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Jan. 2, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 2, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Hey, happy New Year, the first live rush show of the new year.
Uh America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, subbing for rush.
Rush will be back on Monday, having been through re-education camp.
He'll be all raring ago for the uh coronation of King Barack coming up in just a couple of weeks.
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Anything you want to talk about, we've covered we've covered the spectrum uh in the uh last couple of hours.
We've uh we've talked about uh the economy, and we've talked about the gay leather fetishists, and uh they're holding their convention in Washington, same time as the inauguration.
I I shouldn't say I make it sound when I say from the economy to the gay leather fetishists as if those two subjects aren't uh aren't connected.
I mean, the way things are going in this country, it's probably the gay leather fetishist convention that's popping up what's left of the co the economy.
Yeah.
Uh I I was I I I was told that a lot of people were uh kind of downheartened at the beginning of the year I was saying, you know, talking about American decline, remorseless incremental decline.
Uh uh and people have been calling in and saying, well, uh, when is it over?
When is it over?
Uh well the good news is that it's not going to be I don't think it's going to be over during the first uh Obama term.
It uh the the total societal collapse may not kick in until midway through uh a second term.
So if you're worried about uh you're worried about your property prices falling, they've still got a long way to go.
But the uh the underlying it, there is a there is a serious point, you know.
Uh societies in decline are often very agreeable places.
Everyone, if you if you read um uh Paul Krugman in the New York Times, he's always raving about the how the French have done a much better job than Americans have of balancing the demands of work and family, which is to say uh that they don't do a lot of work over there in France.
They have a lot of time off.
Uh when you go over there, it looks great.
They're all sitting around sidewalk cafes, sipping their cafe au lait, having a croissant.
Uh it's uh it seems to be three o'clock in the afternoon, you're thinking, well, hang on a minute, don't these don't these guys have any jobs to go back to do?
It all seems very agreeable.
Uh slow decline in civilized societies can seem very agreeable, but you reach a point uh from which it's impossible to return.
Uh and I don't want America to reach that point.
But for all those people who've been calling in saying, wow, he keeps talking about decline, decline, decline, decline.
Is it going to kick in soon?
No, as I said, uh total societal collapse, my best guess is uh midway through Obama's second term.
So don't there's no reason to to worry about it uh happening uh imminently.
The uh prioritizing.
That's the thing.
That's the issue.
Uh what are the real problems?
Can you focus on them, or are you gonna carry on just focusing on fictional problems?
Uh what is the greatest fictional issue confronting the world today?
It is climate change.
Climate change.
They've now uh the the uh we have had global cooling now.
They used to talk about global warming.
Then in 1998, uh the planet actually began getting cooler.
We've had global cooling now.
We've been in a cooling trend for ten years.
Ten years.
Uh people are still talking about global warming.
Uh because they now say the cooling trend is itself a symptom of global warming.
It doesn't matter whether it's if it's hot, that's a sign that uh of global warming.
If it's cold, that's a sign of global warming.
Uh if it's just like 53 and cloudy, that is a sign that global warming is rampaging out of control, and you should probably head for the hills because the apocalypse is coming.
Uh when I move to New Hampshire, I love the I love weather philosophy.
I love the way you'd talk to some gnarled old guy in Plaid, uh, you'd say, Well, it seems a bit chilly today, and he'd go, ah, if you don't like the weather, wait ten minutes.
Or if you don't like the weather, cross the road.
In other words, weather is changeable.
The whole thing about living in New Hampshire is the weather is changeable.
There's a hunt potential hundred degree difference in January Day.
You might get a January day where it's a freakish hot uh January melt and it's seventy degrees, or you uh it might be uh minus thirty.
There's a hundred degree variation of temperature.
That's just normal.
That's normal.
Uh yet suddenly we get a one degree variation in the in the planetary temperature across uh the course of a century, and this one degree variation in the course of the century means that suddenly we have to collapse the entire global economy,
reorient the global economy uh and just uh uh uh uh uh and uh just give up all the good things we have in life uh in order uh to return ourselves to some stone age civilization, some edenic ideal meteorological condition of the planet.
Uh this is all this is all nonsense.
I mean, I'm not actually in I'm in favor of climate change.
