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April 8, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 8, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Major successes to report to you, the troops, today in Operation Chaos.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone of the prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you with us.
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Before we get to Operation Chaos, I watched a little bit of the Petraeus hearings this morning.
And a couple things stood out.
Of course, somebody let a code pink protester in there.
It took about a minute to get the idiot out of there.
But here's the thing that really amazed me.
I'm watching Carl Levin give his speech, his opening statement.
He's talking to General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, and he's going on and on and on about how the Maliki government in Iraq has not met its benchmarks and has not found a way to pay its own way on anything.
And they better do that.
We're going to get out of there.
They're free to do what they can until November.
And then after that, all bets are off, is what the Democrats are saying.
And I find this fascinating.
Here is a liberal Democrat senator from Michigan, Carl Levin, telling another nation's government, fess up, shape up, make sure that you can pay your own way and meet the benchmarks that we have given for you.
In other words, they're telling the Iraqi government to become self-sufficient.
Wouldn't it be great if liberal Democrats told their own voters the same thing?
In this country, liberal Democrats look at their own voters and they see permanent dependence and they smile.
They do everything they can to generate permanent dependence, undereducating kids in school, on ongoing entitlement programs, advertising for people to get on the food stamp program.
And yet, when it comes to the Iraqi government, well, they sound very conservative.
You guys need to shape up.
You guys need to become self-sufficient.
You guys need to be able to pay your own way.
You guys need to meet the benchmarks that we're saying.
And yet they will not say that about the American people, particularly their own voters.
It is just the opposite.
We have a few soundbites from General Petraeus' appearance today.
The upshot is that he says, it's going pretty well, but I want to suspend any troop withdrawals.
Now, what everybody is waiting for is Senator Obama.
All three presidential candidates are on this Senate committee that will be questioning General Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker.
McCain has had his turn.
Hillary will get hers and Obama will get his.
And everybody's waiting to see what Obama does with his time, whether he speechifies, whether he asks questions.
And in either case, what does he say?
We are keeping a sharp eye on this, ladies and gentlemen, as, of course, part of Operation Chaos.
We have a report from the field in Pennsylvania.
This is from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Headline.
Another GOP, Bastion Falls, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for the first time since 1978, has more Democrats than Republicans.
But it might be temporary.
You know, the drive-bys are still doing everything they can not to mention you or me or Operation Chaos, specifically in these stories.
As I said to you the other day, their budget meetings every morning.
They're just twisting themselves into nuts, figuring out how they can cover this without mentioning Operation Chaos.
And what most of the drive-bys are doing is trying to pass this off as disaffected Republicans so enamored with both Democrat candidates that they can't wait to register Democrat and vote for the Democrats in this upcoming election because Republicans are so dissatisfied and angry with their own party.
The story here is by Larry King, who is, I'm guessing, not related to the CNN talk show host.
Another section has toppled in the one solid Republican wall of suburban counties surrounding Philadelphia.
Bucks County has joined Montgomery County in going Democrat.
For the first time in 30 years, more voters are registered as Democrats in Bucks County as Republicans.
As of Sunday, 185,413 of Bucks County's 427,900 registered voters were on the rolls as Democrats compared with 181,900 for the GOP.
So it's a margin of about 3,500 that the Democrats now have in Bucks County.
These figures released by the state of Pennsylvania yesterday, the remainder, about 14% of the total, are registered either nonpartisans or with other parties.
Now, statistically, the Democrats' advantage in Bucks County is minuscule.
It's a fraction of a percent, but psychologically, psychologically, it could be huge.
Not since 1978 have Bucks County Democrats held a lead of any size.
Democrat County Commissioner Diane Marseglia said, I think 3,000 voters is huge given where we've been.
The bells have been going off in my head all day, meaning she's as happy as she can be.
Later on in the story, conservative radio hosts, among others, what others, Mr. King?
What others?
