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Dec. 18, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 18, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Let's see, how many troops does President Obama have in Iraq?
I think the number is 100,000.
Nevertheless, Iranian troops have crossed into Iraqi territory.
They have seized an oil well that lies in a disputed area along the border.
They did it without firing a shot.
The Iranians are denying it.
The United Nations says, no, we're not asking world leaders to hang on here just because we can't get a deal.
The world is terribly upset.
Much of the state-controlled media, terribly upset and disappointed by Barack Obama's speech at Copenhagen today.
And the wife of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the number two man in al-Qaeda, has released a statement telling women they can be suicide bombers.
It's live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
It's going to be big today, folks.
It's going to be huge.
We got everything today.
And the phone number is 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
And on Friday, you can talk about pretty much whatever you want.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, this is ABC News.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's second in command, has been a regular presence on Islamic websites for years, releasing statements and all that.
But now his wife has joined the family business in what is thought to be her first public statement.
Omaima Hassan published a statement on Islamic websites that encouraged Muslim sisters to assist with jihad.
They are now permitted to be suicide bombers.
Now, I guess this is what Obama meant when he said how the rest of the world is so much more open, how husbands in America are very backwards with their old-fashioned notions compared to the very forward-thinking husbands like Zawahiri.
Man, everything is out of control.
Now, the Iranians are denying this story, but it's in multiple sources here.
The deputy minister Mohammad Haj Mahmoud said Iranian troops seized oil well number four Thursday night in the Al-Faqah, gotta pronounce that carefully, oil field located 200 miles southeast of Baghdad.
It's one of the largest oil wells in Iraq.
However, as I say, the Iranians are denying this.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, as far as Iran is concerned, let's be blunt here.
The only way to stop them is to destroy the Iranian regime, the mullahs.
And that can only be accomplished through war.
And by war, I don't mean ground troops.
I mean massive bombing raids intended to destroy every one of the key targets.
The question is whether we have the will to do this anymore.
Daniel Pletke from, I think, AEI had a column on this in the Washington Post earlier this week, basically stating our policy is one of containment and how erroneous and dangerous that is.
It's a leftover containment policy, mutual assured destruction that we had with the Soviets.
But these people are irrational, and they are irrational religious fanatics.
And the guy running the country, well, the figurehead anyway, Mahmoud Ahmadine Zad, really does believe that he must make the last days occur so that the 12th Imam can rise from the well.
And the only way to do that is to destroy Israel and Western countries.
So I don't know whether we have the will to do this or not.
Bush didn't because he was engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan and they would have impeached him if he tried.
Obama's tied up in knots with his own appeasement mentality.
It's left-wing base.
Everything Obama is touching is coming apart.
Everything's unraveling.
World's stunned by Obama's Copenhagen speech from the UK Guardian, and they are a bunch of commies at the UK Guardian.
They're just terribly upset and disappointed.
They thought Obama was going to jump in here and save the day.
And now there are rumors that the UN is asking the delegates to stay on so they get something meaningful out of there.
The UN is now denying that they've asked that.
So if we don't pound Iran into submission at some point, they are going to get the bomb.
They're bragging about it.
They've told us.
They've shunned the inspectors.
And they laugh about it all.
If Israel doesn't attack them, the world will be forever a hostage to an Islamic regime that could fire mid-range and eventually long-range nuclear missiles when it chooses.
Now, we know that Obama will not take effective military steps to stop Iran.
So if Israel doesn't, it will in fact become a nuclear regime.
Obama will not do it because he doesn't like the concept of victory.
He's uncomfortable with it.
And he'd rather send letters to North Korea and to Tehran and have all kinds of meaningful dialogue.
Economic sanctions in Iran will not work since the Mullahs and Ayatollahs are unaffected by it.
They don't care what happens to their people.
The Ayatollahs and the Mullahs will have all the physical comforts that they want.
But is him bowing again?
I'm looking at a picture of Obama on Fox Road.
He's either with a Chinese Chikom leader there.
He's either bowing to the Chikom leader or a vase of flowers.
I wonder if they're from ProFlowers.
I wonder if these clowns ordered ProFlowers from the Rush ProFlowers website.
