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March 18, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 18, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, my friends.
It's great to have you here, as always, Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
Here on the one and only excellence in Broadcasting Network, I am Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan from God.
God.
God.
*laughs*
Here's the telephone number.
Snurdly, you got to call that babe back from Baltimore, by the way.
We promised.
If you uh if you weren't with us yesterday, we had a caller from Baltimore, a uh a liberal who she took her time getting to report.
She actually never did get to her point because uh she ended up impugning my reputation and uh spewing false information about how liberals are not allowed on the program and up talking about that with her, and I said, by the way, we put you to the front of the line like we do all the I don't want to be at the front of the line.
Oh, okay, if you want to go back to the back of the line, we'll put you to the back of the line.
You'll have three or four callers ahead of you.
We never did get back to her uh yesterday, so we promised that we would uh would call her back, and sturdily had forgotten to do that in the first hour.
As always, uh, it's up to me uh to remember these things, which is good because I have I've been blessed with a very, very good media.
Now, here is news, by the way, that a lot of people are going to say is um uh very good news.
But actually, it may not be.
We got a baby boomlet going on in this country right now.
U.S. births in 2007 have broken the record set in 1950, uh, even during the 50s.
More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation's history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, according to federal researchers.
This is both good and bad news.
There were 4.3 million births.
The good news is this means the U.S. population is more than replacing itself.
However, the bad news is that the teenage birth rate was up for the second year in a row.
The birth rate rose slightly more for women of all ages, and births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40%, continuing a trend begun years ago.
More than 75% of these women were 20 or older.
For a variety of reasons, it's become more acceptable for women to have babies without a husband, said S. Philip Morgan, Duke University leading fertility researcher.
For a variety of reasons, let's just let's just kind of pass it off.
Oh, yeah, for a variety of reasons out there, it's become more acceptable for women to have babies without a husband.
I wonder why that might be.
Even happy couples.
It says here, even happy couples may be living together without getting married, experts say.
Some cited a growing trend among all adult women to have children, regardless of their marital status.
The new numbers suggest the second year of a baby boomlet, U.S. fertility rates higher in every racial group, the highest among Hispanic women.
On average, a U.S. woman has 2.1 babies in her lifetime, and that's the magic number required for the U.S. population to replace itself.
Countries with much lower rates like Japan and Italy face future labor shortages and eroding tax bases as they fail to reproduce enough to take care of their aging elders.
The lowest birth rates recorded in the U.S. occurred during the Great Depression.
Now, while it all sounds really great because, oh, good, we're going to maintain the tax base.
At what rate are these poor schlubs that are being born gonna have to pay their taxes in order to support people now in their 30s and 40s?
The experts love all this, but I'll tell you what, folks, I don't mean to stereotype here.
But if 40%, the birth rate to unwed mothers is an all-time high of about 40%.
I have to wonder just how many of these babies are going to end up being taxpayers in the first place.
Versus how many of them are going to be recipients.
How many of them are not even going to contribute to the tax base?
What's their life experience going to be?
What are they going to learn growing up?
What are they going to see?
Single mother, 40%.
So there are some problems out there.
By the way, we're working, ladies and gentlemen, on audio sound bites from the latest press conference held by TOTUS, the uh the teleprompter of the United States.
I watched a little bit of it during the last segment of the previous hour, and during commercial break, I actually listened to some of it.
And the teleprompter apparently told Obama to just get mad.
Obama was mad.
The teleprompter was telling him to act outraged.
The teleprompter was filling him full of energy.
And the teleprompter told him to compare Timothy Geitner to Alexander Hamilton.
So the teleprompter told Obama to stand firmly behind Geithner, and he did so with a little rage.
Full of outrage.
The teleprompter was uh adopted an attitude that we haven't seen from it in uh in quite a while.
And we're working on putting together those sound bites even as we speak.
In the meantime, the new McCarthyism in Washington, D.C. this morning during a House Financial Services panel hearing.
This is the chairman, Barney Frank.
We will also be asking Mr. Liddy to give us the names of the recipients.
