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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 uh prior to four o'clock.
That's when McCain is meeting with Bush and Obama at the White House, and they wanted to pre they wanted to preempt any involvement by McCain in this.
But Boehner is saying that they have not signed any bailout deal.
Uh the House Republicans haven't.
Chris Dodd is also saying, hey, look, uh, we're we're we're gonna negotiate this, you know, we're gonna have uh 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.
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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 Billy'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's 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 this this uh 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 sound bites.
And we start here with uh 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 and effort to make everybody a homeowner, make everybody a homeowner.
Was that too aggressive?
That's a cheap shot.
I don't blame Patty 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, uh, they would have been able to stay in the homes.
The regulatory agencies should have stopped them.
Well, Maxine, this is just this is just absurd.
There has to there has to be an intelligence requirement to be elected.
I mean, we gotta do something about this.
This woman is just loco.
I I 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 uh with what the contours of the crisis are?
But the president left out.
We don't need to dwell on this because we gotta look ahead.
But the president left out is uh the 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.
Now it's just we got we're gonna start rewriting history now.
Here's the guy that stood in the way of the regular cops.
This is the guy that grabbed a billy club from the cops and beat them over the head with it.
I mean, George Bush, gateway pundit has it listed twelve different attempts to warn to regulate to stop what was happening at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Yeah, I think last year, this year, certainly starting in 2000, I forget what the time frame was.
Twelve different times.
McCain signed legislation.
We got a problem here in 2005 or 2003.
And he says a cops word on the beat.
The cops are going top you 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 Boy Flink.
And it was on CNN Ludbs tonight, first soundbite.
Dobbs says what you're basically talking about, the Republicans are going to get this administration uh gonna get a bail out of Wall Street, the Democrats are gonna get a new deal, and the result is gonna be what?
A nationalized nothing nationalized because the the ownership we're gonna take is gonna have no voting rights.
It is gonna 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 in now that they're blaming this on Reagan.
Barney Frank, this this goes right to your front and back doors.
This whole thing goes right to your front and back doors.
No.
He said, what is it?
Well, he said, no, what he said was this.
Nothing that's what a life, nothing that's right because victims the ownership we're gonna take is it's gonna be no voting rights.
No, no vote to 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 I listen to these guys that get confused.
Now, Dobbs was not happy with this, and he then jumped in.
May I point out.
Well, Jimmy Carter is the one who started deregulation in 1978.
I mean, 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 could make my point.
Well, then I'm not sure.
Jimmy Carter was Jimmy Carter never said government is the problem.
No, he did not.
Well, Jimmy Carter never said as did Dick Army, government is dumb and markets are smart.
Here, I'm sorry, if we're not gonna have a serious conversation, then we're gonna be.
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 they haven't 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 phosphory of no regulation.
And Jimmy Carter never deregulated the financial market.
This is if you're gonna be keeping it with me, give it a serious composition.
Barney.
There was we just got through hearing Chris Dodd say that there was all kinds of regulators that they just the cops weren't on a beat.
Reagan deregul.
I don't know, I don't know.
I I don't know where it is.
This is like listening to Clinton claim that uh 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 gonna protect people from stupid management Decisions or laws.
It just isn't gonna 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 uh 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 Mack and Fannie Mae.
The Democrats rejected the legislation.
September 10th, 2003, Barney Frank, the chairman of the uh House Financial Services Committee.
Fanny May and Freddie Mack 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 uh 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.
There's no problem here, and no problem whatsoever.
And even if there is a problem, we're not gonna bail him out.
And then he gets in that affordable housing thing at the end.
See, what he thought this was that here's what they had set up.
This was done on purpose.
Barney Frank, Chris Dodd led the way in legislative along with Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter led the way in creating legislation that demanded Janet Reno was threatening lending institutions with regulation, uh 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 say?
They're Americans.
They're entitled to affordable hunting.
It's it's it's a white, it's a white.
And so all these loans were made, these lending institutions.
You know, 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 Democrats giving away your tax money to people in exchange for their lifetime vote and supports.
Now, listen to this again.
This is five years ago, almost to the day.
Fanny May and Freddie Mack 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 uh 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.
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 how they asked him about the China after the Olympics.
Yeah, look at all that infrastructure.
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 somebody tell Obama.
By the way, Obama didn't start talking about CEO pay and uh golden parachutes till April of this year, and he says that he's the one that blew the whistle on that.
