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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Well, the media is gathered in Chicago or Illinois, waiting with bated breath for the closing arguments delivered by Blago Blagojevich in his impeachment trial.
	You know what I'm hoping?
	I am hoping, ladies and gentlemen, that when it comes time to vote, the Illinois state senators will all vote present.
	On Blago's impeachment in honor of President Obama, who voted president over 100 times when he was in that chamber.
	Greetings, my friends.
	Great to have you here.
	Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone here at the prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	Telephone number if you want to be on the program today.
	800-282-2882.
	The email address is lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
	Well, the op-ed that I was told yesterday would run in the Wall Street Journal today announcing my serious and brilliant bipartisan stimulus plan did indeed run today.
	And as such, I have been doing a couple television interviews this morning.
	I did 20 minutes on Fox, and I did a jam-packed five minutes right before 11 o'clock on CNBC.
	Now, both of those interviews are now posted.
	The video is up at rushlimbaugh.com.
	The CNBC appearance was quite contentious, but it was fun.
	And Mark Haynes and Aaron Burnett, the street sweetie, were the two people at CNBC that I talked to about this.
	The vote yesterday, not a single Republican voted for this.
	In fact, do you know the bipartisan vote was the vote against?
	11 Democrats joined all of the Republicans to vote against the porculus bill.
	The partisan vote was the vote that was victorious, and that was all Democrats.
	So the porculus bill has passed the House, and yet why do the Democrats seem to not think they've had a victory?
	Why does Obama think that he really hasn't had a victory?
	I've noticed all day today, they're not happy about this.
	They got what they wanted.
	Do you know that in this porculus bill, it has been learned, in addition to everything else, illegal immigrants will also be given checks of $500 to $1,000 at tax credits.
	So we're going to be giving cash to illegal immigrants as well, in addition to all the other things that are in the porculus bill.
	Now, the president says that he's still willing to work with Republicans on this, that it's going to take a little longer to change Washington than he thought.
	He's not going to have time.
	This can't be done changing Washington in a week.
	Well, I would be willing to explain my plan to him.
	I am prepared to go up to the White House and have an adult beverage and some wag you beef appetizers, which he served last night.
	That's American Kobe.
	I'm willing to go up there and share an adult beverage and some wagyu beef to persuade him of the wisdom of my plan.
	I am prepared, ladies and gentlemen, to reach out to President Obama to explain the bipartisan Obama-Limbaugh plan to him, to help bring the nation together under a true stimulus plan.
	I am willing.
	I am willing, ladies and gentlemen, to build a road, to build a bridge from the EIB network to the White House and to the administration, because there is really only one bipartisan plan on the table, and it is mine.
	And I am terribly serious.
	You know, we have to hold the president to the same standard that his party held the Bush administration to.
	Do you remember, be it Iraq or any other piece of legislation, when the president tried to get bipartisan support but failed to do so, they went out there and they blamed Bush for a lack of bipartisanship.
	They said he was purely partisan and mean.
	So we need to hold Obama to the same standard here.
	He didn't get the bipartisan vote that he wanted.
	And Bush was raked over the coals for this throughout his eight years.
	But what I am doing from behind the golden EIB microphone at this very moment is extending an olive branch to the magnanimous leader of the opposition and offering President Obama a way out of this labyrinth that he's created for himself.
	I am offering him a way to implement my plan and get the political credit for it.
	He can take the credit.
	I don't care who gets the credit.
	This is about America not failing, but succeeding for the sake of all of us.
	It's about jobs.
	It's about prosperity.
	Jobs don't know liberal, conservative, moderate, independent, or even wacko.
	So I, ladies and gentlemen, magnanimously and selflessly have offered this plan to the president in hopes that he'll bring us all together, unite us, and carry us forward into the 21st century.
	And I will build the bridge.
	I will build the road from the EIB network to the White House, to the administration, to make this happen.
	I want to play for you a little bit of the interview on CNBC that happened today.
	This is not the whole thing.
	And you will not hear on these two bites any of the contentiousness from Mark Haynes.
	It's a shame.
	But this will give you, go to the website and you can hear the whole thing.
	It's about five minutes.
	It ran five or six minutes.
	Here is Haynes' question.
	He says to me, I hear hypocrisy.
	You're saying in this piece that, you know, our economy doesn't know the difference.
	This is about jobs now.
	Leave politics aside.
	And yet the first thing out of your mouth is politics, about liberal and conservative, Republican and Democrat.
	Exactly.
