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Aug. 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 6, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, it's happened again.
The New York Daily News has trashed my diet and trashed me.
Rush Limbaugh's diet plan from quick weight loss centers probably won't work, long time experts say.
I haven't had time to read the whole thing, but I will wager you that one of the problems they have with it is there's no exercise.
And I said I didn't exercise.
And without exercise, one cannot lose weight and keep weight off.
One just can't do it.
It's such a shame that Limbaugh doesn't understand this.
You go on a diet, you go on a diet that works, and they have to trash it.
While everybody making fun of people being fat when they go on a diet and lose weight, they might go, it wasn't going to work.
Stupid diet.
I am holding.
By the way, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh 800-282-2882.
I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers from Time Magazine.
And this is today.
It's by John Cloud.
Why exercise won't make you thin.
My friends, I'm a living testament to this.
I know even when I say it now, my close friends and even some of my highly overrated staff say I'm nuts.
As I write this tomorrow, it's Tuesday, which is cardio day.
I'm going to spend five minutes warming up on the VersaClimber, a towering machine that requires you to move your arms and legs simultaneously.
Then I'll do 30 minutes on a stair mill.
On Wednesday, a personal trainer is going to work me like a farm animal for an hour, sometimes to the point that I dizzy, and abuse for which I pay as much as I spend on groceries in a week.
Thursday's body wedge class, which involves another exercise contraption.
This one, a large foam wedge, in which I push myself up in various hateful ways for an hour.
Friday, you'll bring a five and a half mile run.
The extra half mile, my grueling expiation of any gastronomical indulgences during the week.
I have exercised like this obsessively for years.
But I recently began to wonder why am I doing this?
Except for a two-year period at the end of an unhappy relationship, a period when I self-medicated with lots of desserts, I have never been overweight.
One of the most widely accepted, commonly repeated assumptions in our culture is if you exercise, you lose weight.
But I exercise all the time.
And since I ended that relationship and cut most of the desserts, my weight has returned to the same 163 that it's been most of my adult life.
I still have gut fat that hangs over my belt when I sit down.
Why isn't all this exercise wiping it out?
He goes on with more statistics.
Then he quotes some doctors in the back, Eric Ravusson, Ravussan, chair in diabetes and metabolism at LSU, a prominent exercise researcher, says in general for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless.
Many recent studies have found that exercise isn't as important in helping people lose weight as you hear so regularly in gym advertisements or on television shows, or for that matter, for magazines like Time.
The basic problem is that while it's true that exercise burns calories and that you must burn calories to lose weight, exercise has another effect.
It stimulates hunger.
That causes us to eat more, which in turn can negate the weight loss benefits we just accrued.
Exercise, in other words, isn't necessarily helping us lose weight.
It may, in fact, even be making it harder.
And I remember quoting a guy who wrote a book about this a year and a half or so ago.
The conventional, whoa, I'm not saying exercise is bad for you.
Snowdly says I'll never get a gym sponsor.
Exercise is good for you.
I'm not saying it's not.
I'm saying it's done.
It has nothing to do with losing weight or keeping weight off.
Zilch Zeronada.
You people at the New York Daily News and ABC are irresponsible.
You are nothing but hacks.
You try to destroy everything that is successful and everything that works.
You tell me I can't do what I just did.
You tell me what I am doing that is working doesn't work.
You're idiots.
I have never seen these stories about dear old Oprah.
I have never seen stories.
Oh, poor Oprah.
It isn't going to work.
Anyway, it works.
It's the best diet I have ever been on, and I've done every one of them but Weight Watchers because I don't like pink packaging.
I have done everything there is.
I have fasted for 60 days.
I have done the grapefruit thing.
I have done Atkins.
But this one is different, which is why I did it.
Okay.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, back to the show.
I want to keep a list here.
Let's keep a list now.
The insurance companies, K-Street lobbyists, right-wingers, Nazis, people who were in Florida during the 2000 presidential election, Republican officials, an unknown group in Connecticut, and I, the mob father, are all behind a popular uprising against government-run health care.
