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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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The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, and the email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Yesterday on this program, in reporting the absolute collapse of the energy sector in Energy Colossus Venezuela, I said to you people that 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 to you.
Here's the relevant paragraph here from John Berry, who is the director 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 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'll tell you what, I hope the next Republican administration learns this lesson, because there are going to be thousands of Maoists sleazing 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 just as Democrats and Obama are going to purge all Republicans from the civil service, you know, some people might say, well, you have a class action suit on this.
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 very, very, very concerned, wanted to investigate the firing of the U.S. attorneys.
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, Eric Erickson has the post via Instapundit, and the interpretation of this is clear.
That's why I keep an eye on Venezuela.
I keep an eye on totalitarian regimes because this is a purge to purify the federal government.
The way things work, let me just stick with this now.
It is a typical Washington process 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 an aspect of the new tone, did not get rid of any of these Clinton people.
He left them in high places at the CIA and the FBI and the State Department, the Pentagon left a lot of them there to show that, hey, I'm here and we're going to put this country back together again.
We're going to 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, 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 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 Hugo Chavez is doing and has done.
Now, last night, flew into New York.
Actually, I was in Westchester County.
The Westchester-Putnam County Council of the Boy Scouts of America awarded my good friend Roger Ailes the 2009 Good Scout Award.
As you know, he's the CEO of Fox News Channel.
And I was just randomly opening my mail one day, and I got an invitation to go to this thing.
And I moved a 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 speak, and they gave it to me.
And I did a profound, heartfelt tribute to Roger and what he means to the country, what he means, has meant to me, the miracle that he has created, the culture that he's one man.
They got 1,700 people that work at Fox.
Roger's never been on camera.
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, and they're winning four times the audience of all the other three combined.
And it's just incredible.
And I have just a little, you know, I was a Boy Scout once for a year.
But one of the reasons I wanted to go was because 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 going to save this country.
And we have one soundbite from Roger last night.
The Fox cameras were there, and just one little clip of his acceptance speech, but I want you to hear it.
We are waiting to find audio soundbite number 19 as well.
I am heartened to know.
It's not it.
Stop it.
Come on.
Let's get back to the top and let's hear it from the.
Every 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 someday they will meet the courage, resilience, resilience, dedication of these young Americans weapons we are so proud of.
And they will keep America free.
We're obviously having a hard drive problem with our computer.
I hope we got our carbonite worked up because the, you know, we don't play tape here.
I said, let's go to the audio sound of the tape, but we're actually playing off disc.
But his, it was, it was 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, and they were part of the ceremony as well.
They presented the colors, did the Pledge of Allegiance.
Everybody knew the words to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Everybody was happy and proud to recite the words to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Of course, Roger got up there in 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 so 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, Geraldo, Rolo Rivera was there.
There was a lot of Fox people there last night.
It was a great night, and I was honored to be a part of it.
Let's take a quick break.
We'll come back.
What?
I was, well, Snerdley wants to know why I was only a Boy Scout for a year.
I was, 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 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 ambassador, Carl Eikenberry, 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 is going to 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 soundbite 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 miraculously, just like AARP at the last minute comes out for the House health care bill, just like the AMA at the last minute comes out for the House health care 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 hellhole, and they're going to take him somewhere that's a little bit more fun to be.
So out of the blue, this is a coincidence.
This is a coincidence?
Ha!
You can't fool me, ladies and gentlemen.
You got to get up early in the day to fool old El Rushbo.
Now, I was a Cub Scout for a long time.
I got a bunch of badges, merit badges, and so forth.
But I wasn't really crazy about it.
I was more concerned with tying the handkerchief properly.
I was obsessed with it.
I've always been a uniform guy.
And I did all the things.
And then this next step up, you go to the Boy Scouts.
And the Boy Scouts in my town, they were sponsored by part of my church, the Centenary United Methodist Church.
And I just first camp out.
I got the Gold Brick Award.
I told them 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 did some things, but 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, and I did a little bit of surveying, but I got the Gold Brick away.
I just was not motivated or inspired by it.
I had other things I wanted to do.
So I joke about it.
You become a tenderfoot just for joining.
And most people are tenderfoots, tenderfeet for what, a couple of weeks.
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 is in the late 50s and early 60s.
And back then, as it is today, I mean, 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 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 people had bomb shelters.
We had training in school to duck under the desk if a nuke bomb was incoming.
And the scout program was to teach us survival.
After such a thing as that, that was what was on my dad's, and my mother's mind as well.
