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Feb. 1, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 1, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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And greetings once again, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, from the finger lakes of upstate New York to the Bosque Horse Farms in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I am Jason Lewis filling in for the great one.
Once again, an honor and a privilege as always.
Rush will be back on Monday, but in the meantime, I am in command here.
That's my Al Haig impersonation.
As of now, I'm in charge here.
Well, for an hour and a half, anyway.
And then Rush, of course, comes back to assume command.
In the meantime, Minnesota's real anchor man, Jason Lewis sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
The uh contact line is always, of course, 1800-282-2882.
Kind of an odd thing happened on the campaign trail the other day.
I don't know if you saw this.
Somebody came up and thought they'd be smart with a couple of candidates.
And they asked uh Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Al Sharpton.
Uh, why did the chicken cross the road?
Did you hear about this?
They asked, why did the chicken cross the road?
Bill Clinton says, Well, I did not cross that the road with that chicken.
What's your definition of a chicken?
Al Gore says, I invented the chicken.
And Al Sharpton said, Why are all chickens white anyway?
We need some black chickens.
I thought that was kind of odd right on the campaign trail.
I don't know about you.
The uh McCain thing has got uh everybody in the GOP a Twitter.
They either are um circling the wagons to defend the Arizona Senator or the uh uh the people who are being marginalized, the talk radio types and the hard right by the the new big government conservatives from David Brooks to Michael Gerson to all the usual suspects.
There really is, there really is a question as to whether as to whether or not the GOP establishment cares about conservatives anymore.
We've always kind of been a thorn in the side.
We've always been told to shut up and just lick the envelopes, get out the vote, do all that.
I mean, I was a Reagan backer in 76, and that was an anathema to the establishment.
Here you had a guy, you know, challenging an incumbent Republican president.
He's gonna destroy the party.
In fact, he saved the party.
And so conservatives, I do believe, are looking for that sort of enthusiasm once again, and they're not finding it.
And it and it's now uh accumulated over forty or fifty years.
I mean, I happen to be about fifty-two, uh although I don't look like it.
That was a lot of fun before electricity.
And they're just all of this angst has built up.
All of this the the con game, you know, don't worry about uh Gerald Ford, he's a real conservative.
Don't worry about Dick Nixon, he's gonna move to the right in the general election.
Uh don't worry about the this Bush or anybody.
They're they're real conservatives, and then they get in there and they start you know doing bills with Ted Kennedy.
Uh they have an open borders policy, spending goes through the roof.
Uh George Bush 41 raised taxes.
Uh Ford had the ridiculous whip inflation now without getting a hold of government.
Nixon had wage and price controls.
And people are saying, you know, this time I'm not going to be fooled.
This time I'm demanding to cons I'm demanding to be heard.
And I think that's where the party is right now and why there's angst out there.
You know, people have to remember something about Mr. McCain, should he be the standard bearer?
All of the flack he's getting right now is from the right.
It's from the right.
So any any movement he might go, although that didn't stop him from embracing Giuliani and Schwarzenegger, but any any movement that he might go, he might be tugged right a little bit during the primary season.
Now I ask you, should he be the nominee?
Should he become president?
Where will all of the pressure come from on the McCain presidency or and or his nomination in the election?
All of the pressure will be from the Democrats in Congress, will be from the media, will be from the usual suspects, and McCain will be tugged even further left.
So, you know, as some people are circling the wagons, you're getting even Grover Norquist saying, Well, you know, he is moving in the right direction on uh on on taxes.
Really?
Tony Perkins, the Christian conservative in the New York Times today, talking about, well, I have no residual issue with John McCain.
And of course, the Mike Huckabee version of the Southern Baptist Convention folks, Richard Land says, When I hear Rush Limbaugh say the McCain McCain nomination would destroy the party, I want to say to Rush, you need to get out of that studio more and talk to real people.
Really?
Real people.
Well, the real people are talking, and I will tell you what will happen, Mr. Land, that you and Huckabee and the evangelical left that is gung-ho for a biblical charge to stop global warming.
Is that the future of the Republican Party, federal smoking bans, endorsement of the Sierra Club, global warming initiatives, energy conservation, the teachers union's endorsement.
That's the future of the GOP.
We've already got a party there, Mr. Land, Mr. Perkins.
It's called the Democrat Party.
We don't need another echo.
