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March 3, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 3, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Just before the program started today, folks, on CNBC, the uh chairman of Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, went out there and called for higher taxes and socialized medicine.
When he started speaking, the Dow was up 60.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now down to 20.
They are tanking the economy.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to be with you.
Here's the phone number.
If you want to be on the program, it's 800-282-2882, the email address.com.
A couple members of the so-called conservative intelligentsia.
My good friend Christopher Buckley and David Brooks of the New York Times are both having published second thoughts about their endorsement and vote for Barack Obama.
I will detail this as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today.
The number of people who were late making their mortgage payments shot up 53% in the fourth quarter.
2008, that's from the same period in 2007.
Credit reporting agent.
This is from the uh this is a dateline out of Chicago.
Credit reporting agency said that its database shows that delinquencies jumped four and a half percent nationally from uh 2.9% to a 2007 fourth quarter.
Well, of course.
Of course.
More and more people are waiting for the government to pay their mortgages.
Why would you pay your mortgage when you listen to President Obama talk about his mortgage bailout plan?
You think that's not a factor here?
We we know it has got to be a factor here.
Get this.
This is a uh this is a headline from uh the Chicago Tribune.
Barack Obama's push make Rush Limbaugh appear to be the face of the GOP.
Here's the subhead.
Obama gambles that taking on conservative radio host will cow Republicans, benefit President's agenda.
What do we have here?
We have the president of the United States, Barack Obama, gambling on me to benefit his agenda and the cow the Republican Party, me.
He's counting on me to end up selling his agenda.
Uh fat chance it isn't gonna happen.
By the way, I want to play a couple sound bites off the off the top, and after that, I want to address in a different fashion this whole notion of Obama failing, because I had a fascinating email exchange today with a um uh reporter from the Washington Post, Greg Sargent.
And very tricky on the part of Mr. Sargent.
And I I'm gonna read the back and forth to you.
I don't know what he's gonna write, but I've got the email trail.
I have the record of what I said to him.
His uh his question ostensibly originally was about Michael Steele, and he the way he framed the question do you think Steele didn't go far enough uh in his apology to you to say that Obama should fail.
And I just laughed.
Just laughed.
These mainstream media people that drive by is inside the beltway, they are automatons.
They are butt boys for the Obama administration.
They simply get their marching orders.
You know there's a conference call every morning between the forehead.
Oh the if you don't know who the forehead is, Paul Bagala, he's the guy that uh the kid that played the banjo on the bridge in the movie deliverance.
So you got the forehead, Paul Bagala, you've got you've got uh James Carvel and George Stephanopoulos.
Now Stephanopoulos works at ABC, Carbell and Bigala at CNN.
They have a conference phone call every morning with Rahm Emanuel, where talking points are discussed and decided upon.
And so the talking points after my CPEC speech uh hit first on uh on Sunday morning with Stephanopoulos, where they misrepri what they did there was a really neat trick.
They posted on their website a supposed transcript from the TV show that was not the transcript of the TV show.
When you look at the transcript of the TV show, it's not what they posted on the website.
And the website is what got distributed.
And this is the story about how Eric Cantor repudiated me when Eric Cantor did not.
Eric Cantor agreed with me on what Republican policy and initiative ought to be in fighting uh page one of the uh of the Democrat liberal handbook here from Barack Obama.
So I want to get to all that here in just a second.
But some sound bites.
This was one of my lines.
This is one of the uh uh points that I made during the CPAC speech Saturday afternoon in Washington.
All politicians, including President Obama, are temporary stewards of this nation.
It is not their task to remake the founding of this country.
It is not their task to tear it apart and rebuild it in their image.
Right on.
Rado, red own.
Right on, right on.
Now let's go to a couple of Obama soundbites from this morning of the Department of Transportation, first of two.
In the weeks to come, the signs denoting these projects are going to uh bear the new emblem of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
These emblems are symbols of our commitment to you, the American people.
When you see them on projects that your tax dollars made possible, let it be a reminder that our government, your government, is doing its part to put the economy back on the road of recovery.
It is not.
There is nothing about Obama's policies that will generate private sector wealth or that will cause the economy to recover, but they're going to put Obama logos.
Why not just put pictures of yourself on everything?
Like they used to do.
In totalitarian countries, just plaster your picture all over, just like the Che Guevara and Fidel are all over Cuba.
This plaster picture there.
Here's the second bite.