Anyway, an internal revolution in Iran might have worked, but it's highly, highly unlikely to work now with Obama as president, given his inhumane response to the uprising a few months ago.
So it's a precarious situation.
The Iranian nuclear possibility is the elephant in the room that nobody wants to deal with.
Now, my friends, look at the polls.
Look at the polls on the issues.
Conservatism is not in the ascendancy.
I got a battleground poll today that illustrates 63% of the American people define themselves as conservative.
And they have for years and years and years.
So it's not that conservatism is in the ascendancy.
When you look at the polls on the issues, conservatism has won the day.
Well, we're still ascending, but that's not the way to describe what's happened.
The only issue is whether the public's view can catch up now with the election cycle in November.
That is, whether the public will be able to make its views felt politically before severe damage, that is more damage, is done to the nation by this crowd.
Howard Dean's back on the warpath again, and Axelrod had to apologize for calling a couple of people that the left nut fringe kook base loves insane.
He's trying to walk that back.
Howard Dean's out there.
I tell you, Howard Dean is sounding more like me and Jim DeMent.
I'm stunned by it.
But Keith Olbermann has said he'll go to jail rather than buy insurance if he has to buy it from a private sector insurance company.
The left is just ticked as hell over this.
Michael Moore is going to boycott Vermont.
Now the last, Connecticut, yeah, boycott Connecticut.
No.
Is it Lieberman?
I thought it was, I thought it was, okay, okay, Lieberman, yeah, boycott Connecticut.
That's right, that's right.
Now, the last time one of these boycotts began, they always create more tourism.
They always create, oh, yeah, Michael Morris says we shouldn't go.
Well, screw you, Michael.
We're going.
We never really had any plans to go to Connecticut.
But since you don't want us to go, we're going to go.
The best thing in the world for Connecticut has just happened.
Michael Morris announced a boycott.
So boycott, Michigan as well.
But there's only so much so large a man can do for his country at one time.
Now, the American people have had a huge helping of statism aggressively forced on them, and they don't like it.
And it shows up everywhere in the polls.
They don't like the debt.
They don't like the bullying.
They really don't like the arrogance.
They do not like the regulations.
They do not like the taxes.
They do not like the favoritism.
The American people love their country.
The American people love their Constitution and their economic system.
They do not want to lose it.
You can see it everywhere you look in the polls today or go out and just talk to people.
The American people like being number one.
The American people love winning.
They like being the number one economic power, the number one military power.
We expect that.
We are a nation that has pursued excellence from our founding.
They do not, the people of this country do not like their president trying to diminish the country, the economy, and our sovereignty.
They do not like this little guy whose career has amounted to nothing but words over about five minutes running around the world and apologizing for the United States.
The American people are a proud people.
They do not like their president trashing them before international gatherings of dictators, mobsters, and leftists, which is what Copenhagen's all about.
By the way, I have a quick question here.
The buzzword from Obama to the British to everywhere is green jobs.
Green technology, right?
That's the only way to go.
That's the future of the world.
That's how we save ourselves.
If it's a smart way to, why in the world do we have to bribe these little third world countries with $100 billion to do it?
Well, because we're not going to have them.
It's the massive redistribution that has long been desired by the left getting its toe in the water here with this $100 billion.
The American people do not like their president trashing them at places like Copenhagen, down in Latin America or wherever.
Conservatism has won the day in terms of philosophy and policy.
There's no question about it.
If the election were held today, the Democrats would be thrown out of power and everybody knows it.
And that's why there's all this angst on the left.
They are truly cracking up.
The left feels like they have been sold out.
You have to understand, and it's not just the kook fringe left.
The mainstream left, which is plebi-radical, despises industry.
The insurance industry is reviled.
And now, Obama has just, and don't, you know, you can try to slough this off onto Harry Reid, but he's not doing anything without Obama's approval, imprimatur.
And I'm going to tell you something.
When you tell these radicals who hate capitalism, who hate American businesses, who hate industry, that they have to go buy something from industry, that's bad enough.
But when it comes to health care, which is sacrosanct, when you tell these nutcakes that they have to buy insurance or go to jail from the evil, wicked private insurance, well, you are talking revolt, and they're not going to be able to tamp this down.
