this is what's missing in all this, elementary basic conservatism 101.
You want to lower the price of energy?
Find more.
Not new kinds that are not abundant and don't work.
Find more existing energy.
And it's there.
Just go get it.
You want to lower housing costs?
You cut property taxes.
You want to create more jobs?
You cut corporate taxes.
You want to reduce inflation?
You cut government spending.
It's no more complicated than that.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's see.
Audio soundbite time.
I'm going to start with me.
The drive-bys continue to discuss the irrelevancy of talk radio and its leading practitioner, me.
Let's go to PMS NBC yesterday afternoon.
Anchor Monica Novotny spoke with the political director at NBC, Chuck Todd, who used to be with a hotline.
And she said to him, Chuck, one thing we know we'll see, one less candidate, Fred Thompson's dropped out.
But who could benefit from that?
Who might get those voters who might have otherwise voted for Fred Thompson?
It was sort of the cranky conservative, but sort of the Rush Limbaugh conservative radio listener was the Fred Thompson supporter.
And that's now what's up for grabs, that talk radio listener constituency.
And that's actually not very friendly to John McCain, and that's something that he may have problems with down the road.
A head is spinning.
On Sunday and Monday, we were irrelevant.
We were being told by people on our side to shut up.
And now the liberal Chuck Todd at the liberal PMSNBC, otherwise known as DNC-TV, is saying that the talk radio listener constituency is up for grabs, and that is huge.
There are so many pieces being written about talk radio once again.
And I sit here, I read these things, and I marvel.
I really do, folks.
I marvel at how misunderstood this medium is.
People who are in broadcasting, who are also in the information business, I marvel at how they do not understand it.
And the primary element of their misunderstanding is you.
Their whole basis of being wrong in their conception of talk radio is based on the fact that you are idiots and that you are not independent thinkers.
And everything, everything flows from that.
It is, and I understand why they're jealous.
All these critics are jealous of the influence and the loyalty and all of that.
But it still, it boggles the mind to see how wrong they consistently are in analyzing what the A, this show is all about in talk radio, period.
Yesterday on CN in the Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer spoke with resident curmudgeon, Jack Cafferty.
And Blitzer says, I want you to listen to Rush Limbaugh on his radio show Tuesday.
Jack, listen to this.
What we need.
Ladies and gentlemen, are more people talking about McCain's record?
Not fewer.
They're telling us to shut up.
They're telling us, come on, Limbaugh, you're destroying a party.
You're breaking it apart.
Jack, what do you think about this sort of rebellion within the conservative movement against McCain, who's doing really well right now in his race for the nomination?
The 91, the New Hampshire primary, we talked at some length on CNN during the election coverage about the fact that the issue of immigration would dog him all the way down the campaign trail.
This was not immigration reform.
This was amnesty.
And the reason that it never got anywhere in Washington was the people of this country didn't believe that the politicians would close the border.
And McCain was right at the front of trying to shove that thing through.
And people haven't forgotten that, and they won't forget it.
And immigration is a big, big issue for a lot of people in this country.
So he's got a problem there.
Wow.
Somebody in the drive-bys understands part of what's going on here, that immigration is a big issue and that Senator McCain has problems with it in his own party.
Fred Barnes is still suggesting that Senator McCain call me and come by my estate here in South Florida while he is here campaigning for the Republican primary election here on Tuesday.
This was on Fox News channel last night with Britt Hume, the special report show.
Got Fred Barnes on there in the roundtable.
And Britt Hume says, look, the possibility that the conservatives might coalesce behind Romney has been mentioned, but they haven't done that so far.
What is your thought there, Fred?
Now, in Florida, John McCain is campaigning as a conservative.
If I were campaigning as a conservative, I wouldn't worry about what Tom DeLay says, but I would worry about what Rush Limbaugh says.
Because Rush Limbaugh matters.
He has a huge audience.
It's mainly conservatives and Republicans, people who are going to vote in primaries like Florida.
