I was just watching Fox, and they got their cameras trained on Robert Gibbs at the White House, and they made his face look as pink as his tie.
Had some problem there, so they've now gone back to the anchor.
Anyway, greetings.
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This is an AP story out of Paris.
Here's the first line.
Charge your iPod, kill a polar bear.
The choice might not be quite that stark, but an energy watchdog is alarmed about the threat to the environment from the soaring electricity needs of gadgets like iPods, MP3 players, mobile phones, and flat screen TVs.
In a report Wednesday, Obama's green renewable energy program that's going to create all these jobs is going to solve this.
Once we get rid of the coal business, and we'll have no power plants, we're all going to have windmills or solar panels, and it's all going to get fixed.
Why is anybody worried about this?
He's promising a new renewable energy program, green energy program, to be ready in 2025, but he's still promising it.
In a report Wednesday, the Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates that new electronic gadgets will triple their energy consumption by 2030.
That is to 1,700 terawatt hours.
That's the equivalent of today's home electricity consumption of the U.S. and Japan combined.
The world would have to build around 200 new nuclear power plants just to power all the TVs.
The iPod.
Look at Fox.
Look at Gibbs' face.
Look at that.
They got to be doing that on purpose.
I mean, that's cool.
Maybe it's Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
That's what instead of wearing a red ribbon, he's painted his face pink to go along with his pink tie.
It's not the TV because when they call it a different shot, everybody looks normal.
Everything else in the picture looks normal, except Gibbs and his tie match.
I mean, it looks like a 14th degree sunburn.
Do you agree with me?
Yeah, okay.
Here's the point.
All of these electronic appliances.
Alarms are being raised over all of these home electronics.
And it does reference here that the planet's going to be in grave peril.
And polar bears and others, it's going to cause all kinds of problems.
Now, just imagine when we all have to start plugging in our electric cars.
It's one thing to charge an iPod or an iPhone or a cell phone.
It's another thing to charge up your car every day.
What's that going to do to the polar bears?
Since we're on the subject of the environment, the EPA, the EPA put out a memo.
This memo, it's an Obama administration memo.
This memo admits that CO2 is not a pollutant.
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
This memo alludes to the fact that there is no proof.
Somebody in the Obama administration really goofed up.
Now, you haven't heard about this.
You had to have seen C-SPAN to know about this, but this memo is out there that CO2 is not a pollutant, that there's no evidence that CO2 is leading to the warming of the planet.
There is a memo that pretty much debunks everything environmental wackos and global warming people are putting out.
And it came from the Obama administration.
And what's interesting about it is that the EPA was just given the authority by the Supreme Court to regulate CO2 as a pollutant.
So the Senate, what was it, the Senate Public Environment and Public Works Committee had a hearing on the proposed fiscal 2010 budget for the EPA.
Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, had a conversation with the EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson.
Now, Barrasso opened and he said this.
In a memo that I received this morning, and it's marked deliberative attorney client privilege, nine pages.
You are mentioned on every page of this memo.
It is a White House memo.
Counsel in this administration repeatedly, repeatedly questions the lack of scientific support that you have for this proposed finding.
It's here, nine pages.
This is a smoking gun, saying that your findings were political, not scientific.
Here, page two.
There is concern that the EPA is making a finding based on harm from substances that have no demonstrated direct health effects, such as respiratory or toxic effects.
Folks, do you understand what you're hearing?
This is a Republican senator from Wyoming talking to the Obama EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, saying White House counsels put together a memo saying everything about CO2 is a myth, that there was no science in the formulation of this, that it was pure politics.
He then said this to her.
Making the decision to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act for the first time is likely to have serious economic consequences for regulated entities throughout the U.S. economy, including small businesses and small communities.
How do you square that when you say I don't want any overriding effect on the economy of small businesses?
But this own internal document marked deliberative attorney-client privilege says everything you're proposing is going to have serious economic consequences for our businesses in this nation.
Would you like to comment?
Lisa Jackson, here's her answer.
It says the opinion, the memo is basically it's only somebody's opinion.
