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Nov. 12, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 12, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings, my good friends, and welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
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Yesterday on this program, in reporting the absolute collapse of the energy sector in energy colossus, Venezuela, I said to you people that I all I keep an eye on Venezuela because that's where we're headed.
Get this.
The Obama administration intends to purge Republicans from the civil service retroactive to five years ago, starting in the year 2010.
I found this at redstate.com.
It's via Instapundit.
Federal government's Office of Personnel Management intends to purge the federal government of Republican civil servants, all in the name of purifying the federal bureaucracy.
And I've got a copy of the Office of Personnel Management memo right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
I will explain how this works later on in the program, but I just wanted to get this out you.
Here's here's the relevant paragraph here from John Berry, who is the director of the uh of the Office of Personnel Management.
Beginning January 1st, 2010, agencies must seek approval from OPM before they can appoint a current or recent political appointee to a competitive or non-political accepted service position at any level under the provisions of Title V United States Code.
OPM will review these proposed appointments to ensure they comply with merit system principles and and uh and uh applicable civil service laws.
I have delegated decision-making authority over these matters to career senior executives at OPM to avoid any hint of political influence.
The memo goes on to apply this change to civil servants who were political appointees in the last five years in effect, freezing these employees out of other positions, denying them promotions, and ultimately forcing them out of their jobs.
This is what Marxists do.
This is a purge.
This is typical of Marxist regimes, totalitarian regimes.
And I I'll tell you what, I hope the next Republican administration learns this lesson.
Because there are going to be thousands of Maoists sleezing their way into the bureaucracy after whatever number of years Obama is in the White House.
The bureaucracy is being polluted with these people, and uh just as the Democrats and Obama are going to purge all Republicans from the civil service.
You know, some people might say, well, you got a class action suit on this.
Uh I don't know.
I just I want to see if Chuck U Schumer, let's see if Chuck Schumer looks into this.
You know, he was uh he was very, very, very concerned, wanted to investigate the firing of the U.S. attorneys, and they wanted to frog march Karl Rove out of the White House and into jail for being a part of this.
So let's just see if Chuck Schumer is interested in investigating this.
I'm not making it up.
Redstate.com, it's uh Eric Erickson has the post via Instapundit, and uh the the interpretation of this is clear.
That's why I keep an eye on Venezuela.
I keep an eye on uh totalitarian regimes because this this is a purge to purify the uh federal government.
The way things work, let me just stick with this now.
It is a it is a typical Washington process that that many political appointees are able to take jobs within the civil service once their political appointment expires, usually at the conclusion of one administration.
You got career bureaucrats, you got political appointees.
So Bush appointed lots and lots of people to the federal bureaucracy, all presidents do.
What often happens as well as this is that congressional staffers before an election or shortly thereafter will move over to the executive branch placed into civil service in effect by appointment.
So, for example, when Bush became president in 2001, a number of Clinton political appointees became civil service employees, and as a result, they became subject to civil service Hiring and firing rules, which meant that they could no longer be replaced simply for having been a Democrat appointee, and that is what Obama is changing.
He intends to purge all Republicans from the Federal bureaucracy retroactive to five years ago under these new rules.
And the new rules are made retroactive for five years.
So that's what is happening.
And you remember Bush as uh as a as an aspect of the new tone did not get rid of any of these Clinton people.
He left them in the high places at the CIA.
Uh and the FBI and the State Department, uh, Pentagon left a lot of them there to show that uh, hey, I'm here and we're gonna we're gonna put this country back together again.
We're gonna get all we're gonna get rid of my political enemies.
And of course, he paid a huge price for it because those people continued.
You get rid of political appointees all the time, folks.
I mean, but you do it on the spot.
Obama's rules change here is to make it five years retroactive.
And the sole purpose of this is to clear out any Republican, any conservative appointee, and make this bureaucracy 100% Obama.
It's a it's it's it's a takeover, add the czars to this, the unconstitutionality of the czars, the rules change here, and the purging of Republicans, and this is the kind of stuff that happened in the Soviet Union.
