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December 10, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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All right.
You know, we we have liberals that call this show now and then.
And by the way, every time, what would you say the percentage of liberals who call here that you put up?
It's very high, right?
You put them all 90% 95% of them get on.
Uh we don't get that many.
Well, we don't we don't limit them.
Uh we certainly do not.
And whenever we move them to the front of the line.
That's a policy that we put in place way back there in the late 80s when the first round of criticism, Limbaugh never takes calls from people who disagree with him.
We do it all the time when they call.
It generally what happens is within 30 seconds they descend in the name calling, and we just have to get rid of them.
Uh they don't they can't stay on topic or anything of the sort.
But every time they do call, it's generally the result of some sort of uh well, we call them seminar callers, but it there's it's a movement.
Somebody on some website sends out marching orders.
Okay, here's what we need to say about health care versus war versus taxes.
You guys need to flood the talk shows with this.
So we got our obligatory call today about uh taxes and war.
Now, the latest talking point, this whole business that Bush did not ask people's sacrifice.
Bush ran up a trillion dollars worth of debt in Iraq and Afghanistan and didn't ask anybody to sacrifice or pay for it and so forth.
And now everybody's saying that health care, which is of noble, compassionate for American idea, has to be paid for.
The left is trying to make us think that we were immoral and unjust, spending all that money and losing all those lives for something that was irrelevant and it made no difference, it wasn't paid for, and now here comes the wondrous one, Obama the Mathias, the most merciful, who just wants every American to have health care and to never get sick.
If he does get sick, he gets well.
And you idiots on the right, you are making it sound like he hasn't paid for it.
He hasn't gonna pay for it, he's gonna ruin the deficit and so forth, and it was your war as it does.
That's that's the talking point.
And its origins uh are from the New York Times economic columnist Paul Krugman.
Here's what he wrote, November 29th.
This is a lot of money.
Actually, said it on this week with uh George Stepanopoulos.
This is a lot of money, and the point is we should have been paying for these wars to begin with, right from the beginning.
I mean, this was if you want to talk firsts for Bush.
This was the first time in American history that a president took us into war and cut taxes.
Now that was probably cribbed from the Urban Institute study, war and tax.
The left is uh they're linked together.
Uh all of all of which was just used as an argument for a new war tax.
Uh who was it?
Was it was it Baucus that put that out there?
Or what what uh who?
Obi?
Yeah.
Yeah, David Obi.
David O' in the house, a war tax.
A war tax.
But the guy who called here neglected to mention uh that there were no major tax cuts during a time of war, but that's not even true because Kennedy and Johnson cut taxes in 1964 during the Vietnam War.
Now, Johnson eventually raised them again.
And look, we fought a Cold War.
Now, I don't know with the with the Soviet Union that went on for years, folks, and it cost a lot of money the nuke buildup, and Reagan cut taxes in the Cold War.
So it once again, it's a it's it's a false choice, a flawed premise that relies On hatred of George W. Bush in order for it to work.
And as we can see as we go through the uh stack of stuff here, that's getting harder and harder and harder for Obama to continue to sell.
Now, here's this is to play this for you again.
This is what he said this morning in his acceptance speech, among other things, uh, at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
Ronald Reagan's efforts on arms control and embrace of perestroika, not only improved relations with the Soviet Union, but empowered dissidents throughout Eastern Europe.
What the hell is he talking about?
Improved relations with the Soviet Union.
It was Reagan who refused to talk to Soviet leaders because they kept dying on him.
Embraced perestroika.
Does anybody does anybody really know what perestroika is?
I got it from Gorbachev's own damn book.
By perestroika, Gorbachev meant retrenchment of Leninism.
He was trying to save communism while it was falling apart.
He was trying to do things that were incompatible.
He was trying that first place, he didn't have the economy to keep up with us on the strategic defense initiative.
They just couldn't keep up with us.
They were a third world country with a first-rate military.
They had no food in the stores.
They hadn't a typical communist country.
They had to build walls to keep people in their countries.
But, you know, blue jeans showed up over there, then uh DVD copies of the TV show Dallas, and the Russian people began to see an America unlike that which they were told about.
They were constantly lying about what life was like here.
And then they loved blue jeans.
They saw Dallas and somebody snuck uh pirated copies of dynasty in there, and uh that's all she wrote.