Conservative radio hosts have urged Republicans to switch parties and vote for Hillary Clinton in the remaining primaries, hoping to preserve the Democrat infighting for as long as possible, i.e., Operation Chaos.
Bucks County, now, this is the Democrat babe, Diane Marseglia.
Bucks County is privileged to have people of superior intelligence, and they don't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
Marseglia said.
She said that if newly registered Democrats feel they have a voice in this election, they will stick around.
Bucks County, privileged to have people of superior intelligence, and they don't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
Well, I guess she knows the drive-bys couldn't figure it out.
Everybody knows.
This is the bottom line.
Everybody knows what's going on here.
And it's got them tied in knots.
It's working like a charm here.
Operation Chaos.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Last night, Indianapolis, WRTV News anchored Dan Spieler's report.
You'll also hear Marion Indiana County Democrat Party chairman Terry Burns.
Marion County Democrats say they're going to look for what they call possible Republican sabotage in the May 6th primary.
They say this has happened in other states since John McCannis wrapped up the Republican nomination.
There have been some national talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh encouraging Republicans to vote in the Democratic primaries.
In their way of thinking, the goal would be to vote for whoever would make the weakest candidate for the Democrats come November.
We're a big tent party, so obviously we're going to welcome anybody who legitimately has a conversion to the Democratic Party and is truly interested in voting in the Democratic primary and being a Democrat.
But like I said earlier, we're going to be keeping a close eye just to make sure nothing untoward's going on.
Voters with a record of supporting one party who then choose the other party's ballot can be challenged, but they can then file a counter affidavit and their vote would be allowed.
That's the news anchor Dan Spieler at WRTV Television News in Indianapolis.
So yet another Democrat bigwig, another Democrat poo ba throwing down a threatening sounding gauntlet to Operation Chaos operatives who have registered Democrat, plan to cross over and vote for Mrs. Clinton.
We have a report from the field also in Pennsylvania that Obama is catching up with Hillary.
Quinnipiac University poll finds that she's losing ground even among women.
Losing ground even among women.
Latest survey, one of the biggest shifts is among women who went from 5437% for Clinton on April 2 to 54.41% for her today.
Losing ground was 54.37, 514.
She's lost three and Obama picked up four.
Still, she's got a 13-point lead, but they cast this as lose.
You know how in the tank the drive-bys are for Obama.
They're totally in the tank for Obama now.
White voters for Clinton, 56.38, down from 59.34 last week.
Black voters for Obama, 75-17 compared to 73-11.
Men are for Obama, 48.44 compared to 46.46 tie last week.
With two weeks to go, Obama's knocking on a door of a major political upset in Pennsylvania.
Obama not only building his own constituencies, taking away voters in Senator Clinton's strongest areas, whites, including white women, voters in the key swing Philadelphia suburbs, and those who say the economy is the most important issue in the campaign.
This is from the Quinnipiac Assistant Director of Polling.
So it just, the campaign continues to be royal.
One more soundbite here before we go to the break.
Last night, CNN's election center, the host Campbell Brown, spoke with radio hosts Kevin Miller and Joe Madison about the Democrat primary.
She said, Kevin, what are your listeners saying?
People here in Pennsylvania, they're hurting.
The number one issue is their pocketbook, pain at the pump.
What are they going to do for their kids' education?
And then you have Hillary Clinton holding an economic summit in Pittsburgh last week, talking about pain, talking about this.
And then, bam, Whamo, much to the chagrin of her campaign, to the rejoice of the Obama campaign, this came out and the Clintons are rich.
And you know what's so funny, Campbell?
These are the same people who are probably ditto heads and love rich Rush Limbaugh.
Radio talk show host Joe Madison this.
What is this?
Other talk show hosts are urging Republicans to register Democrat and vote for Hillary.
What is this?
It is an ongoing effort by the Drive My Media to relegate Operation Chaos to something of insignificance.
We've got to take a brief time out.
Lots to do on the program today.
We'll be right back.