This is the kind of stuff that uh Hugo Chavez is doing and has done.
Now, last night, flew into New York, actually I was in uh Westchester County.
Uh, the Westchester Putnam County Council of the Boy Scouts of America awarded uh my good friend Roger Ailes the two thousand night uh two thousand nine Good Scout Award.
As you know, he's the CEO of uh of Fox News Channel, and I I was um I just randomly opening my mail one day, and I got an invitation to go to this thing, and I I uh moved the schedule around to be able to go up there and do it because I wanted to, you know, I asked for seven to eight minutes to uh to speak, and they gave it to me.
And I uh I I did uh a profound heartfelt tribute uh to Roger and what he means to the country, what he means has meant to me, uh the miracle that he's created, the culture that he's one man, they got 1,700 people that work at Fox.
Roger's never been on camera.
Uh Roger is not actively in the director's chair every day for all these shows, and yet he's created this culture where everybody there is on the same page and proud.
Uh, and they're winning.
Uh four times the audience of uh all the other three combined.
I mean it's it's it's just incredible.
And I have just a little di the you know, the the this I was a Boy Scout once in a uh for a year.
Uh uh but the re one of the reasons I wanted to go was because the the values that are the Boy Scouts are American values, traditional American values.
That room last night, as I said in my remarks before presenting Roger, that room was America, and it's values like that that are gonna save this country.
And we have one soundbite from Roger last night.
The Fox cameras were there, and and uh just one little clip of his acceptance speech, but I want you to hear it.
We are waiting to find audio soundbite number 19.
Uh as well.
I am heartened to know.
Son it, stop it.
Come on, let's just get back to the top and let hear it from the uh from the generation gets called to meet a challenge.
This generation will as well.
I am heartened to know that what the enemies of America don't know is that is that someday they will meet the courage, resilience, resilience, dedication of these young Americans weapons we are so proud of.
And they will keep America America free.
Uh, we're obviously having a hard drive problem with our computer.
I hope we got our carbonite worked up because the uh, you know, we don't play tape, and I said let's go into the audio sound to the tape, but we're actually playing uh playing off disc.
Uh but his um uh uh it w it was it was uh just a wonderful night, and it was heartfelt, and it was just it was it was just like being in America 30 years ago, 40 years ago, all these young scouts running around in uniform, uh, and they were part of the ceremony as well.
Uh they presented the colors, did the Pledge of Allegiance.
Uh everybody knew the words to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Everybody was happy and proud to recite the words to the uh to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Of course, Roger got up there in his his opening remarks, and I'm sitting at the head table right next to him and his son Zach and his wife Beth, and Roger says, I want to say something to all of the Republicans and all the Democrats in the room tonight.
And I shouted, Who are the Democrats here?
And Roger didn't miss a beat.
He looked around the room and he said, Caroldo.
Roland Rivera was there.
There was a lot of Fox people there last night.
It was a great night, and uh I was honored to be a part of it.
Well, let's take a quick break.
We'll come back and t what.
I was well, uh Snerdley wants to know why I was only a Boy Scout for a year.
I was.
My my parents were very worried about me, and one of the reasons I'm in radio, it's because it's the first thing I did that I didn't quit.
I just got bored with everything.
And I even at that point I did not want to do what everybody else was doing.
I did not want.
Oh, by the way have you seen this?
The Afghanistan ambisser ambassador, Carl Eichenberry, all of a sudden, out of the blue.
Today, yesterday, whatever it was, says, you know what?
I don't think more troops over here in Afghanistan's gonna help out.
Three months we've been waiting for a decision from Obama.
Three months.
And General Powell said, I think he should not be rushed into a decision.
We have that sound bite here.
Now, how convenient is this?
Here's this guy who cannot make a decision, puts it off.
There are other, it's just a political inconvenience.
He's got all of these other political calculations that run ahead of it.
And just miraculous, just like AARP at the last minute comes out for the House Healthcare bill.
