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June 10, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 10, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Solar physicists, ladies and gentlemen, are worried.
Solar physicists are worried.
For those of you in Rio Linda, this is scientists who study the sun.
There has been a longer than average time with no sunspots on the sun.
They're not worried yet, they say.
They're not concerned yet.
The last time, the last time the sun went without sunspots for 50 years led to the little ice age.
Now it hasn't been near 50 years here, ladies and gentlemen, but there have been any sunspots, and solar physicists cannot predict what happens on the sun, but they can observe it.
And they have observed that it's a it's just a it's it's a dull surface.
There's not no activity there.
And the longer it goes on, the more concerned they're gonna get.
Also, Aspen will open snow skiing this weekend on snow mass.
They had so much snow this past winter, it's still there.
So you want to go to Aspen and Ski, you'll be able to do it for three days this weekend.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Great to have you here.
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I have to correct something yesterday.
A very, very minor uh correction, still I must correction when discussing the whole bonfire situation in Seattle.
I mentioned that Long Island had already gotten into the act here by banning bonfires during times of the year for the piping plover.
I was wrong about it being bonfires.
They banned Fourth of July fireworks out on Long Island because yes.
Now this was some time ago, but uh the piping plover nesting nearby was the term we can't upset the piping plover.
It's a bird.
And so no 4th of July fireworks because of the piping plover.
I also I want to try to delicately address something here that I was chastised somewhat.
It wasn't a whole lot of emails.
But I did get four or five emails after yesterday's program from very upset women.
They were very no, then none of us said about that, snurtly.
Uh something quite more basic.
They were they were very upset uh uh over the discussion of sex in the city and why men don't go watch the stupid movie.
And the three of them demanded that we cancel their subscriptions to my website, Rush 24-7.
I wrote back, cancel your own subscription.
It's right there on the website.
Why do I have to do your work for you?
Well, that's what Bill Buckley said when people get he was people would send him complaints of what was in National Review and say, cancel my subscription.
He wrote a book called Cancel Your Own Damn Subscription.
Anyway, what got what and I look at I can understand this.
We were discussing sex in the city yesterday and why men don't go watch it.
And some guy, some guy named Moore, James Allen Peter Moore, whatever wrote wrote a piece saying the reason that men don't go watch the movie Sex in the City is because they are envious of the deeply bonded friendships that the four women have in that movie and in that series, and that men don't have those kind of friendships.
The only time men get together and really bond is when they go out of a golf course or engage in basketball, some other sports activity, or when they hit the bar and start consuming adult beverages.
But in no other form of fashion do men bond with deep friendships, and they just they're jealous and they're envious.
I said that that has nothing to do with this.
What it what I said was men do not want to go watch a movie where you've got I did I did describe them unflatteringly, but accurately.
Horseface, Grand Canyon Nick, 51-year-old sex kitten skank, whatever I said.
I didn't write these things down, they just kind of flowed off the tongue.
Nobody wants to go watch these kind of people drink cosmos or whatever it is and sit around complaining about men.
And men don't want to go watch relationship analysis movies.
They get enough of that in their real life.
Don't we don't analyze the relationships, just live it.
Because ra relationship analysis, inevitably, men are being told what they're not doing right or what they're doing wrong.
And then in the heat of this inspired monologue, and I knew that I was on the edge here.
In the heat of this inspired monologue, I said, look, if you give us Cameron Diaz or Julia Roberts, I don't care.
Names just flew off.
I mean, I didn't.
What I said was we might watch a 31-year-old doing relationship analysis.
We're not going to watch a 51-year-old.
Well, it was that, Mr. Snerdley, that caused the anger.
It was emails from women who are 50, 51, who wrote instead of huge fans, but that's it.
Cancel their subscriptions, because that that's just the plenty of beautiful 51-year-old women out there, and I just, you know, I I cast myself as a typical male by making that observation.
And so they're just they're mad.
And I even even got a note from one of them today.
You know what you don't understand, doofus, is that there are a lot of 57-year-old women who like looking at 31-year-old men, not people like you.
To which my soul?
What's the point?
Totally understand it.
I'm not insulted when you say that.
Because I like myself.
And I'm not.
But anyway, let me.
I'm not going to grovel.
