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December 30, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Many thanks once again.
Hope everything's going well for you here in the holidays.
I hope Christmas was fantastic for you.
It sure was for us here in Texas and across this great land where we had an opportunity to sort of huddle up with friends and family and get into that blissful reverie of the holiday season until a guy tried to blow up a plane on Christmas Day.
That'll shake you out of your holiday routine pretty quickly.
It did me, and I found myself paying a little more attention to the news than I usually do on vacation.
And now in the aftermath, we're all paying attention to the various storylines that stem from the Nigerian hijacker, excuse me, Nigerian would-be plane bomber.
And until we get our act together and get on a proper war footing and realize what we're up against here, all we can do is pray that the next plane bomber is as unlucky as this one was.
And I want to do better.
And we're spending a lot of time today talking about ways in which to do better.
And obviously, any attempt to do that is going to get filtered through everybody's politics.
And you will find people for whatever reason opposing things that will make the system better and criticizing those who are trying to stop things that would make the system worse.
And with that, we go to the point made by the last caller of the last hour, who took some offense.
He's a union guy and a hardworking union guy.
I have no doubt about that.
And maybe in his union environment, they actually find weak links and fix them or get rid of them.
Great.
That doesn't happen enough in the history of modern unionization.
And in unionization's modern history, there is too much embrace of sloth, too much excuse making for mediocrity.
And it is for that reason that South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint says that the attempted attack is, quote, a perfect example of why the Obama administration should not unionize the TSA.
And he wants the president's nominee, Errol Southers, to clarify his stand on unionizing the TSA.
That is a shift that Democrats support, of course.
As for his part, Mr. Southers has an impressive resume.
He is currently the assistant chief of the Los Angeles World Airports Police Department Office of Homeland Security and Intelligence, the Associate Director of USC's Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, a former FBI special agent, a former deputy director of homeland security for Governor Schwarzenegger.
So the guy's done some things that speak to the job.
But what ultimately matters is does he bring a fetish for unionization to the job that would make him a questionable appointee?
So there is a hold placed on this.
Senator DeMint has put a hold on the confirmation of Errol Sothers until and unless he comes out against unionizing TSA employees.
And the left is, of course, in high dudgeon about this.
Oh, it's obstructionism once again.
Since you and I, this is our last opportunity for us to speak together here on Russia's show.
Hopefully we'll have plenty in 2010 because boy, ain't that going to be a rodeo as we work toward November, what is it, November 2nd?
Well, let's engrave that into Sharpie on our heads, man.
November 2nd, 2010.
Believe you me, before we're done today, I want to talk a little bit about Election Day 2010 because those races, as soon as that calendar flips to 2010 here day after tomorrow, man, this shindig is underway for the elections of 2010.
But anyway, the point being that as we have spent 2009, those of us who are conservative, those of us who are Republican, being called obstructionists, I want you to embrace that.
Maybe there's a bumper sticker that needs to be put out here.
Proud obstructionist.
And here's why.
We never do better.
We never do better than when we stop bad ideas.
Having good ideas is great.
You have to do that.
And by the way, that's 2.0 of the task list here for Republicans in 2010.
Why are our ideas better?
But before we get to the why our ideas are better, we got to kill the bad ideas.
If a house is on fire, put out the fire before you rebuild the house.
And this house is on fire.
The arsonists, metaphorically speaking, in this administration have put a torch to so much that we hold dear.
Freedoms, liberties, consumer choice, a healthcare system that most people like.
They're in flames.
And those flames need to be doused.
And then rebuilding needs to happen.
But here's what I mean by that seemingly cryptic sentence.
We never do better than when we stop bad ideas.
Here's why.
I mean, what was World War II about?
Stopping Hitler.
Stopping the Third Reich.
Stopping Imperial Japan.
What's First Gulf War about?
Stopping Saddam.
What is the current war about?
Stopping global terror.
Having good and upbeat ideas and forwarding those good and upbeat ideas is vital and necessary and proper.
But there is often a proper added urgency and an added value to stopping, obstructing, if you will, all the bad ideas, all the dangerous ideas.
Because if you fail to do that, all of your good ideas may not amount to a hill of beans.
You can have every good idea in your hip pocket.
But if the bad ideas prevail, it'll all be for naught.
Proud to be an obstructionist.
