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Nov. 17, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 17, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Wow, this is amazing, folks.
It's amazing.
Deficit spending is now cool.
Deficit spending's okay.
It's in Obama says it Reagan-esque even.
Deficit spending's okay.
We've got another Obama poll.
Well over a majority of Americans think that Obama will appoint the right people to the cabinet.
Yes, we do.
We've I got a global warming stack.
That's back.
All of a sudden, global warming is front and center, but perhaps not the way.
The global warming advocates wanted it.
We find out that James Hanson, who runs the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, had been making it up.
Said October was the hottest October on record, and it wasn't.
It's the coldest, maybe.
They just made it up.
It's uh it's gonna be a great day, folks.
Happy to be back with you, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
We are here at 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address is L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
And of course, we're going to be talking about the uh the automobile bailout, uh, the big three auto bailout.
And really, it's come down to what I uh I mentioned, and we all know this instinctively, uh what I mentioned last week.
This is a bailout of the United Auto Workers Pension Retirement and Health Care Fund.
That's what this is.
And the way to explain this to people to make them understand it is those of you out there who are having problems getting the health care coverage you want, or it's being cut where you work, or whatever.
What's being asked of us is that we bail out the United Auto workers essentially.
It's being called the Auto Makers Bailout, but it's it's actually to pay full health care, full pension, full retirement for United Auto workers that are no longer working and are no longer productive.
So while you may be having trouble getting the health care you need for your family, you are being asked to fully fund health care for United Auto Workers and pensions and retirements.
All that coming up on the program today.
I have to tell you a little story.
I had a great weekend.
A bunch of my golf buddies were in town for the weekend, and we had on Saturday night some other people show up uh for dinner uh at uh at Casa, El Rushbo.
And Vince Flynn and his wife showed up on Saturday.
They had a book signing, a couple book signings up in Jacksonville, and I invited him to come down, and he drove down and he uh he I guess we got back from playing golf Saturday afternoon around four, and Vince had warned me that he would be arriving between four and five.
So Vince and his wife walk in at 4:45.
I'm in the library, I'm chilling out.
We this is the third day in a row of golf, and I'm I'm kind of worn out.
And he walks in, this is a big as chatterbox.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
So what Obama's gonna do, what Obama is gonna do.
Just he's policy this, policy that it was funny.
No, I'm not complaining.
It was great.
Vince walked in and he just launched.
I mean, it was it was uh like he and I were doing this radio show.
One of the things he said to me was I want you to keep eye on this Guantanamo business.
He's not gonna close it down.
He's not gonna close down Guantanamo, and I said, Vince, I don't know.
I disagree with you.
I th I think this guy's gonna close it down.
I think he's gonna bring those prisoners back to the U.S. I think he wants them thrown into our into our trial system with full U.S. constitutional rights.
He's gotta throw that to his uh leftist buddies, but he is a leftist, uh radical leftist, and I really do think that this is something he intends to do.
And I cited for Vince uh stuff that he had not heard because he was busy book signing the last couple three days.
About sixty-four percent of the American people approve now of Obama's performance as president-elect.
Sixty-four and he hadn't heard that.
And then I said, Do you also know Vince that uh that uh well I forget what the number is, it's a but it's well over a majority again of the American people, uh, say that uh they're willing to wait on their middle class tax cut because they know what challenging times uh the Messiah faces.
And he just started laughing and guffling.
So I said, I said, Vince, this this Guantanamo business, I I um I hope you're right.
Because I've got a thriving merchandise business down there as well.
The club get more caps and the t-shirts and so forth.
So we're talking about this and a bunch of other things Saturday afternoon for about uh half hour, 45 minutes before I had to uh excuse myself and go up and get cleaned up after having playing golf, get ready for all these guests that were showing up for Allen Brothers fillets.
And by the way, we I for the first time, I've I've had it myself, but I served a 14-pound Allen Brothers prime rib.
And folks, it was melt in your mouth.
It was the best.
