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Oct. 3, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 3, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Doggonnet, you know, I really wish that I had chosen the word Scranton for my drinking game last night.
Realize how many times Joe Biden talked about Scranton in between his 14 or 15 lies.
Greetings, my friends, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and it is live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
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So let's.
Here we are in America in 2008.
We have mostly free prescription drugs for the elderly.
We have nationalized a big chunk of local and public education.
We are probably and eventually going to grant 12 to 20 million illegal aliens full citizenship.
And now we're in the process of nationalizing the financial and housing markets in ways that we can't even know right now.
And all of this, we are told, will save America.
You just have to laugh out there.
I'll tell you something else you have to laugh out there about.
It is so, so clear about the debate last night, and you can I I'm not surprised at all to get up and listen to the drive-by media analyst or read the New York Times, or uh are most of those in the drive-by media.
Well, I tell you what, what whatever, whatever McCain's faults, and there are many of substance and political strategy.
The push is now underway to end this election right now to make this an historic land slide to increase the numbers in Congress, all predicted, by the way, predicted this to you and been predicting it for a while.
But frankly, this is even more aggressive and monolithic than I have ever seen the drive-by media behave, and they are motivated, they are inspired.
I cannot find a single mainstream newspaper that isn't preaching the same Obama talking points.
I cannot find a single honest reporter.
In the drive-by media.
We are up against a party in a press that is of one mind that sees an historic opportunity here to advance their far-left radical agenda.
And they're not going to allow honest reporting, honest voting, or anything else to get in their way in pushing Obama over the finish line.
They are leaving little to chance.
The outcome's not inevitable, but it is also clear that McCain has no idea what he's up against.
If you're a football fan, let me tell you who McCain is.
He's Al Davis.
Al Davis still think the Oakland Raiders compete for the Super Bowl every year.
He still thinks he's got a quarterback.
Jim Plunkett or Darrell Lamonican out there throwing the ball 80 yards down the field, thinks he's still got all of his great wide receivers out there.
The Oakland Raiders have been, frankly, a joke in the National Football League for I don't know how long, but Al Davis doesn't know it.
And he's running it.
So we're it just it's Senator McCain has has no idea what uh what he's what he's up against here.
Sarah Palin kicked Joe Biden's butt last night, period.
They had many of you, and I tried to warn you yesterday she was going to be okay, that she was going to be fine, and that you were going to be surprised if you had bought the Katie Courick version of Sarah Palin.
You had bought the version of her that the drive-by's were exactly trying to portray her to be.
For the left to deceive themselves and the voters by pretending that that debate last night went any way other than Sarah Palin absolutely mopping the floor with Joe Biden is nothing short a delusion.
Now, yeah, Biden may be filled with Washington speak, and he may you know what his best friend last night was?
The clock.
One thing I noticed was that Gwen Eiffel did not give this guy a chance to start rambling with diarrhea of the mouth.
She kept those time limits dead certain.
She also gave him the last word three times to every one time she got it.
Now, if you're impressed with Washington speak, no matter what it is, I mean Biden's never been in a Home Depot.
Unless he went in there to see if he could get a repair kit for his hand for his uh cufflinks.
Never been into a Home Depot.
Joe Biden doesn't know the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah, doesn't know where Gaza is.
And they talk about Sarah Palin not having her bona fides here on foreign policy.
Sarah Palin came off as more experienced and qualified, personable, and able to connect with people than Obama does.
And that's where she shined last night.
She was she would knock out gorgeous, she looked good last night, charming, pleasant, likable, witty, she was on point.
She did not appear contrived.
Chris Matthews said she looked like somebody in a spelling bee.
You know how they're given the word they have to spell and then repeat the word and then spell it?
He insults her by saying that she uh he thought he was uh watching a spelling bee.
Biden was not likable last night.
He wasn't witty.
He wasn't even on point, of course not charming.
And what was he done something to his eyebrows and I thought I was looking at a Klingon last night?
I hate to make these kinds of observations, but I couldn't help it.
There's something, either either that or his uh his makeup artist was a Chicom.
You know, I I couldn't feel I I watched it a bit.
I had to go to San Antonio last night, yesterday afternoon, right after the program, and I uh I flew back, got back on the airplane uh ten minutes before the debate started, and I watched the debate on the flight back home to Palm Beach, and I have a bunch of TV monitors on the plane, one's a 10-inch monitor where I sit and I'm sitting real close to it, and I I'm I saw there's something weird about the way Senator Biden looked last day.
It was different, not weird, something different.
