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Dec. 30, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 30, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Thanks, Johnny.
Thanks, Rush.
Thanks, everybody in the Limbaugh audience, for hanging with me today.
I noticed he graciously expressed similar wishes that Mark Stein feels exactly the same, and so does Walter Williams, who will be with you tomorrow.
Best of on Friday for New Year's Day, and then Rush is back on Monday.
So here is our last hour together of our fill-in really, our fill-in-host relationship, which has meant an enormous amount to me.
I guess I strapped into the substitute chair for the first time, March 08, roughly, and I've had a number of opportunities since.
And it's just an unparalleled joy.
And my gratitude to Rush for letting me be part of that bench strength and be in the company of good people like Mark Stein, Walter Williams, and Mark Belling, and so many other folks who've done just such a great job.
It's funny, this is the one show.
I mean, the nature of talk show listenership, let's be honest with each other, the nature of talk show listenership is you want the real guy there.
Let's be frank.
You want the real guy there.
The great thing about the Rush Limbaugh fill-in stable, of which I'm proudly a part, is that I believe that when there's a fill-in host for Rush, that the life force is yanked out of you less than when other shows offer up fill-in hosts.
Have I phrased that skillfully?
Is that you're just like, oh, but at least it's somebody who's going to keep you informed and entertained with some level of competence and style.
Okay, here's the deal.
So my plan here in living up to that is to get back to your calls on various things, the various topics that have been given to us in the holiday gift from Umar Farouk Abdul Mutalab, giving us a holiday season filled with bristling talk show topics.
Also, I do want to take a look at the year gone by and the decade gone by in some wistful and concrete ways.
But as we get ready to do that and get ready to examine some more of your calls, there is one thing that we've got to address.
It's one of those little things that's making me crazy.
And maybe you have emailed some of the various local hosts at the proud Rush Limbaugh radio stations who are affiliates on the EIB network, because maybe you've heard them talk as I have about the end of the decade.
There is, I don't want to say there's debate because there's not, but there is doubt being expressed as to whether this is the end of the decade.
Please ride with me here.
Keep your hands inside the vehicle.
If you recall a decade ago, it was all the Y2K geeks going crazy that it was going to be like an asteroid hurtling toward the earth because the big odometer was about to turn.
The big year odometer was about to go 1999 to 2000.
And that was, and that was the huge deal.
The big odometer is what was the big deal because it was the year 2000.
For the first time in a millennium, the numeral at the beginning of the year was going to change.
That was the big deal.
I never had any problem with that.
What I had to do, and I had a lot of help, and this was a job that had to be done, is we had to tell people why, even though the big odometer was turning, that it was not the change of the century.
And it made people's brains turn to jelly, and I understand that.
And it all goes to the way we count centuries.
The entire year 2000 was the last year of the 20th century.
And I know you get that now, but believe you me, we had to pound that into people 10 years ago this week, that the big odometer was turning, but it wasn't the change of the century until New Year's Eve of 2000 and January 1st, 2001 was in fact the first day of the 21st century.
Got it so far, so good, right?
Well, apparently, people fused to that concept a little too well.
And I'm now getting the occasional email telling me that the decade is not in fact ending.
That the entire year 2010 is in fact the last year of the current decade.
Guys, just trust me on this, okay?
Well, it's not about trusting me.
Just please understand the following.
And here's why it's different.
Of course, the decade ends tomorrow night at midnight.
Of course it does.
Here's why.
We count decades differently.
We count centuries ordinally, 15th century, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, counting all the way back to the first century.
Centuries contain 100 years, but boom, bad.
There was no year zero.
It's January 1st of the year 1, boom, through January 1st, 101, January 1st, 201, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So the first year of this century, of course, was 2001, and the first day of the 21st century, January 1st, 2001.
Decades don't work that way.
We don't count decades ordinally.
We don't talk about, you know, Columbus back in the 149th decade.
