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March 18, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 18, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So Snartly walks into my palatial broadcast studio this morning and says, tell me, how long is this AIG stuff going to go on?
I said, as long as they need it to go on to distract us from all the other things they're doing.
And also, and the big point about this AIG business.
As I mentioned to you people yesterday, the big point here is to poison as many minds in this country as possible to capitalism and to corporate America.
This is exactly the kind of thing Barack Obama and his team love.
Everybody hating corporate America, hating Wall Street, hating CEOs, hating executives.
Over $165 million.
Do you people realize, let me get the, this is from an AP story today.
The Merrill Lynch, Merrill Lynch paid $3.6 billion in bonuses to its executives while its sale of Bank of America Corporation was pending.
B of A, also a big recipient of bailout money.
Greetings, folks, great to have you here.
El Rushbull behind the Golden EIB microphone, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
So everybody, oh, Geithner, he's a dead man.
Geithner's finished.
Maybe.
It's all a distraction.
But let's listen to Jonathan Alter.
You know, the conventional wisdom in Washington, the wizards of SMART, the elitists, the Ivy Leaguers, be they in government or media, are brain-dead idiots.
Here is Jonathan Alter, who basically takes dictation from Rah Emmanuel.
Alter's, he's got Chicago roots.
Jonathan, I'm sorry.
I know I've met you a couple times, but you're just a stenographer, my friend.
It is more and more obvious to those of us who study the behavioral practices of the drive-by media on a daily basis.
Jonathan Alter, January 13th, was on MSNBC.
The question he got, is this another Zoe Baird situation?
Is Geithner not paying his taxes?
Is this another Zoe Baird situation?
Somebody just going to be tossed out?
Or do they seem to have been honest mistakes?
And maybe more importantly, is there sort of a bipartisan feeling that this guy, Geithner, is just too valuable to even let ordinary rules apply to him?
It would really be a shame if something like this sunk the nomination.
We are in very serious times.
They're quite different than 1993 when Zoe Baird's nomination was sunk for Attorney General over this kind of nanny problem.
Geithner is, by all accounts, the only person in Washington who fully understands TARP.
Uh-oh.
$700 billion.
We cannot afford at this point, unless there's gross mouth easiness to take him out of the picture.
There you have it.
And that was the conventional wisdom.
He's the only guy.
Geithner is the only guy that understands TARP.
Geithner's the only guy that can fix this.
Geithner knew about the bonuses, despite what they're saying.
Geithner was involved in the first bailout of AIG.
Geithner is, and he's in, all these eggheads are incompetent.
They're just, they're not up to the job of running the private sector.
But what they're doing for, look, this is all a giant distraction.
And as I just want to say again, this is, and it's working too.
It is designed to get as many Americans as possible with pitchforks storming the gates of American corporations and CEOs.
This is a godsend for the Obama administration.
I know you're reading where, oh, it's a backlash, Obama risking a backlash.
He's not even been president 60 days yet, folks.
He's not going anywhere, and there's nothing Republicans can do to stop him.
But Rush, but Rush, there are stories about how the Democrats are upset at what he's doing.
Maybe they are.
But he's moving ahead at lightning speed.
While everybody's talking about AIG, Obama's already on to other things.
I'm going to give you a little rundown of some of these things as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
So $3.6 billion in bonuses to Merrill Lynch.
And nobody said a word.
Nobody said a word because the captains of Outrage did not manufacture it at the time.
This whole thing is a manufactured bunch of BS.
Yep, I know it's I called it yesterday about them knowing.
And now everybody, by the way, Chris Dodds saying, hey, I did not put that in there.
I didn't exempt these bonuses.
Somebody else did, and he's dumping on Geithner.
Well, I don't care who put it in it, who didn't.
The fact is, nobody knew it was there because nobody read this.
This was in the stimulus bill.
Only after the fact did they discover that it's in there.
But now everybody, all these Democrats are passing the buck.
And we've got Barney Frank and Chris Dodd saying they now want to run AIG.
And we have clear evidence.
These clowns are the ones that got us into this mess in the first place.
They don't know how to run any of these things.
Government's not supposed to do this.
This is bad, folks.
This is, we can sit here and laugh about it.
But it's bad.
I ran into a guy.
This was sad to me, and it made me a little mad.
I ran into a guy, strong conservative, just whining and moaning about these bonuses.
And I said to him, I don't care about the bonuses.
