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March 27, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 27, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Rush Limbaugh, a man, a legend, a way of life.
On Open Line Friday.
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Pot-related questions, marijuana-related questions deluged the White House during Obama's virtual town hall yesterday.
The more than 92,000 people who responded asked about the decriminalization of marijuana, its possible use for medicinal purposes, and its potential as a new source of tax revenue.
Snerdley, let me ask you, given what you've seen so far of the Obama administration, and given the pressure that's mounting on this, and in California, they're pretty much ready to tell the feds to go to hell on it anyway, do you think the Obama administration would put forth the notion of legalizing marijuana, maybe just for medicinal purposes at first, or maybe all across the board, and then start taxing it?
Now, Snerdley says second term, do you think it's such a political hot potato that it would harm his reelection chances if he dried?
I don't either.
I actually, I listened to all these people saying, I don't know, legalizing pie, I don't know, I don't know the American people are ready.
If the American people are ready for the destruction of capitalism, if the American people are ready for the destruction of the opportunity for the American dream, if the American people are ready to vote for an end to their chance to be prosperous, it must mean a lot of them want to sit around and do their dubies.
What's the big disconnect?
If the American people are perfectly fine with limiting payments that other people, salaries and other people can make, if they're perfectly fine with all that Obama's doing, why, where is the logical conclusion that they would oppose the legalization of marijuana?
Mm-hmm.
I know Eric Halder rolled it out and he got, by the way, they're back again with releasing Guantanamo Bay prisoners in this country with a re-education program.
Just mind boggling.
Okay, all of you people, all of you libs that were just hell-bent on shutting Guantanamo and telling us how rotten we were treating people, are you okay with those 250 detainees being just released into the neighborhoods with some training, with some re-education or what have you?
Well, if people are not upset by that and are willing to vote for all this other destruction Obama's engaging in, what?
Why?
I know the political class opposed, what's his face, holder, the Attorney General.
But it would be interesting to see.
United Nations document on climate change that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies,
and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes, all under the provision of the United Nations.
Now, since Obama's in the White House, all pretense is off.
The man-made global warming hoaxers are making it very clear what their objective has been all along, and that is fleece the United States of America.
It's a giant money grab, and now they're being open and honest about it.
Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discreetly worded United Nations information note on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December of this year.
Blandly discussed?
Blandly, do they know that if this ever gets out, it will never pass?
Or will it?
You know, I know that 62 million Americans voted against Obama, but I still wonder where we are on things like this.
The Obama administration said it supports the Copenhagen Treaty process.
If, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an effective framework for dealing with global warming.
In other words, damn the consequences.
If we can claim that it fights global warming, we will do it.
It fits right in, ladies and gentlemen, with Obama's plan to destruct the foundation of capitalism in this country and replace it with a giant government and a huge, huge welfare state.
I'm not going to go through this whole story.
It's a Fox News website story.
But when you analyze what the UN Climate Change Treaty is all about, you find that all it is about is the redistribution of wealth.
Here, let me give you an example here.
When it comes to the results of such reform, the note says only that it could have positive consequences for alternative transportation providers and producers of alternative fuels.
Let me translate.
This means they'll put out of business current transportation providers and standard fuel producers in the same bland manner.
The note informs negotiators without going into details that the cap and trade schemes may induce some industrial relocation to less regulated host countries.
Now, if this was really about climate change, really, they would not allow less regulated countries.
This is spreading the wealth around, period, using the climate as an excuse.
The note adds only that industrial relocation would involve negative consequences for the implementing country which loses employment and investment.
But at the same time, it would involve indeterminate consequences for the countries that would host relocated industries.
This is nothing more than a giant global redistribution of wealth scheme.
Man-made global warming, the hoax that it is, has always been nothing but that, with the accompanying gigantic growth of government from nation to nation occurring at the same time, and the loss of individual liberty and freedom.
Tell the people in Denver, tell the people in Fargo, tell people, I woke up the other day and looked at the weather, 35 degrees in New York.
And, you know, more and more people are starting to say, what is global warming?
More people are starting to consider the notion we actually may be in a cooling phase because there hasn't been any significant warming in years.
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Breaking news out of Fargo, North Dakota, a CNN journalist and seven other people have been arrested for standing on top of dikes in the Fargo area.
Fargo Police Sergeant Ross Renner didn't have many details of the arrest, but said that the CNN man appeared to be taking pictures on top of the dike.
