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May 2, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 2, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Here we are, as always, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
The prophet just died.
We have an hour to go.
Besides, I'm the prophet.
Our computer just died, ladies and gentlemen, so the open line, you just got to reboot it.
Is that what you got to do?
Nothing like that.
All right, so we don't have the Open Line Friday jingle.
And we might not, do we have the audio soundbites?
Is that a yes or no?
There were two voices that we do have.
We do have the audio soundbites.
All right, good.
Welcome back.
Well, okay, the profit system's back.
And you know the drill here on Open Line Friday.
When we go to the phones, whatever you want to talk about is fine.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
You know, I was just reflecting back on our conversation with Andy McCarthy and his new book, Willful Blindness, about our reluctance to see the truth about Islamic jihad and Islamofascism.
And here he's talking about Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh, who was involved in 93 World Trade Center bombing and a plan to blow up the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, UN, and other things.
And he told the story of how he got into the country.
He came in a number of times, and one agency of the government had him on the terrorist watch list.
Another agency of the government is giving him a green card.
And I'm sitting here thinking, this is the same government that people want to run their health care.
This is the same government that people want to turn over the responsibility for punishing big oil, big drug, big retail.
These things just hit me.
And then, of course, the stuff about the 90s and how we bungled everything we were doing.
Of course, who was running the show in the 90s, but the Clintons.
Andy also mentioned during the interview that the administration's put out some guidelines.
Not yet mandates, except for certain government officials, but guidelines on how we should refer to the enemy.
And the AP had the story on April 24th.
Don't call al-Qaeda a movement.
Don't call them jihadists anymore.
The Bush administration has launched a new front in the war on terrorism, this time targeting language.
Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Counterterrorism Center, are telling their people not to describe Islamic extremists as jihadists or mujahideen.
According to documents obtained by the AP, lingo-like Islamo-fascism is also out.
The official memo originally prepared in March by the Extremist Messaging Branch at the National Counterterrorism Center.
The extremist messaging branch.
We can call ourselves extremists.
The extremist messaging branch at a national counterterrorism center was approved for diplomatic use this week by the State Department, which plans to distribute a version to all U.S. embassies.
Here are some of the guidelines.
Actually, some of the specifics.
Never use the term jihadist or mujahideen in conversation to describe the terrorists, calling them jihadists.
And their movement, a global jihad, unintentionally legitimizes their actions.
Use terms like violent extremist or terrorist.
Both are widely understood terms that define our enemies appropriately and simultaneously deny them any.
Now, this, you'd have to say here, this is our government involved in its number one constitutional charge.
And that is the defense and protection of the Constitution, the government, and the people of the United States.
And we're worried here.
We don't want to offend these people.
And we don't want to make them feel any more omnipotent or powerful than they already are.
So don't call them what they are.
Oh, boy.
Moving on from this to Obama.
I want to spend a little bit more time on this because I just run through this at the top of the hour.
But there's a story here from not sure.
Probably AP.
Doesn't matter.
Democrat Barack Obama and his wife said yesterday that the public is tired of hearing about incendiary remarks by Jeremiah Wright.
He said, we hear time and time again, voters are tired of this, said Michelle My Bell Obama in an interview on the Today Show.
They don't want to hear about this division.
They want to know what we're going to do to move beyond these issues, she said.
What made me feel proud of Barack and the situation is he's trying to move us as a nation beyond these conversations that divide.
Here's the thing about this.
How long has Jeremiah Wright been on the national radar?
30 days, 45 days or whatever?
So the Obamas tell us that after 30 days, 45 days, we're tired of it.
Actually, they tell us that we're tired of it.
I don't know that we're telling them.
They're telling us that after 30, 45 days, we are tired of Jeremiah Wright.
Let's go with the first one.
Let's just assume, although I don't believe it, but let's just assume that when they're out there on the stump, that people are telling them we're tired of hearing about Jeremiah Wright.
If it's true, it took us, the collective United States population, 30 to 40 days to get sick and tired of this lunatic.
Barack Obama was listening to this clown for 20 years and didn't get tired of it.
He only started getting tired of it when we told him we were getting tired of it.
So the question you have for Michelle My Bell is, okay, the American people tired of it for 30, 35 days.
What took you people 20 years to get tired of it.
Back to the audio soundbites.
Operation Chaos is good for Democrats.
Last night on Nightline, Cynthia McFadden talking to Hillary Clinton.
Joe Andrew was one of your first supporters.
