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June 10, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 10, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists, and all the rest of you, all across the bountiful fruited plane.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, is 800-282-2882.
The email address lrushbaugh at EIBnet.com.
For those of you, now what's the look on your face, Mr. Snerdley?
Snerdley, you want to distract my opening of the program with a comment on my shirt and how you think it's starting to look too big on me already.
You know, you keep bringing this up.
You keep bringing this up.
You keep forcing me to talk about it.
I got people.
I mean, hundreds, maybe thousands now, asking me to post the diet.
I can't.
I mean, even if I wanted to, I can't.
It's too complicated.
There's no, folks, I know you're asking me about this, but I can't do it.
I mean, it's not that I refuse to.
I would do it if I could.
But there is no way.
Just look it.
If you want to lose weight, pick a diet.
They all work.
This one happens to work for me.
Every diet I've been on has been a different one.
And this is a different one than I've ever done before.
And it's working, but they all work.
I wish I could tell you.
I just, I don't, I would have to post recipes and menus three times a day.
And I just, I'm not in that business.
I could be, but I don't want to be.
All right.
Can I start the program again?
Greetings to you.
Can you theme music again, Mr. Broadcast Engineer?
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists, all across the bountiful fruited plan.
Rush Limbaugh from the Limbaugh Institute.
62, Snurd.
Damn it.
He asked me how much weight I lost here in the open.
Would you stop the music and start it again?
Anytime.
Greetings to you.
It's actually 63.
Stop the music.
Start it again, please.
Greetings to you.
Stop the tape.
I don't know.
March 9th or whatever it is today.
Add it up.
Music.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, all across the bountiful fruited plan.
Rush Limbaugh behind a golden EIB microphone at the distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you with us.
Here's a telephone number.
If you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, the email address is El Rushbaugh at EIBnet.com.
Now, as I was saying, for those of you whose EIB affiliate radio station carries the ABC radio news at the top of the hour, I just got a tip from a friend of mine that ABC just breathlessly, just excitedly, reported how Obama is going to stop the rich corporate CEOs from getting huge bonuses at bailed out companies.
They were just excited as they could be about this.
Almost breathless in reporting this.
Not a single word questioning his authority to do it.
Not a single word.
I'll tell you, the state-run media, government-run media, is just becoming a pathetic embarrassment.
Reverend Wright is back.
Yes, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is back.
The Hampton Roads Daily Press has a little blurb today.
Reverend Jeremiah Wright says he does not feel any regrets over his severed relationship with President Obama.
He said that he had not spoken to his former church members since Obama became president.
Regret for what?
That the media went back five, seven, ten years, spent $4,000, mine, 20 years of sermons to hear what I've been preaching for 20 years.
Regret for preaching like I've been preaching 50 years?
Absolutely not.
I have no regrets.
Asked if he had spoken to President Obama.
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright said, Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me.
I told my baby daughter that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck or in eight years when he's out of office.
They will not let him talk to anybody who calls a spade what it is.
I said from the beginning he's a politician.
I'm a pastor.
He has to do what politicians do.
So the Reverend Jeremiah Wright told the Hampton Roads Daily Press that them Jews are not going to let Obama talk to him, Reverend Wright.
Now, them Jews in Israel are a little upset today.
You know, Israel is in the Middle East, and the Middle East has the remember when some malcontent Israeli, I'm sorry, Iraqi threw a shoe at President Bush.
And what the hell is that?
Well, the sole of the shoe, showing the sole of a shoe, is a primary insult in the Middle East, in Arabic countries, in Islamic countries.
And in fact, to illustrate this, do you remember back in the first Gulf War during the presidency of George H.W. Bush?
Remember how he kept always calling Saddam Hussein Saddam?
And we kept saying, what the hell?
He's president of the United States.
Doesn't he know how to say Saddam?
Saddam in Iraq is a shoeshiner or some such thing.
It has to do with the shoe.
It was an insult to say Saddam Hussein's name that way.
The shoe and the sole of the shoe is a big insult.
And there is a picture.
The White House released a picture taken by the White House photographer of Obama on the phone with Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the prime minister of Israel, with his feet up on the Oval Office desk.
The focal point of the picture is Obama's shoes, the sole of his shoes.
And them Jews in Israel think that this is a subtle insult from Obama to Netanyahu and Israel.
And who can?
I mean, I'm not going to sit here and say, come on, you Jews are being too insensitive about this.
