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July 9, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 9, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in.
Rush will be back on Monday.
Tomorrow Mark Davis will be here and he'll have Scott Rasmussen, the pollster, in to talk about these falling Obama poll numbers and also Republican Congressman Mike Pence will be here.
In other news, the Reverend Al Sharpton has called on the U.S. Postal Service to issue a Michael Jackson stamp and is also pushing for a National Day of Mourning.
I don't know why we don't do just we well, what is it?
We've had 12 days of national mourning now, haven't we?
Why don't we, this is more than Iran had for Ayatollah Khomeini.
And on the whole, that was actually more dignified.
Why don't we just cut to the chase and stick him on Mount Rushmore, moonwalking over Teddy Roosevelt's head?
Sheila Jackson Lee has ignited a fierce debate, Democrat of Texas, she spoke at the Michael Jackson Memorial, has ignited a fierce debate by calling on Congress to recognize Jackson as a, quote, global humanitarian and a noted leader in the fight against worldwide hunger and medical crises, unquote, and celebrate the King of Pop as an accomplished contributor to the worlds of art and entertainment, scientific advances,
and global food security.
The resolution, which was referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the day after Jackson's death, lists the singer's accomplishments in detail and also cites his humanitarian work, including his 1984 visit to a burn unit at a Los Angeles hospital.
But unfortunately, actually, what was he going to the burn unit for?
Wasn't that around the time he got burned?
Yeah, that's right, that's right.
So it's not clear to me from this whether that was the burn unit he went to for treatment or he was just visiting one for old time's sake afterwards.
I don't understand.
Anyway, Sheila Jackson Lee has herself been the subject of controversy regarding her speaking engagements at funerals.
Did you know that?
I love that.
That's great.
Who knew that was a category?
You know, it's right.
Controversial funeral speaker, Sheila Jackson Lee.
The Texas Democrat reportedly asked aides to, quote, cull the obituaries for funerals at which the Texas Democrat could speak, according to a report at the Houston Chronicle.
One told friends of taking her to five funerals in one day.
That's right, the big new Hollywood film, The Funeral Crasher, with Sheila Jackson Lee, and of hating to have to ask the families if they would allow her to speak.
The Houston Chronicle reporter Rick Casey writes, the request pleased some, he said, but angered others.
I had no idea that.
I didn't know you could book Sheila Jackson Lee for your funeral.
Is it just the eulogy and is the congressional resolution extra or is it all part of one big Sheila Jackson Lee funeral package?
I think it's nice of her to cruise the funeral parlors looking for business.
But maybe it's time to get a thing like the organ donor card you can keep in your wallet.
In the event of my death, I do not want Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee speaking at my funeral.
But apparently she's leading the charge now to get this congressional resolution honoring Michael Jackson as the greatest humanitarian who ever lived because of this visit to a burn unit in 1984.
And he may also be on a stamp and there may, if the Reverend Sharpton gets it away, be a National Day of Mourning.
And why not?
Should just go for the National Month of Mourning, I think.
We've been talking about Obama's poll numbers, and we will have more on that tomorrow with Mark Davis talking to Scott Rasmussen.
But they're interesting.
And what's interesting is the movement of independence away from Obama.
The so-called moderate centrists are the ones who are beginning to drift and to head off in another direction.
So let's take a call from Jeremy in Los Angeles and see what Jeremy has to think about it.
Jeremy, you're on the Rush Limbo Show.
Great to have you.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks, Mark.
Hey, I hear you all the time on a local show out here.
Oh, do you?
Are you anywhere near the Staples Center right now, by the way?
Yeah, I just passed it.
All right.
Is the clear-up going well?
Thank God, yeah.
Actually, it was really overblown.
There was nowhere near the crowd that said that was going to be there.
I go through there all the time in the morning.
Okay, sir.
So it's only going to be a couple of hundred extra million on the municipal tax bill.
Nothing for you to worry about.
Drop in the ocean compared to.
Yeah.
Okay, good.
Good to talk.
