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Nov. 21, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 21, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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Sorry about that, folks.
Late arriving showpep.
Greetings.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
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And if you want to be on the program, simply call 1-800-282-2882, the email address, LRushbo at E-IVNet.com.
And when you call, we go to the phones on Friday.
The program basically all yours.
You can talk about whatever interests you, even if it does not interest me.
Again, 800-282-2882 is the phone number.
Jennifer from Los Angeles.
Her name is Jennifer James.
We found her story on the Los Angeles Times website.
It runs this weekend.
It's up there now.
It'll run on Sunday, I think she said in the kids' section of the L.A. Times, the true story of Thanksgiving.
And she was calling here to thank me for reminding her of the real story that she was taught inadvertently in the fifth grade at an elementary school in California.
The teacher was teaching a word for the day incentive, and he used the true Thanksgiving story.
I'm sure was an oversight on the part of the teacher.
I wonder where he learned it.
Well, yeah, I'm really, Jennifer, if you're still out there, you have more courage than anybody I have met recently.
You called here.
You identified where you worked.
You thanked me.
I am the mortal enemy of the drive-by media and those typified by editorial and journalism staff at the Los Angeles Times.
Paper is dying, I know, but a good friend of mine runs the company now, Tribune, Randy Michaels.
So I've got mixed emotions about it.
If they could straighten the place out, it would be fabulous.
Anyway, Jennifer, it was a courageous act for you to call here, mention your name, and cite your story in the LA Times, a true story of Thanksgiving.
So I hope that you survive.
Your job survives.
Your phone call to the EIB network.
Here's the basic true story of Thanksgiving.
Well, first, here's what we're all taught.
We're all taught that the hapless pilgrims arrived here quite by accident and by luck.
They landed at Plymouth Rock and they found this barren place and they had no clue how to feed themselves.
They had no clue how to survive.
Basically, the first white settlers, they brought with them syphilis and gonorrhea and environmental destruction, racism, sexism, all that.
And they had such trouble.
They had such trouble that the wonderful Native Americans, the Indians, who, unbeknownst to them, were about to be conquered and put into reservations and made into alcoholics by the pilgrims,
were so overcome with compassion and love for the arrival of these new weird-looking people that they showed them how to grow food and corn and maize and even told them how to do popcorn and told them how to slaughter turkeys long before Sarah Palin learned how to do it.
And it picks this big feast to share the bounty of the Indians with these stragglers who had showed up and not known where they were.
And that's the true story of Thanksgiving as taught in schools.
That's not at all what happened.
The pilgrims arrived and it was barren and it was challenging and there was disease, pestilence, as you can imagine.
I mean, this is hundreds of years ago.
And they decided to set up, William Bradford writes about this.
He was the original governor of the colony.
And he decided to set up a system whereby everybody would be given a plot of land.
And then whatever they produced would go into a common store.
It was one of the first known experiments with socialism.
And it was based in all the great compassion and fairness that you could think.
Put in what you do and take out only what you need.
You know, the whole point was this common store is going to have the fruits of everybody's labor.
Everybody's going to go in there and take out only what they need.
Well, the problem was human nature reared its head, and a bunch of slackers amongst the pilgrims realized they didn't have to do anything in order to go get what they wanted from the common store because other people were carrying the weight, pulling the wagon.
And Bradford realized after a while, this did not work.
Resentment was cropping up amongst the producers for the non-producers.
The non-producers were taking everything more than they needed.
They just took what they wanted.
They said, well, we're entitled to it.
I mean, it's the rules.
They said, yeah, but you're not producing anything.
Well, nothing says I have to.
It just says whatever's produced is going to go to the common store.
You know, right.
Some of them weren't good at farming.
They weren't allowed to specialize.
They were all just given a plot of land.
Say, here, do with it what you want.
And some, all they could do was clean up the manure.
And others were, you know, able to turn the manure into fertilized land and grow things.
So Bradford finally figured out this wasn't going to work.
And he gave, they reassigned everybody a plot of land.
And then they said, whatever you do with this, you keep.
It is yours.
And if there's a surplus, you can sell it.
And that's what ultimately happened.
And that's when the pilgrims began to prosper.
And it was at that point that they shared their bounty with the Indians.
It was sort of a joint sharing things.
The Indians already knew about popcorn and that stuff, but they shared it.
The true story of Thanksgiving, as Bradford writes it, is thanks to God.
