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Feb. 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 6, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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And it is indeed live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I think I was supposed to give you some warning.
I was going to remind people it was open line.
It would have been nice.
I know I forgot to do it last hour.
I don't even really know how to do open line Friday.
I'm just kind of wading through it today.
I did remember at the last second I was supposed to do that, and I didn't remind you to do it, but kind of worked out.
No one would have noticed had I not childishly made a big deal about it.
Watching Obama lead the country, and I use the term lead very loosely.
It's at least going to be interesting, even though, as you know, I'm rather pessimistic about where it's going to take us.
One of the things that I'm convinced is going to occur is reality is going to sink in with regard to terrorism.
You know, this stuff about closing Guantanamo, which is so vague.
Well, I want you to have it closed in a year.
You know what's going to happen by the end of that year when Guantanamo isn't closed.
It's just part of this whole awakening by Obama of what it's like to actually be in charge.
As I was explaining earlier in the program, he's never been in charge really of anything.
The closest he can come up with is the Harvard Law Review.
He's never been in charge of anything.
It is very, very easy, as everyone knows, to be off to the side and shoot off your mouth and say what needs to be done.
That's what I do.
That's what talk show hosts do.
That's what everybody does.
But when you are in the position of being in charge, when you are responsible, suddenly you realize that a lot of the things that you say may be harder to do in practice.
So while he's been dumping all over Bush's terror policies, he's going to be facing certain realities.
He, for example, has made it clear that there will be no torture in any form of terror suspects.
He said that.
But the backtracking is already beginning.
Leon Panetta, designee for the CIA, testifying before Congress in his confirmation hearings yesterday, is already backpedaling.
New York Times, Leon Bennett of the White House picked to leave the Central Intelligence Agency on Thursday, left open the possibility that the agency could seek permission to use interrogation methods more aggressive than the limited menu that President Obama authorized under new rules last month.
Interesting.
So Obama passes all these new rules.
You've got to follow the Army field manual.
You can't do this, you can't do that.
But Bonetta let's slip the loophole.
Well, yes, those are the rules, but we may seek permission to go beyond those rules.
As dangerous as I think Obama can be for the United States, do I really think he wants to go down to Guantanamo and release all these guys?
No.
Barack Obama is a political self-preservationist.
If he releases people from Guantanamo, and some of them go out and commit acts of terror against the United States, it will be devastating for his presidency, and he knows that.
Is he going to risk putting them on trial or having bail granted?
I don't think so.
Now let's imagine that Obama is confronted with exactly what President Bush was confronted with four and a half years ago.
Let's imagine we grab the equivalent of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was at the time the number two in Al Qaeda.
We've got him.
To paraphrase Rod Bogoyovich in Illinois, you had something that's golden.
You've got somebody here who knows every plan Al Qaeda has.
Let's suppose we grab whomever that now is, whomever the number two in Al Qaeda is now.
We find him.
And we also get information that something is in the works.
They're planning to do something, but we don't know what it is.
Here's Panetta at the CIA.
Mr. President, we've got whomever this number two guy is here.
We think he knows stuff, and we think something bad is going to occur.
Is Barack Obama going to be the President of the United States who insists that we follow the Army Field Manual of Interrogation, knowing that there may be a massive terror hit on the United States occurring under his watch?
Or is he suddenly going to be Jack Bauer and start plugg pull plucking the eyeballs out of this guy?
It's real real easy when you have no power, when you're just sitting off of the side bashing everything President Bush does to take this high road.
But when you are charged with the responsibility of protecting your country, do I think Obama is so irresponsible, so reckless that he won't seek that information, that he won't do what's necessary?
No, I don't think he is.
Whether you want to call it patriotism or simply political self-preservation, look what they did to Bush after 9-11.
Somehow, well, if only we had followed up on this leader, if we had done this and we had done that.
If we have someone who knows something, Barack Obama is going to find a way to get that person to talk.
So we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and everybody was horrified by that.
We haven't had a terror hit since 9 11.
Do you think perhaps Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who started singing like a canary after all of that may have given us information that stopped these things from occurring?
I think there's going to be a lot of reality sinking into Obama as he actually now deals with terrorism rather than talks about terrorism.
Vote postponed on the designer of President Obama for Secretary of Labor.
You'll never guess what the problem with Hilda Solis is.
Why, we've got another tax issue.
You want to pay for stimulus?
