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July 15, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 15, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, it is kind of unbelievable out there, folks.
I mean, you've got all this turmoil in the credit markets.
You got people losing asset value of their homes.
You got Charles Schumer causing runs on banks.
By the way, if you're worried about your bank, I suggest that you call Charles Chuck Yu Schumer, Senator in New York, and ask him.
He's in charge of which banks go south and which don't, apparently.
And got the Federal Reserve Chairman testifying before Congress, the president out making a speech.
And then lo and behold, what happens?
The Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, shows up somewhere to make a speech on Iraq, which is on nobody's mind today.
Zilch Zero Nada.
Iraq, for all intents and purposes, is a victory.
The president's talking about accelerating our withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
So what is the Messiah doing making a speech on Iran?
By the way, in this speech, the Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, once again, how many flip-flops is this now?
This has to be, this has to be 10 or 11 flip-flops.
Now he's back to saying unequivocally, I'm getting us out of there.
Don't doubt me.
I'm getting us out of there.
It's been a mistake.
It was a mistake to go there and so forth.
And obviously, they're troubled at the Messiah's campaign over the fallout that's occurring on the Kuk fringe left because that's the only people that care right now what Obama or anybody else happens to be saying about Iraq.
But the thing that really, really frosts me, when I watch Obama talk about Iraq, and he has this Messiah attitude, and he says he's always been against it, and he's always done this.
What has he done?
What has he contributed?
Name one thing Barack Obama has contributed to the effort, this country to fight the war on terror, be it in Afghanistan or Iraq.
And listen to this Reuters story.
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Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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They don't know who I am.
I don't have to say Rush Limbaugh show every time I open.
They know the number.
I got more important things to do.
You know I don't like to talk about myself.
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Now, back to the Reuters story.
Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Tuesday today, a single-minded focus on Iraq was distracting the United States from other threats, and he renewed his vow to end the war.
It was just last week that he said he would meet with the chief joints of staff, and he would demand that the chief joints of staff present him a plan to end the war.
And he was refining his position doing the policy pirouettes.
But he illustrated he doesn't know what the jobs of the chief joints of staff are.
The chief joints of staff have nothing to do with operations.
Commanders at CENTCOM, for example, like Petraeus, they're the ones that make these decisions.
By design, the chief joints of staff cannot get on the phone and tell commanders to do anything.
He didn't even know that.
At any rate, he said, this war, meaning Iraq, diminishes our security, diminishes our standing in the world, diminishes our military, diminishes our economy, and the resources that we need to confront the challenges of the 21st century.
This war diminishes our security.
Hey, Lord Obama, how many attacks have there been on the United States since we went to Iraq in Afghanistan?
And how many, sir, did you have anything to do with preventing?
How many votes did you make in the Senate that might have made it easier for terrorists to attack this country, sir?
Not by design.
Don't misunderstand me.
I mean through full-fledged incompetence.
Diminish our standing in the world?
Diminish.
See, we're in a constant state of decline, folks.
This country's in a constant state of decline.
The left has to always be unhappy and miserable.
They've got to find a demon.
When things aren't going well, there's got to be one person, one entity, somebody that's responsible for why they're miserable when all they would have to do is look at the mirror.
My gosh, if I woke up every day and knew I was a liberal, I'd be miserable too.
And they've been miserable by design.
Back to my question.
What has the Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, done?
Name one thing that has contributed to the United States military effort in the war on terror.
I'll tell you, there is one thing.
He took off his American flag lapel pen as he was defining patriotism.
That's his contribution to take off his flag pin.
That's what he did.
That's the sole contribution Barack Obama, the Lord Messiah, has made.
This speech that he gave today is proof positive that there's trouble in paradise out there with the kook fringe because nobody else, I don't even think the reporters care about it anymore.
The news is so good over there, they're not even reporting it.
They don't want to report it.
And in the Obama campaign, they continue to be in a tizzy over this New Yorker cartoon.
Let me ask you a question.
Obama and his team upset over a cartoon on the cover of The New Yorker, a leftist publication that makes him look like a Muslim.
It makes his wife look like a terrorist Muslim.
That has the American flag burning in the fireplace, hanging underneath a portrait of Barack Obama in the Oval Office.
The Obama campaign and the Messiah himself are said to be very, very upset over this.
Let me ask you a question.
Who is it that gets upset over cartoons?
Muslims.
Dawn's in there saying, he didn't say that.
He didn't say that.
Yes, I did.
I'll say it again.
Who is it that gets?
