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Feb. 23, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 23, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right.
Ninety-eight point nine percent of the time.
I am Rush Limbaugh.
Great to be with you from behind the golden EIB microphone.
Here's the telephone number, and we're gonna get to your phone calls in this half hour.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
I am getting, I just checked emails here at the top of the hour.
I am I'm inundated.
I'm being inundated with people who want to know why I was watching the Academy Awards.
You were asking yourself the same thing.
Because Catherine was over last night and she wanted to see what the women were wearing.
That's why the Academy Awards run.
And I didn't even have to have the sound up.
The only time she wanted to sound up was when uh Jennifer Aniston came out because she was hoping to be some fireworks with Brangelina.
And uh that's and then I I when I when I saw this new format for presenting the awards to the best actors and supporting actresses and actresses, I that's when I turned up to watch what this was, and I I I was just totally taken.
They didn't show any clips.
This is a this uh this is a show about movies, right?
They they showed no clips from the actors or actress's performances, at least during the awarding of the awards.
They brought out their five nominees.
They brought out five actors in the case of actor and best supporting actor and five actresses in the case of best actress and best supporting actress.
And these five all had something written for them.
One of them would address each of the nominees.
Kate, your portrayal of a woman who gets nude with a 17-year-old was solving poverty the way you did.
It was magical.
We are so proud of you.
You are the best.
And the nominees in tears and applauding the place there.
Then they move on to the next person who would then like it was uh Shirley McLean who addressed I don't know who she did.
Maybe it was Shirley McLean that did Anne Hathaway or something.
Uh and then they gave the award.
No, no, no.
The losers are seated in the audience.
No, no, no.
The five on the stage are past winners.
Not the nominee.
The nominees are seated out there, and each of the past winners is assigned a nominee to read something somebody else wrote for them about the nominee.
And it was the most syrupy narcissistic self-indulgence display I've ever seen.
You would have thought that the nominees were the actual real life people.
Your portrayal of Mother Teresa has shown the world.
No, Mother Teresa showed the world.
Good lord.
There was nobody portraying Mother Teresa.
I'm just using it as a little illustration.
It felt like a funeral to me.
Watching the epidemic awards.
There was here, it's pictures, pictures, pictures, and there were very few pictures.
Some of the skits were horrible.
Folks, this is this is outrageous here.
It's just right now, uh our cameras and microphones are not there.
We're not gonna jip this.
We'll wait for cookie to roll on the audio from the networks.
But there is a uh fiscal responsibility summit starting right now in the East Room of the White House.
I mentioned this in the first hour.
Now I I have a simple question.
How in the world, after rolling up the largest deficit in the history of deficits, with some of the most irresponsible pork barrel spending that nobody's gonna be able to keep track of.
How in the world do you then go out and do a fiscal responsibility summit?
Where it's Obama's gonna stand up there and he's gonna point fingers at all these people.
He's got teams of people out there in the audience.
And if they don't do it right, he's gonna name names and he's gonna call them out.
We're supposed to feel like that.
Finally, somebody writing herd over all this.
And after the summit, after Obama speaks, is Biden out there speaking now.
Uh poor Joe, whenever he gets up to speak, the network's clear out.
They'll go back when Obama goes up.
Obama's due up in about nine minutes or so.
And they're gonna break up in groups.
And they're gonna have a little study and work groups.
They'll go to different parts of the White House to actually do this.
It's not study groups, work groups.
This is, I'm telling you, folks, it's just this giant PR exercise, fiscal responsibility from the people who are wrecking the U.S. economy, from the people who are tanking the U.S. economy so as to rebuild it in their own image.
A fiscal responsibility summit.
And Biden, when he started out, he said, the road uh it's um, you know, it's uh we're not gonna fix this overnight.
It's like I told you on Friday there is no fix.
If you're out there waiting for some magical waving of the wand to bring your mortgage back to where it was, your 401k to back where it was, the Dow Jones industrial average of 13,000 is not going to happen.