Get started with all the rest of it in a minute.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Rich Rush Limbaugh.
Talking about rich Hillary Clinton and rich Barack Obama and rich Ted Kennedy here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, 800-282-2882.
Mrs. Clinton, this morning on the early show on CBS was interviewed by Harry Smith.
And he said to her yesterday, you advocating the boycotting of the opening ceremonies at the Olympic Games.
Could you elaborate on that just very quickly?
President Bush should decide not to attend the opening ceremonies unless and until the Chinese do what the world is calling for them, which is to end the oppression in Tibet and give back religious and cultural freedom to the Tibetans and do more to help the world end the genocide in Sudan.
We need to put that pressure on the government of China, and I think President Bush should do that.
And the president said, screw you, babe.
I'm not going to listen to you.
I am going to go there.
The Olympics is about athletes in the world.
It's not about politics, he says.
And of course, there's no way he's going to listen to Mrs. Clinton.
You know, I think what the Democrats ought to do here is send Madeline Albright.
You know, she spent a lot of time over in North Korea with Kim Jong-il, reportedly loved his stadium shows.
And Barack Obama is voiced in on this, and he thinks that China wants China to respect the freedoms of the people in Tibet.
And Mrs. Clinton sounded like she pretty much wants the same thing.
Now, haven't we learned, listening to Liberal Democrats over the course of many decades now, that freedom's overrated and it really isn't for everybody?
It really wasn't for the Soviet Union.
In other words, if we get rid of the Soviet government there and try to put freedom in democracy, those people aren't going to know what to do with it.
Some people just not ready for freedom, the Democrats say.
But all of a sudden, liberal Democrats care about freedom in Tibet.
By the way, Carl Levin, a suggestion.
If you're going to be out there demanding that the Iraqi government meet benchmarks and come up with mechanisms whereby they can pay their own way and don't need any aid from us, Senator Levin, you are from Michigan.
You know, it might be helpful, Senator Levin, if you would enforce and demand benchmarks on your state and the Democrat governor and the legislature there to fix the mess that is Michigan.
Demanding all these things from the government of Iraq, while at the same time not demanding anything like that from your own constituents, your own voters, or your own governments.
In a uh-oh, a moment, a Reuters story.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has spoken out about lavish pay packages for corporate CEOs, but his top advisor said yesterday that the senator wants to shine a light on the issue and is not offering specific new proposals to rein it in.
Job number one of the president is to use the bully pulpit to shine a light on behavior that's less than exemplary, said McCain's top economic advisor, Douglas Holtz Eakin.
That's certainly the case here, referring to the issue of huge chief executive officer pay packages.
Holtz Eakin said that McCain would like to see shareholders and boards of directors take the initiative to ensure their pay packages for CEOs are reasonable and in line with performance.
We'll see what the response is, he said.
Senator McCain, this is none of your business.
This is just, this is none.
I know it's exactly what we hear from the left.
It's exactly corporate pay way out of line.
We got to do something about it.
We need to shine a light on it.
We need to reign it in.
This is Senator McCain and his, well, this is just who he is.
This is one of the problems that you have when numbers, pay packages, golden parachutes, this kind of thing, the numbers get released and people have no concept, no way of understanding why the pay was made, what it constitutes, what the value of the work done to the CEO was.
And so when it's done that way with lousy PR, it just invites people in government who like to meddle in the private sector to jump in under the rubric of class envy.
I mean, what is the point?
What really is the point?
I mean, is he going to call his wife in?
Is he going to shine a light on his wife's CEO pay or his wife's family's pay at the beer distributorship out in Arizona?
This is none of government's business.
And it's, I don't know, it's troubling because there's no reason to do this other than the typical liberal philosophy of class envy.
What's the point of making CEO pay come in line with what somebody in the government thinks if it's not to pander to voters who aren't anywhere near that level of compensation?
It's just like tax increases for the rich.
It doesn't do anything for the people in the middle class, lower class.
