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June 25, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 25, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Snerdley, where was the police officer from who dropped off, who couldn't hang on?
He was calling Midtown New York.
We had a cop call who could not hang on the phone because he's out there fighting crime in Midtown Manhattan.
He said, Rush, you've got to understand something about the Supreme Court ruling on the rapists and babies in the Supreme Court saying that capital punishment execution is not proportional.
He said, you've got to understand, if you pass a law, and by the way, five states have passed this law.
Texas is one, Louisiana is known.
It's a Louisiana law that was overturned here.
His point was that if you allow execution for child rapists, they're just going to go ahead and kill the kids.
They're going to kill the children to get rid of the witness.
And he said, that may be.
I was speaking of this decision on the merits of it in a legal sense.
And then I sort of branched off into what I think are contradictions here of the liberal justices and who they think needs protection in this country.
And really, we always think liberals, on a balanced scale, children versus anybody else.
It's always, everything comes down in the sight of children.
We do everything, except when a kid gets raped, all of a sudden liberals say we've got to protect the rapist.
And the legal decision, I mean, the leaps and bounds that the Supreme Court took to arrive at this are what concerned me.
Basically, just telling a state, no, you can't do that.
We're the arbiter of what you can and can't do.
We're going to use the Eighth Amendment to decide it.
I mean, it's a huge, it's a huge power grab.
Look, as I study this, well, this came out this morning and is the case with all Supreme Court decisions.
I haven't even seen it yet, and I haven't had a chance to consult my legal Eagle scholars for their thoughts on this.
I don't want to go too far into it.
I'm just sharing with you my instincts about this.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network here, 800-282-2882.
If you'd like to join us, we will get to your phone calls quickly in this hour.
One more thing on oil, actually.
I just want one little news story here.
Senior Russian general says that Russia will conduct military exercises in the Arctic to uphold the country's claim that the region's vast natural resources are theirs.
General Vladimir Shamanov, in charge of military training at Russia's defense ministry, also said planning for the exercises began after several nations disputed Russia's Arctic claims.
Modern wars are won or lost long before they start, said Vladimir Shamanov.
He noted that 5,000 U.S. troops were involved in a northern edge military exercise in Alaska last month.
Get this.
A U.S. study suggests that the area, the Arctic area, the North Pole, may contain as much as 25% of the world's undiscovered oil and gas.
May have you noticed just a little aside here.
If you have time, take a gander at just a roster of news stories on any site.
Look at Drudge.
If you find the AP page, look at the AP page or any of them.
And look at how many stories are not about what's happening, but what might happen.
From global warming to 25% of the world's oil under the North Pole to what Hugo Chavez might do to what Cuba might, everything's speculation.
Everything is speculation.
90% of it's speculation.
None of it's news.
None of it's what is happening.
It's all polls.
McCain may lose in this field and Obama's picking up ground here.
It's all meaningless because it's all speculation.
Speaking of speculation, How many miles do you get on a gallon of Harry Reid?
How many miles do you get on a gallon of Nancy Pelosi?
Here's the problem for the liberals in Congress.
Gasoline prices are soaring.
I saw a statistic out there the other day.
Gasoline demand is down 2.7%.
People are using it less.
Diesel.
Prices are soaring.
Everybody in America is feeling the pain of this.
The rich, the poor, black, white, brown, young, old, red, blue, religious, and secular.
Everybody's feeling this.
The Democrats are feeling the pressure.
The no-drill Democrats, the no-nuclear Democrats, the no-coal Democrats.
And they need a demon.
They need a demon to demonize.
They can't blame this one on Ken Starr.
They can't blame this one on Donald Rumsfeld or Karl Rove or Tom DeLay.
They need a demon and they need this demon fast.
And so, my friends, the demon has become speculators.
All of this, the price rise in oil and the accompanying rise in gasoline is the fault of the speculators.
So once again, my friends, it falls to me.
It becomes my responsibility to give you a short course on speculators and speculation.