I just love tweaking these.
Who is it that gets upset over stupid cartoons?
Muslims, intolerant Muslims.
I have a theory about this.
And we've got audio soundbites.
They're out there saying that, you know what the piece missed?
Typical of liberals, they're saying that most Americans are too moronic to understand the sophisticated satire here.
That what this piece needed was Rush Limbaugh painting the picture on the cover.
That would have clued in the great unwashed, that it was a joke.
Otherwise, the great unwashed will not get that this is satire.
Here's the point of this piece.
I have figured this out.
A lot of you people have written me and said, Rush, you're missing the point on this.
This is a Hillary and Bill Clinton plant.
No, it's not.
This is a, look at, let's who's a New Yorker.
David Remnick, leftist, huge in the tank for Obama, the whole magazine.
Cover magazines.
Covers on magazines.
Don't just happen overnight.
There's a lot of thought that goes into covers.
There's a lot of debate, strategy, and so forth.
And you don't just call a cover artist, say, hey, give me a cover of Obama, Michelle, and the Oval Office.
We're doing a little cover hero.
This had to be discussed.
So, therefore, this was done for a reason.
Now, the satire is, they've satirically portrayed other public figures on the cover here.
But the purpose of this is specifically to make the readers of the New Yorker think that that's how conservatives look at Obama.
Not how they do, but how we do.
And it's proven by all these liberals out there in the drive-by media saying what the piece missed was not having Rush Limbaugh painting the thing.
So the purpose of this piece is to convince as many people as possible that it is us, the conservatives, who are out there, you know, making the point that he's a stealth Muslim working for Iran or whoever, when in fact, all that came up during the Democrat primaries.
It was the Reverend Dax just last week who wanted to make Obama a member of the new castrator.
And it was all this racism and bigotry.
I do not believe this.
They just aren't going to learn.
McCain is doing another speech during my opening monologue.
That's not going to fly, Senator.
It's not how it works.
Oh, no.
Tell me.
Tell me that's not true, Mr. Snurgley.
You actually got a call from a military man wanting to correct me, thinking I do not know that it is the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
You had a call who actually thought that I believe the title of that group is the Chief Joints of Staff.
I guess I should explain it because that was Rita X back then.
When Rita X called, she was a big supporter of Calypso Louie from Detroit.
She called, this is 17 or 18 years ago.
Remember Rita X, there's talked about the mothership up there that was going to beam all of Calypso Louie's supporters and followers up when the time was right.
And she kept talking about Colin Powell and the chief joints of staff.
So talking about the Obama Messiah.
I mean, he doesn't know what it is either.
He doesn't know what they do.
So why shouldn't I call it the Chief Joints of Staff?
He probably wouldn't understand the difference if that was said.
By the way, we have a little soundbite here from Obama, from his speech.
And there are two things about this.
Let's see if you catch both of them.
I will focus this strategy on five goals essential to making America safe.
Yeah.
Ending the war in Iraq responsible.
Yeah.
Finishing the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Yeah.
Securing all nuclear weapons and materials from terrorists and rogue states.
Yeah.
Achieving true energy security.
Yeah.
And rebuilding our alliances to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
Wow.
And he's going to do this how?
Why?
We shouldn't ask he is the Messiah.
They just happen.
Doesn't he realize that he just spelled out the rationale for the war in Iraq?
He just spelled out the rationale for the war on terror to make America safer.
To end the war responsibility, that means with a victory.
Finishing the fight against Al-Qaeda in the Taliban, which he called a Taliban, and securing all nuclear weapons and materials from terrorists and rogue states.
That's what this is all about.
He just endorsed the Bush policy while thinking he was articulating some sort of a change.
Now, I want to complete the thought on this New Yorker cover here because I think this is key to understand.
I have a theory about this, but I think this New Yorker cover is actually a setup.
We all know that the New Yorker is a radical left magazine.
They are desperate for Obama to win the presidency.
This is what you have to understand.
New Yorker's not trying to pull a move here to get Hillary nominated, and they're not for McCain.
They desperately want Obama to win.
So in that sense, why in the world would they run something that's harmful to Obama in their minds?
They're not trying to harm Obama here.
So they put a cartoonish drawing on their cover.
They knew full well that it would draw all kinds of attention.
But to hurt Obama, this is not what they intended.
Nobody at the magazine informed the Obama camp this was coming.
Nobody called him up and said, hey, gang, we got this cover coming.
You're going to love it.
It's going to really nail the right wing in the way they talk about you.
