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Jan. 5, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 5, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Caroline Kennedy looks like she's going to be appointed to the Senate by the unelected governor of New York.
They say Bush was not legitimate.
You know, maybe this Burris guy who was appointed by Blogo should just change his name to Kennedy.
Roland Kennedy.
You know, folks, where is the indictment of Blogo?
Where are the charges from the um U.S. attorney's office in Chicago?
Remember, ladies and gentlemen, I, again, as always was the first to ask, why in the world would the U.S. attorney stop the investigation at a point in time where not everybody involved had been snared?
Why stop the investigation before Blogo had actually sold the Senate seat?
Why do that?
And that question, ladies and gentlemen, is now beginning to surface.
Uh sparingly, but nevertheless, surface on some cable shows.
Why was this investigation stopped in the first place?
Where is the indictment?
Where are the charges against Blogoyevitch?
Seems like the U.S. attorney's leaving it up to the Illinois legislature to impeach the poor guy who was simply following in the great Chicago tradition.
His only mistake was getting caught.
That's why ethics education for state employees gets underway tomorrow in Illinois to teach them how not to get caught when they engage in the Chicago way.
Uh the U.S. attorney for Chicago said the charges for uh blago may not be for sixty days or so.
And so people are beginning to ask, where are the charges?
Uh some people begin to ask where the charges are beginning to say, where is the evidence he did anything wrong?
He didn't actually sell a seat because they stopped him in the process.
And now I love the fact that he's sticking it, bloggo is to Harry Reid and Obama by nominating this Burris guy who's not gonna go away.
Burris he's gonna try to get seated.
Harry Reed says he's not gonna seat him, Sergeant in Arms gonna try to keep him out of there.
This is Democrats denying a black man duly appointed by a sitting governor in a seat uh in the state of Illinois, a seat in the United States Senate.
Once again, it's Democrats engaging in blatant racism.
Wall Street Journal, a great editorial on January 3rd, entitled Harry Reed versus the Constitution.
If Roland Burris isn't fit for the Senate, how is Chris Dodd?
Excellent question.
If Roland Burris isn't fit, how is Chris Dodd fit for the Senate?
I love that question.
Bill Richardson.
By the way, grab audio soundbite number 39.
Bill Bill Richardson has spoken it.
Let me find the um What did I do with the trans- Well, I don't need it.
I don't actually I found it anyway.
Bill Richardson this afternoon in Santa Fe, New Mexico, unidentified female reporter.
This is why it's very tough to be an engineer on this program.
I just during the show intro theme, I said we're gonna start at number 14.
Now all of a sudden, because this show is total improv and comes off the top of my head.
We're gonna do 39.
Wait a minute.
And we have 40 and 41 just came in.
So here's Richardson, uh unidentified uh female reporterette.
Governor, it's been reported the transition team pressured you to withdraw your name.
Whose idea was it to do that?
It was my idea to withdraw.
I withdrew because I felt I didn't want a possible inquiry going on to delay the enormous progress we need To rebuild this economy.
Now, let me just say something else.
Please.
You know, yesterday I was hurting over this decision.
Yeah.
I lost a cabinet appointment.
But I think we have to focus on what people are losing in this country.
You know, the American people are losing jobs.
That's right.
They're losing their homes.
That's that's the real tragedy.
You know, mine is minor compared to that.
Did he say they're losing their hopes?
Damn, I was hoping it's hopes.
Sounded like hopes to me.
How can you lose hope?
When Obama is the president select, by the way, Snurley brought me a gift back from the Philippines just because the name of it's a tiny little pack like 10 cigarettes in there, and the name of the brand is Hope.
Hope cigarettes.
They looked for chain cigarettes, couldn't find any change cigarettes in the Philippines.
Hope smokes.
Hope smokes from Manila.
Let me look at.
We reported in this show back in December on this problem that Governor Richardson had.
This is a bond.
This is a company has to do with the sale of bonds to improve uh circumstances, cities and states.
We reported on this back in December.
We've known about this.
Everybody's acting like nobody knew anything about this.
We knew about it, and this company that did business with uh with Richardson has done business with uh governors of other states too.