That's the message today from the Democrat Party.
And if you're looking for Astroturf, look at the top of Joe Biden's head.
That's where you'll find Astraturf.
But you're not going to find Astroturf at any of these town hall meetings.
Astroturfing, by the way, is a distinct Democrat Party creation.
Now, the SNICH website, you got to hear this.
The SNICH website where Obama, it's flag at whitehouse.gov.
And Obama supporters are urged to report people who are providing misinformation on the internet or in person.
If you overhear it or if you see it, you are to report it to flag at whitehouse.gov.
Pretty soon, there's going to be a snitch website for people who are overheard discussing the war on terror, which is no longer admissible as per Obama's administration.
So Gibbs was asked about this at the White House briefing.
A reporter said, do you know how many emails have been sent to the flag at whitehouse.gov address?
And secondly, isn't the White House required by law to save all correspondence it receives?
So will it be informing?
Before I finish this, do you people remember when the Pentagon was preparing this massive database of worldwide terrorists and the left had a cow?
The civil libertarians went absolutely nuts.
Now the White House has a snitch website.
And where are the civil libertarians?
Obama has his own domestic spying program run out of the White House.
Where are the civil libertarians?
I mean, it's just, this is amazing.
Anyway, back to the question of Gibbs.
Are you going to be informing individuals whose emails have been forwarded they might want to have a chance to correct the historical record about the alleged fishiness of their emails?
For the life of me, didn't understand your question.
Obviously, the National Archives documents correspondence with the White House.
So the people whose emails have been forwarded, they won't be informed that their emails have been forwarded to the government.
Maybe I'm missing something.
I'm sure you're hatching some nefarious plot, but for the life of me, can't understand it.
Gibbs doesn't even know.
He doesn't even know about the snitch website.
Either that or he has been told, Gibbs, you don't know about it.
That's an unacceptable word.
There's no snitch website, forwarded email.
He's acting like he doesn't even know the thing exists.
Dan Henninger today in the Wall Street Journal.
This is a pretty good piece.
Why Obama May Fail.
If Obama can't sell more government, no one can.
Is the subhead.
A very long time ago, it was January.
Obama stood at the mountaintop, bathed in the new light of an historic presidency, gazing down on a congressional lake afloat with contented Democrats.
Those who spoke against him were vilified for not wanting this smart, vibrant president to succeed.
How could he fail?
Eight months into his presidency, Obama may do just that.
Fail.
Back then, few would have argued persuasively that the August recess, the Obama plan to redraw American health care, could be at risk of failure with Democrat members of Congress going home to halls full of raving constituents.
But why is this happening now?
Obama was clear during the campaign about his plans for health care.
He described the public insurance option.
He spoke of the need for sacrifice, meaning the wealthy were going to pay taxes.
Why isn't it working?
Kimninger goes on to answer his own questions here.
He says, the harder the White House and Democrats push this idea, the worse it could get for them.
Americans may have arrived at the limit of how much government they want or will pay for.
If Obama can't sell more of it, no one can.
You know who really needs to hear this are the people in our own party and movement who have lost their way, who believe the notion that people want more government, just smarter government, bigger government, but smarter government.
Who was that again?
That was David Brooks of the New York Times.
And General Powell said that too, last December, I think General Colin Powell said that.
And I think there have been a number of others in the conservative media, so-called intelligentsia, who have said, look, the American people, the independents and moderate, they've spoken.
They want big government.
It's what they're voting for.
But this is a great point.
Conservatives need to remember this.
If Obama can't sell it, there's nobody out there who can.
Which it's an upper.
It's a good sign.
All right, a quick timeout.
We'll come back.
Lots more still to do on the fastest three hours in media.
Stay with us.
Ladies and gentlemen, would you please indulge me for one more comment on this New York Daily News story?
I got to read something here to you.
Limbaugh has professed ignorance as to how his diet works, despite numerous queries since he announced his weight loss plans in March.
