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Jan. 5, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 5, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, great to be with you.
America's Anchorman returns tomorrow, but in the meantime, this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in and uh and great to be with you.
Uh I I mentioned just just before the news this extraordinary story of uh Michael Yon, who's a very respected military blogger who has been embedded with the troops out in uh Iraq and Afghanistan.
He lands at Seattle Airport and they ask him how much money he earns, and he declines to answer quite reasonably.
It's nobody's business.
It's not the business uh of a uh customs or immigration official how much uh money he earns, and they put handcuffs on him.
Uh they're making it up as they go along.
They handcuff the guy.
They're making it up as they go along.
Now we got this other story out of Bakersfield, California, happening right now, where there's two uh the there's two TSA officials have been infected by some hazardous material that went through the bag scanner.
Somebody put hazardous material in a check-in bag it went through and it supposedly uh infected two TSA officials at the airport in Bakersfield, California.
Umpowering a vast bureaucracy to make it up as they go along, which is w which is what we have now in uh in the United States is uh is a is an encroachment on liberty.
No uh no US citizen should have to declare his income uh to anybody who works for the United States immigration.
That is simply uh preposterous, and uh this guy was quite right to resist it, and the idea that he's handcuffed for declining to declare his income to a border official uh is uh is is outrageous.
But one way to look at this as we move into 2010.
The important thing to remember uh about uh airport security and and airplane travel in the United States now is that this is the advanced vision of American liberalism.
You can't do nothing up there in a plane.
Everything is everything is regulated.
It's like Massachusetts to the nth degree.
It's like New York to the nth degree.
Uh you look at Nanny Bloomberg uh down in New York City who's uh helping heroin addicts shooting up but banning cigarette uh cigarette smokers from smoking outside near a doorway, but but if you want to shoot up inside the doorway, he'll give you a New York City leaflet to help you do it.
Uh the arbitrariness of liberalism and the arbitrariness of liberal encroachment on liberty, you look at an Amer any American airplane, em any American airport, uh and and wonder what it would be like if that started spreading and that started infecting uh the the broader sphere, the broader uh American environment.
When I look at uh other countries of the Western world and you read about these encroachments on liberty, and I mention them uh on the air here or in my newspaper column, I get a lot of mail from American readers who say, Well, Americans are never gonna put up with that, and they quote the first amendment and they quote the second amendment and all the rest of it.
But you look at what is happening at the f uh uh at American airports and and planes, and look at what's happened to individual liberty and your rights there.
You can be held for hours uh by the say-so of the TSA.
These idiots at uh Newark Airport who who didn't even report uh the breach of security to law enforcement, the TSA, this is how stupid uh and wasteful uh and uh ludicrous the TSA are.
They didn't even report the breach of security at Newark Airport for an hour and a half to law enforcement.
Uh what happened was it's like a self-inflicted security breach.
This guy just wandered off or didn't see the guy coming through the the guard, the so-called security guard didn't see it.
That's that's problem number one.
Problem number two is that they didn't report it to law enforcement for for ninety minutes, an hour and a half.
So the guy's like running around, who knows what he's doing for an hour and a half.
Yet at the same time, this same bureaucracy has the right to hold thousands of people in a pen in a herd.
It has the right to put you in a room to say you can't have any food, say you can't have any drink, to say you uh not allowed if your baby is hungry, you're not allowed to feed your baby, you're not allowed to go to the Bathroom, uh all the rest of it.
Now imagine what it takes.
Once you get people to accept that at the airport, once you get people to accept it on an airplane, what happens it if it starts to infect other areas of life?
You know, September 11th happened in part because everybody followed the nanny state.
Uh everybody got on those planes, and those guys on the first three planes, those guys pulled their stuff, and people just sat there like sheep and followed the 1972 hijack procedures because they thought the 1972 hijack procedures uh would keep them safe.
And by the time it became clear that those guys had uh an entirely different order of atrocity in mind, it was too late.
On the fourth plane, they acted as free-born individuals and provided the United States with the only good news of the day.
So the question here is what happens if the if the if the TSA mentality spreads to other areas of life.
And that's essentially what's behind the health care bill and some of these other big government bills.