He says the officers made the arrest Wednesday and Thursday after seeing people climb up on the dyke.
Oh, dikes, says here.
Renner says that police are going to arrest anybody they see on top of a dike out of concern for people's safety and the integrity of the dike.
CNN spokeswoman said she had no immediate information about the arrest of their journalist on the dike.
But this sounds to me like unsafe practices in Fargo with a dike by CNN journalists.
Remember we told you not long ago that the state of Missouri had told the Highway Patrol that if you see a bumper sticker for a third-party political movement that's obviously a militia group and you got to be worried like anybody for Ron Paul or anybody for a pro-life or anybody NRA or some site.
It caused an uproar.
So the Missouri Highway Patrol this week retracted that report on militia activity.
They will change how such reports are reviewed before being distributed to law enforcement agencies.
The Missouri Highway Patrol also will open an investigation into the origin of this report, which linked conservative groups with domestic terrorism and named former presidential candidate Ron Barr, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin as dangerous reactionaries.
The Highway Patrol's announcement followed a news conference in which the Lieutenant Governor Peter Kender, a Republican, suggested putting the Director of Public Safety on administrative leave and investigating how the report was produced.
So there's a, you know, the fur flew out there over this, and they've resented it.
Now, this next story is very serious.
Any story involving Harry Reid, we tend to laugh at and find humor at.
This is very serious.
Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry said today that John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States, misled the Senate during his confirmation hearings by pretending to be a moderate, and that the United States is now stuck with him as a Chief Justice.
Unlike Harry Reid, who never opens his mouth without lying.
At least we can get rid of Harry Reid in Nevada if people in Nevada have the guts to do so or the brains.
Harry Reid said Roberts didn't tell us the truth.
At least Alito told us who he was.
But we're stuck with those two young men.
Now, we're going to try to change by having some moderates in the federal court system as time goes on, and I think that'll happen.
Although Reid said that Democrats will try to put moderates on the bench, which is a laugher, he said he will not try to deny Republicans the right to filibuster nominees.
Now, look, I don't know if there's a long-term game plan here, but I do know that earlier this week, the banking queen, Barney Frank, twice accused Justice Scalia of being a homophobe.
Now, I couldn't speculate on whether they have a long-term plan to try to impose a time-limited length of service for the Supreme Court.
But I do know this, that Harry Reid and Barney Frank are now trying to intimidate and influence the court.
This is nothing less than Harry Reid attempting to intimidate a Supreme Court justice.
That's what this is.
This is not done.
Well, the Democrats have a habit of doing it, but this is beyond the pale.
What they're trying to do is embarrass Roberts.
They're trying to get Roberts to shift the way he votes on issues because they don't see a chance to replace a conservative justice with a liberal justice anytime soon.
The retirements that are expected on the Supreme Court are all liberal judges, John Paul Jones, Jumpel Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, maybe Souter.
He's talking about being tired, Breyer.
But none of the four conservatives are talking about going anywhere.
And so Reed and Barney Frank are attempting to intimidate sitting members of the Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice, in their rulings.
That is what this is about.
All right.
It's Open Line Friday.
We go back to the phones.
This is Mike in San Jose, California.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Hi.
Yes, Rush.
It's a pleasure talking to you.
First time caller, long-time listener.
Matter of fact, I view you as my political intellectual golden standard along with Mark Levin.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
I do Mrs. Levin in a distinct and unique company.
Yeah.
I have a question, and I would like to follow up with a comment after your answer.
Just a question.
The question is, with all the hype of potential nationalizing our banking system, how come Congress doesn't focus on the Federal Reserve and try to nationalize it instead and leave the private banks alone?
That would be very difficult to do.
Besides, I mean, they're pretty much getting what they want out of the Federal Reserve.
Well, the thing is, the Federal Reserve seems to be disconnected from Congress.
In other words, Congress doesn't have any.
They don't have any real oversight, but you know, the chairman of Fed goes up there and takes his lumps and hearings.
He's got to report into them.
But they have a wall of independence.
You're correct.
Yeah, the thing is, the comment I have, more or less, is that I notice in reading some history that things have changed during Woodward Wilson when he brought about the Federal Reserve, the creation of it.
And shortly thereafter, it seems like the progressive era kicked in.
And the Federal Reserve is sort of connected in a global banking system.
And if one wants to follow the money because money is power, you wonder who's really in control of things here if the Federal Reserve is disconnected from the oversight of our Congress.