Folks, it's not that I won't tell you, it's just that I can't.
It's too complicated.
Putting the menu together is a jigsaw puzzle every day.
It would take me 45 minutes every day to tell you what the diet plan is and answer all your questions.
At the time, I didn't want to identify the program for obvious business reasons.
I choose not to, doing the diet as a paid endorser, none of that stuff.
And I can't even now tell you that the diet is made up of recipes that are as healthy as anything I've ever had.
You do have to mix the proteins, fats, and carbohydrates in the course of the day, but you get all the basic minimums and then some.
The first week of the diet, I remember I hounded Catherine because she's one of the fans.
I said, Catherine, this isn't going to work.
It's too much food.
We were at a restaurant.
We were at Trevini here.
It was the second night of the diet.
And I ordered what was permissible.
Had some salmon, had five ounces of salmon and some steamed spinach, some broccoli.
And I said, this is a dick.
I'm not going to lose weight.
Really, I was kind of mean to her in a way because every diet I've done, yeah, you got to be hungry for it to work.
I'm not hungry on this diet.
These people don't know what they're talking about, even after listening to me.
Look at, if I could tell you what the diet was, you wouldn't need to go to them.
Okay, here's what I had for lunch.
I'll just tell you.
I had five ounces of salmon grilled with all kinds of herbs and spices on it on top of a bed of lettuce with some vegetables in there and some vinaigrette and a bowl of chips.
Dinner tonight is going to be something called pizza chicken.
Now, have you learned anything?
Can you go do that with me telling you what I'm eating on the diet?
No, you can't.
And I'm going to sit here.
Well, you could do the salmon, but you're covered for one or two meals then.
I can't give you the recipe on the air.
This is not a recipe show.
We're not the food network here.
Yeah, these guys are saying the chef comes here, fixes it every day, and these guys are staff.
It's too bad you can't smell it because the stuff coming out of there every day is awesome.
Ignorant.
Professes ignorance about his diet.
I'll tell you, journalism in this country is an absolute disgrace.
It's just an absolute disgrace.
I could come up, I could come up with the cure for cancer, and they'd find a way to say this is bad for the drug companies.
They'd be defending the drug companies, and it's bad for doctors.
Okay, I've got a better version here of Stenny Hoyer at his town meeting, a more complete version.
This was Tuesday in New York.
He was up there with Representative Michael R. Curry, and they held a press conference to talk about funding for high-speed rail.
And during the press conference, Hoyer and a protester named Don Jurr have this exchange about health care reform.
They're lying to me.
I don't have sophisticated language.
I recognize a lawyer when I see one.
It was 53% this morning.
That was out of the news.
I didn't say it wasn't.
He said it was the same as a business.
Listen, I'm a registered Democrat.
Okay?
Me too.
Why would you guys try to stuff a health care bill down our throat in three to four weeks when the president took six months to pick what he wanted for a dog from his kids?
That's called slice and dice.
Slice and dice.
All right, this is Ellen in Holbrook, Arizona.
Hi, Ellen.
Great to have you with us.
Oh, hi.
Hello.
Yeah.
I just went to a meeting, and she didn't want to call it a town hall meeting.
She didn't want to answer questions.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
You went where?
In Holbrook.
To whose town hall meeting?
Her name is Ann Kirkpatrick.
She was newly elected in November.
Okay, so you went to Ann Kirkpatrick's town hall meeting.
Now start the beginning again.
She went to several communities here.
She's been going to several communities.
She's headed to Winslow next.
She was here 45 minutes ago and was supposed to be here 15 minutes longer, but she walked out.
She wanted to have us in a small, in a very one-on-ones, right?
Yeah.
This is what they're trying.
The Democrats, this happened in Florida yesterday.
I think some down in Miami or maybe there's so many of them that are running, they're getting confused, but these Democrats are trying to have one-on-ones in private and the crowds are ate no way.
Right.
Ain't no way.
Yes.
And a couple of guys said, we want to ask questions.
You work for us.
We want to hear the answers.
