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Nov. 5, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 5, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Greetings to everybody on a beautiful day across America.
It's particularly nice here in Texas, where I join you from WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
But you know, you know where I wish I were?
There's a part of my heart that is at the Capitol Dome right now.
Because there's something special happening there right now.
And we're going to tell you about it right now.
Rush is back on Monday, and I'm here today, and Mark Stein is here with you tomorrow.
And uh Brother Stein and I are going to have a real good time today because there's our our smiles are broad, our spirits are lifted, and our people are in Washington.
If you've managed not to grasp this, some particularly courageous members of uh uh of of Congress, uh among them people you know, Michelle Bachman of Minnesota, Steve King of Iowa, some people I know here in Texas, Congressman and Dr. Michael Burgess, uh Joe Barton, the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and a good number, and I believe a growing number of Republicans who are probably just now thinking I need to be on the steps of the Capitol for this.
They are just getting started right now with a little program, a little combination rally and press conference, and there are a few, maybe maybe I shouldn't call it a few.
There are, let's just call it thousands of people gathered right now to just say no to Obamacare.
Every once in a while, when when I guest host, you know, there's occasionally a little little shout out I'll do to an affiliate because there's a caller on the line or someplace where I've worked before, or something like that, just to be nice to people who are on the magnificent affiliate list of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Well, in this case, it's both, because it's where I grew up, and it's the the affiliate I want to shout out to right now, and that's the Big 630 WMAL in Washington.
I don't know what you're doing if you're downtown, if you're going to lunch or whatever, but if you are within, it might take you a couple of minutes to get there, because it's kind of crowded, but if you might want to get over to the West Front of the Capitol right now.
They'll be at it for a good hour, hour and a half.
You miss the beginning, that's okay.
It's not like a movie, you'll still have a good time.
So why don't you get yourself, if you're not uh otherwise inclined or occupied, get yourself to the Capitol Dome right now.
A very big friend of this show and a friend of Rush's and a friend of mine, uh v uh b unsuppressible Mark Levin is apparently part of the uh proceedings, and that's about all you need to know for for the uh uh for the inspirational value of of this thing.
But the real inspiration comes from folks whom we have elected, and we beat on people we elect all the time.
At Congress, what do they ever do?
They get elected and they get there.
They don't operate in our best interests, and you know what?
Very often that's true.
But sometimes, sometimes, and really more often than maybe we give them credit for, depending on whom we're talking about.
There are members of Congress who get to Washington and actually stand for what they say they stood for.
They actually get out there and fight against long odds to protect our liberty, to protect consumer choice, to protect a health care system that the vast majority of America pretty well likes.
Fine-tune it, sure.
You know, but to borrow from Jesse Jackson, which I don't often do, health care, mend it, don't end it.
And so the idea of mending it the right way is something that's being undertaken by some Republican members of the House and the Senate.
The House is kind of the first arena where all of this is going to come to pass.
There's uh a Pelosi bill that is out there, it now tops two thousand pages, two thousand liberty-draining consumer choice uh eroding pages of uh nationalizing one-sixth of the nation's economy.
And uh with one party rule and a Democrat president and a Democrat House and a Democrat Senate, it is the Republican Party that has the energy.
It is the Republican Party that ha I hate this term, but it so works the mojo.
We've got it.
And part of that is from this week's election.
So we're gonna talk about the event uh that's going on, and then maybe hear from some of you who are there.
Uh cell phones are always dicey.
I mean, we take them, but we we kind of like landlines in the talk show world, so we don't get halfway India and then off you go.
But for this, there's a certain charm to this, and I many of you are driving around and call the show.
We we know how this goes, and it's all right.
And you know the number, 1-800-282-2882.
So I'm gonna guess that out of thousands of people, they're probably underway in paying attention to what's going on uh at whatever lectern they have set up there.
But if you can get away and so off to a little corner where it's not maybe quite so loud, uh give us a buzz on that line if you want to be a frontline correspondent on the Rush Limbaugh show from a magnificent grouping of Americans there to hear from some elected officials, and I mentioned Brother Levin, uh actor John Voigt is out there, and I gotta I feel like I am there in spirit.