I'm not going to grovel, Sturdley.
You know I don't grovel.
What do you mean am I going to have to grovel?
Have to do anything.
Follow my instincts.
Do what's right.
That brief moment of time that I made that statement yesterday, ladies, that was not the me that I know.
That was not.
I am not groveling.
That was not the me I know.
That was not the person everybody knows.
That that how many times have you heard people get in trouble?
I mean, uh even Obama, well, that's not the Jeremiah Wright I know.
That's not the Tony Rezco I know.
Well, that yesterday was not the me that I know.
Or, you know, some athlete will get, you know, caught DUI or, you know, driving some car off the road.
You know, that really isn't me.
I don't know who that person was.
We're all part of the male community here, and and uh I just it just the reason that it came out of my mouth, ladies, is because the article that spawned the whole discussion was so stupid.
Men, jealous.
See, ladies, as a man, I sort of like Christians and Catholics.
I'm a little fed up that we're the only group that constantly can be ripped, criticized, made fun of, and we're supposed to sit there and laugh at it.
And then when some other dork guy writes why I don't want to go to see a movie because I am jealous of the kind of relationship those women have.
Well, I just got a little fired up out there.
And nothing could be further from the truth.
There's very little that I here I go again.
There is very little that I see women do that I'm jealous of.
I'm not a jealous person or envious of that.
There's very little I see women do.
Damn, I wish I could do that.
Damn it, it just doesn't happen.
I don't look at women as things to be in competition with.
I don't a lot of women think there's a competition out there.
At any rate, uh it was I said it, I can't take it back.
It was in the heat of the moment.
That was not the me I know.
Well, we'll take a quick time out here and come back.
We're gonna talk about gas prices when we come back.
Stay stay with us.
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Listen to Chris Matthews.
Uh, this is last night on DNC TV and his show, uh Hardball.
I don't understand why the Democratic Party doesn't do to the Republicans what the Republicans did to the Democrats back in 1980 when we had a fuel crisis.
You get gasoline going to five bucks a gallon.
Everybody knows that it could be at six for all now by November.
Why don't they blame it all on Halliburton, the oil industry, the Republicans in bed with the oil industry?
That's incredible.
Where the hell has he been?
Chris, what do you think the Democrats have been doing?
Halliburton has been blamed for everything since we went to Iraq.
The Senate Democrats are trying to pass a windfall profits tax today on the floor of the Senate against the oil companies.
The Democrats have been blaming Bush and his oil buddies for all kinds of horrible things for six or seven years.
And I have two stories.
First off, this from the politico.
The AFL CIO going to send members to gas stations in two dozen cities this week, to focus attention on soaring prices, and to attack President Bush and John McCain for being beholden to big oil.
Now the thing about this is that the AFL CIO knows full well that it is the leftists in this country who are hurting supply and capacity.
It is the leftists in this country who are doing everything they can to see to it that there's no more domestic oil production taking place in this in fact.
I official climatologist Roy Spencer sent me this this morning.
Uh there have been protests filed against further oil and gas lease sales on government property.
While there is an increasing public realization that we need to be drilling more and drilling now, here at home, the environmentalists have begun the fight, the leftists, to stop future oil and gas lease sales by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
These are leftists.
These are people who want to shut down this country's economy.
They know full well that there is a building public mood to start drilling here and drilling now to increase supply and reduce our dependence on foreign suppliers.
And so what are they doing?
They're taking preemptive action to try to intimidate via protest the Bureau of Land Management from selling any further leases or give awarding any further leases on government land.
It's not a lawsuit that they have filed yet.
It is a protest.
And here's a quote from it.
This protest is predicated on the Bureau of Land Management's failure to address global warming and climate change.
So while Chris Matthews wonders what the hell the Democrats are doing, why aren't they blaming the Republicans?
His own people, Chris, your own leftists are taking every step they can to shut down any increase in domestic supplies of energy.
Now, this specific protest that I'm talking about here is in reference to recent New Mexico lease sales, but this is just a tip of the iceberg of new efforts to stop or to greatly slow through legal maneuvering future leases.
Make no mistake about it, folks.
We are in a war.
For all of you, and you've seen the polls, the public sentiment on drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf and up in ANWR.