Do you remember that movie that uh uh came out uh in the 2004 election, and Al Gore said it was going to change the course of the election and get uh John Kerry elected.
Uh no, not Al Gorsman.
I'm not talking about Al Gore's movie.
I'm talking this one the day after tomorrow.
It's uh unlike uh Al Gore's movie, it's actually watchable.
It's a hilarious film.
Uh there's like this Dick Cheney figure, and he gives a speech at some international conference uh and uh says that there's nothing to any of this uh global warming climate change stuff.
And the next thing that happens is the entire Northern Hemisphere has flash frozen.
And it's it's uh a speech by I don't want to give the plot away.
If you haven't seen the film, just you know, put your hands over your ears for the next five seconds.
But essentially, a speech by Dick Cheney brings on flash freezing of the entire Northern Hemisphere.
And uh they're all uh they're all in the New York public library.
Uh New York is frozen.
New York Harbor is frozen, and there's the uh uh and there's the um uh the the Statue of Liberty poking its head up out of the frozen ice in New York Harbor.
It's like the big famous scene at the end of Planet of the Apes, except that instead of nuclear uh Holocaust doing this, because nobody worries about nukes now.
People worried about nukes uh when it was uh it was just crazy people like Reagan and Thatcher that had nukes, but now that you know uh Achhmadinajad and Kim Jong il of nukes, nobody worries about them on the when when it was Reagan and Thatcher, the left did plays about nukes, they did films about nukes, uh everything they did books about nuclear winter with nuke nuke nuke.
Now nobody cares about that.
Uh nukes are fine, Akhmadinajad's got nukes, Kim Jong-il's got nukes, we're all cool with that.
So now we worry about the weather.
Uh it's still the same scene.
We've got the same scene of the uh Statue of Liberty sticking up out of a frozen New York City harbor, and all these people huddled in the New York public library burning books.
Burning books.
They're tearing pages out of books and throwing them in the fire to keep warm.
The New York Public Library is full of wood-paneled wainscotting all over the place.
Why don't they rip the why don't they rip a few boards off the paneling of the New York public library and burn that to stay warm?
This crazy crazy film makes no sense.
People in there tearing up sheets of paper and shoveling them into the fire and saying, Oh, we don't seem to be getting a lot of heat from this.
Anyway, that was the um the day of it's a wood panel building.
Burn the building.
The day after tomorrow.
That was the day after tomorrow.
It's a fabulous film.
Um but the the the point here is that this is like a fictional delusion.
Uh the planet gets hot, the planet gets cold.
Uh basically every thirty years there's a mild warming trend, next thirty years there's a mild pooling trend.
And nobody should pay any attention to it, except for people who write books like they used to write in the uh sixties and seventies warning about the new ice age, and then the same guys who write the new w books warning about the new ice age, then switch and write about how everything's gonna be a desert, uh, and then uh uh another couple of decades go by and they switch back to reissuing their original Ice Age books from the 70s.
And the rest of us should pay no attention to it.
But it's interesting.
Environmentalism is interesting as an insight into government.
If you take Schwarzenegger, for example, California, he's supposed to be a great guy on the environment.
This is this is a guy who's got real crises on his hand.
His state is is broke.
Uh, you know, he came as a penniless immigrant, Arnold did, to a land of plenty.
Uh now he's an immigrant of plenty in a penniless land.
That's the history of California since Arnold got there.
Uh does he do anything to correct the real is he doing anything to correct the real crises facing California?
No.
Uh Instead, he's obsessing on uh lunatic regulation to warn off fictional uh climate change.
And again, this is this is the uh ambition of big government.
Big government, if you say to big government, well, look, you seem to be a lot of people just walking into this country and uh claiming medical care and benefits, they just walk straight over the border.
Do you think we could build a fence?
Oh, no, no.
There'd be no question of building a fence.
It'd be absurd to even talk about building a fence, that's uh pie in the sky stuff.
It's never gonna work.
In the famous words of Senator Trent Lott, he's yet to see a fence that his billy goats can't leap over.
So the idea of building a fence along the border, that is completely preposterous.
But changing the very heavens, changing the very climate, and not just of the planet, but even into outer space and the outer solar system, as Al Gore talks about in his more ambition moments.
Changing the very climate, the very heavens that we can do.
