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Dec. 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 28, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
This is how lax security is in America.
I can still just sneak across the border.
No checks, no nothing.
I turn up, I don't even have to I don't even bother doing this thing, you know, flying re routing it myself through Amsterdam and paying in cash, getting on the uh watch list, uh getting reported to the FBI and the CI.
I don't bother with uh I don't bother with uh any of that.
I just uh I just uh climb into the back of uh a friend's trunk and he drives me across the border, about an hour south of the border, I just uh bang on the lid of the trunk, he lets me out, and I just come to the EIB studio and get and get on with subverting America from uh within uh in the face of the Obama administration's ruthless clampdown,
the land where you have to put your hands on your knees so that Big Nanny in the sky, Jana Napolitano, Big Nanny in the sky can see your hands at all time.
That's great, isn't it?
That's terrific.
I love the uh it amazes me people put up with this.
It amazes me people put up with this stuff uh and at some point people keep saying this this is if you get sick, if you Yeah, m M Mr. Snerdley is wondering whether if you have to go well,
no, because this guy on uh yesterday's flight, on the same flight, on the Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, and on the same and the same a guy from Nigeria, another Muslim guy from Nigeria, he's in the bathroom for an hour, and all the air marshals and everyone are saying, hmm, wonder what's going on there.
And and they didn't and and he said uh in the end he was he was sick, and they let him go ahead, and I would imagine that's the way it's gonna go, that uh that that everyone else will be sitting there uh with their hands on their knees, and um and which is just boring.
I mean it's boring.
For the hour for an hour you're sitting there, can't we at Lee Cump the the stewardess or the flight attendant or whatever the trolley dolly, whatever you meant to call them, couldn't she lead us all in if you're happy and you know we clap your hands, if you're happy and you know we clap it hair you know, couldn't we do that?
And that way, you know, obviously uh if we're gonna be treated like children now, at least we should get the full entertainment value.
Couldn't they have maybe uh a clown come down the aisle and amuse us, or perhaps they could have glove puppets or something with doing amusing tricks?
I mean, if it's gonna be like uh children's thing, let's go the whole way.
If we're gonna treat grown-up citizens as children, let's go the whole way.
Uh but in the meantime, this guy, two days after they announced these new procedures, this guy is in the bathroom for an hour, and uh I mean I can't I I love have you ever seen that film, uh what is it, Catch Me If You Can?
Well, the Spielberg film, um with uh what's his name?
Leonardo DiCaprio, uh as this guy who pretends to be an airline pilot.
Those were the good old days, you know.
Never mind getting on the plane, uh needing ID to get on the plane.
You didn't need any ID to get in there and fly the plane.
That was fantastic.
Uh he pretends he was pretending to be an airline pilot.
And uh but the scenes, there's one scene, I think it's uh uh JFK in the sixties when it was still called Idle Wild, you know, before they renamed it.
And like Leonardo Cap DiCaprio's coming out with these stewardesses on each arm, and uh and Sinatra's singing come fly with me.
It was that's the world that impressionable uh foreigners like me thought it was like American air travel.
I loved it.
When I was a kid it was like the space age.
It was fantastic.
I remember the first time I got a job offer in the United States, and I had to fly to America, and they paid for me to have a uh business class ticket, uh which I'd never flown before.
And they were they were uh they were flambeing your stake in the aisle, live in the aisle.
Now they don't do that.
That would be a terrorist incident now.
Dutchmen would be leaping up and throwing themselves on the stake.
The whole the whole we have chosen reprimitivization and degeneration uh by going down this path.
And what's what I find fascinating is that a lot of this uh lot of this air trap why why, for example, does this guy have a multi visit visa to the United States anyway?
Uh clearly, what happened uh when on nine eleven, I would imagine, is that somebody in some department in the State Department somewhere said, Well, what are we gonna do to respond to this?
All these guys came from Saudi Arabia, they came from the United Arab uh Emirates, uh, and they got in on the fast track Saudi Visa Express program.
This was where to get the visa to come to the United States.
You didn't have to uh contact a US Embassy or consulate or anybody from the United States government at all.
Your travel agent in Saudi Arabia could issue you the visa.