I think this guy's got a huge problem with Israel.
I think he's got a huge problem with Judaism.
And Reverend Wright, I mean, this is the guy who Obama listened to for 20 years.
Them Jews, them Jews won't let Obama speak to him.
Reverend Wright, can we go back to the audio sound bites?
Yes, I saw it.
I'm going to talk about it, the USA Today cover story today.
It's kind of interesting in a way.
I want to get to it here in just a second.
They keep recycling this garbage.
Here's the bottom.
Obama is hurting.
His policies are crumbling.
He is in panic mode in the White House.
And yet the state-run media, government-controlled media, focused on the GOP and how hurting it is and in what pain it is.
Where is the cover story on the failed policies of Barack Obama?
9.4% unemployment.
Where are the stories on all the newly homeless?
There have to be millions of newly homeless people.
We have more people being foreclosed on and kicked out of their houses than ever before.
Where are these stories on all these people who have lost their jobs, who have no plan, no future, a bright future with a job down the road near term?
Where are all these stories?
No, they focus on bald white guys leading the Republican Party.
It's a Gallup poll, and guess who is the number one spokesman for the Republican Party?
Yours truly, I, all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, maha-rushy, at 13%.
Sarah Palin doesn't even show up.
Michael Steele's at 1%.
And so they focus here on all the aging, balding white guys that lead the Republican Party and how that is horrible for the future.
What do they care at USA Today about the Republican Party that has no leadership?
It's a permanent minority, as they suggest and hope.
What do they care?
I mean, isn't that what they want?
Don't they want the Republican Party to be a permanent minority?
This cover story is rehashing.
If you've seen the Drudge report today, again, I have been inundated with emails today from women who are outraged at what Michelle Obama is wearing.
Drudge refers to it as Michelle and the Orange Snake.
She's wearing some outfit that if Sarah Palin had this outfit on, they would be ripping her to shreds.
It would be a headline in every newspaper.
Michelle Obama looks ridiculous.
And they're talking about how fashion conscious she is and how fashion trendsetting she is.
And it is embarrassing.
That's what I couldn't care less.
This stuff, but the women, what do you think of it, Dawn?
You're looking at it.
All right, son.
Maybe her daughter's made it and she wants to make them happy.
It looks like an apron.
I mean, it's just, it's, I don't know.
But women are just sending me the funniest emails about the way she is attired.
I just know that if Sarah Palin put that kind of stuff on, we'd never hear the end of it.
Dear David, do you hear about David Letterman and Sarah Palin?
She went to the Yankee game the other night during the seventh inning.
A-Rod knocked up her daughter.
That's what Letterman said on TV.
She went to the Yankee game the other night during the seventh inning stretch.
A-Rod knocked up her daughter.
Could you believe David Letterman would insult A-Rod that way?
I mean, I just, this stuff is just going beyond the pen.
I mean, A-Rod's playing a game.
He didn't have time to knock up anybody's daughter.
That's for after the game.
If you're going to talk about A-Rod knocking up somebody's daughter, say it happened after the game.
Not in the seventh inning stretch.
There's no truth to that.
No, no, no.
I was up till 4.30 or so.
That's why I'm...
They're asking me here why I'm so giddy today.
That's...
That always happens.
I was up till 4.30.
And when that happens, be on the lookout, folks, because there are fewer guardrails keeping me on the straight and narrow on programs.
You've got to hear this.
This happened right before, well, about an hour ago, sometime between 11.30 and noon Eastern time.
John Ziegler was on MSNBC with Contessa Brewer.
This is just fabulous.
It runs about four minutes.
We've cut it up into four sound bites.
Here's the first.
Thanks for having me.
Always interesting to go out with the people with Barack Obama's official network.
Now, I know you're very critical of the way that journalists in general have dealt with Governor Palin.
I want to ask you today about your interview with Sarah Palin.
See, I wonder why.
So let me begin with, do you want to do the interview?
You want to talk about this?
Yeah, I'd be thrilled to.
Yeah, let's go.
I want to ask you what Sarah Palin's problem with Letterman was.
What was it about the top 10 list that hurt her feelings?
Well, I don't know if her feelings were hurt.
You'd have to ask her.
She called David Letterman pathetic, which I think was an understatement because not only did he call her slutty, you left out the part where he also joked about her teenage daughter being knocked up by Alex Rodriguez in the middle of Yankee Stadium while she was at the game.