And I 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, uh, treated to you those sound bites in the first hour.
He was on Larry King Live last night, Clinton everywhere because of the Clinton Global Initiative.
And uh Larry King said, uh, you're gonna vigorously campaign.
Is that a is that a correct word?
Vigorous.
We have this global initiative coming up, and uh and I have projects all over the world.
When this is over and after the Jewish holidays, which follow close on it.
Uh, I intend to go to Florida to Ohio to uh Northeast Pennsylvania, uh and to Nevada at a minimum.
I'm 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 gonna vigorously campaign for Obama after the Jewish holidays.
Hey, uh, why don't you take Elsie Hastings with you?
You know, it might it might help you because he's out there, he's got the proper message for Jewish voters.
Uh any woman who goes out there in the skins of moose and runs around with guns, uh, can never tell what she's gonna do to Jews and blacks.
Hex 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 have most of them are to blame for this for this this uh meltdown here because I mean they were not they were not looking.
I I mean I tried everything I could to get Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac straight now.
But uh, the coupability by party is oh, yeah.
I think I think well, McCain cancel the debate.
Why it's no big deal?
Well, McCain's a guy that uh invited Obama to ten 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.
This is most of it's clearly more important.
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 uh Larry King live.
Uh 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 uh if we're trying to win in Florida.
It may be that uh, you know, they think that because of who I am and where my political base is judicially 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 gonna campaign for Obama.
Yeah, I got I gotta I gotta wait till Jewish holidays over, so I go in there, I get the cracker vote for Obama.
Neutron neutron bomb number three.
Hustle up, hustle up the cracker vote.
Exactly gonna 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 gonna do the campaign after the Jewish holidays, you know, whoa, what are you feeling?
Jewish when are you gonna wait up Jewish holidays?
Well, you know, I gotta go down there to Florida.
They're gonna need me down there to hustle up the cracker vote.
I'm campaigning for Barack Obama.
You're gonna need a cracker vote.
Yeah.
By the way, the drive-by is all upset that the uh that the debate was uh delayed.
Suzanne Malvol today on the American morning show on CNN.
More than five million dollars for the university has been poured into making this debate happen.
Want to show you here the local uh paper.
Uh one of the uh commentators essentially saying that look, uh, 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 hasied 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 gonna happen.
The 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 ballot 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 slim.
Okay, so McCain may get uh cancer in the meanwhile, you've got Biden over there's had two aneurysms.
Surgery required for one of them, those things can kill you like that.
You don't get them.
Uh cancer takes a while, but never knew this is gonna happen.
I'm waiting for the blood in the stools commercial.
You wait.
Um these people will stop at nothing.
By the way, I just got a note from a 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 Matzaball vote rather than the cracker vote.
But he stuck with the cracker vote because it's a southern state and the crackers is a button.
I my 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 gonna come down here to Florida because Obama's gonna need the cracker vote, and so the guy who is ostensibly campaigning is gonna say, hey, crackers.
I'm coming down there to get your vote.
Now Clinton may have to heat the he said, hey, I'm a fellow cracker.
Marcus, I know exactly who you people.
Uh according to who who's who's crack crackers or native-born Floridians?
That's that's that was Lawton Child's definition.
Is that what?
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 the who's putting Paul's words in uh in Lawton Child's mouth?
I don't doubt that Lawton Childs said it.
Uh 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 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 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 McU McAlmah.
Nora McAlnah 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 uh all of you.
I've I've had I've spot checked it, and I can't find a whole lot of support for this.
Your instincts on this are right.
Uh well, I'm not gonna bother repeating the analysis of the first and second hours.
It'll be up at Rushlinbaugh.com later.
But they're worried he's gonna 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 uh Frankly, folks.
George Bush is gonna get what he wants, but so are the Democrats.
And I think it would be I think it'd be worthy of a 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 raise the flag here symbolically.
Could be a big event.
We'll keep a sharp eye.
This is uh spank me now.
Michael in Austin, Texas.
Welcome to the EIV network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Caller dittoes, Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
Um, 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 911.
Oh, yeah.
In fact, he's he fled Washington, fled Washington and stayed aboard Air Force One because he was a coward.
Exactly.
Uh how many times have uh you know, uh do they keep a running tally of how much time you spend in in Crawford?
No, no, look, I understand how this frustrates you, but I'm gonna I'm gonna try to give you an illustration.
Tell me, Rush.
