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Jan. 23, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 23, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Hiya, folks.
It's great to have you with us.
It's a joy.
It's a thrill.
It's a delight to be sitting here behind a golden EIB microphone to have three straight hours to tell you what is and what isn't.
And by the way, we're dedicating today's program to white construction workers, the white construction workers that we learned yesterday, Robert B. Rice, said he doesn't want to receive any of the bailout money to hire infrastructure workers.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Now he said he did he has got nothing against white construction workers, but instead he wants to hire minorities and stuff.
It's strange he didn't talk about qualifications to do infrastructure work.
He talked about groups.
Anyway, greetings, my friends.
It's open line Friday.
And when we go to the phones, the program content is all yours.
You know the rules by now, Monday through Thursday.
We only talk about what I care about.
But on Friday I'll fake it if I don't care about it, you want to talk about it.
800-282-2882, the email address is L Rushbow at EIVNet.com.
I don't know if we can hire Larry King's son, Canon, eight years old.
Larry King said on CNN a couple nights ago that uh his son told him that black is in, and his Larry King's son said he wished he was black, putting Bob Woodward in a very nervous position asking Woodward what he thought of that.
Uh Woodward's gee, am I back in the hospital talking to Bill Casey here, who was in a coma at the time.
Uh at any rate, we we might, I don't know that we want to put Chase Canon King on a construction because we might want to hire him here as an intern so we can learn broadcasting.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program again, folks.
All right.
Let's review the week.
Shall we review the week?
Speaking honestly, I mean, look, I, you know, people are misunderstanding this.
Snerdley got a couple calls from some of his buddies last night.
What is your boss meaning he wants the president to fail?
I am I remain dumbfounded at the high degree, the high level of ignorance that there is out there.
If I took a drive-by reporter, Jim Vandehae at the Politico to finally understand this and to try to put the drive-by's uh in in, you know, get him up to speed and on all this.
But I just want to say, folks, look, I support Obama.
I just don't support his policies.
I support our president.
Like I have supported all presidents.
I just don't support Obama's policies.
I don't support the nationalization of the banks, which has happened.
I don't support the nationalization of the auto companies.
I don't support the nationalization of the mortgage business.
I don't like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd running things.
And I don't want that to continue.
But I support our president.
I'm like anybody else.
I support the president.
I just don't support the policies.
Now, let's take a look at the week.
Not a good week, folks, looking at this objectively and honestly as one who supports the president.
Wants him to be well and wants him to do well.
A lot of omens this week, folks.
You know, if I were if I were in the Obama administration, I would be a little concerned.
First off, the oath was botched, and I don't care who botched it, but that doesn't happen.
The oath of office was botched.
The Immaculation Address by Obama was a dud, a flat-out dud.
In fact, Charles Crowdhammer, a great piece today in the Washington Post.
And Mr. Crowdhammer was one of the conservatives who dined with Obama at George Will's home in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Crowdhammer says it was so bad and so flat and so unlike Obama that he wonders if Obama did it on purpose.
He wonders if Obama botched this speech on Purpose to lower expectations knowing full well that he can't hit grand slams all the time.
I don't know about that because this isn't to me, this is not the kind of occasion where you want to leave your cult followers clueless as to when to applaud and uh and cheer.
But moving on, okay, the oath of office was botched, the immaculation speech was a dud.
The immaculation benediction by the Reverend Lowry was racist.
Yesterday, when reading and announcing and signing the executive orders, he had to ask Greg Craig, who I should we start calling this guy President Craig.
He had to ask Greg Craig to fill in the blanks here because it looked like he didn't understand and couldn't explain the executive orders to the country without any help.
What comes next there, Greg?
Oh yeah, due process and all that.
Then he went down and you know tried to play uh hunky dory with the press in the press room last night, and that blew up in his face because they asked him a substantive question, and he puts his hand on the reporter's shoulder and said, No, no, no, no, no, no.
That they're gonna be a press conference coming up.
You're not you're not supposed to do that now.
And a photographer bailed him out uh uh much by asking him if he wanted a retake.
You want to say that again, Mr. President?
Uh, much like uh Al Gore botched an interview with someplace in the CBS and CBS.
You you want to you want to do this again?
This was during Gore's campaign in uh in 2000.
His uh cabinet nominations.
The IRS nominee is a tax cheat.
Uh other nominees are conflict-ridden, other nominees are corrupt.
To top it off, this massive uh porkalus, it's not a stimulus, it's a porcelaus.
