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March 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 6, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Attention, all Obama voters.
Simple question for you.
And right now I know the answer, but I'm going to keep asking the question as time goes on.
Did you vote for this?
Is this what you thought you were voting for?
His approval numbers are up.
Up to 63% from 60.
So they must think this is what they voted for.
Hi, folks.
Rush Limbaugh fighting fatigue, but nevertheless here on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
And here's the deal on Open Line Friday.
I know that thanks to the White House, we have an MICPAC speech as well.
We have a whole new tune-in factor here.
Some say the audience has doubled this week.
That's impossible to prove, by the way, but some are saying it nevertheless.
At any rate, on Monday through Thursday, this program is exclusively about what interests me.
It's exclusively about what I care about.
See, I am a benevolent dictator, a harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
But I am the one who grants the right to speak on this program.
And I don't want to talk about things that bore me because then the audience will be bored.
I don't want to talk about things that don't interest me because that will cause audience tune out.
But on Friday, for those of you new to the program, I take one of the biggest career risks ever taken by a major media star.
And that is turning over the content portion of this program to rank amateurs, people who have literally no experience at this.
The lovable, and I couldn't live without them, callers in the audience.
And it's always a lot of fun.
So on Friday, whatever you want to talk about, feel free.
If you think something has not been mentioned this week and it needs to be talked about, this is your golden opportunity to pretend that it is your show.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Both sturdily, official screener of calls, standing by even now, taking your calls and lining you up.
A question again.
Is this what you voted for?
Let's go back to Election Day, 11-408.
That was the day of hope.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9625.
At this moment, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is hovering around 6580.
It is down over 3,000 points.
That means that just since November the 4th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has lost a third of its value.
$3 trillion of wealth has been wiped out.
Is this what you voted for?
A record 31.8 million Americans receive food stamps at the latest count.
That is an increase of 700,000 people in one month.
With the United States in recession, these are government figures.
Food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries and People magazine and Pop-Tarts are the major U.S. anti-hunger program forecast to cost at least $51 billion in this fiscal year ending in September 30th.
That's up $10 billion from 2008.
So we have 31.8 million Americans on food stamps.
Is that what you voted for?
The new government unemployment figure is out today, and it is 8.1%.
Over 600,000 jobs lost last month.
The nation's employment rate bolted to 8.1% in February, the highest since late 1983 as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs.
Is this what you voted for?
As predicted and predictable, both these figures, 8.1 and 651,000, both these figures were worse than analysts expected.
And the Labor Department's report shows America's workers being clobbered by a relentless wave of layoffs.
Is this what you voted for?
Charles Krauthammer in his column today in the Washington Post clearly makes the case, and he makes the case better than I made it yesterday.
As you know, the Obama administration conducted another summit yesterday, healthcare summit.
They had their breakout groups, and then the groups came back and reported in to President Obama.
President Obama has been saying that in order to get jobs back, in order to start creating employment, we need health care reform, energy reform, and what is the third thing he says?
Well, whatever it is, it's something irrelevant to why people are losing their jobs.
People are not losing their jobs because of health care.
They're not losing their homes because of energy concerns or any of that.
This is all happening because of a banking system that is in disarray, and the administration has offered no plan whatsoever.
Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, can't even find a deputy assistant to take the job.
Sanjay Gupta turned down the Surgeon General's job.
Makes me wonder what his tax problems are.
And yeah, Sanjay turned it down.
But here is, let me, I asked the question yesterday.
The soonest we're going to get health care reform, and by the way, the Democrats are pushing for this fall.
Why are they put well?
They like it as soon as they can.
If they get national health care, folks, the country, as you and I have known it, is over.
But the failing health of Senator Kennedy is, as I told you way back when, the driving force here.
And the failing health of Senator Kennedy is already being used as an inspirational effort or technique to get national health care on the fast track.
This is supposed to get you a job.
You're losing your job and losing your house because of health care costs.
And I asked you to think, is this really, you're expecting to be out of work until November, December, whenever they can get this done, if by then?
And then all of a sudden, once health care reform is done, your job's going to come back.
Krauthammer says, forget the pork, forget the waste, forget the earmarks, forget all that.
This is run-of-the-mill budget trickery.
Obama's tricks come festooned with strings of zeros, but that's a matter of scale, not principle.
The logic of Obama's address to Congress went like this.
Krauthammer today accusing Obama of a brazen deception, being at the heart of Obama's radically transformative economic plan.