Because this I had a guy from uh Sioux City, Iowa, called.
Did you happen to hear that yesterday?
Uh 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 Mack and Fannie Mae, his consultant.
Yes, I did.
I didn't know.
Okay.
The McCain camp issued a refutation, denying it factually every which way, but Sundays.
The 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 does it was he just it's like you ever go to one of these batting machines.
I don't not not this week.
They just keep throwing baseballs at you.
Right.
Or how about if you play tennis and he's these things and all the they just keep launching tennis balls at you, no matter what you do.
You could knock the ball out of the park and a stupid machine's gonna throw another one.
And that's what liberals it doesn't matter what you do with their pitch, it doesn't matter.
They're just gonna 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 is sound bite 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.
Hail Mary Pass.
The Hail Mary.
How many Hail Marys can one guy throw in one game?
Throw the ultimate Hail Mary pass.
McCain is throwing 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 Mary's.
So, I mean, it's it just I it's it's no longer even funny.
And I just well, it's funny, but I mean it's just it it's it's no longer something you just 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 as Hail Mary Pass, Hail Mary Pass, Hail Mary.
How can he do two Hail Mary passes in one campaign?
That was Crowdhammer, by the way.
Uh, 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 uh 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 6th 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 into new mortgages.
That's 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 of the way, 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 uh 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 any more pictures.
She's apparently dazzling all these uh these guys.
Uh she even walked into some uh highfalutin women's uh meeting today in New York.
It was about women of uh protecting women and childbirth uh from death and other illnesses.
Uh Rupert Murdoch's wife is one of the big guns of this Wendy Dungwurdock, and she was there and a bunch of other people.
She apparently did well wowing those women in there too.
So she's out meaning a lot of people.
She just not meeting the drive-bys.
Drive-by is very upset.
By the way, I I want to agree uh with uh Barack Obama just to show balance, fairness here on the uh EIB network, and 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 condition rather than advanced.
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?
Did I is that what I heard him say?
Cookie had a rush job on this uh 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.
He was 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 uh same speech.
I do believe that it's time for us to reign in these outrageous corporate CEO settlements in 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 Exxon Mobile and gets 400 million dollars, and then that company stiffs its pension fund, you're talking about things that have real economic consequences.
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 there you 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, it 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.
You you I mean, Victor Davis Hanson's right.
You keep sending these same people back there, you deserve them.
It's it's it's insane to keep criticizing them when you know that they're gonna do what they do.
Because they've done it their entire careers.
Mary and uh Sunrise, you know, Sunrise Arizona.
I love some of the names in Aero.
A surprise, surprise arrows.
That's right.
Surprise Arizona, like Show, uh, Arizona's got some of the greatest names, wretched gulch.
Uh Mary, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you.
Thank you, sir.
Um, I just had a quick comment.
My senior citizen parents received a letter from their um pension uh union people, and they told them that they needed to vote for Barack Obama because John McCain was gonna tax their pension and take their money away.
Well, just get rid of because the next fundraising letter will say that John McCain is gonna cut social security for old folks, crackers in Florida, and is gonna kick them out of their houses.
I mean, that happens every four years, every presidential election, you get things like this that McCain's gonna tax the pension, it's gonna 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, um, he's trouble.
So, what what was their reaction to it?
Well, um, my mother got a little quiet because two daughters 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, yes.
Mom, how uh 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 gonna have their social security taken away, or that union members are gonna be destroyed and their pensions taken away.
Mom, have you seen it?
Have you seen Republicans do that ever?
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
And then she'll say, Well, I've uh she might say she's has seen it, whatever you be prepared.
You're the kid.
She's the adult.
Right.
And so, but uh 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 gonna tell her.
I'm gonna call her today again and argue politics again.
So you is she is she uh uh liberal democrat?
You know, she was a Reagan Republican.
I remember I was a kid back then.
But 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, yeah, telling them that what they actually lived through in the eighties didn't happen.
And then starting it as they get toward retirement age, when all you got or the most or the majority of what you got's gonna come from the government, all they've got to do scare your parents and people like them is to tell you that somebody's gonna take it away.
Yep, that's what your parents and others can't take the chance that it might be true.
Because then there would they be.
So, well, look, you're doing the Lord's work out there.
There is 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 twenties.
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.
I I apologize to all you parents out there.
There's a Joe Biden moment.
Oh, God.
What have I done?
We'll fix it tomorrow.
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