We don't talk about the Revolutionary War and the 178th and 177th or would it be the 178th decade?
You know what I mean?
We don't do that.
How do we count decades?
By the tens place, the 60s, the 70s, the 40s, the 20s, the 30s.
Now, we have no idea what to call this decade just ending, and we don't even know what to call the next one, do we?
You know, the oughts for the one gone by.
The oughts?
How contrived and tortured is that?
I don't know what to call this decade or the next, but you know what the one after that's going to be?
It'll be the 20s.
It'll be the 30s.
It'll be the 40s.
It'll be the 50s.
It'll be the 60s.
That's how we identify decades.
Look back at the century we've just gone through.
What was the first day of the 1960s?
That would be January 1st, 1960.
What was the last day of the 1960s?
That would be December 31st, 1969.
While the entire year 2000 was indeed the last year of the 20th century, you got to realize how goofy it is to suggest that the entire year 1970 was the last year of the 60s.
You follow me here?
Are you feeling me?
Do you get it?
So we count decades differently.
And for that reason, since we don't count them ordinally, keeping track of every decade since the year one, if we did, then you'd have a point about that.
But we don't, so you don't.
Decades are identified by the tens place.
The 60s went from 1160 to 1231.69.
The 80s went from 1180 to 1189.
And this decade, whatever we decide to call it, started on the big New Year's Eve back on 1-1-2000, and it ends tomorrow night at midnight.
Okay.
And don't even get me started on 12 a.m. and p.m.
No such thing.
12 noon, 12 midnight, 12 a.m. and p.m.
More on that on some other show.
All righty, it is the Rush Limbaugh show.
Thank you very much.
I feel so much better now.
1-800-282-2882.
And in fact, before I begin to wax semi-eloquent about stuff from this year and, yes, this decade gone by, let's take care of some folks that have been hanging on during the top of the hour news and in some cases even longer.
Let's go to San Luis Obispo, California.
Angela, Mark Davis in for us, and happy new year to you.
How you doing?
Good.
How are you?
Good.
Actually, I'm calling you from Toledo, Ohio.
I apologize.
Okay.
The reason that I called in was because I had gotten, and I had followed a couple of the previous callers with regard to the terrorist on the Delta flight coming in with his undies being a little flammable.
You know, one of the things that everybody doesn't recognize is that if you take into consideration that traffic pattern that goes around Detroit Metropolitan Airport, had he had the chance to get that thing off and had that blown that airliner up and had that airliner been in a certain pattern, that could have hit Windsor, Ontario, which now all of a sudden sparks a foreign incident, which I'm sure President Pantload doesn't even bother taking into consideration when he dismisses it as Bush's problem.
Well, that's interesting.
What if, indeed, the flight path, which does, again, this event took place over Canada.
If it was 20 minutes out of a Detroit flight, unless they'd been circling Detroit for 20 minutes, that's over Ontario.
You're correct about that.
And I hate to play ghoulish what-ifs, but you've brought it up, so let's do it.
What if that thing goes down on top of Windsor?
Would it, well, there's still plenty of Americans on the plane.
It's still an American airline.
Don't you think that it would carry a sufficient American flavor?
Absolutely.
But the problem is that the problem with this and most liberals, and most notably with this president, is they're never at fault with anything.
They never make a mistake.
It's always somebody else's problem.
Had this been reviewed by the previous administration, we wouldn't have had this problem.
Had we done this, this can't be our fault.
They don't take into consideration the fact that there are such incredible ramifications with, yeah, you'd never want to just sit back and dismiss and say, well, God, what if it would have done this, that, or the other thing?
They just don't, it's almost as if they just don't care.
Well, they care, but about the wrong things.
They need to care more about protecting Americans and care a little less about playing CYA.
They also need, as an entire war strategy, to care at least as much about protecting Americans as they do about protecting the dignity of those who might be offended by profiling.
It's how their care slice, how their care pie is sliced.
And thank you very, very much, sir.