That was a clingon.
And I thought, well, never I'm not gonna go anywhere.
I was gonna say Botox, but hell, that's old hat now to the Democrats.
Forehead didn't move much.
Um I thought the entire time Biden looked cornered.
And I thought he came off as smug, tried not to, but I thought he did.
I thought he lost the debate.
I thought he cried.
But see, here's the difference.
Here's the difference.
If you are in the drive-by media or you are part of the New York Washington Media Corridor, you look at somebody like Sarah Palin, and she may as well be from Mars.
You don't have the ability to connect with people that she connects with, and so you don't understand how that's done, and you don't like it when you see it, and you think it's too folksy and it's too pedantic and it's too simplistic, and it just you just don't understand it.
You don't understand the winks.
You don't understand the the gall darnits and the dog on it and the dad gummets, and you don't understand his hockey.
What's hockey?
Hockey mom, they understand soccer moms and know what a hockey mom is.
So there's this is a disconnect.
The reaction to this debate that you'll find today in the media versus the reaction among real people is just as partisan and striking as is the division in the country over the future of the country.
Now, I th I've I got a note.
I got an email note, I'm flying home, and a debate ended before I got back home.
And I got a note from a friend of mine in the drive-by media.
And the friend in the drive-by media's note said, Tomorrow's headline will be Sarah Did Fine, Biden gave the performance of his life.
I looked at that and I said, what in the world did my drive-by buddy see?
The performance of his life, she did fine.
The performance of his life.
The performance of his life.
When does anybody remember a previous performance to measure this to?
All those Democrat debates, and then lo and behold, I turn on CNN.
I'm standing around there.
I'm watching post-debate coverage, and lo and behold, what do I hear David Rodham Gurgen say?
Well, she did okay, but boy, this this was a performance of a lifetime for Joe Biden.
So the text message talking points have gone out here.
For Biden, the perfor and then people say, oh, yeah, he was subsided.
Substantive?
What does it matter when you're wrong?
What's the substance worth when you're wrong?
He doesn't even know what the Constitution says about the vice president's role as defined constitutionally.
I mean, he lectured, he made faces, he cried, he sighed, he fingerpointed, he he talked to Gwen Eiffel, not the camera a lot.
And he kept repeating his point.
Let me repeat.
Let me say that again, you idiots.
Let me say it again.
Actually, he was vamping for time there, trying to figure out what he wanted to say next.
But to pretend that this defeat of Biden last night didn't happen by citing uh such silliness as Flash CNN and CBS polls, proclaiming that white Biden won big, it's just not the same thing that real Americans saw last night.
It's a big thing.
We all watched it.
We saw it with our own eyes.
Now, some of you may have a varying disagreement with me on on how well she did or how poorly uh Biden did.
Frank Lunds had one of his uh uh focus groups on Fox uh somewhere in a secret room at Anheuser Bush in St. Louis after the debate last night, and he brought him in there and scientifically put together, and it I think it was near unanimous among those people in St. Louis that Sarah Palin won the debate.
Now only four of them said it was gonna change their vote.
Lunch said it's gonna move the polls.
He told uh he told Britt he's gonna move the poll.
I don't know if it's gonna move the polls.
I I don't know if it we'll have to wait and see.
Uh I all I know is that she did great, and I'll share with you one thought that I had.
Before we go to the first big uh obscene profit break here on the EIB network in Open Line Friday.
It was early on in the debate, and the subject of the financial crisis came up.
And Sarah Palin said, Well, we're gonna paraphrase, we're gonna get rid of this greed on Wall Street.
It's people who are managing our money, and I'm cringing, I'm oh no, no, no.
You know, if she weren't shackled to McCain, if she didn't have to mirror what McCain's campaign talking points are, do you realize how great this woman could have been?
Do you realize how great she can be when she's turned loose to uh to be herself?
I'm optimistic about that.
All right.
Uh brief time out here, folks.
We got audio sound bites from the debate, the uh the big bailouts proceeding here on the House floor, the debate.
The vote's supposed to start in 12.45 Eastern time, but 25, 26 minutes from now, we of course will be uh monitoring this, the Republicans think, oh yeah, yeah, that bill's much better now than what we had and voted down on Monday.
I guess so.
They've added 150 billion dollars of pork to it.
We'll be back, Steve.
Who's the biggest loser in last night's debate, ladies and gentlemen?
Who would you say, Brian?
Biggest loser in the debate last night.
Well, not the drive-by one drive-by member maybe Katie Courick.