What are you mad about the bonuses for?
Why aren't you mad about the mortgage bailout, $75 billion?
Why aren't you mad about cap and trade, which may end up costing $2 trillion that we are told today?
Why aren't you mad about all these other bailouts that are going on?
What's happened here is that Obama and the media have successfully distracted people and channeled their outrage away from his outrageous expansionist ideas and onto corporate fat cats.
He's got everybody revved up.
Everybody.
I mean, there were, I saw a picture of people, average ordinary Americans, lined up outside the hearing room today where Barney Frank's committee is looking into this, investigating these bonuses, figuring out what to do.
Maybe he taxed these people.
Barney Frank wants names now.
Your congressman wants names of the people who receive the bonus.
It was in the law that they get the bonuses.
And there's average American.
Well, wait a minute now.
Those could have been Obama robots, come to think of it.
He's got this.
Well, it could have been.
He's got these giant community groups out there like Acorn, Code Pink, and others, which would probably storm.
We don't really know how much national outrage there is over this.
We just assume that there's a lot of it.
I'm going to accept the fact that there is because it just, you know, it fits the bill.
But my problem here is that people keep saying these things are distractions.
They're way more than that.
These things are not just distracting people.
They are re-channeling.
These things are re-channeling people's rage to things that don't or shouldn't matter.
And while all that's happening, Obama gets to march on and keep doing what he's doing with impunity.
Not because they're distracted, but because they're mad about the wrong things.
So here, let me give you, this is a, what is this, AP Obama, AP Obama story by Adam Geller, taxpayers vent against AIG bonuses.
And if you read far enough, you'll find this.
This is a quote from George I. Yub of Toronto, Canada, who is an American, who was visiting Los Angeles when the drive-by media caught up to him.
Here's his quote.
We have created this mess.
Everyone's responsible for allowing executives to receive these bonuses.
Probably every company needs to be nationalized, and the government will own the corporations instead of the corporations owning the government.
That's the point.
That is what the objective here is.
Take this AIG business, which they knew about, they knew about the bonuses, rechannel everybody's anger to corporate America and CEOs away from government.
Once again, the people, the architects of this, get to sit around as though they were innocent bystanders and spectators who are now the white knights being called in to save the day.
Obama, by the way, the teleprompter, really teleprompter pulled a mean trick on our president last night at the White House during the St. Patrick.
Did you hear about this?
I just, I can't believe that this, it embarrassed the president.
It was such an embarrassment.
The teleprompter embarrassed the president so much that the drive-by media has not released the video of what happened.
We know what happened.
We'll pass it on.
Plus, in Missouri, my home state, the police, the state police have been issued warnings.
A new document.
Wait, will you hear this?
In Missouri, a new document meant to help Missouri law enforcement agencies identify militia members or domestic terrorists has drawn criticism.
The February 20 report called the Modern Militia Movement mentions such red flags as political bumper stickers for third-party candidates such as Ron Paul, who ran for president, talk of conspiracy theories such as the plan for a superhighway linking Canada to Mexico, and possession of subversive literature.
So the state police of Missouri have been told that if you see a car with a bumper sticker that opposes the so-called creation of North American Union, the Super Highway, that you are probably following a militia member, that you are following an anti-government radical, and you need to take precautions.
If you see, I'm not making this up.
It's right here in the AP.
If you see, if you see a car with a bumper sticker that says Ron Paul for president, you might be dealing with a violent radical.
Exercise extreme caution.
I am not making it up.
This is the Associated Press.
There's no byline on this.
It seems like they want to stifle political thoughts, said Roger Webb, the president of the University of Missouri campus Libertarians.
There are a lot of third parties out there.
None of them express any violence.
In fact, if you join the Libertarian Party, which is Ron Paul's party, one of the things you sign in your membership application is you don't support violence as a means to any end.
The Lieutenant John Hoates of the Missouri State Highway Patrol said the report comes from publicly available trend data on militias.
It was compiled by the Missouri Information Analysis Center, a fusion center in Jefferson City that combines resources from the Federal Department of Homeland Security and other agencies.
It's just an educational thing, said the captain.
The troopers have been shot by members of groups, so it's our job to let law enforcement officers know what the trends are in the modern militia movement.
Third-party bumper stickers indicate a militia member, man-prone to violence, be extremely cautious when following such a car in the state of Missouri.
Now, let's also, let's not forget something that happened in Missouri during the campaign.
