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This Arlen Spector stuff.
I'm going to put it off to the third hour or maybe later in this hour, because everything happening today is everything I predicted would happen yesterday on this Arlen Spector switching parties.
It's the end of the Republican Party.
They're going to have no chance anymore.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Just four years ago and some months ago that George W. Bush was re-elected.
It couldn't have been that bad.
I don't agree with everything he did.
Nobody I know does.
But it was not a disaster for the United States of America.
It might have been a disaster for the Republican Party, but it was not a disaster for the country.
But before getting to all that, this is April the 29th 2009.
What are you doing today, ladies and gentlemen, to honor this day?
What are you doing to honor April 29th of 2009?
It's one of the greatest days in our nation's 233 year history.
April 29th.
Today.
A day that shall live in ecstasy.
Because today, ladies and gentlemen, is the 100th day of the reign of the one, the Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, the most merciful.
We are blessed with the smartest president in our nation's history.
But he is more than smart, ladies and gentlemen.
He is wise.
Barack Obama not only knows what's best for our country, he knows what's best for your family.
He knows what's best for your children.
Barack Obama knows what's best for you.
Amidst such greatness.
What are you doing to honor the 100th day of Obama?
I'll say what I would like to propose, ladies and gentlemen.
I would like to propose, since most of the country, or well, not most, but a decent portion of the country has already effectively done this.
I would like to propose the Obama Power of Attorney Letter for any and all Americans to sign.
On this, the 100th day of his magnificent presidency.
You can honor President Obama and at the same time sign over complete control of your life to him because he knows what's best for your country.
He knows what's best for your family.
He knows what's best for your children.
He knows what's best for you.
Why not sign over complete control of your life to President Obama with the Obama power of attorney letter?
No more worries about taxes.
Obama will take what's fair.
Career decisions?
You're worried about career decisions?
No problem.
Obama will tell you what to do.
He will tell you where to do it, and he will tell you what your compensation will be.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that's your salary.
For those of you in Port St. Lucy, it's your wages.
Regardless, Obama will tell you what to do, where to do it, and what your compensation will be.
Health care.
No worries.
Sign it over to President Obama in the Obama Power of Attorney letter.
Obama will assign you a doctor.
Obama will tell you when you can go see your doctor, and Obama will tell you and your doctor how much your doctor can charge you.
And you won't pay.
Obama will pay.
Who wouldn't sign the Obama Power of Attorney Letter?
He's going to get you a job.
He's going to tell you where to do that job.
He's going to tell you how much you're going to make.
He's only going to tax what's fair.
He's going to assign you a doctor.
He is going to assign you a health care plan.
He's going to tell your doctor how much or how little the doctor can charge.
And Obama's going to pay for it.
You will not have to pay a thing.
You won't have to worry about what to wear.
You won't have to worry about what to think.
You won't have to worry about where to pray.
You won't have to worry about what car to drive, because the smartest and wisest man in history will plan this for you.
He will decide for you what you are to wear, what to think, where to pray, and the kind of car you should drive.
Best of all, the power goes not to President Obama for a mere four to eight years, but to Barack Obama himself for his entire lifespan.
Because, ladies and gentlemen, do you realize how rare it is that a person of such magnanimity and greatness and compassion and intelligence walks among us?
Do you realize Obama's greatness cannot be contained by a four or eight-year presidency?
The greatness of Barack Obama is such that even after he leaves office, he should still run your life.
He's that good.
He's that compassionate.
He's that understanding.
Turn over every aspect of your life to Barack Obama, not the president, Barack Obama the man.
All it takes is your signature.
Notarized.
Signed by two witnesses and your spouse, the Obama Power of Attorney Letter.
You will never again have to make one of your irresponsible, ill-considered decisions ever again.
Obama will make all of the wrong decisions for you.
As the years go on, we will have testimonials from people who have signed over the Obama power of attorney letter, who will tell us how Obama has just made their life perfect.
I have a sample of what the Obama Power of Attorney Letter is.
Very simple.
I have it right here.
Holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, I fill in your name and address, do hereby appoint Barack Obama, my attorney, in fact, to act in my name, place, and stead in respect to the following matters.
The vehicle I drive, the salary and bonuses I receive, the job I get, the education my children get, all medical matters, and all tax matters.
This durable power of attorney shall extend through his entire term as president and beyond through the rest of his remaining years as a mortal walking the sod of planet Earth.
And then you simply sign it and you get a notary public out there to day date and signature and so forth, and your problems are over.
Your cares have ended.
Your worries cease to exist.
All because you realize the greatness you found yourself on the 100th day of his presidency.