So Mohammed the travel agent in Riyadh had a stack of US visas in his drawer and could basically parcel them out to anyone he wanted.
And that program remained in place for a year after September eleventh.
And what that told us is that if uh the death of three thousand uh Americans is not enough uh to prompt uh serious changes uh in in in our policy on admission to the United States and other issues, then nothing is.
Then nothing is.
You know, you can see that in the uh in the identity cards that three of the 9-11 terrorists they boarded the plane with uh ID cards that they obtained from the illegal immigrant uh day workers uh meeting place in the 7 Eleven parking lot in Falls Church, Virginia.
This guy basically meets all the day workers there, and he goes along to a depart a state of Virginia office and he signs up all these people for driver's licenses and picture ID, all registering them to the same basement apartment somewhere in Falls Church.
And the they they hand out the fake ID.
Well, they're not fake ID, they're actually genuine ID, handed out to fake people who shouldn't have them.
And they board the planes with that.
And instead of saying, Oh, that's outrageous, we shouldn't do that, then you have people like Governor Schwarzenegger, the so-called Republican, running for office and saying, Well, yes, I think we should hand uh driver's licenses out uh hither and yon, whether people are in this country legally or not.
So you can't do anything about that.
Uh you can't do anything about that.
That message, the message that sends uh is that we would um we would rather die being politically correct, being multiculturally correct, being non-judgmental, and congratulate ourselves on our niceness, even as the plane is going up in smoke uh and we're plunging uh in uh nosediving into the briny.
That's basically what we do.
We'd rather be we'd we we'd we'd rather be dead and nice than take the tough decisions necessary uh to to uh uh to prevent these kind of attacks uh in the future.
It is the end of the year, uh the end of the first year of Barack Obama's glorious reign.
First of many years of his glorious reign, because I don't believe that such a messiah could be can confined to a mere two terms.
He should reign uh forever.
He bestrides the world like a god, as that guy from Newsweek said.
He's not the guy from Newsweek, Evan Thomas said, hey, this isn't just some little rinky-dink parochial American president like those other fellows like you like your Abraham Lincoln's and your Chester Arthur's and your Calvin Coolidges and those losers.
No, he's not parochial.
He's not constrained.
He's really not president of one rinky dink no account nation state.
He's like the god of the whole world.
This is what the man, this is a serious important fella in American journalism, the Evan Thomas at Newsweek, he says this in public.
And the and the host, instead of falling off his chair clutching his sides with laughter and them having to cut to commercials, the host just sort of nods thoughtfully, as if that's the sort of thing that every reasonable person believes.
That was uh July.
Since then, it's fascinating to me uh how Obama has plunged to Earth.
People talk about his approval numbers and compare them with Bush.
He's fallen farther faster uh than anybody in the modern polling era.
Uh and people say, well, that's because he had uh he had farther to fall.
And yes, that's true.
If you look at Bush in uh in January 2000, he came into office after a divided, bitter election where a lot of people didn't even recognize him as the legitimate president.
So when he stays the 50-50 president, as he did for most of those first nine months until his ratings soared after September eleventh, he's actually doing pretty well.
He's actually doing pretty well.
He he was the same Bush uh basically between the third week of January and September the tenth.
This guy is sliding off the charts.
And I would really be interested.
I would love to hear from anybody who still believes the Hopi Changey stuff.
You know, this time last year, when you're all walking around singing, have a hopey changey Christmas, it's the best time of the year.
You remember that?
It's just a year ago.
Seems like another seems like an alternative universe.
So if you still are one of the Hopi changers, if you still believe in the Hopi change, if you still got your big hopey changey bumper sticker on your car, because I'm seeing right now when I drive through Vermont, which is a state full of crazy people, I drive through Vermont, I'm seeing more I'm seeing more Kerry Edwards stickers from the O4 campaign on your old rusting Vermont Subaros and Volvos than I am on uh uh of Obama Biden one.
So if you're still driving around with the Obama Hopey Changey bumper sticker, one-eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, I would love to hear from you.
Are you do you still believe in the hopi change?
Why why isn't it happening?
Why why why suddenly uh are the great postpartisan healers' numbers crumbling, crumbling to dust, and he's just a discredited partisan hack like every other president.