The Supreme Court ruled two years ago that EPA owed the American people a determination as to whether greenhouse gases, either in whole or individually, endanger public health and welfare.
We reviewed the science of it.
We went through interagency review through the White House.
So again, I'm not sure what that document may say.
It's deliberative, so obviously it's people's opinions.
It's people's opinions in the Obama White House.
CO2 not a pollutant.
CO2 can't be said to be raising the temperature that all of this is speculative, that it has all been arrived at politically, not with science.
That treating CO2 as a pollutant, which is the precursor, by the way, to Obama's cap and trade, somebody put this together in the White House, and this is a huge, has to be a huge leak.
Attorney-client privilege.
I mean, this, whoever put this to paper has seriously undermined the cause.
Of course, without C-SPAN or me telling you this, you wouldn't know about it.
I'm sorry.
Nobody knows this.
She says, well, it's just somebody's opinion.
And then she went on and added this.
I have said over and over, as has the president, that we do understand that there are costs to the economy of addressing global warming emissions and that the best way to address them is through a gradual move to a market-based program like Cap and Trade.
Under the Clean Air Act, have the potential to regulate all those sources you talk about now for other contaminants, schools, and hospitals and farms and dunking donuts.
And we don't because we use, we make regulations smartly to address the threats in the best way possible and with an eye towards understanding that we don't want to unduly affect those who can least afford to pay.
So I do believe that the regulatory process allows us the opportunity to make those decisions and to do it, but we're not at that point yet.
She didn't answer the question.
She did not answer the question in any way, shape, manner, or form.
She says, nah, this is just somebody's opinion, a precursor to cap and trade.
And then she throws in this business that they're not going to tax people who can least afford to pay it.
But the dirty little secret is that that's who always gets hurt with liberalism.
That's who always gets hurt.
The people who can least afford it, the little guy either loses his job, increased taxes, or what have you.
But there you've heard it.
This memo is out, attorney-client privilege from the White House, the Obama White House.
And just to paraphrase what Barrasso said, it's nine pages.
Lisa Jackson, the EPA administrator, mentioned on every page, the memo questions the lack of scientific support for the finding that CO2 is a pollutant.
It's a smoking gun memo saying that the findings were political, not scientific.
On page two, quote, there is concern that the EPA is making a finding based on harm from substances that have no demonstrated direct health effects, such as respiratory or toxic effects.
Making the decision to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act for the first time is likely to have serious economic consequences for regulated entities throughout the economy, small business, small communities.
Obama administration's own memo, own lawyers.
I don't know how this got out, and I don't know how Senator Barrasso from Wyoming got it, but he put it to Lisa Jackson.
This is, again, not a surprise to me because we exhale CO2.
If it were a poison, if it were something, it wouldn't be part of the way we stay alive.
At any rate, a brief time out.
We'll come back.
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Not sure how to pronounce the name of this town in West Virginia.
This is Cheryl.
Is it Jane Liu?
It is Jane Liu.
Jane Liu, West Virginia.
It's great to have you on the program, Cheryl.
Thank you, Rush Mega Ditto, from a very proud mother of a United States Marine Rush baby.
Well, God bless both of you.
Well, thank you, sir.
The reason I was calling is I saw on Fox News, a small blip, it wasn't much, that the White House is now investigating how they can be the persons in charge of giving out bonuses to Wall Street CEOs, even those who haven't accepted TARP money.
And my question is: when are people going to start using the D-word in association with this president?
You know, dictator.
That's what he wants to be.
Well, there are a lot of words being tossed out out there: Marxist, statist, fascist, incompetent, conniver.
The problem, you know, when you use these words, the idea here, the objective is to persuade people who don't yet see this.
And if you start calling them a dictator, they're just going to tune you out.
They don't think a dictator is possible in the United States.
They're going to see evidence of it.
You start calling a communist, a Marxist, a fascist.
Call them Marxists, depending on their education level, they may be happy about that.
I mean, they've been taught by Marxists in universities, and they may think it's a good thing.
So it's a very, delicate thing to go about persuading the cult-like here who are totally in tank.
