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Jan. 12, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 12, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi, Paru.
Great to have you back, folks.
As always, it's a thrill and a delight to have you with us here on the Rush Limbaugh program, where we meet and surpass all audience expectations on a daily basis.
And we'll have more of your phone calls in this hour.
Telephone number 800282-2882, the email address ilrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Let me clarify something about the special network-wide broadcast on ABC Radio Network tomorrow night, WJR in Detroit.
It's a live two-hour broadcast.
It'll be on the ABC Radio Networks, and they're going to have Rick Waggoner of General Motors, Nardelli from Chrysler, Malali from Ford will be in there, Malali.
And they're also going to have Gettelfinger from the United Autoworkers and Annette Sikori.
It's a two-hour special.
Paul W. Smith will be moderating.
And you can check it out at WJR.com.
Also, this goes in spurts too, but people in unusually large numbers today are asking me about pumpkin.
I haven't mentioned pumpkin in a long time.
Is everything okay with pumpkin?
Oh, yeah, folks.
Pumpkin is same old pumpkin.
In fact, I got a birthday card from pumpkin today.
I mean, somebody obviously sent me a birthday card from pumpkin.
And the birthday card basically asks, reminds me to bring home some caviar so that she can celebrate this special day and that I can pause to think about how lucky I am to have her.
That's the birthday card from Pumpkin.
I love that little cat.
She's just perfect, perfect pet for me.
Perfect.
Only wants me around when she wants me around.
We had a call previously from a guy who wanted me to play a segment, his favorite segment, Scott from Jacksonville from 24 last night.
And Cookie ran and grabbed the particular soundbite he was talking about.
Jack Bauer and Agent Kildner are sitting in a car on a stakeout because terrorism has broken out while Bauer is being grilled by a bunch of pompous senators.
This is outside the building where there's a sniper trapped inside, and they have Agent Kildner and Bauer have this exchange.
Mr. Bauer, yeah.
I just wanted to tell you, what they're making you go through at that Senate hearing, it's wrong.
No, it's not.
It's better that everything comes out in the open.
We've done so many secret things over the years.
In the name of protecting this country, we've created two worlds.
Ours and the people we promised to protect.
They deserve to know the truth.
And they can decide how far they want to let us go.
Still, you don't deserve to be treated that way.
Not after what you've done for our country.
And I'm not the only one that thinks so.
Thank you.
Now, I wonder how many short years it will be before this conversation is taken with somebody and President Bush, not Jack Bauer.
Stop and think of what these guys faced after 9-11.
They had no clue whether the next wave of attacks were going to happen that night, the next day, the next week.
I had no idea what was coming because the intel on this was so bad.
Don't need to relive history, but just to mention, in the 90s, the Clinton administration couldn't have cared less about any of this.
So there really wasn't much to go on.
And the Bush administration took it deadly seriously, and it led to where we are now with the left-wing friends just totally rewriting history and making it out to be some giant violation of civil liberties and so forth.
I want to talk for a moment to those of you who are out of work.
Can I have your attention, please?
Those of you that have been fired, those of you who have been laid off, those of you who, not just recently either, but maybe the past six months or so, but particularly to those of you laid off in the past couple of three months.
I want to speak brazenly, honestly with you, extremely openly with you.
As you know, I'm an optimist and I have a philosophy that guides me most of the time.
Even I, strong and committed, a rock, a spine of steel, even sometimes I slip and the negative outweighs the positive.
I catch myself.
One of my operating philosophies and theories is that no matter how bad something is, there's always good to be found in it.
There's always something good to be found in bad.
And it's hard to look for the good because a lot of people want to wallow in the bad, wallow in the bad.
Oh, woe is me.
It's natural.
It's human nature.
The first thing that I think those of you who are out of work, and there are two kinds of people that are out of work, those who want to start working soon and those who are content to live on extended unemployment benefits.
I'm primarily speaking to those of you who want to go back to work.
There's a reason that you have been fired, and it may not be all that apparent to you.
But the private sector is made up of, especially the winners in the private sector, made up of very smart people.
By definition, they have to be.
There's some luck, naturally.
But outfits, companies, organizations that have enjoyed a long lifespan and have had success over most of their lifespan, at some point, you know, luck is simply where preparation meets opportunity.
There's a lot of skill and there's a lot of smarts involved.
If smart people are thus pairing their payrolls and their workforces and laying people off, then there's something they fear, something that they think they know, and this is leading them to hedge their bets.