He feels at this point continuing to support you is tearing the party apart.
Why?
I'm picking up momentum every single day.
And I think this has been good for the Democratic Party.
We have registered millions of new voters.
And what we see is such excitement and energy.
Why anybody would want to short-circuit that, I don't understand, because I think it's giving us a very firm base to go into the fall election.
Operation Chaos.
She just described what is happening out there.
And there are hundreds of thousands of Republicans registering as Democrats.
And of course, the drive-bys and others want to say, well, we can't quantify that.
We can't pull this out asking any questions about it.
Look at the numbers.
Mrs. Clinton here.
We've registered millions of new voters.
And they're going to re-register right back, Hillary.
And what we see is such excitement and energy.
Yeah, from a bunch of Republicans who were bored, silly, and depressed until Operation Chaos came along.
I guarantee you that the Republican operatives in Operation Chaos are far more excited and energetic than the Democrats are in all this.
Just like if the Democrats are tired of Obama or Zari Jeremiah Wright after 30 days, can you imagine how tired they are of these two candidates after a year?
Why anybody would want to short-circuit this excitement, Hillary says.
I don't understand.
Exactly right, which is why I, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Operation Chaos, am not calling off the operation.
Next question from Cynthia McFadden on Nightline last night.
The numbers look like they don't add up.
And by staying in the race, you could hurt Obama's chances if he's the nominee.
This is just idle talk.
You have to know how to run a campaign that's going to win.
I mean, you put my base against my opponent's base.
Mine's much broader and deeper.
And I think that's what's going to matter when people start asking themselves, who's our better candidate?
Who can we actually put up against John McCain?
You know, it is who can better win.
And I've won the big states.
I've won the states that we have to anchor.
Why would any of us think that it shouldn't go to the end?
We've got a process.
The rules are it goes all the way into June.
Yeah, and beyond, hopefully.
Can I translate this for you?
Mrs. Clinton said, put my base against my opponent's base.
Mine's much broader and deeper.
Meaning the only thing he's getting is a few rich white liberals in the black population.
Pure and simple.
He's not making inroads here into all the blue-collar worker, white, traditional, called Reagan Democrat voter.
And now here's Hillary.
Now, this is on the gas tax holiday.
I find what's happening here with the gas tax holiday and these proposals fascinating.
Mrs. Clinton in Brownsburg, Indiana, talking about the gas tax holiday, calls herself Goldilocks here in this bite.
Senator Obama says we shouldn't do it, and it's a gimmick, and Senator McCain says we should do it, but we shouldn't pay for it.
I sometimes feel like the Goldilocks of this campaign.
You know, not too much, not too little, just right.
And I think we should have a gas tax holiday and pay for it.
I find it, frankly, a little offensive that people who don't have to worry about filling up their gas tank or what they buy when they go to the supermarket think that it's somehow illegitimate to provide relief for the millions and millions of Americans who are on the brink of losing their jobs, unable to keep up with their daily expenses.
So, as I say, we have to do both.
In a way, in a way, let's leave the economics of this aside for just a second.
In a way, she's got a point here.
All these people who don't have to worry about the price of gas, don't have to worry about what the food prices are in the grocery store, are the same people saying, cutting the price of gasoline 18 cents again, it's not going to help anybody.
It's bad.
Plus, there's this rumor that the oil companies would just raise the price of gasoline to make up for the 18 cents that would be saved by not having to pay any federal tax on it.
The biggest problem with it is it's simply interference in the market.
And here's the contradictory thing.
This is what just amuses me.
On the one hand, we got all these people who have asked for gasoline prices to skyrocket because they think it'll make people drive less, and there'll be less pollution, and there'll be less traffic, and we'll use less fuel and less pressure on importing oil.
This would be a beautiful thing.
And so, when we're going to cut the price by 18 cents a gallon, if we do by getting rid of the federal gas tax, no, no, no, people are just going to start driving again, and they're going to start polluting again, and they're going to get global warming.
And yet, these are the same people who are wandering around out there bemoaning the high price.
The same people that are just livid as hell about the high price and want to somehow fix the blame totally to big oil.
When anybody comes along with any proposal to reduce the price, which is what people are demanding, get it lower and get it lower now, that the same people, oh, you can't do it that way, where we destroy our roads and bridges, we destroy jobs.
This is like the government would fall apart if it loses a penny of tax revenue.
Here is guess we didn't get the profit center fixed.
