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Nov. 2, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 2, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I got up today and I thought it was Tuesday.
I don't know why.
It's just been a jam-packed weekend and I already felt like some of yesterday was Monday.
I went to News Church yesterday.
That's what I call being on a Sunday show, News Church.
Greetings, folks, and welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The telephone number, if you want to join us, 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
By the way, a matter left hanging from Friday, the Hutches column did run.
It's at theamericanthinker.com.
And we've posted a link to the American Thinker at my website, rushlimbaugh.com.
So the Hutches piece is there, and it's smoking hot.
So he got it done.
Thanks to Thomas Lifson and the people of American Thinker for publishing it.
Now, about this Fox News Sunday appearance yesterday, I do call Sunday shows News Church, and I'll tell you why.
I said on Fox News Sunday, nothing I have not said on this radio program.
I've said what I said on Fox News Sunday in other television programs, on other TV programs.
But, I mean, just by judging my email and hell, Axelrod was asked about me on Schieffer's show, on Schieffer's News Church show.
And they were talking about this interview over on the ABC Sunday show.
And the email that I'm getting from all of you is over the top.
And I got to know, why?
What is a snerdley?
Snerdley, you know, I go on television.
Snerdley never comes in here to comment on it.
I mean, I never even know if he even sees it.
He walks in here this morning.
I got to tell you that, whoa, man, that was a home run.
You know what?
I really, you weren't wearing socks.
I said, you know, a lot of people are telling me I wasn't wearing socks.
We don't wear socks here in South Florida, folks.
We just don't.
In fact, I have to remember to take socks with me when I travel to a northern climate in the wintertime because it just, I haven't bought a pair of socks in a, except, you know, little white golf socks in years because they never wear them.
But he came in and he said, oh, this was John.
Man, you are so calm.
And you were, oh, you, and I've never heard him go on and on like this before.
We've been doing this for 21 years.
And so I think the reason is it's News Church.
It's on a Sunday show.
And the stuff that I said, which you've all heard me say before, is not said on those shows.
Those shows are stately, predictable, Washington conventional wisdom, predictable left and right stuff.
But I had a great time.
We shot it.
We taped it at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
By the way, the AP has, it's just funny.
USA Today AP, the snarkiest stories.
Did you see the AP story?
Did you see that snerdly?
Oh, by the way, speaking of which, did you see that several people on the morning shows today are applauding Hillary Clinton for her tough talk in Pakistan to the Pakistani people, which is, you guys don't have enough taxes here.
We tax everything that moves and doesn't move in America.
You don't do that.
Now, isn't that what the left hated about George W. Bush?
The iron-fisted cowboy, George Bush, loose-lipped and sober.
Now they're praising Hillary.
They're going over there.
We tax everything.
We tax everything that moves and everything that doesn't move.
Boy, she got that right.
And they're going to tax even more.
From his home, this is the AP story.
From his home, which it wasn't.
And it was plain as day that, I mean, they had a shot of the Breakers Hotel, which is where the interview was conducted.
From his, I didn't buy the Breakers yet.
From his home and on a friendly network, Rush Limbaugh lobbed pot shots across the airwave Sunday of President Obama.
I think what I lobbed was informed criticism, not pot shots.
Immature, inexperienced, in over his head, offering the country radical leadership and laying siege to the economy.
Well, we'll let Mr. Limbaugh foment, said the White House chief political strategist, dismissing the commentator with the reported $400 million contract.
And they had, I'm probably worth more, Limbaugh said.
I tell you, folks, I love goosing these people, and it's so easy to do.
That whole thing was a giant media tweak.
Just goosed them.
No more than an entertainer.
And not really the right guy to give lectures on humility.
That's what Axelrod said.
No more than an entertainer.
Now, let's see.
At least once a week, some idiot like Sting or Sean Penn or Rosie O'Donnell or George Clooney pipes up about how wondrous and noble and good Obama is.