	But I am trying to show, you know, this vote that happened in the House yesterday is actually a failure.
	The bipartisan vote was the defeat.
	11 Democrats joining Republicans.
	The partisan vote was all Democrats.
	This is going to have trouble.
	You know, he wants Republicans on the bill, Mark, because he knows this isn't going to work.
	He wants Republicans so that he has cover so that they can't run for re-election saying they oppose this debacle.
	I'm trying to propose something here that will work with the best interest of the country at heart.
	How can that possibly be hypocritical?
	Aaron Burnett, the acclaimed street sweetie, then said, Rush, I want to give people a chance to understand your plan.
	Now, my plan is perfectly understandable by anybody who reads it or has listened to me present it.
	But we must take into account here she's dealing with an audience to an NBC network.
	And as such, she wanted me to go into even more detail to explain this.
	She said, you're calling it the Obama-Limbaugh plan.
	You took the vote that the country voted for Obama, voted for him, and who didn't.
	And that's how you broke this down, right?
	Exactly.
	And he gets to choose how he wants to spend it with the Democrats on Capitol Hill and the inner Republicans and me get to determine the tax cuts.
	And you're going to cut the corporate tax rate in half, right?
	Precisely.
	And will suspend the capital gains tax to incentivize new investment for a full year and then reestablish it, re-implement it at 10%.
	And probably some tax cuts in the area of real estate, too.
	That's an area that needs to come back.
	Obama said yesterday, I don't know if you guys were still on the air or not, but he had a meeting at the White House with the CEOs, and he came out.
	He sounded like Ronald Reagan.
	He was talking about how it's the people who make the country work.
	It's the people out there who are going to revive the economy.
	And 20 days ago, he said government is the only entity.
	There's your hypocrisy, Mark, that can revive this economy.
	Yesterday, what he said is exactly right, and I totally support that one.
	He sounds like Ronald Reagan.
	And we'll take a brief time out here and continue to come back and analyze the vote that took place in the House yesterday afternoon, right after this.
	The headline on the porculus bill, winning passage last night in the House of Representatives in various places, goes like this: House passes $800 billion stimulus plan with no Republican support.
	The headline ought to be: House Democrats vote to spend $800 billion in pork they don't have, Republicans fail to stop it, or Republicans don't support it.
	And nothing wrong with needed stimulus, by the way, if it's stimulus, but this is not stimulus, this is fairness.
	Do you remember my memory here is exploding?
	Ladies and gentlemen, remember that interview?
	And it might have been with Maria Barcharomo at CNBC.
	It was somebody in the financial community.
	He was told that capital gains tax cuts generated more tax revenue and not less.
	And he said, that's not the issue.
	The issue is fairness.
	So he wanted, at one point, he wanted high-income capital gains people to pay a higher rate than lower-income capital, which is that was just exhibiting a total lack of understanding about the capital gains rate, what it is, and who pays it.
	I have to tell you, the Republicans in the House of Representatives are starting to come together.
	This is just fun.
	It's now getting to be fun.
	I want to tell you about a man named John Carter.
	He is a Texas Republican member of the Congress.
	He introduced a bill yesterday to eliminate all IRS penalties and interest for paying taxes past due.
	He's calling the legislation the Wrangell Rule, named after House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Wrangell.
	This would enable citizens who fail to pay taxes on time to do so later with no penalty, just like Wrangell has done and just like Timothy Geithner has done.
	As of September 2008, Charlie Wrangell reportedly paid back more than $10,000 in taxes, but didn't include any IRS penalties.
	It said, your citizens back home should have the same rights and benefits that come to you as a member of Congress.
	You shouldn't be treated any differently under the law than your citizens back home.
	He added that citizens should also receive the same courtesy that the IRS is allegedly granting Wrangell and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who also recently acknowledged a failure to pay taxes.
	That's just, I love the way these guys are starting to think.
	Just ram it down everybody's throats.
	Now let's talk about the Republicans in the House and the vote on the porculus bill last night.
	This was a great victory for conservatives.
	It was a great victory for Republicans.
	If you listen to the media reports, you would think that the only members of the House to vote against the porculus bill were Republicans.
	But there were 11 Democrats who voted against it, too.
	Not a single Republican voted for it.
	That means there was a bipartisan vote against the bill.
	The vote against the bill was bipartisan.
	The vote for the bill is what was partisan.
	Now, neither the media nor Obama want you to know this because they still want you to believe that Obama's the great unifier, the great uniter.