Now remember I said President Obama is a temporary steward.
It is not his task to remake the founding of the country.
It's not his task to tear it apart and rebuild it in his image.
Throughout our history, there have been times when a generation of Americans seized the chance to remake the face of this nation.
It's what we're doing once more by building a 21st century infrastructure that will make America's economy stronger and America's people safe.
That's the reason we're here today.
That's the purpose of our recovery plan.
That's the cause of my presidency.
To remake the face of the nation.
He is making me look like a genius.
He is making which, of course, some would not dispute.
He is sorry, little little humorous pomposity there, maybe even a little sarcasm.
You know, I figured out Snerdley from our first women's summit.
I've figured out everybody says it's the women that don't like me, it's pomposity or pompousness.
Or that that's not what it, you know, people don't laugh anymore.
People don't understand sarcasm as a form of humor.
Sarcasm is uh not permitted anymore.
Sarcasm is considered uh mean.
And uh and and I do sarcasm and irony aimed at liberals better than anybody.
In fact, I may be the only one actually not the only, but I mean with it's kind, and they don't get it.
Because political correctness has taught people can't laugh.
Can't laugh.
People might think ill of you.
All right, here we go.
Let's start with this Los Angeles Times story.
It's by Peter Nicholas today.
This is the third, yes, it's today.
Headline painting limbaugh as GOP's leader.
White House is pushing the message that the provocative radio host is pulling the party's strings.
The Obama White House has begun advancing an aggressive political strategy, persuading the country that real power behind the Republican Party is not the leaders in Congress or the RNC, but rather provocative radio host and king, Rush Limbaugh.
President Obama himself, along with top aides and outside Democrat allies, have been pushing the message in unison.
Yesterday Gibbs at his press conference who have got these soundbites coming up, sit tight.
I think it would be charitable to say that Limbaugh doubled down on what he said in January in wishing and hoping for economic failure in this country.
And you see, that's the nub of it.
Economic failure is what I want to avoid.
Ladies and gentlemen, I said at CPAC in one of the segments where I professed my love for this country and devotion to my awe, the United States of America.
When I said I want, and we conservatives want the best for everyone.
We want everyone to succeed.
We want everybody to have the opportunity to use their God-given talents and ambition to the best of their ability, depending on their ambition and desire.
And this is going to choke that off because it's going to punish those who achieve trying to use those characteristics.
Look at what's happened to me.
My parents would not understand my life.
They would not believe my life.
They came out of the Great Depression.
They wouldn't think this is possible for their son.
And I said at CPAC, I wish everybody could experience this.
And I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
I really do.
It's so glorious.
It's such a wonderful thing that has happened to me.
And it hasn't happened in a vacuum.
All of you are part and parcel of making it happen, and my appreciation for you is boundless.
My inability to properly thank you has been duly noted by me over the course of twenty years.
Now, why in the world would I, having been fortunate to prosper as I have, why would I want the economy to fail and destroy everything I've produced?
Well, of course I don't.
I don't want the economy to fail.
I want just the opposite.
I want to get out of this mess.
These people are sitting around doing nothing.
We have lost three trillion dollars of wealth in the stock market alone since Obama was elected.
Three trillion dollars of personal wealth is gone.
And what he's doing is not going to bring it back in any way, shape, manner, or form.
It's going to refocus all of that wealth back to government.
Now, any other president standing by while the market plunges to this degree would have said something by now to try to halt it, to try to inspire confidence in the American people to go out and engage in commerce, to once again invest in the businesses, large and small, that make the country work, not President Obama, he stands mute.
He says nothing.
In fact, he does worse.
He sends the Fed chairman out this morning to say we need tax increases.
Well, Obama already said that, Mr. Chairman.
So this is piling on, is it not?
He said we need tax increases, we need socialized medicine.
The president's already proposed that last Tuesday night in his speech in the House Chamber.
And the market, duly, starts going south again.
Investors Business Daily Today with a really nice op-editorial.
Capital is on strike.
Money is on strike.
People with money are on strike.
And the Obama administration sits back and does nothing but attack a guy on the radio, claiming this is what I want.
I have no control.
I am not in charge of one Republican policy.
I have not authored or advocated one policy that is in play today, used by either party.
I'm no different than you.
I'm an average citizen.
I have a microphone.
I'm sitting around here watching all this.
I'm watching my wealth dissipate just like every one of you are.
