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June 16, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 16, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And we're back.
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Mark Levin just sent me a very insulting note.
Levin said, I just saw pictures of your new puppy.
It looks like Obama's dog.
And I was insulted.
Obama's dog has a tail.
It's a Portuguese water dog.
It was given to him by Senator Kennedy.
Senator Kennedy has a Portuguese water dog named Splash.
I kid you not.
Our dog is an old English sheepdog.
Much, much, much.
I don't want to put down Portuguese water dogs, but I mean to have my dog compared to Obama's.
That's um that was a that was a bit much.
Levin doesn't.
What do you mean?
Notice how quickly it became our dog.
Well that's uh well, it's it is.
It's it's uh I love the little thing.
It's our dog.
I do.
I love them for it.
What's what's wrong with it being our dog?
I was there when we picked it up.
You know, I didn't I didn't leave it, uh, you know, that what wasn't I wasn't, I wasn't well, you know, I got a big yard.
You know, let the dog run it's gonna be a big dog.
Let it run around there.
You know, I'm I'm not like some fathers.
You know, you know, leave leave the leave the waving room and head out and have a cigar and so forth.
I was there.
The moment of delivery.
And at any rate.
No, we're not into the parent thing.
Don't take this uh the go out of out of whack with it here.
I want to play you an audio soundbite or two.
They're hilarious.
First, the uh greatest press secretary ever.
That would be the stumbling, bumbling Robert Gibbs in his press briefing this afternoon.
Unidentified reporter said, Robert, are you at all concerned that uh the president's measured response, the measured response of the United States so far to the Iranian election could harm the Americans, the president's image, not only in Iran, but uh around the world.
No, I I think uh this administration's commitment to democracy has uh been demonstrated in the commitment in resources that uh uh that we've put forward.
But at the same time, and I think it's important that uh I re-emphasize what the president said about sovereignty, but more importantly that I emphasize that this is a debate inside of Iran for Iranians.
Okay, so uh the the estimable Robert Gibson, no, no problem.
We're not gonna meddle.
These are continuing to know we're not gonna meddle.
They're sovereign.
If they want nuclear weapons, they're gonna have nuclear weapons.
They want nuclear power, they're gonna have nuclear power.
In fact, we've already told them they could go nuclear power.
No, no, no, no, no.
We're not gonna meddle.
Smartest, greatest press secretary ever.
Uh, let's see.
Talked about this yesterday.
The the the four Uyghur terrorists that were in Guantanamo Bay, Chinese version of Al Qaeda.
We released them to Bermuda, which is a this time of year, a tropical vacation island, and they're swimming around in the ocean.
They have pictures of them out, they're just having a grand old time.
They're gonna be put on work-related jobs projects.
And those Uyghurs are out saying, Oh man, the human rights at Guantanamo much better than in China.
And of course, the Chinese are mad the Chinese wanted them back, but Obama shipped them to Bermuda without telling the Brits.
And the Brits are very upset.
They've got four terrorists running around in one of their territories, Bermuda.
So last night's special report, Fox News Channel.
Here's a portion of a report by Catherine Haridge on the four Chinese Muslim Uyghurs just released from Guantanamo Bay.
You'll hear their female interpreter.
They say the worst moment at Gitmo came when the U.S. allowed Chinese interrogators to question them.
They were really harsh.
They were threatening that.
Camp Iguana, the camp with the least restrictions, was the men's most recent home.
Asked which was worse, life at Gitmo versus China.
Of course it's Chinese.
There's no guarantee for a human lives there.
So right out of the mouths of terrorists.
Right out of the mouths of the Uyghurs.
They were treated pretty well there.
The worst moment of gidmo came when the U.S. allowed the Chicoms to come ask them questions.
Then this is hilarious.
This is Nora O'Donnell, doesn't know what to do with this story.
America's paying for this, Nora.
This is what you have to what you have to note.