I am there in spirit.
But if you're there in person, call us and uh we'll put you to work.
1-800-282-2882.
As for the rest of us, let's go to work on the issue.
We can talk a little bit about the battle that lies ahead in the in the health care struggle.
Has that battle for uh Nancy Pelosi and Stenny Hoyer in the House and and uh and Harry Reed and others in the Senate and for Barack Obama himself, has that battle been made harder?
Has uh has the road been made rougher for them by the Tuesday elections?
That answer is undeniably yes, and that's not just my wishful thinking.
I will always, always try, and I think I usually succeed, in separating out my wishful thinking from what I really, really think is going to happen.
There is, I trust you'll recall, recent evidence of that.
When was I last with you?
A couple of weeks ago, and we were we were talking some New York 23.
And I told you that all I want, all I would love is to wave some wand and and have Doug Hoffman win that race.
I told you that day that I didn't know if he could.
I doubted whether he could, in the three-person format, with a Democrat there in a district that was 52% for Obama, uh, the whole Didi Skozafava mess, I mean, way too liberal to deserve to be a Republican standard bearer, but nonetheless anointed under the laws that the state provides and the procedures that the New York State Republican Party had cranked out, but there she was, and all she did was make everybody mad.
And then after you and I spoke last time I guest hosted for Rush, she bails, leaving it just uh one mono amano between a Democrat and not a Republican, but a conservative Doug Hoffman, his forty-six percent showing is magnificent.
Now, I will tell you that that we last spoke the last time a couple weeks ago that I was here doing Russia's show.
And a lot of people, both locally and apparently a lot of you nationally, thought you heard the part where I said I don't know if he can win.
You didn't hear the part where I said I hope to God he does.
So it's all of a sudden I'm I'm uh and and Newt was in a ton of trouble.
Now Newt, uh there's a difference between endorsing Dee Dee, which no one should have done, and saying that if if Hoffman can't win, maybe she's better than Bill Owens, which I thought the last time we spoke, but as she comes out and endorsed the Democrat, endorsed the Democrat.
That shows the depth of her perversion, quite frankly.
I, you know, ideological perversion.
I mean, that that's just that's just that that is the work of a scoundrel.
I mean, listen, if you're gonna go be a Democrat, go be a Democrat.
And so she hops out, and I need you to know this.
The following day, I had my local show right here in Dallas Fort Worth, and I told everybody, all right, well, here we go.
This rodeo is on, and I'm getting all these calls.
Well, this is it, Hoffman's gonna win now.
Woo-hoo, this is it.
Surely he's gonna win now.
And I told everybody, not so fast.
I still hoped for it.
I hit my knees and prayed for it.
But here's why.
Here was the deal.
If indeed Didi Skozafava was as liberal as we all pretty well felt her to be, where were her supporters likely to go?
If indeed Dee Dee was so liberal that that she makes Olympia snow, it'll look like Sarah Palin.
Where are her supporters going to go?
And I thought maybe a bunch of them just go to Owens.
And apparently a bunch of them did.
So that's what happened.
But there's a way to look at this and a way not to look at this.
Everybody is so fond at how and I'm Lord knows Rush chronicled this with his usual uh mastery yesterday.
Uh a loss for Limbaugh, a loss for Beck, a loss for Palin.
They put everything behind this guy and he lost.
Ha ha ha.
Well, I guess when you're clinging for any narrative you can on a disastrous night for you in the Democrat world, the liberal world, that's the way you're going to spin it.
Now, I would have loved it if Hoffman had won.
I would assert to you that uh, you know, turn your head and it's primary time, and this time real voters, real voters and not uh party apparatus in New York will be anointing someone.
And if Doug Hoffman is the nominee and actually has the R by his name rather than being a third party guy, somewhat disadvantageously placed on the ballot and all of that, but no excuses, no excuses.
If there had been enough people who wanted him, he would have won.
But there are things that help you and there are things that hinder you.
If he comes through the process, and the Republican voters of New York 23 want him next year, they can have him next year.