There is no fix.
We are the market.
And we are being interfered with.
And until the interference stops, not going to happen.
I also, ladies and gentlemen, I mentioned this in the last hour.
I'm very embarrassed.
I have learned that I personally am going to embarrass uh uh um benefit from the porculus bill.
Brought to my attention over the weekend, fit to be tied.
It turns out one of the shovel ready projects in Missouri is the Cape Girarde County regional airport is going to receive one point six million dollars on pavement maintenance of the runways and the tarmac.
And that's where I fly into when I go visit the family.
Thus, I am benefiting from the porculus.
I have a mind to call whoever in the county and say, don't take it.
I'll give you $800,000 for it, and you'll probably still have money left over after you do the maintenance.
And this way, I won't feel guilty, and you won't have to take the money.
I know what they'll tell me.
Screw you.
We want the full 1.6.
We'll do the maintenance for as cheap as we can, maybe 150, and then we'll pocket the rest for whatever social programs we want in the rest of the county.
But I make the deal.
I'll give you 800 grand right now to fix whatever needs to be fixed in the runways of the airport if you don't take the porcupus.
Democrat governor.
We only have one statewide elected Republican in Missouri government, and that's uh Peter Kender, he's a lieutenant government.
It's a friend of ours growing up, he's a couple of years younger than I am, and he's the only elected statewide Republican in all of Missouri.
So now my offer will fall flat.
And it's a good offer.
It's a serious offer.
And it's an offer designed to save everybody money.
Mm-hmm.
I don't know what.
What Missouri did used to be a uh a uh a conservative state.
What happened to St. Louis and Kansas City?
St. Louis, Kansas City, unions, acorn, voter registration.
That's what happened to Missouri.
Like it's happened in so many other in in so many other areas.
Anyway, I I I I meant to get to this in the first hour, and I uh I was not disciplined enough, ladies and gentlemen.
I mentioned in the first hour that uh the Democrats are trying to tie Bobby Gindle to me in hopes of making him out to be an extremist.
That's exactly what Obama was trying to do when he called me out in that meeting with Republican and Democrat leaders in the White House when he said, Don't listen to limbaugh, because uh he wants the Obama theory is get rid of the playing field, get rid of clear it.
Don't level it.
So yesterday we got some great gendal sound bites.
Governor of Louisiana meet the press yesterday, David Gregory said, let me spend our last couple minutes here with you, Governor Gindle, talking about politics.
What is the state of the Republican Party?
Look, our Republican Party got fired with cause these last two election cycles.
We became a party that defended spending, corruption that we never should have tolerated, and we stopped offering relevant solutions to the problems that Americans care about.
I think now's the time, and it's a great opportunity for Republican governors and other leaders to offer conservative based solutions to the problems.
For example, whether it's the mortgage crisis, how we can help people keep their homes, whether it's the banking crisis, we haven't, we won't have time to talk about, you know, mark to market and some of the other reforms that could be done, whether it's the stimulus package, the Republican Party has got to offer conservative alternative solutions.
I think our obligation is to work with the President every chance we can.
To be bipartisan, we've done that in Louisiana.
We've cut taxes six times, reformed ethics.
We need to work with the President every chance we can.
But on principle, when we disagree with him, we should be unafraid to stand up on principle and to point out our alternative solutions.
David Gregory says, but but but the party has to expand.
You believe that if it's going to be successful.
Absolutely.
Look, we we lost both elections because we got less than 51 percent of the votes.
Obviously, we've got to expand, but I don't think we expand by becoming an imitation of the other party.
I think we expand by standing on principle for what we believe in.
I think that attracts voters.
I think that attracts supporters.
They may not agree with us on everything, but they will respect our honesty.
Most importantly, they'll respect the results.
And they he's exactly right.
This is why when I interviewed Bobby Gendal for the limbaugh letter year and a half ago or so, I immediately thought I was talking to the the elected version of the next Ronald Reagan.