Our mayor here is already soliciting donations from fans, which is incredible.
That's just for the Michael Jackson cleanup, not for California in general, is it?
Because if we could get Michael Jackson fans to pay off California as a whole, I would be in favor of a National Day of Mourning then.
That would be a great idea.
That would be a great idea.
Yeah, unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen.
Hey, I called because you were talking about Obama, his numbers.
You were actually soliciting supporters.
I am not, but I wanted to make the point that the ship was already listing very hard, and we had TARP one before Obama was elected.
That's true.
And not only that, and so then we had the follow-up stimulus.
We had the follow-up TARP, and we're probably going to have something else.
And my point in calling was that there's no difference.
The new boss looks just like the old boss.
There's no, these guys wouldn't have been doing anything differently to date.
I would even argue that cap and trade would be on the table.
And not only that, but I've been hearing people talk about cap and trade, and no one read the bill before they voted on it and everything.
Hey, nobody's read the Patriot Act.
And they just were squeezed to vote on that.
And in fact, John McCain was boasting at one point that he hadn't read his own immigration bill, which was called, what was that called?
The McCain, whatever bill.
Who was that?
The McCain Kennedy?
Yeah, he hadn't read his own bill, even if it's got his own name on.
And that is true.
It's also true, I think, that McCain, had he won in November, the first thing he would have done would have been Mr. Bipartisan and reached across the aisle with some hugely elaborate government cap and trade scheme, energy scheme, or immigration scheme, or on something else that would have annoyed conservatives and Republicans just as much as what Obama's doing.
And you're right to say that that first bailout in September opened the floodgates for everything that followed.
In a sense, Obama could paint what he was doing in January, the stimulus type stuff, as the continuation of what was going on in the previous fall.
Mark, they're surrounded by the same people.
You know, there's no, seriously, there is no difference between these two administrations.
Well, if you, I'm sorry.
No, no.
Here's the difference, though, Jeremy, is that you can say the cars were heading in the same direction, but Obama has put his foot on the accelerator.
And that, I think, is the difference, Is that whatever one feels about spending during the Bush years, a lot of which, a huge amount of which was wasted, and a lot of which damaged the completely damaged the credibility of the Republican Party, Obama has done all that, but put his foot on the gas as well.
And the difference is, and the lesson of that, I think, is that if it's the choice, if two parties are heading in the same direction, you might as well vote for the party that's going to be the express train to that direction rather than the guys who are just sort of chugging along, but basically taking you to the same point.
Well, let me ask you one more question, Mark.
Is it really worth right now the $10 billion a month plus to be in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan?
Is this, are we fighting?
We're seriously fighting a war on an emotion.
Is this really worth it?
Do these countries have flotillas of ships?
Do they have to be able to do that?
No, no, but let's take that point.
America is never going to face an enemy with flotillas of ships, ever.
America spends more than the next 40 countries combined in its total military spending.
It spends not just more than Russia, France, China, Britain combined, but going down all the way down the mid-level, low-level countries as well.
It spends a huge amount.
The consequence of that is that nobody's ever going to be at war with you in flotillas of ships.
Nobody's ever going to be firing planes off the coast of Florida.
I mean, a rogue nuke from North Korea is a possibility, something like that.
But conventional war fought with conventional armies is not.
Now, what you're saying to me is about Iraq and Afghanistan: are Iraq and Afghanistan worth it?
Well, again, that depends on what the war aim is, what the strategic goal is, and whether it's realizable.
And I've never had a clear answer when people have asked Obama.
I've never heard a clear answer on what he regards as the strategic goal in Afghanistan.
We know he's not in favor of the war in Iraq.
He is in favor of the war in Afghanistan, but it is not clear to me what he thinks is the goal there.
What do you think his goal is there, Jeremy?
You know what?
Honestly, I'm one of those guys.
I'm a Ron Paul supporter, so I'm out there on the edge.
I don't think there's any difference.
I think it's about advancement of territory, empire.
I do not think it's a good idea.