It was thanks to God for helping them learn the way to survive and prosper when they arrived in this new barren, unforsaken, unknown place.
Remember now, this Massachusetts in the winter time.
And there was no moss turnpike.
And there weren't any apartment stores and food stores.
It was, we can't relate to it.
We cannot understand it.
So the first experiment in capitalism in the new world, bamboo, it went like gangbusters.
And that's what Jennifer writes about.
Jennifer James is her name, writes about in the Los Angeles Times, in the kids section this weekend.
Breaking news from ABC, General Motors is grounding its corporate jets.
Well, so much for my dream and desire.
Well, my dream and desire was that they would come back and say, okay, you guys need a plan by December 2nd.
Here's the plan.
You, Pelosi, Reed, you want a plan?
You drop the cafe standards.
You let us get rid of some of these union contracts and so forth.
You let us start all over, run this business the way we want to run it.
You don't tell us what kind of cars we got to make.
You let us do that, and we'll be off and running.
You asked for the plan, Washington.
Here it is.
Now, I know they would never do it because they wouldn't get any bailout money if they did that.
But still, grounding the corporate jets because of the bad PR as though that's going to help.
And going to help.
The liberals just said, by the way, EIB1 not grounded, don't worry.
But the guys on Washington and Capitol Hill, the Democrats, is going to smile and crap their hand as they cut those guys down to size.
And they're going to love it.
I have a solution for the economic problem, ladies and gentlemen.
Might be able to solve it by January 20th.
As we know, we're told now 4 million people will be pouring into Washington, D.C. for the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States.
There are 240,000 tickets made available for the inauguration, and those tickets are free.
My suggestion is to print up 4 million tickets, auction them on eBay.
It could raise billions.
Who in his or her right mind would not give up their life savings or even their future earnings for a chance to be there?
Especially these Obama voters.
If they figure they're going to lose everything in the stock market anyway, why not give it to the government so you can be there at the Obama inauguration?
You see, we here at the EIB network, folks, we don't just point out the problems.
We offer solutions.
I've offered a solution for the big three automakers today.
I've offered now a solution to solve much of our debt problem by having Obama voters fork over whatever they can and want to on eBay for 4 million tickets to the Obama, because that's how many people are going to go, oh, that's what they say.
So sell the tickets.
Only a matter of time, a New York school has been renamed in honor of President-elect Obama.
The former Ludlam Elementary School out in Hempstead on Long Island has been renamed yesterday effective immediately as Barack Obama School.
I have, now I'm dead serious.
The former Ludlam Elementary School in Long Island's, yeah, this is an A.P. Obama story.
Long Island's Hempstead Union Free Skruel District, renamed at a scruple board meeting Thursday, effective immediately, Skruel Officials, say most of the 440 students there are black or Hispanic, and Obama's victory is a source of great pride.
I have a warning.
Not only am I not joking, snurdily, I have a prediction.
Pretty soon, there will be nothing left named Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevards all over country Barack Obama Avenue.
Martin Luther King schools will change to Barack Obama schools.
Mark my words, it isn't going to be long before things named after Martin Luther King will be collectors items.
Guess what Governor Schwarzenegger wants to tax next?
If I'm Gray Davis, I have to be sitting there laughing my rear end off.
And Wadel Bloomberg gets hold of this.
Governor Schwarzenegger is pushing for a pet tax as a way to raise revenues.
I kid you not.
He wants to tax you for having a pet.
He wants to tax you every time you take your pet to the vet.
Veterinarians say they're already seeing a decline in pet visits due to the slumping economy, and they worry an added tax will only make things worse for the California pet community.
Veterinary ophthalmologist Dr. Christina Berling says she is among the concerned.
I once named these people the concerned back in the early 90s, the concerned.
And she's now among the concerned.
She's a veterinary ophthalmologist.
She says that most people don't consider animals a luxury.
They consider them instead to be part of the family.
Pet owner Donald Weideman said he absolutely considers his pet buster to be a part of the family.
It's definitely going to make us cut back on maybe bringing animals in as often and having different procedures done and different animal checkups.
Schwarzenegger said two weeks ago, I think that everyone here has gotten a wake-up call that this is not just where we can debate something.
We're running out of money.
Cut something, Arnold.
Why don't you reduce it?
Try this.
Try reducing state salaries.
Try that and see how that goes.