The closest thing we've got to an elected version of the next Ronald Reagan in the United States today.
And and uh he was mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate for McCain, but he uh I don't think he was interested in it at the time, and I don't think McCain was either.
But regardless, he's exactly right.
Stand on principle.
It sounds so quaint to see you know what you when I hear people say that, I I get the impression that a lot of Americans laugh.
The whole notion of doing the right thing, standing on your principles, that sounds like so old fashioned, so quaint.
Come on.
It's so what do you mean stand on your principle?
It ain't gonna get anybody anywhere.
But it does particularly shoring up the base of the Republican Party, which needs to happen anyway.
Uh but he's exactly right.
Conservatives we haven't tried it.
Do you realize that conservatism has not been articulated by an elected bunch of Republicans or conservatives since 1994?
It's been fifteen years.
Now, of course, conservatism is going to show as having problems.
But if it's articulated every time it tries, national elections particularly, every time it's tried, it works.
Because it is founded on principle.
It's founded on liberty, founded on freedom, seeing the best in people, the best of the country, and wanting to expand opportunity for everybody.
It's colorblind, it's sex blind, it's uh it's religion blind, all of these things.
And it's just it's it's it's roots to the founding of the country.
Nobody's articulated it.
And we've talked about the reasons left and right.
Most of it is the fact that once these guys get to Washington, they get cowed by the media, the social and political structures there, uh, and and they and it's like even our so-called conservative intelligence in the media.
We got to get control of big government.
The American people want big government.
We just have to tell them we can do it better and we can do it smarter.
We've got to go after the Walmart people.
We've got to go after the Hispanics and the and the other minorities that that's not the way you do it.
It's what Gendal is saying.
You don't go out as imitators.
Here, Jindal explains why he is thinking about rejecting the porculous money.
Gregory says, why would you turn down a hundred million dollars for Federal unemployment assistance for your state?
You're talking about temporary Federal money that would require permanent change in state law.
It's a tax break.
Well, it it it's no the 100 million dollars we turned down was temporary Federal dollars that would require us to change our unemployment laws, that would have actually raised taxes on Louisiana businesses.
We as a State would have been responsible for paying for those benefits after the Federal money disappeared.
So he has looked at the bill, he has figured out this is no benefit to us.
This is simply the Democrat Federal government getting its hooks back in the State of Louisiana.
Then Gregory said, look, the Democrat Senator from Louisiana, Mary Landry says that you're wrong.
This is how it was reported in the Times Picky Yoon Saturday.
Senator Landrew disputed Gendal's interpretation and said the new unemployment benefits are designed to be temporary.
If you actually read the bill, and I know it was a thousand pages, and I know they got it, you know, at midnight or the hours before they vote on it.
If you actually read the bill, there's one problem with that.
The word permanent is in the bill.
It requires the state to make a permanent change in our law.
Within three years, the federal money's gone.
We've got now a permanent change in our laws.
We have to pay for it.
Our businesses pay for it.
I don't think it makes sense to be raising taxes on Louisiana businesses during these economically challenging times.
My job is to represent Louisiana's taxpayers.
It makes no sense for us to take temporary federal dollars and create permanent state obligations.
And what he's talking about here, new unemployment rules that would cost the state more because they would expand unemployment compensation rules after getting a hundred million dollars in temporary federal money.
And he doesn't want the Federal Government writing unemployment rules in his state.
And he doesn't want to have to raise taxes on businesses in the middle of a recession, which Obama plans on doing anyway at the uh federal level.
So that's Bobby Gendal, and he will be delivering the response to uh Obama's quasi State of the Union show tomorrow night.
Uh and I guess that starts around nine o'clock.
Obama why Obama chose tomorrow night for a reason.
That's the night American Idol is on.
Largest TV viewing night of the week.
He forced Fox to move American Idol a Wednesday night.