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 I may get these numbers wrong, but well over 50% of inductees to West Point, say, have been scouts.
All the service academies.
It's incredible.
And 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 going to do with the unspent TARP money?
We're going to reduce the deficit with it.
We are going to borrow money to reduce the amount of borrowed money.
It's nonsensical.
If you have any economic understanding or literacy, this makes no sense at all.
They're bailing out themselves, in other words, 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 got the hard drive problem fixed up there, and I really wanted it, I wanted to fix delayed.
I've got Obama soundbites coming up, and I wanted to play the Obama sound bites through our fractured hard drive, but they got it fixed.
Since you got it fixed, can you grab Soundbite 19 ales again and play it without the distractions of the hardbite?
Let me know when you have that ready to go.
All right, let's 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.
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 Ailes last night receiving a 2009 Scout Award from the Putnam, Westchester County, Westchester-Putnam County Boy Scouts of America.
All right.
Heavy, this is, where's this from?
This is the 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 10 years.
It was a lost decade.
Japan is Obama's first stop on a tour of Asia beginning Friday, where you'll probably drop off Anita Dunn over there in China.
As the gloomy world economy will be high on the agenda, both Japan beginning in the 90s, the U.S. in the most recent economic crisis had credit and housing bubbles and both engaged in huge amounts of overborrowing.
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 a 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 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 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.
You know, I have an 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 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.
I don't think anybody, folks who wanted to create jobs would be out there cutting taxes.
Anybody 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 higher payroll tax on the wealthy to pay for his health care.
This on top of the house's 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?
It's 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 is going to do.
He's going to pressure private companies to do more.
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 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, how cold he is.
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 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 unfairness and inequality.
That's what he's been taught his whole life.
The people that raised him felt that.
The people that taught him in school, the people he hung around with 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 moratoriums, 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, here are 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 10 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 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 all of it.
There's no consuming going on out there.
Not an increase in consuming.
Investment.
Businesses are investing.
Is that right?
Yeah.
That's why more and more people are being laid off.
So there wasn't any business investment.
It was all government.
It was all G.
It was all government growth.
It was cash for clunkers and this first-time homebuyer 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.
This is community organizing.
If you've ever wondered what it is, this is community organizing.
You get all these different people in the room and you talk and you talk about how we can work together in order to bring this country out of its recession.
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 backs.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe I ought to FedEx that up to them.
My Wall Street Journal piece.
And I should copy Obama and Biden 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 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 whatever it is they want, bailouts or what have you.
Let's go back.
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 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 going to 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 reelection 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 classic, right out of the way.
Marxists and socialists and Stalinists do things.
Just imagine a slush fund of over a trillion bucks, almost $2 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 jobs summit after saddling the country with unimaginable deficits, one and a half trillion deficits, dollar deficits yearly, relentlessly increasing unemployment rates, a jobs summit.
And, you know, again, whether somebody sees Obama as a near God or an anti-American boob, the results are always the same.
Failure.
He is an unmitigated, abject failure, except in his world, he is succeeding.
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 health care 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 D.C. 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 program.
Now, Lee Carey at the American Thinker, he's a little bit more charitable in talking about Obama here.
He says it's pretty clear to the conscious 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 social.
I said it, Mr. Kerry.
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 that room, Mr. Kerry points out, where this job summit, this is, it's going to be all a buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, optimism and bond of me 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 got to go back after this.
Ah, my friends, Rush Limbo, needed more than ever here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
got a question in the email.
Hey, are you slowing down those soundbites 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 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 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 what's headed here.
Plus, a genuine dislike.
That's why I say, folks, it may not be Obama's fault.
What, Snurdly?
What?
What?
How do they think they're going to win in 2010?
I'll answer that.
If these job numbers hold, Snerdley'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 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 they're 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.
It's unlikely that he's going to 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 Davis was an avowed communist.
His father, Barack Obama Sr., was one as well.
Now, we know that he's been educated in the Ivy League, which teaches the unfairness, inherent unfairness in this country, that capitalism is unfair, that it leads to unequal results, discrimination, poverty for some, wealth for others.
I mean, he's been taught that this country is unjust and immoral, which is why I suggested, you know, a couple of night 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 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 the evils this nation perpetrated after it was founded, even before it was founded, when 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 he is who he is.
Pete Wayner 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 his website.
I got to take a quick break here, a little long.
We'll be back in just a second.
Look at that, folks.
A 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 job summit, folks, 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 he's got to look like he's doing something.
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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