I appreciate it a lot.
Let's go SmackDab.
Having invoked the state of Kentucky, let's go right into the middle of Hart County to Horse Cave, Kentucky.
Cynthia, hey, Mark Davis filling in for Rush.
How are you?
I'm doing great, Mark.
Thanks for taking the call.
My pleasure.
I wanted to tell you that Obama has not had a chance to update the no-fly list and all those other neat lists because he's too busy watching the veterans and us conservatives that he likes to call right-wing extremists.
So there hasn't been time to look at the actual terrorists.
Yes, we go back to those pernicious lists designed to make people look askance at tea party gatherings or town halls.
They certainly have no trouble focusing attention on who might pose a danger at a tea party or a town hall.
A little more attention to who might pose a danger at airports would be timely indeed.
Cynthia, thank you.
Go ahead, I'm sorry.
You mentioned the war.
The other problem is that Obama won't acknowledge that we are at war.
He won't allow war on terror to be used because he doesn't want to have what you get in war, which is enemy combatants.
He would rather put somebody on trial in civilian courts as if they had tried to knock over the 7-Eleven.
Well, that's how we treated the first World Trade Center bombing, and you see what that got us.
And let me thank you and hit this break and come back.
I mentioned something I might do, and I'm going to do it.
It'll just take a moment.
It is the words of Charles Krauthammer on the occasion of his 9-11 column, just days after.
And Dr. Krauthammer observes 25 years of column writing this very year, and I just want to give him every good wish because we are a richer and better country for this magnificent man and his punditry.
And, well, I'll give you some evidence of that in just a moment.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Davis on the Rush Limbaugh Show, and we'll be right back.
It is the December 30th Rush Limbaugh Show, and I'm Mark Davis.
Gladly filling in.
Appreciate your tolerance of me.
We'll all enjoy Walter Williams tomorrow as he fills in on the last live Rush Limbaugh Show of the Year.
Some golden highlights from the Golden EIB microphone.
We'll be with you on January 1st, New Year's Day, which is Friday.
And then the big weekend, and then everybody's back at work on January 4th, including Rush himself, who I hope is enjoying some well-deserved year-end time off.
So with a lot of invocation by callers and by me and by a ton of people who've talked about this ever since the Northwest Flight Christmas Day attempted explosion of that plane, is this administration really on a war footing?
Are they really involved in what they consider to be a war on terror?
Or is it all, is it nothing more than a continuing crime wave best dealt with in federal court?
The infuriating decision to bring the 9-11 masterminds into New York federal court is if you really compile a list of Obama administration outrages, reasons why this is the worst presidency of my lifetime and probably yours, that's really close to the top of the list.
I mean, there's a ton of economic things.
There's a ton of things involving personal liberty, but the failure to grasp the obscenity of bringing these monsters into federal court in New York as if this is something that has to be localized like a wave of bank robberies, that's one of the toppers to me.
And Charles Krauthammer addressed this in his column of September 14th of 2001.
In the days after 9-11, some people were using the terminology that we should bring those responsible to justice.
On the occasion of that week in 2001, Charles Krauthammer wrote, this is exactly wrong.
Franklin Roosevelt did not respond to Pearl Harbor by pledging to bring the commander of Japanese naval aviation to justice.
He pledged to bring Japan to its knees.
You bring criminals to justice.
You reign destruction on combatants.
Was it one call back or two calls back?
The superb point was made.
Enemy combatants, that concept is kryptonite to these people running the country right now.
And until our nation rediscovers that distinction, we're not serious about protecting our citizens.
We're not serious.
All we can do is pray that the next terrorist is as unsuccessful as this one was.
All right, I am confident in our ability to dial in San Luis Sobispo, California.
And Angela, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
Welcome and happy new year.
How are you doing?
Happy New Year, Professor Davis.
Thank you.
Wow, how undeserved is that?
Thanks.
I am a sophomore at the EIB Institute.
And all you guys have educated me so much.