Build a fence, that's pie in the sky, utopian stuff, never gonna happen.
But changing the very heavens that we can do.
Uh environmentalism uh is interesting uh mainly as a glimpse of the ambition of uh big government.
But the fact is it's nonsense.
We're celebrating the tenth anniversary of global cooling, and the best way to do that is to just laugh, laugh out loud the next time you meet some environmentalist who tells us time is uh running out to save the planet.
Uh this is Mark Stein, open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Russia's going to be back in on uh Monday.
Uh and it's open line Friday, so we'll be taking your calls straight ahead.
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Mark Stein at the EIB network celebrating the tenth anniversary of global cooling.
By the way, there's a terrific picture in the uh New York Times on Monday of a guy in Minnesota uh sweeping the snow off his solar panels.
He's not getting any heat from the solar paddles because he had like a foot and a half of snow on them.
So he's got a it's a big problem.
It's a big problem with your concern about the environment.
Gotta start keeping the snow off those uh solar panels.
Otherwise global warming could be rampaging out of control.
Uh let's go to Mark in Portland, Oregon, uh Cascadia, where they take all that uh the global warming uh nonsense seriously.
Mark, welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you very much, Mark.
Great to talk to you.
My pleasure.
Uh I'm a retired uh GMUAW member.
Um, so I know a little bit about socialization here, socialized medicine and everything is worried about.
I'm worried about that.
I assume I don't I've never heard of you before, so I assume you're from England.
Well, I've had um uh I I've lived in countries with socialized medicine.
I'll put it that way.
Okay, that's what I want to talk about.
If you could explain to the people a little bit what uh Democrats are trying to do to us as far as putting putting this into a socialized medicine situation.
Well, well, the thing uh the point about socialized medicine is that the mini g minute you have a system of socialized medicine, you, the sick person, are the only uh the only point at which you can control costs.
Because uh in a i i i if you go to see a doctor as a private citizen, uh it's in the do and you've got uh cancer.
Uh it's in the doctor's interest to get you treated for that cancer, get the cancer cut out, get you treated uh uh uh as quickly as possible so he gets his check.
Uh it's to to get you into surgery and the cancer cut out.
It's in his economic interest.
It is in the economic interest of a socialized system for you not to be treated.
Because every Friday they've still got to pay the doctors and the nurses and the janitors, and the only point at which they can control costs is through you, the sick person.
So what you find is the minute you have a socialized system, you have uh huge long waiting lists uh for anything.
You wait uh two years to get your hip replacement in England.
Uh in in uh the province of Quebec, uh, which is uh has a socialized health care system and now has the lowest doctor-patient ratio in the Western world.
You get cancer in Quebec.
Uh they wait until it's metastasized and spread throughout your body, and then they send you uh south the border to Fletcher Allen in Burlington, Vermont, or Dartmouth Hitchcock in Lebanon, New Hampshire, so you can die in a foreign hospital unsurrounded by uh tiresome loved ones.
That is socialized health care uh because you're the point at which they control costs.
Um you know, There is absolutely no end to uh the absurdity uh about it.
Um there was a story in the paper, I think it was last year, about a Canadian woman uh who gave birth uh in Great Falls, Montana, I believe it was for triplets.
Uh anyway, she went to the her local hospital in British Columbia, I believe it was, and they didn't have any beds for her.
And they called maternity wards uh all across the province of British Columbia and then across the rest of Canada, and they couldn't find beds for her.
Uh so in the end she had to be put uh on a little uh twin prop uh and flown with a nurse and a respiratory technician uh three hundred miles across the border uh to a hospital in Great Falls, Montana, where her children were were safely born.
Because it would be unreasonable to expect a G7 uh economy of thirty million people to offer the same uh level of uh natal care as a remote town in Montana of 50,000 people.
That is what happens the minute you have a socialized health care system.
I remember at the time this story happened, uh and of course, you know, if you're if you're like the uh the way people do now when they go to these Lamar's classes to learn the breathing exercises that uh when you're giving birth, because it's uh I don't want to go into all the icky details, but it can be a bit of a problem for uh uh if you for women you want to do the breathing exercise, you go to the Lamar's classes.
There are no Lamas classes that prepare you for a flight in a uh twin prop across the Rockies uh when your contractions kick in.