It was must have carved these things over an inch thick.
Nobody could eat more than half of what was on the plate.
It was just delicious.
Anyway.
So we do the party.
We have some conversations Saturday night, but I've stayed away from politics because there were a couple guests there that that's their life, and I just wanted to give them a break from it.
So we didn't do any politics at dinner.
After dinner, Vince starts in again on uh on policy stuff and and uh what what Obama will do with the CIA, and he's got confidence here that once Obama gets into office, he's gonna realize he's got to protect the country.
He's got to rely on the CIA.
And I said, Vince, I know you're the expert on the CIA.
You write all these books about the CIA, but for crying out loud, Vince, you know damn well that it was a CIA and state and the Defense Department, the Pentagon, that were leaking every battle plan in Iraq to try to destroy the Bush policies.
He says, That's right.
This is you got a lot of Obama friends over there.
I said, Yeah, but these people do not look at the uh U.S. with a strong military as something that they enjoy.
This is not something they want.
So we kept talking about Guantanamo.
Some other people showed up, and I said, Hey, to all these guests, guess what Vince told me?
Guess what Vince thinks?
Vince Flynn thinks that Obama's gonna keep Guantanamo Bay open.
So I went to bed Saturday night feeling, yeah, okay, I got it.
I'm I'm I'm setting these guys straight.
So I get up Sunday morning, we're what time?
We uh we left at 10:30 to play golf, so I had a little time to do show prep.
And I went to the New York Times, and I found a story.
And I said, Oh my gosh, Vince is right.
Maybe.
Here's the story, and it's a news analysis by William Gulliberson.
They headline Post Analysis or Post Guantanamo, a new detention law as president, and remember now, oh, I forgot to mention this part and parcel this story.
There was also a story of the Washington Post and New York Times on um was either Tuesday or Wednesday of last week about the Bush warrantless wiretap spying programs and all these executive orders that had uh permitted this prior to getting deals done with the Congress on that,
and the story is how Obama was going to go in there and rip to shreds all these executive orders, and again the story was that Obama was he's gonna get rid of all these spying uh executive orders because that's just that that the world hates us because we've done this.
And that story happened to mention all of a sudden now that these warrantless wiretap executive orders, well, they're they're just fine because they give the Messiah the flexibility he will need to uh to uh uh protect the country.
So, in that mode, the New York Times story, as a presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama sketched the broad outlines of a plan to close the detention center at Club Gitmo.
Try detainees in American courts, reject the Bush administration's military commission system.
That's what he said as a candidate.
Now, as Mr. Obama moves closer to assuming responsibility for Guantanamo, his pledge to close the center is bringing to the fore thorny questions under consideration by his advisers.
They include where these detainees could be held in this country, how many might be sent home.
The fact is their countries don't want them.
And these are this is this is 250 wandering shreds of human debris down there.
These are really, really bad guys.
They're not angels that we have just maliciously taken off the streets.
How many might be sent home?
And uh, a Matter that people with ties to the Obama transition team say is worrying them most.
What if some detainees are acquitted?
Or can't be prosecuted at all?
Do you see?
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, we had the story last Wednesday that uh people, sociologists and professionals in other fields, speculated now that with Obama's election that white people would feel far more comfortable having a black boss.
And Snerdley last week said, Well, where do you go get a black boss?
And I said, Well, we'll make you boss.
So Snerdley is the boss today.
And so far, folks, I'm having no problems whatsoever working with a black boss.
Uh, best bosses have always left me alone.
That's the that's the honest to God truth.
My best bosses, it was the bosses that rode me and constrained me that delayed my stardom and delayed the magnificent career here.
Snurdly, so far, I've came in and uh even cleaned uh coffee cup up.
My boss came in and changed a coffee cup.
My boss came in, took away the coffee pot and gave me a bottle of water.
So snurdily is a black boss working out well today.
So far, I've got I have no complaints about it whatsoever.
Anyway, what if some detainees are acquitted or cannot be prosecuted at all?