And I understand that, Rush, but if they would look at what Hugo Chavez has done, for an example, and now look at what our president is attempting to do, do they not ask?
You are asking irrational people to look at something rationally.
You're asking the insane as an analogy here.
You're asking the insane to snap out of it and be sane.
You know, snap your fingers.
Well, I wish there was a way we could snap our fingers and make these people snap out of it.
Well, Obama wishes he could push a button and socialize the country.
And he's got a lot of buttons he can push.
Yes, he does.
Here's the story.
Thanks, Cheryl.
By the way, Cheryl, one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names.
Here is the story she's talking about.
Obama administered.
By the way, grab soundbite number two.
Have it handy because it relates.
Obama administration officials are contemplating a major overhaul of the compensation practices in the financial services industry, moving beyond banks to include more loosely regulated hedge funds and private equity firms.
Any overhaul is likely to be tied to the Obama administration's broader efforts to curb systemic risks in the economy.
That means that the new rules could apply to financial firms like hedge funds or private equity firms that never accepted money from the TARP pool.
It would also mean greater oversight on compensation for banks that are seeking to return the TARP money in an effort to avoid these new strings.
So even if you return the money, you may not be able to shake government overlords who are going to determine what you can make.
Now, remember, Geithner said the other day, we had this downbite on Monday, they're trying to eliminate the boom.
They don't want another boom.
See, to them, an economic boom, a giant boom in housing or whatever, leads to a recession.
They want to keep everything static.
They want a zero-sum game economy with nobody doing very well and nobody doing very poorly.
And when you do that, everybody ends up very miserable.
And if they're going to say, if they're going to say that they're going to control salaries and compensation of banks and hedge funds and so forth that didn't take TARP money, folks, they're eventually going to get around to saying how much you can make, whether you work at a hedge fund or not.
The only people they won't limit will be unions and the trial lawyers.
The two major contributors, the unions and trial lawyers will not be subject to these kinds of limits, but everybody else will, potentially.
I mean, if they're going to do this on Wall Street to eliminate booms, the city of New York is finished if they start capping pay and bonuses and so forth.
I mean, where do they think New York gets the city to run its welfare state?
Mr. Sturdley, you look frustrated in there and have a, what's the question?
The question on the table is, how does this guy expect to get reelected if he's ticking off the guys on Wall Street this way?
Well, what Obama realizes is that there are far many millions more people who can be made to hate Wall Street and applaud Obama for cutting them down to size.
He can still get money from the unions.
He can still get money from the trial lawyers.
He can get money from Hollywood.
He can get money from anywhere.
He can get money from George Soros.
He can get money internationally.
I mean, the guy raised all this money.
We don't know where it even came from because it came in under increments of 200 bucks.
You don't have to report it.
All that money contributed on the internet.
That won't be a problem.
That won't be a problem.
He's banking on the fact that his class warriorism, his class warfare, is going to really psych up these.
He's sticking it to Wall Street.
Sticking it.
He loved those AIG execs getting protested in their front yards.
He's going to love being able to tell these guys on Wall Street, I'm the one thing standing between you and the pitchforks.
And what you have to understand is that Obama is putting the pitchforks in the hands of the people who are ready to storm the castle.
Tina, in Chicago, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
I'm glad to talk to you again today.
From Chicago, Barack Obama land.
And what I'm thinking is maybe we should add toll roads all over the United States.
You can charge a bunch for them because we do that here in Chicago.
And we can pay for all the accident-related health care, all the uninsured people, you know, anyone that's involved in an accident and those types of things.
Because, you know, we're doing it here in Chicago, and it's a big expense.
Yeah, but is Chicago solvent?
Is Illinois solvent?
Well, I don't know, but you know what?
We're voting.
Are you voting?
Are you serious or are you trying to make a joke?
Well, no, my husband and I are voting this month.
We're voting with our feet.
And, Rush, we're leaving the state of Chicago, just like you did in New York.
And we specifically decided to leave because people like...
Where are you going this week?
Where else?
If you're leaving the state of Chicago, or are you going to go to the state of Illinois?
Sorry.
The state of Illinois.