Blessed with the smartest president our nation's history, more than smart, he's wise.
He knows what's best for our country.
He knows what's best for our allies.
He knows what's best for the world.
He knows what's best energy-wise.
Why you sign over your power of attorney to Barack Obama, and you never again have to worry about a thing.
McDonald's will always have McNuggets and you'll never ever have to call 911 when they don't.
There's also a simpler way, ladies and gentlemen, to sign the Barack Obama power of attorney.
And that's just vote for the guy.
look at this headline I just got here.
It's from Channel 2 in Chicago.
W uh I guess WCBS2 of Chicago.
Here's the headline.
Unemployment up again in Chicago in March.
Many cities, however, fare much worse.
Metro unemployment all over the country skyrockets.
Some cities are seeing unemployment rates comparable to the Great Depression.
That is uh it's just it's more magic from Barack Obama.
Unemployment rose again in the Chicago area last month is now approaching the 10% mark.
In the Chicago metro area, unemployment rose from 9.2% in February to 9.4% in March.
The uh Bureau of Labor Statistics defines the Chicago metro area as the city in the suburbs, Naperville, Joliet, Northwest Indiana, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, but be cared compared to some metro areas, Chicago isn't faring badly.
There are 109 metropolitan areas in the country that posted unemployment rates of 10% or more in March, up from a mere 14 such areas in 2008.
So we've gone from 14 metro areas to 109 metro areas at 10% unemployment in a year.
The highest was in El Central California.
Unemployment stood at 25.1%, as bad as the national average during the depths of the Great Depression in 1933, also faring poorly.
Merced, California, 20.4% unemployment.
Uba City, 19.5%.
Goshen, Indiana, 18.8%.
Now the area around Goshen and Elkart, Indiana, saw the largest unemployment unemployment increase from February to March, with an increase of a staggering 13%.
Now El Elkhart is uh, you know, RV capital of the world, and Obama went there.
Obama went there.
Now he must not know.
I'm I'm sure the people of Central California uh I'm sure that they're just saying we're not that high on his priority list.
He's doing everything he can.
Well, I thought we stimulated the economy all last year, first part of this year, with all kinds of stimulus folks, and the unemployment numbers just keep rising.
I mean, skyrocketing in 25% in uh in Ill Central California.
All right, to the phones, and we're gonna go to La Jolla, California.
We have somebody who was in the audience of the Beverly Hilton last night for the uh Milken uh Institute Global Forum.
It's a Noni, am I pronouncing that right?
Hi, Noni.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you here.
Thank you so much, Rush.
It's a pleasure.
You bet.
Uh yes, I was at the uh conference last night.
My husband is there right now, and when he'd heard that you were on the panel, he called, and I raced up yesterday afternoon.
Uh he was able to get me a pass.
And um, Rush, I was thrilled to be there.
I absolutely loved your tie.
And um we were at a table of ten people.
Our host and hostess, she was from Russia, he was from Budapest, and there were probably out of the ten of us, four were conservatives, the others were liberals, and the acoustics were bad in that room, Rush.
I could tell you were having trouble hearing, but I just wanted you to know that you did have many fans there.
But when you were speaking, of course, the liberals at the table uh several times were booing.
And um my one Russian hostess was cheering, and I was a little bit more conservative with my clapping because I didn't want to embarrass my husband, who's not as an outgoing conservative as I am.
And she just said, Noni, don't be, you know, don't hold back.
Um I was in Russia and with the socialist, I wasn't able to get my feelings out, and I lived in New York and I was intimidated by liberals, and she said no more.
So I just really enjoyed it, Rush.
You you did a great job.
Thank you, Noni, very much.
It was it was fun.
It was fun.
I could, you know, I I uh the acoustics were bad.
I couldn't hear what any of uh uh the guys up on stage when we were saying, but I could I could gauge reaction, I could I could distinguish between uh applause and boos and hisses, and I could hear silence.
I could hear when they were doing nothing.
And I loved it because I'll guarantee you there were a lot of people in that room who showed up not having any idea they were going to hear anything close to what I said.
And uh I'm I'm I'm I'm sure that a lot of them were were whoa, well, what is this?
They're thinking about it a lot today.
You made it entertaining.
I mean, people were laughing and I think they were enjoying you in spite of themselves.
I mean, it was it was just great.
And and I think my my husband is definitely more of a fan now than before.
I mean, I I listen to you constantly, and he doesn't listen to you as much, but um I think after last night he's he's come around.
Well, I appreciate that's great.
I'm glad that you were able to get through today, Noni, and I'm glad that you were able to get up there to see it.