If you still believe in the hopey change, if you still believe that the glories of socialized health care and this this so-called health care reform package are gonna uh gonna transform America and and put us on course for the full Hopi change, then then do call 1-800-282-2882.
This has been an incredible year for him.
Uh and and what I find especially interesting is the guy's rhetoric was supposed to be magic.
You know when his numbers went up?
That two weeks he took off in the summer.
Every time he gave a speech on health care, uh his is uh the there was less support for the health care bill.
Then he took two weeks off and suddenly the health care numbers stabilize again.
I wouldn't be surprised if they stabilize uh if he stays in Hawaii.
If he was to go to Tahiti, if he was to go to an uninhabited atoll in Antarctica, you might get up to 54% of people in favor of health care reform again.
The so-called uh greatest uh the greatest uh public speaker since Churchill, Lincoln, Henry V at Agincourt combined, the greatest public speaker of our time couldn't sell the central policy uh of his administration.
He couldn't do it.
So if you still believe, but if you still believe, if you're out there somewhere that somewhere, somewhere in these fifty states, there must still be a Hopi Changer who believes that the Hopi Change is just around the corner, and that somewhere he's gonna transport us to that magical land where troubles melt like lemon drops.
If you still believe in the Hopi Change, call us 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in Farush, boy, that that music is mellow and soulful.
Uh it's kind of uh I feel I feel bad now getting all kind of hysterical and wound up about the uh the pandemic.
It doesn't kind of doesn't quite fit the mood.
Let's go to Jessica in Fort Lauderdale.
Jessica, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to talk with you.
Mark, it's great to talk to you.
You're you're fantastic.
You make me you crack me up in the car.
I'm gonna get arrested for laughing behind the wheel first.
Yeah, that that law will be passed any day soon.
That's a security wheel.
That's a national security threat, and we're gonna have to clamp down on it.
You're laughing and look out.
Well, I just laugh, I keep one hand on my knee.
Okay.
Well, from now on you have to drive with both hands on your knees, okay?
No, I would think I'm talking about somebody who's on my little film.
It's about the alleged terrorist.
Um, I want to say that the system that we have in place did not fail.
It was the people who did not follow the directions of the system that failed.
He bought each paper cash, and then they kick it, he was on a watch list, hello, and he should have been out of there.
He shouldn't have gotten on a plane.
So it wasn't the rules that were wrong, it was the people didn't follow the rules.
Now I want to say, if they make brand new rules, like you have to sit with your both hands on your knees for the takeoff and the landing, fine.
So a nice Christian man sits here with his Bible because he'd like to prey on the landing, and the stewardess says, Oh, I'm sorry, sir, you can't have anything on your lap, we're gonna put that away.
Great.
Then we go over to the Muslim man who's sitting there with his Koran, and they say we're sorry, and he says, Oh, I'm sorry, this is a Koran.
I'm gonna keep this on my lap, and if you don't want me, I'm gonna smell and you're gonna have a security training, and so they're happy.
Muslim will keep his Quran on his lap, the criteria won't be able to, and the that was instead to keep the apps clean.
Doesn't get doesn't get followed.
No, and that's very true.
And you know what is interesting when you talked about people.
It's always the people.
Do you remember that guy, Ahmed Rassam, the Millennium Bomber, the so-called Millennium Bomber, he was uh coming in on December 31st, nineteen ninety-nine to blow up, ten years ago to the day almost, uh coming down from uh British Columbia to blow up on the ferry to blow up LAX.
And it was and it was a uh a border agent using human judgment.
There was nothing wrong with his passport.
He had a valid passport.
Uh he was just uh he just seemed a little nervous, and she decided to pull him over, and she looked in the trunk of his car and he had all these explosives, and then he started to run for it.
But that was a border agent using uh human judgment.
Uh and that is what we're s being asked to put on hold.
As you said, you can't you can't confiscate a Quran because a Muslim believes that if an infidel touches your Quran, then it's been tainted, it's filthy, it's dirty.
He can't you can't possibly do that to his Quran.
And uh and and simply as a point of principle, by the way, I don't believe we should all sit with our hands on our knees uh anyway.