They have sent us some information under the confidentiality rules.
I've spoken to Chairman Ken Georgi about this.
If Mr. Liddy declines to give us the names, then I will uh convene the committee to vote a subpoena for the names.
So we do intend to uh use our power to get the names of the people here.
Contractually obligated bonuses.
Barney Frank and the new McCarthyism.
He will go the root of a subpoena to get the names of the recipients.
If the government installed CEO Ed Liddy does not provide the names.
The next question that will be asked, once these names have been produced, and they will be, then these people will be called up to testify before Chairman Frank's committee.
And they will face other questions like have you attended pro-capitalist meetings during course of your tenure at AIG?
How many of your friends are free market capitalists?
And what are their names?
And where can we find them?
And if you fail to answer, you will be cited as being in contempt of Congress.
And then Barney Frank once again asserted his ownership rights over AIG.
I do believe that it is time for us to assert our ownership rights under this arrangement.
We're the effective owners of this company.
What we ought to be doing is exercising our rights as the owners to bring lawsuits to say these people perform so badly.
The magnitude of the losses was so great that we are justified in rescinding the bonuses.
Yeah, but we're gonna leave the bailout money alone.
We're gonna leave the 163 billion dollars that we bailed out through AIG to all these other banks.
We're gonna leave that alone, but we are gonna do everything we can to punish private citizens.
Because we own the company.
Let me tell you something.
If these guys are gonna assert ownership of AIG, it's about time we say we can fire them.
Because they're making a total muckety muck mess of it.
As was predicted.
Here is during a House Financial Services panel hearing a portion of Representative Paul Hoddes, or Hodies, I'm not sure how he pronounces it.
He's a Democrat from New Hampshire.
AIG now stands for Arrogance, incompetence, and greed.
It is unacceptable the TARP funds are being pocketed by AIG executives, and it must not be allowed to stand.
It's unacceptable.
It's in the stimulus package.
You don't.
It's in the stimulus package that they get the bonuses.
That's what they're now going to go in and try to change.
AIG stands for arrogance, incompetence, and greed.
Yeah, and you people bailed them out.
And let's remember one thing, folks, while we go forward.
Not one Republican voted for this bailout.
Remember way back in the fall, not one Republican voted for the TARP bailout.
And this was why.
And let's never forget what we were told back then.
If we didn't do this, the country was finished.
If we didn't pass this law and bail out these banks, it was over.
We didn't have a day to make this decision.
We didn't have a half day.
We didn't have 24 hours.
Not one Republican voted for it the first time around.
This is why.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
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Your guiding light from the distinguished and prestigious Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
All right, here we go.
We have uh four sound bites.
President Obama outside the White House, even to the South Lawn before getting on a helicopter heading over to uh Andrews Air Force Base to go out to uh to California.
We have put together a montage of the opening remarks that the teleprompter told him to say.
People are rightly outraged about these particular bonuses.
But just as outrageous is the culture that these bonuses are a symptom of that have existed for far too long.
A situation where excess greed, excess compensation, excess risk taking have all made us vulnerable and left us holding the bank.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
The teleprompter is running a little slow.
The teleprompter's making the uh president sound a little hesitant here.
wants to go a little faster than the teleprompter is allowing him to.
Wall Street and the marketplace don't think that we can return to business as usual.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
Did you hear that?
I hope that Wall Street and the marketplace don't think we can return to business as usual.
As you continue to listen to these sound bites, the meaning of that is going to become clear.
He is trying to make everybody believe business as usual is excess, is criminal activity, is excessive compensation, all of these things, bonuses and so forth.
That's what we're not doing.
We are going to destroy capitalism, is how you translate this.
If Wall Street thinks we're going back to capitalism, they've got another thing coming.
You know, the fact that these guys are uh looking for bonuses, having run down AIG, uh begs the question of uh why were they making that much beforehand?
When nobody was criticizing them.
Everybody thought they knew what they were doing.
The people we are talking about here, Mr. Teleprompter, are the people who were asked to stay on to try to fix this.