This cartoonish cover, here's the bottom line.
This New Yorker cover happens to stereotype not the Obamas.
It stereotypes racists or conservatives as racists, sexist throwbacks.
That's the intent of this cover.
To reinforce that Obama is a victim of right-wing haters lying about him and his wife.
It is Obama and the left that keep perpetuating the notion that we are saying he is Muslim and that his wife is unqualified.
The New Yorker ends up selling more magazines.
They smear conservatives as racist and sexist.
Obama then gets to run around like he's doing and claim to be a victim, and he's whining about it.
And by the way, that's quite unbecoming.
If he doesn't get a handle on this, has to be a victim every three or four days to keep his popularity up.
It's going to come back and haunt him.
So we are left watching all this while we are the ones who have been smeared by this.
The Obamas are not the ones being smeared in this cover.
And of course, the drive-by media, they're all upset because you people are a bunch of rubes and idiots and you won't understand that it is you that are being made fun of.
It's you that are being criticized.
They're afraid you're going to think, wow, even the libs think Obama's a Muslim.
Wow, even the Libs think Obama loves bin Laden.
That's what they're deathly afraid of because they don't know, they don't have any confidence at all that you have any brains.
President's press conference today, a couple of pretty good answers here.
First one, a reporter asked the president why he isn't telling individuals how to conserve energy.
This is all about audio soundbite 15.
The question came from Mark Smith at the AP Radio says, why have you not, sir, called on Americans to drive less and turn down the thermostat?
They're smart enough to figure out whether they're going to drive less or not.
The consumer's plenty bright, Mark.
The marketplace works.
People can figure out where they need to drive more or less.
They can balance their own checkbooks.
I think people ought to conserve and be wise about how they use gasoline and energy.
Absolutely.
But my point to you, Mark, is that, you know, it's a little presumptuous on my part to dictate to consumers how they live their lives.
American people are plenty capable and plenty smart people, and they'll make adjustments to their own pocketbooks.
That's why I was so much in favor of letting them keep more of their own money.
You know, it's a philosophical difference.
Should the government spend their money or should they spend their own money?
And I've got faith in the American people.
What a great, great answer.
So here you have this typical AP reporter straight out of AP storyline narrative school.
How come you're not telling people to conserve?
Because people are stupid and if they're president, how come you're not telling them to turn down the thermostat and drive and youth left geth win?
This is an attitude that every liberal has, yet you need to be saved from yourself because you can't do it.
You're incompetent.
You can't overcome the obstacles life places in your way.
You can't even live responsibly.
You've got to have somebody from the benevolent government walking all over your life, telling you where to put your thermostat, how much to drive, where you can drive, how fast you can drive, where you can go, where you can't go, that you ought to be in mass transit, some sort of thing like that.
And you just don't have the intelligence.
The president comes out with this answer.
They're plenty smart on their own.
That answer, by the way, a classic difference, ladies and gentlemen, in how liberals and conservatives look at people: central planning versus individuals making choices in free markets.
He also later explained why he thinks oil companies are investing capital to find new oil.
He had to explain the question.
The question's stupid.
Somebody asked him why he thinks oil companies are investing capital to find new oil.
Of course, the underlying tone is: why aren't they investing in alternative energies like the magic elixir that'll get 100,000 miles to the gallon that we know they've got to draw somewhere and they just won't make?
Why, Mr. President, aren't you telling big oil to get honest?
I mean, it's unbelievable that either of these questions were asked, but there's the president calmly explaining every step in the process: how to find and bring oil to the market.
A lot of money, a lot of capital tied up in the process.
There's no other choice but to get the oil.
Really simple stuff.
It was a great opportunity, and the president himself capitalized on this.
The media in this press conference today look like a bunch of second-graders.
In fact, he made the media in this press conference look like Obama.
And he won the excuse.
Well, they were that uninformed, that arrogant at the same time.
And he gave straightforward, smart answers, like every leader should.
You know, this, I've been on this kick for the past week or so, that the Republican Party is sitting on a gold mine here with the gasoline price where it is, oil price where it is, and Democrats being the party that is standing in the way of doing anything about it.
Nancy Pelosi yesterday calling the president's oil drilling design a hoax.
I mean, the Democrats are sitting ducks if the Republican Party would just get up to speed on this.
People don't care about the war in Iraq.
It's gasoline prices right now, and everything flows from that.
Food, travel, leisure time dollars to and from work, all of that.