And I'm glad I had this opportunity to thank you so much.
Thanks.
My comment was: was it two years ago, three years ago, everybody was up in arms over tapping into a few select phone calls when needed and when felt necessary, but all of a sudden it's okay, and everybody's jumping on the wheel.
We're going to scan your bodies.
Hmm.
You know, the first difference that occurs to me, Angela, and why you won't get the kind of leftist recoil at the full body scan is that the full body scan is done with your consent.
You know, it's happening.
What freaked the left out about warrantless wiretaps is the notion of phone calls being listened to without the participants' knowledge.
You know, and that is a difference.
They both strike me as useful tools on terror.
As long as it is an NSA that I can trust, which we had under President Bush, and I hope we still have, I have my doubts sometimes.
I don't mind people talented at finding tidbits of information that might lead to catching terrorists, listening to occasional phone calls that have a smattering of a flavor to them in terms of the content of the conversation, where it originates, what its destination is.
I've never minded warrantless wiretaps.
They have saved American lives.
Exactly, exactly.
But now it's okay.
Everybody's jumping on the full body scan.
I understand what you're saying, but still.
So, so, still, it doesn't mean you don't have a point.
Indeed, so.
Well, listen, you identified yourself as a sophomore at the Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, which may be indicative of how much time you've spent along the trail, but that would suggest that you are then a junior and that you are then a senior and that then you graduate.
No one ever graduates.
It is a lifetime education, and that's good news that you don't graduate because that would imply that the experience is over.
And if Rush has anything to do with it, it'll never be over.
He'll keep teaching and we'll all keep learning.
Thank you very, very much, Angela.
Thank you.
Great, great deal.
All right.
Coming up in our next segment, we got some calls who are going to look at where the heat ought to be applied.
How much in Amsterdam?
How much in America?
How much with regard to the airlines, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
And plenty more as we look back at the year, back at the decade, and look forward to 2010.
Mark Davis, in for Rush on the EIB network.
Well, it is the home stretch now, isn't it?
Final half hour of our day together today.
We got Walter Williams in tomorrow.
Some taped golden highlights from Rush on Friday, and then back to normal.
See what's going on on Monday, January 4th.
It's hard to predict anything and probably dangerous to predict most things, but I have a feeling that Rush is paying attention to the fate of those Pittsburgh Steelers.
Man, they just refuse to die, don't they?
And it's going to be a big, big NFL weekend.
We are stunned and disoriented down here in Dallas Cowboy Country.
The Cowboys are in the playoffs and don't even need to win the last game against Philadelphia, which will be out at Jerry World at the Cowboys Stadium.
It's been moved to a late game on Sunday.
But the Cowboys win the division if they beat the Eagles.
That might be a big if.
Eagles don't really need the game, but everybody's trying to get better playoff, more advantageous playoff position.
Now, here's the strangeness that needs to happen.
And I know I'm going to excite and annoy at the exact same time various Limbaugh affiliates.
But from the Cowboy perspective, I guess what we need here, if I think I have this right, is we need the Giants to beat the Vikings, which appears to be growing easier with each passing week.
Phew.
Sorry, Brett, but what's going on, man?
And we also need, what, the Packers to beat Arizona.
And, you know, we'll see how that works out.
And if that happens, then the Cowboys get a first-round bye.
I don't know what we'll do around here if the Cowboys actually get a first-round buy.
It has become sport.
It has become habit around here to bemoan the Cowboys' December swoon, which I guess we're through talking about with the wins over New Orleans.
And, of course, beating New Orleans apparently not that hard anymore either.
Ask the Bucs in a 17-0 shutout of the Redskins.
So I don't know.
It's been a weird NFL season.
I've thoroughly enjoyed it.
And who knows, maybe we'll enjoy it a little more around here.
And from cities like Green Bay and all of Wisconsin and the folks in Arizona where they're going to be heading back there with those surprising Cardinals last year.