That concern is at the center of a debate among national security, human rights, and legal experts that has intensified since the election.
Isn't it amazing?
Club Gitmo was a symbol of the worst of America, but now that these guys are going to be in charge of it, well, we have to change the way it's looked at.
And uh, we've got serious considerations here if we shut this down.
Now, here is uh civil liberties lawyer David Cole, Georgetown law professor, a critic of the Bush administration on this, in the New York Times Sunday story, said, well, you can't be a purist and say that there's never any circumstance in which a democratic society can preventatively detain somebody.
Really?
You can't be a purist and say that there's never a circumstance in which a country like ours can preventatively detain somebody.
We've been hearing for the last five years that there's no circumstance in which we could do this legally.
Now all of a sudden, Obama's people, oh, what's going on down there is fine.
We may, excuse me, we may have to keep it open.
We may have to keep because we don't really think it'd be safe to bring these people into the country.
And we don't know what would happen if they got acquitted.
They would all be acquitted because in a U.S. courtroom with rules of evidence and so forth, I can guarantee you that not one of these guys was read his rights by a U.S. soldier for one thing.
And I bet they didn't collect a whole lot of evidence that a courtroom requires when they're out on the battlefield when they captured these guys.
So Barry may flip-flop on Gitmo.
He may flip-flop.
So Vince Flynn turned out, we don't know yet, but Vince is, I don't believe they're going to shut it down.
They can't.
These Russ, these are serious guys down there.
The war on terror is a serious thing.
And I I did remember uh predicting that, you know, once these guys got into power, they're not going to lose this war.
They're not going to have the war on terror lost when they're in the White House, and they're not going to have us losing a rock when they're in the White House and not going to saddle themselves with defeat.
Uh and closing Gitmo would lead to that.
Human rights groups have been mounting arguments to counter pressure they say is building on Obama to show toughness, perhaps by echoing the Bush administration's insistence that some detainees may need to be held indefinitely.
The Obama camp is pointing that out to its supporters now, and these human rights groups are trying to pressure Obama supporters and administration people.
Hey, be tough.
Be tough and follow through on your promise here.
Close the place down.
I'm afraid people uh getting released in the name of human rights and doing terrible things would not be wise for the Obama administration said Benjamin Whites, a fellow at the Brookings Institution.
He said debates over Guantanamo had created a mythology that American law permitted detention only upon conviction of a crime.
Locking up mentally ill people who are deemed dangerous, he noted is an accepted American legal practice.
All of a sudden, all of a sudden, everything George W. Bush did in fighting a war on terror is something Obama now thinks he may have to continue.
And his supporters, the same people who sliced and diced George W. Bush as somebody who ripped the Constitution to shreds, who uh spied on people, who trampled on constitutional rights and privacy rights, are now suggesting Obama may have to rethink this and do the same thing.
Now, the New York Times may not be happy about this because the last paragraph you could interpret this perhaps as a warning to the vice president select.
In the end, the Obama administration may conclude that it is simply not feasible to seek a new preventive detention measure.
Doing so could portray the new administration as following in the footsteps of Bush.
Surely an unlikely goal is Mr. Obama sorts through his options.
So they go through this whole story, promoting his advisors, hey, what you need to do is keep the place open, but write a new detention law that gives you the authority, making it coming under your imprimatter.
So that it doesn't have ties to Bush, but the effect of the new law would be the same as current law.
New York Times dutifully reports that, but then they warn him in the end.
You better not do this.
If you do this, you're going to come off as no different than George W. Bush.
But just keep in mind, folks, as I said last week, Obama's too big to fail.
The drive-by media has too much invested in him.
He is too big to fail.
They will continue to prop him up.
So I have to publicly apologize.
And I showed the story to Vince on Sunday morning.
Vince, you may be right, and he just he smiled, he was very gracious about it and so forth.
But it was a great weekend.
But this is just a sample of what's coming, folks.