Let's just have the Democrats in the United States pay their taxes.
Well, that must be a trillion dollars right there.
I've never seen anything like this before.
Can he not find any Democrat for any job who doesn't have a tax issue in this instance?
Well, it's no big deal because it's her husband's tax.
Okay, they're only married.
Her husband has had a tax lien on his auto repair business.
It has been outstanding for, I love this.
You know how long this lien has been outstanding on her husband's auto repair business?
Uh HR says 10 years.
You're on the right track.
Sixteen years.
What is this democratic mentality?
How many years did Geitner go without paying his FICA and his withholding?
Years, five years he let the statute of limitations run out.
Sixteen years the guy's had a lien on his auto repair business, a tax lien.
Now, apparently, he wasn't trying to sell the business and he was able to hold off whoever the revenuers were.
So the vote has been delayed on Hilda Solis.
Obviously, the tax lien will be taken care of.
Hilda Solis will be confirmed.
Hilda Salise is one of the lefties that Obama's put into the administration.
He has made some cabinet appointees that aren't as bad as a lot of people feared.
For all of Geitner's problems being a tax deadbeat, he is considered to be qualified to run the treasury, and a lot of conservatives were encouraged by his naming.
Hilda Solis is a far-left labor activist.
She is a longtime supporter of something called card check.
One of the tests of the Obama administration is going to be whether or not they follow through on card check.
Talked a lot about the damage that can be done to this country, irreparable, with the Democrats controlling literally everything right now.
Card check is near the top.
Card check means this.
It means that a company that doesn't have a union in place can get a union merely by a majority of individuals in the workplace signing a card saying that they want union representation.
Current law requires that a secret ballot be held and a majority of workers vote for a union.
Going to card check, which is a public act, means whomever the union organizers are in the workplace can walk up to an employee and say, hey, do you want to sign?
Do you want to be in the union?
Imagine in your own workplace saying no.
For a lot of us, that would be easy.
I'd relish it.
Somebody walks up to me at my radio station and walking, Mark, we're trying to get a union in you.
Do you want to sign?
No.
But it's easier for me to do that.
I'm a big shot radio talk show host.
I'm not particularly concerned whether or not I'm going to alienate somebody who wants to get a union in there.
But at a lot of workplaces where you don't want to be the unpopular person, you may not do it.
They'll tell her, look, Frank didn't sign the card.
Frank, sign the card.
For a lot of the Franks of the world, the path of least resistance, the path of being able to just get along with your co-workers is going to be to sign the card.
The unions really, really, really want this.
Private sector labor union representation, I think is now down to what, 12% of the workforce, maybe even lower than that.
The government unions have just taken over.
Virtually all government employees are in a union of one form or another.
But in the private sector, unionization is dying.
The reason it's dying, there are two reasons.
First of all, whenever a union gets into a private sector industry, it kills that industry.
But secondly, most American workers don't want to be in a union.
You guys aren't in a union over there, are you?
This isn't a union operation, is it?
I didn't cross any picket lines or anything here at EIB.
No.
Most people don't want to be in a union.
So when you hold these secret votes, which are currently required under law, the union loses.
But if you can do it openly, they reason, they will be able to win more of these elections.
Look at the problems we're having with the auto industry in this country.
Everybody knows what the problem is.
It isn't that the American companies don't make good cars, they do.
It isn't like some Democrats think that they don't make any small cars, they do.
It isn't that they don't make fuel efficient cars, they do.
Look at the mileage that the GM cars are getting.
That's not the problem.
The problem is that there are all of these costs associated with having a union in place.
There are companies that build cars in the United States of America profitably, but none of them are saddled with a labor union.
You start unionizing all of these companies in this country that aren't currently unionized, and they become immediately uncompetitive against foreign employers.
It becomes yet another reason for manufacturers to move jobs overseas.
If you're a multinational company that is making something, whatever it is, here in the United States, and you're faced with this question.
Do you want to continue to employ American workers and have a union to deal with?
Or do you want to farm those jobs out to China, India, or somewhere else?
What do you think their answer is going to be?
So from a practical standpoint, card check would be disastrous.
From a moral standpoint, it is even more indefensible.
This country is premised.
I know we're a republic, but we govern ourselves as a democracy.
This country is premised on people being able to have their beliefs and being able to act on those beliefs without the rest of the world knowing what their stand is.
There is a reason why, when you go into the voting booth, there's a curtain there.