But um she's talking, uh, let's see, with uh reporter for the Bermuda son, James Whitaker, about the four Chinese Uyghurs now in Bermuda.
She said, are are these Uyghurs, are these four guys mad at the United States?
They say they have no hard feelings towards the U.S. Um, despite the fact that they believe they've been wrongfully imprisoned for seven years.
Mm-hmm.
And where are they staying?
At a nice hotel, and who's paying for it?
Well, I believe the U.S. government putting the bill at the moment.
They're staying at a at a guest house on the North Shore, which overlooks the Atlantic Ocean.
It's uh nice place.
I was up there on Saturday and met with them.
It's uh it's nice traditional Bermudian cottages overlooking the ocean.
It's somewhere most of us would like to go on holiday.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, it is interesting when you see uh these pictures, they're strolling and looks like they're on vacation.
I mean, even we've got one picture of them eating ice cream.
Why are you surprised, Nora?
Your president has talked about how mean the United States is.
Your president's talked about how vicious Club Gidmo is.
Your president has talked about how unamerican Club Gidmo is.
These people have been wrongly imprisoned by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
They ought to be in vacation cottages in Bermuda.
They ought to be swimming in the ocean, and they ought to be eating ice cream.
We Americans owe this to them because Bush was mean and destroyed American values and America's reputation, and Obama's gonna re-establish.
So the United States is paying for four Chinese Muslim terrorists to vacation, basically, having been released from Guantanamo Bay.
And in an open-ended interview, they say, Oh, the worst moment we ever had there was when the GICOM showed up to ask us questions.
I I some days, some days, and I'm tempted to say just how stupid if 53% of this country.
But I don't understand why Nora O'Donnell, you can tell she's having trouble with this.
And my question to anybody in state-run media, you ought to be celebrated.
You ought to have a crew in Bermuda to show these guys eating ice cream, vacationing in their cottages in the North Shore, and and uh swimming in the ocean to show how harmless they are.
To show how they were wrongly imprisoned, they're just nice Chinese terrorists.
And that they were Bush was wrong.
You you got looking at this the wrong, wrong way.
Clearly, they don't uh I don't know what to do with it.
Washington Post today, uh, more problems than solutions in the Medicare report.
Now, this is not the CBO score of Obama's health care proposal.
This is a separate report on Medicare.
Now keep in mind that Obama's health care health care public option problem uh uh proposal is essentially just uh expanding Medicare as it exists.
In fact, they start the story this way expanding access to Medicare will not solve the nation's health care cost problem.
That's the message of a report yesterday by a commission that advises Congress on the federal medical program for older Americans.
Expanding access will not solve its problem.
Of course not, because it's broke.
To eliminate wasteful spending, policymakers must transform economic incentives for doctors, hospitals, and other providers of medical services, though it isn't clear how to do it.
As Congress and the Obama administration seek to remain potentially uh restrained, potentially crushing increases in health care spending.
The report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, MedPAC, is emblematic of the larger debate, long on problems, short on solutions, to illustrate what it might take to save Medicare.
Med PAC describes how primary care doctors, specialists in hospitals could be reorganized into accountable care organizations.
Communes, whose members would receive bonuses if the organizations met quality and cost targets.
Oh, we want to have private sector incentives here.
Is that what they're talking about?
To ratchet up the incentives, health care providers that fail to meet cost and quality targets could be penalized.
Now, the uh program here says this.
If current spending and utilization trends continue, the Medicare program is fiscally unsustainable.
Part of the problem is that Medicare's fee-for-service payment systems rewards more care and more complex care without regard to the quality or value of that care.
So we have two things that hit yesterday.
We have the CBO report on Obama's health care plan.
Well, that's the Kennedy plan, but it's it's the Obama plan being run by Kennedy and uh whoever else in the Senate, I forget who the guy with him is.
Anyway, that would take one trillion dollars over ten years just to insure one-third of the 47 million uninsured.