This porkless spending extravaganza has been flatly rejected by the Office of Management and Budget and Wall Street.
We had the details yesterday.
The Office of Management and Budget says the vast majority of this stuff is not going to get spent till after 2010 or 2011.
2010 just happens to be re-election year.
And this is day three.
In addition to that, one of the executive orders that Obama needed help explaining was the announcement of closing Guantanamo Bay in one year, which I deftly reacted to.
I have a thriving merchandise business down there.
We're coming up with a brand new line.
Uh the government has thrown us a curd ball, and but we're just going to sit here and whine and ask for bailout.
We're going to turn it into a teachable capitalist moment.
But the New York Times has a story today that a Saudi who was in prison at Guantanamo was released, has now become a deputy leader of Al-Qaeda's branch office in Yemen.
Did you hear me, ladies and gentlemen?
Look at me.
We released a prisoner from Guantanamo Bay.
We have tracked the prisoner.
We now know that he is a deputy leader of Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch, Yemen, by the way, the site of the bombing of the USS coal.
In addition to all that, ladies and gentlemen, we have also learned that the four-piece classical music quartet that played a special composition by John Williams at the Immaculation on Tuesday faked it.
Millie Vanilli may as well have been on stage.
Yo Yoma, Yitzhak Perlman, and others claimed it was too cold.
They could not have played this perfectly because it was too cold.
So they went to the marine barracks on Sunday, and just in case, they recorded a version of it.
And because it was too cold, they played the fake version, the taped version at the Immaculation while pretending to play the real thing.
I have a question.
Was anything on Tuesday real?
We also have a story that most of the porta potties were not used, and the guy from the company that supplied a lot of them, Don's Johns.
You wait till you hear this story.
This guy takes very seriously the portapotty business.
He was very unhappy that so many of them went unused after being put.
I saw the, you know, I called it Hurricane Latrina, all the refuge, the refuse in the trash out there.
As I say, folks, we're on day three.
It appears that the president I support, I just don't support his policies.
It appears he doesn't know what he's doing.
He hasn't run anything in a long time, and he's never really accomplished much.
But uh anyway, not not a um out of the yes, and then the Caroline Kennedy story in in New York Folks, I'm telling this woman.
Oh, oh, I forgot what folks, I forgot one other thing.
Oh, this is huge.
I forgot one other thing.
Barack Obama apparently ordered the killing of seven Muslims in Pakistan without a trial.
We sent a drone into Pakistan.
The drone fired on a pack of terrorists in Pakistan, and it killed seven of them.
This under the headline, Obama brings peace to the world.
In fact, we have the audio soundbite of this.
Audio soundbite number two this morning on CNN's newsroom, the correspondent Reza Sayah reported live from Islamabad.
We put this together as a montage.
Many here in Pakistan were eager to see if these U.S. missile strikes would end under a Barack Obama administration.
And we have that answer here in Pakistan on this Friday night, and that answer is no.
Again, another suspected U.S. missile strike hits a building in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border.
Ten people have been killed, according to a local political official and two military officials who asked not to be identified.
This week, Barack Obama, America's new president himself, said in this region, Al Qaeda remains at large plotting the next attack on U.S. soil.
Washington's strategy for the past year has been to hammer these targets with these U.S. missile strikes.
They've been very controversial here in Pakistan.
They fueled anti-American sentiments.
Well, the Bush policy apparently has been renewed and reauthorized by President Obama, which has led to anti-American sentiments.
Missiles fired from a suspected U.S. spy plane killed now ten people on the Pakistan side of the Afghan border, a lawless region where Al Qaeda militants are known to hide out.
So I guess I guess what we're to take from this in the Obama administration, which I support, I just don't support the policies.
It's okay to kill these people, but don't capture them.
Uh if if if he doesn't have to answer questions, why should anybody else?
Obama signed an executive order this week closing Club Gitmo and the CIA black sites.
So uh I thought this is why I'm conflicted, folks.
Excuse me here.
But I thought during the campaign and all during the last four to five years, we kept hearing from uh uh tenured, respected members of the Democrat Party that killing Muslims is what caused all of our problems in the Middle East, that in supporting Israel.
Killing Muslims made them hate us.
And I thought that if we got the hell out that they would start liking us again, like during the Carter.
Oh, and that reminds me, Barack Obama has ordered Israel to open the borders to the gazukas.
He has told Israel to open the border so the gazukas from Gaza can get closer to aim their rockets, I guess.
It's a mishmash out there.
We will sort all of this out as the program unfolds.