But that is what you've got to be prepared for uh if you if you uh if you uh are pregnant uh up in Canada.
And I mentioned this story to Peter Robinson, who wrote the great uh uh tear down this wall speech for President Reagan, uh and I said, uh that's socialized health care for you, the ten month waiting list for the maternity ward, and he said to me, he said, Oh God, he goes, Reagan would have loved that line.
Uh I can imagine him uh I can imagine him uh saying it.
But you know, the danger is that uh again with socialized health care is when you try to do it all in one go, like with Hillary care, uh people get riled and mad and they uh rise up uh and uh and and uh it gets voted down.
The danger is what we've had over the last uh forty years now in America is the remorseless annexation of the health system by government through government programs and government entitlements and through nibbling it away at the edges to say, well, old people and poor people and then young people, you know, now they want to talk about insuring all uh all kids.
And eventually uh the uh the the uh the proportion of the uh health system that is still in in uh uh a private system between the consumer and the supplier uh is no longer the majority of the system, and then you're uh and then you're in real trouble.
At that point, you know, we think of doctors as a middle class profession.
It isn't in a lot of countries that have socialized health care.
If you remember that uh system from uh that story, news story out of Britain, uh I think it was last year, about the guys uh driving the uh Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow Airport, the jihadists.
These are fellas.
These are fellows who were doctors in the British national health system, National Health Service, which is the biggest employer in Europe.
It's got like tons of people.
And because middle class people don't want to be doctors and nurses in a socialized uh health system, they've got to import them from elsewhere.
And so in Britain they come from uh as these doctors did, they come from India and Pakistan and uh and Iraq.
Uh and uh these guys were pulling down good jobs as doctors and nurses, uh, these hospitals and decide, hey, you know, nuts to that.
Uh I'd much rather go and self-detonate in the concourse of Glasgow Airport.
And the what that I'm not saying, I'm not saying that every don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that every doctor in a socialized health care system is uh is a pot is a suicide bomber in waiting.
I'm saying that socialized health care is a suicide bomb in waiting.
That there is simply no way you can make uh the math add up.
Uh there are more MRI uh machines in the city of Philadelphia than in the whole of Canada.
Uh and that's the problem.
The minute you have a socialized health care system, it's all about waiting.
You wait, you wait, you wait.
You've got a hip problem, you wait, you wait, you wait in pain.
And whenever they do these things, whenever they do these things about comparing the percentage of GDP spent on health care in America versus the rest of the world, Uh they never factor that in.
They never factor the fact that you're waiting for your hip replacement for two years, so you're underperforming uh at work all that time because you're crippled up in agony uh and you can't do you can't work one hundred percent.
That's a cost to the economy too.
Uh if if you think uh as uh the the famous line goes, if you think health care is expensive now, wait till it's free.
Uh that's the lesson.
The ten month waiting list for the maternity warder, that uh that woman uh in British Columbia uh flying in the trim twin prop to give birth to her babies in Montana because there was nowhere to give it in uh anywhere in the Dominion of Canada.
That is socialized health care.
More straight ahead on the Rush uh Limbo Show.
This is Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
1800-282-2882, and don't forget, Rush will be back fighting fit on Monday.
Open line Friday, Rush will be back on Monday.
But great to be with you uh for the first show of the new year.
You know, I I uh I forgot to mention when we're talking about socialized health care just before the break.
The the big the big thing about socialized health care, if you're interested in freedom, is that the minute you have socialized health care, the government can justify anything uh on the c on the health costs of it.
Uh so for example, in um uh in uh the United Kingdom now, uh they won't treat you.
If you're a smoker and you get heart disease, there are places that won't treat you because you should have known about that before you started smoking.
Uh if you're overweight, they won't give you the hip replacement because you shouldn't have got overweight.
So it's a way of t the government telling you how to live your life, how to live every aspect of your life because every aspect of your life has a potential health component to it.
And if it has a health component to it, then it's the government's business because the government is paying for your health care.
And it doesn't so it doesn't just stop at, you know, uh you s you smoke a bit and then you get heart disease or whatever.
It c it it it it becomes preemptive.
It becomes preemptive.
Uh in uh they've installed cameras all over British uh highways now that can photograph you in your car and see whether you're eating a sandwich.
