Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, America's Anchor Man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein, sitting in from the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a really great exchange program.
Guys like me get to come and study here, while in return, some lucky American lad gets to go and study at the Peshawar Sorda, the Infidel Slayer, Madrasa, and Nuclear Research Mosque.
So it works out well for everybody.
I'm here today.
Mark Belling will be in tomorrow.
It's an all-mark week here at the EIB network.
We've decided to go the same way as the United States Congress, and we're moving to an all-ear mark format.
You bring the ears and we supply the marks.
So I'm here today.
Mark Belling rounds out the week.
As I mentioned yesterday, Mark Foley and the gentleman of the chorus will be here on Monday with an all-singing dancing show.
And Mark Hamill from Star Wars, I think, will be in on Tuesday to apply the sharp end of his lightsaber to the new administration.
So lots of marks to come here on the EIB network.
And eventually, El Rushbo will return, although he'll probably be El Markbow by then.
So lots to come here on EIB.
Did you see what Nancy Pelosi said this morning?
This is the third most powerful person in America, by the way.
If God forbid anything should happen to Obama, and I mean that because 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 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, 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
500 million Americans lose their jobs every month, according to Nancy Pelosi.
You can understand.
I'm surprised whatever it's up to now, this $7.8 trillion stimulus recovery package is enough.
I mean, if there are 500 million Americans losing their jobs every month, we're going to need the thing.
What is the number that comes after a trillion?
Anyone?
Quadrillion?
No, a quadrillion.
HR says a quadrillion.
That is pocket change, man.
That means nothing.
You go, I asked Caroline Kennedy what comes after a trillion, and she said she thought it was a cotillion, but I don't think that can be right.
So whatever it is, whatever the number that comes in after the trillion, we're going to need that.
500 million Americans losing their jobs every month, according to Nancy Pelosi.
That is one hell of a line at the soup kitchen.
You know, no wonder she wants to have all these population control measures in the stimulus package, because you think about it.
If the 500 million Americans who lose their jobs this month alone, and look, it may be a shade under 500 million because February is a short month.
That's right, if they all went to Daddy, Daddy's has got free food.
They're handing out, what is it, a free $5.99 plate of bacon and eggs.
And so if you think of that 500 million Americans who lose their jobs every month, there's not going to be a pig left on the planet.
That will solve a lot of our problems, actually, with the Muslim world as well.
Because anyway, the five says 500 million Americans losing their jobs every month.
Now, you think about it, let's say it's a short month this month.
So 470 million Americans lose their now.
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 that that unemployed woman in California did, 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 Nancy Pelosi's 500 million Americans losing their jobs every month, by the end of this year, 6 billion Americans are going to be out of work.
I mean, this is incredible.
This is more Americans.
You know, even Herbert Hoover didn't give us 6 billion Americans out of work.
I mean, this is the crisis we're facing.
Now, it's not clear to me whether these are real flesh and blood Americans, whether she's going by the official Acorn-approved voter registration rolls, whether we're talking here about Al Franken's uncounted ballots in the Minnesota recount, or whether these six billion Americans are just people that Tim Geithner and Tom Dashall claimed as dependents.
But with six billion Americans out of work on course to be unemployed by the end of this year, this is a crisis.
And you can see that we're going to take it's going to need, I think, at least a 7.8 quadrillion trillion cotillion stimulus package to get us out of all this.
Well, Tim Geithner today made a great start on this.
He made a great start.
The new Treasury Secretary went on TV 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 U.S. government, and let's face it, who of us doesn't these days, you won't be allowed to earn more than 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 Geithner, a guy who claimed his kids' summer camp as a business expense.
And you know what I like about that?
Is that his when Tim Geithner did claim his kids summer camp as a business expense?
His official explanation for that is that he wasn't told he couldn't.
You know, it's great.
It's like being surprised, you know, that water doesn't run uphill.
You know, some things you shouldn't have to have to explain.
Tim Geithner.
Oh, clearly the tax code, which I think is a mere 600,000 pages at the moment, it's got to get a lot longer so that it's clear to be because obviously when you're thinking, like, yeah, I sent Junior, I sent Junior to a camp upstate for a couple of weeks.
Now, is that a legitimate business expense or not?
Hmm, it seems to me a bit of a gray area.
Anyway, Tim Geithner, the guy who claimed kids summer camp as a business expense, is now saying we need to teach these greedy fat cats a lesson once and for all.
And who better to do it?
And I love this headline as well 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 Hopi Changey guy.
He landed.
He came to us from planet Hopi Changeler and he was going to just like Hopi Changeify everything.
How can we be having headlines?
Quote, administration is described as being at a loss.
Do you remember the last new guy?
What was he called?
What's his name?
Bush?
George W. Bush?
Do you remember him before we had year zero on January the 20th?