We've done this a couple times before, but let me try a different tact.
What is speculation?
What is the commodities market?
It's the futures market.
By definition, speculating on what's going to happen in the future.
Which means that people are betting on the price of whatever commodity in the future is going to be.
Be it soybeans, be it corn, be it oil.
Now, in the futures market, you buy and sell contracts.
No one can buy a futures contract without finding somebody to sell a contract.
Same as stock.
If you want to go out and sell some of your stock, somebody's got to buy it.
You don't just turn it in and get the money.
Somebody's buying your stock.
The same thing when you buy stock, you're buying it from somebody selling it.
So you may not know who they are, but somebody's selling.
The government can print money, but the commodity exchanges cannot print contracts.
They are genuine and they are real.
You can't buy an oil contract without somebody willing to sell it to you.
And if there aren't any sellers, then you have to bid a higher price to find one.
This is no different than any other transaction that takes place, except we're dealing with the out years or the out months.
We're dealing with the price of a commodity before it's available.
Speculators are just betters, and they make money both ways if they're right.
If they bet the price is going to go down and they sell their contract and it goes, they've made money.
If they bet it's going to go up and they buy a futures contract, they make money.
Every time somebody makes money in the speculation market, somebody loses.
Speculation does not distort the value of anything.
It establishes the value.
And this is why so many people in the commodities business or have businesses related to commodities enjoy the speculation market because it helps establish certain costs of doing business in the years ahead.
If you run your own business, you know you try to get a big a handle on your fixed costs.
You try to get them established for as long a period of time as you can so you can plan other aspects of the business around those costs.
You might even say that speculation is one of those rare, real examples of a zero-sum game.
And the reason I say that, and I might get some economists arguing with me on this, but just for the sake of illustration, for everybody speculating that prices are going to go up, say in oil, somebody is speculating prices are going to go down.
There is heavy speculation in the heavily regulated corn market when prices are going up and in the U.S. dollar, where a future price is going down.
Either your congressman and your senator knows this and is feeding on your lack of understanding, or your congressman has too little understanding of the economy to be in Congress.
But there's nothing about futures or options that make it any more attractive to bet that commodities will go up than to bet they will go down.
If you guess wrong on the direction, you lose money.
And that's all you need to know about speculation.
When you speculate on the price of a commodity, what you're doing is betting on whether the price will rise or whether it will fall.
You're not betting on whether you want it to rise or fall.
This is the difference.
Everybody thinks that the speculators are trying to drive the price up or trying to drive the price.
That's not what they're trying to do.
They're guessing.
They're betting.
It may be educated guessing, educated betting, but they still are.
You are not betting that you want what you're doing will cause the price to rise or fall, not whether you hope it will rise or fall.
Your money is going to do nothing to cause the price of oil to rise or fall.
It's going to base itself, all the results, on the good old laws of supply and demand.
Let me give you another example of speculation.
Oh, I should point this out.
Oil inventories were reported just late yesterday, early this morning, oil inventories, supplies, for those of you in Riolinda, have been reported to have increased sharply.
And guess what?
I haven't checked since the program began, but right before the program began, the price of oil per barrel was down about five bucks, a little under $5.
There haven't been gas lines.
That's right.
There haven't been any gasoline lines.
And you know what?
The oil price fell $5, not because of the visible hand of Congress, not because of some nefarious action by some wizard behind the curtain pulling the strings.
Now, you might be thinking, good, if the price came down to speculators, why they lost big time.
No, no, no, no.
Some did, but other speculators won.
The speculators who were long lost.
The speculators hoping for the price to go up, they lost.
Speculators who were short, who were betting on the price to come down, they won.
Now, if we're going to outlaw long speculation, if we're going to say you can't speculate on the price of oil to go up, then we're going to have to outlaw speculating the price is going to go down.
The only thing that Congress can't or won't allow is the spectacle of them blaming speculators.
This is just economics 101, and it all will come down to the basic laws of supply and demand in the long run.