Can they get back to the level they achieved last year?
And they're thrilled in Minnesota and they know that Brad will wake up in the playoffs.
I know that.
And over in the AFC with teams just hanging by a thread, the seasons they've had in Pittsburgh and in Jacksonville and in Miami and with playoff fates lasting this long sometimes before being dashed against the rocks.
But with the usual suspects in New England and Indianapolis.
But boy, I got to tell you, I've just got to tell you, are the San Diego Chargers the best team in the NFL?
They might be, man.
I know Peyton Manning.
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.
I know, I know.
And I think Peyton Manning's probably better than Phillip Rivers.
But doggone it, those Chargers, they're not human.
And I mean that as a compliment.
That's just crazy the way these guys are playing.
And then I guess they'll beat up on the Redskins for week 17 like everybody else has.
And they're changing things in Washington and over in WMAL country.
Just give Jim Zorn a nice thank you on the way out.
He's a class guy, but boy, you know, get Shanahan in there as soon as possible.
A new GM and Bruce Allen.
Hopefully that'll turn things around.
We'll see.
But the NFL is a lot of fun.
Some Winter Olympics action getting ready to crank up in Vancouver.
And that's always fun with best wishes for all the Americans that are going to be participating there, carrying our flag into those opening ceremonies.
I'm a sucker for the Olympics.
It strikes me, it always strikes me as an opportunity for America to get in and just sort of show the world what we've got.
And I just bleed red, white, and blue at those times as I do every other time.
And I just really am proud in advance of, especially since I'm going to drop a set of names here.
Debbie McCormick and the women's curling team are actual friends of ours here in a story that I will not badger you with, but we actually started a curling organization in Dallas, Fort Worth after the 02 Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Just, I know.
I know.
Why?
I don't know.
But the reason was we loved it and we love it still.
And so when Debbie McCormick and the women's curling team, and take nothing away from the men, but I don't know them personally.
They were, by the way, the women's curling team, the American women's curling team, were the first American Olympians identified because the competition to identify who the Olympians would be has been taking place for months, of course.
And they were the first athletes to punch their ticket to Vancouver.
So it took on a kind of a cult following in 02 and 06, and that probably will, it's probably beyond cult following now.
So as you watch people hurl off the side of a mountain in the ski jump and go careening down the side of a mountain at 80 miles an hour or go crotch first down a hill at you know at 100 miles an hour on something else and various various other things I'll never do.
There's a Winter Olympic sport you can do.
You can curl.
It's not as easy as it looks, but you can do it even if you look like me.
So plug into some of that during the Winter Olympics to come in Vancouver.
All right, let's see what's going on in these phone lines.
1-800-282-2882.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in Texas.
Let's go to Collinsville, Texas.
And Steve, that is you, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
Happy New Year and welcome.
How you doing?
Happy New Year to you too, Mark.
Hey, I got a question.
You know, I'm not a big fan of the administration by any means, but why aren't they jumping all over the Dutch government about letting this guy in into their country without a passport?
And then why also aren't they jumping on the airlines for not checking his identification if he didn't have a passport?
I know I can't go to the airport and go on an international flight without showing my passport to the ticket agent.
Correct.
And here's the Dutch answer to your question as of today.
Holland's counterterrorism agency has said today that he did have a passport.
Let me just share.
In fact, let me just take this and run with it and thank you for asking because your questions are absolutely right.
Where does blame belong?
I mean, the American infrastructure of Homeland Security all the way to the State Department.
Absolutely.
But what about the airport and what about the airline?
Those are absolutely questions that deserve to be answered.
Let me go right to the CBS and AP story.
The suspected terrorist who tried to blow up Northwest Flight 253 Christmas Day did present a passport to authorities in Amsterdam before boarding the Detroit-bound plane.
Holland's counterterrorism agency said Wednesday.
Abdul Muttalab arrived in Amsterdam on Friday from Lagos, Nigeria.