I mean, I think we should if this was if this the spirit of seventeen seventy-six still prevailed, we'd all uh we'd all denounce that uh and be doing the hokey pokey in the aisle for the final hour of the flight until they decide uh that uh they're gonna they're gonna abandon that uh that law.
Mark, why why should we have our hands on our knees?
We should do what they're doing to us and have our hands on our ankles.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Yes.
That's Russia's light, isn't it?
Assume the position.
Well, you know, now I look at it.
This is like clearly this is Rush Limbo style security enforcement.
They've taken Russia's words to out.
Okay, Jessica.
You don't want to be giving them You don't want to be giving them ideas, uh Jessica.
Uh thank you.
And you That's right.
The uh Rush Libor style airport security, assume the position.
Uh thank you, thank you very much, uh Jessica.
It is a you know, it is a it isn't really it isn't really funny because um I wa I look at it.
There's I mentioned this guy in my book.
I'd never really uh heard of him until I happened to see him in an article in Wyatt.
He's a guy called Hans Monderman, he's another Dutchman.
Dutchmen are the heroes of the age today.
So here's another Dutchman for the day.
Hans Monderman, he's a highway engineer in the Netherlands.
And he uh c after working in uh in in highways on on the roads of Europe for decades, he came up with an interesting proposition that if you put less signs on the streets, people drive better.
Because they understand, they're more alert.
They understand that if you that it uh that uh if you put uh signs saying don't do this, don't do that, don't do this, don't do that everywhere, that you give people the illusion of safety, but you don't impose upon them the need to be alert themselves.
And there was a famous uh the world's uh the Sweden's most dangerous traffic intersection where they had all these fatalities, and this guy, Hans Monderman, was flown in and he removed all the signs, and the number of tra traffic for fatalities fell to none because suddenly people were approaching the intersection saying, Whoa, what's going on here?
Uh there's no signs giving me the illusion of safety, so I will have to use my wits.
Imagine that.
I will have to stay alert.
Imagine that.
I will have to keep an eye out on the road, imagine that.
Now we've gone the opposite way here.
In my state of New Hampshire now, they've now introduced these things uh the these signs, it's like the stop sign, and now there's a sign Like fifty yards before that tells you there's a stop sign coming up.
I mean, how dumb is that?
You know, why not have a s a sign before the sign that says a stop sign is coming up saying that there's a sign warning you that a stop sign is coming up is coming up.
I mean, there's no end to that stupidity.
All these things do is give you the illusion of security and the illusion of safety, but they have a corrupting effect on the citizenry.
They have a corrupting effect uh on the nimbleness and wits of a citizenry and the citizen's responsibility uh to look out for himself.
And believe you me, whatever they tell you to do today, whatever new regulations they do today, when you're up on that flight, Northwest, Delta American, US Air, doesn't matter what it is.
When you're up there in the sky and somebody starts pulling something, Janet Napolitano and the federal government aren't going to be up there with you.
You'll be on your own, and you should remember that.
That's the salient point.
Yes, America's anchor man is away.
Uh he will return next week.
But uh we have lots of great things coming up this week, including Walter Williams in as your New Year's Eve treat.
Did you see this late on Christmas Eve?
This is a real this this is the real twilight zone for news you uh you don't want to make a big deal about.
The Obama administration pledged late on Christmas Eve to provide unlimited, unlimited financial assistance to mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack.
An eleventh hour move that allows the government to exceed the current four hundred billion dollar cap on emergency aid without seeking permission from a bailout weary Congress.
So they've got like a four hundred billion dollar cap on emergency aid.
You know, which is like in round numbers, that's half a trillion dollars.
And if they mo if they need more than that, they have to go to Congress.
And that's clearly unreasonable, isn't it?
I mean, what you know I mean, obviously there are going to be times when you need to access more than half a trillion dollars.
So uh so the Obama administration late on Christmas Eve basically said now that they they uh they get unlimited financial assistance.
Whatever they want.
Whatever they want.
That four hundred billion dollar cap, no reasonable person could live within a four hundred billion dollar limit.
So that cap has been removed.
Uh that's great news, because Fanny and Freddie have done such a terrific job.
