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Oct. 2, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 2, 2008, Thursday, Hour #2
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So a $700 billion bailout bill becomes $850 billion in the Senate.
This is going to end up being a trillion dollars before it's all said and done.
And I want to ask, I want to ask you all to help me out on something here.
Greetings, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the fastest three hours in media.
Would somebody tell me, because we've been trying to go back to the recent past.
We've been trying to figure out what was the trigger for this crisis.
For example, it wasn't Lehman Brothers.
They went Lehman Brothers go South.
It wasn't AIG, they bailed him out.
It wasn't Washington Mutual.
Somebody took him over.
It wasn't Wacovia.
Citibank, City Group's going to take them over.
It um they had $300 billion poured into the system in the summertime.
We had $152 billion stimulus package and little checks to the American people.
What what's the trigger for this crisis that cannot cannot possibly wait to be dealt with?
The crisis in the credit markets.
Everybody says right now, by the way, Ford Motors are, hey, our our sales are down here domestically because customers can't get credit to buy a car.
PS.
You got good credit, you can go buy a car for crying out loud.
I wish I could divulge personal experience to prove this, but I judge don't do it, but I'm telling you, you can get credit if you need to.
You know, if if there is a holdup in credit, I'm gonna tell you the answer.
The answer is that the credit markets are waiting to see what they're gonna get out of this bill.
They're waiting to see what these worthless assets they're holding for are going to be valued at.
The answer is the government is standing in the way of the market functioning.
If you're in the credit markets or you own a bunch of these subprime mortgages, and the government's talking about buying them from you, aren't you gonna wait around to see what the price you're going to get is before you start?
That's exactly what's happening here.
This has been a crisis that has to be solved today for two weeks.
And I'm I'm I'll be damned I can't find the trigger for this.
What one thing was well, Russia wasn't just one thing, it was uh cumulative.
Cumulative what?
We bailed out everything that went wrong before this except for Lehman brothers.
Maybe I'm being short-sighted here, but here we are in October, and I think we've got our little October surprise here.
We have a Democrat Treasury Secretary who went in and convinced the president that this was desperate times that uh we can't wait.
We've got it, we got it, we got to do this.
And then when I last night, when I saw Dingy Harry and Chris Dodd and these guys, these senators come out after they had voted, and I saw how happy Dingy Harry was, then I saw him praising the work of Chris Dodd.
This would be like Mayor Daly praising the work of Al Capone in cleaning up Chicago.
And I'm sitting I'm staring at this in in suspended belief.
And I'm saying to myself, these little squirrels got exactly what they wanted.
They got the most profound psychological economic crisis in my lifetime.
They got it five weeks before an election.
They had set it up so that they, the Democrats, fixed this.
Eight years of Bush policy caused this.
McCain will not name names of the people who actually caused this because they're Democrats, and to him, criticizing Democrats is partisan.
In his debate on Friday night, he went on and on and on about how he would, as president, every bill that came to his office laden with pork, he would name the names of the people who wanted the pork, but he we got a pork bill here.
And he won't name the names.
I don't even think he made a floor speech.
Now let me give you a little wish list here.
It'll never happen.
But it's going to come up tonight at the vice presidential debate.
Both Biden and Sarah Palin are going to be asked about the bailout.
Palin is constrained by following the lead of McCain, who is the presidential nominee.
Uh candidate.
But boy, wouldn't you just love to hear her say the truth about this?
If I were president, this would never see the light of day.
This is it'll never happen.
But if she wanted to ignite this country, if she wanted to turn everything around, that's one way that she could do it.
But it's not realistic.
It just isn't realistic to expect it because she has to mirror McCain on this and he voted for it.
He could he could very easily have said, hey, look, here's the pork, and here's whose vote was changed by it.
Because of this crisis, I'm forced to support this, but I can't stomach the way this happened.
I'm just one of a hundred as a senator, but I promise you, when I am president, this will not happen.
He didn't say that.
And she can't say it.
Because he didn't say it.
So what's the tipping point?
Today, the Senate is gloating about this, adding $150 billion of pork or go through some of the pork that's in this.
We got the House not voting on it till tomorrow night.
What's the urgency?
What's the crisis?
Well, Rush, the credit markets are not lending.
Yeah, well, I've just dealt with that.
Something stinks here, folks, and it has always stunk.
My instincts on this, I fear are exactly right.
Now, Snerdley said he didn't know about the bicycle bill.
Let me find it.