And then the Medicare report says that the government's Medicare program is fiscally unsustainable.
There's no reason to do any of this.
There's no reason to do any of it.
Fiscally common sense, the only reason to do this is if you are an authoritarian and you want to grab as much control of the U.S. private sector health care system as you can.
That's the only reason to do this, because there's not one common sense or financial or fiscal or business reason to do either of these things that are being proposed.
Like I said last week, could we fix some of this stuff?
In fact, before can we just wait to see if anything else Obama does works before we mess up with one-fifth of the U.S. economy?
We'll take a break and be back.
Stay with us.
You know, this is a good question.
This is an somebody just sent me an excellent question here.
Here's Obama running around talking about open and honest elections.
What does he know about them?
All he's ever done is teach Acorn how to cheat on elections, stuff ballot boxes, fraudulently register voters.
What the hell does President Obama know about an honest election?
Chicago for crying out loud.
Excellent question.
Rich Lowry makes a good point in a column today I read in the New York Post back in the mid-1990s.
Newt Gingrich proposed slowing the rate of growth of Medicare and Medicaid.
Remember the Democrats produced this fraudulent commercial, Newt saying, yeah, we just want to let Medicare and Medicaid wither on the vine.
And he wasn't talking about Medicare and Medicaid withering on the vine.
He was clobbered by Democrats and the media for waging war on the elderly and the indigent.
Now every day Obama's finding new money to save in the Medicare program and the Medicaid programs in order to pay for his big nationalized health care.
And nobody's upset about Can you remember a time when a government official started talking about cutting social security or Medicare and Medicaid and nobody beefed?
Never.
Obama's getting away with it each and every day.
People will trade their security for liberty all too frequently.
Let me ask you to consider another question, another point.
Many people in this health care thing think what it's all about is them getting health care free because it's unaffordable.
They're insurance free, they're health care free.
Let me just I'll ask you, the general audience, uh, in addition to specifying how I just did it with people who think that health care is going to be given away.
How many of you at any time in your life have gotten a comp of anything?
Maybe it's a couple tickets to a game.
Maybe somebody gave you something.
Just because it didn't cost you anything, did it mean it didn't cost anybody anything?
Costs don't go away just because you don't happen to pay them.
Yeah, come back and bite you in the rear end and you don't know how many different ways what you're obligating yourself to, or in the case of Medicare, Medicaid, or health care, you think it doesn't cost you anything, so it doesn't cost anybody.
It's going to cost somebody something, and they're going to come back and get it from you one way or the other.
Either Your service is going to go to hell and you're not going to get as good coverage because you're not paying anything for it.
It's like Thomas Sowell said.
He said this in a column in 2005.
Costs don't go away because you refuse to pay them any more than gravity goes away if you refuse to acknowledge it.
Thinking that something doesn't cost you when it does have a price is the same thing as thinking gravity isn't going to kill you when you jump off the mountain.
Dave in Pittsburgh, I'm glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Hi.
Greetings from the City of Champions.
I called regarding bulldozing the 40% of Flint in Mexican, and I had a thought about it.
Maybe this is what President Obama really meant by shovel-ready jobs in the forculus package.
laughter Shovel ready jobs bulldozing Flint and other American cities.
So maybe you think it's a terrible idea to bulldoze these places, City.
Oh, it's it's it's an awful idea.
I mean, I guess it would be the easiest way to uh tear American cities down that uh been mishandled by liberals for years, and uh obviously won't won't have a chance to come up with the case.
You know what?
There is a point here.
There is a point.
When you let liberals decide what's going to be bulldozed, then anything's up for grabs.
Now, right now what's being talked about in uh Flint, according to the report that I saw, I think it was the Los Angeles Times yesterday.
What's being talked about being bulldozed in Flint is uh unoccupied houses, boarded up houses.
And, you know, general neighborhoods and nobody is.
