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Oct. 5, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 5, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
You are gonna love today's show open.
Normally we performers are not supposed to give it away.
We're just supposed to do it, but I'm just telling you right now, you're gonna you're gonna love it.
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Media still stunned by the audacity of Nope in Copenhagen with the Obamas and the Oprah rejected by the world community for the Olympics in Chicago.
A lot of things went wrong with that presentation.
Uh Obama forgot to bring the Greek columns to go along with his and his wife's speeches.
Forgot to add the reverb in there to his speech, so it uh didn't sound godlike like all of his other important speeches.
And so without the without the reverb and without the um the Greek columns to distract, the IOC had to actually listen to the words, and all they heard was a bunch of self-centered narcissism.
Narcissistic ramblings.
I, me, my, my father, my kids.
There's there's Michelle Mybelsy.
I sat on my daddy's lap.
Watching Carl Lewis win his gold medal.
She was 20 years old when Carl Lewis won his gold medal.
She was sitting on his daddy's lap.
Her daddy was infirm by that point.
She wasn't, that's like Hillary saying that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary when Edmund Hillary hadn't climbed the mountain before Hillary was born.
It was not possible.
And so here's Michelle My Bell saying she's sitting on her daddy's lap.
At age 20.
And the Olympic Committee, no doubt.
I mean, this with a bunch of sophomores here making this speech.
Everything I predicted about this has come true, ladies and gentlemen.
But the I and you know, I did a bunch of media tweaks on Friday, and they're all upset.
And you know what they're really upset about?
Barack Hussein Obama.
Me, me, me.
Barack Hussein Obama.
Mmm they just dis beside themselves.
They're calling this hate speech in the media.
Here, let's give you an example of this.
This is Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough today, and he had on the BBC America correspondent Catty Kay about the discussion of politics, civility, and me.
And uh Scarborough, who uh uh well, it always seemed that one side feels a need to delegitimize the other side.
This cannot be helpful uh for our political process.
I don't think it is.
And actually, you know, listening to that Rush Limbo clip again, and I don't think I want to hear it really for a fourth or fifth time, is that it's not Barack Obama, it's Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama.
There's something insidious going on there too in the repetition of his middle name.
Crying out loud, this is a BBC reporter.
She does not know.
She does not know about this.
All right, that's enough.
A bunch of little kids out there being indoctrinated and propagandized into singing songs to dear leader, and this BBC America person doesn't even understand that we're just having a little fun with all of this.
I mean here, they don't like that.
See if they'll like this.
I wonder what they're gonna say about that.
Oh, it's more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
No sense of humor.
I want to bring a football analogy into this.
I was in Pittsburgh yesterday, was in Pittsburgh for the Steelers Chargers last night, and it was a night game.
So we're in a hotel all day long, and we're watching football, and I'm watching the Patriots and Ravens game, which is the early game at one o'clock, and the referee, that that game, the the officiating in that game was very, very odd.
And I know Tom Brady's coming back from uh, you know, knee surgery, reconstructive knee surgery, and so forth, But the penalties that they were calling against the Ravens defense for barely touching Brady got everybody all worked up.
Ray Lewis, who is the great middle linebacker of the Baltimore Ravens, said, Look, without totally going off the wall here, it's embarrassing to the game.
You can't do that.
Brady's good enough to make a play.
Let him make his own play.
You can't end the play like that.
You can't throw the flag.
No, man.
The embarrassing part is, and Brady understands it.
He walks up to one of us and says, Oh, man, that was a cheap shot.
He said, This is not football.
And that's the embarrassing part about it.
Two great teams going at it.
Let them go at it.
But you can't stop drives like that.
You can't throw flags and say, oh, you touched a quarterback.
Put flags on him.
Put a red buzzer on him.
So if we touch them, they're down.
Rodney Harrison last night, joking, but he was taken seriously.
Nobody has a sense of humor anymore.
Rodney Harrison last night on NBC in their pregame show for the Steelers Chargers said, Hey, Tom, uh, you gotta you know, take off the skirt, Tom, and put on a pair of slacks.
And that goes back to Terry Bradshaw and Jack Lambert.
Jack Lambert back in the old days of the Steelers.
They're the defensive uh people always been concerned about how they protect the quarterback in the NFL because they are the franchise.