There is also a reason why, in the labor union structure, we have had secret ballots.
And you know what?
You know who started the secret ballot?
You know why the secret ballots were put in place?
They were put in place originally by the unions because they feared that there would be management intimidation of union members.
By having a secret ballot, an employee would not have to worry that the boss would be all hacked off about who signed the card.
So for the very principle that this law was created, they now want to abandon this so that they can pressure workers themselves, bully them to join unions.
Will Obama pursue this or not?
I kind of think yes, because I think the left realizes that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity they have controlling everything.
The nomination of Hilda Salise is a pretty strong signal they're going to try to move in that direction, which would be a total assault on the rights of all of the workers in this country who don't want to be in a labor union.
I'm Mark Dullins sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Elling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh 1 800 282 2882 is the EIB telephone number.
Rush will be back on Tuesday.
I think I know where he is.
He's vacationing.
This Walmart story is just amazing.
Walmart's sales were up in the most recent quarter.
Everybody who makes anything or sells any, everybody's down.
Everything that you look at, down, down, down, down, down, Walmart is up.
The only three companies that I can think of off the top of my head that right now are booming are Walmart, McDonald's, and Amazon.
Those three.
Now, there are obvious messages there.
Clearly, Walmart hasn't the reputation, whether it's reserve it or not, they have the reputation of being less expensive.
They can get deals at Walmart.
We know why McDonald's is booming.
It's booming because of the dollar menu.
We're in a recession.
People are looking for ways to save their money, and the companies that have a reputation of giving you a good value are doing well.
There's something else that I find in common with all three Walmart, McDonald's, Amazon.
No union in any of them.
You take a look at some of these other retailers that do have unions, they aren't doing very well.
By the way, the higher up on the food chain you are, the worse you are doing in terms of sales.
This is a recession that I think is hitting really hard at the upper end of the pay scale.
Nordstrom's is down, Neiman Marcus is way down, Sachs is down.
In the meantime, Walmart is up.
The people who have in the past had high discretion discretionary income, they were really hammered by the stock market.
This is a recession that's hitting hard on the high end.
Now with the layoffs, which are disproportionately aimed at men.
You know that there are now more men, rather more women in the workforce than men.
Eighty-two percent of the job losses since the recession began are men.
Do they have an explanation for why that is?
I think we're being discriminated against.
We're being discriminated against.
Let's bring that cause up.
See how far we get with that.
Can you imagine if eighty-two percent of those laid off were women?
How the story would be greeted.
It's men, uh, it's it's men.
Preferably they're white males.
Who cares what happens to you?
You've had the power too much.
Vero Beach, Florida.
Robert, you're on EIB.
Yes, hi, Mark.
Uh, great to talk with you, but uh uh you bet.
Uh but I do have to disagree with you on uh your analysis of Obama and uh the terrorists uh possibility of a terrorist attack here in the United States.
It's not gonna happen.
And I think that uh when you're No, I said I said if we had a I I was creating a hypothetical, if we grabbed someone, and if we were in a situation in which if we felt that that individual had something to offer, would Obama really be so reckless and irresponsible as to read the guy as Miranda Whites and sh and shuttle him off to jail?
I don't think so.
Okay, but that's see that's not gonna happen because what is not going to happen is a terrorist attack on the United States.
Otherwise we would have had one by now.
And the reason is, remember what happened after 2001.
Americans were galvanized.
We were one people.
We had a cause, we were going to get those who attacked our homeland, and we were gonna put an end to Al Qaeda, etc., etc.
That's not gonna happen because what would be the worst thing that could happen to the Obama administration and to all the Clintonites who are running the show for Obama.
And that would be to galvanize the American people against Obama and his policies, which are flawed.
But that doesn't make any difference.
Al Qaeda is very happy to have the war in Afghanistan and have it in Iraq.
Because I hope Robert, I hope you are right.
I think you are absolutely wrong.
If you were right about that, Western Europe would be free from terrorism right now given the cozying up it has done to the Islamist movement.
Terrorists strike when they believe that the enemy is weak.
The reason that they haven't struck us since 9 11 is not because they were nice.
It's because we went into Afghanistan and ran them out of there.
It's because they tried to win a war against us in Iraq and we beat them there.
They are hiding in the hills.
We have been spying on them.
We have been listening to their telephone calls, and occasionally we have been waterboarding them.
I hope you're right about this.