That's why my advice would be if I were John McCain and say I'm a conservative and Rush Limbaugh lives in Florida, I'd want to go see him and express my conservatism to him.
Yeah, he's not going to do that.
That was Britt Hume there.
He's not going to do that, I don't think.
So here we are at Thursday.
I don't mean to be beating a dead horse, but this is just so you all can put this in your hat and remember it.
On Sunday and Monday, you were irrelevant.
I was irrelevant.
We were being told to shut up.
Galway, we're breaking up the party.
We're causing great damage and so forth.
And since then, we are riding high as the most crucial element now in the Republican presidential primary, the talk radio audience constituency.
Mort Kondracki, after Hume said, well, McCain's not going to go by Limbaugh's house, I don't think.
Mort Kondracki said this.
If Hillary is the nominee, that will help unite the party.
If you're Rush Limbaugh, would you rather have John McCain or Hillary Clinton?
Mort is clearly here not up to speed.
That has been addressed on this program and it's been reacted to countless times in other drive-by journals and broadcasts and other things.
On CNN this morning, John Roberts, the anchor, talking to McCain, said, Rush Limbaugh said the other day, if either McCain or Huckabee gets a nomination, it'll destroy the Republican Party.
Senator McCain, can you win those people over?
I mean, do you need to?
And can you be the unifying candidate as long as you've got people like Rush Limbaugh with this huge megaphone out there dissing you?
The reason why we got the majority of more Republican votes than anybody else in New Hampshire and South Carolina from all parts of the spectrum, including upstate South Carolina, is because the number one issue with most conservatives is the threat of radical Islamic extremism.
There's others who care very much about the state of our planet and climate change.
There's others who care very much about the existence of the state of Israel.
But a majority of strong conservatives are very concerned about this struggle we're in against radical Islamic extremism, and many of them believe I'm by far the best qualified.
So I'm confident I can secure the base of the party and win the nomination and win the election.
Well, who's he talking about here?
Because I've got a poll on Florida from Real Clear Politics.
And the only group of people that he's really creaming Romney with in this poll are people over 65, particularly women.
But of course, the threat of radical Islamic extremism, that should be a given for all these candidates.
Nobody holds a special attachment to that.
But when he says there's others who care very much about the state of the planet and climate change and about the existence of the state of Israel, that is a direct appeal to which group, Mr. Snerdley?
Huckabee's crew.
That's a direct appeal to evangelicals.
We will be back in just a second.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Great to have you with us.
All the lines are full.
They are always full.
Let me give you the number anyway, 800-282-2882.
And the email address is lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
I have to tell you all a story.
This happens every time somebody comes over to my house.
I had a little dinner party back in December, and there's some people here who live near me who had, this was the first time that they had been able to accept an invitation.
And they wanted to see the house.
I said, you want to see the whole thing?
Of course.
I want to see the bedroom.
Oh, hardly anybody ever asked in the bedroom.
And you know, it's not kosher to show people the bedroom.
When you show people your house, it's the one area you don't show them.
Who knows, you know, if you don't have staff and it's not cleaned up, who knows what's on display in there?
Okay, so we got up there and then look at the bedroom.
And this woman said, is that one of those beds you always talk about?
I said, you select comfort business.
Yes.
You really use it?
That's what people always ask me.
Do you really use that bed?
Why would I say that I have a sleep number, number 75?
Why would I say I sleep on the bed if I don't?
She said, well, I just think it's a gimmick.
I said, okay, lay down on it.
And I pull the covers back and say, lay down on it.
She said, I might dream.
Yeah, everybody's in the room.
It's not just me and her.
Everybody's in.
Lay down on it.
And here, I gave her a remote control.
I said, play with this.
Raise it and lower it.
And she did.
And she got, wow.
She became a convert right off.
I told her to lay in the bed exactly or told her, lay, lady, leave.
I said, lay in the bed and play with it.
I gave her the remote control.
And she's flicking the up buttons and she's flicking the down buttons.
