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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
	Time for more busy broadcast excellence today from the EIB Network and your host, El Rushbo, the most listened to radio talk show host and program in the country.
	Great to have you here, folks.
	Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
	And if you want to send an email, the email address is lrushbow at eibnet.com.
	They're rounding up guns in Houston.
	Have you seen this?
	Now, the guys here, they're rounding up guns in Houston and DE somebody.
	The feds are going door to door in Houston because they say they're trying to round up guns that are being used in drug deals.
	Some woman, a $35,000 house that just bought four, a $35,000 house, had just bought four brand new weapons, and they found out about it and they went to take them away.
	Look, folks, what's the big deal about this now?
	I mean, elections have consequences.
	Well, I'll tell you what, elections have consequences.
	It's about time people started facing up with what they did here.
	This is just the first ever census for guns.
	You know, Acorn, AmeriCorps are going to be joining the Fed soon.
	They'll sweep the country.
	They'll do an inventory.
	They'll get one or two more liberals on the bench.
	Supreme Court, they'll find a way to get rid of the Second Amendment.
	Then they can confiscate guns like FDR confiscated gold in 1933.
	Do you remember that?
	By virtue of executive order, Franklin Delado Roosevelt confiscated American gold.
	He made it illegal for anybody to have any by executive order.
	Now, there wasn't a constitutional amendment allowing gold or the use of gold in the Constitution, but still.
	I'm sorry, an American president would never do that.
	Come on, Rush.
	American presidents don't have this kind of authority.
	No, no, they're just rounding up guns in Houston now.
	Oh, American presidents don't have that kind of authority.
	It never happened.
	Now, it never happened.
	This is the kind of thing that happened in Venezuela and Cuban Rush.
	It's too extreme.
	You're going off a deep end here.
	Michael Jackson, I have an observation.
	I have an observation about this Michael Jackson thing, not about the details of his death or something.
	Jackson's success, if you stop and think of it, and this is going to really irritate some people, which I will enjoy doing.
	Jackson's success paralleled the rebound of the United States under Ronaldo's Magnus.
	I mean, Michael Jackson's biggest successes, and as it turns out, his final successes, real successes took place in the 80s.
	That was Billie Gene Thriller and all this.
	I mean, yeah, he was as weird as he could be, but he was profoundly, because of his weirdness, an individual.
	He wasn't a group member.
	He reached a level of success that may never be equaled.
	He flourished under Reagan.
	He languished under Clinton Bush and died under Obama.
	Let's hope the parallel does not continue.
	Have you meant to get into this yesterday?
	I did just say it.
	You want me to go back and say it again?
	Okay, Michael Jackson is a weirdo.
	As such, he was the supreme individual.
	I mean, he defined individuality.
	Not a group member.
	He reached a level of success that may never be equaled.
	He flourished under Reagan, languished under Clinton and Bush and died under Obama.
	I mean, facts are facts.
	The timeline's the timeline.
	Let's just hope the parallel doesn't continue.
	Now, I meant to get into this yesterday, ladies and gentlemen.
	This is from state-run Associated Press.
	By the way, you know what's something I've noticed?
	You should look for this, folks.
	You might have trouble finding it.
	You have to trust me.
	More and more.
	What do you mean, you can't believe I said it?
	I said it twice.
	What about it is not true?
	What about what I said is not true?
	He flourished under Reagan, languished under Clinton and Bush.
	That's bipartisan, got a Republican and Democrat in there and died under Obama.
	Michael Jackson died during the era of the first black president.
	Have you only said it that way?
	Now, don't interrupt me anymore.
	I'm doing the program here.
	This is the problem when the host and the boss, I give access to staff members to me via IFB intercom that you can't hear.
	Let me get through these next couple things and then tell me whatever you want.
	Express your disbelief during the next profit center timeout, okay?
	I am noticing more and more as I scan the internet, wires and so forth to do show prep, that there are starting now to be critical pieces of Obama legislation, but they're not bylined.