These are the people who who everybody says a court is not Gottner, not you.
These are the people who can unwind all the tangled webs that exist in the place.
This is outrageous.
This is the president of the United States being told by his teleprompter to dump totally and falsely and erroneously and misleadingly on the entire U.S. capitalist system here.
That's what you need to be hearing.
That's why I said they love this at the first of the program today.
This is not a distraction.
This is ideal.
While you're getting all revved up about 165 million dollars in bonuses, they get to dump all over capitalism.
They get to dump all over the principles of this country's founding, and they get to set themselves up as the saviors.
In the next bite, the teleprompts the president that the buck stops with him.
Well, look, rather than go into the sort of the details of uh finding it out, ultimately I'm responsible.
I'm the president of the United States.
Big whoop.
We've got a big mess that we're having to clean up.
Uh nobody here drafted those contracts.
Uh nobody here was responsible for supervising AIG and allowing themselves to put the economy at risk by some of the outrageous behavior that they were engaged in.
Uh we are responsible though.
The buck stops with me.
And my goal is to make sure that we never put ourselves in this kind of position again.
Translate this for you.
Uh what the this is Panic City.
Uh, this is the president and his teleprompter trying to cover the fact and distort the fact that they knew about all this.
They knew about this, and Obama, by the way, voted for this.
And he acts like he gets to exempt himself from it.
Nobody here drafted those contracts.
Of course not.
It's a private sector concern for crying out loud.
Of course they wouldn't draft the contracts.
Nobody here was responsible for supervising AIG.
The Treasury Secretary was read the stupid TARP ledges.
Am I the only one who knows this?
The Treasury Secretary, be it Paulson or Geitner, has sole authority over the money, how it's used.
There was no accountability in the TARP legislation, there were no strings, it's up to the Treasury Secretary, which means it's up to the executive branch, and that happens to be you and your teleprompter, sir.
Good grief, folks.
Nobody was responsible for supervising AI.
The hell you weren't.
You own the company.
You got your clowns and your court gestures out there saying you own 79 or 80% of it.
In the next soundbite, the teleprompter tells Obama he likes outrage.
He just wants it to this, if anything, if anything should cement in your mind that I am a prescient, brilliant, serious thinker.
Of what I said in the first segment of the first hour of this program, this next bite will be.
I don't want to quell anger.
I think people are right to be angry.
I'm angry.
What I want us to do, though, is channel our anger in a constructive way.
It's very important to remind ourselves that there are a whole bunch of folks now who are feigning outrage about these bonuses.
That a year ago or two years ago or three years ago said, well, we should never meddle in these compensation plans.
These are the best and the brightest.
They know what they're doing.
That's part of the market.
And now suddenly they're outraged.
I'm I'm uh I'm close to being sputtering outraged here.
Because there's two parts to this soundbite.
The first part, I don't want to quell anger, and then people are right to be that's exactly right.
He wants you mad.
And he said, I want to channel the anger.
I use the same way.
He wants to channel your anger at capitalism.
He wants to channel your anger at CEOs and executives.
He wants you mad.
You're falling for it.
Hook, line and sinker, he wants you ticked off.
Exactly as I said in the opening segment.
Snerdley came in and said, How long is this gonna go on?
As long as they can use it to pound another nail in the coffin of capitalism.
That's how long they'll go.
He wants you mad, and you're just you are acting you're the perfect lemming.
Then he says, We have to remind ourselves a whole bunch of folks now who are feigning outrage about these bonuses.
That a year ago, two years ago, three years ago said, Well, we should never meddle in these compensation plans.
These are the best and the brightest, they know what they're doing.
What in the hell?
That is unreal.
Two to three years ago, people who are Now feigning outrage.
Who is he talking about?
He's trying to dump on Republicans here.
As though Republicans are feigning outrage, while at the same time it was the Republicans three years ago opposing the federal government getting involved in compensation to private sector.
Those two are non sequiturs.
It's standard operating procedure of capitalism.
The federal government's got not a damn thing to do with private sector compensation.