I have no idea how it happened either.
I'm just sitting here prepared to intro a new soundbite, and I get Mike Revell's gay army spot.
It just happened.
It just came out of nowhere.
Engineer is telling me it just came out.
It just started.
Just happened.
Now, I happen to know a little bit about electronics, and I happen to know that just doesn't happen.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Well, that explains it.
It didn't just happen.
Then you were going back and forth between the A server and the B server.
Doesn't matter.
You were still going.
It doesn't matter if you touch it or not.
You're still going back between the servers.
Of course, you do that.
Now it makes total sense.
One server wasn't talking to the other server, didn't know what the other server was doing, didn't know you were trying to switch.
One server did know you were trying to switch, thought you had switched, and started Mike Ravel's gay army spot.
Ha, welcome back, Rush Limbo, having more fun than a human being.
Should be a lot to have back to the audio soundbites.
I'll get to your phone calls here in just a second.
We want to stay in this gas tax business.
Here is Obama, the audio soundbite number 16.
And it's a little press conference, and this is what he said about it.
So now it's the Clint McCain proposal to suspend the gas tax for three months.
Here's the problem: is not only is it worth 30 cents a day to you, but it takes money out of the Federal Highway Fund that goes to rebuilding roads and bridges.
And without that money, you could have thousands of fewer jobs here in Indiana, and our roads and bridges won't be safe.
Where do you start?
Where do you start?
You know, the sad thing is that there are a bunch of ignoramuses in his audience listening to this and lapping it all up.
What's wrong with saving 30 cents a day?
If everybody's crying and moaning about the price of gasoline and wanting the price to come, you got to start somewhere, don't you?
What are we going to do, Obama?
Cut it two bucks?
Tell me how we're going to.
Where do you get 30 cents out of this anyway?
It's 18.4 cents a gallon.
Has he somehow calculated that people use two gallons a day or less than two gallons a day?
What is this?
The poor roads and bridges and the poor government work.
I guarantam T you, not one government worker would be fired.
Not one government worker would be laid on.
This offends every out of me.
The idea that the government, which steals $3.1 trillion from us this year, can't do without their federal gas tax for three months.
If we allow that premise to stand, there will never be any reduction in the size of government.
And now, you know who I'm hearing is near the top of the list for Obama's vice president?
Bloomberg.
I kid you.
I'm hearing it from a couple of sectors.
Michael Bloomberg, Mr. Anti-TransFat, the mayor of Nueva Ort, liberal Democrat, calls himself a Republican to trade on Rudy's coattails to get elected up there, is also climbing on board the gas tax holiday and being very critical of it, said this to reporters yesterday about waiving the gasoline to the sales, the gasoline sales tax, federal tax.
That's about the dumbest thing I've heard in an awful long time from an economic point of view.
I don't understand why you think there's any merit to it whatsoever.
We're trying to discourage people from driving and we're trying to end our energy dependence.
You don't do that.
Oh, and incidentally, we're trying to have more money to build infrastructure.
All three of those things fly in the face of giving everybody 30 bucks a year.
Oh, now it's 30 bucks a year, not 30 cents a day.
Well, I'm getting confused with all these numbers these people.
So, you know, we, we, 30 bucks a year, we can't afford to give you 30 bucks.
It's not giving you anything.
It's letting you keep 30 bucks a year that you've already earned and don't have to fork over to these people.
Now, it may be that there are places we're trying to urge people to drive less, and I'm sure New York is one.
This guy wants to tax people to drive into New York.
And I'm sure, you know, all these stupid liberal-run cities building all these light rail systems, we got one down.
I never see anybody on it.
Every time I have to go to the airport, we have to cross railroad tracks, folks.
There's no other way around.
I have to cross railroad tracks.
And invariably, you know, I don't go to the airport two hours early.
You know, I leave for the airport 20 minutes before the flight leaves.
Time is valuable.
I have to sit there and have the little crossbars go down.
Here comes the ugliest looking, what do they call it?
Metro Trail Tri-Rail.
It's not really a white rail.
It's an actual train.
That's even worse.
And the ugliest painted things, they look like that's supposed to be sky blue with palm trees on them.
It looks like that they picked them right out of the junkyard.
And there's nobody on them.
And they go put-putting through the interchange here at about a mile and a half an hour, dinging their little bell, ding, ding, ding, ding, to make sure that some homeless person doesn't walk in front of the train.
Hell, you can walk in front of the train and stop it.