And I would ask you this.
See if you can win without the conservative base.
Not a threat.
I'm just asking the question rhetorically.
We'll see what kind of a juggernaut David Brooks and the New York Times gang can bring to the polls this fall without the conservative base.
Should they stay home?
I'm not suggesting you stay home.
I'm just saying should that happen, we will see about the prophecies here from the usual suspects.
And in what what conservatives are looking at is, well, okay, um, you know, McCain's talking about extending the Bush tax cuts now, but he didn't oppose the tax cuts for, I don't know, some sort of of green eye shade balanced budget uh reasons, really, at the time in 01 and 03, he opposed the tax cuts specifically because he said they went to the wealthy.
That's the same old class warfare.
Now, forget for a moment that it is the wealthy that pays the taxes, the top one percent, paying as much as the bottom ninety ninety-five percent.
The top one percent, according to the IRS, pays forty percent of the total federal income tax burden.
You make over what, about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and above, you're paying forty percent of the federal income taxes collected.
That's the same amount as the bottom ninety-five percent.
Top five percent pay sixty percent.
So if you want tax cuts for the people who actually, oh, I don't know, pay the taxes, those are tax cuts for the wealthy.
Now, the Democrats never define the wealthy.
That's convenient, because you know, if you make a hundred thousand dollars a year, you're in the top ten percent of income earners, roughly, so you don't want to call those people rich.
McCain opposed the tax cuts because they were geared to the rich.
Sounded just like a Democrat.
He opposes the estate tax repeal for the same reason.
He's gung-ho on global warming with those Republican governors I was telling you about.
Campaign finance reform, immigration.
Uh he's he's the there's no distinction between he and the Democrats, at least not enough of a distinction to placate conservatives.
And here, and I want to be diplomatic about this.
And here is really the crux of the issue.
I know I'll traumatize the gang over at Fox News with this one.
But the war, being a war hawk, is not enough.
And that's what McCain is hiding behind.
He's now he's bringing up his military service, talking about his silver star, and God bless him.
We all respect that, but that is what it's going to be.
When Romney touts his economic credentials or his business credentials, McCain fires back in his vituperative manner.
I was working for patriotism, not profits.
As though profits are somehow bad.
You know, we we have got to start to educate the public on the environment.
If you let the Sierra Club educate the public on global warming, the polls will show people believe in this nonsense, even though in my home state, Minnesota, we've been locked below zero for the month of January.
It's snowing in China and Baghdad and Alabama.
We're gonna have record cold this year.
Nastrophysicist in the UK says global warming has stopped.
That the last six years have been flat.
And yet, people don't know that because we don't bother to educate them.
We look at the poll, and the poll says people like global warming initiatives.
Why, we must follow.
I've got to reach out to the young people.
Lindsey Graham says McCain is reaching out to the young people by being such an advocate for global warming.
Wow, that's leadership.
That a boy, Lindsay.
You and the gang of 14 that torpedoed the Republicans trying to get Alito confirmed, or almost torpedoed it.
There's no assurances that the justices will go the right way.
And so when you look at all of these issues, you got to come to this conclusion.
Being tough on terror is simply not enough.
That's not, and you can't use that as a shield.
You know, it is it's certainly important, and the Republican position, if there's a Republican position is to prosecute the war on terror vigorously.
But let me tell you, freedom can be taken away by terrorists.
It can be taken away by invading armies.
But most often freedom is taken away by Government.
You know, our brave men and women, including Mr. McCain, who have fought valiantly for the United States, we're not fighting to preserve the Department of Well, of housing and urban development.
I'm fighting so we can preserve the welfare state.
I am fighting to preserve the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
I am fighting to preserve global warming initiatives.
And you get this nonsense, and here we go with the Fox folks again, the defining issue of our time or some talk show host, the defining issue of our time is the war on terror.
No, the defining issue of all time is freedom.
And it matters little to conservatives whether the freedom is threatened by terrorists or armies or global warming initiatives or government.
And when you take a look at someone who's tough on the war, and they say, Yeah, but look, I'll be tough on the war.
So what?
To preserve our environmental regulations, so we're free to uh oppress our people here at home, we're free to raise their taxes, we're free to subsidize eagle illegal immigration through the welfare state.
We're free to raise taxes.
That's not why we fight.
That's not patriotism.
Patriotism is is an adherence to an ideal.