He gets big play in USA Today and websites, probably MSNBC and CNN.
And those people, we find out, are guests at the White House.
And who are they?
They're entertainers.
Nothing more than entertainers.
And they're stupid entertainers.
Did you hear what Sting said?
He's sent by God, jokingly.
These people are off their rockers.
They are loco weeds.
They are just entertainers.
But when they praise Obama, why?
They are distinguished citizens of the world.
And USA Today, Limbaugh never, NFL never allowed serious consideration of his candidacy to become an owner, continued to fault the NFL on Sunday.
What I said was specifically, the owners didn't even get a chance to reject me.
It never got there.
I couldn't have been more clear about it.
And USA Today still gets it wrong.
And what they're really, really having a problem with out there is why call Obama a man-child.
A man-child.
Oh, they are just freaking out over that.
Do you know what a man-child is?
Go look it up in the urban dictionary.
I looked it up in the urban dictionary, and here's what it says.
A man-child is a fully grown male that acts like a baby.
A man-child usually whines, complains, and thinks everything is unfair.
Man-children in the workplace can be recognized as one who is always complaining about the rules and or shows too much emotion.
And Obama is constantly whining and complaining about Bush and what he inherited.
He whines and complains about everything.
He's a man-child.
I'm proud.
I'm shouting it.
He's a man-child.
And of course, the predictable Geraldo Rivera, that's racist.
It was racist.
So, at any rate, folks, that's that.
We've got lots.
We got soundbite reaction to the Fox News appearance.
And I thank all of you for your email over the weekend about it.
you know i'm just terribly terribly uh uncomfortable uh talking about myself you know uh no they didn't Axelrod did not respond to any criticism I had of their policies.
All they said, oh, he's an entertainer.
We'll let Rush Fulbright.
Now, wait a minute, David.
It was only back in February that you and Carville named me the head of the Republican Party.
Now I'm just a mere entertainer.
Which is it?
Or am I perhaps both?
An entertainer who leads the Republican Party.
And how about Didi Scazafava?
Didi Scazafava, you know what?
Didi Scazafava has just screwed every rhino in the country by showing everybody who they are.
One thing about, you know, what I say about radio, people say, Russia, you know, matters on AM, F.
No, no, no, no, content, content, content, content.
Content determines what people will listen to.
And in politics, principle, principle, principle.
Moderates, by definition, have no principles.
They're wishy.
Why?
The typical moderate is Lindsey Gramnesty.
A typical moderate.
They're all over the place.
They go with the flow.
They think of themselves first.
They are not guided by principle at all.
And Didi Scazafava has just delivered a teachable moment for those who lack a keen sense of the obvious.
Rhinos cannot be trusted.
Republicans in name only cannot be trusted.
They aren't principled.
You vote them into office and you're going to get cap and tax.
You're going to get some version of Obamacare.
You're going to get tax increases.
You're going to get TARP bailouts.
You're going to get amnesty.
To betray her party, Didi Scazafava, at this point in time, when conservatives have been sounding the alarm about the dangers of rhinos, is a gift for Didi Scazafava to endorse the Democrat in New York 23.
I know a lot of people got mad about it.
So, no, folks, it's great.
Didi Scazafava is showing everybody who Republicans in name only are.
Didi Scazafava is illustrating precisely what moderate Republicans will do and who moderate Republicans are.
She has just put an exclamation point on the problem with rhinos.
They eventually end up exactly where most liberals do.
They're just a little slower in getting there.
But they end up where liberals are.
Scazafava has screwed every rhino in the country.
We can say that she's guilty of widespread bestiality.
She has screwed every rhino in the country.
Everyone can see just how phony and dangerous they are.
You know, 2010 might be a nightmare for PETA.
Two animals may become extinct, rhinos and blue dog Democrats.
Pelosi is going to kill off the blue dogs, and the conservatives are going to finally get rid of rhinos.
The American people have had enough.
They want government out of their lives.
They want disposable income.