If you've been fired recently by a company like this, you are the bet.
They're smart people and they're watching television and they're watching what's happening in the markets and they're listening to what the incoming administration is saying about its plan.
And it doesn't inspire confidence.
And we can see that it's not inspiring confidence by looking at the indicators in the private sector where confidence is inspired.
There's not too many people operating with confidence or the stock market's not operating in confidence today.
Individual businesses, for the most part, are not.
There's some that are, by the way.
I mean, even in the worst downturn, there are certain sectors of the business community that have great performances.
But even they are a little bit tenuous on somewhat shaky ground because the whole foundation on which everything is built is a little teetering right now.
And the announced plans to fix all this are not the kinds of plans that inspire confidence in successful businesses.
Successful businesses overcome the odds placed in front of them by government.
Failing businesses are those who are looking for help from government to keep them going.
Now, what is the good thing here?
What is the positive opportunity?
You have been fired.
Well, the statistics would say, and of course, you can do anything with statistics you want, but the statistics would say that most people fired have been fired from jobs they're not really crazy about.
Some of them fired, have lost jobs they really loved.
But on average, you'd have to say that a significant number of people who have been laid off or fired really did not get laid off or fired from a job that they loved.
That's the opportunity that you have.
You now have, out of necessity, necessity, the mother in go cliche all we want.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Fear is a great motivator.
But regardless, you now have an opportunity to choose what you want to do, depending on the urgency that you feel to get back to work.
In some people's cases, it's going to take a couple jobs if you choose to go back to work to make up what you lost if you were laid off or fired.
But there are plenty of opportunities out there, and those opportunities are only going to increase over time because, again, statistically, the odds are that this downcycle will come back despite what government does.
The more of Obama's plan is successful, the longer it's going to take.
And sadly, as we can see, the Republican Party, they're not willing to fight this.
They want to go along with it, so they appear to be harmonious, non-confrontational, and so forth.
And a lot of businesses, frankly, are scared to death to oppose the government because there's so many businesses that are regulated and over-regulated by government.
So they have to go along with some of this.
But like the green initiatives and all these other things.
And if they think they can turn a profit going green, even when they don't believe it, they'll do it.
As is evidenced by, I think one of the problems the car companies have had is they've bought into the notion that every one of you believes global warming, and if they come up with some green mobile that will inspire you to purchase the car because you want to save the planet, and if a car company can make you think you're saving the planet by buying one of its products, they'll damn well do it.
Rather than fight the prevailing winds, that this hoax is just that, a hoax, and continue to make cars that people want.
Fighting the government, as you see, is a huge, huge battle.
Now we've got an FDR-type government, by definition, coming in.
And that's, you know, when we talk about all these jobs that Obama's going to create, and let me find the story here because it's just, it's, yeah, here it's, it's hilarious.
The Associated Press, early on, I guess it was Saturday afternoon, reported Obama's stimulus will create 3.5 million jobs.
1245 in the afternoon Saturday, facing growing criticism of his economic recovery plan, the Messiah made public Saturday a detailed analysis by his economic advisors that estimates that $775 billion plan of tax cuts and new spending would create 3.5 million jobs over the next two years.
Then 30 minutes later, the AP reported that Obama advisors say the plan would create up to 4.1 million new jobs.
President-elect Obama countered critics with an analysis Saturday by his economic team showing that a program of tax cuts and spending like he's proposed would create up to 4.1 million jobs, far more than the 3 million he has insisted are needed to lift the country from recession.
Now, where does this stop?
Apart from the fact that he can't settle the number of new jobs he's going to create out of thin air, it went from 3.5 to 4.1 million over the course of 30 minutes Saturday afternoon.
If you look at all the infrastructure improvement plans he wants to do to save the economy, I'm led to the following realization.
Ted Bridge to Nowhere Stevens was ahead of his time.
We just ordered a guy to go to jail for doing exactly what Obama's going to build bridges to nowhere, fix bridges that don't need fixing and so forth.
But here, here, ladies, is the real question that you need to ask yourself.
If you are unemployed and looking for work and you don't yet see the opportunity and you're listening to Obama talk about, I don't care what it is, 3.5 million, 4 million, 6 million new jobs saved or created.
How are we going to tabulate the saved jobs, by the way?
You think Obama would, if I don't get, well, I can't be fired unless I fire myself.
So let's say that's a saved job.
My job will be saved by the Obama plan, right?
