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Sept. 25, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 25, 2008, Thursday, Hour #3
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So we've got a deal out there.
Oh, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
John Boehner is saying that House Republicans have not signed on to any bailout deal.
It may yet require John McCain to get this done, which is the Democrats went out there and announced that there's a deal, that they have a deal in principle.
And they wanted to make, I think they did this prior to 4 o'clock.
That's when McCain is meeting with Bush and Obama at the White House.
And they wanted to preempt any involvement by McCain in this.
But Boehner is saying that they have not signed any bailout deal.
The House Republicans haven't.
Chris Dodd is also saying, hey, look, we're going to negotiate this.
We're going to have a couple days here to debate this.
We hope we can get this legislation passed very soon.
A lot of people waiting to see what this so-called deal in principle has in it.
Now we learn that there is no deal in principle from John Boehner.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882.
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This is a blog of the Chicago Tribune.
John McCormick, the dateline is Dunedin, Florida.
Did you know, ladies and gentlemen, that Barack Obama blew the whistle on Fannie Mae?
Yeah, listen to this.
But I sure wish he was talking the same way over a year ago when I introduced a bill.
He's talking about McCain here.
When I introduced a bill that would have helped stop the multi-million dollar bonus packages that CEOs grab on their way out the door because he opposed that idea.
I'm sure he wishes he joined me when I blew the whistle on the fired CEOs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who tried to walk away with golden parachutes.
McCain's campaign responded by saying Obama was telling lies.
And of course, I told you yesterday he's get ready for six weeks of lies.
That's all liberals do, and that's all Obama's got.
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said Barack Obama actually said today that he blew the whistle on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac CEOs for their golden parachutes when he actually hired one for a critical job in his campaign and reportedly had his campaign seeking policy advice from another.
He might have blown something on Fannie, but it wasn't a whistle, folks.
That much we know.
By the way, if this deal gets done, if this deal actually gets done, this bailout rescue, whatever you want to call it, it will be another instance of George W. Bush getting what he wants.
Some lame duck president, eh?
Bush getting what he wants.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
And we start here with Maxine Waters last night on Hardball with Chris Matthews, who asked her, what do you make of the comments of the reason we're in this mess is under the Democratic government, under Clinton, there was no effort to make everybody, an effort to make everybody a homeowner, make everybody a homeowner.
Was that too aggressive?
That's a cheap shock.
I don't blame Fatty and Freddie for doing what they were organized to do.
They just didn't do it right.
They got too carried away, came up with all of these exotic products.
If they had been given the products with 30-year fixed mortgages, they would have been able to stay in the homes.
The regulatory agencies should have stopped them.
Well, Maxine, this is just absurd.
There has to be an intelligence requirement to be elected.
I mean, we've got to do something about this.
This woman is just loco.
Rarely have I seen somebody so willing to open their mouth and prove every time they do it what a fool they are.
Here's Chris Dodd on MSNBC last night.
Question, do you agree with the president about why this crisis happened and with what the contours of the crisis are?
What the president left out.
We don't need to dwell on this because we got to look ahead.
But the president left out is the cops weren't on the beat.
I mean, we had plenty of regulation in the area.
The question was the regulators weren't doing their jobs.
No, it's just we've got to start rewriting history now.
Here's the guy that stood in the way of the regular, the cops.
This is the guy that grabbed a billy club from the cops and beat him over the head with it.
I mean, George Bush, Gateway Pundit, has it listed 12 different attempts to warn to regulate to stop what was happening at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
I think last year, this year, certainly starting in 2000, I forget what the timeframe was.
12 different times.
McCain signed legislation.
We got a problem here in 2005 or 2003.
And he says the cops weren't on the beat.
The cops would go, you told the cops to go eat some donuts and have some coffee, and you paid them to do it.
All right, now this gets good.
This is a little smackdown here between Lou Dobbs and Buy Flink.
And it was on CNN Lou Dobbs tonight, first soundbite.
Dobbs says, what you're basically talking about, the Republicans are going to get this administration and going to get a bailout of Wall Street.
The Democrats are going to get a new deal.
And the result is going to be what?
A nationalized...
Nothing nationalized because the ownership we're going to take is going to have no voting rights.
It is going to have the right to get the profit.
A lack of regulation, going back to Ronald Reagan, allowed the private sector to make the kind of mistakes that put us in this trouble.
We had Ronald Reagan saying, government's not the answer to our problem.