And we couldn't hear a thing.
You guys sound like an unruly mob of Nazis.
It was bad.
We had swastikas all over the place.
Yeah, I can imagine.
I can imagine.
Anyway, after we, the second person in her queue spoke out loud and said, I want to ask this question.
If we enact this health care bill, are the members of Congress going to be a part of it?
And she hemmed and hawed and really didn't want to answer.
She doesn't know.
Well, I think she knows pretty well that they don't want to be part of it.
But finally, she just got up and left.
She didn't want to stick around for any more.
Well, that's not going to be happening from now on.
Let me share this with you.
This is from my buddy Eric Erickson at RedState.com.
Trying to avoid middle-class workers opposed to Obamacare.
Congresswoman Kathy Kester, Democrat Florida, has scheduled a last-minute town hall for tonight.
She wasn't going to have one.
She will be surrounded by union goons from the Service Employees International Union to feed middle-class voters to alligators if they dare criticize Obamacare.
This is what's happened.
Obama has mobilized union thugs to go out and also attend these town meetings to intimidate the genuine citizens out there who are upset about this.
Well, this was no town hall meeting.
She didn't want that.
Those are paid activists.
They're going to be showing up.
And that's why.
So the Democrats are going to get brave now.
So they're going to have protection.
The mob's showing up.
The real genuine mob is showing up to protect these Democrats from the unruly Nazis that are showing up to protest the health care bill.
John in Mansfield, Texas.
Hello, sir.
Hi.
Megan Dittos from the retired Navy man.
Thank you, sir.
Okay.
First thing, well, I wanted to ask about two things, but I'll start with the first one.
In line with what you've been saying all day today, you know, we've got a bunch of sleaze bags up there that are going to pass us whether we like it or not.
Once they do that, what can we do to fix them?
You throw them out of office.
That's the first thing that'll happen if this happens.
The blue dog Democrats will be the first casualties.
They'll go.
And some other Democrats are going to go as well.
But what I'm getting at is, let's say we put out a Republican...
Look, we've been talking about this every day.
Let me say that once and for all.
The question is, what can we do about it after they pass it?
In the first place, I'm not conceding it's going to get passed.
I'm not giving up.
I'm not conceding defeat on this.
Not with what's going on out there, not with the White House unraveling.
But if it gets passed, whether it gets passed or not, what are we going to do?
We need to revitalize the Republican Party and make it conservative once again.
We need a conservative candidate who loves conservatism, can articulate it, can defend it, can explain it, and can cherry-pick what's wrong with liberalism, is optimistic, understands the greatness of this country and where it comes from.
That's what we do.
And then once we do that and start winning elections, then we start unraveling.
But if we're going to sit around here and think there's nothing we can do that this is all inevitable, then let me know and I'm out of here.
I've got plenty of golf courses I can go to before they go out of business in this economy.
I don't, you know, the intricacy of this bill, and we don't know what, if it does pass, we really don't know what version of it is going to pass.
There's too much of it.
They could end up passing something very simple that just raises taxes on people, insures a few people.
All Obama wants here, well, not all, what he will settle for at the end of all this is to be able to say he reformed health care.
He's building a monument to himself.
That's why I've made the point all day.
He doesn't announce his plan.
He doesn't have a plan.
We're talking about one plan, and that's the House of Representatives plan, which he hasn't read.
He's not going to get specific.
But I don't concede that this is a lock.
I don't concede it's a fait accompli.
Look at these people have changed the argument.
They're not even talking about health care anymore, folks.
They're talking about Nazis and swastikas and party run by talk show hosts and so on.
You change the argument, it means you're losing.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
Now, pursuant to the point that I was making about conservatism and it revitalizing and taking over the GOP, how many times in the last two years have we heard that conservatism is dead?
That the era of Reagan is over, that conservative principles are dead, that the movement has to reinvent itself, that the movement has to adopt more of the approaches of the left, et cetera, et cetera.
How many times have we heard this?