By the way, I also happened to ask her about Keith Oberman blatantly lying about her allegedly plagiarizing a speech, which she didn't do.
I doubt that that'll come up on this particular network.
Once again, Letterman making fun of A-Rod in this way, knocking up Sarah Palin's daughter during the game.
That just wouldn't happen.
It might happen afterwards, but not during the game.
Here's how the rest of this went.
Well, it's certainly not going to come up other than your mention in this particular interview because I want to ask you about David Letterman and Sarah Pamlin.
But again, if you'd like to talk about that, I'm willing to go forward with the conversation.
Yes?
I'll talk about whatever you want.
Hit me with your best shot.
Good.
So, in this case, it's comedy to talk about her real itinerary in New York.
It's kind of serious, not really funny.
Why did she take such offense?
She called him pathetic, so she obviously took offense.
Why was she so offended by David Letterman?
Well, Contessa, since you're a female, you might be a better expert on whether or not it's appropriate to call a public figure slutty for no apparent reason and to joke about her daughter being knocked up in the middle of Yankee Stadium while she knows.
How would you feel about that contestant?
It actually happened to me, and I'm fine.
I'm still here.
Really?
David Letterman joked about you being slutty and then about your daughter.
David Letterman, but it's happened to me publicly.
Okay, well, we'll change topics.
This is John Ziegler with Contessa Brewer, who is hopelessly outmatched on MSNBC less than an hour ago.
Let me get this straight.
You find this surprising or shocking that because you in the media portray Republicans as old white men, the public perceives Republicans as old white men, and you destroy in a blatant character assassination Sarah Palin's character.
In your interview, and the public thinks that she's not worthy of that, at least in some terms.
John, in your interview with Sarah Palin, did you ask her any tough questions or are you functioning now as her spoke?
Yes, I did.
This was a great interview.
I urge anyone who's interested in the real Sarah Palin to go to howobamagotelected.com.
You can listen to the whole 16 minutes.
One of the questions I asked her was whether or not she felt dissed by John McCain when he went on.
Jay Leno, also on NBC, back when he was the host of the Tonight Show, and basically dissed her.
And surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, she gave an incredibly classy answer, showing far more class than clearly most people on this network have.
This is John Ziegler talking to the clearly outmatched Contessa Brewer, the anchor babe info babe at MSNBC.
Here is the final soundbite where Contessa can no longer take it and demands that Ziegler's microphone be cut.
I don't really know what to do with that.
You know what?
I was, honestly, I'm here to give you an opportunity.
I consider myself a common sense thinker.
I haven't attacked you, and for you to come on and use those sort of insults insults me.
Thank you so much for your time.
I do appreciate that.
Okay.
Much more news and that was just less than an hour ago.
John Ziegler on MSNBC slicing and dicing the infobabe Contessa Brewer.
I don't know why they invited him.
They had to know what they were getting.
At any rate, it was just an hour ago.
One of the things that they referred to in that interview was the old white guys running the Republican Party.
And that's the Gallup poll today.
Results have been analyzed that way by USA Today.
It is another story that quotes inside the Beltway operatives, so-called experts, party out of power.
Why is the Republican Party out of power?
Let's be honest about why the Republican Party is out of power.
It is out of power thanks to John McCain.
Thanks to General Powell.
Thanks to the Republican moderates.
The Republican Party is out of power thanks to McCain, thanks to Macau, Powell, and the moderates.
And a party out of power would not have a spokesman yet.
It's absurd to have to even discuss this.
A party out of power needs to organize and develop talent.
Who was the Democrat spokesman when Bush was president?
Who was the Democrat leader?
Do we get stories on this?
Do we get stories how Democrats were wandering aimlessly through life?
They couldn't find a leader.
Where were similar polls taken and where were the stories?
The Democrats had to organize, and they organized around John Kerry, and then they organized around Barack Obama.
They organized around Al Gore.
In the eight years of Bush, who was the Democrat Party leader?
Who was the spokesman?
There was none.
Obama was largely an unknown junior senator of no acclaim for most of Bush's presidency.
It wasn't until 2004, after Bush's first term, that Obama made his speech at a Democrat convention to people started going, but they were wandering in the woods aimlessly for four years.
And here we are, not even six months into the Obama presidency.
And the state-run media thinks they're onto a big story, a big hook here.
Republicans have no leader.
And look who the writer for this story, Susan Page.
Look who she turns to for comment for the most part.