And it is fatuous, it is ignorant, and it is irresponsible for journalists to claim I want this to happen.
My question would be to the journalists who are acting as total butt boys for this administration.
You all have your own degree of wealth.
You all have your own 401ks in your investment portfolios.
Are you people happy to see them vanish before your very eyes?
Is the idea of the remaking of America into a so-called socialist paradise so important to you That you will sit around and happily, without any concern, watch your wealth dissipate and everybody else's.
This is Obama's economy.
They're trying to slough this off on Bush.
They're trying to say all these deficits are Bush.
They're not going to get away with that.
They're not going to get away with that here.
Nobody has spent like Obama.
Nobody has piled up debt like Obama.
And it's not over.
Now this notion that I am for economic failure, or that anybody is for economic failure.
It's crazy.
There's one person who might be.
Barack Obama.
Barack Obama.
The one guy that could do something about this, at least attitudinally, is standing mute.
Who benefits from this plunging economy?
Ask yourself, who gets more power?
Who gets more curiosity?
Who crits who gets more panic?
Who gets more anxiety?
Obama does.
And what does the panic and anxiety mean?
How does it manifest itself?
It manifests itself thus.
President Obama, please do something.
Please do something.
Please do something.
Mr. Obama, please do something.
Goes out and makes a speech.
We're in national health care.
We're going to do.
Oh, I feel better.
Obama's on the case.
He's going to do it.
Meanwhile, the next day, Zippo, another 200 points down.
Ask yourself who benefits.
It isn't me.
I'm not benefiting from what's happening here.
Mr. Snerdley's not.
Don't.
Brian, you're not.
I don't know.
Who's benefiting right now from what's going on?
None of us are.
The banks aren't benefiting.
The automobile companies are not benefiting.
Well, yeah, I mean, you could say people being allowed to stay in their homes and are having to pay for it, they may be benefiting, but how's that America?
Ask yourself who's benefiting.
Who said a cause is a terrible thing to waste?
That would be Rahmanuel, who again orchestrates talking point phone calls with media members at ABC and CNN every morning.
Somebody have a problem with that, by the way.
Now when I come back after this brief EIB obscene profit timeout, I'll share with you my email exchanges with Greg Sargent at the Washington Post.
So I'm minding my own business, bothering no one.
I guess it is about uh an hour before the program or 45 minutes for the program, and uh I get this email from Greg Sargent, who is uh writing at the Washington Post.
Now, until a couple months ago, just so you know who Greg Sargent is, he was a blogger at a far left uh blog post calling uh it calls itself Talking Points Memo.
This is the website that is now trying to distort Bobby Gindle's story about Hurricane Katrina in order to make it look like Bobby Gindle lied in his response to Obama a week ago.
So that's the place Greg Sargent comes from.
Now it starts out Sergeant is he wants to know if I agree that what Eric Cantor said on Sunday with George Stephanopoulos was a repudiation of my notion that I want President Obama to fail.
And I wrote back and I said, uh, you've got it wrong.
You are uh you you what you need to do is uh uh check the misleading information on the ABC website.
I said, check the show transcript against what George Stephanopoulos posted on his website, and you'll see that on the show itself, George did not define my remarks as they appear on the website.
Cantor actually agreed with me in his full answer, R. E. policy.
So, in other words, the website for uh this week with George Stephanopoulos is where everybody got the news that Eric Cantor had repudiated me.
And they put the transcript of the show on the website up inaccurately.
The transcript of the show leaves out all of the rush qualifiers about hoping to fail.
Cantor's answer was essentially policy-wise to agree with me.
So I wrote him back, and uh, and I said I sent him the transcripts, I sent him the website, what it was reported, and the transcript of the show, and I asked him to add this.
I said this distortion is not surprising given the Morning phone calls from Rahm Emanuel to George Stephanopoulos, James Carvel, and Paul Bagala to coordinate daily White House talking points on ABC and CNN.
Greg Sargent wrote back and said, thanks, I'll add.
Meanwhile, Rush, what's your reaction to Michael Steele's apology to you?
Do you think he needs to declare more clearly whether he wants Obama to fail?
I wrote back.
No comment on Steele.
That's yesterday's news.
And please, Greg, try to stand out from the mainstream media chorus and not distort as they all are on behalf of the Obama administration my meaning on wanting him to fail.
I want the country to succeed, as I have said until I am blue in the face.
Rush, could I ask a follow-up question?