Our economy did not fall into decline overnight, he said.
It all began before the housing crisis.
What do we do wrong?
Well, we're paying for past sins in three principal areas, energy, health care.
Oh, yes, the third one's education.
We are importing too much oil.
We're not finding new sources of energy, even though we have our own all over the place.
We're not reforming health care, and we are tolerating too many bad schools.
And so now the day of reckoning has arrived.
And because it's only by understanding how we arrived at this moment, said Obama, that we'll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament.
Krauthammer writes, amazing.
As an explanation of our current economic difficulties, this is total fantasy.
As a cure for rapidly growing joblessness, a massive destruction of wealth, a deepening worldwide recession, this is perhaps the greatest non-sequitur ever foisted on the American people.
At the very center of our economic near-depression is a credit bubble, a housing collapse, and a systemic failure of the entire banking system.
And you can come up with a host of causes.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, pushed by Washington and greed into improvident loans, corrupted bond ratings, agencies, insufficient regulation.
It goes on and on and on.
But the list of causes of the collapse of the financial system does not include the absence of universal health care, let alone computerized medical records, nor the absence of an industry-killing cap-and-trade carbon policy, nor the lack of college graduates.
And yet, with our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in his speech and in his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education, and energy.
Four months after winning the election, six weeks after his swearing in, Obama has yet to unveil a plan to deal with the banking crisis.
What's going on?
Well, you never want a serious crisis to go to waste, said Ram Emmanuel LeBallerina.
This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you couldn't do before.
Things.
Well, now we know what they are.
The market's recent precipitous decline is a reaction, not just to the absence of any plausible bank rescue plan, but also to the suspicion that Obama sees the continuing financial crisis as usefully creating the psychological conditions, the sense of crisis bordering on panic, for enacting his Big Bang agenda to federalize or socialize health care, education, and energy.
Intellectually dishonest to the core, Obama deceiving the American people, and it's working.
The latest Fox News opinion dynamics poll has an approval rating at 63%.
Over the previous reporting period a week or 10 days ago, it's 60%.
Does this puzzle you?
Your economy tanking all around you.
Your president deceiving you as to why.
Your president further deceiving you as to the solutions.
Yet his approval numbers go up.
They slightly uptick to 63%.
We are still at the stage.
I told you all week long, be patient.
It's going to take a while for people to see the deception, and they might not ever.
You see, Barack Obama benefits from a truism here.
It is not what he accomplishes.
He doesn't have to accomplish anything to keep his poll numbers up.
And this he knows.
All he has to do is give speeches about what he cares about.
Yesterday he cared about health care.
And who doesn't?
It's like the environmentalist wackos making you think they care about saving the planet, making you think they care about clean water and clean air.
Who doesn't?
So if you oppose clean water and clean air, you must want what?
Dirty water, dirty air.
If you oppose Obama on health care, you must want what?
People to get sick and not have any way to get well.
So it's not what he says.
It's not what he accomplishes.
It's what he says he cares about.
There's another poll out today, I think, from Rasmussen.
34% of the American people believe that they can't get a good job without the government being involved.
34% believe the government is important to getting a good job, not with the government, but outside in the private sector.
But is this what you voted for?
Somebody who cares about certain things, accomplishes nothing on them, deceives you as to the real problems, and in the process takes no steps to fix them.
Let me tell you what's going on here.
We have a banking and a credit crisis.
Obama and his team had a show gathering to focus on the problem, but they have done a little, if anything, to so much as start fixing it.
Any leader would keep focused on fixing that mess, but that's not the stuff that makes approval numbers rise.
Because there really isn't much he can do except shift people's attitudes about it.
So he's moved on to healthcare.
This is highly visible.
It's newsleading, gets a great focus.
Plus it has the great liberal lion Teddy Kennedy pushing it.
Before it's all over, it'll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Healthcare Bill.
So when you have the banking and the credit problem still unfixed and with health care still unfixed, they'll move on to another caring story.
Alternate energy.
I don't know.
Your guess is as good as mine, but whatever it is, the approval numbers will go up because it's not what Obama accomplishes.
It's what he cares about.
A brief time out.
We'll be back.
We will continue after this.
Stay with us.
Did you vote for this?
There are people starting to have doubts.
One of them no less than Whoopi Goldberg, who went into a rant this morning on The View talking to her co-host, Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
Do you remember that Movie Network?