Those are always a determining factor.
Now, let me bring Tiger Woods into this equation for just a second.
Because I read one of my favorite sports columnists is Phil Mushnik of the New York Post.
And Phil's an old curmudgeon when it comes to the drive-by sports media on television.
He's a critic and so forth, and he's pretty spot-on.
And over the years, Mr. Mushnik has duly noted that all of the networks that televise golf have been totally in a tank for Tiger Woods.
That when Tiger's playing, even if he's not in the lead, even if he's way off the lead, even if his round is finished, they still show Tiger Woods at the expense of showing any other golfers that are out there playing.
The U.S. Open, NBC televising.
You would have thought even before the playoff on Monday that Tiger Woods was the only guy on the course.
They would spend time watching Tiger put his T in the ground.
They would then spend time with Tiger selecting his club all the while other people are playing golf.
But you didn't see it.
We saw Tiger walking down the fairway after his shot.
We saw Tiger communicating with his caddy in the meantime.
We saw all Tiger all the time.
Now, all of a sudden, and all the networks do this.
I mean, he's a ratings grabber.
But in the process of doing this, a lot of other players on the tour have not been exposed to television.
And so when Tiger doesn't play, nobody cares.
But they all know that Tiger's coming back.
He mostly plays 15, 16 tournaments a year.
He plays all the majors, but he doesn't go to very many other tournaments.
A couple of the Buick sponsors, his bag sponsor, and some others.
But you can go five weeks on the PGA tour and not see Tiger Woods.
And you can see what happens to TV ratings when he's not playing.
Now, the networks, CBS and NBC, and throw the golf channel in there, ESPN on Thursdays and Fridays and some tournaments, have bet the ranch in their golf coverage in Tiger Woods.
They have speculated that Tiger Woods is going to be their cash cow ratings-wise, advertising-wise, for who knows how many years in the future.
They have so invested in Tiger Woods that they haven't taken the time to establish other personalities and celebrities on the tour other than perhaps Phil Nicholson.
Nicholson.
Aside from that, whenever anybody else does well, they're shocked.
My man Rocco Mediate is one example of the U.S. Open.
That's right, Rocco Mediate.
I met Rocco the first time I played in the Bob Hulp.
It was during a practice round, and I was out there with Fuzzy Zeller and his gang, John Daly, Joe Pesci.
And we're taking our time, and Rocco and his gang came up in golf carts.
And they were just taking practice on their going to various holes and practicing various shots.
They were not playing around.
And they interrupted us on the 18th, and they started from about 280 yards trying to get a shot over the water to the green in what would have been two shots.
And I had my Stogevice on the golf cart.
Rocco said, what's that?
And I said, Stogy Weiss.
I showed him how it worked, put the cigar in it.
He was mesmerized, so I gave it to him.
And I haven't seen Rocco since until he's seen him in tournaments.
Anyway, my point here is: my point is that all of this speculation on Tiger Woods looked into the future.
They risked their capital that Tiger Woods are going to be healthy.
They put it in writing that Tiger Woods was professional golf.
That Tiger, nothing against Woods.
Now, don't anybody misunderstand here.
Trying to make a point.
And now they are panicked because Tiger's out for the season.
He had his ACL surgery yesterday.
He's gone for the year.
He's not going to play.
I mean, this is an ACL, folks, and two stress fractures there in the left tibia.
It could be, if it's a football player, it's a year.
I don't know about a guy having to walk golf courses, but it's going to be calendar 209 and somewhere far into calendar 209.
So we've got the British Open coming up, no Tiger.
We've got, let's see, we've got the PGA championship coming up, and we've got the FedEx Cup.
No Tiger.
He won't commentate.
He won't commentate.
But even as such, even if he commentated, that's not going to increase ratings.
I want to see Tiger play.
What's the way around this?
Well, they speculated and they threw it all in on Tiger, or 80% of it.
So now they're going to have to go back to the drawing board.