So how many dingleberry dunkheads are going to be tuning in to watch American Idol and all of a sudden there's Obama and his quasi State of the Union.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair to the phones.
This is Pam in Boston.
Thank you for waiting.
You're up first.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, madam.
I was glad to hear you bring national attention to that Boston Globe article.
Listen, I turned to my husband, I said, if this was Bush and these two professionals lost their job, we would be denying you would see the kid in diapers.
We would be denying them the chance to send their child to an exclusive private school.
It would just be terrible.
Oh, the sub stories would have been worse than that, but you're absolutely right.
Oh, it would have been horrible.
Yep.
What would the kid get sick?
Exactly.
Yeah, I mean, instead we get these gross, if you missed it, the Boston Globe has a story in Boston area.
Front page.
Professional front page.
How the the benefits of being unemployed.
Yes, and they're going to the museum and enjoying their family.
And my husband turned to me and said, back in the day, when you ask for unemployment, you could not draw unless you proved to them that you were actively looking for another job.
This guy's telling the world he's going to the museum.
And loving his current utopia of not having to go to work.
It's just mind-blowing.
Yeah, and it's well, what it is is two things.
It's it's the media trying to give cover for Obama and uh you know Obama's got this big thing tomorrow night.
I guarantee you, somehow, some way he is going to lay all this off on George W. Bush tomorrow night.
Not even a question.
Yep.
And and so the media is giving him cover here on the unemployment story.
And there's also there's also an attempt here to motivate and inspire the other unemployed reading this to do the same stuff and be happy.
Exactly.
And he's even extended the benefits, so he's just writing his ticket for 2012 because all you have to do is sit home.
We're going to take care of your mortgage.
You can not have a job, we'll send you a check.
Who isn't going to sign up to vote for this guy?
Well, at some point, Kathy, uh rather Pam, there's there's going to be and it started, you know, the pulse.
Can we have that revolution?
Pulse of revolution started last week.
It did with the Rick Santelli, the Chicago Tea Party.
Yes, that was mortgage business.
The more stories like this get out.
And when those tax increases hit.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, the very people that these poor people in the Boston Globe story are going to have to go find a job from or be facing a massive four percent increase, up to 40 percent on their uh on their tax rate starting in uh in 2011.
And and it's and note that's right after the 2010 elections.
That's why they're gonna let the Bush tax cuts expire.
Oh, it's a plan.
There's no question.
He has a plan.
And it just gets harder and harder to walk out the door to do the right thing, to pay your mortgage, because what is the point?
We can all be like Henrietta and go to the meetings and cry out, please help me.
Well, we're all targets.
The achievers are the targets.
If you're responsible, you're a sucker.
Well, no, it's worse than that.
And I I really think that Obama and his community organizer people think this way.
I think they look at, let's say, an economic pie as a zero sum game.
That pie never gets bigger, and that pie sometimes gets smaller, but it never ever gets bigger in their view.
And so if you have uh a small, relatively small number of people who are doing really well with pieces from that pie, and the others' pieces are very much smaller.
The Obama people look at the people with the big pieces of the pie as doing it unfairly.
It's not right.
There should be equitable equality in this, and so we're targets.
It's it's not your it's not just that you're losers, you're targets now.
Right.
People are gonna be told that they have to give it's redistribution, redistribution, exactly what he told Joe the Plumber.
Except I firmly believe, and I got I I'm not even gonna coat this in something sweet sounding.
I think that there is a an anger and a rage on the part of Obama and his wife and their legions.
Oh, I agree with friends.
I agree.
And I think I think there is a desire to punish the people they think have made life so tough for those who they think are suffering and have uh not won life's lottery.
And this some of the stuff that's being done here, everybody in the world knows from just historical example will do the opposite of what they're promising.
I think it has to be on purpose.
All right.
I just I'm trying to keep my composure here.
I just listened to a little bit of President Obama instruct his breakout groups at the fiscal responsibility summit.
