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Feb. 4, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 4, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, America's An Command is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in from the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbor Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's uh it's a really great exchange program.
Uh guys like me get to come and study here, while in return some uh lucky American lad gets to go and study at the uh Peshawa Sword of the Infidel Slayer Madrasa and Nuclear Research Mosque.
So it works out well for everybody.
I'm here today.
Uh Mark Belling uh will be in tomorrow.
It's an all it's an all-mark week uh here at the EIB network.
Uh we we've decided to go the same way as the United States Congress, and we're moving to an all-earmark format.
You bring the ears and we supply the marks.
Uh so I'm here today.
Uh Mark Belling rounds out the week.
Uh as I mentioned yesterday, Mark Foley and the uh gentlemen of the chorus will be here on Monday with an all singing dancing show.
And uh and and uh and Mark Hamill from Star Wars, I think will be on uh in on uh Tuesday to uh to apply the uh sharp end of his lightsaber to the uh new administration.
So uh lots of marks to come uh here on the EIB network.
And and eventually uh L. Rushbow will return, although he'll probably be El Markbow by then.
Uh so uh lots lots to come here on uh on uh EIB.
Uh uh did you see what Nancy Pelosi said this morning.
This is the third most powerful person in America, uh by the way.
If if God forbid anything should happen to Obama, and I mean that, because uh I couldn't say Vice President Biden without laughing.
I certainly don't want to say President Biden.
But if anything then happened to Joe Biden, we would be having to say President Pelosi.
This is the third most powerful person in America.
This is th th th th this woman is the most powerful woman in the world.
And she just said this morning, quote, every month that we do not have an economic recovery package, five hundred million Americans lose their jobs.
Five hundred million Americans lose their jobs every month, uh, according to uh Nancy Pelosi.
Uh you can understand.
I'm I'm surprised they whatever it's up to now, this seven point eight trillion dollar stimulus recovery package is enough.
I mean, if there are five hundred million Americans losing their jobs every uh every month, we're gonna need the thing w what is the number that comes after a uh a a trillion?
Anyone it's quadrillion?
No, qu a quadrillion.
HR says a quadrillion.
That is that is pocket change, man.
That means nothing.
You go uh I uh uh I uh I asked Caroline Kennedy what comes after a trillion, and uh she said she thought it was a cotillion, but I don't think that can be right.
So whatever it is.
Uh uh whatever the number that comes in after the tr the trillion, we're gonna need that.
Five hundred million Americans losing their jobs every month, according to uh according to Nancy Pelosi.
That is one hell of a line at the soup kitchen.
Uh, you know, and no wonder she wants to have all these uh population control measures uh in the stimulus package, because you think about it, if the five hundred million Americans who lose their jobs this month alone, and look, it may be a shade under five hundred million because February's a short month.
Yeah, if they all went that's right, if they all went to Deddy, Deddies has got free food.
They get they're had to get out uh what is it, a free five dollar ninety-nine plate of bacon and uh bacon and eggs.
And uh so if you think if that five hundred million Americans who lose their jobs every month, uh there's not gonna be a pig left on the planet.
That will that will solve a lot of our problems actually with the uh with the Muslim world as well, because uh anyway, uh the um the uh five says five hundred million Americans losing their jobs every month.
Now you think about it, uh let's say it's a short month this month, so 470 million Americans lose their now if o if half of those 470 million Americans who lose their jobs in February are women, and they all go to the same in vitro fertilization clinic uh that that unemployed woman in California did, uh then we would have another 3.76 billion babies being born to homes with no regular source of income just this November alone.
So clearly if you add up uh Nancy Pelosi's five hundred million Americans losing their jobs every month, by the end of this year, six billion Americans are gonna be out of work.
I mean, this is incredible.
This is more Americans.
You know, even Herbert Hoover didn't give us six billion Americans out of work.
I mean, this is the this is the crisis we're facing.
Now, I'm not it's not clear to me whether these are real flesh and blood Americans, uh, whether she's going by the official uh Acorn approved voter registration roles, whether we're talking uh here about uh Al Franken's uncounted ballots uh in the uh Minnesota recount, uh, or whether these uh six uh billion Americans are just people that Tim Geitner and Tom Dashell claimed as dependents.
But uh with six billion Americans out of work, on course to be unemployed uh by the end of this year, this is a crisis.