I forgot to forget what stack I put this in.
Ah, here we go.
When I when I read this, ladies and gentlemen, I said, Well, you know, maybe I've been too quick to criticize this.
Maybe look, maybe I uh maybe they did put a crucial provision.
I mean, we couldn't survive as a country without this provision.
Isn't this what this bill's about?
The nation's financial survival, isn't it?
Is that not what we've been told?
Section 21.
Transportation Fringe Benefit to Bicycle Commuters.
That's the title.
The term qualified bicycle commuting reimbursement means with respect to any calendar year, any employer reimbursement during the 15-month period beginning with the first day of such calendar year for reasonable expenses incurred by the employee during such calendar year for the purpose,
or purchase rather, of a bicycle and bicycle improvements repair and storage if such bicycle is regularly used for travel between the employees' residence and place of employment.
Number two, the term applicable annual limitation means with respect to any employee for any calendar year, the product of $20 multiplied by the number of qualified bicycle commuting months during each year.
And qualified bicycle commuting month.
The term qualified bicycle commuting month means with respect to any employee, any month during which such employee regularly uses the bicycle for a substantial portion of the travel between the employees' residence and place of employment.
This is entitled to Section 211, Transportation French Benefit to bicycle commuters.
What this adds up to, it's a tax break for employers who reimburse their employees for buying a bicycle to ride to work.
And for bicycle improvements and repair and bicycle storage while at work.
It's worth $300 per employee to the business who reimburses them.
Well, thank God.
Now that This is in here.
We are assured that commerce will continue.
We know people can't buy cars anymore, so this would allow employees to once again get to work.
Had this tax break not been included in this emergency crisis right now bailout bill, work would have stopped across the country by Monday, but not now, because the bicycle commuters are going to come to the rescue.
So we're nationalizing the home mortgage industry, but at least we have a tax seduction for businesses with employees who like to ride their bicycles.
And by the way, don't think this is just happenstance in there.
What do you bet the odds are that some wacko environmentalist lobbyist got to some senator?
To put this in there, the real purpose is to get people out of their cars down the road.
This is step number one.
So, yes, ladies and gentlemen, in your emergency bailout bill.
Can't wait another day for this, or we are going to just succumb to abject failure.
There's a tax deduction for businesses for 300 bucks, who encourage their employees to buy and ride bicycles to and from work.
We'll be back.
I want to share two quotes with you.
And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
El Rushbo and service to humanity simply by being here.
Jim Inhofe, Senator James Inhofe, in the Tulsa World newspaper, Today, every time I have run into hysteria, world coming to an end.
He recalled the bomb shelters built in the fifties, warnings in the 70s of uh another ice age, the Y2K concerns.
And now he says almost the same way.
Michael Crichton in a speech on complexity.
There's nothing more sobering than a 30-year-old newspaper.
You can't figure out what the headlines mean.
You don't know who the people are.
Theodore Green, John Sparkman, George Reedy, Jack Watson, Kenneth Duberstein.
You thumb through page after page of vanished concerns, issues that apparently were vitally important at the time, and now don't matter at all.
It's amazing how many pressing concerns are literally of the moment.
They won't matter in six months, certainly not in six years, and if they won't matter then, are they really worth our attention now?
But as David Brinkley once said, the one function of TV news, one function TV news performs very well is that when there's no news, we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were news.
Now, I would only add one caveat to this, and that is some of these stories that uh go back 30 years.
Throughout these 30 years, we've had this encroachment of liberalism.
And I'll bet you like we can go back, as I read in the first hour of this program, Walter Mondole's opening statement 32 years ago when he was in his vice presidential debate with Bob Dole.
And he it uh we're gonna post it at Rush Limbaugh.com.
It is a recitation of things that are identical to what Biden will say tonight, identical to what the Democrats today are saying 32 years ago.
It's the same.
Not only do some issues vanish in importance, others you can go back 30, 35 years and you can read the same thing that you're reading today.
About how horrible life is in America, about how hopeless the future is.
Let's go to audio soundbite number eight as we turn back to the vice presidential debate here for just a second.
Today on Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos will appeared with the co-host at Robin Roberts, who asked uh Stephanopoulos, let's move ahead to tonight's great debate.
Uh new poll numbers out there, Georgie.
What did I tell you?
But Sarah Palin is becoming more and more of a drag on Senator John McCain as she heads into this debate tonight.
We ask voters, uh, do you think she has the experience it takes to serve as president?