Katie Couric did her best with her gotcha questions and her ghoulish follow-ups, and her even more vicious editing of the interview with Sarah Palin.
Biggest winner last night was everybody who thought that Sarah Palin was whatever Sarah Palin is because of the Katie Couric interview.
There were people who watched last night, I will guarantee you, who can see how the news creates an image or destroys an image with absolutely no truth to it, no reality to it.
And remember, the same folks that are tearing Sarah Palin down are the same ones building Barack Obama up, covering up for all the what are you laughing at in it?
I I realize I'm a funny guy, but I haven't sitting funny here in just a second.
Okay.
All right.
Now, before we go on to other things, while I have your attention, I want to, I want to I want to plug a movie, all right.
I'm just right out front, I'm gonna plug a movie.
It's called an American Carol.
And it opens tonight.
Uh David Zucker, the guy who did the airplane movies and naked gun movies with uh Leslie Nielsen uh is the impetus behind this, some great conservative actors, uh Kelsey Grammar is in this.
What it is is a it they just humorously destroy Michael Moore.
They just destroy they've got Chris Farley's brother who plays Michael Moore in this movie.
It's not a long movie.
I think either they brought it by the house about a month ago on screen, and it's we still have fifteen or so minutes to take out of it.
And I I've got the final cut uh right over there, and I I haven't yet seen that.
Haven't had a chance to watch it because I have been swamped.
But here's why this is important.
In addition to the movie being good and funny, and will create and cause raucous laughter, there's also a movie opening tonight by that reprobate Bill Maher, and I don't know religious or religious, I don't know how you pronounce it, but it is a movie that is designed to insult everybody who is a person of faith in this country.
It is a it is a comedy that is uh has as its target religion and the stupid people that uh believe in faith, have a faith.
And then a couple weeks, Oliver Stone's movie on George W. Bush is coming out called W. Now, I haven't seen it, but I've read the script, and it is just that these things are not accidental, they're being timed right before the election here, uh, just as I don't think this financial crisis uh is so much a coincidence right before the election.
And now I see the oil price is not going to run well, what was it, 92 bucks here?
Just a second.
Let me check this real quick here, folks.
$94.
$94, gasoline under three bucks a gallon in Boston.
I'm gonna tell you something.
Some of this stuff I, you know, just it's just a little bit too coincidental, but after the election's over, it's gonna be amazing how blue the sky has become.
I'm much bluer, how how much brighter the sun is.
There will be polls on the renewed confidence in the U.S. economy that will be produced by the drive-bys after Obama has won, if that's the case.
But here's the let me go back to the movie and American Carol.
It is up against the usual uh obstacles that uh conservative movies have, and that is uh without, you know, they're they're buying advertising time for it around, but it's got it's not getting a whole lot of support from the usual Hollywood sources that big movies do.
Uh and it's simply because it's conservative.
Now, what's happening here with this movie is that Mr. Zucker and Steve McVeady, who works with Mel Gibson and uh all the actors in this movie are putting their necks on the line.
By, you know, you've heard all the talk about conservatives kind of afraid to come out of the closet out there.
Conservatism is the new gay in Hollywood.
Uh and these guys, some of them are very powerful in their own right and they can come out, but what what happens if if this doesn't work, if this uh if if if this is uh movie is uh being if they if a critics are able to label it a flop at the box office, it will have a dispiriting effect on further attempts by conservatives to make movies that appeal to a political point of view of an audience that Hollywood does not make movies for.
I mean, when you see that this Bill Marr piece of trash is opening the same night, then W. Oliver Stone coming out, and you know what the the other the attempts that they have made to destroy the Iraq war effort, impune the U.S. military and all that.
It's just it's relentless.
They never stop coming at you.
And this is uh this is an effort here by some highly talented, very qualified people, and it's funny.
And it's a it just it's if if if you it's it's a kind of treatment that's true about some oaf like Michael Moore that you'll never see Hollywood make other than this.
So if you've got time this weekend, in addition to throwing down a couple bucks, if you can get credit at the bank to get some out of your ATM.
I know we're on the brink of collapse here, but if your ATM's still dispensing cash, go get some money and go see the movie.
And while you have a nice night and enjoy yourself, you'll also be supporting and have these guys are putting it on the line here.
And it's, I think, you know, we we sit around when's Hollywood gonna do so.
When's Hollywood?
Here's some people that are doing it.
It's called an American Carol.
And you'll you'll you'll laugh yourself silly through a lot of it.
And you'll also be you'll be making a statement.
