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Jan. 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 8, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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By the way, President Obama, uh, ladies and gentlemen, has scheduled a press conference or some kind of statement with the press, twenty minutes before this program ends today, uh, the purpose of which is to no doubt rebut me on my take on the job numbers and whatever else he thinks he needs to rebut me off.
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Now, a couple more things here on this uh on this brave speech yesterday by by the president, the media twisting and turning, doing exactly as I predicted.
Uh blaming everything here on Bush, systems that Bush and Cheney put into place.
It can't be our new young president.
He's only been there ten months.
Remember, though, Bush had been there only ten months, and they tried to blame him for 91.
At any rate, there's a story here, Politico.com this from yesterday that uh White House Security Report was further redacted before release.
Yeah, it was.
He said it was further redacted over concerns that any information divulged involved sources and methods.
One has to be extremely careful what's made public.
It can provide knowledge to your enemies.
Now I don't think they care about that.
You know why?
Very simple reason why they don't care about that.
This upcoming show trial in New York City of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and his henchmen budgeted 206 million dollars a year.
New York wants the feds to pay them 206 million dollars a year for security for that trial.
A year.
How long is that tell you it's gonna go on?
If we are really worried about not making public that will give knowledge to our enemies, then why in the name of hell are we going to conduct a public show trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and give him a forum to reap up and beat up this country, make speeches, see and but by the way, discovery?
He's gonna be able to see all the evidence that we've collected again.
It's it's an absolute disaster.
And if we're so concerned about not divulging sources and methods, then why the hell did the State Department announce that they screwed up identifying Abdul Mutalab because his name was misspelled in their database, and so he didn't show up as a terrorist.
All but by admitting that, all we got to do now is imagine that terrorists add a couple vowels to their names when they register and then use their real names when they show up, and they won't show up on the list.
So I don't believe this for a moment.
One has to be extremely careful what's made public.
It can provide knowledge to your enemies.
Something in that report was going to be shocking, and nothing was.
Whatever it was was redacted, and it was redacted, I think, not because it was shocking, but because it was going to be harmful to somebody.
And I think that's why it was redacted.
Now let's listen to the drive-by's in the state controlled media.
Last night, this is a montage of Diane Sawyer, George Stephanopoulos, David Rodham Gurgen, uh Bob Schrum, Pat Buchanan, all talking about Obama and his remarks on the fruit of kaboom bomber.
The buck stops here.
It's an echo of another young president at another time.
The president took responsibility.
Take personal responsibility for this, just as John F. Kennedy did after the Bay of Pigs.
Remember Jack Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs.
Presidents who are willing to do this, JFK, presidents who are willing to say this sort of thing when something bad happens, the country tends to respond.
I'm just amazing.
They all say the same thing, and they all compare him to JFK when it was Harry Truman who said it.
But they don't want to compare him to Truman, because Truman nuked the uh Japanese.
And why compare him to JFK?
The Bay of Pigs was an absolute disaster.
It was a flop, by the way.
Speaking of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, I have a story down in the snack here.
Do you know that doctors are defecting from Cuba?
Doctors.
Doctors are defecting from the best health care system in the world, folks.
That's what the American left tells us, and that's what Hollywood tells us.
Oh, yeah, the health care down there is better than anybody else.
They never send their kids down there, but they never go for health treatment themselves.
But it's the best health care in the world because it doesn't cost anybody anything.
And so doctors are defecting from the best health care system in the world.
Last night on the situation room, Wolf Blitzer spoke with the uh former Clinton advisor, David Rodham Gurgen, who David Rodham Gurgen personifies conventional wisdom in Washington.
If you want to know what everybody else is thinking, you listen to David Gergen.
If you want to know what everybody's similar take is on anything that happens in that town, you listen to David Rodham Gurgen.
So Blitzer asked David Rodham Gurgen about Obama and his remarks on the attempted Christmas Day attacks, said David Gurgen, sir, four presidents.
What do you think, David?
What do you think of what he said?
It's gonna take a while to uh digest this one, Wolf.
It was uh complex.
I thought the president taking personal responsibility the buck stops here was uh forthright and good.
Welcome.