	AP stories, Reuters' stories, but they're not bylined.
	The reporters are scared to death to put their names on the stuff that's critical, but it's starting to happen out there.
	I have an example of a couple examples of this in the stacks of stuff coming up on the program.
	I meant to get into this yesterday.
	This is Ann Flaherty of State-run Associated Press.
	She did put her name to this.
	President Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to create a new agency to police the fine print on consumer products like credit cards and mortgages to determine what fees and penalties and interest rates are fair.
	The Consumer Financial Protection Agency, not to be confused with the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
	This is the consumer.
	The way you get all this stuff done of your Obama is you simply insult the intelligence of the average American, call whatever you're going to, you could legalize rape and call it the consumer something, and it would pass.
	You're protecting consumers.
	Likewise, you could legalize rape and call it the Civil Rights Act of 2009.
	It would probably pass because who'd have the votes, the guts to vote against something with civil rights in it?
	So here we have Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
	It would be in charge of regulating those products in the same way other government agencies regulate the safety of drugs, food, and toys.
	Obama said Americans are demanding it.
	Now, what he's talking about here is the fine print that is on every credit card bill you get or when you apply for a credit card or anything, all that legalese, all that fine print that nobody ever reads.
	He says Americans are demanding that there be a federal agency to put an end to all this.
	There is no such demand to this.
	Let me tell you why the stuff is there.
	You know why the fine print is there?
	Tell me, sternly, you think you can't believe what I said?
	Tell me if you get this.
	Why is the fine print there?
	Exactly right.
	Fear of lawsuits.
	And who wrote the fine print?
	Lawyers.
	Lawyers write the fine print to protect companies from lawsuits, spurious or otherwise.
	I'll bet you this new fine print czar, you've got another czar here is going to be a lawyer.
	But this, here's the thing.
	This fine print, I defy anybody to tell me the difference between the fine print that we're talking about here on credit card applications and all that from your average bill in the House or Senate.
	No one reads them.
	No one reads the fine print.
	Senators and congressmen are not reading the bills.
	And even if they did, they wouldn't know what they said.
	You can't understand it either way you go.
	No one reads the fine print.
	No one reads the legislation.
	No one understands the fine print.
	No one understands the legislation.
	The real clamor in America is from the American people, the members of Congress, start reading the stuff before you vote on it.
	And start listening to us when you do.
	Can you believe we're getting to this?
	American president had that kind of authority over it.
	It never happened here.
	We didn't have a you can't be serious.
	Obama would want to serve me on two terms, Russia.
	I mean, you're getting sick.
	You're getting insane now.
	Oh, yeah.
	And we've got ownership of the automobile companies, ownership of the mortgage companies.
	We're nationalizing everything Obama can get his hands on.
	And now we've got a fine print czar.
	A fine print czar.
	I'll tell you, all this is a sop to the trial lawyers to rewrite it all again in another way that nobody can understand it and just make less of it.
	It's, I mean, lawyers write all this stuff.
	Lawyers sue over all this stuff.
	But I haven't heard one person complain about it.
	People just ignore it.
	Now, I know you watch.
	You're going to get some phone calls.
	Some people, oh, I didn't read it and I'm complaining about it now because I found out they could raise my interest rate, blah, blah, blah, that kind of stuff.
	You knew that without reading the fine print.
	I mean, if anybody's had any experience with credit cards and there's certain things that you have to admit knowing going in.
	I had a guy send me an email last night in the middle of show prep.
	Remember, we had the story from Time magazine two days ago that women bloat up, pork out, get fat and obese in relationships, much more than men, either married or living together.
	This was a story in conjunction with all of the and by the way, more media, lib media babes' hearts are melting over Mark Stanford.
	This is the most amazing thing to watch.
	At any rate, this story about how women gain weight relationships because it's men's fault.
	And this guy sends me a story from a gossip website I'd never heard of called Socialite Life.