And greetings, Rush Limbaugh back on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
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We will get to your phone calls and uh as soon as we can here.
Uh something to be aware of, ladies and gentlemen.
Before I um let's see, this is on actually this hit last night, uh, right before midnight.
It's a political story by Patrick O'Connor.
Barack Obama called Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings on Tuesday with a promise.
As president, he would revisit bankruptcy laws to give judges more leeway to prevent foreclosures.
Cummings, who voted against the financial markets bailout on Monday, told Obama he was open to changing his vote, but he wasn't there yet.
I have to look beyond the bailout to a rainbow called Obama, he said.
When you bring in the Obama factor, that's very, very important.
Now, Biden brought this up in the debate last night.
I want to ask you what you think of this.
Because the dirty, you know, I I mentioned this earlier in this week, and the dirty little secret is, folks.
Nobody wants to talk about what got us into this problem.
Loaning money to minorities and poor people who could not pay.
This was this was Marxist social engineering.
This was affirmative action via mortgage.
It was, I mean, it's it is a it's clear-cut.
It just people don't dare say it.
Except except for me.
So last night in the debate, Biden said, with regard to bankruptcy now, Gwen, what we should be doing, and Barack Obama and I support it, we should be allowing bankruptcy courts to be able to readjust.
Not just the interest rate you're paying on your mortgage, to be able to stay in your home, but to be able to adjust the principal that you owe.
That would keep people in their homes, actually help banks by keeping it from going under.
Uh by the way, Obama says he's out there.
We warned everybody about this two years ago.
When did that happen?
Obama's the guy that was a champion of handing out loans to people who shouldn't be getting them all of his career.
Do you realize how dangerous this is to turn judges?
And by the way, who are judges now?
You realize how many liberal judges there are in the bench.
Judges turning them, letting them adjust the rate on your mortgage, not your mortgage, by the way.
And not adjusting the principle on your mortgage.
No, we're we're talking about only a few mortgages here.
When he calls Elijah Cummings, who's part of Congressional Black Caucus at all, voted against the bailout.
When he calls Elijah Cummings, don't worry, Elijah.
Here we're gonna get we're gonna get judges here.
Uh the bankruptcy laws are gonna be risked.
The judges are gonna be telling the banks what the uh interest rate's gonna be and what the principal payments gonna be.
This is saving America.
Let's go to some of the audio sound bites on the bailout, just to give you three of them here just to set the stage here.
This is last night on special report with Britt Hume during the panel discussion.
Britt asked uh uh Fred Barnes a question.
Fred, you're you're you're not uh you're not sympathetic to the Senate and the House of Representatives, the noises come from conservatives in the House.
Give me your thoughts on the quality of their arguments.
I think their arguments are are idiotic and uh and myopic.
It's as if they're operating from Some ideology that says we cannot interfere with the free market by having government do more.
Ronald Reagan would do this.
Alexander Hamilton did it.
When you have a financial crisis that threatens to blow up the economy and put America in a deep recession or worse, that's when government's supposed to act.
Now, if you're a libertarian and you don't believe in government, that's something.
But most of those Republicans are not libertarians.
They're just nuts.
Okay, there you have.
So Fred Barnes, the conservative analyst on the Fox News All-Star panel with Brit Hume, you are nuts this morning on the House floor.
Now remember, everybody got mad at Nancy Pelosi for poisoning the well when she went to make a speech and started blaming Reagan policies and Bush policies for the subprime mortgage crisis.
And now Charlie Wrangell rips Republicans here today on the floor of the House this morning.
700 billion dollars we've asked to expose the taxpayers to an administration that all I've heard in the last eight years is that we have to keep government out of the free market system.
That government and regulations will strangle our economy.
And the fact is that in such a short period of time, had it not been for Barney Frank and people on the other side of the aisle and trying to do the best we can, we leave here with heavy conscience that if we do nothing, then the sacrifice will be felt by employees, their thrift accounts, the saving accounts, more businesses.
And so, in a sense, we have a political gun at our heads.
The last eight years, that's code word for Bush.
If not for the deep sacrifices, Barney Frank, it's gotten the point, folks, there's no common sense.
There is no reality here.
You all we have to do is just laugh at this.
Had it not been for Barney Frank and people on the other side of the aisle trying to do the best we can to what?
Destroy it.
Still say the people that engineered this need to be the ones investigated.
Maybe frog march somewhere.
Here's John Boehner.
This morning in Washington, D.C. on Capitol Hillary House Republicans held a press conference.
I think uh most Americans understand we're facing a serious economic crisis.