By the way, with these ten people killed in Pakistan, did the Israelis release a statement of concern about the innocents killed by the Obama administration?
Well, when you know when Israel returns fire, when Israel defends itself from thousands of gazouka rockets, uh, we always issue a statement of concern about the innocent people in the Gaza Strip that were killed by Israeli rockets.
So I wonder, has Israel somebody look this up for Israel Released a statement of concern about the innocence killed by the Obama administration in Pakistan.
Ladies and gentlemen, I just received a uh flash email from a very close friend of mine who happens to be an attorney.
And the subject line is you are lying about our president.
And if you keep this up, they'll keep Club Gitmo open just for you.
And I had to stop and think about that, because you know there are all kinds of loopholes in this executive order.
The devil's in the details, and I said on Hannity on uh on the Wednesday night edition of the interview that I don't believe they're going to close it at all until there is profound victory they can claim.
I think this one-year thing is just it's a political statement, it's a political executive order, it's not about security.
You wait and see.
But now this lawyer says, he's a good friend of mine, he's a leftist lawyer, by the way.
He says, you are lying about our president.
And if you keep it up, believe me, I know these people, they will keep Guantanamo Bay open if they have to just...
Just for you.
Just because the Obama administration ordered the killing of ten Pakistanis, Rush, does not mean that their families cannot have a trial.
You are going to have to get with it, Rush.
You're from the stale ideas of the past, where we have to make a false choice between our values and our security.
There is nothing that says just because a bunch of jihadists are dead, that their families cannot have lawyers appointed, that uh that we cannot interrogate their families with dignity, and that they can't the families the victims here can receive a trial and perhaps win a verdict on the guilt of the United States in this attack.
Yet with it.
When is White finally going to embrace what is right?
Is how my friend the leftist lawyer concludes, and he's serious about some of this.
Many people are emailing me, uh, some from the ignorant brigade.
What do you mean you you want our president to fail?
And of course, others are emailing me saying, I don't bl I can't understand, Rush.
How you were being purposely misquoted and purposely taken out of context, even when, as CNN did, they play the whole context of what you said and still don't get it.
Uh I said, you know, I want to write them all back.
I don't have time to write them all back.
This is Michael J. Fox redux.
This is just, and these these incidents happen with me uh frequently.
Now, what it what it adds up to, I see the the news stories, like like Mark Halperin was on scene, and I guess it was, I don't know, last night or the night before.
Might have been last night.
Yeah, I think it was last night.
Uh Campbell Brown in her show No Bull, No Bias, did a segment on how just outrageous.
Maybe I've gone over the line now, hoping that the president fails.
Hey, this is this gonna be Halpern said, you know, this is really, it's so off-tune with what everybody in the media is saying, and everybody in the Republican Party is saying as though how could somebody not get it?
Mark Halperin was actually the my grip my my problem here is that I'm off the reservation, occupied by the main excuse me, mainstream media.
How in the world can he be this tone deaf?
I you know, this the the fact the news stories featuring shocked people at my healthy skepticism prove my entire premise about the State of the Union of American journalism as well.
The drive-bys are reporting on my failure to drink the Kool-Aid when it's their job to do exactly what I am doing.
It is their job to be skeptical.
I made a mistake, by the way, when I uh said that a cameraman stepped in and saved Obama and said, uh uh, Mr. President, you want to do that again?
I'm told that what the cameraman did was I want to say that again, Mr. President, as though the reporter was just in heaven, couldn't believe it.
He was actually being able to address Obama as Mr. President and wanted to do it again, totally in the tank.
So what's happening here is that the once respectful deans of the drive-by media are criticizing me for doing their job and then pretending somehow that I am the problem as the last man standing.
By the way, the source from my assertion that a Saudi prisoner at Club Gitmo was released and has become uh deputy director of Al Qaeda's branch office in Yemen comes to the New York Times, and I know it's therefore still a matter of debate.
The jury's still out on the accuracy, but what they say is the emergence of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out executive order by President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year.
Well, duh.
Have we not known this since the left began talking about shutting the place down?
Audio soundbite number one.
Now, Barack Obama was inaugurated on Tuesday.
Yesterday was Thursday.
Hillary Clinton went to the State Department with Obama.
Big greeting, fanfare.
This is what Hillary Clinton said on day three of the Obama administration.
Today we start the hard work to restore our standing and enable our country to meet the vexing new challenges of the 21st century, but also to seize the opportunities that await us.
We must be smarter about how we exercise our power.