	When he couldn't even persuade a single Republican, not even by serving them adult beverages and wagyu beef in the White House, he could not persuade even a single Republican, not even a rhino-Republican, not even a Republican in name only, to go along with this.
	This is a huge failure for Obama and the media.
	They were counting on at least one Republican voting for this so they could spin the story as bipartisan port for the bill and cheer the incredible leadership qualities of the Messiah, the most merciful Lord Barack Obama.
	Well, the opposite occurred, which calls into question his leadership qualities.
	And they're now saying, well, you know, you can't change Washington in a week.
	We knew this going in.
	It's going to be a long, long time, blah, I've never seen David Obie, David Obie, member of the House.
	Oh, oh, do you know that his David Obie, who is one of the House leaders, get this, folks?
	David Obie's son works somewhere in the National Park Service.
	There was, I got to find this.
	There's an earmark, a level of pork in this bill that goes to the National Park Service and Obie's son, and the earmark equals the yearly budget of the national parks.
	Here it is.
	I just found it.
	And this is brought to the attention by Darrell Issa of California.
	He investigated the egregious National Parks earmark.
	Oversight Government Reform Committee member Darrell Issa has called for an investigation surrounding the circumstances of a $2 billion earmark in the House porculus bill for national parks.
	Issa's call for an investigation follows a story and investigation by the Washington Times.
	The NCPA's earmark in this stimulus is as large as the National Park Service's entire annual budget, more than twice what the Senate has proposed.
	Nancy Pelosi promised to drain the swamp, but this porculus is payback and business as usual for lobbyists and special interests.
	What the Park Service didn't mention in its press release is that the organization employs Craig Obie, son of House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obie, as senior vice president of government affairs.
	Additionally, the entire 2009 budget for the National Park Service is only $2.1 billion.
	The earmark is $2 billion.
	And his son's a lobbyist and gets the money.
	Chairman Obie needs to explain why his earmark that his son's organization is so forcefully supporting is so much higher than what the Senate has deemed appropriate and nearly equals the National Park Service's entire budget.
	I'm going to tell you what, the more this is learned, the more of this kind of thing in this bill is learned, the more the American people are not going to want any part of this.
	And they're being told once again, this has to happen now or we're going to have a terrible result in the economy.
	It's going to get even worse.
	And they tell us, by the way, it's going to get even worse if this stimulus bill, porculus bill goes to the Senate and the president signs it and so forth.
	But this is not, if we're going to stimulate the economy, there's got to be something in here to stimulate, and there just isn't.
	It is just traditional, typical Democrat spending.
	Nancy Pelosi wrote this bill.
	She excluded the Republican Party.
	Obama went along with it, saying he wanted Republican input, but when he got Republican input, he rejected it.
	Remember, he said he won the election, meaning he's going to do whatever he wants to do.
	This entire sham of a bill and the sham of this great uniter and unifier has now been exposed.
	And folks, the House Republicans deserve our praise in this.
	They stood firm.
	They understood that they had to stand up against what is the most irresponsible confiscation of wealth and power from the American people in modern history.
	And that's exactly what this bill is.
	It is a confiscation, the most irresponsible confiscation of wealth and power from you, the American people, in our nation's history.
	They had to say no.
	The House Republicans had to say no to a bill that has nothing to do with creating jobs, a bill that kills jobs, nothing to do with jump-starting the economy.
	All it does is jump-start the size of government.
	And they did.
	And they did so unanimously.
	And for this, they deserve a standing ovation.
	See, folks, it's really not that hard to do what's right.
	It is not only good government and good politics.
	What they did is good for the country.
	Now, what's going to happen over in the Senate?
	Obama's going to try to pick off a couple of rhinos in the Senate, and he'll probably have some luck there.
	Susan Collins from Maine.
	Let me get the here's her quote: Susan Collins, Congress must work with our new president to secure the nation's economic future.
	So we can wave goodbye to Susan Collins.
	If that's what she's thinking now, she's already off the reservation.
	We got to work with our new president to secure our nation's.
	Well, if that's his economic future, we can work with him all we want, but we don't have to cave to this sham of an idea.
	So he'll probably get a couple of rhinos in the Senate.
	You'll have some luck there.
	Now, the reason is that you have some Republican senators who arrogantly insist that only by mimicking Democrats can Republicans win elections in certain parts of the country, the Northeast.
	And so that's what they do.
	They mimic liberals while wearing the uniform of the Republican Party.
	Most of these types of senators are really in politics for themselves to promote their own careers.
	And we know who they are.
	And we know we're going to lose a couple of them in this fight.