So the people started demanding freedom and American prosperity, and Gorbachev wanted to stay in power, so he tried to dole out a little bit of freedom.
He called it perestroika, but that's not what he was intending to do, but still strengthen communism.
The two don't go together.
You cannot parcel out freedom and still strengthen communism.
It just doesn't work.
So the floodgates, and Reagan, we we we defeated them without even firing a shot to say that Reagan embraced perestroika, his efforts on arms control, efforts on arms control.
Does anybody remember Reykjavik?
In Iceland, there was a summit.
And Gorbachev and Reagan met Gorbachev proposed getting rid of everything.
And Reagan says, screw you, I know you're not gonna get rid of it.
He walked out.
Embrace of arms control.
You know, I wonder if does that really what he thinks happened during the Reagan years?
I remember in his book, one of his books, he pretty much says that Reagan is what made him want to get into politics to change America.
Remember that passage, and I've read it to you a number of times, where his first job in some was it a law firm, somebody sitting in his cubicle.
It's a private sector enterprise.
I forget what it was, but he writes about feeling like he was behind enemy lines.
And then he talks about having to change what Reagan and his minions were doing, which was cutting taxes, growing the economy, expanding personal liberty and freedom.
Those are the things that inspired Obama to get into American politics to want to change.
Now, who was it to get it's entirely possible that throughout his educated life, he's been told that Reagan embraced perestroika, that Gorbachev was the responsible for the end of the Cold War, and that arms control.
But at the time, the left hated Reagan because he didn't believe in arms control.
He always knew the Soviets would cheat on it.
We we he wanted to bury the Soviets.
He wanted to wipe them out.
He didn't want to get it.
This is just one of the most amazing passages.
Uh I mean, he he went in to record his Saturday radio presidential address, and he told a joke before he actually started recording the five-minute radio address, and he said, attention, Mr. Gorbachev, the bombing starts in five minutes.
And it could have got out, and the media had a cow.
I mean, the left went absolutely nuts.
And that was on the heels of Reagan having called him the evil empire.
In the midst of all the Star Wars movies.
And here comes Little Barry.
Reagan's efforts on arms control and embrace of perestroika not only improved relations with the so improved relations with the Soviet Union.
And empowered dissidents.
Empower.
The dissidents that mattered were in jail.
It was called a gulag archipelago.
And it was written about by Alexander Solzhenitson.
Uh I don't know, folks.
We uh universalize um universe of reality.
It is uh it is it is clear.
Let me read from Gorbachev's uh his own stupid book.
I stress once again, perestroika is not some kind of illumination or revelation.
To restructure our life means to understand the objective necessity for renovation and acceleration.
And that necessity emerged in the heart of our society.
The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction, both in theory and in practice.
Such is the essence of perestroika, which accounts for its genuine revolutionary spirit and its all-embracing scope.
Now, that's from Mikhail Gorbachev's own book, and I will guarantee him to you that Ronald Reagan no more embraced that than he would have embraced flat-out, straight out communism.
And this, by the way, perestroika was Gorbachev's downfall.
You cannot unite socialism and democracy.
There will be a revolt, especially if you're talking about an oppressed people, and you want to bring democracy to an abreast people, but that means you're going to have to give them some freedom, which they haven't had before, and freedom that they've been lied to about that exists elsewhere in the world.
It all came crumbling down in the person of Boris Yeltsin and a number of others over there.
People forget there was an assassination attempt on Gorbachev.
When he was at the um what passes for the Soviet version of Camp David, some shack down there in the Black Sea or wherever it was.
That's where the assassination Gorbachev could they tried to assassinate the president.
They tried to which is common in communist countries and do coups all the uh all the time.
But I just this this one's way over the top, folks.
Embrace of uh of perestroika.
And don't forget the companion, it was Glasnost.
Openness.
That was all a sham.
Look at these people are liberals, they're leftists, and everything they do is a lie.
Perestroika and glasnost, the new opening of the previously closed Soviet system was just the opposite.
Obama called that transparency now, telling people lies about what about uh about what you're doing.
It's just this is just over the top, unbelievably incredible.
I can't possibly believe that he just well, he can if he's been taught that.
I guess if that's what he's been taught.
He's talking to a bunch of Norwegians, too.
Well, look at the Europeans, the Western Europeans understand full.