And so while everybody chortles about the supposed snub of Rush and Sarah Palin and various other people who lined up behind her, or behind him rather, of uh hang on, man, because here comes another test of that right around the corner.
Uh under far better circumstances that aren't jacked up by the weirdness of the mere presence of Didi Skozafava and the additional weirdness of her exit, and then you throw in her endorsement.
Did that do anything?
Did it mean anything?
I don't know.
I don't care.
Let's find out what happens when the freshman Bill Owens runs up against Doug Hoffman or maybe somebody else.
There may be some other genuine conservative who wants a shot at this.
That genuine conservative will once again get the support of national hosts like Rush and others.
Local hosts like me.
Uh the Sarah Palin political action committee, uh, I'm sure will smile on such a person.
And if that kind of person wins the primary, let's tee it up and let's see how it works on a level playing field.
My suggestion for Mr. I have two things to say to Mr. Owens.
Number one, congratulations on your win.
Number two, don't buy a house in the Washington, D.C. area.
All right.
Mark Davis, in for Rush.
Rush is back on Monday.
Tomorrow you get Mark Stein, and I'm I'm looking forward to that, just as a listener, I love when Stein fills in.
And I thank you as listeners for uh for enduring uh me today.
Let's do this.
We gotta so we got the rally down in Washington going on right now.
What's that about and what will it mean that the video should be very interesting tonight?
And in the mold, I'm I'm going to aspire to something.
In the mold of Russia's advance uh narrative on what the media would say about the Tuesday elections.
I'm going to tell you what the media will say tonight and tomorrow about the gathering underway right now.
A similar exercise.
We'll see how that works out.
And let's do it with your help.
1-800-282-2882-1-800-282-2882.
A lot of stuff going on in the news today.
It's a busy Thursday.
We have the rally, and we have, of course, continuing the part of the analysis of the analysis.
We're talking about, we're saying things about what people are saying about Tuesday's uh elections.
Uh the uh there's a Senate committee that passed a draconian economy killing uh uh global warming bill.
Uh no there were no Republican votes for it because there were no Republicans in the room.
It was a boycott.
And even with that, it was only 10 to 1.
Montana's Max Baucus couldn't even go along with this.
And we'll talk about that, and a bunch of other things going on in the news across this great land.
It is a better America For this week's vote.
And as we break, I want you to know I that I can just if you recoil at that, I don't mean it's America's better because they agree with me or they agree with Rush or they agree.
I mean, there's that we're gonna have Democrat presidents, we're gonna have Republican presidents.
We're gonna have Republican majorities, we're gonna have Democrat majorities.
This is so much more than that.
This is so much more than that.
This is about more than ideology.
This is about the basic liberties which we crave, the basic system, a capitalist economic system that made this nation great.
It is about the kind of values that made this nation great.
All of those things are under attack as never before.
And we've struck a blow for real change.
Real change that we can all believe in.
We can borrow that phrase.
Just one short year.
Things so things looked so bleak a year ago.
You remember, I mean, uh uh it was this week one year ago.
You know, hey, he won.
Okay, what are we going to do now?
Well, there's an answer to that.
What are we going to do now?
We're going to hold tea parties.
We're going to hold town halls.
We're going to gather people on essentially a moment's notice and put a thousand people at the Capitol Dome today to say no to Obamacare, and we're going to keep doing it, and we're going to keep doing it, and we're going to keep doing it until the elections of 2010 deliver a message to these people, and the elections of 2012 return this president to private life.
That's what we're going to do.
What I'm going to do is take your calls.
Next on the Rush Limbaugh Show on the EIB Network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for a very interesting day during a very interesting week.
Thursday, November 5th.
I'm Mark Davis filling in from WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
I am I am told from Call Screening Central that we've had a couple of people try to call the show from the rally with their cell phones.
And the cell phone really isn't the problem.
It's the fact that they're calling us from the middle of a an absolutely ebullient, effusive, loud throng that is exulting at the thrill of being uh among the like-minded, uh the like-minded folks who are uh are there to uh to fight Obamacare.
So if you're gonna try to call the show, we love you.