Not by anything I've done to maximize our earning position.
No, no, no.
My job will be saved by Obama.
Is that how this is going to work?
How are they going to calculate this?
Here is the question.
Okay, we're going to have an infrastructure plan.
We're going to Ted Stevens ought to apply for a pardon right now, just based on what the AP reported on Saturday afternoon.
Hey, you need an advisor on these bridges to nowhere, and I'm an expert.
At any rate, infrastructure jobs, $3.5 million, $4 million.
Could somebody explain to me how long one of those jobs lasts?
Could somebody explain to me, if you want a career, say, in infrastructure, where do you go?
Well, you might go to college and become a civil engineer.
But if you're going to wear the hard hat, where do you go?
You go to a construction company that's going to sign on and off now and then to infrastructure gigs.
Do you go out and join a union?
Is that what you want?
You want a career in infrastructure gigs?
So how long are these jobs going to last?
I mean, you could probably put people to work, 6 million people to work tomorrow for a couple days, send them up down the highways picking up trash.
You know, pay them whatever the minimum wage is and say, I just created 6 million jobs.
Two days later, you fire them because trash is picked up, but then you're back to where you started.
So my point here is job to job, a career is a different thing.
And a career has goals, objectives, short and long term.
A career, somebody has a career vision, more than likely has a passion for what they love to do and know what it is.
So that's, to me, wherein the opportunity lies.
I mean, it's sad that people are out of work and it's sad they're being laid off, but it's also very sad that some of these layoffs are happening as a preventive measure, not yet necessary because of the economic downturn.
These are just smart people hedging the bets and you're the bet.
They're betting taxes are going to go up.
They're betting it's going to cost more to have health care for employees.
They're betting it's going to have more cost to give Medicare and so whatever it is.
And so none of these businesses are bottomless pits of money.
So they're getting ready for the additional costs of doing business.
And the most expensive cost of doing business is labor.
It's the fastest way to bring the budget in line is getting rid of people.
Faster than getting rid of printers, faster than getting away from paperclips, faster than getting rid of the coffee machine or charging for lunch in a cafeteria or what have you.
So you have an opportunity here.
May not like it, may wish it hadn't happened to you, but while you're out of work anyway, and those of you who remember to whom I'm addressing, you want to go back to work, figure out what it is you really love.
Figure out what it is you really want to do, and then look into how to do it and get it done.
Now, it may seem like, oh, Russia is so hard.
I know it is.
But everything starts with the first step.
I don't care who somebody was before they were somebody or something.
It started with the first step.
And if it's something you love, it won't really be like a job.
Won't really be like a career.
And you may not know what it is yet.
That, again, is part of the opportunity.
You have the chance to choose.
But Rush, I need to work immediately.
I know.
So start thinking fast.
Start thinking fast and start acting fast.
But what are there any opportunities?
You don't know you try.
You have no idea.
Remember, 80% is showing up.
You'd be amazed.
We had the guy call here from Tennessee on Friday.
He didn't even have an opening.
Some woman walked in, desperately wanted to work there, just sold this guy on how much she loved a blue jean business, and he created a job for her.
I will guarantee you, employers want passion, excitement, energy.
Don't go in there and the first thing, okay, what's the sick day schedule?
How many vacations?
Don't ask that stuff at the outset.
Make them have to tell you, in fact.
Brief timeout, back after this.
Along the same lines of that which we were just discussing, ladies and gentlemen.
First off, from the politico today, White House reporters for the New York Times predict that the market collapse will force President-elect Barack Obama to abandon for now many of his campaign promises.
Now, this is from yesterday.
I know, but why give the New York Times credit for this when Obama said so yesterday with Stephanopoulos?
He said we're going to have to do it.
Well, anyway, but that's not the point of the story.
If his stimulus plan doesn't work out, this is from Jeff Zellini, who covered Obama's campaign.
If Obama's stimulus plan doesn't work out, he may very well be a one-term president.
It's hard to imagine that he could be reelected if the economy is in the exact same position four years from now.
A lot of things he said on the campaign trail you can now dispense with, said correspondent Peter Baker.
For the moment, he has to focus on the economy.
And for all of his campaign talk about collective sacrifice, Baker observed, Obama has seemed reluctant to call for austerity in a challenging economic moment.
He hasn't asked anybody for sacrificing.
He did ask, these guys are two days behind the scenes.
He did say everybody's going to have to have some skin in the game.
Everybody's got to sacrifice.