After a layover of less than three hours, he passed through a security check at the gate in Amsterdam, including a hand baggage scan and a metal detector, officials said.
Abdul Muttalab was carrying a valid Nigerian passport and had a valid U.S. visa, the Dutch said.
His name did not appear on any Dutch list of terror suspects.
Okay, so that's what they say.
The next question is: are they lying?
I'd like to think that countries, their counterterrorism agencies, don't lie.
So maybe where the couple of passengers who told a story of a well-dressed Indian man sort of greasing the wheels and helping this guy get on the plane.
The gentleman's name is Kurt Haskell, a guy from Michigan, returning home from a safari in Uganda with his wife.
Here's a trip we need to make sometime.
Told the Detroit Free Press that he noticed Abdul Mutalab because of who he was traveling with, a wealthy-looking Indian man in his 50s.
Mr. Haskell, who was playing cards near the ticket counter at the airport in Amsterdam, said the Indian man told ticket agents that Abdul Mutalab, quote, needs to board the plane, but he doesn't have a passport.
He's from Sudan.
We do this all the time.
But the Dutch counterterrorism unit's investigation into Abdul Muttalab's passport pokes holes in the theory that the alleged bomber had help evading security.
Okay, may I may I suggest I'd like to see the passport, please.
Can the Dutch present this passport?
Show me the passport.
Silly thing about me.
Passports, birth certificates.
No, I'm not starting that right now, but I'll still apply the standard.
I like to see the real thing before I totally invest in a story.
You know, you can say what you want, and there can be evidence of this and corroborating this and testimony on that, but there's just no substitute for real documentation.
So if this guy has a passport, surely someone will be able to present it.
The failure to present it may speak some volumes here as this story continues to unfold.
All righty.
What are we going to remember 09 for?
What are we going to remember this decade for?
Some of the answers are easy.
Others, not so much.
Delve into that and take some more of your calls next.
It is 1-800-282-2882 on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in on the EIB network.
It is the New Year's Eve Eve Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in for actual New Year's Eve.
You get Walter Williams tomorrow.
That'll be great.
Look forward to listening to that.
And look forward to the return of Rush on Monday.
All right, to the phones, to the phones at 1-800-282-2882.
Let's head to Milwaukee.
Tom, Mark Davis, in for Rush Limbaugh.
Welcome and happy new year to you.
Happy New Year to you, and thank you for taking my call.
Sure.
From Snowy Milwaukee.
I just want to tell you, I would personally like to see the TSA allow to be unionized, and I have a couple good reasons for that.
Tell me.
The one thing, 9-11, who are the heroes of 9-11?
Policemen and firemen.
They ran toward those buildings.
Those were union workers.
Indeed.
As far as somebody saying you can't have a union because you would strike or you would not, you'd have a lot of deadwood.
There's deadwood in a government.
There's deadwood in every company.
You actually need to have the right to assemble a union, protect yourself.
If a policeman had let that bomber through, that policeman would have been fired.
They have very strict rules and guidelines for police and firemen.
You cannot be a fluff off.
Can we pause here for a second?
Okay, but I mean, all right, because so far the logic is sound up to a point.
You're completely right that the people whom we have lofted to near sainthood as a result of their 9-11 heroism, and rightfully so, that they were a unionized group of people.
But the logic does not extend to that must mean that unionization is, conversely, the way to bring out the best in people, because it's not.
It is often the exact opposite.
We can't have the notion of even the specter of strikes, which does sometimes happen in the police and fire community.
You have to, well, sometimes they do anyway.
Sometimes they do.
Yeah, neither could the air traffic controllers, but they did, didn't they?
And they paid a price.
They lost their right back.
That was foolish.
They should not have walked out.
Exactly right.
They have a right to unionize.
They have a right to argue not to unit.
No, they don't.
There is no right to unionize.
None.
It is something that you might want and that many people might get, but there is no right to unionize.
I feel they should have a right to unionize.