Now, when the federal government gives money to a private sector concern, all bets are off, but until that time they've got no business being there.
And Obama wants to be in there, and this is giving him the opportunity to be in there, and now he gets to dump all over Bush and all over the Republicans when the best and the brightest that are screwing things up royally are Barack Obama and his academic egghead buds from the Ivy League throughout his administration.
Back in a moment.
This is why I said all the way back on January 16th that I hope the president fails.
He is singularly targeted and focused on destroying American capitalism.
And I don't want that to succeed.
I want that to uh to fail.
Big time.
We have one more.
Soundbite from the uh president's little press conference this afternoon in the um well, the South Law to the White House, a teleprompter in this bite, told President Obama to compare Timothy Geitner to Alexander Hamilton.
I have complete confidence uh in Tim Geitner and my entire economic team.
Understand, as I said before, Tim Geitner didn't draft these contracts with AIG.
There has never been a Secretary of the Treasury, except maybe Alexander Hamilton, right after the Revolutionary War, who's had to deal with the multiplicity of issues that Secretary Geithner's having to deal with all at the same time.
And you know, he is doing so with uh intelligence and diligence.
Nobody's working harder than this guy.
Well, he's not getting anything done.
He's a tax cheat, and he's not getting anything done except further ruination.
Now, Alexander Hamilton, very deft move by the teleprompter to tell President Obama to compare Geithner to Alexander Hamilton.
I am prepared for this one.
The intellectual hero of Abraham Lincoln was Thomas Jefferson.
And Thomas Jefferson lived at the same time as Alexander Hamilton, and they did not get along at all.
Would you like to hear what Thomas Jefferson thought of Alexander Hamilton and thus by extension, Timothy Geitner, because the teleprompter just told Obama to say that Geithner is Hamilton.
All right.
From the book Thomas Jefferson by R. B. Bernstein, page 90.
Jefferson feared that Alexander Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution.
As Jefferson saw it, Alexander Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape, converting it into a copy of the British government built on debt, built on corruption and influence.
Jefferson charged that Alexander Hamilton's goal was to ally the rich and the well-born with the government at the expense of ordinary people, creating a corrupt aristocracy leagued with the government against the people and destroying the virtue that was the basis of Republican government.
Now, we can argue.
We can argue, ladies and gentlemen, about Jefferson's assessment of Alexander Hamilton.
However, I wish to read this to you again.
And I wish to say to you that Thomas Jefferson has just described the objectives of Barack Obama and the people he has brought into his administration.
Listen to this again.
Jefferson feared that Alexander Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution.
Check.
So does Obama.
As Jefferson saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape.
Check, so does Obama.
Then Hamilton wanted to convert the government into a copy of the British government, check.
in modern times, we would call this a Western socialist democracy that is the U.K. That is built on debt built on corruption built on influence.
Check, check, check.
Debt pile upon debt created by Obama.
Corruption, we got tax cheats as the Secretary of the Treasury.
We've got lobbyists running all over the White House after Obama said there wouldn't be any there and influence.
We have Rahm Emanuel calling members of the media every morning to plan coverage of the Obama administration with the stenographers in the mainstream press.
Thomas Jefferson said that Hamilton's goal was to ally the rich and the well-born with government at the people's expense.
Check.
What is happening here is that every Ivy League egghead, be they Republican Democrat, doesn't matter to me.
Every Ivy League, from Yale to Harvard to Wharton, you name it, that's where you will find the best and the brightest.
These are the people led by Robert McNamara that gave us the Vietnam War.
The best and the brightest.
These are the eggheads that I was talking about earlier this week on Monday.
These intellectual eggheads who simply live to exist on and in government.
They are the smartest people in the world.
They're the elitists.
They look with contempt at people who are not of their station and of their pedigree.
These are the people whose destiny is government service, government power.
These are the people who view government as an instrument for them to shape and form for their own benefit while telling everybody else that actually they're working for the benefit of ordinary people.
Check, check, check.
Thomas Jefferson has just accurately described exactly and precisely what the Obama administration and its elements are all about.