He said this, including Al Sharpton, who's already sacrificed.
All these years of sacrifice.
And Obama is in the White House.
At any rate, he's already said everybody's going to have skin in the game.
Everybody's going to have sacrifice.
We need to define everybody.
I hate to tell you this.
When he says everybody's going to, I can't, everybody?
The poor?
It's hard to imagine he could be re-elected.
So New York Times reporters are warning of a one-term presidency for the Messiah if the stimulus plan does not work.
Wow.
I mean, people are not going to put up with this if the plan doesn't work.
And let's see.
There's one other story, big changes to Obama's stimulus plan.
There will be more green spending, less tax cuts, actually tax credits, and more money to the states.
So the plan is under constant revision and review.
But we can't hold him to what he's in the campaign, right?
Of course, Kent doesn't have a clue what he's doing.
This is the story that just keeps giving, ladies and gentlemen.
The Associated Press is now tamping down the expectations of crowds at the Messiah's coronation.
Washington Post did this on Friday.
Now the AP Obama gets in on the act.
Jim Baca, and here's the template.
They always go out and find some citizen to talk about the trials and tribulations of any activity in the United States of America.
Jim Bucca and his wife were all set to travel from New Mexico to Washington for the inauguration.
They had booked airplane tickets.
They had arranged to stay with friends in Virginia.
Then they started reading about all the obstacles they would face once they arrived, packed subway cars, perhaps miles of gridlock on the roads, and even prohibitions on bringing seemingly harmless items like umbrellas to the National Mall.
All of a sudden, said Jim Bucca, a former Albuquerque mayor who says he worked to help elect Obama.
All of a sudden, a fireplace in Irish coffee sounded a lot better.
Besides, he said we can probably get a better view on TV.
The warnings of massive crowds, sparse lodging, and tight security have convinced some would-be visitors that it's best to stay home.
That might mean smaller crowds than first estimated for the swearing in of the first black president.
Now, this is such smoke and mirror.
This is, I love this because the first story was never true.
The first story, none of it was true.
Five to six million, it's like $50 billion of made off.
We don't know that.
We never knew that there were really 3 million homeless.
There weren't.
6 million would flood them all.
6 million would flood Washington for this inaugural.
Nobody knew that.
It was all media created and driven.
I'll bet you you can get a hotel room in Washington right now if you call.
I bet you can't.
Just a wild guess.
Just a wild guess.
Might have to pay a little bit for it more than otherwise.
So they've been not, and oh, and remember we had, we had the, it was such a sad story.
It almost brought me to tears, in fact.
When I shared it with you last Friday, this guy who lives in some upscale part of town read all this.
Wow, man, I'm going to put my home up for auction for a week, and I'm going to go to Morocco while everybody's here.
So he put his little apartment, three-bedroom or three, some little apartment up for $2,000 a week.
No takers.
No takers at $1,500.
Finally, I think he settled on $1,000, but that's not enough to go to Morocco and back and spend a week there.
So they did a big sob story.
And this is a classic illustration.
The media drives all of these expectations, all of this massive number.
70,000 port-a-potties would be necessary.
6 million people, you know, about 5.5 million of them wouldn't be anywhere near to see what was going on.
The number of tickets to inauguration is 250,000.
The warnings about massive crowds and spare lodging have convinced some it's best to stay home.
The city's police chief, Kathy Lanier, said Thursday authorities were anticipating 1 million to 2 million people.
That is far shy of the headline-grabbing 3 million to 5 million figure that Mayor Adrian Fenty initially predicted.
Oh, yeah, the key phrase there is headline grabbing.
The largest turnout the Park Service has on record is $1.2 million for LBJ's inauguration, and we're going to get 3 to 5 million.
I even saw 6 million mentioned once.
Antron Johnson of Atlanta said his group of Obama supporters once planned to charter three 57-seater buses.
Now they're down to two.
I am completely frustrated and disappointed, Antron Johnson said.
Among the reasons that people have backed out are concerns about overcrowding in the city and potential cell phone outages.
One indication of waning inaugural interest, or at least the calm after the initial hype, is the sluggish demand from out-of-towners seeking housing.
And the key phrase here is initial hype.
The initial hype was supplied by the drive-bys.
They create the hype.
They create expectations in the minds of locals that they can rent their homes like people in Martinez, Georgia do during Augusta week.
And then they just drive on by while people find out they can't rent anything to anybody because nobody's coming.