Proud to stand in the way of bad and dangerous ideas.
Jim DeMant has put a hold on Erro Suther's confirmation.
Good.
Because until he comes out against unionizing TSA employees, his confirmation is a bad idea.
So there you go.
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Let's do some calls.
Got some other things to address here on this last Wednesday of the year, next to last entire day of the year.
Can you believe that?
Also before we're done.
I don't want to go totally generic in this regard, because it's the easiest thing in the world to say, hey, let's take a look back at 2009 or, hey, let's take a look back at the decade.
But I really do want to do those things and do it in maybe a little bit that's different than others have.
I've been looking at everybody else's lists.
I've been looking at all the lists of the top stories of 09 and the top stories of the decade.
And some of the people making the lists are just on crack.
I don't know what's going on.
And I want to offer up some thoughts of my own and gather yours as well.
But in the meantime, lots of things in progress.
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Let us head to Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.
And Robert, you are on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
Welcome, sir.
Hello.
Hello.
Happy New Year, Mark.
I hope.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I know it's basically a matter of government holding power, but What's the lawful difference between the government throwing us in jail for refusing to pay for health care protection and the Sopranos breaking our knee cats for refusing to pay for their health care protection because if you don't pay up, you're going to the hospital.
Either way you look at it, it's forced health care.
Yeah, it is coercion by another name.
It becomes a protection racket, if you want to use syndicate terminology that I think you had in mind.
And I think we do well, Robert, to use that language calmly and civilly to remind people who are kind of on the fence, oh, we need some kind of reform.
At least these people are trying.
Nothing has driven me crazier in 2009 than hearing people who should know better saying, well, you've got to give the president credit for trying to address this issue.
Oh, really?
No, I don't.
Not if his ideas are antithetical to what America stands for.
And consumer choice and navigating solutions to health care through the free market and through a free and, yes, capitalist system.
That is the way to do it, not more government control.
And that analogy, while a little colorful for many, has some accuracy to it.
And I appreciate it.
Thank you.
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We are in Jacksonville, Florida.
Herbert, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi.
Hi, good afternoon.
Hello.
Very, very quickly.
Excellent points that you're bringing up.
I've had some experience going out of the Amsterdam airport.
It is very secure.
What you can't secure against is if somebody gets on an airplane through the back door, as seems to have been being alleged by someone who overheard a conversation about, can you get my friend on the airplane?
He doesn't have his passport.
Yep.
There were a couple of people.
There are a couple of folks who said that there were a couple of people back who said that they've heard a conversation that he was allowed to get on the plane without a passport.
That stands short of confirmation right now, but boy, do you want to keep your eyes peeled on that?
No, exactly.
And that's the point, and that's the reason of my call.
I have gone through that security arrangement in the Hague, not in The Hague, but in Amsterdam on many, many occasions.
And even with a diplomatic passport, I still got the questioning.
I still got separated from my wife, who got questioned individually.
And I don't fit anything but a white man's profile, you know, but I was still held to the questioning that everybody goes through.
If someone gets walked in through the back door, which I assume could have happened here very easily because Amsterdam and The Hague are full of diplomats, lots of Islamic radicals.
I mean, the Dutch have had their problems with them.
And if someone, under the guise of a diplomatic passport or some way of entry through the back, can actually get someone on an airplane, then all of the security measures that you've got in place are not going to be bypassed.
No, Herbert, thanks.
Because yes, every point you made is solid.
And some of the folks in the Netherlands are saying that he might have had a passport.
Some are saying that he didn't.
Some are saying that the line being used was that he was Sudanese.
And, quote, we do this all the time.
And so that's an area in which an enormous amount of attention is going to have to be paid.
Because you're right.
Your experience in Amsterdam is exactly what I've heard from a lot of people.
The Amsterdam airport is not some Swiss cheese operation that should naturally be a magnet for people looking for easy passage to get on a plane, make him blow up.
But an airport security is only as strong as its weakest link.
So where did that weakest link occur?
Herbert, thank you.
I'm Mark Davison for Rush.
More of your calls next on the EIB network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Jean here on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Let's get back some calls, see what's going on around the country here as everybody gears up for what I hope is a very safe and festive New Year's Eve for you.
And what a year it has been.
I'm both exhausted and energized, if it's possible to be both.