They want a burgeoning, growing economy with opportunity.
They want their own doctors.
They want cars not made by bureaucrats and public servants.
Speaking of which, speaking of, Ford Motor Company has posted a $1 million profit.
I got to find the details of this because I've got an audio soundbite that I want to play to go along, but I got to take a break right now.
We'll do that.
We'll come back, get to your phone call.
Ah, here it is.
Here it is.
Ford reports surprise $1 billion profit.
The only auto company in America not run by Obama and not bailed out.
Want to take you back March 30th this year, me on this show.
But as we stand here now, Obama doesn't have a way into the Ford motor company that he has with the others because they didn't take any bailout money.
So if I'm Ford, if I'm Mr. Millally, what I do is I look at what Obama's, and you can find it in his book.
You can find what he thinks of the auto industry in his book.
You can find his hatred for the SUV.
You can find his book 2006, I think.
You can find exactly what kind of cars he thinks Detroit ought to build.
The cars that are going to have to be forced on people.
The cars that people are not buying en masse of their own volition.
So if I run Ford, I see what General Motors and Chrysler are going to be forced to manufacture.
And I go the other way.
As far as I can, anyway, within the bounds of these stupid cafe standards.
I don't know if that's what Ford did, but certainly it would have been a brilliant competitive move to go the opposite way of the Obama motor companies.
But here's the AP story.
Ford reports surprise $1 billion profit.
Automaker now expects to be solidly profitable in 2011.
But then you get halfway down the story, but Ford still faces obstacles in its turnaround.
Last week, workers overwhelmingly rejected an agreement with the United Auto Workers that would have brought Ford's labor costs in line with rivals General Motors and Chrysler.
Workers objected to clauses limiting their right to strike and freezing entry-level wages and felt the company was healthy enough and didn't need further concessions.
So this headline, Ford reports surprise $1 billion profit, needs to be rewritten.
Ford surprises by having a profit.
Angry unions vow to redouble efforts to sink the automaker.
Back after this.
You know, it is hilarious to look at the pictures coming out of New Jersey with these signs at Corzine rallies.
Obama Corzine.
Obama's name on top, top billing, Obama Corzine.
Now, Chris Christie has got a slight lead, but folks, these polls, I don't know, New Jersey, in Virginia, New York 23, vote.
The bottom line is show up and vote.
You need to understand that you need to vote tomorrow.
These polls are all well and good, but now is not the time to assume victory.
And in New Jersey, I mean, Acorn and the boys are just getting started on the fraud going on there.
I mean, it's going to be bad.
And it's going to be, if Christie pulls this out, it is going to be amazing.
Corzine wins.
If he wins by not much, there's a lot up for grabs tomorrow, and it's important to get out there and vote.
Even if, well, even if the other side's going to try to vote twice, have dead people vote, their dogs vote, or what have you.
New York 23 is about the United States of America.
There is money coming into that race from all over the country.
We are all New York 23.
And what Didi Scazafava has done is, like I tell you, it is a godsend because now, more than ever, everybody can identify just who Rhino Republicans are.
One thing about Ford, I made a joke here, rewriting the headline on the Ford story, Union Out.
Let me tell you something.
I'm dead serious.
This union is intent on bankrupting Ford so that the government takes it over too.
Make no mistake, Ford reporting profitability.
That's a giant bullseye that they've painted on itself.
And I would be remiss if I didn't make an observation.
You know, it's all well and good to say what Ford did in the competitive market against Chrysler and General Motors.
But in truth, it's more about what the American consumer did.
The American consumer rejected with their dollars the Obama auto management team.
It was another example of Americans voting with their feet just along, just as it is in New York 23.
People did, you know, okay, you got two bailed out companies there run by Obama.
I'm going to go buy something else.
I think this is a large part of what is happening.
President Obama, you got to hear this, folks.
He had a little press conference at the White House.
Actually, he was meeting with his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and they let cameras in there.
We have four soundbites.