No, take it.
I'm a son of empire.
Empire is one thing I know about.
And the Americans are the least imperial people on the planet.
America does not have a non-does not have an imperialist bone in its body.
That's why after 230 years, what have you acquired?
Guam.
Guam.
When I was a kid, we had maps in the classroom showing the parts of the British Empire marked in red.
And let me tell you, that was one big serious red state.
It included Canada, Australia, India, South Africa, large chunks of the Pacific.
That's an imperialist nation.
America is not like that.
So when it goes into somewhere like Iraq and Afghanistan, it goes in with far more limited aims.
And you can argue about whether those aims are limited.
But the idea, where I part company with Ron Paul, Ron Paul talks a lot of sense on fiscal issues and things.
But the idea that you can have an in the modern world, you can have an isolationist superpower that can hold the entire planet at bay, that can retreat within Fortress America.
What fortress?
This is a country that cannot even hold two relatively benign neighbors at bay.
50% of the population of Mexico is now living in your state of California, and 100% of every bad Canadian idea has seeped south of the 49th parallel, so that now in America, it seems entirely normal to be talking about confiscatory taxation and socialized health care.
The Fortress America delusion, the Fortress America delusion, the isolationist republic far from the cares of the world, which was a valid concept in the early 19th century, does not work now.
Go ahead, have at me, Jeremy.
I just want to make another point that what I meant more so instead of empire was more for that if you are not part of the global community, the new world order, if you will, then you are in the crosshairs.
And clearly, you have Pakistan, which is autonomous.
They don't want to play with the rest of the world.
They do their own thing.
Now they're getting bombed regularly.
Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was getting ready to peg his oil off the Euro, and all of a sudden, boom, he's in the crosshairs.
And everybody that has an independent spirit, whether or not they're corrupt, awful, evil, whatever, if you don't play with the globalists, you're going down.
And that's clearly what has happened here.
The New World Order is in full effect.
Well, Obama took the baton, and he's moving with it.
Well, thanks for that point, Jeremy.
Look, realistically, there's lots of places in the world that don't attract the world's attention.
In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe can starve all the people he wants.
Nobody cares.
In Sudan, the guys can machete each other to death.
Nobody cares.
In the Congo, millions and millions of people die in the Congo, and it doesn't make page 37 of the newspaper because it's got nothing to do with George W. Bush.
The reality is there isn't some kind of globalized conspiracy against free-spirited maverick world leaders in North Korea or Pakistan.
The fact is that most of these guys get on with killing and torturing people all the time they want, when they want, without anybody bothering about them.
The issue is when what's debatable is when there is a strategic issue there of interest to the rest of the world, is there any kind of coordinated ability to act?
And the truth is there isn't.
Saddam Hussein, the world was opposed to what Bush did in Iraq.
Pakistan essentially is not a functioning state, and the guy who runs it can't enforce his sovereignty over territory from which attacks are launched on American troops.
These are like very particular things.
But if you're just like a nickel and dime dictator and you want to kill people and not attract the Americans' attention or the so-called New World Order's attention, it's still very easy to do so.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush, lots more straight ahead.
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Let's go to Joe in Detroit, Michigan, land of the telegenic Canadian governor.
Joe, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Regard from what I call no Motown.
Yeah, no Motown.
Or the motorless city.
Yeah, that's right.
And so when you fly over at night over the inner city of Detroit, it's looking like North Korea now.
The lights are out.
Nobody's hope.
That's about right.
Okay, Joe, what's your point?
Well, there's one huge difference between George Bush and Matarp and all of this Democrat boondogle mouth.
And that is, you know, we always heard from the Democrats how dumb and stupid George Bush was and anything he did couldn't possibly be right.
But they want to continue the TARP and spend policies.
So one time I want to agree with him.
He was dumb.
He was stupid.
We as conservatives agree TARP was dumb and stupid.
Republicans to a lesser extent.
But the major difference was George W. Bush had to be convinced to do it against his better judgment by Paulson and Bernanke.