What an onslaught this year has been.
What an assault on our sensibilities and our freedoms.
And yet, from the tea party and town hall passions from spring through summer through now, to watch as 2010 dawns and those passions broaden and intensify and take shape from something as nebulous and ethereal as passions and enthusiasm into something as concrete and countable as ballot box results.
What stands before us here in 2010 is an opportunity to take back what has been stripped away, to regain the upper hand in a fight for the fabric of our country.
And that sounds very fife and drum and like platitudes, but they're not.
I mean, I'll spend a lot of time, I have spent a lot of time this past year and will spend a lot of time in 2010 talking about how when the president picks who runs GM, when the government tells you what kind of light bulbs you can buy, when the government seeks to spend your tax money subsidizing green technologies that don't work, that erodes what the country's been built on.
And before I get any snarky feedback from people who love the planet as I do, I love green technologies that work.
Anything that works, that the marketplace actually supports, I'm all for it.
I want clean air and clean water and clean land and all of those things.
Love the planet, but I also love people and I want them to have jobs and productivity.
And one of the things I am very thankful for as 2009 comes to an end is I believe there's been a little reset switch and that the Al Gore wing of the panic cult that is so certain about man-made global warming, they lie dashed on the rocks of credibility.
And ClimateGate did a lot to do that.
Thank heaven for that.
And I love the timing just as that dog and pony show in Copenhagen was taking, was hearing its opening gavel.
That now it's time for that there's going to be a natural and honest debate on the scale between keeping a pristine planet and having people with jobs and human productivity.
There's a balance to be struck.
And there will be a natural and proper debate about that.
And it needs to be conducted honestly.
What needs to be shelved, and I believe it has been or is on the way to being shelved, is the hijacking of that debate by sanctimonious blowhards who have tried to tell us that the planet will die unless we follow Al Gore, Kyoto-style, draconian economy crushing measures.
That is a lie and a fraud and a hoax.
And let's be good to the planet for its own sake.
Let's be good stewards of the planet because we should be good stewards of the planet, not because of some phony panic scenario that is built on junk science.
So that's one of my things I'm grateful for in 09 and look forward to in 2010.
All righty, we are in Anderson, Texas.
Norman, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
Nice to have you.
Hello.
Mark, thanks for having me.
I have actually two comments.
Obviously, we're glad that this terrorist didn't ignite his bomb.
He only seared his underwear.
The second thing is how this administration let this thing stew around for a while.
They mishandled it.
They sent this poor lady, Janet Napolitano, out to say that the system worked.
And then now they're backtracking.
How they're trying to spin it.
This administration is so thin-skinned.
And Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod are frightened to have any blame put on this White House.
If Barack Obama had come out and said, listen, we made mistakes.
We're going to fix them.
If he'd done that the first day, as a conservative, I would have said, okay, let's do it.
But instead of trying to hide and obfuscate, they just make it 10 times worse.
They did it with the forcehood murders, and they're doing it with this.
Yeah, I'll take your thoroughly worthy emotion there and go a step farther.
If this had happened under Bush, if McCain had won and this had happened, as I said last hour, I wouldn't be saying anything different.
I'd say the system has holes in it that need to be fixed.
There are a thousand things that I can kick President Obama in the teeth for.
And listen, the overall failure to adopt a war footing is one of them.
It's kind of funny.
I have a greater fault with this administration for its reaction and its language in the aftermath than I do with the fact that it happened quote unquote on his watch.
I mean, all kinds of bad things happen on all kinds of presidents' watches, and it's not always something you take straight to the top.
If we'd been more serious in the war on terror, would this fellow have done this?
I don't know.
There's no magic time tunnel that we can crawl into and have that play out.
But you're completely right.
If they'd come out and said, if they weren't playing such an obvious game of CYA, I'd be more willing to take at face value their commitment to make things better.
Absolutely.
Can I make one more comment?
Sure.
And tell me if I'm right.
Doesn't Robert Gibbs look like Radar O'Reilly from NASH?
Gary Berghoff called, and he is not pleased with that.
All right.
Thank you, man.
Appreciate it very, very much.
No, if Janet Napolitano had gone on this week on ABC on Sunday and said there's serious problems that we need to address, and this is a wake-up call, and we are committed to addressing whatever gaps we need to fill, whatever I's we need to dot or T's we need to cross.