And uh during a particular period in the NFL when the quarterbacks were overly protected by the refs, Jack Lambert said, Well, they may as well put skirts on him.
So Rodney Harrison last said, hey, come on, Tom Brady, put on some slacks, you know, take off the skirt.
And he was joking, but everybody took him seriously.
Now, this is a this is this is related to Barack Obama.
There's Ray Lewis.
I I I want to hear a liberal agree.
I want to hear a liberal agree with Ray Lewis that overprotection of the quarterback by officials is hurting the game.
Because the insane protection of Barack Obama, this country's rookie, undrafted quarterback who played five minutes of one game, has hurt the country.
It's time to take the skirt off Obama.
And time to put a pair of slacks on him.
Take the skirts off, media.
This is embarrassing.
Take off the red flag.
Take off the buzzer.
You guys are going out of your way to protect Obama from any sort of natural reporting that you would do.
There was no vetting of who this guy is, and now there's no reporting at all.
They're simply repeating.
And you're making the enemies of the country out to be people who have zip zero not of power.
Once again, we're back to this.
We play the race card, or we play the talk radio card in the race card at the same time, and that is from the old same page in the playbook.
Whenever things are going bad for the Democrats and their presence, it's always time to blame talk radio and specifically blame L. Rushbo.
Here, let's uh grab the next soundbite in order number 13.
This is Joe Lockhart, again this morning on MSNBC.
How do we get back to the path of political conversations that even have the remotest air of wanting to solve any problem this country has?
I would say the first thing you do is you start ignoring people like Rush Limbaugh.
I mean, there are French people who speak loudly and get ratings and are entertaining that at best are irrelevant to our politics.
At worst are poisoning our politics.
And the more we pay attention to him, the more we talk about him.
Stop the tape.
You can't have it both ways.
You can't say nobody listens to me and then say that I'm poisoning politics.
And you can't say stop listening to Limbaugh because nobody's listening to him because he's poisonable.
These guys just all over the board, and it's the same thing day in and day out.
Their problem is they've got a skirt on Barack Obama.
Barack Obama is not allowed to be criticized.
He's not allowed to be hit.
And even when he and his wife screw up royally in front of the world, wait till you hear these soundbites coming up.
Everything I predicted that the media would say would even Snerdley was laughing at me.
The media did.
It's all coming up right before your very eyes and ears next, after this.
E.I.B. Mmm.
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Mmm.
Obscene prosperity timeout.
Fear not, my friend.
Yes, we're gonna get to the second stimulus.
We're gonna get to General Biden versus General McChrystal.
General Obama versus General McCristol.
We're gonna get to the whole nine yards today.
And guess what?
Now Mohammed Al Baradai, who runs the uh International Atomic Energy Agency, says that Israel's the biggest threat in the Middle East.
Israel's nukes are the biggest threat going in the Middle East.
It's an upside down world out there, folks, but we try to write it each and every day.
All right, see, I told you so, Time I predicted last Friday during one of the most fun three hour radio shows we've had since January.
I predicted that the media and the liberals would squeal that I celebrated the Obama loss in the pitching of Chicago for the Olympics.
This is what I said last Friday.
Look for the headline later today.
Republicans joyful.
America loses Olympics.
Limbaugh, ecstatic.
Sure enough, the state controlled media ran with that line.
About the only place you could find more unbridled glee than Brazil was with Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh and others cheering about the fact the United States has lost.
We certainly heard Rush cvelling over it.
Limbo did say that this was the worst day of the Obama presidency.
What about what Rush Limbaugh did calling yesterday the worst day of Obama's presidency?
There's a political benefit to them saying President Obama has been rejected on the world stage as Rush Limbaugh did today.
We've lost 400,000 jobs in a conservative projection, and Rush Limbaugh says that's a victory.
Folks like uh Rush Limbaugh take glee out of the fact that we didn't get this.
Rush Limbaugh was jubilant.
Uh do I know these people or do I know these people?
You know, these people, one thing I know, they have no sense of humor.
They're utterly predictable.
They listen to me predict what they're gonna do, and they still do it.
Rather than say something just the opposite to make me look wrong, they make me look like a wizard.
Each and every day.
Here's the second see I told you so.
I predicted this last Friday.
No blame Bush for residual hatred of America, even though he's not here.