And that thing, that bed is expanding, it's contracting.
It's getting more firm.
It's getting softer.
And she became a convert.
She thought the whole thing was.
Everybody asks me this.
Do you really use the sleep comfort?
Hell yes, I've been using the bed.
I don't know.
It's over 10 years now.
92% of the people who own a sleep comfort bed recommend it to a friend.
And they come with a 20-year limited warranty, 30-night-in-home trial.
And if you, if you, look, you can take my word for it or not.
If you don't take my word for it, you can just try it for 30 days, a free in-home trial.
You won't get rid of it, but if you want to do it that way, you can.
Just call 1-800-GETA-BED.
They've even got a DVD and a brochure that explains the whole thing on the sleep number bed.
That's 1-800-GETABED.
You know how many of these things I could sell if everybody could come to my house?
And I say, here, lay down on it.
Here, take this, start playing with it.
And then after, you know, after she did it, everybody else wanted to get and try it too.
The party was in the bedroom for quite a while.
And then we went down and had dinner.
All right, to the phones we go.
Mary in Alaska, Washington, you're nice to call.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Yeah, hi, how are you?
I don't even know.
Not everybody's comfortable with Mr. Branches or Company Moor.
Not everybody has Branky Company.
Wait, just a second.
Are you calling from a McDonald's drive-in?
No, sir.
Okay.
Not everybody has these things.
Credit cards, banking cards, prime cards, telephones, computers.
We don't have any of these things.
I get my news from listening to you, to Michael Savage, and to Claude Harvey.
That's all I do is listen to you guys.
Well, that's all well and good.
But I mean, you don't, why don't you have a bank?
Because they suck.
I hope that suck with an S. Yep.
Have you seen any black helicopters lately?
No, no.
Okay.
I like living under the radar.
There's nothing on the computer.
There's nothing on the computer.
I understand.
I get it now.
I read books.
All right.
So you don't want anybody knowing about you.
We deal with just fast, and we never have any of it.
Yeah, yeah.
A lot of people out there.
So you are the unbanked.
Do you agree with Clinton and Schwarzenegger that the people need to make it easier for you to go get a bank account?
No, they're idiots.
Thank you, Mary.
I should have asked her who she's going to vote for.
I'll bet it's McCain.
Cecil in Lebanon.
Ladies, it should just as easily have been from Rio, Linda.
In fact, in fact, you know, the pundits, they have been getting everything else wrong in this campaign.
I don't know why I should expect that they should get it right about me.
Why shouldn't they get it wrong about me?
I mean, you heard Chuck Todd.
He thinks that this program and you were largely predisposed to Fred Thompson.
I didn't support anybody on this program.
And yet, a large part of the audience thinks I supported Fred Thompson.
And then the other large part of the audience thinks I supported Mitt Romney.
And then people in Riolinda think I supported Huckabee.
All right.
Lebanon, Texas.
Cecil, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Oh, this is Cecil from Lebanon, Kansas.
Close enough.
Hey, on this.
Lebanon, Kansas.
I thought, I didn't think there was a Lebanon, Texas.
Probably not.
The news media, they keep saying you're irrelevant, right?
Yeah, they've been doing off and on for 20 years out there, Cecil.
Yeah, whose viewership, leadership, followers, readers, whatever is going up, and whose is going down?
Your audience is increasing, and theirs is decreasing.
Who's really irrelevant?
Yeah, I know.
Newspaper circulation is down.
Newspaper stock prices are down.
Newspaper advertising is down.
Ours isn't.
And there are some cable networks who are floundering out there as well.
I didn't want to say that myself, Cecil, because, you know, I'm not prone to braggadocious behavior.
But for you to say it, that's instant credibility.
I appreciate it.
You're welcome.
All right.
Roger in Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Nice to have you here.
Thanks, Rush.
Blue Sky Did O's from Jacksonville.
Thank you.