This guy, George W. Bush, spring 2001, in our old ways of Counting years.
I think that would now be year eight before Obama.
And the rest of the world's verdict on the new administration was 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 14 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 read it back a couple of times that it occurred to me that Mr. Taylor might have intended his remarks disapprovingly.
You know, Democrats don't like this kind of thing.
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, Obama hasn't been in power for 100 days.
He's basically just been in power for 10 days with weekends off for Vanity Fair photo shoots.
So in those 10 days, he's made an impressive start.
Let's have a quick zip around today's headlines.
Dateline 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 premiers 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 Bakyev.
That's Kyrgyzstan, by the way, the stand with the world's greatest vowel shortage.
Kyrgyzstan.
Anyway, the president of Kyrgyzstan, Kerman Bek Bakyev, 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.
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.
MK Narayan, India's national security advisor, said the new U.S. administration is in danger of dredging up out-of-date Clinton-era strategies.
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 timed 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 satellite, do you know what Omid means in Persian?
It's Persian for hope.
Who says these crazy ayatollahs out of a sense of humor?
Anyway, they're not just in cloud cuckoo land now.
They're in orbit.
Muller's in space.
Actually, that was the name of a sci-fi series I pitched to Paramount years ago.
Muller's in space.
Anyway, the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs.
Have you seen this guy, Robert Gibbs?
I don't know about you, but I'm convinced it's Scott McClellan after entering the witness protection program and getting built by some fly-by-night reconstructive surgery types on the lamb from the British Socialized Health Service.
I mean, this is the return of Scott McClellan.
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 in modern history.
And we hope to have more straight ahead.
So we're going to be looking at these first two weeks of the new era of Hopi Change and lots of the rest of the day's news, all straight ahead on the EIB network.
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As I mentioned yesterday, I've got a bet on with a pal as to when the last jihadist actually leaves Gitmar.
I would wager it'll be circa 2015, something like that.
We're talking about the world's reaction to the first few days of the Obama administration.
It's clearly getting to President Obama.
There was this Associated Press story today.
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, President candidly told the gleeful second graders.
This is like two weeks.
He's tired of being on the way to.
By the way, you remember Michael Moore in that film Fahrenheit 911, 9-11, whatever it's called, Fahrenheit 9-11.
And it begins with President Bush reading My Pet Goat to those grade school kids.
Yesterday, President Obama was reading the moon over star to those grade school kids and telling them that his favorite superheroes were Batman and Spider-Man.
That's very bipartisan, by the way.
Batman is DC Comics and Spider-Man is Marvel Comics.
So he doesn't want to alienate anyone in particular.
But I mean, it's been a rough opening for him.
You know, when the Bush administration offended foreigners, generally speaking, they did it intentionally.
Like when Rummy talked about old Europe, he knew Jacques Chirac wasn't going to like it.
That was the idea.
And a lot of what's happening with this president blundering around the world, offending people, is accidental.
And the tragedy in there's a there's a tragic element to all this is that the Europeans and Canadians in particular, I mean, 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 going to clobber their economies, particularly at this point in time.
You know, they are absolutely right on this, that protectionism is not going to save the world.
If this is the worst financial crisis since the 30s, then the way to make it worse than the 30s is to erect protectionist barriers in every nation.
And by the way, when you know Nancy Pelosi starts talking about 500 million Americans being out of work, being laid off every month, that is what happens when you have legislators working with getting used to writing these trillion-dollar packages.
I said yesterday, 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 12 zeros off their currency.
Because if you go and buy a cup of coffee and a newspaper in Zimbabwe, it costs you like $23 trillion now.
So they took 12 zeros off their currency.
And I said as a joke, that's what we should do with the stimulus package.
And I mean that.
I actually mean that.
If you take the combined bailout and the stimulus package, you would come up with, I think whatever it is, $1.7 trillion.
You take 12 zeros off of that, you come up with a buck 70.
And a buck 70 would actually do as much to correct what is wrong in the economy.
A buck 70 of government spending would do as much to correct what's wrong in the economy as $1.7 trillion will.
In a sense, all we are doing 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 1812 and the cost of the American and Mexican-American War and the cost of the Louisiana Purchase and the costs of the Second World War and the Cold War and the Korean War and the costs of everything in American history added up in one package.
And that is why we would be better to have no bill than the bill that is being proposed in Congress right now.
So I am opposed to anything like this stimulus package and I'm very heartened that for once 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 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, Mark Stein sitting in for us.
You know, I've been following the stories about this octuplet mom out in California who's getting absolutely no sympathy.
She had six kids.
She's unemployed.
She's divorced.
She had six kids, living with her parents, and then she decides to have another eight by in vitro fertilization.
And she's getting hammered in the press.