And I I have to address this in a uh strategic way as well as a tactical way.
Let me first report to you what the president said.
He said, Now keep in mind first what what's happened here.
We have just in the last year, the federal government has printed or borrowed over two trillion dollars.
We've got 700 billion in TARP.
We have the two stimulus packages uh 160 and 200 billion from last spring, which gave you $600 and $1,200, depending on your income level and whether you're married or not.
Uh we've had $275 billion for the mortgage bailout.
We've had two trillion dollars lent by the Fed to somebody, but we don't know to who.
We don't know who got the money.
We have no clue.
We're looking at it at a at an $800 some odd dollar stimulus bill that is obviously going to end up costing much more than this.
We don't have the money for this.
The President of the United States just said that in order to get our budget deficit down and our balanced budget someday, we are going to have to go back to the brilliant system that President Clinton used in the 90s.
Pay go.
Pay as you go.
We're going to return to pay as you go.
You don't spend what you don't have.
The federal government has to do the same thing that families at home have to do.
Now, if he were Pelosi promised pay go in 2006 when they won the elections, then there hasn't been any paygo, meaning if you knew spending you either have to raise taxes or cut some program.
There hadn't been any program cuts that have resulted in true dollar reductions in the total budget outlay.
Pay as you go.
If we were going to do pay isn't it, isn't it wonderful?
You can say what, you know what, I'm going to go out and rob as many banks as I can between now and Friday.
And starting Saturday, we've got a new rule.
We're not going to rob any banks.
And I'm going to have a commission to study to make sure who robs banks.
If they do, I'm going to have them find out who they are, and they're going to hear from me.
Pay As you go.
After this.
Now, I know it sounds ridiculous, but you've got to understand why Obama does this.
I'll tell you in a second, there's some other things.
He said that we are making great progress towards fiscal responsibility and living within our means again.
But we have to work even harder.
Now, folks, everything I heard him say is a lie or sounds like a lie.
Everything I heard him say is the exact opposite of what he has done or is going to do.
He then, after giving this lecture on pay as you go, don't spend what you don't have.
And we're making great progress towards responsibly living within our means.
He then, and this is how community organizers work, he then released the group in the East Room into their breakout work study groups.
He said, I want you to not only identify the problems, I want you to come up with solutions.
I want you to talk to yourselves about the problems and about the solutions.
I want you to talk to people in other breakout groups.
I want you to talk to me and my team.
And then the best part of this.
Report back later this afternoon with your results.
So to set the stage here for you, Obama convenes this summit, this fiscal responsibility summit.
Everybody in the room knows that everything he says to them is jaw-dropping, incredulous, unbelievable.
Then he dispatches them to their work groups.
And at the end of the day, they're supposed to go back and report the solutions.
Do you realize, folks, in three hours, Barack Obama will have solved the nagging problem of fiscal irresponsibility.
It's going to be fixed by, well, three hours and twenty minutes of five o'clock.
By five o'clock Eastern time, the problem is solved.
When in fact you don't need to convene a bureaucracy, you don't need to convene study groups, and you don't need to do any of this.
Common sense is common sense.
So how in the world can Obama get away with saying we're going to institute pay as you go, brilliant plan that works so well in the Clinton 90s.
And uh we're going to have great progress towards responsibility and living within our means again.
After just blowing up the federal budget.
After literally just blowing it up.
Well, this is going to require some instruction for me on how to survive the Obama presidency.
Whether you like him or love him or worship him or adore him or not, you're going to have him as president for at least four years.
And there's something that you have to understand.
You're going to have to come to grips with it to avoid going nuts, like I almost did.
And that is you don't believe a word he says.
His words are not intended to be believed.
And I'm not calling him a liar.
This is a very important distinction.
I'm saying he uses words as a painter uses colors to establish a mood, to trigger an emotion.
When he says, I'm going to post all legislation on the Internet for five days before a vote, he doesn't mean he will post all bills on the Internet.