Rush, I'm kind of surprised because when you listen to the Democrats, the number one problem with the economy in the country is the tax cuts that Bush gave to the evil rich.
So today we have an announcement that those very same Democrats to stimulate the economy are going to give tax rebates to citizens and tax incentives to businesses who indeed are those evil rich that they talk about.
That is an excellent point, except you think that you've come up with a way to nail the Democrats on this because you think that in this stimulus package they are agreeing conceptually with the notion essentially of a tax cut.
If you're going to give people $800 or $300, whatever to $600 or $15, depending on number of kids and so forth, if you're going to do that, then the Democrats are essentially admitting letting people keep more of their money or have more of their money will stimulate the economy, correct?
Correct.
And that's exactly right.
But the Democrat argument on tax cuts is all based on class envy.
They say, well, yeah, we need middle class tax relief.
We don't need tax cuts for the rich.
They play the class envy.
They're not even talking about economic stimulus.
And if you listen to what they really want to do, Chuck Wrangell and the others, what they really want to do is raise taxes across the board when you get right down to it.
But this is an election year, and in an election year, you can always get bipartisanship on giving money away, which is essentially what's happened here.
It's cheap.
It is inconsequential.
It is unprofessional.
It is disingenuous.
It's ineffective.
It is perfect politics for an election year.
Truth of the Reagan tax cuts and the Bush tax cuts, both.
Do you know that those are really not tax cuts?
They were rate reductions.
But the so-called rich, the evil rich, are paying more in taxes every year as a group than they were before the tax rate reductions.
They're paying a bigger bite.
They're paying more.
It was a tax increase.
It was a tax revenue increase.
A brief timeout.
We'll come back and continue.
Let me get, I'll give you that Florida poll on the primary, the vote coming up on Tuesday here in Florida, as well as, did you know the Brett girl has called John McCain crazy?
We'll be back in just a second.
All right, I have it here.
I'm holding it in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It's the insider advantage poll that's linked to it, real clear politics.
By the way, do you know what Santorum's theory about Super Tuesday in Florida is?
Try this officer.
Rick Santorum, former senator from Pennsylvania, believes that it would be the best thing that happened would be for Rudy to win Florida, not Mitt.
It'd be better for Rudy to win Florida because then that would keep Rudy in the game.
Because if Rudy doesn't win Florida, he'd put all his eggs in the Florida basket.
If he doesn't win Florida, he may just, even if he doesn't get out, where's he going to do in Super Tuesday?
Need Rudy to win Tuesday in the Florida primary, keeping him in the game, go to Super Tuesday, split the liberal vote, the Republican, liberal, and moderate Republican vote between McCain and Rudy, and then Mitt wins big throughout Super Tuesday.
That's a theory.
Now, this insider advantage poll is a Rasmussen poll out.
To the Rasmussen poll, what is it?
Rasmussen, I didn't print this out.
The Rasmussen poll, hang on, just I think I may have it at the top here.
Yeah, Rasmussen, before I get to this insider advantage, Rasmussen has Romney 27, McCain at 23, and Rudy picking up support.
He's gaining at 20.
Now, the Insider Advantage poll has it Romney 24, Rudy 19, McCain 18.
But that doesn't tell you anything.
When you dig deep, as I have done, into the internals here, the only groups where McCain outpolled Romney were in the over 65 group: women, blacks, and Democrats.
That's the only area in this poll that McCain beats Romney.
And of those groups, only the Democrats and the seasoned citizens had a difference greater than one percentage point.
The Democrats liked McCain the most in this poll by 2.4% over Romney, and the seasoned citizens liked McCain the most by a margin of 1.3%.
Now, it's quite three questions in this poll, and I'm giving you numbers in question two Because question two is really the more relevant and the most relevant.
Question two, if you have already voted or are likely to vote before or on this coming Tuesday's Republican presidential primary, which one candidate is your preference in the primary?
So the total, Romney 24, Giuliani 19, McCain 18, Huckabee 12, Ron Paul 7, 15% undecided.