Everything that you have heard that made this country the most hated in the world is probably going to be continued in the area of foreign policy and defense in some fashion.
Because President select Obama will need the flexibility to protect the country and yada yada yada.
By the way, in New York, New York City, this is getting now ridiculous here.
If if uh you know, if the trans fat ban wasn't bad enough, now the mayor wants to do away with salt.
The city has come up with a plan to help you shake your salt habit.
This in New York magazine, closed door gathering, Gracie Mansion late last month.
Health experts and food industry representatives were told about Mayor Bloomberg's next crusade and effort to reduce the salt in processed food by 20% over the next five years.
Restaurants will be encouraged to join a voluntary quote-unquote initiative.
There will not be any new regulations.
That's just the start.
Then they're going to come for salt reduction in your house.
Then they're going to have less salt made available in grocery stores for you to.
But New York City, Mayor Bloomberg, third-term Mikey.
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Also, in this New York Times piece on post-Guantanamo, a new detention law, uh, in which it is suggested here that obviously there's pressure being brought to bear on Obama to shut this place down.
There's also pressure being brought to bear on him to keep it open with a new law that would be his signature law that he could then say, well, I've fixed Getmo.
It's not the way it was under George W. Bush, but unfortunately we need to keep it open and so forth and so on.
Uh there even quote in this story, my old buddy Andrew McCarthy, who is uh party editorial board at National Review Online, former federal terrorism prosecutor, he put the blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman behind bars, now director for the Center for Law and Counterterrorism, and they quote Andy in the New York Times piece yesterday.
Yeah, we have lots of information that's reliable that tells us someone's a threat, and that can't be proved in court, blah, blah, blah.
Now, three weeks ago, if Andy McCarthy had been quoted in the New York Times, it would have been as a rabid Neanderthal conservative, insane lunatic, an Obama hater and so forth, but now he's got the respectability of a noted think tankist and intellectual in the New York Times.
Kind of reminds me of the judicial watch bunch.
It hounded Clinton all through the 90s, and they turned around and they did something that Peter Jennings approved of the ABC World News tonight treated the judicial watch that they despised all during the 90s with newfound respect.
However, there's a contradiction here.
The New York Times story runs yesterday, last night on 60 minutes.
And we didn't watch this.
We were as our last night all of us together, so we were reveling watching football and some twenty-four.
Steve Croft said to Obama a number of different things you could do early.
One of them is shut down club Gitmo.
You're going to take any action on those things.
Yes.
I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that.
I've said repeatedly that America doesn't torture.
And I'm going to make sure that we don't torture.
Those are those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.
Oh, Lordy, what are we to do now?
Obama very plainly, yes, I'm going to shut it down.
It's nothing more than a torture place.
New York Times has his staff and advisors looking for ways to keep it open.
Talent on loan from God.
So Vince, Vince Flynn driving down to Fort Lauderdale to catch his flight back to Minneapolis.
Vince, I may yet be right about this.
Who do we rely on in this dispute?
Obama says he's going to shut it down.
There are going to be no torture.
New York Times says his advisors are looking at ways of keeping it open.
We'll see.
I think Obama's going to be able to get away with anything if next year he decides, and this is always going to be the out.
Blame Bush.
He just blame Bush.
He'll get in there.
He said, you know what?
I found out things about Gitmo that Bush didn't tell us.
There are things I was shocked to learn about the war on terror.
We may not be able to get out of Iraq as soon as I had hoped.
We may not be able to mount a surge in Afghanistan as soon as I had hoped.
We may not be able to close Guantanamo as soon as I would have hoped.
Because Bush didn't tell us everything that was going.
It's always going to be an out.
It will work because the press will always support Obama in having to overcome the mess left to him by George W. Bush.
Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks, big, huge Obama supporter.
Securities and Exchange Commission has filed insider trading charges against Mark Cuban for allegedly dumping shares in Mama.com upon learning it was raising money in a private offering.
Okay, so Mark Cuban, that's just one story charged with insider trading by the N SEC.