Just like the AMA at the last minute comes out for the House Healthcare Bill, and I ask, what did they get paid for it?
What are they going to get for this endorsement?
So what's this ambassador's next post going to be?
Obviously, he wants out of that hell hole, and they're going to take him somewhere that's a little bit more fun to be.
So out of the blue, we exp this this is a coincidence.
This is a coincidence?
Ha!
You can't fool me, ladies and gentlemen.
You gotta get up early in the day to fool old El Rushbo.
Now, uh I was a Cub Scout for a long time.
Uh I got a bunch of badges, merit badges and so forth, and uh, but I wasn't really crazy about it.
Uh I was more concerned with tying the handkerchief properly.
I was obsessed with, I've always been a uniform guy.
And uh did all the things and then this next step up, you go to the Boy Scouts.
And the Boy Scouts uh in my town, they were they were uh sponsored by part of the my church, the Sentenary United Methodist Church.
And I just first camp out, I got the Gold Brick Award.
I told him all this last night.
The Gold Brick Award was awarded to the least valuable scout on the camp out.
I didn't do anything.
Well, I I did some things, but you know, it was a very cold weekend, and we had to put leaves at the bottom of the tent to keep the wind out.
And I did a little bit of that, uh, and I did a little bit of surveying, but I got the gold brick away.
I just I just was not motivated or inspired uh by it.
I had I had other things I wanted to do.
So you uh I'm I joke about it.
You you become a tenderfoot just for joining.
Uh and most people are tenderfoots, tender feet for what, a couple of weeks, and they start getting their first badges.
I was a tenderfoot for a year.
But I still, the values of the scouts were deeply inculcated in me.
And back then, now this this is in the uh late 50s and early 60s, and back then, as it is today, I mean, the the scouts are about survival.
The scouts are about self-reliance.
And that's why I got Gold Brick Award.
I wasn't all that self-reliant, or I wasn't at least a self-reliant enough.
But the reason my dad was insistent, I mean, back then everybody was worried about the nuclear bomb from the Russians being launched, and the uh, and the uh had a uh people had bomb shelters, and we had training in school to duck under the desk if a nuke bomb was uh was incoming, and and the scout program was to teach us survival.
Uh after such a thing as that, that was that was what was on my dad's and my mother's mind as well.
Um today it's the same thing, survival of a different thing.
I told him when I started out last night, I said, ladies and gentlemen, the United States is a great nation at risk in a dangerous world.
Our threats have always been external, but today they are internal.
And they are right in front of our face, and I'm not talking about Fort Hood specifically.
Now I didn't go any further than that.
I didn't get political because I really didn't know what the makeup of the room was, but it was there to honor the scouts, and I made mention of the fact that just as Roger did that these are the future leaders of the country.
It's amazing.
I saw a stat last night that uh I may get these numbers wrong, but well over fifty percent of uh inductees to West Point say have been scouts.
All the service academies.
It's incredible.
And it was uh it was a it was a fun night, it was a great night, and I was honored to be a part of it.
And we come back, Obama, as community organizers do, has announced a job summit next month.
A jobs summit.
And have you heard what we're gonna do with the unspent TARP money?
We're gonna reduce the deficit with it.
It we are going to borrow money to reduce the amount of borrowed money.
But it it's it's it's nonsensical.
You if if you have any economic understanding or literacy, this makes no sense at all.
We're we're they're bailing out themselves, in other words, is uh is what they're doing.
We got lots to do today, folks.
Sit tight, we'll come back, get started with all the rest of it right after this.
Since we've uh uh got the hard drive problem fixed up there, and I really wanted it uh I wanted to fix delayed.
I've got Obama sound bites coming up, and I wanted to I wanted to play the Obama sound bites through our um our fractured hard driver, they got it fixed.
Since you got it fixed, can you grab Sound by 19 Ails again and uh and play it without the uh the distractions of the hard by let me know when you have that ready to go.
All right, let's let's uh roll the dice here, folks.