Uh and uh uh and I think there's no reason at all that we can't trust them to do with what, six hundred billion, eight hundred billion, one point seven trillion dollars?
Uh what they've done with that that four hundred billion uh uh look look at r look at what's uh happened in the last year, by the way.
Uh U.S. public debt has jumped by thirty-one percent from five point eight trillion dollars to seven point six trillion dollars.
So if we're throwing away that many trillions of dollars, what really is another half a trillion here or there?
I mean, this is Nicol and Downs stuff.
This is basically uh a rounding error now in federal budgeting.
So I I think it's uh great news that Freddie and Fanny can now spend what they want, money no object.
Let's go to George in Sacramento, California, where they certainly know about spending what they want, money no object.
George, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Yeah, you said you wanted uh an Obama supporter.
I thought I'd call in uh volunteer.
Really?
And how was the line at the volunteers for Obama supporters?
Snaking round the block, or is there just uh just just you in there?
Good to good to have you with us.
You're still an Obama supporter.
Why what do you what do you uh w you voted for him last November, you got the Hopi Changey fever a year ago, and you know I never had ho I never had Hopi Changey fever.
That's just that's just you guys trying to, you know, prop up your moron listeners.
I just I just wanted to get the lunatic Republicans out of charge, and that's what we did.
And so you're happy you got that the lunatic Republicans are out of uh out of the way.
None no lunatic Republicans inside.
You're happy with health.
Well, you know, there's still there's still enough of them to obstruct a lot of things.
Well, wait a minute, wait.
We'd like to get more out of the way, absolutely.
Now you're in Sacramento, California.
Would it be unfair of me to assume that you work for the government?
No.
It wouldn't be I have a I'm a small businessman, I'm an entrepreneur.
You're an entrepreneur.
What do you you're an entrepreneur in Sacramento, California?
I am indeed.
If we were at the airport, I would subject you to secondary screening for that.
I have no idea that there was a small businessman in in Sacramento, California.
That's fantastic.
And you don't think the state of California, for example, which is uh about to go belly up.
You don't think the state of the state of Califor State of California has a lot of the same problems that are that are happening in the in the US government right now, which is obstruction by one party.
It's the tail wagging the dog.
Right.
You can't even get a we can't even get a budget done here in California without getting a two thirds majority, which is pretty much impossible.
And that's why things that's why things never happen, and that's why there's always budget ridiculous budget.
So you're interested carry the day.
Yeah, no.
So what you're saying.
No, but what you're saying, George, then, is that you'd like the state of California to spend more of your money?
You'd like bigger government.
And and what do you want at the federal level then?
Do you want more spending?
Do you are you in favor of this health thing?
I'd like less spending.
Actually it was George W. Bush that came in with a five point six trillion dollar debt and left with over an eleven trillion dollar debt.
The the deficit that he the projected deficit that he left when he left office for his final final fiscal his final fiscal.
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, wait a minute.
Yeah, George, George.
No, yeah, George George ended up being a trillion and a half on George Bush.
George W. George W George W. Bush is gone.
He's his history, he's reduced to giving speeches in Canada.
We don't know where he is.
Uh I don't I don't worry about George W. Bush.
What is interesting is if you feel that way about George W. Bush's spending, and a lot of Republicans did, and a lot of conservatives did, and they didn't approve of all this spending.
Why then is it a good idea for Barack Obama to spend more uh at an even faster rate?
If if you oppose George W. Bush, budget hawks now, all of a sudden.
All of a sudden you're allowed to be.
No, no, don't make it about me.
Don't make it about George W. Bush.
Don't make it about Donald Rumsfeld.
That's all ancient history.
We're saying first.
Barack Obama cannot uh cannot correct the deficit problem without a growing economy.
So the economy was cratering when he took over again.
Okay, so okay, so you're in you're in favor so first he's gotta get the economy.
Right back on track.
Right, and so are you which was basically which was basically he was left an eneronomy by by George Bush and all Republicans.
So basically the whole thing was a a fake economy, an enronymy, and now we've got to get it back on solid foot.
No, you know what I mean.
By the way on the budget.
Don't be so hard on Enron.
They they uh they cooked up this carbon credit business that has turned Al Gore into a billionaire.