Remember, there was a lawyer there and maybe a couple lawyers who announced that they were going to prosecute anybody who criticized Obama.
Remember that?
And Obama's got this now mad marching army out there that he's mobilizing to pass his budget bill, the omnibus budget bill, some of the other things.
All this kind of stuff.
Advancing cap and trade, $2 trillion more.
There's a story here today that really now to fix the banks may take another $750 billion.
All this happening under the radar and everybody focusing on this goon Geithner, who is just a nerd.
He's just a dweeb.
He's a total dweeb.
Everybody in the White House in over their heads in this respect.
They're in over their heads in fixing this.
They are perfect to destroy this.
They are perfect, perfectly timed, perfectly programmed, perfectly educated to destroy capitalism.
And that's their expertise.
And they're in the process of doing it.
And while they're doing it, they're making you think it's a good thing because you now hate the CEOs and you hate the executives and you hate these bonuses while all this other rigmarole is going on that is really damaging.
Quick timeout.
Much more straight ahead after this on the EIB network.
As I am wont to do, I checked the email during this first obscene profit timeout.
A lot of people.
Rush, Rush, come on.
What do you mean?
What is all this anger at AIG and corporations?
What about all the Tea Parties out there angry at Obama?
Oh, I know the Tea Parties are out there and they're swelling and they're growing.
That's my point.
The objective is to get you people at the Tea Parties having tea parties against AIG and against corporations and against capitalism.
Now, while you people are out at the tea parties, and God bless you, understand that there are a whole lot of other people who are being worked into a frenzy.
You know how easy it is to gin up this kind of this mob mentality.
You know how easy it is, especially in a recession.
And it's working.
They're trying to distract from a lot of things, such as this.
The Rasmussen poll is out.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Rasmussen poll is out, and it has some chilling news for Barack Obama.
He's been president for only two months, roughly, and already the words hope and change are the prayer of Republicans.
They're tied to generic ballot, Congressional Generic Ballot, 42 to 42.
42 to 42 in the midst of all this.
By the way, this is hilarious, too.
CBS News, last night with the perky dangling Katie Couric, CBS News and on their website published a poll.
They went out and took a poll, and it was an approval rating poll, and they published my approval rating at 19% versus Obama's at 56 or 57%.
They just continue with this.
It just shows that Limbaugh and the Republicans are not popular at all.
Limbaugh is hated by everyone.
Limbaugh is the most unpopular, blah, blah, blah.
But if you look closely, you find that Nancy Pelosi is at 18%.
I am more popular than the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives.
But that generic ballot, 42-42, I guarantee you it bothers them.
And that's why Obama's taking the offensive, urging passage of his $3.6 trillion budget.
You know, this AIG distraction is a major thing, and it's going to go on as long as it works.
They're going to keep it up as long as it takes.
Everybody's talking about getting these bonuses back.
Get this, though, Mr. Snerdley, Charlie Wrangell is opposed to using the tax code to get the bonus money back.
He says, I don't think the tax code should be used to target people.
We've got to give him a couple kudos.
But he doesn't like this use of, and it may be illegal for the federal government, unconstitutional, to target private citizens like this with legislation.
This is, it is, it is, it's unconstitutional.
Well, I know it's Democrat blasphemy, but let me tell you why Wrangell said it.
See, everybody thinks Charlie is the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
Well, he is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and as such, everybody thinks Charlie Wrangell's writing tax law.
Uh-uh.
Tax law is being written by Nancy Pelosi's staff out of her office.
Make no mistake about it.
I guarantee you, you think she's letting Wrangell write all these upcoming tax laws?
No, Pelosi's running the show on the Democrat side.
Speaking of givebacks, how about all these contributions AIG gave to Obama and Chris Dodd?
They came from AIG employees.
Do you think they should give that money back?
Campaign contributions over $100,000 to Chris Dodd and Obama.
Should they give the money back?
Ed Morrissey at the blog hotair.com.
While everybody assails AIG for using less than one-tenth of 1% of the taxpayer bailout money, another recipient of Government Large S has its own bonus program in operation according to their annual report, Freddie Mac.
Now, Freddie Mac is another GSE, government-sponsored entity or enterprise.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, basically the same thing.
Fannie Mae was first.
These are private sector businesses owned by the government, which, of course, is an oxymoron.
It's not possible.
And we all know the controversy about Fannie Mae.
Franklin Reigns, all these guys taking $90 million.