Now, where's Obama's vetting process here?
How come Richardson didn't tell him about this?
These are questions.
I mean, this guy, Bill Richardson, who I happen to like, ran for president for crying out loud.
Where was the drive-by media holding truth to power?
Well, of course it's not there.
This this is this is look.
I I really think here, folks, that uh the the what's happened here is this is getting serious.
And this is uh Richardson's got some work to do here.
Commerce department, 80% of your work there is over NOAA, the weather forecast people.
Don't forget, 80% of the Commerce Department's work is weather forecasting detail and all that.
It is National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association, or whatever it is, NOAA.
Here's here's uh here's Roland Burris, who ought to change his name to Kennedy.
This afternoon at his press conference unidentified reporter says, why would you want to be associated with Governor Blagoevich?
I mean, he's tainted.
Am I tainted?
Well, but he did appoint you.
Well, so he signed some bills.
Are those bills he signed illegal?
We don't know.
We don't know.
What do you mean you don't know?
You don't want to know because you don't want to know the answer because it keeps you working.
This guy is firing back at these.
What do you mean you don't know?
You don't want to know because you don't want to know the answer because it keeps you working.
Wow.
Roland Burris firing both barrels at a drive-by reporterette.
I mean, he's tainted.
Am I tainted?
Well, but but he did appoint you.
So the uh another reporter then said, Does it bother you the fact that Illinois has become sort of a laughing stock in the nation?
Is it bother you at all?
That's because of the all the media story.
What do you rate your chances tomorrow if you see it?
I think that's a good thing.
Well, we'll see.
We'll see.
I don't want to put a rating.
I don't want to put a rating on that.
We will see.
You do expect tomorrow.
I am going there to be seated.
I am the junior senator from the state of Illinois.
Roland Burris, he is.
He's being appointed by a sitting governor.
Rod Blago Blagoyovich.
And Dingy Harry is gonna try to keep him out of there.
It is it is a black man seeking the most he can be.
And he didn't, he didn't do it, he didn't do anything wrong, at least not by Chicago standards.
You gotta figure anybody in a Democrat that gets elected in Chicago's got some taint, but but in Illinois, I mean it's it's it's not really a taint.
It's a badge of honor.
The problem is you get caught.
That's Blogo's problem.
I hope they try to destroy this guy.
I really I really hope they try to keep him out.
I've heard that Harry Reid's ordered the uh sergeant um of arms might even be armed.
You know, if they if they have to.
Ladies and gentlemen, I had this story of this this is December 27th.
There's a lot of stuff I printed out while I was gone.
And I set it aside here in a stack.
Because it really is not related to a specific news event in recent days, and the stack's pretty thick.
It's got some pretty interesting things in it.
One of the things in it was a column by Sonia Ubomerski.
Sonia Lubomirsky, let me see if it tells us who she is.
Yeah, she's a professor of psychology, University of California, Riverside, the author of The How of Happiness, a scientific approach to getting the life you want.
Sonia Lubomirsky.
It's L Y U B O M I R S K Y, so I hope I'm doing her name justice.
Why we're still happy is the title of the piece.
Why we are still happy.
Why we're still happy in the midst of a depression, a recession with no future other than Obama and Hope.
Why are we still happy?
We should all be miserable.
We're losing our 401ks.
We're losing our jobs.
We have.
Oh train of thought here, having trouble reining it in.
I predicted to you there would be bailout proposals for Bernie Madoff's ripoff to people.
The New York Times, somebody forget who has a story on all the great liberal Democrat charities who have gone bankrupt now because they I tell you, before this is all said and done, we will find the money to bail out some of these institutions.
They got shafted in the Madoff Ponzi scheme.
At any rate, Sonia Lyobomirski, these days bad news about the economy is everywhere, so why aren't we panicking?
Why aren't we spending our days dejected about the markets?
How is it that we manage to remain mostly preoccupied with the quotidian tasks and concerns of life?
Traffic, dinner, homework, deadlines, sharp words, flirtatious glances.
Those are tasks and concerns, flirtatious glances.
I know a lot of people would love to have one now and then.
Because the news these days affects everyone.
That's why we're still happy.