	And Obama will gladly, happily pick them off.
	And I guarantee you, they'll be brought up to the White House whenever the eventual signing is on this, and they'll be heralded as heroes.
	You watch.
	Yet the Republicans in the Senate, even though their numbers have shrunk because they have too often followed the more liberal path, the Republicans in the Senate actually have the ability to slow down and even stop major parts of this bill because of the Senate's rules.
	The leadership, Mitch McConnell, there, not clear exactly what he's going to do, but he's got the opportunity here to stop and get some of these ridiculous items out of this porculus bill.
	The problem with the Senate has is you may undermine your own position, your own bargaining position, if you've surrendered on the procedural rules.
	Procedural rules are the ammo that the Republican leadership in the Senate has.
	And if they've surrendered on them by now, I'm not sure they have, it's going to be a tougher task.
	We'll be right back.
	Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
	Half my brain tied behind my back.
	Just to make it fair, America's real anchorman, America's truth detector, the doctor of democracy.
	Here's the real contentious part of the CNBC interview, Squawk in the Street.
	It was with Aaron Burnett and Mark Haynes just before 11 o'clock this morning.
	Why skeptical?
	I'm just trying to build bridges and roads to the administration for genuine bipartisanship and cooperation and fairness.
	And the president says that he still wants to work with Republicans.
	Here I am.
	We can work together and do what's best for the American people.
	I'm sorry, but wait a minute.
	I mean, a week after the inauguration, you said you hope he fails.
	Are you now admitting that that was a stupid and mean-spirited thing to say?
	No, it was an accurate thing to say.
	It was an honest thing to say.
	And it came out.
	Well, how is that bipartisan?
	Well, if you'll let me explain.
	Well, so far you haven't.
	You're being contentious with no reason.
	It came after a thorough explanation of my belief that liberalism, which is what Obama represents, destroys the free market, destroys capitalism.
	I think this stimulus plan is all about re-FDRing America, the new New Deal.
	And as a conservative, I want liberalism to fail.
	I want the country to succeed.
	And that's what I meant.
	And that's what I said over and over again.
	You've got to stop reading these left-wing liberal media sites.
	The whole interview is up on RushlandBog.com transcript and video, as well as about 20 minutes on Fox and Friends this morning as well.
	Now, just a couple things here.
	Oh, by the way, a reminder, Tony Dungy, the author of a great new book entitled Uncommon, What Does It Take to Live a Life of Significance?
	Whoa, this is just a fabulous book.
	I can't wait to talk to Coach Dungy, recently retired head coach of the Indianapolis Colts.
	Now, this bill next goes to the Senate.
	They're not going to vote on this till the middle of February, folks.
	I'll be back in plenty of time.
	Don't sweat it here.
	They're not going to get around to this till the middle of February.
	What I want people in the Senate to understand, this is so crucial here.
	I want, in fact, everybody, it is immoral.
	It is morally wrong to lie to the American people as the Democrats are doing about what this bill really is.
	It is morally wrong for the mass media in this country not to expose the lies and the misrepresentations of this legislation to the American people and what it is really intended to accomplish.
	It is immoral on the part of the White House.
	It is immoral in part of the Democrat Party.
	It is morally wrong within the bowels of the drive-by media.
	It is morally wrong to take money from one citizen to feather the nest of other citizens and a political party at the same time.
	It is morally wrong to claim that this bill will save or create three or four million new jobs when in fact it is a job killer.
	The administration has admitted that even if the porculus bill is passed and signed into law, that unemployment will reach 10%.
	It is morally wrong to lie about what this is.
	It is morally wrong to play along with it because you think the American people don't know what's in it.
	If the American people claim to want this bill and don't know what's in it because they're being lied to, Republicans in the Senate have an obligation to tell the people the truth what's in this bill and not support it because it is morally wrong to do otherwise.
	It is morally wrong to say that this bill will cut middle class taxes, when in fact most of it is about redistributing wealth from taxpayers to non-taxpayers.
	And the New York Times reported, I just saw it right before the program started today, right before noon Eastern, that even illegal immigrants will get these tax credits of $500 to $1,000 each.
	Your cash is going to be given away by virtue of the porculus bill to illegal immigrants.
	In the name of fairness, it is morally wrong to not tell people the truth of what is in this bill.
	It is morally wrong of the media to act as sponsors, to not care what's in it, to simply get this passed so that Obama does not suffer a humiliating defeat, so that Obama's image as a great unifier and agent of hope and change can be cemented.