When are they going to give their bonuses back, by the way?
Jim Johnson and Mudd, Daniel Mudd, and Franklin Reigns, when are they going to give their bonuses back?
They were kicked out of there for fraud at Fannie Mae.
There's a story today that Freddie Mac is going to need maybe $150 billion in bailout money to stay solvent.
Freddie Mac, they do mortgage business too, just like Fannie Mae.
They mirror each other, and they're going to need $150 billion because it is not working over at Freddie Mac either.
But Morrissey points out that in the annual report, Freddie Mac has a generous retention bonus plan built into its operation for the next year.
Eligibility includes all of the senior and executive VPs.
It comes in four payouts, and only the last has any connection to company performance.
It's exhibit 10-4 on pages 414 and 15.
Well, it's page 414-5.
Lays out the program.
Retention bonuses scheduled next year at Freddie Mac, and they are sizable bonuses to be paid out four times to execs.
I'll tell you, folks, you're being worked up into a frenzy here, and you are being hoodwinked like I've not seen before.
Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, phony, ginned-up outrage, and even the good times here at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies Associated Press today.
Julie Hirschfeld Davis, cue the Washington outrage.
It is so obvious that not even A.P. Obama can ignore this.
For months, the administration and members of Congress have known that insurance giant AIG was getting ready to pay huge bonuses while living off government bailouts.
It wasn't until the money was flowing and news was trickling out to the public that Official Washington rose up in anger and vowed to yank the money back.
And I still maintain to you that this is not the true AIG outrage.
The true AIG outrage is how AIG was used by Geithner and Henry Paulson to send money to foreign banks, Goldman Sachs, and a couple of other domestic banks, in addition to what they got in the TARP bailout, the first phase.
Yesterday, the number was $93 billion.
It's over $100 billion now that went to places like Deutsche Bank, a French bank, a couple of other banks in Europe, Goldman Sachs, which is where Paulson came from.
They got $13 billion.
Now, this is the real, real outrage of what has happened.
And all of this other stuff is simply a distraction.
And look, I'm not going to be totally distracted by this.
This is Wednesday, and we've spent a lot of time talking about this, except on this program where I, your host, am not, ladies and gentlemen, subjected to the tug of popular sentiment.
I resist it, always have.
So I am not spun here into a phony outrage over what everybody else is mad about.
Let's see.
I'm watching Obama here.
What's he talking about?
I'm sorry, the teleprompter.
Let's jip.
No, never mind.
Our microphones are not turned on at this particular press conference.
He's just getting ready to leave for California to appear on Jay Leno.
This is historic in itself.
You know, a sitting president has never before lowered himself to sit on a late-night comedy show.
And that's the way to look at this.
A president of the United States has never lowered himself like this to sit in on a late-night comedy show with the chin, not even with Johnny Carson.
Certainly not Letterman.
Obama's going to go out there.
And my question is, whose teleprompter is he going to use?
Is he taking his teleprompter?
Is he going to use Leno's teleprompter?
What's a teleprompter going to tell him to say?
You know, the Brits, ladies and gentlemen, British journalists are doing such a far better job of covering events in this country than our media because they're not personally invested in Obama's success.
As I mentioned at the top of the program, the teleprompter embarrassed President Obama last night during his White House party.
There were a bunch of White House parties last night for St. Patrick's Day.
Oh.
There's a new name for St. Patrick's Day.
Some people upset that it's called St. Patrick's Day.
They want to change it to, because it's religious overtones.
They want to change it to Shamrock Day.
Oh, I kid you not.
I kid you not.
So anyway, the big, big bashes, big parties in the middle of bonuses and a recession and an economic downturn, big parties at the White House last night.
And the teleprompter totally embarrassed the President of the United States.
I've read accounts of this in the U.S. drive-by media, and they pretty much present Obama as a guy who saved the day with his cool, his aplomb, his calm demeanor.
The British newspapers skewer Obama on this incident.
Here is what happened.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowan was just a few paragraphs into his speech in Washington when he realized that it all sounded a bit too familiar.
And it was.
He was repeating the speech that the teleprompter had told Obama to say mere moments ago.
The teleprompter forgot to change speeches from Obama's to Cowen's.
So Cowen stopped.
He turned to the president and said, that's your speech.
I'm surprised it took him 20 seconds to figure out it wasn't his.
So Obama started laughing, and Obama went back to the podium to take over.