And there's been a big shift.
Look back on September 7th, it was a close call.
Forty-seven percent said yes, 45% said no.
Now, today on September 29th, 60% of voters say that she does not have the experience it takes to serve as president.
That's a big jump, and that is starting to hurt John McCain.
A third of voters, just about a third of voters now, also in our ABC News poll say they are less likely to vote for McCain because of Sarah Palin.
Isn't this cute?
This dovetails right along with Chuck Todd earlier today saying, hey, the race is over.
We've reached a tipping point.
This is it.
I mean, the polls are all favoring Obama.
Palin's become a big drag.
It's over.
It's FINE.
There's only one chance a McCain has.
It's the debate tonight with Palin.
And of course, Palin's become a drag on the ticket, so there's no hope for the McCain campaign.
One thing the ABC poll or the AP poll that's similar to this one.
Nobody's talking about only 56% think that the Democrat presidential nominee is ready to be president.
That's bigger news than what people think of a vice presidential nominee, and that's going to change after tonight anyway.
And of course, notice this is nobody.
Nobody out there is talking about what Biden has to do tonight.
Nobody's talking about what expectations we have of Biden.
Nobody's talking about whatever what a drag on a ticket Biden might be.
I'll tell you what Biden's big challenge tonight is is to avoid being himself.
And I'm going to tell you something, folks.
It's much easier to be who you are than it is to fake it and try to not be who you are.
And Biden's got to do the latter.
Biden has got to avoid being himself.
We'll see.
This woman is gutsy.
She is courageous.
She is fearless.
She has been here before in debates.
We'll just see.
All of this drive by media conventional wisdom.
We're told the Governor Palin has an impossible hurdle to jump.
She has to prove she's ready to be VEEP.
She has to prove she deserves to be on the same stage as the sage Joe Biden.
Who decides all this for us?
Well, Gwen Eiffel, the partisan moderator.
Charles Gibson, Katie Courick, the flunkies at NBC and the New York Times, the Washington Post, that is, the same people who endorse Obama and Biden are telling us what she has to prove.
If this debate, ladies and gentlemen, is about who knows how to name all the federal agencies and legislations have been proposed in the last 35 years, Biden wins the brass ring for that.
If this debate is about who can name all the leaders of every fifth rate power that means nothing to our future, I'm sure Biden can win the brass ring on that.
If this becomes a trivial pursuit, pop quiz.
Which is, I'll bet you what Gwen Ifill will do with part of this, particularly in foreign policy.
Then it makes a mockery of this whole procedure.
And will establish what I maintain all along, which is these are just made for, made by the media events.
But if this debate allows the public to take the measure of the candidates to see who will bring the best temperament, judgment, character, to making decisions that no single person can know tonight will have to be made.
Then Palin will win the brass ring.
She is so superior to Joe Biden and Obama when it comes to common sense and representing the values and traditions of this nation and its people.
There is no contest between Sarah Palin and Obama and Biden in understanding us.
And the traditions and the institutions that made this country great.
She has lived them.
Sarah Palin's problem with the drive-by media is that she did not become successful the right way.
I didn't become successful the right way.
I didn't complete.
I didn't enjoy college.
No reason to take me seriously.
Same thing with Sarah Palin.
She's gifted, highly accomplished, but she didn't follow the path of those who have to struggle to become successful.
See, she's a natural.
Governing is not rocket science.
That's why Andy Griffith's show was so popular.
Americans knew that bright, grounded, decent people were needed in public office, and there weren't any.
Sarah Palin did not follow the prescriptions necessary.
She's good at virtually everything she does.
Daughter, athlete, outdoors Person, musician, wife, mother, businesswoman, mayor, governor, but she doesn't approach those things the way others that sit in judgment might have.
Let me give you an illustration.
Question from Gwen Eiffel tonight.
All hypothetical.
You were an accomplished basketball player.
Tell us three the three most influential WBA or NBA players in your playing style.
Sarah Palin, I can't think of me.
I I don't watch television.
I enjoy playing the basketball.
Have you ever attended an NBA or major college basketball game?
Paylet.
No.
Drive-by conclusion, Palin isn't serious about her sport.
The only problem is she was an outstanding player.
These recipes that people have.
Didn't go to an elite school.
Didn't get an elite degree.
Don't have networked friends in Washington and New York.
That's why she's not qualified in their eyes.
People have been patiently waiting.
Let's uh go to the phones.
We'll start in um Munda is it Mundaline, Illinois.