What you're saying is that we don't want them in there.
We're not going to let them in.
We're not going to let the person be allowed from Obama's site to be confirmed if he wants unions.
I think that's right.
That's correct.
Why is that wrong?
Why is it wrong for Senator DeMint to take a look at how unionization can sometimes bog down the spryness and the nimbleness with which an organization sometimes has to operate, especially in terms of the fast-changing world of international security?
Go back to the police environment.
Go ahead, I'm sorry.
No, sorry.
Go back to Prince.
No, it's okay.
I understand.
They have work rules.
It works out good for both sides.
See, I really like your show.
I like you.
I like Rush.
There's a lot of good things there, but the idea of continually badgering unions is ridiculous.
But that's why I don't do it.
Well, then I'm with you and not having a lot of time, and this is probably where we part company, and I love you, and there's a lot of good that unions do.
But in terms of streamlining something and making it smoother and faster and more responsive to changing conditions, that is not something that unions do well.
And the heroism of the 9-11 police and firefighters are not evidence that it does.
There's another company out there you're forgetting about.
You talk about streamlining.
I work for this company.
I've seen it from both sides.
United Parcel Service is probably the best working company in the entire country.
They are unionized.
Everybody works their butt off.
You betcha.
I will accept.
They work so well together.
It's a perfect example of union and company working together.
You cannot have one side with all the power and without any right to unionize.
Well, FedEx, FedEx isn't.
For the longest time, FedEx wasn't, may still not be, and they're golden.
So, I mean, we can make lists.
We can make lists all day.
But go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
I'll give you the last word.
Go ahead.
I just feel that they should have the right to say you cannot have the right to me as undemocratic.
It's American.
One thing, and I'll go.
Do you realize that in Iraq, did you know the only thing that we left that was left of Saddam Hussein's government, the only thing we left in there was the right not to have unions?
That I read in Fortune magazine.
I saw that in the article.
I like little articles.
That sick to me.
So as a G.I. Joe soldier going to war, you just promoted the fact that you cannot have a union in Iraq.
It's not your wish, and I respect your wish.
It's not undemocratic.
There is no right to unionize.
It's something that you can want.
There's nobody no right not to be able to unionize.
But here's where it all settles out.
If you or I crave a union environment, get a job that provides one.
I'm not having the TSA have it done.
I think I've just told you because because it could endanger the level of no more than a police and fire.
Now, it's not.
Bad examples.
It's highly qualified people.
Of course, the same would happen there with these PHA workers.
I appreciate you, man.
Thank you very, very much, and happy new year to you.
Thanks.
All righty, let us take our final pause, come back and put a final person or two on the air for this Wednesday edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
Be right back.
Well, the clock is a cruel mistress, and she says what she says, and she says, out of here in about a minute and a half.
So rather than give a caller short shrift, let me just direct you to tomorrow's Rush Limbaugh show, where Walter Williams will fill in and delight you with the enormous brain and magnificent character of that man.
Highlights from recent rush on New Year's Day and then rush back with you on Monday.
And if they keep asking, I'll keep showing up.
So I hope to join you here on the program various times during 2010.
And my wish for this new year, obviously, I have a ton of political wishes.
Oh, please let us win back some Republicans in the House and Senate.
Dare I dream of majorities in November of 2010?
And of course, talk show life is so much about politics and properly, properly, properly so.
But some things transcend.
What I wish for the coming year, in the coming decade, is health and success and prosperity for you and yours.
For the wonderful man who hosts this show, Rush Limbaugh, God bless him and great success and health for him in the future.
Heaven knows he'll have plenty of material, as will we all who do this for a living.
And God bless you and our country and the troops who fight every day to give us the freedom to host and listen to shows like this.
God bless all of them as this year comes to an end and in 2010 and the year and decade to come.
Thanks to Bo Snardley and Ed Robinson for piloting me through this.
And God bless all of you.
Walter Williams tomorrow.
Rush back on Monday.
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