And carbon credits are the sub uh uh basically the subprime mortgage of the international economy.
So let's let's have no uh critici uh criticizing of uh Enron on that scale.
But here's here's get let's get back to my point here, George.
If you didn't like the Republican spending uh and you think that this spending is better, it's more targeted, it's more efficient, what did you like about the stimulus spending?
First of all, the m the the mass uh the massive uh debt the I mean the massive uh deficit for this past year, a lot of it was responsible was was uh the the TARP bailout.
And the first half of the TARP bailout went out and nobody even knows where that went.
No nobody even knows where that went.
No.
At least the second half has been somewhat looked over.
And as far as the far as the stimulus is concerned, like I said, to decrease the deficits, you need a growing economy, you need a bigger tax.
Yeah, and how does it grow percent a year?
How does it grow the economy?
How does it grow the economy, George?
Well, the first time about a third of it through only about a third of it has been put into play, and a lot of that has been tax cuts.
And don't tell me you guys are gonna gripe about taxes.
Where are the taxes?
No, but where are the tax cuts?
Tax cuts for the little people.
It was tax cuts for the little people that everyone knows goes right back into the economy.
Tax cuts to the wealthy don't necessarily get back into the economy.
Where do they go then?
Where where does a where does a tax where does a tax cut to the wealthy go?
Well, uh I mean if you if you if you bring it home uh a million dollars a year and then because of a tax cut now you're bringing home a million point one a year.
Where are you gonna put that money?
You're gonna probably invest that in the market, which is the secondary market unless you're investing unless you're investing it in IPOs, and the market.
So you have the you have the Scrooge McCoy's campaign economy.
You have you have the Scrooge McDuck view of the rich.
The Scrooge McDuck view of the rich, that if a guy has a lot of money, he keeps it in a warehouse and he drives around with uh a in his John Deere rig and scoops it up and puts the big pile of dollar bills from one side of the warehouse to another.
That's not that's not how it works.
Uh the the the what what the reason we have sluggishness in the economy, sluggishness in the economy now.
The reason people aren't hiring uh is because we uh the uh Obama administration has made it clear it doesn't have any understanding of business.
It doesn't understand, in fact, that in in the moral sense there is no such thing as a business.
You can't tax a business.
A business is people.
It's the people who own the business, it's the people who work for the business, it's the people uh who buy the products of the business, it's the people who benefit uh from the investments that that business makes.
A corporation doesn't pay tax uh except in an entirely artificial sense.
In the end, human individuals all get stuck with that tab.
So the anti-business rhetoric of the Obama administration uh has uh has had an impact on hiring.
Uh that's why we're the people don't want to people don't want to hire if they think they're gonna be subject to punishments uh uh because they don't provide a particular kind of health insurance, uh and they're gonna be subject to an eight percent tax to pay for that.
The more government you have, the more government you have, the more you have businesses sitting back and saying, Well, maybe I should just wait and see how this plays out, because I don't want to take on another person in case I'm punished for it.
Uh but the idea that somehow the solution to the spending of the Bush years is to double down and spend even more, I think is completely preposterous.
We are beggaring our children's future.
I would respect more a genuine socialist who said, with this level of spending we're gonna have to have basic income tax rates of sixty percent.
Uh that's what they do in some countries.
In some countries they have uh uh the I think the uh Quebec, which has the highest tax jurisdiction in North America, I think combined federal and provincial taxes were about fifty-five percent.
I think if they were to say we're gonna have to increase uh all this stuff that all you guys want, like the health care and all the rest of it, it's all so expensive, we're gonna have to have sixty, sixty five percent taxes.
But the idea that somehow you can uh expand government, you can burn through trillions of dollars, uh and yet uh you uh impose the costs for that on our children and grandchildren, I think is morally abhorrent.
There is no way they're ever going to dig themselves out for this, out of this hole, unless we act responsibly uh and and uh rein it in right now.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network, lots more still to come.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the uh EIB network.
And uh I was uh I I'm still not sure about that that guy, whether he was really a small business owner in Sacramento.
I mean, I find that a bit I find that the words small business owner in Sacramento are a bit like saying, you know, I'm a lap dance club owner in Riad.