If you don't like, if Michael Yon gets handcuffed for failing to declare his income at Seattle Airport, uh this health care bill empowers the IRS, uh it gives the IRS, which is not the most benign government agency in the first in in the first place, empowers the IRS to interfere in all kinds of other areas of your life uh under the guise of health care.
As I said yesterday, health care is the perfect rationale for regulating every single aspect of your life.
It justifies everything.
Because everything has a health component.
Uh you see it already in things like seatbelt laws.
Uh well, why should I have to wear a seatbelt?
It's it's my business if I don't want to wear a seatbelt and the car crashes and I go flying through the window and I'm paralyzed for life.
Well, no, it isn't your business anymore, because the government says, no, uh if you uh if you have to be treated in a hospital and you become a charge on the state, uh then that is a uh a an expense that taxpayers have to bear, so therefore we are justified in requiring you to wear a seatbelt.
What you see in other countries with more advanced forms of socialized medicine is, for example, uh children are taken away because they're deemed to be uh obese, or as as happened in uh in uh Scotland recently, uh children were taken away not because they were fat, but because uh their parents were fat, and it was feared that they too uh would be at risk of becoming obese, and that therefore they would be a charge on the state.
Health care licenses uh essentially health care justifies the government doing anything, because uh anything you do in your life, your lifestyle, how you live, what you eat, what you drink uh is health care.
So if health care is run by the government, then everything you do uh is a legitimate matter for government.
And that's why if you look at I always say, and I've I've talked with Karl Rove and Dick Morris and all kinds of smart guys about this, but I don't think they realize that the the line you cross uh when you governmentalize uh health care, what you do is you transform the relationship between the citizen and the state.
And it's like home land security, it's a liberty issue.
It's an issue of liberty.
Uh that what it does is it so deforms the relationship between the citizen and the state into one as it is literally in New York City with those heroin addicts, into one of pusher and junkie.
Sometimes the the big nanny pusher is pushing you leaflets about how to shoot up heroin uh in the comfort of your own home, as Nanny Bloomberg is doing in New York City, but more broadly speaking, they're pushing government services at you and and turning you in into a junkie uh for the nanny state.
And that's why once you cross that line, it's very difficult to go back.
They're all trended in Europe.
They can't do it.
Angela Merkel in Germany came to power because Germany's uh j German uh uh social entitlements are unsustainable.
But she finds that when you actually name specific ones and say to people, can you give this up, they say no.
It's that famous line that um Gerald Ford used to use to ingratiate himself uh with uh with conservative audiences, that he used to use this famous line a government big enough uh to give you everything you need is big enough to take away everything you want.
And that's true, but but the intermediate stage is that a government that is big enough to uh give you everything you need in the end isn't big and isn't isn't big enough to get you to persuade you to give any of it back.
And that's the crisis uh in the rest of the Western world that they have these unsustainable entitlements, they have government health care, they have six weeks paid vacation, they have retirement at fifty-five, they can't afford it.
They're going broke, it's the perfect storm, they're driving them over the cliff, but they can't once you get the people used to it, you can't persuade them to give any of it back.
And the only rationale for conservative government, if you listen to David Cameron, the British Conservative leader uh talking at the moment, pledging uh uh yesterday not to do anything to touch the National Health Service.
The only rationale for conservative government for right of center parties becomes that uh we can run the left wing state more efficiently than the left can.
So what happens is that the left wing state uh gets balloons so out of control and spends so much money that occasionally a mildly right of center party is elected to run the left wing state with slightly more fiscal accountability than the left would.
But genuine conservative government becomes all but impossible.
And that's why it's important to understand issues like health care and uh this uh whimsical tyranny uh in which individual border guards and TSA inspectors and all the rest of it make up rules on the spot and bully uh anyone they think they can get away with bullying.
That's why it's important to understand that that is actually the exactly the same as health care.
These are liberty issues.
They're about encroachments of the government on the sphere of individual liberty.
And that ought to be part of people sometimes talk, you know, well, small government, it sounds so mean.
When you say you're for small government, uh you sound so mean spirited and uncompassionate and and not like the way, you know, caring liberals are when they want big government that will take care of you, that will cocoon you in the nice fluffy womb of liberalism so that you'll be there being lulled into in into in into nice dreamland for all of your life.