If you are just fed up, at some point, just lean out your window and scream, I'm mad as hell, because that's what's happening to me.
I'm losing my mind because I don't understand why.
One of the things that I saw recently, they have this whole thing about taxing the wealthy.
Okay.
Now, I don't mind that.
I don't mind paying a little more tax because I make a good living.
But I don't want to get it coming and going.
I don't want to get the federal raised and then the state raised and then the phone tax raised and then the television tax raised and then the city tax.
Back off me.
That is Whoopee Goldberg on the view today.
Sounds like she might want Obama to fail.
Sounds like she might not be fully with the program.
She's starting to ask herself, I voted for this.
She's right about something here.
Something that we haven't talked about.
The federal tax increase, when the Bush tax cuts sunset, that'll take it to 39.6%.
Then the charitable deductions.
Again, guess what?
Guess what people are just now starting to figure out?
Well, you know, if he reduces deductibility on charitable donation down 28%, that means a lot fewer people are going to be donating in the private sector.
That's right.
Well, guess who's going to come in and take government?
You're going to have to tell me government's going to be in charge of charity.
This is a plan.
Whoopi, you're on the right path.
You got to understand what all these taxes on you mean.
And you're right, the television tax, but you're going to get a double whammy, triple whammy living in New York.
How about this statistic?
25% of office space in New York is now vacant.
I saw that this morning.
I'm running that down.
25% office space in New York vacant.
They're going to have to raise taxes, Whoopi.
They're going to have to raise.
So, in addition to the federal, the states are going to see that, and the states are going to raise taxes, and then the city is going to raise taxes.
You're going to have taxes raised everywhere.
I'll tell you, it's very simple, folks, because everybody's spending money they don't have.
They are spending money that has not even yet been printed.
They're spending money that has not yet been earned.
They are spending wealth that has not yet been created.
Your children's children, your great-grandchildren, they are broke the moment they're born.
They are broke when they get their first job.
Whoopi Goldberg is one of the 40,000 people in New York City that pay over half New York City's budget operations.
40,000 people out of 8 million, Whoopi, pay and make New York happen.
And the mayor is concerned that some people might start leaving if he raises their taxes, but he's going to have no choice the way he thinks.
Whoopee, I am number one.
I got out of there in 1997, and they still audit me every year.
You could be number two.
You could tell Barbara Walters that you want a satellite studio in Florida where there is no state income tax.
Same time zone.
You could be once you could see Robin Williams is in the hospital down here, poor guy, with heart problems.
But I mean, this is, if Whoopee Goldberg is starting to see this, is starting to feel it, she thinks everybody's coming at her now.
They're coming there both ways.
I don't care how long it took.
I don't care why she started realizing it.
The fact is, she has.
Now, I hope I always run the risk here, folks, when I point these things out.
In trying to praise people, in trying to lavish praise on somebody like Whoopi, is that she'll be offended that I'm the one praising her and go back on the view Monday and totally change her opinion since I agree with her.
She can't afford to have that position and start back up for tax increases or what have you.
But hopefully not.
There's also a great piece today, actually from yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger.
Has Obama buried Reagan?
The Democrat idea bank of Robert and Roberts says it's safe to unload on Ronald Reagan.
Robert B. Reich said, Obama's is the boldest budget we've seen since the Reagan administration.
Obama's budget drives a nail in the coffin of Reaganomics.
We can basically say goodbye to the philosophy espoused by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
This from a diminutive policy wonk who has never accomplished anything in the private sector in his life, like so many others in power now.
Bob Schrum, Obama's not only unwinding Reagan's policies, he's offering a Rooseveltian paradigm that justifies government pragmatically.
Henninger writes, wait, wait, wait, let's consider an alternative universe.
The stock market's been in free fall, dismantling the saved wealth of millions of individual Americans.
In reaction, Republicans true to form get into an argument of who runs their party, Michael Steele or Rush Limbaugh.
Somebody once said a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
Why are the Republicans wasting it?
And Henninger goes on to point out: hey, you Republicans, you have ideas.
You have ideas that won elections.
You have ideas that grew the economy called Reaganism.
And he says, Rush Limbaugh was trying to say this to the people at CPAC, trying to inspire you to be confident about capitalism.
Don't be embarrassed.
He wonders where the hell the Republicans are.
Now, we've discussed this ad infinitum on this program.
It is a great piece.
Back in a sec.