This is John.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Um uh in the last hour you asked uh your listeners, what did Barack Obama ever do for you before uh running for president?
And I wanted to ask you something.
Um, four years ago, in one of the debates between President Bush and Senator Kerry, the two candidates agreed that the biggest threat to our national security was the threat posed by loose nuclear materials, so-called loose nukes, outside the United States falling into the hands of terrorists.
And as a senator, Senator Obama and Senator Hegel crafted legislation to restore the funding the Bush administration had cut to secure those materials.
It was comprehensive, it required an understanding of nuclear proliferation, it was bipartisan, and it required uh you know, it was responsive directly to what, again, Kerry and Bush agreed was the biggest threat to our national security.
Now, you asked, if Barack Obama had ever done anything for me, I consider this legislation to be something he did for me.
How about you?
Uh doesn't impress me.
It was an amendment to another piece of legislation.
It requires nothing more than the president to report to Congress what's been done.
Uh it doesn't have to be done till 2012.
And it's it's Zilch Zero nodded.
Name something else.
Provides it doesn't it provide funding?
Provides funding for what?
It provides funding to other nations to help them secure these materials for the city.
Sure, Obama wants to give all kinds of money.
He you're leaving something else act, uh, something else out.
The global requires that they report to the president.
The Global Poverty Act.
Obama wants to reduce worldwide poverty with an eighty-five billion dollar contribution from the United States from taxpayers every year.
Yeah, he's done he's he's done you can name two things he's done, but none none of these are for us.
Okay, well, I have to say something that someone does that's a concrete step, again, towards addressing what the president and Senator Kerry both agree is the single greatest threat to our national security.
I consider that something that he did for me.
Single greatest threat to our national security is Barack Obama in the Oval Office.
Endorsed by Hamas with friends who are terrorists.
You want to tell me that Obama has got something against terrorists around the world when his best friend is one?
When he is endorsed by terrorists, when Mahmood Ahmadinejad repeats talking points.
Nice try.
You can call here, you'll give me one thing.
One thing that Obama has done in all of his public life.
And even that one is dubious and irrelevant.
Funding.
It had funding.
Yes, that's really smart.
That takes intelligence, doesn't it?
Spending other people's money.
That's really brilliant.
Even you could do that, John.
Here's Walt in Northern Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Hi.
Uh after hearing your assessment on uh the reasons why we have reasons uh for this big credit crunch.
Uh I have to say you're correct, because this morning I took the time to call five different banks in my area.
And there was no problem getting a loan as long as you qualified, they had the money to grant grant that loan to you.
If you had your 20% down, you could get your home mortgage.
And if you had the necessary down at the bank requires, they because they have required different uh amounts of money down at the various banks on a vehicle, you'd get your vehicle loan.
So your assessment has got to be right.
Well, and this is even more powerful because you were calling banks in Michigan where there's a recession going on.
That is correct.
A liberal recession taking place, liberal Democrat recession taking place in Michigan.
You call five banks and you could get a loan to buy how you get a mortgage.
I can get a mortgage if yes.
If I wanted to get a mortgage and I qualified, I had the 20% down.
Well then I want to know how you asked him.
You called them up, you didn't go see them personally, right?
Just call them on the phone.
I just called them up on the phone.
I asked to speak with the bank manager bank manager, and when I got that person on the line, my questions were very simple and direct.
Are you having any difficulty getting money to loan?
And the answer in all cases was no.
As long as you had the qualifications and you met their criteria you for the loan, you would get it.
Well, you know, I it says it's just sounds like it's just like the old days.
It is.
If you had your 20% down, now did you tell them that you work with acorn or that you are a minority and if you could get a subprime loan, did you ask that?
No, I did not.
You ought to try that just for the fun of it.
You ought to call another bank just to see just to see what they would uh what they would tell you.
Look.
It just goes to show that this claim about credit not being available to banks and banks not lending to other banks has got to be a lie to get this money from the taxpayers and to their system to rob it.
There's something even more simple and fundamental to examine.
Let me ask you a question.
How many of you people, when you are uh shopping today, l last week, yesterday, last night, how many of you have been refused to use your credit card?
Uh how many how many businesses now we're not taking credit cards to the credit crunch?
We can't take credit cards, you gotta have the cash.
Hum is that happening to anybody?
And then after you use your credit card to charge whatever it is you're buying, does your credit card company call you say you've got to pay the balance in full?
We're not carrying this over.