A corrupt aristocracy leagued with the government against the people, and destroying the virtue that was the basis of Republican government.
This is prescient.
Thomas Jefferson talking about Alexander Hamilton.
We can argue as I say what he was right about Hamilton.
But since President Obama's teleprompter told him this afternoon to compare Timothy Geithner, the tax cheat Treasury Secretary to Alexander Hamilton.
Then it now fits what Thomas Jefferson feared Hamilton was doing is happening as part of the Obama administration.
Profound stuff.
Roll call, by the way, is reporting that a group of centrist Democrats are working to block part of President Obama's agenda.
As Obama and Democrat leaders consider using a budget rule to bypass Republican filibusters, some in the party are not going along.
A block of Senate Democrat moderates quietly maneuvering to keep open the option of vetoing two of President Obama's most ambitious agenda items this year, climate change and health care reform.
By the this is a pretty major story that is not getting a whole lot of coverage out there.
And again, this is one of the things that's happening while everybody's being distracted by AIG.
Senior members of the Obama administration are pressing lawmakers to use a shortcut to drive the president's signature initiatives on health care and energy through Congress without Republican votes.
This is a move that a lot of lawmakers say would fly in the face of Obama's pledge to restore bipartisanship to Washington.
Says here in the Washington Post that Republicans are howling about the proposal to expand health coverage and the cap and trade greenhouse gas emissions without their input.
Warning it could irrevocably damage relations with the new president.
You you Republicans, you know what?
If you think you've got a relationship with him now, you got you've got to get your head screwed up.
You don't have a relationship.
Going to going to St. Patrick's Day parties at the White House or Wednesday night cocktail parties is not a relationship with the President of the United States or his teleprompter.
The shortcut, known as budget reconciliation, would allow Obama's health and energy proposals to be rolled into a bill that cannot be filibustered, meaning Democrats could push it through the Senate with 51 votes instead of the usual 60.
Reagan and Bill Clinton both used the tactic to win deficit reduction packages, while George W. Bush used it to push through his signature tax cuts.
And Obama is now threatening.
You know, he made a promise on bipartisanship, but that's got an expiration date.
That pledge just expired.
It is over, and this has caused some Democrats, Birch Ba uh Evan Bay is one of these people, so is Mary Landrew Blanche Lincoln among the eight Democrats who signed a letter opposing this reconciliation.
So, you know, there's there's some some fallback and fallout on this.
Too soon to say whether Obama will be able to roll these people back into line or not.
But regardless, it is the motivation and the intent that matters.
Speaking of global warming, before we go to the break, as one of the things that the President wants to do and ram through without any debate, and no opposition, of course, is cap and trade because of the destruction of the climate.
I have a story here from the French news agency.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is just too rich.
It's hilarious.
Three British explorers, listen to me, look at me.
Three British explorers trying to ski to the North Pole to measure the thickness of sea ice.
Only have one day's food left as bad weather hampers supply flights.
Project director and ice team leader Penn Haddow and his colleague Martin Hartley and Ann Daniels are now down to half rations and fighting to survive in brutal sub-zero weather conditions.
We're hungry, the cold is relentless, our sleeping bags are full of ice, and because we're not moving the colder we get, Haddow said Tuesday in a statement from the London headquarters of the Caitlin Arctic survey.
Waiting is almost the worst part of an expedition as we're in the lap of the weather gods.
This is basic survival.
So here you have three idiots skiing to the North Pole to try to prove that sea ice is melting and they're about to die.
Because of frostbite, it's too cold.
They're down to one day's food.
They got icickles in their sleep bags, sleeping bags.
And the flights to resupply them can't get in there because the weather's too bad.
Global warming, of course, is the culprit for sea ice melting at the Arctic Circle.
And here are three ding bats trying to prove it who are about to die in the process.
Meanwhile, Obama wants a cap and trade, a piece of legislation for this country that will raise prices on emissions, your utility bill.
In fact, what is the uh Obama climate plan could now cost two trillion dollars?
And it's not me saying this.