It's a fidelity to freedom.
If you look at pure bravery, uh you've got brave German and Japanese soldiers, you got brave people all over.
They were wrong.
I prefer our brand of bravery because we were fighting for freedom.
And what conservatives are looking at is a candidate, a conservative candidate who says, of course I'm going to preserve freedom through military might.
That's the first object of government and the first job as commander in chief.
But I'm also going to preserve freedom through enumerated powers doctrine, reigning in the judiciary.
I'm also going to preserve freedom through free markets and low taxes, and I'm going to stop once and for all this bizarre preoccupation with global warming, a discredited theory that works only in a laboratory where you can take away all of the other externalities from from water vapor to solar radiation to ocean currents.
You know, it's not a coincidence that all the solutions to global warming are the same solutions that Democrats have been trying to sell to the public for 50 years.
Now they've got the cause.
It is an act of betrayal.
God, I sound like Al Gore there.
It's an quick, take a sedative.
It is an act of betrayal for Republicans to go down this environmental road.
And that's what has has conservatives very, very concerned today.
Let's hear how concerned they are when we return.
I'm Jason Lewis filling in for Rush Limbaugh today on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed.
I always do when I fill in for Rush.
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Tyson getting ready for the Super Bowl down there, you're on the EIB.
Hello?
Hello, sir.
I'm on.
Wow.
Hey, Jason, it's good to talk to you.
Same to you.
Hey, you know, I wanted to make a point about John McCain, and I I haven't heard this hardly at all in the media, and it seems to me like um every time the war on terror comes up, he's always everyone always says, you know, John McCain's the best on the war on terror, he's got all this experience.
And um the fact is that he's not.
Unfortunately, perception is re is reality in politics, and people perceive him, so they all say he is, but he's really not the best on the war on terror.
The reason I say that is you look at um his record or things that he says in debates, he's against waterboarding, waterboarding that has proven to get some good information that's have saved American lives.
He wants to close down Gitmo and bring these guys in the U.S. and have them be in the in the in the uh um be in our courts.
That's not good for the war on terror.
And you know, if you look at uh some of the other candidates' positions, um John McCain has some of the worst positions on the war on terror.
I don't see how the only reason they they say he's the best is because he's been around a long time.
Well, and look he's he's relying on his military bona fides there uh to shore up his support.
But you you're right.
There are a couple of crucial issues.
I think, you know, going forward, we're going to have to look domestically on how we're gonna fight the war on terror.
Those domestic Issues in battling the war on terror are going to be paramount.
And you you mentioned Gitmo.
The issue really here is military tribunals and whether or not enemy combatants have the same rights as civilian defendants, or for that matter, even POWs.
And they don't, and they don't in court precedent.
Going back to 1942 in that German Saboteur case, going back to the it was the Eisentriger case that said they don't have the right of habeas corpus.
They are how is it we can kill this Al Qaeda leader, thankfully, who was who met uh his virgins uh over in Afghanistan the other day.
How is it we can kill people, blow them up, but we can't detain them?
Exactly.
And and another thing is uh is I haven't heard I need I need to hear the other candidates out there, especially Mitt Romney out there saying, look, he's not the best in the war on terror.
He's simply not.
He's gonna be a disaster.
Imagine bringing these guys in the United States in the court system.
It's terrible.
And another thing is uh uh if besides the war on terror, do you think that gas prices are gonna come down if John McCain's the president?
He he's he's against drilling for oil in this country.
He's against so many other conservative policies, he's simply not a conservative.
Yeah, he's voted four times against uh Anwar, drilling an Anwar.
In fact, I happen to have a few stats here on that.
Bill Clinton kind of slipped yesterday, gang.
You know what he said.
Every now and then, you know, some of us every now and then we lie.
With the former president, every now and then he slips out the truth.
And yesterday, or wasn't yesterday, it was this week in Denver, uh, where Bill Clinton said this quote, everybody knows that global warming is real, and maybe America and Europe and Japan and Canada, the rich countries, would say, okay, we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions because we have to save the planet.
We could do that.
And here it is, folks.
It's right there in black and white, which is why it's so astounding to see Republicans going down this road uh led by these uh wayward Republican governors, uh and now maybe a standard bearer.
In fact, they all raised their hand on the global warming question in the Iowa debate, save for Fred Thompson.