Let me share with you a couple more points here from Henneger's piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday because it's crucial and it really crystallizes.
The primary objective I had last Saturday in my CPAC speech was to tell conservatives what conservatism is, to tell the nation what conservatism is, to inspire people to stand up for it and be proud of it and understand its superiority, particularly to what's happening now.
Henniger writes, what Ronald Reagan knew, and they don't, meaning these Republicans here that can't get in gear as well as Democrats, of course.
What Reagan knew is that what moves a nation is the vital teeming life of the private economy, work, ideas, innovation, the excitement of production, getting bigger growth.
Now, in the past, this was depicted as blast furnaces and factory chimneys.
Today, the economy's sinews are harder to see, but they exist in tens of thousands of small-cap, mid-cap, and fat-cap companies.
The Republicans, Romney, Huckabee, Jindal, Polenti, Sanford, Newt, Saris, several hundred 2010 congressional candidates, have to rediscover a way to talk about the living world of the real economy.
Their vocabulary now consists mainly of policy wonks spinach, phrases like fiscal responsibility, we must reduce the debt, or even tax cuts.
It's all true, but it's insufficient.
And this is another reason that I was trying to make the point here about philosophy versus policy, which has been slightly misunderstood.
Maybe I didn't express it properly in the original speech.
But when I said that I've talked to several Republicans about the Obama various budget proposals, the stimulus and so forth, they talk about it, nibble around the edges in ways that they accept the premise of the agenda that Obama announces.
And then they say, well, we've got to put our little fingerprint on this or our imprint on it, you know, nibble at it around the edges.
But fiscal responsibility, reduce the debt, tax cuts, those things, those are policy things that have no explanation or dynamic meaning.
And this is why a definition of conservatism, that's why I keep focusing on philosophy and principle is what's first needed to get all this back.
Then we do the policy.
We can do the policy at the same time, but gee, people on my side just continue to misunderstand this.
And I guess I'm not good enough at explaining myself.
Anyway, what Henneger said was what Rush Limbaugh was trying to tell that conservative audience in so many words was, don't be embarrassed.
Don't be embarrassed about embracing the world of free markets, competition, entrepreneurship, and profit.
If you don't know how to talk about it, reread the apostles and the evangelists of private economic growth.
But see, where are you going to find those our philosophers along with people that incremented or implemented great policies and so forth?
But politics is about ideas and language, and the conservative movement is not at a loss for proven ideas.
They just don't know how to express them.
The Democrats don't want the private economy anymore.
Conservatives have forgotten how to talk about it.
Yeah, exactly my point, Mr. Henneger.
Conservatives have forgotten how to talk about it.
Conservatives are now more preoccupied with talking about the economy, using the language and the terms put forth by Democrats.
And that's what's got everybody so frustrated.
That's why when you say these guys come into our neighborhoods and our states and they campaign as conservatives and they get to Washington and they govern as moderates, they don't have the guts to stand up for what it is that wins elections for Republicans.
By the way, the White House has made it official.
I'm stunned and saddened by this.
The White House has rejected the notion of my invitation to President Obama to debate here at the EIB network.
This is from ABC News.
If you were already preparing to set your DVR to record the big Obama versus Limbaugh debate, you may want to put down the remote.
To nobody's surprise, we got our first official word from the White House yesterday morning that it is unlikely President Obama will accept Mr. Limbaugh's invitation.
The White House domestic policy advisor Melody Barnes said on the Today Show, it's an interesting invitation.
I think Rush Limbaugh does not represent the rest of the American people and the president.
We have to succeed.
But we probably are not going to debate.
I don't know how many of you see Scrappleface, the great parody site on the internet, Scott Utt.
Obama to drop missile shield if Russia helps with Rush Limbaugh.
President Barack Obama has reportedly written another private note to his Russian counterpart offering to halt deployment of a defensive nuclear missile shield in Europe, this time in exchange for Putin's help in dealing with Rush Limbaugh.
The White House immediately denied the existence of the letter to President Medvedev, but acknowledged ongoing internal deliberations over a measured response using all the tools of U.S. power, including diplomacy.
Dealing with Mr. Limbaugh has taken the Obama administration's focus off of other global trouble spots like North Korea, Iran, and Chicago.
The rift between Obama and Mr. Limbaugh started in October when the radio kingpin said of Mr. Obama, I hope he fails.