So the president's answers today just to illustrate a tremendous opportunity the Republicans have to crush liberalism if they really chose to.
This is not the Democrats' year unless the Republicans hand it to them.
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So there was a lot going on this morning before the program.
We had the president in his press conference, and we had the Messiah and his latest flailing attempt here to get it right on Iraq with his Dunkopf kook fringe Neanderthal base.
And at the same time, all this is going on, Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, was up being grilled before a Senate committee.
So I watch a little bit of this.
Bob Casey, Senator Bob Casey from Pennsylvania, who I charitably will say, I think is like an order of fries short of a happy meal, is sitting there reading a letter from a constituent to Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and anybody else watching on television in the room.
And he summed it up here in one sentence.
The letter was from Tammy Mae, not Fannie Mae, not Freddie Mac, Tammy Mae, a single mother of two living in Pennsylvania.
And this is what he read of her letter to him.
We have to reprioritize.
House comes first, then daycare, then gasoline, then food.
This constituent of Bob Casey's put food last on her list of new priorities.
Bob Casey reads this, and obviously what he's trying to do here is milk what's going on out there as a national disaster.
What does he fail to mention?
She has a job.
This is not an unemployed woman.
This is a woman who has a job, but she can't figure out how to live her life on her own, so she needs Senator Casey and the Democrats to figure it out for her.
Well, she's figured it out, but she wants them to make her do it.
Which is even sadder when you get right down to it.
But if food is number one, when you prioritize things, just think about this.
If you were going to write Senator Bob Casey a letter and tell him that we need to reprioritize things in life, where would you put food?
And by the way, is there a food problem?
Is there a food problem?
There's not a shortage of food.
I know food has gone up in price like everything has because of energy costs and, of course, other unrelated factors.
So houses come first.
I guess you need shelter before you eat, right?
And then after house, then daycare.
Daycare comes next.
And then gasoline.
And then food.
Maybe, let me be charitable.
And maybe Tammy Mae, who wrote Bob Casey a letter, is on a diet.
And maybe food right now is her fourth priority.
Well, that's just it.
You notice two things not on this list.
Iraq is not on this list.
And healthcare is not on this list.
Her list of priorities, house, daycare, gasoline, food.
I don't know if Casey realized she's got a job.
She is working.
So in our list of priorities, should food be more than gasoline?
So he's using this as a crisis.
Her crisis, Tammy Mae's crisis, which is nothing more than an understandable adjustment to the real world.
And this is being used to play on our heartstrings.
And of course, the way we look at economic polling data, we find that if you ask people how they're doing personally, most of them will say fine and dandy.
Got some challenges, but okay.
I feel pretty good about my future.
But I'm worried about my neighbors.
I'm worried about, why?
Most people don't even know their neighbors.
They're worried about them anyway because they see on the drive-by news every night that the economy is going to hell in a handbasket.
People are losing their houses.
They're losing their jobs.
Government's taking their kids away.
Their bank is foreclosing on them.
It's total disaster.
That's what they see on the news, yet their lives, they are okay.
Got some few worries.
So here comes Bob Casey with a little Tammy Mae story.
Is designed to create the same, wow, I didn't know it's that bad out there.
Why she's having it's so bad she's having to make food the last priority.
That's really bad, Mr. Limbaugh.
That's a good indication, sir, of just how bad the country's.
You don't see it.
By the way, this woman may be smarter than any of us because putting food on her list, she's got to know their food stamps.
Well, I mean, why should food be the number one priority if you look to government for everything?
Because the food stamp people advertise.
They're looking for more customers to keep the budget levels up.
Let's see.
Let's go to the phones.
Who wants to go to first?
We'll go to Nate out of Long Island.
Nate, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program, sir.
Hello.
Rush, it's an honor and a pleasure to speak to you.
Thank you.
I understand.
I hope things are going well by you.
Rush, here's my point.
You talk about the drive-by media, and I've listened for years about the drive-by media, and I believe that the New Yorker magazine are sending a warning to Obama that if he continues going to the center, they're just going to turn on him.
Hello?
I don't think that's what's going on.
You know, because I think that, you know, they are the ultimate left-wing magazine, and they're sending a message to Obama that, you know, that's just a thought I had, and I'd like to hear what you think about that.
I said in the opening segment here, I think what this is, is an attempt.
Look at the New Yorker wants him elected.
The New Yorker's not going to abandon him.
The New Yorker's not going to throw him overboard for McCain.
And they're certainly not going to throw him overboard, try to get Hillary.
They're not into that.