Is that happening to anybody?
We're told a credit markets aren't lending.
Now maybe well, it's the Fed that lends to banks, so that's that's still going on.
I don't know.
We you know, but we have to understand here, folks, we are lay people when it comes to this, and our life experiences may not be reality, as is being preached to us from Washington.
I just, you know, I have a have an ongoing line of credit that I do not use, but I have it at at my bank, and it's up for renewal, and I got a note from the banker, hey, do you want us to uh get in touch with the accountant, get your latest tax return and renew this?
Sure, go ahead.
Automatic.
Line but nobody they didn't call me up and say, hey, by the way, we've got to cancel a line of credit.
It's just you know lines of credit.
Why are you frowning at me on this line of credit business?
Something su uh you are f you're far frowning at me about this because he thinks something stinks about it.
Um anyway.
It's interesting to have people, you know, go out on their own and see if they can get money.
And especially to buy a house.
Guy said five banks would lend him the money if he had the proper down payment.
Gainesville, Florida, Jeff, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Russ.
I hope this call finds you well.
Thank you, sir.
Very well.
Listen, this is a slide to my my why I called, but I just wanted you to know that I got an eight thousand dollar loan yesterday to replace the air conditioning in my home.
You got an eight thousand well, how would how much of a down payment do they require?
Zero down payment, six point nine percent interest.
How many years?
It'll be about four years.
Four years to pay for your new air conditioner.
Yes, sir.
Zero down payment.
Are you a minority?
Uh-huh.
Not yet.
All right.
But Russ, the reason I called.
Tell me.
I wanted to wanted to seek your your counsel.
Something that occurs to me that that that is happening with set with uh Governor Palin is the fact that everybody seems to be very concerned with the fact that she is only a heartbeat away from the presidency, and yet no one in the media seems to be concerned with the fact that Nancy Pelosi is only two heartbeats away from the from the presidency.
Will you explain that to me?
It's it yeah, it's good yeah, I'll try.
It's nice you bring that up, though, because I didn't get to the stories in the snack yesterday, but there were two, I think one in the Washington Post, one of Los Angeles Times, really ripping Pelosi to shreds.
Over the way she handled the vote on the floor of the House on Monday night.
She is, even though she got exactly what she wanted, I think, she wanted a bill to fail.
But she could have done that without doing what she did, making the partisan speech and all that.
She's dense.
She's a San Francisco liberal.
The reason the media, though, is not going to express concerns about Nancy Pelosi being two heartbeats away is because they would love to see her in the White House.
They would love to see some extremist ignoramus leftist radical like Nancy Pelosi in the White House.
See, fo you have to understand something, and this is a psychological trick, but to liberals, liberalism is not partisan.
This is why drive-by media people consider themselves to be objective.
They are not partisans.
Liberalism is not a partisan ideology.
Liberalism is natural.
Liberalism is what it is.
Liberalism just is everything.
It's not a choice.
It is not, it's just it's intelligence, it's enlightenment, it's common sense to them.
What is partisan is conservative.
And conservatism, that's what's partisan.
That's what I saw a defense.
What brought this home to me, I saw some erstwhile media critic, somebody who's I can't remember the name, but it's been for the most part pretty good over the years, analyzing when all this hubbub of the extreme leftism at MSNBC came up and Brokow went in there and got uh Olber Dork and Matthews pulled off of anchor duties during debates and election coverage.
This media critic said you you have to you have to look at these people in the different they're not partisan.
The leftists at MSNBC are not partisan.
They are objective in defending their world view.
Conservatism is what's partisan to them.
Now, I, on the other hand, consider myself a partisan.
I'm not so arrogant, because I know that conservatism is an applied intellectual pursuit.
Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make, as I say frequently.
Anyway, I let me take a quick time out here.
Sit tight, and uh we'll be right back and continue.
Don't go away.
Ha, how are you?
Well, uh Rush Limbaugh back on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
I'm sitting here, I'm angry, ladies and gentlemen.
I forgot something.
When I asked the question earlier, what has Barack Obama done?
And by the way, I didn't say what has he done for you.
I said, what has he done?
What has he accomplished?
I forgot that he taught us about the tire gauge and how the tire gauge can save us from having to drill for new oil.
I'm sorry, it slipped my mind.
Now I'm looking at the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Stick with me on this.
Because the first thing I have to point out is, you know, they said that the Dow went down 777 points when the House did not vote for the bailout on Monday, but that's not true because the market was already down around what, 380 or 350 before the vote failed.