Jan Shikovsky, Friday night.
What about the Republicans actually campaigning against the U.S. and down talking Chicago?
How do you feel about that?
How dare he dare he say that this president goes around talking about how bad our country is?
He has finally been able to establish us as real participants in the world community, and if anything would have stopped us from getting it, it's the last eight years.
Bingo!
Bullseye!
And here's she does sound like a rainy.
She's totally insane.
She doesn't know how Obama's run around ripping the country to shreds, apologizing for it.
Here is Roland Burris, Illinois Democrat Senator.
had this decide.
Chicago now is a victim of all of that negativism that came out of that bad image that was created.
So they're blaming Bush.
I predicted it.
Now, something you need to know, uh, ladies and gentlemen about Bush.
Chicago became a finalist for the Olympics, the 2016 Olympics on June the 4th of last year.
While Bush was in the Oval Office.
Hillary Clinton conceded the presidential race to Barack Hussein Obama on June 7th.
Is that when all of the anti-American sentiment really started?
When Hillary dropped out?
Because Bush was still in the White House.
For what it's worth, all these people blaming it on Bush conveniently forget that Chicago was named by the IOC as one of the four finalists on June 4th, 2008, while Bush was still president.
And now, my friends, it's time for the third See I Told You So.
I ended up saying this on Friday.
They will come out and they'll say, you know what?
Obama probably really didn't want the Olympics.
He wanted it to go to a city that had never had the Olympics before.
And so he tailored his presentation to see.
Well, look at these people in a time.
You think that sounds ridiculous.
I'm just telling you, it sounds ridiculous to you.
You think I'm off my rocker here, but you I'm telling you, nobody knows the media like I know the media, nobody knows leftists like I know them.
They've got to save this guy's bacon.
Folks, this is a disaster.
Do you understand what a disaster this is?
This is a worldwide humiliation.
Barack Hussein Obama.
Mmm, mmm.
And Michelle Mabel Obama put it all on the line.
And they got bitch slapped.
Humiliated in front of the world.
There's gonna be somebody that's got to cover the basis on this.
Somebody has got to come up with a way That this can be explained, that Obama maintains his brilliance, his uniqueness, that he is a step ahead of all of us.
Mark my words.
Sure enough, Friday night, ABC News Nightline.
Uh we're talking here with uh John Berman and his report about what all happened.
There is, of course, another way to look at this.
Maybe despite the tears, maybe, just maybe, Chicago is better off.
Just ask Montreal.
That city just finished paying off debt from the 1976 games.
Ask Athens.
The Greece budgeted 1.6 billion before the 2004 games and ended up spending 16 billion.
London hasn't even had the 2012 games yet, but they've already blown their budget plans.
And what's the lesson here is that government bureaucracies don't know how to spend money properly.
They're all gonna go in debt, but you see, maybe now it's better off.
Here's a fourth C I told you so.
This is what I said last Friday.
Before it's all said and done, they're gonna blame me for spreading the vibe worldwide that I wanted Obama to fail.
Before it's all said and done, that'll happen.
Limbaugh wanted Obama to fail.
He started that vibe, he spread it all over the world.
MSNBC Friday night.
Where rush goes, the Republican Party follows.
What the Republicans did, I think rivals Jane Fonda sitting on a gun in North Vietnam.
This is not a failure of President Obama.
This is a failure of the Republican Party.
The right-wing talkers in this country that openly, openly campaigned against the Olympics by denigrating our president again.
It's their stated goal to see Barack Obama fail.
So four for four.
Four.
See I told you so.
Right out in the open.
You know, you don't need a special code to listen to this program.
You don't need a special radio.
Anybody can listen to this program and millions do.
You would think these clowns would actually try that themselves.
That whole show Friday was a giant 100% media tweak and of course Obama tweak, and here they come.
I mean, uh they're like sheep.
I have these people wrapped around my little finger.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, I hope that these people all remember.
The uh policy that came out of the White House during the uh during the uh those tea parties and and the uh town meetings.
They hit us.
We hit them back twice as hard.
Well, that's what we do here on the EIB network.
We hit back twice as hard.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence from the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies, telephone number 800-282-2882.
All right, there's a headline here in the uh in the political skepticism, and this is from yesterday, skepticism about second stimulus.