	Do you want to hear the headline?
	And this is from last night.
	Well, it's actually July 29th, so it's a couple days ago.
	Mariah Carey blames husband for weight gain.
	There it is.
	The Time magazine story was right on the money.
	And Obama celebrated the anniversary of the Stonewall riots at the White House on Monday.
	And he used the opportunity to address some grumblings in the gay community.
	He said, we seek an America in which no one feels the pain of discrimination based on who you are or who you love.
	And I know that many in this room don't believe that progress has come fast enough, and I understand that.
	It's not for me to tell you to be patient anymore than it was for others to counsel patients for African Americans who were petitioning for equal rights 50 years ago.
	But I say this, here's Obama's compared, gay marriage, gay rights to the civil rights struggle.
	At any rate, I say this, we've made progress and we will make more.
	And I want you to know that I expect and hope to be judged not by words, not by promises, but by promises my administration keeps.
	We've been in office six months now.
	Obama says, I suspect by the time this administration is over, and no one knows when that will be, it could be 16 years from now.
	By the time this administration is over, I think you guys, he's addressing gays in the White House, will have pretty good feelings about the Obama administration.
	So he essentially said he told them in the White House, the gays that were gathered there to celebrate Stonewall, that they'll be happy in the end.
	Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
	As usual, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
	Ladies and gentlemen, we have talked extensively here about the cap and trade bill and the fact that nobody read it, particularly the 300-page amendment that was dumped on the floor of the House at 3.09 a.m. Friday.
	Well, a member of the press has read it.
	His name, Edward Felker.
	Edward Felker has read the 300-page amendment.
	Let me give you this excerpt.
	When House Democrat leaders are rounding up votes Friday for the massive climate change bill, they paid special attention to their colleagues from Ohio who remain stubbornly undecided.
	The reason is that Ohio is a coal state.
	Well, they finally, House leaders Henry Waxman finally secured the vote of Marcy Kaptor of Toledo.
	They gave her what she wanted, a new federal power authority, similar to Washington State's Bonneville Power Administration, a stock with up to $3.5 billion in taxpayer money available for lending to renewable energy and economic development projects in Ohio and Midwestern states.
	Now, so they basically, they bought her off with $3.5 billion, folks.
	They bought with one vote, $3.5 billion for her to turn her back on her state in exchange for a pile of money that she can lead in handing out, which is going to guarantee her reelection for all of this mythical new energy technology.
	Now, here's the bottom line.
	We talked about this earlier in this week.
	If there were profit in any of these alternative green energy things, they'd be done right now.
	See, energy is, it's hard to lose in the energy business unless you go into green.
	There's no market for it.
	It doesn't work.
	It's too expensive.
	There is profit in energy because everybody needs it.
	Everybody needs, everybody needs gasoline.
	Everybody needs an air-conditioned or heated house.
	Everybody needs, every business needs it.
	Everybody needs it.
	You cannot lose money in the energy business.
	So if the people who are in the private sector, in the energy business, who are, I mean, they want to make a profit, they want to serve customers and so forth, if there were a way to do it with all of this childish green windmill solar stuff, it would be there, folks, and it isn't.
	So how is it going to get into the market?
	It's going to get into the market this way.
	They give Marcy Kaptur in Ohio $3.5 billion for her vote, and then she gets to pass out, let me read it to you again, $3.5 billion in taxpayer money available for lending to renewable energy and economic development projects in Ohio and Midwestern states.
	So if Fred J. Schlubb claims that he's got a brilliant idea on doing some new thing with a windmill or solar power, all he's got to do is call up Marcy Kaptur and say, I want some of the $3.5 billion.
	That's not how inventions occur.
	That is not how innovation takes place.
	There's not one innovation.
	I take it back.
	Take it back.
	Maybe I could name two or three innovations off the top of my head that were government-mandated.
	One, of course, the nuclear bomb, the other going to the moon.