We're leaving Chicago.
It feels like, yeah, it feels like a whole different world here.
Where are you going to go?
We're going to go to Arizona.
And our taxes are going to be about a sixth of what we pay here out in Arizona.
And we're going to get to the point.
These liberals are not just driving people out of cities.
They're driving them out of states.
And we were talking about this last week.
Who's left when people like Tina and her husband go?
Who's left?
They become solid blue cities and states.
The welfare state, that's who stays.
The people paying for the welfare state eventually say, screw it, you go to hell.
I'm not paying anymore.
And you seek somewhere else like you're going to Arizona.
Yeah, well, Rush, you know, my husband, I know I've talked to you before, but he came from another country.
And when he got here, they begged him to get on welfare, and he said no.
And now, not like you said.
Wait, They're trying to take everything away.
I know, but who is they begged him to get on welfare?
Well, no, when he came from another country, the Democrats, like when he got his driver's license and whatnot, and any kind of, well, I don't know about driver's license back then, but just any kind of politics, you know, they said, you're from another country.
You don't speak English.
You know, you don't have any money.
You can get health care.
All right.
All right.
So is Mayor Daly?
Mayor Daly and his boys.
Well, yeah, basically, I mean, just.
Because everybody knows Mayor Daly runs the state, especially since they got Blagojevich out of there.
Nothing happens there without Daly knowing about it.
Okay, the they is some government official somewhere.
Oh, you need to enroll for food stamps.
Oh, you need to enroll for this.
You're from a foreign country.
You don't know what to do.
Yep.
Not surprised.
Well, good luck in your move, Tina.
A little warning here.
The Chicago and Illinois tax authorities will follow you.
Resisting the tug of popular sentiment, Rush Limbaugh, the last man standing here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to be with you.
I read a story like this, and you just cringe.
With General Motors Corporation planning to end production of Saturns in Pontiac at its Delaware plant, which employs more than 1,000 people, Delaware state leaders are scrambling to win new work at the facility or persuade General Motors to move other operations to the region.
Senator Thomas Carper, a Democrat former governor who helped save the 62-year-old Wilmington plant from closure in the early 90s, said this would appear on the surface to leave us in bleak circumstances.
We are encouraging General Motors not to close the plant.
At some point, GM will need more capacity.
Carper said in an interview with Reuters just weeks ahead of the June 1st deadline.
So Congress under pressure here as General Motors bankruptcy possible.
Am I the only one that sees this?
What did these members of Congress think was going to happen?
I thought we weren't, this was not supposed to happen.
We bailed out General Motors.
We were told that only the government could do this.
That General Motors couldn't do it.
And General Motors had to report to the government how it was going to use the bailout money.
General Motors had to submit its report.
Their CEO had to drive to Washington, not fly.
And their CEO had to bend over, grab the ankles, and tell members of Congress how he was going to restructure their company with federal money.
And only if he did it the right way would there be federal money.
And so the GE CEO did what everybody in government demanded that he do.
It didn't work.
It never had a chance to work.
Now they fired the GM CEO.
The new GM CEO says, hell, we may even have to leave Detroit.
And now a member of Congress from Delaware is upset that General Mowitz's stock price is barely trading above a dollar and then was worried about a thousand jobs being lost in Delaware because GM's going to cut back on making Saturns and Pontiacs.
Isn't it time for everybody to admit that the political solutions to private sector problems do not work?
How much bailout money, how many billions have been thrown at General Motors and Chrysler that now demonstrably have not worked?
I'm going to lose the thousand jobs.
GM, GM, please send other business here if you're going to stop making Saturns and Pontiacs.
Well, that means some other community and state's going to lose some jobs if they send the jobs to Delaware.
What do these people think businesses are?
I'll tell you what they think businesses are.
You know what the purpose of General Motors is as far as this Delaware congressman is concerned?
The purpose of General Motors is to hire union people, pay them health benefits, and contribute to the local community with hospital research and donations.
So that's the purpose of General Motors.