Mr. Milken uh only called me last Wednesday to ask me if I could uh if I could do this, and I was fortunate to uh to have the have the date open.
And he also just secured uh uh Speaker Brown, Mayor Brown, uh, late last week uh as well, too.
He always had Harold Ford and uh and Ed Gillespie.
But it was fun.
I uh I enjoyed it, and I'm glad you were there.
I'm glad you called.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for asking.
All right, Joseph in uh Pottsburg, Texas.
Hey, Joseph, nice to have you on the program, sir.
Yes, hi.
How are you doing?
Well, let me try to close the loop on two subjects.
One you've been talking about, one I think might be new.
Why did the corporations in the United States buy the government for the Democrats, and what will the new super tax be?
First of all, the corporations want to dump the unfunded liabilities in pensions and health care on the federal government and get out of the benefits business because the unfunded liabilities are an overhanging monstrosity to their profits.
Not only that, you have a lot of big business uh that's really not opposed to illegal immigration, cheap labor.
You know, one of the primary objectives of business is the is is uh low labor cost as you can get.
But you're right, they would love to get rid of their health care plans.
They don't want to have happen to them what happened to General Motors and Chrysler.
When I was uh servicing the General Motors Pension Fund in the early nineties, the General Motors unfunded liability was over twenty-two billion dollars, right now over forty-two billion dollars, and that's just that's one corporation.
Now the more important part, Russia is the super tax.
How in the world are we going to sell treasuries to fund the deficits which are going to be behind carrying the unfunded pension liabilities and the health care Medicare costs.
Right now we tax income in this country.
The federal government, in my opinion, will have to also tax wealth, and that means eventually, as you and I know it, confiscate savings, IRAs, and pension plans, liquidate them and buy treasuries.
And there's your source of funds for the deficits.
It's a massive change in the way we're going to be able to do that.
That still isn't gonna work.
I mean, I'm not saying they won't do it.
I have been I have been paranoid about a wealth tax for decades, uh for twenty years.
But you can confiscate all that wealth only one time.
Mm-hmm.
And y that's it.
It'll never exist again because the people who went about creating it are not gonna waste their time.
Well, that's why uh I'm in retreat, and uh I don't think these guys uh in the long run are going to succeed.
And the devastation will be.
Well, they can't succeed.
They they no, that that's what's that is what's so devastating about this.
It can't succeed.
You know, I'm I hope Obama fails.
It's not a question.
I hope he will.
This just can't work.
It will not, it will not work.
It hasn't worked anywhere else around the world.
And the further we go down the road trying to make it work, the deeper the well that we dig for ourselves, the deeper the pit, and the harder and a longer it's going to be to uh to get out of it.
And this this shift of of the masters of the universe, the the corporate uh uh elite from around the world, this shift of theirs leftward is made up of many things.
It is made up of, yeah, they would love to offload all their unfunded liabilities, the health care plans that they have and uh uh pension plans, what have you.
But they're also uh many of them as time has evolved, and they're Democrats.
They've come out of business schools and they're liberals, they're they're Democrats.
It's another myth that big business is a bunch of fat cat Republicans.
Plus, you add to this now that these people are running scared of every government.
They're just running.
Obama is making it clear.
I mean, if you ran a bank, if you ran any kind of business today, that this administration thinks is a problem, Obama has just made it very clear.
If he wants to, he can come claim your business.
And he can fire you.
And he can tell others what people at work in your business are going to make.
And when things like this happen, a lot more people than you would realize become cowards.
Rather than standing up and fighting it, they just slink away, try to go along with it, take care of themselves, not make any waves so as not to aggravate the beast that's out there breathing fire and brimstone at others because you don't want the fire and brimstone being breathed on you.
So you don't say anything, you go all you go along with it.
Um I I've uh never, in my 58 years, I have never had the sense that so many people are so genuinely afraid of their government from all walks of life as they are today.
And believe me, that is being exploited by people who love us being afraid of them.
We have a new Rasmussen uh survey.
Rasmussen, by the way, does all of his polling on the telephone.
That's how his uh surveys different from others.
Erasmus and reports national telephone survey found that 41% of voters today would vote for their district's Republican candidate while 38% would choose the Democrats.
This is the generic ballot.
Republicans now lead the generic ballot 41 to 38% in the latest Rasmussen poll.
Now, if the Republican Party is dead, how can that be?
If the Republican Party is dead because we've lost our inspector, let me tell you what this means.
What this means, and I'm just gonna tell you right now there are far more Americans than you know because they're not being talked about or reported on, that do not like this guy's policy and do not approve of them.