And in Montana, the Bachinfield, and expanding that.
There is there is uh increasing public sentiment to do this and to do it now.
And the leftists who are doing their best to shut this country down are fully aware of it, and they're using their time honored and true techniques.
They're simply intimidating federal agencies and bureaucracies, and they may not have to not have to intimidate them much, because like-minded fellow travelers probably are working in some of these agencies, like U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the EPA.
This is what the leftists have done.
Over the years, they have succeeded in having like-minded fellow travelers appointed to bureaucratic positions by people like Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
Uh and in some cases, even George Bush, who was trying to forge a new tone with the Democrats and try to end all this partisanship.
So they're there and they can't be gotten rid of.
I've run into a lot of local and state bureaucrats who head up various commissions and councils.
I've asked them when they have made rulings in favor of an animal, a species or something against the interests of human beings and the property they own.
I said, why did you rule this way?
He said, Well, the environmentalists are the only one that showed up, and this is what they said they wanted.
And they were going to hassle us and they're going to have bother us on re-election and so forth.
What do you mean they're the only ones that showed up?
Well, we put out a public notice, nobody cared, nobody showed up.
None of these property owners you're talking about showed up to defend themselves.
I would have had I known about it.
But point is while all these Democrats on television, the drive-by media types, are worried to debt that their party's dropping the ball, the exact thing they want to happen is not only happening, it has been happening for years.
In some cases, decades.
The companion story to this is from the politico today.
More Americans now view energy as a serious concern than at the low point of the 1979 energy crisis, according to a political analysis of historic Gallup polls.
And the percentage of voters who consider energy issues very important in determining their vote has also risen dramatically since the last election.
54% October 2004, 77% in uh a recent uh poll released by the uh Pugh Research Center for the People and the press.
Distress over gas prices could hardly come at a worse time for Republicans, it says.
Voters usually blame a poor economy on the party party.
Sorry, I've got a very, very bad copy of a story here in the very dim, tough to read.
Voters usually blame a poor economy on the party that controls the presidency.
And there are few more potent reminders of hard economic times and the high cost of fuel at the pump.
Thus far, it's McCain who has been most who has most suffered from the imitation f well what that limitation, I think this is, on an issue that three in four registered voters believe to be very important.
It is the Republicans who are taking the heat.
Now I understand the theory that the party in power, the president, the executive gets the blame for all of these things.
And the polling data in this story says that the Republicans are lagging Democrats by 15 points on energy.
And McCain is even further behind the GOP than that.
And it stop and figure this.
If this poll is accurate, what it means is that those of us who want to increase supply are getting blamed.
Well, now, if the American people actually knew who wanted to increase supply, and by doing so lower prices, then they would also find out who is standing in opposition to all that.
And it's our old buddy Chris Matthews that didn't even know what's going on, and all of his leftist buddies who are doing everything they can to attack and shut down the U.S. economy and its growth.
And so the party that's trying to do something about this, the people trying to do something about it to increase production are getting blame for the problem.
When the problem exists primarily because of leftists the last 30 years who have done their best to shut down the domestic oil industry.
Now the Republicans are not sitting back from the Cybercast News Service.
As expected, gas prices keep rising.
Republicans are placing the blame on the Democrat-led Congress.
Republicans apparently see pain at the pump as a key election issue.
House Republican leader John Boehner called it insane that the Democrat-led Congress is still refusing to allow increased production of American energy.
He said today marks another dubious day for this do-nothing Democrat Congress.
On their watch, gas prices have soared to new heights.
And by refusing to schedule a vote on a plan to increase American-made energy to help lower prices, congressional Democrats are complicit in this unprecedented surge in fuel costs.
Every American has a right to ask, what will it take for the Democrat-controlled Congress to to finally take action and help ease the pain of the Pelosi premium on behalf of struggling families and small businesses?
Speaker Pelosi has the power to schedule a vote on our plan to begin breaking America's costly dependence on foreign sources of energy.
She should not wait another day to do so.
Now, the Republicans are putting this out.
Have you seen this anywhere?
Have you seen this statement from Boehner?
Before I tending about it, did you know the Republicans were on the war path on this?
No.
Because, as they often say, whatever they do will not get covered.