They may, they may still resent it, but they understand full well that it was the Pershing missiles placed there that preceded the SDI debate that led to the end of the Soviet Union, and Reagan did not back down.
The Soviets are doing everything they could to keep those missile bases, those those launchers from being installed.
And of course, these uh these little linguini spines over in Oslo were the beneficiaries of it, along with the French and along with the uh the Brits, the Danes, the Norwegians, the Swedish.
So uh I just this is this is uh this is why they want to get rid of old people, folks, people that remember the truth of things like this.
They want to be able to rewrite history and say Reagan embraced perestroika.
Reagan embraced communist reforms.
They want us to believe, and Reagan was big in arms control, big, big.
It's just stunning to me.
And to anybody else who happens to know the uh the truth about this?
In fact, listen, this is this is kind of interesting.
I don't want to make too much out of this.
Tina Brown, one of the doy ends of New York Society and literature.
She and her husband, Sir Harry Evans, quite dominant and prevalent.
They are the Ben Bradley and the Sally Quinn of the New York Media Social set.
She has edited Vanity Fair, the New Yorker.
She now has a website called a Daily Beast.
And this is what she wrote on December 3rd at The Daily Beast.
It's a strange paradox for a great wordsmith, but whenever Obama makes an important policy speech these days, he leaves everyone totally confused.
His first health care press conference back in July triggered a season of raucous political roar suck and left his hopeful followers utterly baffled about what they were being asked to support.
Now White House envoys are being dispatched all over the globe to explain what the president really meant about the date when troops will or won't be pulled out of Afghanistan.
Does Obama create confusion on purpose?
Is this his process based on his confession that he's a screen under which people project things?
Is it a strategy so that whatever bill trickles out of Congress, or however many soldiers linger in Afghanistan, he can claim that the outcome is what he meant all along?
Or is it that there is so much subtext to every part of this message that the simple heads of the electorate are just not pointy enough to comprehend it.
I, writes Tina Brown, have come to the conclusion that the real reason this gifted communicator has become so bad at communicating is that he doesn't really believe a word that he is saying.
I think at the risk of publicly humiliating her by agreeing with her, I will agree with her.
And this is why there's no passion from the guy about anything.
I'm sure that the guy's got varicose veins, because without that he'd be totally colorless.
This guy, I'm telling you, is a is a dryball.
There's no passion or emotion about any of his proposals.
Any things he supposedly cares about.
And Tina Brown says because he doesn't really believe a word he's saying.
He couldn't convey that health care reform would somehow be cost-free because he knows it won't be.
And he can't adequately convey that the imperative or the military strategy of the war in Afghanistan because he doesn't really believe in that either.
Which she's right.
I mean, I I don't.
War in Afghanistan is an inconvenience.
He really, I think he's irritated that he has to deal with it.
Anyway, a brief timeout.
We'll be back and we'll continue right after this.
More of your phone calls are coming up.
That's a long cool woman in a black dress.
Here's what I was looking for earlier, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Obama goes out there at the Brookings Institution this week and says, Well, we're gonna we're gonna suspend the capital gains tax on small business for a year.
And of course, you have to sell something, they have to sell an asset for profit before there's a gain on it.
I I it doesn't apply, but anyway, House Democrats, it's a Wall Street Journal.
House Democrats keep stepping on Obama's applause lines about innovation and job creation.
Tuesday, Obama announced that we're proposing a complete elimination of capital gains taxes on small business investment for one year.
Responding with rare dispatch, the House voted yesterday to change the capital gains rate for venture capitalists who invest in technology startups.
But rather than eliminate the tax, the House more than doubled it, moving the rate to 35% from 15% by reclassifying such gains as ordinary income.
Private equity fund managers and managers of real estate and oil and gas partnerships would also get socked with a 133% tax rate increase.
Now there's a way to encourage economic growth in new jobs.
So nothing they say, My good friends can be believed.
Nothing, they say, can be believed.
And how about this?
Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric.
And in Obama's pocket, by the way, when it comes to green jobs and all that, because Immelt figures the government's going to give him a bunch of money to develop green turbines and green jet engines and green windmills or what have you.
Jeff Emilt said yesterday that his generation of business leaders had succumbed to meanness and greed that had harmed the U.S. economy and increased the gap between the rich and the poor.
Jeffrey Melt of C of GE attacked his fellow corporate chieftains in a speech at West Point.