Cross the fingers, hope and pray that the fix actually hasn't been fixed so that we can use the broken hard drive playing the Obama bites coming up soon.
Every generation gets called to meet a challenge.
It's fixed.
This generation will as well.
I am heartened to know that what the enemies of America don't know is that someday they will meet the courage, resilience, dedication of these young Americans we are so proud of.
And they will keep America free.
Roger Ales last night receiving a 2009 Scout Award from the Putnam Westchester County, Westchester Putnam County uh Boy Scouts of America.
All right.
Uh heavy, this is where's this from?
This is the uh state-controlled associated press.
Heavy government stimulus spending and near zero interest rates did little to end a lost decade of stagnation and mushrooming debt in Japan.
I had you going, didn't I?
Some economists and lawmakers say the U.S. may wind up following the same trajectory.
Despite early signs of recovery.
Well, who's looking?
Who sees that?
And a strong U.S. stock market rally.
Fears persist that the failure to generate new jobs or ignite more consumer spending could drag the economy back into recession or result in a protracted Japan-like period of poor economic and stock market performance, and it was over ten years.
It was a lost decade.
Japan is Obama's first stop on a tour of Asia beginning Friday, where you'll probably uh drop off a needed done over there in China.
As the gloomy world economy will be high on the agenda.
Both Japan beginning in the 90s, the U.S. and the most recent economic crisis had credit and housing bubbles, and both engaged in huge amounts of over borrowing.
Kansas Senator Sam Brownbeck, senior Republican, Congress joint economic committee.
Seems to me we're on the exact same path that the Japanese took in their lost decade of running up huge government debt, not stimulating growth, and at the end of the decade having this massive debt.
The U.S. may already be in a lost decade and not realize it yet.
Some 7.3 million jobs have been lost since the recession began in December 2007.
It did not begin in December 2007.
They're trying to pin this on Bush with that, but it did not begin then.
So, months after.
Folks, remember when I said back in January, I hope he fails.
I meant I hope this stimulus thing fails.
I hope his plan doesn't work, because if it works, we're going to get exactly what we have.
So months, nine months after my limbo analysis comes this in the state-controlled associated press.
I am not surprised at all by any of this.
And so the President of the United States, this morning in a little three-minute address from the diplomatic room, the diplomatic reception room, which has all the nice pictures in there.
It's it's it's one of the entrances to the White House, announced a jobs summit next month in December.
After TARP, after stimulus was going to keep unemployment under 8% after he had the magic fix, a job summit.
We're going to talk more, which is exactly what community organizers do.
So uh the man child president Barack Obama wants to have a summit.
A summit to talk about jobs.
I said yesterday, people are tired of speeches.
Uh, you know, I have a uh uh undeniable truth of life.
Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
In Obama's world, ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of speeches.
He gives speech after speech, he talks and talks and talks, and he thinks his soaring rhetoric is going to inspire somebody to do something, I don't know what.
I I still don't believe, folks, that he wants to create jobs.
And I know it's some people think it's heresy to say that, but I have always told you what I believe and what I think, and I don't think anybody, folks, who wanted to create jobs would be out there cutting taxes.
Anyone who wanted to create jobs would be spurring investment in the private sector, not in government.
They'd be doing everything they could to reduce the burden on growth rather than taxing that growth, which prevents that growth.
We don't need higher taxes now.
Harry Reid talking about a new uh higher payroll tax on the wealthy to pay for his health care, this on top of the houses, 5.4% increase in the top marginal rate.
Where do these people think that money is?
Why is it that this one little small group of Americans, the so-called rich, are the ones that are constantly targeted and focused on by the Democrats just because they want to wipe them out.
This is being done on purpose, and this summit is meaningless.
There's nobody has any belief whatsoever that after these guys get together in the White House to have a summit, that all of a sudden jobs are going to be created.
I know what Obama's gonna do.
He's gonna pressure private companies to do more.
Ha!
He is going to pressure private companies to go out there and do more.
They can't do more.
The small businesses in this country are in pain.