And if they take that out again, if they take it out and put the public option back in, they lose Lieberman.
So they're in a tizzy.
Now, the timing for them now is December 24th, the evening of Christmas Eve, to vote on this.
That alone ought to tell you what's at stake here.
To them, this is so desperate to get done before the calendar goes to 2010.
It doesn't matter what's in it.
It doesn't matter who sees or reads the bill.
So the Democrats at Obama are operating not out of the best interests or desires of the American people.
They are operating out of raw power aimed at destroying what Americans love before the next election.
I have warned you people countless times.
I know it's tough to accept that the people of this country elected a man who would populate the government with these kinds of radicals, but they did, and he is the lead radical of all these people.
And now there's buyer's remorse all over the place.
Their purpose, Obama's purpose, the left's purpose, is to create programs and conditions which they intend to be irreversible regardless of the outcome of the next election.
That's why all the haste.
That's why health care.
That's why cap and tax.
That's why card check, all of these things.
And, you know, Howard Dean, I forgot to mention one point about Howard Dean.
Howard Dean's out there now telling Democrats.
And we have been telling this too, but the audience on the left has not cared about this.
He's now out there telling them, furthermore, you know what?
From the moment this bill is signed, you are going to have to buy health insurance from a private sector insurance company.
But guess what?
The benefits in the health spending aren't going to start till 2014.
Many people on the left don't know that because the state-controlled media does not make that point in any venue.
You will not see that element of this being made by the state-run media.
So that comes as a shock.
So Howard Dean's on a warpath.
Howard Dean is trying to take these people out.
There is no question whatsoever in my mind about it.
They want to create all these programs and conditions which they intend to be irreversible regardless of the outcome of the next election.
That's why the haste.
This is how destructive and dangerous these people have now become.
It really is them against us.
Not because I say so, but because of what they are saying and what they are doing.
This isn't a standard run-of-the-mill day at the office.
This is big.
And how about this?
From Fox News.
Democrat districts have received nearly twice as much stimulus money as Republican districts.
The cash has been awarded without regard to how badly an area was suffering from job losses, according to a new study.
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University reviewed the distribution of $157 billion in stimulus dollars based on publicly available reports and found that there was no statistical correlation between the amount of money a district got and its income or unemployment rate.
Democrat districts have received nearly twice as much stimulus money as Republican districts.
My friends, as again, I told you, this is proof that this is a slush fund.
Pure and simple slush fund.
All right, we're off to a rousing start, and I haven't even gotten beyond the first piece of paper in the first of four stacks that I've got.
Barack Obama says the time for talk is over.
This from a guy who thinks the world is governed by the aggressive use of speeches.
He says the time for talk is over.
Headline from the UK Guardian, Barack Obama's speech disappoints and fuels frustration at Copenhagen.
He offered no further commitments on reducing emissions or unfinance to poor countries beyond Hillary's 100 billion.
His speech offered no indication America was ready to embrace bold measures after world leaders have been working desperately against the clock to try to paper over an agreement to prevent two years of wasted effort and a 10-day meeting from ending in total collapse.
He did not even press the Senate to move ahead on climate change legislation, which environmental organizations have been urging for months.
Just be patient, environmentalist wackos.
That's the big push next year.
From Fox News, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he still smelled sulfur in the room after Obama made his speech.
He accused Obama of carrying the same satanic scent he believes followed Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush.
Now, Chavez was not even included on the original list of speakers for the final day of the summit, but he spoke up anyway.
And he ended the proceedings with bitter references to the Peace Prize winning Obama as the Nobel Prize of War.
Chavez said the Nobel Prize of War just finished saying here that he is here to act.
We'll show it, sir.
Don't leave by the back door.
Nobody happy in Copenhagen over Obama.
Once again, the world set Obama up, put him on the pedestal.
Obama's going to come in here and save the day.
We screwed it up for the free, screwed it up for the first nine days.
We couldn't get anything done except extorting $100 billion out of Hillary Clinton.
But Obama, the man of Berlin, the man of Cairo, the man of world speeches apologizing for the United States of America, the Institute, the Copenhagen crowd wanted to hear him come over and apologize once again for the United States.
They wanted him to say how hardly he was going to attack the capitalist system.