Uh the the point here is this is a self-induced government induced energy crisis.
And the McCain uh Lieberman bill, uh, that is the cap and trade, which is essentially a tax on the traditional parts of energy, coal or oil, to fund solar panels in California, which cannot survive without subsidies, much like renewable fuels and biofuels.
Why is it if these in renewable fuels are so great and they're the future, they can't survive without massive government subsidies.
Oil gets taxed.
The big three oil companies uh you know paid forty-four billion dollars in taxes in two thousand and five.
All of the other ones, even in the stimulus bill, the Senate Democrats wanted more subsidies for wind and solar power and biofuels.
Let them stand on their own two feet if they're so great.
Well, they can't because they're totally inefficient.
So when we subsidize that and we tax families to do that, we we have renewable mandates, your cost of living goes up.
That's why gasoline is pushing three dollars a gallon.
That's why your utility bill is going nowhere but up, as the windmills pop up along the plains.
And as I say, this ridiculous Lieberman McCain bill, that is a BTU tax, uh, basically the Clinton ninety-three BTU tax redux.
They had somebody look into this and they asked the EPA the effect of the economy of the McCain Lieberman cap and trade global warming reduction, greenhouse gas reduction bill.
Quote, the present value of the cumulative reduction in real GDP for the 2012-2030 period ranges from six hundred and sixty billion to two point one trillion.
The cumulative reduction in the present value or real GDP for 2012-2050 ranges from about one point six trillion to five point two trillion.
When you talk about reducing the gr gross domestic product five trillion dollars, the gross domestic product uh for you non-economists out there is the national income for all practical means and purposes.
You've got some exports and the few things that are outside it, but fundamentally, GDP is national income.
And what the global warming types are saying is we need to reduce national income.
What Clinton's saying is we need to slow down the economy.
Your standard of living goes down, so you can wear a Sierra Club sticker.
That's the future of the GOP.
I don't think so.
In Cookville, Tennessee, Joel, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program with Jason Lewis.
Hi, Jason.
How are you doing?
I'm doing wonderful.
Uh it's an honor to be on the show.
I've always kind of wanted to call and have my voice heard for once is the first time.
So here's your chance.
You're fifteen minutes.
All righty.
Um well, I was I was wondering why I haven't heard a single thing, not on Fox News or nothing from anybody about the fact that McCain was the guy that the Democratic Party wanted to switch over to their party.
And now he's a presidential candidate and they seem to be arguing and sticking up for him tooth and nail over everything that's brought up.
Let's say let me I gotta go, but let me posit this.
Let's say it's Hillary and Barack.
Could it possibly be John McCain and Joe Lieberman?
Hold it, hold it just a minute.
I think it's it's 15 degrees now in the Twin Cities.
Oh, we've got a warming spell.
Call Al Gore.
I don't know.
I don't know how much empirical evidence we have to have before people start to realize maybe it's not really getting warmer at all.
I mean this has been a remarkable 2007 and the first part of 2008 has been a remarkable streak of below normal weather.
As I said, from China they're stuck in a snowstorm.
It snowed in Baghdad you've got this astrophysicist from uh uh from the UK David Whitehouse saying I for the last uh really since ninety eight we really haven't seen an increase in the temperatures and yet the myth persists and nobody is challenging it.
We're getting we're gonna get these incandescent light bulbs being banned.
We're going to have to buy literally have to buy these fluorescent bulbs with mercury in them.
Where's the environmental defense fund when you need it?
They're going to you're gonna have mercury in them.
They're gonna have to call in a hazmat team to you know to clean up the bulb if you break it and by the way you won't recoup the costs and to show how how insidious the whole system is, the light bulmanufacturers were in on this is part of the energy bill which is designed at mandating renewables which was going to save global warming or save the earth from global warming so we mandated that you can't buy poor people especially 50 cent incandescent bulbs anymore.
You gotta buy the 350, 4, 450, 5 fluorescent bulb.
But you'll get it back because it's such a great energy saver hogwash.
In fact some guy told called in on my show in the Twin Cities the other day and said you can't even turn these things on and off.
They've got to cool first this is a mandated massive tax increase just like the rest of global warming.
Previous caller a moment ago talked about oil.
Let me give you the facts on energy independence.
The liberal left's idea of energy independence is raising the cost of energy.
Because here's the dirty little secret.