I think it was harder to understand the intelligence failures, and General Jones spoke that we would have a certain shock about what went wrong.
I thought what he described about what happened and what went wrong in intelligence was had a sort of a bureaucratic language to it that was hard to penetrate.
What is he really saying here about what went wrong?
And therefore it's a little hard to understand what he's doing uh that's kind of correct, especially on the intelligence side.
I thought it was clearer about the screen.
Uh sounds to me here unlike uh JFK, it sounds like David Rodham Gurgen had no idea what Obama was saying.
And this is his initial response, his initial response before he threw in the JFK reference.
Somebody sent the memo out, it's JFK, JFK, JFK, and all the drive by's got it.
And they all started repeating it, JFK, JFK, JFK.
But he made this comment before the JFK memo went out.
Uh, and his initial response tells you all the need to know.
He has no idea what Obama's talking about.
It was complex, it's complex.
Of course, everything intellectuals say is complex, and we're not meant to really understand what they say.
We're supposed to just be in awe.
It's not what they say, it's how they say it.
Because you know, they're so much smarter than uh than we are.
Well, they they have to speak this way.
In other words, if we really knew what they were saying, we couldn't handle it anyway.
But it's a shock and awe to our own brains about how insignificant we are, would send us into suicidal notions.
We we we ha we shouldn't even try to understand we're not capable of it.
See, that's where it goes.
Now, uh, yesterday afternoon on on this.
You know, Cookie, I'm I'm actually seriously thinking here, no more sound bites from MSNBC.
I mean, it's not even worth it.
This that it's not worth giving these people the time, and and there it's it's it's not even funny anymore.
Unless it's genuinely funny.
But this is just the height of irresponsibility and journalistic malpractice, if there is an the latest example here is uh Nora O'Donnell uh and David Schuster.
And David should, this is a guy who blamed Bush for letting people out of Guantanamo Bay to go to Yemen and come back and commit terrorist acts.
After David Schuster and his crowd demanding the place be closed.
And that those poor terrorists be released because then nobody's charged him with anything, and they're probably innocent young children.
There's Bush, Bush and Cheney, they just put him in there to be mean.
They don't have any evidence against them.
We gotta let him go.
This is this is this is trashing America's values, it's making the world hate us, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But now you turn around and blame Bush for letting people out of there.
Um anyway, David Schuster says to Nora O'Donnell, Norris, far as the politics of the policy of Obama's speech, what's your reaction?
Where the president said this is not a time for partisanship, this is a time for citizenship.
And this baloney essentially, he said about this finger pointing and saying we're not at war is not appropriate when the enemy is who it is and is trying to uh kill Americans.
And I think that was a very strong message, and I think it was implicitly a very strong pushback uh to the former vice president Dick Cheney, who has been the most vociferous Critic of this president.
Oh, that's why she's squealing with delight.
Nora O'Donnell squealing with delight.
As though Bill Clinton had walked in the room and undressed.
Oh, he blamed Cheney.
She's so excited it was near orgasmic on MSNBC.
She blamed Cheney.
He obviously was blaming Cheney.
Not a time for partisanship, a time for citizenship.
No, it's a time for stepping up and accepting the constitutional role of commander in chief and protecting and defending the people of this country and the Constitution.
None of which is happening right now.
We'll be back.
And we're back, Rush Linboard.
And the EIB network.
And we go to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
And up first today from Sierra Vista Arizona.
Rich, nice to have you here, sir.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hey, thanks for us.
Ditto's from the desert, and uh quite honored being first up today.
Hey, I'm supposed to sarcastically thank you a little bit for uh ruining a little bit of our uh Hawaii vacation.
Also we were there at the same time.
Were you?
Yes.
Well, I'm sorry about that.
Well, uh we thought it was gonna be Obama trashing our travel plans, but uh as soon as the word got out that you were in the hospital, I kind of glued to the internet and the television trying to figure out what was going on.
So I'm I'm I appreciate that, but I'm I'm very sorry.
Yeah, well they'll get over it.
Hey, I tell you what, I was uh there was one thing I was shocked about uh with uh hearing Obama speak yesterday.
I didn't hear any will in his words whatsoever.