No, no, no.
Uh small government does sound mean, but small government means big liberty.
And what we see in the health care bill and what we see in Homeland Security are more and more encroachments on liberty.
And the Conservative movement should stand for liberty and resist encroachments of government.
Because government only exp government doesn't uh expand in a vacuum.
It expands by shrinking the space for individual liberty, whether that's uh in the bullying at the airport and the uh uh imprisoning people for hours on end because you screwed up at Newark Airport, or whether uh it's empowering the IRS uh to reach deep into your private bank accounts and know about how you live because you haven't bought the government approved form of health insurance.
Encroachments on liberty should be resisted at all costs.
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Mark Stein in for Rush.
Let's go to Alex in Austin, Texas.
Alex, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Uh great to have you with us.
Great to hear you, Mark.
I always enjoy it when you uh when you sub for Rush.
I appreciate that.
Well, I I always love being here, but don't forget the big guy is back uh tomorrow, and he's raring to go.
He was he was originally supposed to come back on Thursday and there was going to be some guest hosts tomorrow.
It might even have been me.
I can't remember now.
But uh they said nuts to that, we're getting the real guy in, so he's coming in tomorrow.
That's a good thing.
Our thoughts and prayers are with him here in Texas, that's for sure.
Yeah, well, he's he's fighting fit and ready to go.
So you you you don't have to worry about his health because he's gonna be here at uh at uh f five minutes past the hour, sticking it to the liberals like there's like he's on the peak of his game.
That'll be a good thing.
But uh I wanted to comment um as far as some of the Republicans that are listening, why aren't the Republicans using the tea parties, you know, more to their advantage?
Uh you know, you have President Barack Obama used acorn, he used friends, he used other community art organizations to uh campaign for him.
Why aren't some of these guys using the tea parties to uh you know support their fa you know we can support our favorite candidates.
Right.
These guys are armed, and it's just not about uh you know, showing up the city.
Yeah, no, no, no.
But if you think about it realistically, it's because they're not comfortable with them.
I mean, the difference is that a Barack Obama is a community organizer, he which is what Acorn is.
He's one of them, and he agrees with what they want.
And w as he moves upward through the system from uh state legislature to state senator uh to senator to president, he has to be sort of more and more cautious about uh quite how explicitly he identifies with some of the wackier things that Acorn espouses.
But it's the opposite in on the Republican side of the legis uh ledger, that if you look at people like Susan Collins or Olympia Snow or all these people, they they find the uh they're horrified by the Tea Parties.
They're like David Brooks.
David David David Brooks basically uh is is regards the the Tea Party uh as essentially an outbreak of stupidity on the part of the American people that prevents clever clogs like him telling uh telling the rest of you idiots what's best for you.
And I think I think there are a lot of uh that is why uh there is a lot of people on the so-called right who are wary uh about the Tea Party.
But you know but there's there's hundreds and thousands of them out there, and each if you look at each state, you know, they're they're organized, and some of these guys, you know, like I said, they're not just showing up to protest, they're armed with websites, they're researching facts and stories.
Um and some of these guys are gonna start driving, you know, to uh uh to help support their favorite candidate in 2010, and I think this is a big thing.
Yeah, but uh but but but but that's where I think that it is having an impact.
You know, the Tea Party, uh, Alex is actually when you say that the the Republicans should maybe use the Tea Party, I think the Tea Party is ha is doing better work by using the Republicans.
For example, uh I think if these were had been a normal if this had been a normal political year, it's entirely conceivable that a Susan Collins or an Olympia Snow would have gone along with some s very, very slightly watered down version uh of the health care of the health care monstrosity.
But in fact they didn't.
The entire Republican caucus actually held tough and declined to have anything to do with it.
Now why is that?
It's not because Susan Collins and Olympia Snow agree with the Tea Party, but it's it's because the success of the Tea Party reminds Olympia Snow uh and Susan Collins that there are that this is not a time for bipartisan reaching across the aisle.