Andre Butters decided to create a website to help local homeowners find renters based on the mayor's initial crowd estimate.
Yet demand for that has been light.
There are about 730 properties listed on his website.
Only about 100 out-of-towners have registered to find 100 out-of-towners that we were going to have a crowd of 3 to 5 million.
I'm just as stumped as everybody, he said.
We thought it was a no-brainer.
Well, even no-brainers are above the heads of the BAMSTR supporters.
I was not stumped.
I predicted this.
From the get-go, this $5 to $6 million, this was all part of the hype.
It was all part of the historic nature.
It was all part of the...
Never before has anything like this ever happened.
Never before had we had him.
Never before have we had a Messiah.
All of it was lies.
It was just smoke and mirrors.
Andrew Weissman isn't having much luck either.
He and his roommate were excited about the chance to make a profit by renting out their row house in northwest Washington.
They posted an ad in December on Craigslist to see what would happen.
At first, they asked for $2,500 a night.
No takers.
They have slashed the price to $1,800 a night.
Wait a minute now.
$2,500 a night?
Isn't that called evil profiteering?
What would the Obama Messiah think of this?
That is gouging.
I mean, that's worse than big oil ever thought about doing.
And this is speculation and gouging at the same time.
Rooms can be had at hotels, too.
Why, didn't I just say this?
Do you know that about 600 hotel rooms remain available?
No, it says right here, and this is from A.P. Obama.
And the writer is Nafisa Saeed.
Nafisa Saeed and Brian Wesley.
Rooms can be had at hotels.
So these clowns are charging $1,800 a night.
Folks, let me tell you something.
If you have $2,500 a night to spend on a rental, come to Palm Beach.
Is worth it.
I know, I know there were no hotel rooms.
I know that it was going to cost you $15,000 a night for the super suite at the Four Treasons or something.
Oprah was having trouble.
All these people are having trouble getting it.
None of it was true.
None of it.
600 hotel rooms are available, and these clowns are trying to offload their houses for $1,800 a night.
By the way, the 600 hotel room availability is according to surveys by Destination DC, which is the city's own tourism bureau.
And get this: an additional 12,000 rooms are available within a 200-mile radius of Washington.
They might be expensive, and hotels still are requiring minimum stays.
So 12,600 rooms, 600 in the city, the district, 12,000 within a 200, they should all be sold out.
We're going to have 5 million people there.
Well, I'm sure the Super Bowl sold out.
But wait, if the Arizona card, sorry.
Quick.
We'll be back after this.
Okay, back to the back to the phones.
Wait a minute.
I've got to grab grab somebody 17.
This is Blagojevich Friday at his press conference after the State House had voted to impeach him.
Or was it the State House?
The House had voted to impeach him.
Here's a portion of his remarks.
We're joined here today by several families who benefited by some of the programs and some of the initiatives because I wouldn't take no for an answer from a house that was designed to block everything that could help people for whatever their motivations.
I understand the House's actions.
I'm not at all surprised by it.
But I took actions with the advice of lawyers and experts to find ways, creative ways, to use the executive authority of a governor to get real things done for people who rely on us.
And in many cases, the things we did for people have literally saved lives.
I don't believe those are impeachable offenses.
He had a parade of victims up there standing right next to him as he was going through his response to being impeached, or at least the impeachment vote out there in the House.
So this is a traditional Democrat trick.
They're forever bringing up starving kids who might not be able to eat if we cut the school lunch program, blah, blah, blah.
It's a time-honored, you know, parade senior citizens with cans of Jiffy Pop or Candeleration or whatever in the face of Republican budget cuts.
Here now, ladies and gentlemen, is a montage of drive-by media types just fit to be tied over Blago using victims as props.
Illinois Governor Rob Lagojevich putting on quite a show today.
He even brought in people as props.
Poor people he brought out there as props.
The governor's press conference today, human props at all.
Blagojevich even brought props to families.
He says he helped.
Using those people behind him as props.
He's using them as props.
One of the things that, quite frankly, has always antagonized a lot of people is when you use people as props.
No, it never ends.
That's Bob Franken, formerly of CNN.
Now he's with somebody else.
It's never infuriated you people.
You've always celebrated using people as props when the Democrats do it.
Here's Blagojevich last Friday in Chicago, held a press conference.
Omar Castile is a young man who was on the all kids program.
He was 17, 18 years old, and then it was discovered that he had a rare liver disease, kidney disease.