Uh and you can uh you can uh see that we're gonna take it's gonna need, I think, at least a seven point eight uh quadrillion uh trillion cotillion stimulus package to get us out of all this.
Well, Tim Geitner today made a great start on this.
He made a great start.
The uh the new Treasury Secretary went on TV uh just a few minutes ago and announced he was capping executive compensation.
So if you work for a company that's been bailed out by the US government, and let's face it, whoever doesn't these days, uh, you won't be allowed to earn more than uh half a million bucks, because we've had way too many greedy fat cats taking more than their fair share.
And if it takes Tim Geitner, uh a guy who claimed his kid's summer camp as a business expense.
That's fantastic.
And you know what I you know what I like about that is uh that his uh uh when Tim Geitner did uh claim his kids both camp as a business expense, his his official explanation for that is uh that he wasn't told he couldn't.
You know it's great.
It's like it's like being surprised, you know, that uh water doesn't run uphill.
You know, some things you shouldn't have to uh have to uh expla Tim Tim going, oh clearly the tax code uh which I think is a mere six hundred thousand pages at the moment, uh it's got to get a lot longer so that it's clear to be because obviously when you're thinking now, like uh yeah, I sent Junior.
I sent junior to camp up state for uh uh for a couple of weeks.
Uh now is that a legitimate business expense or not?
Hmm, it seems to me a bit of a gray area.
Anyway, uh Tim Tim Geitner, the guy who uh claimed kids subacab as a business expense is now uh uh saying we need to teach these uh greedy fat cats a lesson once and for all.
And who better to who better to do it?
And uh I love this headline as well.
Uh from today's Washington Post, quote, this is the headline in the Washington Post today, quote, Administration is described as being at a loss.
How can this be?
This is the Hopey Changey guy.
He he he landed, he came to us from the from Planet Hope he changed uh and he was gonna just like hope he changes everything.
How can we be having headlines, quote, administration is described as being at a loss.
Uh do you do you remember the last new guy?
What was he called?
Uh uh what's his name?
Bush?
George W. Bush?
Do you remember him before we had year zero on January the twentieth?
This guy, uh George W. Bush, uh spring two thousand and one, uh, in our old ways of uh counting uh uh counting uh years.
I think that would now be um year, what is it, year eight before Obama.
Uh and the uh the rest of the world's verdict on the new administration was uh summarized by the diplomatic editor of Reuters, Paul Taylor.
This was his assessment of the first hundred days of George W. Bush, quote, in just fourteen weeks, Bush has angered China, cold shouldered Russia, humiliated South Korea, worried Japan, dismayed the Arab world, irritated the European Union, outraged environmentalists, and snubbed campaigners for global justice, unquote.
And I remember thinking at the time, wow, wow.
Now that is what Broadway producers call a money quote.
I mean, I cut it out and stuck it on the fridge.
And it wasn't until I'd uh read it back a couple of times that it occurred to me that uh the Mr. Taylor might have intended his remarks disapprovingly.
Uh you know, Democrats don't like this kind of thing.
They they they want to get on with the world.
And one big reason for electing Obama was he was supposed to repair America's relations with the rest of the world.
So how's that working Out.
You know, obviously uh Obama hasn't been in power for uh a hundred days.
He's he's uh basically just been in power with uh for ten days with uh weekends off for Vanity Fair photo shoots.
So uh in those ten days, he's made an impressive start.
Let's have a quick zip around today's headlines.
Date line Brussels.
The European Union warned the U.S. yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting a planned by American policy, intensifying fears of a trade war.
The EU threatened to retaliate if the U.S. Congress went ahead with sweeping measures.
Dateline Winnipeg.
The Premier of Canada's prairie provinces lashed out against a shift towards increased American protectionism.
We need to go down with a message that says, Look, it was this kind of protectionism that precipitated the Great Depression.
This is a march to insanity, says the Premier of Saskatchewan.
Dateline Moscow.
Kyrgyz president Kerman Bek Bakiev.
That's uh Kyrgyzstan, by the way, the the stan with the world's greatest vowel shortage.
Kyrgyzstan.
Anyway, the President of Kyrgyzstan, Kermanbek Bakiev, announced yesterday in Moscow that the United States must close its military base in Kyrgyzstan.
The U.S. Air Force base is a key supply for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Uh Dateline New Delhi.