Is one of the strongest criticisms by a top executive of the compensation and business practices that prevailed before the financial crisis.
We are at the end of a difficult generation of business leadership, tough-mindedness, a good trait was replaced by meanness and greed, both terrible traits, Emelt said.
By the way, he's he's the one who succeeded Jack Welch, one of the toughest leaders of his generation.
Rewards, ML said in his speech, became perverted.
The richest people made the most mistakes with the least accountability.
Folks, I think somebody at the White House wrote his speech.
That's exactly what they think up there.
And they've got an ally at GE.
It's a midnight hour.
Wilson Pickett.
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Coming up in middle moments, ladies and gentlemen, another illustration of Do I Know Them or Do I Know Them.
I nailed it.
Media wanted me to talk about Tiger in a certain way.
They were dying to talk about it themselves, but they wanted me to lead so that they could then talk about it themselves while ripping me to shreds for talking about it.
And we have the soundbites coming up to prove it.
But first, Sean in uh Western Massachusetts.
Great to have you, sir, with us on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
How are you today?
Excellent, sir.
Thank you.
Calling your listeners a glimmer of Obama Teamster member for about 15 years.
A good friend of mine's been at Teamster for 35 years.
He's been a die-hard Democrat.
He admitted it.
He's a liberal from the word go.
After he voted for Obama, he sees what he's doing to this country.
Said to me two weeks ago, Sean, I am now a Republican and gonna vote Republican.
This guy is destroying the USA.
Well, you know, this is uh Daniel Hanneger's theory today in his column in the Wall Street Journal.
You know, let Obama do this, and if it works out, more power to him, and uh we become France.
Let the American people see what pure radical leftism will do to a country if it has a chance to govern it.
So I know it's a it's it's one story, it's anecdotal uh with with with your friend, but I mean this guy was really died in the wool Democrat liberal and uh on did the change on a dime.
Oh no, it took me about five years to convert him.
I was called every name, uh, you know, you're a calmie.
How can you vote Republican?
Okay.
After he voted for Obama.
But the tipping point was Obama.
Oh, yeah, that was that sent him right over the edge after he saw Ethos.
People are losing their houses, jobs, and this guy wants health care and to socialize America.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And of course, Obama was gonna keep everybody in their houses.
Uh, nothing had happened.
Obama's gonna keep make sure everybody had gasoline in the car and so forth.
Well, you know, I I I have to think that this is happening to a lot of people over the country, across the country.
If you look at the polling data, uh you see cratering on his issues and in his uh approval rating.
Bill in uh in Waco, Texas.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you here with us.
Oh.
Bill, hey.
Hello.
Yeah.
Bill.
Hey, Bill.
Yes, I'm here.
Bill.
Yes, Rush, can you?
How are you?
I hear you fine, yeah.
All right.
Hey, I've got a beef to pick with you, man.
And uh major X may be ditto.
But uh I'm not a scientist working in the defense industry, and I'm a conservative.
And you've been painting with a broad brush lately about us all being a bunch of No.
Uh what I what I've been saying is that people like you had better stand up and stop what's going on over in Copenhagen because all of science is being corrupted by these political hacks masquerading as scientists.
Very good.
You know, I I get that.
It's just you know, sometimes uh I know I have said that science is one of the four corners of deceit, meaning the left has taken it over, the left occupies science.
Now science has become I've got a great speech.
I'm reading it this morning by Michael Crichton, who describes uh how all of this started, how the su the concept of consensus in science, the concept of settled science, when nothing was settled.
Uh uh the you know, Carl Sagan predicting nuclear winter, had an equation that would spell out what nuclear winter would be like, except nobody knew what the values were, you had to guess.
Everything that's what a lot of science has become.
A wag.
That's the acronym for it, a wild ass guess.
And that's what these climate researchers are doing, just guessing.
They got these equations that look all brilliant and smart, and they plug phony numbers into them because there are no real numbers to plug in.
Everything's made up.
I remember Carl Sagan remembered the first Gulf Wall when Saddam Hussein set the Kuwaiti oil fields on fire.
You remember that scene, folks?
1991.
Carl Sagan, who was not even really a scientist.
Carl Sagan went on TV and predicted a nuclear winter that summer would not ever exist that year for many parts of the globe.
And of course he was dead wrong.