We intervened and acted in a way with legal advice around the legislature.
Omar Castillo got that surgery.
He got his liver.
He's now alive and well, and he's going to live a long and full and happy life.
And you're going to impeach me for this, he says.
This is what they're mad at, using people as props.
But shall we go back to Barack Obama's 30-minute infomercial October 29th?
Juliana Sanchez is a widow with two children and a mortgage.
Her parents, Richard and Francis, were both educators.
Like her family, Juliana has devoted her life to giving her daughter, Jessica, and son Adam, a good education.
Every morning, she's up before the summit.
So they weren't upset when Obama was using the prop in his 20-minute or 20- and a 30-minute whatever it was infomercial.
Brad in Minneapolis, welcome, sir.
Thank you for waiting.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mega Global Warming Dittos from the Ohio 3 Below in Minneapolis.
Thank you, sir.
And happy birthday.
I have a question about can the Republican Party and the House just walk off the floor, stay in their offices, write policy, and answer phone calls and blame everything on Democrats?
Well, sure.
I mean, basically, you want them to adopt the Democrat strategy of blaming everything on Democrats, blaming everything on Obama, but it isn't going to happen.
At least not right off the bat.
It's not in the Republicans' DNA to do that.
Plus, they're paranoid of any criticism of Obama now being construed as racism and not giving a chance.
The Republican Party mantra is, we hope he succeeds.
Now, this program is not the Republican Party.
And frankly, given the way I've seen his plans and heard him talk about it, I don't want him to succeed, folks.
I don't want socialism in this country.
I don't want nationalized health care.
I don't want the government owning the auto business.
I don't want all of that.
I don't want any of this.
I don't want tax increases, folks.
It's not going to fix anything.
I don't want this to work.
Well, the Republican Party is saying they hope he succeeds.
As I mentioned to you on Friday, the Senate Republicans had a retreat, and they've all came out of it demoralized.
They were told, do not be confrontational, be moderate, and remember the plight of Northeastern Republicans.
Meaning, we've got to make sure the Northeastern liberals keep getting reelected.
So don't expect the Republicans to start complaining about anything.
And when they do, if they do, they will not have given themselves a foundation of credibility to do it.
They think they're doing that by offering support and assistance and hopes for success.
At some point, if they fall off the wagon, it's, well, you wanted to, yeah, we wanted this to work, but we just don't think it's going to work.
Well, you never did think it was going to work, didn't it?
It's a hazing cow.
Ignorant and tone-deaf.
They can be.
Kathy and Potomac, Maryland.
Hi.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Happy birthday, Rush.
Thank you very much.
I've been told I have a minute, so here goes.
I called last September just as the financial crisis was coming to the fore to say that I thought what we had was a crisis of confidence in government.
Rush, now I believe that our government is trying to create a crisis of confidence in ourselves, the American people.
Obama said only government can get us out of this mess.
Well, Rush, I'm an inventor and an entrepreneur, and I can bring back the economy.
I invented a dog ramp, and I even have it manufactured right here in the good old USA in Somerset, Wisconsin.
So I'm full of confidence.
You are dead on right about this, creating a crisis mentality.
But it's not just Obama that's doing it.
I mean, the media has been attempting to do this against the war in Iraq.
Supposedly, we're in a recession for five years.
And it's finally paid off for them.
We'll be back.
We go to Jacksonville.
Cynthia, I have about a minute here with you, too, but I know you can squeeze it in.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you so much, Rush.
It's an honor and a privilege to talk to you today.
Happy birthday.
Thanks very much.
I just have a couple of quick things to say.
I was watching the George H.W. Bush be commissioned yesterday, and I just wanted to tell our wonderful President Bush how much he is going to be missed and how much we appreciate you, Rush, and how much we've appreciated him these years.
I know it's been tough.
And also to tell Senator Martinez, yes, this is the same Cynthia that emails you every week.
Well, I don't know that Senator Martinez is a regular listener of this program.
Well, that's kind of funny.
I'm trying to be humorous.
I meant to talk about something today.
Make me a note.
Put it in a box.
I've got to talk about it tomorrow.
You know, the president's saying, advise the Republican Party.
Look, immigration, we don't want to tell people we're against immigrants.
We don't want people we're against them and so forth.
And, you know, it's a sad, this is what's happened to the whole concept of freedom.
And even the Republican Party is falling prey to this, that freedom is something that's extended to groups of victims.
And that misses the entire conservative message.
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