A day after President Obama acknowledged that he was exploring additional options to promote job creation, Washington opinion leaders and policymakers on Sunday cautioned against a new stimulus package, urging more targeted steps to ease mounting employment.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I that this is unbelievable to listen to this.
I don't know if you heard the BAMS.
Let me see if I've got it on the uh no.
The weekend radio address and YouTube address it no one listens to.
Obama said that his health care plans would help to solve our unemployment problem because it would make small business startups more affordable.
Well, no, well, how is that?
The only way that can be is if small businesses don't have to provide health care for anybody, and that means there's got to be a public option, which Obama's out there denying that there's going to be.
I don't know what planet this man thinks he's running these days.
Did he learn nothing at Harvard about business?
Or did they teach him what he knows that uh Harvard about business?
I I I watch all this.
We have second stimulus now, uh, former Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan, Chuck Schumer, John Corning, Barbara Boxer, John Kyle, uh, in appearances on the Sunday shows all rejected or brushed aside, suggestions of another stimulus.
Another stimulus.
We haven't had one stimulus.
There hasn't been a stimulus.
We have a re-elect Democrats in 2010 bill that's being called stimulus, but it's a porculus bill.
There are any shovel ready jobs being worked on.
Nothing.
It was nothing it was advertised to me.
They're talking about a second one.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh there Obama makes a universal promise.
I have figured this out, and here it is.
One promise fits all.
You fill in the blank will create jobs.
Now he's saying it's Obamacare that'll create jobs.
Small business jobs specifically, passing his health care, which will not be implemented at 2013, by the way.
So we wait till 2013 to create small business jobs on the basis that they'll have uh uh smaller startup costs because they won't have to pay for health care because why?
Because there's going to be a public option.
But before it was Obamacare will create jobs, it was cap and tax will create jobs.
It was cap and trade, all these brand new green jobs, new technology, green jobs.
There aren't any out there.
And before that, it was the porculus bill that was going to create jobs.
All right, show me the jobs.
We've had nine months of three job stimulus bills.
Two.
And now health care will stimulate jobs starting in 2013.
Show me the jobs.
Reminder here, folks, Obama inherited a mess.
He loves to tell us this.
Well, so did all presidents.
Ronald Reagan inherited the mess Jimmy Carter gave him.
George W. Bush inherited a bunch of Clinton messes.
The dot-coms collapsed, Al-Qaeda launched its attack on 9-11, 2001, and in four years, we hope the next president will inherit Obama's messes.
Because they're not going to be I mean breathtaking to watch it.
You know what it's time for?
They're talking about a second stimulus.
I want to go back to when was this?
February or something, March?
Might have been January.
Uh Wall Street Journal asked me if I would submit my own stimulus plan in the form of an op-ed, which I did.
And I think it would be wise to recall it now because if we're going to do a second stimulus, maybe we could do mine.
My original plan was, okay, you're going to spend a billion dollars or a trillion dollars in stimulus.
That was the ballpark number.
I said, let's let's try something genuinely bipartisan, Mr. President.
You got what?
53% of the vote?
And my guys got 47%, roughly, 46%.
So let's do this.
You get $530 billion of the stimulus to spend however you want, and I get $430 for $470 billion, whatever the electoral returns were.
If exact numbers escape me for the moment, I said, then let's compare them side by side.
You spend your $530 billion doing whatever you're going to do with it, and I'll do tax cuts.
I will stimulate growth.
I will suspend capital gains for a couple years.
Uh, and and I will I will really cut business taxes.
Let's see which one actually stimulates economic growth.
So I propose that again today.
If we're talking about a second stimulus, let it be the limboss stimulus plan.
As published in the Wall Street Journal, I forget what month it was.
Coco can find it on a website.
And uh I'm just repeating it to you off top of my head here, but Coco can repeat it, get it off the website and send me the uh the text of it, and I go through it.
But I mean, what do we have to lose now?
A second stimulus.
The first stimulus, by the way, again I say is working exactly as they had it planned.
It's creating no new jobs, it's creating more chaos, it's creating more dependence.
There is no indication of any job growth anytime soon.
Even the administration on Friday said, we hope the next three to four months maybe we'll be showing a net gain in jobs.
Obama has the audacity to say that he's more concerned about that than anything.
He's out there waiting, he's talking to his advisors every day until jobs are created.