Do you realize the import of this?
This woman is a professor of psychology.
We're all happy because the bad news affects everybody.
Research in psychology and economics suggests that when only your salary is cut, or when only you make a foolish investment, or when only you lose your job, you become considerably less satisfied with your life.
But when everybody, from auto workers to Wall Street financiers, becomes worse off, your life satisfaction remains pretty much the same.
Indeed, humans are remarkably attuned to relative positions and status.
As the economist David Hemwemway and Sarah Soldnik demonstrated in a study at Harvard, many people would prefer to receive, and I get this.
Many people would prefer to receive an annual salary of $50,000 when others are making $25,000 than to earn 100,000 a year when others are making 200,000.
Similarly, Daniel Zizo and Andrew Oswald, economists in Britain, conducted a study that showed that people would give up money if doing so would cause somebody else to give up a slightly larger sum.
That is, we will make ourselves poorer in order to make somebody else poorer too.
Now, the piece goes on.
This goes back.
The reason I wanted to grab this out of the uh stash today was the statement I was making all day long that I finally concluded the Barack the Magic Negro controversy last week uh brought it home for me.
Winning elections right now is not about winning the argument.
Winning the electr winning elections right now is not persuading people about anything.
Winning elections is not about being right.
Winning elections is giving people what they want.
Right now.
Now this is going to change at some point, uh, because things in the in the in our culture and country are cyclical.
But right now, winning elections is about giving people what they want.
And when you read, if we can believe the data here, that people would love to make $50,000 if more people made 25 than would like to make 100 if more people made 200.
That people are made happy if others lose more than they do.
So how does this relate to Democrat Party politics?
Liberal public taxes, for one illustration.
You tell the middle class or whoever that the rich are going to get soaked and they're happy.
Whether they get a tax cut or not.
Whether they end up with more money in their back pockets or not, they're happy.
This column's premise, people are happy in America today, middle class, because the rich are having it handed to them.
The richer getting screwed, the richer going bankrupt, the richer this, and this is making people happy.
This happens to be one of the fundamental premises of liberalism and Democrat Party politics is creating this mindset.
And you would have to suggest that they've succeeded if this column is true, if the data here are correct.
People want misery spread equally, which is what liberalism is.
Equality is misery spread equally.
Bye.
People do not want.
Somebody makes 200 grand and they make one they're unhappy rather than happy at the opportunity to also make 200 grand.
It's all about get even with them.
It's all about punish those who have more.
I've heard for the last ten years that class envy politics doesn't work, that it ran its course, but obviously things are cyclical and it's back.
So when you face now, when you face data like this in circumstances like this, the lesson, the point that I'm making here is we can be right on everything.
As conservatives, it right now won't matter.
If being right is heard by people as denying them what they want, such as health care, universal health care, or whatever, you know, home mortgages that they don't have to pay for.
When you say, no, no, that's not right, people have to be able to pay what they have borrowed.
If one person is going to come along and go, no, no, no, affordable housing, we think you should stay in your house.
No, it's not right.
You shouldn't.
This is not, we can't function as a country this way.
You will lose in America today because certain things that the Democrats and Liberals are offering whatever it is that and guess who's getting on board?
Guess who tried their own version of it?
John McCain and the Republicans.
They just weren't as authentic.
Because I mean, when you're copycatting the masters and the experts, people will intrinsically instinctively go with the experts on this.
So this requires new stratagems for reaching people, straighten around the country and get it back on the right track, because that won't happen until people want that to happen.
They think the country has been on the wrong track for all these many years, and it's just now getting on the right side.
Back in just a seconds.
They win it.
Charles in Aswego, Illinois, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
So great to have you here.
Hey, Rush Megan, first time ditto is from uh hopefully what will continue to be the land of Lincoln, at least for a while.
Thank you, sir.
Of course, I just wanted to say two quick things.
It's fun to say, God bless you.
Um for that last hour, which said last hour about us standing up and uh, you know, something that needs to be said that Uh seems to be sometimes you're the only one who says it.
Um not sometimes all the time, okay.