But when Obama got there, this is hilarious.
When Obama got there, the teleprompter had then switched back to the Cowan speech.
The teleprompter switched back to the Cowan speech while Obama was laughing and heading to the podium.
So when Obama then reached the podium to try to coolly, calmly save the day, he ended up thanking himself for throwing a huge party because he ended up reading the speech the teleprompter wrote for the Irish prime minister.
The script had been switched, and Obama ended up thanking himself for inviting everybody to the party.
Now, stop and think of this.
It's a party.
It's a party.
You have to assume that the adult beverages are flowing.
I don't know about the president, and don't misunderstand.
I'm not suggesting anything here, but it's a party.
It's a St. Patrick's Day, Shamrock Day party, and you've got to assume this.
So here come the Irish guy who goes up to make a speech after Obama, and the teleprompter playing a little game on everybody doesn't switch the speeches.
So the Irish guy gives the same speech for 20 seconds Obama gave and then suddenly realizes, wait a minute, I just heard this.
So he turns to Obama and says, that's your speech.
Obama's, comes back to the podium.
While Obama's on the way to the podium, the teleprompter very craftily, very shiftily put in the right text for the Irish guy, and Obama starts reading that.
And he continues to read it until he thanks himself.
Because the British, the Irish guy's message in the prompter was, I want to thank President Obama.
So Obama thanked himself.
At some point, do you not realize that you just stop before you get to the point where you thank yourself?
And of course, the British paper is talking about what is this guy's dependency on the teleprompter here?
The U.S. media is talking about his quick-wittedness and his apology.
I do not use a teleprompter at mine.
That's another.
A party.
It's a party, folks.
A freaking party.
And there's a teleprompter at a party.
I don't use a teleprompter, period.
Folks, I'll tell you, I have some questions for the teleprompter.
You know, this is getting out of hand.
Wait a minute.
Our microphones just arrived at the Roseguard.
Can we jip?
Who's there?
Oh, Geithner standing there still looking.
Now they're taking a question.
Kathleen is rolling on this.
If there's anything interesting from this, we'll have the audio soundbites coming up.
I have some questions to the teleprompter since it engaged in behavior last night that embarrassed both the Irish Prime Minister and the President of the United States.
I mean, when a teleprompter, he has somebody who's as great an orator as the president to thank himself for throwing a party.
You got to love this prompter.
So, teleprompter, do you have a name?
Teleprompter, in your opinion, how is President Obama doing so far?
Did he convey the level of anger you hoped for regarding what you told him to say about AIG?
Teleprompter, is the president ever argumentative with you or is he compliant with your instructions?
Teleprompter, have you ever thought about helping Secretary Geithner or do you work for just one person?
Teleprompter, how are you and the First Lady getting along?
Are you dating anybody, teleprompter, Mac or PC?
There's a rumor, teleprompter, that you send out a small shock to the president when he mispronounces words or mangled phrases you tell him to say, or that you can even make him cough.
Is that true?
Teleprompter, in private, is Joe Biden as buffoonish as he is in public?
Tell us.
We want to know.
How does it feel, teleprompter, to be the first teleprompter for an American president?
You're the first teleprompter.
Capital F, first teleprompter.
Teleprompter, as a consumer of electricity, how do you feel about cap and trade?
Are you feel threatened and endangered?
Teleprompter, do you listen to talk radio when you consider yourself a ditto head?
When did you first meet Barack Obama, teleprompter?
And are you paid with taxpayer money?
And if so, did you have to fill out Obama's questionnaire before you were hired as first teleprompter?
And teleprompter, what are your plans post-presidency?
Will you retire to Silicon Valley?
Or will you tell Obama what to say when he's giving speeches at a million dollars per year after his presidency?
And finally, teleprompter, are you nervous about President Obama appearing with the chin on the tonight show without you?
Welcome back, Rushland Boss, serving humanity simply by showing up here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Charles Chuck Yu Schumer.
He says one thing but does another.
Get this.
Chuck Schumer, who's out trying to roast virtually any CEO he can, opposed to any bonus, talking about nailing these people to the wall.
Chuck Schumer, according to the New York Post, has compiled a powerhouse list of more than 200 fat cat supporters for his reelection, including some of President Bush's top fundraisers.
The New York Post has learned that the list which the Democrats' campaign will make public today includes a dozen of George Bush's top contributors, the so-called Rangers and Pioneers, who have pledged to raise up to 200 grand.