Cybercast News Service has this, which Brent Bosell's group, the Media Research Center, and the newsbusters.org.
But they're doing whatever they can.
The idea that Republicans are standing in the way when it's Republicans and others and conservatives who are trying to increase the supply for independence and lower prices is a message that must get out.
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Senate Republicans have blocked a Democrat plan to tax the windfall profits of the largest oil companies.
They failed 51 to 43 just now to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster of the energy package and bring a bill up for consideration.
Democrats said that the huge profits enjoyed by the largest U.S. oil companies should be reined in, with motorists paying more than four bucks a gallon for gasoline and oil prices soaring well beyond a hundred dollars a barrel, but the Republicans said that higher taxes on all companies would increase, not lower gasoline prices.
Look at Jimmy Carter did this.
But did you see that McCain stole my line?
I'm glad he did, but did you see it?
He's out there talking about Obama represents Carter's second term.
I've got the sound bites coming up.
I'll show you here in just a second.
Jimmy Carter, windfall profits tax on the big oil companies during that four years of melee's.
And you know what happened?
You know, our big oil companies, our biggest oil company, Exxon, is one of the smallest oil companies in the world if you factor in the Saudis.
And all of the um the Gulf states and their and their and their companies and so forth.
Our domestic oil companies are huge within the context of the continental United States.
Well, including Alaska and Hawaii.
But in terms of the world, they're tiny.
They're among the smallest oil companies out there.
Anyway, Jimmy Carter did uh his windfall profits tax, and the oil companies said, okay, fine.
We'll just stop, we'll stop producing as much in the United States.
We'll lower our production so we're not paying taxes, and that's exactly what happened.
They cut back production domestically.
They went back and produced more in their in their offshore properties and tracts.
It just the the Democrats know this.
This is this is not about revenue, it's not about oil, it's about punishment.
It is about punishing risk takers.
It is about class envy.
It is about punishing people who then have success after taking a risk.
It's like the minimum wage.
They raised the minimum wage, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, the Congress is one of the few achievements that the Queen Bee, Nancy Pelosi had.
And so we got the most recent unemployment report, 5.5%.
And of course, all hell broke loose on Wall Street, and everybody was panicking.
Oh no, oh no.
But very few people put together the fact that this this new increase in the minimum wage rate combined with a flooded job market of both high school students and college graduates is what led to the 5.5% employment number.
Jerry Bowyer was one of a number of people writing about this.
He posted a piece at Townhall.com called what the media didn't tell you about Friday's unemployment spike.
He wrote, It wasn't Bush.
It wasn't greedy corporations or free trade or history's most overpredicted recession.
It was not the oil companies, income inequality or the excess of cowboy capitalism.
None of these things caused the unemployment rate to jump a half a point in one month.
Ask yourself a few questions.
Why did unemployment surge at a time when unemployment compensation claims are historically low?
More to the point, how could unemployment spike this much without a coincide a coinciding spike in corporate layoffs?
How if if unemployment went up this high, where in the hell were all the people that lost their jobs is what he's saying.
He says the answer to all these questions is the same.
Because very few people lost jobs last month.
Very few.
This huge jump in the size of the unemployed comes from new entrants to the economy.
Hundreds of thousands of them.
In short, well over 600,000 people who were not job seekers in April, became job seekers in May.
And who starts looking for work at the end of spring?
That's right.
Students.
Hundreds and thousands of students looking for work right now, and they are not finding it.
And Congress, as always, well mostly always, is to blame.
Last year, Congressional Democrats, along with some Stockholm syndromed Republicans, and we remember who they were, passed the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, which started a phased hike of the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour.
Free market economists warned, among them Professor Hazlitt.
Among them warned that this would increase unemployment.
That rapid increases in unemployment compensation hit teenagers and minorities the hardest.
They do.
You know the percentage of people at earning the minimum wage in this country on any given day is well over 50%.
Teenagers, it's not people who are providing for a family of four or a family of two.
Rapid increases in unemployment compensation hit teenagers and minorities the hardest.
But the class warriors are running the people's house now, the Democrats.
And they would hear none of that, so they took to the floor.
They let loose the dogs at demagoguery and saddled America's pizza parlors, municipal swimming pools, house painting businesses, and lawn mowing services with a huge cost increase.