Uh because if you're eating a sandwich, uh it that might be dangerous and you might have an accident, and if you have an accident, uh you might have to be taken to uh to hospital.
So uh there you know, they the the country is riddled with jihadists.
Basically Britain is like Somalia with chip shops uh now.
It's uh essentially hollowed out by jihadists, but I can't do anything about that.
But they can fine you and charge you and arrest you uh for eating a sandwich in in uh in your car.
That's the way it goes.
It's uh uh that's uh that's socialized health care.
It's essentially uh a way of justifying government intervention in any area of life uh whatsoever.
Uh let's go to Ken on Open Line Friday.
Ken is calling us from uh Danville in California.
Ken, welcome to the EIB network.
Thanks, Mark.
Uh yeah, I'm in the middle of uh Arnold Schwarzenegger land.
Yeah.
The thing that concerns me most when we when I look at government versus capitalism is that government is programmed to finance that which doesn't work very well, and capitalism is programmed to finance that which works well.
And the two examples I think of are the auto bailout where Ford appears to be making the turn already and basically doesn't need government assistance, but GM and Chrysler wind up not riding their ships in time, and who does the government give money to?
But the two organizations that aren't writing their ships, and Ford, of course, to their credit says, no thanks.
We've we've already we're in process of making the term and we don't need the money.
Uh but societies need to be built on funding organizations who do things right rather than funding organizations who don't know how to do it right.
Yeah, you're you're absolutely you're absolutely right on that.
And what you and and the world you create, because they're always gonna be there's always gonna be uh people who who fail, who fall through what they call the so-called safety net.
But if you uh if you actively divise systems uh that reward the the uh the the failed model, uh then in fact you're you're the people you're ensnaring in the net Are the successful people?
It's not that people fall through the safety net, it's that other people can't rise through the safety net to do the extraordinary things to create the extraordinary companies on which successful uh societies depend.
Yeah, and the other example that I see here in California is we experience about a fifty percent dropout rate in our schools in California.
And uh the area that I'm fortunate enough to live in receives about ninety-five hundred dollars per pupil uh for uh education, and they get about eighty to eighty-five to ninety percent graduation rate uh and going to college.
Uh in other parts of California, the state pays eighteen to nineteen to twenty thousand dollars per pupil, and they get about twenty-five to thirty percent of their graduates going to college with about a seventy to seventy-five percent drop out rate.
So they're funding, in fact, like you said, the organization that don't produce.
Yeah.
Well, the you know, the education system is a very good example about that, because by any reasonable measure, uh about a third of the money in the uh U.S. education system is entirely wasted.
And when you get up to those numbers, when they're spending twenty thousand dollars for pupil per pupil, you know, it would be it would be cheaper to actually just uh close down the school system and stick those people on a plane and send them to the same Swiss finishing school John Kerry went to.
Uh because at that point, at that point, uh there is no uh when it gets to twenty thousand dollar per pupil, uh there is no point whatsoever to public education.
Because if you give uh if you put that twenty thousand dollars uh to use anywhere in the private sector, and by the way, I'm not saying that John Kerry's Swiss finishing school is right for all.
Didn't seem really seem to work out for him terribly well.
Uh but uh, you know, that is the that is the hard math of it.
Uh that at twenty thousand per pupil, there is no point in uh uh a state uh at that point the the education system is being run entirely for uh the teachers union and for nobody else's benefit.
Well, if there was any evidence that twenty thousand dollars per pupil created a better pupil, I might support it.
But in fact the opposite seems to be true.
Yeah, yeah.
I think I think you're I think you're right there.
And and and your your basic point is very sound, Ken, that uh essentially when you're you re if you set up a government system, you reward mediocrity.
Uh everybody knows this in the end.
When they have direct contact with the government, you think most of the time, most of these government programs, uh as a as a foreigner, I get to see uh more of it than uh than I want to, because uh uh when it comes to renewing my driver's license uh or uh my social security car, that kind of thing, sometimes I have to go and show myself in person at the head office uh in the way that uh if you're just uh native-born U.S. citizen,
uh you don't you do but you gotta take the uh you you gotta take the paperwork with you, all the paperwork with you to the like your long-form birth certificate and every uh the uh actually apparent I maybe I should have run for president, apparently you I wouldn't have had the birth certificate problems with that.