Other Bush pioneers and Rangers, those raising 200,000 or more, supporting Chuck Schumer, include Bear Stearns Chairman James Kaine, former AIG chairman Hank Greenberg, who is a huge Republican and raised a lot of money for George W. Bush.
Both Bushes.
Woody Johnson owns the New York Jets, Johnson Johnson Air, Henry Kravis of Colbert, Kravis, and Roberts.
John Mack, CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston, Merrill Lynch Chairman Stan O'Neill, and Goldman Sachs, former CEO, Hank Paulson, who's a Democrat.
A lot of these people are Republicans, big, big money Republicans, pledging themselves to raise money for Chuck U. Schumer.
And Schumer is, of course, he's going to take it.
So he's out there ripping these very, it's what I said the other day.
In public, these people are to be skewered.
They are to be savaged.
At the end of the day, when it's adult beverage time, they all get together and laugh because the money just travels in circuitous routes.
Makes me sick.
Let's grab a couple phone calls.
Where are we going to start, Snerdley?
New Paltz in New York.
This is Ruth.
Ruth, great to have you on the EIV network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hi.
I promised Snerdley I would stay on point.
So without my teleprompter, here it goes.
One statement.
You were brilliant at CPAC during your first national address to our nation.
And one question.
Why doesn't this new head of AIG, who's getting, quote-unquote, grilled by the guilty, just say, I inherited this.
Don't blame me.
These were the bonus rules.
What can I say?
Well, it's worse than that, even.
I understand your point.
This guy, Ed Liddy, was handpicked by the government.
AIG didn't hire the guy.
The government hand-picked Ed Liddy and put him in there.
He's their agent.
So he's being brought up.
This is all, folks.
I'm telling you, it's a show.
It is manufactured.
It is manufactured outrage.
They're bringing Liddy up there.
He may be a fall guy, but it's still a show.
And the purpose of bringing Liddy up there is to save the bacon of Chris Dodd.
Chris Dodd, in the stimulus bill, inserted an amendment okaying these bonuses and exempting them.
Now Chris Dodd's out there saying, I didn't do it.
I didn't do it.
Geithner did it.
Or somebody.
I mean, this is the blind leading the blind.
This is romper room.
We have a bunch of children.
The problem is they are in control of trillions of dollars.
They're now in control of several U.S. corporations.
And they have no experience whatsoever in running anything that has ever worked, much less made a profit.
And yet we sit here and we lionize these people as the great saviors.
Why the protectors?
They're going to make sure we don't get ripped off by these private sector guys.
Ed Liddy appointed by the government.
He can't say he inherited the mess.
Besides, President Obama already pardoned him.
It happened earlier this week.
But They're going to make a show of throwing the guy to the wolves.
It's all a show, folks.
If Geithner goes, it's all a show.
I don't know if it's a possibility.
I'm not going to get caught up in whether Geithner goes or not.
I think that's to get sucked in.
Okay, let's spend two hours talking about whether Geyner.
You know what I think about?
You could put what I care about Tim Geithner in a thimble.
All you need to know is the guy's incompetent.
The guy's a tax cheat.
The guy running the treasury could not fill out his own taxes, and he has purview over the IRS.
And we're supposed to sit here.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Will Geithner go?
Will Geithner's.
You know what this reminds me of?
Early on in the Clinton administration, remember how we all got sidetracked?
The FBI, William Sessions, we had to get rid of Bill Sessions.
Must fire Bill Session.
Must fire Bill.
I don't even remember what it was about.
This is all a show.
It's all choreographed and staged.
And if they get rid of Geithner, they're just going to put some other goofy egghead nerd Ivy Leaguer in there to run the whole thing again.
Ain't going to change anything.
Wake up, folks.
I couldn't care less.
It doesn't make any difference.
By the way, the Chuck Schumer list of people he recruited was in 2004 for his reelection in 2004.
And that, I forgot to mention that, but he was using Republicans all the way back then, raising money for him, big-time Republicans who had raised money for Bush.
Now, they're all New Yorkers, and it makes sense that New Yorkers would grease the skids of a New York senator, so he'll grease your skids, grease other things of yours, whatever the hell.
But it was, I just wanted to say it was 2004.
Oh, I was going to say something else about Geithner.
Oh, oh.
Can we all agree, folks?
I called another one.
Geithner has failed.
I don't even have to ask or hope for.
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