A man doesn't know How to create jobs.
He knows how to agitate people.
He knows how to aggravate, and he knows how to organize, but he doesn't believe in a private sector creating jobs by virtue of private sector growth because he doesn't believe in private sector growth.
He's shrinking it.
He is depleting capital from the private sector by design and on purpose.
For the express purpose of growing.
The public sector.
Now, here's this is uh the UK guardian of all places.
A story from yesterday, will California become America's first failed state?
I don't know if you remember.
Last week we also had the news that California, somebody out there proposed eliminating business taxes and lowering taxes on the rich as a last gasp effort to get the states growing, a state growing again.
Now, this they always, in the direst of circumstances, every time liberalism fails, which is every time it's tried, at some point you reach a catastrophe.
You get to the tipping point of utter and total disaster.
And then they always revert to Reaganism.
They always revert to conservatism.
Because it works.
What liberals didn't this is such a myth that this is about creating jobs and a new economy which will never have down cycles again?
The only reason it'll never have down cycles again is because it'll never have an up cycle.
You can't have a down cycle without an upcycle.
And if Obama contains and maintains control over this economy, there's never going to be growth.
And so we can't ever have a down cycle again.
He's right about that, because you can't have a down cycle unless you've had an upcycle first.
California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs.
Unemployment's at its highest in 70 years.
Teachers are on a hunger strike, so what has gone so catastrophically wrong?
Answer liberalism.
Democrat Party.
Who has run that state?
Patients without medical insurance wait for treatment in the forum, a music arena in Englewood.
The 1,500 free places were filled by 4 a.m.
California has a special place in the American psyche.
It's the golden state, a playground of the rich and famous with perfect weather.
Symbolizes a lifestyle of sunshine, swimming pools, and the Hollywood dream factory, along with the occasional forest fire.
But the state that was once held up as the epitome of the boundless opportunities of America has collapsed.
From its politics to its economy to its environment and way of life.
And of course, what this story doesn't mention, but it has to be said.
One of the primary reasons California's failing is the conservative right-wing talk shows in that state.
We all know this.
Right-wing talk shows, local right-wing talk shows in California single-handedly have brought about the disaster that is California.
Just like every inside the Beltway commentator, be they Republican or Democrat wants to blame Obama's problems on me and my compadres in talk radio nationally.
Well, then I guess we have to follow suit and say all those conservative talkers in California have single-handedly brocked down the state of California.
Yes.
And of course, all the racist talk show hoes in California.
They too have helped bring back and uh bring about this economic collapse.
That's what they want everybody to believe.
At the start of summer, the state government was so deeply in debt it began to issue IOUs instead of wages.
Its unemployment rate has soared to more than 12%, the highest figure in 70 years.
Desperate to pay off a crippling budget deficit, California slashing spending in education and health care, laying off vast numbers of workers, forcing others to take unpaid leave.
In a state made up of sprawling suburbs, the collapse of the housing bubble has impoverished millions and kicked tens of thousands of families out of their homes, a political system, is locked in paralysis.
The two-term rule of former movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger is seen as a disaster.
Why?
Because he campaigned as a conservative.
He tried to govern as one, gave up on it, and became a total wuss liberal panty waste in order to get along with the other people that run the state, and voila.
We have California as it is.
And Schwarzenegger has the indignity of it being reported here that his approval ratings have sunk to levels that would make George W. Bush bluss.
The California is on the verge of becoming the first failed state in America.
I wonder if uh Obama and his gang want to own and run California.
What if they want to uh is California too big to fail?
Maybe bail it out.
Very teachable moment here.
We collectively as a country don't look at this and see a lesson on how not to do things.
Unlike this British writer, if you read the whole it's a very long story, I'm not gonna read the whole thing to you.
We don't look at this as another chance for the government to fix and take over and control us and keep us blissfully ignorant.
That's the solution.
What can government do to fix what government broke?
Government can get out of the way.
Government can let the people of California take over, get rid of the tax burden, get rid of the regulatory burden, turn them loose, turn the entrepreneurs loose, and then all they'll have to deal with is Obama's obstacles and not the obstacles placed in front of them by Democrats in the state of California.
And there's ABC has this just comical headline today.
Obama confronts waning political capital.