In the age group 18 to 29, Romney 35, Giuliani 15, McCain 12, undecided 27.
In the 30 to 44 demographic, it is Giuliani 27, Romney 18, Huckabee 18.
They're tied there, and McCain in fourth place in that group at 13.5.
In the 45 to 64 group, it is Romney 21, Giuliani, well, actually 22.
I'm rounding these numbers off.
Romney 22, Giuliani 18, McCain 17.
When you get to the seasoned citizens, 65 and plus, it is McCain 27, Romney 26, Giuliani 13, Huckabee 9, Undecided 7.
And I could go down this list and break it down by male and female in each of these groups and by party.
But this poll, insider advantage, majority opinion, it's up there at Real Clear Politics.
Romney 24, Rudy 19, McCain 18, and Huckabee at 12.
In the Rasmussen poll, it's Romney 27, McCain 23, Rudy picking up support at 20.
So Florida is still very much up for grabs.
Florida has early votings.
You could be voting now via absentee.
Any of you guys voted in the Florida primary?
None of the staff here.
Are you going to vote next Tuesday in Florida?
You are.
Hubba Hubba.
You're going to vote next Tuesday in the Florida primary?
Good.
All right, Tom in Ellensburg, Washington.
Welcome, sir, to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
It's wonderful to talk to you.
Thank you.
I've listened to you for so many years.
Listen, you mentioned the sleep number bed and somebody taking a test drive on it.
I heard you talk about that.
It's been several years ago.
And I finally thought, you know what?
My wife's got terrible palsy.
I'm a nurse, and our bed just sucked.
And so we ordered a sleep number, and it has been, it's an amazing bed.
She, you know, she doesn't have nearly the pain she used to from sleeping, and she can sleep.
I just wanted to give a plug for that.
Oh, I appreciate that.
It's an amazing offer.
I really, you know, I love these testimonials.
I really do.
But at the same time, I have to tell you something here, Tom.
My feelings are just a slight bit hurt.
Oh, no.
That there's something more necessary than my endorsement.
That I endorse the bed, and I saw people coming over.
Do you really use this?
And you call to say, hey, you know what you said is true.
It's really good.
As though I am doubted.
I'm sorry, Rich.
Well, I can deal with it.
You know, I've been criticized my whole life.
It just bounces off.
I'm just teasing you out there.
Look, Tom, I appreciate it.
Thank you.
You bet, Rich.
Have a wonderful day.
Nice talking to you.
All righty.
Let me say quick timeout.
We'll squeeze one more call that will be come back after this.
Back to the phones to Casper, Wyoming.
This is Jay.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Greetings from the Cowboys State Rush.
Thank you, sir.
On the check caching centers, I am not able to get a bank account due to circumstances beyond my control.
And I would be dead in the water without the check caching centers.
And They do rape you when you use them.
I mean, I try you to use Walmart more than anything else.
You know, I have to make an observation.
This third call today, the first two callers both used the word suck.
You just used the word rape.
There's something out there today.
Okay, so you say these payday cash checking places, they rape you, and so you try to go to Walmart.
Yeah, and I wish the Democrats would leave Walmart alone.
Yeah, what happens at Walmart?
What's the difference at Walmart and these other places?
You only get mauled?
Well, Walmart charges you a flat three bucks no matter how big the check is.
Three bucks?
Three bucks.
What are these other loan shark places?
It could be as much as 50 bucks for a check that's less than $500.
Why in the world are you in this circumstance?
Do you feel like you can divulge it in 25 seconds?
Ex-wife overdrew an account just before a divorce, and I got reported to check systems, and the bank refuses to take me off.
Even though you're divorced now, and then she's moved on?
Yep.
Well, how long is that going to last?
As long as the bank wants it there.
It's already been over 10 years.
Oh, my good lord.
We found a whole new class of upstanding citizens.
He unbanked.
You know, and here this disheartens me because, you know, I've been such a staunch family values supporter of marriage guy to learn this.
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