They're going to have to establish that there are other guys out there that are worth watching.
They could have been doing this the whole time Tiger's playing by not only televising him, but also televising some of these other players.
Anyway, speculation happens all over the place, and sometimes you lose as well as win.
Back up.
I wonder, folks, should I propose a bailout for CBS and NBC?
Maybe find a way for them to get some of the money back they played the PGA Tour.
After all, Tiger's not there.
Their ratings are going to be down.
Their advertising revenue is going to be down.
Should we have a bailout?
I mean, just like we're bailing out members of Congress because they had sweetheart mortgages with Countrywide.
We're bailing out the mortgage industry.
We're bailing out all these other people that speculated and bet.
Have you ever, have you ever bet on a professional football game with a bookie?
Have you ever?
They have the line.
The odds makers make the line.
Let's say Patriots Steelers coming up Sunday.
It's at Foxborough.
And let's say they make the Patriots a six-point favorite.
Six points of Patriots.
They're going to cream the Steelers.
The worst thing you can do when you get involved in betting the points in a football game is worry about your favorite team.
You're making a bet.
You are making a bet.
The people that make the odds don't care who wins.
They're trying to get equal amounts of money on both sides so that no matter who wins, they win.
And they've got to set a line that's going to attract as much money.
So if Steelers fans think their team's going to get blown out by 10 and a line of six, they'll take the six.
And if the Patriots fans think the opposite, wow, six points?
We're going to blow these people up by 1050.
Sure, I'll lay the six and they'll take it.
So the bookies are doing just what happens in the oil speculation market.
They're trying to get as there's as much money on both sides of this, and everybody's speculating as what's going to happen at the end of the game.
And it is no different in the oil speculation market.
In the commodities markets, you are not, when you put your money on the Steelers versus the Patriots, you know your money is going to have no impact on the Steelers winning.
And it's the same thing in the oil futures market.
We'll be back after this.
Yes, talent on loan from God.
All right, I'm going to get to the calls here in just a second.
I want to wrap up this oil business here, all this speculation and the politics here of what's happening.
I think I've got a pretty good handle on this.
I think I figured this out.
Because I know who's driving up fuel prices, and it's not speculators.
And it's not big oil.
And it's not OPEC.
And folks, there's one group of people that's very happy about these prices being high.
Do you know who they are?
The American left, Democrat Party?
They're very happy about this.
And their candidate, Obama, doesn't have any interest in lowering these prices.
Anything that comes up, any suggestion that's made, it won't work soon enough.
Tax, the gas tax suspension, no, no, no, no.
Silly idea.
Drilling for more oil.
No, that's not going to solve the price today.
No, no, no.
Whatever.
Whatever is proposed, no, no, no, we can't do it.
The Democrat Party is actively opposed to prices coming down.
Therefore, it is they driving them up.
It is they who are taking steps to make sure these prices remain high.
You know, they've always wanted high gasoline prices, if you think about it.
They've always been touting mass transit.
They've always been, they're just into control.
They're just into control.
They are anti-capitalist for the most part.
The leftists in the Democrat Party are.
They're anti-liberty.
They want as much control over society as possible.
That's their power.
So what are they accomplishing here?
Well, they're driving up fuel prices.
They've always wanted to drive up fuel prices as a way of creating dissatisfaction in the suburbs and rural areas of the country.
And as I look at this, and you look at a state, a map of the states, they're designated with red states and blue states.
You look at the red states and you look at the blue states, and you'll find out very quickly that the vast majority of Democrat voters live in big cities that already have mass transit.
Not that concerned with individual gas prices.
I mean, there's some, yes, but I mean, it's when you when you get into these red state areas, you look at some of these cities and you'll find mass transit is not that big a deal.
Most people are using their cars.
These are largely Republican areas of the country.
Look at the map.
It's where most of the middle and upper middle class live in this country.
In suburbs.
They call them outburbs now, but in suburbs.