Totally dead wrong, but he had an equation with phony numbers plugged into it.
So it is a problem.
I I if if I appear to be painting with a broad brush, it's because I happen to believe in a lot of science and corrupt.
When you have when you have people like Al Gore and these guys over at the climate research unit saying it's up to us to prove it isn't happening, that's that's not the scientific method.
These guys are the are the ones with a hypothesis.
They're the ones that have to test it.
They're the ones that have to prove it's happening, or whatever the scientific uh thing is for proof.
I mean, you know, even gravity was misunderstood.
Everybody thinks Newton discovered gravity when the apple fell.
So everybody thought, oh, gravity pulls.
But Einstein came along with a theory of special relativity.
Say, no, no, no, gravity pushes.
Gravity is created by a mass and a void, and gravity actually pushes, it doesn't pull.
And that's still up for grabs.
I mean, you you might not believe this, but gravity as a concept really has not been proven.
There is just a pretty high predictor of accuracy about it.
I'm not using the correct scientific terms here, but it's a shame what's happened to science.
They've been politicized, just like academia's been politicized, the media has been politicized, have been taken over by left-wing hacks.
All right, to the uh to the audio sound bites.
Let's set this up in order.
This on Monday nailed it so perfectly.
This is what I said about the media and Tiger Woods.
Every talking head, every pundit, every sports writer wants to talk about it, but they don't have the guts to talk about it.
And they're waiting on me to bring it up so they can then rip me for talking about it while they then get their opinion.
Every sports writer and every pundit wants to talk about that, but they don't have the guts to, and they're waiting for me to, because they think I'll wait right into it, and then they can rip me for bringing it up while they offer their opinions on it.
I am not going there.
I am not going to talk about it.
The AP already went there, but if you heard anybody else talking about it, you no, you have it.
They're all waiting on me.
I guarantee them to you.
They're waiting they've been waiting since noon today, noon Eastern.
If they're pens and their computers and everything, they've been waiting for me to get into this.
All right, and then uh on on Monday, after setting this all up, because see snurdley, if you were here, you remember Snerdley was trying to bait me into commenting on multiple stories in the state controlled media about certain characteristics of the women allegedly having the trists with Tiger Woods.
And Snerdley was dying to have me wait into it.
No, sturdy, I'm not gonna do it because everybody's waiting for me to do it, so they can jump on me while they talk about it.
They just want to plaster me with a racist label.
So this is what I said.
And I this is after playing a couple sound bites from Jesse Jackson, upset at Obama at the high unemployment rate among black Americans and how Obama's not doing anything about it.
I said this.
I tell you what's going on here with this.
The Reverend Jackson, hmm, and I got two more stories in the stack today about how black unemployment is through the roof.
Black unemployment is terrible.
The black frame of mind is terrible.
They're depressed, they're down.
Obama not doing anything for them.
How is that hoax and change working for you?
They're all they're all livid.
I mean, they they thought there were going to be an exact 180-degree economic reversal, and it's done nothing but get banned for everybody, but they're especially upset about it because they look at him as one of them.
And now they feel abandoned.
And I'm sure Tiger Woods' uh choice of uh females not helping them out with their attitudes there either.
Folks, about that, I got a great piece to share with you from Lisa Schiffin at the American Thinker.com on the parallels between Tiger Woods and Barack Obama.
The theme is that both are the result of lies, falsely crafted images that are in no way representative of who they really are.
All right, so there's there's I there are two lines here that you have to know that the media fixated on.
One of them was the black friend of mine, is frame of mine is terrible.
The media wanted to characterize it as I was the one saying that as an original thought.
I was reporting that from mainstream media stories and audio sound bites from the Reverend Jackson and how mad he was.
Then the line, and I'm sure Tiger Woods' choice of females is not helping them out with their attitudes there either.
I didn't say that either.
There were already multiple AP stories chronicling quotes from black women who are just livid about this.
I didn't talk about them because Snerdley was baiting me, but I knew what would happen.
So, last night, the Joy Behar Show on Headline News.
She talked to Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson.
Behar says, Who better than Rush Limbaugh to understand and express the black experience?
Rush Limbaugh weighing in on the black experiences like David Duke speaking at a Holocaust memorial.
He said, first of all, the black frame of mind is pretty remarkably unincightful.