But if they sense that this guy is weak, I believe we are more vulnerable, not less vulnerable to attack.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Nadia Suleiman is now talking.
You know who Nadia Suleiman is, right?
Nadia Suleiman is the woman who had the Yaktuplets, mother of fourteen.
What's the big deal?
She's still nine behind Angelina Jolie.
Bad.
Bad.
By the way, take a look at her.
Everybody wanted to know what she looked.
Well, she did.
I think Ann Curry got the first interview.
I if you it's kind of a reach, but not she not that big of a one.
She does look a little like Angelina Jolie.
If you imagine Angelina Jolie without the Botox, this woman does kind of look like her.
Look.
Look at her.
The Bernie Madoff story.
More names are coming out now of the individuals who are victimized by Madoff.
I mean, it goes on and on and on.
The more prominent you were, the likelier you were to be one of his investors.
Barbara Gladstone is a big shot New York art gallery owner.
Uh some novelists, Fred Wilpon, the owner of the New York Mets, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Spielberg, the estates of John Denver and Irving Thalberg.
Larry King is on.
I love this.
Larry King is on the list, quickly issued a statement saying that, yeah, but it wasn't a lot of money.
That's what's just so unfair about all of this if you're one of Madoff's victims.
You not only have been wiped out or lost a substantial amount of money, everybody looks at you like you were an idiot.
It's humiliating.
It's almost like somebody who has lung cancer who was a lifelong cigarette smoker.
Everyone's response is, well, if he hadn't smoked his entire life, he wouldn't have lung cancer.
So here these people are, devastated, and they don't want anyone to know about it, because everybody will look at them and say, how could you possibly be so stupid?
Well, everything is obvious after it happens.
In retrospect, we can understand anything that's ever happened.
It's really hard to figure these things out before they occur.
I can look at this and wonder, well, why wouldn't people have realized that nobody makes ten percent every single year up or down?
This had to be crooked.
You can say that now, but saying any of this stuff before how many people heard that there was a housing bubble?
We were a lot of people said this.
You gotta get out of housing.
Housing's gonna crash, the stock market's gonna crash, it's gonna bring everything down.
In retrospect, we can see how that happened, but not many people did act on it.
I mean, there were certainly lessons to be learned from the Madoff thing, including never put all of your eggs in any one single basket.
But you have to feel for some of these people who've just lost everything and now have the entire world essentially rolling their eyes at how stupid they were.
To Pensacola, Florida and Gary.
Gary, it's open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hey, good afternoon, Mark.
Um, just to back up to an earlier point, uh, where you thought uh the administration would would definitely suffer should uh another act of terrorism occur uh because of the release of some of the terrorists.
Uh it's like I told the screener, uh we've had sixty-seven of them go back to their their bad ways, and and uh it's been put out in the media, and apparently there is no outrage.
And so I I can't believe unless they're there's something bad, bad happening this soil that anything's gonna happen.
Well, that that's the key if it happens here.
If there is something akin to another 9 11 or worse, and it turns out that someone that we were holding a Guantanamo was connected to it or was a ringleader, it would destroy the presidency of Obama.
I mean, look at how Willie Hort Willie Horton helped do in Michael Dukakis for heaven's sakes.
You allowed a guy, bad guy to get out of jail.
If it's real, real easy to say that Guantanamo is inhumane.
As both McCain and Obama have said, it's real easy to say that we have the disapproval of the world.
But the fact of the matter is that Guantanamo is the perfect solution if you are thinking practically, and now that Obama is in charge, he's got to start thinking practically about some things.
Here we have all of these people, but they are at a military base.
They are not subject to the criminal court system, meaning that they can get bail or be put on trial and found not guilty.
They're on a military base which just happens to be on an island that's part of a communist country.
It's perfect.
It's also easily accessible to the United States.
It's perfect.
I think you will see from the left a passive forgetfulness with regard to their outrage over Guantanamo.
A few people will start bringing up a year from now, Ms. President, what about this year and you're going to deal with Guantano?
And he's going to say, well, things have intervened, and whatever the nineteen crises of 2009 are.
He will cite those as all of the reasons why we have to put off closing Guantanamo because there is no good alternative to Guantanamo.
You many of these people can't be put on trial because it would be mean revealing a lot of secrets that we've learned that we don't want to put out in a public trial.
Also, none of these people were read their Miranda rights, so they can't be put on criminal trial there.