India has warned U.S. President Barack Obama that he is, quote, barking up the wrong tree if he seeks to broker a settlement between Pakistan and India over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
M.K. Narayayan, India's national security advisor, said the new U.S. administration is in danger of dredging up out-of-date Clinton era strategist.
And my personal favorite.
How did our friends, the Iranians, respond to President Obama's Islamic outreach to them on his El Arabia interview?
Dateline Tehran.
Iran has launched its first domestically built satellite into space.
The launch of the Omid satellite was time to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and United Nations talks aimed at stopping Iran's nuclear programs.
Dear Iranians, your children have put the first satellite into orbit, said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
With this launch, the Islamic Republic of Iran has officially achieved a presence in space.
By the way, by the way, the name of that Omid uh satellite.
Do you know what Omid means in uh in Persian?
It's Persian for Hope.
Who says who says these crazy Ayatollahs out of a sense of humor?
Uh anyway, they're not just in uh Cloud Cuckoo land now.
They're uh they're in orbit.
Uh Muller's in space.
Uh actually that was a uh that was the name of a sci-fi series I pitched to Paramount years ago.
Muller's in uh Mullah's in space.
Um anyway, uh the uh the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs.
Have you seen this?
Uh have you seen this guy, Robert Gibbs?
Uh I I don't know about you, but I'm convinced it's Scott McClellan after uh entering the witness protection program and getting built by some fly-by-night reconstructive surgery types uh on the lamb from uh the British Socialized Health Service.
I mean, this is this is the return of Scott McClellan.
Uh Robert Gibbs says the United States will use, quote, all elements of our national power, unquote, to deal with Iran.
You know, really.
So anyway, this is the dawning of the age of the Hopi change.
India says Obama is, quote, barking up the wrong tree.
Europe says Obama is plunging the world into depression.
Canada says Obama is on a march to insanity.
Kyrgyzstan says Yankee go home, and Iran says we have liftoff.
Congratulations, President Obama.
This is the most terrific first two weeks of any presidency uh in modern history.
And and we hope to have uh more straight ahead.
So we're gonna be looking at uh these first two weeks of the new era of Hopi Change and uh lots of the rest of the day's news.
All straight ahead on the EIB network.
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Um w how uh we're talking about this uh the world's reaction to the first uh few days of the Obama administration.
It's it's clearly getting to uh President Obama.
There was this associated press story uh today.
Uh on a tough day, Obama escapes for a while.
On the rockiest day of his young administration, President Barack Obama did what surely made him happy for a while.
He left.
With little notice, the President and First Lady Michelle Obama bolted the gated compound of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
They ended up at a Washington public school.
We were just tired of being in the White House for the President candidly told the gleeful second graders.
This is like two weeks he's tired of he's tired of being on the way to.
But by the way, you remember Michael Moore in that uh film Fahrenheit uh 911, 911, whatever it's called, Fahrenheit 911.
And it be it begins with President Bush uh reading uh my pet goat to those grade school kids.
Uh yesterday President Obama was reading the moon over star uh to those grade school kids uh and telling them that his favorite superheroes were Batman and uh Spider-Man.
That's very bipartisan, by the way.
Batman is DC comics and Spider-Man is Marvel comics.
So he's not uh he doesn't want to um alienate anyone uh in particular.
But I mean it's been a rough opening for him.
Uh you know, when uh when when when the Bush administration offended foreigners, generally speaking, they did it intentionally.
Like when Rummy when Rummy talked about uh old Europe, he he knew Jacques Chirac wasn't gonna like it.
That was the idea.
Uh and uh th uh a lot of what's happening with uh uh this president uh blundering around the world, offending people, uh, is accidental.
And the tragedy in uh there's uh there is a tragic element uh to all this is that the uh the Europeans and Canadians in particular, I mean, they uh they don't really care whether you invade some country there that's not on their radar screen, but they do care if you're gonna clobber their economies, particularly at this point in time.
Uh you know uh they are absolutely right on this, that protectionism is not gonna save the world.
If this is the worst financial crisis since the 30s, then the way to make it worse than the thirties uh is to uh is is to erect protectionist uh barriers uh in in every uh nation.
And by the way, when when you know Nancy Pelosi starts talking about five hundred million uh Americans uh being out out of work, being uh laid off every month.
Uh that is what happens when you have uh legislators working with uh getting used to writing these trillion dollar packages.