So I was listening to how he was speaking, and I heard somebody that was beaten on his chest, uh and somebody that was maybe a little bit desperate because he's probably heard some of the initial reactions uh or so the from the press, uh some of the on the his initial reactions to this thing, and he realized that he already has two strikes with uh Fort Hood and the uh the panty bomber.
Well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, there's three.
There's there's uh there's the Army recruiter in Arkansas.
There's the near disaster at Fort Dix.
New York just arrested a couple of guys today.
And I uh I think that may be the FBI arrested a couple of guys today that they've been surveilling for six months.
That could be on orders from the White House to show toughness here.
But certainly been more than three strikes.
Sure, but I'm I'm speaking uh specifically since he took office.
Uh, you know, sure true we had 9-11 with Bush and that started the whole thing, but nothing happened here in the States after that.
Uh this is all happening in the one year since he's actually taken office.
I think he sees the writing on the wall that he's either gotta do something to prove to the people that he can be uh uh the commander in chief, uh, or else the people are gonna rise up against him and say, hey, you you know, screw you.
I we've had enough of this.
Your your primary job is to protect us, not to uh uh take care of us uh, you know, out of your pocket.
Yeah, and gr uh it's out of our pocket.
Okay, our pocket.
And and uh you know that there was a uh a masterful plot, masterful plot from a from uh Great Britain, uh Al Qaeda terrorists who are gonna blow up bunch of airplanes en route from uh the UK to the United States.
That plot was hatched, it was caught uh and observed and stopped by British authorities during the Bush administration, working with uh I think the FBI and the uh and uh probably the the CIA.
So there were attempts made uh during the Bush administration.
We don't know how many because you don't ever advertise the things you stop, um only your failures get noticed.
But that one was a big one.
I d your your point is uh is well taken.
There this kind of stuff did not happen.
In eight years with George W. Bush, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney say whatever you want, kept the people of this country safe.
Great call.
Great to hear from you, Rich.
This is uh this is Jen in Detroit.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, open line Friday.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
Hi, I'm so glad that you're doing well.
Thank you so much.
Well, I it's just uh nice to talk to you, and my point is that well, you know, I don't even listen to this person uh speeches.
I listen to it vicariously through the sound bites, 'cause I can't stand them.
Okay, I'm talking about Obama.
Mm-hmm.
Um anyway.
You know, this thing that he did yesterday, it was just more of his own garbage again.
Because like this, I'm bringing up the point of you were saying about you showed about the uh he said we were finally said we were at War with Al Qaeda.
Well, you know what?
That he doesn't believe that because if he did, we would not be trying all these terrorists in the regular courts.
We would be using the military courts.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
The purpose, especially the show trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Amen.
And his three henchmen.
I mean, if the if if if we're if we're really concerned about not divulging our intelligence methods and secrets and so forth, then there's no way we'd be doing this trial.
This trial is going to expose everything, and it is going to be the largest anti-American rant ever to take place on American soil in a courtroom for the longest sustained time.
It's going to go on for years.
And these people have to know that.
And they claim they're out for a conviction, and uh, even if they don't get a conviction, by the way, in New York, after all this time is passed, where you get you get a jury from the upper west side and down in the in the village, and I can see finding two or three people who think the U.S. made this happen.
Look at how many idiots believe that there is a conspiracy theory that Bush knew and and and was involved in blowing up the Twin Towers.
And a lot of them are in New York.
You're not, you're not gonna have trouble finding a jury that thinks these guys are the victims of an evil imperialistic United States.
Uh yeah, at least a hung jury, it's anything's possible.
That's why they said even if that happens, they're not being released.
So the what you're putting them on trial for.
This is a it's a it's an utter disaster.
And you ha i it it I I sorry, I cannot escape the conclusion that it's purposeful.
This is Kevin in Columbus, Ohio.
Great to have you here, sir.
Welcome.
Yes, how are you doing?
Um, I want to say, where and when are we gonna find one Republican or anyone of that ilk to stop undermining this country, undermining our commander in chief during a time of war and crisis.
Why don't we pull together and defeat this problem and stop sniping in every little detail, everything that he go ahead, go ahead, I'm listening.