Some have been tortured, they can't be put on trial, and many others, they haven't done anything in particular terror-related.
We just know that they've been affiliated with terrorism and have every reason to think that they're dangerous.
So therefore Guantanamo, and just putting them down there to sit around and fester while terribly appalling to those who worship the First Amendment and worship the rights of every criminal, it is the convenient solution to a very, very terrible problem.
It's also Obama's entire career has been chasing the path of least resistance.
It's why he voted present all the time in the Illinois State Senate.
He doesn't want to do anything that's politically self-destructive.
And I think he realizes that allowing some of these people to go free would be politically self-destructive.
What he's going to do is run out the clock and come up with every excuse unimaginable for not doing anything about Guantanamo.
Thanks for the call, Gary.
Let's go to Rye, Colorado now and Petra.
Petra, it's your turn on the Russian Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Wow, I'm really impressed, and it's really fun to talk to you.
And I think you do an excellent job when you fill in for Rush.
Thank you.
And I feel like I'm I'm sort of backtracking the show because I called in about the the um the uh card check.
Well, as I understand Open Line Friday, which I don't fully understand, but as I understand as it's been explained to me, you can talk about pretty much anything.
So you can go and talk about almost anything that you want.
Well, but you were talking about op uh but about card check, and I just uh called in and spoke to the the call screener, and I really appreciate him uh him and you taking my call.
But I worked for United Airlines, I'm retired now, and the union came in to organize us, and I was one who stood up to the union organizer.
Um he was outside the gate, and I'm blind and have a guide dog, so I would take her out for a potty break.
And he would try and get me to sign up, and I said, What the heck can you do for us?
But I worked with people who are union objectors.
And what happens when you're a union objector is they subtract the part that you pay for their political contributions, but you lose any right to vote on the contract.
They charge you because they say, Well, we're still negotiating.
Right, so you essentially you're yeah, you're disenfranchised.
You end up having to pay an amount equivalent to the dues that you would pay were you in the union.
The point that I'm making with regard to card check is that there are a lot of people who don't you obviously have very strong will because you are willing to stand up to them.
For many people, that's a very uncomfortable thing to have to deal with.
And you can become ostracized in the workplace.
Look at him over there.
He isn't part of the union movement.
They can make things really, really miserable, which is the beauty of the secret ballot.
You can do you can take whatever position you want when you're voting in secret.
And the unions don't like that because they've been losing most union elections.
They're down to about 12% of the private workforce.
When the secret ballot worked for them because it was the companies that were doing the intimidation in the bad old days, which they were in many instances.
They wanted the secret ballot.
Now that that doesn't work, they want to throw democracy out on its ear so that they can use the goon tactics that many unionists will use in order to pressure people to vote away that they otherwise would not be.
Face it, the unions wouldn't be pushing for the end of secret ballots if they thought secret ballots were something that was good for their cause.
Thanks, Petra.
My name is Mark Belling.
I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh on EIB.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, pancreatic cancer, she underwent surgery yesterday.
Everyone certainly wishes her well.
But given the fact that the only way you leave the United States Supreme Court is through retirement or death, it does raise the specter of how soon Obama will have a Supreme Court nomination.
It is my belief that whomever the first justice that he has to replace is that he will choose someone who is from the far, far left.
It is now when he's got this large majority in the United States Senate that he can fight off any Republican filibuster.
So he's going to go far to the left and appease his liberal base with his first appointment.
Should it be someone like Ginsburg or Stevens, the two most liberal justices on the court, they can rationalize well, you're just replacing a liberal with a liberal.
I think Obama's first appointment, however, is likely to be from the extreme left.
Maybe the most liberal justice in the history of the court because of the political dynamic.
If he gets into the say 2011 after the 2010 congressional election, there may be more Republicans in the Senate.
It may be harder to get by with someone that is that far to the left.
I was talking to the staff earlier today and asked them if they knew what a Kindle was.
And to my shock, they didn't.
Way, way, way back, like in 90 or 91, I was talking to some friends in a city where there wasn't a Walmart yet.
And we were a few of us were talking about Walmart, and they looked at us like, what's Walmart?
And I stared at the You don't know what Walmart, you don't know what this thing that's going to change the world.
Kindle is one of those things.
Kindle is, I think, going to be as radical as the Internet.
Kindle is this device, it's proprietary to Amazon, that essentially is a book reader, but it's not just a book reader.
Oprah talked about it.