He went against what would have been a conservative better judgment to do so because of the chicken little sky is falling.
You've got to do this.
Well, the country's going to go to heck in a handbag.
There were some of us at the time.
I was opposed to this thing at the time.
I simply didn't believe it.
The old thing, what is it, when General Motors sneezes, America catches a cold.
And the idea now that when AIG sneezes, the entire planet comes down with the Ebola virus.
I wasn't persuaded of that logic.
But George W. Bush was.
He said this sucker.
He was talking about capitalism.
He said this sucker is going down.
And I think that was a bad move to let himself be shanghaied by Paulson.
And we can't really use that phrase.
In the end, it's his administration, and he has to take responsibility for that first tarp thing last fall.
But there is a broader lesson, I think, here, and that is that voters want a two-party system.
A two-party system doesn't function if you've got a one-and-a-half-party system.
And I have a basic lesson on a lot of this stuff is that when you have this so-called bipartisan agreement, in other words, when both parties are in favor of something, that's when my eyebrow starts twitching upwards and I get very suspicious.
Because generally, if the entire governing class is in favor of something, you, the citizen, ought to be very skeptical of it.
But in essence, the point that was being made by Jeremy is that McCain would be doing half this stuff too.
And do you disagree with that part, Joe?
Unfortunately, I cannot disagree with that as much as I would like to.
No, that's the sad lesson there.
And I think that's why there was enthusiasm for Sarah Palin.
Whatever anyone says about Sarah Palin, the only moment I enjoyed in the 2008 campaign was going to see Sarah Palin speak in Laconia, New Hampshire, because she was the nearest we came to getting a real two-party choice in the last election.
And that's the danger of socialized healthcare.
Once you get socialized healthcare, the relationship between the citizen and the state has been so distorted that you don't have seriously conservative government again.
And you'll have the kind of conservative parties you have in continental Europe or in Canada for much of modern history, where their sole remaining rationale is that they tell the voters they can run the left-wing state better more efficiently than the left can.
The right can do a better job of running the left-wing state.
So if you want a functioning two-party system now and in the future, you've got to stop this socialized healthcare thing because that is a game changer and it's a permanent game changer.
And that's why there's no the idea of sort of accommodating, meeting them halfway on this, these so-called soft wimpy reform plans are not going to do it.
You've got to kill this thing dead or it will be a game changer that makes genuine conservative government impossible to all intents and purposes.
Lots more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Yes, America's anchorman is away.
This is your undocumented anchor man.
Good news, good news.
The bloom may be off the Obama rose, but a new savior has offered himself.
Alec Baldwin has expressed interest in running for the Senate.
Maybe in Connecticut, he says, against Joe Lieberman, or maybe in some other state.
I mean, it doesn't really matter, does it?
I mean, he can just pick a state and be elected there.
He's a very winning, charming, well, yeah, he used to be a charming.
I'm thinking of those early films where you used to, what was he was writhing around naked on top of, what's her name, Anne H.
And the one where he was and then, oh, yeah, what was his wife called back then?
Kim Basinger.
That's right.
And that one where they're on the getaway.
The remake of the Steve McQueen film, and they're basically writhing around naked.
They're on the lamb, but they stop for a sex scene every 12 minutes.
That's the whole film, basically.
So who knows?
That may be a winning platform in the America of 2009.
He'd be the first senator to have done nude films since John Edwards.
So that would be a great full disclosure.
That would be a great moment for America.
And it would demonstrate we were getting even more sophisticated and continental because France only has a first lady who's been photographed nude.
So we would have an actual senator if we had Alec Baldwin.
So that's great news.
Let us go to Justin in Reno, Nevada.
And Justin, is it true that you were an Obama voter last November?
Yes, I was.
And why did you vote for Senator Obama, as he then was?
Yeah, I'll go straight across with it.
I didn't want, I felt McCain was another Bush, and I wanted nothing to do with it.
So you basically voted for Obama because he was not Bush, and you felt McCain was.
And did you pay any attention?