Um I was listening to your show today, and during the news, they were talking about how our lieutenant governor uh was saying he was going to uh put a committee together to uh you know see how he could get rid of the corruption in Illinois, and it just kind of struck me uh the thought came that Well, why don't we just put some politicians in there who are crooks?
Um the Democrats seem to always have the answer that more laws and more government.
That's an excellent question.
I take you back.
This is the hubris and the arrogance of elected officials.
Let me take you back to John McCain.
John McCain said we need campaign finance reform because the system and money were corrupting good people.
And of course, it's the other way around.
Money is not the root of all evil.
It is in fact just the opposite.
Uh the system is fine.
It is corrupt people who corrupt it.
Back in a sec.
Dingy Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, is saying that the appointment of Roland Burris by Blogoevich means that Burris himself is tainted because of Blogoevich being tainted.
Now, if that's true, how is it that Barack Obama is not tainted by Tony Rezco?
Tony Rezco has been convicted.
If Burris is tainted by Bogoyovich, who has him in charge with anything yet, by the way, if Burris is tainted by Blogo, uh then why, ladies and gentlemen, was Obama not tainted by Blogo?
Why was Obama not tainted by Jeremiah Wright?
Bill Richardson.
There's more to this than meets the eye, and I want to remind you that we told you first about this scandal back in December.
The prowler at the American Spectator has some incredible information.
The Obama transition team was aware of Bill Richardson's relationship with the uh company currently being investigated, CDR Financial Products, because Richardson had introduced the founder of that firm, David Rubin, to Obama fundraisers during Democrat convention in Denver last August.
Richardson with Drew's name from nomination for commerce secretary due to a grand jury investigation into possible financial dealings between his uh administration in New Mexico and Rubin's firm, CDR Financial.
But it isn't just Obama and Richardson that Rubin has ties to.
According to federal law enforcement officials, familiar with the investigation, federal officials are also looking into CDR's political and financial ties to fast Eddie Rendell of Pennsylvania, uh, as well as to Democrat state and local officials in Illinois, California, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
By the way, this outfit also was involved.
I remember the original December story.
This outfit was involved in some chicanery in Alabama, I think.
As well.
Now, Fast Eddie Rindell placed Rubin on a political patronage commission in Pennsylvania.
Ruben was also given a seat on a Los Angeles City Commission back in 2002.
Rubin has also been a financial supporter of Reverend Sharpton.
Now, Ruben is David Rubin, who is head of the CDR financial services uh or products company, which is at the center of the grand jury investigation of Bill Richardson.
CDR also had close business ties to Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae, marketing and selling financial instruments created through low-income housing lease to own programs across the country.
Folks, this is one giant cesspool, and it's not just in Chicago.
Chicago.
It is throughout the Democrat Party.
The corruption is incredible.
However, it is a mistake to bring this up.
It will persuade nobody.
The truth does not matter right now.
This is an unfortunate distraction.
And I am simply a small-minded partisan seeking to upset the most Historically important presidential inauguration and administration in our nation's history.
None of this.
None of this is relevant.
Especially now that Richardson has taken himself out.
He's no longer up for commerce secretary.
This doesn't matter.
It never happened.
It never existed.
Obama, too big to fail.
After a number of embarrassing investigations into alleged IRS investigations into backdoor deals related to municipal bond financing in Atlanta and other localities in the late 90s, the firm's name was changed.
This bunch has been manipulating the Muni bond market, doing a bunch of things, raising money for these governors in some of these states, city, you know, mayors and so forth, and it's just it's Democrat all the way down to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack.
But right now doesn't matter.
Especially if it gets in the ways of Big Nef Bzzinski Tuesday, last Tuesday, December 30th, on Joe Scarborough's show in the morning.
Scarborough says, what does Obama need to do coming into office to open a new chapter in the Middle East peace process?
Well, he has to be aware of the fact that by now it must be eminently clear to everyone that the parties to the conflict will never reach an accommodation on their own.
I mean, if we haven't learned that after all of these years, and after all of the suffering that the people involved have been exposed to, then we'll never learn.
And you know, we're dealing with a very serious problem right now.
It's a problem which has a moral and a political dimension.
The Hamas people have provoked Israel.
There's no doubt about it.