They allege in a civil action that Cuban sold his entire 6% ownership stake in Mama.com on June 28, 2004, is a four-year-old story.
However, Mark Cuban posted a column on November 13th, four days ago, at the Huffington Post.
And it's entitled The President elect Obama's First Big Mistake.
Now, again, Cuban is a huge, huge supporter.
Now you want to know how stupid liberals are.
I have the most expensive commodity in this country is ignorance.
And here's Cuban.
And how many of these Cuban types, Hollywood leftists and so forth, knowing full well the full-fledged radical extremism on the left of Obama, voted for the guy anyway, thinking he's not gonna really do all that.
He's gonna govern from the center.
He's gonna be okay.
Mark Cuban.
It's great to see President elect Obama aggressively taking on the economy prior to taking office.
Unfortunately, the economic advisory team that he's put together looks more like a semester's worth of great guest speakers for an MBA class than an economic advisory team that can truly help him.
There are a lot of great minds on the list, and then he goes through and reads the names.
By the way, there are no black people on the list.
There are a couple of babes in there, but no black people.
He's standing in front of, well, you saw it last week.
The height range from four feet, Robert B. Rice, shh, to six, eight or six six Paul Volker.
And then Mark Cuban says, You notice anything missing.
There wasn't a single entrepreneur in Obama's team.
Yeah, Warren Buffett started a business, but uh he'll be the first to tell you he doesn't do startups.
Which means, according to Mark Cuban, there isn't a single person advising Obama that we know of that knows what it's like to start and run a business in this or any other economic climate.
That is a huge problem.
Mr. Cuban, this surprises you.
You have to be an idiot if if this surprises entrepreneurism equals liberty equals freedom.
Entrepreneurism equals individuality.
Obama has said we are not a collection of individuals.
We are a commune.
The entrepreneurial activity that's going to exist in this country is going to start from Washington, even though Obama says he wants to grow the economy bottom up.
The only way you grow the economy bottom up is with entrepreneurs who are exercising individuality, ambition, and freedom to invest in their passions, make a product or build a service that people want.
Cuban then says if we're going to solve our current economic problems, our president needs to get firsthand information on the impact of his proposed policies on people like Joe the Plumber.
People who are one person companies living job to job hoping they get paid on time.
We need to know what the impact of his policies will be on the individually owned Chrysler dealership in Iowa, the bodega in Manhattan, the mobile phone software startup Carnegie Mellon, the event planner in Dallas, the barbershop in LA, the restaurant in Boston.
Mr. Cuban, how can you be so ignorant?
He made six billion dollars or something in the internet.
He owns the Dallas Mavericks, he wants to buy some other sports franchise, voted for Obama, huge Obama supporter, and he's just now realizing that Obama doesn't have any respect or interest in entrepreneurs.
And in fact, we have now learned even more about the Joe the Plumber case.
Do you know what, Brian?
We have learned that the state of Ohio lied through its teeth when they said, Oh yeah, we always investigate people who show up in the public eye, and we oh we've always had a nope, they can't find a single instance of it happening before Joe the Plumber.
Obama and his Democrat pals tried to destroy an average American citizen who couldn't do one thing to anybody except help them.
He couldn't raise their taxes, he couldn't send their kids off to war, he couldn't deficit spend.
They had to investigate this poor guy.
Listen to this is just this is just stunning to me.
Mark Cuban continued, entrepreneurs that start and run small business will be the propellant in this economy.
How in the hell can he say that and have voted for Obama?
Entrepreneurs aren't going to exist, or well, they're going to exist, but they're going to have to just climb over so many walls and obstacles.
You, you uh people planning on being entrepreneurs, you better sign up for the military for six weeks of basic training to figure out what you're going to have to go through to get your business started up.
President elect Obama needs to have the counsel of those who will take the real risk inherent in creating companies and jobs.
Those who put their money and lives on the line with their business.
Mark Obama doesn't give two wits for these people.
He never has given two wits for these are the enemy.