	It is morally wrong for the Republicans in the Senate to know full well what is in this bill and still vote for it because that's what they think Northeastern liberals might want when Northeastern liberals don't even know what's in this bill.
	And folks, it is morally wrong when politicians use a recession to spread hundreds of billions of dollars to their political friends and supporters, who in turn will help them with their reelections two years from now.
	It is morally wrong to tell the American people that you've created a job-creating piece of legislation, an economic growth piece of legislation, when most of the spending does not begin until 2010, when it just happens to be a reelection year.
	If Republicans and moderate Democrats are unwilling to stand up against this kind of abuse of power and abuse of the taxing and spending authority of the federal government, if they are unwilling to stand up against this morally wrong procedure to the tune of trillions of dollars for years and years, then they are unwilling to stand for anything of consequence.
	This is a seminal moment.
	This vote will determine which senators are statesmen.
	This vote will determine which senators are reckless hacks.
	Now, I would like nothing more than to see a bipartisan vote against this massive pork bill, just as occurred in the House.
	A bipartisan vote against one lie piled on top of another, one irresponsibility piled on top of another.
	Unlike Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, I welcome the other party to join us in stopping this assault on the integrity of our constitutional and economic system.
	Because, my friends, that's exactly what this is.
	Not only is it morally wrong, which is enough, it is an assault on the integrity of our constitutional and economic system.
	And I am thankful, even though the Republicans in the House may not quite understand this yet, I am thankful that Nancy Pelosi shut them out from any participation in writing this.
	You know, one of the greatest things that could happen in all this is that not one Republican in the House can claim authorship of one word because they were shut out by Nancy Pelosi.
	Thank you, Madam Speaker.
	Thanks so much.
	The Republicans remain clean and pure as the wind-driven snow when it comes to the immorality of all that has transpired here.
	It is now up to the Republicans in the Senate to understand their position on this.
	And as I say, unlike Pelosi and Reed, I welcome the Democrats in the Senate to join us in stopping this assault on the integrity of our constitutional and economic system.
	As for President Obama, he talks the game, but he does not produce.
	He says he's a uniter and a unifier, but all he's done so far is unite Republicans.
	And even some moderate Democrats against his phony bill, Heath Schuler from North Carolina actually asked Pelosi for permission to vote against this and was granted it because of an uproar in his district over it.
	He felt his reelection chances were endangered if he voted for this thing.
	That's an indication of what's going on throughout the rest of the country.
	He's a Democrat.
	So Obama has united the Republicans.
	He has united the left in his party.
	He has failed in the House to conceal his true intentions in bipartisanship.
	You see, this is not a socialist nation.
	Obama did not have a mandate to make this a socialist nation.
	He did not campaign on making this a socialist nation.
	In fact, he ridiculed those who said that he was a socialist, who said he supported socialist policies.
	This bill, the porculus bill, represents everything wrong with Washington.
	It redistributes wealth like no bill ever has before it.
	It rewards big special interest groups, tens of billions of dollars in payoffs.
	It rewards people who don't work, who don't save.
	It rewards businesses that fail.
	I know a lot of people are upset Circuit City went out of business.
	Yeah, it's a bad thing for the people that work there.
	What did you say, Snerdley?
	You're upset Circuit City went out of business?
	You really are?
	See how counterintuitive real economics is?
	That's not the right answer.
	Circuit City was failing.
	Why?
	Why was Circuit City in trouble?
	They weren't as good as Best Buy.
	Their customer service had complaint, complaint, complaint.
	There's a reason businesses fail.
	It was weak.
	You let the weak go.
	We're propping up the weak.
	Nothing against Circuit City per se, but economics is economics.
	It's a frustrating thing how counterintuitive understanding it is.
	So we're going to, with this bill, we're the porculus bill.
	We are going to reward people who don't work and save.
	We're going to reward businesses that fail.
	This bill tramples on private enterprise by sucking credit out of the economy to be used to subsidize unprecedented new federal deficit spending.
	Spending, this bill is just old Washington.
	It is Washington as usual times 10.
	It's Washington as usual on steroids.
	There is no change in this bill.
	There is no leaving the past behind.
	It is the worst of everything that has become Washington and big government.
	And as this is Obama's marquee policy, then that is how his administration must be defined as well.
	The worst of everything that has become Washington and big government.
	It's his marquee policy.
	He put his name on it.
	He owns it.
	Therefore, what we're saying about this bill can be said about his administration and how we define it.
	So again, congratulations to the House Republicans, every one of them, and the 11 Democrats who did the right thing and refused to support something so blatantly, morally wrong.