They don't like it when you use too much energy.
you use energy, you're mobile.
You can have a couple of cars.
You can live out in the suburbs in a three-car garage.
We can't have that sort of income inequality.
We can't have that sort of decadence.
So I know what we'll do.
We'll say because of the energy crisis or because of global warming, because of urban sprawl, we're going to rein everybody into high-density condos by a light rail station.
We're going to tell you you can't use energy.
In California, they're thinking about having an automatic dial on your thermostat to automatically turn it down from a remote control center by the utility company.
company being the name of global warming how much freedom are we willing to give away in the name of Al Gore's fiction how much political pandering do quite frankly these Republican governors I mentioned before at the Republican governors association how much are they willing to do in the name of elevating politics over principle?
Right now, right now, ladies and gentlemen you want to talk about energy independence there is no peak oil.
They keep talking about peak oil Jimmy Carter said in 1977 we're gonna run out of oil in ten years.
Thanks Jimmy but he said it with lust in his heart so I guess that made it all right now the undiscovered recoverable oil and these are estimates from the U.S. Geological survey and the Bureau of land management in the Pacific offshore eleven billion barrels.
Gulf offshore thirty seven billion barrels Atlantic offshore four billion barrels Alaska offshore twenty six billion barrels in the lower 48 seven billion barrels on shore Alaska 18 billion barrels.
What we have now provable reserves we have 21 billion right now.
You combine that with those potential reserves I just mentioned 103 billion barrel reserves on shore and off controlled by the federal government that we cannot get at thanks to this bizarre preoccupation this this this antagonism towards fossil fuels we would catapult total U.S. reserves to a hundred and twenty four billion barrels more than the proven reserves of Iraq, Kuwait, and UAE.
Anwar alone would import if we could get at this frozen tundra in Alaska that's dark 56 days out of the year.
We could probably import as much or replace the imports from Saudi Arabia just by going into Anwar according to most estimates.
But why don't we do it?
Why didn't McCain vote against it for it?
Well I wanted to get the endorsement of the Sierra Club you see.
That's leadership.
Talk about don't talk to me about energy independence.
So we're diverting corn, which is at record highs and we still pass a 300 billion dollar farm bill.
We're diverting corn to inefficient fuel when we have all of these reserves right here, not to mention natural gas trillions of cubic feet that the government has said well we won't get them.
We won't get them but we will raise the cost of your food supply by diverting corn which is the basis for corn syrup the basis for for poultry for meat they have to eat this stuff.
So your milk goes up your the price of meat goes up eggs goes up.
Now who do people blame for this?
They blame the people in power they don't logically think this through like you and I might do they just know subconsciously well prices are going up gasoline costs three dollars a gallon we don't build refineries.
They don't blame the Democrats they blame the people in power they should blame the Democrats if we were leading the charge but we're not we're going along with it.
Or at least said the party is so as we do that they just say well you know the tax cut's great and don't get me wrong I I'm a supply cider to the core there's nothing more important domestically than reducing the the the the tax on on labor and work and savings but it's not enough to offset this cost of living crisis that are in right now which is a direct result of these environmental policies.
So it becomes not only counterintuitive it becomes counterproductive.
In Norfolk New York, Steve, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Jason Lewis.
Hey Jason uh God bless you for your efforts and if ever there's going to be a replacement for Rush I'd vote for you.
You're right after the man's heart.
Well that's very kind's going to replace Rush trust I'm I'm telling you this to me this feels like not just a minor crossroads this feels like a major crossroads McCain and uh in Hillary or Barack and uh whoever McCain has for VEEP actually gets into power.
There's going to be no difference conservative I don't know where we go.
You know I'm I'm not just frustrated I'm just I'm sad.
And I'm kind of fearful.
I'm really worried about the direction of our country.
I love the country and I'd be a lot more fearful if I didn't love God.
But uh anyway that's that's where I stand.
What do you think about that?
Well I happen to think you're spot on.
I I think that the the angst of the conservatives in the party I mean for how many decades have we been told as conservatives Steve we have to have a big tent for the environmental lobby we have to have a big tent for everybody under the sun except us.
And I think now we have had the the tent has grown so much the conservatives may be a minority in the party we're being shoved out by the big government conservatives being shoved out by a new evangelical left movement you know instead of instead of rendering unto Caesar what is his and unto God what is his they're talking about biblical edicts to solve global warming.