And they have harassed Israel.
There's no doubt about it.
But does that mean that the punishment has to be on that scale?
Now, ladies and gentlemen, Zabignev Zhezinski is former national security advisor to Jimmy Carter.
In the 70s, uh Carter met with Brzezinski first thing every morning.
He had a lowdown of what's going on in the world.
Brzezinski is considered one of the best and brightest.
Zabigniev Brzezinski, one of the most intelligent.
He is loved and respected and admired and envied for the power of his intellect in Washington, D.C. and in foreign policy circles.
However, what he just said here is embarrassingly naive and dumb.
He admits that Hamas provoked Israel, that they harassed Israel.
No doubt about it.
But does that mean that the punishment has to be on that scale?
Meaning, does Israel have to fight back this hard?
Does Israel have to fight back this hard?
And then he said earlier, it is eminently clear to everyone that the parties in the conflict will never reach an accommodation on their own.
Now, what he means by that is we have to step in there and determine winners and losers.
Which is what we have been doing diplomatically since 1948, 1949, and this problem has never gone away.
This problem's never going to go away until Israel wins this.
And here's the danger of what Israel is doing.
You remember in 2006 they went into Lebanon and it didn't finish it off.
No matter what Israel does, the world media, including ours, is going to destroy them for it.
So they might as well end this.
Now that they've got ground troops and tanks in there, they may as well rout Hamas because there will be no peace until there is victory.
That is what his world history.
Peace is not the result of doctors, nurses, words, clean water, toothbrushes, habitat for humanity building rickety houses that collapse in ten years.
Peace is the result of victory.
One side winning and one side losing.
As long as these ceasefires keep happening before the termination and culmination of events, this process will continue.
So here we have the brightest guy in Washington, Brightest foreign policy guy.
Israel using disproportionate force?
No.
What are they supposed to do?
Launch the same number of rockets and make sure those rockets don't hit any targets?
Or hit very few targets?
We must have a proportionate response.
This is lunacy, and it is under the guise of brilliance.
Proportionate response.
Okay, let's have a proportionate response to Hitler.
Let's have a proportionate response response to Saddam Hussein.
Let's have a proportionate response to Pearl Harbor.
When does anything ever end in that regard?
It never does.
Of course, diplomats kind of like that.
Things never ending.
One more.
Z Big Nevzinski.
Joe Scarborough finally said to him, so what does Obama do, Z Big?
How does he step in?
We saw what he said before APAC earlier this year.
Did he stand up to Israel and say stop the bombing?
Look, first of all, he's not president.
And he cannot act until he becomes president.
We don't have a duopoly in the White House.
So I think for the time being, he simply has to bite his time.
Now, once he's president, he has to face the fact that we're dealing with a massive crisis in the Middle East.
And the crisis is getting worse.
It's not getting better.
The peace process is in shambles.
There was an effort made under Clinton, which could aborted after the elections in Israel.
Then we had eight years, essentially of a lot of posturing, a lot of talking, but no engagement.
Again, Zabignev Brzezinski, that what's well, I'm I don't that's what passes for you now, Snertley.
I didn't say he's bright.
I'm calling him ignorant, short-sighted, and not nearly as smart as he and everybody else thinks he is.
It's inside the beltway, they think he's brilliant.
It's inside the foreign policy establishment.
They think this guy is a five-star diplomat understanding world crises and how to solve them.
He had four years with Jimmy Carter.
He's been advising others to do so.
The problems never change.
However, this business, the peace process is in shambles.
Everybody said that for the last 50 years, it's always been in shambles.
What president in recent history has not inherited a shambles in the Middle East?
And I don't recall this concern in the past.
I don't recall the media being all concerned for George Bush when he inherited the mess, left him him for Bill Clinton.
But beyond that, folks, try this.
Try inheriting a presidency where terrorism and Al Qaeda was ignored for two full terms.
Thank you, Bill Clinton.
You inherit a presidency after that, and then you suffer an attack on our home soil for the first time since Pearl Harbor.