In fact, it hurts them, but they're supposed to feel good about it because somebody else is getting soaked.
Somebody else is hurting.
And I don't want them to hurt like I hurt.
Yeah, raise their taxes.
Yeah, lower their pay.
I want them to find out what it's like to suffer like we're all suffering out here.
Doesn't accomplish anything.
And as last I looked, I mean, boards of directors did not have to include a member of the government in order to get business deals and other corporate functions approved.
But just this, see, this is the kind of thing I get real uncomfortable with all this because this is another example of how there's no difference here to what Senator McCain's economic advisor has said and what you would hear from the Obama or the Hillary campaign.
Now, we talked last week about the one area that Senator McCain has said that he's a rock-solid conservative on this if he holds to it, and that is he's going to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, and he is not going to raise taxes, not going to mess around with the capital gains tax.
All that is important, particularly in an economic climate that we face now, because what happens when you've got, so I believe it's a little guy who makes the country work.
I think it's middle-class people, business owners, small business owners hiring others that employ most of the people in this country, and they are the engine of this country.
They're the ones that make it work.
If you raise taxes on these small business people, either a lot of them file as sub-S chapters on their personal income tax returns.
So you raise their income tax rates along with the so-called rich and for the express purpose of fairness, getting even with them, making sure that the little guy knows that somebody in government is on his side.
What you're going to end up doing is getting a little guy canned.
The little guy is going to get laid off, the very supposed beneficiary of all these increases in tax.
And it's not about raising revenue, folks.
If it were about raising revenue, the Democrats would make the Bush tax cuts permanent.
The capital gains rate would be lowered, as would the corporate income tax rate.
It's not about revenue.
It's about control.
It's about reducing people's individual liberty and economic independence so that more and more people have to depend on government.
That's totally, totally what this is.
And it just isn't useful or helpful when the Republican nominee who said one thing about taxes and so forth starts talking class envy lingo about CEOs.
Back in just a second.
Stay right where you are.
Thank you.
I know.
Mrs. Clinton is now questioning General Petraeus.
We are not going to jip this, i.e. joined it in progress.
Our technicians and engineers are at this moment rolling videotape for the express purposes of culling relevant audio soundbites, if any, from Mrs. Clinton's questioning of General Petraeus.
By the way, speaking of Hillary Clinton, ladies and gentlemen, she just announced that she wants a poverty czar.
What does that mean?
We need a poverty czar.
It means that she and those like her are admitting defeat in the war on poverty.
Are they not?
They are admitting the failure of the welfare state.
They are admitting that their own programs haven't worked if we need a poverty czar.
You got to know how to translate this stuff.
You got to know how to relay this stuff to other people for what it really means.
Most people would hear Mrs. Clinton say, we need a poverty czar and go, that's right.
That's right, Mr. Lumbaugh.
Too many people are looting ground in this country.
There's abject poverty everywhere.
People are starving.
They can't afford Gethsemane.
Food, the growth restore.
We need somebody on the K-thright.
Well, we've had a war on poverty since when?
1964.
Guess it's not working.
Maybe we should surrender.
Maybe we should pull out of the war on poverty.
You talk about a bottomless pit.
Maybe the war on poverty ought to be given some benchmarks to meet and be able to survive on its own.
But see, this is my point.
While Carl Levin can sit there and lecture the Iraqi government on meeting benchmarks and learning to pay its own way and become self-sufficient, he would nowhere near say that to Jennifer Grandholm, the governor of his own state, nor of Democrat voters and constituents all over the country.
And now, Mrs. Clinton, isn't it just juicy?
Mrs. Clinton telling President Bush, don't you go to China?
Don't you dare show up over there for those opening ceremonies at the Olympics.
But Mrs. Clinton has dealt with the Chinese, ladies and gentlemen.
The Chinese have been murdering Tibetans throughout the Clinton presidency.
I mean, the poor Tibetans have been, I mean, the Chinese have been kicking the crap out of them.