They are hurting.
They are they are the targets of all of this.
How many more summits does this guy need to inform himself?
These are just shows, folks.
They are intended to convince people he cares about their plight.
When he doesn't, we mentioned this yesterday.
What a what how how cold he is.
He's not people say he's cool.
He's not cool, he's cold.
He doesn't, you know, these unemployment numbers, he doesn't have any indication of any emotion about this.
He doesn't, he doesn't represent himself as having any caring about this.
What Obama needs, you know what he really needs, and it's too late.
He's not going to be able to get it at this stage because of the people he's surrounded by needs an education.
Barack Obama needs some classes on capitalism.
I don't think he's ever been taught capitalism.
I think he's been taught to hate it.
I think he's been taught to resent it.
I think he's been taught that capitalism is inherently unfair, unjust, and immoral.
That capitalism gave us slavery, that capitalism gave us subjugation, that capitalism gave us discrimination, capitalism gave us uh unfairness and inequality.
That's what he's been taught his whole life.
That's what he the people that raised him felt that, the people that taught him in school, the people he hung around with at the at Acorn, his community organizers thought the same thing.
This guy needs some education, classes on capitalism, classes on capital creation, wealth creation, job creation, and I can tell you what they are.
The classes would be tax cuts, regulatory moratorium, smaller government, all the things that he is inexorably opposed to.
I mean, this is so simple.
To fix this Is so simple.
Even a left-wing inexperienced little Marxist like Obama might be able to pick up a few things if he just took a couple night classes on capitalism.
Maybe read a Milton Friedman book.
Okay, hear the sound bites.
First, he's calling a job summit because there's an emergency.
But he has to assure us first that he's already saved the economy.
Over the past ten months, we've taken a number of bold steps to break the back of this recession.
As a result, the economy is now growing again for the first time in more than a year, and faster than at any time in the past two years.
But even though we've slowed the loss of jobs, and today's report on the continued decline in unemployment claims is a hopeful sign.
The economic growth that we've seen has not yet led to the job growth that we desperately need.
And there was no private sector growth in that in the third quarter GDP of 3.5%.
Let me go through this again.
GDP equals CIG.
Consuming.
Business investment is the I, and government is G. GDP equals CIG.
There was no consuming going on out there.
Look at the sales, look at manufacturing, look at uh all of it.
There's no consuming going on out there.
Not an increase in consuming.
Uh investment.
Uh uh businesses are investing.
Is that right?
Yeah, uh, that's that's why more and more people are being laid off.
Is that is that so there wasn't any business investment.
It was all government, was all G, it was all government growth.
It was cash for clunkers and this uh first-time home buyer tax credit.
There was no economic growth.
In the private sector.
Here's the next sound bite.
We all know that there are limits to what government can and should do, even during such difficult times.
But we have an obligation to consider every additional responsible step that we can to encourage and accelerate job creation in this country.
And that's why in December, we'll be holding a forum at the White House on jobs and economic growth.
We'll gather CEOs and small business owners, economists and financial experts, as well as representatives from labor unions and nonprofit groups to talk about how we can work together to create jobs and get this economy moving again.
That's the uh I this is community organizing.
If you've ever wondered what it is, this is community organized.
You get all these different people in a room and you talk, and you talk about how we can work together in order to bring this country out of its recession.
We labor union, small business, politicians, we all work together.
Just like the world came together to take down the Berlin Wall.
There's no working together on this.
You turn people loose.
You get burdens off of their back, you get regulations out of their way, you turn obstacles in front of them into invisible objects and let people just move full speed ahead.
You don't sit there and talk about it.
Uh here, I have some comments about this.
Let's listen to the third and final bite.
It's important that we don't make any ill-considered decisions, even with the best of intentions, particularly at a time when our resources are so limited.
But it's just as important that we are open to any demonstrably good idea to supplement the steps we've already taken to put America back to work.
That's what this forum is about.
We no, it's not, because there are plenty of ideas.
I've offered ideas I just did, and I've offered these ideas every day on this program.
I wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal suggesting a bipartisan stimulus plan.
Uh maybe ought to FedEx that up to them.
My Wall Street Journal piece.
And I should copy Obama and Biden and uh and Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, Christine Romers, Gibbs, anybody else.
I mean, Obama's already tried his way, the political way, and it's failed.
So now let him try mine.
I wonder I wonder if he's going to get anybody in that room, even from small business, who is going to have the guts or the knowledge to say something other than Obama, we need more help from you.
We need more handouts, we need more uh whatever it is they want, bailouts or what have you.
Let's go back.
Uh let's see.
Here's what Obama said when he signed his genius stimulus bill in Denver.
And by the way, that was in February, I think, when he signed that.
Remember when he signed the stimulus bill, he was he did it in Denver and he was all by himself.
No other politician was permitted on stage to take away from this big moment.
And all of this has been a scam.
Folks, the bottom line is TARP stimulus, it's the Chicago way.
All this is is getting money that you could have never voted through Congress to pay off your political buddies and buy votes like with the AARP and the AMA and whoever else you're gonna need.
It's a slush fund.
You wonder why they haven't spent but 14% of the stimulus because they never intended to.
It's a slush fund.
It's going to be used for Democrat re-election campaigns next year.
It is used to pay off members of Congress and whoever for their votes on needed Obama legislation.
I mean, this is this is classic, right out of the way.
Marxists and socialists and Stalinists do things.
Just imagine a slush fund of over a trillion bucks, almost two trillion, and that's what we're looking at here.
And that's why so little of it has been spent.
When he signed this thing, only him, by the way, on stage.
Couldn't share it with anybody.
We have begun the essential work of keeping the American dream alive in our time.
We will need to do everything in the short term to get our economy moving again, as well as begin restoring fiscal discipline and taming our exploding deficits over the long term.
That was Obama in February signing the stimulus bill.
Today he announces a jobs summit.
This has all been a scam, folks.
Months later, Obama's holding a job summit after saddling the country with unimaginable deficits, one and a half trillion deficits, dollar deficits yearly.
Relentlessly increasing unemployment rates?
A jobs summit?
You know, again, whether somebody sees Obama as a near god or an anti-American boob degree, The results are always the same.
Failure.
He is an unmitigated abject failure, except in his world, he is succeeding.
I got a I got an idea.
Let me help out here.
You know how we can really jump start this economy?
We can take a cue from the House Healthcare Bill.
We're going to put people in jail if they don't buy health insurance.
If anybody doesn't find a job in three months, we put them in jail.
We put them in jail so we no longer can count them in the unemployment number.
We just put them in jail.
And we use stimulus money to build new jails to put them in jail.
I mean, we know it's not Obama's fault.
Anybody not working is doing it to make Obama look bad.
That's what's really going on here.
So send these people, probably Republicans on purpose not finding it work, just to make Obama look bad.
This is how they look at it in DC.
Send him to jail with all those who don't want to buy his insurance policy.
Let's just start putting people in jail here.
By the way, speaking of that, Pelosi said that's a perfectly fair provision in our bill.
We've got that audio soundbite coming up as well on the uh on the program.
Now, now Lee Carriot, the American thinker, he's a little bit more charitable in talking about Obama here.
He says it's pretty clear to the consciousness that the president hasn't a clue how to grow the economy, and every day more of us suspect that job growth isn't even part of his agenda for the next few years, and that's exactly right.
It would have been heresy to publicly make the following statement six months ago.
Obama is intent on eroding the economy so he can more easily transform it into a version of European socialism.
I said it, Mr. Carey.
I said it.
I've been saying it.
And the White House has never responded to that.
They've responded to the I hope he fails business.
But uh that room, Mr. Kerry points out where this job summit, this is it's gonna be all a buzz bz optimism and bonomy and so forth, but nothing's going to change.
This is all about feeling good and looking good and making people think you care about them, and then nothing at all happens, and that's when you blame business for not doing enough.
We gotta go back after this.