What he does mean is that you would like to hear that he's going to post all bills on the Internet, so he's going to say that.
Whether it happens or not is irrelevant because he has you when he says he's going to.
When he's...
When he says that the stimulus bill is a bold plan, he doesn't mean that it's a bold plan.
He means you want to hear that it's a bold plan.
When Obama says that we're going to do pay as you go, that we are not going to spend what we don't have, he doesn't mean that.
He can't possibly mean that.
It's impossible After what he's just done.
So what he means is you want to hear that we are only going to pay as we go, that we're not going to spend what we don't have.
The beauty of this is that despite what's out there for one and all to see, the lemmings that follow the Pied Piper Obama are convinced that he's going to do pay as you go, that this is pay as you go, that we are living within our means, whereas the Bush administration didn't.
Yes, it requires and depends on a lot of ignorance in the American electorate.
That ignorance we know for a fact is rampant.
We know that it is there.
People are not going to judge him by what he says.
They're going to judge him by how what he says makes them feel.
The stimulus would be temporary is another thing that he said.
Of course the stimulus will be permanent.
But temporary is what you want to hear.
When Obama says that his will be a postpartisan presidency, he doesn't mean that he's going to reach out to the other side and consider their ideas.
He's saying you want to hear that it's going to be bipartisan, so he will say it and perhaps even fake it.
So on one hand, you might look at these as laws or stretching the truth.
But when Obama famously said words, just words, little did you realize he was giving you a preview of his presidential game plan.
It's just words.
It's just words, and you're going to go nuts if you start taking him literally.
Because nobody else.
You think you think that these fools that are in the breakout groups?
Do you think do you think these people in the White House in the East Room just got right now?
Right now they have broken out into various study groups is how Acorn does it.
This is how community activists and organizers do this.
You send these people out to various corners of the room and other rooms in the White House, report back in three hours problem solved.
Do you think these people in these breakout groups actually think they're going to fix the problem?
They do.
They believe as part of some of them do, Snerdley.
I'm tell you they are.
It's not that they're that stupid.
It's that they have that access, that they have a chance to report to the president, that they have a chance to be intimately involved in fixing this massive so-called problem.
They will fall full-fledged they'll fall for this.
Just the just the invitation alone, and they're going to report back and they're gonna, and they're gonna they're gonna believe that they have really done something important.
And they're gonna walk out of the White House today, and they're gonna do something that really mattered.
And some of them will talk to Time, and some will talk to Newsweek, and some will appear on the cable network shows this week to talk about the great work that they did.
And by five o'clock this afternoon, the whole concept of fiscal irresponsibility will have been addressed and will have been fixed.
I don't know if they're gonna look at math, of course not.
If you can't look at math, because if you look at math, you'd realize the problem is not solvable.
But I mean, it's this it's just it's so slick.
It is a brilliant PR ploy, and the media is going to love it.
They're already praising the intelligence and his grasp of facts, statistics, and detail in his brief remarks here, and his willingness to share the credit with those who might come up with the brilliant ideas this afternoon to deal with.
Meanwhile, after all this happens at five o'clock today, we're gonna be told fiscal irresponsibility once and for all dealt with in Washington.
We're gonna have the most fiscally irresponsible group of federal policies that we've had in our lifetimes.
That's why I say if you if you if you if you start taking this guy literally, you really are gonna go nutcakes.
And at the same time, if you start talking to his supporters, uh and and literally you're you're not you're not gonna make a dent.
It says, like my friend's kids, he would he would treat them to the science and the facts of global warming, man made the hoax of it all.
It took, and they're and some of her in college.
It took until this winter, actual freezing temperatures, record snow and ice, for his kids to begin to doubt what they had been taught and believed about global warming and man causing it.
The same token here, you'd have to assume that people aren't gonna believe this is a bunch of crap until the economy goes even bigger in the crapper.