And I I just wanted to tell the story because told me that we got a couple of calls, and it was like uh hello, Rush Limbaugh show.
It's like just get away from the speakers if you can't and I was that's a mile walk, I don't know.
All right, I tell you what, let's do.
Let's uh we we uh we may have uh asked for the impossible here.
But in the meantime, we can sure talk to a bunch of you talking about the in fact, let's do the next best thing.
Here is a gentleman who said he wanted to go to D.C., couldn't do it, understand that.
So what's he gonna do in his fine state, the Magnolia State of Mississippi, Moselle, Mississippi?
Ed, Mark Davis, you are on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Hey, Mark, thanks for taking my call.
I just wanted to share with you what we're doing today.
Uh of course I couldn't get to D.C., but uh a group of us are are meeting outside of uh Congressman Gene Taylor's office today.
And uh when they open back up after lunch, we're all signing votes, encouraging Mr. Taylor, a Democrat, uh not to vote for the health care bill.
And uh we're gonna go into his office one at a time, very peaceful, polite, and just deliver our notes.
And I'd encourage everyone that couldn't make it to D.C. to call or email their congressman and let them know how they feel.
Absolutely.
Play hard, play smart, be civil, but make yourself clear.
Now I'm always intrigued by Democrats in largely red states.
We have a couple in Texas, needless to say.
Gene Taylor's been there for like twenty years.
He is a Democrat.
Uh it does he realize he's on tricky footing in Mississippi, uh, not exactly a pro Pelosi state.
Uh what has this gentleman done in terms of uh telegraphing his thoughts about Obamacare?
Uh well, I I believe he's uh being very political on comments, but we're going to remind him uh the slippery slope that he is on.
And um, you know, the more people that do that, I mean, uh I hate to say it if you if you don't call email or let them know what you think, they just believe they can do whatever they want to do.
You bet.
I want to give him credit because he is a member of the uh of of of the often courageous blue dog uh coalition there.
So Ed, thank you, appreciate that very much.
And uh in fact, uh just a quick shout out to a couple of folks, uh uh Bart Stupak of Michigan.
Now, this is a courageous Democrat.
This is a guy uh who has essentially drawn a line in the sand and told Speaker Pelosi, uh I've got about four at least 40 people, you know, Democrats who cannot, will not support this thing because uh it facilitates uh because of the degree to which it facilitates abortion, which it does.
And uh so uh Brother Stupak there in Michigan fighting the good fight uh in that regard, and probably with a heavy price uh that that lies ahead for him to pay.
Woe be unto the Democrats who run a foul uh of you know Cruella Pelosi on this.
There will be a price.
And the fact that they seem willing to pay it is the kind of thing that uh uh is kind of energizing because you have to have 218 votes, and Speaker Pelosi yourself doesn't know if she has them.
And she might have had them last week, but she might not have them this week.
Mark Davis in for Rush, be right back.
And nothing quite puts a spring in our step like something from the Saturday night fever soundtrack.
Uh but I'll tell you what, Republicans looking to stay alive in what seemed like the bleakest of seasons.
Obama wins just one year ago, one party rule, house led by Harry Reed, house house led by Nancy Pelosi, Senate by Harry Reed.
Uh with it looked like 40 years in the desert for the Republican Party until these people started actually doing things.
And people begin to see what lay beneath the pretty paper of hope and change and saw the noxious liberty devouring things.
Uh that that lay underneath.
Now, listen, hardcore liberals are love and life.
That's fine, however many of you there are.
But the independent vote and many, many seniors who went along for this dark ride, um are getting buyers remorse.
And they know that 2010 and 2012 uh involve the opportunity for some healthy repentance at the ballot box, and um and some of them are stoked.
Independents helped elect Bob McDonnell in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey came very close to helping elect Doug Hoffman in New York twenty three.
If those independents are bailing, and if even some young people who are all starry-eyed, oh, hope, change, wow, you know, they're gonna be four years older, hopefully four years wiser, and some of those constituencies that the Obama regime used to gain power will be notably absent.
And the tectonic shifts of this time are an amazing thing to see.