A former advisor to McCain, a former advisor to Bush, and a couple of other hapless commentators, none of whom have shown any propensity to winning anything.
So not only is the party out of power because of McCain, Powell, and the moderates, the people that Susan Page talks to about the Republicans party's problems are the authors of the Republican Party's losing defeats.
As for balding white men, this is a comment from Ed Gillespie, by the way.
Republican Party can't continue to be seen as being led by balding white men.
Joe Biden is a balding white guy.
Last time I checked, he was vice president of the United States.
This is not about hair or skin color or nonsense like that.
They continue to smear Sarah Palin, who would be treated by the media as a rock star if she were a liberal Democrat.
But government-operated media, government-controlled media, the effort now is very clear.
They want to demoralize all of you.
They want to demoralize conservatives.
They want to foment division in the Republican Party as it tries to rebuild.
And they want to create a public perception of conservatism as narrow and exclusive, not mainstream.
So while Obama's policies are falling apart, while he's in panic, while the American people are hurting, not one story about that.
It's about burying the Republican Party.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Remember, folks, the great make it look easy.
Do not try this at home.
I am a highly trained broadcast specialist, and it appears easy, but it isn't.
What I want to see, where are all the stories on the people who've lost their family businesses because of Obama?
You see it on Fox.
You see Gretchen Carlson talk about her family, who for 90 years owned a GM dealership in Minnesota, wiped out by Barack Obama, not the economy.
Where are stories like this in the government-run media?
People who've lost their family businesses when Obama, just with his empirical will, closes them down.
What is the effect of that?
These dealership closings in thousands of American communities.
What about the effect on the charities these dealers support, sports teams?
How is it going to impact unemployment?
How, by the way, what is going to happen to the price of automobiles with fewer dealerships?
Do you realize what's going to happen?
The price of automobiles, they're going to go up.
Prices of cars are going to be higher because there are fewer dealerships.
It's a supply and demand thing.
How's all this going to affect the tax base?
There's a wealth of angles out there for what used to be the drive-by media, now government-run media.
Not to mention all the people who've lost their homes because of foreclosures, all the newly homeless.
If you dig deep, you can find local media doing stories on these kinds of things.
For example, from the Birmingham News in Alabama yesterday, thousands line up in Birmingham for Section 8 housing applications.
More than 1,000 people, I get a picture of it here, more than 1,000 people lined up Tuesday morning in the Smithfield Public Housing Office on 8th Avenue West in Birmingham.
The line snaking around the block to apply for Section 8 housing.
The line for Section 8 housing applications stretched this morning more than three blocks from the door of the Smithfield Public Housing Office in Birmingham, Alabama, as hundreds showed up for the program's first open enrollment of 2009.
So local media is doing the story on the pain and suffering out there that's being brought about specifically by Barack Obama.
And the drive-by's state-run media ignoring it.
Speaking of which, talking about automobile dealerships and automobiles, let's go back to me.
Myself, on this show, March 30th, I said this.
He's annoying about the automobile business.
He doesn't know how to change a tire.
The automobile business needs car guys, people that love Greece, get in there, manufacture these engines and cars, great designs, lines, make people want to go out and buy these cars.
Car companies have to be run by financial people today because they're basically health care and retirement funds.
Okay, is that me, March 30th, talking about the future of General Motors, Obama Motors, and Chrysler, and how nobody that Obama's put on his task force has the slightest idea or understanding about the car business.
So today, they have named a CEO of General Motors, Edward Whitaker.
He built AT ⁇ T into the biggest U.S. provider of telephone services over a 43-year career, Edward Whiteacre Jr., the new chairman of General Motors, and he said this.
Don't know anything about cars.
I do know about business and I know about big business and, you know, employees and all that sort of thing.
San Antonio, Texas, on our affiliate there, WOAI-TV.
Barack Obama has chosen somebody who said, again, listen to this re-recue that.
Edward Whitaker talking about the automobile business.
He's the new CEO of GM.
Don't know anything about cars.
I do know about business and I know about big business and, you know, employees and all that sort of thing.
I don't know anything about cars.
That's the new CEO of General Motors, predicted by me, El Rushbo, your highly trained broadcast specialist.
Mr. Sterdley, you know, a lot of people talk about Obama and his messianic complex.
He does have one thing in common with God.
Barack Obama has one thing in common with God.
You know what it is?
God does not have a birth certificate either.
Moving on, ladies and gentlemen, an interesting story here from FoxNews.com.