But as I said this morning upon entering the building, the heart of smart power are smart people.
So she said on day three, the Obama administration finally starting the hard work.
That's her message.
To the Messiah.
I love it.
I love this stuff.
Aha, the midnight hour.
Wilson Pickett.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network Washington Post today.
An analysis piece by the reporter at Infobabe Dana Priest.
President Obama yesterday eliminated the most controversial tools employed by his predecessor against terrorism suspects.
That will be the closing of Club Gitmo with the announcing of it, and the uh and the end of uh torture of uh excessive interrogation techniques, waterboarding and the sort.
How did Dana Priest of the Washington Post interpret this?
Well, the next sentence makes it clear.
With the stroke of his pen, Obama effectively declared an end to the war on terror as President George W. Bush had defined it.
As just a nagging little problem of ten people dead in Afghanistan during the Obama war on terror launched from a drone missile.
Um it's maybe Ms. Priest will want to go back to the drawing board and see if she actually wants to stick with the notion that Obama has declared an end to the war on terror audio soundbite.
This is what you get.
I don't know if you've heard this or not, uh, ladies and gentlemen, but uh John Thane, who was running one of these places up there, Merrill, I don't know what it which one it was, they all run together.
It was learned that he spent 1.2 million dollars redecorating the office.
During all of this bailout shenanigans, all the talk about how they're not lending and they're in deep trouble, and the country's gonna go to hell at a handbasket if we don't get this money pumped into them fast.
And so everybody's outraged now.
Everybody's outraged.
1.2 million for new office.
Oh, 47,000 for a rug or some such thing.
Uh, President select Obama found out about this and had something to say about it this morning at the White House.
Some of the reports that we've seen over the last couple of days about companies that have received uh taxpayer assistance.
Uh men going out and renovating bathrooms or offices, or in other ways not managing those dollars appropriately.
And uh I'm looking forward to having Conversations with all the leadership here about how even as we move swiftly and aggressively on uh the recovery package, we are also starting to put in place the kinds of reform elements, oversight, transparency, accountability that's gonna be required in order for the American people to have confidence in what we're doing.
Well, there's so much here that needs to be picked apart, ladies and gentlemen.
First place, now this is what you get in a command and control economy.
This is what you get with central planning.
I'm not justifying what these guys at Merrill Lynch did or wherever it was.
You know, 1.2 million to redecorate an office.
Especially with money that was given to them by the U.S. taxpayers.
But it's this is and I'm I'm probably another lone wolf on this.
Given the sorry state of ignorance as to the country's founding and the kind of country are we are and how we're structured, but it ain't the job of the President of the United States to decide how these dollars are spent appropriately.
To this degree, he wants to have conversations with the leadership.
The leadership was sub I am I the only one that remembers the TARP bill named one person, the czar on all this, and that's the Secretary of the Treasury.
I've read it to this audience multiple times.
The Treasury of the Secretary is the only person authorized by this law to pass out the money, and he's got some responsibilities to to ensure the economic prosperity of the American people.
There's nothing in this, there's nothing in the law that says how these people have to spend it.
If there were, they would be doing it that way.
We gave the money away, requiring that they loan it, but they're not lending it because their customers don't have the ability to pay it back.
Their customers aren't in the position to start borrowing right now.
And the banks don't want to lend it anyway.
They want to use the money to shore up their own reserves for whatever reason.
Uh now the Treasury Secretary is part of the executive branch, but it doesn't say the president has any authority.
I guess the president could go and tell the Treasury Secretary what to do in terms of an order, and he could assert control that way.
Uh but it's a small step.
It's a small step once we accept the notion that the President of the United States can dictate to companies with federal money how they decorate their offices or what they do with the money.
It's a small step from that to the president dictating to companies who do not get money from the government, how they can build their cars, build their own, and we're already there with all these green initiatives.
This is why we're troubled out there, uh, ladies and gentlemen, over what we see heading down the road.
Rich and Waycross, Georgia.
We're going to start with you on the phones.
It's open line Friday.
Great to have you here.
Yes, sir.
How are you doing?
I'm never better.
Thank you, Rich.
Outstanding.
Uh my only concern was uh here you this morning or this afternoon saying that you support the president but not his policies, which I understand completely what you're saying.
This concerns me that during Bush's term, the Lit was fun of saying they support the troops, but not the war.
Right.
And my concern is that uh bloggers and the drive by will hear you say this and use it as a gotcha moment.
Uh I don't feel that you need a quality.