I said, good for you, ma'am.
And then you cross your fingers and you hope that there's a kind of a general McChrystal-style epiphany where this thoroughly anti-war president gives him more troops, and you hope that kicks in elsewhere.
You're right, Bat.
It is the Wednesday Rush Limbaugh Show, the final Wednesday Rush Limbaugh Show, and tomorrow's the final Rush Limbaugh show of the year.
It'll be hosted, guest hosted by Walter Williams.
I'm Mark Davis filling in today.
And let's get back to some more of your calls.
As we do, just a little word on timing and a little word on the calendar.
Any Democrat stepping forward to criticize South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint for quote-unquote holding up The tapping of Errol Southers to be the new TSA director, that every day without this guy is somehow a day of great danger to the American people.
Might I offer the timing of when the president tapped this gentleman to be the successor to the current TSA head, who dates back to the Bush administration.
President was inaugurated January 20th, right?
Well, it took him about eight months to get to this guy.
It was the middle of September when President Obama said that he intends to nominate Errol Southers as the top TSA guy.
So somehow this is once again, a story of fabricated convenient urgency.
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We are in the lovely country of Bend, Oregon.
Scott, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
Hey, Mark.
I'm doing great.
I wanted to comment that everybody that had comment with, or had contact with this terrorist that tried to blow up the airline, security-wise, screening-wise, should be fired.
I'd like to see that happen in a union situation.
It just wouldn't.
And, you know, there is a shining grace that came out of this thing as opposed to all the knee-jerk reactions we're going to get.
And that is that it didn't interrupt President Obama's vacation.
The latest terrorist attack didn't interrupt.
Let's spend a moment on that.
All I want is consistency.
And I am willing to be the first person to say that President Obama did not need to hop on Air Force One and get back to the contiguous 48 states because of this.
So I'll say that.
But here's the thing.
But don't you know, Scott, don't you know that if this had happened under President Bush and if he had been in the far less tropical locales of Crawford, Texas, if he had not hopped an immediate flight back to the White House, there would have been those who said he was unserious in his response.
Absolutely.
And think of how bad Bush's golf game suffered while Obama's is doing great while we're fighting two wars.
I can feel his handicap dropping with his poll numbers.
Scott, thank you very, very much.
Appreciate it.
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Let's head to Durham, North Carolina.
Skip, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you doing?
I'm doing fine, Mark.
Happy New Year.
Same to you.
Mark, I was listening to the union pundit a few callers ago talking about unionizing the TSA workers.
And all of the reasons that you gave for not doing that are certainly appropriate.
But I think one of them that's even more important is the fact that what the unions do best, and that's strike.
And if the unions, TSA workers go out on strike, then that literally would cripple the entire country, especially if it were done.
Can you imagine this being done at Thanksgiving or Christmas when so much of the country is trying to travel around?
What kind of power that that gives to union leaders?
Sure.
I mean, as we learned from the air traffic controller's story in the embryonic days of the Reagan administration, of course, they did not have, this is kind of interesting, they did not have the right to strike.
Is possible to give collective bargaining without the right to strike.
But Patco revealed to us that once you give people collective bargaining and give them something that looks like a union umbrella to hide under, they suddenly develop the odd notion that they have a right to strike, even if their contract says they don't.
You are correct in identifying that we shouldn't even take a step toward giving anybody the remotest thought of doing that.
And that's why Senator DeMint is right on target.
In fact, Skip, let me thank you and go one state south to Senator DeMint's own South Carolina.
And in Charleston, Matt, that is you.
Mark Davis, filling in for Rush.
How are you doing?
I'm great, Mark.
Thanks for taking my call.
Sure.
I heard you mention advocating profiling in the screening process earlier.
Yeah.
Well, I don't disagree with you.
However, the Obama administration would have a really tough time doing that, being as Obama himself has no idea what profiling is.
Look back to when the Cambridge police responded to investigate an eyewitness report of a break-in in progress to a residence.
They encounter Mr. Gates.
Their legal obligation there is to verify who the person is and whether or not they have the legal right to be there.
I don't care if you're green with pink polka dots.
The police are going to talk to you.
And Obama said that the problem there is racial profiling.
That's absurd.
Yeah.