Here's the first.
We're starting at 28 here, Mike.
This is what Obama said today.
The need for us to make up a whole lot of job loss is going to require, I think, some bold, innovative action on our part, and on Congress's part, and on the private sector's part.
Stop this a second.
So what the hell was the stimulus?
Some bold, innovative action on our part, on Congress's part, on the private sector's part?
Mr. President, you told us the stimulus would make sure that unemployment did not rise above 8%.
What bold, innovative action are you talking about?
It's also going to require that we look at new models for where future job growth is going to come from.
Because one of the, I think, key understandings coming out of this past financial crisis is that a lot of our growth was debt-driven.
Credit cards maxed out.
Home equity loans being taken out to finance a lot of purchases.
Businesses are going to be more cautious in terms of how they approach taking on a lot of debt.
The government is going to have to get serious about reducing our debt levels.
This is unbelievable.
It's too late.
It's too late.
We've got a $1.42 trillion deficit for the budget year just finished.
He says that growth was debt-driven.
Well, the GDP growth was certainly debt-driven.
It wasn't driven by any measurable activity on the consumer side or the business investment side.
But this is just, this is remarkable.
We're going to need a new model.
Require we look at a new model.
Mr. President, we have a model that works.
It's the past 200 years.
We have a model that works.
Your bold, innovative actions are what is destroying the country.
You're not building anything.
You're not creating anything.
You're not saving anything, Mr. President.
You are destroying it.
And you are going to continue this destruction as you abandon 200-plus years of capitalism, freedom, and growth and replace it with your whatever you want to call it.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh.
Off to our rousing start here at the EIB Network.
I want to take you back to, when was this?
This was in January.
This is from the Washington Post.
Michael Fletcher, President-elect Barack Obama, seeking to quiet concerns that his economic stimulus package would lead to an unsustainable expansion of the public workforce, said today that 90% of the 3 to 4 million jobs created or saved by his stimulus would be in the private sector.
In his weekly radio address, Obama said that nearly half million of the new jobs would be created by investing in clean energy, while another 400,000 would be created by repairing schools, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure.
The jobs we create will be in business, large and small, across a wide range of industries, Obama said.
And they'll be the kind of jobs that won't just put people to work in the short term, but position our economy to lead the world in the long term.
Obama cited the report in underscoring the urgency of enacting a stimulus package.
These numbers are a stark reminder we simply cannot continue on our current path, the president-elect said.
If nothing is done, economists from across the spectrum tell us that this recession could linger for years and the unemployment rate could reach double digits.
None of this has happened.
None of it.
Let's now go back to the audio soundbite.
Here is the second clip we have of Obama this morning at the White House with his Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
How do we get what I call a post-bubble growth model, one that is sustainable?
That's what we're going to be discussing here today.
As I said, we've got experts from a wide range of business sectors.
And what we're going to talk about is, are there mechanisms that we can start putting in place where we see the kind of growth that used to characterize the U.S. economy?
This is unbelievable.
Export-driven growth, manufacturing growth, a growth that pays high wages and provides high living standards for a broad-based middle class.
Well, don't do anything.
Cancel the stimulus, cut some taxes, and get out of the way.
Incentivize growth.
You are disincentivizing everything.
This is unbelievable.
Go back and hear again.
This is from January.
President-elect Obama, seeking to quiet concerns that his stimulus package would lead to an unsustainable expansion of the public workforce, said today, January, that 90% of the 3 to 4 million jobs created or saved would be in the private sector.
Nearly a half million of the new jobs created by investing in clean energy.
Another 400,000 would be created by repairing schools, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure.
The jobs we create will be in businesses large.
He's clueless.
He's dangerously in over his head.
Nothing has worked.
I actually sustain or submit that it has worked.
I think they're getting exactly what they want out of this.
They got more chaos, they got more angst, and now they have an excuse for saying, oh, we got to do more.
Oh, we got to do more.