And they wanted his presence to secure for the entire gathering a positive end result.
And they were let down deeply because the magic that was Barack Obama is gone.
It's no longer a special thing to hear Obama speak.
It's no longer a special thing to see Obama show up or arrive anywhere.
He's overexposed on television.
His speeches all sound the same.
A giant, big letdown.
The world soon, if they haven't already, will realize that they have been hoaxed on who Obama is, just as they have hoaxed us on the whole notion of climate change.
I'm going to mark my words.
Well, I can't mark my words in eight seconds.
So mark my words when we come back from this bottom-of-the-hour prosperity break.
And Merry Christmas, everybody, from all of us here at the EIB Network, led, of course, by me, El Rushbo, your guiding light.
By the way, speaking of Christmas, heavy snow in New York and D.C., accumulations up to 10 to 20 inches through Saturday night.
Washington metro area biggest in years, and it's not even wintertime yet.
Do you remember, my friends, jumping back here to Iran and its apparently inevitable nuclear program?
Do you remember when nuclear war, nuclear proliferation was by far the most important, most frightening problem facing our world?
Do you remember back in the late 80s, early 90s, Phil Donahue still had his show?
And I remember Laura Dern, the Hollywood actress, broke down in tears on the Donahue show when she was 18.
You know what it's like still?
Every day, somebody's going to launch a nuclear bomb.
Do you know?
We can't.
Remember that?
All the hysteria, the global peace marches for nuclear disarmament, all of that stuff.
According to the media and the rest of the left, that was by far the most important, most frightening problem facing the world.
And now, when we are finally facing a real threat from real lunatics, it's being completely ignored.
And instead, the new bugaboo is global warming.
Even though the worst thing that can be said about that is the world might go up a degree or two in a century or so.
Global warming is the big panic.
It used to be nuclear war, nuclear proliferation.
Now nobody cares.
The lackluster speech proved a huge frustration to a summit that had been looking to Obama to use his stature on the world stage and his special following among African leaders to try to come to an ambitious deal.
But some one African leader, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, country used to be Rhodesia, and he has literally run the country into the ground.
It was a great place once.
Mugabe is a dictator and he's run the place into the ground.
And he is fit to be tied about Obama's inaction.
He's running around the climate change talks saying, we didn't make this mess.
We're a poor country.
We didn't make any of this mess.
You did.
Where's our change?
Where's our cash?
They're livid over there.
Many reactions were strongly critical of Obama.
Hugo Chavez described Obama's speech as ridiculous.
The U.S.'s initial offer of a $10 billion, $100 billion fund for poor countries in the draft text as a joke.
The extent of crisis in the talks has taken leaders by surprise.
The Brazilian leader, Lula da Silva, told the conference that the all-night negotiating sessions took him back to his days as a trade union leader negotiating with his bosses.
This is from the UK Guardian, and it's hilarious.
I can see almost these people being so ticked off they asked Obama to give back his Nobel Peace Prize.
Maybe Obama can quickly announce that he's going to have the U.S. work to give $100 trillion for climate change.
That ought to shut him up for a little while.
After all, it's only money that we don't have.
We're already spending and printing money that we don't have.
Confidential document reveals industrialized countries cheating the world on climate.
This is from the Times of India.
The industrialized countries are cheating the world.
A confidential document of the UN Frame Convention on Climate Change Secretariat prepared on December 15th shows, contrary to what the rich nations might claim, even if they come true, on their current pledges to reduce emissions, the world is headed towards a three-degree temperature rise by 2050, not two degrees, the tipping point.
So it is falling apart.
Rich countries have been found to be cheating.
Why, who would those rich countries be?
And this is hilarious too, from the UK Telegraph.
A geologist has gone on trial in Switzerland for allegedly causing earthquakes while drilling for hot rocks to produce clean energy.
Green technology can kill you.
Marcus Herring, who designed the geothermal project, rejected allegations that he deliberately damaged properties and said local people knew the risks.
The deep drilling underground caused a series of earthquakes in 2006, including one of 3.4 magnitude, rattling residents of the northwestern city of Basel.
Geopower Basel, the project leader, has already paid around 9 million Swiss francs, it's 5.3 pounds, million pounds, in compensation.