Yeah, carry on.
I feel that Hillary had my vote off the top.
When her and Bill came at this man, like a high school couple, you know, it totally blew me off the map, you know, and I was like, what's going on?
You know, wait a minute.
All these accusations against the man that I didn't even know were true.
None of us knew who he was, really.
Exactly.
And that's the point.
When Hillary, whatever, and incidentally, whatever Hillary Clinton side said about Obama wasn't anything like what other Democrats were doing to Hillary once they decided she was a loser.
Poor old Rush was her only friend on the entire continental United States at one point.
But what you must have liked something about him.
It can't just be the fact that he was appealingly amorphous to you.
What was it that made you decide?
There must have been a positive reason.
There must have been something he said that you liked.
When Hillary and Bill start going after him like this with a high school election, I needed something from him, and he gave me something.
He said that he wasn't going to give a special tax to the factories overseas.
Well, wait a minute, when he says he wasn't going to work in my life, and that's something that touched me one day when a Vietnam vet got a little upset that all the furniture in the warehouse, especially the box that said Vietnam on it.
And it's true.
All of our stuff, a lot of it, almost everything is made overseas.
Yeah, but why is that?
Why is that?
Because the greed Americans, a lot of them, they're Democrats and Republicans.
They're greedy, and their greed is exceeding the need of the people.
Yeah, now what you have, let's put that aside for one moment.
Let's take it as read that people in business are greedy.
What we now have with this cap and trade thing, for example, is the United States government imposing more costs, more regulations on business.
So you say you don't like the way your furniture is made overseas.
Where do you think once cap and trade is in, once American businesses are being more regulated and more taxed, where do you think stuff's going to be made from now on?
Well, you know something?
Right about now, to me, we live in corporatism.
You know, it's probably the corporate structure is not confusion.
You know, I don't know where this is going to go.
I only know where it's at right now.
So, yeah, maybe the man attracted me with that, and maybe you're telling me that he's going in the wrong direction.
Believe me.
I'm telling you.
I'm telling you.
I mentioned this yesterday.
Tim Horton's Donuts, a Delaware corporation reorganizing itself as a Canadian corporation.
So it's not just the chair you're sitting in that's going to be made overseas.
The donut you're chewing as you sit in the chair is going to be made overseas.
That's how it's going to, it'll still be called a Boston cream donut, but in reality, it'll be a Winnipeg cream donut.
This is the world, this is the world that Obama is making.
I take your point that if you are concerned about employment and American industry and about it being worthwhile running a business in this country, then nothing Obama is doing is going to do anything for that.
Why do you think unemployment's going up?
Who's hiring now?
Nobody.
I drive a cab.
You're telling me I get everybody in my cab.
I get everybody's feet back.
I know what's going on and it's not good.
No, well, you're lucky people can still afford to take a cab because if the Democrats get serious about all this stuff they always propose every election, you know, light rail projects from Dead Skunk Creek, Nevada, to Moose Jawbone, Maine.
Once they get serious about that, there ain't going to be any cabs or cab drivers anymore.
The lesson here, Justin, is don't just follow a politician who talks about the issue you're concerned about.
Follow where his thought processes are going to lead.
Because if you're worried about American jobs and American industry and America making things, then what this stupid cap and trade bill is going to do is going to turn America into Vermont.
Nobody makes stuff in Vermont.
Vermont is about boutique businesses.
Howard Dean, when he was running for president, said, Vermont is the way America should be.
Well, if it is, we're all doomed because you can't start a business and make anything big in Vermont.
You can do Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
You can do the Vermont Castings Wood Stoves.
You can do the Vermont Teddy Bear Company.
Yeah, that's right, actually.
You can run a fudge shop in Vermont.
Homemade fudge.
And in fact, the Vermont State Fair, Tunbridge, the World's Fair in Tunbridge, Vermont.
I always remember the little sign they got there.
Don't poke the fudge.
It's a very in the little homemade fudge thing.
Because you know what it's like?
But it's like boutique fudge.