Go ahead.
When is that gonna happen?
One brave Republican that is not in lockstep with everything that you, Glenn Beck, Alan Hannity, all you guys are saying the same thing.
I want to know when.
I I don't know even how to deal with this.
I don't think I could I could reduce myself to your IQ level to be able to communicate.
Whatever, whatever.
That's that's what you want to revert to as you're gonna try to do something personal about me, but the fact is you guys are undermining our security, and this is a joke.
You're you are you are satire writer, right?
You write jokes for a little bit.
Um, Kevin, you really you're not funny, it's not really funny at all, though.
Kevin, you uh I'm a veteran of the United States Army, and the commander in chief is the one that is in charge.
You cannot be held responsible for every little thing that goes wrong.
Sure, he's gonna take the responsibility, unlike Bush didn't want to take responsibility can't blame him for it happening.
Kevin, do you realize this is not playing well?
Nobody I don't care what your people think.
All I know is what I'm saying is right.
You're undermining our national security and the president of the United States.
No matter how you feel about him, after the bitter defeat, uh the people have rejected these policies already.
That's why he's in office.
Don't you understand that?
Later you say years ago that is gentlemen, squat consequences of elections, and that's what you're suffering the consequences.
Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, there's an old adage that it's a mistake to argue with a fool because no one will be able to tell the difference.
That's right.
So that's why you should stop undermining this country and our national security to tell your other people the same thing.
That's what you're doing.
These terrorists are listening to.
And every and you're giving them all these details, tell them the president we change running around.
He had eight years.
What did he do?
He didn't do anything.
What did he say?
Oh, no, just just I'm not Kevin, Kevin, you're not gonna bait me here.
This is this is I'm not trying to bait you.
I'm gonna do it.
Oh, Kevin, and it's not a good idea.
Whether you're trying whether you're trying to bait me or not, you are just a glittering jewel Of colossal ignorance.
It's not worth my time.
Your entertainment value is simply you alone.
From people like you for seven years badgering, destroying Bush and Cheney, who only kept the country safe, people like you who were trying to secure the defeat of the U.S. military in Iraq, people like you who were blindfolded and elected such a Nimrod to be president of the United States, somebody who hasn't the slightest clue or care about national security.
Um for you not to understand that we Republicans or conservatives are totally devoted to national security, and this is and we have a president who isn't, and that's the source of our concern.
If you don't, and you don't obviously see it, but there's no point having conversation with you.
You're lost.
You're irretrievably lost.
But I'll pass your message on.
Well, I don't have to.
I mean, every everybody heard it.
Uh, you know, it's calls like this that make me question an age-old belief that I have had.
And that is in the end, you can rely on the American people to do the right thing.
And everybody tells me, no, Rush, you don't know what the kind of stupidity there is out there.
And I rather not chalk it up the stupidity, but rather the education system which has been corrupted for oh, so many decades with the express purpose of creating mind-numbed people who are totally ill-educated and thus ill-informed, and end up supporting the people who want to destroy the country as we've known it, thinking they're doing the right thing.
So maybe they're not just stupid.
They just haven't been taught to think.
And if such they're ill-informed.
Back in a second.
Just checking out the investors uh investorsbusiness daily.com blog, and um I found this post from uh late this morning, veteran political analyst Charlie Cook, who is renowned inside the beltway for his political report and his polling and prognostication says that uh retirements are creating a vicious circle for Democrat politicians for the first time.
Charlie Cook sees a significant risk that Democrats could lose the House this year if trends continue.
Somebody needs to call Michael Steele and tell him.
Here's what Cook says.
How many other wavering House or Senate Democrats will look at the past five weeks and decide that spending the rest of this year as a lame duck is more attractive in spending a horrific year fundraising, scarfing down fast food, shaking hands all the while facing the real possibility of losing.
When the party starts singing endless choruses of this is going to be a lousy year, lawmakers can easily find themselves humming along, and come November, Senate Democrats 60 vote supermajority is toast.
It's difficult, if not impossible, to see how Democrats could lose the Senate this year, but they have a 50-50 chance of ending up with fewer than 55 seats in the next Congress.