And there's nobody on it.
So, okay, we're trying to get people to drive less.
No, we're not.
We're not trying to get people to drive less.
New York, they might be.
Los Angeles, they might be, but we're not doing that.
And this business of trying to end our energy dependence.
Mayor Bloomberg, please, our intelligence, you're telling me that the gas tax, I don't even, I don't even know where, I don't even, I don't know.
Had an interesting email, ladies and gentlemen, and I'm frankly surprised at this.
I didn't think that it would happen.
It's from a subscriber, Rush24-7.
Hi, Rush.
Firstly, I want to thank you for having Andrew McCarthy on.
Washington is nuts.
And secondly, I just wanted to thank you and your staff for my stimulus check that I received from our illustrious government.
I have sweetly stimulated the economy within the good old USA, beginning with the purchase of a great firearm.
I am not some kind of nut.
The remainder of my money went toward a weapons training course.
We live in an era where the bad guys far outnumber law enforcement capability.
Have a great weekend.
Be sure to thank your staff.
Vicki Beam, a babe, went out and bought cold blue steel and then training with her stimulus check and thanked us.
Because your loyal staff here at the EIB network doesn't get a $600 stimulus check.
We are paying for yours.
And she had the realization of this.
She sent us a thank you note.
We very much appreciate that.
And I'm going to accept the thanks of all of you on behalf of Vicki.
You don't need to flood us with these thank you notes.
Here is Shannon in Fort Worth, Texas.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Good afternoon, Russ.
I want to get straight to the point.
I want to know, in your opinion, who has the best integrity of the Democrat, the Democratic candidates.
Would it be Hillary or Obama?
And I want to also ask you, I want to take you back a little bit to the 2000 Peter Paul scandal of Mrs. Clinton.
And I'm surprised she's still in politics.
I'm surprised that she's not in jail after that.
And in your opinion, I want you to explain why you think that she was able to get out of that scot-free, because it did not appear as if she was held accountable for any of this.
Because she didn't know about it.
She didn't know about it, Shannon.
Here's the story on this Peter Paul business, as best as I understand it.
They had this big-time fundraiser out there in Los Angeles somewhere, and he was one of the organizers and a fundraiser.
And a lot of the money that went into staging the thing, they contracted out and just counted that as a campaign contribution.
They took much more money out of the event than it raised and converted it to campaign funds for Mrs. Clinton.
But she didn't know anything about it.
This woman doesn't know anything.
She's ready to lead from day one, but she doesn't know anything.
She doesn't know anything that happens in her own house.
She didn't know anything that happens in her own bedroom.
She doesn't know anything that happens in her own husband's administration.
She doesn't know anything.
Her mind is jello.
And since nobody had any proof that she knew about it, that's why.
What was the other question?
Who has the most integrity between Obama and Hillary?
Yeah, who do you view as being more honest and has more integrity?
Geez.
This is a case of two negatives.
Which is the least dishonest is the most appropriate question.
I think that's a more accurate question, but in your opinion, because I think Mrs. Clinton is beatable, and I think it's because every time that she makes a statement, she's proven, you know, with the snipper fire and all this stuff, she's proven that she can't be honest.
She can't tell the truth.
Of course, but look at Obama can't either.
Nobody wants to talk about it.
Nobody wants to talk about this Obama stuff.
But this guy hasn't told the truth since Jeremiah Wright hit the scene.
He hasn't told the truth about anything.
And Michelle, my, by the way, Michelle Mybel Obama says we're sick and tired of hearing about Reverend Wright.
You know what I'm sick and tired of here?
I'm sick and tired of hearing about alternative energy.
And I'm sick and tired of hearing about health care.
And I'm sick and tired of hearing about education.
Here's another thing, too, folks.
The idea that one of these two is more beatable than the other, that may be true.
We don't really know now because there's too much that can happen between now and the actual election.
But they're both beatable.
These two under, you know, in a sane political environment, neither of these two would stand a ghost's chance.
And if somebody is willing to make the case, and some of us are, I think you'll see that come to fruition.
That's why I'm not worried here about the outcome of Operation Chaos.
Alan in Lawrence, Kansas.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, J. Hockey's to you.
And I'm a 17-year listener, but I find myself in the position of being in the dark about your comment on your top 10 favorite female names.
And I don't like being in the dark about your tweaks, so I'd like to know the story behind that.
There's no story.
See, this is one of the things I find amazing about the program.