So here's this schlub, a geologist out there working to try to find the answers on green technology.
And lo and behold, he causes earthquakes to happen.
And he is on trial.
Let's listen to a little bit of Obama's lackluster speech.
Yes, snurdily, we're going to get to healthcare, as I told you.
I mean, we're loaded here today.
We're going to get there.
Here, here's Obama.
He says this is not fiction.
This is science.
We come here in Copenhagen because climate change poses a grave and growing danger to our people.
All of you would not be here unless you, like me, were convinced that this danger is real.
This is not fiction.
It is science.
Unchecked, climate change will pose unacceptable risks to our security, our economies, and our planet.
This much we know.
Okay, it's not fiction.
This is science.
If you have to say it's not fiction, you're in trouble.
Problem is, did you hear?
I understand now why they're calling it lackluster.
I mean, this was a flat line.
There's no emotion, no energy, no sense of urgency, not even any interest.
Here's the next sound bite where he says, I came here not to talk, but to act.
The question then before us is no longer the nature of the challenge.
The question is our capacity to meet it.
For while the reality of climate change is not in doubt, I have to be honest, as the world watches us today, I think our ability to take collective action is in doubt right now.
And it hangs in the balance.
I believe we can act boldly and decisively in the face of a common threat.
That's why I come here today, not to talk, but to act.
And he didn't act.
He only did was talk.
And after he finished talking, this is a guy who believes the world is governed by the aggressive use of speeches.
And all he did is talk.
He didn't act.
And now they're all panning his speech.
Here's the next bite.
We know the fault lines because we've been imprisoned by them for years.
These international discussions have essentially taken place now for almost two decades.
And we have very little to show for it other than an increase acceleration of the climate change phenomenon.
It's not selling me.
The time for talk is over.
Shut up then.
This is the bottom line.
We can embrace this accord, take a substantial step forward, continue to refine it and build upon its foundation.
We can do that, and everyone who is in this room will be part of a historic endeavor, one that makes life better for our children and our grandchildren.
Ladies and gentlemen, I now realize one reason why this sounds so flat.
They forgot the godlike reverb in that giant auditorium where Obama was speaking.
Without the giant reverb and the godlike presence, this is flat.
This is flat.
This is so flat, his tire gauge to reduce or increase gasoline mileage probably wouldn't work.
There's no pressure in the tire.
That's what's missing.
There was no reverb there.
I mean, sounds totally disinterested in this, like he didn't want to go.
Like he knows there's no way to salvage this.
Let's go back to June 3rd, 2008, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
This is after the last primary election, Obama's victory speech.
If we are willing to work for it and fight for it and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless.
This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
It was nothingness.
It was totally empty.
But you see, ladies and gentlemen, when the reverb is there, when the godlike reverb is there, and when he has some energy, he's a totally different character.
We are going to be look back now and tell our children this was the moment that we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless.
Yeah.
How about how's that hope and change working for those people?
This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
We are in deep doo-doo.
We got the Iranians nuking up and nobody's stopping them.
Kim Jong-il, another irrational lunatic nuking up, nobody's stopping him.
Well, I know Obama sent him a letter, but that's what I mean, governed by the aggressive use of words, speeches, what have you.
And even before it's winter, we got 20 inches of snow descending on Washington, D.C., perhaps, and as much as 20, maybe 10 inches in New York City.
And how about this headline?
This is from the American Bar Association Journal.
The North Face sues the South Butt for trademark infringement.
The North Face Apparel Company has filed a trademark infringement suit against a teenager who started a company called the South Butt to help pay for college.
The North Face's tagline is never stop exploring, while the South Butt sells products with the tagline, Never Stop Relaxing.
The South Butts founder, Jimmy Winkleman, has said the fleece jackets and other clothing sold by his company are intended to mock people who wear brand name clothing sold by outfitters like the North Face.
In the South Butts, one disclaimer, the company distances itself from the North Face, concluding, if you are unable to discern the difference between a face and a butt, we encourage you to buy North Face products.
It's hilarious.
I got to take a timeout, folks.
Back with more.
I know you don't want to, but we got to.