	But essentially, the government does not sit there and decree, okay, you invent high-definition TV.
	You invent a car that does 70 miles an hour that costs the same as a car to.
	That's not how it happens.
	So if they paid $3.5 billion for one vote from Marcy Kaptor, how much did it cost to get other recalcitrant members of Congress to go along with this?
	Henry Waxman included the CAPTRE project, $3.5 billion she can pass out to a bunch of schlubs who are going to be gaming the system, which is how the whole global warming thing got started, by the way.
	You want to grant the study of the whole science?
	Fine.
	You have to agree that man's causing the planet to warm.
	You start, anytime you take money from somebody, you borrow it, you accept it as a gift.
	Anytime somebody gives you something, they're going to want something for it.
	That's why people say, Rush, why don't you run for office?
	I couldn't do it.
	I could not do it.
	I could not.
	I don't want to be that obligated to people who make campaign contributions because they're going to want to pay back somehow.
	They're going to want an ambassadorship.
	They're going to want to have dinner 14 nights a week.
	They're going to want to do this and that.
	Or they're going to demand something on policy.
	They're going to demand it back.
	I mean, we saw this happen, these eight Republicans who voted for this abomination.
	Why?
	Because they got a lot of campaign money from environmentalist wacko groups that traditionally give money to liberal Democrats.
	I mean, the money is the mother's milk of politics.
	They were given huge donations from the environmentalist community, and they had to pay it back with the vote.
	It's just, it's maddeningly frustrating.
	So Waxman includes this capture project, a 310-page amendment to the legislation.
	It was dumped on everybody at 3 o'clock in the morning on Friday, which was just hours before the thing was scheduled to be voted on.
	And there were a bunch of other vote-getting provisions, large and small, that had been sought by dozens of wavering Democrats.
	So in a piece of legislation that, again, we're told we can't do without, we can't delay this, it's too important.
	Just like TARP, just like the pork's bill, it's too important.
	We can't delay it.
	It's nothing but, think of it as nothing but a collection of millions of earmarks is what these pieces of legislation are being or ending up being, which is business as usual, by the way.
	The difference this time is nobody's reading the legislation.
	They don't care what's in it.
	The aspects of the legislation that deal with the so-called issue at hand, in this case, stimulus or global warming, it's irrelevant.
	It's the givebacks, it's the earmarks, it's the pork that secured the votes for all this.
	That's why your phone calls weren't listened to.
	That's why outrage from constituents over this bill was ignored because it wasn't about global climate change in the end.
	Hi, I'm Rush Limbaugh, your highly trained broadcast specialist, emitting vocal vibrations coast to coast.
	I make it look easy, folks.
	Do not try this at home or at a party.
	Telephone number 800-282-2882.
	Have you seen the Gallup poll?
	Have you heard about this Gallup poll that finds a statistically significant increase since last year in the percentage of Americans who describe the Democrat Party's views as being too liberal?
	It's gone from 39% up to 46% of Americans who say that the Democrat Party's views are too liberal.
	This is the largest percentage saying this since November of 1994 after the party's losses in that year's midterm elections.
	Now, a lot of people look at this poll and go, yeah, man, see, there's just private, quiet progress being made out there.
	I mean, describing the Democrat Party as too liberal doesn't get halfway home to actually describing them.
	They've gone way beyond liberal as they've headed left.
	They've gone way beyond progressive.
	They've gone way beyond.
	I mean, these people are flirting with socialist Marxism now.
	And let's just be, you know, open and upfront about it.
	There's nothing liberal about this bunch.
	I mean, yeah, they're all liberal.
	It's like you've got to hit 100 degrees before you get to 102.
	They're all liberal, but the House Democrats especially, and some of the fringe kooks that make up the base of the Democrat Party.
	But I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth here.
	I just still like a little truth in labeling.
	I have a question before we get to your phone calls.
	Ever since, ever since Barack Obama was elected, I have watched business and political talk shows about the economy as if Barack Obama was not the president and that the Democrats did not control the Senate and the House.