If I'd have told you, I mean, I don't know when the first time was that I filled in for Rush after the election day, you know, but I know, you know, they were still keeping me away from sharp objects, and it's like, oh, okay, we gotta get our act together.
You know, I I maintain the usual uh, you know, eternal optimism, but still, hello.
I mean, it was we were in for a long hard slog.
And it is gonna be long, and it is gonna be hard.
But you know what?
A long, hard slog is made easier with soldiers with the weaponry to fight the fight.
True in Iraq, true in Afghanistan.
Be nice if this president actually gave General McCristol what he needed to fight through that long hard slog, but domestically, and where the the warfare imagery is more metaphoric on an issue of domestic policy.
We are uh we are ready for battle.
I'm gonna go to your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
In a minute, uh there's a story that is born of the fascinating juxtaposition of a health care debate up against the swine flu story.
I don't talk a lot about the swine flu issue itself because actually discussing it gives me swine flu symptoms.
I get disoriented, I I grow woozy, uh, I think I develop a cough.
It just it makes my brain melt.
It just does.
Get the shot, don't get the shot, I don't know, whatever you want to do.
How big is this going to get?
I don't know, nobody knows.
Uh I don't want to be underworried.
I don't want to be over worried.
Whatever.
Whatever.
What I am interested in is the politicization of uh of swine flu.
And as I get to that story after a call or two, it involves a California congressman who's looking to force paid sick days on just about every employer, uh, more than fifteen uh employees.
Right.
But the imagery I want to give you though, very seriously, no matter where you live, on the 600 and some Rush Limbaugh affiliates, there's some line wrapped around some building not far from you.
People standing out in what is probably the cold, might be the rain early in the morning till well into the evening to get swine flu shots.
Everybody's all freaked out about that, and additionally freaked out because the system that should get all this to us doesn't seem to be working real well.
Okay.
I understand.
It it's it's kind of seat-of-the-pant stuff.
We don't know how much we need, don't know how much the demand is going to be, they're making it as we speak.
They've formulated it just recently.
I'm prepared to understand why this is taking some time.
However, and obviously the dominant media culture is more than willing to understand why this is taking some time.
But can you imagine if these swine flu shot lines were happening under George W. Bush?
It would be Katrina all over again.
First it was a hurricane.
Now it's H1N1, revealing the rank ineptitude of the Bush administration.
They want your children to die.
How else to explain the failure of this administration to get you the vaccines you need?
You know this would be said from every media mountaintop.
We're Bush still president.
But he's not.
So is anyone saying that about the Obama administration?
Hang on, let me check.
Uh no.
All right.
To the phones to the phones.
We are in Marquette, Michigan.
Robert, you are on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
Uh very good to be on the show.
Thank you very much.
You bet.
Um I think uh I was talking to your screener, I think I'm pretty sure, but uh I don't really can't tell for positive, but I get the feeling that the recent change in opinion in the country that's starting to be a little more dubious about Obama is uh the main the main reason for it is conservative talk radio.
Um uh even more I think uh the cable channels sort of neutral each other out.
But conservative talk radio uh has a lot of time and a lot of coverage, and they just I think they're reaching the working class people, the blue-collar people, people that uh mainly get most of their news from the media and not from uh not from reading newspapers or reading magazines, but um I think that's what I'm seeing.
Well, let's let me let me give you a theory, let me give you a th a thought, and then we can bat it around a little bit, okay?
Yes, sir.
Yes.
Uh nothing would please me more than learning that national figures like Rush and local figures like me have that kind of power.
I don't believe we do.
Here's but but again, uh does that mean the talk radio is meaningless?
Not not at all.
Or that all the, you know, the the Fox evening shows, you know, from you know, Beck and Hannity and uh and O'Reilly and all that.
No, it's definitely a part of it, no doubt about it.
But what's different now?
What's different now?
The answer is people in the mood to pay attention.
Rush has been around since 1988.
How did Bill Clinton get elected twice?
How do please tell me how Obama got elected?
Rush was there for those.
If he had the power to single-handedly shape that much public opinion, those things wouldn't have happened, and I think he'd be the first person to tell you.