	Back after this.
	Stay with us.
	Talent on loan from God.
	To those of you new to the program because of recent controversies, just so that you don't misunderstand this.
	This is why I say it takes six weeks of steady listening here to understand the context.
	When I say talent on loan from God, it is just what it says.
	I am thanking God for his blessings, and I know that I'm just temporary.
	I'm just on loan to the planet like we all are.
	It's my thanks to God for my blessings.
	So many people think, how dare he tell people he's God?
	Who does he think he is?
	I'm not the one, but there is somebody in American politics who gets close to that, folks, but it is not I, your humble servant, El Rushbo.
	Tony Dungy, Uncommon, Finding Your Path to Significance.
	What a time for this book to come out, too.
	What a great time for it.
	He'll be up first thing the next hour.
	Here's Frank in San Diego.
	You're up, Frank.
	Great to have you here.
	Thank you, Rush.
	Former Marine Dittos from San Diego.
	God bless you, sir.
	Thank you.
	I actually have a question from President Obama that I'm hoping you can answer.
	And that's regarding his stance towards you and his foreign policy comments regarding now he's going to talk with Ahmadinejad, possibly to Chavez, possibly to Castro, possibly to who knows who else.
	And yet, here the drive-by media has named you the leader of the GOP.
	Why won't he sit down and talk to you?
	Well, he's trying to marginalize me, I think.
	I think he would like to distance me from what he thinks the Republican Party mainstream is so as to it's what he was trying to get these guys to do when he threw my name out last Friday.
	He was hoping a bunch of them would distance themselves from me.
	So I think he's just no more complicated than that.
	It's politics.
	He's trying to marginalize me.
	He knows that the Republicans prior to yesterday had failed to exist, ceased to exist as we know them, had gone a little wobbly there in the spine.
	Now he knows differently.
	But look, I am a guy on the radio, and I am not by any means an official leader of the Republican Party.
	I'm a conservative.
	The official leaders of the Republican Party are fighting over who their ultimate leader is going to be.
	Hint, hint, it's Sarah Palin.
	And right now, Obama wants to talk with the guys he thinks he can roll.
	For me, as a citizen, it just makes no sense that.
	Well, from his perspective, it makes total sense to try to marginalize me.
	Hey, this is big leagues.
	He wants to get done what he wants to get done.
	Up until yesterday, he didn't think the Republican Party had any gonads to stop him.
	He thought that I could.
	So he came after me to try to marginalize me.
	From his perspective, that makes total sense.
	I mean, when I wrote about this last Saturday afternoon, I said, who knows, by the way, are conservative ideological and philosophical ties enough to keep the Republicans in the House loyal to their voters?
	And we found out, yes, conservatism is strong enough of a tie to keep those Republican conservatives unified behind their voters and with their votes.
	So it all worked out fabulously well.
	This is nothing to complain about.
	The letter to Mahmoud, ah, now that, you know, the Mullah's response to this, they haven't officially responded to a letter because I don't think a letter has actually gone out yet.
	But right after, right before Mahmoud, or I'm sorry, right before Obama was inaugurated, the leader of the so-called parliament in Iran said there aren't going to be any talks with the new president.
	We have preconditions.
	Obama has none.
	They have preconditions.
	The preconditions are that we get out of the Middle East and we renounce our support for the evil Zionists, which is Israel.
	I don't know what Obama's response is going to be, but we were told he was going to do this during the campaign.
	shouldn't be surprised.
	He tried to say during the campaign later on that, well, we're going to have some preconditions, but we knew this was going to happen.
	Elections have consequences.
	Folks, this is going to be epic.
	And for those of you who are, and I'm hearing from more and more of you, saying, Rush, how can you possibly take a week's, even though it's scheduled, how can you possibly take a vacation next week?
	If I allow myself to be entrapped by that thinking, there will be no vacations for anybody for the next four years because I'm telling you, these people have a plan to move this country as far left as fast as they can.
	They're going to do so relentlessly.
	Stopping them is going to be, or arguing with them is going to be a daily proposition.
	And under that thinking, I'm never going to get out of here.
	And I'm going to get out of here now.
	And then everybody has to get out of here.
	Tony Dungy up next after the break here at the top of the hour.
	When he was a freshman at the University of Minnesota, the coach said to him, success is uncommon, therefore not to be enjoyed by the common man.
	The coach told Tony Dungy, I'm looking for uncommon people.
	I want to parse that.
	That is fabulous, fantastic.

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