Government's the problem.
Dick Army saying, oh, the markets are smart and the government is dumb.
Well, now, this is just incredible.
This is just, and now they're blaming this on Reagan.
Barney Frank, this goes right to your front and back doors.
This whole thing goes right to your front and back doors.
Well, he said, no, what he said was this.
Nothing necessarily.
Nothing necessarily because the whole ownership we're going to take is going to have no voting rights.
The mortgages can vote.
I don't know what he's talking about.
The other day, Chuck G. Schumer says that the lowly mortgage brought us to the brink of financial collapse.
And now Barney says that the mortgages can't vote.
Well, if the mortgages got together and decided to screw our financial system, but they can't vote, then I listen to these guys.
I get confused.
Now, Dobbs was not happy with this.
And he then jumped in.
May I point out that President Jimmy Carter is the one who started deregulation in 1978.
The partisan thing doesn't work for me.
Well, I'm not being partisan.
I'm being accurate.
And if you stop interrupting me, I can make my point.
Well, then I'm going to.
Jimmy Carter never interrupted you, but at the point of saying, Jimmy Carter wasn't.
Jimmy Carter never said government is the problem.
No, he didn't.
Well, Jimmy Carter never said, as did Dick Army, government is dumb and markets are smart.
Here, Jimmy.
I'm sorry.
If we're not going to have a serious conversation, then we're having a very serious conversation.
Jimmy Carter is very different than Ronald Reagan and Dick Army in here.
Yes, he moved for deregulation in two specific industries, trucking and airlines, and airlines didn't work out as well.
But we're talking not about whether you lack loops and regulation in one area, but whether you have the philosophy of no regulation.
And Jimmy Carter never deregulated the financial markets.
If you're going to be keeping it up, you're giving a serious competition.
Barney.
We just got through hearing Chris Dodd say that there was all kinds of regulators and they just the cops weren't on their beat.
Reagan deregul.
I don't know where it is.
This is like listening to Clinton claim that people stood in his way of trying to fix this back in the 90s.
Barney, this is all about you writing laws telling these mortgage lenders to whom they had to lend money, people that could never pay it back.
There's no amount of regulation that is going to protect people from stupid management decisions or laws.
It just isn't going to happen.
Let's go back September 10th, 2003.
Capitol Hill, the former Treasury Secretary, John Snow, he was testifying before the House Financial Services Committee.
We need a strong world-class regulatory agency to oversee the prudential operations of the GSEs and the safety and the soundness of their financial activities.
That's 2003 in the Bush administration proposing stronger regulation of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
The Democrats rejected the legislation.
September 10, 2003, Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not in a crisis.
The more people, in my judgment, exaggerate a threat of safety and soundness, the more people conjure up the possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury, which I do not see.
I think we see entities that are fundamentally sound financially and withstand some of the disaster scenarios.
And even if there were a problem, the federal government doesn't bail them out.
But the more pressure there is there, then the less I think we see in terms of affordable housing.
I want to play this again.
This is just, this is 2003 when Barney Frank is five years ago.
No problem here and no problem whatsoever.
And even if there is a problem, we're not going to bail them out.
And then he gets in that affordable housing thing at the end.
See, what he thought this was, here's what they had set up.
This was done on purpose.
Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, led the way in legislating, along with Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, led the way in creating legislation that demanded Janet Reno was threatening lending institutions with regulation investigation if they didn't follow through on this.
Make loans to people that can't pay them.
That's Barney's definition of affordable housing.
We give those people houses.
They're entitled, don't you see?
They're Americans.
They're entitled to affordable housing.
It's a white.
It's a white.
And so all these loans were made.
These lending institutions, you know the details after that.
So all of this, as far as Barney was concerned, all of this threatened oversight, all of this threatened regulation would expose the fraud.
Back in 2003, it would have exposed the fraud.
And Barney was afraid that people would not anymore be loaned money they couldn't pay back and therefore it'd be an end to his dream of affordable housing.
And of course, this is just another one of the many techniques of Democrats giving away your tax money to people in exchange for their lifetime vote and supports.
Now, listen to this again.
Five years ago, almost to the day.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not in a crisis.
The more people, in my judgment, exaggerate a threat of safety and soundness, the more people conjure up the possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury, which I do not see.
I think we see entities that are fundamentally sound financially and withstand some of the disaster scenarios.
And even if there were a problem, the federal government doesn't bail them out.