I mean, for years and years and years, it was going on during the Clinton presidency.
And while this was happening, while the Chinese were murdering Tibetans during her husband's presidency, she benefited personally, as did her husband.
Remember all that money the Chinese military poured into the DNC?
Remember the Clinton Defense Fund, all those money orders coming in?
What Hillary ought to do is tell her buddy Diane Feinstein that Feinstein's husband, what's his name?
Richard Mental Block.
You all know in San Francisco who I'm talking about here.
He's made a fortune doing business with the Chinese.
Maybe Hillary ought to tell Feinstein, Feinstein's husband, to stop it.
Richard Bloom, that's right.
Richard Bloom is Diane Feinstein's husband.
So, I mean, the hypocrisy is on a huge roll, but in the bottom line is they're admitting the war on poverty has failed, and we need to pull out.
We need to get out.
We need to surrender, i.e., as they advocate in Iraq.
I wonder, by the way, if Senator McCain thinks that Bill Gates makes too much money.
I would love to hear the answer to that question.
Warren Buffett, does he make too much money?
Microsoft products have increased productivity in the country immensely.
A lot of people's jobs.
That's what I asked that question, snurdling.
Look, you are the official program observer, and you're supposed to be observing.
I already asked a question about his beer baron wife.
Is he going to rein in her pay?
Well, she's not actually a CEO, but she's, she's, I mean, they got big bucks.
Big, big.
Speaking of the Olympics, I want to give you people a little factoid that you can impress all of your friends with at your next dinner party.
The Olympic torch.
It's causing controversy everywhere it goes.
There are riots in London.
There were riots in Paris.
Some of these clowns climbed the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday, unfurled a banner all about Tibet and the way that the Chinese should have never gotten these games in the first place.
They've got them, but they're people that are very unhappy.
I can't recall the last time a communist nation was protested like this in so many parts of the world.
Nobody would dare protest the Soviets like this.
But they are protesting the CHICOMs.
Now, everybody thinks that the Olympic torch, let me just ask you a question.
Do you think the Olympic torch, lighting the torch in a spiritual manner, using the sun's rays focused off mirrors, to light the torch at Mount Olympus in Greece, and then have that torch run relays or do relays all over the world before it gets to the site of the Olympics?
Do you think that tradition dates back to the original ancient Greeks and the first Olympics?
What about you, Sterling?
Is that what you think?
Do you think the torch has its origins?
Okay, what about you?
What about you, Don?
Do you think the torch has its origins going all the way back to the ancient Greeks, and that's how they passed them, you know, passed the word that the Olympics were coming?
Everybody should head to Mount Olympus.
How about you?
Brian, okay.
Everybody in the audience who thinks that the torch has roots and is a tradition of the ancient Greeks, have I got news for you?
It isn't.
It wasn't.
It never was.
The first Olympic torch was lighted at Mount Olympus and toured Europe on its way to the Olympics in 1936 in Germany.
The Olympic torch has roots in the Olympics of Adolf Hitler.
This is from the UK Independent.
There's a two-word answer to those who think the Olympic torch is a symbol of harmony between nations that should be kept apart from politics.
Adolf Hitler.
The ceremony played out on the streets of Paris yesterday did not originate in ancient Greece, nor even in the 19th century when the Olympic movement was revived.
The entire ritual, with its pagan overtones, was devised by a German named Dr. Carl Dim, who ran the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
Now, Carl Dijm was not a Nazi.
He was appointed to run the Olympics before the Nazis came to power.
But he adapted very quickly to the new regime, the Nazis, when they came into power.
And he ended World War II as a fanatical military commander, exhorting teenage Germans to die like Spartans rather than accept defeat.
Thousands did, but he didn't.
He lived to be 80.
He sold to Joseph Goebbels, who was in charge of media coverage of the games, the idea that 3,422 young Aryan runners should carry burning torches along a 3,422-kilometer route from the Temple of Hera on Mount Olympus to the stadium in Berlin.