Obama's uh performance and black people's belief in his performance was still relatively very high, has nothing to do with explaining what Tiger Woods is doing and what Tiger Woods is caught in right now.
Secondly, he said that the choice of women, Eugene Robinson weighed in talking about the Barbie Dow stereotype there.
He stopped short of talking about Tiger's choice in terms of color.
But let's be honest, many uh African American people already conscious of the fact that Tiger has been loathed to necessarily publicly embrace the black side of his experience.
People are raising questions about what those choices might indicate about his struggles for a strong identity.
All right, so uh Dyson compares me to David Duke and then goes on to validate everything I said.
After misrepresenting what I said, I did not originate the black uh attitude experience, the uh the that was all quotes from Jesse Jackson and other people.
Uh and uh the the black frame of mind.
And he goes on here.
I mean, he see, I told they want to rip me.
They want to rip me, but he went on and he offered the comments here that Tiger's got a problem with his blackness.
And I didn't say it.
You know, it's a I didn't I know I know Dyson saying Tiger ain't black enough.
You're not down for the struggle.
It's like they said about Obama.
You know, that that's what the Magic Negro stuff is all about.
They just they can't wait for me for me to weigh in on this because the media template is uh we can nail limbo on racism.
I told you folks, they're sitting out there, they were just waiting for this.
Here, uh Behar said, Well, uh, people say Obama's post-racial, he's all different races, every man at this point, and yet the African American community is not that thrilled with him right now, it seems to me.
So she's even validating what I said.
Yeah, first of all, post-racial is a myth and an ideal That doesn't exist.
What does that mean?
We don't live in a post-racial world, and we don't want to.
I don't want to live in a world that tries to pretend that they don't know I'm black.
My mother told me this morning I was, so you can join in the parade of acknowledgement.
We want to be post-racist, not post-racial.
One black man in public housing in Washington, D.C. cannot eradicate the entire history of racism in this country, and unfortunately, Tiger Woods has not been led necessarily to embrace that viewpoint and certainly address it in a very specific way throughout his career.
All right.
And exactly as I predicted in the next bite, Dyson uses me to express his own opinion, racist opinion, of Tiger and his choice of women.
Behar says, well, Limbaugh said he's attracted to a certain kind of woman, and that would make him less popular, it seems to me.
Uh white men are attracted to the same kind of bimbos when they're on this kind of uh track of adulterous affairs.
Of course, and you you make a brilliant point there.
The fact is that a tiger is attracted to the same kind of women that many of the golfers that he golfs with are Tiger's own choice, may reflect his own inability to come to grips with certain aspects of his own multiracial element, or it is the fact that he's bought the lie of what's beautiful.
So these guys bought the lie of what's beautiful.
So bought the lie of what's beautiful, blonde babes.
So, folks, just to show you, I know these people.
I said they're waiting for me to make a comment about this so that they can weigh in on it after the fact, call me the racist while they utter racist comments.
And that's exactly what happened here.
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Baltimore, Maryland, Kevin, you're next.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Uh, what I wanted to say was that uh I've been listening to the uh medical insurance debate for a long time, and I've noted that the people that are pushing this really have no idea how government agencies work.
Really?
You mean Obama doesn't know how government agencies work?
None of them do.
They think that they can pass a law and everybody will be taken care of, but they have no idea about the complex nature of the government.
You are assigning to them an altruism, I don't think exists.
I think there is abundant evidence that anybody on the left or anybody else could see that government doesn't know what it's doing, that government does not fulfill its promises because bureaucracies cannot.
They're too inefficient.
Now they make they may believe that, well, the wrong people have tried it.
We're the good people, we're from the right, we can make it all work.
But I don't believe that's their purpose.
I don't think they've I don't think their purpose is to make sure but he has affordable health care.
I don't think they give a rat's rear end about that.
Not this radical bunch.
It's time to wake up, folks.
This radical bunch, they're not naive, and they're not well-intentioned little kids.
These people are radicals who want to take over and control everybody's life because they're smarter and better than you.
They look at you with contempt, not with compassion.
Learn it.
Here's another one, folks.
Brian Baird, a Democrat from the state of Washington, a member of the House, announced last night that he will not be running for re-election.
He's the third Democrat in a competitive district to announce retirement plans in the last month.
Rats are beginning to flee what they think is going to be a sinking ship.
Been fun today.
I'll see you tomorrow on Open Line Friday.
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