And if Democrats suffer much more erosion in their solid and likely columns, control of the House will suddenly be up for grabs.
And this there's a very important special election coming up in Massachusetts, 19th of January.
This for Ted Kennedy's seat, and uh a lot of people are shocked by how close this is.
Scott Brown, 41 years old, uh, and a very attractive candidate in a number of ways, is inching ever closer to the favored Democrat Martha Coakley.
She didn't even campaign in December.
It was so thought to be in the bag.
She's now started running ads.
He's running ads, accusing her of raising taxes and so forth.
She says it's a dirty personal attack.
Uh I don't know how every time you tell the truth about Democrats, it's somehow is a dirty personal attack.
But Scott Brown is right.
Now, if this guy, if this guy Brown happens to win, it's nine points right now.
In in Massachusetts, where there are a million plus more Democrats than Republicans.
Uh for any Republican to be within nine points here of Ted Kennedy's seat.
I mean, they've even trotted out Ted Kennedy's widow and to to endorse Martha Coakley.
Uh Well, Charlie Cook says here a GOP upset or even a narrow or close loss by Scott Brown could likely trigger a new wave of Democrat retirements.
Likewise, a smashing victory by Martha Coakley over Brown might slow the bleeding.
So, and people on the Democrat side are watching that race like hawks.
This is from Fox News.com.
MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the leading academic defenders of health care reform, is taking a little heat here.
He failed to disclose consistently that he was under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while he was out touting the Democrats' health proposals in the media.
Does the corruption never end on these people's side?
Is there anybody who honestly believes what the Democrats are selling without being paid to say it?
Gruber, according to federal government documents, is under 297,600 contract until next month to provide technical assistance in evaluating health care reform proposals.
He was under a $95,000 health and human services contract before that.
But while he was being paid to provide his services to HHS, he was also fending off health care reform critics in the media.
He was one of the prominent analysts to rebut an insurance industry report from Price Waterhouse Cooper's in October saying premiums would shoot up if a health care bill passes.
So here you've got a dishonest economist.
There's no way they can't.
The government's going to subsidize people who can't afford the mandatory insurance.
And the government's going to mandate that insurance companies sell insurance to people the day before they get a heart attack.
Or the day they get a heart attack.
Or for pre-existing condition.
I'm sorry, there's no way prices are going to come down.
Costs may come down for some Americans because they're going to be subsidized.
But only Americans who get subsidized, and that's people who uh family of four under 88 grand, a single single person under 43, if you're under those levels, you're going to get subsidized.
Everybody else is going to be paying through the roof for the subsidies.
It's just absurd.
It's a pricewaterhouse Cooper does this analyst analysis, and they come out with this.
And here's this MIT economist refuting it because he's on a take.
And you remember when Armstrong Williams was found to be involved in some Bush administration agency, all hell broke loose.
And Armstrong had to go out there and apologize and uh and resign, and they kept it up for a week or two about all these nefarious activities going on.
And uh again, this little bit of news is at Fox News.com.
Now I want to I want to change directions here just before we hit this break because there's some people out there that I think we need to acknowledge.
You know, wherever you go in this country, and in many places in the country right now, the story that's on everybody's mind has nothing to do with what's going on in Washington.
The story is the cold.
The story is what is happening to people, their businesses, and their crops because of this unexpected cold.
I mean, for all these years we've been hearing about global warming, and nobody forecasts this cold front, nobody forecasts this cold spell, nobody forecasts this deep freeze.
A lot of cities and towns did not beef up and spend budgets on sand and snow removal equipment because it wasn't gonna happen.
And we now have uh a deadly force which has struck not just us, but the planet.
And I think we need to thank all these first responders out there who are fighting the good fight while everybody else sleeps and waits in our homes for help.
I'm talking about this is an Arctic attack from Mother Nature and the people that drive the snowplows and uh and other first responder services.
I mean, there are people in various parts of the country, restaurants that are open cooking food to cops are coming and taking food to people who can't get out of their houses.
Um here in Florida, I mean some parts of the state, the lows getting down to 25, the crops are threatened.
That's not good.
In in pipes are bursting in a lot of places.
I even even in my place.