Yeah Michael Michael Carson's new book Heroic Conservatism talks about applied Christianity that says well you you you ought to you ought to be mandated to be charitable.
The government is a big charitable clearinghouse compassionate conservatism is more important than defense and private property and therefore we must be we must be that's not charity forced charities an oxymoron.
That's right.
These people are they're being compassionate with other people's money.
That doesn't matter who's going to be in charge of the government if it's if it's conservative who wants big government or Republican what's the difference between them and liberals?
Oh we can do it better?
I don't think so big government is bad all the way around and I we are at a big turning point and I boy I am uh I'm really concerned.
Well in many ways in in look in many ways it's cathartic.
Sooner or later it had to come to this with the with the advent of all these these big government types within the party the environmental corruption of the party big education you name it and look at it.
Look at it, you know, we we finally faced it.
It's cathartic.
We're gonna go through this.
We'll see what happens.
As Rush said the other day, you wouldn't have had Reagan without Carter.
Uh and I I actually believe that.
You wouldn't have wouldn't had Reagan without Goldwater either.
So so you know sooner or later we're facing our demons here and we're having a a a a a fallout right now, but I think it is cathartic that we're hashing this out instead of just instead of staying mum and saying, well I guess I'll I'll do what the the establishments tell me to do.
Finding we're standing up that's a good thing.
But are are enough of us standing up and maybe not and appreciating this cathartic process.
I swear half the country's asleep.
What are they thinking of?
Don't they want freedom?
People the the people that join political parties not based on ideology and they're joining it for a club tend to elevate the importance of the party over the principle.
But you gotta ask yourself why are you a Republican?
And nobody's nobody's seriously doing it.
I'm not a Republican so I can get so I can join the Sierra Club.
I'm not a Republican to raise taxes.
That's the difference between the parties there's another party that does those things.
Well why would why don't these people, if that's what their concern is open borders and and no tax cuts, we've got to be tax collectors for the welfare state, uh global warming and campaign finance public funding there's another party that represents that.
That's right.
Jason I don't understand I I just don't understand uh the seduction and love of power and how it can override all of your rational thought process for what's better for other people besides yourself.
You're witnessing it now if you have a family and you have loved ones you want the best for them.
You want the best for your community you want the it's I gotta go, Steve, but let me tell you if you really want to get under somebody's skin in this whole debate and this will drive them absolutely bonkers because winning is the most important thing to these people principle doesn't matter it's the Dick Morris view, the triangulation to in order to win simply forget your principles and adopt the other guy's viewpoints.
What you want to tell them is we've got to get over this notion of winning at any cost.
I would rather be in a minority in perpetuity than give up some of the core principles that founded this nation.
You know get a chance to read Founding Brothers uh it's a great book and the the dirtiest thing that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were saying to each other when they were fighting before their reconciliation towards the end the dirtiest thing they were saying to each other is you're a party man.
The framers loathe political parties they were afraid of those sorts of factions and those sorts of of loyalty to party political party should be a conduit to a cause a conduit to an end not the end of itself and that's I think where we've got got off the track a little bit.
I got a move or Rush Limbaugh is out today.
I Jason Lewis am in but we'll be back with more calls right after this short pause.
Back on the Rush Limbaugh program open line Friday it is February first two more months of winter please one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two I'm Jason Lewis in for El Rushbow in Hobbes, New Mexico.
John, you're on the excellence in broadcasting network.
So Jason Uh listen the thing that I've got to say to people today about uh this election is if John McCain is elected president this is the holy grail for the Democrat Party because they can do whatever they want to do blame it on the Dame it on the Republican Party.
Take us down because of the failures of of all these things that they've been trying to get done all these years.
Yes, of course I mean I think it's just it it cries out for a new party well I don't know about that.
I mean there have been the ups and downs in the GOP.
It's hard to say I think some a lot of people are ready for that if the Republicans don't watch it they're gonna go the way of the Whigs uh th I think there's some credence to that but it doesn't necessarily have to happen.
But your overall point is absolutely correct and it's kind of the lesser of two evils and that is you know if the Democrats are going to take you to hell in a handbasket in a month uh what's the Republican campaign strategy?
We're gonna take six weeks to get there.
That is not inspiring.