Now, if there's talk about bulldozing neighborhoods where people live, that's a different thing.
But uh this guy that's in charge of this is a big lib, and he's in the city council.
He's uh and the Obama people have asked him, hey, you know what, apply your theory here to fifty other cities.
Once the Libs start talking about bulldozing things, that's a good point.
Excellent point.
I'm getting so much email about this.
Let me address this.
I saw it earlier today.
The FDA has as issued an official warning against Zycam nasal mist.
Now I didn't see it relate to the swabs, but I saw that it related to the nasal spray, the Zycam nasal spray, that it it uh they warn you not to use it because it can uh destroy your sense of smell.
Let me tell you my history with this.
Zycam is an official sponsor of the EIB network.
And I think what two or three years, but whatever the first year with them, they told us about all of the lawsuits they had, and they beat every one of them.
I think what's happening here.
I use Zycam all the time.
I know I know hundreds of people who use Zycam.
They've never lost their sense of smell.
We have a litigious society.
There are people and lawyers who will team up to sue a company for damages for any reason at all.
A coffee's too hot, they don't have chicken McNuggets at the drive-thru window or what have you.
Now, I don't know about the nasal spray stuff.
I I didn't see the whole report.
All I saw was they said the nasal spray can cause loss of sense of smell permanently.
My experience with this has been these are professionally concocted suits.
They have the Zycamp people have spent you would not believe how much money was science refuting all this.
I don't know what happened here with the FDA report.
But I'll tell you, the FDA to me is no different than any other government agency.
They are not God, and when they say something, I don't snap to.
A lot of people do, and the FDA uh but I I just I have too much personal experience with this.
I've my sense of smell is fine, and everybody that I know who I've recommended use ZyCam has never said one thing to me about it.
These are nattering nabobs, lazy people running around.
I've got an email.
I've got an email from listeners I don't know.
Rush, rush, rush.
I'm hearing it can destroy your sense of smell.
Or I've even got a couple.
It destroyed my sense of smell, Limbo.
I don't think they were I think they were just agitators.
Uh but I don't know anybody.
And the and the science I've seen on it is it's it's it's bogus.
I mean, i the all it is is zinc for crying out loud in the uh in the Schwabs, the swabs, and I I still don't know if the swabs are included in this, which swabs Are what we advertise.
The nasal spray from Zycam came on the market a little bit after the swabs did, but they really haven't been part of the advertising program here as much as the uh as much as the cotton swabs are.
But the things that we were told about when we met with the Zycam people was that they were being sued, and they won every case or had them dismissed or what have you over a course of a number of years about this whole notion of the loss of sense of smell.
I know these people.
There's no way these people are going to put product on the market that's gonna destroy people's sense of smell.
So this is just uh, I think a classic example of the litigious society that we have and the anti-corporate existence in much of the left today.
Don't have a have a job, they just seek getting rich this way.
Now think of this, though.
You bulldoze 40% of Flint, Michigan.
And look at how much your tax base drops.
At the same time, look how much less it takes to support the town when 40%'s gone.
I mean, there are arguments on uh on both sides of this.
Leon Panetta has now said that he does not believe Dick Chaney is rooting for a terror attack.
CIA spokesman Paul Gamigliano.
Graziate said in a statement to CNN, the director does not believe the former vice president wants an attack.
He didn't say that.
That's exactly what he said.
And I'm gonna tell you why he said it.
Because when there is another attack, Panetta and Obama gang gonna run out and blame Chani and Bush for it.
These things don't get said by accident, folks.
By the way, uh, how's that hope and change working for you out there?
U.S. credit card defaults rose to record highs in May with steep, a steep deterioration of Bank of America's lending portfolio and another sign that consumers remain under severe stress.
How's that hope and change working for you?
How's that stimulus working for you?
How's the GM and Chrysler bailout working for you?
How's the TARP bailout working for you?
How's how's that credit market being revitalized by TARP?