Whenever Oprah talks about something, her minions go out and buy them in droves.
Kind of like Rush.
Rush sort of has that ability too.
I don't have that ability.
I wish I did.
I wish I could just say something and then I can go to my website or whatever.
Anyway, the Kindle is a technology that imagine that the iPod was for printed material, where you could download a potentially, once this thing gets refined, an infinite number of books or reading material and simply have it there, and it's like a book.
You hold something in your hand that feels like a book and looks like a book, except the pages are digitally printed.
You touch something and that turns you from page three to page four, and you touch another thing and it takes it from page five to page six.
In particular, I believe this is what's going to happen to daily newspapers in the United States.
Printed newspapers are becoming obsolete already.
Detroit, Michigan, doesn't have home delivery of daily newspapers.
I think Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, something like that.
Other daily newspapers are getting thinner and thinner.
They're all losing their shirts because of competition from the internet and the lousy advertising market and the fact that they're filled with liberal pap.
This becomes the salvation.
You have a much lower cost way of delivering the product.
You'll have Kindles that will be shaped the size of a newspaper.
You'll have Kindles shape the size of a book.
They'll come in all different sizes.
I think this is a good thing rather than a bad thing.
One of my fears with the internet, with people having such easy access to information that they can quickly pop around and roll and scan through, is that it's going to do away with actual reading.
This device can save reading, and I think it can save at least some of the more positive aspects of daily newspapers.
I think it's radical.
I think it's chang it's it will change literally everything.
In fact, today Google and Amazon are announcing that they are going to try to put more books on their cell phones.
Since Kindle is proprietary and it's patented, you can't come up with a clone of that, but you can use something like a cell phone to do the same thing.
230,000 books currently in public domain, uh now up to 1.5 million.
Google says that it can make all of those available on its cell phone.
This is going to be the future.
Let's go to Traverse City, Michigan and Bob, Bob, it's your turn on EIB.
Hello, Mark, how are you this afternoon?
I'm great.
Have you heard of the Kindle?
Briefly.
Briefly.
Well, at least at least that.
I have a staff here that works for the guy who is on the cutting edge of societal evolution, and they're not they're on the dull edge of that.
I guarantee you rush knows about the Kindle.
Well, right, Bob.
Being the grand poopah of the universe, the master of the universe himself.
But anyways, Mark, enjoy the program as always.
Enjoy when you host.
But my you kind of stole some of my thunder here just a minute ago.
And I kind of like your advice and feelings on the court, being that the Democrats do have a possible once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
And I feel if they can win in 10, 12, and maybe beyond, I'm wondering what the federal bench is, not just the Supreme, but the federal benches are going to be.
And once those are in total control, I mean more further out.
Yeah, it will really mean that they have everything.
They've got the two branches right now.
Right.
The ability to reshape the Federal Judiciary will be based on two things how long they hold the White House and how long they have majorities in the United States Senate.
That is the one area where this overplaying of the hand by trying to ram through everything they can could result in a revolt in the 2010 election.
That's why I believe that Obama's appointees to not only the Supreme Court, but the lower courts as well, these first two years when he has this huge majority in the Senate, those will be the most liberal.
And is thank you for the call.
And as long as I'm mentioning that, I do want to compliment Federal Judge from my own community of Milwaukee, Rudolf Randah, conservative.
He announced his retirement during the uh couple of years ago during the tail end of the Bush administration.
And the Democrats simply refused to confirm his replacement.
Look, we're gonna run out the clock.
The Republicans aren't going to have the White House anymore.
We're just going to wait for our Democratic president to uh come in and he will appoint the new judge.
Rudy Rand announced yesterday that he is withdrawing his retirement and he intends to serve for many years to come.
Kudos to Judge Randa for outthinking them.
I'm Mark Elling sitting in for Rush.
My name is Mark Belling.
It's been a real pleasure being back with you on Russia's program.
I want to leave you with this.
Of all the things surrounding President Obama right now, what is his biggest asset?
Some would say the adoring media.
Others would think his mandate.
I think his biggest asset is Iraq.
He now has a stable base of operations in the Middle East, right next to Iran, between Iran and Israel.
He now has a strong ally in the Middle East.
The great irony is the thing that he most opposed may be of the greatest assistance for him.
That's why the left isn't talking at all about getting out of Iraq.
They've just dropped it.
Just as in five years you won't hear a peep from them about global warming.
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