So it's the point I was making in the last hour that sometimes you've you have to have guys who demand that the uh political center shift thirty-eight uh thir thirty-eight degrees in their direction just to get somebody like Susan Collins and Olympia Snow to move, you know, one or two degrees in your direction.
And they managed to accomplish that.
I think if this had been a normal political year, or if this had been the kind of year we were facing in January uh two thousand and nine, one year ago, where all the clever people like David Brooks, uh New York Times are full of things about the death of conservatism, is conservatism over, conservatism's washed up, it's just for losers.
Uh and uh in that in in that in those political circumstances, the idea of the Republican caucus in the Senate holding together uh as a block and voting against this hideous monstrosity of uh uh of toxic pustules that is dingy Harry's health care bill, I think the idea of them holding solid as a block against that would would not have been possible.
Let's go to Josh in Syracuse, New York.
Josh, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks, Mark.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
Good.
You know, I just to go back to what you were talking about right before the break, um, you know, and I I think this is one of the places where the conservatives are actually separating from the Republican Party per se.
Um I agree with you that socialized medicine is uh is uh an unwieldy beast.
I agree that any more government would obviously just be uh a total mistake.
But I have to say, and I've been listening very closely, I don't hear you, and I and I'm waiting for you and and other people to address the actual cost of what our health care is in this country.
I don't hear and I'm a uh registered Republican, I've been voting Republican, I'm forty-four years old.
Um I don't hear enough from our side of the political spectrum about the actual cost.
Yeah, but Josh, let me just make a point there.
The thing with big government, it's not just the price tag.
You know, big government would be wrong if Bill Gates wrote a check to cover it at the end of every month.
It's wrong because it's an encroachment uh on you as an individual.
So when you talk about the costs of American health care.
At the moment there is no cost of American health care.
Uh it's three hundred million people to one degree or another making three hundred million individual decisions on what they wish to spend on health care.
That's not the way it is in Canada.
In Canada uh health care is a line item in the budget and no Canadian is free to go to a hospital or a doctor's surgery and increase that line item in the budget by two hundred dollars by reaching into his pocket and writing a check for it.
So you're right that the the costs the costs are important but what we need to understand is that the uh the cost at the moment there is no cost.
There is no figure on American health care because three hundred million people make three hundred million individual decisions about it.
Because there are free people.
In Canada uh it's a line item in the budget decided by uh some civil service bureaucrat in an office uh somewhere and that's the difference.
Now I agree in this uh coming up uh election I think I think Republicans and conservatives should run on money should simply say look this guy is spending money we don't have Harry Reed's spending money we don't have Nancy Pelosi spending re money we don't have and they're beggaring our children's and grandchildren's future but in the end even if they did have the money all this garbage would be wrong.
It's wrong uh because even if it's affordable it shrivels the space uh for men to live in freedom.
Lots more still to come hey great to be with you.
Rush will be back tomorrow.
This is your undocumented anchor man.
What a great what a great city New York City is.
I love it.
We don't get things like this in my backwards part of New Hampshire where the the city in New York distributes illustrated guides on how to shoot yourself up with the heroin.
I love I don't even understand what this language I'm such a naive country hick.
What is this don't dig for veins if you don't register pull out and try again if you don't register pull out and try again is that the way people talk in New York I don't know if you know what that's about.
Let's go to Mike in West Texas.
I guess you must be in a pretty small town in West Texas because they haven't given your municipality.
You anywhere near El Paso?
Oh well no it's it's uh I'm near the Midland in Odessa.
I live in a little town called not Oh not that it how do you spell that K N O T T. Oh fantastic what a great what a great name for yeah it's uh uh well great to have you great to have you with us uh I just I want to thank you Mark you've done such a service and and I think you do more than anybody else to to alert the American people to what's going on and and the consequences of the road that we're traveling down.
Uh perhaps it's because you've been in places where this has already happened.
Well I th I think that is that is true.
Anybody who I used a m uh uh American health care uh long before I immigrated here because I couldn't get uh I couldn't get the health care I'd paid for in in the country that I was being confiscatorily taxed uh for all that great government health care.
So I knew what the U.S. system was like uh long before I actually uh resided here just because I had to come here to get health care treatment.
But uh how do you think it's going on that front Mike?