How's that working for you out there?
Delinquency rates are an indicator of future credit losses, and they fell across the industry, but analysts said the decline was due to a seasonal trend as consumers use tax refunds to pay back debts, and they expect delinquencies to go up again in coming months.
Duh.
But he said we're back from the brink.
He told the Hollywood left when he went out there to get a fundraiser that we're back from the brink.
Can you imagine, ladies and gentlemen, what across the board tax cuts would have done had they been instituted, implemented back in the beginning of the year.
You remember, uh, ladies and gentlemen, Coco revived this.
Put this on the website tonight.
My op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, my bipartisan stimulus plan was to take the guesswork out of it.
Here's here's here's Biden running around talking about, well, we all guessed wrong on the stimulus.
We guessed guessed wrong.
You're guessing?
No, we didn't really know how bad the economy was.
BS.
I had a bipartisan stimulus plan, and it was based on election returns.
Okay, Obama, you're gonna spend let's say you're gonna spend a trillion dollars here on your stimulus because that's what it really added up to.
Okay, you take f you take 53% of it, and do it your way, which is what you got in the election returns.
And I'll take the what 47% of the one trillion, I'll take 470 billion, and I'll do it my way, and I'll get tax cuts, and I'll measure, we'll see which one works better.
And may the best economic philosophy win.
Guessed.
This is tragic.
These people are guessing.
What if Obama told us he had all the answers?
He promised the country.
He didn't tell us he was guessing.
Can you imagine if Bush or Chanty had said, well, we were guessing here on uh they would be savaged.
Everyone guessed wrong.
Like you're guessing wrong about Iran right now, eh, Gibbs?
You guessed wrong about Guantanamo Bay.
The Uyghurs are not eating ice cream, swimming in the ocean in Bermuda.
Are you guessing wrong on socialized medicine?
Are you guessing wrong on cap and trade?
That is a bombshell comment that uh Biden came out with.
It is being treated like a wet firecracker.
Patricia in Fort Payne, Alabama.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, hello, Ray.
It is such a pleasure to speak with you.
I have been listening to you uh every day during lunch for the past ten years that we moved up here to Alabama.
Thank you very much.
Uh I just wanted to call and clarify something.
I I'm thinking that I I heard you wrong.
You were speaking about some senator that was thinking out on all the stupid pet projects that they stuck into the stimulus plan like saving a rat or the turtle crossing.
But did did you say the park facilities were included in that?
Park facilities are included in a list people think is good.
Oh, okay.
That's what I thought.
I thought I had misunderstood that because I myself, I work at a plant in Fort Payne, Alabama.
It's a small town.
It's um we have about 450 employees, and we are having the best year ever.
Normally we're pretty seasonal, so we're like real busy for like the first quarter, then we slow down, you know, back and forth.
And my husband actually works here too, and we're just like, wow, because we're like looking at the news and we're seeing all these poor people.
Well, wait, wait, wait, wait a second.
What's that got to do with spending on parks?
Because what that's one of our things that we sell park facilities, park amenities.
You know, the the basketball goals, the you know, the tables that they put in there, the playgrounds and stuff like that.
Yeah.
And I mean, you know, we're we're just having an awesome year, and we're like one of like five companies.
How many uh how many new employees have you hired since the stimulus bill was passed?
Oh, well, no, you you got me there, but probably zero, as far as I know.
We haven't increased our work first in any.
Most of the time we're laying people off.
This is this this is how.
Patricia, I know you're a big fan, you said so, but I'm unfortunately I hate to do this, but I'm gonna make you hate me for a couple minutes.
Oh, no, no, school me, sir.
I'm not gonna scold you.
I'm not gonna scold you.
I'm gonna say this is how it all works.
See, you, your husband works at a plant that makes all this stuff for parks.
Now, what one new job has been created.
Which was the whole point of the stimulus.