I mean, there was, well, that was on the growing list of absurdities that came from the president's mouth on that occasion.
His early claim, his early and ridiculous claim that the Cambridge police acted stupidly.
That was jumping to a conclusion that had no basis.
Profiling.
Go ahead.
Go ahead and finish this.
Here's the thing.
You want to talk about acting stupidly, yelling at the police, screaming at them, calling them names, talking about their mother, calling them racist?
How dare the president say the police were the ones that acted stupidly when they were simply doing their jobs?
The facts won out in that case, and I, for one, am glad.
Matt, thank you.
Thanks for giving us a little bit of a look back at one of the big stories of 09.
Maybe if you want to blend in a little bit of that, we can.
In just a sec, we're going to take some more calls on the narrative with which we've been running here, the aftermath of Flight 253.
There's the one remaining thing I want to make sure to cover is ABC reported that a couple of the jihadist leaders behind who have, listen, Al-Qaeda claim credit for this.
Who knows, does ego drive them to claim credit for stuff they weren't that involved in?
Or were they shoulders deep in this thing?
Further scrutiny will probably reveal that.
But as soon as the story came out that a couple of the jihadist leaders behind the Northwest Airlines bomb plot were formerly Guantanamo prisoners, released in November 2007, it wasn't, I think, by sundown that day, there were media elites and Obama operatives blaming President Bush for the Christmas Day plot.
Gary Bowers sent out a kind of an email blast on that that I'll share with you here in just a bit.
And then to whatever extent you wish, a look back at the year and a look back at the decade.
On New Year's Eve of 2008, it was the waning days of the Bush administration.
We were still in the transition period and we were all just kind of wondering what the new year would hold.
20 days in, we knew that a new president would take the oath of office there on the steps of the Capitol.
And he did.
And I was there.
And I was filled with the proper amounts of history.
I mean, the first president of color, that was going to be a big deal no matter what.
And it was, and I have every citizen's, what should be every citizen's proper appreciation of that barrier being kicked over.
I like it when barriers are kicked over.
The first black this, the first woman that, the first Jewish this, the first Hispanic that.
There's inherent value to that.
But I hope it's okay if when those barriers are knocked down, Justice Sotomayor, the first Latina on the Supreme Court, that's great as far as it goes, but it's problematic because her ideas are wrong.
The first black president, fantastic.
But forgive me if my enthusiasm is mitigated because his ideas are wrong.
You know, Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, tomorrow's host.
These are African Americans whose ideas are right.
Obviously, that's through my political glasses.
You have your political glasses.
Maybe they're the same.
Maybe they're different.
So I will always embrace up to a degree the notion of these barriers being kicked down.
And one of the biggest ones ever, you know, the first non-white guy to be president, that's great.
Now I'm going to get picky.
Next black president, can it be somebody who doesn't try to rip the fabric of the nation apart?
Can it be somebody that doesn't try to turn us into some neo-socialist European model?
Can it be somebody who seems to believe in American exceptionalism?
Am I asking too much there?
Because if you believe in those things, I don't care if you're black or Latino or Asian or Eskimo.
I don't care if you're a man or a woman.
I don't care.
I don't care.
So I have a feeling that as 09 rolled out, a lot of people who are sort of caught up in the history of all of this now realize that that only runs so deep, that achieving the history of a president of a different race is lovely on its face, pardon the usage there, but only goes so far if that first black president holds ideas that just wind up being repulsive to you.
So when we return him to private life in 2012, in no way is it a rejection of the notion of a president of color.
I am ready to accept and welcome and reject, reject, accept and welcome and rejoice at the ascent of a president of any race, a president of either sex, who will do the kinds of things that are right for this country.
He will do the kinds of things that speak to American exceptionalism and winning the war and being serious about the war and giving us the kind of strong but limited government that the founders envisioned.
So that's what 2012 is about.
But first, got a little 2010 to talk about, and we'll start to do that next and mingle that in with everything else that you're calling us about here on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
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It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for Wednesday, December 30th, 2009.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Let us head next to Traverse City, Michigan.
Tim, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
Happy New Year to you.
How are you?
Hey, Happy New Year, and honor to speak with you, sir.
Thank you.
This is regarding 2010 and further 2012.
All the excitement.
Oh, there's a conservative revival.