And how many times have real conservatives like me said, no, we don't have to reinvent ourselves.
We don't have to change who we are.
What we need to start doing is exposing the left for what it is.
We have to explain who we are.
We have to contrast ourselves with them.
It is hard work, but it can be done and it must be done.
My friends, you have to work at liberty.
The history of the world is tyranny and dungeons and torture and poverty.
That's what's so exceptional about the United States.
You have to work at liberty.
You have to defend it.
You have to explain it.
You have to promote it or it will be lost.
We have to engage these people.
We have to stand up to them.
We have to challenge them.
And that's exactly what's being done here in these town hall meetings.
It's happening at the office.
You name it.
People are standing up for their liberty.
That's what's going on at the town hall meetings.
People are standing up for their freedom.
They are saying, you're not taking any more liberty and freedom from us.
The moderates in our party and the left see nothing but permanent decline.
They see decline in prosperity and living standards, economic opportunity.
They see that as inevitable.
We do not.
We see America as a pie that never, ever needs to stop growing.
We don't need to reinvent ourselves.
We need a party that will expose the left.
Not get so introspective and stuff.
What's wrong with us?
There's nothing wrong with conservatism.
There's another series of lies.
I think they're lies, that the Democrats are using out there to change the argument, hype up this business on the town halls.
Representative Brad Miller, Democrat North Carolina, will not be hosting any town hall events this month.
He's making himself available for one-on-one constituent meetings.
One of the reasons is his offices have received threatening phone calls, at least one direct threat against his life.
I frankly don't believe this.
I don't believe these guys' lives are being threatened.
Freshman Democrat lawmaker physically assaulted at local event by activists.
This is from thinkprogress.org, a website that we know lies and makes things up.
Mary Catherine Hamm exposed them last night and today in a piece, in a blog piece at the Weekly Standard.
I don't believe there's a pattern developing here.
A pattern.
These presses, these wonderful, these imperialist members of Congress working so hard to make our lives better.
Why they're being threatened.
Their lives are being threatened.
They're being assaulted by these unruly mobs.
It's all BS.
Lloyd Doggett, Texas, last night on MSNBC, urging his fellow Democrats not to do what he did and flee protesters.
He was asked the question: Congressman Doggett, Soundbite 6 here, Mike, you had one of these famous events where you were basically kind of chased into your car and out of there by these protesters.
Well, Lawrence, that's really the right-wing spin on it.
They dribbled out a little videotape.
What it doesn't show is that I spent an hour discussing and debating this bill and listening to all the taunts and the pictures of the tombstones with my name on it.
And they show some video at the end when their noise got so loud, it just wasn't productive to stay any longer.
Democrats shouldn't flee.
We need to stand and fight these people.
Thank you, Congressman Doggett.
We need to stand and fight the American people.
We Democrats need to stand and fight the American people.
So the host says, So now you're telling me something I didn't know based on this imagery that you feel you had a productive meeting.
No, I wouldn't say it was productive.
I stood my ground and debated with them this bill, listened to all their laughable objections to the bill, explain why a public plan, a public option is essential.
And then what they did after their views were expressed and responded to, they shouted down their neighbors because they didn't want to hear the views of other people.
They didn't want to hear lies.
They didn't want to hear lies.
This is a quick bite.
Five seconds in Little Rock Children's Hospital, Mike Ross, Vic Snyder, held a town meeting on health care reform, and a participant stood up and expressed his views.
You need to get the government the hell out of our way.
Now, this is interesting, too.
During a radio interview yesterday, Chuck Grassley in Iowa City said this about health care reform.
In countries that have government-run health care, just give you an example.
I've been told that the brain tumor that Senator Kennedy has, because he's 77 years old, would not be treated the way it's treated in the United States.
In other words, he would not get the care that he gets here because of his age.
In other words, they'd say, well, he doesn't have long to live, even if he'd live another four or five years.
They'd say, well, we've got to spend the money on people that can contribute more to the economy.
It's a little bit like people saying when somebody gets to be 85, their life is worth less than when you're 35, and you pull the tubes on them.