But the more pressure there is there, then the less I think we see in terms of affordable housing.
Take a break.
Be back and continue right after this.
Mambo number five with Lou Baga.
All right, folks.
Somebody tell Obama quick: China's space mission article hits the web before the launch.
Did you hear about this?
Obama thinks we have a lot to learn from China.
Remember, they asked him about China, Anthony Lemmicks.
Yeah, look at all that infrastructure.
They didn't really spend their money in wise ways.
We got a lot to learn from China.
A news story describing a successful launch of China's long-awaited space mission, including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the internet Thursday, hours before the rocket even left the ground.
Somebody tell Obama.
By the way, Obama didn't start talking about CEO pay and the golden parachutes till April of this year.
And he says that he's the one that blew the whistle on that.
And he said, I'm sure McCain wishes he had joined me in this now.
He might have blown something, but it wasn't a whistle.
All right.
Audio soundbites, Bill Clinton.
He dropped neutron bombs today on the Obama campaign, treated those, treated to you those soundbites in the first hour.
He was on Larry King Live last night, Clinton everywhere because of the Clinton Global Initiative.
And Larry King said, you're going to vigorously campaign.
Is that a correct word, vigorous?
We have this global initiative coming up, and I have projects all over the world.
When this is over and after the Jewish holidays, which follow close on it, I intend to go to Florida, to Ohio, to Northeast Pennsylvania, and to Nevada at a minimum.
I may do events in Arkansas, depending on what the Democratic Party does down there.
And I have agreed to do some fundraising for them in California and New York.
So he's going to vigorously campaign for Obama after the Jewish holidays.
Hey, why don't you take Elsie Hastings with you?
You know, it might help you out because he's out there.
He's got the proper message for Jewish voters.
Any woman who goes out there in the skins of moose and runs around with guns can never tell what she's going to do to Jews and blacks.
He ain't said it.
I'm paraphrasing it, but that's pretty close.
Clinton is destroying Obama.
I don't even think Obama knows it.
Oh, yeah.
You know something?
The Democrats, most of them are to blame for this meltdown here because, I mean, they were not looking.
I mean, I tried everything I could to get Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac straightened up.
The culpability of our party is, oh, yeah, I think, well, McCain canceled the Bay West.
No big deal.
Well, McCain's a guy that invited Obama to 10 different town hall meetings.
Obama's the one that said, no, I don't think McCain's got a problem here at all.
That debate will happen.
Clearly, more importantly, these are neutron bombs.
I mean, the buildings are left.
Nobody dies or any of that.
It's just, I'm telling you, Clintons are peeved.
Barry did not know who he was dealing with when he dissed them the way that he did.
Here, by the way, more from Clinton on Larry King Live.
King said, well, are you kind of feeling Jewish that you're waiting until after the Jewish holidays?
No, but I think it would be if we're trying to win in Florida, it may be that, you know, they think that because of who I am and where my political base has traditionally been, they may want me to go sort of hustle up what Lawton Childs used to call the cracker vote there.
So here's a guy claiming that he's going to campaign for Obama.
Yeah, I got to wait until Jewish holidays over, so I go in there.
I got to get the cracker vote for Obama.
Neutron bomb number three.
Hustle up the cracker vote.
Got to hustle up the cracker vote.
So this is neutron bomb number three.
And Clinton set this up perfectly.
He knew that if he said he was going to do the campaign after the Jewish holidays, he's going to go, whoa, what are you feeling?
Jewish?
What are you going to wait up Jewish?
Well, you know, I got to go down there in Florida.
They're going to need me down here to hustle up the cracker vote.
I'm campaigning for Barack Obama.
You've got to need a cracker vote.
Yeah.
By the way, the drive-by is all upset that the debate was delayed.
Suzanne Malvote on the American Morning Show on CNN.
More than $5 million for the university has been poured into making this debate happen.
I want to show you here the local paper.
One of the commentators essentially saying that, look, she says this is not Southern manners, that he's misplaced his Southern manners, and here manners means a lot.
Yeah.
So CNN's all concerned now about what the Southerners think.
Well, for the first time in probably, I don't know how long, CNN actually cares what a Southern state and its population thinks about.
So I guess Southerners, their feelings are never hurt when you guys at CNN insult them as a bunch of crackers or hayseed hicks.
Remember, these debates are nothing more than media creations.
They are media events.
The more the candidates have a chance to go over the head of the media and write to the voters, as McCain and Palin are doing here, the better off they always are.