Well uh I I I I uh I love liberty and that's why I like your message and I and our country was founded on the belief that that God had given us the in inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and I see that all of that is threatened and that this healthcare uh boondoggle is is one more step in that direction.
It's not the first step by any means, but it may be the last step in that direction.
Yes.
Yeah I think I think you're right about that because I think it is a it's a transformative act and this is where again even some very smart people like uh had a conversation about this with Dick Morris uh a couple of weeks ago.
Uh Dick thinks that if you take the public option out then you've won a great victory.
But I I was trying to impress upon him the public option isn't page four hundred and seventy nine subsection three clause twenty seven B. The whole bill is a public option because that's where it leads.
It leads to the government annexation uh of this sphere of what has hitherto been a private activity.
And it's very hard to impress that even even on you know a lot of smart Americans conservatives I'm afraid.
Right and And once you you like you've said earlier, once you go down that way, then you can't take it back.
Once you've given the candy out, you can't retrieve it.
And and my concern is is if this passes, and I think you've alluded to it, there really isn't a political solution to this because take the 2010 election, let's say that we do win a majority in the House, and let's say we even were able to win a majority in the Senate, we could still not roll this back because we wouldn't have enough votes to overturn a presidential veto.
No, and you and you know what?
I'm uh when people talk about, oh, do we need a new contract for America, do we need this, do we need that.
I would like to see a pledge uh to revoke uh and reverse whatever passes.
Because I think I think the Democrats are actually being quite smart on this.
They they've looked at these polls.
They know these polls that show two thirds of the American people uh are opposed to this.
And they've said, nuts to that, we're gonna shove it down your throat anyway.
Uh and if that means we we lose uh some of these so-called blue dog democrats in uh in in November, so be it.
So be it.
The long-term political benefits are worth it.
So we're gonna shove it down your throat.
We'll we'll negotiate it in the dead of night, we'll squeeze out the Republicans, and we're gonna ram it down your throat because of the long-term benefits it offers to us.
Yes, and th they're gonna transform our culture, and this major of a shift should have required a constitutional amendment.
There's no way that this should have been a possible route that they're taking.
Well, it's one si it's one sixth of the economy.
It's basically the equivalent of annexing an entire G7 economy.
And the idea that you can do that smoothly, or you know, that Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi are the people you'd want to do that, it's like in effect, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi annexing the entire French economy or uh or the economy of India twice over.
Now, even if you thought that was a good idea, would you want to put Nancy Pelosi Harry Reid in charge of that?
That isn't gonna that isn't gonna work out.
Thank you for your thank you for your call, Mike.
Let us go to Dave in uh Midland, Michigan.
Mike was near Midland, Texas.
Let's go to Dave in Midland, Michigan.
It's all Midland Tuesday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Good to have you with us.
Thank you, Mark.
Yeah.
I wanted to talk about cost and the cost that every time the Democrats get in power, they keep enacting more and more laws.
You go back to the Medical Act of 1986, the pharmaceutical device of 1986.
This that virtually, you know, it it it eliminated all the small small companies in America to to bring new products to market in the healthcare industry.
And then you go to HIPAA in 1996.
You remember Book Clinton, the boys, they said, Oh, we've got to keep these evil insurance companies from stealing your patient data.
That's right.
And and they they acted, you know, enacted uh the health care compliance code here.
You know, there's virtually no competition in healthcare anymore.
No, no.
No.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah, they've driven it out.
Even things like the shortage of flu vaccines uh and the importation of flu.
I think the last time there was a big shortage of flu vaccine uh under Bill Clinton, after he'd passed this bill, it had to be imported from a company in Liverpool, England, because he'd driven he'd driven so many American companies.
He'd made it not worth being in the vaccine business for American companies.
The FDA has so much power over over the production of of medical devices and and and pharmaceuticals.
You know, if we just went under the ISIL standards where every other country in the world's under, that you know, we would have much more opportunity and more drugs and more everything at a cheaper cost.
Yeah, that that's true.
I think uh who uh in London uh you can uh get even things like Viagra, you can just get at a pharmacy uh now.
You don't hear it's a prescription thing, you've got to go to your doctor or whatever.