And I am convinced that Obama and the Democrats and the leftists want as many people upset with capitalism and upset with American business and corporate life as possible.
I think they want you, and I do mean you in this audience.
I think they're trying to frustrate you all to hell.
I think they want you demanding government to fix this.
I think they want you so fit to be tied at the usual suspects, be it big oil or the speculators, the commodities market, some massive unseen corporate entity that nobody can control.
They want you coming to them.
They want you.
Barack and his gang want you crawling on your hands and knees to them to fix this.
They want you upset with capitalism.
They want you upset with big business.
They want you demanding more government.
This is a direct assault on the Republican heartland.
Now, everybody pays higher fuel prices, I understand, but in the cities, there is far less reliance on automobiles, obviously.
I'm not being conspiratorial here, but you have to believe if the Democrat constituency, which is made up of largely two economic extremes, the Democrat constituency is made up of the very wealthy and mostly poor people.
That's the Democrat constituency, very wealthy and mostly poor people.
And if those people, if those people were wailing and moaning and so forth, you'd damn well believe something would be done about it.
But when the Democrats view that most of the suffering is being done in Republican, suburban red state areas, they are more than happy for you to continue suffering in Republican red state areas because they want you mad at your own party.
They want you mad at capitalism.
They want you mad at conservatism.
They want you asking government for help.
I mean, these people jump to spend $150 billion on a so-called economic stimulus, which heavily favors the poor.
They jump to spend $300 billion on a mortgage plan that mostly helps their constituency, not exclusively, but largely.
So here comes the stimulus plan.
That's to help the poor.
Their $300 billion mortgage bailout.
That helps the rich in their constituency.
They will spend endlessly for the poor and the wealthy, but they love sticking it to the middle class.
They get the middle class paying for all of this, having to deal with the consequence of liberals' policies.
And yes, I know there's some Democrats in the middle class.
You people better wake up and understand you are paying the freight for your party leaders to really save the grease on the hands of the very poor and the very rich because that's who they really care about.
While pretending, of course, to love you.
They extend unemployment insurance frequently, but most Americans are actually working.
A large number of them live in the suburbs.
And it is they who are being targeted by these policies, targeted to pay more taxes, targeted to pay higher fuel prices because of their reliance on the car.
They are targeted to change their lifestyles with global warming.
It is about control.
It is about dispiriting largely suburban voters who are Republican.
Let me be blunt.
If I haven't been blunt enough, let me be blunt here.
The Democrats and liberals are targeting the red states of this country, suburbs and rural areas for the most part, by transferring more and more of their wealth to the blue areas, the cities, the inner suburbs, inner cities, if you will.
These people are very, very serious about their intentions, and the Republicans and the pseudo-conservative intelligentsia have no idea what's going on or out of even battle this.
They're just clueless as to what's happening.
They're dancing around the edges while the liberals and Democrats are going for our throats.
We got Nancy Pelosi now openly advocating the fairness doctrine in a meeting with Human Events yesterday and some other reporters.
Anyway, let me grab a couple phone calls here before we go to the break.
And I really appreciate all of you, appreciate all of you waiting patiently out there.
We'll start in Batavia, New York.
This is Scott.
Thank you, sir, and hello.
Hey, Rush, what's up?
Nice.
Onshore Dittos from the Vampire State of New York.
The Vampire State.
Yes, thank you.
Wow, they suck our blood.
I understand.
Well, you're hot today.
I've got to say, my original point was that the clause in the Constitution about cruel and unusual punishment – Eighth Amendment, yeah.
Right, the Eighth Amendment.
The thing that most people miss is the word and.
Did you know that in France, they gave people the guillotine until 1938?
Was that cruel?
Yeah, it was.
Was it unusual?
No.
That's what they did all the time.
It's got to be cruel and unusual.
Not one or the other.
Yeah, it doesn't say and or.
No, it's and.
And is a word.
You know, Rush, you always say words mean things.