And it's just great the media doesn't like this.
Let me have audio sound by 23.
I knew this is going to happen.
Democrats are running ads.
Obama running ads on McCain's age and his health.
This is a new ad from Democracy for America.
It's a pro-Obama 527.
The relevance of knowing the details of his course with melanoma are very important.
Another bout of cancer for John McCain while he's president of the United States would profoundly impact his capacity to lead.
Melanoma is the deadliest of skin cancers, and the chances of survival if you have melanoma spread through your body are very, very slow.
Brave new pack in Democracy for America, responsible for the content of this advertising.
Okay, so McCain may get cancer.
In the meanwhile, you've got Biden over there.
He's had two aneurysms.
Surgery required for one of them.
Those things can kill you like that if you don't get them.
Cancer takes a while, but never knew this was going to happen.
I'm waiting for the blood in the stools commercial.
You wait.
These people will stop at nothing.
By the way, I just got a note from a friend who properly observes that if Clinton is going to campaign here in Florida after the Jewish holidays, it would then follow, logically, that Clinton was seeking the Matzo Ball vote rather than the cracker vote.
But he stuck with the cracker vote because it's a southern state and the crackers is a but my theory on this is that he's saying exactly what he intends to say.
He's dropping little neutron bombs on Obama in the campaign.
He's going to come down here to Florida because Obama's going to need the cracker vote.
And so the guy who is ostensibly campaigning is going to say, hey, crackers, I'm coming down there to get your vote.
Now, Clinton may have to say, hey, I'm a fellow cracker, Marcus.
I know exactly who you people.
According to who's crackers or native-born Floridians, that was Lawton Child's definition.
Well, now, look, that's another thing.
How do we know?
Lawton Childs has assumed room temperature many years ago.
So that's another thing.
Clinton, poor old Lawton Childs, who's putting all these words in Lawton Child's mouth.
I don't doubt that Lawton Child said it.
Get this.
My earlier theory has been confirmed, ladies and gentlemen, from Mark Ambinder at theatlantic.com.
John McCain's vow to return to Washington and get this mess settled has lit a fire under the behinds of Democrat negotiators who worry that his presence will suspend their negotiations and give House Republicans a figure to rally around in opposition to a compromise and generally weaken their negotiation position.
You see, they are desperate that McCain not get any credit for this, whatever happens.
That's why they've come out and said we've got a deal in principle.
And then John Boehner, the House leader, came, no, no, no, no, we've not signed anything.
Now, Mark Ambinder then adds this to his blog post.
My colleague Nora McAvilna, Nora McAvilna, tells me that sources close to Senate Democrat leadership, that would be Dingy Harry, now fear that McCain's real motivation for calling off his campaign and coming back to Washington is to vote no against the bailout, despite his private statements to the contrary.
And it's a smart maneuver.
Nothing says maverick like voting against Bush and standing with the American public, who remain very wary of the proposal.
And that's true.
I've emailed here from all of you.
I've spot-checked it, and I can't find a whole lot of support for this.
Your instincts on this are right.
But I'm not going to bother repeating the analysis of the first and second hours.
It'll be up at rushlimbaugh.com later.
But they're worried he's going to come in here, steal the credit, and then vote no.
Vote against Bush, side with the American people, and totally screw up the plan.
Here is, frankly, folks, George Bush is going to get what he wants, but so are the Democrats.
And I think it would be, I think it'd be worthy of maybe a minute of fanfare music to celebrate McCain voting against the Democrats.
It doesn't happen much.
And it'd be noteworthy, you know, we raised the flag here symbolically.
Could be a big event.
We'll keep a sharp eye.
This is spank me now.
Michael in Austin, Texas.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Caller Dittos, Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
I saw Barbara Boxer on Fox this morning talking about McCain suspending his campaign.
Yeah.
And she's mouthing the Obama line about how presidents should be able to do more than one thing at a time.
And I was just, I just wonder how many times have I heard Democrats, Michael Moore, whoever, complaining about how Bush has, you know, took seven minutes to read my pet goat on the morning of 9-1-1.
Oh, yeah.
In fact, he's fled Washington, fled Washington, and stayed aboard Air Force One because he was a coward.
Exactly.
How many times have, you know, do they keep a running tally of how much time he's spent in Crawford?
No, look, I understand how this frustrates you, but I'm going to try to give you an illustration.
Tell me, Rush.
Because this, I had a guy from Sioux City, Iowa, call.