	I have watched as all of this economic malaise gets trundled up on George W. Bush and the Republicans and deficit spending and so forth.
	So-called experts in the first quarter were predicting an uptick for the economy in the spring in the second quarter.
	Or they would say that unemployment was bottoming out or housing was coming back.
	You see, it's standard operating procedure.
	A new president gets the, they call it a honeymoon.
	And whatever happens, bad, the new president is exempt from being attached to it.
	That's standard operating procedure, unless the president happens to be a Republican.
	In this case, President's Obama, and it's double the insurance that a new president normally gets.
	So all during the first quarter, after the stimulus was passed and after the TARP started being distributed, and after we took over General Motors, all these experts said, yeah, it's going to come back.
	We're going to get an uptick here.
	We didn't.
	Unemployment kept going higher.
	The economy kept getting slower.
	None of what was being implemented was working.
	This was said.
	All of this phony upbeat news on the economy was said without knowing what Obama was going to do next to wreck the economy.
	Everything Obama has done has served a primary purpose of wrecking the economy.
	He's depleting the private sector of capital.
	He's got a payment czar that's going to determine how much Americans can earn.
	He's taken over the auto companies and essentially given them to the unions.
	He's in charge of the mortgage industry now.
	He's basically in charge of the banking business.
	And now he's got a fine print czar.
	He's in charge of the fine print that companies print on applications, consumer applications for product services.
	This is a war on prosperity.
	It is being waged by Colonel Obama.
	And even at the time in the first quarter when all these cheerleaders for Obama predicting all these upticks in economic activity and jobs is going to come back, oh, yes, we've got a great president now.
	World respects us and our president.
	The president makes sense.
	He's an intelligent guy.
	Great policies here, yeah.
	Federal spending, oh, we're going to get people back to work.
	Caterpillar is going to start rehiring people.
	None of it happened.
	And these people that were making all these false, phony predictions, they had to go silent for a while, but they were making these predictions without knowing what Obama was going to do next.
	They'd say that the gross domestic product would show growth in the third quarter.
	Really?
	Based on what, just yesterday, the San Francisco president of the Federal Reserve out there.
	Yes, we're going to come out of the recession in the fourth quarter of this year.
	It's going to, it's going to end, but that's going to be a very slow recovery.
	And unemployment will lag severely.
	Well, that doesn't sound like much of a recovery to me.
	But how does she know?
	I think the San Francisco Fed chairman's a woman.
	How does she know?
	And another, she doesn't.
	Nobody knows.
	We have proven that $10 trillion of deficit spending does not jumpstart or spark or stimulate an economy.
	All it does is jumpstart and stimulate government.
	How's that hope and change working for you?
	Got a job out there?
	Headed to 10% unemployment.
	So all these experts are making these predictions and they can't possibly know.
	They're making these predictions based on their belief that government's good and all this injection of spending is going to, at some point, it's going to pay off.
	Well, we've been doing this.
	We're coming up on a year.
	We're coming, these bailouts and TARP stuff started in the late summer of 2008.
	We're coming up on a year of this.
	I think we've learned six months ago that the political solution to a bottomed-out economy isn't working.
	And it's now time for a practical business solution.
	Of course, that'll never happen with this administration.
	So the GDP is going to start showing growth the third quarter.
	Now the GDP is going to start showing growth in the fourth quarter.
	Unemployment, it's going to still be a problem.
	It's going to lag.
	All the charts and graphs I saw in the newspapers, all these television shows, all the charts and graphs on the market going back to the 20s.
	They're null and void.
	They're irrelevant.
	They mean nothing.
	Obama was not the president 10, 20, or 30 years ago.
	Nancy Pelosi wasn't running the House.
	These people are not taking, these people making economic projections, and my point are not taking into account the destructive wrecking ball on the private sector being waged by today's Democrat Party from Obama on down.