That's not what's going on.
They're trying.
This was a caricature of us, Nate.
This New Yorker cover is an attempt to make us, conservatives, look like racists and bigots and throwbacks, is try to convince people that we're the ones saying this about him.
This is not intended to harm Obama.
Now, they may have goofed up because it's having to be explained.
Anytime a joke, anytime satire has to be explained, it may have missed its point.
And of course, the editor is out there trying to explain what this was all about.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Let's listen to the drive-bys, explain what this is all about.
Here's Craig Crawford, who is as irrelevant as you can be in the drive-by media.
He was on MSNBC's The Verdict last night, which is also as irrelevant as a drive-by TV show can be.
The fill-in host, David Schuster, said to Craig Crawford, how in your view should Obama address this New Yorker cover?
It might have worked better to have maybe Limbaugh or conservative on the cover painting this picture to better make their point.
So they think it missed its goal.
It missed its point.
They needed me on the cover painting the picture so as to illustrate this is what conservatives.
This is what the drive-bys think.
The drive-bys believe that this was an attempt to besmirch us, folks, and it was, or it is.
The drive-bys are just concerned that the people of the New Yorker didn't get it.
Same show, same fill-in host, David Schuster, talking to Tanya Acker, who is a Democrat analyst, said, is that I want to ask you about the New Yorker cartoonist Barry Blitt.
He defended a cartoon today.
He said, I think the idea the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic, let alone as terrorists in certain sectors, is preposterous.
It seemed to me that depicting the concept would show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is.
That's what the cartoonist said, illustrating and proving, once again, my point that his attempt here was to besmirch us, ladies and gentlemen.
So this Democrat strategist and activist, Tanya Acker, was asked for her reaction to what the cartoonist said.
If the cartoon made clear that this was the right-wing machine at work, you know, if Rush Limbaugh was painting that cartoon, it would have been much funnier.
I think we would have gotten it.
But I think that as it is, it's just too close to the rumors that are being spread.
So two drive-bys, one drive-by and one analyst on the same show in different segments, say that the thing that would have made it work was to have me on the cover painting it.
I must again ask you this question.
Obama, all these drive-bys are upset over a cartoon that makes Obama look like a Muslim.
Now, who gets upset over stupid cartoons?
Muslims.
Here's Bob Beckle on Fox and Friends this morning.
No, I do not wish to refine that remark.
I want to make sure that that remark is heard and quoted accurately.
Let me try it again.
Obama and all these people upset about this New Yorker cartoon.
Well, who is it that gets upset about stupid cartoons?
Muslims.
Radical Muslims.
Radical extremist Muslims are the ones that get upset over cartoons.
Now back to the audio soundbites.
Bob Beckle, Fox News channel, Fox and Friends this morning, the fill-in co-host Clayton Morris asked Beckle and Monica Crowley, who was also on the program about the New Yorker cover.
And Crowley said to Beckle, why did Obama just laugh this off?
It's satire.
In this case, there's not much to laugh about.
You know, I talk about you can't make fun of Barack Obama.
There's two reasons you can't.
One, he's black, and I can say that as liberal.
And two, he hadn't been around that long to build up a record that you can make fun of.
Well, John McCain, though, was quick to come out and also condemn this article.
It angered Rush Limbaugh.
What?
When did I get angry over this?
I didn't get angry over this.
I think it's funny.
I get the satire.
I love this kind of push-in-the-envelope stuff.
I wasn't, of course, McCain renouncing, denouncing, condemning.
It's his number one campaign behavior.
But I'm going to go back here to what Beckle said.
Because, you know, they asked me when I did an appearance on Sunday morning on Fox and Friends to discuss Tony Snow.
In the second segment, they asked me about politics.
And I think it was, I think it might have been Clayton Morris.
I'm not sure.
Said, you know, you've got this great list.
I heard you go through it one day, this great list of all things we can't say about Obama.
And I said, well, it starts out with Maureen Dowd making fun of his ears, and he walked to the audience, said, I don't like you making fun of my ears.
I'm very sensitive about it, so we can't talk about his ears.
And we can't talk about his wife.
We can't talk about his race, can't talk about his lack of race, can't talk about his color, lack of color, can't talk about his wife.
We can't talk about his preacher.
We can't talk about his terrorist buddies that blow up the Pentagon or want to.
We can't talk about his buddies that engage in fraud in the real estate market.
We can't talk about his middle name.
We can't talk about the flagpin.
Now, went through all of this.