Did you happen to hear that yesterday?
As a matter of fact, I didn't.
All right.
Well, what it was, there was a story in the New York Times yesterday, which was a fabricated 100% lie saying that Rick Davis of McCain's campaign staff was being paid by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
His consultant.
Yes, I did.
I did.
Okay.
The McCain camp issued a refutation denying it factually every which way but Sunday.
So a guy calls up and he starts quoting the article to me.
He says, no, he didn't quote the article.
He starts telling me, hey, this looks really, I mean, you got McCain's guy.
I said, no, no, here are the facts.
I gave him the facts.
Didn't matter.
He just, it's like, you ever go to one of these batting machines?
I don't, not, not, not this week.
They just keep throwing baseballs at you.
Or how about if you play tennis and these things that all of you, they just keep launching tennis balls at you no matter what you do.
You can knock the ball out of the park and the stupid machine's going to throw you another way.
And that's what liberals, it doesn't matter what you do with their pitch.
It doesn't matter.
They're just going to keep launching them.
And so when you start to start refuting Barbara Box, I guarantee you this is the mantra.
Presidents have to be able to do more than one thing at a time or have to be able to do two things at a time.
Mike, grab, what does it sound like?
One that has the montage of the drive-by media talking about this being a Hail Mary.
Here, we've got another montage of how the media got together and decided how to describe McCain's announcement of suspending his campaign.
A smart move or maybe a Hail Mary pass on his part.
The longest Hail Mary pass.
A Hail Mary pass.
He's looking for a Hail Mary.
A Hail Mary pass.
The Hail Mary.
How many Hail Marys can one guy throw in one game?
Throw the ultimate Hail Mary pass.
McCain has thrown a Hail Mary.
McCain loves to throw these Hail Mary passes.
It's the longest Hail Mary pass in the history of football or Hail Marys.
So, I mean, it's no longer even funny.
Well, it's funny, but I mean, it's just, it's no longer something you shake your head over and say, how does this happen?
Because we now know how it happens.
They just, there's an echo chamber.
They all think the same.
It's a Hail Mary pass, Hail Mary Pass.
How can he do two Hail Mary passes in one campaign?
That was Krauthammer, by the way.
From Jeff Poor at the Business and Media Institute, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who is one of the most pompous, arrogant elitists.
He has an unlimited expense account to travel the world for the New York Times and write columns on how to solve every problem there is.
And Friedman suggested September 23rd that any construction financed by government-funded mortgages should be certified green according to the standards of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system.
If we're going to be in the mortgage business as a government, then every government-funded mortgage, at least for a new building, means that building has to at least silver lead certified, okay?
He said this at the Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington.
He appeared to promote his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America.
So Thomas Friedman is suggesting the mortgage bailout should come with green strings attached.
He wants environmentalists to propose the green building requirements be incorporated in new mortgages.
This is what I mean.
They never shut up.
It's just like the batting machine.
You can stand in there for an hour and you can do as well as you can.
You can knock every pitch out and it just keeps coming at you.
They're relentless.
A brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
All these world leaders out there meeting Sarah Palin at the UN in New York and the Indian prime minister.
Whoa, you are gorgeous.
You are gorgeous.
And he wouldn't let go of her hand.
As the photographer said, no, we need to keep shaking there.
We need more pictures.
She's apparently dazzling all these guys.
She even walked into some highfalutin women's meeting today in New York.
It was about women who've protecting women in childbirth from death and other illnesses.
Rupert Murdoch's wife is one of the big guns of this windy dung murdock, and she was there and a bunch of other people.
She apparently did well wowing those women in there too.
So she's out meeting a lot of people.
She's just not meeting the drive-bys.
Drive-by is very upset.
By the way, I want to agree with Barack Obama, just to show balance, fairness here on the EIB network.
I do agree that presidents ought to be able to do more than one thing at a time.
I would like to know what else Obama can do besides talk, because I frankly have not seen him do anything but talk.
Would somebody tell me what else he does?
By the way, I have two more sound bites here for you.
I want you to listen to these.
These, the first day of this Congress, January 4th, 2007.
Barney Frank.
First day of the 110th Congress.
First day, January 4th, 2007.
We can't continue to have economic growth that is concentrated in the hands of a few.
In America, we are becoming more and more unequal.
And some inequality is necessary for a capitalist system.
But we've gone way beyond that.