Well, but it's it's it's known it's not what I'm actually doing is just throwing the absurdity of their statement back in their pockmarked faces.
I I illustrate absurdity by being absurd.
Of course, how can I I support the president but not his policies?
That's as silly as saying I support the military, but not the mission.
I'm trying to illustrate how empty their support was and how it was not true.
So I'm throwing back one of their own techniques right at them.
I see, says the blind man.
That makes perfect sense.
I appreciate you clarifying.
You bet, you bet that's a sad thing I have to clarify it, but I'm happy to clarify it out there.
Mohammed in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Welcome to Open Line Friday, sir.
You're with us.
Hey, Mr. Lumbar.
I just want to say thank you so much for your worried about us, Muslims, all of a sudden.
Well, somebody has to, and apparently the administration here has uh uh just has been on a wanton killing spree in uh in Pakistan.
Ten Pakistanis dead now.
Uh after the after the Washington Post said that Obama declared the war on terror over.
I know.
It's terrible.
I just love how you're worried about us, Oliver Center.
Well, I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I um uh well, look at this we were told something other than this uh during the campaign.
We we were told that the Muslim world was gonna love us, and we were told that one of the problems or the reason that the Islamists around the world didn't like us.
Well, we do love you though.
I we'll I love you.
We love America.
But not all that.
No, but not I know you do, but but not all of them do.
I'm talking about the ones that don't.
We were told the reason they don't is because we're responsible for making them not like us or hate us, either by virtue of our support for Israel, or we've been attacking them wherever they are, and and uh this is all gonna stop.
You know, there weren't gonna be any anti-American protests.
I mean, I've I haven't seen any video of it, Muhammad, but there are still shots from Pakistan that I've seen on news wires, and there are many angry uh Muslims in Pakistan protesting, burning things in effigy and so forth is not a pretty sight out there.
I know, I know.
I wish you were here telling the world how you liked us when Bush was doing that to us, though, you know.
I don't know why all of a sudden you're just doing it now.
But I wish you was there for us when Bush was killing us too.
I appreciate you though.
I'm at least you hear uh you at least you know Obama has changed your mind, so at least that's something positive.
Well, I g Obama look, Mohammed, it's it's uh it's good.
It's great to have your call up there.
I appreciate your uh appreciate your sentiment and uh Obama does miracles uh with people's minds.
Oh, yeah.
And occasionally mine too.
You know, on my TV I saw him walk across the pool.
Did that happen on your TV or you probably wasn't watching it, though?
Uh I no, I didn't see him walk across the pool.
I've seen him I've seen him from a cesspool in Chicago untouched, but I've not seen the picture that you're talking about.
We'll be right back, uh folks.
Do not go away.
Do I sound like I have a cold today?
I don't.
I've I'm in I'm in day four of the mildest cold I have ever had.
I've been using the Zycam every four hours.
By the way, if you start Zy, if you're getting a cold and you start this, you gotta start it early for it to work.
You may not get rid of it, but you will lessen the symptoms.
I I uh uh have this for four days, and I've got to still get a hack and cough from it.
And I think I'm doing a couple things to encourage that and cough, such as cigars and so forth, and took the Zycam cough syrup and so forth, but it really would here's the point.
If you start using Zycam, don't stop when you think your cold is over.
You gotta keep using it out there for a couple of days even afterwards.
It happens in a lot of medicine.
People think they're they're cured and they're not or fixed, and uh they get off it too soon.
Zycam works, that's the best thing you can say about it.
It will retard the uh that the severity of a cold and may even stop it if you catch it soon enough.
Now, uh Muhammad, I've I was running up against time on a commercial break and talking to Mohammed, but uh from uh St. Paul, right?
He was from St. Paul.
Now, Muhammad, I realize you're being sarcastic with me.
It's very rare that a caller can put one over on the host, especially one as highly trained and uh in the specialty uh broadcasting as I. But I I know what you were saying.
You think all of a sudden now I'm concerned about Muslims when I didn't care about Muslims uh beforehand.
You missed the point.
I have always thought that those Muslims who are our enemies should be dealt with.
It was Obama during the campaign who made it clear that he was going to go about this a different way that it was our fault that they hated us.
So here is another moment of hypocrisy.
After a campaign full of the world is gonna love us, with on day three, we wipe out ten Pakistanis in the Obama war on terror.
I'm just I may be I may be beating my head against a wall with people, but I'm gonna do the job that drive-by media used to do.
Because I am America's real anchor man, and Muhammad, we will see how many Muslims Obama liberates while he is president.