This is, you would think that you would find this at Sterdley making gestures like he's shooting himself in the head in there.
God does not have a birth certificate, neither does Obama.
Not that we've seen this next story, you're going to think that Scott Ott would do it at Scrapple Face.
You're going to think this is parody, but it's not.
Foxnews.com, five months into Barack Obama's presidency, two researchers are at odds over whether a so-called Obama effect can bump up black students' standardized test scores and help to close the achievement gap between blacks and whites.
In the days after Obama's election in November, screw officials across the fruited plane reported a noticeable improvement in students' performance, particularly in black communities, and they attributed this to Obama's success.
However, two studies have produced conflicting reports on the existence of such an effect, calling into question whether inspiration alone is enough to bring quantifiable change.
Recent study found that African Americans scored higher on standardized tests if they were reminded of President Obama's accomplishments before the test, narrowing the achievement gap between black and white test takers and suggesting a tangible effect of Obama's presidency.
Now, the idea that anybody would want to go out and do such a survey is an indication of how far gone everybody is into this whole notion that Obama is a God, as Evan Thomas said.
Did he say he's God or a God?
You sure he said a God?
He's look that up because I want to get that right.
I thought Evan Thomas said he's God.
He's above the country.
He's above the world.
He's like God.
Or he's God or a God.
We're going to find out.
Anyway, that kind of thinking produces insanity like this.
A recent study found that African Americans scored higher on standardized tests if they were reminded of Obama's accomplishments before the test.
So just reminding black students of Obama's accomplishments somehow increases their knowledge?
Sort of God.
Evan Tom.
Yeah, he's above the country.
He's above the world.
He's a sort of God.
That's the kind of thinking that you've got to be kidding me with this kind of stuff.
But I guess this is no different than saying Michelle Obama's a fashion plate.
That's a big stretch.
Let me go back to the audio soundbites here before we have to go to the break.
We talked about Letterman.
Here is what he said.
This is from the late show with David Letterman on Monday night, a montage of his remarks about Sarah Palin.
And you'll also hear Paul Schaefer in here.
You know who was in town this weekend?
Went to a Yankee game?
Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska.
Do you remember Sarah Palin?
Yes.
I always thought she was very appealing.
Did you think she was very appealing?
I thought she was attractive, an attractive woman.
I think she would have been the most attractive vice president we've ever had, probably.
One awkward moment, though, during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.
Never do bought makeup at Bloomingdale's to update her slutty flight attendant look.
We'll take a brief time out and be back after this.
Ha, welcome back.
How are you?
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Okay, so one thing God and Obama have in common, neither one of them has a birth certificate, but what's the difference between God and Obama?
Want to take a stab at this one, Mr. Snurdley?
How about you, Dawn?
Brian, anybody take a difference between God and Obama.
The difference is that God does not think he's Obama.
To the phones we go.
Debbie in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Great to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi.
I love your show.
Love listening to you.
Thank you, Vernon.
And I have a question.
What's that?
My question is, this morning on Fox News, there was some interviews done with some of these dealerships that were shut down.
I don't remember what town they were filming them at, but there was a lady that they interviewed, and she was saying how it was a sad day of these dealerships.
They're closing all the people out of work and said that this is not the hope we voted for.
So my question is, do any of these people, since he's done a lot of damage in the less than six months he's been in, regret voting for this man that they now are seeing the clearer picture?
I think that remains the question of the day.
And you're basically asking about Democrats and independents who voted for the guy.
What are they thinking?
Is this what they bought?
Is this what they bargained for?
Is this what they thought they were getting?
Exactly.
And of course, there's no poll on this.
Government-run media is not going to poll this question.
Definitely not.
No.
So, and let me tell you something.
You know, I'm going to pass something on here.
This is anecdotal, and it was repeated to me by a friend who was in Washington recently at a restaurant and overheard two people talking about the upcoming health care plan.
Now, I trust that Pearson, who told me this, but I must say that I didn't hear it myself.
But it relates to your question, and what I was going to say is there is a palpable fear throughout this country of speaking out against Obama from the Republican Party on down through the rest of the country.
There is a palpable fear of doing so.
Two guys are in this restaurant in Washington, and one of them, a former hot shot on the Hill or something, talking about how he's been talking to Republicans, and they're not even going to oppose Obama on health care with much certitude.
They're just afraid to.
They're just afraid.
They're looking at polling data.