But your husband's plant's doing well because they're building new jungle gyms, basketball goals and stuff to put in the parks there in Alabama, wherever.
So it's working.
I would argue that it's the state of Alabama's responsibility to do that, not taxpayers everywhere else.
But see, the whole the whole sales pitch on the stimulus was it's gonna revive the economy, and it was gonna shovel ready jobs.
It was about creating jobs, and you have a ramped up.
I mean, you're you admitted your your husband hadn't ramped up, but you're sold on the stimulus because in your universe, it's working great.
When my point philosophically is this is not the role of government in the first place, is to build basketball goals and park benches and jungle gyms.
It's not to pay the government's not to pay for that.
Not the federal government.
And so unless there are people in the park digging holes and filling them back up that weren't digging holes and filling them back up in the first place, then your business is doing well, but it's revenue neutral in terms of the uh expressed avowed purpose.
But I know and I'm I'm sure there are a lot of other examples like this.
People around the country, ooh, our business is thriving because of the stimulus.
I would say, okay, fine.
Then if your business is thriving because of federal stimulus money, which is taxpayer money from all taxpayers around the country, and live on it forever.
You know, go ahead and live on it for uh forever.
I'm not scolding you.
I'm simply trying to illustrate.
Um well, some parks are the state parks are not in the national park uh what what uh uh sector.
Now, if you're talking about a national park, well, fine.
That's that is a responsibility of the federal government.
I I I would just say, though.
It's a tough one.
I understand it's a tough one.
I'm just remembering what Obama said.
And we're celebrating here the manufacturing of jungle gyms and basketball goals over people getting jobs.
Unemployment rates up to 9.4%.
So basically, what you have here is a government benefiting from the stimulus.
You have a government benefiting from the stimulus.
Private sector, uh your company, I guess, is private sector, but it's it's you have a great year, and I'm sure I'm I'm happy for you.
At any rate, I understand your point, and I'm not not scolding you.
Again, I'm just illustrating how tricky all this stuff is.
And by the way, one other thing, Patricia, you have to be very careful.
During a period of time when people are suffering and hurting into food stamps are running out, unemployment benefits are running out.
9.4% unemployment, people's mortgages are being foreclosed on.
You've got to be very careful calling here and talk about how great you're doing.
We'll be back.
Speaking of jobs, speaking of stimulus, I saw something a couple days ago in the Sacramento Bee that's just amazing.
I cannot, I can't, if I showed you the map on the Ditto Cam, it wouldn't do any good.
You're gonna have to go to our website, we'll link to this story.
It's uh Tom Pugh McClanchy newspapers in the Sacramento Bee.
It will be years before jobs return to much of the U.S., and there is a map of the United States.
And it says the year this area will return to pre-recession employment peak in the color-coded regions of the country.
And I am certain it's just a sheer coincidence that all of these red area, the well, no, the blue areas, these these uh well, the red areas in this chart, which are the blue states.
I'm I'm just it's just sheer coincidence that all of these areas which will not see jobs returned to pre-recession levels till 2014 are Democrat strongholds.
It I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
You ought to see this.
Um California State's gonna go up to 12 percent.
There's one part of California that'll that'll rebound by 2011, and it's uh Central Valley, central part of the state.
But um, all these red areas, like we're we're we're screwed here, Snerdley in South Florida, all along the South Florida, East Coast, all the way up to Naples, 2014, before jobs returned to pre-recession, New York, uh, Chicago, Detroit, most of California, Oregon, uh, Minnesota, New Orleans.
I mean, it's just bad out there.
And you'll note also as I look at this chart, that the District of Columbia will rebound next year with jobs at pre-recession levels.
The they got big stimulus, yes.
However, the the state, 2009 or 2010, the state with the most green areas, that's job recovery, pre-recession levels, Texas, Southern New Mexico, Wyoming.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
These are Republican states.
It's just a coincidence up there.