You can just get it at uh at a pharmacy in in uh in uh in uh Britain.
You have you you know you you don't have any small midstate companies in the United States anymore.
The big companies here will will fund little startup companies that go overseas and bring new price markets.
A good example, remember Bar you remember Barney Clark, the the artificial heart.
Right.
Yeah, 1986 that was.
Well, all that new stuff was all developed over the overseas because the FDA got all the power and you couldn't develop new products here in this country.
It's ridiculous.
And you know, the the the big the big picture here, Dave, uh th thanks for your call.
The big the big picture here is that the point of America is to be dynamic.
You you know, normally th th this country has been an economic leader for a hundred and twenty years, uh more or less, since roughly I think it overtook Britain in the eighteen eighties.
Uh that is a long time 130 years.
That is a long time historically speaking to have economic preeminence.
But there comes a point at which you regulate yourself into stasis and into sclerosis and uh into arthritis, a kind of economic arthritis.
And if you look at everything the Democrats have done or tried to do the last year, they are driving us into that condition.
And if we have another year like this last year, we're gonna be in serious trouble.
Let's go to Janine in Hamilton, Montana.
Janine, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Good morning.
Good morning to you.
Yes.
And I don't consider well, he may be educated, but what he's part of is the arrogant class, not the educated class.
And the arrogant class is performing a really valuable function, I think.
People like me who used to call myself moderates are now becoming radical conservatives because we're sick of being ridiculed and minimized by people like David Brooks.
Yeah, I think I think there's a big uh point to that.
I mean, he wrote this pee-in to the Obama administration because he he when they came in in January, because he was so impressed uh how many people had been to Ivy League schools who uh who are in the Obama administration.
And he accepts the idea of a ruling class, if you like, that pronounces what is best uh for uh for for the rest of you losers.
But in fact But in fact, a guy like David Brooks, what you have to what do you have to think of is what does guy like David Brooks know about making payroll?
What does a guy like David Brooks know about uh starting a small business in the middle of nowhere, uh hiring five or six people and then discovering you're getting clobbered with regulation?
What does Barack Obama know?
What is a guy who's had the best education, who's wafted upwards from one fancy pants establishment to another, and then decides he's going to be a community organizer.
As Michelle Obama told us, you know, they had the guts uh to turn their back, you know, despite the crippling cost, as they put it, of all the uh of education and everything of their their fancy pants education, they turned their back on high-paying jobs and business and all that sort of stuff and became community organizers.
So what does a guy like that know uh and what are the people around him know?
This is the smallest percentage, I believe, in the last century.
This this administration has the smallest percentage of people with experience of private enterprise and private business uh in of any administration across the last century.
Amazing.
But they do have the largest degree of arrogance of any administration I've seen recently.
That's that's true.
You can uh they they are they are very clever and they're uh and they're full of their own cleverness.
There's something, you know, what I always liked about uh the United States is it's intelligence is one thing, but but so-called intellectuals and a wariness about intellectuals is always a healthy sign.
That's where the French have always gone wrong.
The French has uh had a depraved intellectual class that's always signed on to one cockamamy uh totalitarian notion after another.
Who who are the people who decide that it would be a great idea to go communist or to go fascist?
Uh it's it's the intellectuals.
H. G. Wells in uh in Britain uh coined the term liberal fascism.
Everyone thinks my friend Jonah Goldberg invented it for his book.
In fact, it was in v it was coined by H. G. Wells, the term liberal fascism, and he meant it as a good thing.
That's the intellectual class for you, Janine.
Well, like I say, they're performing a function because I was blind to just how people like me were really perceived by people in power.
And they are pretty upfront about it.
They don't care about us, they don't listen to us.
Oh no, no, no.
They do care about you.
They want to wrap you in the fluffy, suffocating cocoon of big government where your every need is taken care of, Janine.
But those of us who clearly aren't going there are obviously the Neanderthals you're talking about, and they're very dismissive of us, and it's um it's distressing.
That's true.
Well, Neanderthal is a proud term.
Where wear it get a get uh get a button made and And wear it proudly, Janine.
Thanks for your call.
I gotta run.
We have a rare, rare in the Obama era, a uh an EIB profit center time out, because we are one of the few people still making money in the Obama economy, and we'll be back in just a moment.