Now you've got a lot of personal likability and personal favorability, but if you look into these polls where he's got his 62% approval or 55% approval, whatever it is, if you look at when they ask people, what do you think about this issue, that issue, his his issues, his policies are not overwhelmingly popular.
Right now, he still is.
But and it's look, it you have to understand, folks, in a first hundred days, like Dick Morris has a good analogy.
Don, let's say you get married.
And let's say in the first two months, you know you've made a mistake.
You won't admit it to yourself, right?
It's only been two months.
I can't admit to myself that the guy I married is a jerk.
What's the same way with the vote for president?
It's a hundred days, it's three months, you just can't, because we all want our president to think we're told.
Uh we all want the president's accept.
We just can't can't turn on the president a hundred days.
We just can't admit that we made a mistake.
People have voted for him and admit they can't make a mistake.
So there's but in time.
Now I know that some people say, but Rush FDR still, you know, everything he did to confound things, and he still gets great press.
I know it's gonna be it's gonna be tough, but at some point he's gonna own all this.
And especially, you know, on the uh this is not a cliche, by the way.
With Spectre moving over to the Democrat Party, and the eventual arrival of Stuart Smalley, which will give them 60 votes in there, Republicans can't stop anything.
They can't, they can't I'm trying to make him own it now.
What do you think I was just doing with the story about record unemployment all over the place?
I gave him a D. I gave him a D. For his approved.
I'm grading the first hundred days a D. What do you want me to give him an A?
Oh, come on.
I said barely a D. We got to allow room for more failure.
Because it's gonna get worse.
I couldn't give him an F after the first hundred days.
If I had to give him an F after the first hundred days, I'm gonna have to give a double F after the next six months.
You gotta have room for more failure.
That's why I gave him a D. I knew what I was doing in there.
This is uh the generic ballot, Republicans up 4138%.
Uh and and now look at the the once asked a question last night.
I didn't get a chance to answer this, because I guess he moved on.
I guess he would.
But should the Democrats try for bipartisanship?
Democrats try for bipartisanship.
I couldn't believe it.
Should the Democrats try for bipartisan?
They don't have to.
They don't ever do it anyway.
Bipartisanship is defined by Republicans caving on what they believe.
I know they're fast tracking health care.
Sturdly, they're fast tracking all this stuff so they can get it done before the numbers start coming down.
They're gonna try to cram as much of this stuff in this first year as possible before the popularity numbers start coming in.
All right.
Um speeching, speaking to the nation tonight, a hundred day anniversary press conference.
Don't forget the power of attorney.
Sign the power of attorney, and your life turned over to Obama and you never have another worry.
It's gonna cost the networks 21 and a half million dollars combined advertising that they're gonna lose tonight uh by giving up the eight to nine o'clock hour.
Fox is not giving up the hour.
Fox can go ahead and run.
What is it?
The show called Lie to Me.
The show at 8 o'clock on Fox is called Lie to Me.
So they actually are going to carry the State of the Union address.
I mean, lie to me, state of the well, but Obama's speech, lie to me, what's the difference?
And Fox is getting a lot of grief.
They're getting a lot of grief for not carrying this.
And the Fox News channel, I'm talking about Fox Network.
Fox News Channel's gonna carry it.
I think it's a great decision on Fox's part.
It's gonna be everywhere else.
Why not program something differently for the space cadets that don't care about this stuff?
I mean, it's a why do they all have to carry it?
Anyway, Fox is not gonna lose any money tonight, but the other three networks are.
And one more thing before we get back to more phone calls.
Remember, I was just talking about how the the leftward tilt of uh corporate America and the corporate world and a lot the the just frightened.
Well, plus a lot of our liberal Democrats anyway, coming out of MIT, Wharton, Harvard Business School, and so forth.
But here, Wall Street Journal today.
Soon to be one third owned by the U.S. government, is asking the Treasury for permission to pay special bonuses to keep many key employees.
This is the famous retention bonuses.
The request comes as Citigroup is grappling with broad government pay restrictions that could break apart its legendary energy trading unit.
People at the unit, uh Fibro, are threatening to leave because of pay caps, caps on their pay tied to the U.S. bailout of Citigroup.
Fibro has been the source of hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for Citigroup, has paid out hefty compensation, including roughly 100 million dollar windfall uh last year for the leader of the unit, Andrew Hall.
Now I understand if you're going to take federal money, then they're gonna then they're gonna have common stock and they're gonna own it.
What I have to tell you, I have to tell you, folks, as a as a good old-fashioned red-blooded American, I cringe.