I said yesterday, uh I was talking about Zimbabwe devaluing its currency.
The Zimbabwean dollar, they've got the highest rate of inflation in the world, and they decided to take twelve zeros off their off their currency.
Because if you go and buy a cup of coffee and a newspaper in uh in in Zimbabwe, it costs you like twenty-three trillion dollars now.
So they took twelve zeros off their currency.
And I said as a joke, that's what we should do with the stimulus package.
And I mean that.
It's uh I actually mean that.
If you take the combined bailout and you could uh and the stimulus package, you would come up with, I think whatever it is, one point seven trillion dollars.
You take twelve zeros after that uh off of that, you come up with a buck seventy.
And a buck seventy would actually do as much uh to correct uh what is wrong in the economy.
Uh a buck seventy of government spending would do as much to correct what's wrong in the economy uh as one point seven trillion dollars will.
Uh in uh in in a sense, uh all we are doing uh is enabling a new deal on a scale that is unprecedented.
It's not a new deal.
It's the New Deal plus the costs of the war of eighteen twelve and the cost of the America Mexican American War and the cost of the Louis Louisiana Purchase and the cost of the Second World War and the Cold War and the Korean War, uh and and the costs of everything in American history added up uh in one package.
Uh And that is why uh we would be better to have no bill uh than the bill that is being proposed uh in Congress uh right now.
So I am opposed uh to anything like this stimulus package, and I'm very heartened that for once uh the Republicans seem to be succeeding in framing the terms of this debate.
That's the other sign of how it's been a rocky week uh for Obama is that the conservatives and Republicans have framed the terms of this debate and he's on defense.
Much more straight ahead.
Hey, great to be with you, uh Mark Stein sitting in in for us.
You know, I've been uh I've been following the stories about this uh octoplet mom out in California who's getting absolutely no sympathy.
Uh she had six kids, uh she she's unemployed, uh she's divorced, she had six kids, living with her parents, uh, and then she decides to have another eight by in vitro fertilization.
Uh and uh she's she's getting hammered in the press, she's getting hammered by all the commentators, uh grossly irresponsible.
Leave this woman alone.
And you know why?
Because uh this is exactly what think of Nancy Pelosi as this woman in California with an even bigger swollen belly.
I mean, uh what we had uh what this stimulus package is in uh in in the is essentially saying, oh well, like this woman, she already had six kids, she is in vitro fertilization to get eight.
We already had uh whatever it was, an uh eight hundred uh billion dollar uh bailout in uh in uh the fall.
So then uh Congress goes and gets in vitro fertilization and say, no, we gotta have even more this time.
Uh and we have this now this uh just sharp a trillion dollar stimulus package.
Uh essentially uh what we're witnessing is the in vitro fertilization of government.
If it's if it's wrong for this woman in California to do it, it is wrong for uh Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi to do it.
And that is uh sorry, I didn't want to cause any unpleasant images, but that is essentially they have gone they have gone to uh they have gone effectively to the U.S. Treasury's version of in vitro fertilization for this bill.
So leave this woman concentrate in the big picture, folks.
Who cares about the okay?
She's just another woman who's gonna end up sticking it to California taxpayers to pay for all the diapers and everything for these kids.
Uh keep your eye on the big picture, the invert in vitro fertilization of the federal uh budget.
That is the much bigger issue.
Uh Mark Stein on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Let's go to Debbie in Pensacola, Florida.
Uh Debbie, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Oh, it's a pleasure to speak with you, sir.
I saw you last night on Sean Hannity.
Oh, yeah.
That's good.
Thanks, thanks a lot.
Sean was talking about his first time behind the EIB microphone when he managed to knock it over and uh wind up addressing America from below the desk uh for some strange reason.
He that's his that's his microphone technique.
Um I'm very, very I I know I have to be quick.
There's a lot of people behind me in the queue, but um I I want to tell you how very disappointed I am in the cabinet choices.
I'm especially very offended by um Mr. Geitner being approved.
I feel that he is not the only man that is capable of doing that job in the whole country.
And then you have to worry about him, you know, overseeing the taxes that we pay.
My husband and I pay a lot of taxes every year.
I'll be very honest.
Uh uh somewhere in the neighborhood of 150.
And we have 1040s and 1099s, and we don't get any discounts.
We have no cash.
We don't hide anything, everything is up front.