So we got to convene the Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
We've got to go out there.
We got to do more.
Here's another soundbite.
Get this.
We're also in an era of fiscal constraint, which means that we've got to start finding some more creative new approaches to financing these projects.
So those are the discussions we're going to be having, not just today, but in the weeks and months to come.
This is my administration's overriding focus.
Having brought the economy back from the brink, the question is, how are we going to make sure that people are getting back to work and able to support their families?
It's not going to happen overnight, but we will not rest until we are succeeding in generating the jobs that this economy needs.
It's like Steve Wynn said, the government does not create jobs.
The entire purpose of the stimulus bill was to create enough jobs in the private sector so that the $1 trillion would be paid back from an exploding new private sector job base.
That was sold as an investment in the private sector, an investment that would wipe out the deficit, not multiply it.
How's that hope and change working for you, folks?
This is just stunning.
He said, we're in a post-bubble growth model.
And are we fiscal constraint?
Discussions are going to be having, not just today, but in the weeks and months to come.
Is my administration's overriding focus having brought the economy back from the brink?
The question is, how are we going to make sure that people are getting back to work?
Brought the economy back from the brink?
The media is saying the recession is over, and yet you're convening the Economic Recovery Advisory Board to figure out how in hell you're going to get people back to work.
Breathtakingly dangerous is what this is.
And here, get this last one.
If somebody can show me a strategy that's going to work, then we are happy to consider it.
And I want to end by saying this.
We anticipate that we're going to continue to see some job losses in the weeks and months to come.
As I said before, there is always a lag of several months between businesses starting to make profits again and investing again and them actually rehiring again.
He promises unemployment is going to continue to rise, but he's open to ideas.
Oh yeah, if somebody can show me a strategy that's going to work, we're happy to consider it.
I thought you had all the answers.
I thought you won.
I thought you had all the answers.
You don't listen to anybody else's ideas.
You're too bloated of an ego will not allow anybody else's ideas inside your skull.
This is insulting.
Tells us unemployment is going to continue to rise while saying the economy has been brought back from the brink and that the recession is over and we're going to head north on unemployment past 10% and he's open to new ideas.
We don't need any new ideas.
We have an idea that has worked better than any idea in world history, Mr. President.
It is called capitalism.
Just so happens he doesn't believe in it.
He doesn't like capitalism.
Capitalism allows for too much freedom.
My friends, quick phone call here before we have to get to the next break.
It's Suzanne in North Hills, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Rush Limbaugh.
You look great on TV, by the way, but I want to comment on what that boob Axelrod had to say.
Hey, before you, let's play what Axelrod said.
People may have missed it because he was on CBS and nobody watches that show.
So we've got, let's see, I've got three or four of them here.
Here's the first question.
Bob Schieffer says, last week, casualties Afghanistan hit a new high.
Obama went to Dover Air Force Base.
This morning on Fox News, Limbaugh said it's a photo up.
What is your reaction to what Limbaugh said?
My reaction is that I think that the President of the United States went to Dover to represent the American people and pay his respect to the families who had made so much of a sacrifice to those brave service people who made the ultimate sacrifice.
It was the appropriate thing to do.
And I think most Americans appreciate that.
I don't think most Americans bought it as genuine and sincere.
It was a photo up.
What did you think it was?
A photo up.
It was a perfect opportunity to get his fat face on camera again.
If he spent as much time doing his job as he does trying to get his face on television, wait a minute, Suzanne.
Yes.
He's not fat.
In fact, the Drudge Report has a picture of Obama coming out of a gym, and everybody's worried at how thin he's gotten, how skinny he's gotten.
The White House says, no, he's not chain smoking.
This is the result of a rigorous workout.
No, it's stress and fear that makes you lose weight every time.
Well, I've never tried that way.
Stress and fear.
No, but see, you're not an entertainer to them.
You're a threat.
That's the problem.
It's the entertainer commenting.
Well, that's what bothers you.
Oh, sure.