And Congress should have, according to our Constitution, Article 1, be in control of the finance or purse strings.
Well, you're right, they're not.
Federal Reserve can print money whenever they want.
Federal Reserve lent, lended $2 trillion back last fall.
They still won't tell us to whom they lent the money.
Well, this is it.
There's a problem here.
We've got countless problems here.
And I was kind of a little disappointed with Mark Levin's book, although it's a great read, that he didn't have a chapter in there about the Federal Reserve.
Because if you follow the money and do research there, you may begin to see some light to the situation we're in and how we got there.
Well, I'll pass that on.
And maybe in the paperback version, Levin can write a chapter for you on the Federal Reserve.
But, folks, don't let that deter you from Levin's book is dynamite.
It is superb.
And as I keep saying, by the way, it has broken records since Amazon exists with online sales.
Mark Levin's book is the largest selling in one week Amazon book, nonfiction, in histoi.
That's what I was told earlier this week.
This is a great book for yourself and to give to other people that you want to understand conservatism, help you explain it to everybody.
Everybody always asks me, what can I read?
Rush, what do I need?
And I've got a list of things people have to go to read, suggest they read.
All you need is Levin's book.
It's called Liberty and Tyranny, a conservative manifesto.
Thanks for the call out there, Mike.
I appreciate it.
Speaking of all this, the White House, from the White House, the Halls of Congress, according to AP here, Washington is losing its zeal for an all-out fight over hefty executive bonuses now that it wants the financial companies it blames for the collapse to help clean it up.
This is the question I asked earlier, earlier this week, why this is going to be fascinating to watch.
Here they're beating up all these people, and Geithner's stupid toxic asset plan is going to come down the pike.
And the very people that they're beating up and destroying are going to have to get more money.
How are we going to, what's the PR of getting these people more money after ginning up hatred?
So the Senate is let the 90% tax rate on bonus bill die.
Interestingly, after most of the bonuses were given back.
Standby audio soundbite number 19.
Daniel Hannon, the hero of the moment, the member of the British European Parliament who really took it to the Prime Minister Gordon Brown earlier in the week.
We had those soundbites for you.
He's been on all over American media out there.
He's become a cult hero.
And everybody, a lot of people, this country, why don't we have a Republican to stand up and say these kind of things about Obama?
Why does it take this guy from the UK?
And I'm almost of the mind, folks, it's okay as long as we get this guy out there because Americans, and I hate to say this, but Americans respond to the accent.
When some Brit stands up and says something, a lot of Americans think they're listening to the epitome of sophistication, erudition, intelligence, and knowledge.
Do they not?
They do.
Look at all the British films, the foreign British films, accents winning Academy Awards.
There's just something about the accident at this particular point in time in our history.
Now, most Brits, when they stand up and speak, you know, they're socialists, they're members of the Labor Party, but this guy happens to not be.
We don't have a Republican who has it in him to say what Daniel Hannon has been saying about Gordon Brown.
We don't have a Republican here that's got it in him or her to say these kinds of things.
So this guy will fit the bill.
And I kid you not.
Accents, the British accent today does it has credibility with certain Americans.
Last night, Mr. Hannon was on with Hannity.
The question is, you point out you can't spend your way out of recession.
You can't borrow your way out of debt.
Do you think the world's making a mistake?
We're really all collectively going to suffer the consequences?
We're all collectively going to suffer the consequences.
It's not our mistake.
The mistake is being made by a small number of political leaders and a small number of their advisors.
It's common sense that when you're in debt, you spend less.
Anybody except a politician can see that.
Anyone can see that in their private life.
You've run up too big a debt.
You've run up too big a mortgage.
You try and sort it out.
But of course, if you're either a banker or a politician, you have a different take on these things because, of course, it isn't your money.
That great phrase of Milton Friedman, that there's only two kinds of money in this world.
There's your money and there's my money.
Hannity also asked this guy, Daniel Hannon, about health care, because we're headed down to Pelosi saying, yeah, we're going to have government health care as part of the health care.
We're going to have that option in there.
Let me find this.
This is, because what she said is so typical.
I was going to, I was going to skip over this and I moved it to the bottom of the stack.
Be patient, folks.
It's coming up.
Oh, this is good, too.
Obama's solar panels will take 110 years to pay for themselves.
Highly technical story, but here it is.
What is this?
This is from Bloomberg, a house health plan to include government-run option.