I've got my top 10, all-time favorite, top 10 female names.
You think there's some gimmick here?
There's got to be something to it.
You've got to be tweaking somebody out there.
No.
Really?
No.
Well, how come there's, it seems like there's got to be more than 10 names on it by now.
Name them.
Well, I can't, but it seems like everyone that calls.
You can't sit there and say there's more than 10 names.
You've got to be counting them up.
It seems like.
It seems like every woman that calls makes your top 10 list.
No.
How many women have we talked to today?
And only one of them, a woman named Jane, has her name in my all-time favorite top 10 list of female names.
See, this is an illusion.
You're falling for an illusion now.
There's no gimmick.
There's no trick.
Okay, so there's no good story behind it.
No, There's no payoff.
Well, let me make one quick request.
On your days off, I'd like more Walter E. Williams as a substitute for you.
More Walter Williams when I am out.
Yeah.
Okay, we'll put that in the hopper.
I like Walter.
In fact, one of the things, one of my favorite things, Walter has already apologized.
He's accepted.
Let me get this right.
He forgave us.
Walter Williams forgave all of us white people for slavery on one of the first days he co-hosted or guest-hosted this program.
He's a fine, funny guy.
I appreciate that recommendation.
I got to take a quick time out here, my good buddies.
More on the other side right after this.
Do not go away.
Barack Obama, Democrat presidential candidate, says that he would levy a $15 billion tax on oil company profits.
This is a game now between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to see who can seize the most profits from the oil company.
This $15 billion, this tax on big oil that Obama proposes is three times as high as what Mrs. Clinton has proposed.
Obama's plan, three times larger than the $50 billion 10-year plan contemplated by Mrs. Clinton.
The plan would target profit from the biggest all companies by taxing each barrel of oil costing more than $80.
According to a fact sheet on a proposal, the tax would help pay for a $1,000 tax cut for working families, an expansion of the earned income tax credit, and assistance for people who can't afford their energy bills.
Why don't you, you know, Obama, look at you.
Why are you playing games here, buddy?
We know who you are.
We know what you're all about.
Just do a Hugo Chavez and nationalize the damn companies.
Just take everything.
Just have the government take over the oil wells and all the refineries and all the production in this country.
Kick them out.
And then you go get your liberal buddies who've never had dirt under their fingernails hanging around at Academe and you have them run the oil business.
Just nationalize it.
You know, the windfall profits tax.
Everybody goes nuts over a windfall profits tax.
And big oil always seems to get around it.
You know how they do?
They stop producing as much domestic oil.
And guess what happens then?
Price goes way, way up.
Here is David in Lakeland, Florida.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
I was just calling about, I've been reading online recently about all this money that Al Gore now has at his disposal through all these investment funds.
And I saw the last total I saw was about $1.9 billion, earmarked for clean tech investments in different funds and different investment funds.
Fraudulent, most of them are fraudulent.
It's a giant hoax.
Basically, it's piling trees, you know, and turning chicken manure into some kind of fuel to do what with your lawnmower.
Who the hell knows what it is?
It's all a big joke.
Yeah, well, I think we've reached this point where we need to start talking about these global warming people and all the different things we need to do.
We need to give it its own new term.
And I'm thinking big weather needs to be what we need to just group all these people under now.
I mean, it's what's the difference?
Big oil makes profits.
Big weather.
You know, it's just the same kind of thing, just they're trying to put a different spin on it.
But ultimately, money and control is what they're after.
Big weather.
I'll tell you something.
I feel good about this.
We could call them big weather.
I mean, that's not a bad idea, but either there are better ones.
But I think we're winning here.
Al Gore's had to go out and invest $300 million in this thing to get people like Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi sitting in a black and white TV ad on a couch outside in Washington talking about their mutual interest in all this.
It must mean that his movie didn't work.
But here's the story again.
This time in the UK Telegraph, global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate.
We talked about this yesterday.
This is about ocean currents in the Pacific, in the Atlantic, and they naturally cool the planet.
Nothing we're doing.
Nobody's claimed yet.
I mean, every bit of damage we're doing is on the warming side, right?
So all of a sudden, here comes a massive movement.
It's going to cool the planet for 15 years.
And then global warming will resume.
Now, one of two things is going on here.
Either the global warming clown crowd knows there isn't any warming, and that's probably the case.
And the second thing we can say is, wait a minute, wait a minute, now, wait a minute.
If there are natural cooling cycles, might there also be natural warming cycles?