If Obama's policies are designed to help the economy, and those policies fail, as you've said you want, doesn't the economy and by extension the country suffer?
Mr. Sargent, Obama's policies are not designed to help the economy, and they won't.
That's why I want them to fail.
Take a look around, Greg.
We've been stimulating in spending for a year now.
Wealth is vanishing from Wall Street.
People losing jobs and savings.
His policies stimulate only government.
They attack wealth producers and achievers.
Obama's policies are not new.
They are not hope.
They are not change.
They are page one of the standard liberal playbook.
Tax and spend.
They have not generated economic recovery or private sector growth in all of history.
Many thanks.
One more quick follow-up, if I may.
I understand that you don't think Obama's policies are destined to succeed.
Reasonable people can disagree.
However, putting aside that question, is it true?
And then he goes on and on and on, and I wrote back, I reject your premise.
I'm not answering the question because the point is precisely what his policies are destined to do.
The views expressed by the host on this show documented now to be almost always right, 99% of the time.
I had to speed through the wrap-up of the email exchange with Greg Sargent at the Washington Post, but he says, I understand that you don't think Obama's policies are destined to succeed.
Reasonable people can disagree about that.
However, putting aside the question of what the policies are destined to do, is it true that if they succeed in their stated goal of writing the economy, how far ever far-fetched that may be to you, then would that be good for the country?
And I recognize this trap from right off the top.
I said, Mr. Sergeant, I reject your premise, especially since you are rejecting my answers.
I will not put aside the question of what the policies are destined to do, because that is the point.
so Obama's policies are not destined to cause a private sector economic recovery.
By his own admission this morning, he is putting his stamp and remaking this nation from its founding.
Audio sound bites.
Let's see.
We're up at number number four.
This is uh this a Charlie Rose show last night.
He has Jake Tamper from ABC as his guest, and they have this exchange about me.
Give me a sense of Rush Limbaugh and how the Democrats see him and why he is achieving this kind of prominence now, notwithstanding that he is a popular figure on radio, has always been a popular figure with House Republicans.
But now it seems to be Limbaugh versus Obama.
For the Obama administration, this is an issue of of tone.
Rush Limbaugh, who is obviously an incredibly gifted broadcaster and the number one radio talk show host in America.
Rush Limbaugh is saying, I want President Obama to fail.
And as one White House official put it to me earlier today, for most Americans in this economy, failure is a very terrible thing.
It's hard to imagine a vast majority of the American people getting behind the sentiment they want Obama to fail.
I think most people obviously want Obama to succeed, if only because of their own self-interest.
Well, now that's interesting.
The uh argument here is about tone.
Uh If they really think that, if they think this, and I don't think the White House thinks this is about tone at all.
I think the White House knows exactly how I'm coming at them.
They have people buffaloed, the drive-by media is helping to buffalo them.
Where is, by the way, you know what we're dealing with here?
Forget it's Obama.
Here's what we're dealing with.
And it's a mighty thing to overcome.
That just makes it a bigger challenge to me.
We are dealing with the automatic assumption that presidents are good for America, that presidents help the country, that presidents want to do the right thing.
That's just what people think.
And when they hear me say I hope he fails, most people, without having it explained to them, are gonna, well, yeah, I want the president to fail.
Yeah, and the more this economy keeps tanking, the more Obama does nothing about it, slowly but surely more and more people are going to come to realize that he's not helping.
They realized it about Jimmy Carter.
They realized it about a number of other presidents, but primarily recently they realized it about Jimmy Carter.
I understand what we're up against here or what I'm up against.
Because most people president a failure.
Yeah, but see, I happen to be, most of us folks in this audience happen to be far more informed than the average American who's undergoing tough economic times.
And let's face it, the Libs have been very successful over the years in convincing a growing number of Americans to think the government's the solution and the fix to every problem.
Then you add Obama's messianic personality and charisma to it, and you've got a lot of people thinking that, well, we just gotta wait.
He's gonna eventually do it because his whole campaign was about that.
Well, well, you know what Obama's big problem is.
He follows Sol Olinski's rules for radicals.
But the problem with Olinsky, Olinsky never thought he'd actually win anything.
So there aren't any Alinsky rules for what you do when you win.
So Obama has to keep doing Olinski as an outsider trying to break up a power majority in a permanent campaign.
So Obama knows only how to tear down.
And he's in that mode to this day.
Now, you say that a lot of people aren't going to believe it.