I got something I noticed uh this week, and this this has not happened before.
I had to turn uh when I got in a shower, I had to turn the dial twice.
As hot as I normally do to get hot water because the pipes are cold.
Pipes aren't used to being cold.
It took water a long time running through the pipes to warm them up before I could dial back the hot water temperature.
Now, you know, in in other parts of the country, what's what's happening is a near emergency.
You've got snow falling, and they've got no place to put the snow, and they've got no place to put the snow that they're going to be graving off the streets if they have the equipment to do it.
And I don't hear any of them complaining, by the way.
I don't hear anybody saying, Where's FEMA?
I don't hear anybody saying, Where's my $2,000 debit card?
I don't hear anybody saying, Where's Obama?
Where's the federal government?
Who's here to help bail me?
I don't hear anybody.
And we've got some category five winter storms hitting certain parts of this country.
And that's what's on people's minds in many, many parts of the country today.
It's it's I I think where we are in South Florida may be the only state.
I mean, it's snowing in Alabama for crying out loud, and they're expecting a major winter frost in the Gulf states starting tonight.
It's uh we got a little warmer yesterday, 74 here, but it's we're gonna be down the 30s tonight to the weekend, barely making it.
I don't think we're gonna get out of 50s for a couple days.
Now, I'm not complaining.
I'm just that that does not happen here.
We have it gets cold here, but two or three days, and then bam, it warms back up.
Uh, I even checked the Bahamas, because sometimes I I uh I bop over there uh during these cold snaps, and it's even reaching down that this usually does not happen.
What happens to keep and the Bahamas is not that far south from here, it's 30 minutes uh and a little further east, but it's uh it's in a little bit uh more tropical zone, and there's a lot of water, which is very warm between here and there, and that water generally warms up the cold air headed that way, so the time it gets there, it's not nearly as cold as it is here in South Florida.
They're getting, I mean, they're getting hit with unseasonably unusually cold weather.
It's just happening all over the place.
And in in even in the midst of all this, the global warming hoaxers are right out there front and center saying, This doesn't mean anything.
This doesn't mean anything at all.
In fact, this means that climate change is still happening.
This is just a blip.
And of course, there's the uh state controlled drive-by media right there to carry that propaganda and that utter lie that we all now know is a total hoax, man-made global warming.
Destructive statists and the fools who believe their propaganda.
These are the people having a tough winter.
Their phony game has been canceled due to global warming.
We've got livestock dying in the fields, people are dying of frostbite.
Some people snowed in, others are stuck in their Priuses in snow banks.
Some can't get to a store.
Pets can barely go outside to relieve themselves in certain parts of the country.
Uh so all you all you man-made global uh global warming BS uh holdouts, do us a favor.
Why don't you man-made global warming, why don't you got shovel everybody's driveway and sidewalks for free?
And maybe we'll let you in the house for five minutes to tell us all about man-made global warming when you finish.
And the evil of fossil fuels.
Why don't you come in and tell us about the evil of fossil fuels while the snowplow is driving by your house to get your stupid little hybrid out of a drift so that you can head to the whole foods commune and pick up your bean sprouts?
Why don't you do that?
Why don't you march?
Why don't you do why don't you global warming people have a march, a protest march against the internal combustion engine that's being used on all these snow plows and all these rescue vehicles?
Yeah, yeah, that's when you that's when you really could prove your metal.
That's when you could really show us what you're worth.
You go out and you ram the faux the the uh uh uh ram the roads free with your own man-made power.
You go out and get your green energy, that that new green technology is gonna make us all safe.
Go get that green technology, your wind power and your solar power, and you use that to clean off the streets and get people out of their homes.
Yeah, why don't you guys do?
Well, You global warming people go out, show us how it really is to be done here.
Show us how we can improve our lives.
Show us how we can get the roads clear so that food can get to the stores so that the stores can open so people can get there and eat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe maybe you can uh maybe get us a snow plow, put a little hybrid engine in there and show us how it's really done.
While you sit out there and you fully benefit from the great inventions and the possibilities and the internal combustion engine and uh fossil fuels that are now totally necessary to save lives.
And you you m you run around and tell us this is destroying the planet and we've got to get rid of all these kinds of things.