And Pelosi said, this is not only about the health of individuals in our country, which will be justification enough, it's about the competitiveness of our businesses to make them globally competitive because they are competing with companies in countries where the federal government, where their governments pay for health care.
They don't have to bear those health care costs.
Nancy, honey, taxpayers are paying for health care.
I don't care if it's come their company.
Government health care is taxpayer-paid health care.
The government can't pay for anything without taking money from people who produce it, unless they print it, which is sadly what is happening now.
The third person in line for the presidency in this country is a complete airhead.
Yes.
A question from the official program observer.
Yes.
A question from the official program observer.
How can you be so stupid and at the same time rise so high and go so far in politics?
You left out a word in your question that would provide the answer.
How can you be so stupid and yet rise so far and so high in Democrat Party politics?
The question is rendered moot when you put the qualifier Democrat Party in there.
It just is.
I mean, that's what explains it.
Yeah, well, we've got to get government on health care because so many of our businesses compete globally and so many countries around the world do their own health care and it's an unfair competitive advantage for those companies and governments pay their health care.
It's just I still have the quote.
Does she really know that this is that stupid?
She's just being populist in selling the plan.
What I was going to say is that Hannity asked Hannan about national health care, national health services they have in the UK, and his answer was superb.
It was an indictment of it.
It was, it just slam dunk.
He said, don't do it to the United American people.
Do not do this.
He went through the length of time people have to wait for standard procedures.
He talked about how certain breast cancer patients now are told, sorry, just stay home.
There's nothing we can do.
The lines, they're unable to treat.
Look at folks, it stands to reason.
Find for me a government bureaucracy that does anything you would hire them to do in your own business in your own backyard.
This is, you talk about stupid.
You want to talk about the stupidity of Pelosi.
How about the stupidity of people elector, Snerdley?
I mean, she's entitled to be there.
She's been elected.
But how about the people doing it?
How about the people that actually elect people like Pelosi?
That's about whom we need to be asking such questions.
Anyway, back to the phones.
Open line Friday.
This is Bill Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rich.
It's an honor.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah.
I'd like to talk about this global warming folly.
We already have a solution for this.
It won't cost the taxpayer a penny.
It'll be good for the environment, and it would keep gas prices low.
Well, but wait, wait.
I'm not trying to be contentious for no reason, but as I said earlier here on the program, we try to derive truth.
We try to find truth and we espouse it and expose it.
There is no global warming.
So when you say that we have a solution to it, I throw my hands up.
There's no solution to it because there isn't any global warming.
And I don't care if there is warming or cooling.
There's nothing we can do about it.
We're just human beings.
There's not a damn thing we can do to cause it or to stop it.
We're just prisoners here.
I agree.
I agree.
Okay, all right.
Wonderful.
I agree.
Let me rephrase that.
What we can do about this massive government intervention into our economics.
We could do something about that.
What we can do is all mandate.
I don't like mandates, but they're mandating everything across the board now.
If they want to put a good mandate in, they could mandate that all cars sold in the United States will be flex-fuel cars.
That would be cars that run either on gasoline, ethanol, or methanol, or a combination of the three.
That would create a free market incentive for companies to install pumps.
That's where the problem is.
We don't have the pumps for these cars because there's about a half a million cars that have already been manufactured in the United States.
You mean fuel pumps?
You're talking about gas station type, fuel stations.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Well, here again, I realize you're trying to help, and I admire people who think outside the box, and you're thinking outside the box.
So congratulations, sincerely.
But ethanol is a disaster.
Sorry, Iowa.
But ethanol is a way for congressmen to get votes in the Hawkeye primaries, the Hawkeye Cokey.
Ethanol, it costs more to make it.
costs more to transport it.
It causes a shortage of a food crop for people around the world.
Mexico, you've seen the price of tortillas?
Yes.
Seriously, it's their bread.
I mean, I'm not making jokes.
It sounds funny.
But we get so far off the deep.
There's nothing wrong with gasoline.
There literally is nothing wrong with gasoline.
I love gasoline.
You know, I love Jet A.
I love oil.
We're not going to run out of any of it for a long time.
Mother, invention is the mother of necessity.
And I admire all these people coming up with alternatives and so forth.
But if people are motivated to come up with alternative, necessity is the mother of invention.
What did I say?
Mother is the necessity of invention.
I love my mother.
Necessity is the mother of invention is what I meant to say.
Thank you, official program observer.
But I just, no, you'll have a chance here in a second.