It's not boutique fudge.
It's boutique fudge.
And Ben and Jerry's now, Ben and Jerry's is now part of Unilever, a British-Dutch multinational.
Ben or Jerry, one of them didn't like it, but either way, they went along with it.
And so Ben and Jerry's is now part of Unilever.
It's really Uni Ben or Jerry Lever or whatever.
The Vermont Castings Wood Stoves.
I couldn't believe this.
I was sucking.
I thought, oh, this is nice and homemade and Vermont.
I'll buy a nice homemade Vermont Vermont Castings Wood Stove.
It'll be all nice and Vermonty and New England-y.
They're made in Mississauga, Ontario.
They're owned by a company in Ontario.
They're really, it comes with this label on saying C-A-H-H or something.
And you think, wait a minute, there's no V for Vermont in that.
And it stands for something like Canadian Affordable Home Heating, which is their parent company.
The fact is, all you have when you over-regulate business, you wind up with boutique business.
So you don't have Hershey's chocolate bars.
You have Grandma's Homemade Vermont Fudge Company.
And eventually, the big multinational buys up Grandma's homemade Vermont fudge company because it's easier to pay some guy in China seven cents an hour to play Grandma.
You put a bit of makeup on them.
They can do the TV commercials.
And you can still have your cute homemade fudge company.
So if you're interested, if you're interested in having world companies that make things and sell things around the planet, then regulating the life out of American capitalism is the last way to do it.
So you should have paid attention, Justin in Reno, not just the fact that he seemed to be worried.
I don't know.
As far as I can tell, what's the evidence that there's American furniture in Obama's pad in Chicago?
I don't know.
Who knows what he's sitting on?
His delightful first lady has been going around with a $6,000 alligator clutch on her tour to take a stroll in the Russian woods to go for tea at Putin's dacha or whatever she was doing.
She had this $6,000 alligator clutch.
Now, what's the likelihood that that's made in Michigan?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I wouldn't put it very high, though.
That's the thing.
You wind up with boutique businesses, and eventually, as in Vermont, the boutique businesses all wind up owned by sinister Europeans and sinister Canadians.
Thank you for the call, Justin.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
We've been talking about regrets.
Regrets, do you have a few?
And let's hope they're not too few to mention, and you will be happy to talk about them with us.
Jen from Gillette, Wyoming is calling.
And Jen, you're also an Obama voter, I gather.
Yes, I did vote for him last November, and I absolutely regret it now.
Why did you vote for him then?
Let's get that off the table first.
Well, you know, he's preaching change, and he's going to do all these great things.
But wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Any politician can preach change.
Paul Pott believed in change.
He believed in change by killing millions of people.
You know, the question is not change.
The question is what kind of change?
Right.
Well, I mean, I don't know.
I guess most of it was the fact that I was blinded by the prospect of having a non-Caucasian president.
You know, and I think a lot of people were blinded by that too, that we weren't actually listening to what he was saying.
Now, do you have that bumper sticker that I see on a lot of Obama voters' cars when you come up behind them?
They got that thing, my vote made history on it.
In other words, they made the point you're making that they voted for the first non-Caucasian president, and that was the determining factor.
And the confiscatory taxation and the government health care and the double-digit unemployment was all peripheral.
They didn't pay any attention to that.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I think that that is a possibility.
You know, I mean, I think people were so excited that we even had a non-Caucasian person running for president that, you know.
But what's the solution then for the Republican Party?
Does that mean that if they, let's say in 2012, 2016, they just run some middle-aged white guy, are they going to get clobbered again because that'll just be too dull and boring?
Well, hopefully people have learned their lesson from this, you know.
I mean, you see, this is the opposite of the so-called colorblind society, because you're basically saying you like the idea, which a lot of people did.
You like the idea of having the first black president.
And McCain made this worse in that characteristic way he has of actually making things worse when he said, he told people, you've got nothing to fear from a President Obama.
I think he said that at one of the debates or at one campaign rally.