And now we see the perfectly logical outcome of wage controls.
And which is exactly what the minimum wage is.
It's a wage control.
And it is an arbitrarily established number that has nothing to do with productivity, experience, qualification.
So it is a wage control.
And the logical outcome of such rising unemployment among the most economically vulnerable.
The chart in this story tells the story.
Friday's unemployment spike occurred overwhelmingly among teenagers, and secondarily among African Americans, just like the economists, including Professor Hazlet, said it would.
A kid who is at entry level of job skills, maybe a good deal at $5 an hour, but maybe not a good deal at $7 an hour.
Our anointed leaders get a glory in their generosity with other people's money, of course.
And just so long as very few people in the media know that a demand curve slopes downward, which is a good bet that they don't know this.
So this summer the left is going to make political lemonade out of a tough student job market.
It may provide a small army of angry unemployed youths, demand the campaign, hungry for hope, and loose change.
Never once realizing that they're working to entrench the lefty war on business which left them jobless in the first place.
The key to understanding this is very simple.
Hardly anybody lost a job in May when the unemployment rate went up half a point.
Five to five and a half percent.
And those who couldn't find work were the new job market entrants.
What's all this got to do with the price of oil, the windfall profits tax?
Because none of this is aimed at actually Helping anybody, and it's typical liberal or leftism, it ends up harming the very people it's intended to help.
Look at uh Obama and his predicted, at least he says this is what he wants to do, tax increases.
He wants to raise taxes to 39% on people who make $200,000 a year or more.
To him, that's rich.
Current rates 35%.
He wants to take it back to the glory days of the Clinton administration at 39%.
All right, fine and dandy.
Well, what's going to happen here?
Well, how many small business owners, the largest employers collectively in the country, they file their sub-s, subchapter S corporations, but they file a returns on a personal return on 1040.
So their rate's going to go from 35 to 39.
Guess what?
The very people that Obama says, look, I'm going to get even with these rich people for you.
I'm going to raise their taxes, I'm going to make things fair.
And these people are going to go, yeah, yeah, yeah, you stick it to them.
And who gets it stuck to them?
The guy who loses his job, who's not making 200,000 because his employer has to fire him in order to pay the federal government's new taxes authored by Obama.
I was alive, as many of you were during the early 70s, 72, 73, was working at a radio station in Pittsburgh, Richard Nixon, in the midst of 3% inflation, imposed wage and price controls.
And of course, management back then loved it.
They got to suspend any increase in wage whatsoever.
But I noticed, as I went around town consuming, as I did, I'd go to the grocery store, and I would go to any number of other stores, and the prices are still going up here.
When I said, Now, how can I mean I thought Nixon instituted wage and price controls?
Well, I asked my good friend Professor Hazlitt about this one day, and he enlightened me.
He said the way they handle it in butcher shops and in the meat sections of supermarkets was when the wage and price controls were initiated, everything that existed at that time was ostensibly controlled price-wise.
So all they had to do was create a new cut of beef like the ribeye bee.
Or the boneless half-bone in ribeye, which prior to that didn't exist.
No price control on it, they could charge whatever they wanted.
And so they were raising the price on that to compensate for other prices that they were having to control.
It's the same way with the minimum wage.
The liberals impose these things, and in this case Nixon, thinking that the economy is static and not dynamic, and also believing the American people just going to bend over and grab the ankle, say, okay, you want to pay more money, I'll pay more money.
It's not the way it works.
The truly industrious and creative find ways to either work harder to earn more money to make up or going to lose paying taxes, or they try to find clever ways to earn money that's not reported as earned income.
So they don't have to pay Obama's new tax on it.
By the same token, Congress directs small businesses, everybody, to raise the minimum wage on a graduated scale up to $7.15.
Well, small business owners are not going to sit there and say, oh, well, okay, because they don't have, just like you probably don't at home, they don't have an unlimited supply of cash sitting around that they're not doing anything with.
They might have some cash flow, but it's allocated or it's there for insurance or what have you.
But if somebody comes along and says, look, the four guys you're paying minimum wage, you've got to increase them by X, one of them is going to lose a job because the business owner is going to do his best not to sit there and lose money because if he loses money for too long, he's out of business.
And then everybody that works there is fried.