She's getting hammered by all the commentators, grossly irresponsible.
Leave this woman alone.
And you know why?
Because this is exactly what, think of Nancy Pelosi as this woman in California with an even bigger swollen belly.
I mean, what we had, what this stimulus package is, is essentially saying, oh, well, like this woman, she already had six kids, she's in vitro fertilization to get eight.
We already had whatever it was, an $800 billion bailout in the fall.
So then Congress goes and gets in vitro fertilization and says, no, we've got to have even more this time.
And we have this now, this just shout of a trillion-dollar stimulus package.
Essentially, what we're witnessing is the in vitro fertilization of government.
If it's wrong for this woman in California to do it, it is wrong for Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi to do it.
And that is, sorry, I didn't want to cause any unpleasant images, but that is essentially, 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 going to end up sticking it to California taxpayers to pay for all the diapers and everything for these kids.
Keep your eye on the big picture, the in vitro fertilization of the federal budget.
That is the much bigger issue.
Mark Stein on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Let's go to Debbie in Pensacola, Florida.
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.
Thanks a lot.
Sean was talking about his first time behind the EIB microphone when he managed to knock it over and wind up addressing America from below the desk for some strange reason.
That's his microphone technique.
I'm very, very, I know I have to be quick.
There's a lot of people behind me in the queue.
But I want to tell you how very disappointed I am in the cabinet choices.
I'm especially very offended by Mr. Geithner 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 overseeing the taxes that we pay.
My husband and I pay a lot of taxes every year.
I'll be very honest.
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, you know, I think that the people that he's chosen to protect the country is fine.
That I don't mind.
I think that that's wonderful.
He left some of Mr. Bush's 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 that screened the call was that it seems, and I was speaking with my friends, and I'm part of a Jewish community, that all of these people thought that because Obama was educated at an Ivy League school, Harvard, that that made him so much smarter than everybody else.
And that really isn't the way it is.
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 credibility with the patients.
And he does a lot more now in his postgraduate with writing, holding lawyer meetings, the whole thing.
It doesn't mean because you graduate from Harvard that you're going to be a better president.
No, and you make a very good point here, Debbie.
Barack Obama's background, I mean, this is like a wafer-thin resume.
Essentially, if you take out all the autobiographies he's written, it doesn't actually add up to much.
He was a community organizer.
Most communities in America happily don't need community organizers.
In fact, I think I can say, speaking as someone who lives in a community, 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, it means that some kind of insane Marxist machine street politics is your best hope of getting out of the living hell you're stuck in.
And I'm happy to say that my little small-town dump in New Hampshire hasn't yet got to that stage.
So, a community organizer is a non-job.
And the idea that it's somehow some kind of noble calling is ridiculous, which is what Michelle Obama said.
She said, Oh, you know, 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 and leaves the job, they don't bother replacing her.
That's how indispensable her job was.
The position's been eliminated.
So, you've got two people here.
He was a community organizer, and then he became a state legislator, and then he became president.
He has never made payroll in his life.
So, he must be, if you expect him to have some sympathy or understanding, and that's the problem with a permanent political class.
You know, John Kerry came to my part of New Hampshire, came to the Barge Inn in Woodsville, New Hampshire.
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 a sinister foreigner.
These guys like John Kerry and Barack Obama pledges to create 4 million new jobs.
Well, that's a job drop in the ocean when, as Nancy Pelosi says, you know, 500 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 4 million new jobs.
What is the point of that?
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 into business?
That's generally the way you do it.
You know, if you're that anxious to hire people to give them jobs, to give them meaningful work, start a business, do something, start a company.
He didn't.
He's someone which I think, and I think this is actually at odds with the American spirit.
I love the idea, you know, 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, and then he'd become a state senator, and then he'd get elected to Washington.
Citizen legislators.
And this idea now of a permanent governing class running around with these huge, as I said yesterday, these Gulf-Mere-sized retinues is at odds with the concept of citizen legislators.
So, thank you very much for your call, Debbie.
And, you know, you're right.
These are people who are kind of smart.
And I take my hat off to them because a guy who can get away with claiming his kids' summer camp as a business expense is smart.
I think, you know, 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, 1998, I didn't pay my Medicare taxes.
And so you check the Wrangle rule and you pay the taxes and you don't pay any penalties, whatever.
I think we should also have a Geithner rule.
I think if every American, it would actually be good, instead of the stimulus package, if every American just enjoyed the same tax deal that Geithner and Dashell enjoyed, that would pump so much money and Wrangell enjoyed, you know, where you can invest in a vacation property in the Dominican Republic and not pay any taxes on the people you got on the rental income you're getting from there.
If every American enjoyed the same tax plan that Geithner, Dashel and Charlie Wrangell enjoy, that would pump more money back into the real economy and do more good for this country than anything that is in the stimulus package.