And I think over the past few days, it's been clear the House Republicans have stood on principle, and we've made this bill better.
It's a perfect no.
But it clearly is better than it was a week ago.
There you have it, and it's it's now been uh eight hundred and I said earlier eight hundred and fifty uh billion dollars.
We need to add seven billion more to this because Governor Schwarzenegger of California has said he needs a bailout now.
The state of California California needs seven billion dollars.
Now again, California has been run by who?
For how many years?
Liberals.
California has been run by liberals, it has been overrun by illegal immigrants and so forth, uh tapping into government services.
The people of California tried to stop that from happening.
Judges told him it was unconstitutional.
So he needs seven billion dollars because he says the normal channels he goes through to get money to finance the government operations and dried up.
I'm hearing this from a lot of places now.
I'm watching, I mean, everybody's in the tank on this now.
Uh, even even Fox Business News, the Fox News channel, wherever CNBC they're all in the tank, nobody can get a loan now.
Nobody can get any money, nobody can do diddly squat.
Uh I just uh it's not my experience.
I mean, I actually saw somebody today say on television, people cannot buy cars, that car dealerships, people that are at car dealerships are calling CNBC and Foxing, we can't sell cars because we don't have any financing.
Are the dealerships still open?
Have you seen what have you gone in there and seen them closed and shut down in during normal business hours?
You go in there to test drive a car, will it let you test drive a car?
Thought so.
Prices, price, prices are pretty good too.
And I General Motors is a sponsor here.
They have not they have not suspended their advertising until the credit is flowing again.
Now, folks, don't misunderstand me.
I realize that some Places there probably are tight squeezes, and that uh there's there's something clearly going on in the banking business.
I think, frankly, as I watch this, I have been I've been sitting as a bystander to share this with you for the longest time.
When I got to New York in 1988 and started familiarizing myself with the place there, I have been wondering about how many people, I mean, how many people personally and in business have been living on money that they have nowhere near earned, that it is borrowed, leveraged, or what have you.
I think there's a whole lot of consumer credit out there too that's about to explode, or could it's uh it's it's a it's apparent that uh there's there's the value of things uh may wa be wildly overstated, and there's a correction going on here because there's have to have been a lot of people and businesses playing with money they didn't have, figuring it was going to be there at some point down the road.
We know that's what happened.
And it's just uh it's it's it's coming home to roost in some places, but in other places and other parts of the country, you can go out there.
By the way, I just got a note.
I want to set something straight.
I just got to know you sound really down to do I sound down in there to you guys today.
I'm a little hoarse because look it.
I was up late last night.
I got back from San Antonio after I went up there to do a fundraiser for a friend.
It was an in and out thing, flew back, had to work when I got back home, just got a little slid consuming some adult beverage here after the debate, uh, doing some of the analysis, watching this stuff.
So, you know, up a little late last.
If my voice may sound a little tired, I assure you I am not.
I am a highly trained broadcast specialist.
Down in the dumps.
What in the world do I have to be down at Well, could answer that.
It's nothing personal, though.
There's not one thing in my personal life I'm down on the dumps about.
But just it's like I'll tell you a little story.
Tell you a story.
We were a bunch of my friends and I this morning uh going back and forth with email chats, and one of them is just in a real foul mood, just is about to blow up.
And made the observation and how surprised we've all been by President Bush in the second term.
First term was really great, and the second term, well, look at what's happened here.
We've got the immigration bill and the and the and the Medicare Part B bill and just growth of government, and we're eventually we tried to get 20 million illegals uh get granted citizenship and so forth.
And he said, you know, just it was just it was just two, but we didn't look how surprised we are.
He said the thing is that McCain wins, at least we won't be surprised we're getting screwed.
I said, Well, that's really comforting.
He said, Well, it is.
I mean, that's that's what we face here.
Better to get screwed knowing you're gonna get screwed than to be surprised when you're getting screwed.
Folks, you realize that you realize that Barack Obama, this is this is funny.
I guess I guess I'm in a little giddy mood here today, things that ought to enrage me or making me laugh today.
Obama's taking credit for things he had nothing to do with.
Hey, it was me.
I uh two years ago I warned about this crisis.
Four years ago I warned about that crisis.
He wasn't around to do anything about them.
Told his wife about it, maybe, but he wasn't around to do anything about the subprime mortgage crisis.
He wasn't around the biggest one.
I vote against the Iraq war 2002, whatever.
He voted against it before it started.
He wasn't in the Senate.