And give a paintbill.
Now, Chuck Grassley is a moderate.
Let me tell you what's happening here.
I think all of you people out there have to realize that your actions are leading Republicans growing some onions.
Some of these moderate Republicans are actually having to spread their legs a little bit to make room.
You think a guy like Chuck Grassley would say this about Ted Kennedy if he didn't feel like he was on solid ground with his voters?
There is no way he would say anything like this.
So you're emboldening these people out there in your own party.
I think it's fabulous.
Here's Lou Ann, Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
I am so upset.
I have got a story speaking of liars to tell you.
I called my congressman's office and asked him, this was August 4th, Tuesday, I called his staffers and asked them when he was going to be returning to our district here in Ohio and having hometown meetings, to which I was told, we're not sure yet, but we are sure he will be back and have meetings.
They will be posted on his website.
Hang on to your hat.
At the very same time I was asking about when this liar was going to return to Ohio, he was having a closed-door meeting with the newspaper people in this town.
He was already here.
He was already here.
And his staffers told me, we don't know when he's coming back, but we know he will be having town hall meetings.
And as of last night, they still weren't posted on his website.
And he used all of Pelosi's talking points.
And we had a great big front page article called Clearing Up the Misconceptions on the Bill.
Do you understand?
They lied to me.
They lied to me.
He was in the town, in our hometown here.
It's even worse than that.
They lied to you while he's in the newspaper working on a joint propaganda plan.
Yes.
And I like, can I get his name?
Yeah, I was going to ask you the liar's name.
What's his name?
Zach Space.
And this is in Ohio.
Zach Space, S-P-A-C-E?
Yes, and let me say this too.
He's calling himself a blue dog.
There is no such thing as blue dog.
You termed it right.
They're lap dogs.
They're lap dogs and they're Democrats.
And he's a liar.
They lied.
His staffers lied to me.
Well, they said they didn't know where he was.
Wait a second.
They could have thought he was with a girl and they were just protecting him.
You never know.
That's true, because after what happened with Sanford, we all know that.
Look, I'm not saying he was.
I'm not saying he was.
You know, we've got experience here that guides us in these things.
Thank you, because I tell you, I'm close to tears over this, and you have given me the first chuckle I've had over this lying bag of crap all day.
Man, you are worked up.
I don't like to be lied to.
I can tell you I can take just about anything, but do not lie to me.
I don't like to be lied to.
And I want to tell these people something.
The reason we're fired up and we're going to these town hall meetings is not because we're some bunch of riffraff or troublemakers.
And the reason people are exploding like this is because we're tired of being lied to.
Amen, sister.
You're tired of being lied to, plus you have read the bill.
You know what's in it.
Yes, I have.
I'm an RN, honey.
I've read it.
And my husband's a radiographer.
We've read it.
We've read it.
This, this.
We know it.
We live it.
Let me tell you, if any of you, thanks, Luann, for calling.
If any of you blue dog Democrats are listening to this, this is what you're going to face.
You think people are going to forget this by November 2010?
Do not make that mistake.
They are not going to forget this, especially if this thing passes.
There will be a price to pay that you cannot imagine.
All right, we're back.
What is this?
Women eat less when dining with men study.
I don't care about that.
Here's what I was looking for.
About half.
No, there's a headline here.
Women eat less when dining with men.
What happens when men and women sit down for dinner?
According to the results of a Canadian study released this week, women eat much less around men than they do around other women and when they're alone.
A lead researcher of the study said men acted as negative predictors of behavior, meaning that the more men a woman listen to this sentence.
I had to pause here because this is lousy journalism.
The more men a woman was eating with, the less she ate.
The more men a woman was eating with, the less she ate.
Women joke around about having a saddle on the first date instead of a bowl of pasta, said Meredith Young. Ph.D. from McMaster University, blah, blah, blah.
You can be judged more or less attractive, more or less feminine, more or less desirable, depending on what you eat.
That is BS.