They see Obama's approval numbers, and they're just afraid.
So you ask the American people, is this what they bargain for?
The closest we can get to discerning whether they're the answer to that is if you look at approval numbers, Obama's approval numbers, depending on the government-run poll that you look at, anywhere from 60 to 63 percent.
If you go to Rasmussen, it's 54 percent.
And then the Rasmussen survey also has an index of favorability.
And what he does is tabulate the people who strongly favor and strongly approve and strongly disapprove and gets an index of the difference.
And a couple days ago, it was zero.
Now it's up to plus three on the positive side.
If you look at other polls, you'll find that a lot of Americans, in many instances, in a majority, do not agree with Obama's policies.
They don't agree with deficit spending.
Don't agree with bailing out businesses and the auto companies.
They don't agree with all of this debt that we're, but they still approve.
So there's going to be a meeting at some point on the graph of these particular sentiments.
This approval number of 63, 64%, if we are to believe it, has got to give way at some point if the other polls are accurate that people don't like what he's doing.
Some point, they have to merge, and the approval number has to come down.
I think the Obama administration is falling apart.
I think it's in panic.
I think, based on what they're doing yesterday, they are responding to the criticism that they're getting, which is primarily coming from here.
There's not much criticism of Obama in Washington, but he's, and he's announced PAYGO now.
PAYGO, this is the biggest sham.
After he has busted the budget, after he's broken the bank, after he has destroyed this nation's economy, after he has wrecked the future of children not yet born, now all of a sudden it's time to get serious about the way we spend money.
It's just a ruse in order to raise taxes.
Here, look at these two headlines.
Reuters, Obama seeks fiscal responsibility mantle.
President Obama sought on Tuesday to show he was serious about improving the U.S. budget picture as he called on Congress to pass new limits on tax cuts and spending programs to avoid adding to deficits.
This is absurd.
Government-run media, after $12 trillion of budget debt that's forecast it's going to be higher than that over the next 10 years, after a budget deficit this year of over $2 trillion, totally irresponsible, authoritarian spending designed to destroy the private sector in this country.
They now run a story about how Obama wants to seek this responsibility mantle on spending.
The pay-as-you-go principle is very simple.
Obama said Congress can only spend a dollar if it saves a dollar elsewhere.
Yeah, well, he didn't put any limits on himself.
He's spending money and taking over business without legislation to back it up.
But now he's putting limits on Congress.
This is just an excuse for liberal Democrats to go out and raise taxes.
The Heritage Foundation has a story on the Obama PAYGO farce.
But then after that, after the Reuters story and after all the government-run media hosannas of yes, oh, pay go, budget responsibility.
We love Obama.
President Obama then, later in the day Tuesday, proposed budget rules for his health care plan that would allow Congress to borrow tens of billions of dollars and put the nation deeper in debt to jumpstart the administration's emerging health care overhaul.
The pay-as-you-go budget formula plan significantly weaker than a proposal Obama issued with Little Fanfare last month.
He's going to want to carve out here about $2.5 trillion worth of exemptions for his priorities over the next decade.
It's okay to borrow for health care, but nothing else.
After saying pay go, after saying we've got to be responsible, later in the day, he just, you couldn't get away with this to your wife.
You couldn't get away with this with your husband.
You couldn't get away with this at school.
You couldn't get away with this kind of thing with your parents.
You couldn't get away.
Your dog wouldn't buy this.
Your cat might because cats are indifferent.
But nobody else would.
I get, try this.
Try this with any, try this in your family.
You know, go out, go out and buy a new car.
Go out and buy a $140,000 new car.
Here's what you do: you try it.
At breakfast, say, this family's going to get in a budget.
We're going to rein it in.
We're going to make sure that we don't have any more debt.
Tear it up the credit cards, blah, blah, blah.
Then, five o'clock, you come home with a new $150,000 car.
And your wife or your husband says, What the hell are you doing?
Well, it's okay to bust the budget for a car I wanted.
See if you get away with it.
Crayman Network.
By the way, I need to apologize.
It's Edward Whitaker, the new CEO of General Motors, who says he doesn't know anything about cars, which is no big deal because Obama doesn't know anything about economics.
I apologize to Mr. Whitaker.
It's spelled Whitacre.
That's how I pronounced it, but it's pronounced Whitaker.
Thanks for those of you who have corrected me.
Ladies and gentlemen, one other difference between God and Obama.
The similarities are that neither have a birth certificate.
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