The pet tax is a perfect example of what not to do, said Roger Niellow, a Republican from Sacramento.
Republicans say the state can generate billions of new dollars by selling offshore oil drilling rights.
But that idea has little support in Sacramento.
So for now, the focus is on the pet tax.
Veterinarians say the tax would add about 9% to the cost of veterinarian care.
So a 9% surcharge on whatever your vet bill is.
Can you understand how Gray Davis is by laughing himself silly?
He was thrown out of office for stuff that made far more sense than this.
And I decides I just say, Wayton Bloomberg hears about this.
The esteemed mayor of New York City.
All right, a brief, brief, wait a minute.
Yeah, quick timeout.
Lots of stuff to do.
Your phone calls and other things.
We'll get started with all the rest of it in just a second.
It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh and the Cutting Edge of Societal Evolution.
I want to go back to this Ram Emmanuel bit because another thought, the soundbite, another thought hit me last night about this.
This is Tuesday night in Washington at the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Ram Emmanuel, the new chief of staff for Barack Obama.
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
And what I mean by that, it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.
This is an opportunity what used to be long-term problems, be they in the healthcare area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area, things that we had postponed for too long that were long-term are now immediate and must be dealt with.
And this crisis provides the opportunity for us, as I would say, the opportunity to do things that you could not do before.
Now, basically, again, what Emmanuel is saying here is that this economic crisis is the best thing could ever happen to us because no crisis should ever go to waste.
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, and we're not going to let this go to waste.
We're going to let this get as bad as it can get, and that'll give us the opportunity to fix everything.
And if these guys ever do get national health care done, if they, folks, do you realize if they get national health care done, the prospect of rolling that back, i.e. conservatism, that is going to be a major challenge.
This is going to have to be stopped.
National health care is going to have to be stopped if it happens.
That's going to be a long time rolling that back, even amongst all the failures that will result from it and all the harm.
I know we haven't rolled back Social Security.
We haven't.
I know this is it.
That that's that's that's the big one.
If they get that done, we are in a heap, heap big trouble.
And here's what Emmanuel's saying.
This crisis, this economic crisis, you're suffering, your anxiety, that's going to help us get our agenda forward.
Now, can you imagine the reaction if John Boehner in the House had said that a recession would help Republicans in 2010?
Can you imagine if any Republican came, imagine if Sarah Palin said, you know, we've got to take advantage of this crisis.
You can't let a serious crisis go to waste.
This crisis is an excellent opportunity for us to have it demonstrated just how rotten the Democrats are at handling things.
Can you imagine what the media would be doing to any Republican who was applauding, eagerly anticipating economic tumult and chaos?
And it's not the first time.
I remember back in 2002, Dick Gephardt in the House of Representatives, every time the stock market fell during the dot-com bubble, 100 points, he'd clap and say, oh boy, that's another seat in the House of Representatives for us.
By the way, folks, bad news here, the propaganda markets are also being hit hard, as well as the stock markets.
AP Obama has said that it will lay off 10% of its workforce starting in 2009.
So he said, not even the propaganda markets are safe from the economic downturn.
The Obama reelection committee suffered a setback when it learned that the AP Obama would be laying off 10% of its propagandists.
Propaganda is in the throes of a bear market, massive media layoffs, and now the AP Obama following suit have made getting the truth out a little bit easier.
Because the more propagandists that get laid off and the more Obama campaign aides lose their gigs, the New York Times financials are horrible.
Their stock price is at five bucks.
They're having to reassess or reassign value and so forth.
The drive-by meeting, McClatchy, McClatchy newspapers headquartered in Sacramento, they issued a report on themselves earlier this week.
It makes it sound like they may not be in business in three months.
Meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, should I admit this, Kit?
I guess I, yes, because I want our audience to know this.
In the midst of all this turmoil in the drive-by media, I want you people in this audience to know, because you are the ones largely making this happen, by the way, that just last week, we surpassed for next year our total gross income this year.
And I mentioned this to Baba Wawa.
Remember, Kit, you were there.
You know, she was, her first question was citing to me the figures of my new contract as she had them.
She said, Are you worth it?
I say, hell yes, I'm worth it.
And she looks stunned.
I said, yes, I'm worth it.
It's just a percentage of what I produce.
But what about the recession?
There is no recession.
I don't participate in a recession.
I told her that we are already ahead in 2009 gross of all of this year.