And the reason that's important is because all the warming is being attributed to you and me, not the Chikoms, and not the Taiwanese, and not the anybody.
It's all our fault.
Here's the best idea.
John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, has proposed taking Al Gore and other environmental wackos to court.
He did so to sue them.
He did so at a conference in New York in March.
Since then, John Coleman has received thousands and thousands of emails with lots of support, and thousands of these people want to donate to a legal fund to sue Al Gore.
He hopes that the court could be the venue to settle a debate over what he calls the biggest scam in history and expose global warming alarmism as silly hype.
I think it's maybe our only alternative to just hunkering down and waiting it out.
He claims the mainstream media ignores what those skeptical of man-made global warming have to say, while the educational community does not even debate the issue.
Without the media and the educational institutions, said Coleman, what resource do we have to counter these people?
We're not going to be heard unless we can find a place to be heard, and a court of law may be a place where we could get a fair hearing.
If the judge had a non-political scientific approach in reaching a decision, we could win this lawsuit.
It's something that's in the works.
I have no announcement to make now, but numerous people are involved, and it remains a valid possibility.
That would be awesome.
That just would be fabulous.
Anyway, Nathaniel in Dallas, I'm glad you called, sir.
To have you on the EIB network at Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi.
How are you, Rush?
Good.
Thank you.
My point was basically that the Congress has been complaining about how they can't afford to pay for this federal tax holiday for the gas over the summer.
But somehow they managed to pay all this stimulus rebate, and they had no problem finding the money for that.
So my point is every time they give out money for us, if it's somehow of an economy stimulus, why can't they just let us have our own money?
Excellent point.
Excellent point.
The only thing I'm thinking is this money that they are giving back in the form of the stimulus was somebody's first.
Right.
And I'm.
And that was my point originally, but they told me not to mess with that.
Yeah, well, you're exactly right.
They can afford to get.
Well, see, in that case, this was an election year.
This was based by partisanship.
Did you get your letter?
You getting a check?
Yeah, I got my deposit this morning, actually.
Just checked it.
Really?
Well, I got a letter telling me that I wasn't going to get one.
Yeah, I imagine.
But it explained what was going to happen to people who were.
And I'm thinking, if I'm your average, ignorant, klutz American, you know, there are too many ignorant people, the most experienced expensive commodity, and I get this.
Wow, do I love my government?
Why?
$600 is coming to me sometime between now and August.
It just happens to be an election year.
Very insidious.
Right.
Very insidious.
But it's a great point.
They can afford to give a lot of Americans $600 to stimulate the economy, but they're having conniption fits over what would be $30 a year, says Mayor Bloomberg, for a gas tax holiday.
Art in DuPage County, Illinois.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
Greetings from the People's Republic of Illinois.
Yes, sir.
I just got, I'm standing here in line and I'm getting ready for your next operation, Operation Get Over It, to give Mr. McCain a backbone because I think the other two are nine entities.
They dug a grave deep enough that they're never going to climb out of it.
Operation Get Over It.
Operation.
Well, I think, isn't that what you said at some dinner that you were at?
We're not going to get over it.
Yeah, one of the guys in the audience, get over it.
Yeah, we're not going to get over it.
But I'd like to let McCain know ahead of time that even if he even thinks of closing down Club Gitmo and closes down my source of t-shirts and shirts, that we're going to go after them with demonstrations even worse than that.
If I were to tell Senator McCain, I don't care what you do, buddy, but you don't close Gitmo because I got a thriving merchandise business.
It would move to the top of his agenda.
You know, but your larger point here, your larger point is, hey, how are we going to keep McCain in check?
How are conservatives going to keep McCain.
I hate to tell you this, folks, but John McCain is 70 years old.
And, you know, they don't advertise beer to 70-year-olds.
They advertise it to 14 to 15, 16-year-olds who have made up their mind yet.
No, they do.
I mean, that's why advertising 18 to 24, that's when they're impressionable.
Somebody's 70 years old, they're set.
Their politics is set.
McCain is very, very confident of himself.
He has a very high opinion of himself.
And, you know, who are they to tell me what I have to think?
I think what I think.
I'm going to do what I'm going to do.
So there might be some possibility with that on the economic side since he's admitted he's a little weak on that.
Be right back and close it out.
It's been a fabulous week, ladies and gentlemen.
Broadcast excellence, par excellence.
Operation Chaos final orders will be issued on Monday.
I look forward to seeing you then.
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