I it's like it I suppose technically it could be true, but I'm uh an entrepreneur in Sacramento.
I don't know.
Anyway, the last words he we we we faded the guy down because his his by that stage he was just going blah blah blah.
Blah, blah, blah.
But uh it is a blah blah blah, but it bears repeating.
But it bears repeating.
That this this idea that somehow the uh the the spending uh uh Bush is so out of control that now you've got to make it even more out of control is simply nuts.
It's simply nuts.
Uh and that's and that's actually uh the Republicans paid a price for their lack of uh fiscal responsibility.
But there is a lesson here.
When the other guys have no accountability, when they're willing to just give blank checks to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, when there is no project so stupid that it can't be funded by the stimulus package, uh then there are far the the there are w the the the difference if the difference is between bad and worse, you should still think pretty carefully before voting voting for worse.
Let's go to Bill in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bill, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It's great to have you with us and thanks for waiting.
Well, thanks for having me on, Mark.
Uh you're probably I think the best uh sub for rush that I've heard yet.
Oh no no no you got uh Mark Davis and Walter Williams coming in uh this week so so the week the week is only gonna get better.
They're all American.
They're all American substitute hotes.
They're graduates of the University of Substitute hosterology somewhere or other in this uh in this great uh land.
Well maybe so and uh but I I still won't wouldn't want to take away from your greatness either Mark.
And you know you know Mark is always on the mark with the with his substitutes.
Okay.
Now that's true Mark Mark Davis, Mark Belling, Mark Stein.
I don't know who I am.
I often check into airport.
I often board flights as Mark Davis and Mark Belling and it doesn't seem to make I'll I'll fly eastbound as Mark Davis and westbound as Mark Belling and and it seems to work.
Generally they don't catch it.
Okay, Bill, what point apart from that did you want to make?
Well, you know, I'm one of Janet Incompetano's terror watch list victims.
You know, basically, I might as well be on the terror watch list because I'm a conservative and I'm a patriot and I served in Iraq.
Right, right.
But if you think this stuff is insane with taking everything away from people on the planes, you got soldiers all geared up and ready to go, going into a combat zone, wearing their body armor and everything, getting ready to go, going into the combat zone.
Right.
They've got their rifle on them and they take away their pocket knives.
Right, right.
Okay.
I know.
I mean, these things, you're right.
You know, I had an email from a pilot yesterday who said, it's so crazy when you go through the airport, they make the pilot take off his shoes because he might be the one with the bomb.
if the pilot is the one with the bomb the problem is not going to be his shoes it's when he's at the wheel of the plane and he decides to fly it into the Empire State Right he doesn't need a bomb he's flying yeah yeah that's right and and you know even Peter King who talks a lot of sense on this Peter King said um I saw he goes oh well you know I saw Ted Kennedy being pulled over for secondary screening.
Now as much as I would have enjoyed seeing the late Senator Kennedy subjected to secondary screening and full cavity search and all the rest of it it's a complete waste of time to be spending taxpayer dollars patting down Ted Kennedy even if you're even if you're the kind of guy who enjoys doing that sort of thing.
It's a complete waste of time this idea that oh well if we're patting down Ted Kennedy and Al Gore that shows how the system's working.
That's that's that as you say it doesn't make any sense and a completely crazy way to do things.
Thanks thanks for your call Bill.
We have uh gotta run uh but uh but uh as uh as Rasender Bill don't forget uh Mark Davis is gonna be here on uh Wednesday and then Walter Williams on Thursday more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh show 1800 282-2882 Mark Steinforus on the EIB network it is been an honor to be with you for this uh Christmas bank holiday Monday as they know it in the rest of the world just couldn't it's like a dream come true.
I'm living the American dream a penniless immigrant with the copies of the limbaugh stitched into my underwear I smuggle myself onto the plane uh and then uh six minutes into the show I try to light them and instead of exploding it all goes off like a damn squib.
But I'll try to do better I'll try to do better tomorrow.
Um by the way I got an interesting email uh from someone who said which is absolutely true that if we were propose to propose what we're doing to airline passengers now to detainees at Gitmo people would be talking about cruel and unusual punishment.
You gotta sit still with your hands on your knees for your hours.
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