It was his idea, Dr. Carl Dimes, that the flame should be lit under the supervision of a high priestess using mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays, passed from torch to torch along the way, so that when it arrived in the Berlin stadium, it would have a quasi-sacred purity.
The concept could hardly fail to appeal to the Nazis, who loved pagan mythology, saw ancient Greece as an Aryan forerunner of the Third Reich.
The ancient Greeks believed that fire was of divine origin.
They kept perpetual flames burning in their temples.
But in Olympia, where the ancient games were held, the flame burnt permanently on the altar of the goddess Hestia in Athens.
Athletes used to run relay races carrying burning torches in honor of certain gods.
But the ancient games were proclaimed by messengers wearing olive crowns, a symbol of the sacred truce, which guaranteed that athletes could travel to and from Olympus safely.
There were no torch relays associated with the ancient Olympics until Adolf Hitler.
They lied to us about it.
They lied to all of us in public.
Well, I don't know if I was lied to about this.
I don't recall.
I've never been that big in Olympics, but I don't like amateur athletics.
I just, I never have.
I don't care what it is.
The uniforms are cheap.
We're all professionals here, and I'm a professional.
I want to watch what other professionals do.
The hockey thing in 1980, that was cool.
Do you believe in miracles?
If you really want to revive the Olympics, Al-Qaeda needs to get a team.
I mean, when we had that rivalry with the Soviets, I mean, that made the Olympics fun because of the rivalry.
But I couldn't care less about synchronized.
What a, oh, listen.
All these, I just, I don't know.
Not a big old.
I don't know what I was taught about the Olympics.
I don't know that I was taught that the flame.
Wait a minute.
Yes.
Yes.
I remember.
In fact, I remember being taught that that flame and the torch never went out.
That it was always on there in Greece.
It had been around since the beginning of the Olympics.
And then these klutzes take it around and take it on these tours all over the country and all over the world on its way to the...
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I...
I just, what do you need way to go at the end of my, I just, I don't, the hate is too strong.
I'm just not interested in them.
You know, what was it, Monday night?
Last night.
This is Tuesday, right?
Last night, I'm busy.
I'm working on today's program.
It's about 11.30.
And I get an email.
Wow, the Final Four Championship game had just gone into overtime.
I didn't even have the TV on.
I had, you know, when the NFL season ends, I've really, I take time.
I'll watch the occasional baseball game, but I'm the NFL or bust.
I don't get excited about sports on television until August preseason.
Well, yeah, the golf too.
Yeah, golf, the masters, the majors.
That's right, Brian.
Thank you for reminding me about that.
But I don't watch college golf either.
The amateurs don't watch it.
I mean, watching golfers carry their own bags.
Give me a cabbie or give me a break.
Yeah, this is Jumping Jack Flash by the Stones.
And they opened to this song so close to another semi-hit that the Stones had in 1968 when I was a struggling young disc jockey star of the future back in Missouri called Street Fighting Man.
And it ended up being the theme song for the 1968 Democrat Convention, which blew up in the riots and all sorts of stuff in Chicago that year.
Find that tune.
I know we have it on a profit system up there.
So if you can find Street Fighting Man, people know what I'm talking about.
By the way, look at it.
I know I'm going to, it is not my intent.
I want you to understand something to ever offend people.
I don't give people the power to offend me.
People can say about me or whatever they want.
The closer somebody is to me, then it can hurt my feelings if I let it.
But I don't want to give people that power.
But I know a lot of people get offended.
And I'm not trying to do that.
I'm just telling you honestly, I don't like amateur sports.
Nothing against the people that do it.
I mean, they're great kids and they're moving them, and I want to watch them when they become pros.
Pure and simple.
Now, I didn't watch the NCAAs.
I never do.
I didn't go to college.
I don't have an alma mater.
I don't have cheerleader memories and that sort of stuff.