Uh ghost Sted 2012.
Uh that's uh that's my due cap.
As you can tell from my accident, I was uh born in the uh general vicinity of Hawaii.
Uh you know, you don't need to ask any more questions.
Uh but that's all you need to know.
That's all you need to know.
But uh and when you go there, when uh you but but for most people, unless they have to directly go to the DMV and then they see and then they're standing in line and they're confronted by the torpor and mediocrity of most government programs.
You think of anything you like.
You imagine what it would be like if government ran your email.
Uh you imagine if instead of uh going and uh renting a DVD from Netflix, you had to go and rent a uh DVD from the Federal Bureau of Movie Rentals.
You imagine what it would be like.
It's uh it's a recipe for sclerosis for seizing up.
Uh I I said uh a couple of weeks ago, I was thinking of that fabulous uh, you know, Dinah Shaw uh thing in the fifties.
Every week she'd come on TV and say, see the USA in your Chevrolet.
Uh and uh and they were great, but they got old and they got uh and their arteries hardened, and that's the beauty of capitalism, that if you don't stay on your toes, if you don't mind the store, you're over.
Uh I like the Atcheson Topeka and the Santa Fe.
I like the Sears robot catalog, but their moment passes, and if you're not nimble enough to move on to the next new thing, uh then you're over.
And there's no point government trying to prop you up.
There'd be no point government bailing out the Sears Robot catalogue.
There's no point government bailing out the Atchison Tobico and the Santa Fe.
It ain't gonna work.
And that is the beauty of capitalism.
It's inbuilt dynamism.
Uh thanks very much uh for your call, Ken, and here's uh hoping that uh California, uh which is a glorious state, one of the great iconic states of this union, uh, and here's hoping that even uh the malign alliance between Arnold Schwarzenegger and a democratic legislature will not totally destroy it.
Happy New Year to you, Ken.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
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Uh and let us go to Zaron in Detroit uh on Open Line Friday.
Uh uh welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show, Zaren.
Hey, you have a Canadian governor in Detroit.
That's how progressive you are.
That's right.
Very that's very true.
Happy New Year, Mark.
It's an absolute uh privilege to speak to you.
I always enjoy uh your enlightening thinking.
I I wanted to find out I didn't realize you were born in Canada, and I know the uh I know a number of Canadians that listen to this program.
Uh wouldn't it be ironic if four or eight years from today liberal socialist Canada ends up looking more conservative than uh Obama's America?
But my question for you is this are you following what's happening uh with the conservative leader, the conservative government in Canada, which appears to me from everything I've read to be doing a pretty good job trying to keep their economy stable and not follow some of the uh the the pitfalls and mistakes that that we've made over here.
Are you are you watching what's happening?
The Liberals are trying to throw out Stephen Harper?
Yeah, that's actually uh true in a in a strange way, that the um the conservatives are the the the Conservative Canada.
It's a like very mildly writer center.
But it's basically a kind of uh uh, you know, the Switzerland and North America.
It's got a very sound banking system, it's got a very sound currency at the moment, but the uh but that is not anywhere that anyone uh wants to go.
Nobody knows about it's a best kept secret.
But the Liberals uh they had an election, oh, what was it now, October, just a couple of weeks before the US election, and uh the Conservatives were returned to power with a uh as the biggest party in Parliament, and then the Liberals ganged up with the new Democratic Party and uh the uh bloc Quebecwa.
That that is basically the so that's basically the soft left, the hard left, and the separatist left, and they tried to basically hijack Parliament uh uh and take over the government without having an election.
The way to think about it is if you remember Jim Jeffords here, jump in Jim Jeffords to remember about whatever it was three or four years ago, uh 2002, he switched from uh being a Republican, which he never really was, uh, to being an independent, which he wasn't either, because he's always basically just voted for the Democrats.
But anyway, jump in Jim Jeffords.
You remember he got mad because he wasn't invited.
The White House for some reason held a reception for the Vermont Teacher of the Year, and they didn't invite Jim Jeffords.
This this is the kind when people have been calling in and asking when is America over, because I've been talking about decline.
It's on these things that history turns, folks.
You mock you mock you think the idea seems ridiculous.
The Vermont Teacher of the Year reception.
How important can that be?