You think the White House may want to work on its vote counting operation before the health care bill makes it to the Senate floor?
You think the CBO might be just as brutal as the IOC with scoring that counts just as much?
Think the public debate over Afghanistan strategy gets any easier as events-shaped receptions.
Nobody'll much remember a 24-hour trip to Denmark in early fall.
Well, that won't be the case if I can help it.
If by the start of winter there's a health care bill in place and an Afghanistan policy, everybody in the administration can agree to, utter disasters.
Both would be utter disasters if we have a health care bill in place as designed.
Utter disasters.
This guy had all the political capital God ever created, and in nine months it is already waning.
Well, isn't this interesting?
CBS has pulled from YouTube the video of David Letterman's Maya Culpa admitting having sex with his female stampers.
Now I thought that it was some of the greatest television ever.
The AP and other news critics, oh, that was the best TV.
That was what a brilliant way that Letterman did all this.
Why, that's some of the best hour TV we've seen since Hugh Grant admitted buying a prostitute in the back alley in LA on the tonight show.
So if it's the greatest hour of television, why does CBS pull a video off of YouTube where nobody can see the great hour of TV that it was.
I know.
How are we supposed to grow?
How are we supposed to all be able to emulate Letterman and do it the right way if we don't have the guidance from Letterman on YouTube to follow?
You know how much of the stimulus has been spent.
Well, it's actually it's more than then.
It's 14.5% of the stimuluses have been spent.
Um the stimulus, as you know, was it's actually 787 billion, but there's there was 200 billion dollars of of uh uh earmarks in there too to get these guys to vote for it.
So, but we'll use the 787 billion figure 84 million five hundred and eighty seven thousand four hundred-three dollars as of September 1st.
As some people say, well, why not spend the rest of the money?
No!
No!
That would be the big won't work.
None of it's oriented toward creating jobs.
You watch how fast it starts getting spent after January, which is an election year.
The stimulus porcupist bill is simply the Democrats' re-election act of uh of 2009.
Now here is here's here's my stimulus proposal that ran on January 29th this year in the Wall Street Journal.
Recent polling.
I'm I'm not gonna read the whole thing, I'm I'm joining it in progress here.
Recent polling indicates the American people are in favor of two different approaches here.
Notwithstanding the media blitz in support of Obama's plan, most Americans, according to a new Rasmussen Paul are skeptical.
Rasmussen finds 59% fear Congress and the president will increase government spending too much.
Only 17% Worry that they'll cut taxes too much.
Since the American people are not certain that the Obama stimulus plan's a way to go, it seems to me there's an opportunity for genuine compromise.
And at the same time, we can garner evidence on how to deal with future recessions so every occurrence will no longer become a matter of partisan debate.
Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Obama, 46 voted for McCain, 1% voted for WACOs.
Let's give that 1% to President Obama.
Let's say the vote 5446 as a way to bring the country together at the same time, determine the most effective way to deal with recessions.
Under the Obama Limbaugh Stimulus Plan, 54% of the 900 billion will be spent on infrastructure and pork as defined by Obama the Democrats.
Forty-six percent, 414 billion, be directed toward tax cuts as determined by me.
Then we compare.
We see which stimulus actually works.
This is bipartisanship.
It would satisfy the American people's wishes, as polls currently note, and it would also serve as a measurable test as to which approach best stimulates job growth.
I say cut the U.S. corporate tax rate at 35% is the highest among the highest of all industrialized nations.
Cut it in half.
Suspend capital gains tax for a year to incentivize new investment, after which it would be reimposed at 10%, and then get out of the way.
Once Wall Street starts ticking up 500 points a day, the rest of the private sector will follow.
There's no reason to depress everybody's hopes like the administration's doing.
No reason to insist that recovery cannot happen quickly because it can.
Let's stop the acrimony, Mr. President.
Let's start solving our problems together.
Why wait one more day?
The entire column now posted for you to see at Rush Limbaugh.com.
The Obama Limbaugh Stimulus Plan.
They're talking about a second one.
I proposed it, January 29th of this year.
Check it out.
From the Chicago Tribune, they ought to know.
Headline Health care reform privately.
Barack Obama strongly backs a public option.
Publicly, he says there won't be one.
White House discreetly labors to weave coalition on health care, all that and much more when we get back after a startlingly stunning first hour.
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