The other thing that I'm very um, you know, I I think that the uh the people that he's chosen to protect the country is fine.
That that I don't mind.
I think that that's wonderful.
He left um some of Mr. Bush's um people behind President Bush.
I love President Bush.
I don't care what anybody says.
The other thing that really is irritating that I told the gentleman they screened the call was um that it seems, and uh speaking with my friends, and I'm part of a Jewish community, that all of these people thought that because Obama ha was educated at a um Ivy League school, Harvard, that that made him so much smarter than everybody else.
And that really isn't the way it is.
Uh, my husband's a physician, he didn't graduate from Harvard Medical School, but my husband is Much better at what he does than a lot of the physicians that graduate from these Ivy League schools.
He has more common sense, he has more um credibility with the patients, and he uh, you know, he does a lot more now in um his postgraduate um uh with ri you know, writing holding law meetings, you know, the whole thing.
Yeah.
It doesn't mean because you graduate from Harvard that you're gonna be a better president.
No, and and you you make uh you make a very uh good point here, Debbie.
Uh i Barack Obama's uh uh background, I mean, this is a like a wafer thin resume.
Uh essentially, if you take out all the autobiographies he's written, uh it doesn't actually add up to much.
He was a community organizer.
Uh most communities in America happily don't need community organizers.
In fact, I can s I think I can say, speaking of someone who lives in a community, uh the most people who live in communities would not want to live in the kind of community that requires a community organizer.
I mean, essentially essentially it's some uh some kind of it means that some kind of uh insane Marxist machine street politics uh i i is your best hope of getting out of the living hell you're stuck in.
And I'm happy to say that uh that m my little small town dump in New Hampshire hasn't yet got to that that stage.
Um so a community organizer is a non-job.
Uh and and uh the idea that this it's somehow some kind of noble calling is ridiculous, which is what Michelle Obama said.
She said, Oh, you know, uh we could have gone in and made tons of money doing this, tons of money doing that.
She had a non-job too, by the way.
She had this $350,000 job that was created for her at the University of Chicago Hospital.
The minute she becomes first lady uh and leaves the job, they don't bother replacing her.
That's how indispensable her job was.
The position's been eliminated.
Uh so you got two people here.
He he was a community organizer, and then he became a uh state legislator, and then he became president.
Uh he has never made payroll in his life.
Uh so he must be he if you expect him to have some sympathy or understanding, and that's the problem with a permanent political class.
You know, uh John Kerry came to uh came to my part of New Hampshire, came to the Barge Inn in Woodsville, New Hampshire, and I stood there listening to him, and John Kerry said, I'm proud to have created jobs in the North Country.
He hasn't created any jobs in the North Country.
John Kerry's only time in the private sector, he was a sleeping partner in a donut stand in Boston for three months.
You know, I've created more jobs in the North Country, and I'm I'm I'm a f I'm a sinister foreigner.
These guys like John Kerry uh uh Barack Obama uh pledges to create four million new jobs.
Well, that's a job drop in the ocean, when as Nancy Pelosi says, you know, five hundred uh million Americans are losing their jobs every month.
What is that?
That's 125 million Americans losing their jobs every week, and he's promising, he's pledging to create four million new jobs.
What the point what what is the point of that?
But the but here's the reality.
If he was a guy who wanted to create jobs, if he was a guy who wanted to create jobs, why didn't he go in a business?
That's generally the way you do it.
You know, if you're that anxious uh to hire people, uh to give them jobs, to give them meaningful work, start a business.
Do something, start a company.
He didn't.
He's someone uh which I think uh and I think this is actually is at odds with the American spirit.
I love the idea, you know, uh of the founder's vision of this country, that you'd have some guy, he'd be farming some hard scrabble land in the middle of nowhere, and he'd get elected to his state legislature, uh, and then he become a state senator, uh, and then he'd get elected to Washington.
Citizen legislators.
And this idea now of a permanent governing class running around with these huge uh gul as I said yesterday, these gulf-mere-sized retinues is at odds with the uh the concept of citizen uh legislators.
Uh so thank you very much uh for your call, uh Debbie.
And uh, you know, you're right.
Uh these are people who are kind of smart, and I uh I take my hat off to them because uh a guy who can get away with claiming his kid summer camp as a business expense is smart.