And this is what I was talking about yesterday about the incremental loss of basic liberties and freedoms by all of these well-intentioned people who have convinced way too many Americans that their intentions are honorable and they love people and they're filled with compassion.
And yet everything or most everything they try as a remedy to some social problem not only doesn't work, it exacerbates the problem.
Jeffrey Lord has a what I think is a great piece today in the American Spectator.
And I'm gonna I'm gonna go through that.
It's a long piece.
Lord writes long pieces.
He's a very prolific guy.
But I'm just gonna highlight some of this to uh to illustrate uh the point about all of this dynamic um economic activity coupled with the fact that everything or most everything they try to alleviate social problems, be it poverty, um racism, all the they end up exacerbating the problem and even making it worse.
Quick time out here, we'll be back and continue right after this.
As usual, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair before I get to Jeffrey Lord's piece.
I watched a little bit of Obama today.
There was a web feed of an Obama appearance somewhere, and they were running it, of course, on DNC TV.
They're doing Obama telethons uh uh each of the next ten or twelve Tuesdays leading up to the convention.
I mean, they're not calling it Obama thons, but that's what they are.
Uh Super Tuesdays devoted entirely to the presidential race, which is all they do 24-7 there anyway.
At any rate, I'm watching him.
He's talking about the health uh problems uh in this country, specifically health insurance, and he started talking about, and I spotted, by the way, because I'm good at this.
I spotted the tactic immediately.
He started talking about the underinsured.
Now this is a new category.
We've got the number ranges from anywhere what, 40 to 43 million uninsured.
And by the way, that was a number that uh Bill Clinton was using starting in the uh campaign of 1992, which dovetails with Jeffrey Lord here in a second.
That number has gone up despite eight years of Clinton, but now all of a sudden the underinsured people who have health insurance, but they don't have enough.
And lo and behold, a story from today from uh health daily news dot com.
The number of American adults who had inadequate health insurance to cover their medical expenses rose sixty percent from two thousand three to two thousand seven, from sixteen million to more than twenty-five million people.
So if you have insurance and you are not worried about the issue, you now are part of the problem.
You are underinsured, and you are putting stress on the system, and you are gonna be targeted, even those of you who have insurance, but Obama and his people think not enough.
You're gonna have to get it somewhere, and they're gonna turn you to the government to get it.
The underinsured, 25 million added now to the 43 to 45 million uninsured, and lo and behold, we're up to around 65 to 70 million people with a health insurance problem in this country.
And Obama's gonna feel you see the tactic here.
Jeffrey Lord's piece.
Somewhere Lyndon Johnson has to be insulted.
And he quotes Obama here in that that acceptance speech Tuesday night of last week, wherever he was St. Paul.
If we're willing to work for it and fight for it and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now we'll be able to look back, tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless.
This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
Jeffrey Lord says, Excuse me.
You mean all those LBJ great society programs didn't provide care for the sick, didn't secure good jobs for the jobless, didn't take care of the environment.
On the off chance the internet has a space limitation.
Let's settle for a partial listing of LBJ's efforts for the sick, the jobless, the environment, and more, as reflected in the list of legislation he proudly compiled and boasted of in his memoir, The Vantage Point.
And I've got I only have a minute before the break, and I don't have enough time to list for you every program or every area for which there are multiple programs in the Great Society and the War on Poverty.
Clean air, vocational trading, Indian vocational training, manpower training.
This LBJ's own book, Federal Airport Aid, Farm Program, Pesticide Controls, International Development Association, Urban Mass Transit, Water Resources Research, Federal Highway System, Civil Service Pay Rais, War on Poverty, Truth And securities, Ozark Scenic Riverway, Medicine Bow National Forest, Food Stamps, Housing Act, Nurse Training, Revenues for Recreation, Library Services, Federal Employee Health Benefits, Wilderness Area.
That's a mere partial list.
And Obama's out saying it hasn't worked because we are a compassionless country.
We haven't had the right charismatic messiah healing everybody with the power of his personality.
There's more here in the form of commentary, but I do have to take quick time out.
Back after this.
All right, first hours in the can, folks.
Lots more straight ahead, plus, and I promise we'll get to your phone calls today much sooner than we did yesterday.
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