Well, the fact that you're not an entertainer, although I find you highly entertaining, and Snerdley's one of my favorites, but you're an absolute threat.
Everything you say is true.
They've got no way to rebuke, to rebut what you say.
So they all sit there and agree like they speak for the rest of us.
And it's like, well, I think the American people will be happy.
Don't you open your mouth and talk for me?
That jackass, did he even know the name of the family he went to see?
Yeah.
Probably not.
No, I think he did because he had to get permission, and only one family did.
Exactly.
And I wonder how much that cost.
I'm sure there was a donation made in order for that family to say, yeah, okay.
What are you referring to?
Like, what kind of are you are you?
What kind of donation, Suzanne?
A monetary donation to the family or a monetary donation to a charity that the sun, oh, well, we'll give it to the Marines or to the Widows Fund or to something, but we'll make a nice little quiet undermining donation.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
How much do you want to bet?
Nah, Suzanne, now you're going too far.
He might have offered them an autographed picture of himself in the Oval Office, but I don't think they would actually run the risk of offering money.
Oh, no, he might not have.
That doesn't mean his people didn't.
Well, you may have a point.
Look, hang on.
There's some more Axelrod bites, and I want, you're on a roll here.
I'll get your reaction to them.
I got to take a commercial timeout.
Can you hang on?
Sure.
Fine, and then Dave.
Be right.
We are back.
El Rushbaugh, as always, serving humanity simply by showing up.
We go back to Suzanne in North Hills, California.
Suzanne, you know, about this Axelrod getting upset over my claim that Obama going to Dover was a photo op.
Let me ask a question to Mr. Axelrod.
Why were those cameramen there?
Exactly.
Why were all those cameras and photographers there?
Were they there simply as observers invited by the families, or did the president and his people want to make sure the cameramen were there?
They want to make sure that the American public saw how devoted he is to the troops, which is enough to make you throw up.
Right, because they know, as I said yesterday, that people don't think he cares.
People know the whole Democrat Party doesn't really care.
That's right.
Here's the next bite.
Schieffer says, Look, in March, the chief of staff, Ron Emanuel, said Rush Limbaugh is the intellectual force, the energy behind the Republican Party.
Do you believe that what he said today represents what the Republican Party believes?
I don't know.
That's for the Republican Party to decide.
I think we've seen an interesting development over this weekend in a special election up in upstate New York in a congressional district.
The Republican candidate withdrew because of the strong third-party movement behind a very right-wing conservative.
And certainly Mr. Limbaugh and others were behind that.
And I think it sends a clear message to moderates within that party that there's no room at the inn for them.
And that's why you see Republican identification in polls at a historic low.
So that may be where the energy is in the Republican Party, but it's certainly not a view on which you can build a majority party.
See, what's amazing about this is that we listen to Democrats and they tell us who they want our party to be.
And they want it to be a bunch of SCUSAFUS.
They want it to be a bunch of squishy moderates because they know that moderates always end up voting with liberals.
Well, Rhinos are not tolerated, and they can't stand that.
But the thing that I don't like is you heard his comment where he said there was no room at the inn.
Yeah.
Exactly, what was that for?
It's not close enough to Christmas to be a religious comment, but no room at the inn.
Was like, I'm sorry, what are you talking about?
Well, he sees the no room at the inn is, I think it's just a phrase that he's saying the conservatives are kicking moderate Republicans out.
Now, Republican identification may be low.
I don't know what it is, but conservative identification is an all-time high.
There we go.
And how can they call her, actually, how could they even call her a Republican?
Or a moderate Republican?
Hardly.
Exactly.
Blaming liberal Republican, maybe.
Here's another bite.
This is the way Schieffer asks this question is almost as funny as Axelrod's answer.
And this is the one you call about Suzanne.
This is the one that really irritated you.
One of the things he said today was that the president is narcissistic, immature, inexperienced, and in over his head.
Reaction.