I believe that talk radio just to just to finish the paragraph.
And it is a long one, I know.
I don't know how much talk radio actually changes public opinion.
I think it reflects public opinion, and public opinion in the era of Obama involves people so stunned by the audacity of these people that they're ready to listen more to Rush, listen more to the to the the the Fox shows, listen more to uh, you know, Charlie Crowdhammer And writers like that.
Listen more to local hosts like me.
So what's changed here isn't us.
We're always here saying the same things.
But what's changed is the landscape of public attentiveness.
People looking around and saying, My God, what are they doing to us and hearing with fresh ears the kinds of things that a limbaugh show can uh can put in their heads.
Yeah, I think.
Anyway, sorry, go ahead.
Your turn.
I I agree.
Uh I agree with that, but um I kind of disagree with the amount of power that that uh Rush has and and uh sort of his his network of of people that uh follow him.
Uh for example, I think that McCain lost the election because of Rush Limbaugh, and that we might be in a in a sort of a little better place with McCain right now.
Meaning, okay, let me let me let's go back and let's walk into the time tunnel.
Meaning that if if that if Rush had embraced McCain, he would have won.
Oh uh I I do believe uh I do believe he would have had a much better chance of winning this election if Rush Limbaugh had to be.
Oh, I uh on un undoubtedly.
But it's it's a weird example.
You know what though?
We we walk into a weird territory there because we're making an if that simply would not have happened.
Uh like many conservative hosts, Rush admired Senator McCain when he deserved to be admired and bristled at Senator McCain when he deserved to be bristled at.
So we're creating a a false thing here.
Um the Amer uh okay, look, uh Rush couldn't get Bob Dole elected uh and uh you know, and and and uh uh and he again he'd be the first to tell you this that for for for a show like this, for the TV shows on Fox, for uh, you know, columnists and bloggers and all those good folks to really have impact.
Uh speech one on one tells you that communication requires three things sender, message, and listener.
The senders are always there.
You know, conservative talk radio and folks like us.
The message is always there.
The listener has to be there, literally in radio.
The people willing to receive the message that's being disseminated and actually act on it.
What we may have in this season is people more willing to be attentive, more um willing to find their way out of this morass of uh uh of socialism that President Obama's placed us in, and that gives Rush more power than maybe he's ever had, and gives uh all these Fox News shows more audience and more power than they've ever had, and that's what drives the left insane.
So listen, let me scoot and thank you.
And again, uh just uh since I clearly crave to be understood, uh uh the power of talk radio.
Look, it's an enormous deal.
It's the one it's the one part of our media culture that the left does not control.
You know, and uh as as Rush has said, talk radio doesn't need balance.
Talk radio is balance.
If it's predominantly conservative, good for it, because everything else from Hollywood to academia to you know dominant uh uh newspaper editorial boards are liberal.
So there you go.
Everybody's out there duking it out.
And in a time when people are looking for an exit strategy for this administration and what it plans to do, shows like Rush's, uh uh TV programs uh like Fox and writers and bloggers, you know, from the Michelle Malkins to various other heroes I could name.
The landscape for for these messages uh becomes more fruitful.
And thank heaven for that.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show, one-eight hundred-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis, filling in from WBAP in Dallas Fort Worth, and we'll continue in just a moment.
Hey, as Mark Davis in for Rush, who's back on Monday.
Mark Stein is with you tomorrow to wrap up the week on Friday.
Um get to the forced uh sick pay story here in a second, but I want to head to I want to get a guy on the uh on the air here with a a great point that gets brought up a lot, and so let's bring it up here.
In Columbus, Ohio, they're thinking a lot about that Buckeye's game at Penn State, but Kevin's thinking about some other stuff.
It's a pleasure to have you there, sir.
How are you doing?
Fine, and we're gonna win that game also.
Are you are you?
Oh, yes, we will.
I'm just playing.
And it never seems to get Brought up a lot.
I don't want to keep going back to the Bush era because it's so bad.
But I don't see any of these people that I'm seeing now, these thousands of people rallying and Tea Party goers and where were they when Bush spent our surplus?
Where were they when he started these wars?