Tension escalated when Democrat pollsters discovered that Rush Limbaugh is the only remaining divisive Republican with name recognition higher than 10%.
It's actually 11.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, during his daily review of cable TV and radio personalities, said that Obama won the election in part on a promise to be more inclusive, to talk with enemies, and to present an American face to the world that is more about dialogue and multilateral solutions than confrontation.
If President Obama intends to find common ground with the mullahs in Iran, Gibbs said he can certainly find a way to appease Rush Limbaugh.
And so they want the Russians to try to deal with the Limbaugh problem.
To the phones, it's Open Line Friday.
We will start in Greensburg, Pennsylvania with Bethany.
I'm glad you called.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you.
Calling, I need you to enlighten me a little bit here.
My husband and I are in the process of buying a home, and it's becoming more and more obvious as we go through this process that despite what's happened in this country with the housing crisis and the credit, that our government is still in the habit of rewarding inefficiency and underachievers.
And I need you to just answer, when in the history of this country has that ever been an effective policy?
Depends on effective for who.
It was very effective for FDR.
It has been very effective for the Democrat Party in creating a voting army of underachievers.
This is one of the points that I made in my CPAC speech.
It breaks my heart to see all the lives destroyed by Democrat Party policies.
It sees, I mean, all the potential that so many Americans have that they'll never know because they're told they can't get anywhere without government help.
What you have to understand is happening with Obama here, Bethany.
It really is no more complicated than that.
I think Obama's mentoring relationships matter.
I think it matters that Jeremiah Wright was very important in his life and Bill Ayers and all the people associated with the Communist Party when he was growing up as a kid in Hawaii.
I think, well, that matters.
I think it matters who taught him at Harvard and other Ivy League schools.
And I really do believe Obama thinks that believes the old canard that the rich or the achievers in this country got their money illegally or unethically, that they stole it from the middle class and the underclass.
And I think his operative philosophy here is that he is going to return the nation's wealth to its, quote, rightful owners.
I don't know how you can conclude, how anybody can conclude otherwise.
And I, so when you say, how has rewarding inefficiency ever worked?
It's working for Obama.
His poll numbers continue to climb.
That's astonishing.
It's astonishing.
It's not working for me.
It's not working for my family.
That's because you are to be gotten even with.
You are part of the class.
You're part of the achiever class that has unfairly acquired what you have.
You and everybody else have effectively stolen it or in some other unethical way taken a greater share of American wealth than you deserved.
And you left too many people poor and you left too many people impoverished and too many people in the lower middle class.
And it's time that you return some of that wealth, ill-gotten gains, back to the people who are the rightful owners.
Well, I'll tell you, it's frustrating.
It's frustrating to go.
I mean, we're in Western Pennsylvania.
We're hardworking people.
We never look to the government for handouts, you know.
And, you know, we're going through this home buying process and they, you know.
By the way, I need to ask you about that.
People are probably stunned at your buying a house in this market.
Can you explain the details of this?
Sure, absolutely.
First of all, we're in Western Pennsylvania, so there was never a huge bubble.
The home prices pretty much stayed the same, whereas in the rest of the country right now, they're down, what, 25%?
So there are no major foreclosures en masse in western Pennsylvania?
It's just, well, the prices have stayed relatively even.
You know, we're down 2% to 3%.
Aside from that, why do you want to buy a house in this market?
That's what people are wondering.
I mean, because you're not going to get relief on your mortgage.
Well, right now we're paying a high amount in rent.
We have a great credit score.
We're in the 800s.
We have no other debt.
We don't, you know, our cars are paid for.
The only thing we're paying is our student loans, which, you know, I would never regret.
So why not buy a home, get settled, you know, raise our kids.
What'd your list?
Bethany, thank you.
You're welcome.
Thank you very much.
What you just heard is somebody, whether she knows it or not, is looking at the recession and saying, I'm not participating.
There it goes.
There it goes.
Stock market hovering down around 10 or 20.
Something just happened.
Market now down 75, 72.
And the administration, this is fine with them.
This is perfect.
They love seeing all this wealth destroyed.
How do we conclude anything else when the administration tells us to hang on, we're going to fix this economy with health care reform?
Health care reform is going to get you a job in a year.
And then green energy, all this alternative energy, gobbledygook, and education.
Did you vote for this?
I'll tell you, my plate is getting full.
Here I am trying to save the Republican Party despite opposition from the Republican Party.