I think, you know, uh the congressman who proposed that there'd be a wrangle rule, a wrangle rule that you just check if you're you know, if you suddenly remember, oh gosh, I uh 1998, I uh I I uh I didn't uh pay my uh my uh Medicare taxes.
Uh and you d and you so you check the Wrangle rule and you pay the taxes and uh you Uh uh and you don't pay any penalties or whatever.
I think we should also have a Geitner rule.
I think if every American it would actually be good i instead of the stimulus package, if every American just enjoyed the same tax deal that Geitner and Daschall enjoyed, that would pump so much money and Wrangell enjoyed, you know, where you can you can uh invest in a uh vacation property in the Dominican Republic and not pay any taxes on the uh on on the people you got uh on the rental income you're getting from there.
If every American enjoyed uh the same uh tax uh plan uh that Geitner, Dashell, and uh Charlie Wrangell enjoy, that would pump more money back into the real economy and do more good for this country uh than any uh uh anything that is in the uh in the stimulus package.
You know.
So when you say that they're not that that smart, uh you know, they got they got uh they got enough uh savvy to know that the money's doing more good if they're if they're putting it out into the economy than if they're just giving it to the Federal Treasury to disappear uh down into a great big black hole uh to g pay for Nancy Pelosi's condom program in in wherever it uh wherever it's headquartered.
It's probably I don't know, where it's probably as part of some bipartisan package.
It's probably the Robert C. Byrd Hall of Condoms in West Virginia.
But whatever it is, it's doing no good, and uh these guys figured out, hey, we'd rather keep the money for ourselves.
I think every American should be entitled to be on that tax plan.
Uh this is Mark Stein on the uh rough, rough on the rough It is rougher than usual.
That's what happens when you don't have a trained broadcast host.
On the Rush Limbaugh Show uh on the EIB network.
We'll be back with more of your calls straight ahead.
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Uh you know uh how bad it's going for Obama when the uh the moderate Republicans, the the Rhino squishes, uh are suddenly discovering uh that yes, maybe there are a few problems in this stimulus package once and once and uh uh once it becomes clear the way the wind's blowing.
Uh they put their fingers in the wind and they decided it it wasn't blowing uh Barack Obama's way.
Uh Senate lacks votes to pass stimulus.
Quote, moderate Republicans are trying to trim the bill by as much as two hundred billion dollars.
Uh now you know who these these people are.
They're personally very pleasant, Susan Collins and Olympia Snow, the nice ladies from Maine.
Uh the R after uh their names doesn't mean that much.
Uh so they're not doing this out of any sudden discovery of conservative principles.
They're doing it because they're getting told by their constituents that this stimulus package is an uh uh is an outrage and a and an abomination.
And that's why uh that's why they're doing it.
And um it's interesting to me now.
And what we're seeing just in the first two weeks uh is that uh you saw this in these um HR made this point, actually, when you're looking at these clips they're doing of of uh Obama doing these emergency damage control interviews uh with the big network anchors.
And the network anchors are actually sort of they're like they're like uh they're like kindergarten piano teachers.
They want little Johnny to do really well in his answer.
You know, because they've been they're like a piano teacher.
You know, it's like the kindergarten piano teacher who said, Hey, I'd like to present Beethoven, and then uh th this uh five-year-old kid walks out and he can barely play chopsticks.
And that's what they're saying.
Uh w we promised you Beethoven and the ki the guy can barely play chopsticks.
And uh and and when you saw these uh interviews uh last night, they were willing him to give really good, really coherent answers.
And he did.
He gave the classic Obama performance, you know, really cool, cool, he's not getting ruffled.
He admits he's screwed up.
Dashell's gone.
No one's gonna remember his name in a couple of days.
Doesn't matter, it's over.
Uh he he's done the big thing, I screwed up, it was my mistake.
Uh uh and all uh uh a terrific performance on TV in interviews, he'll get great press.
But at some time, uh at some point the gap between the rhetoric, the gap between the press coverage and reality uh is gonna start resonating with people.
And the bad thing for Obama is that it's happening even quicker than it did uh back in the Jimmy Carter Day.
You know, Jimmy Carter came in, huge approval ratings, everyone was sick of uh Nixon, sick of Ford, sick uh sick of Vietnam, sick of it all.
This guy was gonna heal the nation, heal the world.
Uh Carter came in with terrific numbers, And uh over time people realized uh that this guy just wasn't up to it.