People like this are on Obama's enemies.
Mark, these are the people whose taxes are going to be raised.
Now I'm making a big deal out of this because this is a Cuban obviously is a is an entrepreneur, and he's but he's Also a celeb, and he's a little can be a little fruit cakey now and then, but he clearly is an individual.
And he marches to the beat of his own drummer.
And yet, for totally blind emotional reasons, he has voted for a guy who stands for the opposite of what Mark Cuban had to do to become who he is.
So he sees his economic team up there, and he's stunned that there's nobody that understands entrepreneurial behavior activity and how it starts.
Liberals are idiots.
They're just full-fledged.
They do not think they react, they feel they feel they do all this emoting, but they have no boss even agrees with it, sturdily smiling at me.
Normally, Snurdley's in here frowning and uh looking perplexed, but the sturdily's even smiling.
My boss is even looking at me with great countenance today.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, as I make these brilliant points, then listen to this at the end of this.
President elect Obama, I am always available to help.
I am Mark Cuban.
But my recommendation would be to randomly go through the new incorporation filings and ask for volunteers to give feedback.
Ask the people who are actually starting new businesses what they need.
Entrepreneurs will lead us out of this mess.
Talk to them.
Can you believe this?
Mark, he did talk to one during the campaign.
His name was Joe, his middle name was the last name was Plumber.
He talked to an entrepreneur named Joe the Plumber.
And he told Joe exactly what he thinks of small business.
You're worth being investigated.
I'm going to tax you and spread the wealth around.
Buyer's remorse already from Mark Cuban.
This posted on the Huffington Post.
I'm surprised the editor's there let it go.
Audio sound by time.
There are going to be a lot more of these guys.
Wade La Hollywood figures out what's in store for them and a number of other people.
Audio sound by time, even though I was not here Thursday or Friday, I was the subject of discussion for much of the cable news program Thursday night, Friday night, and into Sunday.
This is Sunday's Chris Matthews show on NBC.
Matthews and Michael Duffy have this exchange about Mois.
People like Rush Limbaugh are already out there blaming this recession on Obama.
He's calling it the Obama recession on the argument that the market has anticipated higher taxes and bad policy.
That's why it's crashing.
That's how some people in the Republican Party are trying to resurrect the Republican Party.
They have actually kind of handed the throwing the keys at the Obama team.
Uh well really doesn't understand the theory behind what I'm saying here, does he?
Matthews, beside himself that I've labeled this the Obama recession.
Um he understands the theory behind it, which is true, uh, and that is the market.
What is the market?
The market's down again today.
It's uh at least it was the last time I looked.
Uh the Pittsburgh Steelers.
I read story yesterday in the Pittsburgh papers.
It looks like Dan Rooney and his son Art II have finally found a way to put together some financing to buy out percentages of his four brothers that would give Dan Rooney the uh uh uh majority ownership, which the NFL requires that the primary owner be 30%, and each of the Rooney brothers has 16, or five of them.
And then there's a uh a family that was friend of the founders, they got 20%.
And Dan Rooney needs to get 14 more percent, and he's been trying to buy it, and they've had troubles and troubles, and now, now, now now and Dan Rooney was a big Obama supporter, uh, but he's the he's the he's the uh he's the buyer, so capital gains don't affect him.
The four brothers want to get this done before the end of the year to avoid Obama capital gains taxes.
Now, if people like the Rooneys, and there are a lot of other people doing this, want to take as much cash in calendar year 2008 as they can if they want to close transactions in calendar year 2008 for the express purpose of beating brand new capital gains taxes, and now I'm hearing not 20% but 25%.
We're currently at 15.
So if you go from 15 uh to 25%, you know damn well people in the market are thinking this way.
So how can you not attribute the market plunge, the market fall?
In fact, even the 4,000 point plunge, you can the markets work six to nine months ahead.
And believe me, I know these people on Wall Street that run these firms, yeah, a bunch of Lib Democrats, no question about that.