Windmills are the answer.
Solar panels, okay, show its house done.
Man-made snow removal.
And if you if you do that, shovel everybody's sidewalks.
I'm sure people let you in for five minutes so you can proselytize to them about global warming.
Okay, uh this next story is not a very long story, but we don't seek to shock anybody here, and we don't um we don't live in the gutter on this program, and it's also Friday, which means that a lot of uh scrual students are not in school today, not just because of snow removal, but because school districts are out of money and they furloughed the teachers and the students are not in school.
Therefore, there might be that's happening in Florida, is it?
What happened when I got my chest pains?
I was reading about that in Florida.
I get fewer instructional days in Florida, and they're they're out of money.
Out of money, and uh it's it's a mess.
But anyway, kids may be listening to the program, and some of you adults may be offended by what's coming next.
It's about James Carville.
And I don't want anybody to be offended, and I'm not I'm not here to shock anybody, so I'm gonna give you ample time to tune out.
Uh and then you can come back in 30 seconds.
So I'm gonna count down from five.
And when I reach one, if you're still listening, and you're still offended by what I say, you can call, but nobody's gonna listen to you.
You can call a complain of wine, but you've been warned.
Five, four, three, two, one.
The story today is from thehill.com.
It's a blog called the Washington scene.
The debate over full body security scans just got a little more graphic thanks to James Carvo.
He was speaking on the Tony Kornheiser show today in Washington.
And this is what Carville said about airport full body scanners.
He said, Let me buy a security pass so they can scan me, search me, measure my penis, and then let me get on the plane.
James Carville worried that they could measure his penis in a full body scan.
James, don't worry.
It wouldn't take long.
Okay, we're now finished with the potentially embarrassing and uh offensive story, and you can now uh come back to the EIB network.
How much?
How much did our government grow over the holiday week?
Hell, two weeks over the holiday break.
How much did it grow?
Besides this program, I know of one other source that will tell you the truth.
And that source is the Heritage Foundation.
These are hardworking people in Washington.
They really do work hard.
They worked through the holidays following the Senate play the kinds of games they did with the health care, the national debt, and they share their analysis with every member of the Heritage Foundation.
I've been a member there for years.
I've watched them advocate for less government, more freedom, the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth.
Uh they're like a magnet.
The Heritage Foundation like a giant magnet.
They just they just uh attract the truth.
That's all they're interested in.
Now, one one of your New Year's resolutions should be joining with me and other conservatives, becoming a member of the Heritage Foundation.
You can do it easily at Askheritage.org.
For a donation as simple as $25, you're entitled to a year's worth of information produced by some of the smartest thinkers following our government and using Your contribution to enlighten and inform those in Washington.
Now, this is it's it's not all that new, but it's relatively new.
The Heritage Foundation, a lot of think tanks used to exist, and and you had to depend on knowing somebody or or having somebody there send you some of the reports that they compile, and they're they're voluminous.
They're just constantly working, and now you can access it all via the web.
It is a treasure trove.
Uh it is genuine, raw, conservative research and intelligence, making no excuses, oriented to the truth.
Just like the show and my own website.
Askheritage.org, 25 bucks a year, and uh there's room.
There's plenty of room left for you to join.
Do it now at the beginning of the year, and you in the process are going to help them continue to do the work they do, and thus you will help to continue making a difference.
Speaking of the cold, the cold weather spell is causing a serious problem for animals in Florida.
We talked about manatees yesterday.
Iguanas are falling off of tree limbs.
They are falling off of tree limbs.
You know, the reptiles are cold-blooded.
They have no way of staying warm, and they're they're alive when they fall.
They're just paralyzed.
They've just fallen off tree limbs out there.
Uh this I'm not aware of this happening in a long time.
I am told I said Florida a moment ago when I meant to say Hawaii.
It is Hawaii schools that are closed on Friday.
They're called furlough Fridays, says they're out of money.
Can't pay the teachers, or can't pay them full, and uh don't have the money to educate the pupils.
Which, given how the way they may be being educated, could be a plus.
Uh, looking at it in one way.
Okay, we got one hour remaining here on Open Line Friday.
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