Now, apparently, the Fox and Friends crew did this whole routine on their own yesterday morning.
And that's why I think Beckle here says, you know, they talk about the things you can't make fun of about Obama.
So the list is obviously circulating out there now.
And he says there's two reasons that you can't make fun of Obama.
One is he's black.
And he says, I can say he's a, we can't say he's a liberal, Bob.
Bob says he can say he's a liberal.
No.
We're not allowed to say he's a liberal.
He told us that we're not allowed to say he's a liberal.
It's a politics of the past.
It's old-fashioned politics or whatever.
And he hadn't been around long enough to build up a record that you could make fun of.
Yes, he has, Bob.
He has no record.
That's what it is, not in the Senate anyway.
He's got a lot of time spent as a community organizer.
People say, what's that, Rush?
What is a community organizer?
Think Al Sharpton, folks.
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Senator McCain was also asked about the New Yorker cover.
This was on the early show on CBS today.
The co-host Maggie Rodriguez said to Senator McCain, Have you seen the cover of the New Yorker?
Your feeling.
Is it satire?
Is it acceptable?
I don't think so.
I'll leave that judgment to the American people.
I can only state my personal opinion.
I think if it's an attempt at satire, it's wrong.
It's wrong, and it's offensive.
These people need enemies.
Everybody is just too wound up here.
Everybody's just so tight.
It's unbelievable.
I wonder, that's a good point, Snerdley.
I wonder if Senator McCain will renounce me for my take on the New Yorker cover.
Anyway, if it's an attempt at satire, it's wrong.
What if it's not an attempt at satire?
Is it still wrong?
Senator McCain, you sit here.
If it's an attempt at satire, it's wrong, it's wrong, and it's offensive.
What if it's what they really think over there?
We know it's not, but would that make it acceptable?
And then Maggie Rodriguez says, well, you championed a comprehensive immigration reform bill.
Now, as a nominee, you admit you wouldn't vote for it if it came up today.
Why not?
The point is not that I would vote for it or not vote for it.
The point is, it failed twice.
Senator Kennedy and I and a group of senators brought it up twice, and it failed twice.
The fact that it failed, does that tell you that the American people didn't want it or that your party didn't want it?
The American people didn't support.
I still believe that we reflect the views of the majority.
What a question.
Does it tell you that the American people didn't want it or your party didn't want it?
At any rate, that's Senator McCain, who's he hasn't really changed his mind on it.
He just realizes he hadn't sold us yet.
And he's going to keep trying to sell us on the whole concept of amnesty and comprehensive immigration reform.
He just knows he hadn't done it yet.
All right, this is Tawana in Atlanta.
Tawana, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program, your big showbiz break.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
How are you?
Fine.
Thanks very much.
Listen, one of the things that Tammy Mae didn't mention in all of her list of reprioritizing her expenses was the one thing she can't reprioritize, and that is her taxes.
And that gets taken out number one if she's employed, and she has no choice in that.
So then she has to live with what's left over.
Well, you know, that was my one point.
So by the way, if you're just joining us, Senator Bob Casey, reading a letter before a Senate committee today when the chairman of the Federal Reserve was testifying to Ben Bernanke on the economy, and he held up this letter from a constituent named Tammy Mae.
And what he was trying to do here is create this whole notion of a national crisis from a letter that he gets from this woman who obviously has a job.
And she said that in her letter to Senator Casey, that we need to reprioritize.
She's a single mother, too, by the way.
We need to reprioritize.
Our house comes first, then daycare, then gasoline, and then food.
Food was number four on her list of priorities.
And I think she was asking Casey to institute this reform in priorities for everybody.
You think that she should have put taxes in there?
Well, yeah, that was, I had two points, but that was my number one point.
What struck me is that she didn't say anything in her letter about, hey, can you reduce the taxes or make the tax cuts permanent?
It's more whining of, you know, whatever, which I think is ridiculous.
But Tawana, do you really think, I don't think this woman probably pays income taxes.
She's probably to lower, well, most people, the lower 50% do not pay income taxes.
They still pay Social Security and all that to FICA.
But she probably thinks that what she gets paid is the net on her paycheck.
She doesn't pay the taxes that she pays, so she's not conscious of the money coming in and leaving.
I think it describes a lot of people.
She boys people don't want to raise taxes on the rich, so forth.
But, I mean, we could all put a lot of our own personal things on her priority list.
To me, that was not the point of this.
The point of this is what Senator Casey's trying to do with this in creating a national mood.
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