In interesting Christmas news, ladies and gentlemen, New York City has to revoke more than 3,000 vouchers that poor residents were counting on to help pay for housing.
This is December the 18th.
This is one week before Christmas.
The New York City Housing Authority said yesterday it has to void 3,018 subsidized housing vouchers known as Section 8.
Why?
Well, they'd already been distributed to people who were counting on them.
Now think of that sentence.
They had already been distributed to people who were counting on them.
So now they have to revoke 3,000 more because they gave away 3,000 more than they should have.
The Housing Authority said it had a pool of vouchers because a Democrat-controlled Congress, AP doesn't say that, I do, a Democratic-controlled Congress cut $58 million from its Section 8 budget last spring.
And there's also been less turnover in the program and more of a demand, quote unquote, than expected.
Here we are in the middle of a recession.
Unemployment in New York is skyrocketing, and these people are shocked that there's more demand for vouchers.
Also, other Christmas news.
The New York Times has made its annual Christmas layoff announcement.
18 newsroom employees in the latest round of cutbacks driven by the newspaper's financial woes.
Merry Christmas!
How's that hope and change working for you at the New York Times?
And you are largely responsible for creating the myth and the hoax that got us here.
Oh, that reminds me, mark my words.
Mark my words.
Just as the truth about Tiger Woods has been exposed, so it shall be with Barack Obama.
The parallels.
You know, Lisa Schifrin had that great piece on this last week.
The parallels between Barack Obama and Tiger Woods are stunning.
We don't know if there's rampant sex romps going on with Obama.
We doubt that.
But everything else, we have created, or they created for us, a puff piece image of Obama, starting with his speech at the 2008 Democrat Convention.
We don't know who he is.
We don't know anything about the man other than his years agitating the community in Chicago, the things he's written about in his books.
But there's this image of we've never had someone like this before.
There's never been a man like this.
He transcends normal people.
Remember, all these people gushing over him.
Mark my words.
At some point, the same unmasking that has happened at Tiger Woods will happen to Barack Obama.
Back to the audio seminar.
Nop, let me get a call here.
It's Open Line Friday.
Let me break with tradition.
Let me actually take a call in the first hour of Open Line Friday.
We'll start in Indianapolis.
This is Steve, and welcome, sir.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, Rush.
Hello?
Yeah, you're welcome.
I have a question about healthcare.
I keep hearing you and others say that if they pass this, it's going to be irreversible.
Why?
I mean, these are our elected representatives, are they not?
I mean, can't they make the laws?
Can't they repeal the laws later on when they find out that it's a bad idea?
Of course they can, but can you name such an instance?
No.
Well, the only thing I can think of is an analogy where policies that Reagan put in kind of reversed what damage was done during the Carter years, but I don't know that you could really call those laws being repealed.
Well, you can repeal the tax increases.
You can cancel them.
But the actual spending benefits in the entitlement aspect of healthcare, which kick in 2014, I can only prohibition is the only example of something being totally reversed and wiped out.
It's not that it can't be, it's just that it's going to make it depend largely on the makeup of the House and Senate when the issue begins.
If you don't have, because a president is going to veto this, an Obama-like president would veto any bill that rolls any of this back.
And if you don't have two-thirds majority in both houses to override it, then it's academic.
There are parts of this that certainly could unravel, but we're fortunate in that it doesn't kick in the spending side, the restructuring of the insurance business and the health business until 2014.
But once that starts, though, if nothing's done to change it, roll any of it back, once it kicks in, at some point there's not going to be a private insurance, private sector insurance business or industry.
At some point, some of these things just don't exist after healthcare really gets implemented.
But no, we're going to do our best.
That's why I was talking yesterday about Plan B. Break this thing down into a thousand parts, take them on each individually, and wipe them out.
That's got to be one of the objectives of anybody running for office in 2010.
Repeal this.
Kick it down the can.
Back in just a second.
I just love it.
Mannheim's steamroller.
And I love this time of year.
By the way, I have a little solace for those of you at the New York Times, the annual layoff announcement.
18 more people kicked out on the street one week before Christmas, thanks to that little pinch Schulzberger.
Forget the jobs lost if you're at the New York Times.
Think of the jobs Obama has saved at your paper.
Don't focus on the losses.
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