	How in the world can any sane, credible economist or financial analyst predict an economic recovery with cap and trade lurking to be passed and nationalized health care about to be folks?
	There will be no such thing as a private sector economic recovery if either or one of these two pieces of legislation gets signed into law.
	And how in the world these people can start predicting all this wonderful uptick stuff?
	It's just, it's, it's, I'll tell you what it is.
	It's malpractice on the part of people who are supposed experts, economic experts, finance experts.
	Because anybody who has just a semblance of education and an ability to critically think can look at this cap and trade business, see how distress a jobs killing bill.
	You do not revive an economy by killing jobs.
	Net job losses are what we're going to have.
	I don't care how many phony baloney, new jobs, building windmills, solar panels, or these little whatever kind of putt-putt cars are going to be.
	The job losses, look at Ohio.
	Marcy Captor has just seen to it that the coal industry is going to hit some.
	In fact, we knew this.
	This is Barack Obama.
	I got a couple of soundbites here.
	February 26, 2008, in the campaign, this in Cleveland during a Democrat debate.
	It's not going to be easy to have a sensible energy policy in this country.
	ExxonMobil made $11 billion last quarter.
	They are not going to give up those profits easily.
	I remember that debate.
	I remember when he said it.
	I remember coming in here and having the proverbial cow.
	They're not going to give up those profits easily.
	He's telling us who he was.
	He was telling us what he was going to do.
	He looks at profit as evil.
	Profit is just, it's unused cash to him.
	It's unused.
	It's a surplus.
	Profit's a surplus.
	He can go grab it as the central planning authority.
	He looks at the private sector as a golden goose that never dies.
	Yeah, so it's going to be easy to have a sensible energy policy.
	Not going to be easy.
	ExxonMobil, $11 billion last quarter.
	They're not going to give up those profits easily.
	But he's damn certain they're going to lose them.
	He told us.
	Get this.
	This January 17th, 2008, this is during an interview with the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle.
	Barack Obama was asked about using alternatives in energy, including coal.
	This is what he said.
	What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there.
	So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.
	It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
	So as a candidate, Dawn, do you remember us playing these soundbites during the, you know, during the campaign, that's January 17, 2008, he says, I'm going to run the coal business out of business.
	I'm not going to stop you from building a coal-fired plant, but you're going to go broke doing it because I'm going to tax your ass something like you've never seen.
	So go ahead, build your coal-fired plant, but you're going to get hit with so many pollution charges.
	He says it with joy.
	And then there is this during an interview, same interview, editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle talking about his energy plan.
	When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, you know, under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
	He's telling us what's going to happen.
	And the critics of the cap and trade bill have been saying your energy, electricity, by the way, your home utility bills.
	The Heritage Foundation people have looked at this.
	It's been confirmed two or three other people have looked at this.
	90% your home utility bills go up.
	And don't take my word for it.
	Listen again to audio soundbite number three.
	President Obama saying so.
	When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, you know, under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
	They're going to have to go up.
	He wants them to go up.
	Don't take my word for it.
	He's.
	And he is with such ease implementing all of these agenda items.
	There's nobody to stop him.
	There is no way to stop him.
	All right, I got to get a brief time out here, folks.
	It's time for EIB Obscene Profit Center timeout.
	Rush Limbaugh back.
	We'll get to some of your phone calls right after this.
	Now, my point is very simple.
	It's not complicated.
	I'm telling you, pay no attention to anybody who is promising an economic recovery anytime soon because they are not factoring in the passage of one or both of cap and trade and socialized medicine, nationalized health care.
	One or both of those things happen.
	Forget economic growth.
	Forget it.
	These experts need to shut up and be concerned about their credibility here.
	There's no way anybody could predict economic growth knowing what's headed down the pike.
	One more Obama sound bite, ladies and gentlemen, from his interview on January 17, 2008 with the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle.
	Regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations.
	That will cost money.
	They will pass that money on to consumers.