Even this year is not complete, but we've got it on the books.
It's still not over.
But what's on the books this year, we're already ahead.
The drive-bys are going the other way.
And by the way, we're not laying people off here at the EIB network.
We, in fact, are hiring.
So for every one of these propagandists that loses their job in the Obama reelection team, the power and influence of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network continues to spread and grow and permeate, infiltrate.
And that's why we are bullish and we are optimistic on the future.
We are an example of the fact that prosperity is still gloriously achievable in the U.S. of A.
It's Open Line Friday.
Back to the phones we go.
Pam in Boston, been waiting a while.
I appreciate it.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I appreciate you taking my call.
And in response to the question by Barbara Walters, I know I speak for many when I say you are well worth it.
Well, I'm actually worth more than that.
Yeah, I nominate you for a raise.
Yeah.
Well, no, I just, I don't take all that I could.
I leave some for others.
Well, especially you keep many of us off the ledge, especially a few brave conservatives from the land of Barney Frank.
Feel for you.
Oh, pray for me.
My question was your thoughts on these hackers into the defense and now the financial computers.
And of course, getting the Boston Globe, we get like a little paragraph on page 15 about these intrusions.
And you just don't hear much about it.
We hear what kind of dog does Obama need, you know.
And I just wonder what you thought about that.
Well, you know, this is computer hacking and this kind of thing.
Yeah, you know, hacking into our security and the financial computers, I think, by the Chinese, was it?
And there's just not much of that.
ChiCom's been hacking into the Pentagon.
I saw the other day that ChiComs hacked into White House email servers and so forth.
I don't know whether that's true, but it's happening all the time.
People hacking into big-time credit databases, credit people to hold your credit card information, your credit information, people hacking into that and stealing identities and so forth.
I don't know.
People are becoming more and more aware of this as more and more of their identities have been stolen.
Has this happened to you?
No, I'm talking more about the financial markets, the world financial markets and the Pentagon defense computers hacked into.
Yeah, well, nothing's safe.
I mean, this is, it's a, you know, the security of any computer database is always up for grabs.
Right, but I'm thinking when it's the defense and the financial in light of the, you know, the recent economy nightmare, and I just don't, I know they're experts at keeping everything.
Well, I don't, you know, you may not want to hear this, but the last I heard, and I could be wrong about this, but I don't really think we have anything to fear from people trying to damage us via the stock market or the Pentagon or security agencies because the world loves us now.
Oh, you think?
We elected Barack Obama.
Yeah, I mean, the sea levels are going to descend now.
Right.
I don't know why anybody would wish us harm.
I wouldn't be concerned about it if I were you.
Well, I'll tell you, I have to tell you that I've only listened to you in the last year, and my husband's been a longtime listener, but you were the only thing keeping me off the ledge with the last turn of events over the past couple months.
But I'm even going to have to resort to the 24-7 to get me through the weekend.
Well, now that's a great deal.
Yeah, it is a great deal.
That is an insightful thing.
She's talking about Russianlimbaugh.com.
That is an incredible, the amount of information, it impresses even me.
That's my sight.
I just have one last question, if you'll indulge me.
Why does Michael Moore live here?
Why do these people like him who love socialism and Bill Ayers, why do they stay in the United States and why do we allow them?
Well, two things.
I don't know about Ayers.
I don't know why he says.
Well, I can answer, and then both Ayers and Michael Moore, they're trying to change the country.
They're trying to subvert it.
Well, I'm sure they're happy now that they have their boy in the office, little Barry, but I'm just saying before this, if socialism is so great, why are they not down in Cuba?
Because they're both making way too much money.
Exactly right.
And do they go down to the homeless shelter and pass that out?
I don't know what they do.
Do they redistribute the wealth?
I don't know what they do.
That's what they want to tell us to do, but is he redistributing his wealth?
They want to redistribute yours.
They never redistribute theirs.
Yeah, you're right.
They never do.
About your stock market question.
Let me be serious about something.
Do you think it's possible?
I mean, I'm joking about the world loving us.
You understand that.
Oh, of course I do.
I'm very educated because of you.
Do you think it's possible that our enemies might be short-selling?
Of course, I think it's possible.
And I think more attention should be paid to it.
But it's like I said, what we worry about is what kind of dog and what kind of clothes Michelle's going to wear.
And people better wake up and see what is happening to them.
I know, but this is charisma.