Somebody's going to have to save Wall Street.
Somebody is going to have to mobilize all these quote-unquote rich Republicans to get in there.
The problem is nobody knows where the bottom is.
You know, that's not really the question.
I want to give you another way of looking at the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the NASDAQ.
Everybody's focused on the bottom.
Where is it going to bottom out?
How bad is it going to get?
Well, the figure I see most prominently, and I have no clue, by the way, I'm no Jim Rogers, I'm no Jim Kramer, and I'm no Larry Kudlow.
The figure I see bandied about is 3,3500.
We're at 6,500 now.
But I don't think that's the question because it is going to bottom out at some point.
My question is, what's the new top?
What's the new top going to be?
We were a year ago at 13,000, less than a year ago at 13,000.
And unemployment was low.
Now it's all gone.
Over $3 trillion of wealth is gone.
When's that coming back?
That's what I want to know.
When, if ever, is that coming back?
What's the new top?
How much, in other words, how much growth can we expect?
The people who have skin in the game in the Obama tracking poll are still yanking out of it.
I'll have to think about this over the week.
As I say, folks, I'm sitting here fighting fatigue desperately, single-handedly.
I don't mind saying this, as the last man standing trying to save this country.
And I expect to get shot at from all sides.
With arrows, don't miss it, politically shot at.
And I expect this, it doesn't hurt my feelings sternly.
It just, it frustrates me.
Why is like Daniel Henninger?
Why is there such reluctance to stand up for what we believe?
Why is there such reluctance to contrast our own blueprint for success with what this is?
At any rate, Open Line Friday back to the phones.
This is Altadina, California.
Harry, nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I feel the Democrat-American Dream is really a fantasy by the Democrats, and it will kill the American miracle.
They feel the dream is that they can raise the poor out of poverty without their participation using others people's money.
Nope, that's not their dream.
Well, I see they're going to kill the work ethic, and they're going to kill the rewards when someone starts working, and I feel that's the American miracle.
Well, maybe I'm misunderstanding you.
I thought you said what I'm reacting to, what I thought you said, was the Democrat dream is lifting everybody out of poverty.
That's not what they want more people, as you just said, with less of a chance to realize the American dream.
Well, that's why I call it a fantasy, because it won't work.
It destroys the work ethic amongst the young or the poor.
Well, hold it.
At some point, it won't work, but who wants to go through 10 years of hell to get to where it doesn't work?
Why don't we try to stop it is the point.
Why doesn't somebody stand up and try to stop this?
Sure, it won't work, but how long is it going to take for Dumkoff American voters that voted for Obama to figure it out?
Hey, Rush, that's really the way to reach out to those people.
Call them Dumkops.
Sorry, folks.
I'm a talk show host, not a politician, and I tell it like I see it.
Did you vote for this, you loony toons?
I did not.
I don't mean you.
I'm talking about the Obama.
The people in Port St. Lucie, Riolinda, places like that.
You know what I mean, Harry?
Well, thank you.
I appreciate it.
But why?
Look, I apologize.
I apologize for calling you Obama voters, Doomkoffs.
I know you want the best for America, except for the rich, as you can get.
I apologize for calling you Looney Tunes.
But I do have a serious question.
Of course, this won't work.
Of course, it isn't going to work.
But why do we want to wait all those years and undergo all of this economic pain and suffering before people realize it?
Of course, you cannot reward a lack of achievement.
You cannot reward inefficiency and have this country prosper and remain a superpower and be able to protect itself and be able to feed itself.
You can't do any of that.
But do we want to go through soup lines again?
Do people realize this?
Do we want to have to go through being another terrorist attack that we can't stop or do anything about in order for people to realize this?
Of course, it won't work, but I frankly, I don't want to wait 10 years for people to figure it out.
I would rather spend a lot of time trying to educate people right now that it won't work and tell them why and affect electoral outcomes in 2010 and 2012.
But I guess that makes me too combative.
I'm sorry, folks.
That makes me too combative and too rabble-rousing.
So forgive me.
I take all that back.
Let's just sit around and suffer together for the eight or 10 years it's going to take for people to figure out how all this doesn't work.
And then we'll get together and have a party when we start to come out of this.
We'll see you then.
Okay, bye.
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And Barack Obama saved 25 jobs today.
Says his stimulus plan saved 25 jobs in the battleground state of Ohio.
Wow, that's great news.
Fabulous news.
Happy about that.
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