Ah, my friends, Rush Linbohr.
Needed more than ever.
Here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, I got a question in the email.
Hey, are you slowing down those sound bites of Obama on the job summit?
No.
We didn't slow him down at all.
He does sound like he couldn't care less about the subject.
No enthusiasm.
No conviction whatsoever.
Just reading the teleprompter.
He said he's trying to break the back of the recession.
Hell with that, he's broken the back of America and our economy.
That's what he's breaking the back of.
And it's purposeful.
All right, to the phones.
Jen in uh in Brownstown, Michigan.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Well, you said just what I thought you would say about the job summit.
And I just think that.
No matter what, like the people think, the real American people think.
I don't think Obama cares about it.
I don't think the Congress cares about it.
And I wish I was wrong.
Yeah, I know how you feel.
It's a tough thing to accept.
It's a tough reality to accept.
Nobody wants to believe it.
But we've elected a president who actually is comfortable with this kind of damage so it can set up.
What he really wants to do is massive redistribution of wealth and create and as many dependent middle class Americans as possible on government so that they will perpetually vote Democrat and keep the Democrats in power for purpose.
I mean, that's that's what's headed here.
Plus a genuine a genuine dislike.
That's why I say, folks, it may not be Obama's fault.
What, Snardley?
What?
What?
Mm-hmm.
How do they think they can win in 2010?
Uh I'll answer that.
If these job numbers hold, Snurley's question is how do they think they can win in 2010?
That's easy.
I'll explain that in just a second.
Well, let me explain it to you now.
How about $500 billion to dole out to various Democrats in their campaigns from the stimulus money?
And how about Acorn running around doing what they are famous for?
Oh, which reminds me there are all kinds of uh new exciting things coming in on New York 23.
It might be that Hoffman conceded too soon.
A bunch of precincts gave him zero votes.
He's now closed the gap to 3,000 votes, and he's still counting over 10,000 absentees.
He may have conceded too soon.
But this Owens guy was already sworn in and has voted on the health care bill.
Uh it's unlikely that he's gonna win, but I mean it's much, much closer than he thought and his campaign thought when they conceded.
Syracuse newspaper has the details.
Being charitable, as charitable as I can, this may not be Obama's fault.
He is who he is.
He was raised by communists.
He was mentored.
Well, this Frank Frank Frank Davis wasn't avowed communist.
His father, Barack Obama Sr., was one as well.
Now, he we know that he's been educated in the Ivy League, which teaches the unfairness, inherent unfairness in this country, that capitalism's unfair, that it leads to inequal unequal results, discrimination, poverty for some, wealth for others.
I mean, he's been taught that this country's unjust and immoral.
Which is why I suggested, you know, a couple of ninth classes on capitalism.
Now, Rush, don't you think that he's actually been exposed to it?
Oh, I think he's been exposed to it, but from a standpoint of how unfair, how mean-spirited, and how unjust it is.
Well, you look at you know what your kids are faced with in school every day, what they're being taught about American history and what they're being taught about uh the evils this nation perpetrated after it was founded, even before it was founded, when uh our ancestors arrived here.
You can imagine what this guy's been taught, and we know that he thinks it.
He's said it in his books all over the place, various interviews.
So uh he is who he is.
Pete Weiner has a great phrase.
We don't have a statesman president.
We got an ideologue.
We have an ideologue president.
Pete Wayner writing in his piece today at uh at his website.
I gotta take a quick break here, a little long, and we'll be back in just a second.
Uh look at that, folks.
Fox News story report cheerleading is the most dangerous sport for girls.
No, it's not, and I can prove it.
By the way, this this uh this job summit, uh, folks, is isn't this a subconscious admission by Obama that he doesn't know what to do?
Or is it just a stall, just to look busy?
He doesn't know what to do, but but he's got to look like he's doing something.
You remember that guy?
There's always a guy at work that's constantly looking busy but never gets anything done.
That's Obama.
Look at this.
Man arrested for phone sex calls to 911.
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