I just think that trying to find an alternative fuel for a non-political reason.
Yeah, let's come.
Why doesn't somebody find a way to make water, particularly saltwater?
The sea levels are going to rise anyway.
What are we going to do with it?
Find a way to make saltwater, run automobiles.
I believe it's too expensive to separate the hydrogen molecules, but the key here is the methanol.
I agree with you about that.
Nothing's too expensive in America anymore when the government does it.
We have to learn this.
Nothing's too expensive.
The government doesn't have to produce it.
Except the military.
Private companies can produce the methanol.
That's the point of it.
It creates a free market incentive.
Well, let me ask you a question.
They're not going to do it unless it's mandated.
So where's the free market there?
No, the only thing is the only government control over this would be the mandate.
No, stop there.
See, once you get the government involved in anything, no just, by the way, you've got to make ethanol, methanol, and we're out of it.
They're going to tell you the formulation, how much it pollutes.
You're going to have cafe standards with it.
You're going to pay off the farmers, pay off the mob, pay off who I get the government involved.
If you just get back out of this and let the market deal with it, the oil companies are in business for what reason?
Explore, find oil.
They're in the energy business.
I guarantee you, when they think they're about to run out, long before we know about it, they'll come up with alternatives.
That's their business.
If you just leave them alone.
Congress will free our oil.
We can't dig for our own oil.
It's like a well, I know.
I know.
Get government out of it.
We got plenty of go dig drill, as you say, dig for our.
All of these common sense things are right out in front of us, and yet who's putting the obstacles in our way?
Not just government.
You've got to specify Democrats, liberals.
Exactly.
And this is, I mean, I'd rather have them make it.
What do you like about methanol?
What do you like about it?
And first, tell people, I'm afraid that people in San Francisco think you're saying methadone.
What is methanol?
It's an alcohol-based fuel that the race cars, the race car drivers use it.
Right.
So you go to the ND500, you think you're going to have Nevada french fries.
I'm sorry.
Well, it doesn't smell like gasoline.
It smells like vegetable oil.
It's like fat.
Well, it's a cleaner fuel, too.
It's a freaking when it catches fire, you can't see the flames.
Well, yeah, it's easy to put out, so it's a safer fuel, also.
So it's it's uh and it can be manufactured by private corporations, right?
It already is because that's what they use for a lot of uh race cars, right?
So the government doesn't have to be involved in this at all.
Do you get any better mileage with it?
Uh, the mileage, I'm not sure about it.
Well, I said the mileage of your average ND500 car is what, two miles a gallon.
Now, they're granted, they're running 200 miles an hour.
Yeah, but that, yes, I'm not sure about the mileage.
You could find out about it.
I guarantee.
I could give you the name of a scientist that knows about that.
Well, we'll look it up.
Yeah, look it up.
I'll look it up.
I just know that whatever it costs, you're going to have to triple it with taxes and everything else.
This is Rushlinboy, your guiding light, America's truth detector, the doctor of democracy.
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Christine in Ojai, California.
Nice to have you here.
Hello.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
My pleasure.
I have a theory that may answer your question on why people love Obama so much.
Ooh, I'd love to hear this, even though I think I have all the answers to that, but I'd love to hear your theory.
Well, it's just my own theory.
I used to listen to a certain therapist on the radio.
I don't know if I'm allowed to say her name, but at any rate, she used to have a lot of callers, mostly women.
Let me guess if I'm right, say so.
If I'm wrong, don't give the real name.
All right.
Barbara DeAngelis.
Wrong.
Okay, but don't.
Okay, that's my one chance.
Okay, 35 seconds here, so I'll make it fast.
I don't want to interrupt.
Here's the theory.
So she used to get a lot of calls from women and men who were in very abusive situations, beatings, emotional abuse, didn't like the children, held the money, but terrible things.
And so the doctor would say, well, why do you stay?
And inevitably, the answer would be, because I love him.
Right.
It's like I said yesterday.
It's just, cheat on me, but don't tell me.
Obama can do Obama can do anything in the world.
Just don't tell me what he's really doing because I love the guy.
He's a cult leader.
Battered liberal syndrome.
Cheat on me, just don't tell me.
All right, folks, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence now in the can, soon to be trucked over by a secure courier, armored courier, to the warehouse housing artifacts for the Limbaugh Museum.
Have a great weekend out there, and we'll be back on Monday to set straight whatever the hell went wrong and clean up any messes.
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