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If you want my body and you think I'm sexy, you know that's Mullah Omar's favorite record.
It's the one when they raided his compound in Kandahar, this is the guy who banned music throughout Afghanistan.
And when they raided his compound in Kandahar, they found he had all these eight tracks of Rod Stewart.
And it wasn't the um, you know, Rod Stewart slays the great American songbook stuff.
It was all the uh if you want my buddy and you think that's what Muller Omar uh was uh was uh uh jumping around to every night.
I don't know where whatever cave he's in now, whether he's still because the Americans seized.
I mean, that's gotta be a wh is Amnesty International taking that up?
I mean, that's outrageous that the Americans seized his Rod Stewart eight track, so he can't jump around to if you want my body and you think I'm sexy.
Let's go to Donna in Colton, Oregon.
Donna, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
Glad to hear you on the air.
I'm gonna make this really, really quick.
And I love that commercial with the kids and listen oh, that's gorgeous.
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How sweet that is really sweet.
Um I'm really really angry at the Democrat at the Republican Party.
You know, I I've been angry at the Democrats for a long, long time, but now I I realize uh the dem the Republicans helped us get here, too.
Right.
Um but what really has burned me is I have a pill box and a street address, and so I get two of everything.
Right.
And I get surveys with the stupidest questions on them.
From the Republicans?
Yes.
I have these surveys, you know, like what's important to you.
Check two, and they give you this list of everything.
And and you know, uh do you want to stop Obama from blah, blah, blah.
Well, here's my here's my problem.
If these guys were conservative, they could answer the survey and not even send it out.
Right.
So you're you're they're you're way ahead of them, because they're saying, uh, are you in favor of big government health care dominating every aspect of your life?
Check it out.
Yes, no.
Check those things.
Well, if you were a conservative Republican, they would know that.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, that's the that's that is a very worrying sign.
Because if the if the Republicans cannot get smart in this environment, Donna, then they are in big, big trouble.
And sending out stupid questionnaires like that.
I don't think people like questionnaires anyway.
Not unless there's a not there's a prize.
I mean, if you if you say you don't like government health care, do you win a Lincoln Town car or whatever?
Or are there no prizes at all?
Hey, here's proof there is a god, because look at the people we have in the in charge right now.
I mean, this is terribly dangerous, and we're still alive.
Uh one the other thing I want to uh say is ignorance promotes disdain.
Right.
That's true.
And you watch C-SPAN.
And c listen to the callers, listen to some Democrat Pelosi, anybody, and it's ignorant.
Yeah, there's a can there's a contempt, there's a contempt there that it is uh that manifests itself, and sometimes she can't hide it as well.
Donna, thanks for your call.
That is an uh a very good point.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the EIB network.
Hey, Republicans, stop sending out stupid surveys asking people if they're in uh favor of big government annexation of health care.
Take the answer to that as a given and move on to the next stage.
Mark Stein in for rush, two Belgians who tried to crack open an ATM, blew themselves up instead.
You know, I hope Janet in Competano is on top of this, because I think we really need to start profiling Belgians uh who've used ATMs in the last five years or so.
I think this could really make a difference uh at Homeland Security.
Let's quickly take uh can we quickly take Matt at Tom's River, New Jersey.
Matt, you've got a Uyghur Wednesday update a day early.
What is it?
Yeah, hi.
Uh a website in Sweden, Sweden uh the local.f reported That uh the Swedish intelligence service have arrested a Uyghur who was in the pay of the Chinese, the Red Chinese government for spying on the hundred or so Uyghurs uh that are in Sweden as refugees.
So so so this is a double Uyghur who thank thank you for that, Matt.
I didn't realize I didn't realize that the Chinese were successfully turning Uyghurs and running uh Uyghur uh covert Uyghur operations in Sweden.
This is an invaluable update.
Uh Rush is back tomorrow.
Thank you.
That's a Uyghur Wednesday update a day early.
Uh don't forget Rush returns to the EIB airwaves uh tomorrow.
This is Mark Stein.
My uh gold coach has turned back into a pair of Sudanese underpants.
I'm out of here.
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