Yes, but to the modern-day leftist on the Supreme Court, that and can be used however they and defined however they choose to apply it.
No and means and, doesn't it?
And as far as the speculation market goes, you ever seen a movie Trading Places?
Yeah.
There you go.
Yeah, in fact, I just got that on Blu-ray.
Were they speculating on orange juice prices?
They were speculating.
Well, yes, they were speculating, but the Dukes.
They got turned around out of them.
But the Dukes got turned on them.
Yeah, but the Dukes had gone in there and they had some undercover guy to get a copy of the government report on frozen orange juice futures.
But they got found out.
Well, no, what happened was that Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd switched the news on him.
Right.
They took out the spy and they impersonated the spy to the Dukes in a dark parking lot a la Watergate and Deep Throat.
They gave them the exact opposite information.
So the Dukes went in there.
Yeah, that was the speculation.
They got screwed.
Commodities market.
They lost everything.
They got screwed.
They lost everything they ever had.
And as far as the whole drill or not drill, why go to school?
Is that going to help you tomorrow?
If you're in kindergarten?
Oh, I know.
Is it going to help you next month?
Is it going to help you next year?
No.
Why take your first job?
Why bother?
If your objective is to earn $100,000 a year, why take the first job that pays you 20?
Right.
Well, why go to school?
Yeah, why go to school?
Why go to college?
It's not going to help you one year or next month or and it's going to cost you money.
So why bother?
Exactly right.
If you're going to use that kind of logic.
That is, well, okay, so tell me.
Yeah.
What do you think the purpose then?
I mean, if anybody can see through this, what's Obama's point?
What do they really don't want drilling, do they?
They do want to.
His point is he's bowing to the, obviously, to his constituency who's giving them money.
I really don't know what their point is because it doesn't make any sense.
Yes, it does.
How does not having more oil solve the problem of not having more oil?
What's the Democrat Party's problem?
Their problem has nothing to do with oil right now.
Their problem is they want the White House.
Right.
So keeping the oil price up and keeping people dispirited about the fact that it might come down a unit.
through, then all that does as far as...
But that's lame.
Why would you do that?
Power?
Get elected.
I guess.
Get elected.
And I'm going to tell you something else brutal out there, Scott from the vampire state of New York.
There are some in the Democrat Party and many leftists in this country who want this country hurting, who want this country cut down to size.
They don't like this country.
They don't like our superpower status.
They think we've stolen it from the rest of the world.
They think we have raped and murdered and tortured and polluted the world in order to acquire our status.
And we are guilty and it's not fair.
And they think we need to be cut down.
They think our society needs to suffer to pay the sins, the wages of the sins that we have committed in becoming so outlandishly large.
And they are really, these leftists, really, really ticked off that we kicked the ass of the Soviets off the planet.
All right, now try this.
You think I'm wrong about these little quads on the left and their desire for control.
This is from the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times.
And it is a, I don't know if it's a column story, but the writer is named Mike Ivey.
And the headline here says it all.
Should Madison, Wisconsin ban the restaurant drive-through.
First, it was a proposed ban on plastic bags.
Now a member of the influential Madison Plan Commission wants to ban the restaurant drive-through or at least restrict the ubiquitous symbol of America's autocentric lifestyle.
Eric Sundquist, who was appointed to the citizen panel by Mayor Dave's whatever.
See, given the concern about all the carbon going into the atmosphere, I'm not sure we should be building more places for people to sit idling their cars.
A former newspaper reporter in Atlanta, now working as a researcher at the UW-Madison's Center on Wisconsin Strategy, Eric Sundquist, notes that several cities in Canada have recently moved to ban the drive-through coffee shop or standalone fast food restaurant.
Bans haven't gotten as far in the U.S., although I know San Luis Obispo, San Louis Obispo, California has one.
The issue came up last week during discussions over a conditional use permit for a new Starbucks along a congested frontage road across from the East Town Mall.
They're going to ban drive-throughs because they think what was the other ridiculous thing that we happened last week?