And if it's somewhere along the line, the product that General Motors makes has a problem in the marketplace and doesn't get sold, then all of a sudden, these people who look at General Motors as nothing more than an off-site distribution center for health care and a way to hire Democrats that vote for Democrats, then they start panicking.
In the first place, it is this misunderstanding, it's not misunderstanding, it's this biased view of the purpose of an American company or corporation that leads people to treat it, people in government to treat them the way they do.
General Motors had to be saved not in order that it, or not so that it can make cars that people want to buy.
General Motors had to be saved strictly for Ron Gettelfinger and the UAW.
That's why GM had to be bailed out.
Chrysler did it.
That's why.
Save unions, because they're Democrats or Democrat voters.
It's Democrat contributions through duas that help elect Democrats all over the country.
So the purpose of General Motors and Chrysler is to keep Democrat union players employed.
And then when that's threatened, oh, then that's when they get really said, that's when the problem sets in.
Not when General Motors is being regulated out of business with stupid CAFE standards, regulated out of business with uncompetitive wages and health requirements that competitors are not forced to pay.
When the federal government regulates an automobile business out of business and turns them into nothing more than an off-site distribution center for healthcare, this is what happens.
If people at the federal government, U.S. Congress, and the EPA had any respect or understanding for what the purpose of an American automobile company was, they'd get the hell out, leave them alone, and they would let the profits of the company take care of paying their Democrat union workers.
By the way, I'm not saying General Motors and its management are innocent of mistakes made that led to the current situation in the company.
But I'll tell you, when I read a story like this, Congress under pressure, is GM bankruptcy possible?
Who led us here?
Better yet, how was this supposed to be prevented?
This wasn't going to happen.
We were going to bail them out.
We were going to bail them out.
And then the wizards in Washington were going to approve how these car companies were to be run.
It's really frustrating, folks, because the evidence of the literal incompetence of people in Washington, D.C. meddling in the private sector is all over the place.
You have to be blind to see it.
And even if you are blind, you can smell the incompetence.
You can't miss it.
And yet, private sector screws up.
Oop, government got to get in there and fix it.
Government screws up.
Oop, government got to get bigger to fix it.
We have reached the poisonous point where virtually every mistake in America now leads to bigger, bloated government as the solution.
While the evidence abounds, they solve nothing.
They create problems.
They make problems other people have to work around and solve.
From tax law to regulations to any number of things.
Now a thousand Democrat jobs are threatened in Delaware.
So, General Motors, they can't close the planter.
They got to move a thousand other workers in it.
We can't afford this in Delaware.
We can't afford to lose these thousand jobs.
Congressman in Delaware, you've been concerned with what's going on in Detroit?
Have you been concerned with what's happening in Michigan?
Barbara in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Welcome.
Thank you for holding on.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
I'm calling to say I'm a new listener of about six months.
Well, that's great to hear.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, and I really like listening to you.
I think you have more common sense on your little finger than all our politicians.
Well, that's very, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
Well, I just.
See, if you've been listening for a year, I would have said, I know, you're right.
But since you've only been here six months, I still have to tread softly with you.
Right.
Well, I have a small shop and I have your show on and behind here.
So I had a lady come in the other day and she said, are you listening to Rush?
And I said yes.
And she said, he is evil.
He said he hopes Obama, she stole on the Hopes Obama fails kick.
She went all over me for 10 minutes.
I want to know why they're so angry.
Why are they so mad?
I mean, she just, and then I finally, I thought, if I lose a sale, I lose a sale.
I said, well, what has he done?
She said, well, just as much as the Bush administration.
So they're still on that kick.
It's amazing to me.
Amazing.
You know, I ask myself this question, too.
I can't imagine what it would be like, Barbara, to get up every day and face the world as filled with rage, as they do.
I don't know what it's like to go through the day that mad.
I know.
It's just amazing.
And then go to bed that mad even after they won.
I know.
That's what they don't understand.
And she insulted me and told me I'm narrow-minded and, you know, every bigoted.
I think there's a partial explanation for it because she's uttering stereotypical clichés, racist, bigoted, sexist, homophobes.
Those are the clichés.
But she walked in your store and she probably wasn't that angry.