I think George W. Bush can claim to liberating a whole bunch of Muslims.
And while he's hated for it, we'll just wait and see how many Muslims Obama liberates.
In the name of freedom, and in the name of democracy, as did George W. Bush.
Now, one other thing, too, folks, about because I look at this is exactly how Class MD works.
The drive by's report this story that Merrill, whoever, one point two million dollars redecorating an office with federal bailout money, and that money is supposed to go to the banks, and supposed to be loaned and so forth.
Hey, somebody got work out of that money.
That in fact, that's the kind of work I would call infrastructure work.
You remodel your office.
You might remodel your house, you might repair infrastructure work.
I would say that Merrill Lynch got a head start on the infrastructure repairs that Obama's talking about.
And some company or vendor series of them had to get hired to do the work.
So what's wrong with it?
And by the way, how is it any different?
My good friends, how is it any different for a bank to waste money on some executive office and the government wasting money on some bureaucrat's office or bureaucrats' car or bureaucrats' plane?
We shouldn't be paying for any of this either.
You want to talk about Merrill Lynch wasting money fine and dandy, but the federal government's got no business talking about it because they define wasting money.
And this is what it infuriates me.
These holier than now people stand up there.
I don't care if they're the president, I don't care if they're in the house or the Senate, and they stand up there, the people from the bridge to nowhere, the people who have redundant social program after redundant social program, the people that advertise for new applicants to the food stamp program.
The people who devised a welfare program that paid poor mothers to have babies without fathers.
And we are to sit here and hate Merrill Lynch and the private sector because they're wasting precious federal dollars.
Sorry, folks, they may be wasting it, but they are pikers compared to the wasteful spending of the federal government.
This is my whole, these are the last people, elected officials, the president on down, these are the last people to tell anybody else how to do their job.
They're the last people how to tell anybody what to do.
I realize they're being given our taxpayer dollars, and that sort of establishes a connection.
But until somebody up there can show me that they have learned some restraint and that they don't waste trillions of dollars, as opposed to 1.2, then I will listen to them.
Now, again, I know that this is something that requires a lot of thought to reach this conclusion because see the natural human reaction is the drive-by's see to this.
They do a story on this evil guy at some evil bank.
I think it's Merrill Lynch and John Thane.
1.2 million, then they itemize it.
15,000.
You know, I watched this.
Who was it?
I forget it was Fox.
Somebody reported on Fox that of the 1.2 million, they spent $15,000 on a commode.
And then they said, if you went to Walmart, how many toilets could you buy for that?
I will guarantee you that there is no $15,000 toilet.
Not even the Air Force spends that much.
They spend $600 for a toilet seat.
There is no $15,000 toilet in this office.
Do you know that in the higher realms of antiquing a commode is like a credenza, except it's a little taller and it's on four legs, and it's not quite as long as a credential is shorter.
But a commode, this is what the French call some of the most beautiful antiques that they have.
I have.
I have commodes in my house.
I have two of them in my dining room.
And not one person has ever said, wow, Rush, what's a toilet doing in here?
They have drawers.
Go look it up.
So we don't even know where $15,000 toilet.
How many people are going to be thinking there's a $15,000 toilet in the CEO's executive suite at Merrill Lynch?
There isn't.
Unless it's, you know, plated with gold.
And even then, it'd be it'd be tough to spend $15,000.
The only people spend $15,000 on toilets, I'm telling you, is the United States Defense Department.
Or whoever rented $5,000 porta putties for the immaculation conception.
Uh inauguration.
So, yeah, bad form, bad PR for this to get out, but you gotta step for who are the critics.
This is this is typical.
This is this is the stuff of the French Revolution.
This is the stuff of class envy.
You're automatically, this is all aimed.
Obama's a smart guy coming out here and saying he's gonna see to it that this doesn't happen again.
He's gonna run the private sector, he's gonna make sure that he's this is all about getting you to continue to hate and distrust the entire private sector, and instead trust a government that you know by virtue of your eyes, your ears, and your own experiences is the last institution anybody would go to for lessons on spending discipline.
We also might ask, how much is Obama gonna spend redecorating the residence of the White House?
It's his right.
He can of course do it, but we're paying for it.
How much are you gonna be wasted in there?
You know, this New York Senate seat with Caroline Schlossberg, Kennedy, that this, or Kennedy Schlossberg, this is an amazing story.
You've got a Democrat governor appointing a Democrat to a Democrat seat, a Democrat state, cakewalk, right?
Should be the easiest thing in the world.
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