This is a personality.
This is an image.
Right.
Presidency and campaign and so forth.
And the media, as I say, is too big to fail.
They're not going to let him go down the tubes.
And they're going to continue to try to prop him up by keeping him shielded from substance as much as they can.
I'd like you.
Where is Obama anyway?
Day two, where Rome is burning.
Where is Obama?
He's going to come up with this.
It is very creepy how this guy can just, oh, they are going to have some sort of a prepack bankruptcy plan.
The Obama transition team working on a pre-PAC.
You know what that is?
That means they grease the skids.
They set up, okay, here's a bankruptcy plan for you.
Take it.
We'll make sure it happens without having to wind your way through court.
And government is the lender in this one.
So this would be the government.
You'd be filing Chapter 11 with the government, or 7 to 11.
I don't know how this would work, but Obama has responded to that clarion call to do something about the auto industries.
By the way, this business, ladies and gentlemen, of identity theft, she was onto something.
It's not just government computers.
It is you can be hacked.
Your identity can be stolen.
And you don't want this to happen to you.
It's one of the most miserable things to have to try to fix.
And you don't have there's this outfit out there we use called lifelock.com.
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Diana in Merritt Island, Florida.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi.
I am a new listener to you, and I was wanting to know when you say drive-by media, can you just give me a definition of that?
Sure.
It's not complicated at all.
Do you know what a drive-by shooting is?
Correct.
Okay, so drive-by shooting, take the same concept and apply it to the media.
So you have a group of people, the American news consumer, and they're out there minding their own business.
And all of a sudden, the media Pulls up with their cameras and their microphones, and they tell you that there is some calamity or crisis or something that's about to go out of control.
Oh my god, it's horrible, it's terrible.
Bush lied, 30,000 deaths in one day in Iraq, whatever it is.
And they get everybody all been out of shape over what is usually not true.
Something has been exaggerated, and somebody has to clean up the mess and tell the truth and get it all straightened out.
That's generally me.
And after that, then they get in a convertible and they head on down the road with their cameras and microphones and they get ready to disrupt another group of innocent bystanders doing nothing but minding their own business, polluting them with a bunch of lies, phony crisis, getting people all frightened and worked up over essentially nothing to keep them in a perpetual state of fear because fear allows people or permits people to let other people of power make vast changes in their lifestyle oriented towards security,
safety, or what have you.
So it's just, it's no different than a drive-dye shooting, except the weapons here are cameras and microphones, notebooks, and pens.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
I have one other little tidbit of information as far as comment about the Mayflower and the first Thanksgiving.
I'm a direct descendant of Priscilla Mullins, who was on the Mayflower, married John Alden, and 13 great-great-grandmothers later, I am a nurse.
She was the nurse on the Mayflower.
That is amazing.
That is amazing.
So, our favorite family holiday is coming up.
I can imagine.
So, you, by virtue of your family genealogy and your trace here, you can confirm the original story of Thanksgiving then.
Correct.
Correct.
And there was beer on the Mayflower because beer sustained the long voyage.
Well, yeah, they had to have beer.
Otherwise, they get scurvy.
Exactly.
That's why they call British people limeys.
They had to.
No, if you didn't, you're crossing the pond.
If you didn't have something that had citrus fruit, whatever, some you'd get scurvy.
And that's what they had to use, take limes with them, and the smart people used beer.
And the pilgrim and exactly.
Now, Diana, I don't mean to insult you with this question, but I have to ask you.
Yes.
Are you familiar with the name Sidney Biddle Barrows?
No.
Sidney Biddle Barrows was known as the Mayflower Madam here in New York.
She ran a professional escort service.
And she, too, claimed to have direct descendants to the Mayflower.
That's why she's called the Mayflower Madam.
Now, I don't, and I think, I think the family name that came over, and I double-checked this, was Biddle.
Nope.
Did not know that, but the story continues.
That's even better.
It is.
It is.
Well, you might, you know, consult your family documentation and find out how close any of your family came to the Biddles that were on the Mayflower.
We will have to follow up on that.
I'm sure it'll be a fascinating discovery.
Thank you.
Okay, Diane.
Now, this drive-by media stuff, it is, it's serious, but the point in describing the drive-by media that way as drive-by is they're just hit and run.
And they don't report news, and they're not interested in truth.
All they want to do is keep people worked up.