	If you can't persuade the American people that, yes, there's going to be some increase in electricity rates on the front end.
	90%.
	But that over the long term, because of combinations of more efficient energy usage and changing light bulbs and more efficient appliances, but also technology improving how we can produce clean energy, that the economy will benefit.
	If we can't make that argument persuasively enough, you can be Lyndon Johnson.
	You can be the master of Washington.
	You're not going to get that done.
	Well, he's doing it.
	There's nobody to stop him.
	He'd have to be persuasive.
	You know, there's a who, who was it?
	Was it Waxman?
	Who was it complained about the Republicans overreaching on the cap and trade bill?
	Healthcare.
	Oh, yeah, it's right.
	The Puffster.
	Puffster.
	Yeah, Tommy Taxes.
	Tom Dashell and John Podesta.
	They got all bit out of shape the other day over the fact that the Republicans are not joining the effort to nationalize, socialize health care.
	And they said the Republicans are overreaching out there.
	Overreaching?
	Republicans are not reaching, period.
	The Republicans can't stop anything.
	And now that the Democrats have a 60th vote in the name of a genuine lunatic in the Senate, there's nothing that can be done to stop them if they stay unified.
	The Republicans can't do one.
	Why do you think Tommy Taxes and Podesta are so desperate to have Republicans sign on to this garbage?
	That's another reason why these eight Republicans made a bad, bad move on cap and trade.
	They want cover.
	They want to be able to say, hey, don't blame us.
	Republicans joined us on this when it all crashes down.
	That's why the Republicans ought to not join any of this.
	Let the Democrats and let Obama own it.
	By the way, it is his economy now.
	We're into six months.
	It's his economy.
	And the polls are showing that the American people know and think it's his economy.
	And the more he continues as a child blaming his predecessor or predecessors, more and more people are going to start saying, grow up.
	So he just told you here again, yeah, change your light bulbs, all this stuff here.
	The energy bills are going to go up.
	There's no question they're going to go up.
	We've got to make the argument persuasively.
	He doesn't even have to make the argument, period.
	He could pass this stuff without ever showing up on television.
	Folks, it's a matter of math.
	The Democrats have the votes.
	Now, I realize that not all Democrats are unified behind Obama in some of these things, but they've got, you know, the concigliary in there, Ron Rahm Emmanuel, and they've got all the Pelosi and her henchmen in the House.
	They could whip these people into order real fast if they need them on things.
	The Republicans can't overreach.
	They can't stop anything.
	So Obama, a little worried about how persuasive he is.
	He doesn't have to be, even though some people believe that he is being.
	You know, yesterday, I'm not going to have time to get to these soundbites right now.
	Yesterday, we played a soundbite of Obama at a White House ceremony praising the troops as they left the cities in Iraq.
	And it really offended my sensibilities because it was Barack Obama and the Democrat Party were one huge obstacle our military had to overcome in achieving victory in Iraq.
	These people were trying to secure defeat.
	Joe Biden was damning the surge.
	These people were impugning David Petraeus, calling him a liar before he had even testified.
	And there's Obama up there taking credit for all.
	See, I told you, the Democrats are not going to saddle themselves with defeat here.
	They're going to claim credit for the win.
	Stand-up guy would have had Bush there yesterday if there's going to be some celebration ceremony honoring the accomplishment of the troops and the surge.
	It was his policy.
	Of course, these people are not stand-up people.
	Bush wasn't there and wasn't invited.
	But they're not going to saddle themselves with defeat.
	I told you this.
	Anyway, we get back in the monologue segment the next hour.
	You have some audio soundbites on this that you've got to hear.
	We put together in chronological order, which will make you as enraged as am I.
	The chickification of the news.
	I have here, I'm holding in my formerly nicotine-stained finger, a chick story at planetgreen.discovery.com on eight green ways to lose weight.
	Number one, lose weight by having sex.
	Where's that music coming from?
	Anyway, there's one.

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