What's the the worry for Obama is that uh is that the gap between the expectations and the reality is kicked in uh a lot sooner.
Let's go to Rick in Malibu.
Rick, uh you are on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Yeah, hi Mark, thanks for taking my call.
It's a f it's fun listening to you.
It's uh it's a pleasure.
It's a pleasure to have you on, Rick.
Um I I wanted to comment about uh I I watched one of Barack's uh interviews with the with the with the host and talking about his twenty-five percent stimulus package, seventy-five percent spending bill.
And in his answers, when he was asked about, and that's specifically with Chris Wallace on Fox News, when he was asked about all these jobs that are taking place three years, four or the spending, excuse me, taking place two, three, and four years down the line.
He didn't defend it all and say it's stimulative.
He actually said, Well, my goal is to create jobs long term.
Well, that's not a stimulus bill.
And the purpose of the stimulus bill, it's got all kinds of new rules.
I mean, it's easy rules.
It's uh you don't have closure, you can get fifty percent plus one vote in the Senate.
You don't need sixty votes like you normally do on a spending bill.
And but then he was followed up to say that, well, we all know what the emergency is.
The emergency is we may need to get money in people's hands.
We may we have banking issues and we have a housing issue.
But banking and housing isn't part of this.
Housing's coming later.
So if we're talking about a stimulus package to fix the economy, why aren't we talking about the problems that we're in with the economy in this package?
I mean, we're gonna have another half a trillion dollar bail um banking bill and another half a trillion dollar housing bill.
That should be part of this spending bill.
It's all connected now, but they rather throw in the five hundred billion dollars worth of nonsense stuff for three years so they don't have to go through the regular rules in the Senate.
Yeah, you're you're right.
This is uh essentially a way to annex uh a great chunk of the dynamic part of the American economy and bring it under the control of government.
Uh what he's doing, if you want to stimulate the economy, just take a very obvious example.
If you want to stimulate the economy, you don't burden it with uh new regulations.
Uh yet there's a lot of stuff in this package that is about bringing in so-called green-friendly uh uh r regulatory uh innovations.
Now, green-friendly means economy unfriendly.
It means it makes it more expensive uh to make something.
It means if you want to build a plant or build a factory or start a new business somewhere, uh the impact study on its environmental impact is gonna uh make it um i it take even longer.
It actually it also has national security implications.
For example, one of the things I mentioned earlier, the Canadians are all mad about the stimulus package.
One of of the the reasons they are is because the uh oil from the Alberta oil sands and Alberta's oil sands, by the way, have more uh oil in them than the the rest of the plan than than you remember back in the uh 1973 when the Carter thing hit, the energy crisis uh hit uh the in the 70s.
Uh th there's n more oil, known oil in the Alberta oil sands than there was in the known oil on the entire planet in 1973.
It's a huge amount of oil.
But because of these new regulatory things about emissions and all the rest of it, uh they're worried that uh uh in effect it will be illegal for Alberta oil sands products uh to be used south of the border.
So that will mean you'll be even more dependent on Middle Eastern oil.
Uh so there's there's actually national security implications uh to some of these things.
It's it's uh not just that it does nothing for the economy, it does nothing for long-term security too.
Uh this is the great this is the great uh problem.
It's not a stimulus bill.
It's it's uh it's something that is uh entirely uh in fact is designed entirely to advance the power of government in a permanent way.
And Barney Frank, God bless him, is quite upfront about this.
And that's why we should pay attention to what Barney Frank says, because he for some reason he can't help talking the truth on this uh and maybe less to what the President is saying on this.
Uh this is Mark Stein on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
We will have more straight ahead.
This is Mark Stew on the uh Rush Limbaugh show.
Uh yeah, I mentioned Barney Frank a moment ago.
You know what he said uh uh just yesterday?
He said this to bankers.
People really hate you and they're starting to hate us because we're hanging out with you, and you have to help us deal with that.
Pe people really hate you and they're starting to hate us because we're hanging out with you, and you have to help us deal with that.
You know, remember that Lindsay Loewen movie, Mean Girls?
I think one of the girls who played one of the mean high school girls used that line in that movie.
Uh Barney Frank uh is misinformed.
Uh the bankers, insofar as people hate them, uh they've got far fewer problems with bankers than they have with the United States government right now.
This is Mark Stein on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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