On such on such hinges of history do mighty empires hang.
The the White House didn't invite Jim Jeffords to the Vermont Teacher of the Year reception, and he threw a big hissy fit.
And he uh and he uh f switched to the uh becoming an independent and caucusing with the Democrats.
You remember like John McCade was furious because like John McCaid was Mr. Maverick, Mr. Independent, uh and uh still in the glory days of his hot press coverage, and then suddenly he's picking up Time magazine, and there's Jim Jeffords on the cover saying, at last a man of independence.
Well, you know, I don't mind the Democrats taking control of the Senate if they do it in an election.
Uh but Jim Jefford's flipping control of the Senate to the Democrats, uh simply because he wasn't invited to the Vermont Teacher of the Year reception, I don't think is Democratic.
And that is what uh the Liberals and the New Democratic Party, that's the Hard Left Party, and the Bloc Quebecwa, who are the crazy uh separatist party, uh they all got together and tried to change the result of the Canadian election and take over the government uh without having an election.
I like elections.
You know, um when people say uh take back America, uh the the left have all these things, take back America, take back this, take back that.
It's not actually the difficult.
You don't have to take it back.
All you've got to do is say uh uh run for office and get elected and people will get it.
And you don't have to bring the Vermont Teacher of the Year reception into it.
There's no reason why why this country should dissolve into civil war and total societal collapse over the Vermont Teacher of the Year reception.
I don't remember I'm sorry, I'm ashamed to say I don't remember who won uh Vermont Teacher of the Year that year.
But whoever she is, I'm sure she's aghast at the idea that the Vermont Teacher of the Year reception should precipitate all this all this chaos and ill-feeling.
And that's basically what happened up in uh up in Canada a couple of weeks ago.
Except they didn't even have a Vermont Teacher of the Year reception.
Vermont um seems like it's in Canada, but I believe technically it's still just about south of the border.
So they don't celebrate Vermont Teacher of the Year Day up uh up in uh uh up in Canada.
Uh anyway, thank you.
Thank you for that call from Detroit uh Zauan.
And yes, it's true they do have a Canadian governor there, Jennifer Granham, uh, who uh who who uh the the Democrats at one point w when they wanted to get the Constitution changed to enable uh to enable people who weren't born here to run for office.
I can't I believe that's not a problem anymore.
Uh and anyway, back when it they were pickier about these things, Jennifer Gradham had uh she was uh they they always used to say they wanted to change the constitution for her uh because she was telegenic, which is what uh these sort of uh progressive Democrat males have to say instead of hot.
You know, uh you can't if you're a Democrat and you're dating a woman, and uh uh if you're a Democrat male and you're dating a woman of the opposite sex, and I don't know whether there are any fellows like that still in the Democratic Party, but if they are uh and you take a and take a gal out for dinner, don't tell her she looks hot because that's uh sexist.
Tell her she looks telegenic.
So that's what they said about Jennifer Granham.
They said she looked telegenic.
Uh and then of course she does look telegenic.
But then you think after a while you get bored with looking at her and you look at what she's done to the state of Michigan.
And at that point, nobody is that telegenic.
And uh so I don't think we'll be seeing President Gradham uh any day soon.
Uh this is Mark Snyder on the Rush Libor show.
We will have more for you straight ahead on the EIB network.
Happy New Year, America.
The EIB network, Mark Stein sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Rush will be back Monday.
Uh you know, I I I I joke about uh being an illegal immigrant, uh, and I mainly do that so the uh any members of the Border Patrol listening aren't entirely sure whether it's true or not.
But I I I mean I must say that without getting out the old violin obligado and the sob story, it is a great it is always a great honor to be here sitting in for Rush because uh there are jobs that Americans won't do, but this is not one of them.
And I'm uh always very appreciative uh when I get uh to be here sitting in on America's number one radio show.
You know, people say that we need to change in conservatism.
I take the line uh that we actually need to change uh some of our policies, but we need to remember the the principles.
And I love that line uh from Ronald Reagan's uh inaugural address.
Uh we are a nation that has a government, not the other way around.
Uh too much of the thinking that we're about to see after January the twentieth is predicated on the basis that we're a government that has a nation.
That's not the way it is, America.
Uh and let's remember that great Reagan principle in the years ahead.
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