But I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going to back off of this because it's and it's fundamental.
I I believe the American people are educable.
I think they can learn.
And if they can't, it's like my friend who has kids in college, who bought hook, line and sinker, everything Al Gore and all the other global warming, man-made global warming hoaxers say.
Then this winter came.
And it was actual experience of things getting colder and butt boys having their rear-ins stuck to the seat of their cars as they get out at the White House trying to go in for instructions, that they started saying, you know what, it's not getting warmer.
And we have record snowfall on March 1st in Washington and New York, it isn't getting actual experience helps.
And then at some point they're going to say, you know, people told us that this was a hoax.
People.
So it's it's a long process.
I have never shied from the fight.
I've never shied away from it.
I've told you it's an ongoing thing.
Fighting for liberty and freedom is the quest of humanity.
Oppressors, and people who would deny freedom and liberty in the pursuit of happiness, they are numerous.
People that want power, people who have incredible egos think they can do it better.
They want to control everything.
It's what we're dealing with here.
But the fight for liberty is one I'm not going to cash in on.
I'm not going to give up and I'm not going to quit.
And I know for a fact, like I try to tell Greg Sargent, what's been proposed here is going to make it worse.
It isn't going to work.
And I'm not going to accept the premise, well, what if it does work, even though you don't think it is?
What if it does work when you didn't think the country's better off?
If it works, quote unquote, if this works, you won't recognize the America in which you live.
There's always going to be an America, but you won't, if if this works, and the only way I can say if this works is within the framework of Obama's mind.
If this works, you have the federal government controlling the means of production.
You know, a lot of people, we look at the plunging market, not people on our side.
We look at the plunging market, and we say to ourselves, gosh, that's just great.
I mean, at some point Obama's people, if they're gonna figure out that the market's going south.
But yet Obama's not concerned about it.
Obama said a word about it.
Obama's not trying to lift anybody up.
Obama's not trying to inspire anybody in personal behavior.
He's not talking about America's exceptionalism.
He's not talking about American greatness.
He continues to hammer the defects of this country.
I asked earlier, who benefits?
Well, as the stock market plunges, wealth is being lost, three trillion dollars.
Also, the market cap of major corporations, large and small, is also plummeting.
At the same time, do you know what's happening?
People are shorting the market, they're shorting the stimulus, they're buying treasuries like crazy.
They're buying government bonds.
The yields are getting smaller because of the demand, the price of the bonds is going up.
Put those two things together, and what do you get?
You get an American private sector that you can buy on the cheap.
You get an American private sector that you can use all this money that used to be in the uh in the markets now going into government treasuries.
And if you if it is your objective to actually control the means of production, which is what socialism is in part, if it's your objective to do that, then by gosh, this is ideal.
How long ago was it that the DJI was around 13,000?
Was it within a year?
I haven't looked it up, but it's it's not that long ago.
We are at 6700.
We have lost 3,000 points since this man was elected.
The Fed chairman comes out today and compounds it by saying we need to raise taxes and have socialized medicine.
The market was up 60, bam, went south again.
The cheaper stock price is the less the market cap of any given company.
And if your objective, and by the way, why why is this this may sound so radical to you?
We're dealing with a radical.
They're they're they're getting their mitts on the banking business, aren't they?
I mean, I'm not making this up out of whole cloth.
They're getting their mitts in the automobile business.
They're already, even before this bailout, they're already telling people in the auto business how to run the business, cafe standards and all that sort of thing.
I mean, this is it's it's serious stuff.
So if you want to control the means of production, if you want to own it.
May of 2008, not even a year ago, the DJI was over 13,000.
Now we're at 6700.
Less than a year.
Not one syllable from President Obama to reassure people, just the opposite.
He admits to wanting to remake, so yeah, I want what I think he's doing to fail precisely because it does not strengthen the private sector economy.
It does not encourage private sector wealth growth, or any of that.
And you add his tax increases that he has, oh, guess what else he's expected to announce now?
Listen to this.
This is not gonna bother too many of you because only for people that make over 250,000.
He's going to announce the Social Security tax, the FICA tax on all income.
Just like Medicare is.
Right now, the FICA tax caps at $106,000 a year annual salary.
That's the ceiling.
So you make $300,000, $500,000.
Whatever you make over $250,000, try adding another 7.5% before it gets adjusted and thrown in with everything else.
So for you at $250,000 or above, with a...