Uh as I say, we'll link to this at uh at rushlimbaugh.com.
What it also shows is that with the exception of Florida and the Gulf Coast, the Midwest and the South are where to be if you want to get a job before 2011 or 2012.
2013, certainly 2014.
Just a little I'm not suggesting you move here, folks.
Don't misunderstand.
If people stay out of stay out of mid-well, no, Michigan, Michigan's all red at 2014.
And that's being generous.
I mean, bulldozing Michigan for crying out, well, let's be honest, what's happening out there.
Now, we talked about this AmeriCorps inspector general, uh, Gerald Walport.
We talked about it last week.
I'll add some more to this tomorrow.
But this is strictly, this is a thug Chicago thug power play.
And the latest is that Charles Grassley wants to know if Michelle Obama had anything to do with this.
In getting that inspector general, this is about Kevin Johnson's St. Hope Academy.
They got federal money.
800 grand, 400,000 of it they're paying back because it was misused.
The inspector general, these people are appointed, would be they would be above politics.
The state attorney, the state attorney for that area, Sacramento is a temporary guy.
He he chose not to seek charges here, but but the St. Hope Academy has agreed to give back over half the money.
We're using it to drive Kevin Johnson around, according to Gerald Walpin, uh, and do personal errands and and this kind of thing.
The Democrats are in the process of trying to cover this up.
The Republicans trying to get to the bottom of it.
Chuck Grassley is now written a letter asking if Michelle Obama had anything to do with influencing her husband to get rid of this inspector general.
Kevin Johnson's a big supporter of uh of uh of Barack Obama.
But I mean, it's the slees.
This is they there's a 30-day cooling off period.
You can't you can't just fire an inspector general, but they did.
They gave him an hour to resign or be fired.
And 45 minutes later, somebody from the White House called back and said, You got your decision.
He said, I'm not, I'm not quitting.
So they triggered the 30 days and then they got rid of him.
It's a mess.
It's a it's a it's a total Chicago thug type mode of behavior and operation.
Jay in uh old Sage, Minnesota.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Good afternoon.
I'll get right to the point, sir.
And good morning to those of you on the left coast.
Yes, sir.
I think that the reason President Obama wants to run with this bulldoze Flint, Michigan thing is with 50 more cities he can write into the contracts, use caterpillar equipment.
And there you go.
Yeah, but do you need to buy any more caterpillar equipment?
There's got to be some caterpillar equipment sitting around unused.
You would think.
You would think.
But of course.
Yeah, excellent uh excellent, excellent point.
Appreciate that.
Uh Eddie, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Hi.
Yes, sir.
I just wanted to say what a pleasure it is, and I think you're an exceptional American.
Uh I watch a lot of media outlets and uh try to form my own opinion.
And my opinion is that you are the leader of the Republican Party.
No, I'm not.
Well, I know people I know people say that, sir, but I in my opinion, you are, and one of the reasons you are because the leader of the conservatives.
But I'm not I'm not the leader of the Republican Party.
The Republican Party largely doesn't want me.
Well, and that's probably their problem.
One of the issues are that uh political uh people need to be elected.
They try to straddle the fence, and you say the truth, and I think your motto should not be the buck stops here, but the truth stops here, and that's why I appreciate you so much.
So continue what you do.
Thank you, Matthew.
Very proud of you.
Eddie, thank you very much.
I appreciate your saying that.
Truth not only stops here, more importantly, the truth starts here.
People are still emailing me upset about the news that ABC is going to do world news tonight next Wednesday night from the Blue Room of the White House, and then uh Primetime Special on health care will be from the uh East Room.
No opposing voices will be heard.
That's a it's it's ABC promoting Obama's health care.
Everybody's upset about why is this news?
This is not news that ABC's promoting Obama.
ABC's part of government run media, state-run media.
It's they're just being open about it now, folks.
Get used to it.
This is the way it is.
See you tomorrow.
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