So basically, he's saying, look, you've got a choice between an old, cranky white guy and this super cool black dude.
So if you're attracted to the super cool black dude on aesthetic reasons, then you certainly don't have anything to fear on policy.
He basically liberated people to do what you did and vote for Obama by saying they had nothing to fear from Obama's policies.
So in a sense, McCain was part of the suckering job, too.
Right.
Yeah.
So who do you, how, how are you thinking you're going to be voting in 2020?
Because you're in Wyoming, which is one of the last of the deep red states.
And so if you're voting, if Obama's cool can even start purpling Wyoming, then that is a remarkable feature.
Who do you think you're going to be voting for in 2010, 2012?
I don't know.
I'm going to have to wait and see the candidates, I guess, and really listen to the issues.
But I do want to say that I wasn't in Wyoming when I voted.
I moved here.
Which state were you in when you voted?
I was in Michigan.
Oh, right.
So your vote maybe did make history then.
Listen, Jen, here's the thing.
You can afford to indulge yourself if everything's great.
So you can say, well, this guy is prettier than the other guy.
This guy is a novelty.
He would be the first Uzbekistani American president.
He would be the first lesbian president, whatever.
You can do that when times are good.
But right now, times are not good.
And I think a lot of people were like you.
They thought they could vote for Obama and they would get his cool without any consequences.
And the thing is, this is even worse than the 70s now.
In the 70s, people had to worry about inflation and losing their job.
Now you have much higher home ownership.
So people's homes are worth less, worth a lot less.
You have more people invested in the stock market directly or indirectly.
So their 401ks are now cut in half.
So there is no limit to the damage that a president with determined statist policies can inflict on you.
I mean, this is like Jimmy Carter on steroids.
He can clobber your home.
He can clobber your savings and your pensions.
He can clobber your job.
And he can basically end the dollar as a world currency.
He can clobber your health care.
I mean, basically, he can get you on every front.
So he would have to be the coolest dude on the planet to make it worth voting for him just because of his sheer cool rather than what he's saying.
The lesson here is listen to him on the radio.
Don't watch him on the TV or read him in the cold gray light of print.
Do you like what it actually says in the cold gray light of print?
Do you like these policies?
Because if you don't, no matter how cool he is, it's not going to make up for a collapsed home price, an unemployment, and a shattered savings, retirement savings plan.
Thanks very much for your call, Jen, and better luck with your vote in 2010 or 2012.
It's Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow, and Rush comes back on Monday.
Don't forget you can keep up with all the good Rush stuff on RushLimbaugh.com.
I mentioned that Michelle Obama $5,950 alligator clutch that she was wearing to take a stroll in the Russian woods to Putin's dataset or whatever it was.
And I hope I didn't confuse anybody.
I said that it was unlikely the clutch was made in Michigan.
By clutch, I meant that that was a purse, you know, a pocketbook, a lady's handbag type thing, not the other kind of clutch, because obviously none of those are made in Michigan anymore.
So I want to be clear on that.
But it's this $6,000 clutch that the first lady took for a stroll in the woods in Russia with Vladimir Putin.
You know, it's actually when you're with the Russians, because they've got like all these Russian mafia guys, and their moles are loaded.
The Russian mafia moles are loaded.
They're dripping with these $6,000 clutches.
So I think it's fair enough that when we send the first lady over there that she's able to keep up.
And incidentally, one reason that you know that this economic downturn is serious is that according to recent figures, the 10 richest Russian oligarchs have lost a third of their wealth in the last year.
Now, that is a reliable thing.
If you don't want to believe the Congressional Budget Office or anything, anybody else, believe that statistic, because when the Russian mafia guys can't steal it faster than it devalues, you know the economy is in really serious trouble.
So we will talk about that and related matters and the continuing decline in Obama's numbers all straight ahead.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Don't forget that tomorrow Mark Davis will be here.
Special guests, Congressman Mike Pence, and pollster Scott Rasmussen.
So that's all with Mark Davis coming up tomorrow on the EIB network.
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