They issue polls that show the American people think we're going to hell in a handbasket, that we're losing the war in Iraq, that George Bush is the worst thing going to happen.
Just get people constantly worked into a frenzy.
And it's not journalism.
It's advocacy and the advancing of an agenda.
And they just come in and they do these little hits with these news stories and they move on down the road while people try to figure out what the hell just happened.
You know, the window just got blown out in the front of the store.
The drive-bys did it, and they're heading on down the road doing it again to another group of innocent people.
Makes complete sense, and I appreciate you taking my call.
Thank you, Diana.
Quick timeout, folks.
We'll be back.
Open Line Friday resumes after this.
If you're just joining us on Rush Limbaugh and Open Line Friday, ladies and gentlemen, you should know that all of a sudden now the Barack Obama transition team is trying to lower everybody's expectations.
David Axelrod, who ran the campaign, and Robert B. Reich are out there saying, Look, we're encountering problems worse than perhaps at any time in American history since FDR.
And my action reaction is, well, you're telling us he is FDR.
You're telling us he's Lincoln.
You're telling us he's JFK.
You're telling us it's Camelot.
So what the hell is this lowering expectations crap?
You can't do that.
You got elected on lowering the sea level and making everybody love us and unifying everybody.
Lowering expectations?
Rice said it could be three years.
By the way, they're three years up to five.
It's not worse than what Reagan inherited, folks.
I don't care what anybody says.
It's not worse than what Reagan inherited.
There weren't anybody.
Reagan went out there lowering expectations.
Barack Obama said he could unify the world.
It's not time to lower expectations now that he's won.
He should start doing what he said he could do: unifying.
He should start explaining the reality of the situation to the auto industry.
They're employees.
They're retirees.
They're suppliers.
And by the way, how many of you people are in favor of bailing out hedge funds?
A hedge fund bought Chrysler.
Chrysler is privately owned.
Do you know who runs that hedge fund?
Jon Snow, the former Treasury Secretary.
Or at least he was in charge of it.
Cerberus.
Yeah, Cerberus.
Now, the guy that the CEO, Bob Nardelli, this is a soldier and a warrior.
This guy's life.
They've tried to destroy this guy's life over the course of his career in the auto business and other places.
They're trying as hard as they can here.
But I mean, where's Obama?
He had the fixes for all this stuff.
I mean, he can send signals.
Reagan sent signals during his transition period to the Iranians.
Don't mess with our hostages.
Don't you dare mess with our hostages.
Where's Obama?
He needs to fill the void here.
People are waiting on him.
They're not waiting on Bush.
And they sure as hell aren't waiting on Pelosi and Reed.
He went around the world.
He went around Europe, the Middle East while campaigning, having private meetings, saying anything he wanted.
He was trying to arrange troop withdrawal deals while he was in Iraq.
If this guy's a true leader, where is he?
He can at least project his image, his vision.
Who would object if he did?
Nobody would object.
Obama is voting present right now.
Barack Obama is voting present.
And this is his track record.
Avoid the tough things as long as you can.
Vote present.
This is a time to do something.
Look what Pelosi did to the market yesterday.
It was up 200 points.
Then they went on television with Reed and the rest of the gang.
They announced the auto deal fell apart, bam, and they started issuing orders and instructions to the auto companies.
And bam, we end up down 400 yesterday.
We're not up much today, but we're not down, I don't think.
Citibank, Citibank now thinking of selling itself to the Somali Pirates.
The Somali Pirates AAA bond rating just came in from Moody's.
The Somali Pirates are a better bet financially than some of our own institutions.
Where is Barack Obama?
Has Obama spoken with Pelosi about this calamity?
Are they working off different playbooks?
The Democrats in Congress running a show or is Obama going to be running a show?
He's the Messiah.
He's the guy that raised all these expectations.
I'll tell you what, he's backing out so that none of this touches him.
That is the plan.
It's time for Obama to step into the conversation.
He's sitting on the sidelines out there and he's making himself out to be phony.
Everybody voted for change, unity.
How long will it take them to become disappointed?
Well, this is going to be the scenario, I fear, for the four years.
This is going to be, they're going to enact the agenda they want on their timetable, independent and without concern for what is happening elsewhere in the country.
For example, there's no way, there's no logical reason to even talk about raising taxes right now.
He wants to do it.
He wants to find.
There's no reason to talk about nationalizing health care.
He wants to do it.
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