A top economic aid to Mr. Obama told a group of Senate staffers last month that the president's climate change plan uh would surely raise or cost more than the 646 billion over eight years the White House has publicly estimated.
This, according to a multiple number of staffers who attended the briefing on February 26th, two trillion is the operative number for Obama's global warming cap and trade policy.
Meanwhile, three idiots skiing to the North Pole to prove that sea ice is melting are about to die because they're stranded in blizzard.
Back after this, stay with us.
Folks, it's even worse to these three idiots skiing to the North Pole.
They are 17 days into an 85 day trek to the North Pole.
They should have been covering seven miles a day.
They're on skis.
They've barely moved from where they started, and they're down to one half day's rations of their 85 days of rations.
Temperatures are still minus 40 degrees.
By the way, do you want to know a little interesting factoid?
I think I'm right about this.
Minus 40 Fahrenheit is also minus 40 Celsius.
That's where the two converge at minus 40, where they're the same.
You know, the boiling point in uh is Fahrenheit's 212.
In Celsius, it's 100.
Minus 40 Fahrenheit, minus 40 centigrade, same thing.
So the bottom, it's cold.
It is freaking cold.
And these people are only 17 days into their 85-day mission.
Their cameraman got frostbite.
They got one day of food left.
The weather has been too bad for supply flights to drop more food.
If any of them freeze to death, can the remaining family members sue Algore?
And by the way, 12 weather stations in Alberta, Canada have already broken their all-time lowest temperature records for the month of March.
Records extend back approximately 100 years.
100 years, 12 stations in Alberta, Canada broken their all-time lowest temperature records.
While these idiots, there's no other word for it, folks.
These they may be well-intentioned, they may have great hearts, and they may really care about the ice.
But they're idiots.
To ski up there to measure the sea ice.
You know, I just have.
I have some I'm trying to phrase this in such a way.
I know we got new audience members here, and no, I'm not trying to soft.
I just because I'm sure the new audience members think, boy, this rush where you're being so harsh.
Folks, I that there's no excuse for stupidity.
These are smart people.
There's no excuse for stupid people.
Smart people doing stupid, stupid things.
These are misguided, these are people are misguided by chaotic emotions.
This woman that called, would you ever get this one on the phone, by the way?
She not answering the phone.
The Baltimore woman is not answering the phone yesterday.
She would I guarantee you that woman is a liberal is shaped, molded, flaked and formed by her chaotic emotions.
Do you realize it is the chaotic emotions of liberals that forces all of us to come up with policies and behaviors that don't irritate them so that we can live in peace?
So that's how we get political correctness.
And that's how we get people silencing themselves because we have to live among the chaotic emotions of these people.
And I'm sure the people that wanted to test these, see, I'm sure they're wonderful people.
And I'm sure they have wonderful children and families, and I'm sure that they really care about the planet.
And I'm sure they really care.
And they want to save the planet, and they're so worried about sea ice, and they really believe all the propaganda from the lying SOBs about the melting ice.
And they wanted to go up there because they care so much, but they're stupid.
And I just have such, you know, I'm totally patient with stupid people doing stupid things.
I mean, you have to be.
It can drive you nuts.
Stupid people cannot be smart by definition.
Smart people are smart by definitely when they do stupid things.
Animals are smarter than these people.
I'll bet you we don't find any dolphins up there getting caught.
But we don't find any polar bears getting caught.
I'll bet we don't find anything else yet.
Only a bunch of stupid idiot human beings.
I better cut back on this, because I'm sure that.
Oh, and by the way, folks, yes, I do want Obama's teleprompter to fail too.
It's part and parcel of the whole deal.
Well, the government appointed CEO of AIG FP in Liddy now being grilled by the banking queen, Barney Frank.
Uh Ed Liddy just finished explaining how retention bonuses uh worked.
And uh Barney wanted to know how long some people did leave uh after getting the bonuses.
And Liddy said, Well, that that happens.
They finished their work.
Uh they they left.
Well, how long did they stay after they got the bonus?
So I'll have to get back to you on that.
We'll be back.
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