Hallelujah.
Well, so are we going to register dead people?
Are we going to undo the redistricting?
How are we going to overcome Acorn?
My concern is that there's no focused-pointed plan to deal with the things that overcame us last time.
So that's my question, not that we can't do it, but how in the world are we going to overcome those things?
It's like playing an away game at a place where you know the refs are crooked.
You might have to win by 10 in order to win by two.
And that's not me saying give up and stop trying to pay attention to electoral fraud.
I have a feeling as 2010 and 2012 approach, there'll be enormous attention paid to such things.
Look at what the Breitbart folks have done with the Acorn surreptitious videos.
Look at the attention paid to Acorn.
Look at the attention paid to the various shenanigans of dead people voting and people being paid to vote and all of this.
With that kind of attentiveness, I believe it throws up a bit of a screen that helps to mitigate, if not eradicate it.
The good news is these folks have been at this for a very, very long time, and Bush still won twice.
You know, so it's not like it makes it impossible.
But yes, let's remain attentive and conscientious about this, but it is like an away game with a crooked ref.
You have to be good enough to win, even when the field might be slanted a little bit against you.
Well, let's do it.
Go, team.
Thanks.
Hey, let's do it.
Thank you.
Let's do it.
Go, team.
That is precisely the kind of spirit we need as we plow forward into 2010.
Let us head into WABC Country, the Big 77 out on the mighty Long Island.
Tom, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
Fine.
Nice to take my call.
I appreciate it.
Just a quick comment from you, and maybe not so quick.
How would this affair gone, God did, if the terrorists, even though our president doesn't seem to recognize that word, was successful and brought down the plane with 300 Americans on it?
Sure.
Well, that is a thoroughly worthy question because you have nearly 300 people on the plane, and then where does it go down?
If all of this drama happens a little later and this thing plows into downtown Detroit, you have something.
I mean, listen, I don't want to play can you top this with tragedies, but then it starts to take on a 9-11 aura that would wake people up even more.
So the horrible news would be self-evident.
It'd be a lot more death and a lot more carnage.
The first thing that would be different is that it would not be forgotten by Valentine's Day, as this almost certainly will be now because everything was okay.
Our coping skills have kicked in.
And this is not an indictment of the current administration.
In a way, it's an indictment of our own society and our own nature.
We want everything to be okay so fast.
And that's what makes us strong.
It's what makes us resilient, but it also helps us forget.
And so that's the first thing that occurs to me.
Others can revise and extend those remarks if they wish.
Tom, thank you very much.
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It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for Wednesday, December 30th, 2009.
I'm Mark Davis filling in from WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth, the icy confines of Texas.
Man, I have relatives all over.
And so on Christmas Day, I was telling some of my folks that I've got an uncle in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and he was telling me about how it was like 61 or something on Christmas.
And I'm talking to him about the icy roads and the falling snow.
Whatever the weather was for your Christmas, I hope it was great and a blessed opportunity for you to get together with friends and family.
And as New Year's approaches, I wish you the same.
A wonderful remainder of the holidays.
And we're all sort of back in work mode on Monday, January 4th.
And that is when Rush returns.
It will be Dr. Walter Williams with you tomorrow and some glorious highlights of a recent Limbaugh show's gone by.
That'll be Friday.
And then the weekend.
And then Monday, everybody's back in action as the calendar year flips.
All righty, let's get some more of your calls.
We are in LaGrand, Oregon.
Judd, Mark Davis in Farush.
Hello, and Happy New Year.
How are you?
Thank you very much for taking my call, sir.
Sure.
My question is fairly simple.
I live here in Oregon.
It's on the left coast, fairly liberal.
Throughout the Bush years, we had a bunch of well-intentioned individuals on the sides of the road wearing black.
protesting the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan.
But they seem to be strangely MIA under the current administration.
Can you shed some light on that, sir?
I will, because up to a point they are.
I said on the occasion of President Obama's election that it'll be interesting to see what happens when a man they voted for is suddenly running the war they despise.
You're obviously going to get a lot less grief about that war when Barack Obama inherits it.
However, we have seen now as we cruise through very soon his first anniversary in office, there are a lot of his rabid anti-war base voters who are wondering why he hasn't closed Gitmo yet, wondering why he hasn't shut it down as much.
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