So when you say that they're not that smart, you know, they got enough savvy to know that the money's doing more good if they're putting it out into the economy than if they're just giving it to the Federal Treasury to disappear down into a great big black hole to pay for Nancy Pelosi's condom program in wherever it's headquartered.
Probably, I don't know, it's probably as partisan, 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 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.
This is Mark Stein on the rough, rough, rough.
It is rougher than usual.
That's what happens when you don't have a trained broadcast host.
On the Rush Limbaugh show on the EIB network, we'll be back with more of your calls straight ahead.
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You know how bad it's going for Obama when the moderate Republicans, the rhino squishes, are suddenly discovering that, yes, maybe there are a few problems in this stimulus package once it becomes clear the way the wind's blowing.
They put their fingers in the wind and they decided it wasn't blowing Barack Obama's way.
Senate lacks votes to pass stimulus.
Quote, moderate Republicans are trying to trim the bill by as much as $200 billion.
Now, you know who these people are.
They're personally very pleasant, Susan Collins and Olympia Snow, the nice ladies from Maine.
The R after their names doesn't mean that much.
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 outrage and an abomination.
And that's why they're doing it.
And it's interesting to me now.
And what we're seeing just in the first two weeks is that you saw this in these HR made this point, actually, when you're looking at these clips they're doing of Obama doing these emergency damage control interviews with the big network anchors.
And the network anchors are actually sort of, 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 this five-year-old kid walks out and he can barely play chopsticks.
And that's what they're saying.
We promised you Beethoven and the guy can barely play chopsticks.
And when you saw these interviews 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.
Dashel's gone.
No one's going to remember his name in a couple of days.
Doesn't matter.
It's over.
He's doing the big thing.
I screwed up.
It was my mistake.
And all a terrific performance on TV in interviews.
He'll get great press.
But at some time, at some point, the gap between the rhetoric, the gap between the press coverage and reality is going to start resonating with people.
And the bad thing for Obama is that it's happening even quicker than it did back in the Jimmy Carter day.
You know, Jimmy Carter came in, huge approval ratings.
Everyone was sick of Nixon, sick of Ford, sick of Vietnam, sick of it all.
This guy was going to heal the nation, heal the world.
Carter came in with terrific numbers.
And over time, people realized that this guy just wasn't up to it.
The worry for Obama is that the gap between the expectations and the reality has kicked in a lot sooner.
Let's go to Rick in Malibu.
You are on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Mark.
Thanks for taking my call.
It's fun listening to you.
It's a pleasure.
It's a pleasure to have you on, Rick.
I wanted to comment about, I watched one of Barack's interviews with the host talking about his 25% stimulus package, 75% 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, all 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.
You don't have closure.
You can get 50% plus one vote in the Senate.
You don't need 60 votes like you normally do on a spending bill.
But then he follows 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 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 going to have another half a trillion dollar 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 $500 billion worth of nonsense stuff for three years so they don't have to go through the regular rules in the Senate.
Yeah, you're right.
This is essentially a way to annex a great chunk of the dynamic part of the American economy and bring it under the control of government.
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 new regulations.
Yet there's a lot of stuff in this package that is about bringing in so-called green-friendly regulatory innovations.
Now, green-friendly means economy unfriendly.
It means it makes it more expensive to make something.
It means if you want to build a plant or build a factory or start a new business somewhere, the impact study on its environmental impact is going to make it take even longer.
Actually, it also has national security implications.
For example, one of the things I mentioned earlier, the Canadians were all mad about this stimulus package.
One of the reasons they are is because the oil from the Alberta oil sands, and Alberta's oil sands, by the way, have more oil in them than the rest of the planet.
Remember back in 1973 when the Carter thing hit, the energy crisis hit in the 70s, there's more oil, known oil, in the Alberta oil sands than there was in the known oil on the entire planet in 1973.
There's a huge amount of oil.
But because of these new regulatory things about emissions and all the rest of it, they're worried that in effect it will be illegal for Alberta oil sands products to be used south of the border.
So that will mean you'll be even more dependent on Middle Eastern oil.
So there's actually national security implications to some of these things.
It's not just that it does nothing for the economy, it does nothing for long-term security, too.
This is the great problem.
It's not a stimulus bill.
It's something that is entirely, in fact, 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 for some reason he can't help talking the truth on this, and maybe less to what the president is saying on this.
This is Mark Stein on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
We will have more straight ahead.
This is Mark Stein in on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I mentioned Barney Frank a moment ago.
You know what he said 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.
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 Lowen movie, Mean Girls?
I think one of the girls who played one of the mean high school girls used that line in that movie.
Barney Frank is misinformed.
The bankers, insofar as people hate them, they've got far fewer problems with bankers than they have with the United States government right now.