It just rubs me the wrong way for a bank to be asking Obama.
You're asking Treasury or asking Obama for permission to pay bonuses.
Good lord.
Citibank, a big bank I know the government's gonna own a third of it.
Big D that's not a solution, it's an objective.
But to have to call the Department of Treasury and ask for permission to pay bonuses to keep key people.
That ought to embarrass everybody.
And after it embarrasses you, it ought to make you mad.
When you might be saying, well, they ought to have to ask permission, Mr. Lamboa.
They have screwed us blind.
They have raised our credit card interest rates, and they have been unkind.
They've charged with ATMPs.
All right, fine.
You sit back and let this happen, and pretty soon it ain't gonna be long before you're gonna have to call a government for permission to go to the bathroom and use a certain kind of toilet paper.
Here's uh Gloria in Benita, California.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I am absolutely delighted to get my call through today.
So am I, thank you very much.
And um, it really makes me very angry when I hear uh the comics on television, etc.
put you down because I think you're great, and um Mark Levin is my um mentor, so I could easily get back at one of those guys if I had a chance.
And I want to say taking that jet aircraft for a joy ride demonstrates the contempt Obama and his employees have for America and the American citizens.
And I want to say thank you for letting me express my opinion.
Well, thank you very much.
I'm glad you I'm glad you called Gloria.
It's always uh always great to have somebody here.
Uh let me find a like you here, here.
This is the story I've been looking for.
This is just unbelievable about this.
And where is this?
This is from uh ABC News.
9-11 calls, just released by a New Jersey emergency office communicate chilling on the ground scenes of the panic and terror that besieged many eyewitnesses of yesterday's botched Air Force One promotional photo op over Lower Manhattan.
Oh my god, one caller says again and again, telling the operator they're following an aircraft, a big aircraft coming like the 9-11.
Also, the Air Force released the estimated cost 300 and basically 29,000 for this.
That $329,000 does not include all of the dry cleaning that's needing to be done in New York today from people wetting their pants.
In their office buildings, and then you go later in the story and you find out the FBI director had no clue, and the Secretary of Defense had no idea what's happening.
And they're both furious, and Obama didn't know what's happening.
And Obama has called and demanded for a review that will take two weeks.
They are dumping dumping on this caldera guy.
He's part of the White House staff.
There are so many logical questions about this.
The drive-by media isn't asking any of them.
You can say that it's contempt for the people of New York.
Uh I would say also, you know, Obama says he's gonna go the budget line by line, and he's gonna he's gonna get rid.
Of course, that's a lie because he doesn't have to line out of veto.
He can't do what he promises to do here.
He cannot go through the budget line by line and get rid of what he thinks is waste and fraud.
He just can't do it.
He doesn't have the power.
But he isn't gonna do it anyway.
He's just saying it.
And while he says he's gonna cut the deficit and cut back all they can save money with health care costs, there's 329 grand for the photo off for Air Force One.
And the Defense Department didn't know about it.
And the FBI didn't know about it.
And the mayor of New York wasn't told about it.
They couldn't do this on a Sunday morning.
When the sun's coming, how about how a Sunday morning, the sun coming up right over the Statue of Liberty?
What a great photo op that would have been.
Couldn't have done it, had to do it at the beginning of the business day on a Monday.
Folks, you know what it also did?
What?
Look at who didn't know about it.
Department of Defense didn't know about it.
Now the FAA did.
Air Traffic Control had to know about it.
But it demonstrated.
I say it.
I just hate to say it.
If you want to fly a plane at a thousand feet over Manhattan, I guess you can find a way to get away with it.
Here's an example of what I was talking about, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh CBS New York Times poll.
Now, this poll came out yesterday, and the New York Times was just damn they were, they were uh well, they could not contain their glee over the approval numbers that uh Barack Obama had.
But if you dig deep into the internals of the poll, get guess what you find.
Sixty-two percent of the American people oppose hearings on interrogations on waterboarding.
Sixty-two percent, the exact number of his approval in the New York Times, 62% oppose the idea of conducting hearings on the Bush administration and interrogations.
And it there are things like that throughout all of these polls when you look at individual polos, it is, or philosophical questions.
52%, or maybe it's even higher, think the biggest problem we face right now is big government.
But they like Obama personally.
See, they don't yet it's just a hundred days, it's a honeymoon.
You know, I mean, a lot of people know during the honeymoon it's over, but they don't admit it to themselves for quite a while.
And it's the same way with uh with the uh with the way you vote.
Here is a story, I'm gonna save this for the next hour, but this is from East Lansing Mission, Michigan State University.