Oh, and here's an your rate's gonna be 42 percent, and then the social security on top of it.
Then your deductions are gone.
And let me ask you this.
Private sector charitable giving all time high in this country.
He wants to destroy that by reducing the deduction to twenty eight percent of every dollar you donate.
Guess who gets to make up the shortfall?
The government of Barack Obama, expanding its reach, expanding the government welfare state.
So, yes, my friends.
I I firmly believe this is what his plan is and why in the name of God created this nation would I want that to succeed.
I don't.
My official climatologist, Roy Spencer, everybody's trying to help here.
It's amazing.
starting at a quarter till 12 to 3 o'clock, I get thousands of little helper hints.
He says, can't you come up with something you want him to succeed with?
Um would love him to be the Reagan he talks about.
I would the guy's got so much talent.
I w I hope he responds forcibly if we're hit by a terrorist attack.
I hope he succeeds in defeating our enemies.
Hell.
I don't know.
I know, I know.
I'm just organizing myself here.
I tweaked the little helpers out there.
So a bunch of them, you know, d jabbing me back, Cinema.
You wouldn't believe my email and the I'm sure I'm sorry.
I'm sure that you um I'm sure that you would.
Let's grab a phone call, John in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the rush.
Thank you, Rush.
Listen, I want to get to my point.
I know time is limited.
Limbo program.
Yes.
Hi, sir.
Well, things have become um uh quite different since the last time we talked.
The last time we talked, by the way, you hammered away at me pretty darn hard.
Then you hammered away when I hung up, and then you hammered away at me in your newsletter, so you kind of made me famous in Pinehurst.
But I hung up that phone that day, very angry at you.
Well, what was this about?
I told you you were out of touch.
Uh uh a lot of it had to do with the wealth that you had made, and believe it or not, I have been a conservative my whole life, and the the point is not so important today.
The the importance of my call lies in this.
I'm back on board with you in it in entire uh in its entirety because your message is far more important to the American people today than you being an entertainer, making us feel good, making us laugh.
Today I want what you're all about, and I'll never be a limbaugh lackey.
I'll never be a seminar collar, I've never figured out what that is.
Today, this country is changing dramatically, and what we need is your voice more than ever because of your right wing views, because you pushed the envelope when even I thought, man, don't push it that hard.
Stick it to these guys.
You're exactly what Mr. Steele should be.
What is it about Republicans?
I have voted straight ticket Republican for 20, 25 years now, ever since I left the military, ever since I started listening to you and became a true conservative and understood the conservative movement.
I don't understand what it is about GOP members, in particular Mr. Steele right now, becoming civilized.
I want a guy to dig his nose in the dirt.
Do you think Joe Biden is ever gonna get civilized?
Do you think Nancy Pelosi is ever gonna be afraid to say exactly what the heck she wants to say to the American people and to the press, no matter who's jacking her up.
What is it about the Republican Party that they're so gutless and fearful?
I'm glad the Republicans took the hammer these last two elections because we got rid of the weak.
In particular, Elizabeth Dole and my state here in North Carolina.
I got more respect for Debbie Staveno back in my old home state of Michigan, and I despise her.
Well, that's saying something now.
But let me let me tell you it's a good thing.
I mean, that's a real, real, real leap.
Wait a minute.
She has it.
I don't like her politics.
What I like is a woman that will get in there and mix it up with anybody.
That woman is afraid of the city.
What I'm asking you to do is keep this message up.
Boy, if uh w I want to tell you one other thing.
Well, I hate I hate to interrupt you, but I'm getting to the point where if you get started, you're not gonna because there's not enough, there's not enough time left.
But um look, I I just said I'm not going anywhere and I'm not changing.
It's in my heart.
All this is in my core.
I don't have to write it, I don't have to calculate it, I don't I can't answer why the Republicans and I can, but I've done that over and over again.
And it's uh we'll welcome them when they get back, if they do.
I I there's some of us out there, we're all alone.
We can handle it.
You know, this is uh they don't have the votes to stop anything in Washington anyway, so right now this is uh a task we have with the American people.
And we're better equipped to do that, frankly, than people in Washington who can't get coverage on television.
Back after this thing.
Okay, we have to have take uh a brief timeout here, ladies and gentlemen.
We never have to regroup because I never lose my place.
Just have to have a brief time out.
We've got lots of great audio sound bites, more sound bites from the CPAC speech coming up today, as well as your phone calls.
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