He couldn't have voted against it.
He was calling all these people and advising him, advising them what to uh what to do.
I I warned him about this, I said we should do that.
And of course, if something happens, like lower employment rates or what have you, so I had nothing to do with that.
Bush did it, McCain did it, Wall Street did it.
I've been warning about it for all these years.
Now I want to go back to this Fred Barnes soundbite.
I don't know how many of you heard it live on TV last night.
Uh played it here mere moments ago, checked the email.
Outrage from people over this.
So here it is again, Britt Hume asking Fred Barnes for his thoughts on the quality of Republican arguments against the bailout bill.
I think their arguments are are idiotic and uh and myopic.
It's as if they're operating from some ideology that says we cannot interfere with the free market by having government do more.
Ronald Reagan would do this.
Alexander Hamilton did it.
When you have a financial crisis that threatens to blow up the economy And put America in a deep recession or worse, that's when government's supposed to act.
Now, if you're a libertarian and you don't believe in government, that's something.
But most of those Republicans are not libertarians.
They're just nuts.
Most Republicans are just nuts.
And then right after that, we played the sound by the Charles Wrangle saying if it weren't for Barney Frank, why we'd have been in a bigger mess than we're in right now.
Barney Frank and all the I I need to ask Fred Barnes and Charlie Wrangle some questions.
Were Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack free market enterprises?
No, they were government sponsored enterprises.
Don't tell me that a government owned business is in the private sector.
It's an oxymoron, it can't happen.
So tell me Barnes and Wrangell is the community reinvestment act part of free enterprise.
Tell me, Barnes and Wrangell.
Is the massive debt incurred by the federal government, which has resulted in all this foreign money coming into this country, which is what we're really propping up?
Is it a problem for the free market?
Did the free market really do all of this?
Or did your precious government do it?
Do you, Barnes and Wrangell, even understand the free market?
Do you understand that the problem we face has been caused by politicians and people who love government using the power of government to distort the free market?
Do you understand, Barnes?
That a bunch of people who should never have been given loans got them, and now they're being allowed to stay in their houses, and they're going to be rewritten bankruptcy laws are going to be rewritten so that a judge will tell a lending institution what the interest rate's gonna be and what the principal payment's gonna be in bankruptcy cases.
You guys, Barnes and Wrangell, you understand the difference between policy and regulations and bad policies and bad regulations.
Hey, Barnes, Wrangle, who is it that sets interest rates in this country?
Who is it that determines the money supply?
It's the government.
That's an independent agency, right?
It's the government.
You guys, Wrangle and Barnes, you do this country a grave disservice, particularly if you are presented as a conservative.
When you suggest that the problem here is with the free market and a lack of regulations.
This is just a laziness of thought.
But a question for my old friend Fred Barnes.
Now that the bill's gonna pass and it's gonna pass, folks, it's going to pass.
How do you intend to limit the power of the federal government now?
They're gonna normally own the mortgage business, they're gonna own this, they're gonna own that, they own the education system, they're gonna bail out colour.
How are we gonna limit the power of the federal government?
What as a conservative, Fred, what is your proposal to limit the power of the federal government after all of this?
Oh, I know what you're gonna do.
You're gonna come out in support of the government getting involved in man-made global warming and nationalizing what's left of the economy, all for the middle class.
Have you noticed how frequently Biden talked about middle class last night and Obama doing the same thing?
This is another way around class envy or another route to uh to class envy.
So the theory, and I guess Fred Barnes signs on to this now.
You grow government, you have government takeover, everything it isn't running right, because government screwed it up in the first place.
So you have the people that broke it.
I'm still I'm just bedazzled by this, flabbergasted, dumbstruck, not speechless.
The people that broke it, the people that are interceding in the free market working, for the sake of the middle class who they are harming, have to now go in and fix it.
And now here comes Arnold on old Schwarzenegger, he wants his seven billion.
And if he gets it, what's to stop some other state?
What's to stop Kwame Kilpatrick from saying, hey, you know, Detroit needs 10 million.
Once you start the precedent, where does it stop?
And then when it's presented as a savior as something that's saving and work, why doesn't everybody this give me some?
And we're gonna all do it for the middle class.
Maybe in a year or two, I'll be able to come behind this microphone when Obama is present and Say, I warned you people two years ago, and I'll be telling you the truth.
This is just fabulous.
You know, the McCain campaign pulled out of Michigan yesterday.
Sarah Palin heard about it.
She sent the campaign announces.
Send me, Todd and I'll go up there and save the state.
We'll go.
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