So watching the cheerleaders is no big deal either.
They're too young anyway.
It's just a giant.
Well, they have cheerleaders from the baseball team.
Sterling, what are you talking about?
They had some cool usherettes.
But they had an it doesn't, look, it doesn't matter.
You know, when you're watching a college game today, you see the cheerleaders, you just, it's a tease.
So anyway, but I did read up on the game last night because in case Snerdley blindsided me with a phone call about it, I know what happened in a game last night.
Memphis up by 10, up by 3 with 10 seconds to go.
And Kansas inbounds the ball.
All you got to do is foul somebody.
And they didn't foul anybody.
Memphis just let them run down and score the three and tie it up.
Now, the coach, Kalapari, is taking a lot of heat today for not calling a timeout before that inbound at 10 seconds to remind his play, go foul somebody.
But that's the point.
Why should he have to remind them?
It's 10 seconds left.
But at any rate, so it goes into overtime, and then Kansas wants.
I'm sure for those who love this stuff, it was exciting.
But it is what it is.
I'm not trying to be offensive with that.
I'm just, I want you to know who I am.
Now, back to Senator McCain and his attempt to rein in CEO pay.
I don't mean to take the smiles off your face by bringing this up again, but it is a little lesson for everybody, including Senator McCain.
It is up to the shareholders to determine what the CEO gets paid.
Shareholders voluntarily invest in a company.
They decide if the CEO should be booted or paid or whatever.
Board of directors represents the investors, oftentimes the CEO as well.
But let me suggest to Senator McCain and all the rest of you who think that the government ought to somehow have some oversight over what anybody in the private sector makes.
Let me suggest that the government that Senator McCain seeks to lead has enough problems with management and finance and fairness to be extending its power to every boardroom.
In other words, I don't know who in government I would hire to do anything if I ran a major corporation.
I don't know who I would hire to fix it, streamline it, to run it.
Senator McCain hasn't run a business like this.
Yeah, he's going to rein in CEO.
This is all just liberal lingo.
It's all pandering on the basis of class envy.
How well have the feds done fixing Social Security?
When they fix that, when the federal government fixes FEMA, when the federal government fixes the public housing mess that they created, when they fix the massive bureaucracy and downsize it, make it functional, when they fix an endless list of programs they have created, then maybe Senator McCain, who's been in Washington for 24 years, can start lecturing other people about how to run their businesses.
But the last I looked, the way government is being run and all of its ancillary programs does not recommend anybody in charge in government to be put in charge of anybody's business or any industry, like health care.
Hello, Mrs. Clinton.
Hello, Senator Obama.
Now, if somebody wants to be CEO of some company like Senator McCain, then go seek that job.
But he's running for the presidency, and as such, he is the CEO of no company.
He doesn't get to run the private sector as president.
He's running to be chief executive of the federal government.
And this brings me to a point that I have wanted to make for a while.
Maybe Senator McCain or somebody on his staff could start explaining to us in some coherent way, because this is going to matter when we get down to the general.
Start explaining to us in some coherent way exactly what his views of federal power and economic activity are.
Because so far, Senator McCain has gotten away with an incoherent mix of both.
But maybe he should start spelling out exactly what his principles are regarding governance and economics because it matters.
Particularly since this is the one striking difference between Senator McCain and the Democrats, and that is his views on tax cuts and economic growth and, you know, reining in pork barrel spending, earmarks, and that kind of thing.
But, you know, when he comes out with this thing, I think, she, you're making so much money, we have to look into it.
We have to shine a light.
Well, when you start saying things like that, it makes those of us who support Senator McCain on taxes start to wonder.
Just start to wonder.
I'll just leave it at that.
This is it, way to go.
This is Stone's street fighting man.
By the way, one more observation about the game last night.
If Memphis could have made some free throws in the last two minutes, it wouldn't have mattered about the three-second, the three-shot lead 10-second inbound passes.
No fouls.
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