I mean, she's got this pent-up rage that Bush is alive, and she's got this pent-up rage that I'm alive, and she's got a cult-like belief in Obama.
But she lives in a cocoon where she's built the cocoon around herself so she's got a safe worldview.
Everything she believes is right.
She allows nothing to challenge what she believes.
She walks in, and you have pierced that cocoon simply by having my radio show on.
Yes, I do.
And you are making her face and deal with something that she doesn't want to acknowledge exists.
And so she has to destroy you.
She has to impugn you for being an agent of all of this misery and disaster because you've upset her carefully constructed world where she's just ignoring.
I mean, these people, they don't live in reality.
They get everything they want, and they're still not happy.
This woman probably wants Bush hanged for war crimes.
Absolutely.
Yes, absolutely.
So I lost the sale, but anyway, that's okay.
What do you sell at your store?
Women's accessories.
Mammy, can I walk in and get an African baby at your store?
No, no, sorry.
Well, that's the latest Hollywood accessory.
That's a majority.
Oh, absolutely.
No, no, don't go there.
Okay, like you've been here six months.
I figure it was worth the risk to try the line with you.
Absolutely.
It worked great.
What kind of accessories?
Jewelry, purses, scarves.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Well, you know what?
You lost the sale.
And you lost the sale technically because you had an idiot walk in.
Right.
No, no, literally because you lost the sale because of me.
No.
Yes.
And so I want to, I'm going to send you a huge bouquet of flowers from ProFlowers.com.
Well, that's wonderful.
Yes, and I know.
That's not necessary.
I just wanted you to.
I know it's not necessary.
That's when it's not necessary is when it's fun.
Well, that is so kind of you.
Okay.
I just thought you'd appreciate the humor in it.
I do.
I love it.
I'm like you.
I don't understand them being mad, and I don't want to live life that way myself.
So it's trying to understand irrationality with rationality.
I mean, rational people cannot understand irrational people when you try.
Now, I need you to hold on because I need to get the address your shop not on the air so we can send you the stuff, okay?
Well, thank you so very much.
You are welcome, Barbara.
Brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
You know, I was thinking of giving Barbara a bonus gift in addition to the flowers.
I was going to give her an oil change from BG Products.
I decided not to do that.
But what I am going to do, I'm going to throw in five free stitches for the wound of her choice.
The next time some angry liberal comes in and might harm her, she has to go to the hospital, I'll pay for the first five stitches.
I think that is a compassionate gift.
Truly is.
Joe Biden.
Joe Biden out there today in, actually it was Sunday.
He was in Syracuse, New York at the Bellevue Elementary School.
And this is what he told his students.
How many of you kids want to go to college?
Well, guess what?
Barack Obama and Joe Biden are going to make sure that every single one of you who qualify are going to get to go to college, even if you don't have the money in your family to go.
We're going to make sure you get there.
I'm not.
Joe Biden.
Now, do you think we know that the White House is going to try this, but do you think they're happy he was so open about it?
Play that again, Mike.
This is Joe Biden at an elementary, Bellevue Elementary School in Syracuse, New York on Sunday.
How many of you kids want to go to college?
Well, guess what?
Barack Obama and Joe Biden are going to make sure that every single one of you who qualify are going to get to go to college, even if you don't have the money in your family to go.
We're going to make sure you get there.
I mean, it's just out there.
Yeah, I'll tell you what, folks, if I were you, I would stop saving money.
I would stop saving for your college education fund.
Joe Biden and Barack Obama are going to pay for it.
You know, I contribute to an education fund for my five nieces and nephews.
And I'm going to stop.
I'm going to stop.
Joe Biden and Barack Obama are going to, if they qualify, and I know my nephews and nieces are qualified.
Well, wait a minute.
That's the potential monkey wrench.
How do you qualify?
Do you have to vote for Obama and Biden?
Do you have to donate a thousand hours of volunteer service in there, whatever?
Anyway, that's it.
Joe Biden, this past Sunday.
Fastest three hours in media, the fastest week in media.
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And we'll be back tomorrow in 21 hours and start it all over again.