Uh we've figured this out, but but the the the the average investor in these people who to whom the money really counts, they're trying to get as much thrown into this calendar year as possible.
Uh people are selling off, taking their gains, which is what led to the plunge.
There's no question it's the Obama recession.
There's no qu we didn't have any of this going on during the heart of Bush economic.
And isn't it believed China's now?
We've got a story from China today about their demand, the Chinese nation's demand for oil has plummeted.
Their demand for gasoline is plummeted.
Why?
Uh because the uh situation uh in the U.S. economy has has led to a slowdown all over the world.
Can you believe?
You want to talk us being a superpower no longer?
You want to talk about people who think we need to be cut down to size?
Can you believe that the United States sub-prime mortgage debacle has led to this global mess?
So it's not only correct to say that this is the Obama recession, it'd be even more accurate to say that the worldwide recession has been brought on by the Democrat Party in the United States of America.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, let me uh once again apologize for the state of my voice.
It's my fault.
It's my fault.
I know the voice sounds weak and uh and a little scratchy, uh, a little stuffed up.
I don't have a cold, it was just too much revelry.
It was just too much revelry and not enough sleep.
Even last night, I figured last night, since this is getaway day for everybody, they had to fly back home today that uh we'd have sort of packed it in early last night, but once they discovered all the 24 DVDs, and plus the football game was on last night.
Plus, it was the last night, so it went a little later than I uh expected.
And that's why.
So I beg your indulgence here today.
It's highly, highly unprofessional of me not to take care of something such as important as my voice.
I should have shut it down on Saturday night and made a normal night of it last night, but I didn't.
Uh so it'll it'll get stronger as the uh program unfolds, I predict.
Now the auto bailout.
This is fascinating, folks.
Just cleared the Bloomberg wire.
Senators from Southern states, with factories owned by Asian and European car makers, oppose a bailout of U.S. automakers.
They say that the auto industry can thrive without General Motors, without Ford, and without Chrysler.
Republican senators, Richard Shelby, and Jeff Sessions of Alabama, James Dement of South Carolina, and by the way, I have this story in the stack.
Dement took it to McCain.
He called out.
It would have been nice if somebody would have done this much earlier, but Jim Dement explained to one and all who wanted to listen why we lost.
Everything McCain did wrong.
He just goes down the list.
It's coming up later in the program, I'll share it with you.
So you got you got Shelby and Sessions from Alabama, you got Dement of South Carolina.
They are among lawmakers trying to derail Democrat plans supported by Obama to provide $25 billion in loans to the three U.S. companies.
Jeff Sessions told Bloomberg, we got a very large and vibrant automobile sector in Alabama.
I don't feel like this is the end of the world.
Who knew?
There's a vibrant auto industry in this country.
It's just not in Michigan.
According to these guys, that's, by the way, this bailout is also to bail out Michigan.
It's also to bail out Jennifer Granholm as well as the United Auto Workers.
So union.
So we get three little little uh curveballs in here now.
What do you mean, bailout auto?
We're doing fine down here in Alabama, South Carolina.
Here is uh the Chris Matthews show again on Sunday.
Uh National Public Radio Liberal uh Michelle Morris, or somebody named Norris.
I don't know who this is.
Michelle Norris, that's who it is.
Listen to this.
The first 60 days of a presidency are so important, and that's why you hear Rush Limbaugh saying these things on the radio.
It's why they're passing a baton to him, hoping that it's so heavy, that he's got so much on his plate in that starting gate that he can't help but stumble.
And they know that that sets the tone for the rest of the administration.
Uh that's why Rush Limbaugh is saying these things in the radio.
It's why they're passing a baton to him, hoping it's so heavy.
He's got so much in his plate, the starting gate, he can't help but stumble, folks.
It is our job to define Obama as who he is because the drive-bys have not done so.
So once again, I guess they say the leadership role in this is coming down to me.
AP Obama headline just hit the wires two minutes ago.
Obama and McCain say they will work together.
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