But the odds are that the economy is larger than this stimulus package and the competitive nature of the U.S. citizenry, enough of them, there might be an economic uptick later this year.
And all it's gonna take is one for the drive-by media to start doing great stories and how this plan worked.
It's gonna be a fascinating next two or three years, folks.
And he's gonna continue to get away with targeting the achievers.
He's gonna continue to get away with targeting the uh the rich, small businesses and so forth, because of a brilliant thing.
From his standpoint, it was a brilliant thing to bail out the bankers.
Just creates more class envy.
That's why you see signs that bail out the bankers, bail out me.
I'm the one with a bet mortgage I can't pay.
So if you're gonna bail out these guys who profited from the bad mortgages, quote unquote, you've got to at least bail out the little people.
Gotta take a break.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
All right, folks, I'm I'm sitting here, I'm trying to come up with an analogy.
Because even I, as great and skilled a broadcast specialist and communicator communicator as I am, and finding it difficult to convey just how outrageously hilarious it is that after some of the most irresponsible spending in the history of our country,
guaranteed not to work, money we not only don't have, we've had to print, by the end of today, fiscal responsibility will have been found.
It will have been, it will have been discovered and it will have been implemented by five o'clock this afternoon.
Pay as you go will be the order of the day.
When, of course, it won't be.
The funniest thing.
I wish I could find a way to convey this other than laugh.
Here you've got the largest government ever, tentacles spread where we can't even see them out.
I mean, it's just the irresponsibility of this is stunning.
The historical nature of the proof it won't work, stunning.
Obama tells everybody, okay, we're gonna be living with our means now.
We're gonna be spending only what we've got.
If we don't have it, we're gonna raise taxes or we're gonna cut somewhere else.
Call pay as you go.
All right, go out in your groups, report back.
Report back to me at the end of the day.
Let me tell you what this is.
This rhetoric is female-based.
And the best analogy I can give you.
When Obama says, No, Michelle, that dress does not make you look like a sausage.
He means he knows that she wants to hear that it doesn't make her look like a sausage, even if it does.
And we all practice this in our daily lives anyway.
Does this make me look fat?
No, no, and you snicker.
Hell yes, why in the world would you wear that, but I'm not gonna be the one to tell you.
Uh we're both looking at the same mirror.
Obama and Michelle in the mirror.
Michelle's wearing some gaudy thing.
It doesn't make her look good.
She asks her husband Obama Barack, does this make me look like a sausage?
Oh.
He tells her what he wants her to hear.
Or what he thinks she wants.
That's all he's doing to us.
That's all he's doing here.
Telling us what he thinks we want to hear.
We're gonna be Have.
We're gonna have fiscal responsibility.
Why, look, I've even got brilliant people from both sides of the aisle here in my big room in the White House, the East Room, and I've just sent them away into breakout study groups.
And when they report back to me at five o'clock this afternoon, problem solved.
See how easy this is?
See how many years we wasted, we wasted the last eight years.
I fixed this in two and a half hours on a Monday afternoon, right before my big speech before Congress.
This is not hard.
We just have to have the shared commitment to do it.
And people look at this.
Oh my God.
I'll tell you what it's like.
You and your wife standing in front of a mirror.
She's wearing the god-awfulest looking thing you've ever seen.
She says, This is make me look like a sausage.
No, sweetie.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
In fact, I've never seen you look better.
They go to the party, and everybody thinks, my God, she looks like a sausage.
But nobody's got the guts to say so.
Just a second.
Gets even better.
There's an ad running, a website ad that's on several websites MSNBC, ABC, CNN, CNBC TV guide.
U.S. government is giving away over $10 billion a month in grants.
It's got a picture of Obama in sunglasses here.
A white open-collared shirt and a sport coat.
The new economic stimulus package means free money for you.
Read how you can get your government grant that never has to be repaid, and there's a learn more now button that you click.
By the way, seriously, pay as you go business he announced today.
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