They were going to ban something because of the carbon footprint on global warming.
It was just absurd.
This is no different.
Idling.
Idling at a drive-through.
I know.
He's a point of this.
I know that, Sterdley.
Point is, it's never going to end until people just stand up and say enough, stop it.
Do you see what this hoax is, do you see the latitude this is giving these people to restrict your freedom?
Virtually everything involving your freedom, your automobile, your ability to move around, go where you want, when you want, is under assault on the basis that you doing so are destroying the planet.
Tony in Palm Harbor, Florida.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Rush, how are you doing, man?
Fine, sir.
I just wanted to ask you, please, to back off on John McCain a little bit simply because the judicial system is at stake.
We can't afford Barack Obama and his Marxist friends appointing judges to the Supreme Court.
It will be a Marxist judicial tyranny, a Marxist dictatorship from the bench, man.
They'll overturn the results of elections.
They won't respect freedom of speech, private property, and freedom of religion.
So just back off on John McCain a little bit, man.
He's got a 22-year run of being solid pro-life.
Do like Herman Edwards, the head coach of the KC Chief, said.
Play to win the game, Rush.
Let's play to win the game.
Get him elected.
Get rid of this Obama.
Wait a minute.
Wait just a second.
In the first thing, the court doesn't respect a whole lot of those things you mentioned a moment ago, anyway.
We don't need any more of it.
I understand that.
But you're going to cite Herman Edwards.
I'm just asking to play the game to win.
You're going to win.
So we can win this thing, Rush.
After the election, you can say what you want about him.
But right now, let's win this thing.
Wait a minute.
What have I been doing the past couple?
How have you said I'm not?
How am I hurting McCain?
Rush, you come up, you make fun of McCain with that growl like he's insane when you mimic him and joke about him.
We can't go in a tank with Coulter, Barr, and Dobson and hand the judicial system over to this clown.
There's too much at stake here.
After the election, you haven't been listening closely enough.
I've been listening very closely.
Well, you haven't heard me say then that we can't afford Obama.
I know that.
I'm asking, I understand that, but what I'm basically asking you to say, underlying that, is please back off on John McCain.
McCain, that's all I'm supposed to do.
When the guy stands up and starts talking, see, here I go.
When the guy stands up and starts talking to green government, starts talking about Jimmy Carter, too.
When I agree with all that, I'm experienced crossing the aisle working with Democrats.
What am I supposed to do?
Yay!
Rush, I agree with all that.
We can do it after he gets, God willing, elected.
We can't afford this guy economically, and we can't afford him judicially.
Don't you understand what's happening here?
I know it's.
I know that global warming is a crock of crap, but right now the judicial system is the most important thing we've got.
Don't you think I know you're supporting another pro-abortion judge, man?
Don't you think I know that?
Play to win the game, Rush.
It's all about the bad.
What do you think I'm all about?
Wait a minute.
Get on the team.
What do you think?
What do you think Operation Chaos?
Get rid of this sucker, man.
Tony, calm down just a second.
What do you think the purpose of Operation Chaos was?
It was brilliant.
I loved Operation Chaos.
So we win was the bottom line.
So we win to create chaos in the Democrat Party.
Do you know what's going on here with me?
With me.
Do you know what I'm actually trying to do here?
All I hear you do is not John McCain with that mimicking his voice like he's some kind of an insane character who just got out of the nuthouse.
Well, a quick note here for Tony in Palm Harbor, Florida.
Tony, and you know this, Tony, John McCain's going to appoint no Supreme Court justices.
He will nominate them.
It will be the Senate that will confirm judges.
And we'd already have more conservatives on the appellate courts, but for the gang of 14 that somebody was in charge of.
Let's not pretend here that all this gets fixed in this election.
And I'm not going to sit here and just cheerlead every day.
It wouldn't work.
This election is about the courts.
It's about capitalism, liberty.
It's about detainees.
It's about the war.
It's about a lot of things.
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