Well, I think it's a surreal day when you're getting lectures on humility from Rush Limbaugh.
And I'm not going to respond to that.
The fact is that he is an entertainer.
The president has to run the country.
He's the commander-in-chief.
He has huge responsibilities.
I think he does them thoughtfully.
He does them well.
And they're difficult problems.
We walked into a difficult situation.
I think he's handling it very, very well.
And most people believe that.
We'll let Mr. Limbaugh fulminate, but I think the American people are well served and believe they're well served.
I don't think he sounds very confident there.
No, he doesn't.
I think he sounds like a moron.
And he's probably reading something from these little notes he drafted to remember what names to call you and what kind adjectives to use when describing Obama.
If they can figure out a way to stop blaming Bush, I mean, by now it's been, you know, you've passed the six-month mark.
Shut up, man up, and do your job.
Well, that's the scary thing.
I think he is.
As a man, child, he sucks.
All right, Suzanne, thanks.
I appreciate it.
It's always great to hear from you.
Thanks, Rush.
All right.
Now, there's been a development.
There has been a development in New York 23.
Joe Biden is up there campaigning for the Democrat and has come out against me.
Former Vice President Joe Biden.
Does this say former vice president?
It does.
This is some CNN.
Former Vice President, Joe Bimba.
What?
Did they really call him the former?
What do they know that we don't?
Anyway, Biden is up there at a rally for Owens, and he elicited booze from the crowd when he mentioned Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Dick Army.
The idea that Rush Limbaugh would handpick the successor is kind of unusual, Biden said of the popular conservative radio host who has heavily backed Hoffman over the National Party's choice of Scazafava.
I would have thought the last person I'd bring up to the North Country's Dick Army, Biden continued, pointing to the former Texas congressman and current chairman of the conservative group Freedom Works.
He's a decent guy, Biden said, but he represents a view so alien, it seems to me, the pragmatism to the North County.
Sarah Palin, the former governor, her views are real and consistent with Army's and Limbaughs and Dick Cheney's.
I mean, this is a different ideology, Biden said.
This is a different, different than anything I've known in my 45 years of being familiar with this district.
You know, they may have any room for moderate views in the Republican Party anymore, may not have, but let me assure you, we have room, we have room.
Yeah, and you can have them, Joe.
You can have every damn Republican moderate there is.
I will personally, I mean, these guys think that I will personally, as an entertainer and the head of the Republican Party, Mr. Former Vice President, according to CNN, I'm going to see to it that every moderate Republican ends up becoming a Democrat and just make it official.
I mean, you're granting me all this.
Yeah, I'll kick him out of the party.
I'll kick him out of the inn.
Damn right, no room at our inn.
How lucky am I, folks?
How lucky am I to be attacked by Joe Biden?
I mean, former Vice President Joe Biden, that's about the most unfair fight I can think of.
They just keep, it's Christmas every day for me.
Every morning is Christmas morning.
That's what my wife is.
Joe Biden, I don't know if people write this stuff for him or if he thinks it up himself, but as for conservatism being absolutism, why don't you grow up and reacquaint yourself with our Constitution, Mr. Former Vice President?
I bet he thinks the founding fathers were absolutists.
I bet he thinks the American Revolution was unnecessary, that instead the colonists should have negotiated some deal with the king.
You see, Joe, you seem to think that liberty and private property and capitalism are extremist views.
Been in public office since you were in your mid-20s.
You've never had to earn an honest living.
You've never participated in the market system.
You don't understand what makes this nation work.
And that's why you pose a great threat to all of us.
I'm going to tell you who the real entertainers are, folks.
The real entertainers are the people of the White House.
You hear you've got Axelrod going on TV.
And what does he do?
He speaks for Obama.
He says what Obama means to say, what Obama meant to say, what he thinks, what he wants to do.
I mean, Axelrod appears to be the puppeteer, and Obama appears to be the puppet.
We're watching a marionette show.
These are the entertainers, except nobody's laughing.
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