And the average working person, we're talking 80% of the population has seen an erosion in his or her economic position rather than advanced.
Pacifically, I hope to deal in part with the housing crisis part of this.
The committee that I'll be chairing has jurisdiction over housing.
And we hope very much to do an increase in the housing stock so housing becomes affordable both for low-income people, but also for people in the modern income range.
Wants to increase housing stocks?
Is that what I heard him say?
Cookie had a rush job on this audio.
We didn't have a time to transcribe it all.
But here you go.
I hope to deal with the housing crisis so that housing becomes affordable for low-income people.
This was his goal.
What has happened was his goal, meaning getting a bunch of people into houses who couldn't afford the mortgages.
Here's another bite from the same speech.
I do believe that it's time for us to rein in these outrageous corporate CEO settlements and the hundreds of millions of dollars.
They've reached a point where it's not simply envy that makes us upset about them.
When Lee Raymond retires from ExxonMobil and gets $400 million, and then that company stiffs its pension fund, you're talking about things that have real economic consequence.
You cannot pay a handful of people so many billions of dollars and not have it impinge on what's available for other people.
We'll be addressing that.
Okay, so Barney Frank on the first day of this Congress laid out the agenda, and he's got it.
He's got his collapse.
I don't think he didn't think that would happen.
Maybe he did.
Folks, you know, really, you get what you deserve.
And when you elect Democrats to run the show, ask them in Louisiana.
Ask them in Michigan.
Ask them in Detroit.
I mean, Victor Davis-Hansen's right.
You keep sending these same people back there.
You deserve them.
It's insane to keep criticizing them when you know that they're going to do what they do because they've done it their entire careers.
Mary in Sunrise, you know, Sunrise, Arizona.
I love some of the names in Arizona.
Surprise.
Surprise Arizona.
That's right.
Surprise Arizona, like Sholo, Arizona.
It's got some of the greatest names.
Wretched Gulch.
Mary, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you.
Thank you, sir.
I just had a quick comment.
My senior citizen parents received a letter from their pension union people, and they told them that they needed to vote for Barack Obama because John McCain was going to tax their pension and take their money away.
Well, just get rid of it because the next fundraising letter will say that John McCain is going to cut Social Security for old folks, crackers in Florida, and is going to kick them out of their houses.
I mean, that happens every four years, every presidential election.
You get things like this, that McCain's going to tax the pension.
He's going to take away the pension.
And you take away Social Security.
Well, I told them, I said, don't you believe it?
You don't know anything about Barack Obama.
And believe me, he's trouble.
Well, what was their reaction to it?
Well, my mother got a little quiet because can I ask you to do me a favor?
Sure.
I want you to call your mother back when we're through talking here when you have time.
I want you to ask your mom a question.
Mom, because you said she's a seasoned citizen.
Yes, she is.
Mom, you've been alive X number of years, whatever it is.
Every four years you hear this from the Democrats.
You hear that old people are going to have their Social Security taken away or that union members are going to be destroyed and their pensions taken away.
Mom, have you seen it?
Have you seen Republicans do that ever?
Yep, that's it.
And then she'll say, well, she might say that she has seen it, whatever.
You be prepared.
You're the kid.
She's the adult.
Right.
And so, but be prepared to tell her, Mom, it's all lies, and it's typical.
Every four-year Democrat Party lies.
Yeah, that's what I'm going to tell her.
I'm going to call her today again and argue politics again.
Is she a liberal, Democrat?
You know, she was a Reagan Republican.
I remember I was a kid back then.
What happened?
I don't know.
It's just, it's scare tactics, you know, and I know they're struggling a little bit.
I know exactly what happened.
I know exactly what happened.
Yeah.
What happened was the drive-by media telling them that what they actually lived through in the 80s didn't happen.
And then starting as they get toward retirement age, when all you got or the most or the majority of what you got is going to come from the government, all they've got to do, scare your parents and people like them is to tell you that somebody's going to take it away.
And your parents and others can't take the chance that that might be true.
Because then there would they be.
So, well, look, you're doing the Lord's work out there.
There's always a point in our lives where our parents become idiots.
They start out as idiots.
We're teenagers.
Then they get really smart when we're in the 20s.
And we get 55 or 60, we realize how stupid they are again.
Yeah, it was a Joe Biden moment.
It was a Joe Biden moment.
I apologize to all you parents out there.
There's a Joe Biden moment.
Oh, God.
What have I done?
Well, we'll fix it tomorrow.
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