Why weren't they?
Oh, okay.
Why do you think that's a good thing?
Well, you th you've your your answer, your answer is contained within your question.
Let me give you 45 seconds here and see what you think.
You're absolutely correct that government exploded in size under President Bush.
A lot of people, a lot of people, including the regular host of this show, Rush Limbaugh, and this substitute host complained about it all the time.
Not m out in the citizenry, there was less angst about spending than there is now.
You're completely right.
And if you're thinking, well, look, you know, we're going to complain about it when a Democrat president does it, shouldn't we complain about it when a Republican president does it?
The answer to that question is absolutely we should.
So why didn't it happen?
Why didn't it happen?
There is one answer.
You spoke I I believe you spoke dismissively of the war's quote unquote he started, but the war started by the nine eleven attackers is the reason that there was such a a coating of goodwill around this president that there were people who were willing not to overlook exploding spending, but to realize that we had more important fish to fry.
And I will tell you that the that the President Bush, who is now my neighbor here in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
I wish he'd been tougher on the borders, and I wish he had uh helped us get smaller government.
But I will thank God every day that he was commander in chief and not Al Gore and not John Kerry, and if that means I spent a little less time with a slice of the pie complaining about the slice of government during the Bush years, that's why.
Well, that's kind of unfair because you don't know what either of those gentlemen would have done.
Maybe they would have done a little better job, maybe it would have been a little smarter.
Tell me, I'll tell you what, in all fairness, you know, in all in all fairness.
Now it depends on what you want done.
I wanted an aggressive war taken to Al Qaeda in the part of the world that's trying to kill us.
That's what I wanted.
Do you believe for one minute that Al Gore or John Kerry would have done that?
John Kerry, for one, he was a veteran.
I'm a veteran, and we are just what we do, we don't act out just because the people say, oh, this person or that.
We want to look at the intelligence first.
We don't want to waste our troops.
I mean, I spent eight years in the military, and there uh it's a wasteful operation.
I granted, I'll give you that, but we need to stop that, and we're a little smarter with our intelligence.
Well, okay.
There's a possibility.
There's a strong possibility that a President Al Gore or President John Kerry would have responded to the war in a way more to your liking.
Uh and that could very well be.
But for those of us that wanted a war taken to Al Qaeda to disrupt them and take the war to the people who are trying to kill us in the part of the world that's trying to kill us.
Gore wouldn't have done it, Kerry wouldn't have done it.
Don't give me his veteran status.
John Mertha was a veteran.
Tim McVeigh was a veteran.
Uh that doesn't automatically make you right.
I salute your service and the service of anybody who wore the uniform of this country at any time.
But there's not monolithic opinion there.
The vast majority of those who have worn the uniform agree with this war.
Not all of them, but most of them.
And for my money, I believe that the president's instincts were right.
If he wasn't tough enough on the borders, I hope to someday have a president who is.
If he didn't shrink the size of government, I hope to someday have a president who does.
But thank God for those eight years.
We had a president willing to fight this war and keep us safe.
Thank God.
Mark Davison for Rush, back in a moment.
It occurs to me during the commercial break, would the fairness doctrine require a stream of calls now from Penn State fans who feel differently about the uh Nippney Lyons and the Buckeyes on Saturday afternoon.
Whatever.
All right, we're uh let me give you the story as the hour closes because I promised it to you.
Uh George Miller is chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, and he introduced legislation this week that would guarantee five paid sick days for workers sent home by their employers with a contagious illness.
It is billed as an effort to rein in the spread of the H1N1 flu.
Mr. Miller, Democrat of California, voiced concern that more than forty million workers do not have paid sick days, and that many workers coming into contact with the public, like restaurant or school cafeteria people, would go to work with the H1N1 if they couldn't afford to stay home.
It is called an emergency temporary measure, fear both words coming from any Democrat, and it would essentially say that any employer of 15 or more employees would have to give five paid sick days.
Dude, please.
Some employers are going to offer them, some are not.
A lot of entry-level folks are not.
I know and I understand.
But government telling employers what to offer and what not to offer, that's just never, never the way to go.
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