All that happened was it went down another basically it's this.
It was 77 points down at the end of the day, but it started the day before the vote, 350 down.
So basically, the House vote no, took the Dow down an additional 422 points.
Now I'm looking at the Dow Jones writings down 264.
Just a moment ago it was down 308, so it looks like you're coming back.
But let's, just for the sake of the hypothetical here.
Let's let's Say it ends up down 400 today.
Don't know, but let's say it does.
Follow me on this.
On Monday, the House votes no.
And the Dow Jones plunges an additional 422 points.
Last night, the Senate voted yes.
And a Dow Jones goes down 400 points.
Now they say it's because of the bad employment numbers today.
BS.
They can't be surprised by these employment numbers.
What with all the economic reporting has been going on here?
People up there don't like this bill.
It's a pork barrel bill.
It's a global warming bill, bicycle extensions and tax.
It's a crazy.
Absolutely crazy.
All right, let's see.
Where are we going next?
We're going to uh Ryan in Toronto, Canada.
Ryan, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Oh, Megadetto's Rush.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Thank you.
But before I start, you could keep me out of the doghouse and make my wife's day.
Can I wish her a happy birthday?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
Go right ahead.
I'll read something while you're doing it there.
Sorry, Roger.
But my point is happy birthday, Danutia.
This uh, like you said yesterday, we're McCain's in a political war, okay?
Uh, and you would agree with me, I'm sure, that this honor campaign McCain's fighting is uh only gonna end in defeat.
My question to you, Rush, is why is airs off limits to uh McCain?
Why is right off limits?
This should have been the first thing to let the American That is honor to me, letting the American people know the truth about Obama, but why is it off limits?
Well, now wait, off limits to who?
McCain and the campaign or the media?
The whole well, we know the media is not going to bring it up.
I would love to see McCain bring it up at the debate.
I don't know how he could squeeze it in.
I don't know.
Make them eat an excrement sandwich.
Don't ask me to explain this.
Honestly, folks, I know a lot of things, but you're asking me to explain the McCain campaign.
If my if if I was if I was uh had to do a final exam, what do you call them?
Essay.
For my for my doctoral thesis, I would have to refuse the assignment.
I I I um I just you're asking me to explain this.
All I can tell you is that McCain wants to run a campaign that he thinks is honorable, and he he he just doesn't want to, he doesn't feel comfortable.
Well, he knows he asks people on his campaign speaking for him, not to even mention Obama's middle name, Hussein.
So I really know.
I have no clue.
Well, what do you mean I do?
I'm not gonna say that snerdily.
That's not my I don't really think that.
I'm not gonna snurly wants me to say something that I we were joking around yesterday, but I'm not gonna say can you mention what media matters will do with that?
Can you imagine what the drive-by's would do with that?
You the politico, the political is gonna lie and misrepresent what I said.
Can you imagine what they would do with that comment?
Anyway, Ryan, I appreciate the phone call out there.
I um I really do.
Folks, cold season's coming up, and I know I have told you constantly about Zycam and how it is amazing how it works.
Let me give you the brief explanation.
How I discovered I was getting on the airplane to go someplace, and I had the beginnings of a cold, runny nose and so forth, a little hacking cough, and unbeknownst to me, the flight attendant on the airplane had this stuff called Zycom, or Zycam, and it was it was cotton swabs like Q-tips that had uh a clear gel on the tip that was basically zinc-based.
It just used this a couple times, and then every four hours, and it stopped the cold.
I mean, it it severely limited the duration and the severity of it.
Zycam is not something that treats the symptoms.
It stopped, you've got to use it early, though.
The first time you think you've got a cold.
If I think, and I've become I'm super sensitive to colds, I hate them because they get in the way of work here, and I'm super sensitive to them.
And the first sign I think I'm getting one.
I I start swabbing with Zycam, and nine out of ten times it said the only time it doesn't is is when I've got the flu, or something That's far beyond a cold.
We're getting into the time of year, cold, wet, rainy, and so forth.
In and out of buildings, have some Zycam on hand, and whenever you think you realize the liberation this will give you to be able to stop a cold in its tracks.
Zycam does it.
Just telling you guys in the House are going to vote tomorrow night.
You voted no, the market went down 400.
The Senate voted yes, the market may end up down 400 today.
So don't let what the stock market's doing affect the way you vote on the Senate pork barrel bailout plan tomorrow night.
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