You watch on live television as 3,000 of your fellow Americans are slaughtered, then you have to defeat an unknown enemy while keeping the country safe, all without the benefit of a functional relationship between the CIA and the FBI, while lacking any understanding who attacked, why they attacked, how they were funded, and having no clue how to quickly root them out, because they were hiding in countries supplying most of our oil.
And if you screw up just once, if you miss just one attack, like the one where ten jets were set to explode over our country, the world's economy goes into the toilet, our enemies are emboldened to try again and again and again.
As for Obama's poor little Obama, poor little Barack, what a mess he's inheriting.
It's such a blow to his hopes for peace.
Well, as for Obama's mess in the Middle East, Z big, at least Afghanistan is not run by the Taliban today.
Iraq isn't run by Saddam Hussein, and Iran's role in funding Hamas and Hezbollah is now clearly defined and understood.
Iran's economy is on the brink of collapse thanks to low oil prices.
Obama inherits all of this, and these low oil prices have significantly weakened Russia and Venezuela.
Hugo Chavez just today announced he's ending the free oil, the free heating oil for people in the Northeast.
He's ending it.
The oil Price is too low.
Now, if you want to start crying tears, Z Big, let's go back and cry a tears for the virtual foreign policy incompetence and inattention that he inherited from Bill Clinton versus the pretty clear road Obama has to George W. Bush.
This Gaza thing's not a mystery.
If Israel doesn't wipe them out, it it just wipe them out.
Look at the Saudis aren't going to do anything.
You know why the Middle East, the Saudis, the Egyptians, a number of others, they want Israel to wipe them out.
Hamas is Iran, and Iran is Saudi Arabia's enemy.
That's why you're not hearing a whole bunch of protests from the usual suspects in the Middle East.
Hamas Hezbollah, that's Iran.
And they threaten everybody.
You'll never get vocal support from the Middle East states for Israel.
But they're not going to be sad if Israel cleans that place out and wipes Hamas out.
Okay, folks, just announced here.
I think it was just announced, it might have been last week, but Pat Fitzgerald has been granted permission by a U.S. judge to extend the deadline to indict Blogo from January 7th, a couple days from now, to April the 7th.
My friends, you're going to have to learn to laugh at this stuff for a time.
Anyway, I don't know how long, but please trust me on this.
You're going to have to laugh at you're going to have to be able to accept the fact that truth right now doesn't matter, that the American people, enough of them want to be lied to.
Look at them as your kids.
Your kids don't want to hear bad news.
The economy's bad.
Think back to Christmas.
Did you tell them how bad it was going to be and that the presence might not be as plentiful?
Or did you lie to them?
Did you they don't want to hear the bad news?
The American people don't want to hear it.
It's bad enough news that they want to hear lies.
Right now, this truth is not a factor in defeating Obama right now.
just isn't.
I'll let you know when truth surfaces again and matters.
Now, it matters to you and me.
We will be truthful on this program.
Don't misunderstand me.
I'm talking about in terms of the persuasion of that portion of the electorate that elected the one.
And it it will be fun to watch the dawn rise and reality.
Slap them in the ass and the face at the same time.
And send them to the bathroom with diarrhea and a bloody nose.
But until such time, we're going to have to learn to laugh at this.
Uh Dave in Lake Heron, New Mexico.
I've got about 30 seconds here, but I wanted to get you since you've been holding a long time.
Hello, Rush.
It's been over 20 years I've been listening to you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, I recently moved from California to New Mexico.
And as bad as California is, New Mexico's even worse.
It didn't surprise me what uh Richardson did uh pulling his name out of the hat with a state that has uh uh Senate uh the leader of the Senate being uh prosecuted for corruption, two uh treasurers being sent up.
None of this matter.
It doesn't matter.
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
Let it happen, but it's not gonna change anybody's mind.
Right.
Don't get your hopes up on this stuff mattering.
The Democrat Party right now can do no wrong.
Well, everybody freaking out here around me over the fact that Obama has named Leon Panetta ahead of CIA.
So what?
I mean, this is the Clinton administration version 2009, and Obama's chosen another one, big deal.
You know, I could do a Newt Gingrich on you, and I could say, you know, I met Leon Panetta once.
I met him out at the ATT program.
He was very nice.
I really like Leon Penag.
We can work with him.
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