That is just absolutely.
And every man knows this is BS.
Every man knows a woman who is a picky eater is picky at a lot of other things.
Yeah, we've got the news when they move in together to get married.
They've blew it up.
We just had that last month.
I'll tell you, these people are way too many people with two-month time on their hands.
What I was going to say here is the percentage, this is, and grab, soundbites 15 and 16, Mike.
The percentage of U.S. homeowners who owe more than their house is worth will nearly double to 48% in 2011 from 26% at the end of March, potending another blow to the housing market, said the experts at Deutsche Bank yesterday.
The water, underwater aspect of this, that is, folks, there is, if that's remotely accurate prediction, what recovery?
What prosperity?
Unleash prosperity for everybody, not just the few.
What prosperity?
Your number one assets worthless?
I got to talking about this on CNN.
They don't understand this.
They're stumped by the bad economic news, and they just, they're very upset.
Heidi Collins is talking this morning with business correspondent Christine Romans.
Heidi Collins, the anchor, said this.
Is the president doing enough to protect your livelihood and, of course, your life savings?
The Obama administration has said the economy is improving, but Deutsche Bank is predicting big trouble in the housing markets.
You know, Christy Romans is here now to explain.
How does this affect everybody?
And here's the CNN economics, babe.
We know in the economy that many people think the free fall is over, but this report shows you that the value of your house is still a very big question mark.
This report shows the number of homes that it expects will be underwater, the number of homeowners underwater on their mortgage by the time there is a recovery.
That'll be almost half of all mortgage holders, Heidi, will owe more on their home than it's worth.
By the time there's a recovery?
What recovery?
Christine, we're in big trouble, apparently.
CNN, they declared the recession over last week, but now this news is just discombobulated.
The anchor, Heidi Collins, was just amazed when she heard this.
She said, you mean it's not getting any better?
No, and it seems to be the problem.
The number of foreclosures, people are losing their jobs, and that feeds into the foreclosure crisis.
The fact that home prices keep falling and have just now recently shown a little glimmer of stabilization, what this report suggests is that that recent sign of strength should be taken with a bit of a grain of salt, quite frankly, because we have more tough sledding in the housing market ahead.
The recession was over last week, she said.
We were rescued.
Prosperity for all.
Politico today, climate bill may fall by the wayside.
The fight over health care reform absorbing all the bandwidth on Capitol Hill.
Democrats fear a major climate change bill may be left on the cutting room floor this year.
If only.
Lansing, Michigan, Tom.
Hi, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Well, hello, Rush.
Now I'm in Jackson.
One of the perks of driving a truck.
Eventually, I'll make my way back home to Detroit.
Okay, good.
One quick thing.
What these people have to realize, Pelosi and all these people, there's a lot of me out there.
There's a lot of disenfranchised Democrats, Democrats in exile that are frustrated because they've trusted these people for so many years.
And now we're trying to retrain our brain, and we're finding the other side of the story, and we're really disappointed in them.
Until 2010, they will not get my vote and thousands of others.
I said this yesterday.
I said that the core of the Democrat Party is not this ultra-radical leftist.
The core Democrat voter is not like these people running the Democrat Party right now.
Now, I've also heard my entire 21-year career here on this show, I have had conservative blacks call and say, hey, it's over, man.
The lock that the Democrats have on a black vote, and it never changed.
So, you know, I know you're speaking for yourself, and it's anecdotal data, but this is the most radical regime that this country has ever had leading it.
And we've been asking for a long time, did Democrats really, are all the Democrats in this country really want this?
And I've always thought no.
They don't.
We'll find out.
We'll find out the next election.
Got to go now, though.
See you back in just a sec.
It's not just the unruly mobs that are upset out there.
A woman jogging in a Philadelphia park has been killed by a falling tree branch just days after a similar incident happened in New York Central Park left a man coma.
Those two people in one week, dead and in a coma from falling tree branch.
I mean, even the trees are revolting at this administration.
We'll be back in 21 hours.
We'll see you then.
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