So if you're gonna go down the road to to command and control economy to global warming regulations to all of this stuff uh saying that you're just merely not as bad as the Democrats, but you're still going in the same direction.
You're going to get the blame for it.
So why would the GOP want to do that?
I don't know.
I think they're they're they've given up on fighting this fight.
I think they've given up the whole thing.
And uh I think that John McCain has been drinking this Ted Kennedy Kool-Aid for so many years, that's where he's gotten his his prop up and all of his positive feedback for all these years.
He's not gotten it from the Republicans.
And so, you know, he's as in bed with Pig Kennedy as you could possibly ever be.
And uh once they're through with John McCain, he's tossed off into the trash basket, uh, never to be heard from again because he was a cast out from both parties.
And we you know, we've been talking about what I call the cost of living tax.
I mean, all of these regulations that are driving up the cost of health care, all the regulations that are driving up the cost of energy, all the subsidies driving up the cost of food, uh, the inflation by the Fed, all of that.
Uh who's going to get the blame for that?
It's not going to be the Democrats and the mainstream media.
They're not going to blame the Democrats.
If McCain is president, he'll get the blame for the disaricies, and bad policies do not make good politics.
So John, you've got a great point there.
Let's move on to uh Carthage and Carthage, uh, North Carolina, I do believe.
Let's go to Steve on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
Hi.
Jason, hi.
Uh great.
I've got four points real quick.
First of all, we appreciate the direct approach that you say your words with.
That's very good, very refreshing.
Secondly, I need the fifteen people that are going to get tax refunds or re stimulus checks to call my house and thank me personally.
My third point is the demographic shift in the northeast to the south will allow in the near future, especially with the census coming up, a uh plus sixteen estimated seats within the Congress, which could go Republican, which is important as the race right now.
And I think we need to not only look at the presidential race but the upcoming Senate and Congress uh elections that are coming up.
And my fourth one is that of Snopes.com and being a good conservative, wanted to keep Democrats informed.
It says that Lolo Solitoura, the second husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam, and he was enrolled in the Wahhabi school in Jakarta.
That's just information out there, people need to know.
And I appreciate Jason.
I'll listen to your response.
Well, I don't know about the last point.
There are plenty of reasons to uh uh to oppose Barack Obama.
And what's fascinating about uh the debate in the Democrat Party, believe it or not, gang, and I don't want to traumatize too many of you, but Hillary is actually positioning herself, positioning herself to the right of Barack.
Now, granted, Ted Kennedy could position himself to the right of John Edwards.
Uh that was that an ambulance I heard.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Then why is John running?
Uh but but Hillary has taken deliberate steps to position herself on Social Security taxes on the war to the right of Obama.
And that's not that difficult either, because this guy, according to the National Journal, is the most liberal senator right now in the body.
The National Journal rates Obama the single most liberal member of the Senate, at least last year anyway, on a number of votes on economic issues, social issues, foreign policy.
Hillary's, you know, backing off on driver's licenses for illegals, so she's trying to have it both ways, obviously not fooling too many people.
But Obama just says, Oh, of course we gotta we have to have uh driver's licenses for illegals.
I mean, which is this de facto amnesty uh they're doing.
They're you know, they're they're gonna give lip service to controlling the border or lip service to a comprehensive reform, but they're gonna give all the privileges and immunities to illegals, whether it's a driver's license or health care education, thanks to the Supreme Court.
And so there's going to be this de facto citizenship or somebody that doesn't bother to actually assimilate.
So when it comes to Barack Obama, you know, you can get into the scandalous stuff or what some people might say the conspiratorial stuff.
Um, but you don't have to.
You don't have to do that.
These people are died, and this is really one of the things that's concerned me about the Republicans, as the Democrat Party move further and further to the to the mark to the neo-Marxist left, instead of the Republican Party saying, see, you don't want that, they're starting to inch that direction, but they can always still say, We're not as that we're not that bad, we're not that bad, but they keep moving closer.
I'm Jason Lewis in for Rush Limbo on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
All right, hour two in the can, as L. Rushbow likes to say.
This one is going to be transported to the uh substitute wing of the uh the the conservative hall of fame of the Limbaugh Institute.
I am Jason Lewis filling in for rush today.
We'll come back and I'll tell you why the uh Patriots might be the choice for a Sunday's game.
Let's see, we'll also get down the r get to the role of governments in a free society.
That's the key.
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